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 Topic: Popular Minerals |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
 Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 25, 2020 15:04 Subject: Popular Minerals - Diaspore from Turkey |
| A large doubly terminated scepter and stepped crystal of Diaspore with polycrystalline terminations partially covered in some areas by leafy growths of Margarite. | |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 24, 2020 16:27 Subject: Popular Minerals - Fluorite from the Llamas Quarry, Asturias, Spain |
| Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, with a cubic habit beveled by the dodecahedron. On matrix, with white Quartz crystals. | |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 23, 2020 16:36 Subject: Popular Minerals - Ullmanite |
| Matrix group of Ullmannite crystals of cubic habit, with well defined faces and edges. | |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 23, 2020 16:30 Subject: Re: Popular Minerals |
| ...Have you seen any of the blue ones from that locality?
Yes, I do. There are not many but at the beginning of the find some came out. |
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| Topic: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2020 - Cancelled |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 15 Views: 1251 |
Forum: News about shows Posted: Oct 20, 2020 11:12 Subject: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2020 - Cancelled - Press release |
| Too bad... | |
| Topic: Popular Minerals |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 18, 2020 15:47 Subject: Popular Minerals - Baryte from La Beltraneja, Almería, Spain |
| Group of very sharp laminar crystals with small rhombohedral white Calcite crystals. The sample is from the initial finds of the locality between September 2002 and March 2003 | |
| Topic: Popular Minerals |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 17, 2020 13:07 Subject: Popular Minerals - Olivenite from the Milpillas Mine, Mexico |
| Isolated crystal of Olivenite on matrix with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminal faces, lustrous and very deep olive green. | |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 13, 2020 16:00 Subject: Popular Minerals - Andradite (variety topazolite) from Madagascar |
| Brown greenish Andradite crystals (variety topazolite) on matrix with the dominant forms of the rhombododecahedron combined with those of the trapezohedron. | |
| Topic: Minerals toxicity: Where can I find information? |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 11 Views: 654 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Oct 13, 2020 04:22 Subject: Re: Minerals toxicity: Where can I find information? |
| ...Do you know of a good website that would list minerals with reliable information regarding their toxicity (with explanations)?...
Here! 😉 Check this master piece: An Overview of Mineral ... |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 10, 2020 16:00 Subject: Popular Minerals - Calcite, Fluorite and Pyrite from Villabona Mines, Spain |
| Polycrystalline growths of complex Calcite crystals with dominant scalenohedral forms. The specimen comes from the Villabona Mine, which has not produced many quality specimens and should not be confu ... | |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 07, 2020 11:52 Subject: Popular Minerals - Fluorite from the Llamas Quarry, Asturias, Spain |
| Group of Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant cube faces markedly beveled by the dodecahedron. A 'modern classic' from Spain. | |
| Topic: Popular Minerals |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 05, 2020 13:34 Subject: Popular Minerals - Baryte from Bou Nahas Mine, Morocco |
| Floater aggregate of parallel growths of thin tabular Baryte crystals and partially coated by white aggregates of Quartz microcrystals and small Pyrite crystals. | |
| Topic: Popular Minerals |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Oct 01, 2020 13:03 Subject: Popular Minerals - Galena from the Ballard Mine, Kansas, USA |
| Group of cuboctohedral crystals of Galena that have polycrystalline and partially skeletal growths. | |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Sep 29, 2020 16:20 Subject: Popular Minerals - Copper from Keweenaw, Michigan, USA |
| Floater group of very well defined dodecahedral crystals of Copper with fine alignments formed by the recrystallization of Copper microcrystals.
With a little matrix and casts of vanished Quartz cry ... |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Sep 28, 2020 14:18 Subject: Popular Minerals - Prehnite from La Combe de La Selle, France |
| Prehnite crystals with very marked curvatures and polycrystalline growths. A French classic from one of the most typical localities for the species. | |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Sep 26, 2020 10:55 Subject: Popular Minerals - Stokesite from Valdemanco, Madrid, Spain |
| Aggregate of very sharp, colorless and transparent Stokesite crystals on a little Microcline matrix with Albite.
These Stokesites, found in 1999 and featured in an article in The Mineralogical Recor ... |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Sep 22, 2020 16:12 Subject: Popular Minerals - Silver from La Encantada Mine, Coahuila, Mexico |
| Floater aggregate with polycrystalline growths of hexahedral Silver crystals with very defined faces and edges and with small dark coatings of Acanthite. | |
| Topic: Is there Proof of Kobyashevite Fakes? |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 5 Views: 1036 |
Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Sep 22, 2020 01:32 Subject: Re: Is there Proof of Kobyashevite Fakes? |
| On the Spanish FMF: Rumores sobre las kobyashevitas de la Mina Ojuela
If you use the translator at the top left of every page you can read it in English language. |
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| Topic: Popular Minerals |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Sep 20, 2020 16:56 Subject: Popular Minerals - Twinned Cerussite from Spain |
| Floater growth of flattened reticulated prismatic twins of Cerussite with a rosette-like appearance different from other specimens commonly seen from this locality. | |
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| Jordi Fabre Replies: 58 Views: 10295 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Sep 18, 2020 14:12 Subject: Popular Minerals - Octahedral Fluorite from the Mont Blanc, France |
| Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals with polycrystalline growths on an Albite matrix. A classic Alpine specimen. | |
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