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Watercolour painting done between 1797-1802 of clinoclase by Miss F. Rashleigh. It was found in the famous Wheal Gorland mine in Cornwall, where this mineral was first described in 1801
📷 by https://t.co/W0n41DcVBc

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2023-03-21


Sillimanite. Those tiny little needles...
From upper left clockwise: Calabria (Italy); somewhere in Brazil; Vedrette di Ries (Italy); Carboneras (Spain)

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2023-03-06

from the HoF of micROCKScopica!
Charoite swirling around feldspars in this schist from Yakutia.

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2022-11-21

En 1925 el geólogo Lucas Fernández Navarro señala que la colección histórica de placas de de Carlos III en los armarios y en las paredes del MNCN es valiosa por contener muestras de muchas canteras ya perdidas y agotadas

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2022-03-22

December 6, 2017, celebrates the inclusion of the Neapolitan pizza into the UNESCO World Heritage🍕
Maybe the original Margherita pizza was inspired by the minerals found on Mount Vesuvius? Like green Vesuvianite & white Sodalite💎#MineralMonday

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2021-12-07

celebrates the inclusion of the Neapolitan pizza into the UNESCO World Heritage🍕
Maybe the original Margherita pizza was inspired by the minerals found on Mount Vesuvius? Like green Vesuvianite & white Sodalite💎

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2021-12-06

December 6, 2017, celebrates the inclusion of the Neapolitan pizza into the UNESCO World Heritage🍕
Maybe the original Margherita pizza was inspired by the minerals found on Mount Vesuvius? Like green Vesuvianite & white Sodalite💎

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2021-12-06

Antonio de Ulloa menciona en 1748 el descubrimiento de la "platina" del río Pinto. Era un término despectivo que aludía al una plata menos valiosa que se usaba para adulterar el oro de las ricas arenas de los ríos del Chocó

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2021-10-18

Vanadinite is a fairly rare mineral that owes its name to its high vanadium content. It was discovered by the Spanish Andrés del Río in a lead deposit in Mexico. brought the first samples of the mineral to Europe.

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2021-04-19

Let's not forget
SILLIMANITE is a hot mineral!
Provenance from top left clockwise: Vedrette di Ries (Italy); El Hoyazo (Spain); Ivrea Verbano Zone (Italy); Kola Peninsula (Russia)

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2021-03-15


From top left clockwise: Charoite (#Yakutia); Serpentine (#Andalucia); Gypsum (Dolomites); Dolomite (#Dolomites).
Enjoy!

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2021-03-01

an atypical
but actually SUCROSE is naturally occurring...
even if, like in this case, it crystallises from

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2021-01-25


STAUROLITE anyone?
Provenance, from top left clockwise: Himalaya (thanks for sample); Vedrette di Ries aureole; near Taos, NM (outcrop and then micro).

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2020-12-14


From the Zentral Gneis complex and its cover to the SW of the Tauern Window.
From top left clockwise Epidote with Allanite core; Hornblende; Garnet (yellow?); Chlorite.

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2020-11-24

and
From top left clockwise (saddle) Dolomite; Gypsum; Chlorite and Fluorite; (barred) Olivine.
Enjoy!

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2020-10-27

A brief microphotographic reportage across the
from top left clockwise: Nummulite (Venetian prealps); Gabbro (Adamello); Myrmekite (Ivrea Verbano Zone); Blueschist (Aosta Valley)

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2020-09-08

2020

💎 Rhodochrosite (MnCO3)

stalactitic crystal habit

pics via redgallery, crystalclassics,
ebay, trous.hypotheses

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2020-06-08

Vesuvianite, a tetragonal calcium aluminum silicate with a sorosilicate structure. Common mineral in skarns. Photographed with microscope. Note growth zoning.

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2020-03-23

May your pencils be sharp! ✏️
(🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿&🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 schools are back..)
The name comes from Greek γράφω/ grafo “I am writing".

Graphite from Seathwaite, Cumbria, (like this one in Discovery centre) has been used since the 1500s for marking sheep. 🐑

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2019-10-28