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MIM Museum
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Location: Beirut
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| Mineral: | Scheelite |
| Locality: | | Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures, Romania |  |
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| Dimensions: | 13.5 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 2.7 cm |
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Mass: 347 g
MIM number:1757
Bipyramidal, elongated and very sharp crystals with a metallic shiny dark gray-blue color on a matrix of small dolomite crystals.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "Lapis Jg. 21, Nr. 7/8, Jul/Aug 1996", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex-collection Simone & Peter Huber (Austria) |
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| Mineral: | Scheelite |
| Locality: | | Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures, Romania | |
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| Dimensions: | 13.5 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 2.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 347 g
MIM number:1757
Bipyramidal, elongated and very sharp crystals with a metallic shiny dark gray-blue color on a matrix of small dolomite crystals.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "Lapis Jg. 21, Nr. 7/8, Jul/Aug 1996", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex-collection Simone & Peter Huber (Austria) |
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| Mineral: | Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth |
| Locality: | | Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 10 x 7.5 cm / main crystal: 4.9 cm |
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Mass: 214 g
MIM number:1758
Intact hexagonal tabular crystals of dark greyish metallic color, with moderate local bluish-blackish iridescences, developed on a thin serpentine-clinochlore matrix. The largest crystal has a hoppered structure made of hexagonal tablets.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott; |
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| Mineral: | Djurleite-Chalcocite intergrowth |
| Locality: | | Aït Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 10 x 7.5 cm / main crystal: 4.9 cm |
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Mass: 214 g
MIM number:1758
Intact hexagonal tabular crystals of dark greyish metallic color, with moderate local bluish-blackish iridescences, developed on a thin serpentine-clinochlore matrix. The largest crystal has a hoppered structure made of hexagonal tablets.
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| Mineral: | Topaz |
| Locality: | | Marambaia, Caraí, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 34 x 20 x 21 cm / main crystal: 34.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 16800 g
MIM number:1759
Bottle green, very sharp single crystal with very lustrous and smooth faces. The interior is transparent and shows several inclusions.
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 25.5 x 9 x 21 cm / main crystal: 4.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2200 g
MIM number:1760
Floating plate formed of small crystals of quartz with some pyrite and calcite covered on one side with translucent fluorite crystal of fine purple color showing the faces of the cube and the octahedron and reminiscent of Mayan pyramids. The back face of the plate also shows some fluorite crystals, but they are smaller. The set is completely intact.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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Tobi
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Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Posts: 3842
Location: Good Old Germany
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| Posted: May 18, 2022 02:15 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Incredible specimens as usual, I'm in love with that Shangbao fluorite!
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MIM Museum
Joined: 04 Aug 2015
Posts: 111
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: May 19, 2022 07:57 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Sulphur |
| Locality: | | Cozzo Disi Mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily, Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 20 x 16 x 7 cm / main crystal: 3.7 cm |
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Mass: 1500 g
MIM number:1761
Plate consisting of primary brownish bituminous coarsely crystallized sulfur covered with a secondary growth of about sixty well formed transparent sulfur crystals of beautiful lemon yellow, and well separated from one another.
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| Mineral: | Elbaite |
| Locality: | | Pederneira Claim, São José da Safira, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 9 x 17.5 cm / main crystal: 16.0 cm |
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Mass: 656 g
MIM number:1762
Floating set of tourmalines shaped as a bouquet consisting of a large central crystal surrounded by several small crystals with white albite plates and small crystals of purple lepidolite covering the base. All tourmalines display their flat termination and have a dominant green color with sometimes red cores ("watermelon" tourmaline) and some bluish tinge around the top. Contrary to what often happens for the samples from this mine, this one suffered no breakage or repair, and tourmalines were not acid etched to remove the microscopic crystals of quartz or tourmaline which cover them and often alter their gloss.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Dyscrasite |
| Locality: | | Bouismas Mine, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 22 x 10 x 22 cm / main crystal: 7.5 cm |
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Mass: 3700 g
MIM number:1763
White calcite plate covered on its upper face with well formed dyscrasite crystalss, in the shape of a diverging bush. Some crystals show a hexagonal outline.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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| Mineral: | Dyscrasite |
| Locality: | | Bouismas Mine, Agdz, Bou Azzer mining district, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 22 x 10 x 22 cm / main crystal: 7.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 3700 g
MIM number:1763
White calcite plate covered on its upper face with well formed dyscrasite crystalss, in the shape of a diverging bush. Some crystals show a hexagonal outline.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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| Mineral: | Kyanite |
| Locality: | | Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 7.5 x 9 cm / main crystal: 8.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 223 g
MIM number:1764
Slender transparent crystal with an intense sapphire-blue color and a sharp termination, standing on a shard of quartz
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publications: "extraLapis # 40: Brasilien", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex-collection Oliver Konczer (Austria) |
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| Mineral: | Phurcalite |
| Locality: | | Senhora da Assunção Mine, Aldeia Nova, Ferreira de Aves, Sátão, Viseu District, Portugal | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 7 x 15 cm |
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Mass: 568 g
MIM number:1765
Bright canary yellow phurcalite mingled with yellowish green tabular autunite coating a buff color quartz crystal with patches of black iron oxides. The phurcalite occurs as small spherules composed by the radial aggregation of acicular crystals, as well as in the form of minute tabular crystals.
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bob kerr
Joined: 13 Nov 2011
Posts: 396
Location: Monroeville PA
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| Posted: May 19, 2022 09:12 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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Never knew that kyanite got this good!!
I remind everyone to look at the sizes of these specimens - they are quite large - and choice!
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silvia
Joined: 10 Oct 2021
Posts: 158
Location: UK
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| Posted: May 21, 2022 20:19 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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I think the size of the specimen reflects the purpose. In a Museum setting, high quality mineral specimens in the miniature, small-cabinet and large cabinet size are rarely displayed unless they are truly rare or unique. For example, gem minerals like diamonds or Gold crystals like the one from Joe’s Gully. I have had the opportunity to review many Museum collections and those mineral specimens in storage have great eye appeal but are just too small to be viable display pieces. Well, this is what the Curators told me!
Of course even common minerals in Museum size specimens (20+ cm) are not cheap, and here I speak from experience.
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MIM Museum
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Posts: 111
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: May 22, 2022 02:09 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Pyrite |
| Locality: | | Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 14 x 26 cm / main crystal: 9.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 5900 g
MIM number:1766
Plate formed of small quartz crystals overgown by large modified cubic, very bright, intact and well separated pyrite crystals. Some pyrite crystals are partially covered with coarsely crystallized black sphalerite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite |
| Locality: | | Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 14 x 12 cm / main crystal: 11.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1700 g
MIM number:1767
Intact combination of five different minerals: one large central elbaite crystal (with a translucent dark green body and pale pink top), two smoky quartz crystals (max 10.5 cm), mica, clevelandite dotted with hundreds of very small pink elbaite crystals, and crystal of hambergite (2.5cm) half buried on top of the central elbaite crystal. The latter has also entirely "absorbed" near its top a crystal which also seems to be hambergite. This sample appears to have been found as is, without cleaning or surface improvement as is often the case with Afghan tourmalines.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Mamona pegmatite, Araçuaí, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 8 x 11 cm / main crystal: 9.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 373 g
MIM number:1768
Sheets of twinned muscovite shaped as symmetrical stars with 6 branches with some albite at the base. The stars in this sample are particularly apparent, as they are often partially buried or incomplete.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 11 x 13 cm / main crystal: 15.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 864 g
MIM number:1769
Bright transparent sharp calcite crystal consisting of a 180° twin, poised at its middle on the top of a blade covered with small calcite crystals. The color of the crystal is slightly pinkish.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 7 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 194 g
MIM number:1770
Perfect transparent pink crystal shaped as an octahedron with very bright faces consisting of triangular figures reminiscent of diamond octahedra. It looks poised ever so precariously on the edge on a matrix made of muscovite blades and small crystals of white albite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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MIM Museum
Joined: 04 Aug 2015
Posts: 111
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: May 24, 2022 01:32 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Tantalite-(Mn) on Schorl with Albite and Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Shengus (Shingus), Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 9 x 17 cm / main crystal: 5.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1750 g
MIM number:1771
Large perfectly formed very shiny black tabular crystal with reddish reflections developed at the base of a large doubly terminated and well-formed black schorl crystal (15.5 cm) dotted with tufts of albite and muscovite. The set is completely intact and seems to be a floater.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite on Pyrite and Galena |
| Locality: | | Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 9 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 4.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 246 g
MIM number:1772
A plate made small pyrite and galena crystals covered with transparent and shiny pink fluorite crystals shaped as complex octahedra showing also the faces of the cube. One of the fluorites has a purple tinge (most likely due to interference phenomena). The set is completely intact and seems to be a floater.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Vivianite |
| Locality: | | Huanuni Mine, Huanuni, Dalence Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 12 x 7.5 x 11.5 cm / main crystal: 11.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 235 g
MIM number:1773
Two perpendicular sheaves made of parallel translucent and well terminated green crystals. The ensemble looks similar to a cross and has developed on a microcrystalline pyrite blade. The vertical sheaf is naturally twisted. One face of each spray is slightly covered with bronze colored iron oxides.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Spessartine on Schorl and Albite (variety cleavelandite) |
| Locality: | | Little Three Mine, Hercules-Spessartine Dike, Ramona, Ramona District, San Diego County, California, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 5 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 3.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 169 g
MIM number:1774
Transparent crystal of a beautiful orange color placed at the base of a black schorl measuring 6 cm, with several tufts of white clevelandite with a very slight bluish tinge.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2002", "American Mineral Treasures", "Mineralogical Record: May-Jun 2008", "extraLapis # 50: Kalifornien"
Ex-collection Jesse Fisher, Joan Kureczka (USA) |
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| Mineral: | Zircon |
| Locality: | | Midongy District, Atsimo-Atsinanana Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 3 x 6.5 cm / main crystal: 6.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 125 g
MIM number:1775
Single, perfectly formed and doubly terminated crystal, green and translucent in its upper portion and brown-purple and rather opaque in its lower part. The top of the crystal is of pyramidal shape with parallel stripes on the faces.
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Tobi
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| Posted: May 25, 2022 05:12 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| This is truly the best of the best of the best you will ever see in the mineral world - incredible specimens! And as Bob Kerr said: How in the world can a kyanite (!) be THAT good?!
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Bob Morgan
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Location: Savannah, Georgia
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| Posted: May 25, 2022 07:49 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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The Peruvian fluorite has dodecahedral faces - the longer ones coming off the cube faces- and trapezohedral faces- the shorter ones coming off the cube faces between the dodecahedral faces. The octahedral positions are below the treapezohedral faces and not smooth faces.
What a lovely example of fluorite faces and so pretty too!
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MIM Museum
Joined: 04 Aug 2015
Posts: 111
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: May 26, 2022 08:23 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 12 x 14 cm / main crystal: 7.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1820 g
MIM number:1776
Group of perfectly shaped and shiny amethyst crystals developed in the shape of a flower on a rocky matrix. One of amethysts has a scepter shape.
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| Mineral: | Beryl (variety aquamarine) |
| Locality: | | Lac Alaotra (Lake Alaotra), Alaotra-Mangoro Region, Toamasina Province (Tamatave), Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 10 x 34.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 6638 g
MIM number:1777
Large hexagonal doubly terminated transparent prism with a sceptered base, a sea green color, three smooth side faces, three other side faces with dissolution features, and a very flat and smooth top.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Le Règne Minéral: Mai-Jun 2016" |
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| Mineral: | Beryl (variety aquamarine) |
| Locality: | | Lac Alaotra (Lake Alaotra), Alaotra-Mangoro Region, Toamasina Province (Tamatave), Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 10 x 34.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 6638 g
MIM number:1777
Large hexagonal doubly terminated transparent prism with a sceptered base, a sea green color, three smooth side faces, three other side faces with dissolution features, and a very flat and smooth top.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Le Règne Minéral: Mai-Jun 2016" |
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| Mineral: | Anglesite |
| Locality: | | Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 13.5 x 13.5 x 9 cm / main crystal: 3.2 cm |
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T'ouissit, Oujda, Maroc
Mass: 3000 g
MIM number:1778
Geode consisting of massive galena lined with perfect transparent wedge shaped, striated and lustrous amber-colored anglesite crystals. One side of the geode is lined with small white cerussite needles (the largest measuring 1 cm).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex-collection Jesus Lopez (France) |
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| Mineral: | Anglesite |
| Locality: | | Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 13.5 x 13.5 x 9 cm / main crystal: 3.2 cm |
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T'ouissit, Oujda, Maroc
Mass: 3000 g
MIM number:1778
Geode consisting of massive galena lined with perfect transparent wedge shaped, striated and lustrous amber-colored anglesite crystals. One side of the geode is lined with small white cerussite needles (the largest measuring 1 cm).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex-collection Jesus Lopez (France) |
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MIM Museum
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: May 29, 2022 03:23 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Kupletskite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 4 x 2 cm / main crystal: 4.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 31 g
MIM number:1779
Floating group of lamellar crystals with a beautiful brown color and a metallic sheen.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Ex-collection Gilles Haineault (Canada) |
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| Mineral: | Monteregianite-(Y) |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2 x 2 cm / main crystal: 1.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 9 g
MIM number:1780
Rectangular, iridescent crystal lying on a translucent calcite crystal measuring 2.5 cm.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Ex-collection Gilles Haineault (Canada) |
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| Mineral: | Rémondite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 3.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 48 g
MIM number:1781
Hexagonal prism with naturally weathered bottom and translucent yellow-orange top, lying on a sheaf of aegirine crystals (the largest measuring 6.4 cm)
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Ex-collection Gilles Haineault (Canada) |
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| Mineral: | Rémondite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 3.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 48 g
MIM number:1781
Hexagonal prism with naturally weathered bottom and translucent yellow-orange top, lying on a sheaf of aegirine crystals (the largest measuring 6.4 cm)
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Ex-collection Gilles Haineault (Canada) |
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| Mineral: | Donnayite-(Y) |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 3 x 2 cm / main crystal: 1.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 11 g
MIM number:1782
Hexagonal barrel shaped crystal lying on a thin calcite matrix. The crystal is partially covered with what appears to be of micro-crystalline pyrite. Another small donnayite crystal lies near the edge of the matrix.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Ex-collection Gilles Haineault (Canada) |
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| Mineral: | Carletonite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 2.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 58 g
MIM number:1783
Group of crystals with an intense dark blue color, accompanied by a clear yellow granular mineral that is probably calcite and reinforces the contrast with the blue.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2"
Ex-collection Gilles Haineault (Canada) |
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| Mineral: | Siderite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 7.5 x 3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 217 g
MIM number:1784
Dark green floating twinned crystal displaying several perfect equilateral triangles.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex-collection Gilles Haineault (Canada) |
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: May 31, 2022 03:09 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Spinel |
| Locality: | | Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 7 x 12 cm / main crystal: 8.7 cm |
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Mass: 1050 g
MIM number:1785
Large translucent dark red crystal, perfectly twinned and intact, on a marble matrix, with a translucent orange chondrodite crystal at the base measuring 4.7 cm. Parts of the spinel and the chondrodite have a natural "melted" look which is characteristic of this mine. The spinel crystal is remarkable by its size, perfection and deep color.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publications: "extraLapis No. 53: Zwillinge", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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2022 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Tantalite-(Mn) |
| Locality: | | Muiâne, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 3 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 5.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 237 g
MIM number:1786
Transparent, intact single crystal with an intense red color, and well terminated on all sides.
Photographer: FMI / Federico Picciani |
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2020 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Uvite |
| Locality: | | Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 4 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 78 g
MIM number:1787
Perfect translucent dark green crystal, placed on a matrix of small colorless crystals of magnesite (8 mm max).
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "extraLapis # 40: Brasilien"
Ex-collection Oliver Konczer (Austria) |
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2020 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite |
| Locality: | | Sosedka vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 13 x 38 cm / main crystal: 38.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 4350 g
MIM number:1788
Large group of sub-parallel crystals flaring up from a narrow bottom to the top. The tips are transparent, very bright, intact and of a beautiful purple red color. The bottom of the sample shows that the core is yellowish-brown (apparently consisting of liddicoatite) and is surrounded by red elbaite. It is one of the most beautiful samples produced by this prolific mine.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publications: "extraLapis No. 52: Moderne Klassiker", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés", "Mineralogical Record: May-Jun 2019" |
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2024 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Muscovite and Albite |
| Locality: | | Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 18 x 10 x 34 cm / main crystal: 12.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 4600 g
MIM number:1789
Plate consisting of lozenge shaped muscovite sheets stacked vertically and covered on their sides with white albite. Some quartz crystals are also present.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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2023 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Behoite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 1.1 cm |
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Mass: 46 g
MIM number:1790
Reticulated aggregate of white tapered crystals over a brittle matrix consisting of several minerals which are typical of this mine.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2"
Ex-collection Gilles Haineault (Canada) |
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2020 Time(s) |
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Firmo Espinar
Joined: 05 Apr 2017
Posts: 660
Location: Medellín, Colombia.
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| Posted: May 31, 2022 14:54 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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A 34 cm high aquamarine and now an amazing 38 cm high Elbaite ...
I´m thinking in a mineralogic travel to Beirut...
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Tobi
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Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Posts: 3842
Location: Good Old Germany
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| Posted: Jun 01, 2022 01:51 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| MIM Museum wrote: | Elbaite
Sosedka vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
Dimensions: 13 x 13 x 38 cm / main crystal: 38.0 cm
Large group of sub-parallel crystals flaring up from a narrow bottom to the top. The tips are transparent, very bright, intact and of a beautiful purple red color. The bottom of the sample shows that the core is yellowish-brown (apparently consisting of liddicoatite) and is surrounded by red elbaite. It is one of the most beautiful samples produced by this prolific mine. |
No doubt this is one of the best and most aesthetic mineral specimens I have ever seen in 30 years of being into minerals. Even in smaller size this would be a killer specimen, but nearly 40 cm and that perfect - simply incredible!
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silvia
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Posts: 158
Location: UK
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| Posted: Jun 01, 2022 16:33 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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Very true Tobi.
Some years back when I was very new to minerals a Vendor told me as far as mineral collecting is concerned aesthetics is everything – buy the best looking minerals you can afford. Of course what he did not tell me is that aesthetics comes at a price – one that I cannot always afford, but thrift has helped me out a lot.
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MIM Museum
Joined: 04 Aug 2015
Posts: 111
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Jun 06, 2022 07:48 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Sphalerite (variety marmatite) |
| Locality: | | Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District, Kosovo | |
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| Dimensions: | 14.5 x 10.5 x 6 cm / main crystal: 5.7 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 591 g
MIM number:1791
Plate covered with very bright black pyramidal sphalerite crystals showing the typical twinning of the species. Some cubic streaked pyrite crystals (the largest one measuring 1.9 cm) are interspersed with the sphalerite and small quartz crystals are also found on the plate.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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1550 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Diopside |
| Locality: | | Calvin Mitchell farm, De Kalb, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 3 x 5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 62 g
MIM number:1792
Green transparent crystal with an octagonal section and a smaller side crystal at the bottom. The surfaces are smooth and intact, and the top has a somewhat fibrous appearance.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1546 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stephanite |
| Locality: | | Husky Mine, 302 stope, Galena Hill, Elsa, Mayo mining district, Yukon Territory, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 2 x 1.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 7 g
MIM number:1793
Group of 4 sub-parallel slender crystals of stephanite on a small rosette of polybasite (1.5 cm diameter). The stephanite and polybasite have a metallic gray color with iridescent reflections.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2021"
Ex-collection Joseph Weinholtzner (Canada) |
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1543 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Goethite |
| Locality: | | Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 17.5 x 19 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1700 g
MIM number:1794
Nicknamed "The Sagrada Familia" by the mim. Group of parallel stalagmites of goethite displaying a very strong iridescence on all sides.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1544 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Crocoite |
| Locality: | | Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 13 x 10 cm / main crystal: 4.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 930 g
MIM number:1795
Tufts of translucent well terminated red crystals on a matrix of limonite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1545 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Crocoite |
| Locality: | | Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 14 x 18 cm / main crystal: 11.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1030 g
MIM number:1796
Bouquet of large hollow crystals of beautiful red-orange color with a very large central crystal, which is not common for this species
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1544 Time(s) |
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MIM Museum
Joined: 04 Aug 2015
Posts: 111
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Jun 16, 2022 09:11 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Beryl (variety aquamarine) |
| Locality: | | Jaquetô Mine, Guaratinga, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 3.5 x 15 cm / main crystal: 15 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 347 g
MIM number:1797
Doubly terminated, totally transparent crystal with a beautiful blue color and natural dissolution figures typical of the beryls found in this mine.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex-collection Alexandre Delerm (France) |
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559 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Andradite (variety demantoid) |
| Locality: | | Ambanja District, Antsiranana Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 8 x 11 cm / main crystal: 2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 560 g
MIM number:1798
Well formed crystals of a beautiful transparent green color on a hard cream colored matrix
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex-collection Alexandre Delerm (France) |
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561 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Cerussite |
| Locality: | | Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 3.5 x 10.5 cm / main crystal: 10.2 cm |
| Description: |
T'ouissit, Oujda, Maroc
Mass: 403 g
MIM number:1799
Heart shaped, well formed twinned crystal of honey color showing good transparency, which is not common for the cerussites found in this mine
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex-collection Alexandre Delerm (France) |
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562 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Polylithionite-Trilithionite Series (lepidolite) |
| Locality: | | Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 8 x 8.5 cm / main crystal: 8.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 563 g
MIM number:1800
Lepidolite columns of beautiful lilac color developed on the side of a green tourmaline and surrounded by gray quartz crystals and naturally corroded orthoclase crystals
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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560 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Schorl |
| Locality: | | Guadalupana Mine, De Chavito Hill, Santa Cruz, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 12 x 25.5 x 6.5 cm / main crystal: 3 cm |
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| Mass: 1100 gMIM number:1801Lustrous schorl crystal clusters with a satiny sheen on a thin matrix of quartz. The crystals have an unusual shape of spools with tapered ends.Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jun 17, 2022 02:09 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Simply the best of the best of the best of the best - thanks for showing these unique treasures!
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