Minerals & Gems

	A World of Beauty and usefulness Minerals are essential to Human existence
My Pet Rock found in Colorado Epidote with eyes and nose	HOME PAGE MASTER INDEX	Fluorite Crystal with eART SCANNING to show interior

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.

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Asbestos--used in industry for centuries, but also deadly Tiger-eye--is called fossilized asbestos used for jewelry and is not dangerous Item # -01		Azurite (the blue mineral) on Malachite (the green mineral) are related to Copper and are used in jewelry and some construction Item # -02	This is one of my favorite mineral specimens. It has green Epidote and probably some iron plus other unknown minerals. This is both sides Items # -03a & -03b
This is my other favorite mineral specimen It is comprised of Epidote and Granite both sides are shown Items # -04a & -04b		Rough Epidote-top four pieces of polished Epidote bottom from Southern Colorado Item # -05	Fluorite Crystals (left) eART SCAN of entire piece (right) close-up {click to see interior} Item # -06
Garnets in Matrix from Coahuila, Mexico found by Javier Castellanos Item # -07		Specimen of gold from William O. Proctor Collection Item # -08	Jade Bear from Alaska left is eART SCAN right is with some retouching after SCAN Items # -09a & -09b
Kamermerite on Chrome from the Black Sea Item # -10		Metatuyamenite radioactive ore--beautiful but dangerous to handle Item # -11	Quartz crystals from J. Coleman Pit in Hot Springs Village, Ark. Item # -12
Realgar--Arsenic ore beautiful but dangerous to handle Item # -13		Rhodochrosite on Galena and Sphalerite matrix Item # -14	Selenite Sunflowers natural mineral growth of mineral Selenite Item # -15
Corregidor Rock left-dry - right-wet looks like the blood spilled on this tiny island in WWII Item # -16a # -16b		Stalactite Calcium Carbonate CaCO³ from Arizona Item # -17	Sulphur from the Texas Gulf Coast Item # -18
Tourmaline Crystal very small but beautiful color Item #19		19 caret blue Topaz another beautiful gem Item #20	Wulfenite from the Red Cloud Mine in Arizona Items #21a & 21b