FMF Minerals Gallery

_crystallized H2O.....ice
Harrodsburg area, Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana, USA
icicles up to 15 feet (Author: Bob Harman)

_crystallized H2O.....ice
Harr

_Deyrolle label dating the specimen to 1824. (Author: Michael Shaw)

_Deyrolle label dating the specimen to 1824.

_Do you want a large amazonite? a kunzite? ;-) (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Do you want a large amazonite? a

_Epidote, adularia, actinolite Alchuri is a hamlet in the Shigar Valley, in the bottom of the map. The red marks point to interesting mineral localities. (Author: Carles Millan)

_Epidote, adularia, actinolite Al

_Epidote, adularia, actinolite And where is the Shigar Valley? (Author: Carles Millan)

_Epidote, adularia, actinolite An

_Estes Park, CO. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Estes Park, CO.

_Ex Alois Steiner specimen (well-known strahler from Austria) (Author: Tobi)

_Ex Alois Steiner specimen (well-k

_Fairview Fluorspar and Lead Company. Good Hope mine and mill. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Fairview Fluorspar and Lead Compa

_Fairview Mine headframe, Rosiclare, Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin County, Illinois. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Fairview Mine headframe, Rosiclar

_Field and stream geodes for sale at a recent Bloomington rock show (Author: Bob Harman)

_Field and stream geodes for sale

_Fish fossils (Author: MIM Museum)

_Fish fossils

_Fish fossils animation (Author: MIM Museum)

_Fish fossils animation

_Fish fossils animation (Author: MIM Museum)

_Fish fossils animation

_Fishermen on the corniche at sunset. (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_Fishermen on the corniche at suns

_Fluorite England (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_Fluorite England

_Fluorite France (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_Fluorite France

_Fluorite, Calcite, Pyrite. Peru (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_Fluorite, Calcite, Pyrite. Peru

_For cataloging your collection. Edit form capture (Author: Carles Millan)

_For cataloging your collection. E

_Front side of another flyer (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Front side of another flyer

_Galena & Sphalerite
September Mine (9th of September Mine) , Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
9.7 x 7.3 x 3.8 cm (Author: Casimir Sarisky)

_Galena & Sphalerite
Septe

_Galena & Sphalerite
September Mine (9th of September Mine) , Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
9.7 x 7.3 x 3.8 cm (Author: Casimir Sarisky)

_Galena & Sphalerite
Septe

_Galena after Pyromorphite
Huelgoat, Châteaulin, Finistère, Brittany/Bretagne, France
(Author: Benj)

_Galena after Pyromorphite
Hue

_Galena after Pyromorphite
Huelgoat, Châteaulin, Finistère, Brittany/Bretagne, France
(Author: Benj)

_Galena after Pyromorphite
Hue

_Geographical location of Huanzala mine (Author: Carles Millan)

_Geographical location of Huanzala mine

_Geographical position of Uchucchacua Mine To whom that might be interested, the complete map is available at http://carlesmillan.cat/min/CPeru.png (Author: Carles Millan)

_Geographical position of Uchuccha

_Gold
Hainzenberg, Ziller Valley (Zillertal), North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria
4,5 x 3 cm (Author: Volkmar Stingl)

_Gold
Hainzenberg, Ziller Vall

_Gypsum (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_Gypsum

_Halite
Chott el Djerid, Between Tozeur y Douz, Kebili Governorate, Great Eastern Sand Sea, Tunisia
ca. 50 cm (Author: Gerhard Brandstetter)

_Halite
Chott el Djerid, Betwe

_Harz area localities (Ilfeld at bottom center) (Author: Carles Millan)

_Harz area localities (Ilfeld at bottom center)

_Hübnerite, quartz Where is Mundo Nuevo? (the red marks point to well known mineral localities) (Author: Carles Millan)

_Hübnerite, quartz Where is Mundo

_Indiana geodes (Author: Bob Harman)

_Indiana geodes

_Label kept by James & Dawn Minette from the dealer Dick Jones (1933-1982) (Author: Carles Millan)

_Label kept by James & Dawn Minette from the dealer Dick Jones (1933-1982)

_Label kept by James & Dawn Minette that is supposed to belong to their supplier (Author: Carles Millan)

_Label kept by James & Dawn Minette that is supposed to belong to their supplier

_Lauzière (Author: ploum)

_Lauzière

_Lauzière (Author: ploum)

_Lauzière

_Let me start the images with something that everybody expects to see when visiting Beirut, a Mosque! (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Let me start the images with some

_Like small stars shining in the dark (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Like small stars shining in the d

_Location of Huayllapon mine
Huayllapon Mine (Huallapon Mine), Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department, Peru
(Author: Carles Millan)

_Location of Huayllapon mine
H

_Manganite
Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Nordhausen District, Thuringia/Thüringen, Germany
110 mm x 54 mm x 39 mm. Mass: 347 g (Author: Carles Millan)

_Manganite
Ilfeld, Nordhausen,

_Map of the state of Indiana. The area, circled in red, in South-central Indiana is the only area where collector quality geodes might reasonably be expected to be found (Author: Bob Harman)

_Map of the state of Indiana. The

_Map of the USA showing major collectible geode locations with special reference to the midwest sedimentary geode areas. (Author: Bob Harman)

_Map of the USA showing major coll

_Massif de la Lauzière (Author: ploum)

_Massif de la Lauzière

_MeinGottWieSchlecht (Author: Tobi)

_MeinGottWieSchlecht

_MIM Museum Photo & text: Peter (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_MIM Museum Photo & text: Pet

_Mine at Creede, Colorado. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Mine at Creede, Colorado.

Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
(Author: silvia)

_MINERAL POETRY I have become ver

_Minerva Mine No. 1 head frame. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Minerva Mine No. 1 head frame.

_Miscellaneous specimens from Morocco, Portugal, Namibia and Malawi (Author: Carles Millan)

_Miscellaneous specimens from Moro

_Most of my Chinese specimens, a little crowded and cluttered because of the lack of room (45 pieces). (Author: Carles Millan)

_Most of my Chinese specimens, a l

_Most of my USA (and Canadian) specimens (Author: Carles Millan)

_Most of my USA (and Canadian) spe

_Much better photos of the minerals than the photos I can do were already published in this thread, and many more will be published, so, aside from the two videos I took, I prefer to add just some shots of the show cases in order to show how they look. (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Much better photos of the mineral

_My Indian specimens (mostly zeolites) (Author: Carles Millan)

_My Indian specimens (mostly zeoli

_My Pakistani (and Afghan) specimens (Author: Carles Millan)

_My Pakistani (and Afghan) specime

_Natrix natrix (of course a snake, not a mineral ;-)) (Author: Tobi)

_Natrix natrix (of course a snake, not a mineral ;-))

_Natrix natrix (of course a snake, not a mineral ;-)) (Author: Tobi)

_Natrix natrix (of course a snake, not a mineral ;-))

_Old label from unknown collection (Author: rweaver)

_Old label from unknown collection

_Old label that accompanied the piece. (Author: Michael Shaw)

_Old label that accompanied the piece.

_Old mineral label for the specimen. EB Underhill died on April 17, 1888. (Author: am mizunaka)

_Old mineral label for the specime

_On the banks of the Ohio River near the town of Cave-in-Rock, Illinois about 2005. Illinois fluorite district. (Author: Bob Harman)

_On the banks of the Ohio River ne

_One more of the pit. You can see the enriched zone in the bottom left quarter. (Author: vic rzonca)

_One more of the pit. You can see

_One of the last standing headframes in the district.
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
(Author: crosstimber)

_One of the last standing headframes in the district.
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hard

_Opal (variety hyalite)
Zacatecas, Mexico
(Author: Benj)

_Opal (variety hyalite)
Zacate

_Original handwritten record from James & Dawn Minette (Author: Carles Millan)

_Original handwritten record from James & Dawn Minette

_Original label from Desmond Sacco (Author: Carles Millan)

_Original label from Desmond Sacco

_Original label from Desmond Sacco (Author: Carles Millan)

_Original label from Desmond Sacco

_Original label from Desmond Sacco (Author: Carles Millan)

_Original label from Desmond Sacco

_Original label from Hugh A. Ford (Author: Carles Millan)

_Original label from Hugh A. Ford

_Over worked. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Over worked.

_Pakistan Aqua (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_Pakistan Aqua

_Part of the main display room. (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_Part of the main display room.

_Paul’s signature in the front of the book to my dad. (Author: rweaver)

_Paul’s signature in the fro

_Pen on paper ;-)
Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya, Spain
(Author: Tobi)

_Pen on paper ;-)
Barcelona, C

_photo setup (Author: Michael Shaw)

_photo setup

_Picture from the book Rock and Minerals (Author: rweaver)

_Picture from the book Rock and Mi

_Pyrite, Hematite
Waldenstein, Wolfsberg District, Styria/Steiermark, Austria
4,5 x 3,5 cm (Author: Volkmar Stingl)

_Pyrite, Hematite
Waldenstein,

_Pyrite (Author: Carles Millan)

_Pyrite

_Pyrite
Ampliación a Victoria Mine, De Alcarama Range, Navajún, Comarca Cervera, La Rioja, Spain
(Author: Carles Millan)

_Pyrite
Ampliación a Victoria

_Pyrite
Ampliación a Victoria Mine, De Alcarama Range, Navajún, Comarca Cervera, La Rioja, Spain
(Author: Carles Millan)

_Pyrite
Ampliación a Victoria

_Quartz and Wizard. Quartz is about 24cm. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Quartz and Wizard. Quartz is abou

_Quartz
Monroe County, Indiana, USA
(Author: Bob Harman)

_Quartz
Monroe County, Indiana

_Quartz
Monroe County, Indiana, USA
(Author: Bob Harman)

_Quartz
Monroe County, Indiana

_Quartz
Monroe County, Indiana, USA
(Author: Bob Harman)

_Quartz
Monroe County, Indiana

_Quartz
Monroe County, Indiana, USA
(Author: Bob Harman)

_Quartz
Monroe County, Indiana

_Queue at the entrance of the museum (Author: MIM Museum)

_Queue at the entrance of the muse

_Queue at the entrance of the museum (Author: MIM Museum)

_Queue at the entrance of the muse

_Queue at the entrance of the museum (Author: MIM Museum)

_Queue at the entrance of the muse

_Ram side and rock side. 30 tons of push force leaves the impression of the piston top in the steel plate. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Ram side and rock side. 30 tons o

_Relaxing on the tailgate of the Rolling Bar. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Relaxing on the tailgate of the R

_Rhodochrosite, Quartz and Sphalerite
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Department, Peru
Analysis (Author: Firmo Espinar)

_Rhodochrosite, Quartz and Sphalerite
Austria Duvas Mine, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junín Departme

_Robinson’s book "Minerals", 208 pages, published in 1994 by Simon & Schuster, written by George W. Robinson, Ph.D., born in 1946, working at Michigan Technological University, and member of the "Board of Directors" of "The Mineralogical Record" (Author: Carles Millan)

_Robinson’s book "Miner

_Rocky beaches on a southern Indiana lakeshore (Author: Bob Harman)

_Rocky beaches on a southern India

_Rocky beaches on a southern Indiana lakeshore (Author: Bob Harman)

_Rocky beaches on a southern India

_Rocky beaches on a southern Indiana lakeshore (Author: Bob Harman)

_Rocky beaches on a southern India

_Rocky beaches on a southern Indiana lakeshore (Author: Bob Harman)

_Rocky beaches on a southern India

_Rosiclare Lead and Fluorspar Mining Co. Rosiclare, IL. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Rosiclare Lead and Fluorspar Mini

Washington County, Indiana, USA
(Author: Bob Harman)

_Rural Washington County A roadsid

_Sacrificial steel plates to protect the piston top. One new. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Sacrificial steel plates to prote

_Salim Eddé is starting his private showing for the invitees on Saturday morning with the University Building in the background. Entrance to the MIM is behind the photographer. Photo & text: Peter (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Salim Eddé is starting his privat

_Scheelite, quartz
Pari, Khaplu, Ghanche District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
60 mm x 50 mm x 27 mm. Scheelite crystal aggregate (Author: Carles Millan)

_Scheelite, quartz
Pari, Khapl

_Schorl (Author: Carles Millan)

_Schorl

_Schortmann’s label for the above specimen from the 1960s. With not a lot of money, one could build a pretty fine collection. (Author: Michael Shaw)

_Schortmann’s label for the

_See angles formed by the pinacoid and the second order pyramid in a beryl crystal (values are approximate) (Author: Carles Millan)

_See angles formed by the pinacoid

_Speaks for itself. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Speaks for itself.

_Sphalerite, Dolomite, Calcite
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District, Kosovo
124 mm x 87 mm x 39 mm. Major crystal size: 29 mm (Author: Carles Millan)

_Sphalerite, Dolomite, Calcite
Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District, Kosov

_Sphalerite, pyrite, quartz (Author: Carles Millan)

_Sphalerite, pyrite, quartz

_Sphalerite, pyrite, quartz (Author: Carles Millan)

_Sphalerite, pyrite, quartz

_Sphalerite, pyrite, quartz (Author: Carles Millan)

_Sphalerite, pyrite, quartz

_Sphalerite, pyrite, quartz Alimon Mine, Huaron Mining District, San Jose de Huayllay District, Cerro de Pasco, Daniel Alcides Carrión Province, Pasco Department, Peru (Author: Carles Millan)

_Sphalerite, pyrite, quartz
Alimon M

_Stibnite, quartz, sphalerite (Author: Carles Millan)

_Stibnite, quartz, sphalerite

_Tetrahedrite, Hübnerite, Quartz
Mundo Nuevo mining area, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department, Peru
92 mm x 61 mm (Author: Carles Millan)

_Tetrahedrite, Hübnerite, Quartz
Mundo Nuevo mining area, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad Department,

_Thanks to Salim, Suzy and Carole for the help to improve my text as well as to James Catmur to revise my confusing English language! ;-) And...thanks again to Carole for her indefatigable patience answering my numerous questions about Lebanon. (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Thanks to Salim, Suzy and Carole

_The 30 ton model, less pump. 4" high. The three following shots show what we find with the application of this tool. (Author: vic rzonca)

_The 30 ton model, less pump. 4&qu

_The Berlin Wall. Size: 75 mm tall x 70 mm wide x 40 mm thick. Weight: 248 g. Acquired in Berlin (August 1999). (Author: Carles Millan)

_The Berlin Wall. Size: 75 mm tall

_The Berlin Wall. As a proof of authenticity this is a photo of the part of the former wall where such specimen was separated from. Figuring out the exact point where it was originally placed is anyone’s guess. (Author: Carles Millan)

_The Berlin Wall. As a proof of au

_The Gold King Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller, Colorado. (Author: vic rzonca)

_The Gold King Mine, Cripple Creek

_The Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave in Rock, Hardin County, IL. (Author: vic rzonca)

_The Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave in Ro

_The Masonic Grand Lodge hold an annual meeting in a cave at the 200 level of the Czar Mine, Bisbee, AZ. 1897. (Author: vic rzonca)

_The Masonic Grand Lodge hold an a

_The next four images are a panorama of the main pit from NE to SW. The mine is vast. (Author: vic rzonca)

_The next four images are a panora

_The Tormiq Valley, very rich in excellent specimens, is placed at the bottom of the map. Full map available at http://carlesmillan.cat/min/NPakistan.png (Author: Carles Millan)

_The Tormiq Valley, very rich in e

_This Colombian emerald crystal must weight over 1,000 carats. Considering its quality, it’s a miracle that it escaped the slaughter. (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_This Colombian emerald crystal mu

_Treasures room (Author: Fiebre Verde)

_Treasures room

_Two of several labels that accompanied the specimen (Author: Michael Shaw)

_Two of several labels that accompanied the specimen

_Uchucchacua mine (the red marks point to well known mineral localities in Peru) (Author: Carles Millan)

_Uchucchacua mine (the red marks p

_Underground in public area Photo & text: Peter (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Underground in public area Photo

Cookes Peak District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
(Author: Philip Simmons)

_Unwrapping specimens after a hard

_Visitors in the Atrium (Author: MIM Museum)

_Visitors in the Atrium

_Visitors in the Atrium (Author: MIM Museum)

_Visitors in the Atrium

_Webb City Lead Mine. MO. (Author: vic rzonca)

_Webb City Lead Mine. MO.

_Wendell E Wilson and Tom Gressman from the Mineralogical Record were invited as expert mineral connoseurs and of course for the beautiful journal The Mineralogical Record which has been the Tzar of Mineralogical Journals for many decades. Here having breakfast at the just opened modern 5 star hotel The Smallville Hotel with very friendly staff, located only 500 m down the Damascus Road from the MIM Museum. I would HIGHLY recommend to stay here for a visit. Photo & text: Peter (Author: Jordi Fabre)

_Wendell E Wilson and Tom Gressman

_Why you should always keep the old labels with the mineral (Author: rweaver)

_Why you should always keep the ol

_Wolfram (Tungsten) ore
San Nicolás mining group (San Nicolás Mine), Valle de la Serena, Comarca La Serena, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Bottle is 10cm tall (Author: James Catmur)

_Wolfram (Tungsten) ore
San Ni

Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
(Author: Bob Harman)

_Yes, that is me in early April, 2

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Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, Peru
(Author: silvia)

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Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad

~1 cm macle diamond from the Crater of Diamonds (not from the Houran Collection). Diamond found by Kevin Jones, veteran miner. (Author: Jim)

~1 cm macle diamond from the Crate

~3.8 cm Euclase from Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (Author: Jim)

~3.8 cm Euclase from Ouro Preto, M