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TIL that naturally occurring magnets (lodestones) are only formed when lightning strikes magnetite, an iron ore. : r/todayilearned
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Metals including magnetic iron ore grit and crystals, pyrite crystal group, pyrite with petrified Ammonite fossil, markasite, bloodstone and copiapite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "
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