Mick Shmazian Has Worked In Asia, Africa, North America, And Australia

Rare minerals are just more fun to learn about, I’ve found. There is nothing quite like discovering (well, learning about for the first time) a mineral that you never even knew existed. It’s one thing to learn something new about iron, but it’s an entirely different experience to discover there’s a mineral called Salammoniac.

Salammoniac is composed of ammonium chloride. It is a very soft, very rare mineral with a Mohs scale of hardness rank of 1.5 to 2—making it very soft indeed. It also has a low specific gravity: 1.5. Salammoniac is also water-soluble and has very poor cleavage. It can occur in colorless, white, pale grey, and may even have yellow or brown if it is impure. Salammoniac is most often found encrusted around volcanic vents—though it has also been found at guano deposits, volcanic fumaroles, and burning coal seams. Sodium alum, native sulfur, and other fumarole minerals are found in association with Salammoniac. Tajikistan, Mexico, and Italy are the most prominent occurrences of the mineral. Salammoniac’s most common uses are for soldering stain glass windows, jewelry-production, and in the past—baking, though it’s use as an ingredient as almost completely stopped.

Mick Shmazian is a mineral prospector who has worked in Asia, Africa, North America, and Australia over his twenty years in the industry. He got his start mining in Pilbara, in North Western Australia. However, his years of experience have taught him that the industry can improve and should not simply rely on older, reliable, methods for mineral prospecting—he believes technology should be embraced.

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