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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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 Posted: Jun 12, 2013 03:19 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Here are the couple of others!
Greg
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Fluorite on sphalerite with Baryte
Elmwood Mine, Smith County, Tennessee, USA
10.5x10cm
A fluorite cube with 2 transparent corners on sphalerite. Small Baryte cluster at the back. |
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Quartz
Jeffrey Quarry, Arkansas, USA
9x5cm
Complete floater cluster of solution quartz. |
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Mike Wood
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Location: Northern England
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| Posted: Jun 12, 2013 17:21 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Very good so far Greg !
The Weardale fluorite is nice, and comes from about 90 mins drive away from me !
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jun 12, 2013 19:10 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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| Mike Wood wrote: | Very good so far Greg !
The Weardale fluorite is nice, and comes from about 90 mins drive away from me ! |
Thanks Mike,
It was from a collection which I purchased about 4 years ago and luckily almost everything was numbered and well catalogued.
Greg
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Don Lum
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Location: Arkansas
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| Posted: Jun 12, 2013 23:16 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Greg,
I like your Jeffrey Quartz floater. These are sometimes called haystack burrs around here.
Don
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jun 28, 2013 21:52 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Hi Don,
Sorry for the delayed response, we have been on holiday.
I love these quartz clusters. About 10 years ago we went to the West Coast Show and stopped into Arkansas on the way to do some digging. Didn't find much but had a great time and managed to get some nice things with the silver pick! I would love to get back there again, beautiful countryside and great rocks.
Greg
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jul 09, 2013 23:53 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Time for some more photos, I have been trying to find something which I can use as reflectors for my NZ quartz specimens which wont impart a yellow cast when I photograph them. The material is generally very white, any ideas?
Greg
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Quartz
Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand
11x7cm
The outside of this vug is composed of quartz pseudomorphs after calcite, the inside small but bright quartz crystals. |
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Quartz
Maratoto, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand
2x7cm
A complete covering of tiny but very prismatic quartz crystals on a solid quartz matrix. |
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Quartz
Whangapoa Area, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand
7x5cm
Large quartz crystals on a bed of tiny quartz crystals.
Ex George Judge Collection |
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Quartz
Whangapoa Area, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand
7x5cm
Another view of the above specimen. |
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2013 00:06 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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A few from other locations,
Greg
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Calcite
North Vernon, Indiana, USA
5.5x4.5cm
Nicely balanced and great luster. |
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Calcite
Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia
5.2x2.7cm
Clear and lusterous on the top half with very defined striations on the termination faces. |
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Calcite
Hunan Province, China
8.3x6.3cm
Colourless and lusterous calcite crystal cluster. Sorry, no more accurate location. |
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Don Lum
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Location: Arkansas
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2013 15:26 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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| Greg Lilly wrote: | Time for some more photos, I have been trying to find something which I can use as reflectors for my NZ quartz specimens which wont impart a yellow cast when I photograph them. The material is generally very white, any ideas?
Greg |
Greg,
Gail posted a report on Perot Museum Golds which shows world renown photographer Joaquim Callen at work: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=30528#30528 Please see this picture: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/dsc_0769_159.jpg on that report.
I don't know if this will help but may give you some ideas.
Sincerely,
Don
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2013 16:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Greg,
You can also use white copy paper or thin white plastic to reflect your light or to use between your light source and the subject.
Don
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Jordi Fabre
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Greg Lilly
Joined: 05 May 2013
Posts: 78
Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jul 28, 2013 23:46 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Back again,
thanks for the ideas, after some more trial and lots of error and also finding the manual override for exposure and white balance on my camera I am away again.
I will re post a couple of specimens that I have re photographed first,
Greg
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Rhodochrosite with fluorite, pyrite & fluorapatite
Nates Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA
4.5x3.3cm
Re post, you can now see the fluorite! |
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Quartz
Jeffrey Quarry, Jeffrey, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA
9x5cm
Solution Quartz. A better view I hope? |
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31076 Time(s) |
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Calcite
Hunan Province, China
8.3x6.3cm |
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jul 28, 2013 23:59 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Here are a few NZ quartz specimens,
hope you enjoy,
thanks Greg
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Quartz
Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
13.5x7cm
A mound of crystals milky at the base and clear at the points on a bed of smaller crystals. |
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31082 Time(s) |
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Quartz
Level 8, Komata Reefs Mine, Komata, New Zealand
10.5x5.5cm
A burr of quartz crystals, the top crystals lying flat are double terminated. |
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Quartz
Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand
8x7cm
A partial vug lined with tiny quartz crystals, the exterrior of the vug shows pseudomorphic quartz after calcite.
Ex Arline Broad collection. |
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2013 00:10 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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A few more to finish for today,
Greg
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Calcite
Daye County, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei, China
5.7x5.7cm
Striking striations on the termination of this crystal. |
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31069 Time(s) |
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Calcite on Sphalerite with Galena
Dalnegorsk, Russia
8.7x5.5cm |
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Baryte
Quiruvilca Mine, Santiago de Chuco, Peru
7.5x5.5cm
I like this because it is stark white, hard to photograph. |
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Greg Lilly
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Location: Tauranga
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| Posted: Aug 06, 2013 22:34 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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Three more calcites today,
Greg
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Calcite with Stilbite
Lonavala, India
7x5cm
A complete calcite rhomb of a very soft yellow colour 4cm on edge, sprinkled with tiny apophyllite crystals. Stilbite crystals to 4.5cm and bright green apophyllite to 5mm on the back. |
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Calcite
Dalnegorsk, Russia
5.5x4.5cm
The main crystal is 3cm on edge, composed of stacked rhombahedra giving the termination a very rounded apperance. It is a soft pink colour with minor white calcite crystals surrounding it. |
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Calcite
Pachapaqui Dist, Bolognesi Prov, Ancash Dept, Peru
6x5.5cm
Highly flattened rhombahedral crystals to 3x0.4cm of a soft pink colour. Minor quartz in association. |
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Calcite
Pachapaqui Dist, Bolognesi Prov, Ancash Dept, Peru
6x5.5cm
Another view. |
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Pierre Joubert
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Location: Western Cape
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| Posted: Aug 07, 2013 02:02 Post subject: Re: Collection of Greg Lilly |
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This calcite from Peru is absolutely stunning (like a rose). 215.JPG
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