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Carles Curto Text: Carles Curto (formerly curator of the Geology Museum, Barcelona) & Jordi Fabre
Assistance from John S. White (former Smithsonian curator) John S. White

 

 

Chronicle of the 2020
Expominer Virtual Show

 

 

Expominer
Fabre Minerals / Fine Minerals / Font Montjuic

A Show among friends
A Show among friends. Science
Science
A Show among friends. learning
learning
A Show among friends. education
education
A Show among friends. and research awards... Expominer!
and research awards... Expominer!
 

[EXPOMINER]: To highlight its colorful and warmth shape. It is rare to find so many friends in one single place.
Barcelona  Spain ( -> 1978)







USA

Copper
 

DF96AM2: Very aerial dendritic growth of Copper, with remnants of Quartz matrix and flat surfaces that correspond to casts of Quartz crystals that have disappeared.
The specimen is from the Lluís Daunis collection.
Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 13.2 × 7.4 × 3.5 cm = 5.20” × 2.91” × 1.38”

Former collection of Lluís Daunis



Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear



MEXICO - CANADA

Wulfenite
Wulfenite. Wulfenite.
 

EF86AM2: Group of very sharp tabular Wulfenite crystals on a limonite matrix. Crystals are transparent, with good luster and an intense orange color, with geometric color zoning very evident on the edges.
Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua  Mexico

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.5 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.38” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”







SPANISH FLUORITE

Fluorite with Calcite
 

NB89AM2: Aggregate of cubic Fluorite crystals, distinctly beveled by dodecahedron faces, very transparent, with good luster and a pale lilac color, on a matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Llamas Quarry, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Las Cabañas, Duyos, Caravia, Comarca Oriente, Principality of Asturias (Asturias)  Spain

Specimen size: 12.8 × 10 × 6.4 cm = 5.04” × 3.94” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.9 cm = 0.75” × 0.75”




Fluorite with Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Calcite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.



EUROPE (excl. Spain, Portugal and France)

Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Harmotome and Calcite
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Harmotome and Calcite. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Harmotome and Calcite.
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Harmotome and Calcite. Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Harmotome and Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

HF88AM2: Crusts on matrix of small elongated crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K), transparent, extraordinarily bright and with an intense and uniform yellow color. With white crystals of Calcite and crystals of greyish white Harmotome. The specimen comes from an extraordinary find in 1965 from which only a limited number of pieces were obtained.
Korsnäs Lead Mine, Korsnäs, Vaasa municipality, Ostrobothnia  Finland (1965)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 9.3 × 5.9 cm = 4.17” × 3.66” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.24” × 0.08”





Turkey

Diaspore
 

EL26AM2: Two crystals of Diaspore, one of them clearly dominant, with good terminal faces and recrystallization forms. The crystals are transparent, very lustrous, and have an intense and uniform greenish yellow color.
Ilbir Mountain, Pinarcik, Milâs District, Muğla Province, Aegean Region  Turkey (2020)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.1 × 3.1 cm = 2.76” × 1.61” × 1.22”




Diaspore. Front
Front
Diaspore. Rear
Rear


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