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Jordi Fabre
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 Posted: Dec 20, 2009 13:08 Post subject: Ojuela Mine |
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| KDF-TX wrote: | | I was thinking maybe an Ojuela Mine thread... |
Here you have it! ;-)
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Legrandite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.7 × 1.4 cm. Crystal size: 2 × 0.9 cm.
Photo: Reference Specimens -> http://www.fabreminerals.com/specimens/SHQ-reference-fine-minerals.php#TJ14D3 |
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Dec 20, 2009 14:19 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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Wulfenite, mimetite
Pseudocubic and tetragonal crystals with some mimetite on limonite from a pocket found in September 2008. Overall size: 58 mm x 45 mm. Largest crystal: 13 mm long. San Juan Poniente, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico.
https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=4618#4618
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Montanpark
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| Posted: Dec 20, 2009 14:29 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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Hi all,
Carles was a bit faster but another wulfenite with mimetite from the recent find, ca. 5 cm width of specimen.
cheers
Roger
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Dec 20, 2009 14:32 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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| Montanpark wrote: | | Carles was a bit faster but another wulfenite with mimetite from the recent find |
And it's very nice! I like it. And an excellent photo too.
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parfaitelumiere
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Location: Auvergne
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| Posted: Dec 20, 2009 14:38 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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What a legrandite Jordi,
Just a yellowish adamite for me,higly fluorescent.
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KDF-TX
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| Posted: Dec 20, 2009 18:07 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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This one's been halfway around the world. I traded for it from a gentleman in Germany.
Rosasite-Hemimorphite
approx 2 x 2 cm
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Montanpark
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| Posted: Dec 21, 2009 04:48 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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Hi again,
great specimens! The adamite is a real beauty. For today i first add a specimen that was one of my first i had in my collection when i was around 15 years old... end of the 1970s ;-)
Adamite on limonite matrix, width of picture approx 4 cm.
more to come...
cheers
Roger
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Jean Sendero
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Location: Hudson Heights, Quebec
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| Posted: Dec 21, 2009 08:33 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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Hi KDF,
I believe your specimen is more likely to be rosasite with calcite instead of hemimorphite
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KDF-TX
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Dec 21, 2009 09:21 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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Hi Jean, I did question that too when I pulled up the pictures yesterday. The label says "Rosasit, Hemimorphit". Anybody else?
Here's one of my favorites.
Mimetite-Wulfenite
approx 2.5 x 3 cm
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Peter Megaw
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| Posted: Dec 21, 2009 14:02 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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That adamite is incredible...I WANT IT (see what I mean about focused covetessness!).
Here's a bunch more on Ojuela...minerals, sections, old pictures and articles.
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| Composite cross section across the Ojuela Chimney orebodies...modified from Villarello, 1906, International Geologic Congress, Paris. This from the Mineralogical Record issue on Ojuela...they used my original copy of Villarello to make this, so i feel entitled to pass it on |
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| Aragonite group. Fairly unusual to see specimens of this, although it is probably common in parts of the mine. 12 cm across |
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| Older austinite find...most sold as smithsonite. Piece is 10 cm across |
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| Austinite crystals...2008 find. 5 mm long |
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| complete vug of adamite..var cuprian. 25 cm across 2008 find |
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| View looking across Ojuela Bridge to west |
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| 1906 shot looking down at west landing of bridge |
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| pre-1912 shot of Mapimi smelter in full operation |
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| Here are 3 pages from Southworths, 1905 "Official Mining Directory of Mexico" It was published in Spanish and English, with each language on facing pages. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Dec 21, 2009 14:02 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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| Les Presmyk wrote: | | Now that you have had time to realize the adamite on calcite is 2 cm across.... |
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nurbo
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Location: Lancashire
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| Posted: Dec 22, 2009 14:43 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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Hello,
Great thread, Im very much looking forward to watching this one unfold.
Thought Id chip in with a photgraph I took today. Two sprays of Adamite's one immediately behind the other looking very much like a reflection.
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| Adamite on Limonite, Adamite sprays approx 8 mm across |
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| and from a slightly different angle |
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Montanpark
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Dec 22, 2009 17:59 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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| An excellent photo and a superb specimen!
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Montanpark
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| Posted: Dec 22, 2009 18:17 Post subject: Re: Ojuela Mine |
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Carles,
thanks! I like your database of course and i am busy to move the old records to the new and add some 200 specs continuously ;-). Last Ojuela for this year:
Width of picture approx 3 cm. Another one of the recent Wulfenite/Mimetite combos.
cheers
Roger
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