August 2011 Update (2)

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MB68T2: Crystal of Topaz with corroded forms on alternating flat and smooth crystalline surfaces. It is very transparent and has an excellent blue color, very vivid and uniform, and has small growths of Albite on its surface.
Teixerinha Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais  Brazil (06-07/2006)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 2.0” × 1.0” × 0.8”

GH61T2: Classical aggregate of Orpiment from Quiruvilca, with well developed crystals that have polycrystalline terminations. They are translucent and a very vivid orange color. On matrix, with minor Pyrite.
Quiruvilca Mine, Distrito Quiruvilca, Departamento La Libertad  Peru (±1985)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 7.4 × 4.3 cm = 3.3” × 2.9” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.8” × 0.8”

TG70T2: Stalagmitic growth of Quartz (Amethyst) crystals with their prism more developed than usual on this kind of sample, very bright, with excellent color and very well marked phantom growths. The Amethyst completely coats a Calcite crystal whose section is seen on the bottom of the sample.
Cantera La Bolsa, Paraje La Bolsa, Artigas  Uruguay (11/2009)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.6 × 10.6 cm = 5.0” × 3.8” × 4.2”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.5” × 0.7”

MH89T2: Arborescent growth, of excellent color and luster, of elongated and flattened crystals and of laminar formations.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.8” × 0.7” × 0.5”

MD50T2: Arborescent and skeletal growths, with excellent luster and color, with deformed crystals and laminar and wire growths.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.1” × 0.6” × 0.4”

MB70T2: Arborescent and skeletal growths, with excellent luster and color, with deformed crystals and laminar and wire growths.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #29, August 27, 2011 edition.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7” × 0.3”

MC31T2: Arborescent and skeletal growths, with excellent luster and color, with deformed crystals and laminar and wire growths.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.2”

MJ51T2: Aggregate of partially skeletal crystals with well defined faces and edges, excellent luster and color, and of considerable size and on matrix.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

MF71T2: Arborescent and skeletal growths of deformed crystals and of wire and laminar forms with excellent luster and color.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.3”

TQ27T2: Group of crystals with slightly curved faces and edges, with good terminations, some of them doubly terminated, bright and with an excellent color, very uniform, with a thin geometrical color zone near the termination between the prism and the pinacoid.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi  China (2009)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.1” × 1.0” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.5” × 0.2”

TH67T2: Group of crystals with slightly curved faces and edges, with excellent terminations and most of them doubly terminated, very bright and with excellent color, very uniform.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi  China (2009)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm = 1.0” × 0.8” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

MD97T2: Typical radial aggregate of this find, with crystals formed by the prism and the pinacoid, very bright and with a diffuse color zoning, green at the base and colorless on the termination, with white bow-tie crystals of Stilbite, and on basalt matrix.
Momim Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra  India (04-05/2004)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.6 × 4.4 cm = 4.3” × 3.0” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.6” × 0.3”

EF87T2: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Floater group of pistachio green color but with a very unusual habit, pseudo-octahedral, and with a feebly developed frontal pinacoid.
Raywoo Mine, Quetta, Balochistan  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm = 3.8” × 2.5” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 4.6 cm = 2.2” × 1.8”

MG67T2: Crystals of Beryl (Aquamarine), one of them partially doubly terminated, showing the pinacoid and complex dipyramidal forms on both terminations. They are very transparent and bright, with uniform blue color and with inclusions. On Albite matrix, with leafy aggregates of crystallized Muscovite.
Shigar Valley, Skardu, Baltistan  Pakistan

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.7 × 4.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.9” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 1.5” × 1.4”

MR97T2: Stacked crystals of Beryl (Aquamarine) with simple forms, very bright and having a very intense sky blue color, with zoning stripes with showing slight changes of tones. On Albite matrix with Muscovite.
Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan  Pakistan

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.3 × 5.3 cm = 3.2” × 2.5” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.3” × 0.9”