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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Dec 11, 2011 21:01 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Michigan also has some less-well-known mineral occurrences in the Upper Peninsula, including pegmatites and gold deposits.
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Moybdenite Crockley pegmatite, Republic, Michigan cabinet |
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Gold in Quartz Michigan Gold Mine, Ishpeming, Michigan small cabinet to miniature |
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Dec 13, 2011 21:44 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Northwestern Ohio (also in the Michigan Basin) has also produced some wonderful
calcite, fluorite, celestine, and sphalerite specimens. Many are quite large.
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Fluorite, Celestine, Sphalerite, Calcite White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ohio |
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Fluorite, Celestine, Sphalerite White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ohio |
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Dec 14, 2011 21:21 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Some of the halite specimens from Michigan can be fascinating and spectacular.
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Halite Detroit Salt Mine, Detroit, Michigan Cabinet |
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Jan 16, 2012 22:50 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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The curator spent a lot of time over Christmas and New Year's break working on the systematic collection. I always love when George works on the systematic collection, as I never know what surprises I'll find in the cases! The exhibits are not yet done with labeling,
graphics and final specimen placement, but I couldn't wait.
Here are a few cases of oxide minerals.
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Brookite Kharan district, Baluchistan, Pakistan cabinet acquired in 2006 |
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Zincite Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey largest crystal 2 cm across (7x4.5x3 cm) Probably one of approximately 4,600 specimens purchased from Ward & Howell in 1889 for a total of $1612.45. See The Picking Table (1995) vo. 36 p. 19, or Matrix (1995) vol. 4 p. 55. |
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Rutile epitaxic on Hematite Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil cabinet acquired in 2004 |
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Hematite Kuruman, South Africa 10-1/2x 7 x 4 inches extremely fine crystal for its (extreme) size. Donated by Marc Weill. |
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Jan 21, 2012 17:20 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Some excellent diopside crystals from the famous DeKalb, New York occurrence.
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Diopside old Calvin Mitchell farm occurrence, DeKalb, New York The crystal lying down at the left is doubly terminated and has epitaxic tremolite. |
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Jan 21, 2012 17:26 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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One of several isles of the systematic minerals gallery. These give a bit of a perspective.
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Jan 24, 2012 23:41 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Elements-
Many of the elements have been put on exhibit now (excluding gold and silver). Here are a few of my favorites.
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Antimony Lake George Antimony mine, New Brunswick, Canada. large cabinet We've shown this before, but I love seeing it on display again. |
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Graphite Franklin, NJ and Merelani, Tanzania cabinet Two of my favorite graphite specimens. Side by side. |
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Spherical Graphite Franklin, New Jersey cabinet This remarkable specimen has spheres of graphite to almost 1 cm across. It is one of the finest such specimens I've seen (and I've looked through the graphite in many of the major museum's in the US and Canada). It is from the E. W. Heinrich collection. |
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Jan 27, 2012 00:07 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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This Antimony breaks my mind! ;-)
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Jan 31, 2012 21:28 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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In the spirit of the Tucson show theme, here are a few Arizona minerals newly on exhibit...
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Linarite Grand Reef Mine, Graham Co., Arizona hand-size |
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Wulfenite Mammoth St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Arizona cabinet |
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Feb 03, 2012 19:37 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Here are a few miscellaneous goodies from the new systematic exhibit.
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Rhodonite Franklin, New Jersey cabinet |
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Kainosite-Y Bicroft Uranium Mine, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada miniature a remarkably large crystal from the collection of Dr. E. W. Heinrich. |
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Anglesite on Galena Touissit, Morocco cabinet |
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Baryte cabinet Meikle Mine, Barrick, Nevada, USA |
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Posted: Feb 11, 2012 11:56 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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More developments in the systematic gallery: Feldspars, Quartz and other silicates.
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Amethyst Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico cabinet |
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yellow-colored quartz Cleora, Colorado, USA (lost locality) cabinet Donated by Donald Gabriel |
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Quartz (variety Herkimer diamonds) Middleville, New York, USA cabinet Donated by the Seaman Mineral Museum Society |
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Feb 12, 2012 21:18 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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A few miscellaneous silicates...
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Zoisite, variety Tanzanite Merelani district, Tanzania miniature |
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Yugawaralite Toi, Shizuoka, Japan miniature |
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Riccardo Modanesi
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Posted: Feb 13, 2012 08:16 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Hi to everybody!
I saw the graphite specimens from Merelani Tanzania. On the specimen shown on the right side I saw some beautiful and interesting green crystals. What mineral is it? Calcite too or...? I don't think it is just calcite and nothing else! But those crystals are very nice!
Greetings from Italy by Riccardo.
_________________ Hi! I'm a collector of minerals since 1973 and a gemmologist. On Summer I always visit mines and quarries all over Europe looking for minerals! Ok, there is time to tell you much much more! Greetings from Italy by Riccardo. |
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John Jaszczak

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Posted: Feb 13, 2012 08:28 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Hi Riccardo,
I'm sorry I forgot to include the details about the Merelani specimen.
The primary mineral of interest is gemmy diopside. You can see a close up of the
diopside crystals on an earlier page of this thread. The white crystals are mesolite with laumontite (verified by Raman and EDS). The pocket that produced these specimens
also contains gem-quality tremolite, pale zoisite, and lovely pale blue apatite; as well as small crystals of pyrite, siderite, chabazite, and gypsum. Surprisingly- no calcite.
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Posted: Mar 01, 2012 23:20 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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The color of the carbonate exhibit is just wonderful. It keeps catching my attention.
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