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| Mineral: | Parahopeite |
| Locality: | | Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe (Kabwe-Ka Mukuba), Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia |  |
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| Dimensions: | 16,5 x 10,0 x 10,0 cm |
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Main crystal size: 2,1 cm
Yellow, sharp-edged tabular crystals on a matrix, at the base of which there are colorless crystals of what is probably hopeite (max 1cm)
MIM number 838
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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30051 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Phosgenite with Galena |
| Locality: | | Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna, Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 12,0 x 8,0 x 7,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 9,3 cm
Large, tabular gem crystal, amber-colored, on a galena matrix
MIM number 839
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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30072 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Azurite with Malachite |
| Locality: | | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 17,5 x 12,5 x 8,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 16,6 cm
Sheaf of large, lanceted and sharp-edged blue crystals
MIM number 840
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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30069 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Geocronite |
| Locality: | | Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 4,0 x 7,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,5 cm
Twins in an elbow shape made of two sharp-edged gray crystals covered with a brown coating; this variety of geocronite is apparently rich in bismuth
Mim number 841
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Ainu) |
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30051 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluor-liddicoatite |
| Locality: | | Bevaondrano pegmatite, Ikalamavony District, Matsiatra Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 2,0 x 2,0 x 4,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 4,5 cm
Limpid green crystal, with a recrystallized lower part in pink
MIM number 844
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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30077 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Orthoclase |
| Locality: | | Casatscha Valley, Cristallina Valley, Medel Valley, Medel (Lucmagn), Surselva Region, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 22,0 x 20,0 x 16,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 12,2 cm
White interpenetrated Manebach twins
MIM number 845
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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30029 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stokesite with limonite and Albite |
| Locality: | | Urucum Mine, Galiléia, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 10,5 x 9,0 x 11,5 cm |
| Description: |
Brilliant pearl white balls on limonite and albite
MIM number 847
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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30085 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Galena and Siderite |
| Locality: | | Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt/Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | 6,5 x 6,0 x 3,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,5 cm
Large crystal beside a smaller one of 1.5cm on siderite and quartz
MIM number 848
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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30047 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Chalcocite |
| Locality: | | St Ives Consols, St Ives, St Ives District, Cornwall, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 10,5 x 10,0 x 6,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 1,3 cm
Block of complex pseudo-hexagonal crystals, black and partially brilliant
MIM number 850
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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30107 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Phosgenite and Cerussite |
| Locality: | | Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 14,5 x 13,0 x 12,0 cm |
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Main crystal size: 10,5 cm
Perfect amber-colored crystal with pointed termination, in the middle of other, more coarsely formed crystals, and a small cerussite crystal at the base
MIM number 851
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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30180 Time(s) |
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Heimo Hellwig
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| The Azurite is absolutely stunning.
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| Posted: Sep 24, 2015 04:17 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Incredible specimens!!
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| Posted: Sep 24, 2015 10:38 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| That Neudorf galena!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tobi
I know - amazing!
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MIM Museum
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| Posted: Sep 26, 2015 07:46 Post subject: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon - Images of the Collection / 27 |
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| Mineral: | Boleite |
| Locality: | | Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 5,0 x 5,0 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,0 cm
Five perfect crystals on an earthy gangue
MIM number 852
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29646 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Pyrargyrite on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 13,0 x 13,0 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,1 cm
Rosette of brilliant crystals on the edge of a sheet covered with small white quartz crystals
MIM number 853
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29649 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorapatite (Apatite Group) on Albite |
| Locality: | | Sapo Mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 15,0 x 10,5 x 13,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 7,3 cm
Two large, perfect, flat hexagonal crystals in a dark green color on a brilliant matrix of albite
MIM number 854
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29707 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Topaz |
| Locality: | | Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 5,5 x 2,0 x 2,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 5,2 cm
Beautifully colored double terminated crystal, two-thirds transparent
MIM number 855
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29643 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Szenicsite |
| Locality: | | Jardinera número 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 6,0 x 4,0 cm |
| Description: |
Sheaf of sparkling green tablets, not very well crystallized, with a small pocket of small, well defined and very brilliant crystals
MIM number 856
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29626 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Grossular |
| Locality: | | Kayes Region, Mali | |
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| Dimensions: | 5,0 x 5,0 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,1 cm
Pale green rhombododecahedron with windows
MIM number 857
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29688 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Spessartine |
| Locality: | | Sangulungulu Hill (Nani Hill), Naan village, Loliondo, Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 3,5 x 3,5 x 3,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,7 cm
Translucent, tangerine-colored, trapezoidal icositetrahedron with some inclusions
MIM number 858
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29739 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Jeremejevite and Schorl |
| Locality: | | Ameib Farm 60 (Ameib Farm), Usakos, Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 0,5 x 0,5 x 6,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,5 cm
Large crystal, 3/4 blue and 1/4 white, with complete terminations, a small side crystal and small crystals of schorl
MIM number 859
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29623 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Brookite on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 5,0 x 6,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 5,1 cm
Large, brilliant, brown blades on a blade of white quartz
MIM number 860
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29788 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Tantalite-(Mn) with Albite and Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Mawi Pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum, Du Ab District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 8,5 x 9,0 x 10,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,5 cm
Perfect tiered red crystal on a slightly bluish white albite matrix
Mim number 861
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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| Viewed: |
29686 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2015 13:02 Post subject: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon - Images of the Collection / 28 |
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| Mineral: | Diopside |
| Locality: | | Karo Pit, D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 5,0 x 5,0 x 11,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,6 cm
Shiny, transparent, green crystal with a terminated (and probably twinned) upper portion
MIM number 862
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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29537 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorapatite (Apatite Group) on Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 11,0 x 11,0 x 6,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 4,7 cm
Two practically intact pink crystals on a muscovite matrix
MIM number 863
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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29506 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 14,0 x 9,0 x 6,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 9,7 cm
Intact, clear, colorless complex crystal with another white calcite crystal in the form of a handle penetrating the former; the colorless crystal becomes pink-orange under ultraviolet radiation
MIM number 864
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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| Viewed: |
29505 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Mimetite |
| Locality: | | Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 16,0 x 11,0 x 7,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,5 cm
Brilliant orange-yellow hoppered crystals, rather well separated, on limonite gangue
MIM number 865
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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29515 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Pyromorphite |
| Locality: | | Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 13,5 x 10,0 x 6,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,3 cm
Intact, shiny, apple green hoppered crystals
MIM number 866
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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| Viewed: |
29517 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite with Barite |
| Locality: | | Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 13,0 x 10,5 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,6 cm
Large, intact, lustrous, red crystals on white Baryte, the ensemble having apparently been found “floating” in the mine (no visible attachment)
MIM number 867
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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29582 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite |
| Locality: | | Pederneira Claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 3,5 x 20,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 18,4 cm
V-shaped sheaf of intact, translucent, light blue crystals. The group seems to be a floater.
MIM number 868
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29480 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Scheelite on Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 16,0 x 11,5 x 9,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 9,6 cm
Lustrous orange crystal with a transparent summit
MIM number 869
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29598 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Calcite with Stibnite |
| Locality: | | Xianhuang Mine (Xianhuangkuang Mine), Jinchengjiang District, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 17,0 x 10,0 x 9,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size:14,9 cm
Large, intact, translucent, yellow twinned crystal with stibnite tufts
MIM number 870
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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29531 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Topaz with Muscovite and Quartz (variety smoky) |
| Locality: | | Murzinka Mine, Sarapulka District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ural, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 12,5 x 10,0 x 6,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 5,0 cm
Transparent blue pinacoid on albite and muscovite with smoky quartz
MIM number 871
Photographer: James Elliott (FMl) |
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| Viewed: |
29591 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Oct 03, 2015 08:41 Post subject: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon - Images of the Collection / 29 |
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| Mineral: | Bastnäsite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 7,5 x 6,0 x 4,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,1 cm
Perfect hexagonal prism, honey-colored with hair-like inclusions (most likely astrophyllite)
MIM number 872
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29189 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Anglesite |
| Locality: | | Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 5,0 x 3,5 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 4,6 cm
Limpid, shiny, yellow crystal with very sharp-edged faces on a galena matrix
MIM number 874
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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29213 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Brookite with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 2,0 x 2,0 x 4,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,7 cm
Two red, transparent crystals with a small side crystal
MIM number 876
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29094 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety smoky) japan law twin |
| Locality: | | Tiro Estrella Mine, El Capitan Mountains, Capitan District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 8,0x7,0x6,5cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,4cm
Perfect Japan Law twin of brilliant, transparent smoky quartz
MIM number 877
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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29611 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 7,5 x 7,5 x 13,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,4 cm
Perfect colorless cubes surrounding a thin cream-colored gangue
MIM number 878
Photographer: James Elliott (FMl) |
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| Viewed: |
29165 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Spodumene |
| Locality: | | Kunar Province (Konar), Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 8,0 x 5,5 x 22,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 23,0 cm
Crystal with very visible twinning at the summit, brilliant, with a purple/pink top and a colorless middle and bottom
MIM number 879
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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29130 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | McEarl Mine, Blue Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 12,5 x 12,5 x 23,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 22,0 cm
Perfect single crystal --clear, colorless, lustrous and in a whistle shape-- with a small side crystal at the basis
MIM number 880
Photographer: James Elliott (FMI) |
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| Viewed: |
29105 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Calcite on Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 18,0 x 12,0 x 11,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 8,8 cm
Intact, transparent, amber-colored twinned crystal on a large purple fluorite crystal
MIM number 881
Photographer: James Elliott (Fine Minerals International) |
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| Viewed: |
29196 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Pyrite on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 7,0 x 7,0 x 6,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 4,4 cm
Perfect, lustrous parallelepiped on a rosette of white quartz crystals shaped like an artichoke
MIM number 882
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29130 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Lazulite |
| Locality: | | Laila base camp area, Ghanche District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 6,5 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,5 cm
Inky blue dipyramid with partially translucent edges
MIM number 883
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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29109 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Xenotime (Series) |
| Locality: | | Ibotirama, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 1,5 x 1,5 x 6,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,3 cm
Translucent, brown single crystal with good termination
MIM number 884
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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28887 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorapatite (Apatite Group) |
| Locality: | | Cerro de Mercado Mine, Cerro de los Remedios, Victoria de Durango, Municipio Durango, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 10,0 x 5,0 x 9,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 6,8 cm
Yellowish crystal with an intact, gemmy upper part growing on the edge of its matrix
MIM number 885
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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28882 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Acanthite on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Hidalgo, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 8,5 x 6,5 x 2,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 1,3 cm
Five perfect cubic crystals on a blade of white quartz
MIM number 886
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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28891 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Acanthite |
| Locality: | | San Juan de Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 6,5 x 5,5 x 4,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,2 cm
Aggregate of intact, brilliant, parallel pseudo-cubic crystals
MIM number 887
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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28928 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Acanthite |
| Locality: | | Guanajuato, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 4,0 x 3,0 x 3,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,3 cm
Brilliant, interpenetrating, sharp-edged cubes
MIM number 888
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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28876 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Acanthite on Calcite |
| Locality: | | Bote Mine, Zacatecas, Municipio Zacatecas, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 3,0 x 3,5 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 0,6 cm
Small, perfect, arborescent crystals emerging from a calcite matrix
MIM number 889
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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28881 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Acanthite |
| Locality: | | San Juan de Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 10,0 x 4,0 x 3,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,2 cm
Elongated ensemble of very sharp-edged crystals, some having faces that appear to be melted
MIM number 890
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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28922 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Acanthite |
| Locality: | | Mina Chispas, Arizpe, Municipio de Arizpe, Sonora, Sonora, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 11,5 x 6,5 x 6,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,5 cm
Perfect, very sharp-edged, lustrous, gray prismatic crystals
MIM number 891
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Ainu) |
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| Viewed: |
28988 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Polybasite |
| Locality: | | San Juan de Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 7,0 x 5,0 x 3,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,5 cm
Perfect gray rosette on a white matrix
MIM number 892
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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| Mineral: | Polybasite |
| Locality: | | Mina Chispas, Arizpe, Municipio de Arizpe, Sonora, Sonora, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 6,0 x 6,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,8 cm
Rosette of black lamellar crystals
MIM number 894
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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Philip Simmons
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| Posted: Oct 05, 2015 23:59 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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Ahh, so MIM got the famous Dick Jones/Tom McKee smoky quartz twin. I always wondered where that went. What an awesome specimen!
By the way, the locality info should read Mina Tiro Estrella, El Capitan Mountains, Capitan District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA. To my knowledge the El Tigre mine was a red herring implemented by Dick Jones to throw other field collectors off the trail of the actual locality.
I am currently the claim owner and am in the process of writing an article about the locality.
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Jordi Fabre
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Les Presmyk
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| Posted: Oct 08, 2015 15:41 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| It is the depth of the quality of the rare species that is most impressive although I want to be first in line for both the Russian topaz and the phosgenite.
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MIM Museum
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Oct 09, 2015 00:14 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Les Presmyk wrote: | | It is the depth of the quality of the rare species that is most impressive although I want to be first in line for both the Russian topaz and the phosgenite. |
Hello Les
I look forward to seeing you in Beirut to walk you through the rare species I've been lucky to collect since 1997. Actually, I must admit these are my favourite species.
Salim
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Les Presmyk
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| Posted: Oct 09, 2015 12:25 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| I also should have mentioned your cumengite and one that is not pictured, the Bisbee spangolite. I look forward to being able to take you up on your gracious invitation.
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MIM Museum
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2015 02:00 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Les Presmyk wrote: | | I also should have mentioned your cumengite and one that is not pictured, the Bisbee spangolite. I look forward to being able to take you up on your gracious invitation. |
Indeed. And just to name a few of the other rarities it took me a while to get in good "readable" samples: reinerite, stottite, wittichenite, chevkinite, getchellite, jalpaite, alamosite, geocronite, parahopeite, baotite, behierite, buttgenbachite, fresnoite, bikitaite, leadhillite, pezzottaite, sohngeite, oursinite, etc., all awaiting your visit...
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2015 11:02 Post subject: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon - Images of the Collection / 31 |
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| Mineral: | Creedite |
| Locality: | | Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 8,0 x 6,0 x 5,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,0 cm
Tufts of purple, gemmy crystals on a gangue
MIM number 895
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27863 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Creedite |
| Locality: | | Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 4,0 x 2,5 x 4,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,6 cm
Large, perfect, purple, gemmy crystal with an side crystal
MIM number 896
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27872 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Gibraltar Mine, Cueva de las Espadas, Naica, Municipio Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 13,0 x 6,5 x 4,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 12,8 cm
Colorless, almost perfect parallelogram with an side crystal
MIM number 897
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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28278 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Adamite (variety manganoan adamite) |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 7,5 x 3,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,0 cm
Chisel-shaped crystals with dark crimson points on limonite
MIM number 898
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27900 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Adamite (variety manganoan adamite) |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 5,5 x 4,0 x 6,5 cm |
| Description: |
Druse of crimson crystals in a ball on gangue
MIM number 899
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27952 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Adamite (variety manganoan adamite) |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 3,5 x 2,5 x 2,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,7 cm
Sheaf of squat, chisel-shaped crystals with violet termination
MIM number 900
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27884 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Adamite (variety cuprian adamite) |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 10,0 x 9,0 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 0,2 cm
Small green-blue crystals carpeting a limonite matrix
MIM number 901
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27855 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Adamite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 9,5 x 7,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 5,0 cm
Large, elongated, cream-colored crystal on limonite
MIM number 902
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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| Mineral: | Adamite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 26,5 x 4,5 x 6,0 cm |
| Description: |
Coating of brilliant, green microscopic crystals in the form of a snake, total length 25cm
MIM number 903
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27913 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Adamite (variety cuprian adamite) |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 8,5 x 7,0 x 3,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,0 cm
Well defined, pale green crystals on limonite
MIM number 904
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27870 Time(s) |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2015 12:08 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon - Images of the Collection / 31 |
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| MIM Museum wrote: | 896.jpg
Mineral: Creedite
Locality: Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico |
You even managed to get a specimen of creedite that looks aesthetic - now that's really amazing ;-)
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MIM Museum
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| Posted: Oct 11, 2015 01:38 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon - Images of the Collection / 31 |
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| Tobi wrote: | | MIM Museum wrote: | 896.jpg
Mineral: Creedite
Locality: Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico |
You even managed to get a specimen of creedite that looks aesthetic - now that's really amazing ;-) |
Hello Tobi
If truth be known, I did not. I must give credit to the late Miguel Romero who selected it. All I did is purchase his collection when his heirs sold it...
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| Posted: Oct 11, 2015 05:40 Post subject: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon - Images of the Collection / 32 |
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| Mineral: | Adamite with Calcite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 8,5 x 5,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 1,6 cm
Pale yellow crystals and colorless calcite on limonite
MIM number 905
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27690 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Adamite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 8,0 x 8,0 x 4,5 cm |
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Intact, brilliant, green crystal wheels growing on the 2 faces of a thin sheet of limonite
MIM number 906
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27705 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Hemimorphite |
| Locality: | | La Bocona Mine (Bocoyna Mine), Cerro las Minitas, Municipio Guadalupe Victoria, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 10,5 x 4,0 x 7,0 cm |
| Description: |
Botryoidal blue-green coating surrounding a flat gangue
MIM number 909
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27725 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Hemimorphite on Goethite and limonite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 19,0 x 10,0 x 7,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 2,2 cm
White wheels with a maximum width of 4.2cm on a matrix of goethite and limonite
MIM number 910
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27698 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Hemimorphite on Goethite and limonite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 7,0 x 7,0 x 9,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 1,4 cm
White crystal fans on a matrix of goethite and limonite
MIM number 911
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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| Mineral: | Stephanite |
| Locality: | | San Martín, San Martín-Sabinas District, Municipio Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 9,0 x 6,0 x 5,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 1,0 cm
Aggregate of small, lustrous, black casks (barrels)
MIM number 912
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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| Mineral: | Stephanite |
| Locality: | | San Juan de Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 5,5 x 3,0 x 4,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,7 cm
Two well formed, thick, gray tabular crystals
MIM number 914
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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| Mineral: | Pyrargyrite |
| Locality: | | Santo Niño vein, Fresnillo de González Echeverría (Fresnillo), Municipio Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 6,5 x 7,0 x 4,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,0 cm
Aggregate of brilliant, red, tabular pseudo-hexagonal crystals
MIM number 915
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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| Mineral: | Pyrargyrite with Calcite |
| Locality: | | La Luz, Municipio Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 7,0 x 5,5 x 5,5 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 3,2 cm
Silvery tabular crystals and a little white calcite
MIM number 916
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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| Mineral: | Wurtzite |
| Locality: | | Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 6,0 x 6,0 x 3,0 cm |
| Description: |
Main crystal size: 1,1 cm
from Oruro?
Stack of gray hexagonal crystals in sheets
MIM number 907
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu) |
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27705 Time(s) |
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Peter
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| Posted: Oct 11, 2015 09:27 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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During the years I have visited over 100 public museums of mineralogy.
As you all can see it is a fabulous collection, well worth the trip to Beirut!
I think I may go a second time to re review all marvels and take in some more recent acquisitions.
Best regards
Peter
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