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Jordi Fabre
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 Posted: May 25, 2025 12:38 Post subject: Rhodochrosite from Potosí Mine, Santa Eulalia / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite |
| Locality: | | Potosí Mine, Santo Domingo (Francisco Portillo), Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico |  |
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| Dimensions: | 4.3 × 3.2 × 2.1 cm |
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Groups on matrix of sharp rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite. Transparent, with great luster and an intense pink color.
Former collection of Carles Curto (duplicates) |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 26, 2025 13:48 Post subject: Kuruman Rhodochrosite / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Rhodochrosite with Manganite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.5 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm |
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Group of scalenohedral crystals with intense deep red color that has made the Kuruman Rhodochrosite famous. They are on a Manganite matrix.
The sample is from the well-known find of 1978 |
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Tobi
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| Posted: May 27, 2025 02:36 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| I can't find words for how incredibly beautiful this pink rhodo from Potosí is!
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 27, 2025 02:47 Post subject: Re: #MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Tobi wrote: | | I can't find words for how incredibly beautiful this pink rhodo from Potosí is! |
Thanks Tobi!
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 28, 2025 13:58 Post subject: Valentinite from Oruro, Bolivia / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Valentinite with Pyrite |
| Locality: | | San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 2.8 × 2.2 × 2 cm |
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Fanlike growth of flat, parallel crystals on a small matrix with Pyrite. The Valentinite crystals have a considerable size for the species and are translucent, with a silky luster on the prism faces and a more vitreous luster on the terminations.
The sample comes from Alfredo Petrov. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: May 30, 2025 16:15 Post subject: Vanadinite from the ACF Mine area, Morocco / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 8.2 × 7 × 2.7 cm |
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| Tabular Vanadinite crystals on matrix, translucent, brilliant, and with the intense and vivid red color that characterizes many of the specimens found in the year 2017 in the area of what was the ACF Mine. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 01, 2025 16:37 Post subject: Vesuvianite from Bellecombe / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Vesuvianite |
| Locality: | | Banchette, Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley (Val d'Aosta), Italy | |
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| Dimensions: | 3.2 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm |
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Fine miniature with elongated crystals, featuring sharp and very well-defined faces and edges, with excellent terminations. Very bright; some of the crystals are absolutely transparent and display a great color, deep and uniform.
From the collection of Tiziano Bonisoli, Torino. |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jun 02, 2025 15:10 Post subject: Re: Vesuvianite from Bellecombe / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Jordi Fabre wrote: | Vesuvianite
Banchette, Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley (Val d'Aosta), Italy
Dimensions: 3.2 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm |
It's perfect. Simply perfect.
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 03, 2025 14:11 Post subject: Elbaite (variety rubellite) from Malkhan / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Tobi wrote: | | It's perfect. Simply perfect. |
Thanks Tobi!
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| Mineral: | Elbaite (variety rubellite) |
| Locality: | | Sosedka vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm |
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| Group of three prismatic crystals, two of them doubly terminated. Definition of faces and edges is excellent as is the luster, but we specially note its color, very intense, red with mauve shades and especially deep on the terminations. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 05, 2025 16:48 Post subject: Anglesite from Touissit, Morocco / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Anglesite |
| Locality: | | Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 1.5 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm |
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Anglesite crystal rich in faces, transparent, very bright, with an intense lemon yellow color and with Galena inclusions in the lower part.
A Moroccan classic from the Robert J. Noble collection. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 07, 2025 14:01 Post subject: Book-like Baryte from Bou Nahas / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Baryte with Chalcopyrite |
| Locality: | | Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | 21.4 × 14.9 × 9.8 cm |
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Book-like aggregates of very lustrous, finely tabular Baryte crystals, ranging from transparent to translucent, with a pale-yellow color and geometric color zoning, accompanied by small Chalcopyrite crystals.
The specimen comes from finds at Bou Nahas in 2022 |
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| Mineral: | Baryte with Chalcopyrite |
| Locality: | | Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size: 21.4 × 14.9 × 9.8 cm |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 11, 2025 15:45 Post subject: Spodumene variety kunzite from Brazil / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Spodumene (variety kunzite) |
| Locality: | | Urucum Mine, Barra do Cuieté, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 × 4.6 × 4.6 cm |
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Complete floater crystal of Spodumene (variety kunzite), featuring polycrystalline growths typical of specimens from this locality.
It is very transparent, of gem quality, highly lustrous, and displays a remarkably color. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2025 16:19 Post subject: Vivianite on matrix from Bolivia / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Vivianite |
| Locality: | | Tomokoni Mine, Machacamarca District, Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm |
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| I will just point out the perfection and transparency of this Vivianite, as well as the fact that it is on matrix. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 16, 2025 17:03 Post subject: Goethite from La Quille du Roy, France / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Goethite |
| Locality: | | La Quille du Roy, Montredon-Labessonnié, Le Haut Dadou, Castres, Tarn, Occitanie, France | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.2 × 2.7 × 2.3 cm |
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Druse of Goethite crystals with a prismatic habit, very lustrous, and with finely polycrystalline terminations.
The specimen comes from the Alain Martaud collection. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Jun 18, 2025 17:10 Post subject: Shigaite crystals from N'Chwaning I Mine / MVM (Minerals - Virtual Museum) Collection |
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| Mineral: | Shigaite with Rhodochrosite and Siderite |
| Locality: | | N'Chwaning I Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province, South Africa | |
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| Dimensions: | main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm |
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Very aerial aggregate of laminar Shigaite crystals. They are bright and transparent, with a color between yellow and orange, and have a considerable size for the species. The Shigaite, on matrix, is implated on a botryoidal Rhodochrosite aggregate and it is with crystalline Siderite.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis' number 01/2016, page 80 |
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