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PostPosted: Sep 07, 2011 10:39    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

John S. White wrote:
Here is a nice inclusion in a fluorite cleavage from Cave-in-Rock, Illinois. The cleavage is about 3 cm across. The inclusion is the tiny dot just to the right of the center of the cleavage. When magnified you can see a gas bubble in liquid and under the microscope it is possible to see that the bubble is flattened against all of the six sides of the rectangular hole in the fluorite..

Just amazing John! I would love to see that sometime and wonder about the flattening - I've some chicken and the egg thoughts, but maybe you already have theories? There have been so many wonderful examples and such great photography contributed to this thread already - so exciting!

Below is a drawing of a now extinct amber specimen from the Dominican Republic with a photograph of the relatively large two-phase liquid and gas inclusion within it prior to death. It shows what can happen with inclusions - last summer we experienced a stint of tornado spawning weather in which I believe the sharp changes in pressure caused the specimen to explode; it is the only clue I have to finding it in pieces a week or so before it was to have its portrait taken by Jeff Scovil. The lapidary left little material around such a large inclusion and the amber was brittle enough not to withstand the fluctuations. This can also happen with included minerals, especially those having easy cleavage, in situations such as a hot car trunk or window or with smaller specimens in the hot darkfield well of a microscope (not just liquid and/or gas inclusions, but also with solid mineral inclusions which change deferentially compared to the host mineral). Just as a note, you can watch phase changes under the microscope and get clues to identifying the liquid or gas in the inclusion (or just to have fun), but only with care!

A bit in haste, but thank you all for contributing to this wonderful topic!
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Dominican Republic Amber with large two-phase liquid and gas inclusion.
The bubble moved around the bend easily when tilted.
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PostPosted: Sep 07, 2011 10:56    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

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Elise, I have seen some very similar blue quartz specimens from Brazil .

I believe that it is from there, but I had not confirmed it yet with the friend I got it from.

On Amir's The Quartz Page (one of my very favorite sites, right from its beginings), he lists blue quartz from that locality as well: Jenipapo Mine, Itanga, Minas Gerais, Brazil https://www.quartzpage.de/blue.html and with a much better photograph!

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PostPosted: Sep 08, 2011 02:41    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Jordi Fabre wrote:

I have nothing against great threads like this one, but against the junk basar of catchpenny "jewelry" that tends to flood many minerals shows as invasive species! ;-)


Hi Jordi - I am sure everyone here appreciates your guidance of this forum and I did not want to give the impression of criticising you :) Perhaps you will forgive this gemmological intrusion.

Sometimes cutting is necessary to reveal the inner beauty of battered crystals and I only cut damaged specimens. Here is an example cut from a broken Madagascan quartz point, keeping the original outline to show up the hollandite (or so I am told) sprays decorating a phantom face, now near the bottom of the stone. Hope you enjoy it!

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Quartz with hollandite (?) inclusions
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PostPosted: Sep 08, 2011 02:49    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

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Not only heat but also unaccustomed cold can damage some included crystals (as of course can an ultrasonic bath). A Canadian dealer reportedly once lost an entire consignment of Tsumeb cerussites that shattered in the trunk of his car parked overnight in an unheated hotel garage.

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PostPosted: Sep 08, 2011 03:48    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

I have been looking through my collection and found this amethist. The the location I don't know, maby somewhere from Norway (bought in Trondheim). What I do know is that it has inclusions. If I remember correctly he said: "It is amethist with rutile inclusions, nice specimen!" But correct me if I'm wrong.

And I have this apophyllite from India (mayby you remember it) with heulandite inclusions.

I have also one question since haüyne is one of my favorites: Is it possible for a mineral to have haüyne inclusions?

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Amethist with inclusions
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Amethist with inclusions
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Amethist with inclusions
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Apophyllite with heulandite inclusions
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PostPosted: Sep 08, 2011 04:46    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

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The 'rutile' in your specimen look a lot like the cacoxenite tufts in this amethyst. Admittedly it is tricky to identify such inclusions visually, but according to Webster's "Gems" cacoxenite inclusions are common in amethyst. (OK, I will stop posting cut stones now.)

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PostPosted: Sep 08, 2011 05:20    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Oh please, not "cacoxenite" again! What does one have to do to permanently bury this false identification. The inclusions in amethyst from Brazil are NOT cacoxenite, they are goethite, as has been stated more than once on FMF. In fact, on this very thread, just days ago, I posted a photo of amethyst with goethite inclusions. Here it is again. Duncan, did you not notice that? There are no phosphates associated with the geodes that contain the amethyst from Rio Grande do Sul. Never, in my experience, has any misidentification been perpetuated to the degree that this one has. Goethite, please, and it is quite clear that the piece Maxilos has is goethite.

Finally,just because our fearless leader Jordi does not like polished pieces, please continue to post photos of them when appropriate. I fully intend to.



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PostPosted: Sep 08, 2011 05:51    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Hi John

I am glad to have been corrected, thank you. Yes, I did notice your photo of the goethite, saw its similarity to the tufts in my amethyst, and tried to cover myself by saying that visual ID is dicey! (The edition of Webster's Gems I referred to was the 5th edition, reprinted 2003, edited by Peter Read.) As to what one has to do to bury such false identifications permanently, perhaps there is a need for a cumulative 'recurrent false IDs' thread with illustrated examples.

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PostPosted: Sep 08, 2011 08:13    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Hi Duncan:

Thank you for your response. It is interesting that the 2003 edition of Webster's Gems would make that mistake. I do not have that book, but my copy of Webster's Gemmologists' Compendium (6th edition 1979) carries the statement: "the name (cacoxenite) is often misleadingly applied to quartz (often amethyst) containing yellowish tufts of goethite."

It is amazing that Peter Read would change what was correct to something incorrect.

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PostPosted: Sep 08, 2011 19:36    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Very nice drawings, Elise. Please, keep on posting them.

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PostPosted: Sep 13, 2011 02:36    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

xenolithos wrote:

...As to what one has to do to bury such false identifications permanently, perhaps there is a need for a cumulative 'recurrent false IDs' thread with illustrated examples.


Is a sub-forum in FMF, "Incorrect classification and fakes" , where the false identifications can be discussed. Antonio created there a new thread: "Goethite -not cacoxenite- inclusions in amethyst from Brazil" ( https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=1939 ) where this topic of the Goethites-not Cacoxenites has been copied.
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PostPosted: Sep 13, 2011 18:20    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

xenolithos wrote:
visual ID is dicey! (The edition of Webster's Gems I referred to was the 5th edition, reprinted 2003, edited by Peter Read.)

Duncan, it is wise that you point out that we shouldn't be making "sight IDs" from photographs, only perhaps opinions. My own thought is that even with the specimen in one hand and a book in the other, the process is fraught with pitfalls. The goethite inclusions in quartz come in so many different forms, as can be seen in John Koivula's Photoatlas, but I am not sure I would have recognized it conclusively in any of the photos above. I wonder what caused an author to make the initial mistaken ID of cacoxenite despite its rarity and incompatible chemistry with quartz or its growth environment. Or perhaps it was based on morphology alone.

It is an interesting aside that in Frondel (7th) the presence of goethite pointed to the role of iron in the purple color; it mostly forms in the colorless areas - I assume this where the iron is taken up by the growing goethite; a kind of chromophore canniblization to use a Koivula expression (correct me if that is a wrong assumption). It is also a factor in the formation of Brazil law twinning, though at almost nano-crystal scale.

Also, I am not sure how to distinguish goethite from hematite, other than in a case such as the image below where the goethite has transformed to hematite, shown as black tips as its growth environment dehydrated (Koivula). You can see some of this color zoning in the crystal cluster below, along with the numerous tufts. Jaroslav Hyrsl wrote that "is difficult to differentiate goethite, hematite and rutile when completely enclosed in quartz." so I should not feel too badly.

John S. White wrote:
It is interesting that the 2003 edition of Webster's Gems would make that mistake. I do not have that book, but my copy of Webster's Gemmologists' Compendium (6th edition 1979) carries the statement: "the name (cacoxenite) is often misleadingly applied to quartz (often amethyst) containing yellowish tufts of goethite."It is amazing that Peter Read would change what was correct to something incorrect.

John, the editions before and after carry the same mis-identification; all three by noted mineralogist/gemmologist editors; I don't have the 3rd edition by the original author to know whether it had been changed. It was also so by mineralogist and famed inclusionist Dr. Gübelin, though corrected by John Koivula in all editions of their co-authored Photoatlas series (I can point to other types of similar errors in Sinkankas, Hurlbut and numerous journals as well). Was this started in the gemological community or in the mineralogy world? I am feeling my knees getting weak and a faint rubbery feeling develop in my other limbs.

Carry on!
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PostPosted: Sep 13, 2011 22:02    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Skalwold -> https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=19262#19262

Air or oil captured in silica. Compression made them into discoids. I would doubt any crystallography is involved.

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PostPosted: Sep 13, 2011 22:07    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Goethite/cacoxenite.

Melody wrote a recent book on healing stones. She is a prolific writer of her analysis of all the powers of stones of the world. She is out of England. She labelled cacoxenite as having extraordinary powers unlike any other inclusion. The rest is history. Value of the stuff went through the roof. For the superstitious, you lose. This is why it continues to be perpetuated.

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PostPosted: Sep 13, 2011 22:09    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

I have never seen goethite dendrites in an agate. These appear to be one of the manganese dendritic minerals.
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PostPosted: Sep 13, 2011 22:20    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Does Koivula also study inclusions in agates?
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PostPosted: Sep 14, 2011 01:10    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Elise wrote:
I am not sure how to distinguish goethite from hematite


To add to the confusion, haematite in quartz often gets described as lepidocrocite, both being red in thin flakes.

We all need a Raman spectroscope in the garage!

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PostPosted: Sep 14, 2011 10:12    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

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To add to the confusion, haematite in quartz often gets described as lepidocrocite, both being red in thin flakes.

Duncan


To follow what Duncan says this is the often misrepresented Brandberg Quartz & Lepidocrocite



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PostPosted: Sep 14, 2011 10:18    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

Epidote in Quartz to 6mm.


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PostPosted: Sep 15, 2011 21:28    Post subject: Re: Mineral specimens with inclusions  

dtkasper wrote:
Does Koivula also study inclusions in agates?

In the book Photoatlas of Inclusions in Gemstones, Volume 2, John Koivula devotes 25 pages to the subject of chalcedony with somewhere around 80 spectacular photos of the inclusions which can make agates so spectacular - whether viewed under the microscope or just in the hand. For those that have that volume, my favorite image is on page 361, top right where a bouquet of single quartz crystals is shown in a halo of light blue cryptocrystalline quartz. I think John has a special love of quartz and its inclusions; both chalcedony and single crystal varieties which are well represented in Vol. 1 & 2 and in his many other articles in numerous periodicals.

In the thread we had going about Brazil law twinning, I had posted a related type of occurrence, more spectacular when seen between crossed polars under the microscope https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=16714 A close-up of one its single quartz crystal inclusions is shown below (it has unknown needle-like inclusions as well). The image below that is a neat slice of sectored quartz, encased in carnelian with needles extending from the carnelian rim into the single quartz.

In both cases the c-axis of the original whole quartz crystal is in the middle, perpendicular to the image. It would have been neat to see the original crystal before being sliced. The portrait in the Photoatlas mentioned above gives me an idea at least of how it might have looked from the side.

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Sectored quartz surrounded by cryptocrystalline quartz (carnelian) with needles extending into the interior single crystal quartz - Luna moth wing for scale (Photo: E. Skalwold).
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