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 Topic: Possible Fake: Blue Hemimorphite from Ojuela |
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| Ibrahim Jameel Replies: 41 Views: 81382 |
 Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Sep 30, 2020 23:07 Subject: Re: Possible Fake: Blue Hemimorphite from Ojuela |
| James Bennet, I have been to Mapimi, and down to the water table at Ojuela with one of the many teams of miners working the mine. Just to clarify about the situation there: there is no single mine own ... | |
| Topic: Is there Proof of Kobyashevite Fakes? |
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| Ibrahim Jameel Replies: 5 Views: 26895 |
Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Sep 21, 2020 21:21 Subject: Re: Is there Proof of Kobyashevite Fakes? |
| It could be both. Miners in Mapimi told me it was fake and being made "ay' en el laboratorio, en Gomes" a couple months after they started showing up on the US market. These guys have been g ... | |
| Topic: Possible Fake: Blue Hemimorphite from Ojuela |
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| Ibrahim Jameel Replies: 41 Views: 81382 |
Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Sep 01, 2020 00:40 Subject: Possible Fake: Blue Hemimorphite from Ojuela |
| I have noticed a number of new posts on social media regarding blue hemimorphite form Ojuela. Before you spend money on this, I wanted to raise some concerns: 1) These hemimorphites are colored by cop ... | |
| Topic: The greed factor |
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| Ibrahim Jameel Replies: 5 Views: 17710 |
Forum: The histories behind mineral specimens Posted: Oct 12, 2010 12:40 Subject: Re: The greed factor |
| I think this jealously/ greed can apply to just about anything, so long as there is more than one person who is interested in it.
As far as minerals go, here's a story from Pakistan: Last time I ... |
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| Topic: Ethnic minorities and minerals |
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| Ibrahim Jameel Replies: 18 Views: 28654 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Oct 09, 2010 19:46 Subject: Re: Ethnic minorities and minerals |
| I would argue that it is not so much because of ethnicity, but other cultural/ economic factors.
Particularly in the natural sciences, Western academics have for the last 300 hundred years placed a ... |
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| Topic: Minerals and ethics |
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| Ibrahim Jameel Replies: 16 Views: 22868 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Jul 19, 2010 15:55 Subject: Re: Minerals and ethics |
| I have traveled to several countries to buy minerals, and have to agree with the previous couple posts. Selling minerals really does help the locals. Whether they are miners working for a corporatio ... | |
| Topic: Denver 2009 |
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| Ibrahim Jameel Replies: 8 Views: 15868 |
Forum: Mineral Shows Posted: Sep 21, 2009 17:26 Subject: Re: Denver 2009 |
| I have to agree... i don't think that wulfenite is form Iran. I have seen a number of Iranian specimens, and many from Xinjiang, and this one looks very typical of the Chinese material | |
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