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Russia Update – April 2016
Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 04.23.2016 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve posted a small group of excellent specimens in the new Russia Update (click here).  These include beautiful high-quality crystals of axinite-(Fe) from two localites, intense blue azurite balls and sharp copper crystals from the Rubstovskoe Mine, great calcite crystals from the Dal’negorsk district and more.

Axinite-(Fe), Puiva Mount, Saranpaul, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Ural Mountains, RussiaAxinite-(Fe), Puiva Mount, Saranpaul, Tyumenskaya Oblast’, Ural Mountains, Russia – 5.8 cm

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia – 4.8 cm

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Azurite, Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rudnyi Altai, Altiskii Krai, Russia

Azurite, Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rudnyi Altai, Altiskii Krai, Russia – 3.7 cm

Azurite, Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rudnyi Altai, Altiskii Krai, Russia

Azurite, Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rudnyi Altai, Altiskii Krai, Russia – 3.5 cm

101295(2)(fov 3.0)

Copper, Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rudnyi Altai, Altiskii Krai, Russia
Field of view – 3.0 cm

Calcite, Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Calcite, Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia – 6.5 cm

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Field of view – 3.0 cm

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia – 1.3 cm twinned crystal

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia – 4.5 cm

Datolite, Bor Pit, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Datolite, Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Field of view 1.5 cm

101290(1)

Quartz, Anatase, Brookite
Dodo Mine, Saranpaul, Tyumenskaya Oblast’, Ural Mountains, Russia
10.4 cm


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