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This is a ball clay from Manitoba. The oxidation sample has plenty of small black specks, these are an iron pyrite mineral that does not melt at cone 10 oxidation. But in the reduction firing they are being converted (reduced) to their metallic state by the lack of oxygen in the kiln. The result is melting and blossoming vigorously.
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