File:Topaz-ch36c.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Topaz-ch36c.jpg (266 × 400 pixels, file size: 35 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: Topaz
Locality: Little Three Mine (Little 3), Ramona District, San Diego County, California, USA (Locality at mindat.org)
Size: small cabinet, 8.5 x 7 x 6 cm
Topaz on Cleavelandite
This is a matrix, doubly-terminated, gemmy, blue topaz. The piece is totally pristine save for a small crack partway down the sides, revealing where a very tight repair has been made. It is extremely aesthetic, and an important example of topaz from San Diego, said by Bill Larson to be one of the top three such matrix crystals known along with his own specimen and one sold to the Smithsonian in the 1970s. The style of the crystallized matrix marks it as unlike anything from Brazil, and proves it to be San Diego despite the unusual quality. This piece had never been fully prepped and cleaned until now, despite being collected 30 years ago by the mine owner, Louis Spalding; who sold it to Cal Graeber, who sold it to Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka in whose collection it resided for many years before it ended up with Chuck Houser.
Deutsch: Topas
Fundort: Little Three Mine (Little 3), Ramona District, San Diego County, Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Größe: 8.5 x 7 x 6 cm
Date before March 2010
date QS:P,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source Image: http://www.irocks.com/db_pics/pics/ch36c.jpg, Description: http://www.mindat.org/photo-257496.html
Author
Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
Alternative names
Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
iRocks.com (Mineralogical Record)
Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q56247090
Other versions

Licensing

[edit]
Rob Lavinsky, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Attribution: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:38, 25 May 2010Thumbnail for version as of 20:38, 25 May 2010266 × 400 (35 KB)RKBot (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description= {{en|1=Topaz :: Locality: Little Three Mine (Little 3), Ramona District, San Diego County, California, USA ([http://www.mindat

The following 2 pages use this file:

Metadata