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Benj · Posted: May 07, 2021 06:36 Post subject: Re: Collection of Benjamin Carballo

Today, a dream came true...

Benj · Posted: May 07, 2021 13:00 Post subject: Re: Collection of Benjamin Carballo

Benj · Posted: Dec 01, 2022 11:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Benjamin Carballo

An "Azurite flower" (very rare !) from Chessy-les-Mines, Beaujolais wineyard, Rhône, FRANCE. The crystals are flat, with an intense midnight blue and very shiny, because preserved in Halloysite (white), and coming from the period of exploitation of the "Blue Mine" (19th century). This specimen comes from the collection of Émile-Auguste Doumet (1796–1869), from the same family as the botanist Adanson, himself a mineral collector. From the collection of Dr. E. Asselborn. Now in my collection. My favorite specimen of SMAM 2022

Benj · Posted: Dec 01, 2022 11:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Benjamin Carballo

An other piece of the Blue mine (18th Century)

Benj · Posted: Dec 01, 2022 12:19 Post subject: Re: Collection of Benjamin Carballo

Blue Azurite crystals partially pseudomorphed to Malachite of the famous Blue Mine (19th Century). From an old German collection (19th Century ?), now in my collection.

Benj · Posted: Dec 01, 2022 12:32 Post subject: Re: Collection of Benjamin Carballo

Malachite psm after Cuprite, on Azurite "Chessylite" (2,5 cm). A lovely piece found by Jean Béhier (a great mineralogist engineer for the French atomic Commission after WWII) in 1937 or 1938 (see the label), in Chessy mine (Rhône Department, FRANCE). Ex. coll. Alain Martaud, now in my collection.