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Welcome to FineMineralBlog. My name is Bram Hasler, I’m Canadian mineral dealer living in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I'm writing this blog to help inform people on beautiful minerals. Most photos seen, I find on google. Credit for the photos go out to there owners. Thank you for reading.

Monday 28 November 2011

Azurite American Museum of Natural History

This is one of the best Azurites in the world. Its crystals measure up to 8 inches. This piece was found at  Tsumeb

Photo by Karen Peterson

Sunday 27 November 2011

Rice Museum

Rhodochrosite. Weight of this specimen is 70 pounds.
It has 2.5" to 4" rhombohedral crystals and sphalerite, tennatite, tetrahedrite, quartz, fluorite and calcite. Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado

Azurite from Bisbee



Babingtonite with green prehnite and white calcite. Lane Traprock quarry, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

Scolecite with Calcite. Baird Creek quarry, Cowlitz County, Washington





Yellow and brown calcite with Natrolite. Gopher Valley quarry, Sheridan, Yamhill County
All Photo's by Rhiannon Boyle

Saturday 19 November 2011

American Mineral Treasures


Gold
Rhodochrosite

Emerald

Tourmaline

Copper

Tourmaline

Calcite


Amazonite

Barite

Quartz

All photos by Steve
To see all of Steve's American Mineral Treasures photos, follow the link below

Thursday 17 November 2011

Halpern Mineral Collection

Some pieces from the Halpern Collection.

Red Beryl

Neptunite

Rhodochrosite

Morganite

Topaz on Schorl

Big Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite

Elbaite

Crocoite

Dioptase

Fluorite

All photos by Eric Hunt

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Tuscon 2011


Photos by : Lee Allison
Put on display by Collectors Edge of Colorado. Rumor price for the "Empress" $1.8 million dollars and the "Emperor" could be worth $15 million dollars but will be returning to China.

Latrobe nugget

Photo by Ross Nieuwburg

The Latrobe nugget is one of the largest groups of gold crystals known.The nugget weighs 717 grams. It was found at Mount McIvor, Victoria, Australia. In the British Museum of Natural History.

Exploring the Himalaya Tourmaline Mine