The fortnightly Micromount Club Zoom meeting was held yesterday. Bruce Kelley presented the Micro Minerals of Nevada… The video is now available here. All other videos are available here.
Month: October 2020
Cornish Anatase…
It can be quite hard to pick out a single dark crystal on a generally all over dark specimen! Here is an example of a dark blue anatase crystal on a specimen that is on a matrix of mostly dark green chlorite. The specimen also contains cassiterite, albite and quartz. Anatase is a titanium oxide…
RIP Rick Turner
Some very sad news. Rick Turner passed away after a short illness this month. Rick has the mineral rickturnerite named after him. Rick recently gave a Zoom presentation to the Micromount Club. This on one of his favourite locations – Tolbachik. It was an excellent talk and you can watch the video here. Rick will…