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 Topic: Favourite Garnets? |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 10 Views: 37594 |
 Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Dec 17, 2022 11:20 Subject: Re: Favourite Garnets? |
| I like green garnet a lot. | |
| Topic: Favourite Barytes? |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 32 Views: 58843 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Dec 17, 2022 11:18 Subject: Re: Favourite Barytes? |
| I forgot my Shangulowe barites;
I have 2 specimen, purchased both this year from Belgium collectors/vendor. Wow, I have never seen baryte with malachite in it. I have a white and brown one. I l ... |
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| Topic: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 2422 Views: 2199089 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Dec 17, 2022 11:15 Subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
| I love the deep colour of the Tourmaline King piece!
Same here, I also have a red tourmaline, but not such a deep red like that one. It's more light. |
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| Topic: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 2422 Views: 2199089 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Dec 17, 2022 11:11 Subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection - Fluorite |
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I love those blue colors of the fluorite - I have blue fluorite as necklace pendant. Thanks 19Kath93! You're so welcome. :) I am Katharina from Germany. |
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| Topic: Collection of Tobi |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 1206 Views: 1681298 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Dec 16, 2022 10:49 Subject: Re: Collection of Tobi |
| And another quartz, a little bit larger than the last one ;-)
Beautiful - I have quartz from Brazil as necklace pendant, but not polished. :) However, there is a hole in it to be able to use it as a ... |
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| Topic: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 2422 Views: 2199089 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Dec 16, 2022 10:47 Subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection - Fluorite |
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I love those blue colors of the fluorite - I have blue fluorite as necklace pendant. |
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| Topic: Collection of Tobi |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 1206 Views: 1681298 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Dec 15, 2022 14:47 Subject: Re: Collection of Tobi |
| My last addition in 2022 - not a quartz! ;-)
But an impressive and lovely 18 cm plate of endlichite from Morocco, I immediately fell in love with this piece though endlichite was never on my wish lis ... |
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| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 15, 2022 05:13 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
| Kath
It would be fine. Do you have a more precise locality? James You can post minerals in your collection, no matter how you obtained them. But we do like to know the mineral, locality, an ... |
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| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 15, 2022 05:11 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
| Kath
It would be fine. Do you have a more precise locality? James You can post minerals in your collection, no matter how you obtained them. But we do like to know the mineral, locality, an ... |
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| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 14, 2022 13:56 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
| You can post minerals in your collection, no matter how you obtained them. But we do like to know the mineral, locality, and dimensions, and for them to be natural, not person made
Okay, so I only ... |
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| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 14, 2022 09:34 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
| Or why was my topic about my stones locked? | |
| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 14, 2022 08:51 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
| Okay, so I only am able to post a collector topic if I found the minerals myself, and if they are not only bought ones? I also recognized my topic is locked...
I am sorry, I did not know that. |
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| Topic: Collection of Katharina |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 0 Views: 11417 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Dec 14, 2022 08:39 Subject: Collection of Katharina |
| Quartz | |
| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 14, 2022 08:30 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
| Welcome to this forum.
If you do not know the locality please ask in 'What is is, where is it from'. I hope that makes sense. We really like to know the locality, mineral and dimensions if you ... |
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| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 14, 2022 08:03 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
| Hi Tobi, yes, now you are not the only very active German member here anymore. :)
So in order to open a new topic with your own stones, you need to know the location of the stone, if I understood co ... |
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| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 13, 2022 07:43 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Katharina from Schweinfurt in Bavaria |
| Named Tobi and from Germany - that's a good combination :-)
Herzlich willkommen! Oh, 2 people from Germany here, I just read - awesome ;) I life near Schweinfurt in Bavaria. (still writing in Engl ... |
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| Topic: Found this today |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 14 Views: 6975 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 13, 2022 07:40 Subject: Re: Found this today |
| I agree, quartz. The simplest way to test hardness is to try to scratch a harder mineral and try to scratch it with a harder one. If you have an old diamond about the house, see if the diamond scrat ... | |
| Topic: Found this today |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 14 Views: 6975 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 13, 2022 04:20 Subject: Re: Found this today |
| Probably quartz. Check the hardness by trying to scratch a piece of glass or steel with it (harder than glass or steel).
Yes, it looks a bit like quartz, I would say. |
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| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| 19Kath93 Replies: 501 Views: 567962 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Dec 12, 2022 09:16 Subject: Presentation of new members - Katharina from Schweinfurt in Bavaria |
| Hello,
I am Katharina from Germany, 29 years old. I live in a small village in northern Bavaria. Gemstones and minerals are my biggest hobby, I am collecting them since 2011 or so. I have so many o ... |
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