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Michael Shaw
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Time for a few minerals from Italy today. I have an amusing story about the following picture. Several years ago, on a trip to Italy, we visited Lake Como. We stayed in Baveno at a nice hotel right on the lake, and when we arrived in our room Laura opened the drapes expecting to have a nice view of the lake. She was disappointed because our room faced the other direction. I was ecstatic because we had a beautiful view of the quarry where the specimen pictured was found. We still laugh about this.
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Orthoclase
Montecatini Quarry, Baveno, Piedmont, Italy
4.2 x 6.4 cm
A creamy tan Carlsbad-twinned orthoclase crystal on a granite matrix. |
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Actinolite
Roccamonfina, Caserta, Campania, Italy
6.5 x 7.0 cm
Bundles of acicular olive-green actinolite embedded in white talc. |
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Sulphur
Racalmuto Mine, Agrigento Prov., Sicily, Italy
5.5 x 6.7 cm
Bright lemon yellow Sulphur crystals associated with white aragonite crystals which exhibit pink fluorescence under LW and SW light. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 11, 2014 10:55 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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More from Italy.
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Quartz
Tornadei Valley, Malenco, Sondrio Prov., Lombardy, Italy
4.5 x 6.6 cm
Glassy colorless quartz crystals included with green chlorite. |
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Quartz
Colle Vaccera, Val Pelice, Torino Prov., Piemonte, Italy
3.5 x 4.3 cm
A small group of transparent quartz crystals associated with small specks of dark green epidote |
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Talc
Pietranera, Rovegno, Genova Prov., Liguria, Italy
6.6 x 9.0 cm
Something you don't see everyday - waxy green talc crystals. |
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Mike Wood
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| Posted: Jun 11, 2014 17:44 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Great photo's Michael; I like the talc crystals.
Thanks for showing.
Regards, Mike
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2014 14:56 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mike Wood wrote: | Great photo's Michael; I like the talc crystals.
Thanks for showing.
Regards, Mike |
Thank you Mike. I really enjoyed your pictures and post about your visit to Ben Loyal. It looks like a very stark but beautiful landscape.
Michael
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2014 22:32 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mike Wood wrote: | Great photo's Michael; I like the talc crystals.
Thanks for showing.
Regards, Mike |
Agreed. Best talc I have seen.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 17, 2014 15:00 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thanks Bob. I don't ever recall having seen crystallized talc before, so I thought this was pretty interesting.
Continuing with a few more from Italy.
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Andradite var. demantoid
Ciappanico Mine, Malenco Valley, Sondrio Prov., Lombardy, Italy
7.5 x 8.5 cm.
Pale green demantoid crystals scattered over the top surface of a green serpentine matrix. |
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Siderite
Brosso Mine, Calea, Lessolo, Torino Prov., Lombardy, Italy
6.0 x 7.8 cm
Lenticular brown siderite crystals from the Geriniere Level of the mine. There are bladed, metallic black hematite crystals on the reverse side. |
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Pyrite
Valle Giove Stope, Rio Mine, Rio Marina, Elba Island, Livorno Prov., Tuscany, Italy
5.2 x 6.3 cm
Bright metallic pyritohedral pyrite crystal associated with lustrous black specular hematite and minor sphalerite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 19, 2014 09:19 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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It's raining here this morning so no work in the garden today. Plenty of time to finish up minerals from Italy.
Michael
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Sulphur
Cianciana Mine, Agrigento Prov., Sicily, Italy
9.2 x 10.5 cm
Yellow prismatic Sulphur crystals to 1.2 cm interspersed among stalactitic growths of acicular aragonite. |
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Sulphur
Cianciana Mine, Agrigento Prov., Sicily, Italy
9.2 x 10.5 cm |
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Stibnite
Niccioleta Mine, Massa Marittima, Grosetto Prov., Tuscany, Italy
5.5 x 8.3 cm
Jackstraw aggregate of prismatic lead-gray stibnite crystals. |
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Calcite
Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa, Viterbo Prov., Latium, Italy
8.0 x 8.0 cm
Greenish-yellow chatoyant spherical calcite groups scattered over a gray basalt-like matrix. |
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Pyrite
Rio Marina, Elba Island, Livorno Prov., Tuscany, Italy
4.5 x 4.8 cm
A matrix of micaceous hematite hosts a lustrous crystal of pyrite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 28, 2014 15:14 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Returning to the USA for a while - here are a few from Elmwood.
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Baryte on sphalerite
Elmwood, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
6.4 x 7.1 cm
Two spherical aggregates of creamy Baryte perched on lustrous brown sphalerite. |
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Calcite and fluorite
Elmwood, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
6.2 x 6.7 cm
Pale yellow calcite crystals in parallel growth with stepped cubes of light purple fluorite. |
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Fluorite
Elmwood, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
5.2 x 6.4 cm
Pale purple, zoned fluorite with a small dark brown sphalerite crystal on dolomitic limestone. |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jun 29, 2014 06:17 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Beautiful specimens, Michael!
I love the fluorites from France and from Elmwood Mine :)
Tobi
P.S. What's the size of the gypsum from France (0507 Gypsum.jpg)?
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Jun 29, 2014 09:31 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael, I like the last fluorite with the purple zoning.
Hello to Laura.
Don
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 29, 2014 17:59 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Tobi wrote: | Beautiful specimens, Michael!
I love the fluorites from France and from Elmwood Mine :)
Tobi
P.S. What's the size of the gypsum from France (0507 Gypsum.jpg)? |
Thank you Tobi. The gypsum is 4.4 x 7.3 cm. Thanks for pointing out that I forgot to include it. I have added the size to the image now.
Michael
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 29, 2014 18:19 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Don Lum wrote: | Michael, I like the last fluorite with the purple zoning.
Hello to Laura.
Don |
Thanks Don. Say hi to Gwen.
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Jamison Brizendine
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| Posted: Jun 30, 2014 09:07 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mike,
Like Tobi, I have a weakness for fluorite specimens. I particularly enjoy the three French fluorites, especially the Le Burc Mine (2081 Fluorite.jpg) fluorite.
I also have enjoyed the Elmwood Mine specimens (2165 Calcite.jpg, 1671 Fluorite.jpg) that both you and Don Lum on his thread have posted. It is one of my favorite localities.
Although this was many pages ago, I also enjoyed the aesthetics of the Carrolite specimen (1135 Carrollite (3).jpg, pg. 20) and the “Bahama Pod” Calcite from the Denton Mine (1373 Calcite.jpg, pg. 2)
I am assuming that the pink fluorite from Argentiere Massif, Chamonix (1129 Fluorite.jpg, pg. 3) is the same specimen as (1129 Fluorite.jpg, pg. 24). The chlorite, I think adds more character to it. Very cool…
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jun 30, 2014 10:58 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Jamison Brizendine wrote: | Mike,
Like Tobi, I have a weakness for fluorite specimens. |
It ain't a "weakness" - it's a fetish-like addiction ;-)
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 30, 2014 11:27 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Jamison Brizendine wrote: | Mike,
Like Tobi, I have a weakness for fluorite specimens. I particularly enjoy the three French fluorites, especially the Le Burc Mine (2081 Fluorite.jpg) fluorite.
I also have enjoyed the Elmwood Mine specimens (2165 Calcite.jpg, 1671 Fluorite.jpg) that both you and Don Lum on his thread have posted. It is one of my favorite localities.
Although this was many pages ago, I also enjoyed the aesthetics of the Carrolite specimen (1135 Carrollite (3).jpg, pg. 20) and the “Bahama Pod” Calcite from the Denton Mine (1373 Calcite.jpg, pg. 2)
I am assuming that the pink fluorite from Argentiere Massif, Chamonix (1129 Fluorite.jpg, pg. 3) is the same specimen as (1129 Fluorite.jpg, pg. 24). The chlorite, I think adds more character to it. Very cool… |
Hi Jamison,
Thanks for your nice comments. It's hard not to have a weakness (or as Tobi describes it, an addiction) for fluorite. I love MVT localities, and Elmwood is also one of my favorite locales ever since I acquired my first specimen from there over 40 years ago.
And yes, the images of the pink fluorite from Chamonix are of the same specimen, the last one being a shot of the entire piece. Lastly, why don't you consider starting your own collection thread. We'd enjoy seeing some of your collection.
Michael
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