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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 02, 2023 09:39 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | 'Heulandite' |
Locality: | Dorena Dam, Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 5.2 x 4.4 x 3.0 cm |
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Lustrous white heulandite crystals on a small amount of brown matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 05, 2023 12:22 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Plattnerite |
Locality: | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico |  |
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Dimensions: | 12.2 x 7.4 x 5.2 cm |
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Microcrystals of metallic black plattnerite coating colorless calcite rhombs on a brown limonitic matrix. |
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Mineral: | Plattnerite |
Locality: | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico |  |
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Dimensions: | 12.2 x 7.4 x 5.2 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 09, 2023 14:06 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Gyrolite |
Locality: | Malad Quarry, Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India |  |
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Dimensions: | 4.4 x 3.1 x 1.9 cm |
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Pale olive green gyrolite spheres, the dominant ball measuring 2.8 cm in diameter, on a very thin plate of colorless quartz with minor laumontite. |
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Mineral: | Gyrolite |
Locality: | Malad Quarry, Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India |  |
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Dimensions: | 4.4 x 3.1 x 1.9 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 10, 2023 11:37 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Epidote |
Locality: | Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell & Eden, Orleans and Lamoille Counties, Vermont, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 2.4 x 1.0 cm |
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Mineral: | Pyrite |
Locality: | Blue Ball Stone Company Quarry, Blue Ball, Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.7 cm |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Surprise Mine #2, Cookes Peak District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 2.5 x 2.1 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 12, 2023 10:55 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Quartz (variety smoky quartz) |
Locality: | Steinkopf, Namakwa District (Namaqualand), Northern Cape Province, South Africa |  |
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Dimensions: | 6.5 x 2.0 x 1.8 cm |
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Doubly-terminated transparent smoky quartz crystal. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 13, 2023 12:44 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Wulfenite |
Locality: | Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 8.0 x 4.5 cm, FOV ~4.5 cm |
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Philippe Durand
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 14, 2023 09:51 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Colemanite |
Locality: | Boron, Kramer District (Kramer Borate District), Kern County, California, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 5.4 x 3.0 x 2.7 cm |
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Fanlike aggregates of colorless bladed colemanite crystals enclosing orange-brown botryoidal calcite. This piece was part of the Minette borate collection and collected from the Initial Open Pit in 1959. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 16, 2023 09:12 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico |  |
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Dimensions: | 7.1 x 4.7 x 4.3 cm |
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Opaque white calcite rhombs to 3.0 cm associated with small colorless transparent hemimorphite crystals on a brown limonitic matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 19, 2023 11:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Locality: | Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA |  |
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Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5.2 x 5.2 cm |
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Prismatic yellow calcite crystals to 3.2 cm on a galena-rich matrix with small white dolomite rhombs. |
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Mineral: | Calcite |
Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5.2 x 5.2 cm |
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Enrique Llorens

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Posted: Jan 20, 2023 05:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Beautiful classic Calcite
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 20, 2023 10:41 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you Enrique.
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 20, 2023 11:33 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Sulfur from the San Pablo de Napa Mine, 4-5 miles west of the El Desierto Mine.
Mineral: | Sulfur |
Locality: | San Pablo de Napa Mine, San Pablo de Napa, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia |  |
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Dimensions: | 5.8 x 2.8 x 2.3 cm |
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A loose skeletal floater crystal of bright yellow translucent native sulfur. |
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Firmo Espinar

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Posted: Jan 20, 2023 19:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Congratulations Michael on your second red star.
Two million views!!!
It is fantastic and very difficult to reach that figure.
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Michael Shaw
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Posted: Jan 20, 2023 22:28 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Firmo Espinar wrote: | Congratulations Michael on your second red star.
Two million views!!!
It is fantastic and very difficult to reach that figure. |
Thank you very much Firmo. I sure never expected this when I started my collection thread.
Michael
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