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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 07.15.2021 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates
I’ve added more gorgeous specimens in this latest update from the John S. White quartz collection.
Tags: albite, amethyst, amethyst crystal, amethyst fine mineral, amethyst on calcite, amethyst skunk, amethyst skunk on calcite, amethyst specimen, Arkansas, Artigas, Balochistan, Bor Pit, Brazil, calcite, china, Collier Creek Mine, Colorado, Dalnegorsk, Er Rachidia Province, faden, faden quartz, ferruginous quartz, Galileia, Gilgit-Baltistan, Gold Lakes, Greece, Guangdong, hematite and quartz, hematite crystal, hematite fine mineral, hematite in quartz, hematite specimen, India, interference quartz, interrupted growth quartz, interrupted quartz, Itamirandiba, John S. White personal collection, John White personal mineral collection, John White quartz collection, Kharan District, Lechang Co., Lechang Mine, Little Giant Basin, Maharashtra, Mega Horio, Milos, Minas Gerais, Montgomery Co., Morocco, Mt. Ida, muscovite, Nashik, pakistan, Prase, Primorskiy Kray, quartz, Quartz (Faden), quartz calcite, quartz crysta, quartz crystal, quartz fine mineral, Quartz hedenbergite inclusions, quartz specimen, Quartz var Prase, Quartz var. Smoky Quartz, quartz variety amethyst, quartz with inclusions, red quartz, red quartz crystal, red quartz fine mineral, red quartz specimen, reverse scepter quartz, reverse sceptre quartz, Russia, San Juan Co., San Juan Mountains, Serifos Island, Shaoguan, Shigar District, Shigar Valley, smoky quartz, smoky quartz crystal, smoky quartz fine mineral, smoky quartz specimen, South Aegean, Tinejdad, Uruguay, USA, Zhob District

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 01.03.2019 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates
I’ve posted some excellent new specimens in this Tinejdad Red Quartz Update. The quartz crystals from the Tinejdad area in Er Rachidia Province, Morocco, contain red colouring, red zones, or distinct red phantoms, due to included iron.