Fool’s Gold Might Be Better Than the Real Thing

804,697

21,435 0

Published 2024-05-01

All Comments (21)

@Queenhideyxo 14 days ago

In the pyrite community we refer to gold as "fools pyrite"
@timbrwolf1121 13 days ago

My great great grandfather grew up poor. One day he was walking through an alley or back road or something and practically tripped over a rock that he though for sure was gold. He thought he had saved the whole family from poverty. Had a real life willy wonka run home. Turns out it was a 10+ lb chunk of Pyrite. We still have it. It is gorgeous.
@charlesartificer2158 13 days ago

Fun fact. Usually in the same areas you find pyrite you find flint. Striking the 2 together gives you sparks as well. Otzi the iceman had a fire making kit on him with flint and pyrite. His corpse and belongings are dated between 3350 to 3105 BC. Making it one of the oldest primitive fire kits ever found.
@davep5788 14 days ago

"Hand me that lighter. Ok, get back under the desk."
@n8howl 14 days ago

Arrr... I'm a pyrite. ☠️ 🏴‍☠️
@537zun4 14 days ago

Fun fact: in germany we call it "Katzengold" meaning Catgold. Don't ask me why. [edit: since now 6 persons asked "why?": its a bastardization of an old german word "Kazzūngold" meaning golden yellow cherry resin. Now stop it please... Also one source says it comes from the Word "Ketzer" meaning heretic, but thats a money blog so I don't trust that source, but google says "here, first result, thats what you searched for right?" I should start using the search function of wikipedia, way easier...]
@RicoLen1 14 days ago

I live not too far from a town called Coarsegold California, that was once a mining town in the 1800s. On my property I have 2 seasonal streams. Pyrite is everywhere in my streams. If I try to work in them while the streams are running it gets all over me like glitter. I've found plenty of quartz rocks on my property, I have a granite boulder as big as my house in the middle of the property, and up against it I've found a few hunks of raw iron. No gold though! haha
@outlawbillionairez9780 14 days ago

Fools are a much bigger customer base. That's my business model.
@Jayjay-dt4fg 14 days ago

I've heard people say "nature does not do (creates) right angles". Well Spanish Pyrite crystals grow as a cube. You can't get anymore natural right angles than a cube.
@panelvixen 14 days ago

Platonic Solids, very good friends that will never get romantic.
@matthewburdick6177 14 days ago

Hey! You got the pyrite firestarter wrong! Pyrite was the first material that you could strike with flint (or any of many other easily found rocks) to make fire, not a replacement for flint! Pyrite was likely extremely important to prehistoric people because it could be used to make a fire well before iron smelting was invented.
@chrixthegreat 14 days ago

fun fact, Pyrite is also a semiconductor which means it could be use to make computer processors. It is inferior to silicone but if there is ever a shortage, we have other options.
@jensphiliphohmann1876 14 days ago

03:13 Then you just add water and you've got sulfuric acid. Not quite. You get sulfurous acid, H₂SO₃. Sulfuric acid is H₂SO₄.
@ivanrusnak5327 14 days ago

3:10 first you burn sulfur with oxygen to make SO2, then you burn that with even more oxygen to make SO3 and THEN you mix it with water to make sulfuric acid. You don't go from SO2 straight to H2SO4
@tlynne816 14 days ago

We used to search for it on our walk home from school when I lived in Quebec. The dirt they spread on the roads in the winter months contained it. It made for very fun walks!
@collin4555 14 days ago

"Despite what video games may suggest, there's not just one ore for each material" Laughs in Dwarf Fortress
@nunya___ 14 days ago

It's good to see that Thing is still getting parts after the Adams Family movies.
@stormthrush37 13 days ago

Unpopular opinion: I find so-called Fool's Gold prettier than the real thing.
@nicholaswjamrock 14 days ago

Suplhur dioxide reacts with water to form sulphurous acid (H2SO3) not sulphuric acid H2SO4
@raphaelgarcia9576 14 days ago

Like in the gold rush days, the big winners sold the shovels. If you want a popular item to sell, use the bioleaching bacteria.