| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Don Lum
Joined: 03 Sep 2012
Posts: 2900
Location: Arkansas
|
 Posted: Jul 02, 2018 13:43 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Jannie Groenewald from South Africa |
|
|
Welcome to The Forum, Jannie. Look forward to seeing more of your collection.
Don Lum
_________________
hogwild |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Tobi
Site Admin
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Posts: 4235
Location: Germany
|
| Posted: Jul 08, 2018 00:56 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Reference Thread |
|
|
| A warm welcome to our new "family members" ;-)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Kara
Joined: 22 Jul 2018
Posts: 120
|
| Posted: Jul 23, 2018 06:59 Post subject: Presentation of new members - Kara from Finland |
|
|
Hello from Finland!
I'm Kara, 45 years old female biologist and a newbie rock hobbyist. My hobbies include hunting, fishing, hiking, canoeing, northern adventuring and on my nature adventures I have collected lots of different rocks for fun. My mineral identification skills are poor so I am hoping you pros can help me with my questions sometimes. Thank you for the great forum you have here! In the pic my same-spirited friend for I'm behind the camera :D
| Mineral: | mixture of minerals |
| Locality: | | Finland |  |
|
| Dimensions: | 170 cm |
| Description: |
|
| Viewed: |
86884 Time(s) |
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
James Catmur
Site Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 1463
Location: Cambridge
|
| Posted: Jul 23, 2018 09:37 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Kara from Finland |
|
|
| Welcome to the FMF. We will try to help
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Firmo Espinar
Joined: 05 Apr 2017
Posts: 777
Location: Medellín, Colombia.
|
| Posted: Jul 23, 2018 10:10 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Kara from Finland |
|
|
Hi Kara.
Wellcome to FMF.
Casually i have a Finnish sister-in-law.
I´ve visited the south third of Finland, a natural paradise all green: Tampere, Vaasa, Kuopio and Mikkeli with the thousand lakes, Porvoo and Helsinki.
We wish your rocks and adventures could be as nice and interesting as the country.
Regards.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Don Lum
Joined: 03 Sep 2012
Posts: 2900
Location: Arkansas
|
| Posted: Jul 23, 2018 23:31 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Kara from Finland |
|
|
Welcome to The Forum, Kara.
_________________
hogwild |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Kara
Joined: 22 Jul 2018
Posts: 120
|
| Posted: Jul 24, 2018 16:43 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Kara from Finland |
|
|
Thank You all!
And thank you Franjungle for the beautiful words, you made me smile wide! =D Yes Finland is a big forest but the best places are up north, in Lappland. - Kara
| Description: |
| Summer reindeer on a wild gold river |
|
| Viewed: |
86446 Time(s) |
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Aaron Verrill
Joined: 29 Aug 2018
Posts: 1
Location: Mie Prefecture
|
| Posted: Aug 30, 2018 20:29 Post subject: Presentation of new members - Hello fellow rock/mineral enthusiasts (Aaron) |
|
|
I have registered with your wonderful website and am looking forward to getting to know the community here!
My name is Aaron, I'm an American living in Japan, and over the last few years have become fascinated (borderline obsession) with all things rocks and minerals. I mostly collect in rivers/abandoned mines and fee sites here in Japan. I have found a lot of interesting stuff! Occasionally I will call upon your help to figure out what it is.
I can spend a whole day (or three) studying skarn outcrops, searching granite plutons for pegmatite, or sifting through tailings at old mines. My wife thinks I'm a bit off my rocker but recently she has become quite interested in finding Jade and agates herself. A win for me!
My other interests include bonsai, suiseki, Boston Celtics, Red Sox and the best NFL franchise to ever walk the planet - your NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS!. Probably from that you can guess what part of the States I grew up in.
Anyway, Yoroshiku Onegai Shimasu! (Nice to make your acquaintance)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Gail
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
Posts: 5839
Location: Texas, Lone Star State.
|
| Posted: Aug 30, 2018 20:54 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Hello fellow rock/mineral enthusiasts (Aaron) |
|
|
Hi Aaron. I grew up in the South Shore of that very same State but now live near Dallas. It’s “Wicked”
Good to have you here.
| Aaron Verrill wrote: | I have registered with your wonderful website and am looking
forward to getting to know the community here!
My name is Aaron, I'm an American living in Japan, and over the last few years have become fascinated (borderline obsession) with all things rocks and minerals. I mostly collect in rivers/abandoned mines and fee sites here in Japan. I have found a lot of interesting stuff! Occasionally I will call upon your help to figure out what it is.
I can spend a whole day (or three) studying skarn outcrops, searching granite plutons for pegmatite, or sifting through tailings at old mines. My wife thinks I'm a bit off my rocker but recently she has become quite interested in finding Jade and agates herself. A win for me!
My other interests include bonsai, suiseki, Boston Celtics, Red Sox and the best NFL franchise to ever walk the planet - your NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS!. Probably from that you can guess what part of the States I grew up in.
Anyway, Yoroshiku Onegai Shimasu! (Nice to make your acquaintance) |
_________________
Minerals you say? Why yes, I'll take a dozen or so... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Firmo Espinar
Joined: 05 Apr 2017
Posts: 777
Location: Medellín, Colombia.
|
| Posted: Aug 31, 2018 10:23 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Hello fellow rock/mineral enthusiasts (Aaron) |
|
|
Hi Aaron.
Welcome to FMF.
We hope you tell us your studies and searches.
Regards.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Don Lum
Joined: 03 Sep 2012
Posts: 2900
Location: Arkansas
|
| Posted: Aug 31, 2018 12:11 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Hello fellow rock/mineral enthusiasts (Aaron) |
|
|
Welcome to The Forum, Aaron.
Don
_________________
hogwild |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
chris
Site Admin
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
Posts: 538
Location: Grenoble
|
| Posted: Sep 02, 2018 03:43 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Hello fellow rock/mineral enthusiasts (Aaron) |
|
|
Hi Aaron,
こちらこそ ! Hope you'll enjoy FMF as well as we do.
Christophe
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sfpa sunstone
Joined: 04 Sep 2018
Posts: 3
Location: Oakland , CA
|
| Posted: Sep 04, 2018 21:14 Post subject: Presentation of new members - Kevin from Oakland, California |
|
|
| Hello, my name is Kevin, I have a lot of crystals and minerals and hope to post photos and identify them. I haven`t learned to post on the forum. I have only been able to reply to a thread ? I am not sure, really just joined. But I particularly have an orange cabochon with some small veins (stratifications, swirls of different color/shade of orange. I don`t think it`s agate ... maybe a rare Jasper ? I don`t know. But I have dozens of specimens I would like to identify. Regards
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sfpa sunstone
Joined: 04 Sep 2018
Posts: 3
Location: Oakland , CA
|
| Posted: Sep 04, 2018 21:28 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Introduction from Minnesota, USA |
|
|
| In https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=62335#62335 AntonioL wrote: | Greetings,
I currently live in Minnesota, USA. I grew up (my first 28 years) in the Republic of Panama and most of my experience with minerals was with cryptocrystalline quartz material (jasper, agate, chalcedony, etc).
When I left Panama I took about two tons of material with me. The thought was to become a lapidary and work the items into jewelry and who knows what else.
From a young age I was always fascinated with mineral specimens. My father was a civil engineer and we had two separate books on minerals and I spent hours looking through them at all the shapes and colors.
I would like to find a way to find and gather mineral specimens on my own some day.
Cheers,
Antonio |
Antonio, nice to meet you. I just joined, my name is Kevin. In your travels in Panama did you ever come across Black Opal ? I don`t know if it was the same as Australian Opal which I believe (???) occurs in prehistoric ocean beds. I don`t know where black Opal occurs. I used to have a Honduran black opal cabochon, but I don`t know where it is. Anyway, do you have a lot of material from when you were in Panama, and what are some of the great stuff ? Did you ever set up the lapidary stuff ? Kevin
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Pierre Joubert
Joined: 09 Mar 2012
Posts: 1605
Location: Western Cape
|
| Posted: Sep 05, 2018 02:48 Post subject: Re: Presentation of new members - Kevin from Oakland, California |
|
|
Hi Kevin and Antonio. Welcome here. Looking forward to what you have to share.
_________________
Pierre Joubert
'The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. ' |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ 
Register
Log in
Forgotten your password?
