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Jordi Fabre
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 Posted: Jul 30, 2025 15:52 Post subject: Azurite from Bluebird Mine, Arizona, USA / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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#MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) / more information about the piece with this link
| Mineral: | Azurite |
| Locality: | | Bluebird Mine, Miami, Miami-Inspiration District (Globe-Miami District), Gila County, Arizona, USA |  |
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| Dimensions: | 3.4 × 2.6 × 2.6 cm |
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Group of flattened Azurite crystals — sharp, translucent, lustrous, and with a very vivid color.
This is a very high-quality specimen from this locality, a mine where so good pieces are not so common. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 01, 2025 12:43 Post subject: Joaquinite-(Ce) on Neptunite from USA / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Joaquinite-(Ce) on Neptunite and with Benitoite and Natrolite |
| Locality: | | California State Gem Mine (Benitoite Gem Mine), San Benito River headwaters area, Santa Rita Peak, New Idria District, San Benito County, California, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | main crystal: 2 × 0.6 cm |
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| Joaquinite-(Ce) crystal of good size for the species, with a dipyramidal shape, well-defined faces and edges, translucent, and with an intense orange color, on a Neptunite crystal accompanied by a small single Benitoite crystal and Natrolite rosettes. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 03, 2025 13:04 Post subject: Wittichenite from Cattle Grid, Australia / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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#MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) / more information about the piece with this link
| Mineral: | Wittichenite |
| Locality: | | Cattle Grid deposit (Mount Gunson), Mount Gunson Copper mines, Pernatty Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.2 × 2.4 × 0.8 cm |
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Extraordinarily shiny floater crystal of Wittichenite with complex polycrystalline growths dominated by finely striated prism faces and smoother bipyramid faces. The specimen was part of the lucky find in 1981 from which only a few crystals were recovered, since then considered "icons" as they are the best known for the species.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the article 'Wittichenite from the Cattle Grid Pit, Mount Gunson mine, South Australia' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 140 in the volume 44, number 2, March-April 2013, and published in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 87 in the volume 26/2021, number 1 |
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