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joeking · 08-22-2010, 05:53 AM

I have always been drawn to tourmaline, mostly watermelon, but most any will do

i remember when I first started collecting, the Sweet Home mine was producing some beautiful minerals...OMG!!1

Anyhoo, that was many girlfriends ago, it seems like when they dip, they take more than they come with:(

g0vnaa · 09-11-2010, 06:56 PM

Awesome colention man.
Those are beautifull

I found some cristal at home recently. Nothing special.
It now sits on my PC desk.

mriko · 12-31-2010, 10:52 AM

My, how come i haven't seen this before !

Funkfingers, that's a very nice brazilian quartz you have here, I like the color very much. Is it the same in person ?

I happen to collect minerals & gemstones (beside trying to make a living out of them...), here a few pieces, some from my personnal collection, some not.

Hematite from Pakistan

Ruby from Afghanistan

Anatase from Baluchistan

Color-change sodalite var. hackmanite from Afghanistan

Emerald from Swat, Pakistan

Clinohumite & Spinel from Afghan-Tajik border

Emerald from Pakistan

Come on people, share your goodies !

Irie !

mriko · 12-31-2010, 11:12 AM

Here a few gems from my personnal collection

Topazes

From left to right, starting upper left corner : Russia, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Russia, Brazil, Russia, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Russia

Garnets

From left to right, starting upper left corner :
- Hessonite from Eden Mills, Vermont, USA (2x)
- Pyrope from Ant Hill from Arizona (rough gems are brought up to the surface by ants)
- Spessartite from Amelia, Virginia
- Hessonite from Spain
- Pyrope from Bohemia
- Grossular (Rosalite) from Mexico (2x)
- Color-Change from Bekily, Madagascar (blue color, very rare)
- Topazolite from Urals
- Demantoid from Urals
- Green grossular from Bajaur, Pakistan
- Tsavorite from Tsavo park, Kenya

Beryls

From left to right, starting upper left corner :

- Green beryl fro Malishevo, Russia
- Aquamarine from Mozambique
- Goshenite from Urals
- Aquamarine from Burma
- Sunstone Beryl from Madagascar
- Aquamarine from Pakistan (x2)
- Green beryl from Brazil
- Emerald from Brazil
- Heliodor from Tajikistan (x2)
- Heliodor from Ukraine
- Morganite from Pala mine, California

Irie !

GR8FUL1 · 02-19-2011, 05:04 PM

Those are some sweet stones mriko.Did you cut those or cbuy them already faceted?I have a fair amount of opal rough that I will someday cut(one of many hobbies).I have a wide assortment of agate slabs and some petrified wood also.I'll be back with pics once I get used to my new camera.

mriko · 03-05-2011, 08:00 PM

Thanks GR8FUL1, I bought them already facetted, some in pakistan but most on ebay (I sure couldn't afford it otherwise !).
Hmmm, opal, I love opals ! Started my mineral collection with some from Ethiopia, I like a lot those form Virgin Valley as well !
I also have a nice amount of different rough materials for cutting and I intent to learn facetting gemstones, hopefully I'll do my first steps within a year or so.

Irie !

303hydro · 03-05-2011, 08:38 PM

Here's a couple pieces-

Citrine.... Stick this one in the piggy bank.....

This next piece is very debatable. Some say it's actually a form of petrified bamboo. It is definitely a beautiful piece, and was not cheap.

Bebopp · 04-08-2011, 06:40 AM

I collect florescent minerals like autunite. Fluoresces amazing.

06-18-2012, 06:24 AM

saw that bamboo at the tuscon show this year.

I am an absolute freak for fluorite and opal. Have over 50 specimens from all over the world of just fluorite alone. Some of my favorite are from africa, and then the classic rogerly fluorite.

gotta love those gems...

got a 23g chunk of moldavite and a bunch of smaller pieces of besednice.

justablunttool · 07-26-2012, 06:29 AM

Australia has the worlds best opal, also many other gems. I lived and mined sapphires at Central Queensland Gemfields for over 20 years. Some of the largest sapphires in the world came from there. It is a very tourist friendly area, and you can dig your own stones there for the cost of a fossicking licence, $6.80 a month. Tourists do find some very good stones in shallow wash, even on the surface. Some of the best remaining ground is set aside for tourists in fossicking areas, some of which are enormous. The gemfields is almost 900sq km in area situated on tropic of capricorn 300km inland from Rockhampton. It also has the largest gem show in the southern hemisphere www.gemfest.com.au. You can also find opals at Yowah which also has fossicking areas. Where else in the world can you go out in the bush and dig your own gems legally?

08-22-2010, 05:53 AM	#11
joeking spiritual gangster of love Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: in tha shadows Posts: 332	I have always been drawn to tourmaline, mostly watermelon, but most any will do i remember when I first started collecting, the Sweet Home mine was producing some beautiful minerals...OMG!!1 Anyhoo, that was many girlfriends ago, it seems like when they dip, they take more than they come with:( __________________ 2000w in coco using H&G nutes....Str8 Headiez!!! https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=183533 Just because you can see it, does that make it real? Are your perceptions your own, or are they second generation programming?
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09-11-2010, 06:56 PM	#12
g0vnaa ICE Cream eater Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Bat Country Posts: 1,954	Awesome colention man. Those are beautifull I found some cristal at home recently. Nothing special. It now sits on my PC desk. __________________ Lemon is nice, but Lyme is syrup.
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12-31-2010, 10:52 AM	#13
mriko Green Mujaheed Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Free Republic of Mrikostan - 50°N Posts: 1,968	My, how come i haven't seen this before ! Funkfingers, that's a very nice brazilian quartz you have here, I like the color very much. Is it the same in person ? I happen to collect minerals & gemstones (beside trying to make a living out of them...), here a few pieces, some from my personnal collection, some not. Hematite from Pakistan Ruby from Afghanistan Anatase from Baluchistan Color-change sodalite var. hackmanite from Afghanistan Emerald from Swat, Pakistan Clinohumite & Spinel from Afghan-Tajik border Emerald from Pakistan Come on people, share your goodies ! Irie ! __________________ "To forbid or even seriously to restrict the use of so gracious an herb as hemp would cause widespread suffering and annoyance and to large bands of worshipped ascetics, deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose gracious protection saves them from the attacks of evil influences, and whose mightly power makes the devotee of the Victorious, overcoming the demons of hunger and thirst, of panic, fear, of the glamour of Maya or matter, and of madness, able in rest to brood on the Eternal, till the Eternal,possessing him body and soul, frees him from the haunting of self and receives him into the Ocean of Being." Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Meet the Green Man ! "Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead "I can, I shall and in the future I will have done" C. Montgomery Burns
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12-31-2010, 11:12 AM	#14
mriko Green Mujaheed Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Free Republic of Mrikostan - 50°N Posts: 1,968	Here a few gems from my personnal collection Topazes From left to right, starting upper left corner : Russia, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Russia, Brazil, Russia, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Russia Garnets From left to right, starting upper left corner : - Hessonite from Eden Mills, Vermont, USA (2x) - Pyrope from Ant Hill from Arizona (rough gems are brought up to the surface by ants) - Spessartite from Amelia, Virginia - Hessonite from Spain - Pyrope from Bohemia - Grossular (Rosalite) from Mexico (2x) - Color-Change from Bekily, Madagascar (blue color, very rare) - Topazolite from Urals - Demantoid from Urals - Green grossular from Bajaur, Pakistan - Tsavorite from Tsavo park, Kenya Beryls From left to right, starting upper left corner : - Green beryl fro Malishevo, Russia - Aquamarine from Mozambique - Goshenite from Urals - Aquamarine from Burma - Sunstone Beryl from Madagascar - Aquamarine from Pakistan (x2) - Green beryl from Brazil - Emerald from Brazil - Heliodor from Tajikistan (x2) - Heliodor from Ukraine - Morganite from Pala mine, California Irie ! __________________ "To forbid or even seriously to restrict the use of so gracious an herb as hemp would cause widespread suffering and annoyance and to large bands of worshipped ascetics, deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose gracious protection saves them from the attacks of evil influences, and whose mightly power makes the devotee of the Victorious, overcoming the demons of hunger and thirst, of panic, fear, of the glamour of Maya or matter, and of madness, able in rest to brood on the Eternal, till the Eternal,possessing him body and soul, frees him from the haunting of self and receives him into the Ocean of Being." Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Meet the Green Man ! "Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead "I can, I shall and in the future I will have done" C. Montgomery Burns Last edited by mriko; 12-31-2010 at 12:44 PM..
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02-19-2011, 05:04 PM	#15
GR8FUL1 Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In another times forgotten space Posts: 144	Those are some sweet stones mriko.Did you cut those or cbuy them already faceted?I have a fair amount of opal rough that I will someday cut(one of many hobbies).I have a wide assortment of agate slabs and some petrified wood also.I'll be back with pics once I get used to my new camera. __________________ The bus came by and I got on...Thats when it all began!!
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03-05-2011, 08:00 PM	#16
mriko Green Mujaheed Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Free Republic of Mrikostan - 50°N Posts: 1,968	Thanks GR8FUL1, I bought them already facetted, some in pakistan but most on ebay (I sure couldn't afford it otherwise !). Hmmm, opal, I love opals ! Started my mineral collection with some from Ethiopia, I like a lot those form Virgin Valley as well ! I also have a nice amount of different rough materials for cutting and I intent to learn facetting gemstones, hopefully I'll do my first steps within a year or so. Irie ! __________________ "To forbid or even seriously to restrict the use of so gracious an herb as hemp would cause widespread suffering and annoyance and to large bands of worshipped ascetics, deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose gracious protection saves them from the attacks of evil influences, and whose mightly power makes the devotee of the Victorious, overcoming the demons of hunger and thirst, of panic, fear, of the glamour of Maya or matter, and of madness, able in rest to brood on the Eternal, till the Eternal,possessing him body and soul, frees him from the haunting of self and receives him into the Ocean of Being." Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Meet the Green Man ! "Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead "I can, I shall and in the future I will have done" C. Montgomery Burns
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03-05-2011, 08:38 PM	#17
303hydro senior primate of the 303 cornbread mafia Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: 303 Posts: 1,168	Here's a couple pieces- Citrine.... Stick this one in the piggy bank..... This next piece is very debatable. Some say it's actually a form of petrified bamboo. It is definitely a beautiful piece, and was not cheap.
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04-08-2011, 06:40 AM	#18
Bebopp Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 50	I collect florescent minerals like autunite. Fluoresces amazing.
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06-18-2012, 06:24 AM	#19
GOOROO Guest Posts: n/a	saw that bamboo at the tuscon show this year. I am an absolute freak for fluorite and opal. Have over 50 specimens from all over the world of just fluorite alone. Some of my favorite are from africa, and then the classic rogerly fluorite. gotta love those gems... got a 23g chunk of moldavite and a bunch of smaller pieces of besednice.
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07-26-2012, 06:29 AM	#20
justablunttool New Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 8	Australia has the worlds best opal, also many other gems. I lived and mined sapphires at Central Queensland Gemfields for over 20 years. Some of the largest sapphires in the world came from there. It is a very tourist friendly area, and you can dig your own stones there for the cost of a fossicking licence, $6.80 a month. Tourists do find some very good stones in shallow wash, even on the surface. Some of the best remaining ground is set aside for tourists in fossicking areas, some of which are enormous. The gemfields is almost 900sq km in area situated on tropic of capricorn 300km inland from Rockhampton. It also has the largest gem show in the southern hemisphere www.gemfest.com.au. You can also find opals at Yowah which also has fossicking areas. Where else in the world can you go out in the bush and dig your own gems legally?
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