Favorite Self-Collected Specimens

Nice scepter, Samuel, and remarkably free of micaceous coating for that locality.

I really got lucky obtaining this specimen. I cleaved it from a very large chunk of calcite while in the location I found it, as it was much too large to carry home.
The 7cm x 5cm x 3cm crystal shown was almost completely hidden. When I made the initial cleave, this popped into view, perched on the matix. The same chunk of calcite yielded another interesting slab of calcite peppered with smaller fluorapatite crystals, many doubly terminated ( see [www.mindat.org] )
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/06/2012 09:58PM by John Montgomery.

Snapshots of freshly found minerals from the Viitaniemi pegmatite.

Dark green tourmaline 9 cm tall, nested in albite in quartz.
And other is an interesting muscovite crystal with leaf like pattern and lepidolite capping, 11 cm tall.

Excavator has been used to turn the dump this year and now it is easier again to find minerals. These were collected from the surface.