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 Topic: Help Identifiying: Moonstone? |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 4 Views: 816 |
 Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Apr 15, 2025 08:08 Subject: Re: Help Identifiying: Moonstone? |
| If it were a moonstone (collected by gemologists), it would be a rock made of a mixture of orthoclase and albite. At this point, it is enough to check whether this sample has cleavage. The optical phe ... | |
| Topic: cristobalite vs chalcedony in thin section |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 16 Views: 3958 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Apr 08, 2025 09:14 Subject: Re: cristobalite vs chalcedony in thin section |
| As I observed in LDG, cristobalite microcrystals readily aggregate into micro-ourses that occupy an intercalated phase (spherules) in another phase, as in semi-crystalline polymers.
I insist to my fr ... |
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| Topic: Favourite countries of origin? |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 31 Views: 72435 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Apr 07, 2025 06:53 Subject: Re: Favourite countries of origin? |
| When you have decades of collections, interest in a region changes over time. This is because mineralogy is a function of the economic or geopolitical activity of the moment.
When I was young, the Co ... |
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| Topic: When can a fossil be also considered a mineral? |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 55 Views: 134677 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 26, 2025 08:30 Subject: Re: When can a fossil be also considered a mineral? |
| It's better with the photo. | |
| Topic: When can a fossil be also considered a mineral? |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 55 Views: 134677 |
Forum: The Ten Thousand Club Posted: Mar 25, 2025 10:49 Subject: Re: When can a fossil be also considered a mineral? |
| Marco, Herwig,
Herwig is a legalist. I prefer the laws of nature. The opal is not a mineral species... “strictu sensu”. However, this was not the opinion of the IMA. Occult influences guided the IMA ... |
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| Topic: Libyan Desert Glass Structure |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 42 Views: 14063 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 20, 2025 02:21 Subject: Re: Libyan Desert Glass Structure |
| Hello Marco,
Thank you for asking me this question. A tektite is of terrestrial origin. Libyan glass is of terrestrial origin. The difference is the impactor. There are several types of asteroids: ... |
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| Topic: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 60 Views: 10505 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Mar 19, 2025 00:43 Subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
| Hello Jordi,
Do we know about the color centers? We are in the REE region. Do these pretty hues tire in the light? Thank you. |
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| Topic: Libyan Desert Glass Structure |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 42 Views: 14063 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 18, 2025 09:40 Subject: Re: Libyan Desert Glass Structure |
| Dear Herwig,
I was not familiar with this article, but all my previous readings came from scientists specializing in geophysics and astrophysics, but never in chemistry (or geochemistry). All these ... |
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| Topic: Libyan Desert Glass Structure |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 42 Views: 14063 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 18, 2025 04:18 Subject: Artificial Intelligence and Libyan Desert Glass, tektites |
| Hello,
Some topics that interest us will always raise the same questions. For example, the Libyan Glass (LDG) is not a tektite at all, because its origin is totally different from a tektite. Its ver ... |
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| Topic: Libyan Desert Glass Structure |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 42 Views: 14063 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Mar 17, 2025 03:46 Subject: Re: Libyan Desert Glass Structure |
| Hello Marco,
Today, I am going to shock you: quartz is a mineral species that almost never exists as such. This was already the despair of “des Cloizeau” (famous French mineralogist (1817-1897) honor ... |
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| Topic: Poor mans macro mineral photography setup |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 2 Views: 1084 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Mar 04, 2025 09:51 Subject: Re: Poor mans macro mineral photography setup |
| Hello,
It's much easier than you think! I became a chemist because when I was 12, around 1946 or 1947, I was developing black and white photos without understanding. My camera was an old Kodak box. ... |
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| Topic: A true morphological twin of quartz according to the Dauphiné law. |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 5 Views: 2187 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 02, 2025 15:18 Subject: A true morphological twin of quartz according to the Dauphiné law. |
| Hello,
I acquired this beautiful Brazilian smoky quartz crystal in Germany 40 years ago (!). I don't know where it came from. Can you help me? It is translucent and obviously belongs in a display c ... |
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| Topic: Sulfosalts |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 1 Views: 1036 |
Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Feb 23, 2025 09:44 Subject: Sulfosalts |
| Hello,
I would like to show you a very rare mineral from my collection: dufrenoysite. Its globular habit is even rarer. In addition, it has a twin on (001) Dufrenoysite is a mineral species consist ... |
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| Topic: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 60 Views: 10505 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 22, 2025 01:20 Subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
| How do we maintain this pretty appearance of the specimen?
Some people say they don't do anything and then everything goes black. Congratulations on this new virtual museum. Roger. |
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| Topic: Crystal habit identification |
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| Roger Warin Replies: 6 Views: 2125 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Feb 10, 2025 15:39 Subject: Re: Crystal habit identification |
| Since no one answers, because the photos are not expressive, I suggest that it is the same previous habit in which the prism has disappeared.
This calcite would therefore only be made of the rhombohe ... |
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