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Topic: Can you please indentify? | |
Carl Replies: 4 Views: 9256 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Nov 21, 2022 17:48 Subject: Re: Can you please indentify? |
I cannot opine on the mineral(s) without the additional information noted above. However, the rock itself is a classic ventifact dreikanter with three wind abraded faces.
Search Wikipedia or other ... |
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Topic: Price changes | |
Carl Replies: 16 Views: 9596 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Apr 24, 2021 22:26 Subject: Re: Price changes |
Amazing to me that a generic, broad-brush question intended to encourage thought and discussion is deemed potentially inappropriate, but another showing photos of specific specimens and quoting actual ... | |
Topic: 1st 'Virtual' British Mineralogical Symposium | |
Carl Replies: 10 Views: 9842 |
Forum: News about Shows Posted: May 02, 2020 15:19 Subject: Re: 1st 'Virtual' British Mineralogical Symposium |
We had a great time putting on the eRMS (online Rochester Mineralogical Symposium) last Saturday. We topped out at 124 people, and with people coming and going, after five+ hours we were still over 12 ... | |
Topic: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 | |
Carl Replies: 364 Views: 327506 |
Forum: National Library of Spain / Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and FMF Posted: Apr 28, 2020 16:16 Subject: Re: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
Quarantine entertainment: https://www.discogs.com/lists/Crystals-Minerals-Gems/576296 :-) (link normalized by FMF) I cannot speak to the others on this list, but "David K. Joyce - N ... |
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Topic: The rock that got away… | |
Carl Replies: 21 Views: 19371 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Apr 15, 2020 20:38 Subject: Re: The rock that got away… |
A magnificent, large cabinet quartz and hematite from Chubb Lake, New York. At the St. Lawrence County, New York show 20+ years ago. Most dealers/sellers were outside, it was bad weather, and very few ... | |
Topic: Braking Bad. | |
Carl Replies: 18 Views: 14015 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Apr 13, 2020 21:28 Subject: Re: Braking Bad. |
Regarding the white mineral, hard to tell from just pictures, but I have seen stilbite that has been altered by weathering look like this in Virginia trap rock quarries. | |
Topic: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 | |
Carl Replies: 364 Views: 327506 |
Forum: National Library of Spain / Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and FMF Posted: Apr 13, 2020 19:47 Subject: Re: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
Jordi, very sorry to hear of your loss of Neta. All of the loss and fear in the world right now only serves to underscore your sorrow, not lessen it.
I would share a picture of my "Rock Cat&qu ... |
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Topic: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 | |
Carl Replies: 364 Views: 327506 |
Forum: National Library of Spain / Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and FMF Posted: Apr 05, 2020 22:21 Subject: Re: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
@R Saunders - Great pics of a Russell wedge and winged snow plow.
My grandfather engineered these and others up in the snowbelts of central and northern New York when I was a kid. These units were ... |
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Topic: What did Goethe collect? | |
Carl Replies: 14 Views: 20969 |
Forum: The histories behind mineral specimens Posted: Apr 05, 2020 14:14 Subject: Re: What did Goethe collect? |
Although, I seem to remember that Goethite was first the name of another, closely related iron mineral.
Lepidocrocite, which is dimorphous with Goethite. |
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Topic: What did Goethe collect? | |
Carl Replies: 14 Views: 20969 |
Forum: The histories behind mineral specimens Posted: Apr 05, 2020 12:41 Subject: Re: What did Goethe collect? |
A contemporary of Goethe's, Johann Georg Lenz, named the mineral after him. Although, I seem to remember that Goethite was first the name of another, closely related iron mineral.
The History of Sc ... |
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Topic: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 | |
Carl Replies: 364 Views: 327506 |
Forum: National Library of Spain / Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and FMF Posted: Apr 04, 2020 14:17 Subject: Re: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
Commonwealth of Virginia's Stay-At-Home order extended through June 10. People are only allowed to leave their homes for "extremely limited circumstances" (e.g. food, medicine, care of famil ... | |
Topic: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 | |
Carl Replies: 364 Views: 327506 |
Forum: National Library of Spain / Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and FMF Posted: Mar 30, 2020 19:34 Subject: Re: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
In addition to being beautifully in bloom for many weeks each spring, North American Redbud is interesting in several ways.
It is cauliflorous, and all of its flowers burst from the bark of the tre ... |
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Topic: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 | |
Carl Replies: 364 Views: 327506 |
Forum: National Library of Spain / Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and FMF Posted: Mar 30, 2020 19:12 Subject: Re: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
My first picture posts in a very long time, so apologies in advance for any mistakes.
With all the flower photos, thought I would post a few I took yesterday. Nothing spectacular, but the natural b ... |
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Topic: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 | |
Carl Replies: 364 Views: 327506 |
Forum: National Library of Spain / Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and FMF Posted: Mar 25, 2020 23:26 Subject: Re: Stay at home - Coronavirus / Covid-19 |
The Candelabra is alive and well at the Smithsonian (as of Halloween 2018)
Many years ago (20? 30?) I saw a picture of the Candelabra cleaned and laid out prior to reassembly. Does anyone know if t ... |
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Topic: In Memoriam: Arthur Tracey Grant Jr. (1925–2015) | |
Carl Replies: 4 Views: 17057 |
Forum: In Memoriam Posted: Apr 26, 2016 13:41 Subject: Re: In Memoriam: Arthur Tracey Grant Jr." (1925–2015) |
Art got me started in this crazy, wonderful world of minerals 50 years ago this spring. "Mr. Grant" was my gym teacher (he was also my parents gym teacher), and he put a display of self-col ... | |
Topic: Tucson Show 2014 | |
Carl Replies: 111 Views: 235604 |
Forum: News about Shows Posted: Feb 25, 2014 14:50 Subject: Re: Tucson Show 2014 |
Wonderful photos Jordi. Thank you for sharing them.
Would love to see the Millerite from Antwerp when you have time! |
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Topic: New finds in Chatham County, NC | |
Carl Replies: 7 Views: 11157 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Feb 14, 2014 16:58 Subject: Re: New finds in Chatham County, NC |
I had the same problems but was able to find my way there manually.
Go to: https://www.rockhoundlounge.com (link normalized by FMF) Then go into Forums Then scroll down and go into Field Tri ... |
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Topic: aenigma-tite ? | |
Carl Replies: 16 Views: 16119 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Jan 28, 2013 17:22 Subject: Re: aenigma-tite ? |
Diamond / carbon (or coal for Etienne Lantier) | |
Topic: Mineral ice specimen | |
Carl Replies: 19 Views: 31889 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Dec 21, 2012 15:41 Subject: Re: Ice crystals in a light-artwork |
I love water/ice crystals. Hoar frost can be particularly spectacular. Please don't hesitate to attach more pictures! | |
Topic: Strange Quartz found In New York | |
Carl Replies: 23 Views: 50866 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Sep 26, 2012 21:41 Subject: Re: Strange Quartz found In New York |
The analysis that NYSAM did back in the late 1990s on this material was that it was an amphibole; likely riebeckite. I have several pieces where the amphibole crystals go from one quartz crystal, thr ... | |
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