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Senckenberg-Naturmuseum Frankfurt am Main, Germany
I have to check back exactly what mineral this is.
I went to a rock and gem show today and picked up some lovely gemstones! There is dinasour bone, pietersite, russian serpetine, blue tiger eye, paua shell, mahogany obsidian, and banded agate. Lovely stuff!
I love how this colour combination turned out. Red Garnet, orange Sunstone, brown Andulasite and bronzy Pyrite. Just added to my Etsy shop.
I recently bought a 22-gram morganite rough from an antique market. Morganite is a beryl*, the same class of mineral as its much more famous green variety (emeralds) and blue variety (aquamarines). Unlike emeralds and aquamarines, the pale, very slightly purplish pink morganites are not expensive. This 110-carat rough only cost me CAD $20 (USD $15, EUR 14, GBP 11.80).
* Beryl is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2(Si O3)6.
By the way, morganite was named after John Pierpoint ( J.P. ) Morgan the well-known banker. Mr. Morgan was an avid gemstone collector and close friend of gemologist George Kunz. When the pink beryl was first discovered in Madagascar in 1910, Mr. Kunz proposed the name morganite at a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences on 5 December 1910 to honor his friend and customer J.P. Morgan.
Recent corals used fo a necklace, baught at a jumble sale. It is not good to make jewellery out of this rare corals.
If you believe in superstition, they are a good apotropaic device against the evil eye!
GEMSTONE - IMO : 5177884
Built 1959, by De Groot en Van Vliet, Slikkerveer, Netherlands (Yard # 323) as JUVALTA
GRT : 499 / DWT : 837
Overall Length : 56.6 metres x Beam 9.04 metres.
Machinery : 1 Screw driven by a 4 stroke single acting 8 cylinder oil engine
Speed : 10.5 knots
History POR = Port of Registry
1959: JUVALTA: Schellen Scheepvaart en Bevrachting NV : POR Rotterdam
1973: JOINTYN : n.v.Williamson : POR London
1975: GEMSTONE : Remodene Ltd : POR London
1981: GEMSTONE : Allsworth Shipping Ltd : POR London
1983: GEMSTONE : Bondminster Ltd and N.Watson : POR London
1983: Aug : As a result of a leak when at Brighton. The vessel was taken to Newhaven for repairs and was accompanied by the tug Meechin on the voyage.
1983: 9 Sept : Left for Barbados.
1984: GEMSTONE : Bondminster and Elmanoak : POR Kingstown
1984: 21 Nov : Damaged as a result of collision with the m.s. 'Kranaos' in Georgetown, Demarara, Guyana. No notice of repair. 1985: Removed from Lloyds Register. : EXISTENCE IN DOUBT.
GEMSTONE photographed on 12 April 1980 at Colchester
Ship Details : Miramar / Marine News / www.marhisdata.nl/schip?id=3341
For bokeh Tuesday I decided to color things up a bit with amber, amethyst and peridot, all from Arizona. And the reflection is a bonus.
Finished the gemstone quilt!
* ~50” x 60” finished size
* Gemstones from a foundation paper piecing pattern from Sarah Sharp of {no} hats in the house; pieced into a quilt top of my own design
* Quilt top, back and binding made entirely of Kona cotton solids in 16 shades of blue and 2 shades of grey (Shadow and Iron)
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