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Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen

Posted by Jolyon Ralph  
avatar Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 16, 2008 07:33PM
gb    
A group of specimens were stolen from the MineralZone warehouse on early Friday morning. If you have any information please contact:

email: marcus@mineralzone.com

phone: 520-624-4096
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February 16, 2008 07:33PM
gb    
another
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February 16, 2008 07:36PM
gb    
third photo
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February 16, 2008 07:38PM
gb    
fourth photo
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February 16, 2008 07:39PM
gb    
last photo
Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 17, 2008 04:14PM
More pictures, with a short description of the pieces the burglars took from the cases. For scale: the labels in front of the specimens are 5 cm wide.

- large greenish-purple kunzite

- big emerald cluster, some edge wear and frosting

- 20 spessartines from Tanzania

- 6 phosphophyllite on matrix specimens

- 9 meta-torbernites from France

- 6 light green fluorites on galena from Naica
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Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 19, 2008 09:25PM
again in more detail:

- large greenish-purple kunzite

- big emerald cluster, some edge wear and frosting

- 20 spessartines from Tanzania

- 6 phosphophyllite on matrix specimens

- 9 meta-torbernites from France
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Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 19, 2008 10:06PM
second cabinet, please note: not all the pieces are missing, the thieves picked


- 5 pink kunzites (except the two largest) from Afghanistan

- 16 purple scapolite xls, mounted on plastic bases, from Afghanistan

- 9 linarites (big xls) and/or caledonites on matrix from California

- yellow montebrasite from Brasil

- pale yellow etched scapolite from Afghanistan

- yellow-green adamite on matrix from Mexico

- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam

- bright galena on sphalerite from China

- blue quartz from China

- big pyromorphite xl from China

- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China

- 2 babingtonites in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China

- transparent calcite cluster from China

- two grossular xls on light matrix from China

- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China

- pyrite micro xls on white calcite xl from China

- small pyrite xls along edges of light pink calcite blades from China
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Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 19, 2008 10:09PM
more detail:

- 5 pink kunzites (except the two biggest ones) from Afghanistan

- 16 purple scapolite xls, mounted on plastic bases, from Afghanistan

- 9 linarites (big xls) and/or caledonites on matrix from California

- yellow montebrasite from Brasil

- pale yellow etched scapolite from Afghanistan

- yellow-green adamite on matrix from Mexico

- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam

- bright galena on sphalerite from China

- blue quartz from China

- big pyromorphite xl from China

- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China

- 2 babingtonites in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China

- transparent calcite cluster from China

- two grossular xls on light matrix from China

- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China
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Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 19, 2008 10:12PM
more detail:

- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China

- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China

- two grossular xls on light matrix from China

- babingtonite in big xls (v-shape) with quartz/prehnite from China
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Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 19, 2008 10:17PM
more detail:

- bright galena on sphalerite from China

- babingtonite in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China

- big blue quartz from China

- transparent calcite cluster from China

- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam

- big pyromorphite xl from China

- pyrite micro xls on white calcite xl from China
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Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 19, 2008 10:31PM
third cabinet:

- 6 meta-autunites from Washington State

- yellow barite from Cumberland

- aragonite from Cumberland

- pink calcite on matrix from Mexico

- 2 euclases, xls -1cm on matrix from China
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Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 19, 2008 10:33PM
- 12 cm beryl from Brazil
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February 20, 2008 02:20AM
How did this all happen???? This is quite a lot of specimens...was it overnight?
joe
Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen
February 20, 2008 06:03PM
it happened in the night following Valentine's Day
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February 22, 2008 12:54AM
ca    
For the sake of Markus I hope that he not only gets most of his minerals back,but that he also gets his computer back. I know just how earthshaking
losing your business computer can be, from personal experience.
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