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Mark Ost
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 Posted: Apr 25, 2013 17:59 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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| Pierre Joubert wrote: | | Mark Ost wrote: | | ...But to get back on topic, Pierre mentioned garnets, so to add to my preference, as an example, I collected a garnet board (display) that has a nice specimen of all the main types of garnets in both series and a couple of varieties for andradite. Nice and educational too. Most folks who see it are surprised to find that garnets come in green. |
Hi Mark. The Garnet group is a delightful world on it's own! I admire the beautiful garnets found in Canada and the orange, spessartine garnets 'Mandarin' from Kaokoland (Namibia). I have had opportunities to purchase the last, but the sellers want insane prices. My experience is, that good coloured garnets of reasonable size, are hard to obtain (and expensive). The green Garnets from Tubussis (Namibia); Tanzania and Madagascar, are also beautiful. |
Hi Pierre
I agree. I really like the garnet world and there seems to be quite a few I still need to corner. I found the basic ones in the series but I suspect there are some exotics out there that are hard to come by. You know for a basic garnet I had a hard time finding a pyrope I liked and settled for a reasonable one that filled the gap. I have two andradites, melanite and demantoid so I suppose I need to find a topazalite. I don't have hydrogrossular and frankly would not know where to find it. |
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Riccardo Modanesi
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2013 06:44 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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Hi to everybody!
My opinion (and my behaving way ehile attending to fairs and expositions) is: I usually take a "want list"of systematic mineralogy with me, both for minerals and for gemstones. About the latter kind of stones, I take my ground from the newsbook I periodically get from Idar-Oberstein. Of course I always take the "Glossary" too with myself (you all should know what I'm talking about!). If I visit a particular place, I always read about what is found there and make a "want list" of.
Greetings from Italy by Riccardo.
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Hi! I'm a collector of minerals since 1973 and a gemmologist. On Summer I always visit mines and quarries all over Europe looking for minerals! Ok, there is time to tell you much much more! Greetings from Italy by Riccardo. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2013 07:45 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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Hi all,
Thanks for sharing your answers to my question. For the most part, they were as I suspected; some with very specific wants such as to fill needs in a systematic collection and others just using the "anything that is aesthetic" philosophy. Again, this variation in approaches is what makes our hobby so much fun.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2013 15:49 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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| MINERALS on my wish list? No, there's a lot of MONEY on my wish list - to GET the desired minerals ;-) |
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Mark Ost
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2013 16:10 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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Hi Tobi
You wouldn't be implying there is a direct correlation between money and minerals?? Surely not! '8) |
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Doug
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| Posted: May 17, 2013 22:36 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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Mont Saint-Hilaire and similar alkaline occurrences, zeolites, mimetites, pyromorphite, Cornwall.
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Mark Ost
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| Posted: May 17, 2013 22:55 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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| Diamonds....millions and billions of diamonds! |
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chris
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| Posted: May 18, 2013 03:40 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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For me it would be a galena & siderite specimen from Neudorf. But as Tobi explained earlier it is better to have some money when you target such specimen ;-)
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Don Lum
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| Posted: May 18, 2013 07:48 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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Don't forget some of the native elements.
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Tobi
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| Posted: May 18, 2013 10:20 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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| chris wrote: | | For me it would be a galena & siderite specimen from Neudorf. But as Tobi explained earlier it is better to have some money when you target such specimen ;-) |
Yes, that was my first answer - for a lot of money can take most minerals off a collector's wish list ;-) But to give a real answer what certain minerals are on my list (i do own some of them yet, but not in a quality that would be worth a wish list):
- AMAZONITE with SMOKY QUARTZ, Colorado
- AQUAMARINE, Pakistan
- CALCITE, Sankt Andreasberg / Germany
- ELBAITE, Stak Nala / Pakistan
- EMERALD, Colombia
- ETTRINGITE, N'Chwaning / South Africa
- FLUORITE (red/pink) from the Alps
- FLUORAPATITE (red), Pakistan
- FLUORAPATITE, Panasqueira / Portugal
- GALENA/SIDERITE, Neudorf / Germany
- PYROMORPHITE, Bad Ems / Germany
- RHODOCHROSITE, Sweet Home Mine / Colorado
- RHODOCHROSITE, Uchucchacua Mine / Peru
- SCHEELITE, Mount Xuebaoding / China
- TOPAZ, Katlang / Pakistan
- TOPAZ, Schneckenstein / Germany
- WULFENITE, Los Lamentos / Mexico
... I'm sure there are even more, it's a long list ;-) But a philosophical question: Wouldn't it be the most boring moment for a collector when he owns all that he ever desired? Isn't searching a part of collecting? |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 18, 2013 18:43 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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| Tobi wrote: | | chris wrote: | | For me it would be a galena & siderite specimen from Neudorf. But as Tobi explained earlier it is better to have some money when you target such specimen ;-) |
Yes, that was my first answer - for a lot of money can take most minerals off a collector's wish list ;-) But to give a real answer what certain minerals are on my list (i do own some of them yet, but not in a quality that would be worth a wish list):
- AMAZONITE with SMOKY QUARTZ, Colorado
- AQUAMARINE, Pakistan
- CALCITE, Sankt Andreasberg / Germany
- ELBAITE, Stak Nala / Pakistan
- EMERALD, Colombia
- ETTRINGITE, N'Chwaning / South Africa
- FLUORITE (red/pink) from the Alps
- FLUORAPATITE (red), Pakistan
- FLUORAPATITE, Panasqueira / Portugal
- GALENA/SIDERITE, Neudorf / Germany
- PYROMORPHITE, Bad Ems / Germany
- RHODOCHROSITE, Sweet Home Mine / Colorado
- RHODOCHROSITE, Uchucchacua Mine / Peru
- SCHEELITE, Mount Xuebaoding / China
- TOPAZ, Katlang / Pakistan
- TOPAZ, Schneckenstein / Germany
- WULFENITE, Los Lamentos / Mexico
... I'm sure there are even more, it's a long list ;-) But a philosophical question: Wouldn't it be the most boring moment for a collector when he owns all that he ever desired? Isn't searching a part of collecting? |
Wow, Tobi - that's quite a list. I most certainly agree with your statement that having an unlimited budget to purchase whatever specimens you fancied would take much of the enjoyment from our hobby. And Christophe, a good Neudorf galena/siderite ranks right up there at the top of my list too.
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Mark Beregszaszi
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| Posted: Jan 15, 2014 21:59 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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| Benitoite for example :) |
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cascaillou
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| Posted: Jan 16, 2014 10:46 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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Unpolished quartz crystal, doubly terminated/floatter, 2 to 3cm in size, with aesthetic inclusions. Really hard to get my hands on anything like that (due to narrow criterias)
Oh and there's also that one, which is definately not in my field of collecting, but still I did instantly fall in love with it, unfortunately it was too expensive for me and eventually got sold:
http:(slash)(slash)www(dot)exceptionalminerals(dot)com/DEN2007-202indiamix3.jpg
...crying... |
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Jan 16, 2014 11:59 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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For me, philosopher's Stone...
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Jan 16, 2014 12:20 Post subject: Re: What minerals are on your wish list? |
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Hi,
Impossible minerals to find, as minerals with tellurium and gold:
Calaverite, Nagyagite, Sylvanite, Petzite ....
As much sulfur is a mineralizing agent of copper, tellurium is as a mineralizing element of gold.
Roger. |
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