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chris · Posted: Nov 22, 2009 11:51 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

Hi Gail,

Are those jewels for Adularia? ;-). I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who enjoys specimens no matter how much they cost.

Christophe

Gail · Posted: Nov 22, 2009 19:06 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

It isn't about the price, it is about what makes me happy. Or what I can't seem to live without in my collection. Often that means it is something that might be very inexpensive yet highly enjoyable. And no, Adularia is too busy playing with his catnip mouse !

TX Drummer · Joined: 14 Nov 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Rockwall, TX

LOL, I never even traveled that far in my rice rocket! Way to go...

Gail · Posted: Nov 24, 2009 06:45 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

Well Tx. Drummer, that was a long drive with some very pleasant folks at least!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

Gail · Posted: Dec 15, 2009 19:43 Post subject: Re: Numbering specimens

You know, I miss posting on here! I have been so caught up with life, family and bicycling classes that I realized I was going through FMF withdrawal.

Where was my head? You are all so fun, on top of being just downright smart. How could I have wandered off and not been more interactive with all you fine people?

Someone throw a rock at me next time I am quiet for too long, okay? I am smarting from the one John White threw at me today....ha ha! Thanks John, I missed you too.

Cheers everyone!

Gail · Posted: Dec 15, 2009 21:07 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

First of all, TxDrummer is now a friend of ours and, we have enjoyed getting together with he and his wife a few times. Nothing better than another couple that enjoy minerals!

Here is a piece that I have doubted, but some collectors that have visited have said is truly from Terlingua, Texas.
The base reads
Aragonite, Terlingua, Texas

I feel it is a Gypsum from Mexico. Thoughts?

Joe Budd photo.
Oh, by the way, this was a gift and I really like it no matter the details.

Tracy · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 551 Location: Toronto

Looks like gypsum 'ram's horn' to me...it's lovely!

- Tracy

Gail · Posted: Dec 15, 2009 21:49 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

I am with you Tracy, but Jim is waivering....and we have friends who insist this is aragonite. But heck, it looks like every gypsum I have seen in that habit.

Ed Huskinson · Joined: 15 Apr 2009 Posts: 318 Location: Kingman, Arizona

Hi Gail! Long time no see. Nor hear, but hey, we all figured you and Jim were decompressing from your 53 case endeavor. Anyway, welcome back.
Your gypsum (variety "Ram's Horn" if you will) is from the Crystal Cave, lower levels, (like, maybe the 300 level) Mariposa Mine, California Hill, Terlingua Mercury District, Brewster County, Texas. Pedro and I collected there together several times. Oh sorry, I meant to say Dr Peter Megaw. It's a little bit of work to get down to the level, but the rewards are gratifying. He'll probably weigh in a little later to bolster this response.

You and Jim (and all the other MAD dogs) have a safe and Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. That goes for all of the other FMF'ers as well.

Hasta la later,

Ed in Kingman

Gail · Posted: Dec 16, 2009 00:55 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

Howdy there Ed. Thanks for that info, good to know!
The MADsters had their get together for December just the other night and It was my last meeting as the Coordinator, I step down the last of 2009 and Jeff Starr will be taking it over. We are adding a number of new folks to the group and bolstering the numbers as the community in Dallas grows. Even TxDrummer is up for a vote in January, so beware as there may be more than a few of MAD's finest, or worse, on FMF!
Merry Christmas to you, I gotta tell you...love your sense of fun!
Ho! Ho! Ho!
PS..Jim says hi too.

Jordi Fabre · Posted: Dec 16, 2009 03:46 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

Hi Gail,

I moved your post -> https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=8559#8559 from "numbering specimens" to this thread of your collection, in order to leave more room to number specimens...;-)

Welcome back!

jimB · Joined: 07 Sep 2009 Posts: 51 Location: Tucson, Arizona

Apatite on Arsenopyrite, Panasqueira, Portugal
https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=2514#2514 / https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/apatite_portugalsm_167.jpg

I love this piece of fine blue multi crystals on matrix. Superfine!

Gail · Posted: Dec 17, 2009 22:06 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

Thanks Jim B! I wasn't sure, until you added the source, of what you were speaking of.
A collector came by this week and stopped and really spoke highly of it, I love when that happens..it makes you step back and see your minerals like they are new again.

Speaking of new, my latest love....this incredible calcite.

7cm x3.5cm X4cm high. Prismatic crystals to 2.5 cm with cloudy bases and transparent teriminations sprayed over hematite matrix. From Pallaflat Mine, Egremont, Cumbria
Ex the 1920's Sibson collection- known as the "fan" calcite.
Ex Lindsay Greenbank collection.

Gail · Posted: Dec 17, 2009 23:24 Post subject: Re: Gail's collection

Pyromorphite Plumbogummite
6cm x 5cm x 4 cm
clusters of bright green lustrous crystals of pyromorphite over sky blue plumbogummite coated quartz matrix.
Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland ( now Cumbria ) circa 1850.
Ex Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University

Tomasz Praszkier · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 93 Location: Warszawa

Gail,
The specimen https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/aragonite_terlingua_texas_1638_402.jpg in https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=8561#8561 is definitively gypsum - it can be from Bou Bekker - Toussit area, Morocco. Number of specimens from this locality reached marked even recently. Local mineral collectors dig there in old quarries and mines - all official mining is finished. Sometime this kind of gypsum comes on matrix, but also very often they are repaired - you have to be very careful buying them.

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