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Bergur_E_Sigurdarson Replies: 7 Views: 6414 |
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I've not noticed much disparity in how people express green vs blue, nor red vs orange
....the one I very regularly notice is people calling fairly obviously pink things either blue or purple. I won ... |
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Number 8 in the series of "Barite World Tour" cases entered annually by Bill and Diana Dameron covers Latin America - mainly Mexico and Peru as most other nations in Latin America are devoid ... | |
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I agree with Gerard,
all my better sources say that the iron cross twins come from the El Santuario mine or minor diggings near it and thus not Gachala municipality but Ubala. One close by is La Mer ... |
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Two brand new members, one posting a suspicious link on an OP with generic info
...anyone else find this weird? |
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Bergur_E_Sigurdarson Replies: 6 Views: 15484 |
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My poll on Mindat FB page got a decent amount of participation.
I must admit I'm a little bit surprised that not more people are members of that group from here and amongst collectors in general. ... |
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Earlier I created a poll on the FB group for Mindat.
(Seemed the best place to put it) While its intention isn't very serious, anymore than any other FB-poll.... I thought it would be ok to share ... |
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Bergur_E_Sigurdarson Replies: 41 Views: 58827 |
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My only (so far) visit to Ste. Marie mineral show was in 2019.
I flew in from Iceland, to Frankfurt, though I was staying with friends near Freiburg in Germany and drove in on a rental car each day. ... |
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A partially "cleaned" group of fluorites from Peñas Blancas.
In some parts of the veins they're extracting from, it's evident that a lot has moved geologically. Breaking Fluorites off of ... |
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Most of the fluorite known from Colombia comes from an area above the area where they are mining for emeralds in Peñas Blancas and seems to be in veins that have since then coated most of it in aragon ... | |
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On the variations of language... as has been mentioned with Spanish... here in Colombia (and surely Firmo can verify) ...the most common reference isn't to a "geoda"... but rather "veta ... | |
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As some additional support for Bergur's thoughts - one of the main dealers who handeles these mango quartzes lost a ton of money by leaving them in oxalic for too long - the acid slowly cleaned out th ... | |
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I have several pieces of Colombian quartz that would fall under the inclusion mentioned.
Most have "micro-tubes" along the quartz. And usually, if they are not just "white" ... ... |
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P.S. as I forgot my point on inflation... in this case not in general (as possibly being a good reason to ask for higher entry fee) but rather the mineral specimens.
Yes, the best specimens are oft ... |
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Bergur_E_Sigurdarson Replies: 77 Views: 86290 |
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As usual, enjoyed the reports of what was to be seen as I couldn't attend myself.. .thanks!
On the end subject, as has come up in the past years, about missing dealers and lower sales.... ...many ... |
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Bergur_E_Sigurdarson Replies: 746 Views: 3376723 |
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I agree that with the form of the crystals that they are highly likely to be from Chivor (given my limited knowledge) I do also wonder if the micro crystals present aren't only calcite, but also micro ... | |
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