Showing posts with label benitoite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label benitoite. Show all posts
Friday, May 3, 2013

A Bit of Blue Gemstone for a Friday

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As I've mentioned a few times, our new Science Community Center at Modesto Junior College is opening soon. Most of the first floor wi...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Destroying Our Heritage: California Mining and Mineral Museum Raided

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It makes me sick at heart... A closeup of the Fricot Nugget I just can't believe how low some people will go that they would destr...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

A Priceless Collection of Minerals: To see, or not to see

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I was in the field yesterday with my students, and one of our stops was at the California State Mining and Mineral Museum in Mariposa at the...
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Saturday, July 31, 2010

The Other California: The CA State Mineral Museum - this is art, darnit!

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I know it when I see it. Purveyors of that which we would not call art would use shiny perfect minerals that would cause the viewer to obje...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Other California: Geology and our State Symbols

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Gold was the obvious choice for the state mineral of California, but at the time, no other state had actually selected a state mineral, or...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

50 Minerals one must see....a geologic meme (and me too!)

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Jumping on the bandwagon, here are the 50 minerals from Chuck's list that I have seen (See Lounge of the Lab Lemming and others here , ...