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Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 07.12.2024 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates
I’ve posted excellent new specimens in this Europe Update with many classics, including superb Alpine smoky quartz, pyromorphite from several localities, fluorite, hematite, specimens from the German silver mines and more.
Tags: Aachen, Alberoda, Alicante, Allerdale, Ambas Aguas, Ambasaguas 1 Mine, Andalusia, Antequera, Aosta Valley, Argentière Glacier, Arnsberg, arsenic, arsenic specimen, Asturias, Attica, Aue-Bad Schlema, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, azurite, azurite crystal, azurite fine mineral, azurite specimen, Bad Ems, Bad Ems-Nassau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Beihilfe Mine, Berbes District, Bigrigg, Branes Quarry, Braunlage, Bulgaria, calcite, calcite crystal, calcite fine mineral, calcite specimen, Caldbeck, Camino Cabezo Agudo, campylite, Castres, Cavardiras Valley, Cerro Canaleja, Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Clara Mine, Cologne, Copeland, Córdoba, Cornish olivenite, Cornwall, Corrèze, Courmayeur, Covera De Asturias, Cumbria, Disentis, Djurkovo Mine, Driggith Open Cut, Dry Gill Mine, East Attica, Egremont, El Ponton de Solis, Elba, England, English mimetite, Erzegebirgskreis, Eschweiler, Felsenmeer, ferruginous quartz, Florence Mine, fluorite, fluorite Clara Mine, fluorite crystal, fluorite fine mineral, fluorite Germany, fluorite specimen, fluorite twin, France, Freiburg, Galena, galena crystal, galena fine mineral, galena Germany, galena specimen, German galena, Germany, Ghiac, Goslar District, Greece, green pyromprphite, Grisons, gwindel, Gwindel Chamonix, Gwindel fine mineral, gwindel France, Gwindel smoky quartz, Gwindel specimen, Halsbrücke, Hastenrath, hematite fine mineral, hematite specimen, Hemer-Sundwig, Italy, Konski Dol Mine, la rioja, Laki, Lavreotiki, Lavrion Mining District, Les Farges Mine, Los Vives, Lower Saxony, Madan District, Madan Ore Field, magnesioriebeckite, magnesioriebeckite inclusion, Málaga, Marciana, Meyer Quarry, mimetite, mimetite crystal, mimetite fine mineral, mimetite specimen, mimetite variety campylite, Mittlesachsen, Moscona Mine, Muro de Aguas, native arsenic, native arsenic specimen, native silver, negative crystal inclusions, North Rhine - Westphalia, Nouvelle-Aqiuitane, Oberwolfach, Occitanie, Olivenite, olivenite crystal, olivenite specimen, Orihuela, Oviedo, Piz Cavardiras, Plovidiv, Procchio, pseudomorph after silver, purple fluorite, pyrargyrite, pyrargyrite crystal, pyrargyrite fine mineral, pyrargyrite specimen, pyrite, pyrite crystal, pyrite cube, pyrite fine mineral, pyrite specimen, pyromorphite, pyromorphite crystal, pyromorphite fine mineral, pyromorphite specimen, quartz, quartz crystal, quartz epimorph, Quartz epimorph after Calcite, quartz fine mineral, quartz inclusions, quartz negative crystal inclusions, quartz pseudomorph, quartz pseudomorph after calcite, quartz specimen, Resuperferolitica Mine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhodope Mountains, Riebeckite, Riebeckite Inclusions, Russein Valley, safflorite, safflorite pseudomorph, safflorite pseudomorph after silver, safflorite specimen, Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Santa Eufemia, Sauerland, Saxony, scorodite, scorodite crystal, scorodite fine mineral, scorodite specimen, Shaft 366, Silver, silver pseudomorph specimen, smoky quartz, smoky quartz crystal, smoky quartz fine mineral, smoky quartz specimen, Smolyan Oblast, spain, Spanish fluorite, spanish pyrite, St. Andreasberg, Sursleva, Swiss gwindel quartz, Swiss Quartz, Swiss smoky quartz, Switzerland, Tarn, Tracy Kimmel Collection, Triolet Glacier, Tuscany, twinned fluorite, UK mimetite, Ussel, Val Ferret, var. Smoky Quartz
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 12.13.2022 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates
I’ve posted excellent specimens from the John S. White Pennsylvania collection. These include some of the best Smoky Mountain smoky quartz specimens known, along with great specimens of classic Pennsylvania minerals and rarities – pyromorphite, celestine, andradite, magnetite, rutile, calcite, stellerite, ruizite, and more.
Tags: adularia, adularia crystal, adularia specimen, adularia twin, Almandine, almandine crystal, almandine fine mineral, almandine garnet, almandine specimen, amphibole var byssolite, analcime, analcime crystal, analcime fine mineral, analcime specimen, andradite, andradite crystal, andradite fine mineral, Andradite Garnet, andradite specimen, azurite, azurite crystal, azurite fine mineral, azurite specimen, Berks Co., Binkley-Ober Quarry, Birdsboro, Blair Co., Bowmansville, Brecknock Twp., byssolite, calcite crystal, calcite fine mineral, calcite specimen, calcite twin, celestine, celestine crystal, celestine fine mineral, celestine specimen, celestine type locality, celestite specimen, celestite type locality, chaclcopyrite crystal, chalcopyrite, chalcopyrite specimen, Chester Co., Cornog, Cornwall, Cornwall garnet, Cornwall Iron Mine, Delaware Co., dolomite, dolomite crystal, dolomite saddle, dolomite specimen, Dyer Quarry, East Petersburg, Elk Co., first exit south of York, fluorapatite, fluorapatite crystal, fluorapatite specimen, French Creek Mines, Fruitville, Fruitville Pike, garnet crystal, garnet fine mineral, garnet specimen, Goethite after Pyrite, goethite after pyrite dodecahedral, Goethite after pyrite pyritohedron, Goethite crystal, goethite pseudomorph after pyrite, goethite specimen, Grace Mine, Horton Twp., Hydroxyapophyllite, hydroxyapophyllite crystal, hydroxyapophyllite fine mineral, hydroxyapophyllite specimen, Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Interstate 83 Rd. Cut, Jackson Twp., Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Lancaster Co., Lebanon Co., Lime Ridge, Llewellyn, Luzerne Co., magnetite, magnetite crystal, magnetite fine mineral, magnetite specimen, Mandata, Manheim Tep., Manheim Twp., Meckley's Quarry, Morgantown, Mount Pleasant Mills, National Limestone Quarry No. 2, Newcastle Twp., Northumberland Co., Old Penfield Rd. (formerly Mt. Church Rd.), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania almandine, Pennsylvania azurite, Pennsylvania calcite, Pennsylvania chalcopyrite, Pennsylvania dolomite, Pennsylvania fluorapatite, Pennsylvania garnet, Pennsylvania magnetite, Pennsylvania pyrite crystal, Pennsylvania quartz, Pennsylvania quartz crystal, Pennsylvania quartz crystals, Pennsylvania rutile, Pennsylvania wavellite, Pennsylvania wurtzite, Perry Twp., Phoenixville District, prehnite, prehnite crystal, prehnite specimen, pseudomorph, pyrite, pyrite crystal, pyrite specimen, pyromorphite, pyromorphite crystal, pyromorphite fine mineral, pyromorphite specimen, Quarryville, quartz, quartz crystal, quartz fine mineral, quartz specimen, Reading Anthracite Co., ruizite, ruizite crystal, ruizite specimen, rutile, rutile crystal, rutile specimen, rutile twin, Schuylkill Co., Schuylkill Twp., Silver Hill Quarry, Smoky Mountain Crystal Mine, Smoky Mountain Crystal prospect, smoky quartz, smoky quartz crystal, smoky quartz fine mineral, smoky quartz scepter, smoky quartz sceptre, smoky quartz specimen, Snyder Co., St. Clair, St. Peters, Stellerite, stellerite crystal, stellerite fine mineral, stellerite specimen, Thomasville, Thomasville Crushed Stone Quarry, twinned adularia, twinned calcite, twinned rutile, Tyrone, USA, Wallace Twp., Warwick Twp., wavellite, wavellite crystal, wavellite specimen, Wheatley Mine, White Haven, Wurtzite, wurtzite crystal, wurtzite specimen, York, York Building Supply Quarry, York Co.
