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💎 Day 94 : Ankangite in Quartz
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May 21, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Some links to places where some images + info live.

www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...

desimonewayland.tumblr.com/post/9531833...

www.gemfrance.com/quartz-a-inc...
MCV-Quartz with incl. Ankangite (Mannardite) and Celsian Gemstone Cab 10.47 ct | #1910467151
This extremely rare mineral, Ba5[Ti25(V,Cr)12]O74, was described until now only from the type locality in China.Very surprising was the identification of Ankangite as bundles of black fibres to 1 cm l
www.worthpoint.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
elysiamacht.bsky.social
Mannardite inside quartz, with celsian. "Black phantoms". Mysterious, hazy, and people mistaking it for ankangite. #Mannardite is so black-metal-goth-vote that Ankangite got discredited. Gone. Poof.

Only M. remains. 🤘😎

ALTs relevant to contain the dark universes from spreading! ⚫🌌💥😱

#MinCup25
Mannardite from Brazil. A 3.4 cm tall polished Quartz with a “sea urchin” of black mannardite floating inside. It's as if an animated character was caught in the middle of how it may look when very angry perhaps, or the aggro emojis or such. Most of all, a black, black, black region in the middle that looks like a hole had broken into another universe inside. A glimpse of the other side's stars and galaxies are just barely visible when staring into the black opening inside the clear quartz. It looks as if the opening had exploded open from that side, the wisps or strands of black forming all around the centre, towards us. Links for image sites or texts in a post below this. MCV-Quartz with Mannardite and Celsian Gemstone. A somewhat raindrop shaped see-through clear gemstone with thin wispy strands of hazy black and tiny tiny white bursts inside it. It's been formed + polished into shape or whatever all done to get it looking that shape. The same raindrop or teardrop shape quartz piece with the black mannardite inside it. Here it's seen from the other side, where you see more of the black heart of it. It's as if the first photo's hole into another universe was only starting to spread here, a smaller glimpse into the black on the other side beyond the opening. As if it was only through luck the quartz was containing the might of mannardite, existing for the black to spread, for a bigger glimpse into the black of the other side in miniature form. The thing on its side here may also look somewhat like the clear crystalline eye of some beast beyond our ken. A less translucent, more white looking quartz with mannardite from Madagascar-4.85ct. This time the stone itself is a white egg, described as oval + cabochon if such terms say anything to you. But there is a crack and a widening hole on top/side of the egg-resembling stone, and again the black of mannardite is breaking out of its containment. Just with a different looking effect given it now seems as if something was breaking out of an egg. From a gemfrance auction site, so gone already.
September 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
minouette.bsky.social
Both radioactive green sklodowskite & jet black phantom mannardite looking like a welter of spiders in glass look ready for spooky season.

Both are named for scientists
(Marie Skłodowdka-Curie & Dr. George William Mannard, Canadian exploration geologist for whom my Dad worked). 🤔

#MinCup25
My linocut print of Marie Curie in teal, holding glassware with radiating straight arrows and wiggly lines (to represent particles and photons respectively) in glow in the dark ink Mannardite & Ankangite with Celsian in Quartz 10.80 ct via a https://gemologicalcollections.com/product/mannardite-ankangite-with-celsian-in-quartz-10-80-ct-fancy-cut-17-19-x-12-50-x-8-19-mm-y1020/ Looks like a fine haired black pompom in a drop of glass. Cuprosklodowskite Locality: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Western area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) (Locality at mindat.org) WOW. This small but pristine, 3-D spray is simply the best quality you could imagine, and so metallic in lustre it almost glows! Xls to 1 cm protected in a malachite vug. Ex. Gilbert Gauthier 3.7 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm Via Wikipedia (Spiky light green crystal like a sea urchin inside the emerald green rock)
September 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
minouette.bsky.social
Some will favour the odd metaphor in the name paddlewheelite, but for sentimental reasons I vote mannardite which honours Dr. George William Mannard (1932-1982), Canadian exploration geologist & mining executive, president of Texasgulf Canada then Kidd Creek Mines where my Dad worked 🧵 #MinCup25 🧵
Paddlewheelite Bright green crystals in Klement vein, Svornost Mine, Jáchymov, Karlovy Vary District, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic via https://www.mindat.org/min-52712.html Ankangite & Celsian in Quartz / Quartz with Mannardite Transparent cut rounded triangle cabochon held by needle-nose pliers with silvery-black lines of inclusions via https://gemologicalcollections.com/product/ankangite-celsian-in-quartz-quartz-with-mannardite-5-72-trillion-cabochon-12-1-x12-3-x-6-mm-y98291/
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM