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4wRe: What about that wulfenite? Never have seen beforeReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Thank you Christian!Look very similar. I'm trying to send one sample to analyse if I find one more,Cordially
4wRe: What about that wulfenite? Never have seen beforeReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.ad detail here
4wRe: What about that wulfenite? Never have seen beforeReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Returning to the wulfenites that I placed some time ago... what do you think of these lighter crystals that have grown on the wulfenite and which have a "cloverleaf" shape? In your opinion, is it wulfenite or another mineral perhaps in epitaxy? Location, La Sambuca, Tuscany, Italy, fov 2.5mm. The ...
Dec 2023Need your advice..epitactic growth?Posted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.That is an intimate association between sphalerite crystal and chalcopyrite crystal. The two crystals seem to follow the same lines of geometry, pure chance, or possible epitactic growth? These also comes from the Livorno hills, Tuscany, Italy.Thank you in advance for your comments.
Nov 2023Re: What about that wulfenite? Never have seen beforeReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.I add a child photo with analys
Nov 2023Re: One more unusual wulfenite to understandReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.I add a child phot with analys
Nov 2023Re: One more unusual wulfenite to understandReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Dear Tom, The crystals apparently grow on different planes, very reminiscent of the oxyplumboromeite of slags.
Nov 2023Re: One more unusual wulfenite to understandReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Hi Rolf, They are both in pending approval
Nov 2023One more unusual wulfenite to understandPosted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Dear friends,Here is another sample of the unusual wulfenite found in the Livorno hills. I opened a discussion https://www.mindat.org/V6U-26NThanks in advance for the messages.MArco Bonifazi
Nov 2023Re: What about that wulfenite? Never have seen beforeReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Ed, No I think there is nothing beside,,,that is only wulfenite, I had observed several samples, I'm posting a second one also in pending approval at now
4wWhat about that wulfenite? Never have seen beforePosted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Dear friends,Here is one more strange mineral from Livorno hills, analysed as wulfenite, I'm wondering if is it a parallel grow or a twin? Or what else? I never have seen some like that before. Thanks for your comments.Marco Bonifazi
Nov 2023Can I help?Posted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Dear friends, Can I help on that sample to have it in pzblic galeries? It is the best sample from he locality at now, only found by me and analysed.Cordially,Marco Bonifazi
Nov 2023Can I help?Posted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Can I do something to have that inside public gallery? It is an analysed sample. Cordially
Aug 2023User galleryPosted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Dear friends,Why is it user gallery only when analysed with EDX, Raman and XRD now?Thanks
Dec 2022Re: Minerals names anthropogenicsReply from Marco Bonifazi in Mineralogical Classification.Look forward to see it when ready!
Aug 2022Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.I don't know
Jun 2022Re: Mineral Up Magazine--Any new publications this year?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in General.I would need Volume 5 December 2020 if you could have to spare.Thanks in advance
Jun 2022Re: Mineral Up Magazine--Any new publications this year?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in General.I also would like to buy some magazine but it is not possible to join anyone... very very strange things
Jun 2022Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.Thank you Uwe
Jun 2022Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.I did it but it is for user gallery only, not in public galery? I would wait until do the same with the others hematites
Jun 2022Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.Thank you both, I tried just now to edit with locality, will se if it appear inside the galletry, thanks.
Jun 2022Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.I would like to add these photos in the locality, but Mindat say to me i can't as that are double with these inside that discusion, Somebody could help me? Thanks
Apr 2022Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.Dear friends, You were right, the analyzes confirmed that it is hematite, the first finding in the region. An article will be published in a few days in the Libvrna magazine number 5 and then I will add it to the list of minerals of the locality on Mindat
Feb 2022Re: Minerals names anthropogenicsReply from Marco Bonifazi in Mineralogical Classification.You are right about laurionite, There are, however, others that have only been found in slag. If you are passionate of anthropogenic phases, you will be the welcome in our group, we have a special section also for that phases on coins :-)
Dec 2022Minerals names anthropogenicsPosted by Marco Bonifazi in Mineralogical Classification.Dear friends, I am a great passionate collector of metallurgical slag minerals and these days I was reflecting on the definition that Nickel has adopted for the IMA. That is, an anthropogenic mineral must be considered the synthetic equivalent of an existing and therefore non-anthropogenic mineral. ...
Jan 2022Re: How to delete photo?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Thanks to all of you for the comprehensive answers, also pleased that the photos have been accepted, reward for the effort and adventure in the tropical forest to reach the crater :-)
Jan 2022Re: How to delete photo?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Thanks, I thought it was sulfur, I put salammoniac on the advice of those who saw it. Identification is visual. I collected it in a fumarole inside the crater. But the question was because I wanted to delete all my photos that are in the user gallery only because they are useless.
Jan 2022Re: How to delete photo?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Thank you Uwe Kolitsch for your answer.Cordially,Marco
Jan 2022How to delete photo?Posted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Question: Is it possible to delete photos that are in user gallery only? How you do it? Thanks
Jan 2022Photo problem?Posted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Thanks
Jan 2022Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.I removed a fragment and now need to send for analys. For the magnetic check, I tried, they look magnetic, but not too much, ilmenite? We see...
Jan 2022Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.In the following photo, you can see the sphalerite crystals that on the edges are partially covered by the same orange element, on the right top you can see the sphalerite instead completely covered, transformed. The triangular shape also in the photo of the post, is due to the shape of the ...
Jan 2022Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Thank you Uwe.
Dec 2021Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.Thanks for the ideas, I will try to remove a crystal and send it for SEM-EDS and micro Raman analysis. I'm even more curious than before to know the results. Will come back in a few months.
Dec 2021Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Yes, I repeat the orange parts were analyzed SEM-EDS and found to be an amorphous composition of iron oxides. I can't say more. For some analyzes of amorphous or very common minerals, I did not receive the relative spectra, but only the summary of the results, I would have put them to avoid this ...
Dec 2021Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Salutations, I can't say what I don't know about the dark agglomerations. The interesting thing in my opinion is the crystal, probably twinned, elongated of chalcopyrite. I haven't found any similar on Mindat either. For this reason, I take a close-up of the photo and put the orange ...
Dec 2021Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.That is the second only sample found if it can help. Fov 3mm
Dec 2021Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.Thanks for the guesses. A question, at the crystallographic level, what would be the difference between chromite and magnetite? if chromite is hypothesized, I believe that magnetite can equally be hypothesized?
Dec 2021Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.You're right, it is known that there is no hematite there ... For that I believe it to be a very strange magnetite complexe twin
Dec 2021Re: Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.Thank you for the comment, I agree that is more similar to hematite. My true question is if it could be possible to be magnetite? That are the other crystals shapes on the same sample, to show.PS the quarry is closed since 40 years, not new material escavated, nobody had never found at ...
Aug 2022Magnetite complex pseudo-prismatic twins?Posted by Marco Bonifazi in Identity Help.Corbolone, Variante quarry, Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy. These extremely rare crystals have been found in a serpentinite associated with mainly bi pyramidal, but also more complex, magnetite crystals and also with superficial growth streaks. I believe it is magnetite, but I have not found in the ...
Dec 2021Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.I wrote sphalerite covered with a thin layer of... (as show in the description below), maybe is not precise enought for you? It seems to me, that you don't understand what I wrote. Maybe I wrote it wrong... No problem for me, let that photo in user gallery only. If you haven't seen, I suggest you ...
Dec 2021Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Dear Manager,So are you saying I'm a liar? On what basis are your doubts about my statements based? This is a great way to entice people to enrich Mindat. You would probably recognize a chalcopyrite in its classical crystallization, but the interesting things are those that go beyond the norm. And ...
Dec 2021Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.The black material, I don't know what it is, could be sphalerite, but it hasn't been analyzed. The metallic crystals are of chalcopyrite.
Dec 2021Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Thank you for the reply, I tried to explain better. Question: Wouldn't it be easier when there is such a problem to make a little note here in order for the author to understand and eventually correct the thing that is not clear?
Dec 2021Re: One more not accepted photoReply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.I don't think that's the problem because I edited it 1 minute after I posted it and it was still pending approbal. If she had remained pending approbal I would not have said anything. When it is user gallery it means that it is not approved for the public. But it is done to speak only and to ...
Jan 2022One more not accepted photoPosted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Hi all.I don't understand it is not the first time I put samples analysed and are non accepted in public galery. Every time need to ask why. What is the problem? Don't you believe what is written? I try to put samples for each locality, where I collect, I hope it is your interest too? But it ...
Dec 2021Re: Photo problem?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in Photos.Thanks
Dec 2021Photo problem?Posted by Marco Bonifazi in Photos.What is the problem with this photo? Why it is in user gallery only?Thank you
Sep 2021Re: Photo problem?Reply from Marco Bonifazi in General.All right, I see, I'll change it.
