Expominer Virtual 2020

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EF56AM2: Floater doubly terminated Beryl crystal (variety heliodor), with good terminal faces at the upper end, polycrystalline growths at the opposite end, and very marked growth forms (“edged”) on the prism faces. Transparent, very lustrous and with an intense yellow color. An European classic.
Khoroshiv (Volodarsk-Volynskii), Zhytomyr Oblast  Ukraine

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2 × 1.7 cm = 2.05” × 0.79” × 0.67”

EG88AM2: Very elongated arrow-shaped Cerussite twins. On matrix, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, transparent, with intense pearly luster and slightly pink tones.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region  Morocco

Specimen size: 6.4 × 3 × 1.5 cm = 2.52” × 1.18” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.65” × 0.63”

EC12AM2: Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.73” × 1.02” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

EM13AM2: Elongated Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.38” × 0.94” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

EC13AM2: Elongated Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.46” × 1.26” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

ED14AM2: Elongated Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty of Munich Virtual 2020, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 157, January-February 2020, page 49
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.46” × 1.34” × 0.91”

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

EE14AM2: Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty of Munich Virtual 2020, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 157, January-February 2020, page 49
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.2 × 1.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.65” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

EG6AM2: Elongated Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.1 × 2.7 cm = 1.65” × 1.61” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

EF26AM2: Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.1 × 2.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.22” × 1.06”

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

EH26AM2: Elongated Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 3.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.83” × 1.26” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

EJ56AM2: Vanadinite crystals with a peculiar habit, very different from what has been known up to now, ranging from elongated prisms, transparent and with a very bright red color with orange tints, to acicular forms of intense yellowish orange color. On matrix and with thin platy Baryte crystals. From a find in the ACF mining concession in February 2020.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (02/2020)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.7 × 3.4 cm = 2.91” × 1.85” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

HR67AM2: Group of small Mimetite crystals formed by prism faces and flattened pyramidal terminations. Transparent, with very good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color. On matrix, with Calcite, Malachite and translucent and shiny twins of Cerussite.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region  Namibia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.2 × 3.7 cm = 3.07” × 2.44” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.12” × 0.04”

TR14AM2: Coralloid growth, very aerial and aesthetic, of Quartz, chalcedony variety. Translucent and uniform white in color.
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais  Brazil

Specimen size: 14.8 × 3.3 × 3.3 cm = 5.83” × 1.30” × 1.30”

ER86AM2: Very esthetic doubly terminated sheaf-like group of deformed and extraordinarily elongated Calcite crystals on a matrix covered by Quartz crystals, with twinned Sphalerite crystals, and Pyrite crystals.
Pachapaqui mining district, Pachapaqui, Aquia District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department  Peru

Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 1.77” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 6.7 × 2.2 cm = 2.64” × 0.87”

MG98AM2: Parallel growth of octahedral Fluorite crystals finely beveled by dodecahedron faces and with polycrystalline growths at some vertices. Translucent, with an intense violet color, on a matrix of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with Quartz crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2017)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 10.4 × 6.1 cm = 4.49” × 4.09” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.8 cm = 1.18” × 1.10”

ET67AM2: Group of very sharp Axinite-(Fe) crystals with very well defined faces and edges, and large for the locality. Translucent, shiny, and brown with mauve tones. A Japanese classic.
Obira Mine, Bungo-Ohno City, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu Region  Japan

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.6 × 2 cm = 2.48” × 1.42” × 0.79”

EX66AM2: Group of Prehnite crystals perimorphic after Laumontite. The Prehnite, in translucent pale green crystals, has covered, and partly replaced, the pre-existing Laumontite crystals that ended up dehydrating and disappearing completely.
Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), Mumbai District (Bombay District),, Maharashtra  India

Specimen size: 20.5 × 15.7 × 4.6 cm = 8.07” × 6.18” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 0.6 cm = 2.17” × 0.24”