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Mike Wood
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Well done Michael!
You must have quite a large collection, if as you say, "hopefully there will be many more to come"!
Many thanks for sharing these lovely specimens with us; and best wishes to yourself and Laura.
Mike :-)
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2014 13:55 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael,
Congratulations. You have a very broad and aesthetic collection!
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2014 17:20 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you very much Pierre, Mike, and Bob. I have found that these collection threads are such a nice way to connect with other people who share the same passion for minerals and that I might never get a chance to meet in person.
Mike, my collection contains a little over 2,100 catalogued specimens. I suppose that may seem large to some people, but I regularly talk to collectors that have 5,000 or even 10,000 specimens. I never really think too much about numbers, but try to focus on building as comprehensive a collection as my budget allows. You can interpret my comment on "hopefully there will be many more to come" in a couple of ways. Yes, I have quite a few more pieces that I have not shown; then again, some are just not very photogenic. My thought was more along the lines of - I hope to continue building this collection for many years to come :>)
Thanks again for your comments.
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 07:59 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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More Aussie minerals.
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Quartz var. smoky
Mooralla, Victoria, Australia
3.5 x 4.0 cm
A cluster of transparent, smoky quartz crystals on a small piece of matrix. |
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Stellerite
Tambar Springs, New South Wales, Australia
4.0 x 6.6 cm
Lustrous salmon-colored stellerite blades to 5.5 cm. |
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Chabazite var. phacolite
Flinders, Victoria, Australia
6.5 x 9.0 cm
Glassy chabazite var. phacolite crystals to 0.5 cm covering matrix. The unusual morphology of the crystals is due to multiple twinning of the rhombohedrons. |
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Mike Wood
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 12:08 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Nice smokies Michael, and lovely fresh stellerite too. Well done for the photo of the phacolite specimen - not an easy mineral to deal with!
Regards, Mike : )
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 13:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Mike Wood wrote: | Nice smokies Michael, and lovely fresh stellerite too. Well done for the photo of the phacolite specimen - not an easy mineral to deal with!
Regards, Mike : ) |
Thanks, Mike.
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 15:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Nice stellerite.
Roger.
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Martin Rich
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2014 20:14 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael, I want also send you my congratulations!
I enjoy your photographs of specimens around the world.
Martin
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 29, 2014 14:15 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Thank you Roger and Martin. Glad you are enjoying them.
Continuing with minerals from Australia - today a trio of gypsum.
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Gypsum
Woolcunda Station, New South Wales, Australia
7.5 x 9.0 cm
An intergrown group of reddish-brown lenticular gypsum crystals. |
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Gypsum
Lake Gilles, Corunna Station, South Australia, Australia
Left 2.3 x 3.3 cm, Right 2.1 x 4.3
A couple of colorless twinned gypsum crystals. |
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Gypsum
Myall Creek, Whyalla, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
7.0 x 10.0 cm
Sparkling colorless gypsum crystals completely covering an undulating matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 30, 2014 16:40 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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More from 'Down Under' featuring Broken Hill.
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Rhodonite
Broken Hill mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
6.0 x 8.5 cm
Dark red cleavages of rhodonite associated with silvery metallic galena. |
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Chlorargyrite
Broken Hill mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
4.5 x 5.0 cm
Rich crystalline gray chlorargyrite covering the top of a brown gossan matrix. |
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Copper
Broken Hill mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
5.5 x 6.0 cm
Native copper with twinned crystals arranged in a feather pattern. Ex. Washington A. Roebling Collection. |
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Copper
Broken Hill mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
5.5 x 6.0 cm
Smithsonian label for copper. |
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Apr 30, 2014 16:50 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Michael,
I really like your Rhodonite and Copper specimens.
Nice !!!
Don
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: Apr 30, 2014 17:02 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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| Don Lum wrote: | Michael,
I really like your Rhodonite and Copper specimens.
Nice !!!
Don |
Thanks Don. The copper is one of my personal favorites.
Regards,
Michael
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 03, 2014 10:39 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Continuing with minerals from Australia.
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Azurite
Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga, Gardiner Range, Northern Territory, Australia
6.2 x 6.2 cm
Bright blue disks of azurite, known as “azurite suns” embedded in white kaoilinitic siltstone. |
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Scholzite
Reaphook Hill, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
5.9 x 9.7 cm.
Delicate acicular crystals of scholzite to 1.0 cm. covering a gossan matrix. |
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Atacamite
Mt. Gunson Mine, Andamooka Ranges,South Australia, Australia
9.2 x 11.5 cm.
Dark green atacamite crystals covering all sides of matrix. |
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Michael Shaw
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| Posted: May 06, 2014 15:40 Post subject: Re: Collection of Michael Shaw |
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Except for a few specimens of Queensland agate, that about does it for Australian minerals in our collection. If I can find time to photograph a few thumbnails, there may be a few more pieces worth showing.
Michael
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Crocoite
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
4.6 x 7.7 cm
Reddish-orange aggregate of prismatic crocoite crystals with hollow
terminations and partially covered with gray-white gibbsite. |
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Pyromorphite
Browns Open Pit, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia
4.5 x 6.5 cm
Lustrous olive-green hexagonal barrel-shaped crystals to 2 mm coating a bright green malachite matrix. Recovered from the "Emerald Pocket" in 2010. |
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Azurite
Malbunka Cu Mine, Western Aranda country, Areyonga, Northern Territory, Australia
6.3 x 8.0 cm
Ovate leaf-shaped azurite sun with shallow concentric ridges on a matrix of pale gray kaolinite. |
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Roger Warin
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