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Michael Shaw
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More odds and ends.
| Mineral: | Elbaite |
| Locality: | | Baixao Mine, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil |  |
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| Dimensions: | 0.7 x 2.8 cm |
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| Transparent to translucent etched elbaite crystal with zones of pink, yellow, green, and red. |
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| Mineral: | Dioptase |
| Locality: | | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.2 x 2.3 cm |
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| Dioptase is notoriously difficult to photograph. After a good bit of editing, the color is very close to the original, at least on my monitor. |
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| Mineral: | Malachite |
| Locality: | | Kiswishi, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.7 x 2.3 cm |
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Jul 18, 2017 16:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| crosstimber wrote: | | More odds and ends. |
Three really nice specimens, Michael.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 18, 2017 19:43 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Don Lum wrote: | | crosstimber wrote: | | More odds and ends. |
Three really nice specimens, Michael. |
Thank you Don. Hope you and Gwen are doing well. Laura sends her regards.
Michael
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Philippe Durand
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| Posted: Jul 19, 2017 12:58 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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you post always pristine jewels.
your show case or cabinet should be impressive
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 19, 2017 15:21 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Philippe Durand wrote: | you post always pristine jewels.
your show case or cabinet should be impressive |
Thank you Philippe. Unfortunately I do not have room to display them all. About 20% are displayed in a lighted showcase; the remainder is stored in a cabinet with 20 drawers or boxed in flats. On the bright side, everything is well-labeled, photographed, and catalogued, so any particular piece can be found without too much trouble.
A few quartz pieces today.
| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Erongo Mountain, Usakos, Erongo Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.9 x 2.8 cm |
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| Colorless quartz crystal with a reverse sceptered amethyst tip. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Liliana Mine, Municipio Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.9 x 2.2 cm |
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| Transparent quartz cluster on a stem of milky quartz. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Patagonia Norte, Patagonia, Argentina | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.1 x 2.0 cm |
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| Stacked cluster of transparent quartz. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 20, 2017 11:33 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Silver and Copper. The last piece is one of my favorites. It reminds me of a jumping animal.
| Mineral: | Silver |
| Locality: | | Uchucchacua Mine, Oyón Province, Lima Department, Peru | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.8 x 2.5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Silver |
| Locality: | | Batopilas, Andrés del Río District, Municipio Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.6 x 2.0 cm |
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| Mineral: | Copper |
| Locality: | | Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.0 x 3.0 cm |
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| Typical spinel-twinned copper from Itauz Mine. |
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| Mineral: | Copper |
| Locality: | | White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 2.9 cm |
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| Elongated cubes of copper with scattered bits of malachite. |
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Pierre Joubert
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| Posted: Jul 20, 2017 12:44 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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' It reminds me of a jumping animal.'
My wife would like that. She always sees some animal shapes in rocks :-)
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Jul 20, 2017 13:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| crosstimber wrote: | | Silver and Copper. The last piece is one of my favorites. It reminds me of a jumping animal. |
Michael,
I really like your Silver TN 173 and Copper with elongated cubes TN 176. They are all marvelous specimens. My copper specimens don't levitate like yours. A real privilege to look at.
Hello to Laura.
Regards,
Don
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2017 08:36 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Thanks Don. You need to spend more time with your coppers and train them to jump like that :>)
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2017 13:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Fluorite
| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.8 x 2.1 cm |
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| Pale purple fluorite cubes with reddish-brown sphalerite crystals. |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.0 x 3.0 cm |
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| Fluorite with mosaic-textured faces on a matrix of resinous brown sphalerite. |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.2 x 2.4 cm |
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| Water clear fluorite cubes resting on brown siderite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2017 14:15 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Vesuvianite |
| Locality: | | Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.2 x 2.0 cm |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Ruck's pit, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.8 x 2.2 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 25, 2017 14:12 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Brazil
| Mineral: | Spessartine |
| Locality: | | Navegadora claim (Orozimbo claim), Penha do Norte, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.6 x 2.1 cm |
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| Gemmy wine-red spessartine with polycrystalline growth. |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite |
| Locality: | | Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.5 x 2.6 cm |
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| Bi-colored elbaite from the Morro Redondo Mine. |
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| Mineral: | Rutile ps. after anatase |
| Locality: | | Gouveia, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.1 x 1.8 cm. |
| Description: |
| Acicular golden rutile crystals paramorphing an anatase crystal from the occurrence at Cuiabá. |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jul 26, 2017 01:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Michael, I love your fluorite thumbnails, especially the ones from Annabel Lee Mine and from Nikolaevski Mine. Small but incredibly aesthetic specimens that every fluorite collector would appreciate!
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 26, 2017 09:51 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Tobi wrote: | | Michael, I love your fluorite thumbnails, especially the ones from Annabel Lee Mine and from Nikolaevski Mine. Small but incredibly aesthetic specimens that every fluorite collector would appreciate! |
Thank you Tobi. Good to hear from you. It has been very hot here the past couple of weeks, very much limiting the time spent outdoors. A great opportunity to photograph mineral specimens however.
Michael
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 26, 2017 11:28 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Here a a couple of old timers - thumbnails mounted by Willard Perkins, namesake of the Perky Box. Because of their historical interest, I chose to leave them as is rather than remount them. The rhodochrosite is mounted on a clear comb tooth, which he used quite often.
| Mineral: | Stilbite |
| Locality: | | Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.3 x 2.4 cm |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Silverton, Animas District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.8 x 2.2 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 27, 2017 12:24 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Olmiite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.8 x 2.0 cm |
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| Mineral: | Adamite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.9 cm |
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| Mineral: | Pyromorphite |
| Locality: | | Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.6 x 1.8 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 30, 2017 15:33 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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I guess the only commonality here is that they are all gemmy golden crystals.
| Mineral: | Scapolite |
| Locality: | | Morogoro Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.3 x 2.5 cm |
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| Marble occurrence, Morogoro, Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania |
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| Mineral: | Topaz |
| Locality: | | Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.8 x 2.2 cm |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 3.5 cm |
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| Classic twinned calcite from Elmwood. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 31, 2017 10:51 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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It has become easy to overlook vanadinite from Mibladen due to the plentiful supplies available in the recent past, but specimens from one pocket collected last year warranted a closer look.
| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.8 x 5.5 cm |
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| In May 2016 one of the local artisanal miners hit a pocket of vanadinite that was reminiscent of the specimens from Taouz. The vanadinite crystals are attached to stalactitic black manganese oxides. The entire pocket was acquired by one dealer, who had them at Tucson. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 02, 2017 12:18 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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The Bor Pit at Dal'negorsk has produced nice datolite crystals from time to time. In November 2016 some very fine datolites were collected. The specimens consisted of glassy, mint green crystals forming intergrown groups, many associated with milky quartz showing interference growth from calcite. Here are two specimens from this find.
| Mineral: | Datolite |
| Locality: | | Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 9.9 cm |
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| Mineral: | Datolite |
| Locality: | | Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.0 x 7.8 cm |
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Philippe Durand
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| Posted: Aug 02, 2017 14:02 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| far better than that we can see on the net §
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