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PostPosted: Sep 30, 2015 08:43    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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2295 Chalcedony.jpg
 Mineral: Quartz (variety chalcedony) with Mordenite
 Locality:
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra, India
 Dimensions: 7.7 x 11.6 cm
 Description:
Thread-like stringers of snow white chalcedony with a few small tufts of white mordenite. Collected in August 2015.
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PostPosted: Oct 02, 2015 17:20    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

Amid the myriad of wholesale minerals and jewelry in Rock Currier's tent a couple of weeks ago, I found the following two specimens. Both were collected by his good friend Bob Bartsch. The pyromorphite was accompanied by Bob's label that indicated it was collected on August 27, 1969. These are the gems that could often be gleaned by looking carefully through Rock's stock. I sure will miss him.


TN574 Pyromorphite - Sherman Mine, Idaho.jpg
 Mineral: Pyromorphite
 Locality:
Sherman Mine, Burke, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
 Dimensions: 1.5 x 2.7 cm
 Description:
Small olive green hexagonal prisms with hoppered terminations. The Sherman mine is in the same district as the more famous Bunker Hill mine, but specimens from the Sherman Mine are not nearly as common.
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TN574 Pyromorphite - Sherman Mine, Idaho.jpg



2302 Vanadinite.jpg
 Mineral: Vanadinite
 Locality:
J.C. Holmes Mine, Temporal Gulch area, Patagonia, Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
 Dimensions: 3.7 x 5.7 cm
 Description:
Brownish-orange hexagonal crystals to 0.7 cm with pyramidal terminations covering the top of a breccia matrix.
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PostPosted: Oct 04, 2015 10:41    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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TN581 Rhodochrosite - Santa Eulalia, Mexico.jpg
 Mineral: Rhodochrosite
 Locality:
Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
 Dimensions: 2.3 x 3.0 cm
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PostPosted: Oct 04, 2015 12:35    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

A very aesthetic Santa Eulalia specimen Michael!
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PostPosted: Oct 04, 2015 13:18    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

Fiebre Verde wrote:
A very aesthetic Santa Eulalia specimen Michael!
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PostPosted: Oct 04, 2015 14:19    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

Wow, what a cool pyromorphite from Sherman Mine! The hollow structue reminds me of some Chinese ones, but this beauty is much rarer. To be honest, I never heard of the Sherman Mine before ... what a fine pyro!

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PostPosted: Oct 04, 2015 19:36    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

Michael,

The Pyromorphite, Vanadinite and Rhodochrosite are all killer specimens and great photography.

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PostPosted: Oct 05, 2015 10:44    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

Thank you Tobi and Don. Tobi, how fortunate you are to live in a town that has a mineral museum. My boyhood hometown also had a museum and that is how my fascination with minerals began.


Fluorite - Naica Mine, Mexico.jpg
 Mineral: Fluorite
 Locality:
Naica Mine, Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
 Dimensions: 2.0 x 2.4 cm
 Description:
An intergrown group of gemmy blue fluorite cube-octahedra associated with quartz, calcite, and pyrite.
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PostPosted: Oct 05, 2015 11:59    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

crosstimber wrote:
Tobi, how fortunate you are to live in a town that has a mineral museum. My boyhood hometown also had a museum and that is how my fascination with minerals began.

Believe me, I AM very fortunate to have this museum here!!! And it was the same in my childhood, my passion for minerals began with the first visit there as a primary-school pupil ...
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PostPosted: Oct 09, 2015 10:29    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District.


2231 Fluorite - Henson Mine.jpg
 Mineral: Fluorite
 Locality:
Henson Mine, Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar Mining District, Pope County, Illinois, USA
 Dimensions: 6.0 x 7.5 cm
 Description:
Pale lilac-fluorite crystals with tiny colorless calcite crystals. The Henson Mine was a vein-type deposit with few cavities, thus specimens from there are uncommon.
 Viewed:  27700 Time(s)

2231 Fluorite - Henson Mine.jpg



TN446 Witherite.jpg
 Mineral: Witherite
 Locality:
Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
 Dimensions: 2.0 x 2.4 cm
 Description:
A divergent group of colorless to white pseudohexagonal witherite crystals with pyramidal terminations.
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PostPosted: Oct 11, 2015 08:40    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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2296 Mesolite on thompsonite.jpg
 Mineral: Mesolite
 Locality:
Kannad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India
 Dimensions: 11.4 cm
 Description:
Acicular crystals of brown mesolite emanating from hemisperes of brown thompsonite set on a matrix of pinkish heulandite and stilbite crystals.
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PostPosted: Oct 13, 2015 16:03    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

I have been experimenting with a various setups for taking photos of thumbnail-sized specimens. The following two images were made with a bellows attachment. While this setup yielded somewhat acceptable results, I decided it was very cumbersome to deal with and didn't give the flexibility of a good macro lens, which I am now looking for.


TN528 Hematite - Ouro Preto, Brazil.jpg
 Mineral: Hematite
 Locality:
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
 Dimensions: 1.2 cm
 Description:
An 'iron rose" from the Coluna Mine.
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TN586 Stilbite-Chabazite - Wasson's Bluff, Nova Scotia.jpg
 Mineral: Stilbite (Series) with Chabazite (Series)
 Locality:
Wasson Bluff, Bay of Fundy, Parrsboro, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada
 Dimensions: Stilbite = 1.6 cm long
 Description:
A salmon-colored chabazite crystal approximately 0.7 cm across attached to a straw-colored stilbite.
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TN586 Stilbite-Chabazite - Wasson's Bluff, Nova Scotia.jpg


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PostPosted: Oct 14, 2015 10:19    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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TN578 Azurite - Nchanga Mine, Zambia.jpg
 Mineral: Azurite
 Locality:
Nchanga Mine, Chingola, Chingola District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
 Dimensions: 2.6 cm
 Description:
Collected in 1979.
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TN582 Anatase - Cuiaba, Brazil.jpg
 Mineral: Anatase
 Locality:
Anatase-Rutile occurrence, Cuiabá District, Gouveia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
 Dimensions: 1.6 cm
 Description:
This little piece comes from the anatase-rutile occurence in the Cuiaba District. I believe the golden color is a fine coating of rutile on the anatase, but it may be, in fact, a complete replacement of rutile pseudomorphing the anatase.
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PostPosted: Oct 15, 2015 10:04    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

I'm enjoying the new Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District specimens you are posting Mike. I am not familiar with the Henson Mine (2231 Fluorite - Henson Mine.jpg), the recent wulfenite pictures you took are very beautiful as well. The Kentucky fluorite from East Faircloth (2235 Fluorite.jpg) is wonderful too, the only Kentucky fluorites I typically see are the Danville ones.
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PostPosted: Oct 15, 2015 16:13    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

Jamison Brizendine wrote:
I'm enjoying the new Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District specimens you are posting Mike. I am not familiar with the Henson Mine (2231 Fluorite - Henson Mine.jpg), the recent wulfenite pictures you took are very beautiful as well. The Kentucky fluorite from East Faircloth (2235 Fluorite.jpg) is wonderful too, the only Kentucky fluorites I typically see are the Danville ones.


Thanks for your comments Jamison. The Henson Mine is in Pope County about 8 miles NW of Rosiclare. Because it is a vein deposit, there were very few cavities and not many mineral specimens were collected. Fluorites from the Kentucky side of the district are not commonly seen at shows, in spite of there being more mines on the Kentucky side. I think this is partly due to the fact that the Denton, Annabel Lee, and Minerva mines produced such an abundance of specimens in comparison to all of the other mines.
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PostPosted: Oct 17, 2015 10:05    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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2279 Benstonite.jpg
 Mineral: Benstonite
 Locality:
Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
 Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.5 cm
 Description:
Scalenohedral calcite crystals covered with an epitaxial overgrowth of benstonite crystals subsequently coated with a thin film of white Baryte. Collected circa 1960.
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PostPosted: Oct 19, 2015 11:41    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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2299 Barite 2.jpg
 Mineral: Barite
 Locality:
Cartersville, Cartersville District, Bartow County, Georgia, USA
 Dimensions: 7.7 x 8.0 cm
 Description:
A divergent group of thick blue-gray Baryte crystals to 5.5 cm. in length with chisel-shaped terminations.
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PostPosted: Oct 22, 2015 08:52    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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2292 Sphalerite.jpg
 Mineral: Sphalerite
 Locality:
Eagle Picher Mine, Picher Field, Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA
 Dimensions: 5.0 x 9.2 cm
 Description:
A group of lustrous dark brown sphalerite crystals to 3.0 cm with a doubly-terminated honey-colored calcite crystal.
 Viewed:  26806 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Oct 24, 2015 08:11    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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TN585 Topaz - Groot Spitzkopje, Namibia.jpg
 Mineral: Topaz
 Locality:
Groot Spitzkopje, Spitzkopje area, Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia
 Dimensions: 1.2 x 1.4 cm
 Description:
A gemmy colorless topaz crystal from the granite massif known as the "Matterhorn of Africa"
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PostPosted: Oct 27, 2015 14:24    Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw  

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2288 Fluorapophyllite.jpg
 Mineral: Fluorapophyllite-(K)
 Locality:
Nashik District (Nasik), Maharashtra, India
 Dimensions: 3.3 x 5.0 cm
 Description:
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