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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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| 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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| 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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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Aug 04, 2025 22:16 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Hello, excellent as always, but not fully awake, I didn't spot the little 'benitoite'.
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2025 01:22 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Oh yes, on the joaquinite crystal!
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2025 03:58 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Roger Warin wrote: | | Oh yes, on the joaquinite crystal! |
And also as an elongated crystal of deep blue color between the two Neptunite crystals...
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 06, 2025 13:28 Post subject: Baryte from Moscona Mine, Spain / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Baryte |
| Locality: | | Moscona Mine, El Llano, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Comarca Avilés, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.9 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm |
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Very aerial group of sharp Baryte crystals, somewhere between lamellar and tabular, translucent, with good luster and a uniform sky-blue color.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 400) |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 10, 2025 15:35 Post subject: Vanadinite from Mohamedine, Morocco / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | Mohamedine, Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.4 × 5.7 × 2 cm |
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Parallel growths of thick tabular crystals that make up a single Vanadinite crystal with polycrystalline growths. The growths have marked pyramidal faces, shiny, and with a very vivid and uniform red-magenta color, slightly matte on the back. Different from other Vanadinites and with a huge single crystal for the species.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 53 of the 2020/01 edition. |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | Mohamedine, Coud'a, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.4 × 5.7 × 2 cm |
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Parallel growths of thick tabular crystals that make up a single Vanadinite crystal with polycrystalline growths. The growths have marked pyramidal faces, shiny, and with a very vivid and uniform red-magenta color, slightly matte on the back. Different from other Vanadinites and with a huge single crystal for the species.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 53 of the 2020/01 edition. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 12, 2025 16:49 Post subject: Wulfenite from Tsumeb Mine, Namibia / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.1 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm |
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| The Desmond Sacco collection has often bestowed small treasures on us, such as this group of Wulfenite crystals on matrix. The yellowish crystals are sharp, highly lustrous, and translucent. |
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Volkmar Stingl
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| Posted: Aug 12, 2025 22:30 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| A wonderful small beauty!
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 14, 2025 16:27 Post subject: Azurite and Malachite from Touissit, Morocco / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Azurite and Malachite |
| Locality: | | Shaft IX (Puit IX), Zellidja Mine, Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 × 3.7 × 3.5 cm |
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A classic sample from Puit IX (shaft nine of the Zellidja Mine)
The very brilliant, damage free and intensely colored prisms are shorter and thicker than is normal, and they have an aerial form.
A partial coating of Malachite gives a special touch to it. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 15, 2025 14:18 Post subject: Sphalerite from Áliva Mine, Spain / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Sphalerite |
| Locality: | | Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.6 × 4.4 × 3.4 cm |
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The color and luster are amazing. Although not on matrix, due to its transparency, intensity of color, and good crystal definition, it deserves to be considered an important piece.
From the Jordi Fabre collection, it was bought from the historic Andrés Puente in 1979. Andrés was the one who had the best Áliva pieces at that time.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine Paragénesis, number 01/2022, page 74 |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 17, 2025 16:36 Post subject: Wulfenite from Erupción Mine, Mexico / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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#MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) / more information about the piece with this link
| Mineral: | Wulfenite on Calcite |
| Locality: | | Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.6 × 2.8 × 3 cm |
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| Prismatic crystals of Wulfenite are not so common. In this case, the sharpness of the prism is very good, elongated, and with excellent color and brilliance. The main crystal also has another interpenetrated Wulfenite crystal on one of its sides. It is all on a Calcite matrix. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Aug 19, 2025 16:32 Post subject: Grandidierite from Tranomaro, Madagascar / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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#MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) / more information about the piece with this link
| Mineral: | Grandidierite |
| Locality: | | Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.1 × 1 × 0.8 cm |
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Extraordinary Grandidierite crystal, both for the perfection of its crystal forms and for its luster, transparency, and color intensity, as well as for its gem quality.
All this made it worthy of being on the cover of the former German magazine Mineralien Welt, and it was also featured in the magazines Mineralogical Record and Mineral Observer. |
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Fiebre Verde
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| Posted: Aug 20, 2025 06:47 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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The comment in the MVM page is understated.
It *is* the best specimen found in this deposit.
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