Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Mineralogy / October 2008

I had a quick look at a job database in order to check the quantity of
open earth jobs (coal and geology jobs) published these days in the
USA, Canada and the UK. Everybody is talking about the job crisis and
the shrinking economy and just wanted to know what is out there on the

I have a soil sample from Central California. It looks
suspiciously like CeO I have used for polishing optics,
but I realize it might be FeO.
Anyone know specific tests to verify if this is CeO.