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Pierre Joubert
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 Posted: Aug 14, 2017 10:29 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you, Michael. Pleasurable viewing:-)
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 14, 2017 14:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Pierre Joubert wrote: | | Thank you, Michael. Pleasurable viewing:-) |
Many thanks, Pierre. Glad to be one of the sources of your "viewing pleasure."
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 16, 2017 09:29 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Municipio Tatatila, Veracruz (Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), Mexico |  |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5.0 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 24, 2017 14:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Aragonite |
| Locality: | | Yeso, De Baca County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.1 x 4.2 cm |
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| Twinned pseudohexagonal aragonite crystal. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety rose quartz) |
| Locality: | | Globe Mine, Springfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.7 x 6.2 cm |
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| Massive rose quartz with excellent transparency. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 25, 2017 10:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Barite |
| Locality: | | Denton Mine, Goose Creek Mine group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.3 x 6.7 cm |
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| Brecciated purple fluorite cemented with lustrous, yellow, bladed barite crystals that show internal zoning in light yellow and clear bands. Collected on the Rosiclare Level in 1983. |
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| Mineral: | Barite |
| Locality: | | Denton Mine, Goose Creek Mine group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.3 x 6.7 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 27, 2017 13:16 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Baryte |
| Locality: | | "Green Tracts” (North Green Mine, East Green Mine, West Green Mine), Bethel Level, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.0 x 8.0 x 11.5 cm |
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| Sharp, chisel-point, bladed barite from the Bethel Level of the West Green Mine. Collected in the 1960s. The North Green, East Green, and West Green mines were all good ore producers in their day, however documented specimens from these mines are quite uncommon. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 28, 2017 09:17 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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The following two specimens date to the early 1960s and were the first pieces of galena in my collection. Thus began my passion for PbS.
| Mineral: | Galena |
| Locality: | | Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper County, Missouri, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 8.0 cm |
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| Cubic crystals with small octahedral corner modifications. |
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| Mineral: | Galena |
| Locality: | | Ballard Mine, Baxter Springs, Picher Field, Tri-State District, Cherokee County, Kansas, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 4.5 cm |
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| Cube-octahedral galena with tiny pyrite cubes. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 29, 2017 13:43 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Celestine |
| Locality: | | White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.3 x 10.5 cm |
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| Divergent sprays of pale blue, bladed, celestite crystals to 3.0 cm. on matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 30, 2017 16:07 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Las Salinas, Otume, Paracas District, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.3 x 9.4 cm |
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| Transparent yellow-orange twinned gypsum crystals with associated halite on the base. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 31, 2017 12:26 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.2 x 10.9 cm |
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| Reddish brown calcite crystals with overgrowths and inclusions of hematite covered by a second generation of lighter colored calcite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Sep 02, 2017 09:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.6 x 7.6 cm |
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| Intergrown groups of cubic green fluorite crystals to 1.5 cm. with purple cores. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Sep 04, 2017 13:27 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Chalcopyrite on dolomite |
| Locality: | | Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 6.1 cm |
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| Sharp sphenoidal crystals of iridescent chalcopyrite and curved crystals of pink dolomite on a small bit of chert matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Sep 05, 2017 13:32 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Mottramite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, level 35, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.4 x 6.0 cm |
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| Velvety-textured olive green mottramite forming cauliflower-like aggregates. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Sep 06, 2017 12:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Prehnite pseudomorph after Anhydrite |
| Locality: | | Lane Quarry, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.3 x 5.1 cm |
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| A stout stalactite of mint green prehnite pseudomorphing anhydrite. A rectangular hole is visible on the bottom of the specimen which once contained the anhydrite. |
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vic rzonca
Joined: 18 Nov 2008
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Location: MA
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| Posted: Sep 06, 2017 14:33 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| That prehnite is a beauty Mike, and a really nice image. So little comes out of that location. That may have been found in the past couple years, I managed to collect a few almost identical to yours. Nice to see a fine specimen, from my backyard, presented the way you have done so. Thanks.
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