mine! mine mine mine! mine-mine trip!

last friday, (march 6th 2009) we went on a trip to a copper mine (and no, it's not mine). it was nice to see how they seperate the copper from everything else, smelling it however, was not so fun. they had a special non-toxic (or so they say) floatation chemical which they use to make the copper float up from the mud in nice golden, stinky bubbles that sort of look like a pepsi after you shake it up, or boiling gold. these bubbles carry the copper over the rim of the container into another container below. it realy, realy stinks. on the plus side i got a couple pieces of copper and a pet rock, which is basicly just a rock with copper oxide and some other minerals in it. the trip was truly awesome.