The American Museum of Natural History
Last Updated: 24th Dec 2022By Jolyon Ralph
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We are back in New York for a quick visit, and finally have the chance to see the new mineral galleries at the AMNH, thanks to our host Jamie Newman.
A new display on the timeline of mineral evolution helps explain Earth's mineral diversity in the context of Earth's geological and biological changes over time.
Roman is watching a video explaining the concepts of mineral evolution
A view inside the giant amethyst geode at the entrance.
Weight described in the Imperial, metric and rhino systems
I'll quickly step back to the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites
The massive Ahnighito meteorite is 34 tons of iron that fell in Greenland. Unfortunately they do not give this weight in rhino units. The supports it stand on extend through the basement into the bedrock under the museum.
Rose City (H5) meteorite.
Roman here:
Farmers found a pieces of a meteorite in Kansas and called it the Brenham meteorite.
Cool!
Farmers found a pieces of a meteorite in Kansas and called it the Brenham meteorite.
Cool!
Kapoeta meteorite from South Sudan. Howardite.
Roman is doing an interactive game to catch comet dust.
So back to the mineral halls and we will start on the left with Classified by Chemistry
Slight distraction, Katya found free book trollies
All biological books but found three of interest!
So, back to the minerals. Native elements and alloys
Gold
Key
Sulfudes
What a beautiful Stibnite from Japan!
It's so cool! R.
It's so cool! R.
Sulfosalts and simple oxides
Proustite from Chañarcillo, Chile
Roman here:
Fantastic Tetrahedrite (with quartz)
from Chile!
Fantastic Tetrahedrite (with quartz)
from Chile!
Paramelaconite from Mass City, Michigan
This Arsenolite from Nevada is VERY
poisonous.
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poisonous.
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Multiple oxides and halogenides
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What a great spikey Cryptomelane!!!!
What a great spikey Cryptomelane!!!!
(Cryptomelane from Rossbach, Germany).
This is Hercynite from Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka
This is Hercynite from Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka
Great sea-ish colour of this Diaboleite
is magnificent from M. Arizona,U.S. Roman
is magnificent from M. Arizona,U.S. Roman
We are going to speed up a bit now and just catch a few special specimens
Massive Tsumeb anglesite
Amazing scorodire, El Cobre, Zacatecas, Mexico
Liroconite from (St Day district) Cornwall England
A display of mineraloids with opal in its right place!
The next major part is the mineral forming environments cases
Hydrothermal, veins Vs pockets.
MVT deposits
Hemimorphite after calcite, Joplin Missouri
The many colours of fluorite
They even have Blue John from China!
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Cave minerals
The copper hills of Arizona
This massive block of gossan full of malachite and azurite from the Czar Mine, Bisbee, Arizona is called the singing stone because it made a high-pitched sound as the humidity changed. Now the environment in the museum is regulated it is silent. It weighs the same as three large cows but this isn't converted into metric rhinos unfortunately
Huge boulder (fluorapophyllite-(K) and stilbite) from Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Petrified dawn redwood from Madras, Oregon
Feldspars
Tin and Copper - the minerals of bronze
Wood tin from Guanajuato, Mexico
Gems of Mogok
Painite
Can't stop finding mistakes in museums, one of my worst habits.
The famous subway garnet
The California gem rush
You might have seen these two before
Gem displays
Beg Beryls for those degenerates among you
New Jersey Zinc minerals
Rhodonite from Franklin
Of course we got a look behind the scenes here.
But the best part was to get to view the galleries before anyone else is admitted
This is the same gallery later
T-rex
Albertosaurus
Titanosaurus
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