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 Posted: Apr 03, 2025 16:39 Post subject: Olshanskyite with Roweite from China / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Olshanskyite with Roweite and Andradite |
| Locality: | | Shijiangshan Mine, Shijiangshan village, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China |  |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size: 7.5 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm |
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The Olshanskyite from the Shijiangshan Mine was previously well-known for its quality, largely overtaking the best known to date for the species. However, a discovery made in 2017 raised the quality to unprecedented levels. The sample, included among the best samples found from this new find, forms elongated and very well differentiated crystals that are clear, colorless and very bright, with sharp crystals. They are on matrix, with Roweite and Andradite crystals with a white coating of a silicate that very probably is altered Andradite.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery of Munich 2017 in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 62 in number 2017/2 |
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| Posted: Apr 05, 2025 16:30 Post subject: Calcite from St. Andreasberg / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | St. Andreasberg, St. Andreasberg mining area, Goslar District, Harz, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.4 × 5.2 × 5.4 cm |
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A classic. Divergent growths, on matrix, of prismatic Calcite crystals with pinacoidal terminations, with very sharp edges, bright and transparent. The sample is from the Stoppani collection. As is the case with so many specimens in this collection, the sample is of great quality for the locality.
The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph ‘St. Andreasberg’ of the Mineralogical Record magazine (May-June 2017, pg. 348) |
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| Posted: Apr 07, 2025 16:21 Post subject: Tarbuttite from Skorpion Mine, Namibia / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Tarbuttite with Smithsonite |
| Locality: | | Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, ǁKaras Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.7 × 6.3 × 4.8 cm |
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Fan-like sprays of Tarbuttite crystals with very acute terminations, very well defined faces and edges and on matrix, with blue-violet botryoidal Smithsonite. The sample, very esthetic and of a great quality for the species, is from the Desmond Sacco collection.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference for the Tarbuttite species in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 04/2021, page 11 as well as in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2018, page 105 |
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| Posted: Apr 09, 2025 16:56 Post subject: Copper from Broken Hill, Australia / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Copper |
| Locality: | | Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.8 × 2.7 × 1.2 cm |
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Very aerial arborescent growth of elongated octahedral copper crystals whose terminations show very sharp octahedral faces.
A fine miniature from a classic Australian deposit, with its original Bob Noble collection Perky box, which also contains the label. |
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| Posted: Apr 10, 2025 15:38 Post subject: Isoferroplatinum from Konder / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Isoferroplatinum |
| Locality: | | Konder Massif, Aldan shield, Ayan-Maya District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.6 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm |
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An exceptionally sharp Isoferroplatinum crystal, floater, complete and with two other twinned crystals.
From the old good times for Russian material. |
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| Mineral: | Isoferroplatinum |
| Locality: | | Konder Massif, Aldan shield, Ayan-Maya District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 0.6 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm |
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| The upper part of the piece. |
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| Posted: Apr 12, 2025 16:37 Post subject: Zoisite (variety tanzanite) / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Zoisite (variety tanzanite) |
| Locality: | | D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.4 × 1.9 × 0.9 cm |
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| Parallel growth of Zoisite crystals (Tanzanite variety), of gem quality, transparent, very bright, and exhibiting dichroic color, deep and uniform navy blue that turns reddish according to the orientation of the light. |
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| Posted: Apr 13, 2025 16:25 Post subject: Brochantite with Chrysocolla and Atacamite / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Brochantite with Chrysocolla and Atacamite |
| Locality: | | Los Azules Mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.2 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm |
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The Brochantite forms sprays of finely acicular crystals with an intense silky luster and a very vivid color. They are with darker small Atacamite crystals and are on a Quartz (variety chalcedony) matrix coated by botryoidal Chrysocolla growths.
This sample has been photographed and published as a novelty in Munich 2016 in the magazine Le Règne Minéral number 132, page 43, the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 148 in the volume 48, number 1 (January-February 2017) and in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 54 of the 2014/02 edition. |
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| Posted: Apr 15, 2025 13:47 Post subject: Elongated Copper from Ray Mines / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Copper and Malachite |
| Locality: | | Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.2 × 2.4 × 0.8 cm |
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Dendritic growth of sharp cubo-octahedral Copper crystals that are extremely elongated, with a very well defined spinel-law twin and partially coated by Malachite.
A classic from Arizona. |
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| Posted: Apr 16, 2025 13:18 Post subject: Clinochlore from Saranovskii Mine / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Clinochlore |
| Locality: | | Saranovskii Mine, Saranovskaya (Sarany), Gornozavodskii, Perm Krai, Ural, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.7 × 8.1 × 4.6 cm |
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| Group of Clinochlore crystals, ranging from laminar to tabular, well-defined, with excellent green color, very bright, and on matrix. Color and brilliance are exceptional. |
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| Posted: Apr 18, 2025 17:18 Post subject: Cuprite with Silver from Poteryaevskoe Mine / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Cuprite with Silver |
| Locality: | | Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.5 × 3.2 × 3 cm |
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| Group of well defined octahedral crystals with slightly curved faces and edges and very rare spongy growths of native Silver in the interstices between crystals. |
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| Mineral: | Cuprite with Silver |
| Locality: | | Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm |
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| Spongy growths of Silver in the interstices between crystals. |
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2025 14:33 Post subject: Ephesite from Kuruman / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Ephesite |
| Locality: | | Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.7 × 4.1 × 2.5 cm |
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A group of well-defined crystals on matrix. They are bright and have a very intense color.
Ephesite, a phyllosilicate from the Mica Group, is a very rare species — even more so in crystals of this size and quality.
The specimen came from Charlie Key. |
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| Posted: Apr 21, 2025 12:51 Post subject: Titanite on Albite from Haramosh / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Titanite on Albite |
| Locality: | | Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.4 × 3.5 × 3 cm |
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Two twinned crystals of Titanite on a matrix of Albite. One of them has a very unusual shape.
They are perfect and have absolutely no dings or even abrasions, which is a small miracle given how aerial the crystals are. |
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2025 16:34 Post subject: Pyromorphite from El Horcajo Mines, Spain / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Pyromorphite |
| Locality: | | El Horcajo Mines, El Horcajo, Almodóvar del Campo, Comarca Campo de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.4 × 3.5 × 1.4 cm |
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Strongly elongated (almost acicular), but well-defined crystals, some of them doubly terminated, bright, with vivid color, and on matrix.
From the former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates) |
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2025 16:30 Post subject: Smithsonite (Cu-bearing) from Tsumeb / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Smithsonite (variety Cu-bearing) |
| Locality: | | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 × 2.9 × 1.4 cm |
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A great classic, very bright and with excellent color.
From the former Folch collection (duplicates) |
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2025 17:32 Post subject: Topaz on Albite from Pakistan / #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Topaz on Albite |
| Locality: | | Yuno, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.6 × 2.2 × 2.7 cm |
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| Doubly terminated crystal whose terminations are very rich in faces. It is on an Albite matrix. |
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