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Firmo Espinar
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Quartz from Segovia, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (Nº-87).
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Chrysocolla, Azurite from Bédar, Almería, Spain.
Field collected in 2013.
| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Segovia, Northeastern, Antioquia Department, Colombia |  |
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| Dimensions: | 30mm x 52mm x 18mm |
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(Nº-87).
Single crystal with some extra faces. |
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| Mineral: | Chrysocolla |
| Locality: | | Reformada Mine, El Pinar de Bédar, Bédar, Comarca Levante Almeriense, Almería, Andalusia, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 60mm x 45mm x 35mm |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2020 05:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Quartz (variey amethyst) from Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico.
Light amethyst over a thin white plate, some of them doubly terminated.
| Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Municipio Tatatila, Veracruz (Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 68mm x 93mm x 36mm |
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| Light amethyst over a thin white plate, some of them doubly terminated. |
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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: | 68mm x 93mm x 36mm |
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| Backside with more crystals growing in the fissure between the matrix and the micro quartz white plate. |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: Apr 29, 2020 08:59 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Quartz from Segovia, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (Nº-88).
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Gypsum from Hornillos de Cerrato, Palencia, Spain.
Two opposing arrowheads.
| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Segovia, Northeastern, Antioquia Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 19mm x 55mm x 17mm |
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| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Valle de Cerrato, Comarca Cerrato, Palencia, Castile and León, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 48mm x 153mm x 40mm |
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| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Valle de Cerrato, Comarca Cerrato, Palencia, Castile and León, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 48mm x 153mm x 40mm |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 02, 2020 09:15 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Chrysocolla and Malachite from de L´Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, Dem Rep. Congo.
It looks like a Van Gohg painting with thick brushstrokes.
| Mineral: | Chrysocolla |
| Locality: | | L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine), Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Congo DR (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 56mm x 121mm x 65mm |
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| Mineral: | Chrysocolla |
| Locality: | | L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine), Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Congo DR (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 56mm x 121mm x 65mm |
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| Detail of the greenish blue brushstrokes. |
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| Mineral: | Chrysocolla and Malachite |
| Locality: | | L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine), Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Congo DR (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 121mm x 56mm x 65mm |
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| Backside with Malachite and botryoidal Chrysocolla. |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 05, 2020 11:10 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Gypsum from Granada, Spain.
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Pyrite from Huanzala Mine, Perú.
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Dravite (Tourmaline Group) from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Fabiola Mine (Balduino and Fabiola Mine), Albuñol, Comarca Costa Granadina, Granada, Andalusia, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 72mm x 163mm x 25mm |
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| Mineral: | Pyrite |
| Locality: | | Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru | |
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| Dimensions: | 29mm x 25mm x 25mm |
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| Mineral: | Dravite (Tourmaline Group) |
| Locality: | | Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 22mm x 34mm x 20mm |
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Tobi
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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Location: Good Old Germany
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| Posted: May 08, 2020 03:06 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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| Firmo Espinar wrote: | | Chrysocolla and Malachite from de L´Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, Dem Rep. Congo. It looks like a Van Gogh painting with thick brushstrokes. |
I like that chrysocolla var. vangoghite ;-)
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 08, 2020 11:36 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Thank you Tobi.
Nice to see you here.
Quickly we´ll talk with Alfredo Petrov, our fellow and a great scientific, to investigate about the new specie… Vincent would be very proud ;-)
And now a fluorescence pictures from an example bought in Bogotá.
Diopside from Grenville Scapolite Prospect, Québec, Canada.
Diopside on scapolite rock (variety wernerite). Blue violet fluorescence Diopside and yellow wernerite under UV light.
The wernerite variety is an intermediate member of the marialite-meionite series.
| Mineral: | Diopside |
| Locality: | | Grenville, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 46mm x 26mm x 20mm |
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| Mineral: | Diopside |
| Locality: | | Grenville, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 46mm x 26mm x 20mm |
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| Mineral: | Diopside |
| Locality: | | Grenville, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Argenteuil RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 46mm x 26mm x 20mm |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 11, 2020 15:32 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Quartz from San Cristobal, Suaita, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-89).
| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | San Cristobal, Municipio Suaita, Santander Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 14mm x 70mm x 9mm |
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(Nº-89).
With a central line of fine smoke. |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 15, 2020 17:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Quartz with Fluorite, Siderite and Pyrite from Panasqueira, Portugal.
| Mineral: | Quartz, Fluorite, Siderite, Pyrite |
| Locality: | | Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal | |
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| Dimensions: | 50mm x 72mm x 30mm |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Fluorite, Siderite, Pyrite |
| Locality: | | Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal | |
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| Dimensions: | 50mm x 72mm x 30mm |
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Tobi
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| Posted: May 17, 2020 12:32 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Nice Panasqueira specimen, Firmo!
What are the tiny reddish crystals, another generation of fluorite?
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 18, 2020 04:58 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Hi Tobi.
Thanks for your message.
The caramel-colored crystals perhaps look In the photo like octahedrons of a second fluorite generation.
But I´ve consulted with a great Panasqueira expert (our friend Jordi Fabre, overall FMF coordinator) and they are prisms with a rhombic section. It is siderite.
Best regards .
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This period at home, due the Covid-19, has allowed me to play with some software to get more decent photos. I hope you like some of them.
Quartz from Segovia, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (Nº-83)
A large top face with a symmetry axis in the crystallization surface.
| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Segovia, Northeastern, Antioquia Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 33mm x 70mm x 28mm |
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| A large top face with a symmetry axis in the crystallization surface. (Nº-83). |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 20, 2020 15:39 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Gypsum from Villalbilla, Madrid, Spain.
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Apatite from Panasqueira, Portugal.
| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Villalbilla, Comarca Cuenca del Henares, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 55mm x 50mm x 40mm |
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| It´s a cross section of a gypsum petals stalactite. |
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| Mineral: | Fluorapatite |
| Locality: | | Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal | |
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| Dimensions: | 25mm x 28mm x 23mm |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 23, 2020 12:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Calcite from Preguiça Mine, Sobral, Portugal.
| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Baixo Alentejo, Alentejo, Portugal | |
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| Dimensions: | 32mm x 53mm x 20mm |
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554 Time(s) |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 26, 2020 08:33 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Azurite from Almería, Spain.
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Erythrite from Almería, Spain.
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Quartz from San Cristobal, Suaita, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-91).
Through the loupe the inclusions seem very likely to be Goethite or limonite.
| Mineral: | Azurite |
| Locality: | | Reformada Mine, El Pinar de Bédar, Bédar, Comarca Levante Almeriense, Almería, Andalusia, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | FOV 22mm |
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| Mineral: | Erythrite |
| Locality: | | La Cena del Depósito Claim, Huércal-Overa, Comarca Levante Almeriense, Almería, Andalusia, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | FOV 13mm |
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411 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | San Cristobal, Municipio Suaita, Santander Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 15mm x 72mm x 11mm |
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| Through the loupe the inclusions seem very likely to be Goethite or limonite. (Nº-91). |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: May 29, 2020 08:33 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Gypsum from Cauca Department, Colombia.
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Aragonite from Macael, Almería, Spain.
| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Cauca Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 22mm x 102mm x 5mm |
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| Mineral: | Aragonite |
| Locality: | | Marble Quarries, Macael, Comarca Valle del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 45mm x 96mm x 45mm |
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Firmo Espinar
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| Posted: Jun 01, 2020 11:16 Post subject: Re: Collection of Firmo Espinar |
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Schorl from Santander Department, Colombia.
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Quartz from San Cristobal, Suaita, Santander Department, Colombia. (Nº-92).
Couple of translucent parallel crystals with a white top.
| Mineral: | Schorl |
| Locality: | | Santander Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 20mm x 64mm x 7mm |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | San Cristobal, Municipio Suaita, Santander Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 18mm x 76mm x 18mm |
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| Couple of translucent parallel crystals with a white top. (Nº-92). |
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85 Time(s) |
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