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| Mineral: | Betekhtinite |
| Locality: | | Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan |  |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 3.5 x 9.5 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 511 g
MIM number:1969
Group of parallel gray-black crystals on a rocky matrix. The crystals of this rare species are generally lying against the matrix. It is uncommon to find them protruding from it as visibly as on this specimen.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Fluorapophyllite-(K) |
| Locality: | | Savada, Dharangaon, Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 5 x 9 cm / main crystal: 2.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 300 g
MIM number:1970
Group of five colorless, shiny, separated and perfectly formed crystals on a greenish matrix.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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| Mineral: | Celestine |
| Locality: | | Sakoany deposit, Katsepy Commune, Mitsinjo District, Boeny Region, Mahajanga (Majunga) Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 16 x 16 cm / main crystal: 9.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 3850 g
MIM number:1971
Beautiful divergent sheaf of blue, perfectly formed and pointed transparent crystals, developed around a large, richly faceted main crystal, inside a geode. The shape of these crystals is unusual for this mine, which generally produces crystals with chisel shaped terminations. The celestine crystals of Madagascar, among the most beautiful known, are found in geodes that are old gas bubbles formed by the decomposition of organic matter contained in 65 million years old marls and sandstones.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Celestine |
| Locality: | | Sakoany deposit, Katsepy Commune, Mitsinjo District, Boeny Region, Mahajanga (Majunga) Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 18.5 x 10 cm / main crystal: 5.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1850 g
MIM number:1972
Transparent, perfectly formed crystals of blue color with sharp chisel shaped terminations on a piece of matrix resulting from the opening of the geode in which they were formed. The celestine crystals of Madagascar are among the most beautiful known for their sharpness, intense periwinkle blue color and incredible clarity.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Churchite-(Y) |
| Locality: | | Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, ǁKaras Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 9 x 8 cm / main crystal: 0.4 cm |
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Mass: 676 g
MIM number:1973
Well separated white balls of acicular crystals developed on a bed of lustrous micro-crystallized black romanechite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Thorianite |
| Locality: | | Betroka District, Anosy Region, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 5.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 366 g
MIM number:1974
Cluster of well-formed black cubic crystals with some crystal pairs showing interpenetration twins. It is uncommon to find this species, which generally produces isolated cubes in groups of well-formed crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Posted: Mar 03, 2023 06:14 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Carrollite |
| Locality: | | Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 8 x 6.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 840 g
MIM number:1975
Very large shiny and equant cubo-octahedral crystal. The base had grown on a mica matrix from which the crystal was harvested. It is one of the largest crystals known for this species.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Carrollite |
| Locality: | | Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 6.5 x 5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 431 g
MIM number:1976
Large, intact, shiny and slightly elongated cubo-octahedron with stepped faces. The base had grown on a matrix of mica from which the crystal was harvested.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Carrollite |
| Locality: | | Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 2 x 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 37 g
MIM number:1977
Two stacked carrollite twinned crystals. The crystals are flat and clearly show the reentrant angle of the spinel twin. The larger one is hexagonal and the smaller triangular.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Carrollite |
| Locality: | | Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 1 x 2.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 14 g
MIM number:1978
Spinel-twinned carrollite crystal of triangular appearance with a well-visible reentrant angle characterizing this twinning.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1166 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Carrollite |
| Locality: | | Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 2 x 1 x 1.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 7 g
MIM number:1979
Spinel-twinned carrollite crystal of triangular appearance with truncated vertices and a well-visible reentrant angle characterizing this twinning.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Carrollite |
| Locality: | | Kamoya, Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1 x 1.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1 g
MIM number:1980
Small, perfectly formed spinel-twinned carrollite crystal consisting of two stacked equilateral triangles separated by the classic reentrant angle of the spinel twin; this configuration occurs commonly in diamond crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Posted: Mar 06, 2023 04:37 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Groutite |
| Locality: | | Zavalie deposit, Holovanivsk Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 7.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 0.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 311 g
MIM number:1981
Slab covered with black and shiny rosettes of groutite; this species rarely gives crystals that are as visible as on this sample.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Locality (ukrainian name): Hrafitne pole Zavali, Hayvoronsʹkyi rayon, Kirovohradsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine |
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| Mineral: | Legrandite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, San Judas chimney, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 6 x 4 cm / main crystal: 3.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 173 g
MIM number:1982
Doubly terminated, perfectly formed yellow crystal on a matrix of hard limonite with a smaller crystal jutting out from it at oblique angle. The terminations of these crystals are transparent. A tuft of fine and transparent crystals has developed on the matrix nearby. It is rare to find crystals as well formed and intact on matrix: this mine has often produced isolated crystals or friable and unstable matrices.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Legrandite |
| Locality: | | Ojuela Mine, San Judas chimney, Mapimí, Municipio Mapimí, Durango, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 1.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 29 g
MIM number:1983
Intact rosette of transparent and very well formed yellow crystals measuring 2.5 cm diameter on a thin matrix of limonite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Hematite |
| Locality: | | Refuge du Clos, Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, Le Bourg d'Oisans Comune, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 3.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 56 g
MIM number:1984
Group of very lustrous platy hematite crystals in the shape of a rose, resting on a bit of matrix consisting of small quartz crystals covered with chlorite.
Found at the 'Refuge du Clos' (1400 m.)
Photographer: MING / Humble Rooster
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Spessartine |
| Locality: | | Oyo State, Nigeria | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm / main crystal: 1.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 11 g
MIM number:1985
Two identical, transparent, intergrown, perfectly formed rhombic dodecahedra (the edge length of each dodecahedron being 0.8 cm even), of beautiful orange color.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Posted: Mar 07, 2023 03:26 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Philippe Durand wrote: | | this hematite :):) |
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2023 02:53 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Metatorbernite |
| Locality: | | Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 17 x 12 x 26 cm / main crystal: 1.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2600 g
MIM number:1986
Sugar loaf shaped mound covered with tufts of lustrous, emerald-green Metatorbernite tabular crystals.
Photographer: MIM Museum |
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| Mineral: | Metatorbernite |
| Locality: | | Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 17 x 12 x 26 cm / main crystal: 1.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2600 g
MIM number:1986
Sugar loaf shaped mound covered with tufts of lustrous, emerald-green Metatorbernite tabular crystals.
Photographer: MIM Museum |
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755 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Aiguille de l'Eboulement, Les Petites Jorasses, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 74 x 12 x 23 cm / main crystal: 22.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 15450 g
MIM number:1987
Set of intact, transparent and slightly smoked, doubly terminated quartz crystals, with upper terminations partly covered with chlorite; the group is reminiscent of a mountain range.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Le Règne Minéral #138: Nov-Déc 2017" |
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754 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Mimetite |
| Locality: | | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 6 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 121 g
MIM number:1988
Three large yellow-orange transparent, heavily striated, tapered, pointed, lustrous and very well formed crystals on a contrasting white matrix. The striation perpendicular to the main axis is clearly visible.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Ex collection: Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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757 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2.5 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 1.9 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 28 g
MIM number:1989
Very well formed cream-colored crystal perched on a silvery 2.9 cm cyclically twinned cerussite. A small crystal of stolzite is embedded in the cerussite at the back. Such a well-formed stolzite-cerusite floating association is not common in this mine.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral #18: Nov-Déc 1997", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011"
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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756 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2.5 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 1.9 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 28 g
MIM number:1989
Very well formed cream-colored crystal perched on a silvery 2.9 cm cyclically twinned cerussite. A small crystal of stolzite is embedded in the cerussite at the back. Such a well-formed stolzite-cerusite floating association is not common in this mine.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral #18: Nov-Déc 1997", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011"
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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| Posted: Mar 18, 2023 12:09 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, +15 level, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 2.5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 45 g
MIM number:1990
Well-formed, parallel, cream-colored tablets on a piece of matrix. A 1.8 cm silvery cerussite is stuck at the front of one of the stolzite crystals.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral #18: Nov-Déc 1997", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011"
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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642 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, +15 level, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 2.5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 45 g
MIM number:1990
Well-formed, parallel, cream-colored tablets on a piece of matrix. A 1.8 cm silvery cerussite is stuck at the front of one of the stolzite crystals.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral #18: Nov-Déc 1997", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011"
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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642 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, +15 level, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 2 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 2.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 11 g
MIM number:1991
Very well formed square crystal, cream-colored on the periphery and darker in the center, with small side crystals at the base.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011"
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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643 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, +15 level, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 2.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 18 g
MIM number:1992
Crystals shaped as parallel square cream-colored tablets on a piece of matrix.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral #18: Nov-Déc 1997", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011"
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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644 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, +15 level, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 1.5 x 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 36 g
MIM number:1993
Large, well-formed rectangular cream-colored crystal with crenelated edges on a piece of matrix with small side crystals.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral #18: Nov-Déc 1997", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011"
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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642 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 1 x 1.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 17 g
MIM number:1994
Thick, intact crystal, cream-colored on the surface and virtually colorless and transparent inside. This crystal is probably twinned.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral #18: Nov-Déc 1997", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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642 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 3 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 3.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 19 g
MIM number:1995
Intact elongated cream-colored crystal on a piece of matrix with a smaller crystal at the top. Both crystals seem to be twinned.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2011", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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642 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 1.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 19 g
MIM number:1996
Stout, apparently twinned gray crystal on a piece of matrix with smaller side crystals.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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643 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stolzite |
| Locality: | | Sainte Lucie Mine, Saint-Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Mende, Lozère, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm / main crystal: 1.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 10 g
MIM number:1997
Stout, apparently twinned, cream-colored crystal on a piece of matrix.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Ex collections: Yves Merchadier (France), Louis-Dominique Bayle (France) |
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| Posted: Mar 26, 2023 03:55 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Grandidierite |
| Locality: | | Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar), Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 3.5 x 0.5 cm / main crystal: 3.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 5 g
MIM number: 1999
Flat, 3 mm thick translucent crystal, with the top perfectly formed, and a beautiful deep blue-green color. The bottom of the crystal is naturally healed and contains a remnant of kaolin. It is very unusual to find a crystal so well formed for this rare species.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Mar-Apr 2018" |
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| Mineral: | Grandidierite |
| Locality: | | Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region (Fort Dauphin Region), Toliara Province (Tuléar), Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 5.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 52 g
MIM number: 2000
Doubly terminated, very well formed, translucent, light blue-green crystal on a feldspar matrix. It is rare to find a grandidierite as well formed on matrix (curiously free crystals are better formed while those on matrix have almost always indistinct terminations).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Le Règne Minéral #138: Nov-Déc 2017" |
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| Mineral: | Axinite-(Mg) |
| Locality: | | Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 1 x 6 cm / main crystal: 5.9 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 19 g
MIM number: 2001
Complete, sharp and translucent crystal with a transparent top whose color varies from periwinkle to purple depending on the nature of the lighting. The bottom of the crystal contains traces of graphite, which is a classic marker of the Merelani mines. It is unusual to find such a well-formed crystal of this size for this rare variety of axinite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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423 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Axinite-(Mg) |
| Locality: | | Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 2 x 0.5 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 3.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 4 g
MIM number: 2002
Transparent crystal with a very sharp top, of periwinkle to purple color depending on the nature of the lighting.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Posted: Mar 29, 2023 09:21 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 14.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 10.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1035 g
MIM number:2003
Large Greek cross shaped twin that has been cleared of the mica matrix in which it was encased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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158 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 8 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 9.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 482 g
MIM number:2004
Large Greek cross shaped twin that has been cleared of the mica matrix in which it was encased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
159 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 9 x 3 cm / main crystal: 9.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 313 g
MIM number:2005
Greek cross tapered twin that has been cleared of the mica matrix in which it was encased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
158 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 5.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 131 g
MIM number:2006
Greek cross shaped twin that has been cleared of the mica matrix in which it was encased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
159 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 5.5 x 2 cm / main crystal: 3.7 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 66 g
MIM number:2007
Three small well-formed parallel Greek cross twins that have been cleared of the matrix of mica in which they were encased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
159 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 9 x 4 cm / main crystal: 7.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 401 g
MIM number:2008
Two well-formed St. Andrew cross shaped twins, slightly offset from each other, which have been cleared of the mica matrix in which they were encased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
159 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 5.5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 7.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 159 g
MIM number:2009
Large St. Andrew cross shaped twin with a small Greek cross shaped 2 cm twin at one of its tips.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
159 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 7 x 3 cm / main crystal: 6.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 141 g
MIM number:2010
Y-shaped twin that has been released from the mica matrix in which it was encased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
158 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 7.5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 5.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 182 g
MIM number:2011
Six-fold, well-formed, flower-like twin, which has been cleared of the mica matrix in which it was ebcased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
158 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm / main crystal: 3.9 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 66 g
MIM number:2012
Well-formed six-fold twin with a small St. Andrew cross shaped twin near it.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
159 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Staurolite |
| Locality: | | Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 4 x 2 cm / main crystal: 4.0 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 49 g
MIM number:2013
N-shaped twin released from the mica matrix in which it was encased.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Viewed: |
159 Time(s) |
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