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Michael Shaw
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 Posted: Dec 28, 2016 16:04 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Xenotime-(Y) |
| Locality: | | Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil |  |
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| Dimensions: | 1,1 x 2.5 cm |
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| Two crystals of xenotime-(Y) in sub-parallel growth. |
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| Mineral: | Titanite |
| Locality: | | Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.8 x 2.0 cm |
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| A single twinned titanite crystal heavily coated with chlorite. |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | First Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.3 x 2.9 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Dec 31, 2016 13:25 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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The last post for 2016. Happy New Year to everyone.
| Mineral: | Spessartine |
| Locality: | | Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.8 x 2.1 cm |
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| A wine-red spessartine that resembles those from the Navegedora Mine in Brazil. |
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| Mineral: | Brookite |
| Locality: | | Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.1 x 2.4 cm |
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| Two translucent striated brown bladed brookite crystals in parallel growth. |
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| Mineral: | Zircon |
| Locality: | | Astor Valley, Astor District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.9 x 2.4 cm |
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| Sharp reddish-brown zircon crystal partially embedded in a matrix of albite and mica. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 02, 2017 12:27 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mont Saint-Hilaire.
| Mineral: | Arfvedsonite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.7 x 2.5 cm |
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| Doubly-terminated floater of lustrous black arfvedsonite with a spike of aegirine on the top. |
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| Mineral: | Serandite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.8 cm |
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| Lustrous blocky crystal of salmon-colored serandite with a prismatic black aegirine crystal. |
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| Mineral: | Elpidite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.0 x 2.8 cm |
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| Elongate prisms of greenish-gray elpidite with white albite and tiny cubic pyrites. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 04, 2017 15:32 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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A few more from Mont Saint-Hilaire.
| Mineral: | Analcime |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.7 x 2.5 cm |
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| A white caterpillar of analcime crawls up the side of an aegirine crystal. |
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| Mineral: | Analcime |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 2.3 cm |
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| Mineral: | Polylithionite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.7 x 2.0 cm |
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| A hexagonal rosette of polylithionite. |
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| Mineral: | Calcioancylite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 2.7 cm |
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| Calcioancylite-(Ce) pseudomorph after remondite. |
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Jim
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| Posted: Jan 05, 2017 17:34 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Keep these coming, Michael! Great photos of truly fine specimens.
Thanks
Jim
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 08, 2017 16:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you Jim.
| Mineral: | Datolite |
| Locality: | | Houghton County, Michigan, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 6.5 x 7.5 cm. |
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| A polished section of a creamy white porcelaneous datolite nodule with a gray rim. |
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| Mineral: | Datolite |
| Locality: | | Houghton County, Michigan, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 6.5 x 7.5 cm. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 11, 2017 17:34 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Silver |
| Locality: | | Kongsberg mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.1 x 2.5 cm |
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| A sculptural silver consisting of thick ropy wires from a historic locale. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 13, 2017 12:33 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Azurite |
| Locality: | | Lost Lake Claim, Nacimiento Mine, San Pablo, Cuba, Sandoval County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.6 x 1.8 cm |
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| A spherical concretion of azurite forming the center of a rosette. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Parun (Paroon), Wama District (Vama District), Nuristan Province, Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 2.0 cm |
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| Crude crystals of rose quartz from a pegmatite locality other than Brazil. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Andilamela District, Alaotra-Mangoro Region, Toamasina Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 2.1 cm |
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| A glassy quartz crystal group with colorless and amethyst zones. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 18, 2017 12:44 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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For several years I focused on collecting that most ubiquitous sulfate mineral - Gypsum.
| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | West Branch Meander Creek, Ellsworth, Mahoning County, Ohio, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.2 x 3.0 cm |
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| This little crystal, collected on the W. Branch of Meander Creek, was sent to me by FMF member Pete Richards after we met at a show in Brunswick, Ohio. I have had it in my collection for 25 years. |
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| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Kerhonkson, Ulster County, New York, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 5 cm |
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| Doubly-terminated gypsum crystal with inclusions of gray clay and hoppered terminations. Collected by my parents in October 1997. |
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| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Little Beaver Creek, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.0 x 12.0 cm |
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| A cluster of reddish-brown clay-included gypsum crystals collected in the 1970s from a now defunct location. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 20, 2017 14:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Cerussite |
| Locality: | | Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.3 x 2.3 cm |
| Description: |
| A V-twinned cerussite crystal with minor aurichalcite. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.7 x 2.9 cm |
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| A small cluster of transparent rock crystal. |
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| Mineral: | Sulfur |
| Locality: | | Maybee Quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 2.1 cm |
| Description: |
| Partially etched yellow sulfur crystal associated with colorless calcite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 21, 2017 13:00 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay Quarry, Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay, Les Jardins-de-Napierville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.6 x 2.0 cm |
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| Doubly-terminated quartz crystals associated with rhombs of pearly dolomite |
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| Mineral: | Vivianite |
| Locality: | | Morococala Mine, Santa Fé Mining Distric, Dalence Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.0 x 2.5 cm |
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| Gemmy crystals of vivianite in parallel growth. |
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| Mineral: | Siderite |
| Locality: | | Estacada Pyrite Locality, Clackamas River Localities, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.6 x 2.9 cm |
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| Spherical aggregates of siderite associated with colorless calcite in a gray basalt matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 23, 2017 15:49 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Crocoite |
| Locality: | | Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Zeehan District, West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.3 x 2.9 cm |
| Description: |
| A group of divergent prismatic crystals with hoppered terminations. |
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| Mineral: | Sulfur |
| Locality: | | San Felipe, Mexicali, Baja California, Baja California, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 2.6 cm |
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| Lustrous bright yellow sulfur crystals showing some skeletal growth. |
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| Mineral: | Heulandite with Celadonite inclusions |
| Locality: | | Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.2 x 2.1 cm |
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| Heulandite crystal aggregate colored green by celadonite inclusions. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 24, 2017 17:03 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite |
| Locality: | | Otjua Mine, Otjua Farm 37, Karibib District, Erongo Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 4.2 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2017 15:49 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Beryl |
| Locality: | | Ruby Violet Claims, Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 2.2 cm |
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| Mineral: | Topaz |
| Locality: | | Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.8 x 2.5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 2.8 cm |
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2017 16:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael,
The last three specimens were very nice and so was your photography.
Hope you and Laura enjoy Tucson.
Don
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 26, 2017 11:10 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thanks Don, I appreciate your comment. We're both looking forward to some warmer weather in Tucson. Hope to see you and Gwen there.
Michael
| Mineral: | Silver |
| Locality: | | Sarbaiskoe deposit, Rudny, Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.0 x 2.2 cm |
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| Mineral: | Stellerite |
| Locality: | | Sokolovskoe Mine (Sokolovskiy Mine), Rudny, Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.8 x 2.4 cm |
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| Mineral: | Ilvaite |
| Locality: | | Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.9 x 2.5 cm |
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Nunzio
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| Posted: Jan 27, 2017 19:20 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Aesthetic Stellerite!
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jan 28, 2017 07:24 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Very nice red beryl from Utah, Michael!
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 28, 2017 10:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you Nunzio and Tobi.
| Mineral: | Copper |
| Locality: | | Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 2.5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Wavellite |
| Locality: | | Mauldin Mountain Quarries, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.4 x 1.7 cm |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Benchmark Quarry, St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, New York, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.9 x 2.7 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 30, 2017 17:01 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Celestine from a few U.S. locations
| Mineral: | Celestine |
| Locality: | | Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.9 cm |
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| Mineral: | Celestine |
| Locality: | | Blue Ball Stone Company Quarry, Blue Ball, Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 2.3 cm |
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| Mineral: | Celestine |
| Locality: | | Stoneco Quarry, Maumee, Lucas County, Ohio, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.2 x 2.3 cm |
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