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Michael Shaw
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 Posted: Feb 18, 2017 12:04 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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A few more from the Illinois fluorspar district.
| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA |  |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 9.9 cm |
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| Pale purple cubic fluorite crystals with stepped growth and darker purple spots associated with metallic gray galena. The darker purple areas appear to by caused by microscopic chalcopyrite crystals partially embedded in the fluorite. |
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| Mineral: | Barite, fluorite |
| Locality: | | Gaskins Mine, Empire Sub-District, Pope County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.2 x 6.0 cm |
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| Intergrown dark purple fluorite cubes preferentally coated with tabular white barite crystals. |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.9 x 8.3 cm |
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| Honey-colored acicular scalenohedral calcite crystals with associated with a wedge of blue fluorite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 20, 2017 17:01 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Zeolite group.
| Mineral: | Chabazite (Series) |
| Locality: | | Wasson Bluff, Bay of Fundy, Parrsboro, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.0 x 9.1 cm |
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| Pseudorhombohedral salmon-colored chabazite crystals associated with pearly colorless heulandite from this classic Canadian locality. |
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| Mineral: | Clinoptilolite |
| Locality: | | Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.1 x 3.6 cm |
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| Colorless pseudohexagonal plates of pearly-lustered clinoptilolite with minor black julgoldite at the base. |
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Jamison Brizendine
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2017 15:29 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| The fluorite and baryte from the Gaskins is exceptional. Neat old time specimen we normally don't see from the IL-KY Fluorspar District.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 22, 2017 12:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thanks Jamison. As you know the vast majority of specimens available from the IL-KY Fluorspar district are from the Minerva, Annabel Lee, and Denton mines. I am always on the lookout for pieces from different locations. This year in Tucson, I found a combo specimen of fluorite/calcite from the North Green mine that I would like to have added to the collection, but the dealer was unwilling to negotiate, so I passed. If you are patient and willing to look carefully, these things show up every now and then.
| Mineral: | Millerite |
| Locality: | | U.S. Highway 27 roadcut, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 6.0 cm |
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| Typical geode from Halls Gap filled with chalcedony, pyrite and brassy hairlike millerite crystals. |
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| Mineral: | Millerite |
| Locality: | | U.S. Highway 27 roadcut, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 6.0 cm |
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| Mineral: | Barite |
| Locality: | | Murray Mine, Independence Mountains District, Elko County, Nevada, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.2 x 8.2 cm |
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| Colorless, blocky barite crystals to 1.2 cm coated with colorless sugary quartz. The quartz druze shows a preferential gray tint on one side of the specimen, perhaps due to included stibnite or other sulfides. |
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| Mineral: | Barite |
| Locality: | | Murray Mine, Independence Mountains District, Elko County, Nevada, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.2 x 8.2 cm |
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Bob Harman
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| Posted: Feb 22, 2017 14:49 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Your pictures of the millerite in the Hall's Gap geode prompts me to add a bit to update the Hall's Gap locality.
As noted, the locality is on US Highway 27 in Lincoln County Kentucky, near the town of Hall's Gap. Millerite and its oxidation products were found there in small to medium size geodes about the mid 1960s. Immediately the locality became the premier geode road cut locality in all of Kentucky, becoming popular with Midwest geode collectors and it was very heavily collected. Over the next 20 years or so a dangerous overhang developed as the productive zone was worked back. The Kentucky highway department then posted the area, but some clandestine collecting continued. About 1980-1990 the highway department reconfigured the road cut, knocking it down and covering it up with ground cover so that today there is grass and bushes with no more exposed rock.
Occasionally I still get asked about collecting at that road cut, but it is and has been an extinct road cut locality for about 25 or more years. BOB
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 22, 2017 18:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Bob Harman wrote: | Your pictures of the millerite in the Hall's Gap geode prompts me to add a bit to update the Hall's Gap locality.
Occasionally I still get asked about collecting at that road cut, but it is and has been an extinct road cut locality for about 25 or more years. BOB |
Thanks for the update Bob.
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Pierre Joubert
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| Posted: Feb 23, 2017 02:13 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Beautiful specimens Michael!
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Pierre Joubert
'The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. ' |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 23, 2017 14:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Pierre Joubert wrote: | | Beautiful specimens Michael! |
Thank you Pierre, I appreciate your comment.
Michael
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 24, 2017 17:16 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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I would guess that nearly every collector has memories of specimens from a particular find that you failed to acquire when they were available. Every once in a while, however, a second opportunity comes along. The following piece is one such specimen. I remember seeing several flats of these Brazilian azurites in Luis Leite's room at the Denver Show back in the early 1990s. I didn't get one at the time and it must have been a limited find, because they disappeared quickly. I was very happy to find this one from an old collection.
| Mineral: | Azurite |
| Locality: | | Seabra, Chapada Diamantina Region, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.2 x 11.5 cm |
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| Rosette-shaped pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite scattered over a matrix of blue azurite crystals and brown limonite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 26, 2017 12:19 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety smoky) |
| Locality: | | Tiro Estrella Mine, El Capitan Mountains, Capitan District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 2.6 cm |
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| Transparent Japan law-twinned quartz associated with tiny white feldspar crystals and untwinned quartz. |
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| Mineral: | Fluor-elbaite |
| Locality: | | Taquaral, Itinga, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.6 x 2.6 cm |
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| Blue F-dominant analogue of elbaite from the Ponte do Piauí claim, Piauí Valley. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Mar 01, 2017 15:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Barite |
| Locality: | | Lubin Mine, Lubin, Lubin District, Legnica, Lower Silesia, Poland | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 9.0 cm |
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| Thin light brown rounded blades forming two intertwined stalactites. |
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| Mineral: | Barite |
| Locality: | | Lubin Mine, Lubin, Lubin District, Legnica, Lower Silesia, Poland | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 9.0 cm |
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| Mineral: | Stilbite |
| Locality: | | Malmberget, Gällivare, Norrbotten, Lappland Province, Sweden | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.4 x 7.5 cm |
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| Rounded aggregates of dark brown stilbite with individual crystals reaching 0.6 cm. from the rich iron deposits of northern Sweden. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Mar 03, 2017 16:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Dundasite |
| Locality: | | Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.7 x 7.1 cm |
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| Coral-like aggregates of white to gray dundasite with small crocoite crystals protruding from the surface. Collected in 2016 from the type locality. |
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| Mineral: | Dundasite |
| Locality: | | Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.7 x 7.1 cm |
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| The fibrous radial structure of the dundasite can be seen on some of the broken surfaces. This helps to distinguish it from gibbsite, which can look similar. |
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| Mineral: | Dundasite |
| Locality: | | Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.2 x 2.8 cm |
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| White coral-like dundasite with prismatic orange crocoite crystals on a gossan matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Mar 06, 2017 15:40 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Quartz
| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Smoky Mountain Crystal Mine, Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.4 x 2.6 cm |
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| Collected by Michael Jacob in 2016 |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Crystal Park, Pioneer Mountains, Elkhorn Hot Springs, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.9 x 2.7 cm |
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| A sceptered crystal with smoky and amethyst zones. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Mar 08, 2017 17:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Siderite, dolomite, cubanite |
| Locality: | | Morro Velho Mine, Nova Lima, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 6.1 cm |
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| Lustrous yellow lenticular siderite crystals associated with colorless flattened dolomite rhombs, brassy hexagonal pyrrhotite crystals and twinned cubanite crystals. |
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| Mineral: | Siderite, dolomite, cubanite |
| Locality: | | Morro Velho Mine, Nova Lima, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 6.1 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2017 14:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.2 x 3.2 cm |
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| Lustrous hexagonal vanadinite crystals on a black stalactite of goethite or manganese oxides. Collected in 2016. |
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| Mineral: | Chalcedony |
| Locality: | | Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province, Indonesia | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.7 x 2.1 cm |
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| Botryoidal lilac-colored chalcedony from the recent find in 2016. |
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