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h.abbasi
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Posted: May 21, 2012 06:40 Post subject: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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On 9 May, my friend Mr. Pirirany and I went to Chah Mileh Pb mine (Anarak District, Naein County, Esfahan Province, Iran). An abandoned mine near Anarak City which was abandoned in 1959. We found more than 60 good specimens and I will share some of them with you. I hope you enjoy and let me know your comments:
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Mine entrance Mr. Pirirani at mine entrance. The mine entrance was damaged and very difficult and dangerous to access. After entering we had to crawl about 30 m. |
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Wulfenite Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran A very good thumbnail of rather thick wulfenite crystals |
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Mimetite Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran Persian mimetite is some of the best in the world. This specimen consists of bright orange mimetite of the best color. All in all, this is a beautiful specimen of material that is very, very difficult to obtain. |
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Descloizite Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran The matrix is actually a large descloizite crystal that has been pseudomorphed by a mixture of cerussite, mimetite, wulfenite, and possibly anglesite. Over that has grown a second generation of mimetite crystals, and a few bright orange wulfenites. This is truly an exceptional miniature, and an example of material only found in Iran. This specimen consists of a big crystal of Wulfenite too ( in left of photo ) |
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Minium Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran. Minium crystals from the oxidized zone of the mine and some wulfenite crystals on it. |
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: May 21, 2012 07:43 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Thank you Abbasi, I will love this thread!
For those who do not know it, the Chahmile mine is the source of some of the world's best Wulfenites. Is extremely rare to see some of them, but Museums like Sorbonne in Paris, display a few as the result of the trips to Iran by the former curator Mr. Pierre Bariand. The rich color, wonderful contrast with the whitish matrix, the size and the luster, the Wulfenites from the Chahmile Mine are equal (if not better) in terms of quality than the famous Wulfenites from the Red Cloud Mine.
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Les Presmyk
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Posted: May 21, 2012 09:44 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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The wulfenites from here are probably the reddish wulfenites, consistently more so and as Jordi observed, probably redder than the vast majority of Red Cloud mine specimens.
As an aside, the Red Cloud mine was not named for its red wulfenite, which from the earliest mining was recognized as something beautiful and unique. To this point it was mentioned in the Territorial Governor's report to the United States Congress around 1898. The mine took its name from a trail honoring a tribal chief.
I really appreciate the photos and the efforts of these two gentlemen to bring these specimens to light. Their pride in their country is obvious.
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John S. White
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Posted: May 21, 2012 09:58 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Congratulations on your successful collecting and thanks for this thread. I well remember the only other fine wulfenite from this mine which Pierre Bariand, then curator of the Sorbonne Museum, collected himself (I believe) and was part of the display that he brought to the Tucson Show many years ago. It was vibrantly red!
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ploum
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Posted: May 21, 2012 14:47 Post subject: Re: One day trip to Chahmile mine, Iran |
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Great!
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pirirani
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Posted: May 28, 2012 01:36 Post subject: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Hi all
I found nice minerals in the Anarak abandoned mines (Chah Mileh mine, Goea abas, Nakhlak ...)
See and enjoy
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Farhad
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Mimetite Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 7 x 7 cm. |
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Mimetite and wulfenite Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 6 x 5 cm. |
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Cerussite Nakhlak mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 6 cm. |
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Cerussite Ps. Descloizite and Mimetite Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 9 x 6 cm. |
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Tobi
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Posted: May 28, 2012 01:53 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Really cool stuff! You say an abandoned mine - can everybody enter this mine?
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pirirani
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h.abbasi
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Posted: May 28, 2012 02:30 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Dear Pirirani
Congratulations and thanks for this thread.
mamnun az zahamatet va in topiket khayli ghashang bud hal kardam . yaani faghat ba ina mishe fahmund ke keshvare ma che chizaee tush peyda mishe . kash nemuneh hay khubetun ro ham aksashuno mizashtin .
be har hal mersi . omidvaram dobare ye forsati pish biad ba ham berim dobare
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pirirani
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Posted: May 28, 2012 02:42 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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pirirani
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Posted: May 28, 2012 03:02 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Hi
Some other photos
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Mimetite Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 9 x 8 cm. |
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Mimetite Chah Mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 3.7 x 3.5 cm. |
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Cerussite Nakhlak mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 5 cm. |
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Antonio Alcaide
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Posted: May 28, 2012 05:48 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Amazing cerussite!! It reminds me of those from Tsumeb. Thanks for sharing here.
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: May 28, 2012 06:54 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Hi pirirani, welcome to FMF.
I unified both threads, this one and the previous one from h.abbasi, "One day trip to Chahmile mine, Iran" in order to make more coherent the topic. I also renamed the topic, right now is no more "One day trip to Chahmile mine, Iran" but "One Month Work in the Anarak mines".
Also, we love to see your Farsi texts, but if possible please add also its translation to English language to help the non Farsi speakers to understand what you mean... ;-)
Again, thank you both for this so interesting thread.
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Tobi
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Posted: May 28, 2012 07:19 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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It is really a pleasure to see what wonderful minerals there are in parts of the world we do not know much about. Many of these specimens can keep up with famous localities: The cerussite (as Antonio mentioned) reminds of Tsumeb, and the red wulfenite reminds me of Red Cloud Mine (Arizona), the mimetite of the great ones from various mines in Chihuahua/Mexico!
Good work, thanks!
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pirirani
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Posted: May 28, 2012 08:39 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Hi all
Ok dear Jordi
I'll be back tomorrow to mines for 15 days.
The final thing, you see some beautiful specimens.
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Farhad
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Cerussite Nakhlak mine Esfahan province iran 5.5 cm. |
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Cerussite ps.Descloizite and mimetite Chah mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 9 x 6 cm. |
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Aragonite Goad abas mine, Chupanan city, Isfahan province, Iran 7.5 cm. |
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Mimetite Chah mileh mine, Anarak city, Esfahan province, Iran 7.5 x 7.5 cm. |
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vhairap
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Posted: Jun 07, 2013 12:56 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Jordi Fabre wrote: | Thank you Abbasi, I will love this thread!
For those who do not know it, the Chahmile mine is the source of some of the world's best Wulfenites. Is extremely rare to see some of them, but Museums like Sorbonne in Paris, display few as the result of the trips to Iran of the former curator Mr. Pierre Bariand, and by its rich color, the wonderful contrast with the whitish matrix, the size and the luster, the Wulfenites from the Chahmile Mine are equal (if not better) in terms of quality than the famous Wulfenites from the Red Cloud Mine. |
Hello I was reading this thread a while ago!
Jordi, you said about wulfenites from Chah Milleh mine and its quality. But the characters you mentioned fits well with those from Chah Kharboze mine, already very famous for one of two best world class localities. I mean the red crystals in white matrix. I could see these extreme rare crystals recently which is most red I have ever seen. Those from Chah Milleh are more yellow-orange in colour, and sometimes a few red ones set mostly with mimetite on a ps. descloizite matrix. Am I right? Would you give me your comments?
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Posted: Jun 07, 2013 15:00 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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vhairap wrote: | Jordi, you said about wulfenites from Chah Milleh mine and its quality. But the characters you mentioned fits well with those from Chah Kharboze mine, already very famous for one of two best world class localities. I mean the red crystals in white matrix... |
It could be Vachik, I'm not so familiar with both mines. I saw the specimen: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/img_1026_231.jpg labeled as from Chah Mileh mine and probably I made a mix up on my mind among the specimens from the Sorbonne Museum (and another I saw in a private collection) and both mines, Chah Mileh and Chah Kharboze. I'm sure that you know these mines better than me... ;-)
Anyway, the fact is that Iran supplied (supply?) unbelievable Wulfenites and I was happy to refresh my souvenirs of these astounding Iranian Wulfenites, fire red on white matrix.
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Posted: Jun 07, 2013 15:49 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Jordi Fabre wrote: | vhairap wrote: | Jordi, you said about wulfenites from Chah Milleh mine and its quality. But the characters you mentioned fits well with those from Chah Kharboze mine, already very famous for one of two best world class localities. I mean the red crystals in white matrix... |
It could be Vachik, I'm not so familiar with both mines. I saw the specimen: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/img_1026_231.jpg labeled as from Chah Mileh mine and probably I made a mix up on my mind among the specimens from the Sorbonne Museum (and another I saw in a private collection) and both mines, Chah Mileh and Chah Kharboze. I'm sure that you know these mines better than me... ;-)
Anyway, the fact is that Iran supplied (supply?) unbelievable Wulfenites and I was happy to refresh my souvenirs of these astounding Iranian Wulfenites, fire red on white matrix. |
Thanks Jordi. These 'fire red to orange-red wulfenites' in white matrix mostly came from Chah Kharboze and considered the best in colour and maybe in crystal size, although Chah Milleh also provided red crystals occasionally. In this thread, I will add my more detailed comments with new images on the differences of Iranian wulfenites from the most famous localities. I will focus on the specimens from Chah Milleh, Chah Kharboze and Ahmad Abad mines which I call three important localities. Other localities may have produced specimens time to time, but the records are very scarce and uncomparable to those mentioned, I think.
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Posted: Jun 07, 2013 16:07 Post subject: Re: One Month Work in the Anarak mines |
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Wonderful photos. I love the sunrise. I was once in Bandar Abbass, Iran and remember the sunrise and the heat coming on! So glad to see these minerals from your part of the world.
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