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 Topic: Familiar label style |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 1 Views: 247 |
 Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Jun 18, 2022 09:57 Subject: Familiar label style |
| Here is a label of a TN specimen I obtained in 1993. It has a distinctive type font, and several of us northeast Ohio collectors have or have had specimens with labels like it. We've been trying to ... | |
| Topic: Crystallography question |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 6 Views: 446 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Jun 17, 2022 08:45 Subject: Re: Crystallography question |
| It is difficult to impossible to decipher crystallography from a photograph, except in the most general terms. The slight re-entrant shown does suggest twinning, but the faces involved appear to be c ... | |
| Topic: More Label Translation |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 9 Views: 1021 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Jun 14, 2022 14:52 Subject: Re: More Label Translation |
| The Unreadable Label
This Unreadable Label has provided quite an entertaining challenge to me and to others. I was interested because it is clearly about crystal faces, although it uses an old (Na ... |
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| Topic: New generation for picture - Ploum |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 1374 Views: 1304183 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: May 31, 2022 11:57 Subject: Re: New generation for picture - Ploum |
| Dany can take the last one. I'll take the first one.
Beautiful specimens; masterful photography! Thank you, Ploum! |
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| Topic: More Label Translation |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 9 Views: 1021 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: May 29, 2022 18:11 Subject: Re: More Label Translation |
| If the drawing attached to the label is of this specimen, it appears to be showing a different view. Does the little "wart" on the bottom of the drawing correspond to the slight bump visibl ... | |
| Topic: Need help identifying this rock |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 10 Views: 795 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: May 18, 2022 14:48 Subject: Re: Need help identifying this rock |
| I agree that it's not a natural stone, but I wonder if the colorless beads are present all the way through the piece, not just on the surface. The light weight suggests to me that it may be some sor ... | |
| Topic: Mineral Label Translation |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 8 Views: 913 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: May 11, 2022 15:06 Subject: Re: Mineral Label Translation |
| Thanks, Tobi and Andreas Gerstenberg. I could not read that handwriting!
With the help of the translator DeepL, I suggest that a better translation for "Schafstiel" would be "sheep ... |
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| Topic: Tourmaline - Quartz epitaxy? |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 7 Views: 928 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Apr 23, 2022 19:53 Subject: Re: Tourmaline - Quartz epitaxy? |
| Thanks for the close-up pictures. I think they confirm that the quartz is not continuous throughout, which probably means that the quartz grew as several to many crystals oriented mostly the same dir ... | |
| Topic: Tourmaline - Quartz epitaxy? |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 7 Views: 928 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Apr 22, 2022 18:53 Subject: Re: Tourmaline - Quartz epitaxy? |
| Josele, your specimen of quartz on elbaite is certainly interesting. The parallel arrangement of many quartz crystals on the etched elbaite definitely suggests epitaxy.
Is it possible to get some ... |
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| Topic: Jade, chalcedony or???? |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 7 Views: 982 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Apr 08, 2022 18:31 Subject: Re: Jade, chalcedony or???? |
| Ken, you have been rightly complimented for trying to do what you can to identify your specimens. But I'm afraid some confusion has crept in. Here are some questions and comments to try to clarify s ... | |
| Topic: Spherical inclusions in amethyst - cristobalite? vs fluorite |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 13 Views: 1371 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 27, 2022 20:35 Subject: Re: Spherical inclusions in amethyst - cristobalite? vs fluorite |
| Amir, you probably know all of this better than I do....
I know of no publications. But I wonder - do the spheroids penetrate into the amethyst or are they strictly on the surface of the amet ... |
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| Topic: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 28 Views: 2860 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 23, 2022 20:08 Subject: Re: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
| I have to voice my doubts about the identification of this specimen as chalcopyrite. Sante, you did an incomplete experiment! Smart to test your needle against a known chalcopyrite, but you did not ... | |
| Topic: Uncommon Herringbone Habit - Please help me identify this mineral |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 5 Views: 746 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 21, 2022 12:55 Subject: Re: Uncommon Herringbone Habit - Please help me identify this mineral |
| I agree with Bob - it's gypsum..
If you have one to sacrifice, I'd try to split it down the middle parallel to the biggest flat surface - the surface we see in the first image. It should split a ... |
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| Topic: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 28 Views: 2860 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 20, 2022 16:07 Subject: Re: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
| I forgot to comment that carrolite cannot have a pyritohedron. Its crystal class is 4/m -3 2/m, and in that symmetry class the form in that position would be a tetrahexahedron, not a pyritohedron. | |
| Topic: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 28 Views: 2860 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 20, 2022 15:56 Subject: Re: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
| Hi, Sante!
You ask excellent questions. Some do not have answers that are at once short and complete! And my reply is neither short nor complete. The semantic questions first: I agree that ... |
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| Topic: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 28 Views: 2860 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 18, 2022 18:56 Subject: Re: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
| John is right to compare the crystal's appearance with a pyritohedron - which also has 12 faces. The similarity can be seen if you mentally rotate my right drawing 90°, in which case the striations i ... | |
| Topic: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 28 Views: 2860 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 18, 2022 18:44 Subject: Re: Unusual habit for Pyrite. |
| This is a very interesting crystal. Pyrite certainly can have rhombic dodecahedron faces, but this is uncommon and such faces are usually subordinate to other, larger faces. With the usual disclaim ... | |
| Topic: Is this beryl? |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 14 Views: 1499 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 18, 2022 07:39 Subject: Re: Is this beryl? |
| Another good candidate would be feldspar. | |
| Topic: Is this beryl? |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 14 Views: 1499 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 18, 2022 07:34 Subject: Re: Is this beryl? |
| Perhaps I am geograhically myopic, but where is Bilula? Where is Rodope? | |
| Topic: Blue herderites? from Badakhshan Afghanistan? |
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| Pete Richards Replies: 4 Views: 1290 |
Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Mar 16, 2022 11:56 Subject: Re: Blue herderites? from Badakhshan Afghanistan? |
| There's a tremendous difference between the colors in the photos and the colors in the specimens shown with the spectrum! The colors in the photos are so strongly blue and yellow as to look unreal. ... | |
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