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Fear not! In fact we were having some plumbing work done, so I did not dig this hole, I merely swooped in to see what kinds of newly exposed rocks I could find and gather. This is what I call scavenging for raw ceramic materials. If I can avoid the digging part, I will. In my hand are chunks of granite that have eroded from nearby mountains, transported over millions of years to the valley, slowly coated with a crust of calcium carbonate (caliche) deposited over the past several thousand years. When I look at these rocks I see their ceramic glaze potential. They contain quartz, feldspar, and calcium carbonate plus other minerals such as iron oxide or titanium dioxide in various proportions. I can obtain the precise chemical composition by sending them to a lab for testing, if I plan on using them for functional pottery. 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