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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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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 05, 2025 13:07 Post subject: Elbaite (variety paraíba) from Brazil / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite (variety paraíba) |
| Locality: | | São José da Batalha, Salgadinho, Borborema, Paraíba, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.2 × 0.8 × 0.8 cm |
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Very well-defined and transparent crystal, with a more intense blue color at the base of the 'scepter', and with sharp terminal faces.
Its shape is especially noteworthy, since these Paraíba elbaites, famous for their attractive color, are rarely found as well-formed crystals. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 06, 2025 15:58 Post subject: Tricolour Tourmaline from Madagascar / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Tourmaline (Group) |
| Locality: | | Anjanabonoina, Ambohimanambola, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.3 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm |
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A floater crystal whose base is partially re-crystallized. It has color zones, with a clear contrast between the inner red zone red, and the skin which varies from green to yellow.
The lower termination is especially complex. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 10, 2025 16:55 Post subject: Uvarovite from Outokumpu, Finland / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Uvarovite |
| Locality: | | Mokkivaara Mine, Outokumpu, Tornio, Lapland Region, Finland | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.4 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm |
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From the legendary Outokumpu Uvarovite Garnet locality comes this old timer.
A sharp, well colored, single Uvarovite crystal, floater, and pretty huge for the species. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 11, 2025 13:35 Post subject: Phenakite with Fluorite from Huanggang, China / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Phenakite with Fluorite and Orthoclase (variety adularia) |
| Locality: | | Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.5 × 6.7 × 4.3 cm |
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It was a novelty at Munich 2012. The elongated Phenakite crystals that coat the entire sample are very small but show very well-defined faces and edges. They are transparent and intensely bright. They are with sharp octahedral crystals of Fluorite with smaller faces of the cube. These crystals are translucent, with a very deep marine blue color and very well marked phantom growths. There are also some isolated crystals of Orthoclase (variety adularia)
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2012 Munich Show of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 24 of number 1/2013 |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 12, 2025 13:48 Post subject: Rhodonite from San Martín Mine, Peru / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Rhodonite on Calcite |
| Locality: | | San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.1 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm |
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| Very nice miniature with excellent color and transparency and great esthetic due the Rhodonite crystals standing up on the white Calcite crystals. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 14, 2025 16:06 Post subject: Franklinite from Sterling Mine, USA / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Franklinite with Calcite and Willemite |
| Locality: | | Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin mining district, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.1 × 6.4 × 5.4 cm |
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Octahedral Franklinite crystals of considerable size for the species, with sharp crystal forms, and with better luster than usual. On a Calcite matrix with Willemite.
From one of the type localities for the species. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 17, 2025 11:51 Post subject: Marcasite 'cock's comb' from Reocín, Spain / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Marcasite on Dolomite |
| Locality: | | Reocín Mine, Reocín, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm |
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Marcasite on Dolomite, pinker than usual in Reocín, with the Marcasite showing the classic ‘cock’s comb’ habit of this deposit.
From the former collection of Jordi Fabre (duplicates) |
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