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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jun 06, 2025 08:46 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw - Old Calcite |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Put-In-Bay, South Bass Island, Ottawa County, Ohio, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 5.0 x 3.5 cm |
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Parallel growth of gemmy, honey-colored crystals with low-angle rhomb terminations. Collected by Edward Gehrkins in 1868. |
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Posted: Jun 08, 2025 08:59 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw - Czech barite |
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Mineral: | Barite |
Locality: | Příbram, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic |  |
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Dimensions: | 6.8 x 4.5 x 2.0 cm |
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Lustrous, doubly terminated, off-white bladed barite crystals on matrix. |
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Posted: Jun 11, 2025 12:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Malad Quarry, Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India |  |
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Dimensions: | 7.3 x 6.0 x 3.6 cm |
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A thin shard of quartz matrix hosting yellow calcite crystals to 2.5 cm and pale green prehnite pseudomorphs after laumontite. |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Malad Quarry, Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India |  |
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Dimensions: | 7.3 x 6.0 x 3.6 cm |
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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 13:22 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 8.8 x 7.1 x 5.0 cm |
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Pale yellow scalenohedral calcite crystals to 6.0 cm on a matrix of brown fluorite. |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2025 11:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw - Hydroboracite |
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The Kohnstein Quarry is known for the occurrence of several rare borate minerals, one being Hydroboracite. This location is an anhydrite/gypsum quarry in the Harz mountains, inactive since 2008.
Mineral: | Hydroboracite |
Locality: | Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen District, Thuringia/Thüringen, Germany |  |
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Dimensions: | 9.2 x 5.3 x 3.1 cm. |
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Radiating sprays of opaque white acicular hydroboracite crystals on gray anhydrite. |
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