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nurbo
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Posted: Feb 09, 2013 07:59 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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I also just got this terrific Millerite from Coldberry Gutter with a huge white arrow glued to it, Its going to have to go!
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Millerite in Septarian Nodule Coldberry Gutter, Middleton in Teesdale, Co Durham, England, UK. 50 x 35 mm |
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Millerite in Septarian Nodule Coldberry Gutter, Middleton in Teesdale, Co Durham, England, UK. vug containing Millerite is 7 mm on its longest dimension |
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Don Lum

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Posted: Feb 09, 2013 18:57 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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I like your taste in minerals. I think you are fortunate to have the wulfenite on Mottramite.
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nurbo
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Posted: Feb 13, 2013 23:42 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who has visited my collection thread over the past 4 years, helping it to join Carles and Gail's threads in passing 100 000 views It is satisfying to know that the huge amount of time and effort I've put into it is not going totally unnoticed.
A new piece from the Hilton Mine ... Im going to clean and trim this piece up and when I've done Ill post the pictures, All the potential display faces are coated in a "Skin" of Fe oxides, a day in Super Iron Out will soon resolve that though, underneath it will be the yellow we all have come to expect from the Hilton Mine, it has some tiny Galena's on there too.
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Fluorite and Galena. Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England, UK. 95 x 60 mm |
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Fluorite and Galena. Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England, UK. 95 x 50 mm |
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Fluorite and Galena. Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England, UK. Fluorite to 8 mm |
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Fluorite and Galena. Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England, UK. Fluorite to 6 mm |
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nurbo
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Posted: Feb 17, 2013 16:04 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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Here is an octahedral fluorite from Berta that I got
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Fluorite. Berta Quarry, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Spain. 25 x 20 mm |
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Fluorite. Berta Quarry, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Spain. Fluorite to 4 mm approx |
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Fluorite. Berta Quarry, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Spain. FOV 10 x 10 mm approx |
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Carles Millan
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Posted: Feb 18, 2013 14:49 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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Hi, Nurbo !
My sincere congratulations for your reaching 100,000 views and winning the yellow star. You've worked hard and deserve it. Others will follow you in the not distant future.
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 18, 2013 15:27 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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Congratulations Nurbo!!
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nurbo
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Posted: Feb 20, 2013 12:15 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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Thanks Carles, Jordi,
Here we have a Cerussite from Force Crag in Coledale,Im a big fan of these, they;re, very delicate and the matrix falls apart very easily, There is some debate as to what colours them blue,
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Cerussite. Force Crag mine, Coledale, Braithwaite, Cumbria, England, UK 45 x 15 mm. |
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Cerussite. Force Crag mine, Coledale, Braithwaite, Cumbria, England, UK Cerussite to 4 mm |
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Cerussite. Force Crag mine, Coledale, Braithwaite, Cumbria, England, UK FOV 25 x 20 mm approx |
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Cerussite. Force Crag mine, Coledale, Braithwaite, Cumbria, England, UK FOV 20 x 10 mm approx |
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nurbo
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Posted: Feb 21, 2013 15:36 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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So I just got this little polished Agate pebble, it was in the James R Gregory collection and dates between 1866 and 1874,
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Agate, Perthshire, Scotland, UK. 40 x 30 mm |
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Agate, Perthshire, Scotland, UK. 40 x 20 mm |
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nurbo
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 10:02 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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Here's a rare find, interpenetrant interpenetrant twin's, It's, from Bayles Hush in Teesdale, the Fluorite is a very light mauve colour and highly fluorescent.
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Fluorite on Quartz. Bayles Hush, Newbiggin,Teesdale, Co Durham, England, UK. 55 x 30 mm |
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Fluorite on Quartz. Bayles Hush, Newbiggin,Teesdale, Co Durham, England, UK. Fluorite max dimension 9 mm |
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nurbo
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Posted: Feb 27, 2013 17:43 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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I said this already and now I find I have to say it again ... I dont collect Chinese minerals but every now and again something comes along that I cant resist. This Spessartine sample is one such piece.
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Spessartine Garnet Wushon Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co, Fujian Province, China. 4 x 4 cm |
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Spessartine Garnet Wushon Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co, Fujian Province, China. Spessartine to 2 mm |
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nurbo
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Posted: Mar 03, 2013 05:47 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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I've been lucky enough to get my hands on some really good Fluorite's recently, this one is from Dawsons Vein,
I also got this one, from Gutterby Pit, it's not pristine but it's one of the best I've seen from there.
Finally today Graphite from the Lake District, in the early 1800's this stuff was selling for over £4000 a ton, (1 imperial ton = 0.907 metric tonnes) the mines had armed guards 24 hours a day and the miner's were cavity searched when they left work.I used an online calculator which said that £4000 in 1800 would equate to £1/4 million today.
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Fluorite. Dawsons Vein, Middlehope, Weardale, Co Durham, England, UK. 35 x 20 mm |
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Fluorite. Dawsons Vein, Middlehope, Weardale, Co Durham, England, UK. Fluorite to 6 mm |
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Fluorite. Gutterby pit, Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England, UK. 17 x 11 mm |
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Graphite. Seathwaite Graphite Mine, Borrowdale, Cumbria, England, UK. 34 x 30 mm |
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nurbo
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Posted: Mar 05, 2013 02:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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Today Ive got my most expensive thumbnail purchase, ever,.and it came glued to styrofoam, thankfully I managed to work it free and put it in a box with white tack.
Here is an unusual piece, so far I've had it in super iron out and given it several goes in an ultrasonic cleaner but there is still a fair bit of dirt on it, one day I'll clean it up a bit more. The Baryte has tiny Smithsonite blobs on it and sits on a matrix of Calcite. Shame its got a tiny ding on it.
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Wulfenite Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. 20 x 10 mm |
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Wulfenite Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Wulfenite to 7 mm |
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Wulfenite Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Wulfenite to 7 mm |
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Wulfenite Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Wulfenite to 7 mm |
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Baryte and Smithsonite. Wet Grooves Mine, Askrigg, North Yorkshire, England, UK. 30 x 20 mm |
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Baryte and Smithsonite. Wet Grooves Mine, Askrigg, North Yorkshire, England, UK. Baryte twin 6 mm across |
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Baryte and Smithsonite. Wet Grooves Mine, Askrigg, North Yorkshire, England, UK. Baryte twin 6 mm across |
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Baryte and Smithsonite. Wet Grooves Mine, Askrigg, North Yorkshire, England, UK. Baryte twin 6 mm across |
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nurbo
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Posted: Mar 08, 2013 02:36 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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Here are a couple of pieces, the first is unusual, this was the first time I'd seen Crinoids brecciated with Fluorite! I collected this piece from a small working near Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria, I only found a couple of pieces, there are other veins of Crinoid stems in the area but those are Brecciated by Calcite.
I am a huge fan of Sphalerite, this piece is from Brownley Hill.
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Crinoids in Fluorite, Near Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England, UK. 75 x 75 mm |
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Crinoids in Fluorite, Near Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England, UK. FOV 40 x 20 mm approx |
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Sphalerite. Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England, UK. 110 x 80 mm |
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Sphalerite. Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England, UK. FOV 50 x 30 mm approx |
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nurbo
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Posted: Mar 12, 2013 05:55 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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For today Ive done three more UK pieces, first up is Dolomite that has brecciated some broken Kidney Ore leaving behind the cast of the Botryoidal structure, it has some great flattened red Quartz crystals that grew between the layers.
Next we have a Pyromorphite from Force Crag in Coledale, I especially like the banded crystal in the top left of the second photo.
Finally today one of those weird Mexico Opencut Pyro's that look like shiny fungus.
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Dolomite and Kidney Ore Haematite. Frizington Parks mine, Frizington Cumbria, England, UK. 70 x 70 mm |
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Dolomite and Kidney Ore Haematite. Frizington Parks mine, Frizington Cumbria, England, UK. 70 x 70 mm |
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Dolomite and Kidney Ore Haematite. Frizington Parks mine, Frizington Cumbria, England, UK. FOV 30 x 25 approx |
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Dolomite and Kidney Ore Haematite. Frizington Parks mine, Frizington Cumbria, England, UK. FOV 35 x 30 mm approx |
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Dolomite and Kidney Ore Haematite. Frizington Parks mine, Frizington Cumbria, England, UK. 70 x 30 mm approx |
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Dolomite and Kidney Ore Haematite. Frizington Parks mine, Frizington Cumbria, England, UK. FOV 15 x 10 mm approx |
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Pyromorphite. Force Crag Mine, Coledale, Cumbria, England, UK. 30 x 20 mm |
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Pyromorphite. Force Crag Mine, Coledale, Cumbria, England, UK. Pyromorphite to 4 mm |
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Pyromorphite. Mexico Opencut, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, UK. 30 x 18 mm |
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Pyromorphite. Mexico Opencut, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, UK. FOV 20 x 15 mm approx |
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Pyromorphite. Mexico Opencut, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, UK. FOV 20 x 20 mm approx |
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nurbo
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Posted: Mar 21, 2013 13:27 Post subject: Re: Collection of Nurbo |
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I got this Tsumeb Azurite ridiculously cheaply, it has some green stuff on it which Id normally assume to be Malachite but I guess with Tsumeb it could be any one of a number of other things.
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Azurite. Tsumeb, Namibia, SW Africa 70 x 40 mm |
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Azurite. Tsumeb, Namibia, SW Africa FOV 30 x 25 mm approx |
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Azurite. Tsumeb, Namibia, SW Africa FOV 50 x 30 mm |
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Azurite + ? Tsumeb, Namibia, SW Africa FOV 30 x 20 mm approx |
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