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  • You could but it would be poor quality, like you predict, due to inconsistencies in pigment particle size. You would need to mill it/grind it to smash up the particles then you'd probably get black lung or some other miners' disease :)
    I worked in raw material and pigment studies for ICI millions of years ago.

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