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Michael Shaw
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| Mineral: | Sulfur |
| Locality: | | Maybee Quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan, USA |  |
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| Dimensions: | 4.6 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm |
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| Two intersecting canary-yellow sulfur crystals. The primary crystal is doubly-terminated and measures 4.6 cm in length. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 11, 2023 07:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Epidote |
| Locality: | | Knappenwand, Knappenwand area, Untersulzbach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.0 x 3.6 x 2.0 cm |
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| A group of lustrous, finely striated prismatic dark green epidote crystals from the classic Austrian locality. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 15, 2023 08:43 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Mekhtar, Loralai District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 6.6 x 4.0 cm |
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| Translucent grayish-purple fluorite cubes with a pronounced mosaic texture on the crystal faces. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 22, 2023 08:02 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Calcite |
| Locality: | | Mekhtar, Loralai District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.9 x 7.7 x 4.0 cm |
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| Translucent grayish-purple fluorite cubes with a mosaic texture on the crystal faces associated with small colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 24, 2023 08:43 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Chalcocite |
| Locality: | | M'Passa Mines, Mindouli District, Pool Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.7 x 2.9 x 2.2 cm |
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| An aggregate of relatively sharp bluish-black pseudo-hexagonal twinned chalcocite crystals. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 27, 2023 10:12 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Growing up in western Massachusetts in the 1960s, there were many locations one could visit to collect minerals. One of the earliest locations that I recall visiting was the Carlton Quarry in Chester, Vermont. This location was an abandoned soapstone quarry which was worked as early as 1894. In 1961, my dad drove a friend and I to the site, which was a large oval-shaped pit. Collecting was relatively easy, and we came home with several boxes of actinolite, talc, pyrite, magnetite, and ankerite. A few of these specimens collected over 60 years ago were placed in my collection and the rest I used for trading material. Some of the pieces collected that day are shown in the following images. The memory of that collecting trip was brought back a few days ago when I was going through some boxes in a storage shed. One was marked Carlton Quarry and opening that box brought back fond memories of a fine day in the field.
Sadly, this location is gone. The dumps have been leveled, there is a house that sits on the site, and the pit is a pond in the backyard.
| Mineral: | Talc |
| Locality: | | Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 12.0 cm. |
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| Foliated green talc on chlorite schist. |
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| Mineral: | Pyrite in Talc |
| Locality: | | Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 5.5 cm |
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| Cubic pyrite crystals to 0.9 cm embedded in light gray talc. |
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| Mineral: | Actinolite in Talc |
| Locality: | | Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.6 x 3.7 cm |
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| Dark green lathlike crystals of actinolite embedded in light gray talc. |
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| Mineral: | Actinolite |
| Locality: | | Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.0 x 4.5 cm |
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| A mass of dark green actinolite. |
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| Mineral: | Magnetite in Chlorite schist |
| Locality: | | Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 11.6 x 4.5 cm |
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| Sharp octahedral magnetite crystals embedded in a dark green chlorite schist. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 31, 2023 07:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Sulfur, Aragonite |
| Locality: | | Cianciana Mines, Cianciana, Agrigento (Girgenti) Province, Sicily, Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.3 x 4.1 x 2.4 cm |
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| Gemmy lemon-yellow sulfur crystals associated with drusy white aragonite. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 02, 2023 10:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Prehnite ps. after Laumontite |
| Locality: | | Pathanwadi Quarry, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.2 x 4.6 x 3.5 cm |
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| Pale mint green prehnite fingers pseudomorphing previous laumontite crystals. Several crystals display a hollow central core. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 03, 2023 10:09 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Gyrolite |
| Locality: | | Lonavale (Lonavala), Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.9 x 5.2 x 3.1 cm |
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| An aggregate of snow white interconnected gyrolite spheres hosting two colorless fluorapophyllite crystals. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 07, 2023 08:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.3 x 6.5 x 5.3 cm |
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| Creamy white sharp scalenohedral calcite crystals to 2.7 cm. Crystals along one edge are tinted reddish-brown due to hematite inclusions. Collected by and in the former collection of noted Bisbee collector Richard Graeme. |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.3 x 6.5 x 5.3 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 12, 2023 08:06 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Chalcocite |
| Locality: | | M'Passa Mines, Mindouli District, Pool Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.7 x 2.9 x 2.2 cm. |
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| An aggregate of relatively sharp bluish-black pseudo-hexagonal twinned chalcocite crystals. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2023 11:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Gunung Keriang (Keriang Mountain), Alor Setar, Kota Setar District, Kedah State, Malaysia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.3 x 7.0 x 6.1 cm |
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| Colorless to honey-colored calcite crystals to 4.9 cm with a secondary growth of smaller crystals attached to the primary crystals. Crystal habit is an elongated prism with steep rhombohedral terminations. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 22, 2023 09:47 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Aegirine on Orthoclase |
| Locality: | | Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.7 x 7.2 x 2.4 cm |
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| A triangular plate of blocky creamy white orthoclase crystals hosting groups of lustrous black aegirine crystals to 1.5 cm. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 25, 2023 10:02 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mineral: | Aragonite (variety flos ferri) |
| Locality: | | Elafos Mines, Elafos, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.3 x 8.0 x 4.0 cm |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Jun 28, 2023 09:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw - Barite from Bulgaria |
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| Mineral: | Baryte |
| Locality: | | Kremikovtsi Mine, Kremikovtsi, Stolichna Municipality, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.3 x 6.0 x 2.0 cm |
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| Lustrous bladed brown barite crystals. |
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