http://m.palaminerals.com/private-pages daily 0.75 2015-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441384626305-AN7SPUOPT53VHPAJP6JF/Amethyst+18076.jpg Private Pages - Amethyst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441384626305-AN7SPUOPT53VHPAJP6JF/Amethyst+18076.jpg Private Pages - Amethyst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441384626182-YX9G0PUDMG7ATHZYMKO5/Aquamarine+18077.jpg Private Pages - Aquamarine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441384626666-84OG2RIWAIYKE6VGHJYU/Heliodor+18079.jpg Private Pages - Heliodor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441384626973-M6IQVY88X32N9GGA43PD/Silver+18075.jpg Private Pages - Silver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441384627085-SFH8UIUT13QPHLJVZIHS/Tanzanite+19089.jpg Private Pages - Tanzanite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441384627347-4PLM11MUDZMGDK2TFC7X/Tourmaline+18080.jpg Private Pages - Tourmaline http://m.palaminerals.com/featured-news-gallery daily 0.75 2016-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435166499552-KJAZCNL7MJGXTQ5MYUVB/rice_rhodochrosite_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - "Home" for the Holidays: The Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals A look at this hidden gem just outside Portland, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1423848837565-BGSXAATBMO7AGG4UF6LE/feat_aqua_quartz_vietnam_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - December & January Featured Specimens In this edition we feature an anglesite from Sardinia and a matrix aquamarine from Vietnam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1423848852639-NELBH57UEJUF8WQ8F9GG/inv_10159_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - Taking the Tourmaline Cure Trips to the tailings of the tourmaline mines in the Pala District helped Uncle Peanut in his alcohol recovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1423848846225-9QX3NC8LPL8UAB8ONTCE/cavedigger_still_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - Dance of Digging Ra Paulette is a architectural sculptor whose medium is the sandstone cliffs of northern New Mexico. His commissioned works have taken years to complete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1423848851077-DHV9VEO29KX07AEYOCZ1/moon_grail_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - School of Moons Before the opening of the Intergem exhibition two gemstone competitions were held, for which Pala International's Bill Larson was tapped in his capacity as an expert in the field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1423848843910-ZMS96SCA2FPNSONN3PTK/crystalli_screenshot_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - Nel Gabinetto Cristallo On display now, in an exhibition that has been extended to January 2016, is "Cristalli: The World's Most Dazzling Exhibition." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1423848854891-P6Y9N8NJQC9CVV0O87I5/butte_nugget_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - El Dorado de California y Colorado It's been decades since a 6-lb gold nugget has been unearthed in California. In July, an anonymous prospector did just that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1423848862284-QWIUKRZM8AFD471U4CPF/stewart_bash_1970_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - What Was in the Punch? Stewart Mine Bash 1970 As Pala turns 45, we turn away from the beginnings of the gem and mineral industry in San Diego County to the beginnings of Pala International itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1423848839831-93YRJHMWCH60OA5UAO73/tucson_th.jpg NEWS June 2015 - Tucson Time: February 3–15, 2015 After the holidays, we’re looking forward to the world’s greatest gem and mineral show in February. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435186000281-REQUTUL6933ITA7YWJHC/recycle_bin.jpg NEWS June 2015 - Recycle Bin Hard Table: Louvre Seeks Zellenmosaic Masterpiece http://m.palaminerals.com/featured-specimens-gallery daily 0.75 2017-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501714648622-Q6NO4AP7QK3K0D6NHIW3/feat_ruby.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Will Heierman Corundum no need to write something here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501714648622-Q6NO4AP7QK3K0D6NHIW3/feat_ruby.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Will Heierman Corundum no need to write something here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496429691034-ZPCHOHJ8S2QMPPQ92HH7/feat_topaz.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Golden Topaz from Mogok no need to write something here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496429899579-WFD5UPXSZYY03Z4U6DL5/Fluorite_5cm_Siberia_crop_b.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Fluorite from Dal'negorsk no need to write something here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1491269874694-AJDAZDPMBFZIK3P068ZD/Fluorite_5cm_Siberia_crop_b.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Fluorite from Dal'negorsk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1486073482182-LK0HYFUQPUIB1ZDDT48K/feat_quartz1.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Quartz from Pakistan This month we feature a massive quartz from Pakistan. It's an impressive size even for a fine quartz crystal, but this one has an added dimension that makes it quite unique. From its original crystalized state an exsolution process has created beautifully etched crystal faces with wild jagged patterns. The crystal has maintained its transparency on the inside but the surface has been transformed into a complex geometric puzzle. There is even a linear vug wrapping around the crystal like a cliffside cavern (see photos here). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1491268909303-VRJPDZ7SLPJLEQQ21WXZ/Fluorite_5cm_Siberia_crop_b.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1486073783587-WCEWZ0YNWC57AIFSC9FX/Malachite_Azurite_Mexico_Xmas+copy.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Malachite with Azurite This month we feature a malachite and azurite from south of the border that seems to take on a symbolic holiday form of (all) sorts. The evergreen mass is a fibrous chatoyant malachite. Dangling from the bottom left are four main azurite clusters: pristine well-formed crystals that even show some transparency. The rest of the specimen has then been magically hung with spherical pyrite ornaments from China and topped with a complex penetrating spinel twin from Burma. A dazzling array for the season upon us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480640988699-RL034VWC6NR46TGQYE71/Gold_16.58grams_pontesELacerda_Brazil.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Gold from Brazil Pala International's featured mineral this month is a fine gold specimen from a relatively new find in Brazil. The majority of this material came to the market in early 2016, with some specimens only trickling out recently. This month we can offer one of our fine crystalized golds for a collector interested in a beautiful small miniature for their collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475610695400-GAJIEFC56C4BV2VEQCIR/Smoky%2BQuartz.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Smoky Quartz from Switzerland This specimen appeals to the connoisseur on so many levels. Matrix gwindel specimens of this caliber are quite rare. What is very nice about this piece is it has a double-terminated single crystal smoky in front of the gwindel. The clusters of quartz crystals surrounding it are all terminated and sit on a white feldspar matrix. The gwindel itself is perched on the side, bending and twisting toward the center. It is well viewed from every angle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470175684272-HI6B1BUIZ8Y5AQWQEV8F/tourmaline.png FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Tourmaline from Afghanistan This is a very fine pink tourmaline with a green cap from a unusual locality in Badakshan, Afghanistan. The tourmaline is from the Deodara Mine and sits on a nice matrix bed of feldspars and has a beautiful quartz crystal balancing the specimen on the opposite side. This is one of the largest and finest specimens to come out of this locality. The tourmaline is repaired at the base but it is a lock fit. This is really a choice piece for those collecting fine quality tourmalines/pegmatite minerals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480640773721-44OTH8WN384VZWY5B441/Malachite_Azurite_Mexico_Xmas+copy.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Malachite with Azurite This month we feature a malachite and azurite from south of the border that seems to take on a symbolic holiday form of (all) sorts. The evergreen mass is a fibrous chatoyant malachite. Dangling from the bottom left are four main azurite clusters: pristine well-formed crystals that even show some transparency. The rest of the specimen has then been magically hung with spherical pyrite ornaments from China and topped with a complex penetrating spinel twin from Burma. A dazzling array for the season upon us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470175566127-HMTYU7RN12L6E7FO1W33/Apatite%2Bon%2BQuartz.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Apatite from North Carolina This crystal of apatite is perched right on top of the quartz matrix. Measuring 2.6 cm x 1.5 cm x 2 cm, the main apatite crystal is 1.5 cm x 1.3 cm. This is rather large for the locality and is quite a deep purple. The apatite is ex John C. Medici Collection. It comes from Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA. It would be great for any collector of American rarities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899090677-0ICMK96NIYJ4Y4GXVRSN/image-asset.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Azurite and Malachite from Laos This specimen was offered to be in sync with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show theme, "Shades of Blue: Minerals of the World." This beauty hails from the Sepon Mine in southern Laos, an open pit copper and gold mine. (Gold production was suspended in 2013.) Its azurite blades range from deep blue to brilliant, and the malachite features bulbous apricot-like blobs, berry-like rounds, and even a pseudomorph at lower right. It's a beautifully complex specimen that calls out for consideration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899100160-8G163N53HPWUSF3R8K6Y/image-asset.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Goethite from Andalusia First we feature another iridescent rainbow goethite found about 27 years ago. The perfection and coloring of this specimens is fantastic. Formerly in the collection of Emilio Rodenas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899112411-H8IEVKJEIZ7DQ13ZJWLL/image-asset.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Rutile from Madagascar Our second featured specimen is a beautifully complex rutile from central Madagascar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899124549-BDPPHCYLFNGREX2E561D/feat_prehnite_tanzanite.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Prehnite and Tanzanite from Tanzania This is a rare and remarkable specimen of well crystallized greenish prehnite in a fine cockscomb specimen. This beautiful group was found earlier this year at the Merelani Mine, Arusha, Tanzania. To make the piece even more exciting and interesting, a well terminated bicolor (yellow and blue) tanzanite (3.0 x 2.5 cm in height) has grown into the side of this prehnite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899134727-HI25TBT7U0A8YJNMYIBG/2015-08_feat.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Goethite "Rainbow Castle" from Spain This goethite growing in columns with vivid iridescences sparkles with all the colors of the rainbow. The sample, from a very unique find in the 1980s, was in a Spanish private collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899147977-Z395RGK68ALZS0XF0BSL/feat_cu_calcite_big4_crop.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Calcite with copper inclusions Calcite with copper inclusions from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Copper District, Michigan, 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 in.   It has a beautiful scalehedron structure, a massive white calcite in the core and a clear outer layer including the peak of the crystal, which is transparent. The center layer is a brilliant copper phantom that scintillates in the light. With impressive size, shape and color this specimen is definitely an icon in the mineral world. No damage, no repairs, just a pristine beauty. This specimen was collected by Ben Williams’s father, John Williams, in the 1860s. During this time period the elder Williams worked at the copper smelter in Hancock, Michigan. Ben would have been a young teenager at the time. These pieces were likely passed on from father to son and pre-date Ben’s arrival at Bisbee, Arizona by about 15 years. Most of these copper-in-calcites came out in the 1800s and early 1900s. The two main mines that produced this rare blend were the Quincy Mine and the Franklin Mine around Hancock, Houghton Co., in Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899162306-E4T51LPNDSKF2XW6S6I4/feat_rythrite_4cm_morocco.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Erythrite from Morocco Erythrite from the Bou Azar District, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco, 4 x 3.2 cm. This aesthetic bouquet of erythrite crystals is from Morocco. The crystals are undamaged and sharp, with intense color. Great for any miniature collector! While other examples of erythrite in the Pala International catalog are perched on matrix, this featured specimen seems to stand on its own. Its lovely crystals exhibit 'red' in all its hues. Just as rhodochrosite takes its name from the Greek rhodokhrōs (rose-colored), erythrite is from the Greek eruthros/erythros (red). Its combining form erythr- is used in many a medical term, from erythrocyte (red blood cell) to systemic lupus erythematosis (the autoimmune syndrome sometimes characterized by a red butterfly-shaped rash thought to have resembled the bite of a wolf, lupus in Latin). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899181151-0MGN0VGFNY4T06PY2PC1/feat_benitoite_6cm.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Benitoite from San Benito County, CA This specimen is an exquisite benitoite on natrolite. The benitoite crystal itself is huge for the species, 3.5 cm in length. It features a striking trigonal crystal, but a little rough around the edges. This large crystal displays a beautiful color pattern radiating from a white core to brilliant blue edges. To top it all off the benitoite is in front of an equally striking white natrolite background, showing the ideal association of minerals from San Benito County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899080104-6HU8L0TRLSI9T9KAPXND/Apatite%2Bon%2BQuartz.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Apatite from North Carolina This crystal of apatite is perched right on top of the quartz matrix. Measuring 2.6 cm x 1.5 cm x 2 cm, the main apatite crystal is 1.5 cm x 1.3 cm. This is rather large for the locality and is quite a deep purple. The apatite is ex John C. Medici Collection. It comes from Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA. It would be great for any collector of American rarities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899196175-CSMIERIE4F6J8CD8SR9B/feat_tourmaline_quartz_santarosa_brazil.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Tourmaline from Brazil Tourmaline on quartz from Santa Rosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 6.5 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm. This specimen is a well perched multi-colored tourmaline on quartz. A fine crystal on its own, this tourmaline displays brilliant pink to mint into evergreen gradation of color. It's very pristine with virtually no damage besides the base. It features an admirable complex termination with gemmy sections running throughout. This bright tourmaline is well contrasted on a nice chunk of quartz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899210341-UEQJ6CVFFCCJ7VPSS36Y/feat_aqua_quartz_vietnam.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Aquamarine from Vietnam Aquamarine on quartz from Thuong Xuan, Vietnam, 10 x 4.5 cm. This specimen features multiple, unrepaired, beautiful blue and gemmy aquamarine crystals on quartz crystal. Matrix is very hard to obtain from Vietnam's Thuong Xuan area near the Laos border. Pala International has good contacts from Vietnam via visits in the late 1990s and obtains specimens directly from Vietnamese miners through friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899224447-S42ZNQUAUA1Q2S5OFMDA/feat_silver_kongsberg.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Silver from Kongsberg, Norway This specimen is a lovely silver from a classic locality: Kongsberg, Norway. It is a beautiful horn thick wire silver that has great luster and patina. These types of silvers are very hard to come by. (Might that have anything to do with the fact that Kongsberg also happens to be home to the Mint of Norway?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899238912-18I5OMX6C07CSLQIDKO5/feat_beryl_green_brazil.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Green Beryl from Brazil Green beryl from the Mimoso do Sul Mine, Espirito Santo, Brazil, 6 x 4 x 4.5 cm This fine green beryl is from a find in Brazil dating back to the 1980s. The specimen is a beautiful cluster of doubly terminated beryls all with very fine luster and color. To have so many beryls together and in great shape is truly rare! This specimen would do well in anyone's beryl collection or world-wide collection as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899253338-85KL7CZELMJACJFMOQ6S/feat_beryllonite_afghanistan.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Beryllonite from Afghanistan Beryllonite, a rare species, from Afghanistan, 11.5 x 7.5 cm. This fine specimen is a great rarity—a large, double-terminated, very complex beryllonite from Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. This is a specimen for an advanced collector or museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899267577-9WM2U2U3I5BZQAJ73XJH/feat_merald_calcite_muzo_a.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Calcite with Emerald from Columbia Calcite with emerald, 8 x 6 x 3 cm, from Colombia. We call this fine specimen "The Emerald Sail Ship," with its concave calcite catching the ocean's air. This is an aesthetic, large calcite crystal with no damage and a lively green emerald crystal attached at the bottom. The emerald has a fine, etched termination that adds to its beauty. The sail hails from the locality of La Pita Mine in La Pita, Mun. de Maripí, Vasquez-Yacopí Mining District, Boyacá Department, Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464897623340-2X58XLT39K5CH5UO1WQ9/Apatite%2Bon%2BQuartz.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Apatite from North Carolina This crystal of apatite is perched right on top of the quartz matrix. Measuring 2.6 cm x 1.5 cm x 2 cm, the main apatite crystal is 1.5 cm x 1.3 cm. This is rather large for the locality and is quite a deep purple. The apatite is ex John C. Medici Collection. It comes from Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA. It would be great for any collector of American rarities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899279397-MXE89O3O4H0QD6FFBMVN/2014-04_feat.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Chrysoberyl Twin from Brazil This mineral is a chrysoberyl twin that dates back to the 1970s when they hit one large pocket full of great specimens like this very one. The surface of the crystal has very nice striations and the transparency can be seen in the tips of it. This V-twin chrysoberyl is quite large for the species and is in very good shape with no damage. A prize for any major collector! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899289636-KJ262YQS5JCB8117OWAT/2014-02_feat.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Rough & Cut Diopside On our way out the door and on the road to Tucson, we feature a rare and beautiful green gem. Diopside ranges from brown to yellow to olive green to intense green. This month we feature a couple of stunning cut diopsides from Burma. The larger yellow cushion is 17.45 carats and the smaller green one is 4.90 carats. These gems are paired with an exceptional evergreen crystal from China, measuring 5.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464898981518-KS9JNILANSBS7ZHPMDQI/Apatite%2Bon%2BQuartz.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Apatite from North Carolina This crystal of apatite is perched right on top of the quartz matrix. Measuring 2.6 cm x 1.5 cm x 2 cm, the main apatite crystal is 1.5 cm x 1.3 cm. This is rather large for the locality and is quite a deep purple. The apatite is ex John C. Medici Collection. It comes from Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA. It would be great for any collector of American rarities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459984473338-5Z0BHNT701XGKC5SSFT0/image-asset.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Azurite and Malachite from Laos This specimen was offered to be in sync with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show theme, "Shades of Blue: Minerals of the World." This beauty hails from the Sepon Mine in southern Laos, an open pit copper and gold mine. (Gold production was suspended in 2013.) Its azurite blades range from deep blue to brilliant, and the malachite features bulbous apricot-like blobs, berry-like rounds, and even a pseudomorph at lower right. It's a beautifully complex specimen that calls out for consideration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459983979505-MLN7YE07VN1BCYDCO7LO/image-asset.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Goethite from Andalusia First we feature another iridescent rainbow goethite found about 27 years ago. The perfection and coloring of this specimens is fantastic. Formerly in the collection of Emilio Rodenas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459982680361-V8FWHKIFQNR0U88XCRYR/image-asset.jpeg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Rutile from Madagascar Our second featured specimen is a beautifully complex rutile from central Madagascar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448838891049-PSE3HS5OL8A3W74A1C30/feat_prehnite_tanzanite.jpg FEATURED SPECIMENS GALLERY - Prehnite and Tanzanite from Tanzania This is a rare and remarkable specimen of well crystallized greenish prehnite in a fine cockscomb specimen. This beautiful group was found earlier this year at the Merelani Mine, Arusha, Tanzania. To make the piece even more exciting and interesting, a well terminated bicolor (yellow and blue) tanzanite (3.0 x 2.5 cm in height) has grown into the side of this prehnite. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog daily 0.75 2015-08-25 http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/mountain-lily-mine-the-slow-movement monthly 0.5 2015-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875502177-JFH2F0BCQJB6PG39QSH4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement Deere after days' drive up the mountain to the Mountain Lily Mine. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875527930-2OIDMGDHLMDWC958CD3Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement The Deere had to make its own road. Late July 2014. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875544796-7TP4I36WTY832D3RN758/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement The Deere clears out brush in preparation for the pegmatite exposure. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875565700-NY7RUC5RYGFEAH02NJRS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement The Deere does some preliminary exposing of the pegmatites in early August. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875580630-PG4CP5QJZ0NWFT4RJPEE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement View of the Deere's work. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875610379-8LZRT9G95IZIJRBPYO05/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement View of the valley from the Mountain Lily Mine. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875626473-5CSW2ZUY46EC5D87YBEC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement A panorama view from the Mountain Lily Mine. Early August 2014. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875660736-MLI9G3E01XZ20D3Q89O6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement The Deere approaches the old workings and adit. Early August 2014. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875683347-BUAR0ZMLI63MDZIGAK4C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement Getting there… Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875699053-Y74Q0I3VN7GSORSUG8ZW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement At last the adit is exposed. Early August 2014. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875728934-DSPG5U4KZYMWDA0WYLAM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement The Deere scrapes the pegmatite wall. Late September 2014. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875748119-8AEMDI5N04HSZQC8JGFU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement Close view of the pegmatite exposure… Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875763548-P3PCXQZDI82JMBM2SPU2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement …pulling back… Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875782672-EJWRJPUQIAYZ90D0MULX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement …and back. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875805990-F487TNUADYOOQLRR5GJ9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Mountain Lily Mine: The Slow Movement Morning clouds, mid-September 2014. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Casey Jones) http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/esmeralda-mine-all-systems-go monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874989208-NVRJRBFWQZ1XS6BZ1Q00/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! The panorama is captured at the Esmeralda Mine. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875050609-TEGHIS0LVQ69U6P9YNUC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! The watertank and upper glory hole at the Esmeralda Mine. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875088134-K975OJT5T9EZR1G3MSIT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! Magazines at the Esmeralda Mine. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875107139-H0QOSF7DLGKSLICGXPIC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! The lower glory hole at the Esmeralda Mine. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875131977-NZ00E9OPPNEVEX33WHU5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! The portal of the Esmeralda Mine. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875147770-N1G7E6MPHYX5N1H9Y80I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! Adit of the Esmeralda Mine. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1439307951736-DYUWG7PXV7K6X6Z9GOED/image-asset.png Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! Looking out the entrance to the Esmeralda Mine. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875197078-0JDNK07Z2J01KVG27S0W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! The pegmatite displays streaks of tourmaline at the Esmeralda Mine. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438875246978-23E4JV29HPCZ6TDVJG10/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Esmeralda Mine: All Systems Go! Can you find the bobcat in this photo? Click to enlarge. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/of-bluffs-and-bees-the-mountain-lily-mine monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874736804-8XDJCZVRC78JE1SF0H0U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Bluffs and Bees: The Mountain Lily Mine View to the north with the old structure in the foreground. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874792275-DHF1GEIPQSKUMJQPXAI6/Ware3-597x800.jpg Blog - Of Bluffs and Bees: The Mountain Lily Mine A look up the bluff toward the original glory hole, and the thick bushes which were heavily bee infested. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874812482-49OGOD013P0QRVN4DLI7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Bluffs and Bees: The Mountain Lily Mine John McLean surveys the bluff for signs where the pegmatite surfaces. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874823065-2DCWWWHZSJXCZ4QZJH52/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Bluffs and Bees: The Mountain Lily Mine John McLean and Ben Castillo look over the mineral samples collected throughout the day. Notice the weathered bluff in the background where the pegmatite lies in wait. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874662224-VM7TDLE2SH8LWP1IJYFW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Of Bluffs and Bees: The Mountain Lily Mine Indicolites from the Mountain Lily Mine: marquise 0.46 ct and the emerald cut 0.56 ct. A gift from Jeff Swanger of the Ocean View Mine. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/john-sinkankas-at-the-esmeralda-mine-apr-1962 monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874451641-CKB09ZOWVJKFA1J3KICG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - John Sinkankas at the Esmeralda Mine, April 1962 Esmeralda Mine scrapbook page from John Sinkankas, Apr 1962. Collection of Bill Larson. Click to enlarge. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/john-sinkankas-at-the-benitoite-mine-fall-1962 monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874280584-S0T2WYRYJUMM1GEMNTSQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - John Sinkankas at the Benitoite Mine, Fall 1962 Benitoite Mine scrapbook page from John Sinkankas, Fall 1962. Collection of Bill Larson. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874307383-6JD9ETLD6OJ6WSZPFN4C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - John Sinkankas at the Benitoite Mine, Fall 1962 Benitoite Mine scrapbook page from John Sinkankas, Fall 1962. Collection of Bill Larson. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874335759-GIKUOI9Z6W4OV2YF5OC9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - John Sinkankas at the Benitoite Mine, Fall 1962 Mr. Dallas (at left) and his cabin in the creek bed just below the Benitoite Mine. The mine is behind the photograph, uphill. Photo by Ralph W. Dietz, ca. 193x, from John Sinkankas, Collection of Bill Larson. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874354664-VXF5ZDLRF4VX92WHN438/image-asset.jpeg Blog - John Sinkankas at the Benitoite Mine, Fall 1962 Digging at the Benitoite Mine, Fall 1962. Photo from John Sinkankas, Collection of Bill Larson. Click to enlarge. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/h-c-gordon-at-the-esmeralda-mine-ca-1905 monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874100104-DOKRN35ZZHCUF9V0Q6EX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - H. C. Gordon at the Esmeralda Mine, ca. 1905 Esmeralda Mine, viewed from the southern end of the ledge, looking northwest. Photo by H. C. Gordon. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438874121322-4G45H56JHNJ0YE8WJUV5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - H. C. Gordon at the Esmeralda Mine, ca. 1905 Esmeralda Mine, Mesa Grande - Tunnel looking east. Photo by H. C. Gordon. Click to enlarge. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/plat-for-the-mountain-lily-mine monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873987788-EVL13YHX45ACFDFG3HX4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Plat for the Mountain Lily Mine Certified copy of the plat of J. W. Ware’s Emeralite Mine, which was surveyed in 1931. Click to enlarge. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/plat-for-the-esmeralda-mine monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873887908-ZHZB9EGEFBZ5GBIAU2L4/Esmeralda_Plat_a.jpg Blog - Plat for the Esmeralda Mine Certified copy of the plat of the Esmeralda Mine, which was surveyed in 1906. Click to enlarge. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/doc-day monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873728223-WQ1LMEHY5XG6IVHOOS9J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Doc Day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873742384-47UIV8IRG9WDTMRQWBQ9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Doc Day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873751863-C65W4266MU5BFYJ4ITRG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Doc Day http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/first-esmerelda-mine-tourmaline monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873652332-9LDZV42KRZXOSORK1PAM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - First Esmerelda Mine Tourmaline For another image of the specimen, see On the Road to the Esmeralda Mine. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/on-the-road-to-the-esmerelda-mine monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873259979-0X7MAR9TPFX14UWYH0DQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine In the SUV on the road to the Esmeralda Mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873281855-HODBESQEEHW2RVZQBL4Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine At the forestry service gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873303278-XZU936VCH9R1C1Y5W2R0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine Jason, left, and John require provender for strength to open the gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873319900-2ESIMF0D0P7RAJ6LMZRX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine Walking in the valley below the mine, Bill points the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873338309-BYQV13DZ8EX0AGZWPYJZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine “All hope abandon, ye high graders who enter in.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873411967-S9TJ1YEAOL3UKSM6MVXG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine John walking on the mine property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873359653-8AHH5F0U2HO1NLL287VB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine Jason mows the lawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873442314-174BCH3JZXC95P01YWWA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine Will stands in an old main drift (tunnel). This is said to be the main “glory hole,” or series of pockets from the original discovery. To Will’s right is the continuation of the tunnel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873478132-DYU2XVWM42UN4EWH7135/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine This shows the strike and dip at the hanging wall of the pegmatite. Overburden (lighter material) can be seen on the left; pegmatite (orangey-red material) is on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873502439-WXO7159VE8HVOECPWSFK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine Jason, Will and John uncovering specimens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873523441-32TBI3DC1ISZV8LCH4U8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine Will reaches into a small tourmaline pocket, or tourmaline vug. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873543985-YVJ3UTIS87XPIYDYEGKJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine Will holds a schorl crystal that displays a deep purple skin under intense light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438873556477-T4HQL4SVGYXU5SG8CE2E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On The Road To The Esmerelda Mine Two fine schorls; the best of our first day out at the Esmeralda Mine. A promising sign at the surface of what lies beneath. Larger crystal on the left is about 6 cm. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/sinkankas-notebook monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1439308697872-1E1W39ICEGOFGGGOPE4O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sinkankas Notebook Pocket at the Esmeralda Mine, North Main Workings, September 22–23, 1956. Click to enlarge. From the collection of Bill Larson.   http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2015/8/6/empress-dowager-passion-for-pink monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438872789676-PF2VT6CHA18YD2QW3RML/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Empress Dowager: Passion for Pink China’s Empress Dowager was wild about San Diego’s tourmalines. Her love of this gem triggered the California boom in the early 1900s. According to the Smithsonian, this photograph actually was taken by a diplomat’s son, Xunling, who was in his early 20s (Library of Congress) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1439317916889-2RQ2CF0P8O5YTV17PJYI/image-asset.png Blog - Empress Dowager: Passion for Pink Two Imperial University students wearing white arm bands on left arm of military uniform; mourning death of the Empress Dowager, 1908?, Peking. San Diego County producers of pink tourmaline had much to mourn as well. (Library of Congress) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438872896793-G5RD4C58YIYNWBXV9R7T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Empress Dowager: Passion for Pink Early 20th century tourmaline snuff bottle, from the Tourmaline Queen Mine, Pala, CA. http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/2011/8/21/welcome monthly 0.5 2015-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1438872607192-WCZFUW5U06N0CDP823DE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Welcome everyone! Morganite with tourmaline, from the Esmeralda Mine, 9.5 x 6 cm. Formerly in the T. W. Warner Jr. Collection. (Specimen: Bill Larson Collection; Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/tag/Esmerelda+Mine monthly 0.5 http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/tag/Mountain+Lily+Mine monthly 0.5 http://m.palaminerals.com/blog/tag/John+Sinkankas monthly 0.5 http://m.palaminerals.com/vault-gallery daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1439586812994-BDE5NURY58H51PROLJ93/19105.jpg Vault Gallery - Citrine - Light Quartz crystal from the La Gardette Mine, Bourg d’Oisans, Isere, Thone-Alpes, France. Photographed by Mia Dixon Size: 24.3 x 11 x 7.5 cm Country: France Locality: Bourg d’Oisans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1439586812994-BDE5NURY58H51PROLJ93/19105.jpg Vault Gallery - Citrine - Light Quartz crystal from the La Gardette Mine, Bourg d’Oisans, Isere, Thone-Alpes, France. Photographed by Mia Dixon Size: 24.3 x 11 x 7.5 cm Country: France Locality: Bourg d’Oisans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1439586812765-X2V1CS9570HS1YMZBWIX/19104.jpg Vault Gallery - Quartz Fantastic clear quartz crystal from Arkansas. Has intersecting quartz rod giving the appearance of "the Sword in the Stone". McEari Mine, Arkansas. Photographed by Mia Dixon Size: 10.5 x 8.5 x 10.5 cm Country: USA Locality: Arkansas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1439586812501-SW9L0W8F97U84XY8XGKB/19089.jpg Vault Gallery - Tanzanite Magnificent natural deep blue tanzanite crystal. Super gemmy with a glimmering luster. If you need a great one. Weighs 39.0 gram. Size: 4.7 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm Country: Tanzania Locality: Arusha Region https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1439586812720-NG86NDUAQUBF6XK1UCOW/18928.jpg Vault Gallery - Cornetite Sparkling deep blue cornetite with under tones of sky blue and green. Large matrix with the cornetite coating on both sides with contact on one side. From Etoile Mine, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo Size: 19.4 x 10.4 x 7 cm Country: Dem. Rep. of Congo Locality: Katanga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442496102497-R3TCZFWRI6I71G2OYFBD/18082.jpg Vault Gallery - Tourmaline Tourmaline on Quartz - Jonas Mine, Brazil. Photo: Joe Budd Size: 4.5 x 6.9 x 1.5 cm Country: Brazil Locality: Jonas Mine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442496086314-00XHFYLO6ZVLZETDQUE8/18081.jpg Vault Gallery - Fluorite Fluorite crystal on a matrix of granite. The fluorite is pink and lustrous. Photo: Robert Weldon Size: 8.7 x 4.1 x 3.6 cm Country: Italy Locality: Piemonte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442495998782-I2JERR63R2NZXO4VS3YA/18080.jpg Vault Gallery - Tourmaline Tourmaline with Cleavlandite - Himalaya Mine, USA. Photo: Mia Dixon Size: 8.4 x 3.6 x 2 cm Country: USA Locality: California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442495857897-D2EOWIIESAS1W0OPJUIH/18079.jpg Vault Gallery - Heliodor Highly saturated yellow crystal of heliodor with a small one to top it off and a bit of matrix on the side. Photo: Jeff Scovil Size: 6.7 x 2 x 1.9 cm Country: Brazil Locality: Capelinha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442495652177-KNLXTQSPR83BFF2G8A77/18078.jpg Vault Gallery - Silver Fine silver specimen with a delicate feathery look to it. Photo: Jeff Scovil Size: 5 x 1 x .9 cm Country: Mexico Locality: Batopilas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442495631525-0NUUNISZ1AAWQDKH5ONY/18077.jpg Vault Gallery - Aquamarine Ice-like aquamarine with beautiful etchings sitting on top of iron stained quartz. Photo: Jeff Scovil Size: 7.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm Country: Burma Locality: Sakangyi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442495607276-J45LNUYS1IZQJLAT2J0P/18076.jpg Vault Gallery - Amethyst Beautiful arrangement of flowerlike scepters of amethyst. Photo: Jeff Scovil Size: 3.3 x 2.2 x 1 cm Country: India Locality: Madras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442495590583-SXDWRUYT3CJY2NQ5NH92/18075.jpg Vault Gallery - Silver A fine silver wire in the shape of a dragon. 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(Except for this one, courtesy the Perot Museum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464911148724-MDNKDJ4G4VF71N44CBYE/hall.jpeg Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science These photographs were taken in April 2016 by Pala International's Will Larson. (Except for this one, courtesy the Perot Museum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464906745900-YR41AMJZQ6JP8U11BD8M/IMG_7212.JPG Perot Museum - Eye of the Collector From Nancy and Randy Best. Besides being collectors, the Bests are philanthropists and patrons of the arts, including the Perot Museum. Above, a display of large specimens (though not quite as large as those of the Peabody). Clockwise, from upper right: a sibling to the Peabody's sandstone concretion (France), mesolite on stilbite, calcite, green apophyllite with calcite balls (India), gypsum and selenite, galena, copper (U.S.), gold (U.S.), quartz (Brazil), calcite and sphalerite on chert (U.S.). (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464906767587-X3USVE42S98VAMNAPI09/IMG_7213.JPG Perot Museum - Eye of the Collector The flip side to the previous image with Pala's Bill Larson in the background (lower row only): calcite and quartz, aquamarine and selenite, gypsum, pyrite, prehnite (Mali), azurites (Australia). (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465349179530-YJHLXID5HBNCDC7MVMFW/IMG_7209.jpg Perot Museum - Eye of the Collector More from Nancy and Randy Best. These are old gold figurines from Meso-America. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465349916159-G84U9QIJ25CM7QTNYFGA/IMG_7211.JPG Perot Museum - Eye of the Collector More from Nancy and Randy Best. A silver ingot and silver coins recovered from the 1622 wreck of Nuestra Señora de Atocha. For gemstones recovered from the wreck, search on Palagems.com. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464906960339-0U8D75ABH5OF2BDTWNEH/IMG_7208.JPG Perot Museum - Eye of the Collector From Nancy and Randy Best. A display of fossils, artifacts, and taxidermal birds. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464907887838-PV3BGLAVKI4T7PP133Y7/IMG_7217.JPG Perot Museum - Eye of the Collector Dozens of dispensers. PEZ turns 90 next year, and it's hard to imagine that its dispensers didn't always sport their iconic and ever-changing heads. Here, Carla Eames Hartman has collected many of the best. (And, yes, she's the daughter of design legends Charles and Ray Eames.) Click to enlarge and see how many PEZsters you can ID. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908323264-EDTXF67RG6R8HRQTIPRN/IMG_7219.JPG Perot Museum - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Gold specimens in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. See Wayne Leight's 2012 paper on "The Crystallography of Gold" at the Mineralogical Society of Southern California. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908346949-QIO4BIKT6ROFSN5CPJ6S/IMG_7220.JPG Perot Museum - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Gold specimens in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Note that the specimen at top left is from the Lyda Hill Collection. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908346940-A3Q4G5RFSCS11E5RJFO3/IMG_7221.JPG Perot Museum - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Closeup of gold specimen in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908348791-YZEWCYAC574POWA6KP54/IMG_7222.JPG Perot Museum - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Closeup of gold specimen in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908348827-228DBGSKZY1GTWTYLQ3N/IMG_7223.JPG Perot Museum - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Closeup of gold specimen in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908350153-2YDWHXKULFSKPVTUF43G/IMG_7225.JPG Perot Museum - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Closeup of gold specimens in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465351989666-7I0O5AZK6SNJWM9ACWCW/IMG_7234.JPG Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall An informational placard from the Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465350962226-A20J3S6U8WFSAW6E01D1/IMG_7230.JPG Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall One of several beautiful displays of gem-mineral crystals and faceted gemstones in the Perot Museum's Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465351130404-DMCJQJ51N7P23FCNGLVW/IMG_7231.JPG Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall One of several beautiful displays of gem-mineral crystals and polished gemstones in the Perot Museum's Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465351208127-FIG3N89RXKOF307MFIJZ/IMG_7232.JPG Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall One of several beautiful displays of gem-mineral crystals and faceted gemstones in the Perot Museum's Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465351313548-QAJKS33RR8DX6T3V3O25/IMG_7233.JPG Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall One of several beautiful displays of gem-mineral crystals and faceted gemstones in the Perot Museum's Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909471365-9XRRVH3XNGXGX7XL5MLT/IMG_7246.JPG Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall A view of the main room. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909480756-II7TWKQ7EPY56VZM2DHE/IMG_7244.JPG Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall Tourmalines, string bean-thin and chunky. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909494073-I434UQDY6CHCYA040CZS/IMG_7247.JPG Perot Museum - Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall The centerpiece of the Hall, the great amethyst geode installed on a hinge. See it in action here. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909997702-CNB384EYBOWBEHIEKVUL/IMG_7248.JPG Perot Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909997809-DLU26SNO803LBRKA9RZU/IMG_7249.JPG Perot Museum - For the Younger Set A closeup of the previous image. 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From left, Will Larson, Giancarlo Parodi (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle), unknown (in back), Bill Larson and Carl Larson. Taken at the Sainte-Marie show last summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435352290785-9NRUOCAYXVDKKK9O6J4N/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350012046-5QNN8IQF5SUJUEJ4WDWD/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Opulent opal. This 11.40-carat white opal is typical of that produced in Coober Pedy. It's from the 8 Mile mine. Inv. #16028. 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Björk also holds the specimen in an image for the Serban Ghenea mix of the same song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350461582-1Y1DQUWYWCYSEX9ELF8M/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 In the video for "Crystalline," crystal forms bloom and fade, within and without biospheres. They push up like icy shoots, break up like snow cone pellets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350487358-NDACIOTTIJ4ALBRY59OZ/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 "She's a Rainbow." The cover art for the Biophilia remix album, Bastards (get it?), reminds us of the multicolored strata of Zhangye Geology Park in north-central China. The above image essentially is an outtake from the video for Björk's "Mutual Core (Matthew Herbert's Teutonic Plates Mix)," also from Biophilia, which makes a sensuous mess of earthy delights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350534057-9G1LFQZZDJVF888DOL4W/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 In "Black Lake," Björk takes on the role of a rent earth mother. The song cycle from which this is taken is Vulnicura, i.e., cure for wounds; in this case the wound is her separation from longtime partner, artist Matthew Barney. The relationship and breakup recalls the symbiosis and troubles of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, whose "One Woman Show, 1960–1971" opened at MoMA last month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350588966-RPSRP8GTV80ARGLCR6G8/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Sharp-Cut: The Power of Stones is an interview with performance artist and photographer Tathy Yazigi, who is also a facilitator of the Abramović Method at SESC Pompeia in São Paulo, site of Abramović's recent retrospective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350756178-1RCAAM3Z6GQLDUMLPKZ2/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Calcite with copper inclusions from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Copper District, Michigan, 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 in. Price available upon request. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350797607-BNOA85BG8VQLJJ26E6LJ/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Another view of the specimen. It is now in the Ron Gladnick collection, about which Pala's Will Larson wrote in 2012, in the pages of Mineralogical Record. It has a beautiful coloration: internally bright, externally sporting a fine patina. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350943879-JNV7TTUR9SHIBXW0JZ1N/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Sun king. The coveted specimen catches some rays. Phosphophyllite receives the second half of its name from phyllon, Greek for "leaf," in reference to its perfect cleavage. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435350982169-GKFPWPX8BIB1HJYS6S87/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Tea party. After a long flight, Will Larson enjoys an Bolivian breakfast in La Paz. (Photo: Paparazzo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351000670-HNV8FD29QAP9W1MMBB8Z/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 The fog of war. This guardrail graffito pays homage to the uprising of the people (la raza) that began October 12, 2003, leading to the resignation of President Gonzalo "Goni" Sánchez de Lozada. Two years later, one of the protesters, Evo Morales, would be elected President. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351029022-T2WAXTPDX07QGGMRNUC7/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Bilingual. Even vegetarians have choices with this eclectic menu. And the duck carpaccio is smoked in coca leaves, served with Amazonian almonds. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351055970-0VL2LIEWR0S6SXFR7HMY/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 I'll have the lamb, er, llama. As with the phosphophyllite, a menu description is only so useful. Above, wedges of llama and potato gateau, sautéed vegetables, green pepper sauce. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351125545-7OQ4IMW9ZX8Z5NBBIJ53/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Truckin'. Landscape workers are transported through the concrete jungle of La Paz, a metropolis of about 2.5 million people. The worker in the middle wears a traditional Andeanchullo hat that could have been knit from the wool of the llama Will ate at lunch. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351148409-4ON1CLMBZ5LVIFAIX45I/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Holy Grail. Will Larson examines the phosphophyllite specimen in the lobby of his hotel. (Photo: Paparazzo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351168756-8H0GK3N1DZ2AHYW5KV7P/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 The Inca King. Phosphophyllite from Potosí, Bolivia, 57 mm tall, 60 mm wide. (Photo: Robert Weldon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351218391-04711WROAKMPEY8MH1KZ/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351258313-PMHB1YHOJGZH3GZZOPRF/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Fluorapatite on calcite with a dusting of pyrite. From Portugal, Inv. #21482. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351319842-YGQL26QKJ9GAC10K8ZOD/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Moldavite Brooch, designed by John Hatleberg, private owner. We featured this pin in a 2014 profile of Hatleberg. Moldavite is created from meteorite impact. This jewel is featured in the upcoming exhibition, "Out of This World! Jewelry in the Space Age," which we looked at last month in our sibling e-publication. (Photo: Tony Pettinato, courtesy Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351400351-7WE0W0ZH0455ZM7CKD2W/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Highlighted in the Conversation is the June 7 auction of Gerhard Wagner's impressive collection of tourmaline, an example of which, from Pederneira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is cover star of The Mineralogical Record , above (the Jan–Feb 2015 edition, now out of print). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351518153-NIMKSGOUP2ADLXD4TCF6/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Holmes is shown prospecting on Soledad Mountain in 1935, the year after his historic gold strike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435351583602-9OLNOV6E1WMWWPB975ZK/image-asset.jpeg June 2015 Silver Queen Mine discovery rock, 8 x 5 x 5 in., about 32 lb. In 1963, George Holmes told the Los Angeles Times, regarding the rock, "It's argentite. Very heavy. This piece weighed about 300 lb. before I sawed parts of it off." The rock is offered for sale by Holmes's great grandson, Ryan Allen. (Photo courtesy Ryan Allen) http://m.palaminerals.com/blog-social-media daily 0.75 2015-08-25 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2012-v1 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2006 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/min-news-index daily 0.75 2017-08-02 http://m.palaminerals.com/lapis-lazuli-bancroft daily 0.75 2017-06-22 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2010-v2 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2007-v2 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2014-v2 daily 0.75 2017-06-28 http://m.palaminerals.com/ste-marie-2008 daily 0.75 2017-04-28 http://m.palaminerals.com/burma2005 daily 0.75 2017-06-20 http://m.palaminerals.com/inclusions daily 0.75 2017-04-21 http://m.palaminerals.com/tsavorite-bancroft daily 0.75 2017-06-23 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2011-v1 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2013-v1 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/fotogfocus-scovil daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2008-v2 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2013-v2 daily 0.75 2020-07-19 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2014-v1 daily 0.75 2020-07-19 http://m.palaminerals.com/burma-jade-pt2 daily 0.75 2017-06-20 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2010-v1 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2011-v2 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/meet-the-larsons daily 0.75 2017-06-23 http://m.palaminerals.com/sinkankas daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/mining daily 0.75 2017-06-23 http://m.palaminerals.com/fotogfocus-manorotkul daily 0.75 2017-06-26 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2008-v1 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2009-v2 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2012-v2 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/ste-marie-2015 daily 0.75 2017-04-28 http://m.palaminerals.com/gemology daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/erythrite-april-2015 daily 0.75 2015-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1445881799021-X9S39GMO2OP9XBR3TMS6/image-asset.png Erythrite - April 2015 April flowers? Erythrite from the Bou Azar District, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco, 4 x 3.2 cm. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2015-02 daily 0.75 2017-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442859201169-GRRIP8KKFH25MF9EEW2V/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441128459562-T19AOA6K1QKXMU237B77/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Gold's Gym. Dr. Raquel Alonso-Perez, Curator of the Harvard Mineralogical & Geological Museum, will present "Over 200 Years of the Harvard Mineral Collection" on Collector Day at this year's Westward Look Show. Above, she achieves muscle tone with a hefty gold specimen at last year's Munich Mineral Show. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129299718-D3K4N96MR74CWTSXHGMV/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129412019-MEKD7AYJJJMSHOPP755A/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129513395-B0L2Z1SUDC89O78VJTM8/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Get down. Pala International's Will Larson is included in Westward Look's Sunday night presentation, "Fine Mineral Collecting and the Second Generation." Above, Will stands in an old main drift (tunnel) of the Esmeralda Mine in San Diego County's Mesa Grande District. See more on Pala's mining blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129563572-SLQ07SDKD6QWMEOFAR20/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129724453-CIHYLBRO7S9SEWEJ2C4H/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Triade n ° 1. From left, Alan Hart, Raquel Alonso-Perez and Patrick Dreher window-shop with Bill on the Place Vendôme. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129752503-SCMAQC9HXSMIBBXKT2A8/image-asset.png February 2015 Poised. The Dreher family has been carving gemstones for five generations. GIA students and the general public will have the chance to view their oeuvre courtesy another family—Pala International's Larsons—who are loaning Dreher examples from their personal collection for a special exhibition. Generations of Mastery: Gemstone Carvings by Dreher opens February 19, continuing through summer 2015. Above, carving by Gerd Dreher, 17 x 10 cm, from a single piece of multicolored agate. Courtesy of the Larson family. (Photo: Robert Weldon; © GIA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129795448-B4P8HL24SDUNLSR3TPJU/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Hall. Even when the Galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie is not playing host to champagne-supping receptioneers, it has a stately presence. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129836764-BZG9AM48TKATAFNWMEGM/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 L'invitation. The five speakers listed above "are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition." Click image to enlarge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129904851-CWIWDNGGBX5IGE5FSHR9/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Giants n ° 1. Crystal giants create a central theme around which more intimate exhibits beckon. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129931135-11W09QPY9FJC5KHQEADK/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Giants n ° 2. A museum-goer peruses a cauldron of Brazilian agate beside a steeple of quartz. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129956508-CTAIJWYCBBKLI42PI2JO/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Giants n ° 3. Cardioid and carved garnets along with cut-and-set examples. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441129994906-UJR6UPNYPN8A3DEKRE50/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Wooden Spoon-Seller's Sapphire. From the exhibition caption: Corundum sapphire of Louis XIV, called "Great Sapphire"/ Crystal cut in rhomboid/ Sri Lanka (acquired and cut in 1669)/ Formerly in the collection of the crown jewels/ This sapphire called "Grand Sapphire" (and formerly identified as the Ruspoli), is the most beautiful sapphire in the world in the seventeenth century. Louis XIV, who enjoyed blue gems, made it one of the main pieces of the crown jewels. Hughes (1997, 238) attributes this sapphire's original moniker to S. M. Tagore, who wrote that it was found by a spoon seller in Bengal. A Roman prince named Ruspoli later sold it to the salesman from whom it was acquired by Louis XIV. We will feature more images of this famous jewel in our sibling publication, Palagems Reflective Index, on February 16. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130025549-8EISRSD3V0JX2A8ZSWAO/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 One of a cast of thousands. Gold from the collection of Colonel Louis Vésignié, who so far has bequeathed nearly 5,000 exceptional specimens to the Múseum in the 1960s. Ten years following his death, his heirs offer for sale 15,000 additional pieces. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130047798-P9P0MSJ84J9O0BARG067/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Triade n ° 2. What, no embarrassing images of Giancarlo? Bill Larson is flanked by Raquel Alonso-Perez and Alan Hart. (Photo: Patrick Dreher) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130129479-F67FW1MMXMUHKTMLF1MB/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Attached at the hip. Tourmaline on quartz from Santa Rosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 6.5 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm. We chose this specimen in anticipation of the debut of a new book, The World of Tourmalines, at the Westward Look Show. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130207367-KV1ECI6NXYMBTDJKEK2G/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Embedded. Benitoite from Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito County, California. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130332493-7M8BVTLGTDNZ3L63N78C/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Collecting Chinese translation by Yan (Dorina) Shen. Click image to open PDF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130470803-F571IOS53I83F7FKZSYP/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130519944-5XBZS147LGL81D5TIRTQ/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Graphite dendrite on pyrope that developed through graphitization at the garnet-diamond interface (1.8-mm horizontal field of view). (Photomicrograph: John Koivula) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130592156-27NZLUWIFBK4W51YB7NK/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 This brochure is available for downloading and printing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130639808-NPIMQ8JOR1NALN1ETRV2/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 This poster is available for downloading and printing. Other resources are available here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130760605-XIA1LRDRRRO0YQ2C4ST6/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Battered battering ram. The stolen SUV used to gain entrance to the Wells Fargo History Museum in downtown San Francisco was discarded after the heist. (See streaming video here.) This is the fifth robbery since November using the battering-ram method. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130836250-9S5CBO1VRMJQQJSW9S84/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441130939333-S5Z5NRRP6CWKSMPEUSOV/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 The rock in question was found in Russia's Udachnaya diamond mine in northern Siberia. (Photo: Larry Taylor) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441131006511-SNCXIMRC6B8OKJ26I9QI/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 A chip off the old block. A sample from the Black Beauty meteorite shows its different rock types. (Photo: Brown University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441131186570-LVT1NHQHMJS27YYBW9FC/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 "Bahia" Emerald. The specimen currently is under lock and key at an undisclosed location. (Photo: PRNewsFoto/Attorney Andrew Spielberger) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441131251611-OAMNUVK98H9XW1ZJJS4O/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 Amethyst Hotel. One rendering of a possible actualization of the hotel design. (Image courtesy NL Architects) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441131319483-ZDOGG9N851XOM7HBZAKV/image-asset.jpeg February 2015 A bicolor tourmaline from the historic Himalaya Mine. Double terminated, 6.6 x 1.4 x 1.4 cm. Inventory #17039. (Photo: John McLean) http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2007-v1 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/calcite-june-2015 daily 0.75 2015-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1445881854932-KSQDQCUQJWTADUJOALKX/2015-06_feat2.jpeg Calcite - June 2015 Calcite with copper inclusions from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Copper District, Michigan, 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 in. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1445881892066-FMK2XDDSX4HF9UY36RUH/feat_cu_calcite_big3_v2.png Calcite - June 2015 Another view of the specimen. (Photo: Jason Stephenson) http://m.palaminerals.com/tourmaline-feb-2015 daily 0.75 2015-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1445881633761-BTOMHSSY500EKVQLDOB8/image-asset.png Tourmaline - Feb 2015 Tourmaline on quartz from Santa Rosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 6.5 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm. CLICK TO ENLARGE (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/aquamarine-dec-2014 daily 0.75 2015-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1445881412445-WBR9LD9EEWV9DN0FD9B8/image-asset.png Aquamarine - Dec 2014 Aquamarine on quartz from Thuong Xuan, Vietnam, 10 x 4.5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2009-v1 daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/benitoite-feb-2015 daily 0.75 2015-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1445881715813-HTBDU8HNCIIXMDWWZLE0/image-asset.png Benitoite- Feb 2015 Benitoite from Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito County, California. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/goethite-aug-2015 daily 0.75 2015-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1445881953701-CH3U86C5386RKHX4R9YO/feat_cu_calcite_big4_crop_v2.png Goethite - Aug 2015 Un Spécimen Andalou. Goethite from Filón Sur Mine, Tharsis, Alosno, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 11 x 12 x 6 cm. This specimen has been sold. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Robert Weldon) http://m.palaminerals.com/pala-pegmatites daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/pegmatyte-veins-pala daily 0.75 2016-05-26 http://m.palaminerals.com/site-map daily 0.75 2018-09-10 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2015-04 daily 0.75 2015-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442859251802-1VJ72OL96KR8FOU13A53/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441056410982-DJKU2XZG9K4CLSTMD8KH/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 The angels want to wear your red shoes. A shot at Pala International's booth at this year's Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. From left, dealer Federico "Hippolyte" Barlocher, Alan Hart (Head of Earth Science Collections at The Natural History Museum, London), dealer Edward Boehm, Raquel Alonso-Perez (Curator of the Harvard Mineralogical & Geological Museum), Pala International's Bill Larson, dealer Marcus Budil and photographer Mark Mauthner (kneeling; see his new book, below). See more photos from the Westward Look Show Sunday Might Program, below. Photo: Rika Larson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441056472597-EPZ1052VETKBWHKDKSFI/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Released at the Tucson show this year, the above volume memorializes Gerhard Wagner's impressive tourmaline collection, which will be auctioned later this spring. The bilingual book features 379 beautiful color images by photographer Mark Mauthner and is available in a deluxe and standard edition by BlueCap Productions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441056500687-GVBSSZEDLZ2OLLKCK0N1/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441056576552-59A8GZDCY8PHDGDFIFK8/image-asset.png April 2015 The proceedings from select previous sympsosia are available. Pictured above are the cover and pages from as last year's symposium, held on the topic of Peridot and Uncommon Green Gem Minerals. See details here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441056608874-4S1A01ZDJSGZE8YTQKHR/arusha_2015.jpg April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441056709176-3JTGUKG6KRCUS93TPRGG/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 La Cruz de Amatitlán, Valenciana Mine, Amatitlán, Guerrero, Mexico, 4.75" x 3.5". (Photo: Joe Budd) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441056915921-IUNVXIHUE4JIAHXAERGH/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057038964-D9DHBQIJ956YY0E2VW68/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 The evening began with an introduction by BlueCap Productions' Bryan Swoboda. Bryan himself is a second-generation-er in the world of minerals; his late father Edward Swoboda was honored on the 2012 Sunday Evening Program. (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057138914-BRUIWNADHG1P2FSYET3I/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Pala International's Will Larson, left, views an image of his 1989 self at the famous Himalaya Mine, as mother Jeanne Larson bites her nails. (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057167604-B16JS2ZK01PLQCOB9IVC/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Sage advice that Evan Jones, left, received from his father Bob Jones who has been an avid collector and author. Evan, from Arizona, tried to heed his father's advice, playing lead guitar in a reggae band, Kindread, and a neo-Grateful Dead band, Xtra Ticket. (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057191001-H58U9BOI2M77STAXI1I9/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Viewers of Weather Channel's Prospectors series will have seen the Dorris family, including Krystle, left. Krystle also has outside interests—last week she was crowned Ms. Colorado United States. (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057217240-1PPP0MG4MPYLNW8HN0N6/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Christophe Keilmann, left, and his father Johannes Keilmann are really a two-man show, producing Mineralientage München, the Munich Show. (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057246262-ZLW0HCOG6DMPNEGYTHET/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 How'd that sneak in? (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057290852-6133A03MWRPKAWVO1WVQ/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Coloradan Brian Kosnar, left, has taken over management of the family business, Mineral Classics, from his late father Richard A. Kosnar, who collected many a world-class specimen, including what would be known as The Colorado Dragon, which we profiled last fall. (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057334154-H0X5B4H9FSDW2UQ1PLPI/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 The presenters stand before the last slide in Brian Kosnar's presentation, showing him as a tyke in his element. (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441057373148-6ZWB4H36IGI6S9TSWFOB/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Bill Larson, above, upon receiving the 2015 American Mineral Heritage Award at the Westward Look Show. Upon announcing the award to Bill, Wendell Willson and Gene Meieran told him: We did not only vote against you, we strongly advocated against you,we told everyone else to also vote against you. In fact I purposely left your name off the ballot…. but to no avail. We were not convincing enough! (Photos: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441127878742-OZ9H1U7971BPCPHX7V3D/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Alan Hart, Carl Larson and Raquel Alonso-Perez say, "Cheers!" (Photo: Patrick Dreher) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126112561-1A4W35GPEJJQNGYLUVW4/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 The "Candelabra" Tourmaline was mined in 1972 by Bill Larson at the Tourmaline Queen Mine in San Diego County's Pala District. It now is on public display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. (Photo: Harold & Erica Van Pelt) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126197442-CVLNPUFQ9MS5WUOJ1VN5/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 April flowers? Erythrite from the Bou Azar District, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco, 4 x 3.2 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126272496-HQK8971CAMCHJHL9R8QL/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126372337-MGCPOPOO98M7MIX1MS49/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 David London's 2008 Pegmatites goes for a premium now, if you can locate a copy. Try contacting the publisher. Here's what distributor Lithographie had to say about it: "London’s book gives us an excellent and thorough review of the current state of the art in pegmatite studies. In Part I, Geology, London provides a primer on the mineralogy, geology, and classification of pegmatites. But the center of gravity of this treatise is in Part II, Origins, which consolidates London’s petrological model of internal pegmatite evolution, and compares it with other concepts." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126397324-ICAABZA9LSIK87KR1JB8/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 At Pala International's mineral preparation room, with a San Diego County collection behind, Bill Larson, Betty London and David London. Betty chose to have a nice day in Fallbrook as we convoyed to the mines. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126415346-YGS3WVLA5MAEEPI6EZCV/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126433667-YA48VGGUHRUT62P9UHLJ/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 RPL Mining does the heavy lifting at the Mountain Lily Mine. Above, Pala crew member Casey Jones tries to free his toe from the tread of an 80,000-lb. excavator. (We know what's on the iPod in the cab: Carole King.) Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126480079-TQTXS89HWLK2ISXLB6E9/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Carl Larson in the bucket of the digger, demonstrating that it can hold 6000 lbs. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126542814-MZMNWUC0IAW0S7UBFLL0/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 This 1.05-carat "emeralite" tourmaline was cut by John Sinkankas, for whom this month's symposium was named. And he found it, too, on the dump by the Ware tunnel (Mountain Lily Mine). (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126565755-8PQFGMZBFL4L0YVT15RB/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Carl Larson, Kyle Snyder, with David London in back, where he can study the schorl patterns. Note the size of the pegmatite. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126585661-90AUQCZV92H5VS2XVRU4/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126655346-LZ1JA5EZ8807UBKQGV2B/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Plat of the Emeralite Mine No. 2 Lode. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126734689-0U6BWP0MH21EHBZ7NSLV/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 Half empty or half full? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441126787820-PYISKIC5E89D6VS10SVZ/image-asset.jpeg April 2015 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2015-08 daily 0.75 2015-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442859355290-SVQ2CPUJPB7ZU31REYZ9/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441038909167-GD078LO1FV66SO0ANRRH/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Pala International's Bill and Jeanne Larson recently had a getaway in Vail, Colorado, and were greeted by this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039420548-351UHP5SQ4HMDRYWP3MF/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Cover star for the Denver Fine Mineral Show is a Chinese fluorite photographed by James Elliott. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039444691-R1R9F9Q55E6N19X5I3I6/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Starburst. Show visitors also can take in the sights of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Above, side view detail of "The Alma King" rhodochrosite from the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado, looking very much like the chewy candy we ate as kids. (Photo: Richard M. Wicker, © Denver Museum of Nature and Science) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039477254-52C9UMAV24BCZ5JBNLH6/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Starburst. Detail of the large aquamarine vug called Diane's Pocket. Discovered in 2004 by prospector Steve Brancato at a claim site near the summit of Mount Antero in the Sawatch Range of central Colorado. The specimen measures 37 inches by 25 inches, and also contains white feldspar, silvery mica, and red garnets, and dozens of black quartz crystals. (Photo: Scott Dressel-Martin, © Denver Museum of Nature and Science) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039509694-FGI09I3X96FTT57MXSY1/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Something for everyone. The Mineralogy Society of Hong Kong featured a scavenger hunt for visitors as well as an educational area for kids. (Photo: Mark Mauthner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039578684-WIPV15JV89TBYM3A0FV8/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Will Larson sits on the steps of the theater. See what's on the other side of the door behind him. (Photo: Rika Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039721582-9S5GD4ICNADYF2JIJ5YH/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Alpine views. Display pinlights polka-dot the Caligari-esque stairsteps and jumble of olive-black vesuvianite specimens found on the Italian side of the Rhône-Alpes. From the special exhibition, Alps, at this year's Sainte-Marie show. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039743210-O8PZ4CGLPU91ONT0AG5A/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 More Alpine views Also from the Alps exhibition, a variety of specimens from Tirol and Salzburg, Austria. Like an antique telephone pole insulator, the amethyst scepter at center displays only a hint of purple. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039789133-QJO3Y9TDA51S209G5K54/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 To whet the appetite, see our reprint of the above report by none other than Richard Jahns, with Lauren A. Wright. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441039915183-X44RY2VEI3FTH3SS9ME4/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Un Spécimen Andalou. Goethite from Filón Sur Mine, Tharsis, Alosno, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 11 x 12 x 6 cm. This specimen has been sold. (Photo: Robert Weldon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441040343108-UFBMKEN70A80FDOTFMOS/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 From left, Professor Jay Ague, the Peabody Museum's curator of mineralogy; David Friend; and the museum's director, David Skelly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441040388981-T36394SW8FLM2PF6QGIC/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Before. The standpipe fixture above became the recipient of a brilliant golden "geode"on Los Angeles' Traction Avenue, in what now is an arts district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441040415256-KVT6ED5QQSYZTR8Z4SXY/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441040438624-1T5E1LS2H90FH9D5FFM1/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 After. Is silver Urban Geode #12 still intact in this Google Maps image? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441040546036-T4BZWNQME2FS1UPE54SO/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 One of the carbonaceous areas in the Haverö ureilite. The optical microscopy image (top right) and SEM image (center) of a typical carbonaceous area in Haverö (area containing the 21R polytype). The SEM image shows the different heights in the carbonaceous area. The lower left inset shows a scheme of the spatial concentric arrangement of the different carbonaceous areas through a section represented by the solid white line on the SEM picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441040569717-20WE03Z9A629OT22UD41/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 Lava flows far from its source in this streaming video, whereby the videographer drone captures some of the action. Shown is one of the two Tolbachik volcanoes—the Plosky (flat). The other is the Ostry (sharp). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441040619085-ZDBHMZZ9IIG7QQGOHIBQ/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1441040647368-TQHF7NW0PK09WOJC9FCI/image-asset.jpeg August 2015 http://m.palaminerals.com/silver-18078 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442506536935-TA2KG27CRNNQIKRVSCQL/image-asset.jpeg Silver #18078 http://m.palaminerals.com/quartz-19104 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442505773325-8Y18ZZ1T7HIP5Y8JKVG7/image-asset.jpeg Quartz #19104 http://m.palaminerals.com/heliodor-18079 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442506465052-4OA3JDVHE4P8OEITM9P5/image-asset.jpeg Heliodor #18079 http://m.palaminerals.com/citrine-19105 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442501898996-P3NP5KWOGMF3S4PFAE3I/image-asset.jpeg Citrine #19105 Quartz crystal from the La Gardette Mine, Bourg d’Oisans, Isere, Thone-Alpes, France. Photographed by Mia Dixon Size: 24.3 x 11 x 7.5 cm Country: France Locality: Bourg d’Oisans http://m.palaminerals.com/cornetite-18928 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442507468836-OMF9S8NTIHE00W8BOWSA/18928.jpg Cornetite #18928 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442507468818-3BNCFDRI1GDGCD2ELZ1P/18928a.jpg Cornetite #18928 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442507468891-OB5AYR00AFKGVFWW5W68/18928b.jpg Cornetite #18928 http://m.palaminerals.com/amethyst-18076 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442506642715-D6O9V2QMAF9HFBX03YM2/image-asset.jpeg Amethyst #18076 http://m.palaminerals.com/tanzanite-19089 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442507590404-DVZJ92GIRD4BGBGRQGC7/19089.jpg Tanzanite #19089 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442507590368-Y9OCQT6TF7LBKRU76BEB/19089a.jpg Tanzanite #19089 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442507590449-UA61UCOWQQ305P1O3N94/19089b.jpg Tanzanite #19089 http://m.palaminerals.com/flourite-18181 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442506291331-RDAJRVH2DR4MYB3948DG/image-asset.jpeg Flourite #18181 http://m.palaminerals.com/tourmaline-18080 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442506410730-0C9H5SBLKOTSFNQ0OP7R/image-asset.jpeg Tourmaline #18080 http://m.palaminerals.com/subscribe daily 0.75 2017-03-17 http://m.palaminerals.com/tourmaline-18082 daily 0.75 2015-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442506219705-O4MG3OUSZEXKMGNBAIAC/image-asset.jpeg Tourmaline #18082 http://m.palaminerals.com/fotogfocus-index daily 0.75 2015-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1442858967668-T5PZ22JRTGFSADEZ5D9Q/image-asset.jpeg fotogfocus-index http://m.palaminerals.com/changsha-2013 daily 0.75 2017-04-21 http://m.palaminerals.com/fotogfocus-cupillard daily 0.75 2017-06-23 http://m.palaminerals.com/fotogfocus-kruijen daily 0.75 2017-06-26 http://m.palaminerals.com/fotogfocus-oros daily 0.75 2017-06-27 http://m.palaminerals.com/burma-mineral-utopia3 daily 0.75 2017-06-20 http://m.palaminerals.com/ehrmann daily 0.75 2017-06-22 http://m.palaminerals.com/burma-mineral-utopia daily 0.75 2017-06-20 http://m.palaminerals.com/gem-news-2009-pala40 daily 0.75 2017-06-23 http://m.palaminerals.com/burma-mineral-utopia2 daily 0.75 2017-06-20 http://m.palaminerals.com/evaluation daily 0.75 2015-10-17 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2015-12 daily 0.75 2015-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg December 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993241028-VDI0IFU51BKH0M0J5WO0/many-merry-men December 2015 Many merry men munching in München. Clockwise from bottom: Will Larson, Bill Larson, Laurent Thomas (Polychrome Minerals), Nick Stolowitz (Green Mountain Minerals), dealer Brice Gobin (wearing DEVO energy dome hat), dealer Marcus Walter, dealer Marcus Budil, Joel A. Bartsch (CEO and Curator of Gems and Minerals, Houston Museum of Natural Science), Dylan Stolowitz (the evil twin from Green Mountain Minerals). (Photo: Restaurant server) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448381252939-I8U1P6E4NKF0M03FMTFK/AGTA-gemfair-tucson December 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993256654-IJ8KKVI4S6IGV76FP3ZR/westward-look-show-cover December 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1449088894649-1R11MVAZFU1MYN3NSULR/tgms_poster.jpg December 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993270309-QCL6IR5B0IOGDLD7M3J4/lyn-knight-auctions-pegmatite-collection December 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993282439-4PQK0DP9VEJ3K9GED5GB/arushsa-gem-fair-2016.png December 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993297562-7IMCRJHYUJIGNN3E965B/img-2443-goethite.jpg December 2015 Goethite from Alosno-Tharsis Road, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 8.5 x 9.5 x 5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993308525-3UPHIF1BAB130OH8CGK9/rutile-from-madagascar December 2015 Rutile, Tetikanana, Ambatofinandrahana, Madagascar, 7.1 x 4.5 x 1.5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1449000927574-XEX3SBUP365E1XY95988/minrec-cover December 2015 The Inca King is cover star for the Sep–Oct edition of Mineralogical Record (Photo: Augustine de Valence, MIM) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993329237-FP9TE7SXV3YGKDZNYV56/palaminerals-splash.png December 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993339987-J5NDCGF3FSF93T0BSM69/rare-flea December 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993352031-MRJUGGMO8SAGTWVBGRKI/rare-flea-close-up December 2015 Coccobacilli. The bacteria are visible on the flea's proboscis (sucking mouthpart). (Photos: George Poinar Jr., courtesy Oregon State University College of Science) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993364963-42FPFIZLH9R12CFF85LA/crystal-model.jpg December 2015 The model shows the ionic structure that would make up a crystal of table salt 0.0000096 mm across. (Photo courtesy Dr. Robert Krickl) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993377096-SJDFQVPTMDS4RAUYOU87/outhouse-as-adit.jpg December 2015 "Modern Rest Rooms" is a nice touch. (Photo courtesy Cintas) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993386754-CEH52Y24XDTY2UELX71S/2nd-largest-diamond December 2015 The 1,111 carat diamond was recovered from a mine in Botswana. We at Pala International think this would be a pretty superb crystal specimen. The best place for it would be the Smithsonian Institution displayed next to the Hope Diamond. (Photo courtesy Lucara Diamond Corp.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993396931-QC5OC9U920SNRU2PF1N9/mineraldesk-curator December 2015 The easiest way to take in most of Curator's features is to watch this brief streaming video. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993407522-CUUAMGTQIVWNJCZISXT0/mining-town-silverton December 2015 Mining Town. Silverton lying below Sultan Mountain, 1901. (Photo: Detroit Photographic Co.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993419883-2XD7XVEBMJ72M501VSTX/dptv-superfund-video.png December 2015 http://m.palaminerals.com/company daily 0.75 2015-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1435608913666-RNH764GZWEG2DDUTDTP9/image-asset.jpeg Company Classic rubellite, pink tourmaline from Pala district, Stewart Lithia Mine, San Diego County. 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Business class travelers are greeted by large-scale slices in the lounge at Dubai International Airport. (Photo: Brice Gobin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448461395186-YOHGU9MFU9KQ2PY9H0UY/image-asset.jpeg October 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448668245793-VX8I0ZMOGTW04EEWFKRQ/image-asset.jpeg October 2015 "Crown of Shengus." Aquamarine on feldspar and muscovite, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan, 27 cm. (Photo: Malte Sickinger, courtesy Munich Show) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448668582901-J15DTI0VYO76QWWSRJ5J/image-asset.jpeg October 2015 Wall of Golden Fleece. This is one of the great highlights of the Munich Residenz Treasury, which visitors to the Munich Show can take in as a side trip. In July 2010 we examined the relationship between the stone that would become the Hope Diamond and a ceremonial pendant for the Order of the Golden Fleece (look for the little sheep hanging from some of these insignias). (Photo courtesy Eloïse Galliou) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448668766649-I7B7VTUZKMROIDM7BETM/image-asset.png October 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448668831489-ZBHUA8ZD6ALR6ULS417X/image1.jpeg October 2015 Tanzanite parasite? Prehnite and tanzanite from Merelani, Tanzania, 5.5 x 4 x 4 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448668864529-JMSRXOSWEK1IBMISZFX7/palaminerals-splash.png October 2015 "The Wire," from the Ground Hog Mine in Colorado. This and several other priceless gold specimens are kept by Harvard in a bank lock-box. Bill's story includes ten images of other beautiful golds. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448668915481-5OI0HE25H5QTS5HHCSNY/image-asset.jpeg October 2015 Red embers. A gorgeous example of pyrope garnets in schist, from the Red Embers Mine in Erving, Massachusetts. Read the story behind this specimen at the tail end of "Appraising Harvard Redux." (Photo: Ben DeCamp) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448318813382-YQLCMF1QFHN4EX232QSG/image-asset.jpeg October 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448462626245-S517Z3IMQ0KLOK66E80M/image-asset.jpeg October 2015 http://m.palaminerals.com/harvard-2015 daily 0.75 2016-05-26 http://m.palaminerals.com/rutile-2015-12 daily 0.75 2016-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448835034438-GORH8KPCC18W0MW549ZP/image-asset.jpeg Rutile-2015-12 Rutile, Tetikanana, Ambatofinandrahana, Madagascar, 7.1 x 4.5 x 1.5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/contact-us daily 0.75 2018-08-29 http://m.palaminerals.com/goethite-2015-12 daily 0.75 2016-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448834883750-RR3BWC6T6X8LNJBF30KI/feat_cu_calcite_big4_crop_v2.png Goethite-2015-12 Goethite from Alosno-Tharsis Road, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 8.5 x 9.5 x 5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/phosphophyllite-2015-12 daily 0.75 2015-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448834768639-UU3H6KA3B4CA358H8VER/feat_cu_calcite_big4_crop_v2.png Phosphophyllite-2015-12 The Inca King. Phosphophyllite from Potosí, Bolivia, 57 mm tall, 60 mm wide. Price available upon request. (Photo: Robert Weldon) http://m.palaminerals.com/social-media-icons daily 0.75 2015-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448996215830-GUVDUTSGQ7UWR8TX6WXB/facebook social-media-icons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448996228664-CUCSVDIN7QHF0IWNT30N/google-plus social-media-icons http://m.palaminerals.com/prehnite-2015-10 daily 0.75 2015-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1449095506580-D4N381AV3O1ND75MBJJZ/feat_prehnite_tanzanite_a.jpeg Prehnite-2015-10 Tanzanite parasite? Prehnite and tanzanite from Merelani, Tanzania, 5.5 x 4 x 4 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/azurite-malachite-2016-02 daily 0.75 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454094744124-Y7GWVN0PB45JC1NMOK5L/image-asset.jpeg Azurite & Malachite Azurite and malachite from the Sepon Mine, Vilabouly, Savannakhet, Laos, 8 x 6 x 5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2016-02 daily 0.75 2016-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg February 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454102716186-L2GA0Q9YYWRNLJSIIXU8/Geode+Wedding+Cake February 2016 I do. This wedding cake was created by Intricate Icings Cake Design in Denver, Colorado. It's made of "a combination of granulated sugar and rock candy that was then crafted with multicolored modeling chocolate and designed within a fondant covered cake" accented by hand painting and gold leaf, according to this blog post. Cake artist Rachael offers classes as well as free tutorials on the Intricate Icings blog. (Photo: Ali N. Garret) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454102727730-W5AV1HKNIFIYX0SEKONG/Store+Display+Windo February 2016 I might. This window from Bergdorf Goodman on New York's 5th Avenue displays fashion against millions of Swarovski crystals, not to mention amethyst geodes. (Love the miner's helmet.) See images from the rest of the series here. (Photo: Ricky Zehavi) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448381252939-I8U1P6E4NKF0M03FMTFK/AGTA-gemfair-tucson February 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448993256654-IJ8KKVI4S6IGV76FP3ZR/westward-look-show-cover February 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1449088894649-1R11MVAZFU1MYN3NSULR/tgms_poster.jpg February 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454102761505-ZPVVRB9M254S13JDNCJQ/r_and_m_jan2015.jpg February 2016 In keeping with the TGMS theme, "Shades of Blue: Minerals of the World," the current edition of Rocks and Minerals (91:1, Jan–Feb 2016) looks at Blue's hues, from baby to indigo. In "Blue Minerals: Exploring Cause & Effect," our friend Elise Skalwold, with co-author William Bassett, takes the reader on a high-level tour of the science of blue, after noting that the color holds a special place in our world: "from its vast expanses of cerulean waters to its azure heavens above…." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454102782680-6QHPY2DDDLNC66MZEL9G/WHIT11_Lg.jpg February 2016 For nearly eight decades, Bob Jones has immersed himself in the world of minerals, authoring hundreds of articles and several books. He's attended every Tucson Show since 1960, and has hosted BlueCap Productions' What's Hot in Tucson series. In 2004, his Fifty-Year History of the Tucson Show was published by Mineralogical Record. Last year, he spoke on that same topic, a podcast of which was posted by BlueCap in December. Last month, BlueCap posted Jones's "Best of the Best" lecture from 2014. As BlueCap's Bryan Swoboda mentions in his lead-in to this new podcast, exciting talks are in store at the 2016 Tucson Mineral Lecture Series at the Pueblo Gem & Mineral Show, tomorrow, February 2, and Friday, February 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454102796967-N0Q5UOF8HNW6QHAZ7OVF/image-asset.jpeg February 2016 Azurite and malachite from the Sepon Mine, Vilabouly, Savannakhet, Laos, 8 x 6 x 5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454103647083-UEDT7K1A1WLJY1PI2Q8I/Mine+in+Yekatarina%2C+Russia February 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454103658320-VTBLMQFZMR2D9WPNAZI9/Litlanesfoss+Falls%2C+Iceland February 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454294255509-K3BJZATXKYLI4SAF4K1O/The+Mining+Burden+cover February 2016 Dummy. Dummy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454291419677-I9MHW0ATMG4OUXY78SC3/Mines+of+the+American+West+cover February 2016 Dummy. Dummy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454378329767-TMTDQ5AO5UY8R136ZJZ4/Salt+of+the+Earth+thumbnail February 2016 From the trailer for The Salt of the Earth: having climbed a series of ladders, this worker emerges from the gold mine pit with a bag that could pay off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1454378486030-LR2EWQUS24B0AMYY0HAB/Jade+Miner February 2016 Building the pyramids. Over 10,000 miners snake up the hillside at Hpakangyi. From "Jade in Upper Burma – Heaven and Hell" by Richard W. Hughes. (Photo: R. W. 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Price available upon request. (Photo: Benjamin deCamp) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459466181613-40WZWMSS8ROZJWRQV5R1/Label April 2016 The https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459213309321-C4T3OVDYNCC0FRN2HBFO/Nevadaite April 2016 Nevadaite, above, is only known to occur in just two locations: Eureka County, Nevada, and a copper mine in Kyrgyzstan. (Photo: Robert Downs, University of Arizona) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459292806478-PIAO3QLTK743VU9OZPQ0/Elbaite+Tourmaline April 2016 The missing specimen is a single-crystal of elbaite measuring 5.6 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm with a green body and red-pink termination. A paper label with the catalog number 98718 was glued to the crystal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459217824951-O8YLMT9L4QDRCHA8F4O1/Michael+Hager April 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459228941320-AA3CURZA3ERNEO0J9FM2/Geology+Museum April 2016 The School of Mines Geology Museum even has an outdoor geologic trail with seven outcrops featuring a variety of geologic and paleontological points of interest, including fossilized plants and dinosaur tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459297944284-Y0HSSHDSY8J6PN61BM66/American+Mineral+Heritage April 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459362993746-29EMNGOUU884KXGM5P5X/The+Peach April 2016 The Peach. This specimen was found in 1989, according to a chapter on the Bennett Quarry in A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities, by W. B. Thompson, D. L. Joyner, R. G. Woodman, and V. T. King, available online. The above image comes from "Appraising Harvard Redux," in which Pala International's Bill Larson recalls the highlights during his valuation of the mineral collection at Harvard last summer. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459305940655-GOEQAVA9GJLSKOLFBR22/Skelly+and+Friend April 2016 Peabody Director David Skelly and David Friend prepare to strike the first blows in the demolition phase of construction. (Photo: Sally Pallatto) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459306193234-893OK4CLHA3S9KOX5MEC/Artist%27s+Rendering+of+Friend+Hall April 2016 Artist rendering of the David Friend Hall. (Photo: Yale Peabody Museum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459306647560-IKRVQP6TJP4SAX3HY648/Berger+and+Selenite April 2016 Richard Berger with the selenite rose from his Masterpieces of the Earth Collection. It is one of the massive crystals that will anchor the David Friend Hall. (Photo: Casper Beesley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459307293232-QGEOFE0QHZFJRHXTX19B/Alan+Hart April 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459522988666-5R8XGUNH4QFDSSOAE37L/Alonso-Perez%2C+Larson%2C+and+Hart April 2016 Alan Hart with Raquel Alonso-Perez, Curator of the Harvard Mineralogical and Geological Museum, and Bill Larson of Pala International at the opening of the mineralogical and geological hall of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, December 19, 2014. (Photo: Patrick Dreher) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459467726241-TKXVQ82XKXK8X8M5W2RC/FriendlyProprietor.jpg April 2016 Dummy. Dummy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459456222670-ZRMSYTMIE7E8FW5Q7D70/Pala+Presents April 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459455949916-X61XC3K4IVS9C2E911Q8/Prospectus+cover April 2016 Dummy. Dummy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459495696608-2TXK2MWQ1WRZXXAYKNYA/Jim+Spann April 2016 Jim Spann as Atlas, holding up the sky, on his way to the reception in the planetarium building for American Mineral Heritage: The Harvard Collection (see more about this above). (Photo: Gail Copus Spann) http://m.palaminerals.com/yogo-sapphire daily 0.75 2016-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459376849965-Y05J62Y318JJVRUPCCF7/Pala+Presents Yogo Sapphire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459376694800-X4MBRGC84BHIO9LBWA82/Cover Yogo Sapphire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459379616171-146RNIVSUDVU3M2D11U6/Sapphires Yogo Sapphire Sapphires from the Yogo deposit in their uncut, unpolished state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459379868015-09M1E8KMB25MFZ8UA9NT/Mine+Building Yogo Sapphire One of the old mine buildings. A portion of the sap­phire-bearing dike is shown in the cleft in the hillside in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459383806462-PKYJTYV93I8Y21U3K0XU/Financial+Statement Yogo Sapphire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459451619266-TDIUJ2Y17SXDS9X1MLCK/Figure+2 Yogo Sapphire Figure 2.—Property map of the New Mine Sapphire Syndicate. Judith Basin County, Mont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459452778235-LWLDBIYEFQ49MTMOZ7NI/Figure+3 Yogo Sapphire Figure 3.—View eastward along the old open-cuts of the British sapphire mine, Judith Basin County, Mont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459452961362-ADFGKF9P2AYQ3HSI6D3F/Figure+4 Yogo Sapphire Figure 4.—View westward into the mouth of Kelly Gulch from the crest of the east wall of Yogo Gulch. Dumps of old mine workings may be seen along the northern margin of the valley floor behind the row of deserted houses. Judith Basin County, Mont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459453256686-LMP3OY97B4QP4GPGV8MH/Figure+5 Yogo Sapphire Figure 5.—East wall of Togo Gulch as seen from the valley of Kelly Gulch. The cleft in the limestone cliff marks the fracture zone along which the sapphire-bearing dike was emplaced. Judith Basin County, Mont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459453758335-SFBHPP92KM1SFM9599H6/Plate+1 Yogo Sapphire Plate 1.—Map of the Yogo Sapphire Deposit, Judith Basin County, Montana. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459452189678-ZNR74T7UUNORHF0H5JG0/Figure+6 Yogo Sapphire Figure 6.—Yogo sapphire crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459450289595-0SSCCS0XX203B4YVGL23/Table+1 Yogo Sapphire Table 1.—Sapphire production in Montana and in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459451295089-DKQOSB42OPJ0RSMOZH55/Figure+7 Yogo Sapphire Figure 7.—Longitudinal section showing approximate extent of underground workings in the Yogo Sapphire deposit. http://m.palaminerals.com/diopside-feb-2014 daily 0.75 2015-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1445880554709-AKM7GDHT4I65FKDZ9P5D/image-asset.png Diopside - Feb 2014 Green jewels from the Larsons’ collection. Click image to enlarge. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2016-06 daily 0.75 2016-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg June 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464734008948-3BYJSTXGF1QB6LGXJJE3/Screenshot June 2016 British photographer David Clapp's most recent work captures images from awe-inspiring North American landscapes and rock formations, some with which you'll be familiar, but the others? See the full portfolio here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909165364-NK52ZOE00E422BS3FQDO/Ste-Marie+Poster June 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464652707745-UD2B26E00HHARY6LYTYA/Kunzite June 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464652831313-TUR4Z4IASDUNUBMQ6IOL/Heliodor June 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464652882595-IWASKITH313O738WW6T8/Tourmaline June 2016 Tourmaline, quartz and albite from the Tourmaline King Mine, Pala, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464661645144-JFJ8U3Z5L5547B109M1J/Projection June 2016 Running the rapids. The projection simulates rushing water, made more treacherous with edges jutting and sharp. (Photo: Yann Kersalé) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464661991452-QQB5HCPT7VJJE944IYWO/Denver+Airport+escalator June 2016 In transit(ion). The projection moves from sky-blue to powder-white as travelers descend the escalator. Rock-like prominences jut from the walls, reflecting the light. Fact: all the A Line trains at the bottom of this people-mover have built-in retractable snow plows. (Photo: Eric Verlo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464730241655-KRXTRBKWU78T12UVQ4TB/Tourmaline_15cm_sm.jpg June 2016 Tourmaline, Deodara Mine, Badakshan, Afghanistan, 15 x 10 x 11 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464807917895-QKEIUPKXGVEAT6J4TM5D/Joan+Abella+i+Creus June 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464808174008-PWNFUBDS880KPCIPWRJN/Abellaite June 2016 1.62 mm group of Abellaite white crystals micaceous habit aggregates; Eureka mine, Castell-estaó, La Torre de Cabdella (La Torre de Capdella), La Vall Fosca, El Pallars Jussà, Lleida (Lérida), Catalonia, Spain. Collection: Joan Abella i Creus. (Photo © Matteo Chinellato, Chinellatophoto.it) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464810025877-CWX04ULLTFHOWMDZ5ZJC/Abellaite June 2016 Abellaite. Visual field 3 x 1.75 mm; Eureka mine, Castell-estaó, La Torre de Cabdella (La Torre de Capdella), La Vall Fosca, El Pallars Jussà, Lleida (Lérida), Catalonia, Spain. Collection: Joan Abella i Creus. (Photo © Matteo Chinellato, Chinellatophoto.it) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464815141959-F0HA1JAN6OT9LTZBQRYM/Artist%27s+Rendering+of+Friend+Hall June 2016 Artist rendering of the David Friend Hall. (Image: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464815479689-S2NR3N685PTK0CEJG9XQ/Fontainebleau+Concretion June 2016 Shar Pei by Dan Lam? (Think his drippy sculptures in monochrome.) No, it's a sandstone concretion from Fontainebleau, in the Île-de-France region (in the Paris metropolis). (Photo: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464815522872-054PSV5SCJAR6NX9AU7K/Quartz June 2016 Heavy lifting. An 1800-pound Namibian quartz is readied for moving into the David Friend Hall. (Photo: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464896777930-S09F61GHZ5WQ47ND00QI/Display June 2016 From Nancy and Randy Best. Besides being collectors, the Bests are philanthropists and patrons of the arts, including the Perot Museum. Above, a display of large specimens (though not quite as large as those of the Peabody). Clockwise, from upper right: a sibling to the Peabody's sandstone concretion (France), mesolite on stilbite, calcite, green apophyllite with calcite balls (India), gypsum and selenite, galena, copper (U.S.), gold (U.S.), quartz (Brazil), calcite and sphalerite on chert (U.S.). (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464897537679-24VQM5XICFVDL2LH3EZG/Display June 2016 The flip side to the previous image with Pala's Bill Larson in the background (lower row only): calcite and quartz, aquamarine and selenite, gypsum, pyrite, prehnite (Mali), azurites (Australia). (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464898693478-A8Y6Y19670I2ADU2DDI3/PEZ June 2016 Dozens of dispensers. PEZ turns 90 next year, and it's hard to imagine that its dispensers didn't always sport their famous and ever-changing heads. Carla Eames Hartman has collected many of the best. (And, yes, she's the daughter of design legends Charles and Ray Eames.) Click to enlarge and see how many PEZsters you can ID. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464904113125-NGGLNM2HFJAUEGZ6FA5B/Dagger June 2016 The iron dagger of King Tutankhamun. Color picture of the iron dagger (Carter no. 256K, JE 61585) with its gold sheath. The full length of the dagger is 34.2 cm. "Its handle is made of fine gold, is decorated with cloisonné and granulation work, and ends with a pommel of rock crystal," according to the new study. (Photo courtesy Wiley Online Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464735251734-MRG6YYGA2SL04Q71T9PC/Screenshot June 2016 What was once a coffee planation now produces fruit of the mine. This brief trailer gives a sense of the amazing variety of tourmaline coming out of the Pederneira Mine. Click here to view the trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459456222670-ZRMSYTMIE7E8FW5Q7D70/Pala+Presents June 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464847978407-DXWS3QF8YA3OIMNUGFQD/Rhombohedral June 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464848145170-YQINT5F2LQL8OVC4KNEF/Tetragonal June 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464848196239-3U2443ZSY6RSA0N1D4MG/Twin June 2016 http://m.palaminerals.com/perot-museum-lyda-hill-hall daily 0.75 2016-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464911148724-MDNKDJ4G4VF71N44CBYE/hall.jpeg Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science These photographs were taken in April 2016 by Pala International's Will Larson. (Except for this one, courtesy the Perot Museum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464906745900-YR41AMJZQ6JP8U11BD8M/IMG_7212.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Eye of the Collector From Nancy and Randy Best. Besides being collectors, the Bests are philanthropists and patrons of the arts, including the Perot Museum. Above, a display of large specimens (though not quite as large as those of the Peabody). Clockwise, from upper right: a sibling to the Peabody's sandstone concretion (France), mesolite on stilbite, calcite, green apophyllite with calcite balls (India), gypsum and selenite, galena, copper (U.S.), gold (U.S.), quartz (Brazil), calcite and sphalerite on chert (U.S.). (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464906767587-X3USVE42S98VAMNAPI09/IMG_7213.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Eye of the Collector The flip side to the previous image with Pala's Bill Larson in the background (lower row only): calcite and quartz, aquamarine and selenite, gypsum, pyrite, prehnite (Mali), azurites (Australia). (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465349179530-YJHLXID5HBNCDC7MVMFW/IMG_7209.jpg Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Eye of the Collector More from Nancy and Randy Best. These are old gold figurines from Meso-America. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465349916159-G84U9QIJ25CM7QTNYFGA/IMG_7211.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Eye of the Collector More from Nancy and Randy Best. A silver ingot and silver coins recovered from the 1622 wreck of Nuestra Señora de Atocha. For gemstones recovered from the wreck, search on Palagems.com. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464906960339-0U8D75ABH5OF2BDTWNEH/IMG_7208.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Eye of the Collector From Nancy and Randy Best. A display of fossils, artifacts, and taxidermal birds. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464907887838-PV3BGLAVKI4T7PP133Y7/IMG_7217.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Eye of the Collector Dozens of dispensers. PEZ turns 90 next year, and it's hard to imagine that its dispensers didn't always sport their iconic and ever-changing heads. Here, Carla Eames Hartman has collected many of the best. (And, yes, she's the daughter of design legends Charles and Ray Eames.) Click to enlarge and see how many PEZsters you can ID. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908323264-EDTXF67RG6R8HRQTIPRN/IMG_7219.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Gold specimens in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. See Wayne Leight's 2012 paper on "The Crystallography of Gold" at the Mineralogical Society of Southern California. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908346949-QIO4BIKT6ROFSN5CPJ6S/IMG_7220.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Gold specimens in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Note that the specimen at top left is from the Lyda Hill Collection. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908346940-A3Q4G5RFSCS11E5RJFO3/IMG_7221.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Closeup of gold specimen in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908348791-YZEWCYAC574POWA6KP54/IMG_7222.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Closeup of gold specimen in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908348827-228DBGSKZY1GTWTYLQ3N/IMG_7223.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Closeup of gold specimen in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464908350153-2YDWHXKULFSKPVTUF43G/IMG_7225.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Wayne and Donna Leight Collection Closeup of gold specimens in the Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465351989666-7I0O5AZK6SNJWM9ACWCW/IMG_7234.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall An informational placard from the Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465350962226-A20J3S6U8WFSAW6E01D1/IMG_7230.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall One of several beautiful displays of gem-mineral crystals and faceted gemstones in the Perot Museum's Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465351130404-DMCJQJ51N7P23FCNGLVW/IMG_7231.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall One of several beautiful displays of gem-mineral crystals and polished gemstones in the Perot Museum's Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465351208127-FIG3N89RXKOF307MFIJZ/IMG_7232.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall One of several beautiful displays of gem-mineral crystals and faceted gemstones in the Perot Museum's Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1465351313548-QAJKS33RR8DX6T3V3O25/IMG_7233.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall One of several beautiful displays of gem-mineral crystals and faceted gemstones in the Perot Museum's Lyda Hill Gem and Mineral Hall. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909471365-9XRRVH3XNGXGX7XL5MLT/IMG_7246.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall A view of the main room. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909480756-II7TWKQ7EPY56VZM2DHE/IMG_7244.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall Tourmalines, string bean-thin and chunky. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909494073-I434UQDY6CHCYA040CZS/IMG_7247.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - Lyda Hill Gems and Mineral Hall The centerpiece of the Hall, the great amethyst geode installed on a hinge. See it in action here. (Photo: Will Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909997702-CNB384EYBOWBEHIEKVUL/IMG_7248.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464909997809-DLU26SNO803LBRKA9RZU/IMG_7249.JPG Perot Museum Lyda Hill Hall - For the Younger Set A closeup of the previous image. (Photo: Will Larson) http://m.palaminerals.com/tourmaline-2016-06 daily 0.75 2016-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464890984902-JGZY7TAFFNSNBI2J73AV/Tourmaline Tourmaline-2016-06 Tourmaline, Deodara Mine, Badakshan, Afghanistan, 15 x 10 x 11 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2016-08 daily 0.75 2017-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469823902704-QSLEWWAMTVFF45LNJS6N/Cookies August 2016 Recently, the U.S. television program Today featured on its food blog "Wedding cakes that rock!" (Our readers will recall the geode cake we posted in our February newsletter.) Today also featured agate-lookalike cookies (above), the creation of Alana Jones-Mann, who provides step-by-step instructions on how to do it yourself. Yum! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469582364902-LT1DNNP9JE4UO8YPARBD/Dallas+Symposium+Logo August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469583238098-PNT8IS3IFQ4X7MQ7L8WU/Speakers August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469772671908-H4XJFS8FXYEU5YSFJ4F5/Logo August 2016 The peacock-like brooch displayed in the show's logo transforms to winged earrings and brooch or 96.62-carat diamond pendant. It was crafted in 1971–1972 from gold, emerald, sapphire, white and yellow diamonds. The 96.62-carat briolette-cut yellow diamond dangling from the avian's aperture formerly was owned in the 1930s by Polish opera singer Ganna Walska, who couldn't sing, inspiring Orson Welles to create the character of Susan Alexander in Citizen Kane. Interestingly, Walska owned an estate in Montecito, California that she named Lotusland. (Photo: Patrick Gries © Van Cleef & Arpels) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469772321709-RFNJRMZHFWCIZFNE4AGN/Malachite August 2016 Shown here, from The Beauty of Science, is a malachite (cut and polished). Tourtscheninowski, Ural Mountains, Russia. Former collection of the King's Cabinet of Natural History, MNHN Collection, Paris. (Photo: François Farges © MNHN Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470114811078-RD46IF87GF96GRSV4TGJ/A+Night+Among+Gems August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469592633879-CIHVPH6YMDT1O4A6YI8L/Poster August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469669936590-Q16AOS1JIUMM1TFRJ5RH/Smoky+Quartz August 2016 Crystal clear. Smoky quartz gwindel from Zinggenstöcke, Switzerland. The main gwindel crystal is 4.5 cm tall x 4 cm wide. The whole specimen measures 10.2 cm x 9.1 cm. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469671511072-Q4EQ59WLGLY9NG2BAGF4/Covers August 2016 Fred Ward's four books on jade—two of his nine-volume series on gemstones—reflect his particular love of this stone. Clockwise from top left, the first edition (1996), the second (2001), Jades of Mesoamerica (1997), and the new edition of Jade (2015). The Wards issued 19 books or revisions during the 24 years since the series launched in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470104678585-K9J7J6FZN6VJ0QBFZT4N/Ward+and+Taylor August 2016 Fred Ward with Elizabeth Taylor wearing the emerald necklace by Bulgari she received as a wedding present from Richard Burton in 1964. (Photo © Christopher Ward/Award Agency) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469735056328-6Y1EWZOIA4CEAQATTS11/Fred+Ward August 2016 Fred Ward engaged in his life's work, Hpakangyi jade mine, 1997. See this article on the environmental devastation of jade mining posted on his Friends of Jade website. For a detailed look at jade mining see "Heaven and Hell: The Quest for Jade in Upper Burma" by Richard W. Hughes and Fred Ward. (Photo: Richard W. Hughes) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470174307858-YHC4KXZF0TC36J53CSZD/Caroline+and+Crystal August 2016 Caroline with geode, August 1988. (Photo: Alain Martaud) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470079939252-NH43M2EZDNWUZZCG5WZE/Fossil+in+Amber August 2016 This photomicrograph shows an upturned claw at right and a pale spot in the plumage at left. Both spots and stripes were seen in the fossils' feathers. (Photomicrograph: Ryan C. McKellar, Royal Saskatchewan Museum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470012021510-4DKWN0Q4W4N15N78M1DN/Periodic+Table August 2016 Atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 are represented by placeholder symbols until their naming is final. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470087295743-CXM1BS9S6AJ8GNTJV23M/CarbFix+Logo August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470091403819-PXUDED0OM3EU59QSLF0B/Cover August 2016 Cover Star: Colored transmission electron micrograph of Shewanella oneidensis nanowires. March 2015 edition of Microbe. (Image credit: Sahand Pirbadian in Mohamed El-Naggar's lab at the University of South Carolina) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470106649661-6DFJ86MQK8PNXIWNG65K/Screenshot August 2016 What was once a coffee planation now produces fruit of the mine. This brief trailer gives a sense of the amazing variety of tourmaline coming out of the Pederneira Mine. Click here to view the trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469768092033-1SPTHZJW3DD1T1W2T9F4/Ruby August 2016 This card is notable because it does not feature any faceted material. A gap in the institution's holdings, perhaps? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469768252615-DCGRWTYRZIR71EVMKJAN/Diamond August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470103439398-18J56QC15MSNLOYWBOEC/Rough+Diamond August 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469769516243-FNE44LZ0DPC3ZQBYYV16/Fingerbuttons August 2016 Brass instrument fingerbuttons inlaid with pietersite. (Photo courtesy David G. Monette Corp.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469770861476-ZD64H5ROB4IBN0SOXJCW/Fingerbuttons August 2016 Brass instrument fingerbuttons inlaid with meteorite material. See also this four-minute fingerbutton slideshow. (Photo courtesy David G. Monette Corp.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1469770993749-1H2DYFELX3W83TQWIFDM/Fingerbuttons August 2016 Brass instrument fingerbuttons inlaid with dinosaur bone and wooly mammoth tooth. Matching cufflinks would be classy. (Photo courtesy David G. Monette Corp.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470097230351-875RKFK74T300V43RF70/U+Kyaw+Thu August 2016 U Kyaw Thu of Macle Gem Lab in Yangon (right) and friend discuss painite locations with Bill Larson, August 2005. (Photo: Bill Larson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470097349212-O0TTLBD3U6Y8141ZI6D6/Kyawthuite August 2016 The holotype specimen, a 1.61-carat faceted gem, is deposited in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County under catalogue number 65602. (Photo: Dr. Kyaw Thu) http://m.palaminerals.com/giant-calcite-in-portugal daily 0.75 2017-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470027690215-SHLAJAEWZ976OQVJO8RV/Alain+Martaud Giant Calcite in Portugal Alain Martaud prospecting in the Santo Antono plateau. (Photo: Didier Boy De La Tour) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470026057195-RVS1CSYJRN2ZTP9ZGF1Y/Serra+dos+Candeeiros Giant Calcite in Portugal Serra dos Candeeiros when the author worked there in the late 1980s. (Photo: Alain Martaud) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470026103465-SE7JP6AL1FBSYQHWPYXK/Serra+dos+Candeeiros Giant Calcite in Portugal Another view of Serra dos Candeeiros when the author worked there in the late 1980s. (Photo: Alain Martaud) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470025514415-SHT7J9ETVGHK0Y60I1WO/Caroline+and+Crystal Giant Calcite in Portugal Caroline with geode, August 1988. (Photo: Alain Martaud) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470025618640-K8U4EIYKAPZU1091CHMS/Caroline+and+Crystals Giant Calcite in Portugal Caroline with geode, August 1988. (Photo: Alain Martaud) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470025113173-DART3UVR5SIEL4FTHAPI/Geode Giant Calcite in Portugal Geode in 2009. (Photo: Alain Martaud) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470026821082-TZ3UG48JOELJQIAYXOR4/Obidos Giant Calcite in Portugal A closeup view of the medieval castle-city of Obidos. (Photo: Alain Martaud) http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2016-10 daily 0.75 2017-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg October 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475504606030-IWC1HMRTOYGSE8TI4YZU/Munich+Show+Banner October 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475504614937-BPT5AMTEDXTKCIKV2XBR/Gold October 2016 Gold, Pontes e Lacerda, Brazil, 3.5 x 2 cm, 16.58 grams. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475504621627-B68YAUEGLALXTWTFO0OX/Screenshot October 2016 The Madagascar collection, above, features chrysoberyl, tourmaline, jasper and labradorite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475504630197-ZO0MIA7WBGHQWHQR4U8A/Ammonite October 2016 These ammonite shell fossils appear in a pillar flanking the Reptile House's ornately decorated arched portal, the enchanting details of which Barr documents in Gallery 8 – Jurassic (a baker's dozen of his galleries are placed in geologic periods). (Photo courtesy Christopher Barr) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475533096781-VUYOLC4ZR3AP24SMLK5K/Display October 2016 Items from the Herfurth collection are currently on display. The couple is pictured at upper left. Photo from a September 23 news release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475504636777-GF0SJS0U97SKCCNMKKX8/Blade October 2016 Dagger blade from Structure 10.049 (PP4-Montelirio sector). It is more than 20 cm long. (Photo: © Antonio Morgado) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475544674053-KIHKISYQS3TGQ386ZY96/Cover October 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475544737885-RI9M7T1LG7SI85UAXMBU/Specimen October 2016 What different mineral types can be found in this matrix specimen from San Diego County? (Hint: there are at least seven.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475504645238-XKGQTRFWPE5BTCHWI8BI/Exhibit October 2016 Pictured are a chunk of lapis lazuli, a vial of the powdered pigment, and a late 18th- or early 19th-century animal-skin bladder that was used like the modern-day paint tube, sealed with ivory tacks. (Photo courtesy Harvard Art Museums) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475504652324-Y8SNWHYYVTOSRGUEBVTX/Gem+and+Minerals+Illustration October 2016 http://m.palaminerals.com/san-diego-ephemera daily 0.75 2016-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1459376849965-Y05J62Y318JJVRUPCCF7/Pala+Presents San Diego Ephemera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475538058106-YKD4MBOGFN3CZG4VTIFX/Cover San Diego Ephemera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475540943611-UK9FL3G5MRZU0LFOEN0A/San+Diego+Bay San Diego Ephemera San Diego Bay, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475541112326-0LN2K36PQ14ZDAMW9ZPN/Three+Brothers+Camp San Diego Ephemera The Three Brothers Camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475541347912-TR5RO5FDKWVEAL9OTAKX/Camp+at+Pala+Chief+Mine San Diego Ephemera Camp at Pala Chief Mine, San Diego County https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475541591249-BIBJL343Q5KI67EJRLDH/Tourmaline San Diego Ephemera Matrix, formation of Quartz and Tourmaline Crystals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475541860113-51XPM068ZHVZCTSLJY5Y/Tourmaline San Diego Ephemera Specimen of Tourmaline Matrix https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475542220648-OPLLHVO5KQ964V4BBM4G/Tannenbaum+Tourmaline+Mine San Diego Ephemera Tannenbaum Tourmaline Mine, Mesa Grande https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475542338676-XA12XUAUEJQSK9IP0VXN/Tunnel San Diego Ephemera Tunnel, 325 feet long, San Diego Tourmaline Company, Mesa Grande https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475542555376-PIF1AEK1YMIUI5N3LAPQ/Sorting+the+Stones San Diego Ephemera Sorting the stones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475542710562-I39EJNY3CJS364EFBWO9/Lapidary San Diego Ephemera One of the six lapidaries in San Diego where native gems are cut and polished https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475542873460-X0KBR16UYI8AL6LVXY8V/Specimen San Diego Ephemera A remarkable specimen, showing Tourmaline, Hyacinth, Beryl, Topaz, Smoky Quartz, Orthoclase and Albite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475543044863-1PNKM5R4TO8NQJXJSCFM/Birthstones San Diego Ephemera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475543162862-XOFU03FB1CL307CUPSNP/Onyx San Diego Ephemera Slab of Onyx measuring 16 feet x 4 feet x 1 foot 2 inches, weight 13,440 lbs. From Quarries of New Pedrara Mexican Onyx Company https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475543440011-9YZLK17QZ116QV9ML0E5/Julian+Mining+Camp San Diego Ephemera Julian Mining Camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475543595892-O6Y2A9IF7D08U35Q15XM/Stonewall+Mine+and+Mill San Diego Ephemera Stonewall Mine and Mill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475543768559-3XJIICH8VOWRCLHZ3R3S/Hedges+Mining+Camp San Diego Ephemera Hedges Mining Camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475543933426-3IYUYOEGW6X9OQRPHEDK/Fuschia San Diego Ephemera Fuschia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475543957194-H7IQOCU2ZREGL5U4SC3F/Roses San Diego Ephemera Cluster of Roses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1476505595731-1O6KTA72OQ2GFF1VZZNP/Cover San Diego Ephemera http://m.palaminerals.com/gold-2016-10 daily 0.75 2016-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480641349429-BI4PGN5ST3X9U9G1EZ4S/Gold Gold 2016 10 Gold, Pontes e Lacerda, Brazil, 3.5 x 2 cm, 16.58 grams. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/smoky-quartz-2016-08 daily 0.75 2016-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475610827668-I8W29ZS3YJY7I5XL1QIQ/Tourmaline Smoky Quartz 2016 08 Crystal clear. Smoky quartz gwindel from Zinggenstöcke, Switzerland. The main gwindel crystal is 4.5 cm tall x 4 cm wide. The whole specimen measures 10.2 cm x 9.1 cm. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2016-12 daily 0.75 2016-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg December 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479846982157-8C4CIIH54AAPAH67HAK9/Crystal+Comix December 2016 Cartoonist Adam Ellis often draws upon his own life experience. See his crystal Instagram. And the shirt—and hoodie and phone case and notebook and laptop case and mug—are available. (Note: Video does not play) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480110063405-R3Y2ME3RKDPT5WG0708Q/image-asset.jpeg December 2016 David Friend stands beside the 2,000-pound quartz crystal from Namibia that greets visitors to David Friend Hall. The photo was taken during a ribbon-cutting ceremony held on Oct. 13, 2016. (Photo: Michael Marsland, courtesy of Yale University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480111099554-YL2ROG7BR2YY0KX6EK48/Quartz December 2016 A quartz specimen from the Collier Creek Mine in Arkansas. (Photo courtesy Yale University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480367990494-VQEDRO1XH16M5RSY0NTG/Fluorite December 2016 This 4,000-pound lime-green fluorite with quartz measures 5 feet by 4 feet. (Photo courtesy Yale University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480368203205-3IQ53C2M0QZOQGZWMIG4/Aquamarine December 2016 An aquamarine crystal from the collection of Eugene and Rosalind Meieran. (Photo courtesy Yale University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480368318412-NI82CCBEQVTJ43GM0V7P/Aragonite December 2016 An aragonite specimen from Yunnan Province, China. (Photo courtesy Yale University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480368421982-2KX2KXO9CZQJDKW2R9GX/Kunzite December 2016 A kunzite crystal from the collection of Jim and Gail Spann. (Photo courtesy Yale University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480368509070-EVBIIDHVQ9UBE10AGBSO/Amethyst December 2016 A deep purple amethyst geode from Uruguay standing about 3 feet high. It is from the collection of David Friend. The dramatic white calcite crystal, almost 2 feet long, is covered with sparkly quartz crystals. A gorgeous and unusual geode. (Photo courtesy Yale University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479862098851-Z7KP9WHMXSN986AGI4WN/Paul+Crevoshay December 2016 Paula Crevoshay stands amidst her own creations as well as those of Mother Earth in the exhibition hall prior to the opening of Illuminations: Earth to Jewel. Over her shoulder is a poster of the tanzanite specimen pictured below, as well as a painting of Balthazar Georges Sage, first director of the School of Mines, 1783–1790. (Photo: Farida Maouche, MINES ParisTech) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480114916763-WXHZI8PR72TRFW6DNWHG/Crevoshay%2C+Bell+and+Chavez December 2016 Paula Crevoshay stands beside her partner Martin Bell, with her assistant Chris Chavez. (Photo: Thibaud Vaerman, MINES ParisTech) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479862693064-PU3KULTZEP73GM3TK4UZ/Tanzanite December 2016 Pendant in rutilated quartz and tanzanite by Paula Crevoshay, and tanzanite rough crystal in the collection of the Mineralogy Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479862757596-SQKP8IX5MMXK824AH5GW/Quartz December 2016 Actual display of Paula Crevoshay's framing of Thomas McPhee's 173.16-carat carved quartz, "Maia," flanked by a Japan Law twin from La Gardette Mine in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France and another massive quartz. (Photo: Thibaud Vaerman, MINES ParisTech) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479863542154-7YZHNNCSFT56TK6DCGMO/Chrysocolla December 2016 The "Portuguese Man of War" jellyfish by Paula Crevoshay is made with play-of-color opal, chrysocolla, sapphire and coral. On the right, a specimen of chrysocolla from the Democratic Republic of Congo in the collection of the Mineralogy Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479863777022-YYGL3A4VWUZ7SV42DMLZ/Spinel December 2016 "Ula the Octopus" by Paula Crevoshay (a favorite of Eloïse) is created in gold with Burmese spinels and moonstones. It is paired with a twinned crystal of rough red spinel from the Mineralogy Museum collection. The jewel is in the collection of Pala International's Jeanne Larson. "We love octopus," Bill Larson said, and the Burmese provenance of the gemstones sealed the deal. (Two years ago, while at the Denver mineral show, Will Larson raved about a dish of octopus prepared at Rioja, one of the city's premier restaurants in Larimer Square.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480115410167-5KIU1CBS0S5V37HSR9W9/Crevoshay+and+Battistelli December 2016 Paula Crevoshay chats with Antoine Battistelli, MINES ParisTech Foundation CEO. (Photo: Thibaud Vaerman, MINES ParisTech) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479932065833-09JNER722GRH5VO9LT1S/Crevoshay%2C+Ferraris+and+Wong December 2016 The opening of Illuminations: Earth to Jewel attracted dozens of Paula Crevoshay's friends, such as Ceci Wong, right, as well as museum curators Jean-Claude Boulliard of the Sorbonne and Cristiano Ferraris of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, center. (Photo: Thibaud Vaerman, MINES ParisTech) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480543282892-UFAO03ERWC4DQTHLB5AU/Cover December 2016 Illuminations: Earth to Jewel is the title of the accompanying volume created in conjunction with the exhibition. It features text by Paula Crevoshay and Christopher Chavez, a foreword by the Musée's curator Didier Nectoux, and an introduction by Martin Bell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479849022948-UCICBS8EUJCNJMTYVW5Q/AGTA+GemFair+Banner December 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479849300560-065H3ROIEW8LSX1UL6O6/Poster December 2016 Click poster to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479859243356-BLCIGHSFCPAKRTED21BG/TGMS+Seal December 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480540456221-389W3DHM0SCC3UKWICLB/Malachite+Christmas+Tree December 2016 ¡Felices fiestas! Malachite with azurite from the Milpillas Mine in Sonora, Mexico, 12 x 9.5 x 4 cm, topped with a 4.5 x 4 x 3-cm 5-star spinel from Burma, adorned with pyrite balls from China. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480378490736-QT7O43HV2GWSOUSKYKF7/Agate December 2016 Laguna iris agate, Mexico. (Photo: Orasa Weldon, © GIA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480378620162-WRUQUYXHKMY499OHKHVJ/Azurite December 2016 Azurite, Bisbee, Arizona. (Photo: Orasa Weldon, © GIA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480379106215-MORT0YDQ2EKVGB5UR41M/Variscite December 2016 Variscite, Utah. (Photo: Orasa Weldon, © GIA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480379146943-CM5OIU2LVEC3D689K4ER/Petrified+Wood December 2016 Petrified pinecone and wood, Argentina and Utah. (Photo: Orasa Weldon, © GIA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480632363092-UXTRY2XRV56L566OGLUM/Pogue December 2016 Joseph E. Pogue Jr. in 1906. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480545832654-2KJE5VLI1P9I64QM1GKT/Cover December 2016 http://m.palaminerals.com/malachite-azurite-2016-12 daily 0.75 2016-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480640565265-2PPA1M7UIBXWCVE7LEEX/Christmas+Tree Malachite-Azurite 2016 12 ¡Felices fiestas! Malachite with azurite from the Milpillas Mine in Sonora, Mexico, 12 x 9.5 x 4 cm, topped with a 4.5 x 4 x 3-cm 5-star spinel from Burma, adorned with pyrite balls from China. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/emerald-deposits-of-muzo daily 0.75 2017-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480567961494-P14E00SBHFKJMOUM86PF/Pala+Presents Emerald Deposits of Muzo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480567594129-8C2C4JJLKAWQ4A6LESN9/Title+Page Emerald Deposits of Muzo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480489632464-C0XO90GGE4N11X0WEARY/Map Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 1.—Sketch map showing approximate locations of all important emerald mines and prospects in Colombia. (Data in part supplied by Robert Scheibe, July, 1915.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480490018564-ZAEO4QSFEK0GOCFGM7S2/Map Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 2.—Sketch map showing the Muzo and adjacent emerald deposits. (The Muzo preserve, the property of the Colombian government, is inclosed by broken lines.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480491322151-OLRKX3RF34VVHD83USP3/Mine+Buildings+and+Open+Cut Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 3.—View of mine buildings and largest open cuts at the Muzo mines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480575397519-PFAYLYFHB2CDOO95IJLR/Emeral+Formation Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 4.—View of emerald formation in open cut, showing contorted character of formation, position, and relative abundance of white, emerald-bearing calcite veins. (Face about 50 by 75 m.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480576951956-ZWJ0E4GZ5HBN3ACB1FFE/Folds+in+Emerald+Formation Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 5.—Sketch showing character of folds noted in emerald formation in Banco Limon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480577356512-UQXAXLC5B5JFAKTZRWG0/Relation+of+Emerald-Bearing+Calcite+Veins+to+Emerald+Formation Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 6.—Sketch (in plan) showing typical relation of emerald-bearing calcite veins to emerald formation in "Los Chulos" open cut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480577481270-9D6NIP97P2GV38D4AWFY/Relations+of+Two+Emerald+Formations Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 7.—Generalized sketch (in section) showing relations of emerald formation, Cenicero and Cambiado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480578286614-EMZUCWEMGESRFAEU8XSV/Photo+and+Sketch+of+Cenicero%2C+Cama+and+Cambiado Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 8a (left) and 8b.—Photograph and key-sketch showing the Cenicero, Cama, and Cambiado, as exposed between Banco Central and Los Chulos. (Note drag and calcite vein in fault plane in the Cambiado, indicating overthrust from north to south followed by mineralization.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480626680984-Q1U7467JMQ0W615RPHRB/Relations+of+Albite+to+Cambiado+and+Cenicero Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 9.—Sketch showing the relations of the albite rock to the Cambiado and the Cenicero (normal and baritic). Exposure near foot of Banco Centra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480627230995-S3H3C8Y3ZLOZFTGV9419/Emerald+Formation Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 10.—Photograph showing the emerald formation (here in horizontal beds) underlain by the Cenicero (grayish-white) and the Cama (note calcite rhombs). (Exposure between Banco Central and Los Chulos. Height of picture, 5 m.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485977383874-1N8IWZPEC7001XPCWD26/Open+Cut Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 11.—Photograph of Banco Central, one of the principal open cuts, showing terraces by means of which the emerald formation is worked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485977491098-ZCUD4GVZGB2PQ4106SC3/Workers Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 12.—Photograph showing "peons" working on a bank, breaking down the emerald formation with long, iron crowbars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485977652334-H2KLB3LKI3L3AY4Q6X20/Debris Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 13.—Photograph showing how accumulated débris is cleared from working face by water let in from above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485977758801-B2ZTVOWS95YYLJ8PGZNE/Workers Emerald Deposits of Muzo Fig. 14.—Photograph showing sorting shed and manner in which emeralds are separated from the crushed matrix. http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2017-02 daily 0.75 2017-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg February 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485552894294-YGLPEG6ZYTHZDNVISXXF/Screen+Shot February 2017   ESPN's Peach Bowl pregame show featured some colorful crystals, as shown above. The channel has been employing crystal imagery since at least 2015, as shown by the ad below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479849022948-UCICBS8EUJCNJMTYVW5Q/AGTA+GemFair+Banner February 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1479849300560-065H3ROIEW8LSX1UL6O6/Poster February 2017 Click poster to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485549912371-W3COP52JADH30V2DKHO0/TGMS+Poster February 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485838439473-VMOY9QFR6IXHG5PNJRK6/Arusha+Gem+Fair February 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485548995765-M3NX6OAPOE9CH6TXVD8G/Quartz February 2017 Quartz crystal from Shigar Valley, Pakistan, 18 x 8 x 7.5 cm. (Photos: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485549566018-3GS7YDKYTQZRML3YSDJM/Quartz February 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485549614165-90RU4K7Q51FFO5M7QJI2/Quartz February 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485903202960-SOG32W8OVZ60KU2HOBJ2/Magazine February 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485828301370-1RVR40U4RJ4YEIJUVML1/Wine+Bottles February 2017 The vintners are playing up a key element of terroir, wearing their soils on their sleeves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1485978983563-27MHOAITP91BVV1J0QCA/Debris February 2017 Photograph showing how accumulated débris is cleared from working face by water let in from above. The miners on the ridge hold their work implements—long, iron crowbars with which they break down the emerald formations. http://m.palaminerals.com/quartz-2017-02 daily 0.75 2017-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1486070921850-5HR2NKHJ64HLWIMQIOPR/Quartz Quartz 2017 02 Quartz crystal from Shigar Valley, Pakistan, 18 x 8 x 7.5 cm. (Photos: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1486071066605-KILZMI1YQ89DNE25EWQI/Quartz Quartz 2017 02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1486071031635-J5Q1X4J94S6HQBQA1JIM/Quartz Quartz 2017 02 http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2017-04 daily 0.75 2017-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490921369938-XM78NTVFYMZPWL6OQS2F/Diamonds April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490996435576-0HSXQ4WYBVLBO7L4CVKI/NY%2FNJ+Show+Banner April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490997422351-INXGFOH1XTXBT6CZ823F/Texas+Show+Banner April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490330812409-0Z0ZYGCCLPL3VMZZ0CRF/Palomar+Show+Banner April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490386903148-6UH41ZHA4SXSYV8LZ4VL/Poster April 2017 Click poster to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490393262434-HROB927ZCEUF08J8RQY7/DMCS+Logo April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490828549900-V0NQVNGO51ABO0KIWH5U/Fluorite April 2017 Rus in urbe. Fluorite with galena inclusions from the Nikolai mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorkiy, Kray, Far-East region, Siberia, Russia, 5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490751545765-C8FOXQVMC6OT5J3QA9SN/Screenshot April 2017 Don't believe everything you read in the paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490912605206-UONKYX1IBD939XDQDY78/Fiedlerite April 2017 A case in point. Shown here are colorless fiedlerite crystals, the byproduct of lead mining in Lavrio, Greece in classical times. Slag from the mining was dumped into the Mirtoan Sea and over the years reacted with the water to form minerals like this one, found only in particular slag localities. (Photo: RRUFF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490919154853-V5X985NOVSZ7F9EXDTCX/Diamond+Anvil April 2017 Diamonds to squeeze a sample to ultrahigh pressures corresponding to those of the Earth's core (greater than 135 gigapascals). The samples are heated under pressure to high temperatures of the core (about 4,000 kelvins and higher) by being irradiated by a laser through diamonds. (Photo: ELSI news release) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490761372558-EWBGNISXF4N6JKCCAL1H/image-asset.jpeg April 2017 Glassy wulfenites on matrix from its classic locality, the Red Cloud Mine of Arizona. Largest crystal has some damage but displays well. Inventory #17807. (Photo: John McLean) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490754162872-KKIFGQBEJ09F7R6OXNVI/Covers April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490986762071-FEN0PIB8V0QCHBBA05UE/Diamond April 2017 "Conditions were ideal for Kalel to find his diamond," said Park Interpreter Waymon Cox. "About an inch of rain fell on the plowed search area during the week. A heavy rain can uncover larger diamonds near the surface. Diamonds have a metallic-looking shine and are often easier to spot on top of the ground." (Photo: Crater of Diamonds State Park news release) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490986490588-GWWZ1QRS25D1TGF632TD/Diamond April 2017 At 706 carats this is thought to be the thirteenth largest diamond ever extracted. (Photo: Sierra Leone State House news release) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490994846465-9AE5P29QZE4ULAF87S5N/Cover April 2017 You can have a peek at the San Diego County edition of Mines of the American West on Amazon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490990111102-P96XFUE4Z0AAZGAAKF7K/Screenshot April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490989844728-FVT0NM4XJALKNWMFNY5C/Bahia+Emerald April 2017 Cops and robbed? Scott Miller, Mark Gayman, and Lt. Tom Grub, of the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, show off the swag in 2008. (Photo: L.A. Sheriffs Dept.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490989611057-E7MJO7PGKDQZ3BLNVTY8/Pala+Presents+Logo April 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490990369534-TNKCE65V7FZM9FHC4ZV7/Photomicrograph April 2017 Strongly resorbed garnet crystal surrounded by a brownish, dusty halo. 125 x. http://m.palaminerals.com/fluorite-2017-04 daily 0.75 2017-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1491269365771-OXA0PMGSY01GSCDZERSN/Fluorite Fluorite 2017 04 Rus in urbe. Fluorite with galena inclusions from the Nikolai mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorkiy, Kray, Far-East region, Siberia, Russia, 5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm. Price available upon request. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/collection-of-minerals daily 0.75 2017-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495659060994-D45DK7A6JZ8LZMMP5VQT/Cover Collection of Minerals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495659514969-7W5MT829H8Y95TM7MPU4/Frontispiece Collection of Minerals Frontispiece. Cerussite from Broken Hill, New South Wales. A net work of delicate, interlaced crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495663337882-5ZSC9EN75EKR0LK8OHDJ/Sulphur Collection of Minerals Sulphur from Girgenti, Sicily. Clear, well developed crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495663419327-VK2XARKC0PU2HWPM8BNR/Stibnite Collection of Minerals Stibnite from Ichinokawa Mine, Iyo, Japan. A group of slender prismatic crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495664318946-W5UUWDXMYXTTW6F6C3QC/Galena Collection of Minerals Galena from Galena, Ill. Clearly defined cubic crystals which were deposited on the walls of an open vein, the galena being the last mineral to form in the vein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495665954671-C42FNOJA4EBNSWU1WO2B/Marcasite Collection of Minerals Marcasite from Felosbanya, Rumania. A radiated aggregate of flat crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495666181963-WOFN2XNC2C2BYMNCWX01/Fluorite Collection of Minerals Fluorite from Cumberland, England. Encrusted with quartz on the edges and corners of the cubic crystals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495666535908-VIWDABR1OBMA736X54LD/Quartz Collection of Minerals Quartz from California. A "phantom" showing one quartz crystal deposited around one previously formed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495666558061-BIPZBIYTF0IYT4ALPQB3/Quartz Collection of Minerals Quartz from Uruguay, S. America. Agate formed of layers of differently colored quartz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495667088565-937QNNF4UQJWP01SIM6F/Hematite Collection of Minerals Hematite from St. Gothard, Switzerland. A rosette of flat crystals or "iron rose." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495668163670-FRQ6M8UYXN9YJ6DL6AF0/Rutile Collection of Minerals Rutile from Parkesburg, Pa. Rosettes of knee-jointed crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495668085657-JHBTRKG7OKNAFP3GD2P0/Maganite Collection of Minerals Maganite from Ilefeld, Harz, Germany. Bundles of closely grouped crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495669023872-L8QASH5CC9X20X31NA69/Limonite Collection of Minerals Limonite from Rossback, Nassau, Germany. Stalactites of water-deposited minerals may always be recognized by their rounded outlines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495669184887-II7J4G8MYLGVZ95UKA6Y/Psilomelane Collection of Minerals Psilomelane from Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Sometimes there is a tendency to form crystals on the surface of the rounded water-formed masses which gives them a drusy appearance like velvet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495670941898-SXTZRD042XCG2NP9E9KD/Calcite Collection of Minerals Calcite from Cumberland, England. Clear brilliant Crystals with smooth glistening faces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495671137241-YT4L0UYTAV7Q37ZSE26Q/Calcite Collection of Minerals Calcite from Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Plate-like Crystals which are massed in rounded piles resembling sheets of paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495671669418-DDPAGAPLSD4DO6JZN945/Aragonite Collection of Minerals Aragonite from Eisenerz, Styria. Stalactites of calcium carbonate sometimes form branching forms resembling coral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495671843596-O87BCTOSJBM9JGXL0QXT/Malachite Collection of Minerals Malachite from Bisbee, Arizona. The hollows between the rounded masses of this copper carbonate, where water has trickled through, have become crusted with branching riverlets of mineral deposits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495672467499-D912MVXBNC3E5UDPT5T6/Garnet Collection of Minerals Garnet from Russell, Mass. This mineral is very easily recognized by its isometric crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495672778890-4OA6S9IQNU3XJFWEIDJ5/Natrolite Collection of Minerals Natrolite from Leipa, Czechoslovakia. A miniature cavern partly filled with groups of slender crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495673676368-5N26WKJZFMRLT2LVLU0U/Cyanite Collection of Minerals Cyanite from St. Gotthard, Switzerland. Blade-like crystals in mica schist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495673955858-LX38A52OFCH7KQIQ8N3I/Epidote Collection of Minerals Epidote from Tyrol, Austria. A radiated group of brilliant, well formed crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495675755751-CO4C7OEA4M8TMJYAXY2C/Barite Collection of Minerals Barite from Frizington, England. Flat prismatic crystals which show layers of growth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495676758563-OJPWWES2FURMM3SXYORQ/Back+Cover Collection of Minerals http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2017-06 daily 0.75 2017-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495585554828-Z1JM9YX9JFAXH4V4D3SE/Ste-Marie+Show+Slide June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496267785882-ZTCYEUEHXJZGWDVQN65A/Denver+Fine+Mineral+Show+Poster June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496295024020-IDBB4KKU8UPXVXNMMEVQ/Topaz June 2017 All that glitters is not gold. Topaz from Sakangyi, Mogok, Burma, 8 x 7 x 5.5 cm. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496202888643-U2X9ARUXLKERVR3ZRKIB/Spectroscope June 2017 "Grace's Spectroscope." We like the nifty external watch-spring mechanism on this large (15 cm) straight-hand spectroscope by John Browning, London. It is made of Zapon-lacquered and -blackened brass with an adjustable gap and 5 prisms. Two more views available. (Photo courtesy the Virtual Museum of the History of Mineralogy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496205634873-LZFMJ9PBIU9IDERNBHNA/John+Browning June 2017 John Browning. (Photo Royal Astronomical Society – SciencePhotoLibrary) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496294634728-6A0V9I6SPZ0M0YH89HB8/Barite June 2017 Scale bar measurements indicated. (a) Strongly curving isopachous barite veins envelop a chert wedge (W), overlain by sedimentary units (DFs). Scale bar, 1 m. Inset box of (b) isopachous layered barite underlies DFs that include stratiform geyserite. Inset box of (c) barite crystal tops growing upward into DFs (arrows). Scale bar, 2 cm. (d) Modern collapsing hot spring-pool lip edge, shoreline of Lake Rotokawa, Rotokawa geothermal area, New Zealand. Scale bar, 0.5 m. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495829502268-PGQS90TULP05AKZ9PJJL/Page June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496280639055-G25X6691W1C3ZGAYJUCP/halite1.jpg June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496280711393-OU6D6PP8245QARB1ADPP/Halite June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496280819010-OYNR0TK6HLGBV4RR0LG1/Halite June 2017 O Tenenbaum. Skeletal halite crystal from the Sieroszowice mine. Size 5 cm. Spirifer Minerals specimen. (Photo: M. Wikiera) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496193783702-22DLKNGM63Y7ED8E3EUR/Kitaa+Ruby June 2017 The Kitaa Ruby rough, 440 carats of gem and near-gem material, was discovered in 2005 on the "lakeside" during True North Gems sampling of corundum-bearing territory. It was believed to be the largest ruby found and documented in the Western Hemisphere. Having no potential for faceting, True North Gems chose to commission British Columbia sculptor Thomas McPhee to carve it. The design marries Greenland's Inuit traditions with its Norse heritage, as reported by Rapport. The carved weight is 302 carats and took more than ten months to execute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495678116459-8OBL6W62Y7OL7REBM5IN/Symposium+Presenters June 2017 Symposium presenters, gathered around the statue of Richard Liddicoat, for whom GIA's library is named, from left: Edward Boehm, Lisbet Thoresen, Richard W. Hughes, Dr. George Harlow, Dona Dirlam (GIA library director), Carl Larson, Dr. William "Skip" Simmons, Robert Weldon (kneeling), Shane McClure, Glenn Lehrer, Dr. George Rossman, Alan Hart, Nathan Renfro, and Dr. John Emmett. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Gloria Staebler) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495678231159-MDJ2D4K070DB6FYJZ7OO/Display June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495678296473-MHVXDE1HDPQBZ7NLLLYB/Display June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495678340926-I1U6SNCRLYEQZ5AM1KZW/Display June 2017 This display includes Bill Larson's copy of The Royal Gem, which we reprinted in 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1490989611057-E7MJO7PGKDQZ3BLNVTY8/Pala+Presents+Logo June 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495756076468-WOKYLMEGQKMJ3XHT9BWQ/Cerussite June 2017 Frontispiece from The Collection of Minerals, 1926. Cerussite from Broken Hill, New South Wales. A net work of delicate, interlaced crystals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1495756384499-Q6BZFDJV11C8A07IDJIT/Frontispiece+and+Title+Page June 2017 Although Whitlock advised the study of collections over that of books, he did author both academic and popular volumes. The latter titles include The Story of the Minerals (1925, above), The Art of the Lapidary (1926), The Story of the Gems (1936), and The Story of Jade (with Martin L. Ehrmann, 1949, the year after Whitlock's death). http://m.palaminerals.com/topaz-2017-06 daily 0.75 2017-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496428854075-M3LQCWIPBPRETSJEOUKQ/Topaz Topaz 2017 06 All that glitters is not gold. Topaz from Sakangyi, Mogok, Burma, 8 x 7 x 5.5 cm. (Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/galleries-2017-06 daily 0.75 2017-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496428667190-VLHSS4MVYNYE1NWVC9ML/Topaz galleries-2017-06 All that glitters is not gold. Topaz from Sakangyi, Mogok, Burma, 8 x 7 x 5.5 cm. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842588809-RZA7TVIDEMCGQTXRJBNI/19166.jpg galleries-2017-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842588757-E3YXPPISM98464O5G8ZJ/19164.jpg galleries-2017-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842588716-33W10215305JTLMVVKUV/19163.jpg galleries-2017-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842588655-V57C9RU01GGZG52ZLQNC/19102.jpg galleries-2017-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842588688-0BFYS4LBXI9O5JVB15GR/19065.jpg galleries-2017-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842588541-MVGJ9I4KSJNNEHF1OEUY/19064.jpg galleries-2017-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842588493-YLA4ZWQIAYGRWW6PPLQS/19063.jpg galleries-2017-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842588443-RWEV54FKFOF0HO5I6Z2D/19062.jpg galleries-2017-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448842655799-5Y7X0KYK3FAIMDIG5NNF/15330.jpg galleries-2017-06 http://m.palaminerals.com/home-2017-08 daily 1.0 2017-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501631758098-FCANHTVCOIXQDAOM4XSM/Sculpture Home 2017 08 MICHELANGELO'S MARBLE Italy's "white gold" READ MORE »   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501633255206-OLME0Z63Q14O2XF2XNMA/Fluorite Home 2017 08 THE AFRICAN QUEEN Eyes of Africa on permanent display at Perot Museum of Nature and Science READ MORE » https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501632015073-6QDA4J0TKCH7RNCLH3WH/Ruby Home 2017 08 FEATURED SPECIMEN Will Heierman Corundum READ MORE »   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501633651474-O4QIK8AUE4AQCRITQ99U/Cover Home 2017 08 NAUGHTY-NAUGHTY NODULES Color-change garnet? READ MORE » https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501632635594-81C8WHMIEU1JI0L2J6CG/Miner Home 2017 08 NORTHERN CALIF GOLD FLOOD It's one of those years READ MORE »   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501633045726-YFTLYRVE0MIH3HGNZGKX/John+McLean Home 2017 08 49 BYE-BYES Three Pala people sail off into the sunset READ MORE » https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501714648622-Q6NO4AP7QK3K0D6NHIW3/feat_ruby.jpg Home 2017 08 - Will Heierman Corundum no need to write something here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496429691034-ZPCHOHJ8S2QMPPQ92HH7/feat_topaz.jpg Home 2017 08 - Golden Topaz from Mogok no need to write something here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496429899579-WFD5UPXSZYY03Z4U6DL5/Fluorite_5cm_Siberia_crop_b.jpg Home 2017 08 - Fluorite from Dal'negorsk no need to write something here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1486073482182-LK0HYFUQPUIB1ZDDT48K/feat_quartz1.jpg Home 2017 08 - Quartz from Pakistan This month we feature a massive quartz from Pakistan. It's an impressive size even for a fine quartz crystal, but this one has an added dimension that makes it quite unique. From its original crystalized state an exsolution process has created beautifully etched crystal faces with wild jagged patterns. The crystal has maintained its transparency on the inside but the surface has been transformed into a complex geometric puzzle. There is even a linear vug wrapping around the crystal like a cliffside cavern (see photos here). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1486073783587-WCEWZ0YNWC57AIFSC9FX/Malachite_Azurite_Mexico_Xmas+copy.jpeg Home 2017 08 - Malachite with Azurite This month we feature a malachite and azurite from south of the border that seems to take on a symbolic holiday form of (all) sorts. The evergreen mass is a fibrous chatoyant malachite. Dangling from the bottom left are four main azurite clusters: pristine well-formed crystals that even show some transparency. The rest of the specimen has then been magically hung with spherical pyrite ornaments from China and topped with a complex penetrating spinel twin from Burma. A dazzling array for the season upon us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1480640988699-RL034VWC6NR46TGQYE71/Gold_16.58grams_pontesELacerda_Brazil.jpeg Home 2017 08 - Gold from Brazil Pala International's featured mineral this month is a fine gold specimen from a relatively new find in Brazil. The majority of this material came to the market in early 2016, with some specimens only trickling out recently. This month we can offer one of our fine crystalized golds for a collector interested in a beautiful small miniature for their collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1475610695400-GAJIEFC56C4BV2VEQCIR/Smoky%2BQuartz.jpg Home 2017 08 - Smoky Quartz from Switzerland This specimen appeals to the connoisseur on so many levels. Matrix gwindel specimens of this caliber are quite rare. What is very nice about this piece is it has a double-terminated single crystal smoky in front of the gwindel. The clusters of quartz crystals surrounding it are all terminated and sit on a white feldspar matrix. The gwindel itself is perched on the side, bending and twisting toward the center. It is well viewed from every angle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470175684272-HI6B1BUIZ8Y5AQWQEV8F/tourmaline.png Home 2017 08 - Tourmaline from Afghanistan This is a very fine pink tourmaline with a green cap from a unusual locality in Badakshan, Afghanistan. The tourmaline is from the Deodara Mine and sits on a nice matrix bed of feldspars and has a beautiful quartz crystal balancing the specimen on the opposite side. This is one of the largest and finest specimens to come out of this locality. The tourmaline is repaired at the base but it is a lock fit. This is really a choice piece for those collecting fine quality tourmalines/pegmatite minerals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1470175566127-HMTYU7RN12L6E7FO1W33/Apatite%2Bon%2BQuartz.jpg Home 2017 08 - Apatite from North Carolina This crystal of apatite is perched right on top of the quartz matrix. Measuring 2.6 cm x 1.5 cm x 2 cm, the main apatite crystal is 1.5 cm x 1.3 cm. This is rather large for the locality and is quite a deep purple. The apatite is ex John C. Medici Collection. It comes from Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA. It would be great for any collector of American rarities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899090677-0ICMK96NIYJ4Y4GXVRSN/image-asset.jpeg Home 2017 08 - Azurite and Malachite from Laos This specimen was offered to be in sync with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show theme, "Shades of Blue: Minerals of the World." This beauty hails from the Sepon Mine in southern Laos, an open pit copper and gold mine. (Gold production was suspended in 2013.) Its azurite blades range from deep blue to brilliant, and the malachite features bulbous apricot-like blobs, berry-like rounds, and even a pseudomorph at lower right. It's a beautifully complex specimen that calls out for consideration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899100160-8G163N53HPWUSF3R8K6Y/image-asset.jpeg Home 2017 08 - Goethite from Andalusia First we feature another iridescent rainbow goethite found about 27 years ago. The perfection and coloring of this specimens is fantastic. Formerly in the collection of Emilio Rodenas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899112411-H8IEVKJEIZ7DQ13ZJWLL/image-asset.jpeg Home 2017 08 - Rutile from Madagascar Our second featured specimen is a beautifully complex rutile from central Madagascar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899124549-BDPPHCYLFNGREX2E561D/feat_prehnite_tanzanite.jpg Home 2017 08 - Prehnite and Tanzanite from Tanzania This is a rare and remarkable specimen of well crystallized greenish prehnite in a fine cockscomb specimen. This beautiful group was found earlier this year at the Merelani Mine, Arusha, Tanzania. To make the piece even more exciting and interesting, a well terminated bicolor (yellow and blue) tanzanite (3.0 x 2.5 cm in height) has grown into the side of this prehnite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899134727-HI25TBT7U0A8YJNMYIBG/2015-08_feat.jpeg Home 2017 08 - Goethite "Rainbow Castle" from Spain This goethite growing in columns with vivid iridescences sparkles with all the colors of the rainbow. The sample, from a very unique find in the 1980s, was in a Spanish private collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899147977-Z395RGK68ALZS0XF0BSL/feat_cu_calcite_big4_crop.jpg Home 2017 08 - Calcite with copper inclusions Calcite with copper inclusions from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Copper District, Michigan, 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 in.   It has a beautiful scalehedron structure, a massive white calcite in the core and a clear outer layer including the peak of the crystal, which is transparent. The center layer is a brilliant copper phantom that scintillates in the light. With impressive size, shape and color this specimen is definitely an icon in the mineral world. No damage, no repairs, just a pristine beauty. This specimen was collected by Ben Williams’s father, John Williams, in the 1860s. During this time period the elder Williams worked at the copper smelter in Hancock, Michigan. Ben would have been a young teenager at the time. These pieces were likely passed on from father to son and pre-date Ben’s arrival at Bisbee, Arizona by about 15 years. Most of these copper-in-calcites came out in the 1800s and early 1900s. The two main mines that produced this rare blend were the Quincy Mine and the Franklin Mine around Hancock, Houghton Co., in Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899162306-E4T51LPNDSKF2XW6S6I4/feat_rythrite_4cm_morocco.jpg Home 2017 08 - Erythrite from Morocco Erythrite from the Bou Azar District, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco, 4 x 3.2 cm. This aesthetic bouquet of erythrite crystals is from Morocco. The crystals are undamaged and sharp, with intense color. Great for any miniature collector! While other examples of erythrite in the Pala International catalog are perched on matrix, this featured specimen seems to stand on its own. Its lovely crystals exhibit 'red' in all its hues. Just as rhodochrosite takes its name from the Greek rhodokhrōs (rose-colored), erythrite is from the Greek eruthros/erythros (red). Its combining form erythr- is used in many a medical term, from erythrocyte (red blood cell) to systemic lupus erythematosis (the autoimmune syndrome sometimes characterized by a red butterfly-shaped rash thought to have resembled the bite of a wolf, lupus in Latin). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899181151-0MGN0VGFNY4T06PY2PC1/feat_benitoite_6cm.jpg Home 2017 08 - Benitoite from San Benito County, CA This specimen is an exquisite benitoite on natrolite. The benitoite crystal itself is huge for the species, 3.5 cm in length. It features a striking trigonal crystal, but a little rough around the edges. This large crystal displays a beautiful color pattern radiating from a white core to brilliant blue edges. To top it all off the benitoite is in front of an equally striking white natrolite background, showing the ideal association of minerals from San Benito County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899196175-CSMIERIE4F6J8CD8SR9B/feat_tourmaline_quartz_santarosa_brazil.jpg Home 2017 08 - Tourmaline from Brazil Tourmaline on quartz from Santa Rosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 6.5 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm. This specimen is a well perched multi-colored tourmaline on quartz. A fine crystal on its own, this tourmaline displays brilliant pink to mint into evergreen gradation of color. It's very pristine with virtually no damage besides the base. It features an admirable complex termination with gemmy sections running throughout. This bright tourmaline is well contrasted on a nice chunk of quartz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899210341-UEQJ6CVFFCCJ7VPSS36Y/feat_aqua_quartz_vietnam.jpg Home 2017 08 - Aquamarine from Vietnam Aquamarine on quartz from Thuong Xuan, Vietnam, 10 x 4.5 cm. This specimen features multiple, unrepaired, beautiful blue and gemmy aquamarine crystals on quartz crystal. Matrix is very hard to obtain from Vietnam's Thuong Xuan area near the Laos border. Pala International has good contacts from Vietnam via visits in the late 1990s and obtains specimens directly from Vietnamese miners through friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899224447-S42ZNQUAUA1Q2S5OFMDA/feat_silver_kongsberg.jpg Home 2017 08 - Silver from Kongsberg, Norway This specimen is a lovely silver from a classic locality: Kongsberg, Norway. It is a beautiful horn thick wire silver that has great luster and patina. These types of silvers are very hard to come by. (Might that have anything to do with the fact that Kongsberg also happens to be home to the Mint of Norway?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899238912-18I5OMX6C07CSLQIDKO5/feat_beryl_green_brazil.jpg Home 2017 08 - Green Beryl from Brazil Green beryl from the Mimoso do Sul Mine, Espirito Santo, Brazil, 6 x 4 x 4.5 cm This fine green beryl is from a find in Brazil dating back to the 1980s. The specimen is a beautiful cluster of doubly terminated beryls all with very fine luster and color. To have so many beryls together and in great shape is truly rare! This specimen would do well in anyone's beryl collection or world-wide collection as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899253338-85KL7CZELMJACJFMOQ6S/feat_beryllonite_afghanistan.jpg Home 2017 08 - Beryllonite from Afghanistan Beryllonite, a rare species, from Afghanistan, 11.5 x 7.5 cm. This fine specimen is a great rarity—a large, double-terminated, very complex beryllonite from Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. This is a specimen for an advanced collector or museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899267577-9WM2U2U3I5BZQAJ73XJH/feat_merald_calcite_muzo_a.jpg Home 2017 08 - Calcite with Emerald from Columbia Calcite with emerald, 8 x 6 x 3 cm, from Colombia. We call this fine specimen "The Emerald Sail Ship," with its concave calcite catching the ocean's air. This is an aesthetic, large calcite crystal with no damage and a lively green emerald crystal attached at the bottom. The emerald has a fine, etched termination that adds to its beauty. The sail hails from the locality of La Pita Mine in La Pita, Mun. de Maripí, Vasquez-Yacopí Mining District, Boyacá Department, Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899279397-MXE89O3O4H0QD6FFBMVN/2014-04_feat.jpeg Home 2017 08 - Chrysoberyl Twin from Brazil This mineral is a chrysoberyl twin that dates back to the 1970s when they hit one large pocket full of great specimens like this very one. The surface of the crystal has very nice striations and the transparency can be seen in the tips of it. This V-twin chrysoberyl is quite large for the species and is in very good shape with no damage. A prize for any major collector! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1464899289636-KJ262YQS5JCB8117OWAT/2014-02_feat.jpg Home 2017 08 - Rough & Cut Diopside On our way out the door and on the road to Tucson, we feature a rare and beautiful green gem. Diopside ranges from brown to yellow to olive green to intense green. This month we feature a couple of stunning cut diopsides from Burma. The larger yellow cushion is 17.45 carats and the smaller green one is 4.90 carats. These gems are paired with an exceptional evergreen crystal from China, measuring 5.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm. http://m.palaminerals.com/news-2017-08 daily 0.75 2017-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1448310823506-U1D7EJMGUIET86396XHV/image-asset.jpeg August 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501010648789-46D1BYPJ6OX3F3ELU38G/Tweet August 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1496267785882-ZTCYEUEHXJZGWDVQN65A/Denver+Fine+Mineral+Show+Poster August 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501013979040-H1IM2FOTIPM500HPUUPP/Munich+Show+Banner August 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501304454113-HQ6D5FV3QCQ22M3DDDYY/Fluorite August 2017 Eyes of Africa, from Erongo, Namibia. (Photo: Perot Museum of Nature and Science news release) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501304767051-7ZMPH0JAGU1AUVR3N7UF/Ruby August 2017 Ruby from Jagdalek, Surobi District, Kaboi Province, Afghanistan, 7 x 5.5 x 4 cm. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501469338883-XSSR3VAYPNHUXAJN4P9X/Quartet August 2017 A fond farewell. The Pala crew congratulates Jill Stordahl-Hall (second from left) and John McLean (far right) on the occasion of their retirement. Also pictured are Jeanne and Bill Larson. (Photo: Mia Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501469818203-QI2W725TWL6XGK02QN2H/John+McLean August 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501469448339-3OVJ2IF5KGSCDD4SWB2H/Pala+Crew August 2017 Back row and along wall: Casey Jones, Jane Jones, Mia Dixon, Josh Hall, Jill Stordahl-Hall, Roselie Mudd, Bill Larson, John McLean, Benjamin Castillo-Mesa, Graham and Jason Stephenson. Middle row: Carl Larson, Alison Larson, Ilka Bahn, Jeanne Larson, Karen Russell. At round table: Rika Larson, Valerie San Giacomo, Will Larson. Click to enlarge. (Photo: Carlos Estrella, Casa Estrella) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501470331808-3EQ0HTG47T04THKGCWIW/David+Hughes August 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501536808673-T2VGZSQCJE7B3WYNTE0M/Kunzite August 2017 A kunzite crystal from the collection of Jim and Gail Spann. (Photo courtesy Yale University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501537272761-PP641MB8PTRM3HIEBPV4/Screenshot August 2017 One aspect of the David Friend Hall that we may not have covered is the conceptual rigor that went into its design—down to such details as the desire for "reduced signage and wall text," according to the Peabody Museum. In pursuit of that goal Yale students developed the David Friend Hall app, which provides supplemental information on six signature specimens on display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501548462000-L32AYP1HUKJAQM1ZTTIG/Miner August 2017 The Chronicle story is accompanied by a fun slide show that includes Gold Rush SF Prices Adjusted for Inflation. The $36 shovel shown here would have commanded $1,083 in 2016 dollars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501572046442-G6YI1OQQPN6C0EPYP8UA/trade_alert.jpg August 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501553629180-QJSEYFIN48KI366LPUY6/David August 2017 As Sam Anderson writes in last summer's overview of Michelangelo's masterpiece, the block from which it was carved took two years to reach its destination in the 15th century—about two-hour drive today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501473995035-2XFF8EQ4FGLYMHGX3W9E/Director%27s+Cut August 2017 The images of Nick Prince—including the above (titled Under Construction)—were featured in Director's Cut at the Atlanta Photography Group in the Tula Art Center, a colony of artists' studios near the city's Memorial Park in Buckhead's Bennett Street arts district. The show is the APG director's annual chance to curate and display group members' work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501474361394-BB45I3CES14QIQQFHEBN/Franklin+Mineral+Museum+Logo August 2017 http://m.palaminerals.com/david-hughes daily 0.75 2017-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501470576984-WEQ3JY7L6MSTLC40L1O9/David+Hughes David Hughes http://m.palaminerals.com/galleries-2017-08 daily 0.75 2017-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b45f86e4b0e0bd0ec02bd8/1501715210889-Q1QTCYS5RRHE94FVRTOH/feat_ruby.jpg galleries-2017-08 Ruby from Jagdalek, Surobi District, Kaboi Province, Afghanistan, 7 x 5.5 x 4 cm. 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(Photo: Mia Dixon) http://m.palaminerals.com/minerals-for-sale daily 0.75 2015-10-26