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.
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…
Missing Newsletter Added…
Newsletter 72 has now been uploaded to the Newsletter Archive.
Missing Newsletters Added…
Some of the missing newsletters have now been added. These are numbers 95, 101, 102, 103 and 104. You can find them in the Newsletter Archive. If anyone has a copy and the time and energy to scan the remaining missing ones and send them to me, that would be most appreciated. We are looking…
Micromount Club Zoom Meeting…
Video from this morning’s presentation on the uranium minerals from Lake Boga, Victoria, to the Micromount Club Zoom meeting, is now available…
A Hard Life…
A selection of first-hand accounts describing the mines around Caradon Hill in the 19th Century.
Newsletter Archive…
Check out the newsletter archive dating back to 1981. Most newsletters are available as pdfs. Lots of great information!
National Micromount Reference Collection Selected Specimen #104
Number 104 in the National Micromount Reference Collection is a rosasite specimen from Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. The specimen was donated by T. Wolloxall. Notes in the catalogue state “If this is rosasite, it is unusually green. However since there are also colourless crystals of hemimorphite, this is probably correct. Cooper and Stanley, Minerals…
Linarite from the UK
A personal account by Steve Rust. Included in Newsletter 76. All photos are by Steve Rust. Featured image: Linarite from the Eaglebrook mine, Wales. Many collectors have fine micro examples of linarite in their collections, from a number of UK and world locations. It is easy to understand why. Who would not like to have…