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Lost and Stolen Specimens500 zeolites stolen from a museum in East Iceland
19th Oct 2009 16:16 UTCJamison K Turnbull
Sorry. It's in Icelandic
http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2009/10/17/um_500_steinum_stolid_a_teigarhorni/
19th Oct 2009 17:16 UTCFrank de Wit Manager
I was in that museum last year ; they had (have) a beautiful collection of zeolites from the Teigarhorn.
The Teigarhorn exposures are on the coastline of the land of the farmer who also owns that museum.
He was collecting there too and selling specimens, from a little shop in the museum. I bought nice pieces from him.
(So... not all specimens now coming on the market will be stolen, they will also be legitimately bought and resold perhaps.)
But this is bad news......... bad news...
By the way: I got an official receipt, with which I could export the Teigarhorn specimens.
but normally, exporting specimens from the Teigarhorn is forbidden. So perhaps the specimens cannot leave Iceland...
20th Oct 2009 14:37 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
Please keep eyes open everyone. Let's try to get this reported everywhere, and do our best to get a positive result.
Jolyon
20th Oct 2009 15:13 UTCJeff Weissman Expert
21st Oct 2009 15:07 UTCdon stimpson
21st Oct 2009 17:50 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
If you have any images of the displays it would be very good!
or anyone else!
The spreading of this to colelctors and dealesr should substantially increase the chance to recover those specimens,
if they are offered at any mineral show.
Peter
22nd Oct 2009 10:01 UTCAxel Emmermann
Axel
22nd Oct 2009 15:52 UTCDon Swenson
22nd Oct 2009 16:05 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
My worry here is that we have not yet seen photos of the actual specimens taken, so everyone will be on the lookout for any generic icelandic zeolites for sale, and then some poor innocent with legitimate icelandic zeolites for sale at Munich next week will fall under suspicion and will wonder why people are pointng at him/her and whispering to each other.
22nd Oct 2009 16:42 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager
29th Oct 2009 15:51 UTCchristophe
I've posted some pictures of the stolen specimens that Christa sent me on Geoforum. If you want to have a look at them, please use this link : www(dot)geoforum(dot)fr/index(dot)php?showtopic=14472&st=0
christophe
29th Oct 2009 16:56 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
29th Oct 2009 19:04 UTCRock Currier Expert
29th Oct 2009 23:02 UTCRoger Lang Manager
don´t use Chrome ;-) .. good ol firefox will do .. i saw them without problems :-)
cheers
Roger
29th Oct 2009 23:04 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
http://www.geoforum.fr/index.php?showtopic=14472
30th Oct 2009 16:26 UTCChristophe
I can forward you the zips of the pictures I received. Can I use the webmaster's address to do it (there are 7 zips each weighing about 7 MB) ?
Christophe
6th Nov 2009 13:53 UTCKarsten Eig
Zeolites are abundant on Iceland, but the Teigarhorn is famous for special quality, especially the large crystals and the fanned large needle zeolites. There is therefore some hope that they will be reckognised if the thiefs try to sell them.
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