Tomasz Praszkier
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 Posted: Jul 21, 2016 19:09 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2016 |
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One more note, concerning the pieces shown by Manuel Mesa - silver minerals from Morocco. I have seen these pieces in Midelt about a year ago, and I believe that these were natural crystals which were repolished or sandblasted.
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Tomasz Praszkier
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| Posted: Jul 23, 2016 10:12 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2016 |
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Here is photo of one medium size from 2-3 years ago.
| Tomasz Praszkier wrote: | | Jordi, I just saw your report from SMAM. Just small note, the titanites are not really new, they have been coming out for last 3-4 years. The biggest plates I have seen are the size of about 2 hands! Just this small note... |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Dec 18, 2016 14:37 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2016 - New Discoveries |
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| In this message Jordi Fabre wrote: | | ...The next few days I will complete this review with more photos of the new discoveries... |
Better late than never... ;-)
| Mineral: | Hutchinsonite with Pyrite on Galena |
| Locality: | | Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, Peru |  |
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| Dimensions: | Hutchinsonite main crystal size: 1 × 0.1 cm |
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| > Peru: new Hutchinsonites from Quiruvilca Mine. This time reddish and associated with well defined Pyrite crystals on Galena. |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.9 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm |
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| > Canada: new finds in Mt. Saint Hilaire of Rhodochrosites on floater and large (for the locality) crystals. |
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| Mineral: | Titanite on Rutile after Ilmenite and with Microcline |
| Locality: | | Imilchil area, Anti-Atlas, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | Crystal size: 10 x 5.3 cm |
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| > The most important comes from the area of Imilchil: very large crystals, up to 6 cm. of Rutile after Ilmenite fully coated by good crystals of green-yellowish Titanite. Most specimens are floaters but some are on a matrix of crystals of Microcline. In my opinion an extraordinary find, time will tell. |
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| Mineral: | Silver with Calcite |
| Locality: | | Tamdrost Mine, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.7 × 5.5 × 2.7 cm |
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| > Very good Silvers, well crystallized, in the not so well known mine of Tamdrost in the Bou Azzer area. |
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| Mineral: | Olivenite |
| Locality: | | Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | Olivenite main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm |
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| > New Olivenites of, apparently, Tazalarht. They have not a very high quality but they are interesting because they are related to beautiful rosettes of Azurite. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety chalcedony) |
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Smara (Western Sahara)
Specimen size: 5.3 × 5.2 × 4.7 cm
> Very peculiar chalcedony shaped like "underwater mines" from Smara, Western Sahara. |
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