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I’ve stumbled across some pictures of indigo gabbro and I’ll be darned if that’s not what my ‘slag’ looks like…it came from a box of slag someone collected in the UP of Michigan and google has given me the impression indigo gabbro is only found in Madagascar so…either it’s slag that looks like gabbro or possibly I had an adhd moment and I got mixed up somehow. But I still have no idea how I’d have come into possession of it if it really is gabbro. I think I had a pound of Madagascar mix from a nat geo refill pack someone gave me but that seems obscure for Nat geo material in my mind. Maybe not. Only updating this because I hate when things are wrong on the internet! Hah.

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