6 Things Nobody Told Me About the Philippines

Yes. Found the flint in Libya. There were loads there. Other Geologists picked up loads. Libya shares a border with Egypt. This image is of the White Desert - made of chalk. Chalk being a source of flint nodules. In those days there will not have been a border at all. Stone Age man would have wandered in the region in general.

The condition of the arrowheads were perfect as they are pure silica and very very hard. So they have remained throughout the centuries almost like they were when they were first made. Unlike the shaft etc, of course.

Early FOM, like one huge schenghen continent I bet they were crying out for a farage type figure
But that looks cool, and those flint knapped broadhead look exquisite

The ultimate in freedom of movement.

Glad they nipped it in the bud before the UK was flooded with cro magnon taking all our caves
Geology sounds really interesting, I had a kid once try and diddle me out of cash in hunza Valley offering me a garnet he swore blind was a Ruby, I told him I wasn't as dumb as he looked.

Garnets are amazing but not worth so much.

The other one is Fools Gold. IronPyrite looks just like gold but worth nothing unless you get a really attractive display piece.

Yup, seen fools gold in the past loads of nice stones etc in the himalayas, I brought my sis a big heavy chunk of crystal from paro.

That’s lots of chunks....

Quartz?

Yup, quartz, if ever you find yourself on a wet weekend wandering around in the Himalaya I can recommend a couple of shops ram packed with sacks of fossils and rocks to fossick through

I think you would really enjoy Australia and the Opals. Something I have never done but have known people do it.

Let's ditch the women you and me John, off to Coober pedy for a few years I have mates who have been but none of them went down the bore holes as they said they had claustrophobia

I just remembered, I met an Aussie in Thailand, old guy who worked in the FIFO mines, he used to take loads of bits of opal he found to his Thai girlfriend, she set them in silver and flogged them

They all live underground there, don’t they.

Troglodytes, sort of