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A mineralogical trip through Iran
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PostPosted: Jun 14, 2013 10:55    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

wulfenite and malachite association


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Qale-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
Hanging glorious wulfenite crystal and malachite balls. The size of crystal measuring 3 mm along the edge.
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Qale-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2013 05:25    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

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.

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Ahmad Abad mine, Yazd, Iran
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Ahmad Abad mine, Yazd, Iran
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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2013 05:51    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

What a lovely wulfenite specimen!!!
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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2013 09:28    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

Outstanding specimen!!
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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2013 16:26    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

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

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PostPosted: Jun 16, 2013 22:20    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

Welting wrote:
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.

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Tim, it is nice to see your Iranian wulfenite. Great add indeed.
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PostPosted: Jun 18, 2013 15:56    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

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 :-)
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PostPosted: Jul 07, 2013 10:40    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

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!


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Qaleh-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
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Qaleh-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
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Qale-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
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PostPosted: Jul 07, 2013 10:54    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

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


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Qale-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
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Qale-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
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Dolomite, Pyrite, Calcite, Quartz
Qale-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
FOV is 8.5 cm.
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Qale-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
FOV is 5 cm.
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Qale-Zari Mine, South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran
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PostPosted: Jul 07, 2013 11:15    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

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.


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Belqeys Mountain (Kuh-e-Belgheys), Takab, West Azarbaijan Province, Iran
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Belqeys Mountain (Kuh-e-Belgheys), Takab, West Azarbaijan Province, Iran
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PostPosted: Jul 07, 2013 14:28    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

Vachik,
As always, beautiful specimens.
If I understand correctly, the green Andradite garnets are not from Kerman? Nice to see them on matrix.
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PostPosted: Jul 07, 2013 14:47    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

GneissWare wrote:
Vachik,
As always, beautiful specimens.
If I understand correctly, the green Andradite garnets are not from Kerman? Nice to see them on matrix.
Bob


Thanks Bob. Yes, these Andradite specimens are not from Kerman. This new locality in NE Takab, NW Iran can be conisdered as the second major locality for andradite (var. demantoid) after Soghan in Kerman. A detailed mineralogical investigation is needed to say more on differences with those from Kerman. I have obtained them from a local dealer.
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PostPosted: Jul 08, 2013 04:00    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

Hi to everybody! I saw these green garnets, they are very nice! But I have a question: provided the green colour is not emphatised by the machine and therefore the pictures really represent the true green colour of the crystals, how can you establish the garnets are andradite and not uvarovite? According to the colour, it`s much more similar to the uvarovite one, than to the andradite one. Just you should check the spectrum on the optical window (from violet to red). Iron lines on green and blue should be sightable if it is andradite.
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PostPosted: Jul 08, 2013 05:44    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

Riccardo Modanesi wrote:
Hi to everybody! I saw these green garnets, they are very nice! But I have a question: provided the green colour is not emphatised by the machine and therefore the pictures really represent the true green colour of the crystals, how can you establish the garnets are andradite and not uvarovite? According to the colour, it`s much more similar to the uvarovite one, than to the andradite one. Just you should check the spectrum on the optical window (from violet to red). Iron lines on green and blue should be sightable if it is andradite.
Greetings from Italy by Riccardo.


Hi Riccardo,
These garnets are in true colour.
I checked with a colleague in Geological Survey in Tehran. There is an unpublished mineralogical/gemological report on this occurrence in which it was attributed to Andradite. However, we certainly need to obtain further specimens for a thorough analysis as was done for very similar specimens from Soghan Kerman. One can reminds me whether Kerman specimens were uvarovite or not? I supposed not!
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PostPosted: Jul 20, 2013 07:37    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

Really interesting subject about a mineralogical country not well represented in the shows!
And really nice specimens of epidote!
Thx a lot for sharing this with us!

And what about the awesome red wulfenites?

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PostPosted: Jul 20, 2013 09:03    Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through Iran  

Nico78 wrote:
Really interesting subject about a mineralogical country not well represented in the shows!
And really nice specimens of epidote!
Thx a lot for sharing this with us!

And what about the awesome red wulfenites?

Thanks Nico! Soon we (Tim Welting and me) will have a note with fresh photographs of Iranian wulfenites from several localities including awesome "red wulfenites". At the moment we are working on photographs and related text.
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