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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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 Posted: Sep 06, 2010 23:26 Post subject: Kunzite |
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from Urucum Mine
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Super gemmy, undamaged, naturally etched floater crystal of Kunzite, from Urucum Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Jason
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Location: atlanta
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| Posted: Sep 07, 2010 11:12 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Couldn't help but add something about spodumene/kunzites. Olelukoe, you say "naturally etched floater". Not really sure how one would classify a spodumene as a floater or even know. I have had pass through my hands more spodumenes/kunzites/hiddenites than most folks have and one thing I have noticed from handling and looking at so many is just about all seem to be "floaters". Not broken off or what have you but having both ends etched to look like floaters. What I think happens is most peg pockets rupture and tyhe crystals get broken and scattered about in the bottom of the pocket and from there they etch themselves and the broken end to look like floaters. 95% of all peg pockets get ruptures or flash and scatter things about and due to spodumenes easy solubility to acids otr what have you they etch the broken ends to look like floaters. When I would get say 10 or 15 kilos of spodumene crystals each time all but say one or two would have etched on both ends to make what ever end was the attachment point indistinguishable. So, they seemed like floaters, all of them, but I think it was due to the etching.
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Sep 07, 2010 11:42 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| am know my friend, what am talking about :)
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VRigatti
Joined: 19 Dec 2009
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Location: Denver, CO
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| Posted: Sep 11, 2010 14:10 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Oleg, your specimens and photos are truly outstanding. Congratulations on a great collection. We have a similar background, I also have a degree in Geology/Geophysics and spent most of my career as a structural geophysicist. Thanks for sharing your collection with the forum.
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2010 13:43 Post subject: Some new from Malkhan |
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New tourmalines in my collection...
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Tourmaline Rubellite, covered with a crust of stilbite crystals. Russia, Chitinskaya oblast., Sosedka pegmatite vien, Malkhan
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Darren
Joined: 09 Aug 2009
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Location: New Mexico
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2010 20:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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Beautiful stuff, man, thanks for sharing!
Darren
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Joan Kureczka
Joined: 29 Jan 2009
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Oct 08, 2010 10:12 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| Very nice tourmaline!
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katiafish
Joined: 22 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Oct 08, 2010 10:25 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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| I am in a serious danger of dying from a heart attack just looking at these pics! Wow, amazing, thank you for sharing!
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Oct 09, 2010 07:42 Post subject: This one is not |
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Not bad neither....
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Polychromic, large tourmaline crystal, with perfect termination and very interesting colour changing from the cap to the base, from Malkhan Pegmatite field, Russia
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Oct 20, 2010 12:03 Post subject: Topaz crystal from |
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from Ukraine
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Naturally etched, gem quality and fully completed topaz crystal floater , from old Ukraine locality - Volodarsk-Volinskiy, not so bad example from this old locality (usually topaz crystals from this place not so good quality)
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Oct 20, 2010 12:05 Post subject: Rutilated quartz from |
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Ural...
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Rutilated quartz crystal (new found), from Tyoplaya Gora, Ust'-Tiskos, Gornozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
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Rutilated quartz crystal (new found), from Tyoplaya Gora, Ust'-Tiskos, Gornozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Oct 20, 2010 12:08 Post subject: Cuprite from |
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Altai...
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Perfect quality and good sized cuprite cryslals cluster, from Rubtsovskoe Cu-Zn-Pb deposit, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Oct 23, 2010 02:12 Post subject: Some new Titanites |
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chromian...
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Fine quality, fully completed, specimen of twinned chrome titanite crystals, that was collected at old years, from Saranovskii Mine, Saranovskaya Village, Gorozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
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Fine quality, with interesting shape chrome titanite crystal, that was collected at old years, from Saranovskii Mine, Saranovskaya Village, Gorozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
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Fine quality, fully completed, specimen of twinned chrome titanite crystals, that was collected at old years, from Saranovskii Mine, Saranovskaya Village, Gorozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
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Fine quality, fully completed, specimen of twinned chrome titanite crystals, that was collected at old years, from Saranovskii Mine, Saranovskaya Village, Gorozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Nov 09, 2010 07:27 Post subject: large Tanzanite crystal.. |
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new addition to my collection....
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XL, gem quality, with beautiful, deep colour, tanzanite crystal, from Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts, Arusha Region, Tanzania
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olelukoe
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Nov 16, 2010 12:30 Post subject: Heliodor |
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from Brazil...
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Naturally etched, deep yellow color, heliodor crystal, from Padre Paraíso, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Nov 29, 2010 13:54 Post subject: Aquamarine and spinel from |
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Vietnam
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Large, grown in parallel, aquamarine crystals from, Thuong Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam
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XL "Spinel-Law" twinned crystals, of dark-red colored spinel, from Luc Yen, Yenbai (Yen Bai) Province, Vietnam
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Dec 16, 2010 12:42 Post subject: Few new |
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specimens...
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XL specimen with 9 cm morganite crystal, that nested on a clevelandite matrix with a quartz and green tourmaline crystals, from Darra-i-Pech Pegmatite Field, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
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Double terminated, naturally etched morganite crystal, from Oceanview mine (Oceanview adit), Elizabeth R. Mine (Hazel W. claim), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA
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Large, with perfect termination, goshenite crystal, from Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
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ellencmoe
Joined: 02 Aug 2010
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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| Posted: Dec 16, 2010 13:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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I love the specimen form the Oceanview in Pala, California. Actually, I love the Oceanview Mine. I go down there several times a year to do their fee dig and know the owner, Jeff, and crew well. They are very active on facebook now and post pictures of the people at their fee dig and of the new specimens they are finding. They are into a very rich section of the pegmatite right now.
I actually found a 5 cm beryl on their tailing pile last year. The color was pale so I had put it in the bucket where I gather quartz specimens to clean later and use for the children's program of our rock club. Jeff was walking by the screening tables and grabbed it out of my bucket. He said it was from the "49-er pocket". It has about 20% with very pale aquamarine color and a smaller section with pale morganite coloration. It has slight damage to the edges of the crystal but is otherwise intact and has a few tiny quartz sidecar crystals. Not bad for the $60 fee.
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olelukoe
Joined: 13 Mar 2010
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Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2010 06:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Oleg Lopatkin |
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Unfortunately Ocean View is so far from Russia and here for example, cuprite specimen from Rubtsovsk mine, for 50 usd you can get .... that the international market will be cost several hundred dollars... And here, in Russia, specimens from Pala, Himalaya and Ocean View mines is too rare on local maket...
Yours faithfully,
Oleg
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olelukoe
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| Posted: Feb 04, 2011 08:55 Post subject: Interesting beryl |
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from Volin (Ukraine)...
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Very rare ! It's quite impossible - to find beryl crystals with this, so sharp termination, from old Ukraine locality - Volodarsk-Volinskiy
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