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 Topic: Sodium Dithonite, Waller solution, Oxalic acid or HCl |
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| basti Replies: 9 Views: 16236 |
 Forum: Conserving, Preparing and Cleaning Minerals Posted: Jul 23, 2020 09:15 Subject: Re: Sodium Dithonite, Waller solution, Oxalic acid or HCl |
| Well, there is a lot of hype about super iron out and lot of unnecessary hysteria about hydrochloric or oxalic acid. So to clarify some "ugly" details:
1) PRICE: SIO/sodium dithionite is ... |
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| Topic: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
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| basti Replies: 364 Views: 326997 |
Forum: National Library of Spain / Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and FMF Posted: Mar 19, 2020 03:27 Subject: Re: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
| Hey Peter, I somehow did not notice you are in Czech Republic too :D
That rule for people 65+ is that they SHOULD go shopping 10-12am, they can go also in other times, it's highly discouraged thoug ... |
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| Topic: What type of Tourmaline? |
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| basti Replies: 4 Views: 10158 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 17, 2020 04:23 Subject: Re: What type of Tourmaline? |
| The pink tourmaline is very likely elbaite or fluor-elbaite, pink tourmaline is labeled as variety rubellite. I have some analyses from Victor, Caterina, Himalaya and Stewart - all are elbaites.
Th ... |
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| Topic: Links within the message forum |
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| basti Replies: 3 Views: 55988 |
Forum: Forum questions Posted: Mar 17, 2020 04:11 Subject: Re: Links within the message forum |
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http://www.researchgate.net to the list - many full text articles there http://www.commons.wikimedia.org - wiki pictures The link to strahlenfoundation is broken, SSL config failure ... |
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| Topic: Is Mineral Collecting becoming too Superficial or has it always been so. |
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| basti Replies: 15 Views: 16481 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Mar 13, 2020 06:07 Subject: Re: Is Mineral Collecting becoming too Superficial or has it always been so. |
| I'm mostly a field collector and actually a used-to-be-pro mineralogist, I still cooperate on research. About 50-60 % of my catalogued collection is self collected, of course the vast majority of &quo ... | |
| Topic: Dealing with damage |
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| basti Replies: 26 Views: 27117 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Mar 03, 2020 12:34 Subject: Re: Dealing with damage |
| Go for damage free eye-candy specimens - easy to buy top quality if you have enough $$. A high quality collection can be built in few years...
Go for local/rare specimens - extremely difficult and ... |
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| Topic: Appropriate Photo Editing Software |
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| basti Replies: 8 Views: 22013 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 28, 2020 05:35 Subject: Re: Appropriate Photo Editing Software |
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Very powerful but also pretty user unfriendly Gimp. Quite good is Photopea, the advantage is very similar layout to Photoshop = easy switch if needed. Paid: Decent are Zoner Photo ... |
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| Topic: Azurite to Malachite pseudomorph research |
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| basti Replies: 14 Views: 27296 |
Forum: Forum questions Posted: Feb 27, 2020 04:36 Subject: Re: Azurite to Malachite pseudomorph research |
| Here is a historic azurite-malachite specimen from Moravske Zemske Muzeum in Brno, Czech Republic.
I saw some partial pseudomorphs from Kerrouchen, Morocco - these could be available and not too ex ... |
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| Topic: Taking great photographs |
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| basti Replies: 30 Views: 45135 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 25, 2020 17:44 Subject: Re: Taking great photographs |
| Second example: Long elbaite crystal about 28 cm (12") shot at Munich show, directly at the dealer stand. KARP Minerals should be mentioned for their hospitality.
I used a light tent (40 cm), ... |
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| Topic: Taking great photographs |
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| basti Replies: 30 Views: 45135 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 25, 2020 17:34 Subject: Re: Taking great photographs |
| Yes, that is fun :) So first example: I had big calcite cluster about 30 cm (13") large. I needed a daylight photo and also UV light photo, as it is fluorescent.
Both shots were made from tri ... |
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| Topic: Taking great photographs |
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| basti Replies: 30 Views: 45135 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 25, 2020 17:19 Subject: Re: Taking great photographs |
| Duncan, if you use a LED light source, that might be the problem. There are 4 things which often ruin the colors - of course I tried all of them :D
1) Most LED lights except some pricy pro photo eq ... |
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| Topic: Taking great photographs |
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| basti Replies: 30 Views: 45135 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 25, 2020 14:33 Subject: Re: Taking great photographs |
| I'm honored to by mentioned by a talented photographer like you Jesse! Thank you very much!
I do not consider myself as an expert - I just publish "as I do it", so people do not have to l ... |
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| Topic: Taking great photographs |
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| basti Replies: 30 Views: 45135 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 25, 2020 06:12 Subject: Re: Taking great photographs |
| Nothing against Jeff Scovil and his book - I actually like it. But as Jesse Fisher already mentioned - it was written for analog photography!
I have this book and I think at least half of it is abs ... |
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| Topic: Taking great photographs |
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| basti Replies: 30 Views: 45135 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 23, 2020 06:37 Subject: Re: Taking great photographs |
| Well, I'm partially a pro photographer, so I might help a little here:
1) Yes, good workshop (e.g. with Jeff Scovil) helps a lot. You can save a LOT of time, the same is true for information articl ... |
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| Topic: Building a Great Mineral Collection? |
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| basti Replies: 23 Views: 22818 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Feb 21, 2020 15:43 Subject: Re: Building a Great Mineral Collection? |
| I buy specimens, about 30 % of my collection is purchased. I always look for underpriced specimens and I simply do not buy the iconic stuff. The most expensive mineral I bought is 6 cm fourling of hya ... | |
| Topic: The State of Modern Geology |
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| basti Replies: 14 Views: 17756 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Feb 18, 2020 11:02 Subject: Re: The State of Modern Geology |
| Hi folks,
I will add my perspective: I'm a used-to-be professional geologist, located in central Europe. I have a university major in mineralogy-geochemistry-environmental geology. During the last ... |
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| Topic: Panning the Czech Garnet in the Czech Republic |
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| basti Replies: 6 Views: 8879 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 27, 2018 04:15 Subject: Re: Panning the Czech Garnet in the Czech Republic |
| You can save a LOT of time by real panning. Many Czech areas with abundant peridotites, eclogites, granulites and gneisses contain high amount of garnet in stream sediments.
Recently, localities l ... |
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| Topic: I want to photograph my collection |
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| basti Replies: 15 Views: 27645 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Sep 12, 2018 14:08 Subject: Re: I want to photograph my collection |
| There are numerous way how to photograph minerals and they are basically split on the size of specimens.
There are two simple ways for the Nikon DX: 1) Buy Tamron 90/2,8 Macro (from $400 for use ... |
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| Topic: Tourmaline type question |
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| basti Replies: 22 Views: 30393 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Sep 12, 2018 06:26 Subject: Re: Tourmaline type question |
| I also personally use the "scientifically incorrect" labels, I simply do it best I can. The science is evolving all the time so the labels are never really "finished". if you visit ... | |
| Topic: Tourmaline type question |
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| basti Replies: 22 Views: 30393 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Sep 11, 2018 14:50 Subject: Re: Tourmaline type question |
| Sure, it is not definite list, I just used common examples. I have analyzed hundreds of pegmatite tourmalines and I barely scratched the surface of their complexity. Btw. Raman is quite good indicator ... | |
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