Since I was eight years old, I have been a member of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society. One of my earliest memories is the collection of sandstone concretions I made as a six year old.
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Inspecting a Specimen at a Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Meeting
~10 Years Old
Interpreting at the Pikes Peak Historical Society Museum in Florissant, CO
~14 Years Old
Curating with the Cripple Creek and Victor Mineralogy Gang
~15 Years Old
Identifying a Specimen at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry
~17 Years Old
Probing for Ptygmatic Folds at an Outcrop in Cripple Creek, CO
~17 Years Old
Trekking for Tellurides within the Cresson Pit, Cripple Creek, CO
~18 Years Old
Braving the Slopes to Find Epithermal Quartz
~24 Years Old
Looking out on the Cresson Pit, Cripple Creek, CO
~24 Years Old
Synthesizing Minerals in Your Laboratory?
??? Years Old
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Maybe I can be part of YOUR future mineral adventures!
Please let me know if you are looking for a graduate student who is enthusiastic about solid-state chemistry, minerals, and crystal growth!
Now, for some mineral specimens!
This was one of the most interesting specimens from the University of Arizona Alfie Norville Gem and Mineral Museum. Now that is some hexagonal calcite! !!With amethyst and seemingly ametrine overgrowths!! I wonder if there was a penecontemporaneous temperature or compositional gradient or a distinct temporal change in chemistry leading to the differences in color of the amethyst and the change in color and habit (dogtooth-like) of the calcite protrusions.
What an infamous specimen – definitely one of the coolest pieces at the Mines Mineral Museum! Of course, it is from Arizona – the “Copper State!” I would say this assemblage puts the “super” in secondary supergene enrichment zone. :^)
I wonder what the pH of the acid mine drainage pool at the base of Lavender Pit in Bisbee, Arizona happens to be…
Do you see any left-handed enantiomorphs in this bouquet?
Another fantastic supergene enrichment zone assemblage of azurite and malachite from Arizona!
And some of my own specimens…
Are coming soon…
