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Your paintings are truly lovely. Your parents must be so proud.
I hope the contacts you make on FMF will help your business grow – I suspect you already have many orders. It is so difficult these d ... |
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Anatase
Very nice photo - actually superb. I really enjoy looking at your work. |
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Found a video about this stacking/bracketing and it does seem useful. 'Focus bracketing' was a new term to me. I use Canon but would need a new body and lens to use the feature
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Starting off with a favorite of mine: one of the best N'Chwaning rhodochrosite thumbnails I've seen yet. From the Lieber and Logan collections. I love the perpendicular arrangement of the main crystal ... | |
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label from famous British Collector and Dealer, Ralph Sutcliffe. | |
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Nice Hematite, Silvia, and excellent photo quality with the new camera.
We are really happy with the camera. It enables us to take really high resolution photos that can easily be printed, without ... |
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I consider this specimen to be a shapely hematite "kidney ore" from Cumbria. I have not seen too many Kidney ore specimens from the Goose Green mine. Most come from the Florence mine, a loca ... | |
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Hi,
For all who like to see footage from inside of a mine and of minerals in situ, I found a report on Mindat about a visit in the Greenlaws Mine. Jolyon Ralph visited the old and re-opened mine a ... |
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A cluster of well-formed Cuprite crystals from the Rubtsovsk mine showing sharp edges with a pleasing metallic luster - hint of blue. The largest crystal is 22 mm on edge. In bright light some of the ... | |
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Ammonites were living organisms which are found as fossils. Ammolite is a gemstone which comes from the same creature.
A really lovely specimen, along with some great photos. I have often con ... |
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This piece wouldn't win any awards for beauty - Szaibelyite is an uncommon to rare basic magnesium borate. The following sample has been in my collection since it was collected in July 1963, but just ... | |
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Does it do stacking? (with a compatible lens)
It says 'focus bracketing' - does that mean stacking? A really lovely Azurite nodule from the Rubtsovsk mine. Hello James: I do believe it doe ... |
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A really lovely Azurite nodule from the Rubtsovsk mine. | |
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I just love the MIM in Beirut. It has such an outstanding collection of minerals which is testimony to the genius of its creator – Salim Edde.
MIM is one of the best examples out there to show tha ... |
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A really beautiful Emerald specimens. I would be a lot happier to have it on my finger as a ring!
All the best. Silvia |
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Malachite from Star of the Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo.
I really love Malachite. One of the very first minerals I acquired. You take some very nice photos too. |
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Galena with Siderite | |
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Minerals from recently discovered locations generate a great deal of excitement among mineral collectors, but there is something special about historical specimens that I really appreciate. The boulan ... | |
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An extremely rich specimen of the mineral Cylindrite. The longest tube measures about 18 mm. | |
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I do love the MIM collection. It contains minerals of great aesthetics but it also includes minerals of great scientific interest.
We also have many Bolivian specimens in our collection, and many ... |
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