User:Tillman/Favorite minerals

• Favorite mineral photos
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  Goethite after pyrite, Utah
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  Blue fluorite, China
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  Cobaltite, Sudbury
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  Proustite, Chile
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  Boltwoodite, Namibia
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  Brookite, Baluchistan
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  Carletonite, Mont Saint-Hilaire
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  Copper "sword", Kazakhstan
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  Mockingbird Mine, California
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  Morenci, Arizona
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  Johachidolite, a calcium aluminum borate, from Burma. Per Rob Lavinsky, "this specimen is an incredible rarity."
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  Polished slab, Bisbee, Arizona
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  Chrysocolla and tyrolite, Santa Rosa-Huantajaya District, Chile
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  Covellite, Butte District, Montana
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  Pyrite, Leonard Mine, Butte
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  Copper, Ray Mine, AZ
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  Spinel-twinned gold on "wire", Eagle's Nest Mine, CA
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  Old Ibex mine, Leadville. 19th century specimen!
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  Mockingbird Mine, CA
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  Very fine old Mother Lode crystalline-gold specimen. Sold in the 1950s for $65; more recently for $12,500.
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  Bonanza gold ore, Sleeper Mine NV
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  Crocoite, Dundas, Tasmania
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  Azurite stalactite xsec, Royal Ontario Museum
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  Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado
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  Iridescent specular hematite (!), Royal Ontario Museum
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  Tanzanite, rough + faceted
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  Schoepite-Curite-Uraninite, huge old Shinkolobwe specimen. Detail, click for original
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  Anorthite (!!)
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  Opal in matrix, probably Australia
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  CuOx-cemented breccia, Morenci
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  Classic old Bisbee (Czar shaft)
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  Opalized belemnite, Coober Pedy
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  Kosmochlor jade, Burma