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Carles Millan
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 Posted: Dec 06, 2020 10:22 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan - Rhodonite from Peru (2) |
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| Tobi wrote: | | Your hope was not in vain, Carles, this photo is really a good one - worthy of that exceptional rhodonite. A wonderful specimen with great colour, and the combination with the quartzes is just lovely. |
Thanks again for your comments. Taking photos, you know well, is also a matter of good luck.
Make no mistake. Its color, the crystals being so thin, is highly variable depending on the screen settings and the kind of light: sun, fluorescent, led, halogen, incandescent... For making things easier I just used the fluorescent light I have in my showcases and then processed the image without increasing the saturation, unlike many professional photographers do.
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Apr 08, 2021 03:49 Post subject: Collection of Carles Millan - Wulfenite from Mexico |
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Wulfenite
A small cluster of zoned tabular crystals of wulfenite grown on a matrix made of iron oxides. Some translucency can be appreciated in many of the crystals.
The overall size is 62 mm x 54 mm x 32 mm. The largest crystal size is 9 mm x 9 mm x 3 mm.
From Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico.
This specimen is no longer part of my collection.
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico |  |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 08, 2021 11:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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| Super Wulfenite and great photo Carles, I am very fond of these "sandwich" habit crystals from the Ojuela.
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Apr 08, 2021 13:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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| Michael Shaw wrote: | | Super Wulfenite and great photo Carles, I am very fond of these "sandwich" habit crystals from the Ojuela. |
Hi Michael, glad to hear from you. It's a pleasure to browse your gallery. I'm happy you like the wulfenite. Thanks.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Apr 09, 2021 03:16 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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Hi Carles,
I hope you are doing fine, always a pleasure to see something new here in your wonderful collection. This wulfenite from Ojuela is really amazing, a perfect specimen captured in a superb photo! Congratulations, a very fine addition to your collection.
Best regards
Tobi
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Apr 09, 2021 03:58 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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| Tobi wrote: | Hi Carles,
I hope you are doing fine, always a pleasure to see something new here in your wonderful collection. This wulfenite from Ojuela is really amazing, a perfect specimen captured in a superb photo! Congratulations, a very fine addition to your collectiont regards
Tobi |
Many thanks, Tobi. You're always very kind.
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 05:07 Post subject: Collection of Carles Millan - Rhodonite from Peru |
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Rhodonite - CaMn3Mn(SiO3)5, quartz, calcite, sphalerite
Group of transparent, sharp, tabular, bright pink rhodonite crystals, associated with several colorless quartz crystals, and some calcite, all upon a matrix formed by dark color sphalerite. From the 2007 find at the Chiurucu mine, where mining works stopped long ago, and not far from the famous Huanzala mine, in the district of Huallanca, Peru.
The color of rhodonite crystals, being so thin, is highly variable depending on the screen settings and the kind of light: solar, fluorescent, led, halogen, incandescent...
Overall size: 69 mm x 39 mm. Main rhodonite crystal: ~9 mm long. Mass: 84 g.
From San Martín Mine, Chiurucu, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru.
References:
The Mineralogical Record: 28/4, 56-57.
Peru Paradise of Minerals, Jaroslav Hyršl et al, 116 and 165-167.
Moore's Compendium of Mineral Discoveries, Vol II, 430.
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| Mineral: | Rhodonite, Quartz, Calcite, Sphalerite |
| Locality: | | San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru | |
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| Mineral: | Rhodonite, Quartz, Calcite, Sphalerite |
| Locality: | | San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru | |
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| Mineral: | Rhodonite, Quartz, Calcite, Sphalerite |
| Locality: | | San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru | |
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Enrique Llorens
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 05:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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Carles, another very nice Rhodonite.
Regards.
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 06:00 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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| Enrique Llorens wrote: | | Carles, another very nice Rhodonite. Regards. |
Thanks for your kind words, Enrique.
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Tobi
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 06:25 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan - Rhodonite from Peru |
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| Carles Millan wrote: | Rhodonite, Quartz, Calcite, Sphalerite
San Martín Mine, Chiurucu (Chiuruco), Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru
69 mm x 39 mm. Main rhodonite crystal: about 9 mm long. Mass: 84 g |
Really wonderful rhodonite, what a colour! I really liked the one you posted in december but that one seems to be even better. Outstanding colour, wonderful shape and composition together with the matrix and the associated minerals, the black and white add even more beauty to this wonderful specimen!
Congratulations on a really good mineral for your fine collection, Carles :-)
Best regards from Germany
Tobi
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 07:17 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan - Rhodonite from Peru |
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| Tobi wrote: | Really wonderful rhodonite, what a colour! I really liked the one you posted in december but that one seems to be even better. Outstanding colour, wonderful shape and composition together with the matrix and the associated minerals, the black and white add even more beauty to this wonderful specimen!
Congratulations on a really good mineral for your fine collection, Carles :-) |
Thank you very much, Tobi. I'm glad that you liked it.
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Jean Suffert
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 07:47 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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| Outstanding rhodonite Carles, I like it very much, the contrast between colour is wonderful, like Tobi I prefer that one. Congratulations of such a unique piece!
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 08:14 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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| Jean Suffert wrote: | | Outstanding rhodonite Carles, I like it very much, the contrast between colour is wonderful, like Tobi I prefer that one. Congratulations of such a unique piece! |
I really appreciate your comments, Jean. Thanks.
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Don Lum
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 09:39 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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Carles, that is a very nice Rhodonite specimen. Great color, contrast, composition and size.
Congratulations.
Don
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: May 05, 2021 12:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Carles Millan |
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| Don Lum wrote: | | Carles, that is a very nice Rhodonite specimen. Great color, contrast, composition and size. |
Hi Don! Happy with getting your kind comments. Thank you.
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