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Today I received an email from Marco Campos-Venuti, vulcanolgist by vocation and author of a new book covering Faden Quartz crystals.
The book is available via Marco's website - link below
Here is the full write up
Description
Faden is a crystal structure present in numerous minerals. Far from being a niche topi...
The recent appearance of a new Afon Wen nugget on e‑Rocks was my excuse to disappear down a rabbit hole coupled with a timely acquisiton of a copy of Lee Gary Palmer’s Gold Occurrences in the UK – A Gold Prospector’s Guide, and with it a neat snapshot of the “big league” of British gold nuggets.
Gold Occurrences in the UK – A Gold Prospector’...We've just listed a fluorite specimen from Chipping Sodbury Quarry (Hampstead Farm Quarry) on e-Rocks this week, and it seemed like a good moment to write a few words about why fluorite from this locality is worth paying attention to.
By coincidence, we're also heading over this week to visit Mike Brooke to collect his mineral book library. Mike Brooke was the pers...
As part of our 20th birthday celebrations, we're dusting off something from the archives that some of you may remember.
A Bit of HistoryBack in August 2017, e-rocks suffered a serious outage that took our website offline for several days. Unfortunately, I was on holiday at the time. The resulting failure gave us pause to reconsider both how we were running ...