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am mizunaka
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 Posted: Jan 21, 2012 07:26 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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Fluorite with Calcite
Bluffton, Richland Township, Allen Co., Ohio
2.8 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm |
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John Medici
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Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2012 19:05 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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I just tried to attach from a PowerPoint file which seemed to not work. Here is an attempt from another file. Fluorite needles were found several times at Delphos, always in petroleum-filled pockets, and also at Lima, Ohio (same limestone formation). Lima also produced a couple of fist-size pockets of fluorite that had unusual rounded edges. The Delphos quarry now seems to be idle, at least for the time being. The rock layer that produced the fluorites shown rises toward the west end of the quarry (the latest blasting direction) and has been eliminated, but the underlying rocks, now in the upper layers, have produced some nice bicolor fluorites (yellow/purple). Sizes will be estimates for some of the pictures shown. I'm not sure of the status of the Lima quarry.
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Fluorite needles (on head of pin)
Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA
7 mm |
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Fluorite needle (bifurcated) SEM by George.Robinson
Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA
around 6 mm |
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53651 Time(s) |
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Pyrite (diploid) on fluorite sheaves
Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA
1 cm high |
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53626 Time(s) |
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Pyrite/fluorite simultaneous growth
Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA
fluorite 1 cm on edge |
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53686 Time(s) |
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Fluorite
National Lime & Stone Co. Quarry, Lima, Ohio, USA
3.5 cm field of view |
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53686 Time(s) |
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John Medici
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2012 22:09 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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| John Jaszczak wrote: | | Here is a 1.3 mm sphalerite crystal, also from the Bluffton Stone Co. Quarry, Bluffton, Ohio. Purple fluorite and white dolomite crystals also occurred in the same fracture. I collected this on a trip in May 1989 with John Medici. |
It's great to see this picture again, John. To give a little quarry history, it had been closed to collecting for many years due to a death (a former worker drove a recreational vehicle off a quarry wall by mistake); Pete Richards wrote a letter and the insurance company (surprise!) let him and me collect. You were in the Columbus, OH club and also went up there with me. We were very lucky to enter at that time since the quarry direction went away from that nice fluorite/sphalerite area after that, producing similar material, but sporadically. Here is another sphalerite inclusion for you and Pete.
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Fluorite (sphalerite inclusions)
Bluffton Stone Co. quarry, Bluffton, Ohio, USA
fluorite 1 cm across |
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53672 Time(s) |
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Fluorite & sphalerite
Bluffton Stone Co. quarry, Bluffton, Ohio, USA
5 cm field of view |
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John Jaszczak
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Location: Hancock, MI
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2012 22:14 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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Hi John,
Thanks for posting more about Bluffton. I still have some nice micro material available from there. It was a great day collecting with you. It was also nice that some of the Bluffton
pieces had dolomite crystals, sphalerite crystals and fluorite crystals all together.
I'll try to get some pictures up.
Thanks also for posting those incredibly interesting fluorites. I love to see such interesting puzzles.
Cheers,
John
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John Medici
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Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2012 23:06 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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More Ohio fluorites.
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| Ohio-Michigan fluorite localities |
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53612 Time(s) |
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Fluorite sheaves and cubes
Delphos, Ohio, USA
4 cm |
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53610 Time(s) |
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Fluorite cast @ anhydrite (orig. calcite-filled)
Bluffton, Ohio, USA
2.5 cm |
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53615 Time(s) |
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Fluorite - cast & anhydrite
Lime City, Ohio, USA
cast 1.2 cm |
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53573 Time(s) |
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Fluorite (opaque, brown underneath) for Jordi
Genoa, Ohio, USA |
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53677 Time(s) |
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Brett Medici w. fluorite in celestite sand
Lime City, Ohio, USA
Fluorite cubes to 5 cm across |
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53697 Time(s) |
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Fluorite phantoms
Pugh quarry, Custar, Ohio, USA
cubes around 7 mm across |
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53618 Time(s) |
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Fluorite
Clay Center, Ohio, USA
1cm ring (small crystal is 3.5cm on edge)
1950's (and 2006-the small one) |
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53599 Time(s) |
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Fluorite (tricolor)
Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
1 cm (larger crystal) |
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53661 Time(s) |
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Fluorite & calcite - acrylic painting by Susan Robinson
Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
fluorite cube 3 cm across |
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53635 Time(s) |
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Fluorite phantom (cube/tetrahex)
Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
1.0X0.8cm |
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53649 Time(s) |
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Fluorite - purple over iridescent
Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
10 cm across |
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53625 Time(s) |
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Fluorite - rare iridescent colors
Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA |
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53657 Time(s) |
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John Medici
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2012 23:21 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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| John Jaszczak wrote: | Hi John,
Thanks for posting more about Bluffton. I still have some nice micro material available from there. It was a great day collecting with you. It was also nice that some of the Bluffton
pieces had dolomite crystals, sphalerite crystals and fluorite crystals all together.
I'll try to get some pictures up.
Thanks also for posting those incredibly interesting fluorites. I love to see such interesting
puzzles.
Cheers,
John |
Just one more puzzle for you, John.
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Fluorite (tetrahex/cube exaggerated I think)
Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA
1.3 cm across |
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John Medici
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2012 12:11 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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As with Pete Richards, many of my pictures are not digitalized yet, but here are a few examples that I do have. Duff quarry is the closest productive quarry to my home and the unusual amount of rain this past year kept blast areas washed for easier collecting. The quarry produces an unusual number of forms of pyrite, as Pete has mentioned, sometimes also with nice iridescence. A large percentage of the pyrite openings are filled with calcite which must be removed to expose the crystals however, and this process usually removes the iridescence if any was originally present. The Auglaize fluorite iridescence is due to hydrocarbons, as determined by John Rakovan, but I don't think anyone has studied that of the pyrites from Duff quarry. Diploid pyrite form is more common than usual at Duff quarry.
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Pyrite
Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA
2 cm field of view |
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Pyrite in fluorite
Duff quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA
Crystal 6 mm |
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Pyrite & dolomite
Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA
6 cm field of view |
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Pyrite
Duff quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA
around 2 cm field of view |
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44421 Time(s) |
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John Medici
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2012 12:53 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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A couple from Ross County, another Ohio pyrite locality. The first shown was not in our Tucson display last year. It was too wet to dig at this locality this past year.
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Pyrite
Ross County, Ohio, USA
17 cm high |
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Pyrite (Jay Medici collection)
Ross County, Ohio, USA |
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44441 Time(s) |
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Pyrite (donated to Smithsonian) (pictured in ExtraLapis Pyrite issue (German))
Ross County, Ohio, USA |
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Pyrite
Ross County, Ohio, USA |
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Pyrite (longest found in past 45 years)
Ross County, Ohio, USA
52 inches long |
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Darren
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2012 13:06 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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| Those pyrites are absolutely amazing, John - thanks for sharing!
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yowanni
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2012 06:37 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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Incredible pyrites, John.
Thanks for sharing!
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Antonio Alcaide
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2012 08:34 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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John, I am a lover of your Duff Quarry pyrites although I live very far from Ohio, I am afraid.
I posted a specimen with comments on the Spanish side. There we provided two links you likely know. If not, here you have:
https://vasichkominerals.com/Dufflatest.html
(link normalized by FMF)
and Pete's useful description
https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=1071
From my point of view, you are a lucky man living close to those amazing crystals (well, here in Spain we have Navajun, Ambasaguas or Carratraca as well).
Best regards
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| Posted: Feb 08, 2012 10:17 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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| Tobi, Tobi...Oh! Sie haben schmutzige Gedanken. ;=))
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Sep 29, 2012 06:32 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Ohio |
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Two more images. Both coming from the Spanish FMF Gallery.
The Calcite is from geoalfon and the Sphalerite is from Marc C
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Calcite
Pugh Quarry, Custar, Wood County, Ohio, USA
Specimen size: 13 x 8 cm.
Cristal size: 12 cm.
Photo: geoalfon |
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Sphalerite on Fluorite
Bluffton Stone Co. Quarry, Bluffton, Richland Township, Allen County, Ohio, USA
micro
Photo: Marc C |
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