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[vhairap]

Further specimens ...

[Tobi]

Hi Vachik,

thank you very much for showing those spectacular specimens! I don't know much about Iranian minerals and there are not many on the market, but i suppose that this large country has a lot of beautiful minerals. I really enjoyed your first pictures and i hope there are a lot more to come!

Cheers!
Tobi

[vhairap]

Thanks Tobi - there are many to come. I will add them gradually. Hope you like them too.
regards,
Vachik

[Mike Wood]

Beautiful and large specimens, and excellent photography Vachik !

Sincerely, Mike

[vhairap]

Thanks Mike. I will upload much more images soon.
Cheers,
Vachik

[vhairap]

wulfenite and malachite association

[Welting]

Vachik,

Thanks for these great pictures. Iran must be a great, too much unexplored, mineralogical place. The hemimorphites and epidotes are stunning!
Here I attached some photos of a wulfenite specimen from the Ahmad Abad mine from my collection. Hope it adds to this topic.

Tim

[Tobi]

What a lovely wulfenite specimen!!!

[Don Lum]

Outstanding specimen!!

[h.abbasi]

Thanks a lot Welting
For the excellent photos and your beautiful specimen . We hope there are more Iranian mineral pictures to come.

[vhairap]

[Welting]

I got it from a friend some time ago, who bought it some years ago from Trinity minerals.
Don't know when these were found, but at that time John Veevaert had a couple of these that were sold very quickly. At that time I wasn't able to get one, but am happy that I have this one now some years later :-)

[vhairap]

A very exceptional cabinet specimen of lustrous atacamite crystals in emerald-green colour. See child photos for closer views. Such gorgeous example of the copper species never seen before from the locale! It must be seen in person to be fully appreciated!

[vhairap]

An amazing cabinet specimen of dolomite rombs with calcite and quartz crystals on pyrite balls.

[vhairap]

The locality is recorded here for a new find of the gemmy bright/dark green demantoid garnets in the metamorphics on the southern flank of Belqeys Mountain, 34 km NE of Takab, NW of Iran. Not studied in detail yet. The crystals are nicely terminated.