@flameryder
Amature mineral collector for 70 years. I specialize in micro minerals and photography of them. Wife and I are also involved with llamas and we each own one. We show them at local county fairs and several ILR sanctioned shows around Washington and Oregon
Two clusters of very pale pink hexagonal stillwellite-(Ce) crystals on a white to colorless matrix. The pink does not come through well in the photo.
Stillwellite-(Ce) CeBSiO₅
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 1.15 mm
#4026
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Colorless near parallel shomiokite-(Y) crystals on a white feldspar matrix. Toward the upper right corner is the tip of a red arrow that marks the location of the shomiokite-(Y). There is some yellow staining on the shomiokite-(Y).
Shomiokite-(Y) Na₃Y(CO₃)₃·3H₂O
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 3.49 mm
#4025
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Every time he opens his mouth.
No Democrat should vote to approve the nominee that trump put forward.
This administration is involved in two wars. One against the American people and one against Iran.
This administration has declared war on non billionaire citizens. Instead of bombs and missiles, they will kill us through lack of healthcare, shelter and food.
It is not a sanctioned UN police action, so it is a war.
It started decades ago with the US interfering in Iran's internal politics to get the ruler we wanted.
I believe that registration was made permanent, not that it matters as only ethical organizations pay attention to it. Unethical organizations ignore the list.
If he wants civilians protected, he should denounce this illegal action.
The best option is to rid ourselves of this unpatriotic administration.
The ground work started being laid 40 years ago. Nobody listened.
FOV should be 1.04 mm and catalog #4024.
Group of brown tabular sidorenkite crystals at center on a white to colorless matrix composed primarily of sodalite.
Sidorenkite Na₃Mn(PO₄)(CO₃)
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 0.85 mm
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Group of greyish white shedrickite crystals encased in colorless prehnite and associated with green aegirine crystals. Named after the developer of the SHEXE series of crystal structure analysis programs, Professor Emeritus of Crystallography at University of Gottingen. The Poudrette Quarry is the type locality for sheldrickite.
Sheldrickite NaCa₃(CO₃)₂F₃·H₂O
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 3.51 mm
#4022
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Cluster of pale yellow to colorless monoclinic sabinaite crystals. The visible matrix is sabinaite with an underlaying matrix of a hydrothermally pegmatite.
Sabinaite Na₄TiZr₂O₄(CO₃)₄
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 3.51 mm
#4022
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Good choice. We watched but is was about the Democrats destroying the country and how he saved it. Disgusting performance. The television survived.
Must be referring to Jefferies and Shumer.
Given all the issues and cost overruns when building nuclear plants with folks that knew what they were doing, I fear having tech bros involved building them.
What a shit show this state of disunion clown show is.
This is not a State of the Union address but look at me, see what I have done for myself and my billionaires that own me.
I am watching as my wife insisted on it. She seems to be regretting it now.
Black rutile crystals arrayed in an arc across the center of the image. Above them, at center is a blocky rutile crystal. They are on mixed mineral white matrix with some yellow staining.
Rutile TiO₂
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 2.50 mm
#4021
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Yellow mass of rémondite-(La) with intergrown rémondite-(Ce) and a partial coating of white synchysite-(Ce).
Rémondite-(La) Na₃(La,Ca,Na)₃(CO₃)₅
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 3.46 mm
#4020
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The only thing he dislikes about Greenlands healthcare is that it isn't ripping people off to enrich the wealthy.
When this first came, the best advice I saw was to get a hardwired system. No WiFi capability and feeding a standalone recording system not connected to the internet.
No, it is fibrous aegirine.
I don't see any law enforcement agency enforcing such a ban.
Pink petarasite crystal group at center with an unspecified black mineral attached to upper left. The golden brown mineral is aegirine, mostly on the left side and lower right. The Poudrette Quarry is the type locality for petarasite.
Petarasite Na₅Zr₂Si₆O₁₈(Cl,OH)·2H₂O
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 1.22 mm
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Crude yellow crystals of oneillite lining a small cavity. The dark crystals are aegirine and the white is albite. The Poudrette Quarry is the type locality for oneillite.
Oneillite Na₁₅Ca₃Mn₃Fe₃Zr₃Nb(Si₂₅O₇₃)(O,OH,H₂O)₃(OH,Cl)₂
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 3.52 mm
#4018
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