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Quartz and Granite and Silica
RABBIT HOLE 2 – A lot of you know a town named after the rock that every computer chip is made of.Stay with me.Rocklin = “The Granite City.” Literally named for the rock. 62 quarries once ran there; the granite built the State Capitol, the Transamerica Pyramid, half of old San Francisco.Granite is packed with quartz.…
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Chips and Cactus Smuggling
RABBIT HOLE 1 : That cactus has a microchip in it.Same chip your vet puts in your dog. Saguaro National Park implanted around a thousand of them — into cacti — and rangers walk around with scanner wands. Find a suspicious giant saguaro planted in some Scottsdale front yard? Wave the wand. If it pings, they…