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Tobi
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Hi Vincent, thank you for posting your pictures! Your minerals are really aesthetic and fine; my personal favourites are the blue fluorite from Denton mine (great one!) and the two aquamarine specimens. Please keep sharing your rocks with us :-)
Cheers!
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2010 03:49 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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Hello Vincent!
Very good photos and nice specimens. Congratulations!
Several localities, however, are missing ('Fluor on dolo.jpg', 'Green elb.jpg', and 'small aqua.jpg'). Could you please provide them?
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2010 05:17 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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In addition, for the FMF to work properly it would be better to group several photos together in one single post as most forum members do. This way we all can prevent the automatic email system that notifies the users from being overloaded.
But don't refrain from posting. Please, keep doing it.
Thanks,
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VRigatti
Joined: 19 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2010 07:53 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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| VRigatti wrote: | | A small perfect aquamarine on Quartz with some Albite |
. This piece is from Shigar, Pakistan
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VRigatti
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2010 07:58 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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| VRigatti wrote: | | I love this fluorite because the crystal is perfect and stands out nicely against the white dolostone |
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Sorry guys I am unsure how to directly edit the post. The Fluorite on Dolostone is from Elmwood mine, Smith County, TN.
The green Elbaite on Quartz is from the Mawi pegmatite, Afghanistan.
Will post multiple photos on next update. Thanks so much for the comments.
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VRigatti
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| Posted: Jun 18, 2010 18:59 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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Here are a few more from my collection:
1) Arkansas Quartz
2) Blue green tourmaline cluster (all crystals doubly terminated)
3) Jewel Box fluorite from Rogerly mine
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| Gem Quartz from Coleman, AK. 16 x 9 x 8 cm , and weighs 300 grams |
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| Blue green tourmaline cluster from Pederneria, Brazil. 6 x 6 x 2 cm and weighs 30 grams |
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| Jewel Box pocket fluorite from Rogerly, UK. Measures 12 x 6 x 5 cm and weighs 200 grams |
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VRigatti
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| Posted: Jun 18, 2010 19:11 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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A few more:
1) Large gem calcite from Elmwood, TN
2) Large Elmwood Fluorite plate on Sphalerite
3) Elmwood Raspberry fluorite on dolostone
4) Cave in Rock, IL color zoned Fluorite
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| Elmwood, TN doubly terminated gem calcite. Measures 12 x 6 x 5 cm and weighs 175 grams |
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| Fluorite on Sphalerite from Elmwood, TN (ex. Revelle collection). Measures 20 x 18 x 6 cm and weighs 1000 grams. |
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| Nice cluster of 2 raspberry Fluorite cubes from Elmwood, TN. Measures 7 x 8 x 4 cm and weighs 150 grams |
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| Cave in Rock, IL yellow Fluorite with light blue outer zone. Measures 9 x 9 x 6 cm and weighs 175 grams |
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VRigatti
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| Posted: Jun 18, 2010 19:27 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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And a few more:
1) Namibia light green Fluorite
2) Las Vigas Amethyst
3) Nuristan Tourmaline ( top 2 inches are all gem)
4) Gem Morganite from Brazil, on Clevelandite. That is Clevelandite on the bottom of the piece and is like looking through pink glass.
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| Huge gem green Fluorite on Quartz from Uis Tin mine in Namibia. Measures 14 x 10 x 10 cm and weighs 350 grams. |
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| Las Vigas, Mexico amethyst plate atop green Epidote. Measures 17 x 10 x 3 cm and weighs 500 grams |
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| A large thick gem tourmaline from Nuristan, Afghanistan. Measures 5 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches, and is contacted on the back. Weighs 250 grams |
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| Bright pink pure gem Morganite from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Measures 7 x 7 x 3 cm and weighs in at 200 grams. |
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Luiz Menezes
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| Posted: Jun 19, 2010 02:53 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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Hi Vincent:
Congratulations for the nice specimens posted; I am sure that your morganite crystal on albite came from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, probably from a big find made in 1973; the inclusions of small dark green tourmaline crystals, that start from a internal plane parallel to the prism face, and also the pyramidal faces on the edge of the prism (on the top right of the photo), alternating with short basal pinacoid faces, resulting in sucessive steps pyramid-pinacoid, are also typical from the morganite crystals found in that pocket.
Luiz
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VRigatti
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| Posted: Jun 19, 2010 07:33 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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| Luiz Menezes wrote: | | I am sure that your morganite crystal on albite came from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, probably from a big find made in 1973... |
Luiz you are 100% correct, this was an ex Gary Hansen piece that he purchased in the 70's. I have a hard time telling if the tourmaline is green or black, but my eyesight is not so good. Thanks for the comment
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jun 23, 2010 05:34 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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| I really like your fluorites. The ones you recently posted (Rogerley Mine, Elmwood Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Uis/Namibia) as well as the ones before. Keep 'em coming!
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VRigatti
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| Posted: Aug 29, 2010 16:16 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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Here are a couple more nice combo pieces from China
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| Here is a nice piece with gemmy Scheelite with clear Fluorite on Muscovite. The piece measures 10 x 9 cm and is from Mt. Xuebaoding Mine, Pingwu, Sichuan Province of China |
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| This piece has a 6 cm multiple stepped purple rimmed fluorite sitting on 2 perfect Quartz crystals. In the valley between are some small dark brown Scheelites. There is also a small chalcopyrite on the back side. This measures 11.3 x 9 x 5 cm and is from Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China |
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Eduardoo
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| Posted: Aug 30, 2010 12:06 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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Very nice pieces! Your tastes regarding minerals match mine exactly. I like very much your minerals.
Regards,
Eduardo.
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VRigatti
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| Posted: Oct 16, 2010 19:49 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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Here are a few pieces I picked up at the Denver show. 2 fluorites from USA and a tourmaline and quartz combo from Paprok.
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| A nice combination of small dark blue/purple fluorites on sparkly dolomite from the Elmwood mine Tennessee. this piece is 6 cm tall and 5 cm wide and length. One photo is backlit. Weighs 70 grams |
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| A Annabel Lee mine fluorite from Hardin County Illinois, that is light blue with a golden yellow core. This piece also has many small chalcopyrites in the light blue rim. Very gemmy piece that measures 7 cm tall, 7 wide and 5 length. Weighs 150 grams |
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| Two pink tourmalines with perfect green terminations on a really nice smokey quartz. This is from Paprok, Afghanistan and is 9 cm tall, and 7 cm in width and length. Weighs 250 grams |
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Carles Millan
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| Posted: Oct 17, 2010 03:36 Post subject: Re: Vincent Rigatti Collection |
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| VRigatti wrote: | | A nice combination of small dark blue/purple fluorites on sparkly dolomite from the Elmwood mine Illinois |
Hi Vincent!
Nice fluorites. But are you sure Elmwood mine is in Illinois?
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