It's not like it's a meme or anything, but I saw a
sluggish fly on limestone at
Really Going Places — after taking these photos on the first day of November — and thought, what an opportune time to post photos of this fly, also sluggish, on a pyritic parking lot erratic (glacial erratic? not sure).
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Iron-stained rock with a large mass of pyrite in the upper right, with fly for scale
(a bit left of the large pyritic mass).. |
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The same mass with the fly close to a large pyrite cube. |
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Now the fly has wandered over a bit to the left (out of the first photo's range), and is standing at a small precipice, appearing to check out the tiny pyrite cubes below. |
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Here, I've had to give the fly a gentle nudge, because I wanted it to move closer to the tiny pyrite crystals (that's how sluggish it was!). |
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The fly now looks like it's interested in mining the tiny cubes! |
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And now the fly has moved over a bit back to the right (barely into the first photo), and is checking out a couple veinlets. |
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And here's one last photo, for those of you who prefer not to see a fly for scale. |
The funny, almost sickly yellowish green color on the outside of this rock indicates that you should be able to find some kind of sulfide mineral inside — in this case, a heckuva lot of pyrite. This color can be used as an exploration guide, provided that one wants to find an ore deposit rich in sulfides.
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