Dear All, I bought some specimens in Brasil during my holliday there. But I dont know what kind of minerals are they? Please help me??? Thank in advance! Long [attachment 38203 M1.jpg] [attachment 38204 M2.jpg] [attachment 38205 M2-1.jpg] http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,259985#msg-259985 Sat, 25 May 2013 04:45:30 +0000 Phorum 5.2.15a http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260503#msg-260503 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260503#msg-260503 how to upload images to Mindat.

First however you must register with mindat as a member. There is not cost to do this.]]> Rock Currier Identity Help Fri, 11 May 2012 16:56:34 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260473#msg-260473 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260473#msg-260473 Thank you for ypur help, but how can I upload to your general gallery?
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Long]]> PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Fri, 11 May 2012 11:18:37 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260465#msg-260465 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260465#msg-260465 Rock Currier Identity Help Fri, 11 May 2012 07:39:40 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260463#msg-260463 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260463#msg-260463 Thank you very much for your help and comment.
I also bought this piece in Brasil, please help me to identify it,what?
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Long]]> PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Fri, 11 May 2012 07:24:32 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260307#msg-260307 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260307#msg-260307 The specimen you think might be smithsonite(s-4) is calcite or aragonite as Rock has identified but not smithsonite.
Hope this help.
Tom]]> Tom Klinepeter Identity Help Wed, 09 May 2012 11:39:20 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260297#msg-260297 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260297#msg-260297 Thank you for your suggestion.
Sample S4 are similar to sample M3 here, and I it is not look like aragonite or calcite?
Some people told me it is smithsonit? but I am not sure?
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Long]]> PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Wed, 09 May 2012 08:30:50 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260261#msg-260261 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260261#msg-260261 S2 Okanite, Malad, India
S3 Cerussite? China?
S4 Aragonite? Calcite? China?
S5 Apophyllite-(KF) Nasik region?]]> Rock Currier Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 20:44:47 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260206#msg-260206 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260206#msg-260206
S1.jpg (the pinkish Xtals among whitish microxxls) :
At first glance, would look like 'heulandite' regarding the color.

But, in fact not : it's definitely a STILBITE regarding the crystallography

--> STILBITE on calcedony matrix, or possibly micro xx of quartz.

Location : probably from Nasik , Maharashtra, INDIA

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JM]]> Jean-Michel TRILLAUD Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 11:52:44 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260205#msg-260205 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260205#msg-260205
S5.jpg : Apophyllite from Maharashtra, India (probably exactly from Nasik)

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Jean-Michel Trillaud]]> Jean-Michel Trillaud Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 11:44:40 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260201#msg-260201 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260201#msg-260201 PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 07:54:43 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260200#msg-260200 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260200#msg-260200 Here are pictures of entire samples S1, S2, S3?
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Long]]> PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 07:52:52 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260199#msg-260199 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260199#msg-260199 Rock Currier Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 07:12:40 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260198#msg-260198 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260198#msg-260198 Rock Currier Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 07:11:32 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260195#msg-260195 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260195#msg-260195 PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 06:43:45 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260194#msg-260194 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260194#msg-260194 PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 06:41:46 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260193#msg-260193 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260193#msg-260193 I also bought some more specimens at the same place (S1, S2, S5 Brasil). Samples number S3 and S4 from China? Could you please feel free to let me know, what they are?
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Long]]> PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Tue, 08 May 2012 06:38:52 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260127#msg-260127 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260127#msg-260127 Rock Currier Identity Help Mon, 07 May 2012 16:54:46 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260126#msg-260126 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260126#msg-260126
Because of the high population density, a lot of water is needed for drinking and washing. Again what does this have to do with mineral specimens. The wells in this part of India are not like the wells we are familiar with in the west. They are often at least twenty or more feet across and will extend down into the basalt fifty or more feet, well below the water table. The basalt is slowly permeable and water from the basalt below the water level will gradually fill these wells. The recharge time is somewhat variable, but in digging/blasting these wells, sometimes very large pockets zeolite and related minerals are encountered.]]> Rock Currier Identity Help Mon, 07 May 2012 16:50:54 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260125#msg-260125 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260125#msg-260125 Rock Currier Identity Help Mon, 07 May 2012 16:36:45 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260101#msg-260101 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260101#msg-260101 M2 looks like mordenite on stilbite to me.

Alan]]> Alan Barnes (2) Identity Help Mon, 07 May 2012 09:46:51 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260099#msg-260099 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260099#msg-260099
Spencer]]> Spencer Ivan Mather Identity Help Mon, 07 May 2012 08:17:13 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260096#msg-260096 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260096#msg-260096 I bought them at a tourist center, and I aksed them what they were? But they told me all are calcite minerals and I dont believe it.
Samples M4 and M8 are grayish green color, some place are in yellow, they told me it was diopside? but I am not sure? and I also dont think they are zeolite minerals?
Please help me if you know?
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Long]]> PHAM VAN LONG Identity Help Mon, 07 May 2012 03:00:22 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260040#msg-260040 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260040#msg-260040 Thomsonite from Aurangabad, India

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JM Trillaud]]> Jean-Michel Trillaud Identity Help Sun, 06 May 2012 17:45:33 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260033#msg-260033 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,260033#msg-260033
Your M5.jpg is a quartz cast after anhydrite from Iraí, Alto Uruguai region, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Probably the best specimen in the lot.]]> Rock Currier Identity Help Sun, 06 May 2012 16:44:14 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,259987#msg-259987 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,11,259985,259987#msg-259987
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Please help me???
Thank in advance!
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