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 Topic: Palladium-rich gold from Icabaru, Venezuela |
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| Paul S Replies: 24 Views: 73339 |
 Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Feb 13, 2012 14:44 Subject: Re: Palladium-rich gold from Icabaru, Venezuela |
| Thanks for the update Alfredo, I should have checked those sources myself, but you have been very helpfull.
I can finally put this mistery behind me (as I'm not really interested in the possible pr ... |
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| Topic: Palladium-rich gold from Icabaru, Venezuela |
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| Paul S Replies: 24 Views: 73339 |
Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Feb 13, 2012 04:23 Subject: Re: Palladium-rich gold from Icabaru, Venezuela |
| Sadly I have not found any new information on these crystals. They do not compare well to synthetic, nor natural crystals, but I'm not an expert of course.
If anyone has more information, please sh ... |
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| Topic: Trip to Black Forest and Swabian Alb |
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| Paul S Replies: 0 Views: 8015 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: Jul 09, 2011 16:07 Subject: Trip to Black Forest and Swabian Alb |
| I'm going on a trip to the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) and Swabian Alb (Schwäbische Alb) and I was wondering if anyone could give me some information for finding minerals in those regions.
I have ch ... |
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| Topic: The bismuth eggs are they a home grow? |
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| Paul S Replies: 4 Views: 25389 |
Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Jul 09, 2011 15:38 Subject: Re: The bismuth eggs are they a home grow? |
| I know all about making these crystals, I do it myself all the time! It's a lovely way to spend your time and the results are always different, but beautiful!
These egg-shaped crystals are indeed m ... |
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| Topic: The best way to manage several collections? |
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| Paul S Replies: 4 Views: 8577 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Apr 15, 2011 03:15 Subject: Re: The best way to manage several collections? |
| Thank you for your input Gail and Arturo. I agree that because it is my collection, I should decide on how to manage them all.
I'm planning on expanding all of these collections, and there are alre ... |
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| Topic: The best way to manage several collections? |
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| Paul S Replies: 4 Views: 8577 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Apr 13, 2011 04:58 Subject: The best way to manage several collections? |
| I have been thinking about how I could manage my collections in the best way and I was wondering what your input would be. The problem is that I want to properly manage my collections, with numbering, ... | |
| Topic: Specimen stabilization for photographing |
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| Paul S Replies: 8 Views: 18548 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Oct 20, 2010 16:22 Subject: Re: Specimen stabilization for photographing |
| I posted my stabilization system here: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=1150
I made it myself and it's easy in use. Pete also posted his system there with the seperate p ... |
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| Topic: World minerals enumerated by mineral group |
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| Paul S Replies: 11 Views: 15091 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Aug 30, 2010 16:10 Subject: Re: World minerals enumerated by mineral group |
| `I have been able to export my list from my database and it now counts 4391, mostly IMA approved, mineral species. It's not a perfect list, there will be many errors in it and the notation of the chem ... | |
| Topic: World minerals enumerated by mineral group |
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| Paul S Replies: 11 Views: 15091 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Aug 30, 2010 04:34 Subject: Re: World minerals enumerated by mineral group |
| I have been in the same situation as TheBrickPrinter, but I managed to implement a rather complete list of mineral species into my Access database. I used the list from Webminerals and removed almost ... | |
| Topic: Pleochroism in minerals |
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| Paul S Replies: 31 Views: 68623 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Jul 26, 2010 09:48 Subject: Re: Pleochroism in minerals |
| Those are all very nice examples of pleochroism, well done and thank you everyone!
I am fascinated by the tanzanite from amethystguy, I have never read or heard about 4 colours, can you explain how ... |
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| Topic: Minerals and ethics |
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| Paul S Replies: 16 Views: 18279 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Jul 14, 2010 04:26 Subject: Re: Minerals and ethics |
| I think we can all agree that a certain amount of destruction is needed to get our hands on minerals. Just like you need to break an egg to bake an omelet ;-)
But what about mining conditions? The ... |
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| Topic: Minerals and ethics |
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| Paul S Replies: 16 Views: 18279 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Jul 13, 2010 14:02 Subject: Minerals and ethics |
| After having seen a documentary about illegal gold mining in the jungles of Brazil, I started wondering about the ethics surrounding mining for minerals in general. I'm not talking about the mining fo ... | |
| Topic: Microscope photography lighting |
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| Paul S Replies: 11 Views: 26279 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Jul 10, 2010 14:23 Subject: Re: Microscope photography lighting |
| I'm here with an update, for this week I had some time to make a nice stand for the goose-neck lights. The photo below will explain most of it, but there are some details that might need some extra cl ... | |
| Topic: Pleochroism in minerals |
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| Paul S Replies: 31 Views: 68623 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Jul 04, 2010 16:49 Subject: Re: Pleochroism in minerals |
| These are some very nice examples, and I can verify that amethyst shows pleochroism. It is hard to spot though and only a few crystals in a cluster might show it. It's possible that thin slices show t ... | |
| Topic: Pleochroism in minerals |
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| Paul S Replies: 31 Views: 68623 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Jul 04, 2010 05:51 Subject: Re: Pleochroism in minerals |
| You are absolutely right that pleochroism only requires one filter instead of two. I have used a single filter for studying the minerals, but the system I build can contain both filters to observe the ... | |
| Topic: Pleochroism in minerals |
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| Paul S Replies: 31 Views: 68623 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Jul 04, 2010 03:37 Subject: Pleochroism in minerals |
| Someone asked my recently to analyze some synthetic crystals on pleochroism. He didn't have a proper microscope & camera setup, so he asked me to have a look at them. I needed to build a custom fi ... | |
| Topic: What is it? |
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| Paul S Replies: 10 Views: 28943 |
Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Jun 29, 2010 08:05 Subject: Re: What is it? |
| This is interesting stuff, it looks nice; clear crystals in and on a matrix. I'm wondering though if it is a by-product of some industrial process or wether these specimens were made on purpose?
Th ... |
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| Topic: New system of LED lighting |
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| Paul S Replies: 12 Views: 17669 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Jun 21, 2010 04:11 Subject: Re: New system of LED lighting |
| Thanks for the IKEA tip, I checked their website and the Dutch IKEA sells 4 strips, 25cm in length, for €29,95. They can be found in the 'integrated lighting' section.
The color of the LEDs is 3000 ... |
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| Topic: Collection of Miguel |
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| Paul S Replies: 250 Views: 392423 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Jun 08, 2010 03:51 Subject: Re: Collection of Miguel. |
| Your citrines are amazing! It's really impressive to see so many big crystals.
Thanks for sharing! |
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| Topic: A DIY Ball Table |
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| Paul S Replies: 6 Views: 20025 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Jun 08, 2010 02:38 Subject: Re: A DIY Ball Table |
| That is a very nice system you came up with Pete, I guess that even specimens which are top-heavy can be tilted under a large angle.
I did wonder, are metallic and magnetic minerals a problem due t ... |
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