Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - November - Rocks and Minerals
2016 – November/December – Rocks and Minerals[edit]
The new challenge features rocks and minerals, specifically "samples" (synthetic products such as as industrially manufactured gems are also welcome). Only images of identified samples (type and if possible place of origin) will be considered.
Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.
The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout December UTC.
Checklist for this theme:
- Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
- Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. December 2016 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
- Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
- Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.
Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron
For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.
- Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.
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Examples[edit]
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Cassiterite
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Quartz, Tibet
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Opal from Yowah, Queensland, Australia
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Gypsum var. selenite from South Australia
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Pyrite from Spain
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Creedite 3
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Wulfenite mexique
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Almandin
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Mohawkite
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Ice crystals, Frost
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Copal with insects
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Copal with insects
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Rust and dirt
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Glass Beach, Fort Bragg
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Petrified wood
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Osmium, 76Os
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Platinum, 78Pt
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Gold, 79Au
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Lead, 82Pb
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Bismuth, 83Bi
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description 1
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Beschreibung 2
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descripción 3
Entries[edit]
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Sea Glass on Glass Beach near Fort Bragg, CA
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Flint
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Sandstone concretion, Virginia
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Moqui Marbles, Arizona
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Rock with mineral iron veneer
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Kauri gum
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A collection of minerals
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Leptinite, Dordogne, France
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St Paul quartz, Saint-Paul-la-Roche, France
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Malachite minera. Moscow Polytechnic Museum.
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Malachit-Stalaktiten..Kongo. Terra Mineralia. Mineralienausstellung TU Bergakademie Freiberg.
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Calcit auf Sphalerit, USA. Terra Mineralia. Mineralienausstellung TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Schloss Freudenstein Schlossplatz 4 09599 Freiberg.
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Rhodochrosit..Terra Mineralia. Mineralienausstellung TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Schloss Freudenstein Schlossplatz 4 09599 Freiberg.
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Terra Mineralia. Mineralienausstellung TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Schloss Freudenstein Schlossplatz 4 09599 Freiberg.
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Clay rock in the shape of a heart at Palo Duro Canyon.
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Large Lava Rock in Courtyard
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The Light House Rock at Palo Duro Canyon has been forming for about 82 years by rain and water.
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Steinsalz
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Steinkohle
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Pirita chispa (Peru)
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Granitbrocken
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Vermutlich eine Form von Basalt. Erworben wurden der Stein in Deutschland, seine Herkunft ist unbekannt.
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polished calcite
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Bruchstein unbekannter Herkunft mit einem vermutlich hohen Milchquarzanteil
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Selci scheggiate. Da colline a Sud di Bologna (Italia)
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1000+ ct each Labradorite Cabochon
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Bruchstein/Schottergestein mit unterschiedlichen Materialanteilen u.a. vermutlich Milchquarz enthalten
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Pegmatic hornblende in feldspar
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Vermutlich eine Art von Milchquarz
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Naturally polished quartz nodule (from burrow infill)
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Jurassic clay about – 165 Ma
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Selenit aus Marokko
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Crumbs of raw polish amber under the loupe of a linen tester
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Quartz and Amethyst from Sardinia, Italy
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Rock composed of Cavansite - Stilbite - Heulandite minerals, original from Abanagur, Pune (Poonah), Maharashtra, India
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22 carats Gold from Spain
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Malachite pyramid from Russia
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Ghiaia della costa adriatica. Riviera del Conero - Italia
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Pietra paesina di Firenze. Calcare marnoso con linee di infiltrazione a spessore millimetrico di ferro e manganese che, intersecandosi formano figure che sembrano paesaggi. Valdarno - Firenze- Italia
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Pyrite, Elba, Italy
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dendritic quartz from India
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Rauhreif; Eiskristalle
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Agate Cross (Rock Church, Idar Oberstein, Germany)
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Rosa del deserto: aggregato di cristalli di gesso proveniente da Chott el Djerid - Tunisia
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Pyrite with hematite crystals (Focus stacking of 21 pictures)
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Geode with Prehnite and Laumontite crystals (Focus stacking of 26 pictures)
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Agate geode with quartz crystals
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Taxco, Mexico - Purple geode with sulfur stains
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Orbicular granite in Finland
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Cambrian blue clay in Estonia
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Lithothamnium limestone in Croatia
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A Pyrite Disc, also called "Miners Dollar" from a coal mine in Sparta, Illinois (Focus stacking of 33 pictures).
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Clinochlore. Korshunov Mining in Siberia, Russia.
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Quartz.
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Agate.
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Datolite-Calcite. Primorsky krai, Russian Federation.
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Concrezioni di zolfo, di ferro e cristalli di biotite, su altopiano di tufo da colata piroclastica, Caldara di Manziana, monumento naturale, Italia
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Concrezioni di zolfo da acqua sulfurea con produzione di idrogeno solforato ed anidride carbonica, Caldara di Manziana, monumento naturale, Italia
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Apophyllite-(KF), Stilbite-Ca, Heulandite-Ca, Quartz (5x3 cm).- Maharashtra, India
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Quartz Citrine (6x6 cm)- Minas Gerais - Brésil
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Minerals in the natural history museum, Vienna.
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Coprolite from a time long long ago, and a place maybe nearby...........when Dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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Orbicular diorite from Corsica (Santa Lucia di Tallano).
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Ammonite tranchée par son milieu, montrant des géodes de quartz dans ses logettes. Origine Madagascar
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A little piece of Mars : Fragment of the NWA7397 meteorite found in the Sahara desert on 2012. Its type is a martian shergottite.
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Fragment of the Esquel meteorite, found in Argentina in 1951. It is a pallasite, with iron and olivine.
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A little piece of the moon coming down on earth : Fragment of the meteorite NWA 8687, found in 2014 in Morocco. It is a lunar troctolite.