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simonoff
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 Posted: Jul 21, 2012 13:05 Post subject: Smithsonian 2012 |
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I had the chance to spend time in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Naturally I went to the mineral hall. I took a few pictures, which for the most part do not overlap with ones already taken. There some some duplicates, but since the picture is different, it seems worth posting anyway.
I hope you enjoy. And please remember this is a crowded busy museum with all minerals behind plastic which is ioften scratched and somewhat dirty - so make allowances for the photography :-)
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| Note the lens cap in the middle bottom for scale. Michigan copper |
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 13:12 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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| Quartz from Namibia. Again there is a lens cap in the bottom center for scale. |
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| Baryte from Cumbria, England |
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| Baryte from Cumbria, England |
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| Dolomite from Eugui, Spain |
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| Powellite from Nasik, India |
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| Baryte from England (no more specific locality provided) |
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| Pyrite from Navajun, Spain |
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| Fluorite from La Collada, Spain |
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| Rhodochrosite from Silverton, Colorado, USA |
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 13:24 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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| Galena and calcite from the Ozark Lead Mine, Missouri |
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| Fluorite from Dalnegorsk, Russia |
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| Wulfenite from the Glove Mine, Arizona |
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| Calcite on sphalerite with fluorite from Elmwood, TN, USA |
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| Ferro-axinite from Vitoria da Conquista, Brazil |
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| Large Stibnite from Japan |
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| Zircon from Alteelva River, Norway |
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| Fluorite from Cumbria England. |
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| From a shape display showing how similar garnet and tourmaline can be. |
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| Fluorite on quartz from Uri, Switzerland |
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| Duftite in calcite from Tsumeb |
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 13:28 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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These are all from the same display case, showing that one mineral can have many different shapes
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| Another from the same display |
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| Apologies for the focus. I almost left it off, but it is part of the many shapes of calcite story. |
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 16:08 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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Wulfenites from their One Mineral Many Shapes case.
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 19:35 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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The above wulfenites were part of a suite of "one mineral many shapes" Here is the whole case.
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 19:39 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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Ok, now on to the case called "Mineral Friends"
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 19:46 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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These two are form the India Minerals Case
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| Mesolite and apophyllite from Poona, India |
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 20:25 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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Now from the zeolites case
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 20:43 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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Now from the Silicate Gallery
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| Sugilite from South Africa. This was fun listening to a group of women try to pronounce. They saw me photographing it, so assumed I knew something. One asked me how to pronounce it - I told it it was named after Dr Sugi ... so .... |
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simonoff
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 21:21 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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From the phosphates, Arsenates, and Vanadates Gallery.
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Matt_Zukowski
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2012 22:02 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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Thanks to the Simonoffs (Jessica? Bob?) for another series of photos from another place displaying minerals. Separately, I have been reading about Googles efforts to photo/map the insides of museums, just like with their Street View app. The Simonoff picts prompted me to go see if Google had mapped the insides of the mineral hall yet. What i found instead was a wonderful app from the Smithsonian that does the same thing. Go to:
https://www.mnh.si.edu/vtp/1-desktop/
(link normalized by FMF)
Look to the upper right of your screen and click on the button marked "second," which will take you to the second floor. Clicking that button also brings up a map, and you can click on any of the blue dots in the hall of minerals to fly to that location. When you walk around, you sometimes see a camera icon that you can click to bring up better photos of areas.
I have just spent the past fifteen minutes virtually walking around the Smithsonian, trying to put the excellent Simonoff pictures in context. Much FUN!
I wonder when Google or other museums put similar things up on the web.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2012 02:52 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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| Thank you for this wonderful pictures!
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2012 03:55 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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| Tobi wrote: | | Thank you for this wonderful pictures! |
Absolutely! ;-)
Good pics by the way....
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John S. White
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2012 04:48 Post subject: Re: Smithsonian 2012 |
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Bob:
Those are some of the best photos that anyone has posted of minerals on display, very nice work! It is not easy to obtain such fine photos of minerals behind glass.
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