Gail's NEW favourite of the day, PART 2

Bunker Hill Properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
Three nice clean spheres of orange pyromorphite. Purchased in Tucson Feburary 2002. Always one of my favorites.
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Danny Jones

Azurite pseudomorph after calcite with cuprian adamite from Greece. 4.5 x 4.1 cm.

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The opposite side of the specimen.

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AM,
Thats a great shot and a fine specimen. I have placed it in the Best Minerals Pseudomorphs and Azurite articles. I would steal more from these forums, but frequently they are not uploaded to our gallery which is one of the requirements that we have for use in these articles.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.

That's a really cool piece AM, inspired me to post something new today!

It has been sometime, so here is compilation photo.

Here are a couple Brazilian Classics, Jonas Tourmaline and an etched Aquamarine. The tourmaline is 5cm, the aqua is almost 4cm.





BTW, be sure to check out Wendell's article on the Jonas Mine in Mineralogical Record, nicely done.

AM i also love your Azurite, great piece.

Ryan just love your Jonas Tourmaline, when you tire of looking at it, you know who to contact..

My favorite today, even with the imperfection.



A fine, clear, iron-oxide stained fluorite measuring 2.8x2.5 cm on a matrix of fluorite crystals and a rubble of baryte and fluorite fragments. The unfortunate 'ding' on the primary crystal is due to overzealous use of my water gun. Overall size: 9x7x5 cm. Collected in (about) 2000.

Boulder Hill mine, Wellington District, Douglass Co., Nevada

AM, what an intriguing specimen!

Cheers!

Steve



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My favorite for today. Ruizite with Kinoite micro from the Christmas Mine, Gila Co., Arizona.
Photograph by Robert O. Meyer.

Linda Smith
Rock Mama and Boogie Boarding Grandma

HI Linda

Nice pic - looks almost like some underwater scene of anemones

Lovely pic

Cheers
Keith

This is one of my favourite of the day.

Fluorite on Quartz, Okaruso Mine,Namibia
6cm x 5cm





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Amethyst scepter on smoky quartz, Delmoe Lake area, Jefferson Co., Montana. First piece out of the pegmatite pocket my friend and I collected 6 weeks ago and my favorite today.

AM, great pseudo!



Best regards,
Jonathan

Definitely my favorite of the day. Just dug today in fact.

Ryan, do you have a locality for your etched aquamarine crystal?; it looks to me that is from Jaquetô, Bahia (from a great pocket found in 1990)

Barite with hemitite coating. Something very different but one of my favorites



Danny Jones



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Luiz,

It is from Jaqueto, from the great pocket. The color is much deeper, more like Medina, my photo does not do justice to the aqua color. It is from an old collection.

Malachite after azurite with smaller azurite, cerussite, and malachite after azurite crystals scattered around the matrix. Tsumeb. 6.5 x 4.2 cm.

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Very nice AM!

It takes a while to sort through stuff. This is a very aesthetic little thumbnail specimen that I picked up at Tucson this year. I only got to look at it properly tonight. Never enough time!


Regards
Steve

My favorite today.....

In the 1970’s the California mine was still open to collectors willing to muck out the rock piled up at the portal. The veins containing good specimens of beryl, molybdenite, ferimolybdite and a variety of other minerals were reasonably accessable in open stopes. Some decent specimens were also found on the slopes above the mine where the vein system outcropped in the talus. Large crystals of beryl were rare although there were reports of well-formed goshenite crystals of several inches in size.

This beryl (var. goshenite) specimen was collected in 1975. The crystal is a simple hexagonal prism terminated by first and second order dipyrimids. It measures 2.2x0.7x0.5 cm. California mine, upper Browns Creek drainage, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado.




Cheers!

Steve

Just picked this Kongsberg Silver, with acanthite, up this week. Haven't catalogued it yet, miniature.

Gail Patricia Copus Spann



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5.3 cm tall by 3 by 3 cm.
largest crystal 16 by 10 by 10 mm.

Apophyllite, pink.
Samson mine, St. Andreasberg, Harz mountains, lower Saxony, Germany.
Collected prior to 1852.

Gail Patricia Copus Spann



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Thanks for sharing Gail,
It's fun to see new additions in your collection. Here is my favorite for the day, and favorite forever. It is a Gwindel Quartz with Chlorite from from Val Strem in Switzerland. It has great twist and it is a clear quartz gwindel, which is in fact much rarer than the smoky gwindels. The bottom side of the specimen is fully crystallized; it became detached from mother rock during a late growth period and fully re-crystllized again.
It is 9.1 cm tall and 6.0 cm wide.





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