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[Jim Prentiss]

Hello Patrice,

I suspect I will not be the last to comment on the Adamite on Hemimorphite. It is exquisite.

Jim Prentiss

[parfaitelumiere]

Thanks for the comment, Jim!

[nurbo]

Hello Patrice,
You found a twinned Sapphire at last. Well done, its superb.

[parfaitelumiere]

Hi Nurbo,
Yes, I did it, I have obtained a "twinned" ruby too, but I want to look at it better before telling it's twinned.
I had never seen twinned ruby in photo, so I want to be sure...
Do you want to swap your petalite for another bigger one from the same place?
Mine is a little bit too big for my collection.
My mail address, maybe you remember: myfurious200sx(at)yahoo(dot)fr

[parfaitelumiere]

Here are other specimens:

An apatite crystal from Pakistan

A cuprite from Congo

And an Azurite from Touissit
The crystal is a floater, there is a kind of hole in the bottom.

[parfaitelumiere]

and another Apatite,from Panasqueira

[parfaitelumiere]

Hi All,

Here are some news: A solidified drop of water on matrix, and what I wanted for a long time, just a little amazonite and quartz combo from CO.

[Gerhard Niklasch]

Hi Patrice,

[parfaitelumiere]

Hi Gerhard,
Thanks for the infos.
I have written Congo, because someone told me about Congo,
I don't remember if the seller knew where it came from, it could be Kaokoveld or something like this, so Namibian too.
I'm not sure, I have seen both in real, and both are similar to this specimen...
I have the same problem with a primary malachite, Congo, or Kaokoveld in Namibia, both seem to be so similar...

[parfaitelumiere]

Hello,
some new things.

[parfaitelumiere]

Hi all ,
More specimens.

[parfaitelumiere]

Hi all,
I have not posted for a long time!
Some new specimens.

[parfaitelumiere]

Hi All,


These last days I have find some burmese stuff:

[parfaitelumiere]

Sorry it makes a very long time since I didn't post anything here.
It's mainly because I changed collection, from mineral specimens to meteorites in a first time, and finally keeping nothing at all in mineral collection all is or has been sold by "le comptoir géologique"
I decided to stop collection because of increasing price, because of increasing taste too, making more and more difficult to get something new in collection without spending lots of money, and because I bought a home, and mineral helped to buy it.

[Philippe Durand]

I have seen your thumbnail collection on the comptoir site. A lot of very nice specimens.

I am not going to stop collecting minerals, but I understand about the prices.
I love acquiring medium specimens under 100$. It is a different way to collect.