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olelukoe
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Here am would like to share some photos of mineral specimens from my private collection
Yours faithfully,
Oleg Lopatkin
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Golden Beryl (Heliodor) from Ukraine locality - Volodarsk-Volinskiy
Spc.Num. B-011
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Morganite, Peech, Konar (Kunar; Konarh; Konarha; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan
Spc. Num. - B-007
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Bright-Blue colour aquamarine crystal on albite and mica, Tablejung, East Nepal
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Peter
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| Posted: Mar 16, 2010 15:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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Sdrasdvitje Oleg
Spatsiba boslhoje do charosjije photoes!
Peter
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Jordi Fabre
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Mar 16, 2010 16:41 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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Nice pictures!
Please, keep posting.
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José Miguel
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| Posted: Mar 17, 2010 04:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Very beautiful specimens.
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Mar 17, 2010 13:58 Post subject: Some more.... |
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some new specimens ....
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Not so bad topaz crystal, that nested in a matrix of lepidolite crystals, from Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil
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XL polychromic Topaz single crystal with good termination and very rare size for this locality , Kazakhstan, Ortau pegmatite field
Size 90 x 66 x 58 mm |
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Topaz, Pakistan, Northern Aries, Skardu
Size 116 x 65 x 65 mm |
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Blue Topaz, Xanda Mine (Xandra Mine), Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil
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Topaz, Skardu Road, Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Size 100 x 77x 110 mm |
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This specimen consists of a matrix of snowy white cleavelandite hosting several smoky quartz crystals (to 21mm) and a single, perfectly formed peach topaz. This prismatic topaz, with its complex pyramidal termination, measures 28mm across by 23mm tall.
Pakistan, Northern Areas, Skardu, Yunu, Shigar Valley
Size 70 x 63 x 37 mm |
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This specimen consists of a matrix of snowy white cleavelandite and a single, perfectly formed peach topaz. Pakistan, Northern Areas, Skardu, Yunu, Shigar Valley
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On a matrix of cleavelandite stands a stunning prismatic, peach coloured topaz measuring 28mm x 29mm and 40mm tall. from Pakistan, Northern Areas, Skardu, Yunu, Shigar Valley
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Topaz crystal, that sitting on smoky quartz - classical specimen from Groot Spitzkoppe, Swakopmund District, Erongo Region, Namibia
Size 60 x 50 x 45 mm |
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Part of XL Topaz crystal, with some areas of gem quality and perfect termination, this size and quality to rare for specimens from this old Russian locality, locality name: Mokrusha Mine, Alabashka pegmatite field, Yuzhakovo Village, Ekaterinburgskaya (Sverdlovskaya) Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
Size 130 x 66 x 27 mm |
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XL Topaz single crystal with gem quality and perfect termination , Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar)
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Peter
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| Posted: Mar 17, 2010 18:07 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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Dear Oleg
Why do you label the Mokrusha large blue topaz with the Yushakova village?
Mokrusha Mine is on the Alabashka pegmatite field, along the Alabashka river, by the former villages of upper and lower Alabashka, which is as you know just to the north of Murzinka village.
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Peter
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| Posted: Mar 17, 2010 18:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Thanks for posting many fine pegmatite specimens!!!
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Mar 17, 2010 23:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Peter wrote: | Dear Oleg
Why do you label the Mokrusha large blue topaz with the Yushakova village?
Mokrusha Mine is on the Alabashka pegmatite field, along the Alabashka river, by the former villages of upper and lower Alabashka, which is as you know just to the north of Murzinka village. |
there many villages, but you are right that mokrusha situated between two - upper and lower Alabashka and Ushakova a bit to the south direction of them
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Debbie Woolf
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| Posted: Mar 18, 2010 07:25 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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Hello Oleg
Are you sure that is a Gross Spitzkoppe Topaz & Quartz ? I was thinking perhaps its a Klein Spitzkoppe specimen ?
Debbie
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Mar 18, 2010 13:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Debbie Woolf wrote: | Hello Oleg
Are you sure that is a Gross Spitzkoppe Topaz & Quartz ? I was thinking perhaps its a Klein Spitzkoppe specimen ?
Debbie |
This one and also this specimen: https://www.mindat.org/photo-261990.html
was offered to me like from Gross Spitzkoppe...
By the way - you can ask the same from Rob Lavinsky for example :)
See his specimen here: : https://www.mindat.org/photo-139954.html
Oleg
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Mar 18, 2010 14:42 Post subject: one more |
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specimen...
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Perfect and fully, from all sides completed topaz cluster, from Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
Size 48 x 40 x 44 mm |
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Debbie Woolf
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| Posted: Mar 18, 2010 18:35 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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I find this quite interesting & I'm always eager to learn so do put me straight. I read an article that whilst the Gross & Klein Spitzkoppe are geologically similar in age & rock type Topaz is virtually confined to the Klein Spitzkoppe. It was this remark that made me wonder/question your 'very nice' specimen especially as there's quite a few specimens the same as yours & they are all attributed to the Klein. Unfortunately there are very few pictures available of minerals from the Gross Spitzkoppe & it is only yourself & Rob Lavinsky that do attribute these same specimens to this mountain, on Mindat. I just wonder if there is any definitive info to confirm a conflicting issue?
The problem is the Spitzkoppe & Erongo Mountains are very close & the local miners & street vendors are not 100% accurate on localities & mix the material up. Dealers can get it wrong (unknowingly), I purchased a Wulfenite from Sid Pieters shop before he retired & it was labelled Tsumeb mine when in fact it was from Khusib Springs so even the 'great' dealers can be incorrect as can any collector, I can hold my hand up to that.
Debbie
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Mar 18, 2010 22:53 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Debbie Woolf wrote: | I find this quite interesting & I'm always eager to learn so do put me straight. I read an article that whilst the Gross & Klein Spitzkoppe are geologically similar in age & rock type Topaz is virtually confined to the Klein Spitzkoppe. It was this remark that made me wonder/question your 'very nice' specimen especially as there's quite a few specimens the same as yours & they are all attributed to the Klein. Unfortunately there are very few pictures available of minerals from the Gross Spitzkoppe & it is only yourself & Rob Lavinsky that do attribute these same specimens to this mountain, on Mindat. I just wonder if there is any definitive info to confirm a conflicting issue?
The problem is the Spitzkoppe & Erongo Mountains are very close & the local miners & street vendors are not 100% accurate on localities & mix the material up. Dealers can get it wrong (unknowingly), I purchased a Wulfenite from Sid Pieters shop before he retired & it was labelled Tsumeb mine when in fact it was from Khusib Springs so even the 'great' dealers can be incorrect as can any collector, I can hold my hand up to that.
Debbie |
Am was in Namibia myself - am traveling to much around the world and try to bring some mineral specimens from this trips... and there this specimens was offered like Gross Spitzkoppe from local mineral dealer .... You can see photos from this trip on my site: pegmatite point ru
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Mar 18, 2010 22:56 Post subject: some more.... |
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specimens
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XL rosterite beryl crystal, from old locality - Svetlinskii pegmatite quarry, Svetlyi, Kochkar' District, Plast, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
Size 95 x 86 x 42 mm |
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Large , naturally etched beryl (var. morganite) crystal , from Vodorazdelnaya, Menza District, Chitinskaya Oblast, Zabaykalye, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
Size 99 х 63 х 28 mm |
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XL Light-green, polychromic beryl crystal, Sherlovaya Gora, Adun-Cholon Range, Nerchinsk Mines, Buryatia Republic, Zabaykalye, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
Size 95 х 32 х 28 mm |
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XL Yellow-green, polychromic beryl crystal, Sherlovaya Gora, Adun-Cholon Range, Nerchinsk Mines, Buryatia Republic, Zabaykalye, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
Size 155 x 28 x 23 mm |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Mar 19, 2010 04:24 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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Hello Oleg,
Thank you for sharing your minerals with us! You have superb specimens, i especially like the morganite from Kunar, the aquamarine from Nepal, the matrix topaz from Virgem da Lapa, the giant single crystal of topaz from Myanmar and the wonderful beryl crystal from Sherlovaya Gora. Very nice!
Cheers!
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Mar 19, 2010 11:38 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Tobias Martin wrote: | Hello Oleg,
Thank you for sharing your minerals with us! You have superb specimens, i especially like the morganite from Kunar, the aquamarine from Nepal, the matrix topaz from Virgem da Lapa, the giant single crystal of topaz from Myanmar and the wonderful beryl crystal from Sherlovaya Gora. Very nice!
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Dear Tobias !
Thank you for a good words concerning my attempts to show people via photos, how perfect minerals can be... :) Especially minerals from pegmatites....
Oleg
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Mar 19, 2010 16:03 Post subject: some more.... |
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Specimens....
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Perfect quality and coloure aquamarine crystal from Medina mine, Minas Gerais, South-East Region, Brazil
Size 150 x 25 x 20 mm |
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Peter
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| Posted: Mar 19, 2010 16:04 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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Oleg
You have a great suite of Russian pegmatite specimens. The Vodorozhdelnye Vorobyevite (Morganite) is superb and as good as they get. Very sharp and fine!!!! I have only see one slightly larger one. Unusually large and fine Svetlinskoys goshenite!
I have a deep golden Heliodore from there. The Sherlova Gora specimens are booth very fine!!! Did you get my mail?
Peter
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Peter
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| Posted: Mar 19, 2010 16:04 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Very nice Brazilian Aqua! Sure looks like from Medina.
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