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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Denton Mine, Rosiclare formation, Goose Creek Mine group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA |  |
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| Dimensions: | 12 x 15.5 x 6 cm / main crystal: 5.7 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 1356 g
MIM number: 1439
Probable year of extraction : 1984
Group of perfectly formed and very lustrous cubic crystals, of a dark purple color on the surface and amber on the inside.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20237 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite with Calcite |
| Locality: | | "Green Tracts” (North Green Mine, East Green Mine, West Green Mine), Bethel Level, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 7.5 x 6 cm |
| Description: |
MIM number: 1438
Probable year of extraction : 1955
Two interpenetrating crystals (probably twinned) of a vivid amber-orange color, lustrous and transparent with smooth surfaces; growth of small fluorite cubes on some faces.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "American Mineral Treasures"
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20229 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite with Calcite |
| Locality: | | Minerva I Mine, Rosiclare formation, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 14 x 15.5 cm / main crystal: 6 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 2741 g
MIM number: 1437
Probable year of extraction : 1992
Cluster of perfectly formed, lustrous, translucent cubes of fluorite on a pedestal of altered baryte. The cubes are of a dark yellow color and some retain crevices in the shape of a flattened cone on their surface resulting from an old dissolution of the baryte that had developed there.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20234 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite with Calcite |
| Locality: | | Minerva I Mine, Rosiclare formation, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 14 x 15.5 cm / main crystal: 6 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 2741 g
MIM number: 1437
Probable year of extraction : 1992
Cluster of perfectly formed, lustrous, translucent cubes of fluorite on a pedestal of altered baryte. The cubes are of a dark yellow color and some retain crevices in the shape of a flattened cone on their surface resulting from an old dissolution of the baryte that had developed there.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20226 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Minerva I Mine, Rosiclare formation, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 11.5 x 6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 426 g
MIM number: 1436
Probable year of extraction : 1990
Yellow fluorite altered by partial dissolution of the baryte with which it had co-crystallized, leaving some cavities. It is topped by a piece of a cube of transparent blue fluorite, perfectly formed and intact.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "American Mineral Treasures", "Mineralogical Record: May-Jun 2008"
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20235 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Minerva I Mine, Rosiclare formation, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 11.5 x 6 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 426 g
MIM number: 1436
Probable year of extraction : 1990
Yellow fluorite altered by partial dissolution of the baryte with which it had co-crystallized, leaving some cavities. It is topped by a piece of a cube of transparent blue fluorite, perfectly formed and intact.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "American Mineral Treasures", "Mineralogical Record: May-Jun 2008"
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20229 Time(s) |
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Mar 04, 2025 06:18 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Bethel Level, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 15 x 22 cm / main crystal: 10 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 5800 g
MIM number: 1435
Probable year of extraction : 1955
Aggregate of large, perfectly formed cubic crystals--smooth, lustrous, translucent and of amber color with a brown and blue border near the faces.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20019 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Bethel Level, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 15 x 22 cm / main crystal: 10 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 5800 g
MIM number: 1435
Probable year of extraction : 1955
Aggregate of large, perfectly formed cubic crystals--smooth, lustrous, translucent and of amber color with a brown border near the faces.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20025 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Minerva I Mine, Rosiclare formation, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 10 x 11 cm / main crystal: 7.3 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 271 g
MIM number: 1434
Probable year of extraction : 1990
Fluorite cube, violet on the inside and blue on the outside, with an altered yellow fluorite at the base and a corolla of small crystals of light fluorite with black traces of hydrocarbons in the interstices. The ensemble is intact, sharp and very shiny.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20037 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Denton Mine, Rosiclare formation, Goose Creek Mine group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 6.2 x 5 cm / main crystal: 3.5 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 93 g
MIM number: 1433
Probable year of extraction : 1987
Piece of fluorite on which several calcite crystals have developed, the largest of which has grown perpendicularly to the fluorite. These crystals are all cask-shaped pesudo-hexagonal prisms with a modification at the summit in the form of a hat with 3 sides at equal angles of one another, giving each calcite the appearance of a mushroom. The entire sample is studded with small chalcopyrite crystals.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie"
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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| Viewed: |
20021 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Denton Mine, Rosiclare formation, Goose Creek Mine group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.7 x 5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 3.9 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 140 g
MIM number: 1432
Probable year of extraction : 1987
Piece of fluorite on which several calcite crystals have developed, the largest of which has grown parallel to the fluorite. These crystals are all cask-shaped pseudo-hexagonal prisms with a modification at the summit in the form of a hat with 3 sides at equal angles of one another, giving each calcite the appearance of a mushroom. The entire sample is sprinkled with small chalcopyrite crystals.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Ex collection: Ross C. Lillie (USA) |
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20021 Time(s) |
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Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Mar 16, 2025 06:39 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 27 x 20 x 18 cm / main crystal: 17.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 5125 g
MIM number: 1431
Probable year of extraction : 2010
Cascade of flattened rhombohedrons in a beautiful pink color that have grown on a matrix covered with small quartz needles and rounded grayish fluorites. A very large polysynthetic crystal, complete on all sides, lies at the base.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "extraLapis #56: Rhodochrosit" |
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19860 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 27 x 20 x 18 cm / main crystal: 17.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 5125 g
MIM number: 1431
Probable year of extraction : 2010
Cascade of flattened rhombohedrons in a beautiful pink color that have grown on a matrix covered with small quartz needles and rounded grayish fluorites. A very large polysynthetic crystal, complete on all sides, lies at the base.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "extraLapis #56: Rhodochrosit" |
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19849 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Corundum (variety rubi) |
| Locality: | | Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division), Myanmar (Burma) | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 4.5 x 8.5 cm / main crystal: 5.2 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 255 g
MIM number: 1430
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Elongated, very lustrous red crystal with some translucent areas, well freed from its slightly bluish calcite matrix
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publication: “Mineralogical Record, Jan-Feb 2022” |
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19852 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz |
| Locality: | | Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 5 x 7.5 cm / main crystal: 4.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 107 g
MIM number: 1429
Intact, translucent, pale purple polysynthetic crystal perched on an apparently floating group of small quartz crystals. The fluorite crystal perfectly exhibits cubic faces (plane) and dodecahedral faces (in steps) over a 360° range.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence |
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19845 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz |
| Locality: | | Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 21 x 12.5 x 11 cm / main crystal: 6.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1111 g
MIM number: 1428
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Octahedrons of green fluorite perched on double terminated white quartz crystals (11.2 cm max). The octahedrons are opaque, except at the ends where they are translucent and show cubic truncations. The sample seems to be floating and intact: even two quartz crystals, which appear to be broken, have actually recrystallized in the mine.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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19848 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 12 x 11 cm / main crystal: 3.1 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 1441 g
MIM number: 1427
Group of large, intact, very lustrous red crystals on a mound of cream-colored gangue. The ensemble looks perfectly intact from all sides.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza |
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19848 Time(s) |
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Posts: 247
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Mar 23, 2025 14:59 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Beryl (variety aquamarine), Cassiterite, Muscovite |
| Locality: | | Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 12 x 9 cm / main crystal: 9.1 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 1006 g
MIM number: 1425
Intact, lustrous, pale blue flattened crystal, very rich in facets, and perched on a gangue of small, elongated mica blades. Other small beryls at the back, along with a twinned cassiterite crystal measuring 2.3 cm. The ensemble is a floater.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza |
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19245 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wurtzite |
| Locality: | | A-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 3 x 3 cm / main crystal: 3.9 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 42 g
MIM number: 1424
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Group of well formed, translucent, amber-colored crystals clearly showing the hexagonal hemihedry (widened base and pointy summit).
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publication: "Mineralogical Record: May-Jun 2013" |
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19244 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Edingtonite |
| Locality: | | Bölet Mines, Undenäs, Karlsborg, Västra Götaland, Sweden | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 7 x 1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 16 g
MIM number: 1423
Probable year of extraction : 1920
Well terminated, parallelepipedal single crystal ranging from white to translucent on a summit and on two lateral faces, with black inclusions
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza; |
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| Viewed: |
19247 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Aphthitalite |
| Locality: | | Kerr McGee Mine, Carlsbad Potash District, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 5 x 5 cm / main crystal: 5 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 73 g
MIM number: 1421
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Groupings of perfectly formed, transparent, colorless, tabular hexagonal crystals. The crystals are slightly beveled on the edges in an alternating pattern, revealing a trigonal symmetry despite their hexagonal appearance.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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| Viewed: |
19247 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Vésigniéite |
| Locality: | | Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2 x 3 cm / main crystal: 1.6 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 9 g
MIM number: 1420
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Rosette of large, well formed, lustrous olive green blades on a little bit of white matrix
Photographer: Joe Budd; |
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| Viewed: |
19249 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Mar 27, 2025 10:04 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Brandtite |
| Locality: | | Pajsberg, Persberg District, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 5 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 0.9 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 68 g
MIM number: 1419
Probable year of extraction : 1899
Beige tufts on a limonite matrix.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Eric Asselborn (France) |
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19019 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Brandtite |
| Locality: | | Pajsberg, Persberg District, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 5 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 0.9 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 68 g
MIM number: 1419
Probable year of extraction : 1899
Beige tufts on a limonite matrix.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Ex collection: Eric Asselborn (France) |
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19017 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Florencite-(Ce), Magnesite |
| Locality: | | Brumado, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 5 x 6 cm / main crystal: 1.1 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 217 g
MIM number: 1418
7 brown-orange, barrel-shaped crystals on a matrix of perfect rhombohedrons of transparent magnesite
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Ex collection: Eric Asselborn (France) |
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19019 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Goethite on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Chaillac, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 11 x 6.5 x 10 cm / main crystal: 1.2 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 461 g
MIM number: 1416
Geode carpeted with clumps of well crystallized needles of black goethite
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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19020 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Baryte, Sphalerite |
| Locality: | | Les Malines mining district, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Le Vigan, Gard Department, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 23 x 16.5 x 9 cm |
| Description: |
Les Malines, Mondardier, Gard, France
Mass: 3050 g
MIM number: 1415
Two lustrous half-balls of white barite in ridges --the largest having a diameter of 9.1 cm-- perched on a plate covered with small, very shiny, brown sphalerite crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "extra Lapis # 48: Baryt"
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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19025 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Filon jaune, Valzergues Mines, Valzergues, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 10 x 10 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 952 g
MIM number: 1414
Probable year of extraction : 1973
Two cubes in an interpenetration twin coming from the “Yellow Lode” of the mine; the crystals are orangey-yellow with blue imbricated “phantoms”. The color of the piece changes radically depending on lighting (incandescent versus fluorescent).
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publications: "Les minéraux - Sciences et collections", "Fluorite - Trésors de France/French Treasures"
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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19023 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Baryte |
| Locality: | | Les Farges Mine (Des Farges Mine), Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 7 x 4 cm / main crystal: 5 cm |
| Description: |
Les Farges, Ussel, Corrèze, France
Mass: 158 g
MIM number: 1413
Two cubes in a striking orange color with a small tuft of barytine on a ridge. The cubes are in part perfectly transparent, and partly opaque.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publication: "Le Règne Minéral - Hors série #15 - 2009"
Ex collections: Alain Martaud (France), Gilles Emringer (France) |
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19016 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Apr 05, 2025 09:43 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Crichtonite on Feldspar (Group) |
| Locality: | | Grand Châtelard Massif, Sainte-Marie-de-Cuines, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 2 x 4 cm / main crystal: 1.4 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 50 g
MIM number: 1412
Well formed, lustrous black crystal with beveled corners on a matrix of small, cream-colored tablets of feldspar (sample discovered by the mineralogist Lilian Schaub).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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18735 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Austinite (variety copper-bearing austinite) coating limonite after Calcite |
| Locality: | | Christiana Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 8 x 4.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 124 g
MIM number: 1411
Small crystals of cupriferous green austinite sprinkled on a matrix of calcite scalenohedrons that have apparently pseudomorphed into limonite
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2"
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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18732 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Austinite (variety copper-bearing austinite) coating limonite after Calcite |
| Locality: | | Christiana Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 8 x 4.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 124 g
MIM number: 1411
Small crystals of cupriferous green austinite sprinkled on a matrix of calcite scalenohedrons that have apparently pseudomorphed into limonite
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2"
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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| Viewed: |
18731 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Olivenite coating Goethite after Calcite |
| Locality: | | Christiana Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 12.5 x 5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 528 g
MIM number: 1410
Probable year of extraction : 1997
Green spherules carpeting gray calcite scalenohedrons pseudomorphed into goethite.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publications: "Lapis Jg,24 #7/8: Jul-Aug 1999", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés", "Griechenland Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten"
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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18731 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Lavendulan |
| Locality: | | Hilarion Mine, Hilarion area, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 9 x 3 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 127 g
MIM number: 1409
Ball shaped aggregates of small blue crystals developed on a limonite matrix.
Photographer: MIM Museum
Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2"
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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18745 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Aragonite (variety flos ferri) |
| Locality: | | Hilarion Mine, Hilarion area, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 8 x 6.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 66 g
MIM number: 1408
Probable year of extraction : 1994
Tuft of twisted needles resembling white coral
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Lapis Jg,24 #7/8: Jul-Aug 1999", "Griechenland Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten"
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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18735 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Aragonite (variety flos ferri) |
| Locality: | | Hilarion Mine, Hilarion area, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 8 x 6.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 66 g
MIM number: 1408
Probable year of extraction : 1994
Tuft of twisted needles resembling white coral
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Lapis Jg,24 #7/8: Jul-Aug 1999", "Griechenland Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten"
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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18733 Time(s) |
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| Posted: Apr 11, 2025 10:05 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Adamite (variety copper-bearing adamite) on limonite after Calcite |
| Locality: | | Christiana Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 9 x 5.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 197 g
MIM number: 1407
Small crystals of cupriferous green adamite sprinkled on a matrix of limonite.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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| Mineral: | Smithsonite on limonite |
| Locality: | | Hilarion Mine, Hilarion area, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5 x 10.5 x 5.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 375 g
MIM number: 1406
Sparkling white spheres on a matrix of massive brown limonite.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publication: "Lapis Jg,24 #7/8: Jul-Aug 1999"
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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18546 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Azurite with Calcite and Malachite on limonite after Calcite |
| Locality: | | Christiana Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 6 x 4.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 67 g
MIM number: 1404
Probable year of extraction : 1996
Crust of crystal balls in a beautiful blue covering what seems to be limonite stalactites, topped by a few calcite crystals and small malachite balls. This piece comes from the “cupriferous cleft" discovered in 1996.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Lapis Jg,24 #7/8: Jul-Aug 1999", "Griechenland Mineralien, Fundorte, Lagerstätten"
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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| Mineral: | Azurite with Aragonite on limonite |
| Locality: | | Maria Mine, Agia Varvara Mines, Sounion area, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 4 x 6.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 103 g
MIM number: 1403
Aggregate of small crystals in deep blue balls covering a limonite mound on all sides; the sample is topped with translucent white aragonite becoming slightly green at the back (probably cupriferous).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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18543 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Azurite coating Goethite after Calcite |
| Locality: | | Christiana Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture, Greece | |
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| Dimensions: | 21.5 x 13 x 14 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 884 g
MIM number: 1402
Plate of calcite scalenohedrons pseudomorphed into brown goethite, and partially covered by a coating of azurite of a beautiful deep blue color.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Wolfgang & Karin Wendel (Germany) |
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| Mineral: | Grossular |
| Locality: | | Kayes Region, Mali | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.1 x 5 x 5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 128 g
MIM number: 1400
Very well formed, pale green rhombic dodecahedron
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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18293 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Grossular |
| Locality: | | Kayes Region, Mali | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.3 x 4 x 4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 65 g
MIM number: 1401
Very well formed, pale green rhombic dodecahedron
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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18292 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Graphite with Diopside and Mesolite |
| Locality: | | Karo Pit, D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 0.8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 17 g
MIM number: 1399
Graphite matrix topped with flattened hexagonal crystals of graphite, some small green diopside crystals (1.1 cm max) and tufts of mesolite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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18294 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Graphite with Diopside and Mesolite |
| Locality: | | Karo Pit, D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 0.9 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 13 g
MIM number: 1398
Graphite matrix topped with flattened hexagonal crystals of graphite, some small green diopside crystals (1.4 cm max) and tufts of mesolite
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Lapis: Jul-Aug 2015" |
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18300 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Graphite with Diopside and Mesolite |
| Locality: | | Karo Pit, D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm / main crystal: 1.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 12 g
MIM number: 1397
Graphite matrix topped with flattened hexagonal crystals of graphite, some small green diopside crystals (1 cm max) and tufts of mesolite.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Lapis: Jul-Aug 2015" |
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18293 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Magnetite on Halite |
| Locality: | | Balmat, Balmat-Edwards Zinc District, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 5 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 2.8 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 132 g
MIM number: 1394
Intact, lustrous black cubic crystal showing the faces of a tetrahexahedron, topped by a small cubic crystal and on a white matrix sprinkled with small white halite and magnetite crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza; |
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| Posted: Apr 27, 2025 09:22 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Prehnite with Epidote |
| Locality: | | Kayes Region, Mali | |
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| Dimensions: | 31 x 25 x 8 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 6250 g
MIM number: 1391
Practically intact block of green prehnite balls having the form of a dinosaur turning its head (!). Some more coarsely formed, black epidotes on one of the sides.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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| Mineral: | Marcasite with Pyrite |
| Locality: | | Cap Blanc-Nez, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 8.5 x 12 cm / main crystal: 4.1 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 231 g
MIM number: 1390
Two tufts of spearhead-shaped twins developed on a clayey chalk base, each one associating 5 crystals, which gives them an almost pentagonal contour. A pyrite ball developed next to the base of one of the tufts.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie", "Le Règne Minéral hors-série XXV/XXVI 2019-2020 - Les minéraux du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais"
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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17945 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Sphalerite on Siderite with Dolomite |
| Locality: | | La Mure area, La Mure, Matheysine-Trièves, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 12.5 x 11 x 6.5 cm / main crystal: 3.1 cm |
| Description: |
La Mure, Isère, France
Mass: 849 g
MIM number: 1389
Well separated, sharp, dark red crystals having developed on lenticular siderite (3.8 cm max) with some small dolomite rhombohedrons (1.2 cm max)
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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17943 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Le Beix Mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Herment, Clermont-Ferrand District, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 17.5 x 10.5 x 8 cm / main crystal: 7.7 cm |
| Description: |
Le Beix, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Mass: 548 g
MIM number: 1388
Probable year of extraction : 1975
Intact, transparent blue cube on a strip of small white quartz crystals with a partial covering of orangey iron oxide at the back; the ensemble is a floater.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral hors-série XI-2005", "Le Règne Minéral # 100: Jul-Aug 2011"
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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17939 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite with Quartz on Calcite |
| Locality: | | Aiguille Verte, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 8.5 x 11 cm / main crystal: 7.3 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 357 g
MIM number: 1385
Probable year of extraction : 2006
Translucent and very lustrous, pink polysynthetic octahedron on a small base of white calcite rhombohedrons; some quartz crystals skewer the fluorite laterally.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral # 100: Jul-Aug 2011", "Chroniques de Cristalliers", "Fluorite - Trésors de France/French Treasures", "extraLapis 59 - Mont Blanc - Mineralien vom weißen Berg"
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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17957 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Tetrahedrite with Sphalerite, Bournonite and Siderite |
| Locality: | | La Mure area, La Mure, Matheysine-Trièves, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 7 x 9 x 7 cm / main crystal: 6.8 cm. |
| Description: |
La Mure, Isère, France
Mass: 522 g
MIM number: 1384
Probable year of extraction : 1981
Two very lustrous, black tetrahedrons imbricated in the form of a cross (though not at a perfect right angle) with a tuft of dark red, polysynthetic sphalerite (4.6 cm) close to the summit of the larger one, some flat crystals of bournonite (1 cm max) and small siderite lenses at the back (0.9 cm max).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral # 100: Jul-Aug 2011", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés"
Ex collection: Gilles Emringer (France) |
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17945 Time(s) |
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| Posted: May 06, 2025 09:58 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Epidote with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division), Myanmar (Burma) | |
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| Dimensions: | 16 x 18 x 15 cm / main crystal: 10.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2950 g
MIM number: 1382
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Intact assembly of large thick lustrous tabular crystals with green reflections and a little quartz to the back. The thinnest crystals are translucent.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "Lapis Jg,37 #12: Dec 2012" |
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2743 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Crocoite |
| Locality: | | Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast Council, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Dimensions: | 25 x 25 x 15 cm / main crystal: 3.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1200 g
MIM number: 1381
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Bushy tufts of orange needles developed in a structure reminiscent of fractals on a limonite matrix; the ensemble is surprisingly intact considering the brittleness of the needles, the matrix of iron oxide being rather robust.
Photographer: AINU / Alessandro Clemenza;
Publication: "Le Règne Minéral: Sep-Oct 2016" |
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2738 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Meta-autunite |
| Locality: | | Margnac Mine, Compreignac, Bellac, Haute-Vienne Department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 22 x 14 x 11 cm / main crystal: 0.8 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 2950 g
MIM number: 1380
Green-yellow tabular crystals carpeting the interior of a sandstone sandwich.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) |
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2735 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Meta-autunite |
| Locality: | | Les Oudots Quarry, Grury, Issy-l'Evêque, Autun District, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 25 x 20 x 7 cm / main crystal: 0.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2450 g
MIM number: 1379
Crust of tabular crystals, fluorescent green-yellow under long UV rays, covering the top of a granite plate. The latter separated naturally from the granite like several others, and water circulating between the interstices has dissolved and deposited autunite in these fissures.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) |
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2737 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Meta-autunite |
| Locality: | | Les Oudots Quarry, Grury, Issy-l'Evêque, Autun District, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 25 x 20 x 7 cm / main crystal: 0.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 2450 g
MIM number: 1379
Crust of tabular crystals, fluorescent green-yellow under long UV rays, covering the top of a granite plate. The latter separated naturally from the granite like several others, and water circulating between the interstices has dissolved and deposited autunite in these fissures.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) |
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2737 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Galena on Quartz with Siderite |
| Locality: | | Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt/Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm / main crystal: 2.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 63 g
MIM number: 1378
Two perfect crystals at the two ends of a thin quartz chip studded with some small siderite crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Giancarlo Fioravanti (Rome, Italy) |
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2740 Time(s) |
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| Posted: May 17, 2025 09:12 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Phosgenite |
| Locality: | | Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna, Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2 x 5 cm / main crystal: 4.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 65 g
MIM number: 1376
Two intact, transparent, double terminated parallel crystals with tabular terminations.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Giancarlo Fioravanti (Rome, Italy) |
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2035 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Phosgenite |
| Locality: | | Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sud Sardegna Province, Sardinia/Sardegna, Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 2 x 5 cm / main crystal: 4.7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 65 g
MIM number: 1376
Two intact, transparent, double terminated parallel crystals with tabular terminations.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Giancarlo Fioravanti (Rome, Italy) |
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2032 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Hauerite |
| Locality: | | Destricella Mine, Raddusa, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 4 x 4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 35 g
MIM number: 1375
Very well formed black octahedron.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Giancarlo Fioravanti (Rome, Italy) |
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2030 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Hauerite |
| Locality: | | Destricella Mine, Raddusa, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 4 x 4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 40 g
MIM number: 1374
Very well formed black octahedron.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Giancarlo Fioravanti (Rome, Italy) |
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2031 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Epidote |
| Locality: | | Falin Lake, Usseglio, Val di Viù / Viù Valley, Lanzo Valleys (Valli di Lanzo), Metropolitan City of Turin Province, Piedmont (Piemonte), Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 3 x 3 x 4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 52 g
MIM number: 1377
Very lustrous, greenish-black crystal with green moiré reflections revealing a very sharp-edged reentrant twin; a side crystal is also at the base.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Ex collection: Giancarlo Fioravanti (Rome, Italy) |
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2030 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | Rowley Mine, Theba, Painted Rock District, Painted Rock Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 4 x 5 cm / main crystal: 1.5 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 72 g
MIM number: 1373
Group of thin, transparent, lustrous, orange rectangular tablets which have developed around a white matrix slab.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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2032 Time(s) |
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| Posted: May 26, 2025 08:56 Post subject: Re: The MIM Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Mineral: | Shigaite with Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 2 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.4 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 7 g
MIM number: 1372
Large, intact, thick and translucent hexagonal crystal of a beautiful red color, at the base of which are two smaller crystals and a little pink micro-crystallized Rhodochrosite
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Mar-Apr 2015", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2017", "extraLapis No. 52: Moderne Klassiker", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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| Mineral: | Shigaite with Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 x 2 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2.4 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 7 g
MIM number: 1372
Large, intact, thick and translucent hexagonal crystal of a beautiful red color, at the base of which are two smaller crystals and a little pink micro-crystallized rhodochrosite
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Mar-Apr 2015", "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2017", "extraLapis No. 52: Moderne Klassiker", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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1482 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Rutile with Hematite |
| Locality: | | Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 3.5 x 13.5 cm / main crystal: 4.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 212 g
MIM number: 1370
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Plate of cream-colored rutile in probable hematite pseudomorphosis on which thick, reddish rutile crystals have grown in a sagenite twin. A hematite rosette of 6,3cm has developed at the end of two parallel rutile crystals, with the growth of a smaller secondary rosettte starting from the center of the former.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral # 124: Jul-Aug 2015", "extra Lapis 60: Titanmineralien" |
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1481 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Rutile with Hematite |
| Locality: | | Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Madagascar | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 3.5 x 13.5 cm / main crystal: 4.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 212 g
MIM number: 1370
Probable year of extraction : 2011
Plate of cream-colored rutile in probable hematite pseudomorphosis on which thick, reddish rutile crystals have grown in a sagenite twin. A hematite rosette of 6,3cm has developed at the end of two parallel rutile crystals, with the growth of a smaller secondary rosettte starting from the center of the former.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Le Règne Minéral # 124: Jul-Aug 2015", "extra Lapis 60: Titanmineralien" |
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1479 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Analcime |
| Locality: | | Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 12.5 x 6 x 11 cm / main crystal: 3.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 619 g
MIM number: 1369
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Very well formed, translucent crystals, ranging from colorless to slightly flesh-colored, on a grayish gangue
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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1481 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Analcime |
| Locality: | | Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 12.5 x 6 x 11 cm / main crystal: 3.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 619 g
MIM number: 1369
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Very well formed, translucent crystals, ranging from colorless to slightly flesh-colored, on a grayish gangue
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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| Mineral: | Linarite |
| Locality: | | Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Grand Reef Mountain, Klondyke, Aravaipa District, Graham County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 3.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 54 g
MIM number: 1368
Two well terminated, transparent crystals, considered large for this species and in a beautiful dark blue, on a white matrix with several smaller crystals close to the base.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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1487 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Linarite |
| Locality: | | Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Grand Reef Mountain, Klondyke, Aravaipa District, Graham County, Arizona, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 4 x 3.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 54 g
MIM number: 1368
Two well terminated, transparent crystals, considered large for this species and in a beautiful dark blue, on a white matrix with several smaller crystals close to the base.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publication: "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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1480 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Halite with Sylvite |
| Locality: | | Kerr McGee Mine, 10th ore zone, 'frozen blue' seam, Carlsbad Potash District, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 19 x 14 x 11 cm / main crystal: 8.2 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 1420 g
MIM number: 1367
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Large, transparent cubic crystals of halite in a beautiful dark bluish-purple with colorless, transparent crystals of sylvite (6.6 cm max). It might be the natural radioactivity of the potassium in the sylvite which, over millions of years, created colored centers in the neighboring halite, thus giving it this rare color.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2013", "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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1066 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Halite with Sylvite |
| Locality: | | Kerr McGee Mine, 10th ore zone, 'frozen blue' seam, Carlsbad Potash District, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 19 x 14 x 11 cm / main crystal: 8.2 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 1420 g
MIM number: 1367
Probable year of extraction : 2012
Large, transparent cubic crystals of halite in a beautiful dark bluish-purple with colorless, transparent crystals of sylvite (6.6 cm max). It might be the natural radioactivity of the potassium in the sylvite which, over millions of years, created colored centers in the neighboring halite, thus giving it this rare color.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence
Publications: "Mineralogical Record: Jan-Feb 2013", "101 Minéraux et Pierres Précieuses qu'il faut avoir vus dans sa vie", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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1064 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Vésigniéite with Dickite |
| Locality: | | Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | 15 x 6.5 x 4 cm / main crystal: 0.4 cm. |
| Description: |
Mass: 188 g
MIM number: 1364
Probable year of extraction : 2011
White rock due to the presence of Dickite, upon which have developed some twenty rosettes of small, translucent, lustrous, dark green blades of vésigniéite
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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1074 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Baryte |
| Locality: | | Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Pöhla, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany | |
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| Description: |
Mass: 466 g
MIM number: 1363
Probable year of extraction : 1983
Assembly of amber-colored, double terminated crystals with transparent ends around a thin piece of gangue
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "extra Lapis # 48: Baryt", "Drawings of Mineral Masterpieces" |
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1068 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Pyromorphite |
| Locality: | | Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 9 x 6 x 9.5 cm / main crystal: 2.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 381 g
MIM number: 1362
Probable year of extraction : 1999
Group of intact, lustrous crystals of a beautiful green and in subparallel formation giving an impression of upward twisting movement.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Drawings of Mineral Masterpieces", "Minéraux - Le Guide des Passionnés" |
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1064 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Brookite with Quartz |
| Locality: | | Thurdook mining area, Zard Mountains, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 8 x 7 cm / main crystal: 5.5 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 86 g
MIM number: 1361
Probable year of extraction : 2005
Large, very thin, spear-shaped crystal, brownish-red with translucent edges, stuck on a blade of matrix garnished with small quartz crystals on the two faces of the latter.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; |
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1068 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Silver with Calcite |
| Locality: | | Kongsberg mining district, Kongsberg, Norway | |
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| Dimensions: | 10 x 4 x 15 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 121 g
MIM number: 1360
Thick thread of silver bent several times, with a junction towards the summit in thinner threads, and encrusted along by small white calcite rhombohedrons.
Photographer: FMI / James Elliott;
Publications: "The World's Mineral Masterpieces", "Le Règne Minéral # 114: Nov-Déc 2013", "Drawings of Mineral Masterpieces" |
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571 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite on Mica (Group) |
| Locality: | | Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 17 x 14 x 10 cm / main crystal: 10.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1650 g
MIM number: 1359
Probable year of extraction : 2006
Twinned double octahedron on a mica matrix. The crystals are sharp and almost transparent, slightly green inside and pink on the surface. A a well-defined octahedron (4.1 cm) is also present on the matrix next to the larger crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Lapis: Jg. 32, Nr. 12, Dec. 2007", "extraLapis No. 35, Fluorite der Welt", "Lapis Jg. 38, Nr.11, Nov. 2013", "Le Règne Minéral # 114: Nov-Déc 2013", "extraLapis No. 53: Zwillinge", "Drawings of Mineral Masterpieces", "Lapis Jg. 44, Nr. 10, Oct 2019", "Rocks & Minerals, Vol. 95, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2020" |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite on Mica (Group) |
| Locality: | | Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan | |
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| Dimensions: | 17 x 14 x 10 cm / main crystal: 10.4 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1650 g
MIM number: 1359
Probable year of extraction : 2006
Twinned double octahedron on a mica matrix. The crystals are sharp and almost transparent, slightly green inside and pink on the surface. A a well-defined octahedron (4.1 cm) is also present on the matrix next to the larger crystals.
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Lapis: Jg. 32, Nr. 12, Dec. 2007", "extraLapis No. 35, Fluorite der Welt", "Lapis Jg. 38, Nr.11, Nov. 2013", "Le Règne Minéral # 114: Nov-Déc 2013", "extraLapis No. 53: Zwillinge", "Drawings of Mineral Masterpieces", "Lapis Jg. 44, Nr. 10, Oct 2019", "Rocks & Minerals, Vol. 95, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2020" |
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| Mineral: | Calcite with Baryte |
| Locality: | | Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | 12.5 x 20 x 9 cm / main crystal: 12.2 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 1700 g
MIM number: 1358
Large, intact, amber-colored twinned crystal stuck on a half-ball made of small crystals of white baryte, with a smaller twinned calcite crystal (7.2 cm) in the form of a bowtie at the base of the large crystal. The amber color is due to the presence of greenockite (cadmium sulfide).
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publications: "Masterpieces of the Mineral World: Treasures From the Houston Museum of Natural Science", "American Mineral Treasures", "Mineralogical Record: May-Jun 2008"
Ex collections: Stephen Neely (USA), James Horner (USA), Houston Museum (USA) |
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564 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Calcite (twinned) |
| Locality: | | Dachang District, Nandan, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 13.5 x 11 x 7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 963 g
MIM number: 1357
Probable year of extraction : 2000
Large twinned crystal in the shape of a very symmetrical, lustrous and transparent heart
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "China : Mineralien - Fundstellen - Lagerstätten" |
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567 Time(s) |
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| Mineral: | Calcite (twinned) |
| Locality: | | Dachang District, Nandan, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China | |
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| Dimensions: | 13.5 x 11 x 7 cm |
| Description: |
Mass: 963 g
MIM number: 1357
Probable year of extraction : 2000
Large twinned crystal in the shape of a very symmetrical, lustrous and transparent heart
Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence;
Publication: "China : Mineralien - Fundstellen - Lagerstätten" |
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565 Time(s) |
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