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 Posted: Jun 18, 2025 07:41 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Helvine with Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China |  |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 10 x 9 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 1040 g
MIM number: 1352
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Tufts of interpenetrated cream-colored and well formed tetrahedrons on a matrix upon which pale green fluorites have developed in the form of rough octahedrons (2.8 cm max).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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983 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Helvine with Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 10 x 9 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 1040 g
MIM number: 1352
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Tufts of interpenetrated cream-colored and well formed tetrahedrons on a matrix upon which pale green fluorites have developed in the form of rough octahedrons (2.8 cm max).
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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933 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | 'Tetrahedrite' |
| Locality: | | Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Vizille, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.5 x 2 cm |
| Description: |
Description:
Mass: 8 g
MIM number: 1351
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Small, lustrous black crystal very rich in perfect facets
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Grégoire de Bodinat (France) |
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932 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | 'Tetrahedrite' |
| Locality: | | Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Vizille, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.5 x 2 cm |
| Description: |
Description:
Mass: 8 g
MIM number: 1351
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Small, lustrous black crystal very rich in perfect facets
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Grégoire de Bodinat (France) |
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932 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Siderite with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Vizille, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 34 x 13 x 20 cm / main crystal: 5.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 6000 g
MIM number: 1350
Probable year of extraction : 2003
Grouping of siderite crystals in polysynthetic lenticular layers, brown-green with a little surface iridescence. Some quartz crystals coated with iron oxide are also present.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Grégoire de Bodinat (France) |
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935 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz on Baryte |
| Locality: | | Les Ribots, Huez, Grenoble, Isère Departament, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 21 x 20 x 25 cm / main crystal: 8.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 6300 g
MIM number: 1349
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Half-dome of massive, cream-colored baryte (the color due to iron oxides) covered with a cascade of colorless quartz on all the sides. The bottom of the dome has some small quartz crystals, indicating that the piece was not torn away from the mother rock but recrystallized thereafter.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Grégoire de Bodinat (France) |
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933 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz on Baryte |
| Locality: | | Les Ribots, Huez, Grenoble, Isère Departament, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 21 x 20 x 25 cm / main crystal: 8.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 6300 g
MIM number: 1349
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Half-dome of massive, cream-colored baryte (the color due to iron oxides) covered with a cascade of colorless quartz on all the sides. The bottom of the dome has some small quartz crystals, indicating that the piece was not torn away from the mother rock but recrystallized thereafter.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Ex collection: Grégoire de Bodinat (France) |
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983 Time(s) |
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MIM Museum
Joined: 04 Aug 2015
Posts: 250
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Jun 23, 2025 07:29 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Ilvaite with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 7 x 7.5 cm / main crystal: 7.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 117 g
MIM number: 1345
Two very lustrous parallel crystals with perfectly well terminated and sharp terminations, transpierced by colorless quartz crystals (the largest of which measures 5.6 cm).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2012", "China II, Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten" |
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818 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Ilvaite with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 7 x 7.5 cm / main crystal: 7.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 117 g
MIM number: 1345
Two very lustrous parallel crystals with perfectly well terminated and sharp terminations, transpierced by colorless quartz crystals (the largest of which measures 5.6 cm).
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2012", "China II, Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten" |
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819 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Spodumene |
| Locality: | | Mawi Pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum, Du Ab District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 6.5 x 25 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1775 g
MIM number: 1343
Probable year of extraction : 1985
Two large, intact, transparent parallel crystals, one longer and the other broader, very well formed with a roof-like termination. The upper quarter of each crystal is pinkish-purple, while the bottom is colorless to slightly yellowish.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "extraLapis No. 24: Edle Steine vom Dach der Welt", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Andreas Weerth (Germany) |
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814 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Spodumene |
| Locality: | | Mawi Pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum, Du Ab District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 6.5 x 25 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1775 g
MIM number: 1343
Probable year of extraction : 1985
Two large, intact, transparent parallel crystals, one longer and the other broader, very well formed with a roof-like termination. The upper quarter of each crystal is pinkish-purple, while the bottom is colorless to slightly yellowish.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publications: "extraLapis No. 24: Edle Steine vom Dach der Welt", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Andreas Weerth (Germany) |
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816 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Genthelvite with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 5 x 5 cm / main crystal: 1.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 99 g
MIM number: 1342
Group of imbricated, well formed, lustrous, brown tetrahedrons topped by a crown of small, colorless quartz crystals. The crystals consist in theory of genthelvite overgrowing a helvite core.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2012", "China II, Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten" |
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810 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Prehnite with Epidote |
| Locality: | | Kayes Region, Mali | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 10 x 5.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 363 g
MIM number: 1341
Two translucent, green balls measuring 5.1 cm and 4.6 cm respectively, well separated and intact on a gray gangue, crossed by lustrous black epidotes.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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817 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Prehnite with Epidote |
| Locality: | | Kayes Region, Mali | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 10 x 5.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 363 g
MIM number: 1341
Two translucent, green balls measuring 5.1 cm and 4.6 cm respectively, well separated and intact on a gray gangue, crossed by lustrous black epidotes.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza; |
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819 Time(s) |
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Posts: 250
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Jun 30, 2025 07:28 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Andradite (variety melanite) with Epidote and Prehnite |
| Locality: | | Kayes Region, Mali | |
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| Dimensions: | 15.5 x 25.5 x 17.5 cm / main crystal: 15.8 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 7700 g
MIM number: 1340
Two large, black adjacent crystals of maximum size 15.8 cm and 11.9 cm respectively. The faces are smooth and shiny and the crystals intact. The gangue on which they are found is sprinkled with small black epidote crystals and small, pale green balls of prehnite. The smaller of the two crystals is rather isometric; the larger one is more elongated. Three small, well formed crystals of andradite are on both sides of the matrix.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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499 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Löllingite and Arsenopyrite on Dolomite and Calcite with minor Magnetite |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 14.5 x 9 cm / main crystal: 6.5 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 598 g
MIM number: 1339
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Curved polycrystalline growth of gray lollingite, complete including at the back, sprinkled with small, lustrous, silvery pseudo-octahedral crystals of arsenopyrite. It is studded on a white 9 cm wide rhombohedron of white dolomite, itself resting on a matrix of white calcite strips. A small magnetite crystal is on the back of the lollingite, at its base.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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500 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Sichuan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 5.5 x 12 cm / main crystal: 11.5 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 165 g
MIM number: 1338
Intact, sharp-edged, transparent hexagonal bipyramid planted on a flattened blade of milky quartz, also intact, with the general appearance of a scepter.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publications: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés", "China II, Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten" |
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499 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Rutile on Rutile after Hematite |
| Locality: | | Ambatofinandrahana, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 3 x 11.5 cm / main crystal: 2.9 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 153 g
MIM number: 1336
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Lustrous, cream-colored superimposed rutile plates pseudomorphing hematite, on which red rutile crystals have developed in sagenite twins on both sides.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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497 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stibnite on Calcite |
| Locality: | | Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie, Maramures, Romania | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 11 x 8 cm / main crystal: 2.7 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 712 g
MIM number: 1335
Probable year of extraction : 1978
Thin, cream-colored, micro-crystallized section on which lustrous, bluish-black stibine crystals have developed in intact tufts
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Ex collection: Calin Costinar (Romania) |
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502 Time(s) |
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Posts: 250
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Jul 04, 2025 09:52 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite with Dioptase |
| Locality: | | Gombe-Lutete, Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 77 g
MIM number: 1334
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Two well-formed tabular crystals of orange wulfenite surrounded by a set of entangled dioptase crystals (1.5 cm max). Most of the dioptase crystals have a naturally altered summit in a lighter green with incrustations of small white crystals (calcite?).
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza; |
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159 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite with Dioptase |
| Locality: | | Gombe-Lutete, Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 77 g
MIM number: 1334
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Two well-formed tabular crystals of orange wulfenite surrounded by a set of entangled dioptase crystals (1.5 cm max). Most of the dioptase crystals have a naturally altered summit in a lighter green with incrustations of small white crystals (calcite?).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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158 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Alabandite with Quartz, Calcite and Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department, Peru | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 7.5 x 8.5 cm / main crystal: 3 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 981 g
MIM number: 1332
Probable year of extraction : 2010
Group of black lustrous crystals twinned after the spinel law, with a little calcite, micro-crystallized quartz, and tufts of pink rhodochrosite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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159 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wardite |
| Locality: | | Rapid Creek area, Dawson mining district, Yukon Territory, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2.5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 2.9 cm. |
| Description: |
Rapid Creek, Big Fish River, Yukon Territories, Canada
Mass: 14 g
MIM number: 1331
Floating, light cream-colored bipyramidal crystal, intact with much smaller crystals on some faces
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza; |
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158 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Magnetite with Forsterite (variety peridot) |
| Locality: | | Naran, Kaghan Valley, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 5 x 6 cm / main crystal: 4.9 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 143 g
MIM number: 1330
Perfect, black dodecahedral crystal with striated faces garnished on the edges with small translucent green peridots, the largest of which measures 2.3 cm.
Photographer: Joe Budd;
Publications: "extraLapis No. 24: Edle Steine vom Dach der Welt", "Extra Lapis #24: 2003", "Extra Lapis # 6: Pakistan", "Mineralogical Record, Nov-Dec 2020"
Ex collection: Herbert Obodda (USA) |
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158 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Magnetite with Forsterite (variety peridot) |
| Locality: | | Naran, Kaghan Valley, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 5 x 6 cm / main crystal: 4.9 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 143 g
MIM number: 1330
Perfect, black dodecahedral crystal with striated faces garnished on the edges with small translucent green peridots, the largest of which measures 2.3 cm.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publications: "extraLapis No. 24: Edle Steine vom Dach der Welt", "Extra Lapis #24: 2003", "Extra Lapis # 6: Pakistan", "Mineralogical Record, Nov-Dec 2020"
Ex collection: Herbert Obodda (USA) |
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157 Time(s) |
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