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[Tobi]

[Tobi]

Old specimens - better photos:

[Tobi]

Classic specimen from an old locality in Siegerland/Germany - a cuboctahedral galena crystal on matrix from Grube Große Burg ("Large Castle Mine"):

[GneissWare]

[Don Lum]

[Don Lum]

[Tobi]

Thank you, guys :-)

Don, even if you consider it attractive on this photo - it is even much more pretty in person ;-)

As addition, just for fun, the label i made for the galena when i added it to my collection:

[Tobi]

Old specimen - but a quite cool macro worth posting:

[Tobi]

Ettringite from South Africa:

[Roger Warin]

Nice specimen. do you have a sturmanite photo?
Roger.

[Tobi]

[Roger Warin]

Tobi
No, there is no doubt about the identification of ettringite. I just thought that you had the opportunity to get a sturmanite from Black Rock Mine. There is a similarity between these minerals, although sturmanite is red-brown and often less prismatic.
Roger.

[Tobi]

Hi Roger, i have no opportunity to get a picture of a sturmanite from Black Rock Mine. Well, of course i can GET one - but i can't MAKE one on my own because i don't have such a specimen ;-)

Here's an old specimen with more and better photos, a mimetite from Badenweiler, Schwarzwald, Germany. It's the same specimen as on the detail picture above:

[Tobi]

And the specimen above is also part of a NEW COLLAGE:

[Tobi]

And one more collage with German minerals: