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Jordi Fabre
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 Posted: Jun 04, 2024 01:49 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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Hi Am,
It seems to be Berthierite at the rear (the darker, poorly crystallized material with the Stibnite). I suggest you do an analysis if you can.
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Jun 04, 2024 15:27 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection - Stibnite |
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| Jordi Fabre wrote: | Hi Am,
It seems to be Berthierite at the rear (the darker, poorly crystallized material with the Stibnite). I suggest you do an analysis if you can. |
Thanks Jordi. Will try to get an analysis at some point.
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am mizunaka
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Jun 07, 2024 03:44 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Rhodochrosite |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Cavnic Mine, Cavnic mining area, Cavnic, Maramures, Romania |  |
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| Dimensions: | 11.6 x 9.1 cm |
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| Rhodochrosite replacing calcite. |
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Michael Shaw
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Location: Oklahoma
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| Posted: Jun 07, 2024 08:52 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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Mike,
As a long time collector of Romanian minerals and pseudomorphs, I have to say that this piece is special.
Michael
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Jun 07, 2024 16:01 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection - Rhodochrosite |
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| Michael Shaw wrote: | Mike,
As a long time collector of Romanian minerals and pseudomorphs, I have to say that this piece is special.
Michael |
Thanks Michael!
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Philippe Durand
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Location: Normandie
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Jun 10, 2024 02:26 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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| Philippe Durand wrote: | | If I am right, a part of your collection is featured in the Min Record, when you exhibited in Tucson: congratulations :) |
Thanks Philippe! That's correct a photograph of our exhibit case was featured in the latest MR.
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am mizunaka
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Jun 11, 2024 19:14 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Quartz |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Epidote |
| Locality: | | Smerwick (Ard na Caithne), County Kerry, Munster Province, Northern Ireland / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.6 x 5.5 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2024 22:27 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Quartz Scepter |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine, Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.0 x 2.7 cm |
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| Black stem scepter with a slightly curved tail. |
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Volkmar Stingl
Joined: 23 Sep 2012
Posts: 997
Location: Innsbruck
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2024 01:11 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection |
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A very special quartz! I like it.
Greetings,
Volkmar
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am mizunaka
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Jun 15, 2024 14:31 Post subject: Re: The Mizunaka Collection - Scepter Quartz |
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| Volkmar Stingl wrote: | A very special quartz! I like it.
Greetings,
Volkmar |
Thanks Volkmar!
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am mizunaka
Joined: 09 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Jun 17, 2024 02:12 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Fluorite |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz |
| Locality: | | Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 12.5 cm |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Jun 22, 2024 01:32 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Fluorite |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Dolomite |
| Locality: | | Penfield, Monroe County, New York, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.8 x 6.3 x6.5 |
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| Light blue/purple fluorite with dolomite on matrix. |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Jun 29, 2024 01:46 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Quartz |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Gerstenegg cleft, Gerstenegg-Grimsel cable tunnel, Gerstenegg, Grimsel area, Hasli Valley, Bern, Switzerland | |
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| Dimensions: | 10.8 x 7.4 cm |
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| Pale pink fluorite on a glassy quartz crystal. Supposedly only a small number of specimens were recovered before the find was sealed and turned into a public exhibit. |
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Jul 01, 2024 02:15 Post subject: The Mizunaka Collection - Quartz and Friends |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Bournonite, Chalcopyrite, Ferberite, Boulangerite |
| Locality: | | Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.2 x 8.0 cm |
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| Quartz with a menagerie of other minerals. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Fluorite, Boulangerite |
| Locality: | | Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.2 x 8.0 cm |
| Description: |
| Back of specimen with a small cluster of fluorite with dark cores and included with boulangerite. |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Chalcopyrite, Feberite, Boulangerite |
| Locality: | | Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Mineral: | Quartz, Boulangerite |
| Locality: | | Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Detail of another section of the specimen. |
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