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Michael Shaw
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Posted: May 21, 2020 08:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Fluorite on Sphalerite |
Locality: | Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 7.1 cm x 8.7 cm |
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Tiny light purple cubic fluorite crystals scattered over a mounded group of crystallized resinous brown sphalerite. |
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Mineral: | Fluorite on Sphalerite |
Locality: | Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 7.1 cm x 8.7 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: May 25, 2020 15:44 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Malachite |
Locality: | Morenci Mine, Northwest Extension, Morenci, Copper Mountain District, Shannon Mountains, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 4.1 cm x 4.2 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: May 26, 2020 14:55 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Quartz
Mineral: | Quartz (variety smoky), Microcline |
Locality: | Crystal Peak area, Teller County, Colorado, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 3.5 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm |
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Smoky quartz crystals to 3.0 cm associated with pinkish-tan microcline crystals. |
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Mineral: | Quartz |
Locality: | Cabiche, Quípama, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Dimensions: | 3.5 x 4.4 x 6.0 cm |
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Colorless transparent quartz crystals to 5.2 cm with fibrous inclusions of a yellow-orange clay mineral. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: May 30, 2020 09:28 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Sulphur |
Locality: | Maybee Quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 3.9 cm x 7.6 cm |
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Well-formed lemon yellow Sulphur crystals to 2.1 cm on both sides of a massive Sulphur matrix coated with colorless calcite crystals. |
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Mineral: | Sulphur |
Locality: | Maybee Quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 3.9 cm x 7.6 cm |
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The other side of the specimen hosting numerous calcite crystals. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jun 05, 2020 14:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Cerussite on malachite |
Locality: | Palabanda, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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Dimensions: | 5.6 cm x 7.0 cm |
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Lustrous white reticulated cerussite crystals scattered over a matrix of botryoidal dark green malachite. |
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Mineral: | Cerussite on Malachite |
Locality: | Palabanda, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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Dimensions: | 5.6 cm x 7.0 cm |
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Tobi
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Posted: Jun 07, 2020 03:01 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Two really perfect little quartz specimens, Michael, I love them!
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jun 07, 2020 14:37 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Tobi wrote: | Two really perfect little quartz specimens, Michael, I love them! |
Thank you Tobi. Hope you and your family are well.
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Tobi
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Posted: Jun 08, 2020 02:26 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael Shaw wrote: | Tobi wrote: | Two really perfect little quartz specimens, Michael, I love them! | Thank you Tobi. Hope you and your family are well. | We are, Michael, thanks - I hope you and your family too!
Stay safe and please keep up the great work here, you have a marvelous collection :-)
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Tobi
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jun 12, 2020 15:58 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Opal var. menilite |
Locality: | Opal outcrop, Camarillas reservoir, Agramón, Hellín, Comarca Campos de Hellín, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain | |
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Dimensions: | 3.0 cm x 4.9 cm |
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Spheroidal concretion of off-white menilite with several gastropod impressions on the surface.. |
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Mineral: | Bournonite |
Locality: | Víboras Mine, Machacamarca, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia | |
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Dimensions: | 2.5 cm x 3.8 cm |
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Intergrown group of lustrous metallic silvery-gray bournonite crystals to 2.4 cm. that exhibit classic “cogwheel” twinning. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jun 16, 2020 10:07 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Sphalerite |
Locality: | Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 6.0 cm x 8.3 cm |
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High luster resinous brown sphalerite crystals to 2.1 cm associated with tiny purple fluorite cubes on a brown limestone matrix. . |
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Mineral: | Calcite on Sphalerite |
Locality: | Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 5.8 cm x 7.7 cm |
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Delicate spiky brown calcite crystals covering a mound of resinous brown sphalerite. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jun 22, 2020 08:13 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Opal-AN |
Locality: | Kopasz Hill Quarry, Tarcal, Eperjes-Tokaj Mountains, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary | |
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Dimensions: | 2.0 cm x 2.9 cm |
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A water-clear aggregate of Hyalite opal, highly fluorescent with shortwave and longwave UV. Collected in 2013. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jun 26, 2020 08:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 2.7 x 3.0 cm |
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Colorless transparent calcite crystals with minor marcasite. |
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Mineral: | Marcasite |
Locality: | Conco Mine, North Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 2.1 x 2.3 x 8.1 cm |
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Stalactite of iridescent brassy marcasite. Collected about 30 years ago. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jun 29, 2020 09:54 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Scheelite on Quartz |
Locality: | Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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Dimensions: | 3.2 x 7.5 x 7.9 cm |
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Sharp lustrous brown scheelite crystals scattered over the surface of several intergrown tabular quartz crystals. |
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Mineral: | Scheelite on Quartz |
Locality: | Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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Dimensions: | 3.2 x 7.5 x 7.9 cm |
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Adbhatti
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Posted: Jun 29, 2020 12:01 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jul 04, 2020 14:03 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Strontianite |
Locality: | Leogang, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria | |
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Dimensions: | 3.3 x 5.4 x 8.0 cm |
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A sculptural specimen featuring elongate steep pyramidal white crystals of calcium-rich strontianite. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jul 08, 2020 08:32 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures, Romania | |
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Dimensions: | 5.0 cm x 9.0 cm x 11.0 cm |
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A boxwork of lenticular calcite crystals sprinkled with a second generation of small calcite and gemmy quartz crystals. |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Boldut Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures, Romania | |
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Dimensions: | FOV approx 3.0 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jul 09, 2020 10:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Hemimorphite |
Locality: | M'Fouati Mine, M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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Dimensions: | 3.5 cm x 5.2 cm |
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Lustrous pale blue crystal aggregates of translucent hemimorphite covering a vuggy gray matrix. Fluoresces blue under SW UV light. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jul 19, 2020 14:47 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Baryte |
Locality: | Emilio Mine, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, La Rubiera, Loroñe, Colunga, Comarca de la Sidra, Principality of Asturias (Asturias), Spain | |
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Dimensions: | 5.7 x 8.3 cm |
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Aggregates of sharp, blue, lenticular barite crystals. Unusual in that there are practically no known blue barites in the Emilio mine. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jul 24, 2020 11:29 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Calcite on Fluorite |
Locality: | Matagalls Mine (Sant Marçal Mines), Sant Marçal, Viladrau, Comarca Osona, Gerona / Girona, Catalonia / Catalunya, Spain | |
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Dimensions: | 4.8 x 8.6 x 11 cm. |
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A group of translucent light green cubic fluorite crystals partially covered with small white scalenohedral calcite crystals. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jul 27, 2020 10:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Gaskins Mine, Empire Sub-District, Pope County, Illinois, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 6.5 x 8.5 x 9.5 cm |
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Sharp bluish purple fluorite crystals to 4.5 cm on edge with minor calcite. The Gaskins Mine was operated by the Minerva Oil Company in the 1960s. |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Gaskins Mine, Empire Sub-District, Pope County, Illinois, USA | |
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Dimensions: | 6.5 x 8.5 x 9.5 cm |
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