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The-Vug.com Front Page Update Highlights 7-22-08

Mimetite - Tsumeb

Dioptase, Calcite, Duftite - Tsumeb

Quartz, Tourmaline - Little 3, California

Cerrusite, Chrysocolla - Arizona

Fluorite - China

Smithsonite - Arkansas

Apatite - Columbia

Jeremejevite - Namibia

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The-Vug.com Front Page Update Highlights 7-21-08

Grossular Garnet - Asbestos, Canada

Cuprite - Congo

Bultfonteinite, Poldervaartite - South Africa

Gypsum - England

Gadolinite - Texas

Widgiemoolthalite, Gaspeite - Australia

Malachite - China

Aragonite - Spain

Galena - Missouri

Calcite - China

Dioptase - Tsumeb

Adamite - Mexico

Azurite and Malachite - Brazil

Apatite on Quartz - Brazil

Wulfenite - Slovenia

Silver - Morocco

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The-Vug.com Front Page Update Highlights 7-17-08

Apatite & Siderite - Portugal

Bournonite - Peru

Wurtzite, Pyrite - Stewart Mine, Butte MT

Pyrite - Quiruvilca, Peru

AEGIRINE CRYSTALS w/ MICROCLINE FELDSPAR - Malawi

BI PYRAMIDAL WULFENITE - Mexico

Rosasite - Tsumeb, Namibia

Manganite - Ilfeld, Germany

Siderite on Quartz - Morocco

Ruby - Luc Yen, Viet Nam

Blue Cap Tourmaline - Madagascar

Green Chrysoberyl Snowflake - Madagascar

Campylite - Cumbria UK

Azurite - Tsumeb, Namibia

Sphalerite […]


The Great East-West Schism

On July 16th, 1054 three legates entered the church of the Hagia Sophia, in during the Divine Liturgy on a Saturday afternoon and placed a Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar.
Phosgenite- -200 stope, Monteponi mine, Sardinia
This action led to riots among the people of then Constantinople, being as the residents sided with […]