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[ploum]

In this department there is a locality "mas dieu" with beautiful association of azurite, mimetite, Baryte, cerusite, malachite, quartz, cuprite....

I have collected 300 specimens in 3 days (all on website)

Some photo for everybody

Fred

[ploum]

others

[Jordi Fabre]

[Matt_Zukowski]

Is that pyromorphite in gard007 and cerussite in gard020?

[Darren]

Those are fantastic, thanks for sharing!!!! One of the only "foreign" micro collections I have is Cap Garonne, so these are particularly nice to see.

[ploum]

gard007 : Mimétite, pyromorphite have been found but in this zone it's mimétite.

gard020 : Cérusite on malachite. Like a diamond on a ring.

Fred

[Tobi]

Salut, Fred!

Thank you for those pictures, they are really great impressions of the miniature world of minerals! If have some more, don't hesitate to share them with us!

Cheers!

[Antonio Alcaide]

Fantastic! Amazing!

Especially gard006, my fav one.

Cheers

[ploum]

thanks !

Yes it's also the biggest azurite 8 mm for cristallisation.

I return next years ;).

Fred

[bugrock]

Unbelievably prolific collecting and wonderful images.

Could you share your photographic methods?

Also some explanation of the process you use to find, process, and clean these specimens would be most interesting! You must be working day and night. Do you ever sleep?

Thanks again,

George

[bugrock]

Another observation,

Could any of the clear xls be apophyllite rather than Baryte?

Thanks,

George

[ploum]

Hello George,

no apophyllite in this mine ;). Sorry for my english, i go try to explain a little.

My method is limited by power of my computer in fact..... For each photo 30 to 60 minutes is usefull. But only 5-10 minutes for ajustement for photo only. When computer work i make something else.

For one photo i make a compilation of 5 to 80 photo generally it's 20-30 photo with combine Z.

=> I work with very not expensive material Raynox close-up and bridge panasonic (FZ28 actually).
=> I work with a micrometric plateform very simple but very efficiency (see the photo). 12 cm for this capacity.

For win time i fix my bridge with "velcro" on plateform and minerals on plexiglas base with "patafix"

I suppose than my method is the most simple of all microphotgraph than i have meet. All is in a reflexion of what is really usefull for make good photo.

Ligth, time of exposure, opening and human intelligence....

I let a photo of the essential of my system and you can see as is simple !

I can made photo between 20 cm and 2 mm of FOV but quality is really maximal under 4 mm of FOV.
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For prepare specimen i use relatively simple alose ....

A spray for plant (as a small high presure washer)
A ultrasonic system not expensive too

For specimen as anatase acid chlorydrique is interessant....

and also cream for bath could be interessant !

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For search i'm not special as all people in fact. Always with a triplet x10 when i make my market in the nature.