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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
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Gold in Quartz
Michigan Gold Mine, Ishpeming, Michigan
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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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Detroit Salt Mine, Detroit, Michigan
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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
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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
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Hematite
Kuruman, South Africa
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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
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Two of my favorite graphite specimens. Side by side. |
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Spherical Graphite
Franklin, New Jersey
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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
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Wulfenite
Mammoth St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Arizona
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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
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Kainosite-Y
Bicroft Uranium Mine, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada
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a remarkably large crystal
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Anglesite on Galena
Touissit, Morocco
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Baryte
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Meikle Mine, Barrick, Nevada, USA |
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John Jaszczak
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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
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Rose Quartz
Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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yellow-colored quartz
Cleora, Colorado, USA (lost locality)
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Quartz (variety Herkimer diamonds)
Middleville, New York, USA
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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
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Yugawaralite
Toi, Shizuoka, Japan
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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.
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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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John Jaszczak
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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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Rhodochrosite
N'Chwaning Mine, South Africa
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John Jaszczak
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| Posted: Mar 01, 2012 23:25 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Systematic Specimen Sampling
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Bastnasite-(Ce)
north of Khyber Pass, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
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Beryl (var. Aquamarine)
Medina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Shattuckite
Kaokoveld Mine, Namibia
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John Jaszczak
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| Posted: Mar 03, 2012 09:53 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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This remarkable Wulfenite will be in one of the Mineral Forming Environment exhibits.
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Wulfenite
San Francisco Mine, Sonora, Mexico
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John S. White
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| Posted: Mar 03, 2012 10:08 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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John: The quality of the collection at Michigan Tech continues to overwhelm. I am in awe of this collection as well as the beautiful facility that has been created in which to show it off. Please keep the great images coming.
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John Jaszczak
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| Posted: Mar 03, 2012 13:42 Post subject: Re: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, Michigan |
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Thank you John. George and Susan are doing an amazing job now of setting up the Mineral Forming Environments gallery. It is going to be really interesting! Here is some of the prep work.
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| One of four isles of displays to feature mineral forming environments. |
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| An exhibit of preparation on skarn minerals. |
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