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Dießen am Ammersee, Germany

Avril slumbers in a forest clearing and dreams of riding a horse.

Metal Windmill

Remembering my dear mum today (Left) with Grandma (Right) washing the clothes. There were 9 children at this time the youngest (Twins) were newly born. No electricity and no running water. Water had to be brought by bucket from the creek near by and boiled in a copper for washing and bathing. Circa 1959 Wacol Queensland. (My dad's photo)

Offspring from the ancient Fagus sylvatica from the Holliston Historical Society I grew from seedlings under the parent tree saved and potted in 1994 and now the only tree from HHS that I planted on my property.
Unfortunately its sibling succumbed to drought of 2022 because of my idea to revert my property to native wild space
the habit started of non use of household outside watering .
While a smart idea I didn't take the sign that from June
well into winter dormancy I did not intervein fast enough to save the tree only late in watering just the best tree that looked better was saved .

It was hoped, as old as these trees are, they while capable for their age to flower and seed have yet to produce fruit,
had they produced nuts my hope was to cultivate more trees.

My feeling there is more rapid mortality in not only Fagus sylvatica in ancient trees but also young are dying off,

The Copper Beech trees in the eastern U.S. were statements planted by the well to do in many yards with grand houses on main streets from 1840s to 1900. and are disappearing just like the American Elm has.

My collection of European Beech started back in 1992-94 collecting the seedlings from old trees planted by Col. George Flagg M.V.M in the 1840s on his property those trees from this year 2025 are very sick with a visit of the home site three years ago still showed this parent tree very choked , neglected
and the work to keep bittersweet far away from the tree after
we were drummed out the encroachment of bittersweet has taken into the tree that is already compromised by age and the disease, on that visit it was still producing nuts which I should have gathered but with the way we were treated in the past,
I figured better a quick image of the giant fat tree and leave .

It should be noted, the only Weeping Beech tree along the front street appears healthy had lost a third of its size from damage in the ice storm of 1992.

Hopefully before I snuff it, it be nice to see my tree fruit, maybe even grow more legacy trees.

Chalcocite from England. (Indiana State Museum collection, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)

A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 6100 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.

The sulfide minerals contain one or more sulfide anions (S-2). The sulfides are usually considered together with the arsenide minerals, the sulfarsenide minerals, and the telluride minerals. Many sulfides are economically significant, as they occur commonly in ores. The metals that combine with S-2 are mainly Fe, Cu, Ni, Ag, etc. Most sulfides have a metallic luster, are moderately soft, and are noticeably heavy for their size. These minerals will not form in the presence of free oxygen. Under an oxygen-rich atmosphere, sulfide minerals tend to chemically weather to various oxide and hydroxide minerals.

Chalcocite is a significant copper ore mineral having the formula Cu2S - copper sulfide. It has a metallic luster, a dark gray to black color and streak, no obvious cleavage, is moderately heavy for its size, and is moderately soft (H = 2.5 to 3). Chalcocite is found with other copper minerals such as chalcopyrite. It usually forms in the near-surface, secondary enrichment zone at and below the water table, in areas having copper mineralization. It also occurs as a primary mineral in some hydrothermal veins.

Locality: unrecorded / undisclosed site in the Cornwall Peninsula, southwestern England
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Photo gallery of chalcocite:
www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=962

Chalcocite from England. (Indiana State Museum collection, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)

A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 6100 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.

The sulfide minerals contain one or more sulfide anions (S-2). The sulfides are usually considered together with the arsenide minerals, the sulfarsenide minerals, and the telluride minerals. Many sulfides are economically significant, as they occur commonly in ores. The metals that combine with S-2 are mainly Fe, Cu, Ni, Ag, etc. Most sulfides have a metallic luster, are moderately soft, and are noticeably heavy for their size. These minerals will not form in the presence of free oxygen. Under an oxygen-rich atmosphere, sulfide minerals tend to chemically weather to various oxide and hydroxide minerals.

Chalcocite is a significant copper ore mineral having the formula Cu2S - copper sulfide. It has a metallic luster, a dark gray to black color and streak, no obvious cleavage, is moderately heavy for its size, and is moderately soft (H = 2.5 to 3). Chalcocite is found with other copper minerals such as chalcopyrite. It usually forms in the near-surface, secondary enrichment zone at and below the water table, in areas having copper mineralization. It also occurs as a primary mineral in some hydrothermal veins.

Locality: unrecorded / undisclosed site in the Cornwall Peninsula, southwestern England
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Photo gallery of chalcocite:
www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=962

From Unknown Bill Episode...Thats Carver Anyway Outside The Old Prince Athur Pub Which Also Featured In An Episode Of Only Fools And Horses...Bang Opposite Trellick Tower....Trees Got Chunkier

Shattuckite pseudomorph after quartz from Namibia.

A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 6100 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.

A pseudomorph is a mineral that has replaced another mineral, but still retains the original crystal shape. The bluish material seen here is shattuckite, a rare hydrous copper silicate, Cu5(Si2O6)2(OH)2 - it has replaced hexagonal quartz crystals.

Locality: Van der Plas Mine, Kunene Region, northwestern Namibia
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Photo gallery of shattuckite:
www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=3634

Chalcopyrite-galena from the Cretaceous of Russia.

A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 6100 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.

The sulfide minerals contain one or more sulfide anions (S-2). The sulfides are usually considered together with the arsenide minerals, the sulfarsenide minerals, and the telluride minerals. Many sulfides are economically significant, as they occur commonly in ores. The metals that combine with S-2 are mainly Fe, Cu, Ni, Ag, etc. Most sulfides have a metallic luster, are moderately soft, and are noticeably heavy for their size. These minerals will not form in the presence of free oxygen. Under an oxygen-rich atmosphere, sulfide minerals tend to chemically weather to various oxide and hydroxide minerals.

Chalcopyrite is a copper iron sulfide mineral (CuFeS2). Many pyrite-like minerals exist, such as pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite has a metallic luster, a deep yellowish-brassy color, a dark gray streak, a hardness of about 3.5 to 4, and no cleavage. Many specimens have a multicolored iridescent tarnish, which can be artificially produced by exposure to certain chemicals - often acid. Chalcopyrite is an important copper ore mineral.

Galena is a lead sulfide mineral (PbS). It has a metallic luster, silvery-gray color, cubic crystals, cubic cleavage, is moderately soft, and has a very high specific gravity (it's very heavy for its size).

Galena is the most important lead ore mineral. It's principally found in hydrothermal vein systems and in Mississippi Valley-type deposits. Silver (Ag) can fall into the lead position as an impurity, sometimes in relatively high proportions. This results in argentiferous galena, (Pb,Ag)S.

Historically, lead from galena has been used as a gasoline additive, a paint ingredient, and for making bullets. Lead is also used to make various metal products, batteries, and radiation shielding.

This chalcopyrite-galena specimen comes from the famous Dalnegorsk Skarn Deposit, a polymetallic sulfide ore body in far-eastern Russia. The deposit consists of mineral-filled solution cavities in Triassic limestones that have been intruded by Late Cretaceous granodiorites. The skarn zone itself has been intruded by 64 Ma granite.
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Exhibit info.:

A Classic Mineral Locality
The Second Soviet Mine
Dalnegorsk, Russia

Beautiful mineral specimens occur in mines near Dalnegorsk in eastern Russia. In a complex series of geological events, skarn bodies have replaced the host limestones, depositing sulfide ores and other minerals in faults, veins, and solution cavities.

CALCITE
CHALCOPYRITE
FLUORITE
GALENA
HEDENBERGITE
HEMATITE
ILVAITE
QUARTZ
SPHALERITE
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Geologic unit: Dalnegorsk Skarn Deposit, Late Cretaceous, 70-90 Ma

Locality: 2nd Sovietsky Mine, southern Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Maritime Region ("Primorskiy Kray"), far-eastern Russia
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Photo gallery of chalcopyrite:
www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=955
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Photo gallery of galena:
www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=1641

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