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Jordi Fabre
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 Posted: Apr 29, 2025 16:45 Post subject: Rutile from Boiling Springs, USA / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Rutile with Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Boiling Springs, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA |  |
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| Dimensions: | main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm |
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Reticulated aggregate of twinned Rutile crystals that are translucent, bright, with a very intense red color, and set on a matrix of tabular Muscovite crystals.
Unusual. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 02, 2025 15:51 Post subject: Wavellite from Dug Hill, USA / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Wavellite |
| Locality: | | Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.9 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm |
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Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite.
The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 04, 2025 16:39 Post subject: Brochantite from Milpillas Mine, Mexico / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Brochantite |
| Locality: | | Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm |
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Elongated idiomorphic Brochantite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and deep color.
On matrix, and partially covered by a later generation of fibrous crystals, of a lighter color and with satiny luster. |
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