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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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 Posted: May 29, 2013 20:44 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Thank you Pierre and Mike,
I will do a close up of that quartz plate (image 634) for you Mike. Although I collected that maybe 20 years ago I remember we'll that the plates in the pocket were covered in about 8cm of soft manganese. By the time I had finished collecting the pocket I was black from head to toe :) great fun.
Greg
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jun 04, 2013 23:33 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Back again,
firstly a close up of image #634 with the calcite blades replaced by quartz and a second piece from the same pocket.
Greg
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Quartz, Calcite
Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
Area shown 3x3cm
Quartz on Quartz after Calcite |
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Quartz, Calcite
Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
12x7.5cm
Quartz on Quartz after Calcite |
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jun 04, 2013 23:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Now, a couple more pieces from NZ,
Enjoy,
Greg
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Quartz
Tararu River, Thames, New Zealand
10x9.5cm
Self collected from a large pocket we broke into. Small crystals but very bright |
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Quartz
Telluride Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
17x13cm
Quartz Vug. The outside of this piece shows the cast of previous calcite crystals. This is typical of material from this area. |
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Quartz
Te Puru River, Thames, New Zealand
10.5x9cm
Colourless crystals with overgrowth of white quartz. Collected by George Judge ex collection of Arline Broad |
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jun 04, 2013 23:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Finally for today a few overseas pieces from my collection,
Greg
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Siderite, Sphalerite
Aggeneys, Northern Cape Prov, South Africa
9.8x6cm
Siderite and Sphalerite after Calcite |
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Quartz
Kulu Valley, North India
5.2x5.2cm
Quartz w Chlorite Phantoms |
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Quartz
Lechang Mine, Shaoguan Prefecture, Gandong Prov, China
7x5cm
This is very similar to the quartz known as Herkimer Diamonds, all double terminated on a small shard of matrix |
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Pierre Joubert
Joined: 09 Mar 2012
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Location: Western Cape
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Mike Wood
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Posts: 456
Location: Northern England
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| Posted: Jun 05, 2013 17:56 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Hi Greg,
Thanks for sharing the close-up photo of the quartz / pseudomorphed calcite specimen 634ap.JPG ( https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/634ap_108.jpg ) it's a rather nice combination and colour. Hard to imagine it when it was dug out, all covered in black manganese gunge. I like your other quartzes too and your photography is good.
Cheers, Mike
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Greg Lilly
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| Posted: Jun 11, 2013 03:49 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Thanks Pierre and Mike,
I was always happy when the quartz pockets were filled with manganese because it made the cleaning so much easier than iron staining. Some more NZ pieces first, with close ups for detail,
Greg
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Quartz
Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
5.5x4cm
This is complete all around, the crystals are milky at the base and clear at the ends. |
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Quartz
Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
5.5x4cm
Another view |
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Quartz
Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
12x7.5cm
When I found this I could only feel the tops of the spikey crystals, a nice surprise when I washed it off. |
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Quartz
Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
12x7.5cm
A close up. |
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Quartz
Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
7.5x5cm
These are like a corroded epimorph after calcite. |
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Quartz
Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
7.5x5cm
A close up. |
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Greg Lilly
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| Posted: Jun 11, 2013 04:10 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Some more form my overseas collection,
hope you all enjoy them,
Greg
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Quartz
Brandberg, Namibia
8.5x7.5cm
Smokey Quartz with really well defined windows. I have tried to photograph this so many times, this is as good as I can get it! |
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Rhodochrosite with fluorite, pyrite & apatite
Nates Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, USA
4.5x3.3cm
This is my honeymoon rock, our honeymoon just happened to coincide with the Australian Gemboree :) |
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Fluorite on Quartz
Burtree Pasture Mine, Cowshill, Weardale Co, UK
8.7x6.5cm
Slightly elongated crystals, the underside of the specimen is crystaline quartz. |
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Pierre Joubert
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Location: Western Cape
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| Posted: Jun 11, 2013 05:34 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Hi Greg. Lovely quartz specimens from NZ. Try photographing the Brandberg smoky crystal with a lighter colour background; and besides normal lighting, try using a flash too. I have discovered that putting tracing paper over my background paper gives a much 'softer' background effect.
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jun 11, 2013 23:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Thanks Pierre,
I will try that. I will post a couple more from the Golden Cross Mine today and a couple of others.
Greg
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Calcite
Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand
7x7cm
A single crystal, fairly coarse surface but a good luster. |
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Arsenopyrite
Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand
6x4.5cm
On a quartz base. |
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Arsenopyrite
Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand
8x5cm |
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jun 12, 2013 03:19 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Here are the couple of others!
Greg
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Fluorite on sphalerite with Baryte
Elmwood Mine, Smith County, Tennessee, USA
10.5x10cm
A fluorite cube with 2 transparent corners on sphalerite. Small Baryte cluster at the back. |
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Quartz
Jeffrey Quarry, Arkansas, USA
9x5cm
Complete floater cluster of solution quartz. |
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Mike Wood
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Location: Northern England
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| Posted: Jun 12, 2013 17:21 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Very good so far Greg !
The Weardale fluorite is nice, and comes from about 90 mins drive away from me !
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jun 12, 2013 19:10 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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| Mike Wood wrote: | Very good so far Greg !
The Weardale fluorite is nice, and comes from about 90 mins drive away from me ! |
Thanks Mike,
It was from a collection which I purchased about 4 years ago and luckily almost everything was numbered and well catalogued.
Greg
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Don Lum
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Location: Arkansas
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| Posted: Jun 12, 2013 23:16 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Greg,
I like your Jeffrey Quartz floater. These are sometimes called haystack burrs around here.
Don
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Greg Lilly
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| Posted: Jun 28, 2013 21:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Hi Don,
Sorry for the delayed response, we have been on holiday.
I love these quartz clusters. About 10 years ago we went to the West Coast Show and stopped into Arkansas on the way to do some digging. Didn't find much but had a great time and managed to get some nice things with the silver pick! I would love to get back there again, beautiful countryside and great rocks.
Greg
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Greg Lilly
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| Posted: Jul 09, 2013 23:53 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Time for some more photos, I have been trying to find something which I can use as reflectors for my NZ quartz specimens which wont impart a yellow cast when I photograph them. The material is generally very white, any ideas?
Greg
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Quartz
Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand
11x7cm
The outside of this vug is composed of quartz pseudomorphs after calcite, the inside small but bright quartz crystals. |
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Quartz
Maratoto, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand
2x7cm
A complete covering of tiny but very prismatic quartz crystals on a solid quartz matrix. |
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Quartz
Whangapoa Area, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand
7x5cm
Large quartz crystals on a bed of tiny quartz crystals.
Ex George Judge Collection |
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Quartz
Whangapoa Area, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand
7x5cm
Another view of the above specimen. |
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Greg Lilly
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2013 00:06 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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A few from other locations,
Greg
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Calcite
North Vernon, Indiana, USA
5.5x4.5cm
Nicely balanced and great luster. |
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Calcite
Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia
5.2x2.7cm
Clear and lusterous on the top half with very defined striations on the termination faces. |
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Calcite
Hunan Province, China
8.3x6.3cm
Colourless and lusterous calcite crystal cluster. Sorry, no more accurate location. |
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2013 15:26 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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| Greg Lilly wrote: | Time for some more photos, I have been trying to find something which I can use as reflectors for my NZ quartz specimens which wont impart a yellow cast when I photograph them. The material is generally very white, any ideas?
Greg |
Greg,
Gail posted a report on Perot Museum Golds which shows world renown photographer Joaquim Callen at work: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=30528#30528 Please see this picture: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/dsc_0769_159.jpg on that report.
I don't know if this will help but may give you some ideas.
Sincerely,
Don
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2013 16:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Greg,
You can also use white copy paper or thin white plastic to reflect your light or to use between your light source and the subject.
Don
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