Hellyerite, Lord Brassey...
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SmartArts
Oct 8, 2009, 6:18:10 AM10/8/09
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Rob Lavinski has a hellyerite up for auction (for the next 13 hours or
so) and it is blue. Not crystalline, but a rare one.
Link is http://www.mineralauctions.com/AuctionDetails.asp?AUCTION_ID=50435
Regards
Steve
so) and it is blue. Not crystalline, but a rare one.
Link is http://www.mineralauctions.com/AuctionDetails.asp?AUCTION_ID=50435
Regards
Steve
Ralph Bottrill
Oct 8, 2009, 6:43:56 PM10/8/09
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Interesting.
It looks like an old specimen with hellyerite altered to zaratite but there is a later sprinkling of a blue mineral that needs investigation
regards
Ralph Bottrill
Senior Geologist, Mineralogist and Petrologist
Metallic Minerals and Geochemistry
Mineral Resources Tasmania
PO Box 56, Rosny Park TAS 7018
Phone: 61 3 6233 8359, Fax: 61 3 6233 8338
Email: rbot...@mrt.tas.gov.au or: Ralph.B...@dier.tas.gov.au
It looks like an old specimen with hellyerite altered to zaratite but there is a later sprinkling of a blue mineral that needs investigation
regards
Ralph Bottrill
Senior Geologist, Mineralogist and Petrologist
Metallic Minerals and Geochemistry
Mineral Resources Tasmania
PO Box 56, Rosny Park TAS 7018
Phone: 61 3 6233 8359, Fax: 61 3 6233 8338
Email: rbot...@mrt.tas.gov.au or: Ralph.B...@dier.tas.gov.au
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