A small group of cerussite crystals, no matrix, showing some reticulation, and fluorescing light orange under longwave UV. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green hexagonal bastnäsite-(Ce) crystal in a cavity in fluorite. A pyrite crystal beginning to alter to goethite. White to pink acicular-looking barite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images (bastnäsite-(Ce)). Stack of 40 images (pyrite). Stack of 40 images (barite). Click on the images below...
A specimen that shows some of the geological process. Brown brecciated rock fragments and a muscovite crystal (top left of photo) embedded in purple fluorite and white calcite(?). Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Crude pyrite crystal (top of photo) with black mottramite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White massive material, kaolinite? Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Purple cubic fluorite embedded in chrysocolla. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tabular to blocky yellow to orange to brown wulfenite crystals with black mottramite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless calcite crystals with a rounded habit in a matrix with fluorite, mottramite, and other things. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bubbly hyalite opal with typical green fluorescence under shortwave UV due to uranyl ions. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 14 images (SWUV). Stack of 45 images (White Light). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Interesting colours with pinkish fluorite edged by darker purple fluorite, and blue grading to nearly white chrysocolla. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small colourless quartz crystals on botryoidal zoned chrysocolla. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless quartz crystals on green agardite on blue chrysocolla on massive fluorite with mottramite.. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Type Locality for agardite-(La). Click on the photo below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny purple cubic fluorite crystals on pale blue chrysocolla. Yellow is wulfenite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black mottramite giving the appearance of dendritic growth. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single zoned vanadinite on blocky orange wulfenite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Purple cubic fluorite without matrix. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless bladed hemimorphite crystals. Tiny areas to the right of the photo of typical green conichalcite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue chrysocolla pseudomorphing azurite. Also present, tiny hexagonal colourless plates of bastnäsite(?), and tiny acicular sprays of agardite-(La). Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Zoned vanadinite on grey to black mottramite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow to orange prismatic mimetite crystals. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow prismatic mimetite crystals. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Red vanadinite on black mottramite on one side. Orange wulfenite and yellow mimetite on the other. Greenish-striped crystals of adamite? Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images (wulfenite), 64 images (vanadinite) and 65 (mimetite). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Red vanadinite crystals grading to yellow, on black mottramite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange and yellow wulfenite crystals with red vanadinite, deep brown to black mottramite, pale yellow mimetite, and tiny purple fluorites. The larger wulfenite crystals are orange, and there is some zoning evident. Ex Scott Braley. First photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Second photo: Width of view...
Colourless/white rhombohedral calcite crystals with club-shaped yellow mimetite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pyrite crystals on the face of a barite crystal, with dark purple fluorite associated. The barite is said to be coloured because of pyrite inclusions, but that even under a microscope, crystals can’t be seen. Except in this case you can see them. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of...
A small piece of gypsum collected at the same time as specimens of barite, calcite and fluorite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue fluorescent purple octahedral crystals on quartz. Ex Art Smith Collection. Ex Carl Stazak. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected by Mike Reinke. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Amethyst and red rutile found in a boulder by Jerry Cone when in an arroyo with Mike Reinke where Route 187 crosses over Kelly Canyon West, a few kilometres north of Caballo. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Amethyst and red rutile found in a boulder by Jerry Cone when in an arroyo with Mike Reinke where Route 187 crosses over Kelly Canyon West, a few kilometres north of Caballo. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pseudohexagonal white plates of tridymite with black balls of hematite(?). Branching stalactitic groups of stacked crystals may also be tridymite. Collected by Mike Reinke on open land near to ToR. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fibrous white alum with calcite (it dissolves leaving alum). Visual ID by Rolf Leutcke photo in Mindat. Collected by Mike Reinke. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless bladed stellate tridymite, orange titanite(?) and grey-green “pyrobole”, an unidentified pyroxene or amphibole. Collected from a boulder on the ridge above Animas Creek by Mike Reinke. Width of view 4.9mm and a stack of 40 images (tridymite). Width of view 3.25mm and a stack of 30 images (titanite). Click...
Tiny green crystal aggregate on quartz. Ex Mike Reinke, Jerry Cone. Width of view 3.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Delicate flakes in cavities where once was a sulphide. Ex Mike Reinke. Width of view 3.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chips of obsidian can be picked up off the open ground north of the TorC Elementary School. This specimen collected by Mike Reinke in situ in Ash Canyon, just east of TorC. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Massive goethite with a fibrous look on the edge, with a glassy surface. In this are some orange/brown rings with a blue tint. Collected by Mike Reinke downstream from Palomas Gap. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images (first photo), 45 images (sceond photo) and 100 images (third photo)....
Blue-tinted topaz in rhyolite. May be coloured by what is under it. Collected by Mike Reinke. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Rob Sielecki for $10.00.
Colourless cubes of fluorite with thin purple edges, colourless fluorite with hematite inclusions/staining, purple cubes, yellow tabular wulfenite, minor white barite. Specimen is 50x36x30mm. Second image is under shortwave ultraviolet light.
Munchener Micromounter, Helmut Braith
Superb native copper in the shape of a sea dragon!
Translucent blue-green fluorite crystals on matrix. The fluorite crystals are cubic form with dodecahedral (110) edge faces that are opaque white.
Single crystal, no matrix. Ex University of Arizona Mineral Museum. Donor Carl Richardson.
Only sanidine listed in Mindat
White tufts of dundasite sit atop a ball of rosasite on this specimen originally mounted by the late Micromount Hall of Famer, Bill Henderson. Photo width is 3.33mm.
A cute pair of hexagonal vanadinite crystals from the Macy Mine (Percha Mine; Vanadinite Mine; J. C. Macy claim; Barking Frog; Bobbee De claim), Percha Creek, Hillsboro, Hillsboro District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA.
Colourless and purple fluorite cubes and colourless quartz crystals on white barite. Minor yellow wulfenite. Unknown black needles.
