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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

VIVIANITE FROM FLORIDA SEDIMENTARY ROCKS AND BLUE DEAD BODIES

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Vivianite is a hydrated iron phosphate mineral [Fe 3 ++ (PO 4 ) 2 -8H 2 0] that is a crystal of many colors, and in fact, can change co...

Saturday, December 10, 2022

THEISITE: Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

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I am always on the lookout for funky and sort of quirky uncommon to rare minerals. My small mineral collection has numerous specimens that I...

Friday, November 25, 2022

PERHAMITE, A RARE PHOSPHATE FROM MAINE

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Although I enjoy collecting minerals, especially phosphates, in the pegmatites of the Black Hills of South Dakota I often wish the rocks o...

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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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