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[Bergur_E_Sigurdarson]

Some green xmas colour.
A chain of emeralds in calcite and shale.
Some are even double terminated.

Bought in Bogota, so the location isn't 100%
... seller said Coscuez area, and that looks right to me (tho those "suffering" from the green fever might know better from just looking at the picture :-P )

[Fiebre Verde]

[Tobi]

Wonderful emerald, Bergur!

And concerning that:

[Jordi Fabre]

[Bergur_E_Sigurdarson]

Thank you Tobi
...and for the input on the Peruvian piece
...at the moment Jordi is right.
I have been searching the internet (mindat and more) and just recently found several near identical pieces but the owner has yet to reply if they know a more detailed location as the web-result also only says "Peru" at the moment.

Here are also photos of two recently acquired quartzes.

[Bergur_E_Sigurdarson]

I haven't had a place of my own since 2017.
After selling the house I owned in Iceland, I went travelling in the US and more.

My plan was to get a piece of land here in Colombia, where I now live mostly.

A few months ago I finally found something I liked, and bought it.
Been a bit slow since, in getting papers and such done, but just last week I got electricity hooked up to the land, and now an architect is working on making my basic plans into actual ones that can be submitted to the planning office.

My collection will finally have a place to be displayed.

And once the house is complete, it will have several little huts around it, where people can come and stay and enjoy the nature around (very close to native forest, a pretty waterfall and one of the most popular tourist destinations in Colombia, the colonial village of Villa de Leyva)

As an added bonus for those that stay, as well as those passing by, I want to have my collection open as a mini museum of minerals.
Currently there aren't good attractions of that kind here in Colombia, so I hope I can represent something "new" and interesting.
I'd like it to be of quality and will work on that in time, but at least I know I can offer variety and a good representation of Colombia and Iceland to begin with.

My budget isn't that of a high end collection, but one can dream... and have to start somewhere.

I hope to welcome any of you to my place, once ready and we're out of the pandemic being a problem :-)

[Fiebre Verde]

Congratulations Bergur!
This is already quite an achievement despite all odds.
I feel you might need to expand the mineral room sooner or later.
Saludos
Gerard

[Firmo Espinar]

Hi Bergur.

Congratulations for your new minerals collection room.

You will make the competition to the Villa de Leyva´s tourism.

[silvia]

[Bergur_E_Sigurdarson]

[Bergur_E_Sigurdarson]

Been a while since I added something to my actual collection

...so...

here is a large single calcite crystal.
Brownish grey core, band of green on the right, and nicely clear and lustrous surface.

14,5 x 9,5 x 8,5 cm

Palomas, Gachala, Colombia

[Bergur_E_Sigurdarson]

...and another

Beautiful arrangement of quartz with dark green chlorites.

Location slightly vague, but Belencito near Otanche is claimed (not far from la Belleza, known for similarly nice quartz)

appx. 10 x 7 x 6,5 cm

[Bergur_E_Sigurdarson]

Most of the fluorite known from Colombia comes from an area above the area where they are mining for emeralds in Peñas Blancas and seems to be in veins that have since then coated most of it in aragonite.

The left one shows one without cleaning and the right one after dissolving the aragonite off.

They have a rather silky lustre, so the acid most likely isn't doing much harm to them, tho I'm not sure many here in Colombia are very good at making sure their cleaning efforts don't actually harm the specimens.

[Bergur_E_Sigurdarson]

A partially "cleaned" group of fluorites from Peñas Blancas.

In some parts of the veins they're extracting from, it's evident that a lot has moved geologically. Breaking Fluorites off of the walls and they then subsequently all been coated in aragonite.

Here is a specimen with several cubes, that have been partially etched out form the chunk they were found in... some with internal fractures, most likely just from the geological activity.