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ADOPT-A-MINERAL Adopted Specimens |
Catalog Number |
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Description Locality |
Credit/Dedication |
25408 |
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Cafarsite crystals on matrix (4 x 3 x 2 cm)
Pizzo Cervandone, Valle Ossola, Italy |
Gift from the Southern California Micro-Mineralogists |
37431 |
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Topaz crystal (5 x 5 x 4 cm)
Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego Co., California |
Gift in memory of Vicki Lee |
37433 |
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Lepidolite crystals (17 x 14 x 14 cm)
Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego Co., California |
Gift from Walter and Hilda Goldsmith |
39008 |
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Allanite crystals with feldspar (12 x 10 x 10 cm)
Pacoima Canyon, Los Angeles Co., California |
Gift in memory of Donnie K. Rice |
39009 |
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Rhodochrosite crystal (8 x 6 x 5 cm)
Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado |
Gift from John DeVries Moore |
39054 |
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Wodginite crystal with albite (9 x 6 x 4 cm)
Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from Shari and Sean Cliver in honor of Eric and Samantha Fett |
39435 |
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Szenicsite with powellite (11 x 9 x 6 cm)
Tierra Amarilla, Atacama, Chile |
Gift from Kay Robertson |
39436 |
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Anapaite (10 x 8 x 5 cm)
Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine |
Gift from Paul M. Adams |
40058 |
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Forsterite, var. peridot, crystal (6 x 4 x 3 cm)
Sapat, Indus-Kohistan region, Pakistan |
Gift from Roy and Barbara Foerster |
40526 |
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Azurite with malachite (12 x 8 x 7 cm)
Pilot Hill, El Dorado County, California |
Gift in memory of Henry B. Baer |
40527 |
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Wulfenite crystals (19 x 15 x 9 cm)
San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico |
Gift from Hyman & Beverly Savinar in memory of Harry & Ethel Chapman |
40528 |
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Apophyllite crystals (9 x 7 x 7 cm)
Amadnagar, Maharashtra, India |
Gift from Mr. & Mrs. Louis T. San Giacomo |
40581 |
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Veszelyite crystals (3 x 1 x 1 cm)
Black Pine mine, Philipsburg, Montana |
Gift in honor of Oreste G. Alessio |
40989 |
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Anatase crystal (2 x 1 x 1 cm)
Hardangervida, Hordaland, Norway |
Gift from the Aerospace Employees Association Gem & Mineral Club |
41030 |
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Imperial topaz crystal (8 x 2 x 1 cm)
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from the Aerospace Employees Association Gem & Mineral Club |
41032 |
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Cavansite sprays on stilbite (19 x 15 x 8 cm)
Wagholi, Maharashtra, India |
Gift from Charley and Cece Schoettlin in memory of Bob Rasmussen and Henri Schoettlin |
41218 |
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Spodumene crystal, varieties kunzite and triphane (22 x 6 x 2 cm)
Beebe Hole mine, Jacumba, San Diego Co., California |
Gift from the Gem & Mineral Council in memory of Anton and Rita Kampf |
41244 |
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Faceted triphylite (5.85 carats)
Boa Vista mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from Joseph and Matthew Meyerowitz |
41249 |
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Tanzanite crystal with graphite and diopside (10 x 4 x 3 cm)
Samax mine, Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania |
Gift in memory of Wilton B. Cohen |
41628 |
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Vesuvianite crystals (5 x 4 x 4 cm)
Portola, Plumas Co., California |
Gift from Paul M. Adams |
42505 |
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Celestine crystals (15 x 15 x 12 cm)
Sakoany mine, Majunga, Madagascar |
Gift from Hyman & Beverly Savinar in memory of Harry & Lena Savinar |
43169 |
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Petalite crystal (12 x 6 x 5 cm)
Papuruk, Nuristan, Pakistan |
Gift in memory of Hyman Savinar from his family and friends |
43173 |
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Ferro-actinolite crystals (11 x 9 x 8 cm)
Minarets district, Madera Co., California |
Gift from the Westside Mineralogists |
43177 |
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Ram's-horn gypsum (16 x 8 x 4 cm)
Livingston quarry, Los Angeles Co., California |
Gift in memory of Donnie K. Rice |
43462 |
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Chrysocolla pseudomorph after malachite (10 x 6 x 3 cm)
Copper World mine, Clark Mts, San Bernardino Co., California |
Gift from Paul M. Adams |
44226 |
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Brewsterite crystals (4 x 3 x 2 cm)
Yellow Lake, British Columbia |
Gift from the Aerospace Employees Association Gem & Mineral Club |
44286 |
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Topaz crystal (23 x 15 x 14 cm)
Marambaia, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from Hyman & Beverly Savinar in memory of Anton & Rita Kampf |
44486 |
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Inesite blades with datolite, natrolite and tobermorite (5 x 5 x 4 cm)
Kuruman, South Africa |
Gift from Paul M. Adams |
45260 |
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Stellerite crystals (12 x 9 x 5 cm)
Sarbayskaya quarry, Rudniy, Kazakhstan |
Gift from Hyman and Beverly Savinar in memory of Evelyn Canter |
45444 |
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Beryl, variety emerald, crystals on twinned calcite crystal (4 x 4 x 2 cm)
La Pita mine, Borbur, Colombia |
Gift from Linda Gordon |
45830 |
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Barite crystal with calcite crystals (12 x 7 x 6 cm)
Meikle mine, Elko County, Nevada |
Gift from the Mineralogical Society of Southern California |
45944 |
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Magnesite crystals on matrix (11 x 6 x 5 cm)
McLaughlin mine, Napa County, California |
Gift from the Mineral Research Society of California |
46395 |
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Spessartine garnet crystal with albite on schorl (6 x 5 x 4 cm)
Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, San Diego County, California |
Gift from Walter and Hilda Goldsmith |
46608 |
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Eosphorite crystals (10 x 5 x 2 cm)
Olmerino mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from the Mineralogical Society of Southern California |
47117 |
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Gold crystal (1 x 1 x 1 cm)
Baja California Norte, Mexico |
Gift from L. J. H. Gundy in memory of her mother Carol May |
47341 |
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Gold (2 x 2 x 0.5 cm)
Casa Diablo mine, Bishop, Mono County, California |
Gift from the Southern California Micro-Mineralogists |
48554 |
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Topaz crystal (6 x 1 x 1 cm)
Angico mine, Medina, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from Hyman and Beverly Savinar |
48555 |
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Aquamarine crystal (7 x 1 x 1 cm)
Tres Barras, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from Hyman and Beverly Savinar |
48556 |
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Smoky quartz crystals on etched microcline feldspar (10 x 9 x 8 cm)
Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from Hyman and Beverly Savinar |
48557 |
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Quartz with included rutile crystals (11 x 8 x 7 cm)
Paulistao mine, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from Hyman and Beverly Savinar |
50741 |
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Pentagonite (5 x 3 x 3 cm)
Wagholi, Maharashtra, India |
Gift in loving memory of Arthur Anthony Garcia |
50747 |
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Turquoise pseudomorph after apatite (2 x 2 x 2 cm)
Apache Canyon, Turquoise Mts., San Bernardino County, California |
Gift from the Southern California Micro-Mineralogists |
51410 |
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Spessartine with smoky quartz (8 x 6 x 5 cm)
Yangchun, Guangdong, China |
Gift from the friends of Liz and Bill Hubbarth in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary |
51837 |
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Reticulated rutile twin (3 x 3 cm)
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift in honor of Bruce Stambaugh |
52126 |
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Faceted orthoclase (192.5 carats)
Itrongahy, Tulear, Madagascar |
Gift from Hyman and Beverly Savinar |
52388 |
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Brazilianite on albite (22 x 13 x 11 cm)
Telirio mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Gift from Hyman and Beverly Savinar |
53950 |
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Cesian beryl (11 x 10 x 4 cm) Cryo-Genie mine, Warner Springs, SanDiego Co., California |
Gift from Hilda Goldsmith in memory of Walter Goldsmith |
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