[Rockhounds] Winter Blah's Pop Quiz - What Was The LastSpecimen Added To Your Collection?

[Axel Emmermann]

Ahaaaa!
FMS members have fun in winter too ;-)))))
Winter, those dark days are ideal for shining a (UV) light...

My last acquisition was a Hiortdahlite specimen from Langesundfjorden in
Norway... A small specimen, just a few centimetres... great orange
fluorescence under SW too.
I paid only 3 Euro for it. Cheap, uh?

Axel Emmermann
European Regional Vice President of the
Fluorescent Mineral Society
<http://www.uvminerals.org/>
=========================
Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen/Antwerp Mineralogical Society
<http://www.minerant.org/index.html>
Werkgroepleider/Workgroup leader: Fluorescerende mineralen/Fluorescent
minerals
Technische Realisaties/Engineering
My website:<http://users.pandora.be/axel.emmerman/home/>

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> Van: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
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> Namens Jeffrey T. Cessna
> Verzonden: vrijdag 6 februari 2009 17:01
> Aan: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Winter Blah's Pop Quiz - What Was The
LastSpecimen Added
> To Your Collection?
> 
> At 10:29 PM 2/5/2009, you wrote:
> 
> >         What Was The Last Specimen Added To Your Collection?
> 
> Purchased:
> 
> Willemite Zn2(SiO4) fl green SW/LW
> Sphalerite (Zn,Fe)S  fl,ph yellow ?W
> Calcite-(Mn) CaCO3 fl red SW
> Hasselhojden, Grythyttan, Sweden
> Size: 6.5x4x4 cm (144g)
> 
> It is still in the mail, from sweden, but I have really enjoyed the
> other fluorescents I have purchased from Kjell Gatedal (unsolicited
> endorsement) on eBay.
> 
> Collected (31 jan 09):
> 
> Potomac Marble (limestone conglomerate)
> Leesburg Member, Balls Bluff Siltstone
> Rt 15 N of Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia
> 
> I collected several pieces, chosen for either interesting
> constituents or interesting patterns. I put down the piece with the
> intact 6 cm feldspar crystal and couldn't find it again. Often the
> stones making up the conglomerate are themselves pieces of weathered
> conglomerate. I found a 30 x 10 x 2.5 cm piece with half of one face
> covered with small milky quartz crystals from a later vein filling.
> If you can bring yourself to cut it, it will take a very nice polish.
> I have included a few links with more information.
> 
> http://www.mcmullans.org/geoweb/BasicPageListing/leesburg_member.htm
> 
> http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/stones/stones3.html
> 
> pictures
>
http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/geoblog/2008/05/western-conglomerates-culp
eper-
> basin.html
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
> 
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