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GeneralWhat's your favourite mineral specimen today, part THREE.
3rd Feb 2009 11:05 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
3rd Feb 2009 11:59 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you David to start the third chapter of this record topic.
Thank you Ion for your nice comments about my U-minerals.
Its seems that I have the honor of putting the first fav on it.
Here it is, http://www.mindat.org/photo-166859.html
Enjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
3rd Feb 2009 12:17 UTCJon Mommers
Vandenbrandeite is great way to kick off part 3, again very nice indeed
Cheers
Jon
3rd Feb 2009 12:25 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Again, Paul, thanks for a great start to my morning!
Maggie
3rd Feb 2009 15:10 UTCGail Spann Manager
And, by the way, wonderful mineral photos everyone has been posting!
3rd Feb 2009 17:20 UTCPhilip Perkins
Yes Lawrie & l had a fantastic time in Stories Quarry, beautiful day not to hot, our big yellow mate enjoyed himself too, we both found some real nice Calcites, l got 4 good specimens, dozens of others, late in the day Lawrie put the crow bar through into a cavity & l collected a Calcite Stalagtite from it for him.
Lawrie was so impressed with our results at the quarry that we will return sometime with the backhoe for a further dig & the quarry owner is happy for us to do so also.
Here is one of my favourites from the dig, please excuse photo quality, it is 3am.
Please enjoy Tucson!
3rd Feb 2009 18:24 UTCRay Hill Expert
Haven't been on this string for a bit,since I have been out and about at Tucson..but I hope to get Trevor Kitto to let me plug in my camera card into his computer and enter some of my new favourites that I got down here...My first new favourite will be a cabinet specimen rich in Vandenbrandeites, quite topical since Paul started this string with one of his. I felt honored to be able to do a deal with Dave Wilber for this and some thumbnails of same. If that wasn't enough to make my days recently, I also fell into some really hard to acquire Canadian Arctic minerals from closed mines like the Polaris, and from quite a different locale than normal from Nanisivik... All nicely crystallized and generally unavailable anymore...Aaaaah, sweet.!!
Last but not least I will be drawing from a bunch of favourites that I found in Dudley Blauet's room at the Inne Suites,where he generously made available some of his older stock from the 80's and 90's at those older prices..so I had a wonderful field trip there too. Of course, my real first fav was one I got from the Adelaide Mining company, and Adam Wright had recently found some beautiful Dundasites at the mine, something looked for but not found for a great number of years. This I won't be able to show properly without an adapted trinoc microscope camera setup, but needless to say, white hemispherical clusters of Dundasite mixed with brilliant Crocoite needles is a beautiful and rare site..
TTFN
3rd Feb 2009 21:04 UTCJon Mommers
it appears you had a great day at Stories Quarry, some very nice calcites. Congratulations
Ray, look forward to seeing those photo's
Cheers
Jon
5th Feb 2009 02:54 UTCMichael Hopkins
Diana and I have a new favorite for today. We picked it up at the inn suites yesterday it is a Azurite "burst" from Morocco. Sorry for the picture I will take a better shot at the house and repost.
Mike and Diana
5th Feb 2009 12:12 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Hope you are enjoying the show?
take care
Maggie
5th Feb 2009 13:59 UTCPaul Richard
The weather is superb now!
5th Feb 2009 15:25 UTCGail Spann Manager
We drove `15 1/2 hours and listened to great songs and chatted the whole time..no napping as we were off to another great adventure and we love to visit with good friends.
Got a good nights sleep and we are sitting side by side on computers as we sip coffee.
Looking forward to seeing lots of minerals today, hopefully a few I can add to the favourites! I have both cameras with me and will do a show report as time allows.
Thanks to all the regulars and newcomers for sharing your favourites with us all !!!!
5th Feb 2009 15:33 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Maggie
5th Feb 2009 15:50 UTCPaul Richard
Everyone enjoy the weather today in Tucson, as front is coming in for the weekend.
5th Feb 2009 16:18 UTCStephen Rose Expert
For those of us not able to be in Tucson, grumble :(, we are really looking forward to seeing those reports from you intrepid hunters 'from the field'.
Cheers!
Steve
5th Feb 2009 23:34 UTCPaul Richard
6th Feb 2009 06:48 UTCRay Hill Expert
This bicolour beryl is both pale green and a bit o morganite. It's sad quality derives from being shipped from Trevor Kitto's computer to mine and what was left of the bits and bytes made it here...it comes from Baha, Braklu valley, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan, The crystal is 18.2 mm x 19.75 mm and the piece is 32 x 31.6 x 37.8 mm. Hope it is okay. It sure looks cool here.
Sincerely
Ray
7th Feb 2009 02:37 UTCMichael Hopkins
7th Feb 2009 08:17 UTCRay Hill Expert
and is 19 x 25 x 13,5 mm
7th Feb 2009 08:36 UTCMichael Berghäuser
sphalerite (biggest x about 15mm) with chalcopyrite
from
Büschhof Quarry (Schretzmair Quarry), Wirtenbach, Waldbröl, Bergisches Land, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
7th Feb 2009 16:06 UTCTrevor Kitto
So many wonderful minerals to look at. And our host, the famous Mr Ray Hill has been an inspiration and a good sport.
My fav today is a
Tourmaline & Cleveland
Stak Nala
Pakistan
7th Feb 2009 19:27 UTCPeter Andresen Expert
Philip, you asked me where my favourit collecting area is, and if I could post a couple of picks... So here are the first pictures of a serie - I hope - of minerals, selfcollected from the larvikite quarries in Tvedalen and the Sagåsen quarry. Unfortunatly I haven't been able to go there any of the last weekends - been snowing every Friday and Saturday, covering any new material... So then I can use some time to play with my camera and computer...
So the first one is a calcite on natrolite from the quarry AS Granit. It's ca 18 cm X 9 cm, with largest calcite xl being 4,5 cm. Collected in a large vug in early June 2007.
First pic is the calcite the second is from the site.
7th Feb 2009 19:49 UTCPeter Andresen Expert
Guess I did a too good job making that calcite looking good. I have some way to go learning to use the photo editing programs well, but here is a pic showing the natural colours better:
8th Feb 2009 02:39 UTCGail Spann Manager
8th Feb 2009 08:08 UTCRay Hill Expert
That Stak Nala photo, if seen from above when taken would have been hilariously interesting to a fly on the wall, with aluminium pie plates being held at all angles trying to light up a dark mineral crystal to its best advantage on the kitchen counter..
My favourite of today was another Dudley special,this time one that is not too commonly found, a Pargasite crystal. It is in what looks like a dolomite marble matrix and the crystal is partly gemmy and 9.7mm x 9mm x 6 mm
and the piece is 32 x 31 x 14.8 mm
It hails from Ganesh, Hunza, Northern Areas , Pakistan
8th Feb 2009 14:47 UTCGail Spann Manager
8th Feb 2009 20:17 UTCPhilip Perkins
Ferberite with Quartz & mica.
Yaogangxian Mine.
Hunan Province, China.
Trevor have fun illuminating your specimens with the cooking tray,
l hope Gail knows what she is doing having you guy's cook for her, have fun.......
9th Feb 2009 07:45 UTCRay Hill Expert
Please support the guys here, remembering that purportedly,most of the best chefs are men!!
We also hope you are doing okay with all the weather , fires and mayhem that is happing down under
9th Feb 2009 19:15 UTCJean-Luc DUBARE
9th Feb 2009 20:03 UTCPeter Andresen Expert
http://www.mindat.org/photo-211633.html
What makes it interesting isn't only that it's a pretty large crystal section of leucophanite, but the reaction-rim round it, consisting of hambergite and albite.
It's probably more beautyful under short wave UV-light. Then the leucophanite are glowing pretty pink, surounded by yellow glowing zircones. Also worth mentioning is that there is several small natrolite lined vugs with böhmite crystals in then, together with a couple of britholite-(Ce) crystal sections here and there...
Quite a treat for an alcaline-systematic collector :)
9th Feb 2009 23:33 UTCPhilip Perkins
Ray next year l'm going to be reflecting the pan around the room whilst Trevor stays home & paints, is that a deal?
l'm having trouble concentrating on my work knowing you guy's are having fun in Tucson!
10th Feb 2009 00:39 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Here is one from Tucson this year. I was only there one day, and found one piece for my collection, this is it.
Epidote with Feldspar
Knappenwand
Untersulzbach Valley
Austria
7.4cm across
Take Care,
Ryan
10th Feb 2009 02:24 UTCPhilip Perkins
How is dinner progressing Trevor? You had better do well if you want an invite to Texas.........
This is always my favourite, twin Tourmaline,
10th Feb 2009 03:17 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Glad you like the Austrian epidote.
Yes, the Pakistani ones do get good, although a little bit different in style. I have a nice one, I have included the photo. The largest crystal is 5.3cm long, and the stacked crystals are 5.1cm from top to bottom, all double terminated. The photo is not so good, but they are gemmy. I have included a bad photo, sorry about that. This is from Hashupa.
Matt Tannebaum also had posted a great one a while back, it showed the gemminess.
Take Care,
Ryan
10th Feb 2009 12:32 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
11th Feb 2009 02:31 UTCGail Spann Manager
12th Feb 2009 15:55 UTCGail Spann Manager
We had the Mindat dinner last night, it was a blast!
13th Feb 2009 02:16 UTCMichael Hopkins
13th Feb 2009 04:14 UTCKrissa Klein
The whole specimen measures about 7 inches in length.
13th Feb 2009 06:16 UTCKrissa Klein
13th Feb 2009 16:16 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
speaking of grey, here's my favourite - but nothing dreary - it's an extraordinary piece that Reiner found while rockhunting in the basement, sorting through his Cobalt stuff that was still in flats... after he etched the piece, he discovered that what he thought was silver, WASN'T... it would crumble, rather than bend... turns out it is Allargentum
http://www.mindat.org/photo-211461.html
14th Feb 2009 00:24 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-205002.html
Cheers, Joe
14th Feb 2009 00:29 UTCPhilip Perkins
This is one of my favourites, a Galena group.
Madin, Provdiv Province.
Bulgaria.
l got this one in Tucson approx 10 years ago, please enjoy yourselves at the show.
14th Feb 2009 00:56 UTCPhilip Perkins
Seeing everyone has been side tracked for the moment, may l please have a second favourite.
This one is a specimen that l got in China Nov 2007.
Ferberite with Fluorite, Arsenopyrite & Quartz.
Yaogangxian Mine.
Hunan Province.
China. Cabinet size specimen.
14th Feb 2009 12:20 UTCMichael Berghäuser
here is my fav for saturday
Amethyst
from
Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia
14th Feb 2009 14:58 UTCJoseph Freilich
Just love these American classics...hope others post theirs...best, Joe
http://www.mindat.org/photo-84657.html
14th Feb 2009 23:19 UTCAdam Kelly
Great amethyst. I think I'm in love, and not just because it's Valentines Day either.
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for good Brandberg pieces, and that one is superb
15th Feb 2009 04:45 UTCDr. Paul Bordovsky
the patterns. Just don't look at all the dust. I didn't see it until after I had broken
down the shooting setup. 8-(
From the Da Tong mine, Zhe Jian Province.
113 x 13 mm.
Paul
15th Feb 2009 06:18 UTCDr. Paul Bordovsky
fluorite from Nagar, Pakistan.
The several of these spinel twins that I saw were pink and green, but this was the only one with
this light lavender and yellow color.
6.0 x 4.3 x 2.4 cm.
15th Feb 2009 06:55 UTCGail Spann Manager
http://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=471&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=100
16th Feb 2009 01:55 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Here is my favorite today.
Quartz var. Amethyst
Jackson's Crossroads
Wilkes County, Georgia, USA
Found October 2008.
10 cm wide, 9.4 cm tall.
Take Care,
Ryan
17th Feb 2009 15:40 UTCClifford Trebilcock
Cliff
17th Feb 2009 17:04 UTCMichael Berghäuser
I don´t know how to describe this
Amethyst
from
Tafelkop, Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia
It is 13 cm tall and I purchased it from Johan Koetze from Stonetique in Swakopmund. It was the only time I made business with him, because most of the time the specimens were reserved by Martha Rosseau for their "special" customers!
We had a nice discussion and he talked to me; "Michael, today is your day!"
I will never forget him and the fun we had.
Rest in peace.
17th Feb 2009 19:29 UTCJoan Kureczka
17th Feb 2009 19:29 UTCSam Nasser
Sam Nasser
17th Feb 2009 20:53 UTCGail Spann Manager
18th Feb 2009 01:37 UTCDr. Paul Bordovsky
I think makes the hue darker. It does have the purple phantom, and is a light lavender, with a hint of yellow
in the center.
I almost went with a pink and green variety, but this one was just so unusual.
Your Boltsburn fl. on the other thread is a beauty. It reminds me a little of the Greenlaw's fl., at least in the surface
texture/color zoning. Are those mines located close to each other? I'm assuming that is daylight fluorescence in the photo.
Paul
18th Feb 2009 14:26 UTCJoan Kureczka
Greenlaws is, in fact, right behind the cottage of some friends, where Jesse and I used to stay. A lovely spot. Most of the specimens I've seen from there though have been a sort of a muddy purple with yellow undertones, while Boltsburn is noted for more violet purples and large gemmy crystals (was even used for optical purposes). That is indeed the daylight fluorescence you are seeing, although the crystals even indoors are a good rich color. Many of the mines do produce some variation in color. Even Rogerley produces a few purples, although they are opaque and nothing to write home about, at least to date.
18th Feb 2009 20:06 UTCRay Hill Expert
18th Feb 2009 23:46 UTCStephen Rose Expert
Was it worth the risk? Has the Demon been subdued for another year?
Thankfully, it appears that all is well and we can now get back to normal. And that includes posting on 'What's New.'
I got bored one day and checked out a box of Colorado things dating from 1974/75. And found something that made me attempt a photo in the micro or near micro range. It sort of worked but there is obvious room for improvement. In any case, this is from the Tucker's Tunnel Prospect, Cave Basin District, Hinsdale Co., Colorado.
Theisite (type location) with azurite and calcite. Theisite as greenish-blue crystal aggregates of tabular crystals to 1 mm. FOV approximately 1.5 cm.
PS...I have really enjoyed all of the postings from the show over the past weeks. It is great to be able to get the flavor and excitement without the sore feet. Hopefully, next year, the sore feet! Thanks, Gail, Jolyon, Jordi, Justin and others for all of your efforts on behalf of those not able to be there. And Sophia, we can't forget Sophia. Great work, but whatever happened to the suitcase?
Steve
19th Feb 2009 12:53 UTCPhilip Perkins
-------------------------------------------------------
> No hibernation here, Ray, just depression and
> worry.......... You must all have suffered so!
> ..............
> Was it worth the risk? Has the Demon been subdued
> for another year?
Stephen how could the Demon be subdued for another year? When there is St Marie, Springfield, Denver, Munich etc.
The demons are really those dealers who treck all over the globe to those remote places to bring the goodies home to torment us collectors.
That we are so irritated by what is before our eyes that we have to remove the wallets from our pockets & allow the moths to escape.
19th Feb 2009 15:34 UTCStephen Rose Expert
Thank you for the clarification. I have always wondered why the swallows in downtown Tucson are so fat in mid-winter. Another environmental anomaly created by those dastardly dealers in natural curiosities!
I suppose that you will have to settle for temporary relief from the affliction-and prepare yourself for the next struggle with the forces Nature.
Steve
20th Feb 2009 03:11 UTCRyan L. Bowling
I really enjoy seeing everyone's fine pieces.
Here is one I have had for a few years.
Rhodonite
San Martin Mine/Prospect
Chiuruco, Anacash
Peru
4.5cm tall
Regards,
Ryan
20th Feb 2009 03:58 UTCTrevor Kitto
Ryan was nice to meet u to. The Rhodonite is beautiful.
One i picked up this year
Celestine
Da Yei mine
Hubei
China
take care....trev
20th Feb 2009 04:34 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Always great to put a face to a name. It was great to meet you also.
What a unique piece, really nice.
Take Care,
Ryan
21st Feb 2009 10:03 UTCRay Hill Expert
21st Feb 2009 10:11 UTCRay Hill Expert
21st Feb 2009 23:19 UTCMichael Hopkins
22nd Feb 2009 03:20 UTCRuss Behnke
22nd Feb 2009 04:52 UTCNeal Luppescu
My fave for today, also found in Tucson, is a Native Silver from the Kearsarge Lode, Houghton, Michigan. 8cm in length. Does it look like some kind of animal with a bushy tail?
22nd Feb 2009 08:19 UTCPhilip Perkins
Thank you for showing it.
This is my favourite today.
Calcite.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage.
Tennessee.
crystal size approx 15.5 cm.
22nd Feb 2009 21:40 UTCStephen Rose Expert
I am enjoying all of the pictures of specimens from Tucson. Thanks for sharing everyone.
That Naica fluorite-galena is incredible, Russ! And your hemimorphite, Ray, is a very nice find. What a great locality; it's like the Energizer Bunny.
This is another Indiana specimen, from the well known road cut on Rt SR37 just North of Harrodsburg in Monroe County. It was collected in 1966 and shows ferron dolomite with a nice cluster of calcite rhombs with micro pyrrhotite and possibly smythite. The FOV is about 9X9 cm with the large rhomb 2.3 cm across.
Cheers!
Steve
22nd Feb 2009 23:16 UTCNeal Luppescu
22nd Feb 2009 23:43 UTCSteve Kittleson
I think those Peruvian Rhodonites rank along with the best specimens, regardless of species, from Tsumeb, Weardale, Clara, Bisbee, Himalaya(CA),Elmwood, Sweethome, Padeniera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...and by the way, did I say et cetera...LOL.
Thanks for sharing.
TTFN:)-D(:P)::o(:P):)-D
23rd Feb 2009 00:44 UTCMichael Hopkins
Mike
23rd Feb 2009 00:49 UTCGail Spann Manager
I am looking for my chord to download photos....yikes. Still unpacking from Tucson!
23rd Feb 2009 02:02 UTCRuss Behnke
23rd Feb 2009 22:48 UTCBrooks Britt
23rd Feb 2009 23:00 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-214239.html
24th Feb 2009 00:57 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
24th Feb 2009 02:32 UTCJoseph Freilich
24th Feb 2009 02:33 UTCJoseph Freilich
24th Feb 2009 08:38 UTCRay Hill Expert
I hope that this is an improvement. At least you can see the other termination at the point of contact.
My grandaughter turned 4 yesterday, and I cheated and added her pic as my fav for today...here she is, considering
how good her birthday cake is going to taste, at Chuck E Cheese, .
to love the semi-controlled pandemonium there>
24th Feb 2009 10:15 UTCTrevor Kitto
my fav today
Malachite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
24th Feb 2009 12:26 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Yes, I have a fondness for Calcites as they are one of the ONLY minerals that I can find locally - as in within a 30 minute walk from my home in Paris, Ontario.
The attached shows popcorn calcite (13 x 10 cm) that we found at a washout on the riverbank - growing in sand and cobblestones. I especially like the profile view that shows the layers of travertine.
Maggie
24th Feb 2009 14:44 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank for sharing.
Take care and best regads.
Paul
24th Feb 2009 17:01 UTCJoseph Freilich
24th Feb 2009 17:11 UTCJohn Truax
Maggie I like the sculptured piece of travertine, I have a similar piece from upstate N.Y..
Neal I hope to find something like that around the Champion Mine this summer, what a thrill that must have been!
Today I will post a Lake Superior agate which is one of my favorites.
24th Feb 2009 17:12 UTCMichael Berghäuser
My fav for today is
Chalcopyrite (biggest XX about 1 cm)
from
Altlay, Zell, Hunsrück Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
24th Feb 2009 22:16 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Maggie
25th Feb 2009 08:34 UTCRay Hill Expert
This first one was purported to have had more photos taken of it than any other mineral oddity display on the show floor...now the owner of the case quoted this to me, so he may have been biased...in any event, it is a male thingy and not for the faint of heart or for humourless people.
My second pic is of a piece apparently collected 100 years ago, approximately, and was probably left in the mine by one of our more apelike forbears...but there will be no pratfalls on this particular piece...as per the old cartoons and comedy movies
Hope you have fun with these mineral and mineralized, oddities
25th Feb 2009 08:51 UTCRay Hill Expert
This first one, was the result of extremely difficult and tedious searching over many years, by it's young owner.
I was really amazed by these really rare and unusual agate pieces , all matched, and each one a recognizable letter>
of the alphabet. I had heard rumours of this little collection for years, and it really lived up to its reputation..enjoy
The second one, has malachite "wires" and a replacement of a snake skeleton from a mine, both of which, quite appealed to me
as different and unique.
25th Feb 2009 08:54 UTCRay Hill Expert
25th Feb 2009 11:38 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
(It's possible I've seen *THAT* set offered, rather than others)
25th Feb 2009 17:50 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Quartz
from
Werlau, St Goar, Hunsrück Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
It is a Messer-Quarz translated "knife quartz" from the second big pocket, about 8 cm tall!
25th Feb 2009 19:08 UTCJoseph Freilich
Thanks John....I have not tried under UV, but will certainly try and advise...thanks so much for the tip..Best, Joe
25th Feb 2009 20:05 UTCLinda Smith
Will have to have a rematch of crazy 8's! Nice to meet you.
25th Feb 2009 21:31 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Just posted an Alpine specimen.
Enjoy http://www.mindat.org/photo-214631.html
Take care and best regards.
Paul
25th Feb 2009 22:14 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
thanks for posting
Maggie
26th Feb 2009 08:13 UTCTrevor Kitto
Was great to meet you to. The game was a hole lot of fun, ps had to let the girls win;)
26th Feb 2009 17:54 UTCJason Evans
26th Feb 2009 20:27 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-214446.html
best, Joe
28th Feb 2009 08:23 UTCRay Hill Expert
those of you that have remained, stalwarts that we are...but I believe that we need new blood,
I miss a day now, and I haven't missed more than a couple of entries...oh for the good old days when missing a day took 20 minutes of wonder views of minerals specimens, just to catch up...
Maybe we should have to kept this as a Gail led list...
Anyway, just sharing a few more favs from the main show at Tucson...if you don't mind..
First one is a lovely fluorite on Dolomite from China...
This second one, so reminded me of an octopussy that I had to photograph it...perhaps the most complex ramshorns of selenite
that I have seen together. Evan Jones collection.
28th Feb 2009 09:35 UTCPhilip Perkins
This also is one of Evan Jones, a real nice favourite Niaca Fluorite & Galena, cabinet size piece.
28th Feb 2009 15:31 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-215117.html
come back everyone!!...Gail. we need your magic...
Best, Joe
28th Feb 2009 17:15 UTCNeal Luppescu
28th Feb 2009 17:58 UTCRuss Behnke
28th Feb 2009 19:14 UTCJoseph Freilich
28th Feb 2009 19:55 UTCPhilip Perkins
28th Feb 2009 21:43 UTCRay Hill Expert
nice to see a few other faces back on line..nice pic of a nice Olmiite, and clearly a killer Amethyst piece...but boy it is a bit large!!
Okay, so one of today's faves is a piece of jewellery, but it is a signed Tiffany black opal ring with a $134,000 price tag that I saw at the AGTA.
I did do a movie of it too, because a still shot didn't do it justice.It definitely was a gorgeous stone.
The second pic is of two of the pseudomorphs from Stretch's Desautel's prize winning case...nice , eh?
1st Mar 2009 23:19 UTCRuss Behnke
2nd Mar 2009 00:09 UTCDr. Paul Bordovsky
I have one of these on the previous page of this thread. Do you
know any details on the find? I did get the mine and the province, supposedly, but not any other details
as to when, or how big the find was.
Paul
2nd Mar 2009 00:32 UTCDr. Paul Bordovsky
The crystal is 8.2 x 2.7 x 6.2 cm., and the height of the specimen is 9 cm.
I almost didn't get this one. I had scouted the different shows, and when I came back
for this specimen, the dealer's door was closed, and stayed that way for several hours. When
I was walking thru the courtyard, I noticed the glass door was open. I inquired if it was o.k. come in, as the dealer
looked ill, but was invited in, and then made the purchase.
Paul
.
2nd Mar 2009 01:01 UTCNeal Luppescu
Philip--I did get the olmiite in Tucson. I saw many specimens with this morphology, with clusters of small spherical aggregates, but just about all of them had no associated matrix.
My favorite for today is an Azurite from Tsumeb, 5.5 cm in height.
2nd Mar 2009 01:26 UTCJoseph Freilich
Kamoya South Mine (Kamoya Sud Mine; Kamoya II Mine), Kamoya, Kambove, Central area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
82 x 75 x 68 mm. A superb euhedral crystal, Robert J. Nowakowski Mineral Collection.
2nd Mar 2009 01:46 UTCMichael Hopkins
Thought I would post a better pic of the Azurite we bought in Tucson. It is my new Favorite. I will begin posting more.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-215326.html
2nd Mar 2009 02:01 UTCMichael Hopkins
This is a new Favorite. A thumber of two very lustrous Pyromorphites from the Bunker Hill Mine.
2nd Mar 2009 02:52 UTCRuss Behnke
2nd Mar 2009 04:31 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Love the azurite.
2nd Mar 2009 07:37 UTCJoseph Freilich
Cuprian Smithsonite, Cobaltoan Calcite, Mimetite
79 Mine ( McHur prospect), Hayden, Hayden area, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA. Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco. Leon-Congreso Mine, San Pedro Corralitos, Mexico
45 x 32 x 31, 52 x 50 x 42, 55 x 50 x 35 mm.
"The Logo Trio" (...liked is so much i used it as my logo..)
Three botryoidal specimens that just seem to blend harmoniously with each other. Individuallly, they are about the finest examples I have ever owned, and together, the story is well,...... striking.
2nd Mar 2009 17:43 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
I just posted my fav for today and it is true that the topic seems to need a new youth.
But YOU ALL have also posted some fantastic specimens ( your Carrollite is TOP Joe ) Thanks for sharing.
Zenjoy. http://www.mindat.org/photo-215758.html
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
2nd Mar 2009 18:00 UTCMichael Berghäuser
@ Paul: another beautiful specimen from my collecting area!!(tu)
Here is my fav for today
A Quartz
from
Kaub, Taunus Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
It always reminds me of the defiant of DS9; the floater is about 8 cm tall!
3rd Mar 2009 02:42 UTCPhilip Perkins
Mushroom Tourmaline.
Mogok District.
Myanmar. please enjoy.
3rd Mar 2009 03:48 UTCTrevor Kitto
Epidote
Shigar
Pakistan
TC Trev
3rd Mar 2009 05:19 UTCDr. Paul Bordovsky
Paul
3rd Mar 2009 09:21 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Michaël and Paul, thank you for the compliments but you also have posted some great specimens.
Come on people, let them come !
Today's fav : http://www.mindat.org/photo-215810.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
3rd Mar 2009 11:30 UTCGreg Dainty
3rd Mar 2009 18:17 UTCJoseph Freilich
3rd Mar 2009 18:20 UTCJoseph Freilich
4th Mar 2009 10:02 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Today, I post my fav since 1981, I was just " away " from that colour and I could not resist, even today. It was quite expensive ( for that time ) but compared to prices nowadays, it's peanuts.
Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-215982.html
Zenjoy.
Paul.
4th Mar 2009 17:43 UTCJoseph Freilich
5th Mar 2009 09:45 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Today's fav is especially for Maggie, Siderite.(:D
Here it is:http://www.mindat.org/photo-215806.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
6th Mar 2009 02:25 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
As usual, wonderul speicmen and knock-my-socks off photo!
thanks again
Maggie
6th Mar 2009 05:54 UTCGail Spann Manager
Here is one of our new pieces that I think is great "fun". A fluorite from Namibia.
Some people saw one, albeit much nicer, at the Tucson show with a light button you could push? Joe Budd photo.
I call this the "Alien".
6th Mar 2009 09:48 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thanks Maggie, that is very kind of you.
Welcome back Gail.
Today's fav is here : http://www.mindat.org/photo-215965.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
6th Mar 2009 12:17 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
7th Mar 2009 00:09 UTCGail Spann Manager
Here is a Fluorite, with quartz inclusions from Siberia. BRRRR.
7th Mar 2009 03:50 UTCBill Morgenstern Expert
Today my favorite specimen is this very interesting Mexican quartz that I acquired about 15 years ago in trade.
You can also look here: http://www.mindat.org/photo-216685.html
7th Mar 2009 04:38 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Well, a bit of time has passed since my last post.
Here is my favorite today, taking a page from Gails inclusion piece.
This is a Quartz gwindel with Pyrrohtite inclusions, from the Zingenstock, Switzerland. The piece has mirror luster.
piece measure 5.5cm wide, 4.9cm tall.
Take Care,
Ryan
7th Mar 2009 08:29 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Quartz
from
St Goarshausen, Taunus Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
This floater is 6 cm tall
7th Mar 2009 17:01 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Diotase on Calcite with Cuprian Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine
Tsumeb, Namibia
Specimen 7cm across.
Take Care,
Ryan
7th Mar 2009 20:00 UTCRay Hill Expert
The only better ones that I remember seeing were in the delapidated showcases of the Cornish Mining and Geological Society museum in Penzance,Cornwall England, in an old stone building with a leaky roof, which was apparently donated to the society by the town council
They were stupendously big and wonderfully formed into huge cogwheels. If the Cornish Mining and Geological Society still exists, it is the oldest mineral club in the world. Almost as nice specimens were housed in the museum at the Tech school in Redruth just down the road.
7th Mar 2009 20:25 UTCGail Spann Manager
7th Mar 2009 20:30 UTCRay Hill Expert
7th Mar 2009 20:32 UTCTrevor Kitto
My fav today
Bournonite
Yoagangxian mine
China
Take care....trev
7th Mar 2009 21:23 UTCPhilip Perkins
this one is from the Yaogangxian Mine.
Hunan Province, China.
This specimen is in combination with Stannite, the Bournonite has brilliant lustre.
l mounted it as mainly because the Chinese had sawn 2 sides which l'm not trilled about, but it is a superb specimen.
7th Mar 2009 22:06 UTCGreg Toomey
Greg
7th Mar 2009 23:26 UTCJim Robison
8th Mar 2009 01:23 UTCGail Spann Manager
8th Mar 2009 01:42 UTCGreg Toomey
I finally figured out how to attach my compressed photos to Mindat - it only took me 6 months!
(Not really - but I should have figured out how to do this a lot sooner than this weekend!):S
Greg
8th Mar 2009 02:18 UTCGail Spann Manager
8th Mar 2009 03:53 UTCTrevor Kitto
hematite "kidney ore" from Cumbria
8th Mar 2009 04:35 UTCGail Spann Manager
8th Mar 2009 08:44 UTCRay Hill Expert
My fav for today was a truly "holy" relic from Madan. I saw it at the Tucson show and loved it's absolute uniqueness
Hope you do too.
8th Mar 2009 09:57 UTCRock Currier Expert
Some people think that these galenas have been created with a microabrasive tool.
8th Mar 2009 16:08 UTCGreg Toomey
Greg
8th Mar 2009 19:56 UTCRay Hill Expert
If so , they had a lot of patience and probably breathed in a lot of lead sulphide in the process.
Otherwise, a very interesting piece..
8th Mar 2009 21:13 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Nice specimens everybody, thanks for sharing.
Today's fav is also a Kidney ore, here it is:http://www.mindat.org/photo-215807.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
8th Mar 2009 21:16 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Thanks for the nice comment on the gwindel.
Rock,
Have you or anyone tried to recreate this effect, interesting way to take $50 galenas and make them much more???
Regards,
Ryan
9th Mar 2009 10:27 UTCRay Hill Expert
It stands 5.41 cm tall, x 2.7 cm across x 1.33 cm thick. I got it from Dudley's room
in the Inne Suites this year.
I was taken with it's deep rich colouration.
9th Mar 2009 11:10 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Nice Elbaite, Ray, thanks for sharing.
You will find my fav for today right here :http://www.mindat.org/photo-215905.html
Zenjoy.
Paul.
9th Mar 2009 12:27 UTCPhilip Perkins
My wife said that l like black minerals, Ferberite,Hematite, Cassiterite etc, truth is l like all minerals.
Lately l'm favouring gem minerals like Tourmaline, Topaz & Aqua's.
So here is my black favourite for today, a Cassiterite from Yunnan Province, China.
9th Mar 2009 13:00 UTCPhilip Perkins
This one is actually posted for my wife Barbara, it is her favourite, please excuse the quality of the picture, Bill & Elsie Stone had it on special & we actually debated whether we would buy it a few days ago, but decided our dollar was to low, but l think it's since been sold.
please enjoy, as l do, l go online every day whilst it is still on Sunnywoods site & admire it.
9th Mar 2009 15:45 UTCMichael Berghäuser
hope that I do not bore you with Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia B)-
Here a
smoky quartz floater
of 7,5 cm with calcites associated.
10th Mar 2009 07:21 UTCTrevor Kitto
My fav today
Pyrite on Dolomite
Stari Trg mine
Trepca
Kosovo 6x4
10th Mar 2009 07:49 UTCRay Hill Expert
with quite clear zones and darker banding. All previous Dravites in my memory were just plain dark. This one hails from Gujarkot, Bheri Zone,
West Nepal. I got it this year , in the room belonging to, he who won't be named, in the Inne Suites, in Tucson.
I thought of including it in the Gem Crystal string, that Jim Houran has, but it wasn't quite gemmy enough. It;s dimensions are: 3.13 cm long x 1.66 cm wide x 1.3 cm thick.
10th Mar 2009 11:42 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Nice pieces everyone.
Today's fav is a Clara piece I ontained at the Hannut show 2009.
Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-217197.html
Zenjoy.
Paul
10th Mar 2009 16:02 UTCMichael Berghäuser
beautiful stuff, keep on posting.
A nice 6 cm tall combo of
Calcite, Ankerite, Chalcopyrite on Quartz
from
Werlau, St Goar, Hunsrück Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
10th Mar 2009 18:55 UTCLinda Smith
11th Mar 2009 03:06 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-84767.html
11th Mar 2009 03:19 UTCGreg Toomey
Greg
11th Mar 2009 06:42 UTCRay Hill Expert
I have a sub collection of Selenites and Gypsum and Anhydrites in its own display case, so I love this simple mineral in all its colours and incarnations..
The attached fave for today is a lovely little "catseye" Elbaite from the Ishkung mine,Ho Nala, Chhappu, Braidu Valley,Baltistan,N.A, , Pakistan
It is a TN sized piece @: 2.8 cm tall x 1.49 cm wide x 1.26 cm thick
11th Mar 2009 07:01 UTCPhilip Perkins
How about we call him Sebastian? lt seems that you found a lot of nice things in Sebastians room.
12th Mar 2009 00:14 UTCRay Hill Expert
For Today,also from the lair of "sebastian",
are the most distinct Lepidolite crystals I had ever seen, interestingly edged in white and bicolour in some cases with a couple of Elbaites
from Hovri, near Sabsar, Northern Areas, Pakistan.
3.67 cm wide x 2.44 cm high x 1.7 cm thick
12th Mar 2009 02:10 UTCPhilip Perkins
l was talking to Trevor last night & he told me that you both bought flats of specimens from Sebastian, l believe he is a good guy to know, ah?
My favourite today is a Faden Quartz.
from Toi, North Waristan, Pakhtoon Khwa,
Peshawar, Pakistan.
size is 12 cm high, a friend custom made a stand to display the specimen.
12th Mar 2009 05:09 UTCGreg Toomey
That's a great combo piece you posted on 3/10. And Ray, I have quite a few Gypsum/Selenites in my collection, which, along with the Fluorites always have a variety of form and colors. I really like those Pakistani gems - I'll need to check out Sebastion's room next year!
Today's fave is a Drusy Chrysocolla from the Ray Mine I've had for about 10 years - it is 12.7 cm wide, 17.8 cm tall and about 7 cm thick. It reminds me of a butterfly.
Greg
12th Mar 2009 11:36 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Fantastic specimens have been shared, thank you all.
My fav today is a Rhodochrosite.
Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-215811.html
I had this last year with a label mentionning Hotazel. But by browsing thru the S.African rhodochrosite gallery, I noticed that such specimens came out of the N'Chwaning I mine instead of Hotazel. Who could help me resolving the enigma ?
Thank you in advance.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
13th Mar 2009 09:45 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Another day, another fav. This one is from one of my favourite localities, Sainte Marie-aux-Mines.
Here it is :http://www.mindat.org/photo-178824.html
Where is everybody ????
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
13th Mar 2009 20:18 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Pyromorphite
from
Friedrichssegen Mine, Frücht, Bad Ems District, Lahn valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
14th Mar 2009 00:48 UTCJoan Kureczka
Great dravite, by the way. I have definitely not seen another like that -- so gemmy.
14th Mar 2009 03:27 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-193994.html
Enjoy it...its really one of my favorites..Joe
14th Mar 2009 03:29 UTCJoseph Freilich
Vesuvianite, Pakistan...
http://www.mindat.org/photo-78352.html
14th Mar 2009 09:27 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Quartz/Amethyst
from
Tafelkop, Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia
Have a nice weekend!
14th Mar 2009 09:28 UTCRay Hill Expert
It came from the mysterious Sebastian in the Inne Suites and is from an odd location....the Anzar Army Camp on the Gilgit Skardu Road, Northern Areas, Pakistan. It is 11.176 cm long x 5.16 cm high x 3.82 cms thick. I hope you like it too.
p.s. I would love some critique on this one as I played with the light to try and make it look like a painting...???
14th Mar 2009 09:36 UTCRay Hill Expert
When I was photographing flat B from Tucson, today, I found another dravite from the same locale, so obviously
I was taken by the translucency/Transparency banding myself..and got two. Just in case you just have to have one for your collection, Joan.
14th Mar 2009 12:20 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Fantastic specimens everyone.
Joe, Gorgeous Vesuvianite !
Michaël, great Goboboseb and Ems specimens.
I did some photographic work yesterday and came by this one. My fav for today.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-218286.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
14th Mar 2009 12:40 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
I have two words to describe that specimen -- ay, yi, yi! ::o
fabulous work - thanks for posting
14th Mar 2009 14:52 UTCSafaa Yu
That is such~ a beauty!!!
Really enjoyed it, thanks a lot for sharing.(tu)
I would just post my favourite piece of Amazonite and Smokyquartz that i got from Tucson recently.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-216354.html
Enjoy your weekends
Safaa
14th Mar 2009 15:02 UTCJoseph Freilich
14th Mar 2009 16:55 UTCMichael Berghäuser
your photos are always brilliant, can you teach an amateur like me how to improve my skill?;) You have to come to Germany and help me.:)-D
Often I feel very ashamed of the beauty of the specimens and my incapability of documentating it in a photo. I keep on improving, still hope to have some decades time left ...
14th Mar 2009 17:57 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager
Safaa, nice Amazonite & love your avatar too !
14th Mar 2009 18:25 UTCSafaa Yu
I drew my avatar picture according to the photo below actually~hehe
http://www.mindat.org/photo-76908.html
Just enjoy doing everything associated with minerals~meow~
14th Mar 2009 19:04 UTCTomasz Praszkier Manager
I am posting maybe not the really great one, but I believe interesting - new helvite from Madan. Only a few specimens comes out from some sector of mine - always with epidote (matrix) and quartz. This specimen is 6 cm big, "Spirifer" Geological Society collection.
Tom
15th Mar 2009 01:22 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Tom - you, too have added a lovely specimen
thanks!
15th Mar 2009 09:31 UTCRay Hill Expert
This one is from Torghar, Khyber Agency, Fata, Pakistan
It is 1.99 cms x 1.44 cms x .42 cms
15th Mar 2009 15:29 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/user-2022.html#2_0_4333_0_0_0_
15th Mar 2009 19:12 UTCMichael Berghäuser
from
Bergmannstrost Mine, Bad Ems, Bad Ems District, Lahn valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
width of specimen: 5 cm
15th Mar 2009 23:12 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager
Native copper crystal from the Cliff Mine in Keweenaw County, Michigan.
Crystal is about 2 cm across.
16th Mar 2009 00:16 UTCGreg Toomey
Greg
16th Mar 2009 03:52 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-218565.html
best regards, joe
16th Mar 2009 07:01 UTCRay Hill Expert
4.46 cm x 3.31 cm x 2.39 cm . It has the subtlest of colouration and it was hard to capture
photographically. Another 09 Tucson purchase.
16th Mar 2009 09:48 UTCRock Currier Expert
You should upload that Mexican, Azurite to mindat. I would like to use it in my azurite article on Best Minerals.
16th Mar 2009 12:45 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you, Maggie, Safaa, Joe, Michaël and Debbie for your kind words.
Safaa, fantastic painting from your specimen. Superb specimen of Amazonite too, I am looking since decades for a good, affordable one. ( sorry Gail, but I like these too ).
Michaël, as a collector of Ems minerals, I can only congratulate your with your specimens.
Concerning my photo secrets, there are non. I changed my avatar as the best explanation.(:P)
There are no secrets but here are some tips.
I take ALL my pictures in the shadow of a large Cypress in my garden ( that's maybe the secret ) on a smooth, uniform dark background.
I put my camera ( Nikon Coolpix 4500 ) on the shadow mode and take several pics with different diaphragma and closure times. ( after putting them on my PC, I choose the best and delete the others )
Then it is only a matter of copy and paste job, sometimes changing slightly the colour balance and sharpen filter with Photoshop. Some pics take 5 minutes and others 40.
If there is a secret it is this one, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, sometimes untill you are bored to stupid.
Another secret is, never give up, keep trying. It is the only way to learn.
Not all images are good from the first try. I am trying since a few months to take an Azurite from Laurium and I can't get it right. So I keep trying.
May the force be with you.
Allmost forgotten, my fav for today: http://www.mindat.org/photo-215986.html
Zenjoy.
Paul
16th Mar 2009 15:48 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-218565.html
16th Mar 2009 16:19 UTCSafaa Yu
I like all the colors but it seemed there are just more blue and green in my collection, i don't know when i can be fortunate enough to hunt something like that, meaning find it and able to afford at the same time....sigh....
Paul~thanks for sharing your experience of photographing~and your compliment to my piece, well~yes, it is by now the most expensive piece i have bought, but i just can't help to have one, since i unreasonably became a feldspar fan~meow....
ok~then my fav today,the "faden" baryte.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-169277.html
16th Mar 2009 17:13 UTCJoseph Freilich
16th Mar 2009 17:21 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Copper and Silver on Cerussite
from
Friedrichssegen Mine, Frücht, Bad Ems District, Lahn valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Specimen size about 4 cm
16th Mar 2009 17:56 UTCRay Hill Expert
This intersestingly zoned Fluorite is from Okaruso , Otjiwarongo Region,Karibib dist., Namibia
It measures 8.176 cm x 5.49 cm x 1.71 cm
17th Mar 2009 03:59 UTCGreg Toomey
Joe, love that Azurite!
Ray, great Fluorite - I like the zonies!
Greg
17th Mar 2009 09:40 UTCRay Hill Expert
Anyway, today's fave is from Dave, Dave Wilber, that is. I got lucky and got a super trim piece from a much larger one he had and it contains, by his label some curite, Vandenbrandeite and a nice furry blanketing of acicular xls of cuprosklodowskite. It measures 6.57 cm x 5.03 cm x 3.28 cm and hails from Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo. Loving radioactives as I do, means I can describe this specimen in "glowing" terms...and hopefully get away with it.
17th Mar 2009 22:48 UTCCorie Mattar
This is my first post in this thread, so here goes.
My favorite today is my first piece I ever got with complete xls, it's a Rawley Mine Wulfenite.
My friend and I were out on a week long collecting trip around the southwest, and happened upon two miners working the Rawley Mine.
I had never seen a working mine before, so it was quite the experience! The miners were rapelling down to 200 feet or so and bringing up the most beautiful specimens of bladed calcite, xlized chrysocolla and galena, and of course wulfenite.
They traded with us, giving us each a piece of wulfenite in exchange for several pieces of petrified wood we collected.
I still do not have a place to display this specimen, however I take it out of its box once in a while, just to see it.
Enjoy, and thanks for looking!
The xls range in size from 4-9 mm, and the entire piece is approx 13 cm across.
Corie
17th Mar 2009 23:22 UTCLinda Smith
18th Mar 2009 03:21 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-219217.html
18th Mar 2009 04:16 UTCDarren Court
18th Mar 2009 09:27 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Nice specimens everyone, thanks for sharing.
Ray, fine VDB-ite, probably from Shinkolobwe ( because of the " gummite " associated )
Michaël, hope to see you during the Ems show soon. ( nice copper BTW )
Today's fav is especially for Maggie, Siderite. I am sure that sooner or later, you will start to love this mineral.
Here it is:http://www.mindat.org/photo-219134.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
18th Mar 2009 10:23 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Maybe we can do some collecting or I can show you my collection?!? Or we can make a photo session, I have lots of micros ...:)
BTW: I live only 25 kilos from Bad Ems away.
All the best
18th Mar 2009 21:42 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
My favorite for today:
Fluorite, almost colourless except for some faint thin blue-violet zones.
96 wide by 38mm thick overall, the largest partial cube has a 40mm edge.
Recently acquired.
The dealer's label gave a most informative location of... "China". Very specific...!
I found it to ethereal to pass up, nevertheless...
Enjoy,
Gerhard
19th Mar 2009 01:42 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-100112.html
19th Mar 2009 01:47 UTCGreg Toomey
Greg
19th Mar 2009 03:00 UTCCorie Mattar
Those are all beautiful minerals. I especially liked that siderite, thanks!
Today, I like the earthy mineral myrickite. I dug this out from the center of the road.
It's a huge piece, over 15 cm across!
Corie
19th Mar 2009 07:07 UTCRay Hill Expert
Okay, so how do you get those lovely mid posting pics...there must be a button somewhere that makes that happen and you guys are hoarding that info.. It is way cooler to have the pic already there, than having to go and dredge it up ...so fess up Corie
Following on the heels of the ethereal fluorite is todays' fave. This 500 carat xl is pretty well flawless and may end up being sacrificed to the cutting wheel for a large and daintily hued stone. I say this only because it is an incomplete xl which was actually bought for that end purpose...sorry. It hails from Chumar, Bakhoor, Nagar , Northern Areas , Pakistan. It is 5.58 cm x 4.75 cm x 3.6 cm
19th Mar 2009 09:23 UTCCorie Mattar
There are two ways to put a photo in the post.
WAY ONE -
Sign in to Mindat.
Click on MY HOME PAGE (upper left of the skinny boxes at the top of the page).
Click on the MY PHOTOS tab.
Next to each photo is the description that you created, and just below that is the PHOTO ID number.
That is the number you will need.
NEXT, start a post.
Click on the MINERAL icon next to the HAPPY FACE icon.
A set of text comes up and looks similar to this: pic id=XXXX width=600 float=left>
REPLACE the xxxx with the PHOTO ID. That is, you will delete the xxxx, and replace it with the six digit number.
Hit preview to see if you've done it correctly.
YAY! that is WAY ONE!
WAY TWO -
Post your photos to PHOTOBUCKET, or some other similar web service.
Open the photo at that site, and copy the web address.
Start a post.
Click on the TENTH icon from the LEFT, it is a picture of a mountain.
A tiny window pops up and asks for the web address of the photo.
Paste in the web address.
Hit PREVIEW to see if you've done it correctly.
I find that once in a while, this method just does not work properly. I think it's a sizing issue.
I hope that works for everyone, and feel free to ask questions!
Warm regards,
Corie
19th Mar 2009 09:35 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
http://manual.mindat.org/index.php/BBcode
Photos section.
19th Mar 2009 11:32 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Paul, I LOVE your bowties! Thanks for the post!
Joe, you had me at a disadvantage (only one cup of coffee so far today - couldn't get PRC for a bit) but that hardly matters, cuz your Brochantite is an eye-popper!
And, now, for a little show-offing of my own - thanks to a lesson on "Mindat for Dummies" from Corie I can post THIS way:
Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada
Pyrite cabinet specimen 8.0 x 6.5 x 4.0 cm; largest cyrstal 2.0 cm Louis Conti collection.
Spring is here in southwestern Ontario - the tundra swans have arrived and we have started to collect minerals AGAIN!! woo hoo!
19th Mar 2009 11:43 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you Maggie and Ray.
Nice Pyrite Maggie !
Now, back to basics, Katanga, http://www.mindat.org/photo-166847.html
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
19th Mar 2009 13:11 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager
Paul, another lovely photo to drool over (:D
19th Mar 2009 17:58 UTCJoseph Freilich
19th Mar 2009 18:11 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-198469.html
19th Mar 2009 23:45 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-109267.html
20th Mar 2009 08:01 UTCRay Hill Expert
from Tucson that I got...this transparent diopside has some interesting inclusions that play with the light.
It hails from Azrat Syed, Badakshan, Afghanistan. It is 3.14 x 3 x 2.7 cms and the xl is 1.71 x .94 x .66 cm.
20th Mar 2009 15:19 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
My favourite today is... in a photo I didn't take myself, this crazy Elbaite from Pakistan,
straight out of a futuristic treasure-hunt adventure game:
It's so favourite with the little gang of Tourmalines I already have that they have asked me
to invite it over to meet it in person B)
20th Mar 2009 17:09 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Amethysts
from
Tafelkop, Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Brandberg District, Erongo Region, Namibia
20th Mar 2009 17:42 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-219595.html
21st Mar 2009 01:36 UTCMichael Hopkins
http://www.mindat.org/photo-219813.html
21st Mar 2009 03:42 UTCRay Hill Expert
hearing about
Nice pic and nice piece...
Today's fave is a .71 cm long Anatase w Faden Quartzes on a 3.97 x 3.62 x 1.6 cm matrix specimen from Karan Baluchistan, Pakistan
21st Mar 2009 06:33 UTCJoseph Freilich
Killer specimen Michael....Best, Joe
21st Mar 2009 09:56 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you Debbie.
My fav today is a Mexican specimen.
Here it is:http://www.mindat.org/photo-219738.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
21st Mar 2009 12:10 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
21st Mar 2009 17:23 UTCSafaa Yu
my favourite today is a PK Spessartine specimen.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-76860.html
21st Mar 2009 22:36 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Silver
Kongsberg
Norway
middle wire is 4.2cm tall.
Have a great day.
Ryan
22nd Mar 2009 21:15 UTCJay Buscio
22nd Mar 2009 21:32 UTCJay Buscio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcBGwNuJ6TE
22nd Mar 2009 23:09 UTCTomasz Praszkier Manager
This is my favourite stibnite from Herja mine - perfect group with incredible lustre on siderite matrix. Size of specimen is 9,7 cm.
It was collected in 2004, and this was last find of good quality stibnites in Herja before closing mine.
Here is another specimen from same locality - on very contrastive white quartz matrix. This one was collected in 80's. Size of stibnite group is 7 cm.
Tom
23rd Mar 2009 00:02 UTCRaymond
The first picture is of a ball of Cavansite on a Dolomite matrix, with a scolecite rod nderneath the Cavansite.
The second picture is of two twin Stilbites, connected at the bottom, on a druze zeolite matrix.
The third is of blue apophyllite and orange Stilbite atop dolomite.
My three favorite specimens are all from the Poonah area of India.
23rd Mar 2009 04:25 UTCEric Graff Expert
23rd Mar 2009 06:18 UTCPhilip Perkins
my wife & l debated whether it would survive the journey home through Airport Security, finally deciding againgst purchasing it.
This favourite today is the one we did bring home & over a year later l met the same dealer in Tucson & was told "You buya my besta Stibnite last year!" so it must be a good specimen.
23rd Mar 2009 08:54 UTCRay Hill Expert
Today's fave is a little 3.25 x 2.64 x 2.04 cm specimen with lovely gemmy Vesuvianites sprinkled
nicely around it's surface. Lovely contrast in this Vesuvianite from Shaiman, near Lani Kotal, Khyber Agency,
Fata, Pakistan. Hope you like it too.
23rd Mar 2009 11:03 UTCPhilip Perkins
Nice Vesuvianite Ray, did you get it from Sebastian in Tucson?
Sorry Ray we are back to Stibnite again, another Chinese one........ Wuling Mine,
Any Stibnites from Canada? it would be nice to see one if they exist, l love sulfides.
23rd Mar 2009 12:51 UTCEric Graff Expert
23rd Mar 2009 14:38 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
In the Malmberget Min in the polar region of N Sweden, we have found this calcite form 20 years ago.
Keep them minerals coming.....
23rd Mar 2009 20:46 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
For today, I'll confess a soft spot toward the Photo of the Day -
is it a blue spring flower, is it even the "Blaue Blume" of the Romantic age, or is it a blue butterfly...
Now back to knocking some of my own photos into presentable shape. :)
23rd Mar 2009 20:57 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-220342.html
23rd Mar 2009 23:56 UTCTomasz Praszkier Manager
Today I have 4 successive slices made from one crystal of tourmaline from Anjanabonoina.
They have diameter about 4 cm.
Tourmaline was collected about 2005. Slices are in "Spirifer" Geological Society collection.
Tom
24th Mar 2009 00:48 UTCJoseph Freilich
24th Mar 2009 01:40 UTCEric Graff Expert
24th Mar 2009 03:26 UTCRyan L. Bowling
Not that it is a great piece, rather, I found it last weekend. This was a fun pocket to dig, about .4 meters long. I called it the "lead" pocket. The pocket had 42 galenas coated with anglesite, and four white modified fluorites.
Galena with Fluorite(clear) coated with Anglesite
Blanchard 3 1/2 tunnel
Blanchard Mine
Bingham, New Mexico
9.1 cm tall.
Collected 3/15/09
Take Care,
Ryan
24th Mar 2009 07:52 UTCRay Hill Expert
And to the formerly maligned Jay...awesome link to your copper...the music sucks a bit, but the pic is definitely
very much worth the torture. Got any more of those...??
Tomasz ...really nice Liddicoatites..
Phil, I haven't yet seen a decent stibnite from Canada but managed to acquire a nice little cabinet piece from the U.S.
at the auction held in the Colorado School of Mines a couple of Denvers ago, and yes the piece in question did come from
the mysterious Sebastian of Inne Suites Tucson fame.
Today's fave is a faden quartz.
It's 4.46 cm long x 3.31 cm high and 2.39 cm thick. It hails from Wanna , Waziristan, NWFP, Pakistan.
24th Mar 2009 14:53 UTCJay Buscio
24th Mar 2009 23:51 UTCJoseph Freilich
best, Joe
25th Mar 2009 00:43 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
25th Mar 2009 01:34 UTCPhilip Perkins
l think it is a fantastic specimen, equally as good as some from Tsumeb.
l like the fact that it has a nice Calcite in a prominent spot.
25th Mar 2009 02:46 UTCRyan L. Bowling
I really enjoyed seeing the stibnite on calcite.
Here is my favorite today.
Beryl var Morganite with Tourmaline var. Elbaite
Tourmaline Queen Mine
Pala, California
This piece was recovered around 1974, and was in John Barlow's collection as a large matrix, which was trimmed into three specimens. I owned all three at one time.
Specimen measures 7.5cm across.
Take Care,
Ryan
25th Mar 2009 03:46 UTCJoseph Freilich
AND...one of my all time fav's....joe
25th Mar 2009 07:40 UTCRay Hill Expert
25th Mar 2009 09:22 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Superb specimens have been shown, thank you all for sharing.
Today's fav is a specimen of rare velvet Malachite from Chessy in France, found in the late 1800's.
Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-166851.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
25th Mar 2009 15:49 UTCIbrahim Jameel Expert
I have been watching this thread (all three of them) on and off. Here is one of my favorite pieces in my possession, a 7-8 cm cuprosklodowskite from Katanga.
It's my favorite color.... but I don't think i would ever wear something of that color...
ibrahim
25th Mar 2009 20:00 UTCJoseph Freilich
25th Mar 2009 22:03 UTCTomasz Praszkier Manager
Specimen illustrated below comes from Eurogranit quarry, it was found in 2005. It is big for 11,2 cm. Specimen was repered but still it is one of the best Polish fluorites. It has incredible blue colour which is changing in artificial light to violet!
http://www.mindat.org/photo-218635.html
I posted also second photo other specimen from the same pocked which show fluorite in two different lights.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-218732.html
Both specimens are from "Spirifer" Geological Society collection. Fot. J. Scovil.
If have you some interesting specimens from Strzegom/Striegau please post them, I have to see them !
Tom
26th Mar 2009 16:49 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Quartz
from
Miehlen, Nastätten, Taunus Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
26th Mar 2009 22:40 UTCGail Spann Manager
26th Mar 2009 23:20 UTCTomasz Praszkier Manager
it is beautiful classic!
Me favourite today is realgar from Baia Sprie, found in December 2005 - just before final closing of mines in Baia Mare area.
Main crystal has 4 cm. "Spirifer" Geological Society collection. Fot. J. Scovil.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-221006.html
Tom
27th Mar 2009 08:10 UTCRay Hill Expert
My favourite today, might interest Stretch with his pseudomorph focus...it is purported to be a Parisite after Bastnaesite from Torghar, Khyber , Fata Pakistan, and is 1.41 x 1.07 x .95 cm
What I puzzled over for a time was, that little indented band around the crystal!!
I wondered if that was the transition point of the dissolution and replacement that was progressing , along the crystal.
Any thoughts?
27th Mar 2009 14:48 UTCPhilip Perkins
Cassiterite on a Muscovite matrix with a Scheelite crystal.
Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu County,
Sichuan Province, China.
l just love the brilliant mirror like lustre on the Cassiterites from that locality.
27th Mar 2009 14:56 UTCPhilip Perkins
27th Mar 2009 17:05 UTCLinda Smith
27th Mar 2009 19:54 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
I have two favourites today. The first is this intricate Rutile "snowflake" contributed by Enrico Bonacina:
http://www.mindat.org/photo-221396.html
The second is a recent acquisition of mine, a black Tourmaline of Erongo extraction, 55mm across and tall:
Amidst the dominant rhombohedral {1 0 -1 1} faces and the narrow, half-as-steep {1 -1 0 2} pyramid strips separating them, this guy has struggled hard to form a proper terminal pedion, but not quite succeeded. The face is pitted by hundreds of little more-or-less triangular holes. Letting the light play on them, I can see reflections from all six planes of both pyramids.
On top of this, the front left corner of the crystal got diverted by a lattice glitch and went on growing at a slight angle to the remainder, resulting in the chain of larger triangular pits and in two irregular cracks where they peter off into the rhombohedron faces. Another smaller corner in the rear followed suit, and the front right corner is also doing funny things...
Moreover, the front prism edge has a little notch in it, itself bounded by proper pyramidal faces. (So this corner must have been growing radially outward at least for a while, instead of longitudinally.)
There are yet more little secrets to this specimen, but I haven't yet got recognizable close-ups of them...
Additional photo links below are a close-up of the triangle chain and a stereo pair.
27th Mar 2009 23:04 UTCIbrahim Jameel Expert
That bastneasite/ parisite is crazy..... Is it a pseudomorph, or a parisite crystal growing on bastnaesite? The reason I ask is that bastanesite usually doesn't have tappered ends (like parisite)... usually they are just hexagonal prisms of varying length.
If it were bastnaesite after parisite, I would understand the termination. But if it is parisite after bastnaesite, it would be a bit harder to explain.... unless the parisite replaced the bastnaesite, and then more parisite grew on one face and eventually resulted in that termination?
Whatever the case... it's a very interesting piece.
ibrahim
27th Mar 2009 23:11 UTCIbrahim Jameel Expert
The second specimen is its little brother (just over 3 cm) ..... I got it from Alfredo at last years Tucson show.
ibrahim
28th Mar 2009 00:04 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Maggie
28th Mar 2009 00:04 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-78842.html
28th Mar 2009 05:38 UTCJonathan Woolley
Here is my first contribution, the best photo I've managed with the macro on our little digi. A nice little rhodo on quartz crystal from Mont Saint-Hilaire that I recently acquired. The piece is 3.9 x 2.4 cm.
Cheers,
Jonathan
28th Mar 2009 09:04 UTCRay Hill Expert
28th Mar 2009 10:38 UTCGail Spann Manager
Veszelyite.
28th Mar 2009 14:28 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Pyromorphite
from
Rosenberg Mine, Braubach, Bad Ems District, Lahn valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
great pyro-specimen from a famous locality
width of specimen: 5 cm
28th Mar 2009 14:44 UTCBrooks Britt
28th Mar 2009 18:27 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-186768.html
of course, does not approach the one at Smithsonian, but a beauty non the less....best, Joe
28th Mar 2009 19:48 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-221484.html
Cheers, Joe
29th Mar 2009 04:55 UTCCorie Mattar
Sticking with the weird theme...
Mix a little vanidanite, calcite, chrysocolla and galena, and you get... T ROX!
Regards,
Corie
29th Mar 2009 05:30 UTCJoseph Freilich
29th Mar 2009 07:21 UTCRay Hill Expert
29th Mar 2009 21:07 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-78786.html
29th Mar 2009 21:13 UTCJoseph Freilich
29th Mar 2009 22:05 UTCGail Spann Manager
Beautiful Hematite from the Smithsonian display.
Thanks to Corie for showing me how to imbed photos!
30th Mar 2009 03:49 UTCRay Hill Expert
30th Mar 2009 04:12 UTCGail Spann Manager
I love these darn things though, have a few of them around the house. They make great door stops....
Just kidding.
Here's another beauty housed in the Harvard Museum Collection.
30th Mar 2009 04:48 UTCRay Hill Expert
These are front and back views of the same 7.92 cm specimen. If you like native elemental crystals, you might like this one.
31st Mar 2009 01:30 UTCIbrahim Jameel Expert
Pyromorphite is found in so many places, with such a great variety of appearances... it's my favorite species.
http://www.khyberminerals.com/pyromorphite_pyromorphite_files/IMG_5493.JPG
31st Mar 2009 02:10 UTCMichael Hopkins
Very clever using your website name as an avatar. I don't think it will last though, advertising is strickly prohibited
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31st Mar 2009 07:28 UTCTomasz Praszkier Manager
Maybe you have some nice Machów specimens in your collections and you can show us?
http://www.mindat.org/photo-220870.html
http://www.mindat.org/photo-221452.html
http://www.mindat.org/photo-222018.html
http://www.mindat.org/photo-222021.html
All theme are from colection of "Spirifer" Geological Society. Fot. J. Scovil.
Tom
31st Mar 2009 12:18 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
31st Mar 2009 15:51 UTCPhilip Perkins
l always understood that specimens like you have posted are Celestobarite not Celestite?
Would you please set me straight on that one?
Anyway as you requested something from Poland, one of my favourites.
Barite.
Stanislawow, Wroclaw District.
Poland.
Mined 1981.
31st Mar 2009 17:27 UTCIbrahim Jameel Expert
But.... so that there are no misunderstandings, it's now a Shigar aquamarine crystal.
And my specimen for the day, from my Bolivian collection:
Acanthite, 4.2 cm. It's from the Porco Mine, the same mine that supplied the Spaniards with silver beginning in the 1500's, through (I'm guessing) sometime in the 1800's, and which continues to operate today.
I am told the cubic crystals result from its forming at a higher temperature (as argentite) and then transforming to acanthite at lower temperatures, while still retaining the old shape.
http://khyberminerals.com/bol_sulfides_files/IMG_0069_small.JPG
And Tomasz, those polish celestines are amazing... particularly the one in the third picture with the sulfur.
31st Mar 2009 22:09 UTCMatthew Boeck
31st Mar 2009 22:13 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
Today's favourite is a psychedelic violet "Fluoritescape" from Mexico.
Crossed-eye stereo pair, FOV about 12mm.
(Halogen front and back light. The large skew reddish-brown feature is an inclusion.)
31st Mar 2009 23:06 UTCRay Hill Expert
this past weekend , when we had an unusual exposure to solar radiation on a day plunked down right in the middle of lots and lots of rain...
1st Apr 2009 02:26 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
1st Apr 2009 03:00 UTCJoseph Freilich
Great selection from Machow...I too love the locality..I have this:
http://www.mindat.org/photo-191944.html
1st Apr 2009 03:02 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-214993.html
Cheers, Joe
1st Apr 2009 06:30 UTCTomasz Praszkier Manager
I think that this specimen was radiated (as number of "morions")). I visited mine number of times, I sow thousands of specimens and I never saw black celestites in Poland. Only some specimens "returning" from US or Western countries are black (I saw number of this type black-grey celestites). The same is with barites from Romania - now at the market you can see black ones - but during period when mines were working you can't see them.
I was examining really number of Machow specimens, in old private and museum collections etc.
I am sorry to tell this.
Tom
1st Apr 2009 06:52 UTCJoseph Freilich
1st Apr 2009 10:10 UTCRay Hill Expert
I don't hold much to titles, but it is Dr Woodside, . He really does deserve the honorifics
as he is a pretty sharp individual.
My favourite for today is a nice small cabinet specimen of Cassiterite and Vivianite from the Viloco mine, La Paz , Bolivia
It is 6.5 cm x 4 cm x 2 cm with the longest crystal being 3.75 cm and the radiating group is 2 cm across.From my brief visit to
the photo section, it seems to hold well against what is on display, despite my meager attempts to capture a dark mineral with
a dark mineral, on film.
1st Apr 2009 17:14 UTCIbrahim Jameel Expert
Here's my favorite for the day: copper ps. aragonite from Corocoro, Bolivia. Many shapes, many sizes.
http://khyberminerals.com/bolivia1_files/IMG_8136.JPG
1st Apr 2009 17:55 UTCSafaa Yu
Today my fav would be the Emerald specimen as http://www.mindat.org/photo-145631.html
2nd Apr 2009 01:26 UTCDanny Jones Expert
http://www.mindat.org/photo-222612.html
I have been wanting a good Kelly Smithsonite for years and years and years. When I found this one at The Collector's Edge and the price was within my budget...I had it wrapped up an on the way to the car so fast!!! It is still sitting where I can look at it every day!
I hope everyone will enjoy it as much as I have.
2nd Apr 2009 07:31 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Again, superb specimen have been shown, Congratulations to the owners and thanks for sharing.
Today's fav is from my country and as Harjo said before, Belgium is a Calcite paradise.
Here is why : http://www.mindat.org/photo-219733.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
2nd Apr 2009 19:54 UTCJoseph Freilich
Here's one I have....best, Joe
http://www.mindat.org/photo-222409.html
3rd Apr 2009 01:28 UTCJonathan Woolley
Ray, I love those BC silvers from a few days ago!
Here is my favorite today - willemite and franklinite on calcite from Franklin, NJ. Recent acquisition from the sale of an old collection.
Cheers,
Jonathan
3rd Apr 2009 05:27 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-222749.html
3rd Apr 2009 10:48 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
That's funny, Joe.
My fav today is ordinairy Quartz.
Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-222807.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
3rd Apr 2009 14:29 UTCJoseph Freilich
3rd Apr 2009 15:39 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNK6h1dfy2o
4th Apr 2009 01:43 UTCMichael Hopkins
Mike
4th Apr 2009 03:41 UTCGail Spann Manager
Stop Joe, I can't stop sniffling!!!
But darn, that does hit home.
Okay, minerals....here is one of my favourites today. It is a large plate of Azurite and Malachite from Bisbee's Copper Queen Mine. This belonged to the mine owner in the late 1880s.
First owner and supervisor of the Copper Queen Mine, Ben Williams's piece.
4th Apr 2009 08:13 UTCRay Hill Expert
4th Apr 2009 11:16 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thanks Joe, fantastic Calcite too. Imagine that in the 80's they where so plentifull that it was on a given moment boring to collect them !
And in our minds, it was " only " Calcite. I gave tons of them away. Now that the quarries are closed, we regret this, off course. Not that I gave them away, it made lots of people happy, but that we can't collect there any more.
Gail, superb Azurite, really.
Today's fav is Alpine and one of my favourite mineral species, here it is http://www.mindat.org/photo-222808.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
4th Apr 2009 13:51 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
4th Apr 2009 16:47 UTCPhilip Perkins
Elbaite, Pederneira Mine.
M.G. Brazil.
The crystal is double terminated & approx 17 cm high.
4th Apr 2009 20:01 UTCGail Spann Manager
Ben Williams not only collected minerals but was a major source of minerals for sale to such people as A.E.Foote.
They actually bought the mine in 1880.
Dr.Douglas and the Williams brothers enjoyed a lifetime partnership.
This is according to the information in our catalogue files.
5th Apr 2009 00:14 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
My Sunday morning favourite is a tiny (~0.7mm long) but gemmy baby Elbaite:
(stereo version attached below)
which is improbably perched sideways in a little notch (arrowed) at the top of this green "glass wall":
itself a small part of this guy, already mentioned previously as one of my favourites...
5th Apr 2009 14:59 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-223057.html
5th Apr 2009 15:44 UTCJay Buscio
5th Apr 2009 18:25 UTCGail Spann Manager
5th Apr 2009 20:43 UTCDr. Paul Bordovsky
126mm x 40mm
The baby blue color is pretty accurate, but the termination is really pinkish red. It has too much of a yellowish
cast in the photo, probably due to my lighting.
Thanks for all the great photos. It is really nice to see all these fantastic specimens.
Paul
5th Apr 2009 21:02 UTCTomasz Praszkier Manager
Both are from Tsarafara pegmatite, Sahatany Valley, Madagascar. Both are long for 3,5 cm.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-223131.html
http://www.mindat.org/photo-223128.html
Coll. "Spirifer" Geological Society. Fot. G. Bijak.
Tom
5th Apr 2009 23:20 UTCPhilip Perkins
Hyakule Mine,
Kosi Zone, Nepal.
l like this one with the small crystal that grew through the termination.
size 10.1 cm tall.
5th Apr 2009 23:34 UTCKyle Beucke 🌟
Is the Skull Valley location the one with cinnabar? I know this is off-topic, but I have heard about the cinnabar there and I am intrigued.
Thanks,
Kyle
6th Apr 2009 02:21 UTCTommy Armstrong
6th Apr 2009 02:21 UTCBill Lechner Expert
Bill
http://www.mindat.org/photo-179742.html
6th Apr 2009 03:48 UTCGail Spann Manager
6th Apr 2009 05:21 UTCJay Buscio
6th Apr 2009 10:58 UTCRay Hill Expert
I haven't seen any recent stuff surfacing anywhere that equals it for colour and texture.
A couple of years ago, I got some super dense Azurite vein material that was mined
recently on contract and sold to China for colouring fine oil paints. It's colour tended a bit more to the deep rich violet-blue though.
Yours has a lighter blue than the one I have, and your natural light photo really does it justice. Thanks.
6th Apr 2009 15:22 UTCJay Buscio
6th Apr 2009 17:27 UTCJay Buscio
6th Apr 2009 18:11 UTCRay Hill Expert
6th Apr 2009 19:32 UTCJay Buscio
6th Apr 2009 20:02 UTCJay Buscio
6th Apr 2009 21:03 UTCJay Buscio
6th Apr 2009 23:58 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
as Paul says: Zenjoy!
7th Apr 2009 00:20 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-223340.html
7th Apr 2009 08:10 UTCRay Hill Expert
It really looks so much like some of the excellent Michigan crystals that I have, and have seen..
that I had to look at it magnified, a couple of times, before making this query.
Hey Maggie, that Sphalerite is reminiscent, in shape and colour to material I have taken from
the Lincoln Quarry and from Dundas Quarry...nice piece !!
7th Apr 2009 08:29 UTCPhilip Perkins
Joe l love your Calcite too, very nice.
Regardless of where Jay's Copper comes from, l love Coppers!
7th Apr 2009 16:14 UTCJay Buscio
Philip: I guess I must have a thing for coppers too now that you mention it!
7th Apr 2009 17:09 UTCJay Buscio
7th Apr 2009 17:18 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
7th Apr 2009 17:41 UTCJay Buscio
7th Apr 2009 17:56 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
7th Apr 2009 18:05 UTCPeter Hargis
I recently uploaded this picture to Mindat. From what I understand, it started out as Marcasite, and finished as Pyrite. It has some of the coolest dendritic-type growth and is amazing under magnification (too bad I don't have good enough camera equipment to capture all the tiny details). Total specimen is a little over 4 cm. I'm a big Viburnum Trend fan, so these little guys are high on my favorites list.
7th Apr 2009 23:15 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-199692.html
7th Apr 2009 23:18 UTCFred & Linda Elsnau
Neat Pyrite! Did you notice...on its side, it looks kind of like an angry centipede?
Linda
7th Apr 2009 23:20 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
8th Apr 2009 03:04 UTCGail Spann Manager
Amatitian, Mexico
Quartz var. Amethyst.
This piece stands about 8 inches high. My favourite today, the sunlight reflected off a mirror and hit it just the right way today and made me stop and really appreciate it.
8th Apr 2009 07:48 UTCFred & Linda Elsnau
Yea, a Schnauzer works too!
Linda
8th Apr 2009 10:50 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Maggie, fantastic Sphalerite. Thanks for sharing all these beauties.
Gorgeous coppers !
Today's fav is a Hemimorphite from a very unusual locality.
Here it is: http://www.mindat.org/photo-222821.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
8th Apr 2009 12:12 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Gail - yours looks like it was meant to be an award - very commanding presence
thanks all... my morning can now begin!
8th Apr 2009 14:05 UTCGail Spann Manager
Maggie, you are always such a joy.
8th Apr 2009 15:53 UTCJay Buscio
Since I am on a copper kick this week here is a fine feathery crystallized copper from the Mchigan copper country. It measures 5.8 x 3 x .3 cm and shows equally nice from either front or back.
8th Apr 2009 16:02 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
great copper specimens - I love the sculptural feel
thanks
8th Apr 2009 17:07 UTCJay Buscio
8th Apr 2009 17:48 UTCJay Buscio
I started collecting minerals in the 1950's when American minerals were mostly what were available. Now a days you’re lucky to see a 10th of the American minerals offered back then. Where did all the American minerals go that were added to collections over the years? I have a feeling that much material has been lost as collectors past on and the family sends the "Rocks" to the local land fill. Out of all the box car loads of Tri- State minerals sold to collectors over the years you hardly see any available these days. This holds true for many old American locality specimens.
Anyways here are two large garnet crystals from the Calumet Iron Mine, Chaffee Co., Colorado. The large one measures 11 x 8 x 7 cm. I have heard these were found up to near basket ball size in the past!
8th Apr 2009 21:14 UTCJoseph Freilich
I think that part of the problem is that substantially less time, effort and money is devoted to developing the older classic American localities, and there is less new exploration here as well....Much of the focus of today's collectors are the " pretties" that are easily obtainable from the new, and " exciting" Asian, Middle Eastern and South American localities.....our American era is for now, on the back burner....Joe
8th Apr 2009 22:51 UTCJoan Kureczka
So the majority new US minerals today are the production of a few hobbyists, almost exclusively. Hence, only very limited stuff on the market in terms of new finds.
8th Apr 2009 23:42 UTCJoseph Freilich
9th Apr 2009 23:54 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-224079.html
10th Apr 2009 17:02 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you Maggie and Gail for your nice comments about the Hemimorphite.
Some extra specimens have been shared again. Thank you all for sharing.
Today's fav is a Quartz from La Gardette. Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-222805.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
11th Apr 2009 19:43 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-224430.html
11th Apr 2009 19:45 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Fine Annabergite indeed.
Paul.
11th Apr 2009 23:01 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-224419.html
Best, Joe
12th Apr 2009 01:56 UTCJoseph Freilich
12th Apr 2009 09:42 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you far sharing that splendid specimen.
Today's fav is also a greek piece.
It was found by a guy I know in the early 80's. He found a huge pocket and he has several specimens, the size of an open hand, covered with fantastic crystals.
Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-224499.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and bet regrads.
12th Apr 2009 17:01 UTCGail Spann Manager
This is just an amazingly beautiful and deep green fluorite that is a floater. Definately my favourite today.
12th Apr 2009 17:50 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-212993.html
12th Apr 2009 17:52 UTCJoseph Freilich
Thanks for sharing...Joe
13th Apr 2009 03:10 UTCRyan L. Bowling
That is one neat fluorite, I have never seen such a piece from that mine. Do you have any history on the piece?
Ryan
13th Apr 2009 04:22 UTCGail Spann Manager
There were only three, I think Peter had said, that came out of the pocket.
The colour is a fabulous blue/green and really knocked my socks off.
13th Apr 2009 18:53 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
from a weekend collecing trip around the Forks of the Credit and Belfountain in Ontario -
Orange Celestine
6.0 x 4.5 x 1.5 cm
It was a great sunny day to be out, but the wind was blowing from the east and bitterly cold. Fortunately we were able to find a sunny spot sheltered from the wind.
13th Apr 2009 20:38 UTCGail Spann Manager
Maggie, your enthusiasm is infectious!
13th Apr 2009 21:06 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Gail, Maggie and Joe, nice specimens.
Here's my fav today, http://www.mindat.org/photo-224655.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
13th Apr 2009 21:49 UTCJoseph Freilich
13th Apr 2009 23:52 UTCJoseph Freilich
Paul, thanks for the consistent flow of wonderful specimens...best, Joe
13th Apr 2009 23:54 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-224694.html
14th Apr 2009 11:52 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Forgot to write in my previous message, fantastic Duftite, Celestite, Elbaite and Adamite. Thank you all for sharing.
Today's fav is an uncommon mineral from an even more uncommon locality.
See it here : http://www.mindat.org/photo-224383.html
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
14th Apr 2009 17:04 UTCPeter Hargis
http://www.mindat.org/photo-223517.html
14th Apr 2009 18:13 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-225090.html
15th Apr 2009 01:00 UTCMichael Adamowicz Expert
Keep on posting all.
Michal.
15th Apr 2009 01:02 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Maggie
15th Apr 2009 06:02 UTCGail Spann Manager
Aurichalcite. Intense colour! Spann collection.
Great minerals everyone! Joe, that is one sulphur I wouldn't turn my nose up at? ( Pun intended! )
15th Apr 2009 07:15 UTCPhilip Perkins
When the Spann's are sick of looking at it, Barbara & Philip would like to have it in their cabinet.
Well done, very nice indeed.
15th Apr 2009 20:06 UTCGail Spann Manager
15th Apr 2009 21:41 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
Between the Aquamarine Phantom of the Minas (photo contributed by Kuno Stoeckli)...
...and this Dravite captured by Oleg Lapotkin, which (apart from the interesting setting, and apart from the striking golden subcutaneous reflex) looks like some elder transbaikalian deity has engraved strange runes onto its front face...
15th Apr 2009 22:10 UTCMichael Hopkins
Outstanding Gail and Jim.
Mike and Diana
15th Apr 2009 23:50 UTCGail Spann Manager
Thanks Michael and Diana.....
16th Apr 2009 00:14 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
PHEW!
that was close!
16th Apr 2009 02:13 UTCPhilip Perkins
nice but ah Michael? but l for one dont want Gail to leave the scene, we want her to stick around for a lot longer.
Keep those fantastic specimens coming Jim & Gail, we all love you's..........
16th Apr 2009 02:40 UTCGail Spann Manager
And Michael and Philip, hugs to both of you!
Maggie, you are always putting a smile on my face....
16th Apr 2009 17:03 UTCJoseph Freilich
Todays fav....a scapolite from Canada...
http://www.mindat.org/photo-225416.html
best, Joe
16th Apr 2009 18:00 UTCTommy Armstrong
17th Apr 2009 16:01 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Gail, that Aurichalcite, Kidney ore and Fluorite are gorgeous.
Thank you Joe, that you like, as you said, " my consistant flow of wonderfull specimens ".
It is the purpose of this topic to let the people see what we are hiding.:)-D
Here's my fav for today, not exactly a Kidney ore but looks sometimes nearly the same, except the colour.
And from one of my favourite area's, Cornwall.
Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-224650.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
17th Apr 2009 16:28 UTCMario Pauwels
All great specimens that showd up so far here. And as always Paul, realy great pictures to !!!
No Kidney ore this one, but definately botryoidal to... http://www.mindat.org/photo-173570.html
Regards,
Mario Pauwels
17th Apr 2009 16:33 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you for your encouragements.
Warmest regards.
Paul.
17th Apr 2009 16:42 UTCMario Pauwels
Whenever you have some time and want to see my collection... its not that far from where you live, and you are always welkom.
See you at Minerant in a few weeks ?.
Regards,
Mario
17th Apr 2009 19:51 UTCPhil Persson
Best regards,
Phil.
17th Apr 2009 19:55 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-193528.html
18th Apr 2009 09:23 UTCRay Hill Expert
Thanks.
Hope your school year went fantastically well for you..
18th Apr 2009 15:20 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Mario, deal, I will meet you in Antwerpen.
Joe, gorgeous RA ( you know I love them )
Today's fav is again, Cornish : http://www.mindat.org/photo-166854.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
19th Apr 2009 21:51 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-193542.html
19th Apr 2009 21:52 UTCJoseph Freilich
19th Apr 2009 21:56 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-193556.html
20th Apr 2009 08:56 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you for your comments.
I really like radio's and especially those you show. Thank you for sharing.
I will shoot some radio's this week.
Today's fav is an old Belgian classic, check it out here : http://www.mindat.org/photo-149317.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
20th Apr 2009 14:10 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
21st Apr 2009 01:48 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-193578.html
Joe
21st Apr 2009 13:07 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you maggie.
Joe, you would like to see radio's. My RA collection counts more than 300 specimens, most of them are not pretty but some are.
Here is one : http://www.mindat.org/photo-226015.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul
21st Apr 2009 14:11 UTCJoseph Freilich
21st Apr 2009 14:38 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-193571.html
21st Apr 2009 14:55 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
21st Apr 2009 17:03 UTCJoseph Freilich
21st Apr 2009 21:28 UTCFrank de Wit Manager
I just fell in love with your Mimetite...
Cheers! Frank
22nd Apr 2009 01:17 UTCPhilip Perkins
l agree with you Frank in regard to Mario's Mimitite, great specimen, l will talk more to you later. Philip
22nd Apr 2009 13:00 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
Tourmaline (color variety rubellite) on quartz (smoky) and albite (variety cleavelandite), "lepidolite" (and possibly a coating of boromuscovite) .
The tourmaline has a dark color at the base inside matrix). Locality: Mokhovaya pegmatite, Malkhansk Mountains, Chitinskaja Oblast, Transbaikal, Eastern Siberia, Russia.
Analyses of tourmalines from Malkhansk show various compositions (you can google : tourmaline Malkhansk (William B) Simmons for example). This is the finest matrix specimen form this deposit I have seen. Photo: Peter Lyckberg. Collection: Private at the time of photography.
As a note: Russian geographical regions are not always the same in old traditional european view as nowdays in Russia. In principle west Europeans called everything east of the water divider of the Urals "Siberia". Russian regions are however much more detailed.
22nd Apr 2009 15:23 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Maggie, nice Malachite
Peter, great Tourmaline.
Joe asked for radioactives, so here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-226210.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
22nd Apr 2009 17:18 UTCMario Pauwels
Regards,
Mario
22nd Apr 2009 17:41 UTCJoseph Freilich
22nd Apr 2009 17:55 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
I like the Mimetite too.
If you want to see it, take a ticket and get in the row (:P)
Paul.
22nd Apr 2009 19:56 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
But usually only one or a couple will tell you!
22nd Apr 2009 20:00 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
Thanks for your many excellent and most interesting specimens!
Maybe I will come and see you and Mario and you booth head over hear one day!
P
22nd Apr 2009 20:34 UTCMario Pauwels
I know that not everyone who likes one or other specimen on this topic post a reply with their comments, but that is no problem at all for me. I saw so many realy great specimens here on this topic to, and most of the time without any reply or comment from my side to... The reason for that is that like many other readers here, that I am not such a big replyer to...
As collectors of aestetic specimens we all appreciate good specimens, and this topic is a very good opportunity to share pictures of good specimens who are hide in someones collection. So keep the pictures coming!
Regards,
Mario Pauwels
23rd Apr 2009 10:57 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Here's another favourite radioactive for today: http://www.mindat.org/photo-226213.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
23rd Apr 2009 12:15 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
thanks Paul
23rd Apr 2009 14:53 UTCJoseph Freilich
Thanks for sharing....best, Joe
23rd Apr 2009 21:04 UTCLinda Smith
24th Apr 2009 02:38 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
24th Apr 2009 08:14 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
It is always fun to collect yourself. Steamboat Springs was an excellent and fun place to collect. I was there in 1987 and gee, my entire clothes were full of holes from the sulphuric acid fumes and my fingers were without signature - etched away. The specimens I brought back fumed holes in the boxes and made deep black spots in my wooden shelves in my garage! But what fun collecting.
24th Apr 2009 13:10 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
24th Apr 2009 13:34 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
Maggie
24th Apr 2009 16:51 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-226689.html
24th Apr 2009 18:51 UTCPhilip Perkins
Joe l absolutely love your Hubnerite & Pyrite combination, l'd be proud to display it in my cabinet, very nice indeed.
24th Apr 2009 19:44 UTCJoseph Freilich
24th Apr 2009 19:52 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-226695.html
25th Apr 2009 05:15 UTCGreg Dainty
25th Apr 2009 12:14 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
25th Apr 2009 16:35 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-109024.html
25th Apr 2009 19:34 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Thank you all for your nice comments regarding my posted specimens.
I saw that some real fine specimens have been uploaded recently, thank you all for sharing.
Today's fav is petrified wood. Just take a look : http://www.mindat.org/photo-226922.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
25th Apr 2009 20:21 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
thanks
25th Apr 2009 20:37 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Paul
26th Apr 2009 02:49 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-219595.html
26th Apr 2009 11:51 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Nice Calcite, Joe.
Today's fav is for you, radioactive : http://www.mindat.org/photo-226921.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
26th Apr 2009 21:05 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
For today, once again, my favourite is someone else's specimen and photo, and it's a variation on Carles Millan's baryte from the other day:
A House of Wulfenite Cards, from Morocco, photo and collection Luigi Chiappino.
27th Apr 2009 01:32 UTCJoseph Freilich
27th Apr 2009 01:34 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-197615.html
and....a davidite...
http://www.mindat.org/photo-194848.html
27th Apr 2009 20:20 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
I gave my great Thorianite twin away as soon as I know I was going to have a child (together with a LOT of other radioactive and toxic specimens).
The Bektauata Davidite is very good!
Here is a group of Ruby crystals from Raiz, Polar Urals, Russia around 4 cm tall
27th Apr 2009 20:35 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
(probably from the Alabashka pegmatite field). The specimen is in the Saint Petersburg University collection,
photograph by Peter Lyckberg, published in book on the STP Univ Mineralogical Collection.
28th Apr 2009 00:28 UTCJoseph Freilich
1st May 2009 22:18 UTCPhilip Perkins
Joe your the last back awhile, has this swine flu affected any mindaters, has it put many of you folks to bed?
This is a favourite of mine.
Faden Quartz from Pakistan.
1st May 2009 22:56 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
My favs today are two bits of Dioptase from the Altyn Tyube type locality, Kazakhstan, arranged as a stereo view, in direct sunlight. (The deep green hue came out about right without any tweaking, rather to my own surprise.)
Recent acquisitions from the Munich spring fair (a much smaller event than the Mineralientage in autumn).
The separate crystal on the left is about 6 or 7mm long.
2nd May 2009 04:30 UTCJoseph Freilich
3rd May 2009 00:21 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-194000.html
best, Joe
3rd May 2009 22:13 UTCJoseph Freilich
a cute copper....joe
http://www.mindat.org/photo-228155.html
4th May 2009 01:19 UTCMichael Hopkins
http://www.mindat.org/photo-228389.html
Cheers,
Mike
4th May 2009 04:03 UTCPhilip Perkins
Here is my favourite today..........
Native Copper.
Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. cabinet size.
4th May 2009 05:18 UTCJoseph Freilich
4th May 2009 08:20 UTCTrevor Kitto
My fav today is
Wulfenite
Los Lamentos
Chihuahua
Mexico
Take Care.....Trev
4th May 2009 11:11 UTCGreg Dainty
The pics show emerald on calcite, and dark green mica matrix, from Langman Afghanistan. The large emerald at the back measures 6 x 2.5cm. On the front (the color just wouldnt come out right) are two gemmy emerald crystals, with a black tourmaline crystal, growing off the left hand end, of the bottom emerald crystal. Specimen size is 10 x 8cm.
Trevor and Phil , will we be seeing you at Lismore , mineral and gem show, on the 16th and 17th of this month?
.....Greg
4th May 2009 12:47 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
Here is an Anatase on albite from Hardangervidda, Norway found a few years ago when I got it from the two collectors who found it via one of them and half of it was tradede for a very fine Kogsberg silver.
Size of specimen is about 4.5 cm. What is exceptional besides composition, sharpness and size of crystals is the superb lustre on ALL faces.
This is the only such specimen I ever saw. Jeff Scovil photograph, my collection
Peter
4th May 2009 15:29 UTCJoseph Freilich
Really fab...thanks for sharing...Joe
4th May 2009 17:22 UTCPhilip Perkins
here is my favourite today.
Apophyllite with Stilbite.
lndia. cabinet size
4th May 2009 18:19 UTCMichael Berghäuser
your are not alone, and you never walk alone;B)-
unfortunately my fotos aren´t that perfect like these of Jeff Scovil.
Here is another imperfect attempt
Aragonite (Var: Flos Ferri)
from
Holzappel Mine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4th May 2009 21:05 UTCJoseph Freilich
Best, Joe
4th May 2009 21:51 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
Superfine specimens!!!
Michael, your photography is marvelous, absolut spitze!!!!!!
5th May 2009 00:28 UTCWoodrow Thompson
That aragonite is a very "hand-some" specimen! A surreal work of art!
5th May 2009 09:46 UTCMario Pauwels
Your Anatase is a realy great specimen Peter, and what a size for a Anatase...
And Philip, I also like your Apophyllite on Stilbite !
Here is another fine combination from India: http://www.mindat.org/photo-173571.html
Regards,
Mario Pauwels
5th May 2009 12:33 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert
and Michael - I can't get enough of those sweet baby fingers and toes of aragonite! wonderful photo!
Thanks Joe, for keeping the thread alive.
here is my meager contribution- a fluroite cube 2.0 cm on edge from the Flamboro quarry, Dundas, Ontario recently acquired at this weekend's gem show in Waterloo, Ontario.
5th May 2009 18:22 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Sorry, I have been gone for awhile and sorry that you felt lonesome, Joe.
Some amazing specimens have been shown, Mario, Maggie, Philip, Joe ......, fantastic guys.
Here's my fav, but I am sure other will like it to.
A kidney ore with the form AND the colour, who could ask for more.
Here it is : http://www.mindat.org/photo-226282.html
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
5th May 2009 18:56 UTCJoseph Freilich
Todays fav....a Nickelskutterudite from Germany....best, Joe
http://www.mindat.org/photo-109911.html
5th May 2009 20:14 UTCPeter Lyckberg Expert
Very delicate and lovely specimen
6th May 2009 01:26 UTCMichael Hopkins
Mike and Diana
6th May 2009 04:41 UTCEric Graff Expert
6th May 2009 06:35 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-228652.html
Best, Joe
6th May 2009 11:24 UTCPhilip Perkins
Paul Love your "boxing glove" kidney ore.
Michael l really like your Apophyllite, where is that locality? l loved that Chalcopyrite you posted ages ago, l'd love to see it again.
That is the first Burmese Aqua that l have seen, it is very nice.
great stuff everyone, thank you, where is Gail & Ray Hill, anyone know??
6th May 2009 11:41 UTCTrevor Kitto
fav today
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, China.
take care........Trev
6th May 2009 11:42 UTCMichael Hopkins
The Palabora Mine is i Africa. It's Listed on Mindat. Another blast from the past Chalcanthite from the Planet Mine, Arizona.
Mike and Diana Hopkins
6th May 2009 16:35 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Rhodochrosite on Manganite
from
Dr. Geier Mine (Amalienhöhe Mine; Elisenhöhe Mine), Waldalgesheim, Bingen, Hunsrück Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
7th May 2009 03:56 UTCPhilip Perkins
Here is my favourite from the same mine.
Cerussite. Daopling Mine.Guangxi Province, China.
minature size.
7th May 2009 07:55 UTCTrevor Kitto
fav today is
Siderite
Aggeneys,
Northern Cape Province,
South Africa 5x3cm
take care....trev
7th May 2009 09:31 UTCMichael Berghäuser
Topas
from
Brandberg Complex, Namibia
7th May 2009 20:26 UTCJoseph Freilich
http://www.mindat.org/photo-87891.html
Best, Joe
7th May 2009 23:31 UTCJoseph Freilich
we want gail..!!...
we want gail..!!..
8th May 2009 01:00 UTCMichael Hopkins
Mike
8th May 2009 01:03 UTCJoseph Freilich
8th May 2009 01:04 UTCJoseph Freilich
8th May 2009 01:15 UTCMichael Hopkins
Mike
8th May 2009 01:59 UTCIan Merkel
I pulled this very cute group of quartz sprays out of a baseball size vug back in Feb, 2009. I have yet to clean it and I am still on the fence if I will remove the Mn-oxides. Others have shown they they can be chemically removed easily.
The piece is 4.5 cm and is from the hills north of Clifton, Arizona.
Micheal, I agree with Joe and Brandy; that piece is super!
Cheers.
Ian
8th May 2009 04:10 UTCJoseph Freilich
8th May 2009 04:14 UTCJonathan Woolley
Great quartz Ian - personally I like the natural look it has. My favorite today is a covellite (2.5 x 1.9 cm) from the Leonard Mine in Butte, Montana, USA. I purchased two of the best out of a flat of thumbnails from an old collection at a pawn shop in Butte last year.
Cheers,
Jonathan
8th May 2009 10:41 UTCMichael Berghäuser
A Quartz floater with Chalcopyrite about 9 cm tall
from
Prinzenstein Mine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
It comes with an old Dr. Krantz label. Difficult to achieve nowadays ...:(
8th May 2009 10:54 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Joe, Philip and Trevor, I am happy you liked the " bloody " Kidney ore.
Peter, that is realy an outstanding Anatase.
Hey Michaël, I am happy you post again some really fine specimens from your collection.
And Mario, you blow my socks of with your specimens ( see you tomorrow in Antwerp )
Overall, again very fine specimens have been posted, thank you all for sharing. Congrats to all of you.
Joe, you wanted garnets, well here is an Italian one. http://www.mindat.org/photo-228893.html
Your garnet is choice too.
BTW, where is Gail ?
Zenjoy.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
8th May 2009 11:42 UTCPhilip Perkins
This ship is steaming ahead without our Captain, Trev & l have been trying to steer this ship, till she is finished down at the Gym.
Trouble is we will be that far away from port Gail will have to be air lifted back on board.
Gail how about posting a picture of yourself in your Captains uniform?
Here is something for today.........
Smithsonite with Coronadite.
Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.
8th May 2009 11:49 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
As the new Star Trek movie came out, we should say " beam her up, Scotty "
Best regards.
Paul.
8th May 2009 12:02 UTCMichael Hopkins
Wulfenite and Mimetite from the San francisco mine.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-228988.html
Mike and Diana Hopkins
8th May 2009 19:52 UTCTrevor Kitto
Take care..........trev
8th May 2009 20:23 UTCLinda Smith
I am too having Gail withdrawals. :X
9th May 2009 01:06 UTCMichael Hopkins
Mimetite
http://www.mindat.org/photo-229113.html
Mike and Diana Hopkins
9th May 2009 14:52 UTCIan Merkel
It is not from the quart/agate locale I brought you to; this locale is a few miles away along a fault between a sltstone/shale. The vein system yields quite an array of different types of pockets.
This on is from a different vug along the same fault and measures 7 cm.
Cheers.
Ian
P.s. This photo is before I cleaned it. It had black oxides similar to the other photo of the quartz sprays.
9th May 2009 17:35 UTCMichael Berghäuser
from
Königsstiel adit, Braubach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
9th May 2009 21:59 UTCGail Spann Manager
Okay, so here is a piece I just L O V E today!
Quartz on Chrysocolla, Live oak mine, Miami, Arizona.
I think it is a beaut! I have named it Chrysocolla the Hut ( after Jabba the Hut from Star Wars. )
Hey Philip, thanks for getting me back into port!
9th May 2009 23:03 UTCJoseph Freilich
Joe
10th May 2009 05:41 UTCGail Spann Manager
10th May 2009 09:28 UTCPhilip Mostmans Expert
Some magnificent photos and specimens in these threads, congratulations to all! So finally I'll throw in my first 5cents...
One of the fluorite specimens I acquired from the WiIlly Israel collection at the Antwerp show yesterday is todays favourite.
10th May 2009 10:14 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Welcome bavk Gail, we missed you.
So Philip, it was you who bought this seconds before me. Wait untill we meet again ......................... I will congratulate you.:)-D
Take care and best regads.
Paul.
10th May 2009 10:22 UTCPhilip Mostmans Expert
I'm very sorry about that! With that many nice english fluorites coming on to the market I simply can't resist ;-). If we meet up someday, I'll buy you a beer for compensation :)-D
Were you the guy contemplating with Willy over the tray with the huge Heights mine fluorite after I left?
I am still curious about the alleged killer Blackdene fluorites he sold off even before the show started. I wonder what they looked like...
Cheers!
Philip
10th May 2009 20:23 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
No problemo, I am really happy for you.
Anyway, the beer is welcome.
It seems that Willy's Fluorite's where very fine. I did'nt saw the eigther. He sold them friday before the opening of the show.
Take care and bet regards.
Paul.
24th May 2009 16:05 UTCMichael Meder
I lived for more then ten years in Pokhara/Nepal and was running my mineral business from there.It is great fun to prospect in the Himalayas, there are exciting finds in numerous places.The one I love most though I purchased from some Tamangi prospectors, who told me, this specimen (and the other 32 kg of its kind) came out of a cave in the Dhaulagiri Himal aera(which is very large!).They are very secretive about their claims and often do not realise , what specialties they unearth.This cluster of quartz (not citrine) is covered with a very fine layer of limonite, which produces the golden shine.It is more beautiful than my photographic talent is able to catch.
I added two more photos for Philip:A variety of nepali minerals from various locations, which I do not exactly know.(therefore difficult to show on my mindat homepage), and a selection of tourmalinated szepter quartz specimens.
And not to forget the dimensions...
The large quartz cluster with limonite weighs 713 gram, and measures 14 cm long, 12 cm wide and 10 cm high. The large smoky crystal in the second picture is 19 cm high and 12 cm wide on the bottom.
The largest of the szepter quartzes is 7 cm long.
Have a great day everybody !
michel
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