Flower of cristals Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is the new One in my collection.
I love minerals, and I'd enjoy sharing some of my favorites with TE.
This is a lussatite flower, which is perfect. It is lussatite as aware collectors love it.
Lussatite has got its name from a French locality, Lussat, where an asphalt mine was worked until 1983.
That mine is close to the little village of Dallet, next to Lussat, in Auvergne. Landscapes are wonderful there, the plain enhances the old volcanoes like the Puy-de-Dôme.
These flowers are compound of silicium oxyde, quartz cristals all around, chalcedony inside, and the center is a kind of opal. Some say that the quartz cristals around are cristobalite, but we have to search about the forming conditions.

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alainh (35349) 2007-10-22 11:41

bonjour Emma

Loic etait venu te saluer sur ta belle aigue-marine, à mon tour de venir te souhaiter la bienvenue sur TE !!
Content de voir cette jolie pièce de minéralogie française. J'ai moi aussi pas mal 'grattouillé le caillou'
http://fr.treknature.com/gallery/Europe/France/photo401.htm
Tucson est un must !!
ce week-end, je file un coup de main pour l'organisation de la bourse de Grenoble !!!
encore bravo pour cette belle lussatite
amicalement
alain

scroller (2883) 2007-10-27 2:18

Hej Emma,

This is a very nice and minimalistic photo. The sharpness of the mineral coems forward very well in the flashlight.
Tfs
/Stefan

..and of course welcome to TE!

leonorkuhn (13501) 2007-11-04 12:21

Hi Emma,

Good capture of this crystal. I like its inner structure. Nice details and good colors.

Have a good week
Leonor