FMF - Friends of Minerals Forum, discussion and message board

[jaysminerals]

Hi Carles
That Galena is a nice one. I am also looking for something like this for quite a while. I like this sharp isolated style.

[Carles Millan]

Ferberite, siderite, muscovite

Almost a floater of ferberite with siderite and muscovite. Overall size: 56 mm x 45 mm. Weight: 92 g. Collected ca. 1979. Ex Joaquim Folch collection, with handwritten label.

Panasqueira Mines, Level 2, Panasqueira, Covilhã, Castelo Branco District, Portugal.

Photos copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited. Creative Commons Attribution License - Some Rights Reserved.

[Carles Millan]

Calcite, sphalerite, Baryte

Huge doubly terminated, almost a floater, single calcite crystal associated with sphalerite and Baryte, typical in this mine. Great transparency, complete all around, no damage. Overall size: 130 mm x 80 mm. Weight: 487 g.

Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA.

Photos copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited. Creative Commons Attribution License - Some Rights Reserved.

My Personal Site

---

5453M-calcite1.jpg
Description:	Calcite, sphalerite, Baryte Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA 130 mm x 80 mm
Viewed:	53684 Time(s)

---

---

5453M-calcite.jpg
Description:	Calcite, sphalerite, Baryte Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA 130 mm x 80 mm
Viewed:	53754 Time(s)

---

[Carles Millan]

Sphalerite, dolomite

A sunburst of sparkling black sphalerite crystals measuring almost 80 mm across, with individual crystals to 23 mm in size, set on a breccia matrix with minor dolomite. When looking closely some of the crystals show a red translucency near the edges. Overall size: 97 mm x 93 mm x 45 mm. Weight: 479 g. Ex Dr. Steve Neely collection #402 with label.

Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA.

Photo copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited and the image not modified. Creative Commons Attribution License - Some Rights Reserved.

[Carles Millan]

Hematite, rutile, quartz

Metallic silver-black bladed hematite crystal measuring 23 mm wide and about 2 mm thick, on a granitic matrix. There are numerous small red rutile crystals set on the hematite and a small colorless transparent quartz crystal at the base. Overall size: 54 mm x 37 mm. Weight: 31 g.

Cavradi gorge, Curnera Valley, Tujetsch, Vorderrhein Valley, Grischun, Switzerland.

Photos copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited. Creative Commons Attribution License - Some Rights Reserved.

[Carles Millan]

Scheelite, fluorite, quartz, calcite

Combo specimen with purple-blue gem cubic fluorites in association with a cluster of brown-gray scheelites, with little snowy calcite rhombs on a colorless quartz crystal. Complete all around, 360º. Overall size: 55 mm x 30 mm x 25 mm. Weight: 38 g.

Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan, China.

Photos copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited and the image not modified. Creative Commons Attribution Licence - Some Rights Reserved.

[Gerhard Niklasch]

This morning I glanced at the mindat gallery and saw at first just the upper two thirds of the above picture, and the `Scheelite...' heading and locality but not yet the submitter's byline, and I immediately thought - `Gosh, this sure looks like a Carles Millan piece. It's just this kind of style that would appeal to his good taste - it has variety and balance...'

Then I scrolled a little further down and saw that I was right :)

Many thanks, and please do keep them coming - a journey around the world in a specimen a day!

[Carles Millan]

To Gerhard Niklasch:

Hi!

Many thanks to you for your kind comments. A piece a day would be okay. Unfortunately there are much more days ahead than specimens left in my collection. In fact, I'm already running out of them, and worst of all, my pocket is getting emptier as time passes by. We all must be very grateful to the digital photography, that allows us to shot until we get tired, for free!

Please, keep posting you too. I guess you must have a lot more pieces to publish.

Sincerely,

[jaysminerals]

Wow. What a killer. I really really like that one. Keep posting.

[Carles Millan]

Hi Jay!

Very glad you like it.

Danke schön! Freundlich und herzlich Grüße von Katalonien nach Bayern...

[Carles Millan]

Tourmaline (schorl)

Single crystal showing a nonagonal prismatic habit, shot in three different positions. Overall size: 71 mm x 51 mm. Weight: 256 g. Purchased in 1975 from Jaume Serrate.

Yinnietharra pegmatite, Yinnietharra Station, Pilbara Region, Western Australia, Australia.

Please note that that locality is not the same as the classical and very known where the dravites came from (which are not a pegmatite and were from Soklich Open Cut, in the Yinnietharra area as well). For more info you can go to https://www.mindat.org/loc-7612.html

From "Newsletter of the Friends of the E. de C. Clarke Earth Science Museum: September 2006.", page 13: Yinnietharra pegmatites: Many of the pegmatites in this area simply contain quartz, plagioclase, microcline, muscovite and schorl (black tourmaline), as shown on the left. However, the area contains some major beryl pegmatites which have been mined for beryl, and others with interesting and unusual minerals.

Photos copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited and the image not modified. Creative Commons Attribution Licence - Some Rights Reserved.

[Carles Millan]

Apophyllite-(KF)

A radial cluster of tetragonal, cubically-tipped {100}, green to colorless apophyllite crystals, with several pseudo-octahedral {111} faces, likely from a find of year 2001. Overall size: 84 mm x 70 mm. Weight: 147 g.

Momin Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra, India.

Photo copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited. Creative Commons Attribution License - Some Rights Reserved.

[Carles Millan]

Pyrite

Four undamaged cubic pyrite crystals with mirror-like faces intergrown on a matrix of marlstone (some people claim it to actually be limolite). Field collected in spring 2007. Overall size: 95 mm x 78 mm. Main crystal: 52 mm wide, 31 mm on edge. Weight: 512 g.

Ampliación a mina Victoria, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain.

Photo 2780M-pyrite1.jpg illustrated in the full cover of the Livingstone album from the Dutch band Jungle by Night released in November 2018. For more details please go to https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=64744#64744

Photo 2780M-pyrite1.jpg illustrated in the book Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins, page 191.

Photos copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited. Creative Commons Attribution License - Some Rights Reserved.

My Personal Site

---

2780M-pyrite1.jpg
Description:	Pyrite Ampliación a mina Victoria, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain 95 mm x 78 mm
Viewed:	53218 Time(s)

---

---

2780M-pyrite.jpg
Description:	Pyrite Ampliación a mina Victoria, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain 95 mm x 78 mm
Viewed:	53292 Time(s)

---

---

2780M-pyrite2.jpg
Description:	Pyrite Ampliación a mina Victoria, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain 95 mm x 78 mm
Viewed:	53261 Time(s)

---

[Carles Millan]

Galena - PbS, calcite - CaCO₃, chalcopyrite - CuFeS₂

Cubic {100} galena crystal showing some octahedral faces {111}, with calcite and minor chalcopyrite. Note an octahedron with rough faces just at the bottom tip of the piece in the photo 2451M-galena.jpg, that may talk about the history of the specimen. Overall size: 51 mm x 35 mm. Galena crystal edge: 27 mm. Mass (weight): 155 g.

Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA.

Acquired in year 2001.

Photos copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited. Creative Commons Attribution License - Some Rights Reserved.

My Personal Site

---

2451M-galena.jpg
Description:	Galena, calcite, chalcopyrite Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA 51 mm x 35 mm. Galena crystal edge: 27 mm
Viewed:	53137 Time(s)

---

---

2451M-galena1.jpg
Description:	Galena, calcite, chalcopyrite Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA 51 mm x 35 mm. Galena crystal edge: 27 mm
Viewed:	53083 Time(s)

---

---

2451M-galena2.jpg
Description:	Galena, calcite, chalcopyrite Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA 51 mm x 35 mm. Galena crystal edge: 27 mm
Viewed:	53144 Time(s)

---

_________________
Al carrer Duran i Bas, si no hi vas no t'hi duran

[Carles Millan]

Beryl, muscovite

A piece with two water clear gemmy pale blue terminated prismatic aquamarine crystals set in V form upon a silvery muscovite crystal matrix. Damage-free. Overall size: 78 mm x 53 mm x 42 mm. Main beryl crystal: 28 mm tall, 22 mm wide. Weight: 151 g.

Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

Photo copyright © Carles Millan. Reproduction allowed as long as the author's name is cited. Creative Commons Attribution License - Some Rights Reserved.