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New Rock Type Field Added to All Minerals

June 5, 2013 Hershel Friedman (0)

If you ever wanted to know which Rock Type a mineral comes from - i.e. Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic, you had to look at the environment field and try to figure this out. We just made this much easier by adding a new field called "Rock Type" for every mineral in our database. Every mineral will now show a new field displaying which of the major three rock types the mineral occurs in. We had to create the new field and manually enter in the correct data for each mineral.

New Minerals and Photos

May 28, 2013 Hershel Friedman (0)

We have added the following new minerals

Kaolinite
Pyrophyllite

We have also added new pictures for the following minerals:

New Minerals Added

May 14, 2013 Hershel Friedman (0)

We have added the following two minerals into our system:

Apophyllite
Carletonite

We have also added several new pictures on Franklinite.

The Franklin, NJ Mineral Show

April 29, 2013 Hershel Friedman (0)

This past weekend was the Franklin Mineral Show in Franklin, New Jersey. Franklin is the "Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World", and one of the world's most prolific localities in the amount of minerals it has produced. This show is a great compliment to this wonderful mineral locality. The Franklin Show is located in the grounds of the Franklin public school, and takes over the outdoor and indoor part of the school. There are two Franklin shows every year, one in the spring and another in the fall, with both being a similar format.

The weather was excellent both Saturday and Sunday, and this really enahanced the outdoor part of the show, where dozens of dealers had setup and were enjoying the bright sun and perfect spring temperatues. Many of the local dealers and mineral people in the area coming together to both buy and sell, and there is an especially strong presence of local New Jersey material at this show. The indoor part of the show has a fluorescent display room with both public exhibits of fluorescent minerals as well as those for sale. The show also arranges a small public exhibit, and I took photos of these. Unfortunately, I did not bring my camera tripod, so I was unable to properly capture the fluorescent display.

Here are some pictures from the show that I took on Sunday. All these photos can be clicked for an enlarged pop-up.

The outside part of the show, facing the school