Minerals & Gems
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A World of Beauty and usefulness Minerals are essential to Human existence |
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Human bodies are made up essentially of water and minerals as are all living things. The amount of various minerals varies greatly. The core of our planet Earth is essentially molten iron. Much of the Earth is made up of Silicon (think sand and quartz crystals as well as computer chips), Feldspar, CaCo³ (calcium carbonate) such as limestone, and the metals.
eART SCANNING can be used in connection with minerals. You can scan your mineral collection of minerals small enough to fit on your scanner. You can catalog each item using numbers or showing your description in the file name which you use to store each image. You can use your scanner to store a record of any collection, minerals, coins, artifacts, jewelry, gems or whatever, as long as it will fit your scanner. You can also take digital camera or film camera pictures, then scan and store them as well. However, digital cameras for the most part record at 72 dpi (dots per inch, which will not allow you to print them out except at about a maximum of 8.5" x 11" prints. Whereas I scan on the scanner at 500 or 600dpi and therefore can make prints 13" x 19" or larger. eART SCANNING is a new art form with endless possibilities for use.
Here are some samples of minerals scanned on the scanner. Most of these were my earliest efforts and are not as good as the florals, shells etc. which have been scanned later. I will be upgrading the eART SCAN on minerals later, but these will allow you to see how useful eART SCANNING can be on mineral collections. Some of the specimens have labels and others do not.
You may click on any specimen and then see
it in a full screen view.
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