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 Topic: Samuel's Collection |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
 Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 03, 2011 21:41 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| This is another native Copper Ore specimen I received as a gift from the Red Dome Mine almost 18 years ago. It is very thick wire of native copper that gives the appearance of a tree trunk with branch ... | |
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Forum: News about Shows Posted: Feb 03, 2011 21:38 Subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
| Hi Darren:
you are very lucky to have such nice weather. Where I live the temperatures get up to 115F, and it is flat, dry and dusty. The Flinders Ranges can be seen in the distance. Stay frosty ... |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 03, 2011 07:24 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| I just thought I would post a few happy snaps, well two of another native copper specimen I have from Red Dome. It is a “floater” and consists of a mass of copper crystals. The crystals may be coated ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 03, 2011 02:08 Subject: FOSSILS - SAMUEL'S COLLECTION |
| This is another of my fossils – a trilobite. I believe it to be a Phacops rana crassituberculata, Silica shale formation, middle Devonian, Sylvania, Ohio, but I cannot be certain as the original label ... | |
| Topic: Samuel's Collection |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 03, 2011 01:38 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| This is my first post of a fossil, perhaps I will include a picture of another old fossil – me!! Perhaps not!?! This is an ammonite and the label really explains everything. Each slice has a diameter ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 02, 2011 23:40 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| Now this is one of my Hematites from Elba. I just love these Italian hematites and like the British Kidney Ore it is one I had earned for ever since I was a kid reading “Rutley’s Elements of Mineralog ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 02, 2011 21:16 Subject: SAMUEL'S COLLECTION - CLEANING SILVER |
| Cleaning Silver:
Though I am qualified as a Chemist to the level of PhD I am humble enough to accept the fact that I do not know everything. Chemistry and indeed Mineralogy are such big fields of i ... |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 02, 2011 20:52 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| Below are a few Macro shots of the Bulgarian Chalcopyrite with Quartz needles that hails from the Deveti Septemvri Mine, Mogila Deposit, Madan Ore Field, Sth Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria. I l ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 02, 2011 04:55 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below is a “Pyrite Sun” and again the many and varied forms of pyrite make it a very interesting mineral. I bought this over 20 years ago from a mineral stand at the local market. It has the ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 02, 2011 04:21 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| Featured below is another book I can highly recommend. For anyone interested in minerals and their origin this text is a "must have." The information in it is priceless in my opinion and the ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 02, 2011 02:27 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| I am very partial to Pyrite, and though a common mineral it is possible to get some stunning pieces. In my opinion it is a great mineral to start any collection with. The following piece is a Spanish ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Jan 30, 2011 06:27 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| I just thought I would post another photo of the large Cinnabar. I was not happy with the other photo so I wanted to highlight some additional features of the piece. It hails from the Yunchangping Min ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Jan 30, 2011 00:47 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| There has been much interest in the goethite stalagmite I posted earlier, so I thought I would take three shots. As shown in the photo below there is a front, side and back view of the piece. It has t ... | |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Jan 29, 2011 21:09 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| In keeping with my fascination for ancient technology I would like to present the PRM200, which was built in Australia back in the 1950’s.
This model and the PRM250 were instrumental in the discovery ... |
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| Samuel Replies: 212 Views: 353336 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Jan 29, 2011 05:56 Subject: Re: Samuel's Collection |
| Occasionally my Chinese friends have a few delights that just too irresistible, and so I must have them. I have a few fluorite spheres, fluorite octahedrons (cleavage pieces) and Quartz crystals. Feat ... | |
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