Mooney Fine Mineral
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Just a rock nerd on a quest to make a living on the back of nature's wonders. You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Mooney Fine Mineral.
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Mooney Fine Mineral
Obviously. Obviously.
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Do you collect gems, minerals, crystals, or fossils?
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Assuming nothing comes up I'll probably do a verticle live this evening. I've got a small collection somebody brought in that I haven't looked through yet and it could be fun to do it together. If you're available I look forward to seeing you there.
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Coming this Thursday: https://youtu.be/c7G0Hw4fP6o
Look forward to seeing you there.
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While supplies last. If I run out of my series of nifty specimens to send out I'll switch to $10+ Mystery bags until either my supplies or time runs out. This is one of the biggest sales I've had on my shop in the past so if you're wanting some cool locality minerals and crystals, check out my site. And you'll get a cool mineral or fossil on top of that! Woo hoo! Any outstanding orders I have will automatically have this applied to them (looking at you fluorite dude).
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Galena is the primary mineral ore of lead. And while its public perception has certainly changed, it is still an industrially significant mineral. That said, this old postcard has certainly shifted meaning over the years...
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Galena, via Mindat:
Name:Named by Pliny the Elder in 77-79 from the Greek "galene" meaning "lead ore".
Galena Group.
Galena is the primary ore mineral of lead. Worked for its lead and silver contents (the latter as minute inclusions of various silver sulphosalts) as early as 3000 BC, it is found in ore veins with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, tennantite-tetrahedrite, etc. and in skarns, as well as in sedimentary rocks where it may replace carbonate beds or be deposited in pore spaces. The crystals are bright when fresh but often tarnish after exposure to air.
The most common weathering products are cerussite and anglesite.
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Via Mindat:
Named in 1789 by Abraham Gottlob Werner from the Greek word "kyanos", meaning "blue," the common colour of the species. The French spelling, "Cyanite", was commonly used by mineralogists through much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Via Mindat
Name: The name was first used by Theophrastus in 315 B.C. and comes from the Greek "chrysos", meaning "gold," and "kolla", meaning "glue," in allusion to the name of the material used to solder gold. André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers revived the name in 1808.
A mineral of secondary origin, commonly associated with other secondary copper minerals, it is typically found as glassy botryoidal or rounded masses or bubbly crusts, and as vein fillings. Any acicular or fibrous chrysocolla "crystals" are all pseudomorphs.
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Opal, the traditional October birthstone, is an amorphous and hydrated form of silica. Technically while grandfathered in, it's not even a mineral at all! Because the water content differs from opal to opal and can even change over time, it does not fit the definition of a mineral. That said, it's one of the most fascinating gemstones on the planet. The fun play of color happens as light passes through the tiny silica spheres that make up the opal. Basically creating a prism effect. How cool!
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