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| Posted: Aug 14, 2024 03:58 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Anapaite |
| Locality: | | Chernomorsky Mine, Eltigen-Ortel' Trough, Kerchenskoe deposit, Kerch peninsula, Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast, Ukraine |  |
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| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 10 x 6 cm |
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El'tigen - Ortel'skoye mestorozhdeniye, 2 Chernomorskoye, Kerch', Ukraine
Mass: 561 g
MIM number: 2263
A 3 cm honey-brown barite ball is beautifully placed in a vug resulting from the fossilization of a bivalve (which shape can still be seen) amidst a plethora of translucent, sea-green anapaite tufts. Anapaite is a very rare phosphate: the elements calcium and phosphorus needed to form this species are derived from the fossilized shell material (the initial calcite of the shell still appears in patches outside of the latter), while iron comes from the iron deposit of sedimentary origin in which the bivalve fossilized.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Rasvumite and Quartz |
| Locality: | | Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm. |
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Mass: 8 g
MIM number: 2264
Bundles of elongated parallel crystals, considered large for this extremely rare species, of metallic gray color developed on a thin matrix of micro-crystallized quartz, offering a beautiful contrast.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Gasparite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Monte Cervandone, Devero Alp, Baceno, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont (Piemonte), Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 4 x 2 cm / main crystal: 0.7 cm. |
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Mass: 28 g
MIM number: 2265
Barrel-shaped crystal of beige color, developed on a matrix of orthogneiss. It is one of the largest crystals known for this very rare species, homologous to monazite (the phosphorus of the latter being replaced by arsenic in gasparite).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Enzo Sartori (Italy) |
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| Mineral: | Cervandonite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Monte Cervandone, Devero Alp, Baceno, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont (Piemonte), Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 5.5 x 5 cm / main crystal: 1 cm |
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Mass: 233 g
MIM number: 2266
1 cm wide tuft of black cervandonite rosettes, developed on an orthogneiss matrix. This is one of the largest known tufts of this very rare silicate-arsenate.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Enzo Sartori (Italy) |
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| Mineral: | Tilasite |
| Locality: | | Monte Cervandone, Devero Alp, Baceno, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont (Piemonte), Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 3.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 0.8 cm |
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Mass: 202 g
MIM number: 2267
Two well-separated tufts of reddish-brown tilasite developed on an orthogneiss matrix.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Enzo Sartori (Italy) |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite (variety verdelite) on Quartz (variety smoky) and with Albite and 'lepidolite' |
| Locality: | | Cruzeiro Mine, Santa Maria do Suaçui, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 56 x 37 x 45 cm / main crystal: 49 cm |
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Mina Cruzeiro, São José da Safira, vale Doce, Minas Gerais, Brésil
Mass: 31900 g
MIM number: 2268
Large plate formed of ten very well-formed crystals of smoky quartz (the largest measuring 20 cm), slightly bluish albite blades and lepidolite on which a huge crystal of green tourmaline has formed in a tilted position with several other smaller crystals. The large crystal is translucent on the surface with a deep bottle green color, while the small crystals are transparent. All tourmaline terminations are pointed, some being fibrous. It is remarkable that such an assemblage formed and survived virtually intact, especially in this mine where this is not the usual type of production.
Photographer: MCP / Federico Picciani |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite (variety verdelite) on Quartz (variety smoky) and with Albite and 'lepidolite' |
| Locality: | | Cruzeiro Mine, Santa Maria do Suaçui, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 56 x 37 x 45 cm / main crystal: 49 cm |
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Mina Cruzeiro, São José da Safira, vale Doce, Minas Gerais, Brésil
Mass: 31900 g
MIM number: 2268
Large plate formed of ten very well-formed crystals of smoky quartz (the largest measuring 20 cm), slightly bluish albite blades and lepidolite on which a huge crystal of green tourmaline has formed in a tilted position with several other smaller crystals. The large crystal is translucent on the surface with a deep bottle green color, while the small crystals are transparent. All tourmaline terminations are pointed, some being fibrous. It is remarkable that such an assemblage formed and survived virtually intact, especially in this mine where this is not the usual type of production.
Photographer: MCP / Federico Picciani |
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Aug 20, 2024 08:51 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Bournonite |
| Locality: | | Víboras Mine, Machacamarca, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 16 x 14.5 cm / main crystal: 10.8 cm. |
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Mass: 4710 g
MIM number: 2269
Large cluster of bright crystals in subparallel formation. These very well-formed crystals resemble cogwheels (which is the characteristic twinning of this species) giving this sample the appearance of a gearbox, hence its nickname, "The Gearbox". It is remarkable that such a large plate could be recovered intact, knowing that bournonite is a very fragile mineral. This is one of the largest and best groups of this mineral found in Bolivia.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Rocks & Minerals: Vol. 98, No.6 Nov/Dec 2023" |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Peñas Blancas Mine, Municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 7 x 45 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2484 g
MIM number: 2270
Large, perfectly formed and limpid monocrystal with the characteristic habitus known as Muzo (tapered shape, some perfectly smooth faces and others marked with parallel striations, base with the 6 classic faces of quartz merging into 3 faces at the top highlighting the actual trigonal symmetry of this mineral, perfect pointed termination). The saber shape reminiscent of the Star Wars movies earned this crystal its “Lightsaber” nickname.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Pseudobrookite with Topaz |
| Locality: | | Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 6 x 4 cm / main crystal: 1.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 118 g
MIM number: 2271
Lustrous and perfectly formed needle-like pseudbrookite crystal intersecting a small 1.4cm pink topaz crystal on a white rhyolite matrix, on which another pseudobrookite crystal (4mm) and small topazes have formed.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Sapphirine |
| Locality: | | Farafangana, Farafangana District, Atsimo-Atsinanana Region, 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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| Mineral: | Scheelite on Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 12.5 x 11 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 3113 g
MIM number: 2282
Dipyramidal crystal of outstanding size, excellent symmetry, good luster and color (amber-orange, quite dependent on the nature of the lighting), sitting upright on just the right amount of crystallized matrix with all display terminations exposed and showing. Usually more than one termination is buried in the matrix. Here, all but the bottom are free of the matrix. The tips are transparent. It is quite unusual that a crystal of this size could survive extraction totally unscathed.
Photographer: Malte Sickinger |
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| Mineral: | Scheelite on Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 12.5 x 11 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 3113 g
MIM number: 2282
Dipyramidal crystal of outstanding size, excellent symmetry, good luster and color (amber-orange, quite dependent on the nature of the lighting), sitting upright on just the right amount of crystallized matrix with all display terminations exposed and showing. Usually more than one termination is buried in the matrix. Here, all but the bottom are free of the matrix. The tips are transparent. It is quite unusual that a crystal of this size could survive extraction totally unscathed.
Photographer: Malte Sickinger |
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| Posted: Aug 30, 2024 04:05 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Cassiterite with Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Yunnan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 5 x 6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 862 g
MIM number: 1
Big, lustrous black crystal with a few complete faces, a few small goshenites and a little mica
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Hematite |
| Locality: | | Congonhas (Congonhas do Campo), Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 5 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 186 g
MIM number: 2
Probable year of extraction: 1970
Group of pseudo-cubic crystals with smooth, lustrous faces.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Galena |
| Locality: | | Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 13.5 x 11 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 8200 g
MIM number: 4
Large, lustrous polysynthetic cube
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Galena |
| Locality: | | Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 13.5 x 11 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 8200 g
MIM number: 4
Large, lustrous polysynthetic cube
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Rutile |
| Locality: | | Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 7.5 x 9.5 cm / main crystal: 9 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1046 g
MIM number: 5
Large crystal with a striking knee-shaped twin.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Red River floodway, Winnipeg, Winnipeg Capital Region, Manitoba, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 8 x 7 cm |
| Description: |
MIM number: 6
Intact selenite ball with large twinned honey-colored crystals randomly protruding around it.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza |
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Sep 05, 2024 08:00 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 7 x 6 cm / main crystal: 2.7 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 168 g
MIM number: 1726
Probable year of extraction : 2014
A thick red-orange translucent and very sharp crystal rising from a matrix made of limonite and what appears to be small crystals of cerussite.
Photographer: FMI / Federico Picciani |
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| Mineral: | Cerussite on Baryte |
| Locality: | | Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 8.5 x 7 cm / main crystal: 4.9 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 683 g
MIM number: 1725
Two buff colored, well formed crystals, consisting of cyclic twins taking the shape of hexagonal dipyramids, on a matrix made of slightly orange barite blades. Under longwave ultraviolet light the cerussite becomes lemon yellow.
Photographer: FMI / Federico Picciani;
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2" |
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| Mineral: | Catapleiite with Analcime |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 3 x 6.5 cm / main crystal: 2.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 102 g
MIM number: 1716
Stacked, slightly iridescent catapleiite tabs standing upright in parallel from a matrix of intergrown sharp, milky white, trapezohedral analcime crystals (the largest measuring 1.9 cm) - an association not frequently seen.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Lapis: Jan 2015"
Ex collections: Keith Proctor (USA), Scott Rudolph (USA) |
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| Mineral: | Cerussite with Mimetite (variety Cr-bearing Mimetite) |
| Locality: | | Nakhlak Mine, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province, Iran | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 8.5 x 4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 340 g
MIM number: 1715
Floating mass of white reticulated cerussite in "snowflake" habit, with preferential coverage on one face of orange microcrystalline Cr-bearing mimetite
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Cassiterite with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Viloco Mine, San Antonio Section, Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 8.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 557 g
MIM number: 1714
Plate covered with very shiny cyclically twinned crystals which appear black, but show golden translucent areas when light passes through. Small quartz crystals with filamentous black inclusions are interspersed with the cassiterites.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Posted: Sep 07, 2024 02:32 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Bournonite with Quartz, Sphalerite and Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 22 x 26 x 13 cm / main crystal: 12.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 7950 g
MIM number: 1696
Very large twinned crystal shaped like an extruded cross, bright and very well-formed, on a matrix of small quartz crystals, sphalerite tufts and small pale blue fluorite crystals. This specimen was nicknamed "Lalibela" in reference to the Unesco World Heritage Site Lalibela, Ethiopia, due to the resemblance of the crystal with the churches built as extruded crosses found at that site.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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| Mineral: | Grossular |
| Locality: | | Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 5.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 5.4 cm |
| Description: |
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzanie
Mass: 165 g
MIM number: 1693
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Shiny, beautiful green translucent crystal terminated all around with graphite at the base.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "Lapis: Jul-Aug 2015", "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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| Mineral: | Buttgenbachite with Cuprite and Malachite |
| Locality: | | Likasi Mine (Panda Mine), Likasi, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 6 x 6 cm / main crystal: 1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 524 g
MIM number: 1657
Beautiful tuft of bright blue acicular crystals on a matrix of small cuprite crystals on which green malachite needles have also grown.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Brussells, Belgium) |
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| Mineral: | Plumbogummite |
| Locality: | | Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 18 x 24 x 24 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 6780 g
MIM number: 1636
Block of whitish matrix (likely microcrystallized quartz) covered on two faces by botryoidal plumbogummite of deep blue color with hints of green
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Le Règne Minéral: Sep-Oct 2016" |
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| Mineral: | Carletonite with Quartz and Siderite |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 2.5 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 1.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 32 g
MIM number: 1606
Aggregate of carletonite crystals with quartz needles and other minerals. One of the crystals is perfectly formed and seems to have had no contact with other crystals or with the matrix as is often the case for this species. It is 0.8 cm wide and is very pleochroic: sapphire dark blue along the main axis and white to slightly pink on the perpendicular axis. Another larger well formed crystal has its faces striated lengthwise and shows the same pleochroism.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2015"
Ex collection: Daniel Comtois (Canada) |
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2554 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Sep 11, 2024 01:55 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Powellite with Stilbite-(Ca) |
| Locality: | | Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 6.5 x 9.5 cm / main crystal: 5.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 376 g
MIM number: 1604
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Subparallel bi-pyramid shaped crystals whose ends are transparent and very sharp. This powellite has a dark amber color which is unusual for the species. White stilbite crystals are attached at the base of the specimen.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Powellite with Stilbite-(Ca) |
| Locality: | | Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 6.5 x 9.5 cm / main crystal: 5.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 376 g
MIM number: 1604
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Subparallel bi-pyramid shaped crystals whose ends are transparent and very sharp. This powellite has a dark amber color which is unusual for the species. White stilbite crystals are attached at the base of the specimen.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety faden) |
| Locality: | | South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 8 x 9.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 358 g
MIM number: 1603
Two lustrous and transparent crystals of unusual shape, the largest being crossed through by a "thread". At the base of these crystals are a series of small flattened quartz crystals developed in the same way around a "thread".
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Pyrite with Hematite |
| Locality: | | Rio Mine (Rio Marina Mine), Valle Giove stope, Rio Marina, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 25 x 13 x 17.5 cm / main crystal: 7.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 9950 g
MIM number: 1601
Probable year of extraction : 2013
Large mass of black lamellar hematite studded with lustrous crystals of pentagonal dodecahedra shaped pyrite. In the center of the sample is a well formed 7.5 cm wide "iron cross" twin resulting from the 90 degrees overlapping of two dodecahedra. It is surprising to see in the same sample equilibrium domains where sulfur can give compounds in its least oxidized state (as in pyrite, FeS2), and where, simultaneously, iron has its highest degree of oxidation (as in hematite, Fe2O3). The deposits of the island of Elba and of Tuscany constitute the basis of the Etruscan iron industry and are thus at the origin of one of the oldest civilizations that used iron.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Mineral: | Sphalerite (variety cleiophane) on Löllingite |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 6 x 8 cm / main crystal: 3.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 295 g
MIM number: 1600
Fan shaped bright löllingite crystal (max 6.9 cm) covered on both sides with several crystals of intact translucent yellow sphalerite with some faces showing a natural "molten" aspect.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "China II, Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten" |
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| Mineral: | Gypsum |
| Locality: | | Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 3.5 x 9 cm / main crystal: 7.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 51 g
MIM number: 1599
Large transparent crystal with a well formed internal brown-orange "phantom". It is crossed by an internal "thread" that extends at both ends and serves as a support to a row of smaller crystals that are exact replicas of the large crystal. The specimen is a complete floater.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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| Posted: Sep 16, 2024 08:26 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | 'Xenotime' |
| Locality: | | Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.5 x 5 cm / main crystal: 4.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 33 g
MIM number: 1598
Well formed shiny crystal with a brown color in daylight, taking a more orange red color in artificial light. It is slightly translucent and twisted along the vertical axis.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1896 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | 'Monazite' |
| Locality: | | Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 x 2 x 7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 97 g
MIM number: 1597
Long bright translucent pseudo-hexagonal prism with reddish brown color. The top is well terminated and the bottom is flat with several smaller flat transparent crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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1896 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stibiocolumbite with Parisite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 2.5 x 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 33 g
MIM number: 1596
Elongated translucent orange crystal with a spear shaped tip. This crystal is flanked on either side with 4 parallel barrel shaped sharp crystals of parisite (max 3 cm).
Photographer: FMI / Federico Picciani |
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1895 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stibiocolumbite with Parisite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 2.5 x 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 33 g
MIM number: 1596
Elongated translucent orange crystal with a spear shaped tip. This crystal is flanked on either side with 4 parallel barrel shaped sharp crystals of parisite (max 3 cm).
Photographer: FMI / Federico Picciani |
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1894 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stibiocolumbite with Parisite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 2.5 x 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 33 g
MIM number: 1596
Elongated translucent orange crystal with a spear shaped tip. This crystal is flanked on either side with 4 parallel barrel shaped sharp crystals of parisite (max 3 cm).
Photographer: FMI / Federico Picciani |
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1894 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Cubanite with Calcite |
| Locality: | | Henderson No. 2 Mine, Chibougamau, Nord-du-Québec, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 8.5 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 2.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 256 g
MIM number: 1595
Perfectly formed crystal showing a sixfold twin, on a matrix covered with a few crystals of lens shaped colorless calcite (1.3 cm max).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Bernard Borduas (Canada) |
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1897 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Sep 18, 2024 02:14 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite on Calcite |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 11 x 16 cm / main crystal: 4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1850 g
MIM number: 1594
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Large 15 cm cream colored calcite rhombohedron studded with lustrous and completely colorless fluorite crystals with the truncated octahedron shape.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2012", "Lapis Jg. 38, Nr. 10, Oct. 2013", "extraLapis No. 52: Moderne Klassiker", "China II, Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten" |
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1713 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite on Calcite |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 11 x 16 cm / main crystal: 4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1850 g
MIM number: 1594
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Large 15 cm cream colored calcite rhombohedron studded with lustrous and completely colorless fluorite crystals with the truncated octahedron shape.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2012", "Lapis Jg. 38, Nr. 10, Oct. 2013", "extraLapis No. 52: Moderne Klassiker", "China II, Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten" |
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1707 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Moschellandsbergite |
| Locality: | | Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate/Pfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 1.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 99 g
MIM number: 1590
Five silvery crystals developed on a black matrix; the two largest crystals have complex shapes while the smaller ones have more classical polyhedral forms; the faces of the crystals are quite visible.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2012"
Ex collection: Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences (USA) |
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1714 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Moschellandsbergite |
| Locality: | | Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate/Pfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm / main crystal: 1.6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 99 g
MIM number: 1590
Five silvery crystals developed on a black matrix; the two largest crystals have complex shapes while the smaller ones have more classical polyhedral forms; the faces of the crystals are quite visible.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2012"
Ex collection: Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences (USA) |
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1709 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Corundum (variety sapphire) with rhodolite, Phlogopite and Spinel |
| Locality: | | Zazafotsy Quarry, Zazafotsy Commune, Fianarantsoa, Ihosy District, Horombe Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 6 x 8 cm / main crystal: 2.9 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 431 g
MIM number: 1587
Two perfectly formed hexagonal, shiny and red/violet crystals growing on a matrix of rhodolite garnet, phlogopite mica and tiny spinels
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1712 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stillwellite-(Ce) on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Dara-i-Pioz Massif, Alay Range, Tobei District, Nohiyahoi Tobei Jumhuri Region, Tajikistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 7 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 1.5 cm |
| Description: |
Dara-i-Pioz Glacier, Alayskiy Range, Tien Shan Mount, Tadjikistan
Mass: 112 g
MIM number: 1584
Crystal showing a perfect flat triangular termination, perched on a shard of white quartz.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2015" |
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1707 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Stillwellite-(Ce) |
| Locality: | | Dara-i-Pioz Massif, Alay Range, Tobei District, Nohiyahoi Tobei Jumhuri Region, Tajikistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 7 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 1.5 cm |
| Description: |
Dara-i-Pioz Glacier, Alayskiy Range, Tien Shan Mount, Tadjikistan
Mass: 112 g
MIM number: 1584
Crystal showing a perfect flat triangular termination, perched on a shard of white quartz.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2015" |
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1711 Time(s) |
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Joined: 04 Aug 2015
Posts: 214
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Sep 25, 2024 07:49 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2.5 x 3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 20 g
MIM number: 1579
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Floating rectangle resulting from the concatenation of 3 quadratic crystals
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Jul-Aug 2018" |
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1264 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Dimensions: | 2 x 2 x 3 cm / main crystal: 2.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 12 g
MIM number: 1578
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Quadratic crystal with small sidecar crystals on on side
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1262 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 3 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 2.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 30 g
MIM number: 1577
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Vertical cluster consisting of ten quadratic very sharp crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Jul-Aug 2018" |
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1257 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Description: |
Mass: 29 g
MIM number: 1576
Probable year of extraction : 2014
One thick very well defined quadratic crystal with several small crystals appended to it.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1258 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite and Quartz |
| Locality: | | M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 7 x 5 cm / main crystal: 3.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 109 g
MIM number: 1575
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Crystals showing a very distinctly quadratic habit with a deep orange color; they have developed on a thin matrix and some of them are partially covered with a thin veil of micro-crystallized quartz.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1263 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite and Quartz |
| Locality: | | M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 3.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 127 g
MIM number: 1574
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Fat, well terminated quadratic crystals with a deep orange color, growing on a thin matrix. The largest crystals has a tuft of a yellow mineral at the base, most likely a chromate.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2015", "Mineralogical Record: Jul-Aug 2018" |
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1261 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2024 02:53 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Bikitaite |
| Locality: | | Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 0.5 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 4.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2 g
MIM number: 1573
Probable year of extraction : 1960
Colorless transparent thin well terminated single crystal
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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1014 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Zircon with Orthoclase |
| Locality: | | Vishnevye Mountains (Vishnevogorsk), Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 6 x 12 cm / main crystal: 6.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 597 g
MIM number: 1572
Probable year of extraction : 1990
Two large sharp and intact crystals with complex shape and beige color, translucent around the edges, perched on a matrix made of small orthoclase crystals
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Ex collection: Herbert Obodda (USA), Joseph Freilich (USA), Keith Proctor (USA), Scott Rudolph (USA) |
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1019 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Zircon with Orthoclase |
| Locality: | | Vishnevye Mountains (Vishnevogorsk), Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 6 x 12 cm / main crystal: 6.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 597 g
MIM number: 1572
Probable year of extraction : 1990
Two large sharp and intact crystals with complex shape and beige color, translucent around the edges, perched on a matrix made of small orthoclase crystals
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection: Herbert Obodda (USA), Joseph Freilich (USA), Keith Proctor (USA), Scott Rudolph (USA) |
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1021 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Zircon with Orthoclase |
| Locality: | | Vishnevye Mountains (Vishnevogorsk), Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 6 x 12 cm / main crystal: 6.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 597 g
MIM number: 1572
Probable year of extraction : 1990
Two large sharp and intact crystals with complex shape and beige color, translucent around the edges, perched on a matrix made of small orthoclase crystals
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Ex collection: Herbert Obodda (USA), Joseph Freilich (USA), Keith Proctor (USA), Scott Rudolph (USA) |
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1016 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Andalusite |
| Locality: | | Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 3 x 5.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 65 g
MIM number: 1571
Probable year of extraction : 1960
Fat translucent crystal with one good termination; it shows an olive green color on the main face, and a slightly brownish green color when seen along the vertical axis
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Josephine Scripps (USA) |
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1015 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Londonite |
| Locality: | | Ambatomigaby pegmatite, Ampanivana, Andrembesoa, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 85 g
MIM number: 1568
Probable year of extraction : 2001
Group of translucent olive green crystals; on of them is a perfect octahedron, the other an elongated octahedron and the third one a perfect spinel-type twin which is very uncommon for this species.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "extraLapis No. 53: Zwillinge" |
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1021 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Londonite |
| Locality: | | Ambatomigaby pegmatite, Ampanivana, Andrembesoa, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 5 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 85 g
MIM number: 1568
Probable year of extraction : 2001
Group of translucent olive green crystals; on of them is a perfect octahedron, the other an elongated octahedron and the third one a perfect spinel-type twin which is very uncommon for this species.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "extraLapis No. 53: Zwillinge" |
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1018 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Oct 03, 2024 02:09 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Fluorapatite on Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Fazenda Pavão, Serra do Salitre Municipality, Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba Region , Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 7 x 11 cm / main crystal: 4.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 551 g
MIM number: 1566
Transparent perfectly formed amber pink colored crystal sitting atop a book of very shiny diamond shaped mica sheets; the specimen seems to be a floater
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott |
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431 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorapatite on Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Fazenda Pavão, Serra do Salitre Municipality, Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba Region , Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 7 x 11 cm / main crystal: 4.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 551 g
MIM number: 1566
Transparent perfectly formed amber pink colored crystal sitting atop a book of very shiny diamond shaped mica sheets; the specimen seems to be a floater
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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428 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorapatite on Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Fazenda Pavão, Serra do Salitre Municipality, Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba Region , Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 13 x 7 x 11 cm / main crystal: 4.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 551 g
MIM number: 1566
Transparent perfectly formed amber pink colored crystal sitting atop a book of very shiny diamond shaped mica sheets; the specimen seems to be a floater
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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431 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Sekaninaite with Quartz and Albite (variety cleavelandite) |
| Locality: | | Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 14 x 11 x 14 cm / main crystal: 8.4 cm |
| Description: |
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Mass: 1800 g
MIM number: 1565
Probable year of extraction : 1995
Fat greenish crystal showing some orthorhombic faces protruding from a matrix of massive quartz with smaller and incompletely formed crystals at the base and iron oxide stained cleavelandite blades
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2015" |
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434 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Copper |
| Locality: | | Chino Mine, Santa Rita, Santa Rita District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 8 x 12 cm / main crystal: 3.3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1100 g
MIM number: 1563
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Three dimensional group of well formed crystals, some assuming polyhedral shapes and others dendritic or hoppered shapes
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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429 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite on Quartz and Pyrite |
| Locality: | | Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 8.5 x 14.5 cm / main crystal: 9.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 970 g
MIM number: 1562
Probable year of extraction : 2004
Big polysynthetic octahedron with shiny and perfectly parallel facets, translucent with a slight lavender hint, mounted on very shiny and perfectly formed pyrite crystals (the largest one measuring 3 cm), which are themselves perched on a crown of white quartz points. The specimen is completely terminated all around and is a floater.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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431 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Manganoneptunite with Serandite, Natrolite and Analcime |
| Locality: | | Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 5.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 60 g
MIM number: 1561
Probable year of extraction : 1972
Well formed, stout dark red crystal perched on a mound of serandite, natrolite and analcime, along with another slender, more coarsely formed manganoneptunite crystal
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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431 Time(s) |
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