Gail's NEW favourite of the day, PART 2

Season's Greetings to everyone. Here's a christmassy crocoite for you...


Regards
Steve

Steve, that's really nice, what a great piece!

Here is one we acquired recently, you may recall....if you are old enough and remember black and white MinRecs, that this was in the November issue in 1980. Page 384, figure 12.
A very unusual rhodochrosite with pyrite from Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. 4 inches across, in the article. We measured it at 10.4 x 7.5 x 3.3 cm.



Gail Patricia Copus Spann

A TN and one of my long time favorites, silver with minor calcite, Kongsberg, Norway. 2.3x2.3.x1 cm.



Cheers!

Steve

Very nice Steve!!!




Celestite, Madagascar. Cover piece, Mineralogical Record.
I have loved this piece since first seeing it

Gail Patricia Copus Spann

I posted this one in the Arizona thread but decided to post here as well for a bit of fun. Two photos (sorry Gail) but it's the same image!

Sometimes it pays to have imagination and a sense of humour. According to my wife, I have neither!

This specimen has a couple of azurite crystals sitting atop a malachite sphere, with tiny minor cuprite.

However, I also see Snoopy from Peanuts sitting there, probably having been downed by the Red Baron! Can you see him? If you can't, have a look at the second photo...



Regards
Steve

Great pictures everyone, fantastic minerals, please keep them coming.

Here is my version of a Xmas tree, Happy Holidays to all in the Mindat community.

Malachite psuedo Azurite, Milpillas, Sonora, Mexico, recent pocket. Specimen dimensions ar 9 x 7.5x 5cms.

Cheers

Brent Lockhart

Since I first started collecting minerals, I have loved radioactive secondaries, for their brilliant colours, and their relative rarity.
This is a particularly fine Cuprosklodowskite from the Musonoi Mine and is about 5.5 cm across

And here is an ornament to hang on the tree. Vanadinite, ACF Mine (incl. Coud'a shaft; Coudia shaft), Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco 5 x 4.3 x 3 cms

Merry Xmas to all - and great thread Gail.

Cheers,

Brent



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I have posted several other Indiana geodes containing BARITE in the self-collected thread, but, this is not a self collected example in my collection. It was found about 30 years ago in a stream bed ravine in southern Monroe County, Indiana. This stout, well terminated and color zoned lustrous blade measures 5.5 cm wide x 4.5 cm high x 0.9 cm maximal thickness. The geode half measures about 15 cm x 10 cm. I think the specimen had passed thru several hands prior to being acquired by me from another prominent Indiana geode field collector about 10 years ago. While there is some indication that it may be expertly repaired at its base, it is still a great example of an Indiana barite. As I have mentioned elsewhere, Indiana geode barites are probably the best of all in the Midwest; someone out there have a non Indiana example of a killer barite in a midwest geode??

This arrived a week ago, just in time for Christmas. Amethyst and Pyrite from the Turt Mine, Satu Mare, Romania.
It measures approx. 12.00 cm x 8.00 cm. The largest crystal is approx. 5.50 cm long.

Fluorapatite on quartz, King Fraction, Keystone, Pennington Co., South Dakota. Overall 3.5x4.5x1.0 cm.



Cheers!

Steve



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Epidote with minor albite, Spruce Pine District, North Carolina. 2.5x2.5x1.5 cm. Circa 1966.



Cheers!

Steve

Great to see you posting on here Brent!

Gail Patricia Copus Spann

Illinois blue phantom fluorite

Calcite tree with celestine from Mexico. 10.1 x 10 cm.

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Here's my favorite specimen in all my collections -- Excellent cluster of honey colored translucent selenite blades protruding from multiple points resulting in an attractive display specimen like sunflower. 360 viewable. From Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 8.3 x 6.4 x 2.5 cm in size.





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Maybe I will play along. I like boleite, especially when the beautiful blue color comes out


Thanks for looking.

Bob

Jim holding an amazing Mali Prehnite, ex Rock Currier. A new addition to our collection. LOVE IT!!!!

Gail Patricia Copus Spann

I'm going to add another nice little Broken Hill azurite...


Regards
Steve