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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Mar 13, 2011 19:00 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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some new graphites on black amphiboles I found yesterday
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Mar 23, 2011 17:30 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Nice meionite about 2-1/2 cm in a vug with diopside and others, one of my new favorites
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Mar 26, 2011 09:59 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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This winters snow and rain helped wash off the dirt and now I'm finding some great fluorescents. Not sure but I think this stuff is Opal
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Mar 27, 2011 19:35 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Yellow and blue SW fluorescent band in a ten inch piece of marble (SW in daylight)
Granite loaded with hot pink meionite SW
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Mar 29, 2011 17:57 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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These are in SW-UV light in daylight. Very bright Fluoro-edenite, Diopside and Tremolite
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Posted: Apr 04, 2011 18:11 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Some Saturday finds, Green Pyroxene crystals 40 cm overall and a nice orange fluorescent piece ?
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Posted: Apr 12, 2011 18:25 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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I nice group of black Augite crystals, It needs a little more cleaning but its on my favorite list
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 20:12 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Some of this weekends finds. Spinel, largest about 3.5 cm
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: May 02, 2011 20:39 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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These are some new finds from the property, Purple Spinels We have found some nice sharp crystals largest is about 2 cm. They are with Phlogopite
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Posted: May 07, 2011 06:51 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Some more purple Spinels, we found quite a few this past week
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Posted: May 15, 2011 17:07 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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a large purple Spinel 4-1/2 cm and some weird green stuff on the opposite side of the Spinels, anyone have any ideas what it is ?
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Posted: Jun 05, 2011 07:11 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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A few Spinel floaters we found sifting the dirt. 2cm + each. Last picture, spinel on the right has a little different shape.
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Posted: Jun 07, 2011 21:25 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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This is a solid mass of Spinel and Uvite 14 cm
largest crystal is about 2 cm
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Posted: Jun 12, 2011 19:19 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Some nice Spinels from Saturdays dig, they have some interesting random grouping compared to the others. all about 3 cm
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Posted: Jun 26, 2011 20:45 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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I was breaking up some marble and I found these pink crystals, anyone know what they could be ? Could it be corundum ? Third picture there is a small pink stone on mica
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ERA Triano
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Posted: Jul 17, 2011 19:59 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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This is in your Yard? holy smokes !
I'm in NY too.... border of Putnam and Dutchess counties. Where is Amity?
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Posted: Jul 18, 2011 04:33 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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I was breaking up some marble and I found these pink crystals, anyone know what they could be ? Could it be corundum ? Third picture there is a small pink stone on mica
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It looks to me like mica, maybe a litium mica like Lepidolite -> https://www.mindat.org/min-2380.html or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidolite
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Glenn Rhein
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Posted: Jul 23, 2011 11:48 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Here are some more pink crystals.
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Phlogopite, Corundum, Diopside Amity NY 18 CM |
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Posted: Aug 05, 2011 14:23 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Some new fluorescent pieces.
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Diopside and Norbergite Amity New York 15 CM |
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Peter
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Posted: Aug 06, 2011 12:59 Post subject: Re: New find of minerals from New York |
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Thanks for showing your great interesting finds! Field collecting is always the best!!!
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