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silvia
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 Posted: Jul 30, 2022 17:38 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Michael Shaw wrote: | | This piece wouldn't win any awards for beauty - Szaibelyite is an uncommon to rare basic magnesium borate. The following sample has been in my collection since it was collected in July 1963, but just got catalogued this week. |
Fine sentiments, Michael.
Too often, we overlook the fact that as mineral collectors we are the custodians of a mines’ mineralogical and geological heritage. One of the many reasons I focus, whenever possible, on minerals from a specific locality, like Panasqueira and others too, is to appreciate the ore-body and the geological processes that created the minerals.
Sometime ago, I visited a ‘public financed’ Museum at a so-called historic site and was appalled by the lack of any significant examples of the mines mineralogical and geological heritage. I said to the young lady conducting the tour that if it were not for the presence of copper in the ore body, we would not even be having this tour.
I further stated that all the ‘stuff’ on display – period costumes, clothing, cooking utensils, etc., etc., etc., can be seen in a thousand rural museums anywhere in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and across the European continent. She of course said the national Museum (taxpayer-funded) has minerals to view, but I told her that such an argument is not good enough in my view.
I will always maintain that the well-educated and well-read private collector is the only hope for preserving a mines’ mineralogical and geological heritage.
Keep up the fine work, Michael.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jul 31, 2022 08:54 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| silvia wrote: | | Michael Shaw wrote: | | This piece wouldn't win any awards for beauty - Szaibelyite is an uncommon to rare basic magnesium borate. The following sample has been in my collection since it was collected in July 1963, but just got catalogued this week. |
Fine sentiments, Michael.
Too often, we overlook the fact that as mineral collectors we are the custodians of a mines’ mineralogical and geological heritage. One of the many reasons I focus, whenever possible, on minerals from a specific locality, like Panasqueira and others too, is to appreciate the ore-body and the geological processes that created the minerals.
I will always maintain that the well-educated and well-read private collector is the only hope for preserving a mines’ mineralogical and geological heritage.
Keep up the fine work, Michael. |
Thank you, Silvia, I appreciate your comments. It is unfortunate that many museums feel the need to install displays that incorporate all sorts of "gee whiz" components in order to cater to a certain segment of visitors that can't seem to appreciate displays which focus on the specimens themselves and the importance they most likely played in the sociologic and economic development of the area.
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Peter Lemkin
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| Posted: Jul 31, 2022 10:13 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Michael Shaw wrote: | | silvia wrote: | | Michael Shaw wrote: | | This piece wouldn't win any awards for beauty - Szaibelyite is an uncommon to rare basic magnesium borate. The following sample has been in my collection since it was collected in July 1963, but just got catalogued this week. |
Fine sentiments, Michael.
Too often, we overlook the fact that as mineral collectors we are the custodians of a mines’ mineralogical and geological heritage. One of the many reasons I focus, whenever possible, on minerals from a specific locality, like Panasqueira and others too, is to appreciate the ore-body and the geological processes that created the minerals.
I will always maintain that the well-educated and well-read private collector is the only hope for preserving a mines’ mineralogical and geological heritage.
Keep up the fine work, Michael. |
Thank you, Silvia, I appreciate your comments. It is unfortunate that many museums feel the need to install displays that incorporate all sorts of "gee whiz" components in order to cater to a certain segment of visitors that can't seem to appreciate displays which focus on the specimens themselves and the importance they most likely played in the sociologic and economic development of the area. |
Along these lines, I for one am saddened that some of the top mineral museums have put their 'systematic' displays back in storage for exactly what you said....'shiny objects', which, yes, are large and esthetic, but without the homely and ugly minerals, the exhibit is more art than science to me.....I think it should be a balance and it is sad that most people only want the shiny objects and not the science.....sad. Science has been much vilified in recent decades - on purpose, but I digress....and this would take me off into tangents on the educational structures of society now and things political and political economy in the largest senses of those terms.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 01, 2022 09:38 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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An early addition to the collection in 1964.
| Mineral: | Hausmannite |
| Locality: | | Bengal Mine, Stambaugh, Menominee Iron Range, Iron County, Michigan, USA |  |
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| Dimensions: | 10.0 x 6.2 cm |
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| Lustrous metallic black hausmannite crystals lining cavities in massive hausmannite associated with small patches calcite. In 1953, the Bengal Mine and adjacent Tully Mine were combined and with the addition of new property, it was renamed the Cannon Mine. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 04, 2022 13:19 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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One of the new Vanadinites from Tissaf, Morocco that appeared at the 2022 SMAM show.
| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | Tissaf, Outat El Haj, Boulemane Province, Fès-Meknès Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.4 × 3.3 × 2.1 cm |
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| Lustrous, doubly terminated, brownish-yellow vanadinite crystals with deeply hoppered terminations and geometric color zoning. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 08, 2022 08:49 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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For lovers of Panasqueira minerals.
| Mineral: | Arsenopyrite, Siderite, Marcasite, Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.3 × 6.9 × 3.8 cm |
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| Bright metallic silvery arsenopyrite crystals, with parallel epigenetic marcasite growths on matrix, with small siderites crystals and leafy muscovite aggregates. |
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| Mineral: | Arsenopyrite, Marcasite, Siderite, Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.3 × 6.9 × 3.8 cm |
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| Detail of arsenopyrite and marcasite. |
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| Mineral: | SIderite, Muscovite, Arsenopyrite, Marcasite |
| Locality: | | Minas da Panasqueira, level 0, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.3 × 6.9 × 3.8 cm |
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| Siderite with muscovite and arsenopyrite. |
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| Mineral: | Muscovite, Siderite, Arsenopyrite, Marcasite |
| Dimensions: | 7.3 × 6.9 × 3.8 cm |
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| Detail of muscovite with siderite and arsenopyrite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 15, 2022 11:16 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Hydroboracite |
| Locality: | | Hisarcik Mine, Emet Borate deposit, Emet, Emet District, Kütahya Province, Aegean Region, Turkey | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.2 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm |
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| Divergent sprays of acicular colorless Hydroboracite crystals. |
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silvia
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| Posted: Aug 15, 2022 14:13 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Michael Shaw wrote: | | For lovers of Panasqueira minerals. |
A really lovely Panasqueira specimen - and superb photos. Again, great close-ups - and I do love the close-up shots.
You do know I have a passion for Panasqueira specimens so my opinion will always be biased.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 15, 2022 15:14 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| silvia wrote: | | Michael Shaw wrote: | | For lovers of Panasqueira minerals. |
You do know I have a passion for Panasqueira specimens so my opinion will always be biased. |
Thanks Silvia, Yes, I was thinking of you when I posted that specimen.
Beautiful little Cassiterite BTW.
Michael
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silvia
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| Posted: Aug 15, 2022 18:09 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Michael Shaw wrote: | | silvia wrote: | | Michael Shaw wrote: | | For lovers of Panasqueira minerals. |
You do know I have a passion for Panasqueira specimens so my opinion will always be biased. |
Thanks Silvia, Yes, I was thinking of you when I posted that specimen.
Beautiful little Cassiterite BTW.
Michael |
Many thanks for your support – but the specimen will only be on display about my neck.
We have a few more Panasqueira minerals to post, but we just could not get any good photos of them with the old Nikon Cool Pix A100. The Cassiterite was one of the specimens that we put to one side until we could take a photo that did it justice. We have another, Arsenopyrite/Marcasite/Pyrite that just would not photograph well – akin to taking a photo of a mirror. Our new Canon camera allows us to photograph some very challenging specimens. Photos of these will be posted in the coming weeks.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 22, 2022 07:55 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Pyromorphite |
| Locality: | | Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.8 × 3.9 × 2.2 cm |
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| Mineral: | Pyromorphite |
| Dimensions: | 4.8 × 3.9 × 2.2 cm |
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| Pyromorphite crystals showing distinct color zoning with greenish yellow prisms and yellow terminations. |
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Dany Mabillard
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| Posted: Aug 22, 2022 11:27 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| What a beautiful Pyromorphite from France. Not easy to fine good ones. The color is more orange in the photo than actually ? I've seen specimens that are "more" green.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 22, 2022 11:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Dany Mabillard wrote: | | What a beautiful Pyromorphite from France. Not easy to fine good ones. The color is more orange in the photo than actually ? I've seen specimens that are "more" green. |
Dany, thank you for your comment.
Actually, the color of this pyromorphite is quite accurate, at least on my monitor. There is quite a bit of variation in the color of pyromorphite specimens from this location. I have another piece that is apple green. One of the reasons I acquired this piece was because of the difference in color.
Michael
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 26, 2022 11:17 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw - Pyromorphite |
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| Mineral: | Pyromorphite |
| Locality: | | La Vidale Mine (Brezies), Asprières, Saint-Martin de Bouillac, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.6 x 3.0 cm |
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| Barrel-shaped pyromorphite crystals with very curved faces and edges and a uniform yellowish-green color. Collected March 2011. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Aug 28, 2022 09:47 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw - Hematite |
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| Mineral: | Hematite |
| Locality: | | Chub Lake, Hailesboro, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 15.5 x 8.2 cm |
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| Lustrous thin platy hematite crystals to 0.5 cm in size covering the top surface of a massive hematite matrix. Collected in August 1996. |
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