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Welcome to FineMineralBlog. My name is Bram Hasler, I’m Canadian mineral dealer living in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I'm writing this blog to help inform people on beautiful minerals. Most photos seen, I find on google. Credit for the photos go out to there owners. Thank you for reading.

Friday 11 November 2011

Harvard Mineralogical Museum

Display case's of large specimens in museum.
Photo by : Mike Fitzpatrick

The Harvard mineral museum is among the top collection's in  the world. They have a 50,000+ collection which was started in the late 1800's. Their strenghts include gold from the Burrage collection, Tsumeb, Franklin and New England specimens. They have around 4000 of their best piece's on display.

Stibnite from Japan
Photo by : Oly
Beryl from Brazil
Photo by : Tom

Morganite from Brazil
Photo by : Tom

Calcite
Photo by : Tom

Stellerite
Photo by : Tom

Heulandite and Stilbite
Photo by : Tom

Fluorapatite from Canada
Photo by : Mike Fitzpatrick

Tourmaline from Brazil
Photo by : Mike Fitzpatrick

Thank you to all the photographers
Link to Harvard's site : http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~geomus/

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