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Saturday, October 27, 2012

BADGERS, STONEHENGE, AND A FURSTY FERRET

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THE EUROPEAN BADGER, MELES MELES . PHOTO COURTESY OF BBC. The big news from Maidenhead, UK, (see previous post) centers around bad...

Thursday, October 25, 2012

OLD THUMPER & THE THAMES RIVER

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THE RIVER THAMES AT MAIDENHEAD. For the last several days I have been searching for rock outcrops, any type of rock and any outcrop--w...

Monday, October 22, 2012

SPHENE: A NICE GEMSTONE

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BEAUTIFUL GREEN AND GEMMY SPHENOID CRYSTALS, SOME TWINNED, OF TITANITE WITH GEMMY PORCELAIN-WHITE ORTHOCLASE VAR. ANDULARIA. WIDTH ~3...

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

COLUMBITE & TANTALITE

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I am often confused about identification of minerals in the Columbite-Tantalite series; of course numerous other ideas offer confusion ...

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

MT. ANTERO: HELIODOR & EUCLASE

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MT. ANTERO, 14,269 FEET . Mt. Antero, and neighboring Mt. White, are two of the more spectacular mineral collecting sites in Colora...

Thursday, October 4, 2012

CALCITE FROM LA GARITA

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The San Juan Mountains are known to most geologists as a volcanic terrane since there is a tremendous amount of evidence pointing to numer...

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Mike: Mike is a former University professor and administrator who now lives in Colorado. I enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking, rock/mineral collecting, fishing and camping. You may read other articles in the Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies (www.rmfms.org)or the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society newsletter, the Pick & Pack Pack (www.csms.us). I also am writing and speaking about members of the Colorado Cavalry/Infantry who participated in the march to Glorieta Pass (1862), helped settle central Kansas (1865), and later fought at Beecher Island (1868). Mostly I just try and enjoy life and collect mundane facts and pretty rocks/minerals.

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