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Halloween Minerals

Halloween Minerals. A fun photo collection Concept design by Stephanie Martin Photos by Andre Mongeon Other photos used with permission. Pumpkins! Mimetite var Campylite (unusual habit) Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, England UK. Barite Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks BC Canada.

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Halloween Minerals

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

  2. Pumpkins! Mimetite var Campylite (unusual habit) Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, England UK

  3. Barite Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks BC Canada

  4. “Witch’s Broom” Black Kyanite From Brazil

  5. “ Witches’ Fingers ” Knobby quartz prisms from Zambia. These odd, gnarly looking clusters with many inclusions are aptly named.

  6. Bloodstone India Former birthstone for March

  7. Spiderweb Turquoise Iran Birthstone for December

  8. Eye Agate India Do you get the feeling that you are being watched?

  9. Epidote From the classic location of Green Monster Mountain Alaska, USA

  10. “Devil’s Toenail” Fossil Exogyra Cretaceous (~100 mya) Bokchita Formation Bryan, Oklahoma USA

  11. BOO! Kaspar, the friendly ghost Flint nodule, hails from Poland. and Phantom Quartz, of course! from Brazil

  12. Hematite Black Widow Mine Arizona, USA (sinister looking, bubbling, botryoidal habit!)

  13. Bat mask or bat wing caves? You decide. Ocos Geode Brazil

  14. Cat’s Eye Tourmaline Brazil

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Pink blades of Heulandite on white Mordenite From the Rats Nest Claim, Custer Co, Idaho USA

  18. 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

  19. 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.

  20. 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

  21. Halloween would not be complete without a glow-in-the-dark mineral! Here we have fluorescent Scapolite Var Wenerite, with Diopside From Grenville, Quebec

  22. Fin Hope you enjoyed the show!

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