[not rant]Metal in granite countertop[not rant]

[Sac Arrow]

So the kitchen and bathroom countertops have been replaced with marble. On one of the countertops, there is some metal embedded in the granite in one spot. It is gold or copper in color, and it does not appear to be corrosive. Could it actually be gold? Iron pyrites maybe?

It is difficult to get a good picture of it. It is embedded in the black splotches.

 

[weilke]

Clearly gold. Just grind the countertop to fine dust and leech it with cyanide !

You'll be rich.

 

[Sac Arrow]

If you had any idea how much those things cost. Ugh.

 

[midwestpa24]

Now you know why you paid so much for those countertops.

 

[SkyDog58]

Worth their weight in gold.

 

[ktup-flyer]

Well my counters have it, so I hope it’s gold.

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

Granite is radioactive.

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/granite-countertops-and-radiation

 

[cowman]

Granite is radioactive.

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/granite-countertops-and-radiation

So are bananas

 

[Sac Arrow]

Granite is radioactive.

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/granite-countertops-and-radiation

So if I sit on it I can reduce my risk of prostate cancer?

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

So if I sit on it I can reduce my risk of prostate cancer?

duh... totally.

 

[Unit74]

So if I sit on it I can reduce my risk of prostate cancer?

Uh....nope. You have to uh, well, you know what to do at this point.....as if it hasn’t been done before Sac....

 

[wrbix]

Marble or granite? - OP said both.

Suspect mica rather than metal.

 

[RJM62]

So are bananas

And coffee.

Rich

 

[Sundancer]

And coffee.

Rich

Heretic! Philistine! Coffee and beer bookend the days!

 

[Eric Stoltz]

Biotite or Muscovite probably. Clear stuff is quartz, white stuff is something feldspathic or calcic plagioclase, and the black stuff is hornblende or tourmaline. If a magnet sticks to it it's magnatite even if it looks gold.

 

[RJM62]

Heretic! Philistine! Coffee and beer bookend the days!

Some of us like radiation.

Rich

 

[Salty]

Some of us like radiation.

Rich

None of could live without it.

 

[SkyDog58]

Some of us like radiation.

Rich

It gives your coffee and beer a little extra kick.

 

[tmyers]

Who is sitting on bananas?

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[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

So are bananas

 

[luvflyin]

So if I sit on it I can reduce my risk of prostate cancer?

Sitting on won't do it. You need a..............https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Dildo-Absolute-Black-Granite/dp/B00QMCL5EK

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

Sitting on won't do it. You need a..............https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Dildo-Absolute-Black-Granite/dp/B00QMCL5EK

Oh, yea. Click on that one - Not.
I can just imagine what kind of ads I would be seeing for the next month...

 

[Kenny Phillips]

Geez, that looks like the granite that my S/O is having replaced in our kitchen—with nine grand worth of other stuff.

 

[PaulS]

So if I sit on it I can reduce my risk of prostate cancer?

Granite or a banana?

 

[Jeff Oslick]

Almost certainly muscovite (mica)

Also almost certainly not marble ;-)

Source: am geologist

"almost certainly": am consultant

 

[Eric Stoltz]

Oh, yea. Click on that one - Not.
I can just imagine what kind of ads I would be seeing for the next month...

I clicked on it and my ads experience didn't change. Read into that what you like. And that one is not "granite." More of an ultramafic, medium grained Gabbro. But whatever. Geology matters.

 

[Sac Arrow]

Almost certainly muscovite (mica)

Also almost certainly not marble ;-)

Source: am geologist

"almost certainly": am consultant

Yeah I did say marble, huh. Maybe I am losing them. Mica, huh.

Source: am not geologist

 

[SkyDog58]

Sitting on won't do it. You need a..............https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Dildo-Absolute-Black-Granite/dp/B00QMCL5EK

Whatever gets your rocks off.

The above was spoken with a gravely voice.

Geology humor, can you dig it?

Also not a geologist.

Also not stoned.

And I still have most of my marbles.

Frack it, I'm done.

 

[Shepherd]

So, does Sac Arrow have the biggest stones in this thread?

 

[Sac Arrow]

They are pretty big stones. Some kind of rock. I mean it's not sandstone, I know about that much.

 

[Jeff Oslick]

It's a gneiss slab.

 

[Stingray Don]

Whatever gets your rocks off.

The above was spoken with a gravely voice.

Geology humor, can you dig it?

Also not a geologist.

Also not stoned.

And I still have most of my marbles.

Frack it, I'm done.

My wife takes me for granite

 

[Sac Arrow]

They tend to be stone cold

 

[paflyer]

Some of us like radiation.

Rich

 

[Sac Arrow]

Ah yes, the beef jerky machine.

 

[Sac Arrow]

My wife takes me for granite

I would have to take that with a grain of basalt.

 

[455 Bravo Uniform]

@Eric Stoltz
@Jeff Oslick

Geologist #3 here! Rock on!!

 

[Eric Stoltz]

@Eric Stoltz
@Jeff Oslick

Geologist #3 here! Rock on!!

Gneiss! Even though we may have our faults, like our apatite for cinnabar, we do plateau with tectonic stability when epochs get tuff. We're bolder than most, dealing with the overburden of subduction; lest it may causes an orogeny ore uplift.

To the non-geologists, rocks are not funny. Metamorphically speaking, the aforementioned was not funny.

 

[Sac Arrow]

Does a working knowledge of hydrogeology count?

 

[Eric Stoltz]

Does a working knowledge of hydrogeology count?

It depends, what's your head pressure? And it depends water rocklicking friends think.

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