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 Topic: Death of Heimo Hellwig |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 19 Views: 13653 |
 Forum: In Memoriam Posted: Apr 27, 2019 03:38 Subject: Re: Death of Heimo Hellwig |
| Not much news:
https://www.namibian.com.na/77978/read/No-arrest-made-in-Nimt-case-%E2%80%93-police (link normalized by FMF) |
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| Topic: Death of Heimo Hellwig |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 19 Views: 13653 |
Forum: In Memoriam Posted: Apr 20, 2019 14:55 Subject: Re: Death of Heimo Hellwig |
| The last news I could find:
https://www.namibian.com.na/77786/read/Person-of-interest-in-Nimt-killings-charged-with-unrelated-crime (link normalized from FMF) |
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| Topic: Death of Heimo Hellwig |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 19 Views: 13653 |
Forum: In Memoriam Posted: Apr 18, 2019 14:31 Subject: Re: Death of Heimo Hellwig |
| A suspect has been arrested and I will keep you up to date once he has been charged.
Heimo phoned me a few times the last few weeks and expressed his concern that they would be forced out of their ... |
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| Topic: Death of Heimo Hellwig |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 19 Views: 13653 |
Forum: In Memoriam Posted: Apr 18, 2019 14:21 Subject: Death of Heimo Hellwig |
| It is with shock that we learned of the death of our good friend and fellow FMF member, Heimo Hellwig. This is an extract from SAFFA.com:
SWAKOPMUND – The mystery surrounding the sensational killin ... |
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| Topic: Two small mines in Western Emerald belt of Colombia |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 17 Views: 15521 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: Apr 17, 2019 02:55 Subject: Re: Two small mines in Western Emerald belt of Colombia |
| Wow, those quartz crystals are extremely gemmy! | |
| Topic: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 354 Views: 312762 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 25, 2019 11:26 Subject: Re: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
| Hello Pierre and Riana, the dog recovered amazingly well, thanks to you guys taking such good care of him. He will be forever grateful and I once again want tp express my admiration as to what you did ... | |
| Topic: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 354 Views: 312762 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 25, 2019 10:30 Subject: Re: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
| About an hour ago, Riana took a few pictures of me and our dog to show a friend. Can you remember our dog that we found on a crystal outing???? :-) She is now a well trained, stunning dog. | |
| Topic: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 354 Views: 312762 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 25, 2019 10:27 Subject: Re: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
| Riana and I visited the area where I recently found a nice pocket. We did not find much but saw a large cobra, a buck, an eagle and some interesting field mice. We did manage to capture a beautiful ... | |
| Topic: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New York |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 34 Views: 46914 |
Forum: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA Posted: Mar 25, 2019 06:56 Subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - New York |
| Quartz from Fonda, New York.
Whenever photos of this little quartz specimen surfaces, I marvel anew. Vic, I hope you have left this one single specimen to me in your will:-) :-) :-) |
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| Topic: Carlos Pareja photo Collection |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 61 Views: 42282 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Mar 25, 2019 06:52 Subject: Re: Carlos Pareja photo Collection |
| Such a stunning little aragonite specimen:-) | |
| Topic: Collection of Philippe Durand |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 258 Views: 158715 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Mar 22, 2019 13:00 Subject: Re: Collection of Philippe Durand |
| Beautiful specimen Philippe! | |
| Topic: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 354 Views: 312762 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 18, 2019 05:58 Subject: Re: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
| This past week, I took our dog and walked twice, many km in the mountains directly bordering our town, looking at any possible place that may yield a new find. I am posting a picture to show what I ha ... | |
| Topic: Changing my user name |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 5 Views: 7338 |
Forum: Forum questions Posted: Mar 15, 2019 02:05 Subject: Re: Changing my user name |
| Hello Jordi, I would also like to change my user name if it is not too much trouble. Most forums I have been a member of in the past did not commonly use real names. Protium feels out of place now.
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| Topic: Theft of Pieter de Bruyn collection |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 1 Views: 9918 |
Forum: Reporting thefts and disappearances Posted: Mar 14, 2019 14:13 Subject: Theft of Pieter de Bruyn collection |
| I just saw a FB post of the theft of Pieter de Bruyn's collection:
"50% of my Kalahari Manganese collection was stolen, this contains specimens of the last 44 years. Please look out for thumbna ... |
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| Topic: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 354 Views: 312762 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 12, 2019 07:51 Subject: Re: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
| Pierre, Over time you have shown a lot of your interesting and productive trips finding quartz xx. While I'm not asking you to tell exactly where any of these locations are, you seem to have found eit ... | |
| Topic: Collection of Tobi |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 970 Views: 1088291 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Mar 11, 2019 13:53 Subject: Re: Collection of Tobi |
| Congratulations on the fine Swiss smoky and Brandberg specimen; 2 outstanding specimens. | |
| Topic: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 354 Views: 312762 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 11, 2019 10:27 Subject: Re: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
| PIERRE, Really nice quartz crystals. I am sure they will clean up just fine!
Not sure about JOAN M B's calling them a "geode"??? Geodes are a specific rock structure containing one ... |
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| Topic: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 354 Views: 312762 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 11, 2019 10:24 Subject: Re: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
| Thank you Joan and Bob!!! | |
| Topic: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 354 Views: 312762 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 11, 2019 05:29 Subject: Re: Quartz collecting outings in South Africa |
| This past Saturday was nice and cool, so I drove out to a remote farm to look for crystals. The last bit of farm road was bad and I hit a large rock. I still have to assess the damage:-( I walked fo ... | |
| Topic: Agates from Argentina. |
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| Pierre Joubert Replies: 13 Views: 14001 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 24, 2019 03:59 Subject: Re: Agates from Argentina. |
| The black agates are stunning!!! | |
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