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 Topic: Samuel's Collection |
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| Lumaes Replies: 212 Views: 310573 |
 Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 21, 2011 00:31 Subject: More Wurtzite - Samuel's Collection |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 20, 2011 18:12 Subject: Wurtzite - Samuel's Collection |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 20, 2011 03:38 Subject: Wurtzite Ball - Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below is a bit of “eye-candy” with a twist. The specimen consists of a matrix of golden pyrite covered in galena and on top of the galena is a ball of Wurtzite. I have included a few close-up ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 20, 2011 02:07 Subject: Meteorites - Samuel's Collection |
| Another recommended book on Meteorites is “Meteorites and their Parent Planets” by harry Y. Mc Sweeney Jr. It is a great read and provides much information and the sort of information a meteorite coll ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 19, 2011 21:47 Subject: Exposing the business oof minerals -: Samuel's Collection |
| Hi Joaquin:
Thank you for your kind words of support. The real beneficiaries of this effort would be the average mineral collector. I have looked through all the photos of the last three Tucson sho ... |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 19, 2011 18:07 Subject: Meteorites - Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below is a book I can recommend to anyone interested in Meteorites. It is the “Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites” by Norton and Chitwood. It is a great book in my opinion and will answer ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 19, 2011 03:30 Subject: More large Bulgarians - Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below are a couple of additional photographs of another of my Bulgarian Galenas. The specimen consists of large well-formed crystals on matrix. There are a few other minor unidentified minera ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 19, 2011 03:02 Subject: Large Bulgarian Galena - Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below are a couple of additional photographs of one of my Bulgarian Galenas. Now that I have got a new camera I think I might update a few of my other posts. The specimen below consists of la ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 18, 2011 22:45 Subject: Calcite with Realgar - Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below is a Calcite specimen I posted a few weeks ago but I noticed recently it contained a small Realgar crystal. The calcite is very gemmy with a hint of yellow. The close up shows the Realg ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 18, 2011 19:26 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below are a couple of additional photographs of one of my Bulgarian Pyrites. It consists of large well-formed crystals on green quartz crystals. There are a few other minor unidentified miner ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 18, 2011 05:28 Subject: Minfact Web site - Samuel's Collection |
| For some time now I have been seriously considering setting up a web page about minerals and everything related to minerals. There is so much to discuss that if I were to talk non-stop for an hour I w ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 18, 2011 01:19 Subject: Piaotang Sulphides -Samuel's Collection |
| This is a piece one of my Chinese asked if I could identify. He had a much larger specimen, and a few about the same size as the one shown below. I told him I only need a little for analysis, but he s ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 17, 2011 23:40 Subject: Huge Calcite - Samuel's Collection |
| I felt it appropriate to post some more photos of the Calcite specimen I showed a few weeks ago. It has the most amazing form and the luster is just great – silky. The piece looks like a white cloud o ... | |
| Topic: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Forum: News about Shows Posted: Feb 17, 2011 19:36 Subject: Homeless vs Home full Tucson Show 2011 |
| Hi Jordi:
Love your newspaper articles, great in fact. My heart sunk when I saw the homeless person. It brings home the fact that not all people have the luxuries we take for granted. I know how he ... |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 17, 2011 19:25 Subject: Peruvian Bournonite - Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below is one of my Peruvian Bournonites – ex Jack Crowley. The matrix is massive Bournonite on which a nice cluster of Bournonites have grown. There are also some quartz crystals. I suspect i ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 17, 2011 18:48 Subject: Chinese Gifts - Samuel's Collection |
| Sometimes when I open my packages from China I find a little surprise. Featured below are some of the surprises I have been given. The octahedral fluorites are your typical cleavage pieces but still n ... | |
| Topic: Gail Spann's Version of a Tucson show report 2011 |
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Forum: Mineral Shows by Gail Spann Posted: Feb 17, 2011 18:19 Subject: Re: Gail Spann's Version of a Tucson show report 2011 |
| Hi Gail:
Again great photos of the social side of mineral collecting. If only minerals could talk! Keep up the good work. Sam |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 17, 2011 18:13 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below is my Shilu Mine Azurite. I posted a picture a few weeks ago but I felt it did not do the piece justice, so I have taken a few “Kodak moments” with my new camera. I have included a few ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 16, 2011 22:37 Subject: Y-12 Girls - Samuel's Collection |
| As most of you probably know I have a keen interest in the history of technology. Featured below is a book I was given by the Bradbury Science Museum at the Los Alamos National laboratory only recentl ... | |
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Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 16, 2011 20:06 Subject: Needle Quartz - Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below is a Peruvian Hedge-hog, the typical needle quartz crystals with attendant sulphides – in this instance Sphalerite. However on closer inspection there is another mineral present – chalc ... | |
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