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GneissWare
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 Posted: Mar 04, 2015 00:05 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection - quartz |
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| Nice. The photos good too!
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 04, 2015 19:01 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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Thanks Bob. Here is a version of the prior Berbes fluorite photographed using daylight balanced LED flood lamps.
| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | La Cabaña, Valdelmar, Berbes mining area, Berbes, Ribadesella, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain |  |
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| Dimensions: | 8.0 x 5.2 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 05, 2015 20:25 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - quartz |
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An opaque to translucent smoky quartz collected in 1946 by Ed Over.
| Mineral: | Quartz (var Smoky Quartz) |
| Locality: | | Pikes Peak, Teller County, Colorado, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 13.6 x 2.9 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 07, 2015 16:38 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - hematite pseudomorph |
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| Mineral: | Hematite |
| Locality: | | White Desert, Farafra Oasis, Matruh Governorate, Egypt | |
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| Dimensions: | 14.6 x 3.8 cm |
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| A large hematite after marcasite pseudomorph. |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 09, 2015 15:42 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - fluorite |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Hilton Mine, Scordale, Hilton, North Pennines Orefield, former Westmorland, Cumbria, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 7.5 cm |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Mar 09, 2015 16:05 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| What an outstanding fluorite specimen with that twin in the middle, wow!!!
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Mar 09, 2015 16:16 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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Mike, that is a beautiful fluorite specimen and it looks like it is in pristine condition.
Congratulations.
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2015 02:05 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| Thanks Tobi and Don. The piece is essentially free of damage.
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James Catmur
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2015 04:28 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| Very nice Hilton specimen.
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2015 18:05 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - rhodochrosite |
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Thanks James.
| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Inakuraishi Mine, Furubira, Shakotan Peninsula, Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan | |
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| Dimensions: | 11.5 x 8.0 cm |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Inakuraishi Mine, Furubira, Shakotan Peninsula, Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 8.1 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 12, 2015 23:22 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - calcite |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 11.6 x 5.2 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2015 21:07 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - andradite |
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A small cluster of gemmy andradite on a bed of pectolite.
| Mineral: | Andradite, Pectolite |
| Locality: | | Mine Lac d'Amiante, Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine, Les Appalaches RCM, Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.8 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Mar 15, 2015 04:01 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| A wonderful garnet gem specimen!
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 15, 2015 18:39 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - quartz |
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Thanks Tobi.
| Mineral: | Quartz (var. amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Ashio Mine, Namarisawa, Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.2 x 2.8 x 5.1 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 15, 2015 23:20 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - quartz with inclusions |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Hollandite |
| Locality: | | Anketsaketsa, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 14.0 x 12.0 x 6.9 cm |
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