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PostPosted: Aug 14, 2024 00:57    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

I love that fluorite / tourmaline combination from Stak Nala!
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PostPosted: Aug 14, 2024 03:58    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

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Anapaite-MIM_Museum(2263).jpg
 Mineral: Anapaite
 Locality:
Chernomorsky Mine, Eltigen-Ortel' Trough, Kerchenskoe deposit, Kerch peninsula, Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast, Ukraine
 Dimensions: 8.5 x 10 x 6 cm
 Description:
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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Rasvumite-MIM_Museum(2264).jpg
 Mineral: Rasvumite and Quartz
 Locality:
Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia
 Dimensions: 4.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm.
 Description:
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
 Viewed:  6062 Time(s)

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Gasparite-(Ce)-MIM_Museum(2265).jpg
 Mineral: Gasparite-(Ce)
 Locality:
Monte Cervandone, Devero Alp, Baceno, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont (Piemonte), Italy
 Dimensions: 5 x 4 x 2 cm / main crystal: 0.7 cm.
 Description:
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)
 Viewed:  6058 Time(s)

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Cervandonite-(Ce)-MIM_Museum(2266).jpg
 Mineral: Cervandonite-(Ce)
 Locality:
Monte Cervandone, Devero Alp, Baceno, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont (Piemonte), Italy
 Dimensions: 9 x 5.5 x 5 cm / main crystal: 1 cm
 Description:
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)
 Viewed:  6054 Time(s)

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Tilasite-MIM_Museum(2267).jpg
 Mineral: Tilasite
 Locality:
Monte Cervandone, Devero Alp, Baceno, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont (Piemonte), Italy
 Dimensions: 6 x 3.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 0.8 cm
 Description:
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)
 Viewed:  6064 Time(s)

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Elbaite (variety verdelite)-MIM_Museum(2268).jpg
 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
 Dimensions: 56 x 37 x 45 cm / main crystal: 49 cm
 Description:
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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Elbaite (variety verdelite)-MIM_Museum(2268-1).jpg
 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
 Dimensions: 56 x 37 x 45 cm / main crystal: 49 cm
 Description:
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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PostPosted: Aug 20, 2024 08:51    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

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Bournonite-MIM_Museum(2269).jpg
 Mineral: Bournonite
 Locality:
Víboras Mine, Machacamarca, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
 Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 14.5 cm / main crystal: 10.8 cm.
 Description:
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"
 Viewed:  5824 Time(s)

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Quartz-MIM_Museum(2270).jpg
 Mineral: Quartz
 Locality:
Peñas Blancas Mine, Municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia
 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
 Viewed:  5804 Time(s)

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Pseudobrookite-MIM_Museum(2271).jpg
 Mineral: Pseudobrookite with Topaz
 Locality:
Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA
 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
 Viewed:  5810 Time(s)

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Sapphirine-MIM_Museum(2272).jpg
 Mineral: Sapphirine
 Locality:
Farafangana, Farafangana District, Atsimo-Atsinanana Region, Madagascar
 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
 Viewed:  5805 Time(s)

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Scheelite-MIM_Museum(2282).jpg
 Mineral: Scheelite on Muscovite
 Locality:
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China
 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
 Viewed:  5802 Time(s)

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Scheelite-MIM_Museum(2282-1).jpg
 Mineral: Scheelite on Muscovite
 Locality:
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China
 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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Cassiterite-MIM_Museum(1).jpg
 Mineral: Cassiterite with Muscovite
 Locality:
Yunnan Province, China
 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
 Viewed:  5474 Time(s)

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Hematite-MIM_Museum(2).jpg
 Mineral: Hematite
 Locality:
Congonhas (Congonhas do Campo), Minas Gerais, Brazil
 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
 Viewed:  5478 Time(s)

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Galena-MIM_Museum(4).jpg
 Mineral: Galena
 Locality:
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA
 Dimensions: 15 x 13.5 x 11 cm
 Description:
Mass: 8200 g
MIM number: 4
Large, lustrous polysynthetic cube
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
 Viewed:  5469 Time(s)

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Galena-MIM_Museum(4-1).jpg
 Mineral: Galena
 Locality:
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA
 Dimensions: 15 x 13.5 x 11 cm
 Description:
Mass: 8200 g
MIM number: 4
Large, lustrous polysynthetic cube
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
 Viewed:  5475 Time(s)

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Rutile-MIM_Museum(5).jpg
 Mineral: Rutile
 Locality:
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia, USA
 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
 Viewed:  5473 Time(s)

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Gypsum-MIM_Museum(6).jpg
 Mineral: Gypsum
 Locality:
Red River floodway, Winnipeg, Winnipeg Capital Region, Manitoba, Canada
 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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PostPosted: Sep 05, 2024 08:00    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

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Wulfenite-MIM_Museum(1726).jpg
 Mineral: Wulfenite
 Locality:
M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
 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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Cerussite-MIM_Museum(1725).jpg
 Mineral: Cerussite on Baryte
 Locality:
Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
 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"
 Viewed:  5276 Time(s)

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Catapleiite-MIM_Museum(1716).jpg
 Mineral: Catapleiite with Analcime
 Locality:
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
 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)
 Viewed:  5278 Time(s)

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Cerussite-MIM_Museum(1715).jpg
 Mineral: Cerussite with Mimetite (variety Cr-bearing Mimetite)
 Locality:
Nakhlak Mine, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province, Iran
 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
 Viewed:  5282 Time(s)

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Cassiterite-MIM_Museum(1714).jpg
 Mineral: Cassiterite with Quartz
 Locality:
Viloco Mine, San Antonio Section, Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
 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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Bournonite-MIM_Museum(1696).jpg
 Mineral: Bournonite with Quartz, Sphalerite and Fluorite
 Locality:
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
 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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Grossular-MIM_Museum(1693).jpg
 Mineral: Grossular
 Locality:
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
 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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Buttgenbachite-MIM_Museum(1657).jpg
 Mineral: Buttgenbachite with Cuprite and Malachite
 Locality:
Likasi Mine (Panda Mine), Likasi, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
 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)
 Viewed:  5024 Time(s)

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Plumbogummite-MIM_Museum(1636).jpg
 Mineral: Plumbogummite
 Locality:
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
 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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Carletonite-MIM_Museum(1606).jpg
 Mineral: Carletonite with Quartz and Siderite
 Locality:
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
 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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Powellite-MIM_Museum(1604).jpg
 Mineral: Powellite with Stilbite-(Ca)
 Locality:
Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India
 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
 Viewed:  4757 Time(s)

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Powellite-MIM_Museum(1604-1).jpg
 Mineral: Powellite with Stilbite-(Ca)
 Locality:
Aurangabad, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India
 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
 Viewed:  4742 Time(s)

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Quartz-MIM_Museum(1603).jpg
 Mineral: Quartz (variety faden)
 Locality:
South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
 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
 Viewed:  4740 Time(s)

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Pyrite-MIM_Museum(1601).jpg
 Mineral: Pyrite with Hematite
 Locality:
Rio Mine (Rio Marina Mine), Valle Giove stope, Rio Marina, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
 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
 Viewed:  4739 Time(s)

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Sphalerite(variety cleiophane)-MIM_Museum(1600).jpg
 Mineral: Sphalerite (variety cleiophane) on Löllingite
 Locality:
Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
 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"
 Viewed:  4739 Time(s)

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Gypsum-MIM_Museum(1599).jpg
 Mineral: Gypsum
 Locality:
Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China
 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
 Viewed:  4738 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Sep 16, 2024 08:26    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

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Xenotime-MIM_Museum(1598).jpg
 Mineral: 'Xenotime'
 Locality:
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
 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
 Viewed:  4361 Time(s)

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Monazite-MIM_Museum(1597).jpg
 Mineral: 'Monazite'
 Locality:
Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
 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"
 Viewed:  4363 Time(s)

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Stibiocolumbite-MIM_Museum(1596).jpg
 Mineral: Stibiocolumbite with Parisite-(Ce)
 Locality:
Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi
 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
 Viewed:  4362 Time(s)

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Stibiocolumbite-MIM_Museum(1596-1).jpg
 Mineral: Stibiocolumbite with Parisite-(Ce)
 Locality:
Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi
 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
 Viewed:  4362 Time(s)

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Stibiocolumbite-MIM_Museum(1596-2).jpg
 Mineral: Stibiocolumbite with Parisite-(Ce)
 Locality:
Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi
 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
 Viewed:  4360 Time(s)

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Cubanite-MIM_Museum(1595).jpg
 Mineral: Cubanite with Calcite
 Locality:
Henderson No. 2 Mine, Chibougamau, Nord-du-Québec, Québec, Canada
 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)
 Viewed:  4370 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Sep 18, 2024 02:14    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

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Fluorite-MIM_Museum(1594).jpg
 Mineral: Fluorite on Calcite
 Locality:
Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
 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"
 Viewed:  4176 Time(s)

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Fluorite-MIM_Museum(1594-1).jpg
 Mineral: Fluorite on Calcite
 Locality:
Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
 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"
 Viewed:  4174 Time(s)

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Moschellandsbergite-MIM_Museum(1590).jpg
 Mineral: Moschellandsbergite
 Locality:
Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate/Pfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
 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)
 Viewed:  4180 Time(s)

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Moschellandsbergite-MIM_Museum(1590-1).jpg
 Mineral: Moschellandsbergite
 Locality:
Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate/Pfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
 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)
 Viewed:  4176 Time(s)

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Corundum(variety sapphire)-MIM_Museum(1587).jpg
 Mineral: Corundum (variety sapphire) with rhodolite, Phlogopite and Spinel
 Locality:
Zazafotsy Quarry, Zazafotsy Commune, Fianarantsoa, Ihosy District, Horombe Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar
 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
 Viewed:  4177 Time(s)

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Stillwellite-(Ce)-MIM_Museum(1584).jpg
 Mineral: Stillwellite-(Ce) on Quartz
 Locality:
Dara-i-Pioz Massif, Alay Range, Tobei District, Nohiyahoi Tobei Jumhuri Region, Tajikistan
 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"
 Viewed:  4174 Time(s)

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Stillwellite-(Ce)-MIM_Museum(1584-1).jpg
 Mineral: Stillwellite-(Ce)
 Locality:
Dara-i-Pioz Massif, Alay Range, Tobei District, Nohiyahoi Tobei Jumhuri Region, Tajikistan
 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"
 Viewed:  4176 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Sep 25, 2024 07:49    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

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Wulfenite-MIM_Museum(1579).jpg
 Mineral: Wulfenite
 Locality:
M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
 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"
 Viewed:  3725 Time(s)

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Wulfenite-MIM_Museum(1578).jpg
 Mineral: Wulfenite
 Locality:
M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
 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
 Viewed:  3725 Time(s)

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Wulfenite-MIM_Museum(1577).jpg
 Mineral: Wulfenite
 Locality:
M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
 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"
 Viewed:  3721 Time(s)

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Wulfenite-MIM_Museum(1576).jpg
 Mineral: Wulfenite
 Locality:
M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
 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
 Viewed:  3722 Time(s)

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Wulfenite-MIM_Museum(1575).jpg
 Mineral: Wulfenite and Quartz
 Locality:
M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
 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
 Viewed:  3727 Time(s)

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Wulfenite-MIM_Museum(1574).jpg
 Mineral: Wulfenite and Quartz
 Locality:
M'Fouati, M'Fouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
 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"
 Viewed:  3723 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Sep 27, 2024 02:53    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

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Bikitaite-MIM_Museum(1573).jpg
 Mineral: Bikitaite
 Locality:
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
 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
 Viewed:  3480 Time(s)

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Zircon-MIM_Museum(1572).jpg
 Mineral: Zircon with Orthoclase
 Locality:
Vishnevye Mountains (Vishnevogorsk), Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District, Russia
 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)
 Viewed:  3483 Time(s)

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Zircon-MIM_Museum(572-1).jpg
 Mineral: Zircon with Orthoclase
 Locality:
Vishnevye Mountains (Vishnevogorsk), Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District, Russia
 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)
 Viewed:  3486 Time(s)

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Zircon-MIM_Museum(1572-2).jpg
 Mineral: Zircon with Orthoclase
 Locality:
Vishnevye Mountains (Vishnevogorsk), Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District, Russia
 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)
 Viewed:  3480 Time(s)

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Andalusite-MIM_Museum(1571).jpg
 Mineral: Andalusite
 Locality:
Itinga, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil
 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)
 Viewed:  3477 Time(s)

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Londonite-MIM_Museum(1568).jpg
 Mineral: Londonite
 Locality:
Ambatomigaby pegmatite, Ampanivana, Andrembesoa, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
 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"
 Viewed:  3486 Time(s)

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Londonite-MIM_Museum(1568-1).jpg
 Mineral: Londonite
 Locality:
Ambatomigaby pegmatite, Ampanivana, Andrembesoa, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
 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"
 Viewed:  3482 Time(s)

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PostPosted: Oct 03, 2024 02:09    Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon  

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Fluorapatite-MIM_Museum(1566).jpg
 Mineral: Fluorapatite on Muscovite
 Locality:
Fazenda Pavão, Serra do Salitre Municipality, Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba Region , Brazil
 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
 Viewed:  2894 Time(s)

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Fluorapatite-MIM_Museum(1566-1).jpg
 Mineral: Fluorapatite on Muscovite
 Locality:
Fazenda Pavão, Serra do Salitre Municipality, Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba Region , Brazil
 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
 Viewed:  2891 Time(s)

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Fluorapatite-MIM_Museum(1566-2).jpg
 Mineral: Fluorapatite on Muscovite
 Locality:
Fazenda Pavão, Serra do Salitre Municipality, Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba Region , Brazil
 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
 Viewed:  2893 Time(s)

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Sekaninaite-MIM_Museum(1565).jpg
 Mineral: Sekaninaite with Quartz and Albite (variety cleavelandite)
 Locality:
Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
 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"
 Viewed:  2897 Time(s)

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Copper-MIM_Museum(1563).jpg
 Mineral: Copper
 Locality:
Chino Mine, Santa Rita, Santa Rita District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
 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
 Viewed:  2895 Time(s)

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Fluorite-MIM_Museum(1562).jpg
 Mineral: Fluorite on Quartz and Pyrite
 Locality:
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru
 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
 Viewed:  2896 Time(s)

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Manganoneptunite-MIM_Museum(1561).jpg
 Mineral: Manganoneptunite with Serandite, Natrolite and Analcime
 Locality:
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
 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
 Viewed:  2894 Time(s)

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Narsarsukite-MIM_Museum(1560).jpg
 Mineral: Narsarsukite
 Locality:
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
 Dimensions: 5 x 3.5 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 2.2 cm
 Description:
Mass: 52 g
MIM number: 1560
Probable year of extraction : 1997
Two tabular quadratic deep green crystals well cleared of the hard grey matrix that encased them; the crystals show some transparent yellow-green sections around their centers.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; AINU
 Viewed:  2413 Time(s)

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Scapolite-MIM_Museum(1558).jpg
 Mineral: Scapolite
 Locality:
D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
 Dimensions: 2.5 x 2 x 7.5 cm / main crystal: 7.2 cm
 Description:
Mass: 76 g
MIM number: 1558
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Clear amber colored crystal with a perfect top termination, smooth faces with little striations, and a complete recrystallized bottom.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
 Viewed:  2412 Time(s)

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Scapolite-MIM_Museum(1559).jpg
 Mineral: Scapolite
 Locality:
D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
 Dimensions: 2.5 x 2 x 6 cm / main crystal: 5.7 cm
 Description:
Mass: 51 g
MIM number: 1559
Probable year of extraction : 2014
Very clean amber colored crystal with smooth faces.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie"
 Viewed:  2410 Time(s)

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Danburite-MIM_Museum(1557).jpg
 Mineral: Danburite
 Locality:
Aurora Mine, Charcas, Municipio Charcas, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
 Dimensions: 25 x 17 x 16 cm / main crystal: 14 cm
 Description:
Mass: 2150 g
MIM number: 1557
Probable year of extraction : 2003
Sheaf of diverging, well separated crystals with wedge shaped, sharp and transparent terminations showing a slightly pink hue.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
 Viewed:  2412 Time(s)

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Danburite-MIM_Museum(1557-1).jpg
 Mineral: Danburite
 Locality:
Aurora Mine, Charcas, Municipio Charcas, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
 Dimensions: 25 x 17 x 16 cm / main crystal: 14 cm
 Description:
Mass: 2150 g
MIM number: 1557
Probable year of extraction : 2003
Sheaf of diverging, well separated crystals with wedge shaped, sharp and transparent terminations showing a slightly pink hue.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
 Viewed:  2408 Time(s)

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Augelite-MIM_Museum(1555).jpg
 Mineral: Augelite on Quartz
 Locality:
Tamboras Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department, Peru
 Dimensions: 5.5 x 5 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm
 Description:
Mass: 31 g
MIM number: 1555
Probable year of extraction : 2013
Green translucent crystal surrounded by slender quartz crystals, one of which is twinned.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
 Viewed:  2411 Time(s)

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Albite-MIM_Museum(1553).jpg
 Mineral: Albite with Quartz and Chlorite (Group)
 Locality:
Ganadao (Gandao Hill), Mohmand District, Peshawar Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
 Dimensions: 4 x 6 x 4.5 cm / main crystal: 5.1 cm
 Description:
Mass: 97 g
MIM number: 1553
Probable year of extraction : 2013
Shiny twinned transparent crystals showing a pale lavender color, perched on a white matrix with spots of a black-green mineral (likely chlorite).
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "Lapis: Oct 2016"
 Viewed:  1941 Time(s)

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Diamond-MIM_Museum(1550).jpg
 Mineral: Diamond
 Locality:
Catoca Diamond Mine, Saurimo, Lunda Sul Province, Angola
 Dimensions: 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
 Description:
Mass: 7 g
MIM number: 1550
Pale yellow, very clean octahedron weighing 33.38 carats. On one faces, growth figures are reminiscent of the M letter.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott
 Viewed:  1942 Time(s)

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Fluorite-MIM_Museum(1547).jpg
 Mineral: Fluorite
 Locality:
Le Beix Mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Herment, Clermont-Ferrand District, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
 Dimensions: 13 x 10 x 9 cm
 Description:
Mass: 1550 g
MIM number: 1547
Probable year of extraction : 1975
Polysynthetic blue-green translucent cube terminated all around, showing transparency near the faces as well as inclusions of small sulfide crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France)
 Viewed:  1945 Time(s)

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Fluorite-MIM_Museum(1547-1).jpg
 Mineral: Fluorite
 Locality:
Le Beix Mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Herment, Clermont-Ferrand District, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
 Dimensions: 13 x 10 x 9 cm
 Description:
Mass: 1550 g
MIM number: 1547
Probable year of extraction : 1975
Polysynthetic blue-green translucent cube terminated all around, showing transparency near the faces as well as inclusions of small sulfide crystals.
Photographer: Jeffrey A. Scovil
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France)
 Viewed:  1943 Time(s)

Fluorite-MIM_Museum(1547-1).jpg



Meta-autunite-MIM_Museum(1546).jpg
 Mineral: Meta-autunite
 Locality:
Daybreak Mine, Mount Kit Carson, Spokane County, Washington, USA
 Dimensions: 17 x 12.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm
 Description:
Mass: 1150 g
MIM number: 1546
Intact block covered with thick tufts of dark green lamellar crystals. These crystals exhibit strong green fluorescence in ultra-violet light.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Mark Weil (USA)
 Viewed:  1940 Time(s)

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Meta-autunite-MIM_Museum(1546-1).jpg
 Mineral: Meta-autunite
 Locality:
Daybreak Mine, Mount Kit Carson, Spokane County, Washington, USA
 Dimensions: 17 x 12.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm
 Description:
Mass: 1150 g
MIM number: 1546
Intact block covered with thick tufts of dark green lamellar crystals. These crystals exhibit strong green fluorescence in ultra-violet light.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Mark Weil (USA)
 Viewed:  1940 Time(s)

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Meta-autunite-MIM_Museum(1546-2).jpg
 Mineral: Meta-autunite
 Locality:
Daybreak Mine, Mount Kit Carson, Spokane County, Washington, USA
 Dimensions: 17 x 12.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm
 Description:
Mass: 1150 g
MIM number: 1546
Intact block covered with thick tufts of dark green lamellar crystals. These crystals exhibit strong green fluorescence in ultra-violet light.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Mark Weil (USA)
 Viewed:  1940 Time(s)

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Diamond-MIM_Museum(1545).jpg
 Mineral: Diamond
 Locality:
South Africa
 Dimensions: 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm
 Description:
Kimberley?, Afrique du Sud

Mass: 15 g
MIM number: 1545
Intact 73.78-carat octahedron , almost colorless and a little deformed, some faces studded with triangular growth patterns; a black inclusion at one summit and a small veil near one face. This crystal is thought to be in color K (very light yellow), with a VS inclusion level and the possibility of cutting two neat stones of 24 and 14 carats from the crystal.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie"
 Viewed:  752 Time(s)

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Diamond-MIM_Museum(1545-2).jpg
 Mineral: Diamond
 Locality:
South Africa
 Dimensions: 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm
 Description:
Kimberley?, Afrique du Sud

Mass: 15 g
MIM number: 1545
Intact 73.78-carat octahedron , almost colorless and a little deformed, some faces studded with triangular growth patterns; a black inclusion at one summit and a small veil near one face. This crystal is thought to be in color K (very light yellow), with a VS inclusion level and the possibility of cutting two neat stones of 24 and 14 carats from the crystal.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie"
 Viewed:  750 Time(s)

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Diamond-MIM_Museum(1545-4).jpg
 Mineral: Diamond
 Locality:
South Africa
 Dimensions: 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm
 Description:
Kimberley?, Afrique du Sud

Mass: 15 g
MIM number: 1545
Intact 73.78-carat octahedron , almost colorless and a little deformed, some faces studded with triangular growth patterns; a black inclusion at one summit and a small veil near one face. This crystal is thought to be in color K (very light yellow), with a VS inclusion level and the possibility of cutting two neat stones of 24 and 14 carats from the crystal.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie"
 Viewed:  752 Time(s)

Diamond-MIM_Museum(1545-4).jpg



Spinel-MIM_Museum(1544).jpg
 Mineral: Spinel
 Locality:
Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division), Myanmar (Burma)
 Dimensions: 4.5 x 3 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.7 cm
 Description:
Mass: 59 g
MIM number: 1544
Two very dark red twins stuck together so as to give an impression of pentagonal symmetry (a five-pointed star in which one point would be missing).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
 Viewed:  750 Time(s)

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Corundum(variety sapphire)-MIM_Museum(1543).jpg
 Mineral: Corundum (variety sapphire)
 Locality:
Ratnapura, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka
 Dimensions: 4.5 x 2 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 3.9 cm
 Description:
Mass: 18 g
MIM number: 1543
Two slender white twinned crystals with blue extremities, bristling with several smaller crystals with blue bands and also twinned. The whole group is floating and intact.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2015", "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie"
 Viewed:  753 Time(s)

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Siderite-MIM_Museum(1542).jpg
 Mineral: Siderite on Quartz with Ferberite and Fluorapatite
 Locality:
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal
 Dimensions: 12 x 11 x 21 cm / main crystal: 4.2 cm
 Description:
Mass: 2100 g
MIM number: 1542
Probable year of extraction : 1986
Large quartz (20 cm) with a smaller side quartz, both covered by intact, flattened, ochre-gray colored rhombohedrons of siderite. A ferberite crystal is at the base. A few small, almost colorless apatite crystals are stuck in the large quartz crystal. The ensemble appears to be floating: the lower portion of the large quartz is entirely recrystallized, while there appears to be a little contact at the level of the ferberite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
 Viewed:  749 Time(s)

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Quartz-MIM_Museum(1541).jpg
 Mineral: Quartz with Siderite and Arsenopyrite inclusions
 Locality:
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal
 Dimensions: 20 x 9 x 18.5 cm
 Description:
Mass: 1200 g
MIM number: 1541
Probable year of extraction : 1979
Well formed double-terminated quartz with inclusions of arsenopyrite at the base, topped by 3 lenticular crystals of gray-ochre colored siderite (the largest crystal measures 5.4 cm) and by micro-crystals of siderite carpeting one face.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
 Viewed:  750 Time(s)

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Siderite-MIM_Museum(1540).jpg
 Mineral: Siderite
 Locality:
Minas da Panasqueira, Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Cova da Beira, Centro, Portugal
 Dimensions: 14.5 x 13.5 x 18 cm / main crystal: 8.1 cm
 Description:
Mass: 1500 g
MIM number: 1540
Probable year of extraction : 1979
Two intact, well formed cream-colored rhombohedrons with another smaller one at the junction of the two larger ones. These siderites are stuck at the base of two quartz crystals in a V-shape exhibiting black inclusions at their terminations (the largest quartz measuring 18 cm). The group is a floater: the lower portion of the quartz crystals is entirely recrystallized.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
 Viewed:  103 Time(s)

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Corundum(variety ruby)-MIM_Museum(1539).jpg
 Mineral: Corundum (variety ruby)
 Locality:
Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division), Myanmar (Burma)
 Dimensions: 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
 Description:
Mass: 9 g
MIM number: 1539
Probable year of extraction : 1995
Lustrous ruby crystal in pink-fuchsia with inclusions; the "melted" aspect is typical of rubies from Myanmar.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
 Viewed:  104 Time(s)

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Corundum(variety sapphire)-MIM_Museum(1538).jpg
 Mineral: Corundum (variety sapphire)
 Locality:
Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division), Myanmar (Burma)
 Dimensions: 5 x 2 x 2 cm
 Description:
Mass: 24 g
MIM number: 1538
Probable year of extraction : 2013
Barrel-shaped crystal with slightly "melted" faces showing a different color according to the light (gray-green in daylight, more pinkish in artificial light); this effect could be due to the presence of traces of vanadium.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: “Mineralogical Record, Jan-Feb 2022”
 Viewed:  103 Time(s)

Corundum(variety sapphire)-MIM_Museum(1538).jpg



Corundum(variety sapphire)-MIM_Museum(1537).jpg
 Mineral: Corundum (variety sapphire)
 Locality:
Ratnapura, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka
 Dimensions: 2.5 x 1 x 1 cm
 Description:
Mass: 3 g
MIM number: 1537
Probable year of extraction : 1945
Small, perfectly formed, transparent blue crystal in the shape of a hexagonal bipyramid.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
 Viewed:  104 Time(s)

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Corundum(variety sapphire)-MIM_Museum(1536).jpg
 Mineral: Corundum (variety sapphire)
 Locality:
Ratnapura, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka
 Dimensions: 8.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm
 Description:
Mass: 62 g
MIM number: 1536
Probable year of extraction : 1945
Tapered, yellow and lustrous crystal in a hexagonal bipyramid.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
 Viewed:  104 Time(s)

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Weloganite-MIM_Museum(1535).jpg
 Mineral: Weloganite
 Locality:
Francon Quarry, Montréal, St. Michel District, Jacques Cartier County, Québec, Canada
 Dimensions: 6 x 4.5 x 6 cm / main crystal: 2.6 cm
 Description:
Mass: 128 g
MIM number: 1535
Three yellow crystals on a matrix, including a thick crystal clearly exhibiting the hemimorphism of this species.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
 Viewed:  103 Time(s)

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