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PostPosted: Jul 26, 2012 08:34    Post subject: Canadian Museum of Nature  

Last weekend, July 21, I spend a few hours in the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa in the "Vale Earth Gallery" which hosts the minerals. Of course I focused on Mexican minerals but surely got distracted by other specimens, mainly from Eastern Canada localities. It took me a little bit of time to figure out that one needed to press the screen beside each display, to then see photographs of the specimens and then elect to choose a different screens that will display, either an general introduction with the specimen size, or locality, or interesting facts, or physical properties, or origin of the name. Tonnes of information is available for each specimen, may be too much and not readily available (i.e. locality).

The quality of the photographs is not exceptional (i.e. all taken with my BlackBerry) but they do show the quality and beauty of the specimens.

Mexico goes first followed by Mont St-Hilaire and Jeffrey Mine.

More specimens deserve a mention but I only took so many shots with my BB. The Atacamite from South Australia 5.5 cm standing up, the 12 cm Kermesite from the Globe Phoenix Mine in Zimbabwe, a miniature of acicular vivianite from Bolivia, just to name a few.

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Scorodite C del Oro.jpg
 Description:
Scorodite
Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico
app 9 cm across
 Viewed:  14285 Time(s)

Scorodite C del Oro.jpg



Acanthite Arizpe.jpg
 Description:
Acanthite
Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico
6 cm across
 Viewed:  14246 Time(s)

Acanthite Arizpe.jpg



Polybasite Arizpe.jpg
 Description:
Polybasite
Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico
7 cm across
 Viewed:  14244 Time(s)

Polybasite Arizpe.jpg



Stephanite Arizpe.jpg
 Description:
Stephanite
Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico
6 cm across
 Viewed:  14212 Time(s)

Stephanite Arizpe.jpg



Legrandite 2 Mapimi.jpg
 Description:
Legrandite
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
app 6 cm across
 Viewed:  14235 Time(s)

Legrandite 2 Mapimi.jpg



Calcite Poker CHips 2 SLP.jpg
 Description:
Calcite
Charcas, Mpio de Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
app 9.5 cm across
 Viewed:  14269 Time(s)

Calcite Poker CHips 2 SLP.jpg



Adamite Mn Mapimi.jpg
 Description:
Adamite (Mn)
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
App 7 cm across
 Viewed:  14256 Time(s)

Adamite Mn Mapimi.jpg



Hemimorphite Sta Eulalia.jpg
 Description:
Hemimorphite
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
23 x 23 x 19 cm
 Viewed:  14264 Time(s)

Hemimorphite Sta Eulalia.jpg



Serandite MSH.jpg
 Description:
Serandite with Analcime
Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
22 cm tall
 Viewed:  14247 Time(s)

Serandite MSH.jpg



Catapleite MSH.jpg
 Description:
Catapleite
Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
9 cm across
No kidding, an absolute whopper of a specimen.
 Viewed:  14279 Time(s)

Catapleite MSH.jpg



Elpedite MSH.jpg
 Description:
Elpidite
Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
13 cm across
Sorry for the bad photo quality but still it give a pretty good idea on the quality of this specimen.
 Viewed:  14220 Time(s)

Elpedite MSH.jpg



Natrolite Gem MSH.jpg
 Description:
Natrolite (Gemmy)
Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
app 5 cm tall
 Viewed:  14239 Time(s)

Natrolite Gem MSH.jpg



Grossular Jeffrey.jpg
 Description:
Grossular Garnet
Jeffrey Mine, Quebec, Canada
app 10 cm across
Too gemmy to acheive a good BlackBerry photograph
 Viewed:  14221 Time(s)

Grossular Jeffrey.jpg



Vesuvianite Jeffrey.jpg
 Description:
Vesuvianite
Jeffrey Mine, Quebec, Canada
app 11 cm tall
 Viewed:  14199 Time(s)

Vesuvianite Jeffrey.jpg



Vesuvianite Lilac Jeffrey.jpg
 Description:
Vesuvianite
Jeffrey Mine, Quebec, Canada
11 cm across
 Viewed:  14242 Time(s)

Vesuvianite Lilac Jeffrey.jpg


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PostPosted: Jul 26, 2012 10:54    Post subject: Re: Canadian Museum of Nature  

Very nice pictures.

Thanks to share them, specially the pictures from Canada; some of them are new for me, living in Spain.

Thanks!!

Héctor

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