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29 Mar-00:03:53 Identification question (Jim Wilkinson)
28 Mar-23:16:36 Re: collection of volkmar stingl (Volkmar Stingl)
28 Mar-18:25:15 Re: collection of firmo espinar (Firmo Espinar)
28 Mar-09:37:50 Re: 2 unknowns co-occurring with caledonite, grand reef mine, az (Cfrench58)
27 Mar-19:47:08 Re: 2 unknowns co-occurring with caledonite, grand reef mine, az (Pete Richards)
27 Mar-16:15:44 Re: 2 unknowns co-occurring with caledonite, grand reef mine, az (Cfrench58)
27 Mar-15:18:59 Re: 2 unknowns co-occurring with caledonite, grand reef mine, az (Alfredo)
27 Mar-14:39:29 2 unknowns co-occurring with caledonite, grand reef mine, az (Cfrench58)
27 Mar-05:21:48 Re: the mim museum in beirut, lebanon (Mim Museum)
27 Mar-05:03:26 Re: trying to find information on rose/pink quartz and tourmaline associations. (Ning)
27 Mar-02:39:50 Re: the mim museum in beirut, lebanon (Tobi)
27 Mar-00:23:28 Re: collection of volkmar stingl (Volkmar Stingl)
26 Mar-00:53:41 Re: collection of volkmar stingl (Volkmar Stingl)
25 Mar-13:32:10 Re: collection of michael shaw (Michael Shaw)
25 Mar-00:25:58 The mizunaka collection - quartz (Am Mizunaka)
23 Mar-13:35:22 Re: collection of firmo espinar (Firmo Espinar)
22 Mar-08:32:28 Re: collection of michael shaw (Michael Shaw)
22 Mar-04:20:41 Re: the mim museum in beirut, lebanon (Mim Museum)
21 Mar-22:49:19 Re: green seam. Looks like it in a state of decay. (Ning)
21 Mar-22:47:40 Re: green seam. Looks like it in a state of decay. (Ning)
21 Mar-22:45:25 Re: green seam. Looks like it in a state of decay. (Ning)
21 Mar-15:34:23 Re: the mizunaka collection - quartz (Am Mizunaka)
21 Mar-14:35:08 Re: jim’s mineral collection (Jim Wilkinson)
21 Mar-14:15:36 The 4th phoenix heritage mineral show (phms) hosted by mineralogical society of arizona (m (Chris Whitney-smith)
21 Mar-04:36:10 Re: the mizunaka collection (Tobi)

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  Topic: Pseudomorph chemistry - (40)
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 28
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PostForum: Featured Columns of FMF   Posted: Aug 30, 2022 18:43   Subject: Re: Pseudomorph chemistry - (40)
Following this little game. I changed slightly the calculations: I introduced a different, more actualized set of thermodynamic data, and also introduced sulfur species and copper mobile complexes.
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  Topic: Pseudomorph chemistry - (40)
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 28
Views: 31877

PostForum: Featured Columns of FMF   Posted: Aug 30, 2022 12:22   Subject: Re: Pseudomorph chemistry - (40)
I have a 11cm high broken azurite which shows internal growth of botryoidal malachite.

The rough chemistry requires 2 portions of solid azurite and one portion of liquid water to yield three portio ...
  Topic: Mineralogist curricula
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 5
Views: 3391

PostForum: Off-Topic and Introductions   Posted: Mar 20, 2022 05:59   Subject: Re: Mineralogist curricula
What courses would you recommend for someone who wishes to be a mineralogist? What universities would be good to attend?
That question is pretty much ambiguous. What do you mean with the term "m ...
  Topic: Formicaite. Beta-formicaite & alpha-Ca-formate. Mineral or not? - (39)
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 8
Views: 13985

PostForum: Featured Columns of FMF   Posted: Mar 19, 2022 16:32   Subject: Re: Formicaite. Beta-formicaite & alpha-Ca-formate. Mineral or not? – (39)
Thank you Alfredo!. I feel good so far, but after the covid situation and all, that site pollution is the least of my problems, I am afraid!.

Anyway, it is a reasonable concern; so, during our stu ...
  Topic: Formicaite. Beta-formicaite & alpha-Ca-formate. Mineral or not? - (39)
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 8
Views: 13985

PostForum: Featured Columns of FMF   Posted: Mar 19, 2022 14:36   Subject: Re: Formicaite. Beta-formicaite & alpha-Ca-formate. Mineral or not? – (39)
Very interesting article, and interesting crystals. Thank you!

As for Alkali Lake in Oregon, how can one trust anything from a known toxic waste disposal site? (See "Alkali Lake Chemical Wast ...
  Topic: Goethite from Imini mine (Morocco)
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 0
Views: 16622

PostForum: Incorrect classification and fakes   Posted: Mar 13, 2022 14:57   Subject: Goethite from Imini mine (Morocco)
The Imini mine is a famous locality for its manganese minerals, specially pyrolusite and manganite. But not all and always.
Here is a curious and big specimen from Imini mine (as far as we know) tha ...
  Topic: Alleged 'silvers' from Udokan?
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 13
Views: 10910

PostForum: Off-Topic and Introductions   Posted: Jan 28, 2022 19:56   Subject: Re: Alleged 'silvers' from Udokan?
Well, these analyses tell nothing apart of the elements in the analyzed point of the sample. In fact, one of them is very close to the composition of sterling silver!

A point element analysis of a ...
  Topic: Alleged 'silvers' from Udokan?
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 13
Views: 10910

PostForum: Off-Topic and Introductions   Posted: Oct 13, 2021 15:33   Subject: Re: Alleged 'silvers' from Udokan?
I always find interesting such 'detective' problems. When Jordi sent me the samples, the impression at hand was non-natural. The analyses showed copper-silver alloys with phase segregation and copper ...
  Topic: A new mineral: alpha-calcium formate
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 9
Views: 8704

PostForum: Minerals and Mineralogy   Posted: May 06, 2021 09:55   Subject: Re: A new mineral: alpha-calcium formate
A note on concepts for the gen pub here:

A same mineral could be biogenic or not. For example, sulfur, pyrite or even galena could be biogenic or the product of geochemical processes without direct ...
  Topic: A new mineral: alpha-calcium formate
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 9
Views: 8704

PostForum: Minerals and Mineralogy   Posted: May 02, 2021 05:17   Subject: Re: A new mineral: alpha-calcium formate
I think it is my post is relevant here, obviously. The admins are those that ultimately should decide if it is relevant here or not. If they decide it is not relevant, they should erase it and probabl ...
  Topic: A new mineral: alpha-calcium formate
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 9
Views: 8704

PostForum: Minerals and Mineralogy   Posted: May 01, 2021 15:56   Subject: A new mineral: alpha-calcium formate
Recently, we published the complete description of a new mineral found in the sediments of the Alkali lake (Oregon, USA).

The extraordinary crystals of what in a first view were identified as form ...
  Topic: The native gold from Guelmim-Oued Noun, Morocco - (35)
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 8
Views: 20121

PostForum: Featured Columns of FMF   Posted: Feb 17, 2021 19:21   Subject: Re: The native gold from Guelmim-Oued Noun, Morocco - (35)
We keep studying the gold from Guelmim. The associated minerals tell us a history that, I hope, will be consistent with the geochemical context.
The gold is associated to a series of minerals, possi ...
  Topic: The native gold from Guelmim-Oued Noun, Morocco - (35)
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 8
Views: 20121

PostForum: Featured Columns of FMF   Posted: Dec 29, 2020 06:08   Subject: The native gold from Guelmim-Oued Noun, Morocco - (35)
Recently, my dear friend Jordi Fabre sent me a couple of samples from a new, really interesting find: native gold from a unknown deposit (as far as I know) in the region of Guelmim-Oued Noun in Morocc ...
  Topic: On the mineralogy of Shijiangshan, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia A.R. (China)
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 15
Views: 39432

PostForum: Mines and Mineral Localities   Posted: May 27, 2018 19:33   Subject: Re: On the mineralogy of Shijiangshan, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia A.R. (China)
Completing this thread on this interesting mine. Beautiful johnbaumite specimens. In those crystals it is notorious that johnbaumite is the arsenic analog of hydroxylapatite.
A shout-out to Ed Richar ...
  Topic: Micro photos of inclusions in Quartz
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 108
Views: 141327

PostForum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals   Posted: Mar 06, 2018 19:25   Subject: Re: Micro photos of inclusions in Quartz
I do not know if it is a one-man thread, but just in case, I contribute with more photomicrography of inclusions in quartz.
  Topic: Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 17
Views: 35808

PostForum: Mines and Mineral Localities   Posted: Mar 05, 2018 11:18   Subject: Re: Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
Cesar,
Thank you for a definitive identification of this material.
Michael Shaw

My pleasure. May all the materials were as easy and fun to characterize like this. I want to extend the thanks to ...
  Topic: Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 17
Views: 35808

PostForum: Mines and Mineral Localities   Posted: Mar 04, 2018 19:42   Subject: Re: Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
I update this thread, now regarding this piece published by Michael Shaw ( https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=52076#52076 )
and others published in mindat.

The story is th ...
  Topic: A new find: Hoganite from Morocco
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 17
Views: 26359

PostForum: Minerals and Mineralogy   Posted: Feb 28, 2018 10:08   Subject: Re: A new find: Hoganite from Morocco
I think we have to assume that they are not natural.
Indeed. I'll put it in this way:

1- If the samples were natural, it would defy what we know on the biogeochemistry of acetate. As a scientist, ...
  Topic: A new find: Hoganite from Morocco
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 17
Views: 26359

PostForum: Minerals and Mineralogy   Posted: Feb 26, 2018 22:25   Subject: Re: A new find: Hoganite from Morocco
To shed light on this topic and apply the Ockham's Razor to the Hoganite question, I show you the result of a very simple experiment:

Just prepare a solution with a piece of copper metal in dilute ...
  Topic: A new find: Hoganite from Morocco
Cesar M. Salvan

Replies: 17
Views: 26359

PostForum: Minerals and Mineralogy   Posted: Feb 21, 2018 21:30   Subject: Re: A new find: Hoganite from Morocco
Some months ago, I received for analysis a sample of native copper from this locality covered by crystals similar to those in discussion here. The elemental analysis showed carbon and copper, but the ...
 
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