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Doug, I was a little naive about snorting sulfides, arsenates, etc. However, you last reply is quite enough to bring me down to earth. My wife has taken it very seriously, too, and the kitchen and waffle iron are off limits now for mineral research. I used to crawwl into old adits with equal abandon until I came face to face with miners who had been in rock fall accidents; they straightened out my ideas very smartly. I am not sure if I know the difference between brimstone and rotten egg smells – can you recommend a safe snort to clearly identify the former? The piece of "Pearceite" was about 1 cubic centimeter, so the snort was a "big double". I have a friend who is doing his mineralogy thesis at the Miguel Romero Museum, Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico, and he has kindly offered to do an analysis on my various, smelly sulfides, etc. I expect it will be about 14 days before I get the results, so this topic will be on ice till then. However, this and "Guanajuato Fluorescents" have proved very interesting for my geologist friends at the mines, so I hope to have more interesting info when I get back on this. Regards, Chris