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am mizunaka
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 Posted: Mar 26, 2021 15:38 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| Volkmar Stingl wrote: | Wow! For Tongbei, it's an excellent and rare color of the garnets! Mostly they are typically orange. Very attractve piece!
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Thanks Volkmar! It is a different burnt orange or reddish/orange than the typical color.
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 27, 2021 15:39 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Quartz |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Tourmaline |
| Locality: | | Dafoe Property, vein #1, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA |  |
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| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 8.0 cm |
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| Hematite stained quartz with clusters of tourmaline. |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 29, 2021 16:20 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Fluorite |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz |
| Locality: | | Highway #17 roadcut, Rossport, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 3.5 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 31, 2021 16:23 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Quartz |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety smoky quartz) |
| Locality: | | Adélie Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.6 x 1.2 cm |
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| Smoky quartz with some zones/phantoms that have a very faint amethyst tint. |
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bob kerr
Joined: 13 Nov 2011
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Location: Monroeville PA
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| Posted: Mar 31, 2021 18:52 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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ANTARCTICA???
This may be the hardest to collect and most expensive quartz point in the world!!
bob
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Mar 31, 2021 21:15 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| bob kerr wrote: | ANTARCTICA???
This may be the hardest to collect and most expensive quartz point in the world!!
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It may have been one of the hardest to collect and a very costly trip but it was a gift from Scott Werschky at Miner's Lunchbox.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2021 03:41 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| Really wonderful crystal from Antarctica, not a common locality! :-)
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2021 14:33 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| Tobi wrote: | | Really wonderful crystal from Antarctica, not a common locality! :-) |
Thanks Tobi!
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Apr 02, 2021 23:16 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection -Fluorite |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Calcite, Quartz |
| Locality: | | Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 17.5 x 11.3 cm |
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Volkmar Stingl
Joined: 23 Sep 2012
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Location: Innsbruck
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| Posted: Apr 02, 2021 23:30 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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Very nice! To date, I have not seen any combo like this from Dalnegorsk. I like it!
Volkmar
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Apr 03, 2021 10:31 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| Volkmar Stingl wrote: | Very nice! To date, I have not seen any combo like this from Dalnegorsk. I like it!
Volkmar |
Thanks Volkmar!
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Apr 04, 2021 18:12 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Rhodochrosite |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite, Quartz (variety chalcedony) |
| Locality: | | Laki, Rhodope Mountains, Laki Municipality, Plovdiv Oblast, Bulgaria | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 6.5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite, Quartz (variety chalcedony) |
| Locality: | | Laki, Rhodope Mountains, Laki Municipality, Plovdiv Oblast, Bulgaria | |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite, Quartz (variety chalcedony) |
| Locality: | | Laki, Rhodope Mountains, Laki Municipality, Plovdiv Oblast, Bulgaria | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 6.5 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Apr 07, 2021 00:52 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Quartz |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Peñas Blancas Mine, Municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 15.5 x 2.3 cm |
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Volkmar Stingl
Joined: 23 Sep 2012
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Location: Innsbruck
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| Posted: Apr 07, 2021 02:12 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| A really strange quartz! You could use it as chisel. ;-)
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Apr 07, 2021 15:26 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection - Quartz |
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| Volkmar Stingl wrote: | | A really strange quartz! You could use it as chisel. ;-) |
Thanks Volkmar! Others have said it looks like a letter opener ....
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