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Jordi Fabre
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 Posted: May 25, 2025 12:38 Post subject: Rhodochrosite from Potosí Mine, Santa Eulalia / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico |  |
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| Dimensions: | 4.3 × 3.2 × 2.1 cm |
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Groups on matrix of sharp rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite. Transparent, with great luster and an intense pink color.
Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates) |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 26, 2025 13:48 Post subject: Kuruman Rhodochrosite / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite with Manganite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm |
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Group of scalenohedral crystals with intense deep red color that has made the Kuruman Rhodochrosite famous. They are on a Manganite matrix.
The sample is from the well-known find of 1978 |
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Tobi
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| Posted: May 27, 2025 02:36 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| I can't find words for how incredibly beautiful this pink rhodo from Potosí is!
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 27, 2025 02:47 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Tobi wrote: | | I can't find words for how incredibly beautiful this pink rhodo from Potosí is! |
Thanks Tobi!
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 28, 2025 13:58 Post subject: Valentinite from Oruro, Bolivia / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Valentinite with Pyrite |
| Locality: | | San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.8 × 2.2 × 2 cm |
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Fanlike growth of flat, parallel crystals on a small matrix with Pyrite. The Valentinite crystals have a considerable size for the species and are translucent, with a silky luster on the prism faces and a more vitreous luster on the terminations.
The sample comes from Alfredo Petrov. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 30, 2025 16:15 Post subject: Vanadinite from the ACF Mine area, Morocco / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.2 × 7 × 2.7 cm |
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| Tabular Vanadinite crystals on matrix, translucent, brilliant, and with the intense and vivid red color that characterizes many of the specimens found in the year 2017 in the area of what was the ACF Mine. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 01, 2025 16:37 Post subject: Vesuvianite from Bellecombe / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Vesuvianite |
| Locality: | | Banchette, Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley (Val d'Aosta), Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.2 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm |
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Fine miniature with elongated crystals, featuring sharp and very well-defined faces and edges, with excellent terminations. Very bright; some of the crystals are absolutely transparent and display a great color, deep and uniform.
From the collection of Tiziano Bonisoli, Torino. |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jun 02, 2025 15:10 Post subject: Re: Vesuvianite from Bellecombe / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Jordi Fabre wrote: | Vesuvianite
Banchette, Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley (Val d'Aosta), Italy
Dimensions: 3.2 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm |
It's perfect. Simply perfect.
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 03, 2025 14:11 Post subject: Elbaite (variety rubellite) from Malkhan / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Tobi wrote: | | It's perfect. Simply perfect. |
Thanks Tobi!
#MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) / more information about the piece with this link
| Mineral: | Elbaite (variety rubellite) |
| Locality: | | Sosedka vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm |
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| Group of three prismatic crystals, two of them doubly terminated. Definition of faces and edges is excellent as is the luster, but we specially note its color, very intense, red with mauve shades and especially deep on the terminations. |
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