{"id":143,"date":"2009-08-19T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T09:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/08\/19\/new-to-mineral-collecting-trinity-sells-and-educates\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T09:10:07","slug":"new-to-mineral-collecting-trinity-sells-and-educates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/2009\/08\/19\/new-to-mineral-collecting-trinity-sells-and-educates\/","title":{"rendered":"New to Mineral Collecting?  Trinity Sells and Educates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/SosnVdTh8DI\/AAAAAAAACKY\/SzTqwJI_qBI\/s1600-h\/image_1.jpeg\"><img style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;width: 187px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/05f25_image_1.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><i><span><span>Keith over at Trinity Mineral Co. is quickly becoming my favorite mineral dealer.  Not because his assortment is better or deeper than any other dealer but because he takes a minute to educate.  A good example would be the current auction offering.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div><i><span><span>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>Starting a new theme auction on prismatic crystal shapes &#8211; ie, crystals with a long c axis &#8211; is starting today.  There are over30 items at.  More may show up before the day is over:<br \/><\/span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/auction2.mineral-auctions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/auction2.mineral-auctions.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/auction2.mineral-auctions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><span><br \/>As for prismatic crystals, just think of them as the fashion models or basketball players of the mineral world.  Long, slender crystals that draw <span> the eye or extend past the crowd.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><img src=\"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/05f25_image_1+(1).jpeg\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;width: 228px;height: 320px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><span>A prismatic crystal form is defined as one having faces parallel to the axis, <\/span><span><span>esp<\/span><\/span><span>. the vertical axis. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/>Several of my favorite minerals (elbaite, beryl, linarite, azurite) can form crystals like this.  Interestingly enough, beryl tends to have varieties with much different proportions &#8211; long and slender versus short and wide.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Usually, emeralds, red beryls, aquamarines, and heliodors take on prismatic shapes.  <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>Goshenites and morganites tend to have short C axes and resemble thick flattened hexagon.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>On the other hand, it is fairly uncommon to see short, wide elbaite crystals.<img src=\"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/05f25_image_1+(2).jpeg\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;width: 320px;height: 284px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span><span>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><span><span>So &#8211; take a few minutes to check out the examples and learn a little about Crystals&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4fe24_3379247251712500914-1155481898246224349?l=flyviewsandreviews.blogspot.com\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith over at Trinity Mineral Co. is quickly becoming my favorite mineral dealer. Not because his assortment is better or deeper than any other dealer but because he takes a minute to educate. A good example would be the current auction offering. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Starting a new theme auction on prismatic crystal shapes &#8211; ie, crystals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}