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A general guide for using the Forum with some rules and tips
The information provided within this Forum about localities is only given to allow reference to them. Any visit to any of the localities requires you to obtain full permission and relevant information prior to your visit. FMF is strictly against any illicit activities related to collecting minerals.
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 Topic: Don Lum Collection |
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| prcantos Replies: 2244 Views: 2570304 |
 Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Jul 29, 2017 03:34 Subject: Re: Don Lum Collection |
| for Tobias and Galenaphiles everywhere ;-)
Hi, Don. I am not able to see the twinned crystals in your specimen. I would like to see a detailed picture of the side of the tabular crystals to check ... |
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| Topic: Don Lum Collection |
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| prcantos Replies: 2244 Views: 2570304 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Jul 24, 2017 16:03 Subject: Re: Don Lum Collection |
| for Tobias and Galenaphiles everywhere ;-)
Hi, Don. I am not able to see the twinned crystals in your specimen. I would like to see a detailed picture of the side of the tabular crystals to check ... |
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| Topic: Advice needed: a rockhounding trip for a beginner |
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| prcantos Replies: 15 Views: 32036 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: Jun 04, 2017 02:15 Subject: Re: Advice needed: a rockhounding trip for a beginner |
| For some reason I can't post the link to their website, but they have one
Hi. Please read no.2 at A general guide for using the Forum with some rules and tips to learn about writing links. |
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| Topic: Favourite Pyrites? |
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| prcantos Replies: 23 Views: 51397 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Apr 11, 2017 09:37 Subject: Re: Favourite Pyrites? |
| Hi. Pyrite crystals in talc matrix from Respina Mine (León, Spain) may show really interesting crystalline forms, such diploid. | |
| Topic: Suggestions: Aquamarine w/ Black Tourmaline inclusions |
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| prcantos Replies: 1 Views: 6524 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Feb 21, 2017 11:34 Subject: Re: Suggestions: Aquamarine w/ Black Tourmaline inclusions |
| FMF is a non-commercial forum as you can read in our rules:
5.-) We do not allow any form of publicity on these pages, or links to any other web pages that are not related to the theme being discus ... |
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| Topic: Help needed identifying tumblestones |
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| prcantos Replies: 3 Views: 8677 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Nov 12, 2016 05:00 Subject: Re: Help needed identifying tumblestones |
| As explained here FMF is a Forum about minerals, FMF is not a Forum about jewels, driveway gravel or lapidary items. Not every solid material you can find anywhere belongs to our area of expertise, s ... | |
| Topic: Pseudoctahedral Calcite |
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| prcantos Replies: 11 Views: 31516 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: Nov 07, 2016 13:06 Subject: Re: Pseudoctahedral Calcite |
| I can provide a graphical approach where the rhombohedron {301} is changed into a pseudoctahedron by a combination with the pinacoid {001}, according to
These crystals are probably a combination of ... |
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| Topic: Favourite Calcites? |
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| prcantos Replies: 36 Views: 66003 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Aug 24, 2016 08:40 Subject: Re: Favourite Calcite localities? |
| A really unusual locality among my favourite ones: Helgustadir Mine, Reydarfjörđur, Eastern Region, Iceland. Calcites from North-Atlantic rift basalts. | |
| Topic: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
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| prcantos Replies: 528 Views: 6092826 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: May 31, 2016 15:18 Subject: Re: Presentation of new members - SoCalDesertFox from Southern California |
| Welcome to FMF! | |
| Topic: When an inappropriate ID request is asked how about suggesting a rock/mineral website? |
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| prcantos Replies: 27 Views: 43229 |
Forum: Forum questions Posted: May 25, 2016 04:36 Subject: Re: When an inappropriate ID request is asked how about suggesting a rock/mineral website? |
| We understand your desire to know what your samples are, but it is too difficult to determine this from photos, and frankly...it is not a "for sure" way to find out: many of us might make an ... | |
| Topic: Good places to get micros |
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| prcantos Replies: 2 Views: 5997 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Apr 17, 2016 18:15 Subject: Re: Good places to get micros |
| As you can read in the rules of FMF, this is a non-commercial forum. Such kind of questions or topics or any form of publicity are not allowed here:
5.-) We do not allow any form of publicity on t ... |
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| Topic: Posts being garbled...help? |
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| prcantos Replies: 5 Views: 13265 |
Forum: Forum questions Posted: Feb 24, 2016 08:50 Subject: Re: Posts being garbled...help? |
| Hi, Tom.
Can you write the link to one of those strange posts? |
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| Topic: Gravitational waves detected |
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| prcantos Replies: 1 Views: 5706 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Feb 11, 2016 14:03 Subject: Gravitational waves detected |
| Today the news have surprised us: scientists from LIGO have confirmed the detection of gravitational waves one hundred years after Albert Einstein predicted them using his General Relativity Theory:
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| Topic: Looking for amethyst |
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| prcantos Replies: 1 Views: 6331 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Feb 09, 2016 06:50 Subject: Re: Looking for amethyst |
| Since FMF is a non-commercial forum we have deleted the part of your message related with the purchase of amethyst. Please read the rules of the forum, especially no. 5, so that you can participate i ... | |
| Topic: Collection of R. Mahoney |
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| prcantos Replies: 21 Views: 41035 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Feb 01, 2016 05:38 Subject: Re: Collection of R. Mahoney |
| Hi, Reelgoodwoman.
Before you continue publishing pictures please read carefully the rules of FMF and the rules of the collectors’ section. You can add up to fifteen pictures in the same post so t ... |
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