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Michael Shaw
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 Posted: Jan 13, 2018 12:41 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Datolite |
| Locality: | | Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA |  |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5.5 cm |
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| Polished white datolite nodule with brownish red highlights on the rim. The exterior of the nodule is water worn as it was collected offshore of Isle Royale. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 15, 2018 12:29 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Natrolite |
| Locality: | | Weyerhaeuser Lincoln Creek Quarry, Doty Hills, Lewis County, Washington, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 8.0 x 9.6 cm |
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| Delicate sprays of acicular white natrolite with colorless fluorapophyllite and rhombs of colorless calcite on a thin rind of black basalt. Collected in 1998 by Rudy Tschernich from the Valentine's Day pocket. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 18, 2018 16:30 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Prehnite |
| Locality: | | Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.2 x 6.8 cm |
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| Intergrown apple-green prehnite crystal groups to 2.1 cm. The bottom exhibits numerous cavities presumably once filled with anhydrite now partially filled with plates of grayish-brown quartz. |
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| Mineral: | Prehnite |
| Locality: | | Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.2 x 6.8 cm |
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| Bottom of the previous piece showing cavities once filled with anhydrite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 21, 2018 15:06 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Dolomite after calcite |
| Locality: | | Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures, Romania | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.0 x 8.5 x 11.0 cm |
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| Pale pink dolomite replacing calcite crystals. The pseudomorphs are tubular to conical in shape and have hollow terminations. This piece was collected circa 1965 from a small pocket that yielded only 3 specimens. A very unusual specimen from the district. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 23, 2018 09:41 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Second Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.6 x 4.9 x 6.2 cm |
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| Intergrown aggregates of lustrous rhombic pink calcite crystals. Bright orange-red fluorescence under SW-UV light. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 24, 2018 14:56 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Sphalerite |
| Locality: | | Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.0 x 13.5 cm |
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| Dark brownish-black sphalerite crystals to 2.7 cm with a resinous luster covering a typical chert breccia matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 26, 2018 10:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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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: | 5.0 x 7.6 x 9.2 cm |
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| A large cubic galena crystal measuring 6.0 x 7.0 cm with surface fortifications that exhibit cuboctahedral growth. A few small bladed marcasite crystals are also present. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 29, 2018 11:43 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Serandite with Natrolite, Rhodochrosite and Aegirine |
| Locality: | | Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.0 x 6.6 cm |
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| Large blocky salmon-colored serandite crystal with colorless natrolite crystals, reddish-brown rhodochrosite, and black aegirine. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 30, 2018 18:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Galena |
| Locality: | | Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.8 x 8.1 cm |
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| An elongated cubic crystal measuring 2.5 x 4.5 cm on a breccia matrix coated with small white dolomite crystals. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jan 31, 2018 16:17 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Mesolite |
| Locality: | | Cap d'Or, Bay of Fundy, Parrsboro, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.8 x 7.7 cm |
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| Snow white hemispherical aggregates of mesolite associated with small white bladed stilbite crystals. Collected July 2, 2009 by Terry Collett. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 02, 2018 10:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Stilbite |
| Locality: | | Wasson Bluff, Bay of Fundy, Parrsboro, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.6 x 2.7 cm |
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| Light brown wheat-sheaf crystal of stilbite with pearly white heulandite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2018 15:01 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Andradite |
| Locality: | | Stanley Butte area, Stanley Butte, Stanley District, San Carlos Indian Reservation, Graham County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.7 x 2.5 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 08, 2018 10:58 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Weloganite |
| Locality: | | Francon Quarry, Montréal, St. Michel District, Jacques Cartier County, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.4 x 2.3 cm |
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| Pseudohexagonal grayish weloganite crystals with horizontal growth striations on the prism. Small black specks are an unknown sulfide. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 10, 2018 12:01 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Pashan Quarries, Pashan, Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.0 x 8.5 cm |
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| Honey yellow scalenohedral calcite crystals to 1.5 cm on bladed white stilbite and basalt. Collected in 2006. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2018 15:35 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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In 1994 my son and I decided to go camping in the San Francisco Mountains in eastern Arizona. On the way, we passed through Magdalena, New Mexico and stopped at Tony Otero's shop. He showed us some amazing smithsonites and related several interesting stories about collecting them. We left with these two pieces which he had collected on the 375' Level in the 1960s. The first specimen shows crystals with a rice-grain habit on aurichalcite with specks of what I believe to be tenorite. The second piece is the more typical botryoidal form that made this location famous.
| Mineral: | Smithsonite on Aurichalcite |
| Locality: | | Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5.0 cm |
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| Mineral: | Smithsonite |
| Locality: | | Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.7 x 4.1 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 14, 2018 17:17 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Orpiment |
| Locality: | | Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.2 x 7.0 cm |
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| A rich mass of earthy to micaceous yellow orpiment. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 16, 2018 11:10 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Quartz var. smoky quartz |
| Locality: | | Reel Mine, Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.6 x 4.7 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 19, 2018 12:22 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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A couple of New England classics.
| Mineral: | Quartz var. smoky quartz |
| Locality: | | Moat Mountain, Hale's Location, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.0 x 5.6 cm |
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| Mineral: | Microcline and Albite |
| Locality: | | Moat Mountain, Hale's Location, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.2 x 4.4 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 23, 2018 16:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Meta-Autunite |
| Locality: | | Malacacheta, Malacacheta District, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.6 x 3.0 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Feb 25, 2018 14:41 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Andradite |
| Locality: | | Ojos Españoles Mine, General Lázaro Cárdenas, Municipio Julimes, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.2 x 7.1 x 12.0 cm |
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