ncat VHD4 Kernite, Western Borax Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA
Probably a cleavage piece of kernite. The specimen measures 44x18x5mm.
Probably a cleavage piece of kernite. The specimen measures 44x18x5mm.
A pale brownish transparent crystal of kurnakovite with a white surface alteration to tincalconite? Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999 from Peter Elliott. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky erionite growing epitaxially on levyne. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White acicular rabbittite with green platy aggregates of schröckingerite that is highly fluorescent. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow johannite on green unknown (more crystalline and bright fluorescence), and blue chalcanthite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny creamy-white radial sprays of bayleyite with calcite, gypsum, and unidentified copper and uranium species. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Al Wilkins. Labelled simply bayleyite but I can’t find any distinct material. Some of the matrix is made up of garnet crystals, the garnet from here being almandine. So I can put that on the label. But then it gets harder. There are at least three or four other...
Reticulated sixling cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green fornacite with orange-red wulfenite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow scales of perite with a radiating group of colourless hemimorphite crystals. Olive green crystal of chlorargyrite not in photo. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Typical epistilbite habit on crystals in one cavity, with smaller crystals associated with prismatic scolecite (not in photo) in another. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red Beryl. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.