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Volkmar Stingl
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Posted: Nov 26, 2020 06:29 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Calcite from a last year newly discovered (by my son) location in Tyrol/Austria.
Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Kauner Valley (Kaunertal), Kauns, Landeck District, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 6 x 4 cm |
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Nicely crystallized Calcite rhombohedrons, partly glassy. |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Kauner Valley (Kaunertal), Kauns, Landeck District, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 6 x 4 cm |
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Posted: Nov 27, 2020 09:20 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Two wonderful small pieces of wulfenite from Arizona.
Mineral: | Wulfenite, Vanadinte, Calcite |
Locality: | Pure Potential Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 2 x 2 cm |
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Main crystal is 1,2 cm. Small red Vanadinites at the base of the Wulfenites. The color of the Wulfenites is more deep red in reality. |
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Mineral: | Wulfenite, Calcite |
Locality: | Pure Potential Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 2 x 1,5 cm |
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Wulfenite crystal 1,6 cm. |
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Volkmar Stingl
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Posted: Nov 28, 2020 14:02 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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More from China (all self-collected)...
Mineral: | Pyrite, Laumontite, Quartz, Calcite |
Locality: | Anyuanshan (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 5 x 4,5 cm |
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Mineral: | Pyrite, Laumontite, Quartz, Calcite |
Locality: | Anyuanshan (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 4 x 3 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Wudun Quarry, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 9 x 8 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Wudun Quarry, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 9 x 8 cm |
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Same specimen, closer view. |
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Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz |
Locality: | Wudun Quarry, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | FoV ca. 3 x 3 cm |
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Mineral: | Pyrite, Quartz |
Locality: | Wuyi tunnel north (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 4 x 3 cm |
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Volkmar Stingl
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020 01:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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... and more of my Chinese finds.
Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz |
Locality: | Chengnan high speed railway tunnel, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 7 x 5,5 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Nanshanxia Mine, Shaowu, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 5 x 5 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Wudun Quarry, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 8 x 6 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz |
Locality: | Wudun Quarry, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 7 x 3,5 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Chengnan tunnel (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 4 x 3 cm |
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Nice cubo-dodecahedral crystals. |
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Mineral: | Dolomite, Quartz |
Locality: | Yongping Mine, Yongping, Yanshan, Shangrao Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 6,5 x 4,5 cm |
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Mineral: | Quartz on Fluorite |
Locality: | Nanshanxia Mine, Shaowu, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 13 x 12 cm |
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Crystallized Quartz crust on Fluorite cubes. |
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Mineral: | Quartz on Fluorite |
Locality: | Nanshanxia Mine, Shaowu, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 13 x 12 cm |
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Closer view of same specimen. |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Baimashan tunnel (construction site), Qianbaxia, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 3,5 x 3 cm |
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Short-prismatic "poker-chip" Calcites with tiny Pyrites on Quartz. |
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Posted: Dec 03, 2020 03:31 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Alpine Amethyst from Ziller Valley
Mineral: | Quartz (varety amethyst) |
Locality: | Floitengrund, Ziller Valley (Zillertal), North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 5,5 x 4,5 x 2,5 cm |
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A nice example for Alpine Amethyst with pale color. |
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Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
Locality: | Floitengrund, Ziller Valley (Zillertal), North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 5,5 x 4,5 x 2,5 cm |
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Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
Locality: | Floitengrund, Ziller Valley (Zillertal), North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 5,5 x 4,5 x 2,5 cm |
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Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
Locality: | Floitengrund, Ziller Valley (Zillertal), North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 5,5 x 4,5 x 2,5 cm |
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Posted: Dec 03, 2020 04:16 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Volkmar Stingl wrote: | Quartz on Fluorite
Nanshanxia Mine, Shaowu, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China
13 x 12 cm
Closer view of same specimen. | It looks like snow fell on the crystals - the perfect specimen for that time of the year ;-)
Volkmar Stingl wrote: | Quartz (variety amethyst)
Floitengrund, Ziller Valley (Zillertal), North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria
5,5 x 4,5 x 2,5 cm
A nice example for Alpine Amethyst with pale color. | The alpine quartz fan really likes this!
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Posted: Dec 03, 2020 09:26 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Hello Tobi,
thank you for your kind comments!
Volkmar
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Posted: Dec 03, 2020 09:40 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Malachite from Congo, and another Alpine specimen: Fluorite from Salzburg.
Mineral: | Malachite |
Locality: | L'Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Katanga Copper Crescent, Haut-Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) |  |
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Dimensions: | 6 x 3 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Rehrlköpfl, Vorderkrimml, Wald im Pinzgau, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 10 x 6 cm |
Description: |
Light blue cubes from a now abandoned location. |
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Posted: Dec 08, 2020 08:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Alpine Andalusite, Chinese Quartz and Fluorite...
Mineral: | Andalusite |
Locality: | Lüsens Valley, Sellrain Valley/Sellraintal, Innsbruck-Land District, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 9 x 7,5 cm |
Description: |
Reddish crystals of Andalusite in Quartz. |
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Mineral: | Quartz |
Locality: | Baimashan tunnel (construction site), Qianbaxia, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 13 x 6 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Yongping Mine, Yongping, Yanshan, Shangrao Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 4 x 2 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz (variety chalcedony) |
Locality: | Yongping Mine, Yongping, Yanshan, Shangrao Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 5,5 x 4 cm |
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Ice-blue fluorite (cubes with oriented growth upon octahedrons) with quartz var. chalcedony perimorph after calcite. |
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Posted: Dec 14, 2020 23:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Again two classic specimens from Germany and Austria.
Mineral: | Baryte, Chalcopyrite |
Locality: | Dreislar Mine, Dreislar, Winterberg, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany |  |
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Dimensions: | 9 x 4 cm |
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Mineral: | Andalusite |
Locality: | Lüsens Valley, Sellrain Valley/Sellraintal, Innsbruck-Land District, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | FoV ca. 7 x 6 cm |
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Posted: Dec 15, 2020 02:56 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Volkmar Stingl wrote: | Baryte, Chalkopyrite
Dreislar Mine, Dreislar, Winterberg, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
9 x 4 cm | Nice Dreislar specimen!
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Posted: Dec 15, 2020 09:51 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Tobi wrote: | Nice Dreislar specimen! |
Thank you for your kind comment, Tobi!
Stay healthy,
Volkmar
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Posted: Dec 15, 2020 10:09 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Some of my suite from the Ringenwechsel mining district in Schwaz, Tyrol.
Mineral: | Azurite, Malachite, Dolomite |
Locality: | Ringenwechsel Mining District, Troi, District Schwaz, Inn Valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 14 x 7 cm |
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Mineral: | Azurite, Malachite, Dolomite |
Locality: | Ringenwechsel Mining District, Troi, District Schwaz, Inn Valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | 14 x 7 cm |
Description: |
Detail of the previous piece with nice small Azurite balls. |
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Mineral: | Dolomite ps. after Siderite |
Locality: | Ringenwechsel Mining District, Troi, District Schwaz, Inn Valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | FoV ca. 4 x 3 cm |
Description: |
Quite large (for this location) Dolomite crystals pseudomorphing Siderite (can be seen in the lower right). |
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Mineral: | Quartz, Dolomite |
Locality: | Ringenwechsel Mining District, Troi, District Schwaz, Inn Valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria |  |
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Dimensions: | FoV ca. 4 x 3 cm |
Description: |
Quartz crystals are rare in this location, these ones (one double-ended) belong already to the larger ones! The black crusts consist most probably of Tenorite. |
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Posted: Dec 22, 2020 10:32 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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This time I continue with two nice Aragonites from Spain.
Mineral: | Aragonite |
Locality: | La Pesquera, Comarca La Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |  |
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Dimensions: | 2,5 x 1,4 cm |
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Mineral: | Aragonite |
Locality: | La Pesquera, Comarca La Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |  |
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Dimensions: | 2,5 x 1,4 cm |
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Mineral: | Aragonite |
Locality: | La Pesquera, Comarca La Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |  |
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Dimensions: | 4,3 x 2 cm |
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Mineral: | Aragonite |
Locality: | La Pesquera, Comarca La Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |  |
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Dimensions: | 4,3 x 2 cm |
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Posted: Dec 23, 2020 10:41 Post subject: Re: Collection of Volkmar Stingl |
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Some self-collected Calcites from China.
Mineral: | Calcite (variety Mn-bearing) |
Locality: | Wuyi tunnel north (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 6,5 x 5 cm |
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Slightly pink Mn-bearing Calcites, some with sceptered tips. |
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Mineral: | Calcite (variety Mn-bearing) |
Locality: | Wuyi tunnel north (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 6,5 x 5 cm |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Wuyi tunnel north (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 6 x 4 cm |
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Mineral: | Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Wuyi tunnel north (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 14 x 12 cm |
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The smaller scalenohedrons have small Pyrites incorporated, and show a thin second phase of growth. The large, slightly damaged crystal measures 9 cm. |
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Mineral: | Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Wuyi tunnel north (construction site), Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 14 x 12 cm |
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Detail of the smaller scalenohedrons with Pyrite. |
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Mineral: | Siderite after Calcite, Calcite |
Locality: | Yongping Mine, Yongping, Yanshan, Shangrao Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 8 x 5,5 cm |
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Siderite rhombohedrons pseudomorphing Calcite scalenohedrons. Small prismatic Calcites on top of the scalenohedrons. Largest crystal about 3,5 cm. |
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Mineral: | Siderite after Calcite, Calcite |
Locality: | Yongping Mine, Yongping, Yanshan, Shangrao Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 8 x 5,5 cm |
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Detail of the prismatic Calcites on top. |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Baimashan tunnel (construction site), Qianbaxia, Wuyishan, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province, China |  |
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Dimensions: | 15 x 14 cm |
Description: |
Large plate of short prismatic "poker-chip" Calcites on Quartz. |
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