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Michael Shaw
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More from Australia.
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Cerussite
Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia
7.1 x 8.2 cm
Pale yellowish-brown to cream-colored crystals of cerussite associated with velvety green botryoidal malachite. |
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Crocoite
Adelaide Mine, Dundas Mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
1.5 x 4.3 cm
Doubly-terminated, crocoite crystal with a hoppered termination and a partial coating of yellowish-gray gibbsite. |
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Crocoite
Red Lead Mine, Dundas Mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
5.8 x 6.7 cm
Bright red-orange crocoite crystals on a brown gossan matrix. |
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2014 12:54 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Hello Michael,
Congratulations on earning your gold star by getting 100,000 views on your collection pictures. I have enjoyed looking at your collection.
Well done and well deserved.
Kind regards,
Don
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2014 16:07 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Don Lum wrote: | ...Congratulations on earning your gold star by getting 100,000 views on your collection pictures. I have enjoyed looking at your collection.
Well done and well deserved... |
Absolutely!: Collection of Michael Shaw
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2014 17:44 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you both. I certainly enjoyed showing them; and hopefully there will be many more to come :>)
Michael
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Pierre Joubert
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Location: Western Cape
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2014 02:09 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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I also want to also add my congratulations!!! It is a real pleasure viewing them. Thank you.
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Mike Wood
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Location: Northern England
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2014 12:43 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Well done Michael!
You must have quite a large collection, if as you say, "hopefully there will be many more to come"!
Many thanks for sharing these lovely specimens with us; and best wishes to yourself and Laura.
Mike :-)
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GneissWare
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Location: California
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2014 13:55 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael,
Congratulations. You have a very broad and aesthetic collection!
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2014 17:20 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you very much Pierre, Mike, and Bob. I have found that these collection threads are such a nice way to connect with other people who share the same passion for minerals and that I might never get a chance to meet in person.
Mike, my collection contains a little over 2,100 catalogued specimens. I suppose that may seem large to some people, but I regularly talk to collectors that have 5,000 or even 10,000 specimens. I never really think too much about numbers, but try to focus on building as comprehensive a collection as my budget allows. You can interpret my comment on "hopefully there will be many more to come" in a couple of ways. Yes, I have quite a few more pieces that I have not shown; then again, some are just not very photogenic. My thought was more along the lines of - I hope to continue building this collection for many years to come :>)
Thanks again for your comments.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 07:59 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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More Aussie minerals.
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Quartz var. smoky
Mooralla, Victoria, Australia
3.5 x 4.0 cm
A cluster of transparent, smoky quartz crystals on a small piece of matrix. |
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Stellerite
Tambar Springs, New South Wales, Australia
4.0 x 6.6 cm
Lustrous salmon-colored stellerite blades to 5.5 cm. |
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Chabazite var. phacolite
Flinders, Victoria, Australia
6.5 x 9.0 cm
Glassy chabazite var. phacolite crystals to 0.5 cm covering matrix. The unusual morphology of the crystals is due to multiple twinning of the rhombohedrons. |
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Mike Wood
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 12:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Nice smokies Michael, and lovely fresh stellerite too. Well done for the photo of the phacolite specimen - not an easy mineral to deal with!
Regards, Mike : )
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 13:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mike Wood wrote: | Nice smokies Michael, and lovely fresh stellerite too. Well done for the photo of the phacolite specimen - not an easy mineral to deal with!
Regards, Mike : ) |
Thanks, Mike.
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 15:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Nice stellerite.
Roger.
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Martin Rich
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 20:14 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael, I want also send you my congratulations!
I enjoy your photographs of specimens around the world.
Martin
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 29, 2014 14:15 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you Roger and Martin. Glad you are enjoying them.
Continuing with minerals from Australia - today a trio of gypsum.
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Gypsum
Woolcunda Station, New South Wales, Australia
7.5 x 9.0 cm
An intergrown group of reddish-brown lenticular gypsum crystals. |
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Gypsum
Lake Gilles, Corunna Station, South Australia, Australia
Left 2.3 x 3.3 cm, Right 2.1 x 4.3
A couple of colorless twinned gypsum crystals. |
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Gypsum
Myall Creek, Whyalla, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
7.0 x 10.0 cm
Sparkling colorless gypsum crystals completely covering an undulating matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 30, 2014 16:40 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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More from 'Down Under' featuring Broken Hill.
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Rhodonite
Broken Hill mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
6.0 x 8.5 cm
Dark red cleavages of rhodonite associated with silvery metallic galena. |
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Chlorargyrite
Broken Hill mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
4.5 x 5.0 cm
Rich crystalline gray chlorargyrite covering the top of a brown gossan matrix. |
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Copper
Broken Hill mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
5.5 x 6.0 cm
Native copper with twinned crystals arranged in a feather pattern. Ex. Washington A. Roebling Collection. |
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Copper
Broken Hill mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
5.5 x 6.0 cm
Smithsonian label for copper. |
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