Micromount
Micromount is a term taken from English into German from mineralogy . It is used by mineral collectors to designate specimens that are so small (about 15 × 15 mm and below) that they can best be viewed with optical aids (strong magnifying glass , binocular ). The word part -mount is derived from the English mount (version, bracket), since such tiny minerals are usually fixed on a base.
Specializing in the collection of micromounts has various advantages: Apart from the small footprint, rare minerals of this size can also be obtained more cheaply, and small crystals are often more perfectly formed than large ones.
literature
- Alex Kipfer: The micromounter: this is how you successfully collect small minerals . Ott, 1984, ISBN 3-7225-6219-8 .
- Quintin Wight: The Complete Book of Micromounting . Mineralogical Record Press, 1993 (English).
Web links
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