Gail's NEW favourite of the day, PART 2

Can't resist chiming in when the subject is quartz. Old photo, before I had a clue how to do this. 6 inch matrix of amethyst scepters, one inch 'iron rose' hematite, Denny Mt. WA, collected 1981. Would love to know where this piece is today!

Bob

Bob,

Why don't you start a 'Where Is It Now' thread?

Cheers!

Steve

Hang in there Gail; Nat and I are thinking of you!!!

I'm not sure if I have posted one of these or not, but here is not necessarily a "specimen" but rather more of a mining artifact. Miners in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan while extracting large masses of native copper would cut them up with chisels (by hand) into smaller pieces to make them more manageable to remove. In the process, they would create shavings of native copper. The photo below is an example of one of these shavings or "chisel chips" as they are called locally. The chip measures approx. 8 cm long.

Nice Paul, I hadn't know that. And thanks for being good friends.

Gail Patricia Copus Spann

ooh Quartz!
Great Amethyst Gail!
i'm a bit of a sucker for Quartz, especially associated with other species. i find them endlessly fascinating.
Here's a nice classic miniature ( about 6 cms high) of quartz with hematite 'roses' from Switzerland




cheers, Colleen

Nice Hematite Colleen, love to see the classic Swiss association pieces!

Fantastic Rhodochrosite specimen Gail, great acquisition.

My fav, Native Copper
Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.
size 9x7cm.
ex Albert Chapman specimen.

This is sweet, Phil, some of my favourite coppers.

Regards,
Ralph

My fav today
Kunzite.
Nuristan, Afghanistan.

Philip, that's a beauty!

Rutile + Hematite

Locality: Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil

Size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm

Nice pieces everyone.

My favourite today is this Fluorite from the Huanggang Mine in China.
It's about 5 cm.

Greetings
Steven





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My favourite for today, a bouquet of mini quartz scepters from a Dugway geode.

Quartz
Dugway Geode Beds, Dugway Pass Area, Juab Co., Utah, USA
including base 3.0cm x 2.5cm

Today's favorite is a tiny twinned rutile crystal from North Carolina. 9.6 x 15.4 mm.

© A&M

Hi to all

Here is today a link to a rock I managed to bring into my collection after it was already sold!
These are among my favorite rocks in the mineral world, period! A few old (1920's) and a large suite of the new (2011) speciments are the backbone of my collection, and I am ready to big sacrifices to go further that way! These are too scarce and too unknown to be classics...
This speciment is small, not cheap, but I like these too much!

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Valère

I have always liked the bright luster on these crystals; many of the Glove specimens have a matte finish. My favorite today.



Wulfenite, Glove mine, Amado, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona. 6.5x5x2.5 cm.

Cheers!

Steve

Steve,
Neat sample!

I haven't posted one for a while so thought I'd post this one, painted tonight...

Columbian emerald in matrix...



Regards
Steve

And today a small legrandite from Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. The crystal cluster is about 1x1 cm. Some specimens with this lot had wonderful koettigite/legrandite combinations.



Cheers!

Steve

wow - great painting, Steve - love the ones on the black background

i went to the Oxford show the other week and spent far too much pocket money
heres one of my acquisitions. From an old french collection, a thumbnail of a Quartz crystal with several large lustrous brown Anatase crystals attached (to 12mm) from La Lauzière massif, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France



cheers, Colleen