Halloween Minerals

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Halloween Minerals

• A fun photo collection
• Concept design by Stephanie Martin
• Photos by Andre Mongeon
• Other photos used with permission

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Pumpkins! Mimetite var Campylite (unusual
habit) Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, England UK
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Barite Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks BC Canada
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Witchs Broom Black Kyanite From Brazil
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Witches Fingers Knobby quartz prisms from
Zambia. These odd, gnarly looking clusters with
many inclusions are aptly named.
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Bloodstone India Former birthstone for March
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Spiderweb Turquoise Iran Birthstone for December
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Eye Agate India Do you get the feeling that you
are being watched?
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Epidote From the classic location of Green
Monster Mountain Alaska, USA
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Devils Toenail Fossil Exogyra Cretaceous (100
mya) Bokchita Formation Bryan, Oklahoma USA
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BOO! Kaspar, the friendly ghost Flint nodule,
hails from Poland.
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Phantom Quartz, of course! from Brazil
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Hematite Black Widow Mine Arizona, USA (sinister
looking, bubbling, botryoidal habit!)
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Bat mask or bat wing caves? You decide. Ocos
Geode Brazil
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Cats Eye Tourmaline Brazil
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Frankenstein is the name of a monster, but it is
also the name of a place. This dendritic opal and
Chrysoprase comes from an area in East Europe
formerly known as Frankenstein. This was an
important deposit that has been mined since the
middle ages but is now mostly mined out. It is
now part of Poland near Sklary.
Mint green Chrysoprase
Dendritic Opal
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Beautiful minerals From a historically scary
place. From the Northern reaches of
Transylvania, these specimens are from Baia
Sprie, Romania.
Quartz coated with sparkly dolomite, nesting on
a mixed matrix with tetrahedrite.
Stibnite
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Pink blades of Heulandite on white
Mordenite From the Rats Nest Claim, Custer Co,
Idaho USA
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From Rats to Bats Taranakite is a secondary
phosphate mineral formed from bat or bird guano
deposits. This sample above comes from a real bat
cave, Sassyk-Unkur Cave, Aravan, Kyrgyzstan
yummy
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Rare Treats! Yes there can be real treasures in
caves. These are cave pearls. Speleothems are
now protected and can no longer be
collected. Inherited from an old collection,
location only noted as Swiss Alps, Germany.
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Dramatic back-lit effect
Front face natural light
Graveyard Point Plume Agate from Oregon, USA
Pictures used by permission from
http//www.dragonsayeauctions.com Thanks to
Donna Madej
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Halloween would not be complete without a
glow-in-the-dark mineral!
Here we have fluorescent Scapolite Var Wenerite,
with Diopside From Grenville, Quebec
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Fin
Hope you enjoyed the show!