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Originally Posted by Kamper
"Shiny lumps"
Probably iron pyrite. Put a magnet on it. Gold is not affected by magnets. A pie plate with pyrites in it would be an interesting conversation starter.
NH has lots of iron but nothing worthwhile commercially, in a couple centuries.
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I'm
not looking for iron...
...but will return with a sluice. (Just in case I'm missing out).
Something in the lake has concentrated in the shallows, though.
While removing heavy wooden steps from the dock in knee-deep water, an itchy rash was produced from my knees to my ankles—
fully.
That's never happened before, and I take the same amount of time to replace the steps every Spring.
Getting back to my real find, the crayfish could have been a cast-off exoskeleton, as they are indistinguishable from a live crayfish. So I poked one antenna, and got less than a response.
Poking the other antenna told a different story—
below.
But when released, the poor thing could barely amble off through minimal boat wakes. He (a
blue-claw) crawled behind the steps, so I left my "task for the day"
and the crayfish to his fate.
Could the reason for crayfish rarity (
and gender-confusion in Florida alligators) be traced to estrogen and progestin?
There's something wrong with his eyes:
