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PostPosted: Oct 03, 2022 12:16    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

James Catmur wrote:
Did he tell you the pocket name? If he did we can add that to the locality names
No further information, sorry. I guess if Jordi knew, he would have provided it ;-)
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PostPosted: Oct 03, 2022 13:55    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Tobi,

Nice Viesca fluorite and very cool phantom quartz. Both great additions to your collection.

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PostPosted: Oct 03, 2022 14:30    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Hi Tobi!

Good taste and good eyes yours. Congratulations on the Spanish fluorite and the phantom quartz.
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PostPosted: Oct 08, 2022 03:54    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Hi guys,

thanks for your comments. I'm really in love with my new Spanish fluorite and I just found some time to make my own photos, I think the specimen deserves this little lovestory ;-) Thanks again, Jordi, for a true new highlight :-)

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 Mineral: Fluorite
 Locality:
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain
 Dimensions: Specimen size 10,5 cm
 Description:
It was great to unbox this specimen and hold it in my hands for the first time :-)
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Jordi's beautiful label. And Jordi would not be Jordi without a nice personal note on the label or on the invoice. I told him before that I was searching for a HIGHLIGHT for my collection - and so he wrote this on the backside :-)
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 Mineral: Fluorite
 Locality:
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain
 Dimensions: Specimen size 10,5 cm
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Specimen ready to find its place in the showcase ...
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 Mineral: Fluorite
 Locality:
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain
 Dimensions: Specimen size 10,5 cm
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... and finally on display. Different color shades in natural daylight and with the artificial light of the showcase.
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 Mineral: Fluorite
 Locality:
La Viesca Mine, La Collada mining area, Huergo, Siero, Comarca Oviedo, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain
 Dimensions: Specimen size 10,5 cm
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My final photo :-)
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PostPosted: Oct 08, 2022 13:10    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

A very fine specimen of Fluorite, and from a first-rate supplier of fine minerals. That Fabre chap has some really fine specimens for sale and I am always looking at his vault for new acquisitions.
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PostPosted: Dec 03, 2022 09:09    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

A lovely little quartz and siderite specimen from Grube Büchenberg, an old iron mine in Harz Mountains that was closed in 1970. Comes from an older collection.

https://www.mindat.org/loc-21556.html



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 Mineral: Quartz, Siderite
 Locality:
Büchenberg Mine, Elbingerode, Oberharz am Brocken, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt/Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
 Dimensions: Specimen height 5 cm, the three main quartzes measure 10, 13 and 16 mm
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Büchenberg Mine, Elbingerode, Oberharz am Brocken, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt/Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
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The label of the specimen, collector and date unknown
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PostPosted: Dec 03, 2022 10:13    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Two other quartz additions:


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 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Hyderabad District, Telangana, India
 Dimensions: Crystal size 8,5 cm
 Description:
Nice phantom quartz from a new find (I think 2021) in India. The crystal is completely clear and pristine and shows an incredible phantom of tiny reddish particles, I've heard it could be hematite. Quite large one for the locality.
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 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Araçuaí, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil
 Dimensions: Crystal size 13 cm
 Description:
A translucent to transparent quartz crystal that looks like an "ordinary" smoky quartz in normal daylight, but the backlight reveals the colour so you could call it a citrine. The light behind is white (not yellow!), the inner colour you see on the photo is very close to how it really looks when backlit.
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PostPosted: Dec 13, 2022 07:36    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Again a quartz, this time a very small one from Germany:


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 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Miehlen, Nastätten, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
 Dimensions: Crystal size 2,7,cm
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A small but water-clear rock crystal from Miehlen quarry in Rhineland-Palatinate. The bottom is re-crystallized and consists of many small crystal tips which makes this cute little specimen a floater.
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PostPosted: Dec 13, 2022 09:47    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

And another quartz, a little bit larger than the last one ;-)


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 Locality:
Minas Gerais, Brazil
 Dimensions: Crystal size 18,5 cm
 Description:
Large cluster of translucent to transparent quartz, featuring an 18,5 cm main crystal and with a lot of smaller crystals (1 - 10 cm) attached. And inside there are some dark grey inclusions of an unknown mineral, maybe hematite.
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Large cluster of translucent to transparent quartz, featuring an 18,5 cm main crystal and with a lot of smaller crystals (1 - 10 cm) attached. And inside there are some dark grey inclusions of an unknown mineral, maybe hematite.
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Minas Gerais, Brazil
 Dimensions: FOV 4 cm
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The inclusions mentioned above, small metallic-grey particles of another mineral, mabe hematite
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PostPosted: Dec 15, 2022 14:40    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

My last addition in 2022 - not a quartz! ;-)
But an impressive and lovely 18 cm plate of endlichite from Morocco, I immediately fell in love with this piece though endlichite was never on my wish list. But specimens like this may change or enhance a wish list:



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 Mineral: Arsenic-bearing Vanadinite
 Locality:
Touissit mining area, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
 Dimensions: Specimen size 18 x 13 cm
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Photo © Günther Gerndt / Matrix Minerals
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PostPosted: Dec 15, 2022 14:47    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Tobi wrote:
My last addition in 2022 - not a quartz! ;-)
But an impressive and lovely 18 cm plate of endlichite from Morocco, I immediately fell in love with this piece though endlichite was never on my wish list. But specimens like this may change or enhance a wish list:

Wow 🙂
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PostPosted: Dec 15, 2022 15:00    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Very aesthetic Tobi, what a great addition to your collection.
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PostPosted: Dec 16, 2022 10:49    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Tobi wrote:
And another quartz, a little bit larger than the last one ;-)

Beautiful - I have quartz from Brazil as necklace pendant, but not polished. :) However, there is a hole in it to be able to use it as a necklace.
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PostPosted: Dec 20, 2022 03:42    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

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Tobi wrote:
And another quartz, a little bit larger than the last one ;-)
Wow 🙂 Beautiful - I have quartz from Brazil as necklace pendant, but not polished. :) However, there is a hole in it to be able to use it as a necklace.
Quartz from Brazil is disregarded by some collectors because there's so much of it and it is often used for decoration. I think different of this, if a specimen is good and appeals to me it does not matter if there's plenty of it. And I fell in love with this specimen because it is large and massive, rather clear, without damage and because the inclusions make it somehow special. Other advanced collectors may think this is just a rather boring Brazilian standard quartz, but I love it as an addition to my quartz collection :-)

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[...]impressive and lovely 18 cm plate of endlichite from Morocco[...]
Very aesthetic Tobi, what a great addition to your collection.
Thank you, Joseph. It was one of this year's surprises that I added a vanadinite of this type. I never liked them that much (the red ones from Mibladen, yes, but not these from Touissit) but this specimen is better than others I have seen. The quality and condition of the crystals (they're often pale and weathered, but in this case really yellowish and well-defined, though not very large) combined with the size of the specimen made it a love at first sight specimen for me. And love at first sight can be, beyond objective factors, a good decision guidance in collecting :-)

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PostPosted: Jan 05, 2023 07:48    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

My first specimen 2023, and believe it or not, it is neither a quartz nor a fluorite ;-)

I'm also a fan of rhodochrosite, but good rhodochrosites are hard to get, so I was really happy to discover something from my wish list in our Master Jordi's shop - a small but very beautiful piece of rhodochrosite from the famous Capillitas deposit in Argentina. This little specimen is the end piece of a stalactite. I was searching quite long for a Capillitas piece but nice ones are not easy to find and I wanted such an end piece, not a slice. Once again, Jordi Fabre has exactly what you are looking for :-)



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 Mineral: Rhodochrosite
 Locality:
Capillitas Mine, Andalgalá Department, Catamarca, Argentina
 Dimensions: 2,5 cm in diameter
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Cut and polished end piece of a rhodochrosite stalactite from the unique locality of Capillitas. Photo © Fabre Minerals
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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2023 03:46    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

The latest addition, I could finally add a German rhodochrosite to my collection:


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 Mineral: Rhodochrosite
 Locality:
Bockenrod, Reichelsheim, Odenwald, Hesse/Hessen, Germany
 Dimensions: Specimen height 9 cm
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Classic specimen specimen of botryoidal rhodochrosite from Bockenrod in southern Hesse
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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2023 08:52    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Tobi wrote:
The latest addition, I could finally add a German rhodochrosite to my collection:


Fine addition. Congratulations!
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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2023 11:59    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

Michael Shaw wrote:
Tobi wrote:
The latest addition, I could finally add a German rhodochrosite to my collection:
Fine addition. Congratulations!
Thank you, Michael! I was searching for a Bockenrod piece for several years and I'm glad I finally found one :-)

Bockenrod is by far not as famous as Wolf Mine which is THE classic German rhodo locality (and which was before the great rhodo discoveries in Colorado, South Africa and Peru maybe the best and most famous locality for this mineral in the world). And for sure, most people would not consider the often rather pale-pink botryoidal crusts as beautiful as the vivid-red crystals from Wolf. But nonetheless I love the specimens from Bockenrod, maybe because it lies in my "home land" Hesse.

And these rhodochrosites are really old finds: Mining in Bockenrod began in the 1880s and ended around 1924/25. So the specimen was mined at least 98 and maybe a hundred or more years ago which makes it even more interesting.

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PostPosted: Mar 07, 2023 04:25    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

New specimen, a small piece of gold from the 2020 finds in Morocco:


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 Mineral: Gold
 Locality:
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region, Morocco
 Dimensions: Specimen height 1,4 cm
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Photo © Joaquim Callén / Fabre Minerals
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 Mineral: Gold
 Locality:
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region, Morocco
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Photo © Joaquim Callén / Fabre Minerals
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PostPosted: Mar 07, 2023 06:03    Post subject: Re: Collection of Tobi  

And another new find (2021) from Morocco that I could find in our Master Jordi's shop, a beautiful rubellite crystal from Beni Bouzra.

According to Jordi, this sample has been referenced and pictured in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' no. 166, July-August 2022, page 51. This makes it even more precious to me because I'm not used to have published specimens in my collection, this is the second one :-)



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 Mineral: Elbaite (variety rubellite)
 Locality:
Beni Bouzra (Bni Bouzra), Chefchaouen Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, Morocco
 Dimensions: Specimen height 3 cm
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Photo © Fabre Minerals
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 Mineral: Elbaite (variety rubellite)
 Locality:
Beni Bouzra (Bni Bouzra), Chefchaouen Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, Morocco
 Dimensions: Specimen height 3 cm
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