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| Mineral: | Sellaite with Quartz and Uvite |
| Locality: | | Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil |  |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 3.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 2.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 93 g
MIM number:1869
Large perfectly colorless and bright quadratic crystal on quartz crystals with small red uvites (max 4mm) at the base. Smaller sellaite crystals are present on the other side of the specimen.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collections: Eric Asselborn (France), Paul Stahl (Germany) |
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| Mineral: | Anhydrite with Dolomite |
| Locality: | | Simplon railway tunnel, Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 4.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 7.1 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 217 g
MIM number:1870
Large floating rectangular transparent, lilac colored doubly terminated crystal. The faces are striated and studded with small cream colored dolomite crystals. Several sidecar smaller anhydrite crystals are attached at the back of the specimen.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Lapis, Jg. 27, Nr. 10, Oct. 2002" |
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| Mineral: | Stilbite-Ca with Fluorapophyllite-(K) |
| Locality: | | Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 5 x 25 cm / main crystal: 5.7 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 272 g
MIM number:1871
Stalactite covered with bowtie-shaped cream-colored stilbite crystals, with tufts of green apophyllite (2.5 cm max)
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite) |
| Locality: | | Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 9 x 28 cm / main crystal: 27.0 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 3040 g
MIM number:1872
Large crystal perfectly terminated at both ends and surrounded by small parallel crystals. The top is dark green, glassy and translucent. The bottom is rather pink, with a little clevelandite near the base. The bottom of the crystal is a trigonal pyramid, while it is generally flat in tourmalines originating from this mine.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite with Albite (variety cleavelandite) |
| Locality: | | Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 9 x 28 cm / main crystal: 27.0 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 3040 g
MIM number:1872
Large crystal perfectly terminated at both ends and surrounded by small parallel crystals. The top is dark green, glassy and translucent. The bottom is rather pink, with a little clevelandite near the base. The bottom of the crystal is a trigonal pyramid, while it is generally flat in tourmalines originating from this mine.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Nov 15, 2022 04:40 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Canfieldite |
| Locality: | | Colquechaca (Aullagas), Chayanta Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm / main crystal: 0.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 7 g
MIM number:1873
Aggregate of small, very well-formed gray crystals which are pseudocubic, in dodecahedra with octahedral modifications.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani
Publication: "The F. John Barlow Mineral Collection"
Ex collections: William F. Pinch (USA), F. John Barlow (USA) |
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| Mineral: | Siderite with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Wheal Maudlin, Lostwithiel, St Austell District, Cornwall, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 3 x 7.5 cm / main crystal: 1.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 194 g
MIM number:1874
Dark to pale brown "horse tooth" short prismatic crystals of siderite exhibiting concentric compositional zonation. This is a very rare crystal habit for siderite. Some white quartz crystals are also present.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: “Mineralogical Record, Jul-Aug 2020”
Ex collection Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences (USA) |
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2201 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Tetrahedrite (Group) coated by Chalcopyrite and with Quartz and Galena |
| Locality: | | Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Liskeard, Cornwall, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 12 x 10 cm / main crystal: 2.1 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 1000 g
MIM number:1875
Group of modified tetrahedra encrusted with golden chalcopyrite on quartz and galena
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences (USA) |
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2206 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Pallaflat Mine, Bigrigg, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 14.5 x 9 x 6.5 cm / main crystal: 5.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 438 g
MIM number:1876
Group of transparent colorless crystals in the form of hexagonal prisms with pointed terminations on a thin crust of limonite. One of the calcite crystals is doubly terminated.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences (USA) |
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2202 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety citrine) |
| Locality: | | Mansa District, Luapula Province, Zambia | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 1.5 x 5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 33 g
MIM number:1877
Japan-law twin consisting of two sharp crystals of citrine of beautiful yellow-brown color
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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2206 Time(s) |
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Dec 01, 2022 12:32 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Uraninite |
| Locality: | | Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.1 cm. |
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| Well-formed, intertwined black cubes, developed on massive uraninite |
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2039 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Euxenite-(Y) |
| Locality: | | Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 4.5 x 12 cm / main crystal: 11.6 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 539 g
MIM number:1879
Two cream-colored crystals forming a V, well-formed for the species, and exhibiting altered surface condition due to the radioactivity of its components
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Jean Béhier (France) |
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2037 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Thorite |
| Locality: | | Ambatofotsy pegmatite, Mahavelona, Soavinandriana District, Itasy Region, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 5 x 6.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 339 g
MIM number:1880
Grayish crystal, altered by the radioactivity of thorium, showing nevertheless some faces typical of the quadratic symmetry of thorite, isomorphous to zircon. This crystal is considered very large for the species. Because thorite is highly radioactive, specimens such as this one are often metamict: This is a condition found in radioactive minerals that results from the destructive effects of its own radiation on its crystal lattice. The effect can destroy a crystal lattice completely while leaving the outward appearance unchanged.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Jean Béhier (France) |
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2032 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Municipio Tatatila, Veracruz (Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 19 x 16 x 25 cm / main crystal: 8.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 4650 g
MIM number:1881
Rock matrix covered with tufts of large, transparent, shiny and very well formed amethyst crystals
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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2033 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Zircon |
| Locality: | | Store Kufjord, Seiland Island, Alta, Finnmark, Norway | |
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| Dimensions: | 11.5 x 6 x 8.5 cm / main crystal: 4.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 725 g
MIM number:1882
Large, very well formed zircon crystal, translucent at the edges and located atop a block of black Mica (biotite subgroup) and white Feldspar, flanked at its base by two smaller zircons. Finnmark zircons formed over 500 M. years ago.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani
Publication: "Le Règne Minéral: Sep-Oct 2018" |
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2038 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Dec 16, 2022 05:52 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Grandidierite |
| Locality: | | Grandidierite deposit, Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar), Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 4 x 7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 104 g
MIM number:1883
Group of crystals in subparallel formation resembling a cathedral. The crystals are translucent, of beautiful blue-green color and are well terminated, which is uncommon for this species: The sample was found in kaolin (of which traces remain at the base) and not trapped in solid rock as were most of the specimens removed from this find, which do not have any terminations.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1798 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Hydroxylbastnäsite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Trimouns Mine, Luzenac, Haute-Ariège, Foix, Ariège Department, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 5.5 x 2 cm / main crystal: 2.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 63 g
MIM number:1884
Hexagonal rosette of well-formed translucent crystals on a matrix of white dolomite. The crystals show a color change ranging from yellow to brown-orange depending on the nature of the lighting.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Enrique Moës (Espagne) |
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1800 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Dolomite |
| Locality: | | Asturreta Quarry, Eugui, Esteríbar, Comarca Auñamendi, Chartered Community of Navarre (Navarra), Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 12 x 13.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1860 g
MIM number:1885
Group of large, very well-formed translucent white-gray rhombohedra imbricated in twins
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1793 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Grossular (variety hydrogrossulaire) |
| Locality: | | Rimpfischwäng Range, Findel Glacier area, Zermatt, Matt Valley, Zermatt - Saas Fee, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 3.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 3.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 46 g
MIM number:1886
Two shiny perpendicular crystals, opaque brown-red, very well formed, with characteristic striations on all their faces. The shape of the largest crystal is reminiscent of the straight prisms of orthoclases.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani
Publication: "Gioielli delle Alpi italiane"
Ex collection Cambridge University (UK) |
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1797 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Grossular (variety hydrogrossulaire) |
| Locality: | | Rimpfischwäng Range, Findel Glacier area, Zermatt, Matt Valley, Zermatt - Saas Fee, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 3.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 3.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 46 g
MIM number:1886
Two shiny perpendicular crystals, opaque brown-red, very well formed, with characteristic striations on all their faces. The shape of the largest crystal is reminiscent of the straight prisms of orthoclases.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani
Publication: "Gioielli delle Alpi italiane"
Ex collection Cambridge University (UK) |
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1794 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Jan 05, 2023 09:18 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Cosalite with Muscovite and Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 4 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 49 g
MIM number:1887
Sheaves of silvery acicular crystals on a matrix made of fluorite and muscovite. The species is generally found in massive specimens, well-formed crystals as on this one being rare.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1353 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Cosalite with Muscovite and Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 4 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 49 g
MIM number:1887
Sheaves of silvery acicular crystals on a matrix made of fluorite and muscovite. The species is generally found in massive specimens, well-formed crystals as on this one being rare.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1347 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluor-liddicoatite |
| Locality: | | Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 22.5 x 21 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2648 g
MIM number:1888
7 slices of the same crystal showing the "Mercedes" pattern in the center and dotted patterns from the center to the periphery characterized by a variety of colors which is unusual for this species
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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1348 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluor-liddicoatite |
| Locality: | | Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 22.5 x 21 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2648 g
MIM number:1888
Slice of the same crystal showing the "Mercedes" pattern in the center and dotted patterns from the center to the periphery characterized by a variety of colors which is unusual for this species
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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1348 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Asbecasite |
| Locality: | | Scherbadung, Kriegalp Valley, Binn Valley (Binntal), Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 8 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 1.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 202 g
MIM number:1889
Well-formed platy transparent yellow-orange crystal on matrix.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1350 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Jan 07, 2023 03:03 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Rutile |
| Locality: | | Rhoneschlucht (Rhône gorge), Ernen, Goms, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 6.5 x 5 cm / main crystal: 2.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 217 g
MIM number:1890
Very well formed shiny dark red twinned crystal on matrix
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1204 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Orthoclase (variety adularia) |
| Locality: | | Piz Medel, Lukmanier Pass, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 20 x 13 x 13 cm / main crystal: 19.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2550 g
MIM number:1891
Large white diamond-shaped crystal on a thin matrix that seems to be a floater (small crystals of orthoclase are present on the other side of the matrix). The crystal has smooth, shiny faces and is not covered with chlorite, which is relatively rare in this deposit. A smaller Manebach twinned crystal sits next to the large crystal.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1207 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Siderite |
| Locality: | | Furka Base Tunnel area, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 11 x 8 cm / main crystal: 2.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 821 g
MIM number:1892
Well-formed greenish rhombohedra scattering all sides of a block of gray-white matrix typical of this deposit
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1205 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Milarite |
| Locality: | | Fiescher Glacier area, Fiesch, Goms, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 2 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 2.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 15 g
MIM number:1893
Doubly terminated very well formed crystal, covered with chlorite, presenting a perfectly beveled top, perched on a 2.7 cm quartz. The milarite-quartz group seems to be a floater.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1207 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Armenite |
| Locality: | | Wasen Alp, Ganter Valley, Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 2.8 cm |
| Description: |
Description:Mass: 7 g
MIM number:1894
Single crystal almost colorless and transparent with a perfect whistle-shaped top. It is probably the largest crystal found for this rare species.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1209 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Jan 09, 2023 04:15 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Armenite |
| Locality: | | Wasen Alp, Ganter Valley, Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.5 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 2.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 5 g
MIM number:1895
Translucent white crystal with whistle-shaped termination on a matrix made of small armenite crystals
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1056 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Cafarsite |
| Locality: | | Wannigletscher, Scherbadung (Monte Cervandone), Kriegalp Valley, Binn Valley (Binntal), Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm / main crystal: 1.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 20 g
MIM number:1896
Group of black smooth and glossy octahedra on matrix.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1058 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Cafarsite |
| Locality: | | Wannigletscher, Scherbadung (Monte Cervandone), Kriegalp Valley, Binn Valley (Binntal), Wallis (Valais), Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 2 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 1.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 9 g
MIM number:1897
Crystal in the shape of an almost perfect icosahedron perched on a white matrix tip.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection Joachim Henrich (Germany) |
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1056 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Sperrylite |
| Locality: | | Oktyabr'skoe deposit, Talnakh, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 2.5 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 2.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 63 g
MIM number:1898
Very shiny, sharp and perfectly formed cubic beveled crystal on a green-brown silicate matrix (probably skarn or serpentinite). This sample is very unusual for this deposit where crystals are mostly cracked and the matrix in which they developed made of sulphides (chalcopyrite, talnakhite, etc.).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1059 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Bertrandite |
| Locality: | | Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 5 x 13.5 cm / main crystal: 3.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 73 g
MIM number:1899
Two tufts of white, pearlescent and translucent bowtie-shaped bertrandite crystals wreathing the crest (3 crystals) and at the base of a 12.5 cm schorl crystal showing a very sharp upper termination.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani
Publication: “Mineralogical Record, Sep-Oct-2019” |
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1054 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Bertrandite |
| Locality: | | Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 5 x 13.5 cm / main crystal: 3.7 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 73 g
MIM number:1899
Two tufts of white, pearlescent and translucent bowtie-shaped bertrandite crystals wreathing the crest (3 crystals) and at the base of a 12.5 cm schorl crystal showing a very sharp upper termination.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani
Publication: “Mineralogical Record, Sep-Oct-2019” |
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1055 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Jan 12, 2023 09:22 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Bertrandite on Orthoclase |
| Locality: | | Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 8 x 21 cm / main crystal: 4.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 559 g
MIM number:1900
An elongated white-cream orthoclase matrix studded on all sides with several white, pearlescent and translucent bertrandite bowtie-shaped crystals. One of the groups of bertrandite crystals, particularly well formed of thicker than average blades, resembles a half-closed book measuring 3.9 cm. This specimen seems to be a floater.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani |
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731 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Bertrandite on Orthoclase |
| Locality: | | Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 8 x 21 cm / main crystal: 4.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 559 g
MIM number:1900
An elongated white-cream orthoclase matrix studded on all sides with several white, pearlescent and translucent bertrandite bowtie-shaped crystals. One of the groups of bertrandite crystals, particularly well formed of thicker than average blades, resembles a half-closed book measuring 3.9 cm. This specimen seems to be a floater.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani |
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732 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Bertrandite |
| Locality: | | Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm / main crystal: 4.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 17 g
MIM number:1901
Two groups of white, pearlescent and translucent bertrandite bowtie-shaped crystals assembled in the form of a wide angle V. One can still notice at the base of the V the traces of the indicolite upon which these crystals have formed, which has since disappeared by natural dissolution, leaving this intact floating group with a very symmetrical aesthetic.
Photographer: Roberto Appiani
Publications: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés", “Mineralogical Record, Sep-Oct-2019” |
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734 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 27 x 9 x 18 cm / main crystal: 20.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2898 g
MIM number:1902
Two large, perfectly formed scepter crystals joined almost perpendicularly to each other at the base. The upper part of both crystals is transparent and presents the most beautiful color for an amethyst, mixing red to purple.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publications: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés", "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg area, Erongo Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 27 x 9 x 18 cm / main crystal: 20.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2898 g
MIM number:1902
Two large, perfectly formed scepter crystals joined almost perpendicularly to each other at the base. The upper part of both crystals is transparent and presents the most beautiful color for an amethyst, mixing red to purple.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publications: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés", "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Vauxite |
| Locality: | | Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 11 x 1.5 cm / main crystal: 0.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 45 g
MIM number:1903
Thin crust covered with small acicular crystals of very beautiful blue color. A sample of this size is unusual for this rare species.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Jan 16, 2023 08:31 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Brucite |
| Locality: | | Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 7 x 4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 151 g
MIM number:1904
Wheel consisting of intact flattened crystals, reminiscent of a slice of pineapple. The color, unusual for this species, is a beautiful lemon yellow.
Photographer: FMI / Benjamin DeCamp
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Acanthite |
| Locality: | | Proaño Mine, Fresnillo de González Echeverría (Fresnillo), Municipio Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 3.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 3.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 76 g
MIM number:1905
Large, perfectly formed floating crystal, of metallic gray color, surmounted by a later crystalline growth on certain edges showing a "melted" aspect.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publications: "extraLapis No. 52: Moderne Klassiker", "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Acanthite |
| Locality: | | Proaño Mine, Fresnillo de González Echeverría (Fresnillo), Municipio Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 2 x 5 cm / main crystal: 1.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 41 g
MIM number:1906
Group of intact crystals with a shiny metallic gray color. Some crystals are polyhedral and richly faceted, while others have a "melted" appearance.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "extraLapis No. 52: Moderne Klassiker" |
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| Mineral: | Grossular (variety hessonite) |
| Locality: | | Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell & Eden, Orleans and Lamoille Counties, Vermont, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 5 x 8.5 cm / main crystal: 1.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 256 g
MIM number:1907
Transparent, sharply formed and well separated dodecahedral crystals of beautiful orange color, on a matrix made of fibrous diopside crystals with a greenish color creating a beautiful contrast with the grossular.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Erongo Mountain, Usakos, Erongo Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 24 x 18 x 34 cm / main crystal: 4.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 9000 g
MIM number:1908
Block made of microcline crystals twinned after the Carlsbad law (up to 6 cm) and schorl (up to 7 cm) covered with well separated cubic and transparent fluorite crystals of an astonishing emerald green color creating a beautiful contrast with the microcline. The cubes of fluorites have beveled faces; some are traversed by fine schorl crystals. The microcline and schorl were formed first and then leached by the hydrothermal fluids which left them in this altered condition and subsequently deposited the fluorites.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Namibia - Minerals and Localities - I"
Ex collection: Heini Soltau (Namibie) |
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Posts: 133
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Jan 21, 2023 10:25 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Arsentsumebite |
| Locality: | | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 6 x 8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 674 g
MIM number:1909
Block of tabular azurite crystals (the largest measuring 2.2 cm) covered on one side with elongated cylindrical groups made of emerald green microcrystals of arsentsumebite creating a beautiful contrast. The arsentsumebite results from an epimorphous growth on mimetite that was dissolved at a later stage. This is one of the best known samples of this rare mineral, which is both arsenate and sulphate.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Namibia - Minerals and Localities - II" |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | Rowley Mine, Theba, Painted Rock District, Painted Rock Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 26 x 10 x 15 cm / main crystal: 2.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 3850 g
MIM number:1910
Very bright orange wulfenite tablets interspersed with tufts of prismatic hexagonal red crystals of mimetite (up to 4 mm) creating an astonishing contrast with the wulfenite. It is one of the largest and most complete samples of this mine which is difficult to access and where wulfenite grows in very narrow veins.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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| Mineral: | Talc |
| Locality: | | Zederhaus, Zederhaustal, Tamsweg, Salzburg, Austria | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 7.5 x 13 cm / main crystal: 2.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 301 g
MIM number:1911
Tufts of elongated tabular crystals of sea foam green color on a white matrix. Talc crystallizes very rarely as clearly as on the samples extracted from this mine.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Sanidine |
| Locality: | | Itrongay (Itrongahy), Mahasoa East Commune, Betroka District, Anosy Region, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 13 x 10.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1500 g
MIM number:1912
Large, very well formed crystal of pastel green color, partly transparent, showing very clearly the classic faces of the orthoclase. The lateral faces show, in some places, figures of dissolution.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Eosphorite |
| Locality: | | Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 1.5 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 5.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 27 g
MIM number:1913
Well formed, translucent brown crystal with a wedge shaped termination and side mica crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Sapphirine |
| Locality: | | Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | main crystal: 8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 345 g
MIM number:2272
Set of 13 floating, very well formed, gray-black crystals, with masses ranging from 4 to 118 grams, the largest measuring 8 cm, which is considered large for this species. 4 crystals are not twinned, and are formed of superimposed hexagonal poker chips, with traces of anorthite on some. 7 crystals show a perfect oblique twin, and 2 crystals show a right-angle twin.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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