Vejprty, Chomutov District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic

Cabinet sized specimen from the collection of Czech National Museum in Prague, size of stand app. 10cm. Photographed through the cabinet window 14. 8. 2010. (Canon EOS 550D, Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Aspherical Macro, ISO 3200, f 3,2, 1/100, no flash or tripod allowed).

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Cabinet sized specimen from the collection of Czech National Museum in Prague, size of stand app. 10cm. Photographed through the cabinet window 14. 8. 2010. (Canon EOS 550D, Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Aspherical Macro, ISO 3200, f 3,2, 1/100, no flash or tripod allowed).

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thin coverage of scorodite

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nice cluster of emplectite needles with a minute chalcopyrite; photo taken by Martin Kunz

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prismatic crystal in quartz

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small group of fluorite cubes

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Fanned aggregate of prismatic crystals of orange natrolite. The termination is typical of natrolite, it ends with a tetragonal pseudo pyramid. Ex Robert Vaňo Collection and now Gianfranco Ciccolini collection, author of the photo.

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cluster of emplectite needles in quartz

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Fine grained aggregate.

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blue linarite with white coating of cerussite

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white fluorite cubes sitting on quartz

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4mm rosette of hematite on quartz

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radial aggregate of hematite

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corroded twinned crystals of chalcopyrite, sitting on quartz

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Cluster of emplectite needles with aggregates of chalcopyrite on quartz

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greisen vein consisted of topaz (pyknite), fluorite, quartz and zinnwaldite

greisen vein consisted of topaz, fluorite and tiny zinnwaldite

2 mm tabullar crystal of fluorapatite on quartz

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Thomsonite crystals from the phonolite quarry near Ceske Hamry,Czech Republic, in german "Steinberg bei Böhmisch-Hammer" as written on the old label of the Freiberg Mining Academy Mineral Dealership, handwritten by Otto Felix Edelmann (1879-1966).

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Nice, well developed crystals in white clay.

grains of black sphalerite and galena in fine grained pale violet fluorite

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rich Pb-Zn ore mineralization in altered rock

sharp pseudocubic crystal of hematite on quarz

Nice blue aggregates and crystals of langite on matrix. Langite was confirmed by PXRD and EMPA-WDS.

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clear baryte in a vug

the place around old shaft. In fact, there are two shafts (next to hunter stand), enclosed with concrete plates. Around shafts are small remnants of dump materiál, where mainly arsenopyrite occures

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small cutting in remnants of dump materiál. june, 2013

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this dump lies on private land. Galenite, sphalerite, pyrite, fluorite, cerusite and linarite occure there

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view of quartz vein outcrop, where small rutiles occure

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baryte and yellow fluorite occure in this dump. April, 2013

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well-preserved adit in a margin of Vejprty town, 2013.

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Abandoned phonolite quarry (at this time waste dump). September 2015

the right name of this adit is Štola pod Vysokým kamenem ("Adit under the high rock"). Above the entrance is baryte vein visible. The thickeness of vein is about 2m. Adit is closed with small opening for bats

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2012

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