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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: Possible Fake: Blue Hemimorphite from Ojuela
Ibrahim Jameel

Replies: 41
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PostForum: 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?
Ibrahim Jameel

Replies: 5
Views: 19471

PostForum: 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
Ibrahim Jameel

Replies: 41
Views: 58307

PostForum: 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
Ibrahim Jameel

Replies: 5
Views: 14999

PostForum: 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 ...
  Topic: Ethnic minorities and minerals
Ibrahim Jameel

Replies: 18
Views: 23950

PostForum: 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 ...
  Topic: Minerals and ethics
Ibrahim Jameel

Replies: 16
Views: 18136

PostForum: 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
Ibrahim Jameel

Replies: 8
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PostForum: 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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