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Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 05.21.2024 | Filed under: Latest
From a recent visit, I’ve posted some of my favourite specimens from the fabulous Mineralogy Museum at L’École des Mines de Paris.
Tags: Adamite, adamite crystal, adamite specimen, Aïn Babouche, Ain Babouche District, Algeria, anatase, anatase crystal, anatase specimen, anatase Swizerland, Arizona, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, azurite, azurite Chessy, azurite crystal, azurite fine mineral, Baia Mare, Baja California Sur, Binn Valley, Binntal, boleite, boleite crystal, boleite specimen, Boleo, Boleo District, Brazil, Cabrières, Castille-La Manche, Central Province, Cerussite, cerussite cyclical twin, cerussite twinned, chabazite, chabazite twinned, chabazite var phacolite, chabazite variety phacolite, Chalcocite, chalcocite crystal, chalcocite specimen, Chañarcillo, Chessy, Chessy copper mines, Chile, chrysoberyl, chrysoberyl crystal, chrysoberyl cyclic twin, chrysoberyl cyclically twinned, chrysoberyl Espirito Santo, chrysoberyl specimen, chrysoberyl twin, Ciudad Real, clinoclase, clinoclase Cornwall, clinoclase crystal, clinoclase specimen, Copper, copper crystal, copper specimen, copper Tsumeb, copper Tsumeb Namibia, Cornwall, Cronstedtite, cronstedtite crystal, cronstedtite specimen, cumengeite, cumengeite crystal, cumengeite epitactic on boleite, cumengeite specimen, Djebel Hammimat Mine, Dunabogdány, Durango, Ed Over wulfenite, Egypt, El Horcajo, England, Espirito Santo, ettringit, ettringite crystal, ettringite specimen, forsterite, forsterite crystal, forsterite specimen, forterite crystal, France, green adamite, Hérault, Herja Mine, Hotazel, Hungary, Kabwe, Kabwe District, Kabwe Mine, L'École des Mines de Paris, La Paz Co., liroconite, liroconite specimen, Lodève, M'Passa Mine, Mapimi, Marmures Co., Mexico, Mindouli District, Mineralogy Museum, Mineralogy Museum at L'École des Mines de Paris, Mulegé Municipality, Musee de mineralogie L'École des Mines de Paris, N'Chwaning Mines, Northern Cape Province, Occitanie, Ojuela Mine, Oum el Bouaghi Province, Paris School of Mines, peridot crystal, peridot specimen, Pest Co., phacolite, Pool Department, Proustite, proustite Chañarcillo, proustite crystal, proustite sainte-marie-aux-mines, proustite specimen, pyromorphite, pyromorphite crystal, pyromorphite specimen, Red Cloud Mine, Red Cloud wulfenite, Red Sea Governorate, Republic of the Congo, Rhône, Romania, rutile, rutile cyclic twin, rutile specimen, rutile Switzerland, rutile twin, rutile twinned, Santa Rosalia, Senarmontite, slphur crystal, South Africa, spain, St. Day, St. John's Island, sturmanite, sturmanite crystal, sturmanite specimen, sulphur crystal Italy, sulphur Italy, sulphur specimen Italy, Switzerland, Szentendre District, tetrahedrire crystal, tetrahedrite, tetrahedrite specimen, twinned chrysoberyl, United Kingdom, United States, Valais, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Wheal Gorland, wulfenite, wulfenite crystal, wulfenite specimen, Zabargad Island, Zambia
Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 03.16.2022 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates
I’ve added excellent new specimens from the John S. White collection. The theme of this update began as quartz with inclusions, but there are specimens exhibiting other phenomena as well – phantoms, zoning, selective deposition.
Tags: Adams Farm, Adrar Tirecht Bou Oudi, Akzhailyou, Alexander Co., amethyst, amethyst crystal, amethyst hematite inclusions, Ametrine, ametrine crystal, ametrine section, ametrine slice, ametrine specimen, Anahi Mine, Angel Sandoval Province, Balochistan, Bolivia, Brazil, brookite in quartz, brookite inclusion in quartz, Canada, Cascalho Claim, Chile, china, Clinochlore inclusions, Confianza Mine, Coquimbo, cristobalite, Cristobalite inclusion, Dalnegorsk, Dhading District, doubly-terminated amethyst, doubly-terminated quartz crystal, elabite, elbaite inclusion, enhydro, Ganesh Himal, Ghanche Distict, Gilgit-Baltistan, hematite, hematite inclusions, Hiddenite, Himalayan quartz, hourglass amethyst, hourglass inclusion in amethyst, India, Joaquin Felicio, Karur District, Kazakhstan, Khaplu, Kharan, Madagascar, Mandritsara, Metabetchouan-Lac-a-La-Croix, Minas Gerais, molybdenite, molybdenite crystals, molybdenite in quartz, molybdenite inclusions, Moroccan amethyst, Morocco, Morogoro, near Conselheiro Pena, Nepal, North Carolina, pakistan, Primorskiy Kray, Province No. 3, pyrite crystal inclusions in quartz, pyrite in quartz, pyrite inclusions in quartz, quartz, quartz bubble inclusion, quartz chlorite inclusions, quartz clinochlore inclusions, quartz crystal, quartz crystal Nepal, quartz enhydro, quartz fine mineral, quartz hematite inclusions, quartz inclusions, quartz moving black inclusions, Quartz phantom, quartz scepter, quartz sceptre, quartz specimen, quartz variety ametrine, quartz with brookite inclusion, quartz with marcasite, quartz with moving bubble, quartz with rutile inclusion, quartz with selective deposition, Quebec, reticulated rutile, Rio Grande do Sul, Russia, rutile, rutile crystal, rutile fine mineral, rutile in quartz, rutile inclusion in quartz, rutile inclusions, rutile specimen, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Santa Cruz, sceptre quartz, smoky quartz, Sofia, Souss-Massa, Tamil Nadu, tanzania, Tata Province, Tilama, Tipling Mine, Tourmaline, tourmaline in quartz, tourmaline inclusions, USA, Yunnan, Zhaotong, zoned quartz crystal, zoned smoky quartz, zoning in quartz crystal
