4699 Willemite, Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Portugal
Colourless hexagonal prisms. Ex Jacques-Yves Desescaut, Marseilles. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images.
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ncat TRA1 Fluorite, Quartz, Pyrite, Les Rocs quarry, Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Purple fluorite cubes with tiny pyrite, some elongated, on white quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 89 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2097 Wavellite, Libethenite, Miguel Vacas Mine, Nossa Senhora da Conceição e São Bartolomeu, Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal
White sprays of wavellite on dark green, almost black, blocky libethenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1661 Libethenite, Estremoz, Évora, Portugal
Sharp green pseudo-octahedral crystals on quartz. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 120 images. Labelled as “Estremoz, Évora, Portugal”. Other such specimens on Mindat are tagged with “Uncertain locality”. The locality Miguel Vacas Mine, Nossa Senhora da Conceição e São Bartolomeu, Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal, is considered more likely. Click...
6038 Asbecasite, Wanni glacier – Scherbadung (Monte Cervandone) area, Kriegalp Valley, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland
Type locality. Partial orange crystal 9mm wide, no matrix.
ncat EUR3 Analcime, Phillipsite, Thomsonite, La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain
Labelled La Palma (Insel), Puerto de Tazacorte, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Kanarische Inseln, Spain. Ex Manfred Früchtl. Analcime trapezohedron modified by a cube (hard to capture in the photo) with white phillipsite and stubby white bladed thomsonite(?). Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below...
ncat JP2541 Agardite, Cu-Adamite, Hilarion Mine, Hilarion area, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District, Attikí Prefecture, Greece
Very pale-blue fibrous agardite with green Cu-adamite (or zincolivenite). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4800 Molybdenite, Huber stock (Huber shaft; Hub stock), Krasno (Schonfeld), Horni Slavkov (Schlaggenwald), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Bohmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Silver hexagonal crystals. Ex Münchener Micromounters. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5502 Stolzite, Pyromorphite, Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Yellow prismatic pyromorphite crystals with tiny reddish-brown stolzite (not in photo). Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 106 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1614 Pyromorphite, Bad Ems, Bad Ems-Nassau, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Pale brown hexagonal crystals with complex terminations. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4010 Pyromorphite, Pcheloyad mine, Pcheloyad, Krumovgrad Municipality, Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria
Light brown hexagonal prisms with a partial white coating. Minor sulphides also present (pyrite, galena and sphalerite). Ex Robert Kurcbart 4/2005. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR7 Gmelinite-Ca, Stilbite, Pyrite, Sokolovskoe Iron Mine, Rudny, Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan
Pale pink gmelinite with colourless to white stilbite on a thin layer of lustrous pyrite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat N23-1 Chabazite, Gaulsberg quarry, Ortenberg, Wetteraukreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Originally labelled as gmelinite but it is clearly twinned chabazite. Colourless pseudohexagonal chabazite (phacolite) with rhombic chabazite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7323 JL3484 Gmelinite, Calcite, Road Cut SW, Avhellero (Avdellero), Athienou, Larnaca District, Cyprus
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from the Holland Micro Group. Calcite fluoresces a nice pink under longwave and shortwave UV, and a bit more deeper and intense under medium wave. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 85 images (white light), 23 images (MWUV). Click on the images below for...
1850 Scorzalite, Hålsjöberg (Horrsjöberg), Torsby, Värmland, Sweden
Blue to almost black scorzalite crystals, Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2590 Scorzalite, Hålsjöberg (Horrsjöberg), Torsby, Värmland, Sweden
Blue scorzalite scattered through matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TD Berlinite, Augelite, Burangaite(?), Scorzalite, Albite(?), Garnet Group, Wicksite(?), Quartz, Hålsjöberg (Horrsjöberg), Torsby, Värmland, Sweden
Black berlinite with light blue inclusions (burangaite?), white augelite, blue scorzalite, and colourless/grey/white albite(?), fluorescent red under shortwave UV, brown garnet(?), a small amount of moss green wicksite(?) and colourless quartz. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Below:...
0769 Trolleite, Rutile, Augelite, Hålsjöberg (Horrsjöberg), Torsby, Värmland, Sweden
Pale greenish-blue trolleite with brown rutile and possible white augelite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RAM4 Titanite, Água de Pau Volcano, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
Yellow prismatic titanite crystals with dark green, black, and green pyroxene crystals, possibly ferro-katophorite(?), aenigmatite(?), and/or aegirine(?), in an albite vugh. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4408 Sazykinaite-(Y), Koashva Open Pit, Koashva Mt, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Type Locality. Ex Richard Bell 2007. Whitelight width of view 3mm, stack of 33 images. Longwave UV photo width of view 3mm, stack of 21 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
4559 Ferrarisite, Erythrite, Wilhelm Mine (Grube Wilhelm), Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Tiny sprays of ferrarisite on pink erythrite. Ex Jim Daly. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5088 Sainfeldite, Guérinite, Phaunouxite, Picropharmacolite, Rauenthalite, Haidingerite, Wilhelm Mine (Grube Wilhelm), Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Click on the images below for a higher resolution version. Below: 1. Guérinite, Sainfeldite. Below: 2. Picropharmacolite. Below: 3. Rauenthalite, Picropharmacolite, Sainfeldite. Below: 4. Phaunouxite, Rauenthalite, Picropharmacolite, Haidingerite, Sainfeldite.
ncat VHD7 Heulandite-Sr, Calcite, Quartz, Chalcopyrite, Campegli Mine (Sant’Elena Mine), Campegli, Castiglione Chiavarese, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Type Locality for heulandite-Sr. Typical heulandite crystals with quartz, calcite and chalcopyrite crystals. The calcite fluoresces white under longwave UV. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3739 Charoite, Aegirine, Steacyite, Murunskii Massif, Chara and Tokko Rivers Confluence, Aldan Shield, Russia
Type Locality. A slice polished on one face showing relatiely pale purple charoite with green needles of aegirine. There are small patches of highly fluorescent green steacyite under shortwave and mediumwave UV. There are also small patches of an unknown species, grey under white light but deep red under shortwave...
ncat WD208 Strontianite, La Orcolana Mine, Sierra del Cabeçó d’or, Busot, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
White sprays on iron-stained matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2107 Yuksporite, Yukspor Mt, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Type Locality. Straw-coloured felted fibrous mass of yuksporite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR1 Metatorbernite, Lauite, Cacoxenite, Strengite, Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Neustadt an der Waldnaab District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Type Locality for lauite which is in another vugh. Cacoxenite on probably metatorbernite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat N23-1 Metatorbernite, Meta-Autunite, Chaméane Uranium Deposit, Le Vernet-Chaméane, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Opaque pale green metatorbernite with tiny yellow meta-autunite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7090 JL2285 Cuspidine, Vesuvianite, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Type Locality for both cuspidine and vesuvianite. Dark to olive green vesuvianite with tan cuspidine (not in photo). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1997 as part of a Swiss collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat NHFL Vesuvianite (var. Cyprine) or Cyprine, Øvstebø, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway
Cyprine was originally defined as a blue variety of vesuvianite. However, cyprine is now a recognised distinct species. Without analysis, a firm distinction can’t be made. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images.
ncat JP2161 Bromargyrite, Quartz, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Échassières, Ébreuil, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Greenish-yellow crystal and crust on quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OS005 Demicheleite-(Br), La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Type Locality. Tiny metallic needles. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4693 Fluorite, Sodalite, In den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
A spherical colourless fluorite that fluoresces purple-blue under longwave UV. Orange fluorescence is likely sodalite. Ex Münchener Micromounters. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images (UV) and 60 images (white light). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version. Below: Under white light. I didn’t notice the...
2632 Zircon, Biotite, Sodalite, Sanidine, In den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Greenish-grey zircons with black inclusions and tiny colourless crystals (sanidine?) sprinkled on terminations, and as most of the matrix. The sanidine fluoresces pink under shortwave UV. Associated with black “biotite” and orange fluorescing sodalite under longwave UV. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images (white light), 9 images (LWUV)....
5496 Cadmoselite, Sphalerite, Clausthalite, Ust’ Uyok deposit, Tuva Republic, Russia
Type Locality. Grains of black cadmoselite with orange-brown sphalerite, and silvery metallic clausthalite? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2358 Selenium, Schöller dump, Kladno mine, Libušin, Kladno District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Prismatic bright silver crystals from the Schöller dump. From Mindat “A coal mine which started in 1899 as the Schoeller mine. From 1946, it was named Zdeněk Nejedlý Mine, from 1951 Nejedlý I Mine. After 1990 again renamed Kladno Mine in Libušín”. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images....
ncat JP169 Erythrite, Silberberg, Geyer – Silberberg District, Brixlegg, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
A radiating cluster of purplish-red erythrite crystals. Collected in 1987. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JSM Claudetite, Sulphur, Saxonia dump slag locality, Freiberg smelter, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Colourless monoclinic crystals of claudetite with pale yellow sulphur crystals in slag. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA8 446 Arsenolamprite, Glasberg quarry, Nieder-Beerbach, Mühltal, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Radial aggregates of metallic grey arsenolamprite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2605 Andradite, Ural Mountains, Russia
Partially polished crystal of green andradite (Demantoid) showing horsetail inclusions. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images.
7145 JL2169 Offretite, Schrimpf basalt works, Herbstein, Vogelsberg, Hesse, Germany
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Labelled as thomsonite, but clearly identical habit to offretite pictured on Mindat. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1404 Anatase, Val Maighels, Tujetsch, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Sharp bluish anatase crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA8 35 Tinzenite, Parsettensite, Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Yellow-orange tinzenite with minor red parsettensite (not in photo) and black manganese oxides. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 34 photos. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1162 Andradite, Montenero Quarry, Onano, Latera volcano, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy
Lustrous black melanite variety of garnet. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2961 Copper (Formed in Saturated Wood), 2,000 year old Roman Copper Mine, Cyprus
Native copper porphyroblasts in saturated wood from an ancient mine. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2698 Adamite, Hilarion Mine, Kamariza mines (Kamareza mines), Agios Konstantinos (Kamariza), Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
Pale adamite crystal aggregates with deeper green cores of copper-bearing adamite (or zincolivenite?). Interestingly, as you move the specimen around under the microscope, the “hard dividing line” between the two colours looks like it moves! Some sort of optical phenomenon. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on...
3514 Cobaltkoritnigite, Erythrite, Weilite, Hörnesite, Picropharmacolite, Sainfeldite, Ore dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süß, Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Purple cobaltkoritnigite, pink erythrite balls, thin bladed prismatic silky white hörnesite, pale pink sainfeldite, white weilite, and silky white sprays of picropharmacolite. Type Locality for picropharmacolite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2585 Cobaltite, Tunaberg, Nyköping, Södermanland, Sweden
Silver cobaltite crystal in matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2414 Iron, Uivfaq (Ovifak), Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland
Fragments of iron showing some signs of oxidation. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat N23-1 Scorodite, Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal
Blue and green scorodite. A specimen acquired at the 2023 Joint Australasian Mineralogical Societies Seminar in Tasmania. Width of view 6mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4095 Wulfenite, Mežica, Slovenia
Brown wulfenite crystals, some with hoppered faces. Ex Diederik Visser 6/2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2627 Wulfenite, Plaka mines, Plaka, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
Thick tabular orange-brown wulfenite crystals. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2070 Wulfenite, Hochobir District, Eisenkappel-Vellach, Völkermarkt District, Carinthia, Austria
Small orange, yellow, and greenish wulfenite crystals with even smaller pyrite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat EUR1 Wulfenite, Mimetite, Katharina I Mine, Imsbach, Winnweiler, Donnersberg District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Prismatic wulfenite with smaller acicular mimetite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
3664 Wulfenite, Mimetite, Quartz, Fluorite, Monterniers Mines, Lantignié, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
A single blocky orange crystal of wulfenite with pale yellow mimetite and colourless fluorite crystals on a bed of quartz. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1878 Wulfenite, Cerussite, Kolm, Dellach im Drautal, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
Pale yellowish-green stacked pseudo-octahedral crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP974 Chromium-bearing Clinochlore (Kämmererite), Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey
Purple crystals. French label. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.6mm. Short stack of 7 images.
ncat JP924 Fluorite, Nouaillas quarry, Ambazac, Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Purple cubes, one with what looks like it had tried to start an octahedral crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 33 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3712 SD Aerinite, Estopiñán del Castillo, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
Massive blue vein material. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2228 Crocoite, Berezovsk deposit, Beryozovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
Deep orange tabular crystals of crocoite. Width of view 7.67mm. Stack of 47 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2864 NA Crocoite, Bindheimite, Callenberg, Zwickau District, Saxony, Germany
Vughs with crocoite crystals in a massive piece of crocoite, with yellow powdery coatings and small crystals of bindheimite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 61 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MMM Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Le Cantonnier vein, Nontron, Nontron, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
A small orange crocoite crystal poking out from pyromorphite. Ex Lesenechal Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 94 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP0779 Anatase, Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
Tiny anatase crystals in vughs. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
9104 JP2622 Brizziite, Sulphur, Le Cetine di Cotorniano Mine, Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy
Type Locality. Pale pinkish platy crystals of brizziite on yellow sulphur. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD15 Thortveitite, Evje og Hornnes, Agder, Norway
Dark green-brown partially terminated crystal frozen in matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP547 Kolbeckite, Schlarbaum quarry, Klause, Bad Gleichenberg, Styria, Austria
A single white cluster of crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5035 Thortveitite, Varenche Mine, Saint-Barthélemy, Nus, Aosta Valley, Italy
Pale blue crystals, typical for this locality. Ex Carlo Alciati. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1163 Kolbeckite, Schlarbaum quarry, Klausen, Bad Gleichenberg, Südoststeiermark District, Styria, Austria
Clusters of white bladed crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1065 Fluorite, Chaillac Mines, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Lots of colourless fluorite crystals that fluoresce pink, on a solid fluorite matrix that fluoresces blue. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP365 Quartz, Chaillac Mines, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Colourless quartz crystals that appear to have formed on another mineral that has since gone. There is a partial gap between the bottom of the quartz plate and the rest of the matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JP0364 Pyromorphite, Chaillac Mine, Chaillac, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Tiny green prisms of pyromorphite an a cavity of fluorite. The top half of the specimen is all massive fluorite and the bottom half, massive barite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP281 Fluorite, Galena, Chaillac Mines, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Cube-octahedral galena crystals on and in colourless to slightly hint of green cubes of fluorite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat CA Pyromorphite, Chaillac Mines, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Small lustrous hexagonal green prisms. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1126 Annabergite, Smithsonite, Km 3 open pit, Km 3 mines, Km 3, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
Superb lustrous apple green bladed annabergite crystals with dull green smithsonite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 170 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA8 113 Titanite, Chlorite Group, Albite, Teufelsmühle, Habach valley, Bramberg am Wildkogel, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Green titanite crystals with tiny worms of dark green chlorite and colourless-white albite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Click here for a short video going through the stack of photos used to create the final product.
5653 Naujakasite, Villiaumite, Aegirine, Sodalite, Kvanefjeld Uranium deposit, Kuannersuit Plateau (Kvanefjeld), Ilimaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland, Denmark
Pale green naujakasite with pink villiaumite, black aegirine and colourless sodalite that fluoresces orange. Ex Ole-Thorstein Ljøstad. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Click here for a short video going through the stack of photos used to create...
5652 Tuperssuatsiaite, Tuperssuatsiat Bay, Tunulliarfik Fjord (Tunugdliarfik), Ilimaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland
Not as aesthetic as those from the better-known occurrence at Aris, Namibia, but this one is from the Type Locality. Tan radiating sprays. Collected by Ole-Thorstein Ljøstad. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1832 Naujakusite, Arfvedsonite, Sodalite, Aegirine, Kvanefjeld, Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland
Pale green naujakusite with black arfvedsonite. Colourless sodalite shows up as orange patches under UV. Tan patches unknown. Prismatic green crystals possibly aegirine? Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images (white light) and 10 images (UV). Click on the images below for a higher resolution...
ncat JP3635 Villiaumite, Ilimaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland, Denmark
Red crystals embedded in matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
20111 Fluorapatite, Cassiterite, Arsenopyrite, Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal
A cluster of yellow-green apatite crystals with the largest 31mm wide, with minor cassiterite and arsenopyrite. The apatite exhibits orange zoned fluorescence. Ex Barry Porter Collection. Ex Mike and Coralie Fisher Collection. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1181 Libethenite, Ľubietová (Libetbánya; Libethen), Banská Bystrica Co., Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
Typical green crystals. Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1178 Stolzite, Quartz, Alunite Supergroup, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Brown aggregate of prismatic stolzite crystals with yellow plumbogummite(?), transparent crystals and opaque aggregates, in quartz in a cavity left by galena(?). Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1122 Gartrellite, Carminite, Bariopharmacosiderite, Alunite Supergroup, Quartz, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Green crystals of gartrellite on carminite in one small vugh, and by itself in another (photo). Orange-brown cube of pharmacosiderite with an Alunite Supergroup mineral in another. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1141 Bariopharmacosiderite, Goethite, Quartz, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Green cubes of bariopharmacosiderite in a vugh in quartz that is lined with brown goethite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP0873 Chabazite, Stilbite, Goethite, Csódi Hill, Dunabogdány, Szentendre District, Pest County, Hungary
A dusting of goethite on some of the chabazite rhombs. A small stacked stilbite is nestled amongst the chabazite (centre of photo). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images (stilbite) and 55 images (goethite on penetration twin chabazite). Click on the images below for a...
ncat JP874 Calcite, Pyrite, Goethite, Csódi Hill, Dunabogdány, Szentendre, Pest Co., Hungary
Tiny pyrite crystals part altered to goethite on calcite. There are two generations of calcite. The earlier one fluoresces red, and the later fluoresces white. There is a sharp delineation between the two. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below...
ncat JP875 Chabazite-Ca, Analcime, Biotite, Saponite, Csódi Hill, Dunabogdány, Szentendre, Pest Co., Hungary
Pink twinned rhombohedral chabazite with colourless analcime. Tiny green spots of saponite (towards the bottom left for example) and biotite phenocrysts (not in photo) also present. Some of the chabazites exhibit an unusual stack-like habit (towards the bottom left). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35...
ncat MAR01 M2044 Melanophlogite, Fortullino, Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Colourless spheres of melanophlogite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2231 Jeremejevite, Sanidine, Topaz, Sodalite, Hematite, Wannenköpfe Quarry, Ochtendung, Maifeld, Mayen-Koblenz District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Tiny blue jeremejevite with white sodalite, colourless prismatic topaz and colourless/grey sanidine. Hematite also on specimen. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4686 Erythrite, Im Lochborn Copper mine, Bieber, Gelnhausen, Spessart, Hesse, Germany
Pale pink puffballs with darker pink surfaces. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5636 Epididymite, Aegirine, Johs Nilsens Quarry, Tvedalen, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway
Off-white rosettes and platey crystals of epididymite with green aegirine needles. Width of view 8.63. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2527 Andradite, Chrysotile, Malenco Valley, Valtellina, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
Green demantoid andradite garnets nestled in pinkish-white chrysotile (asbestos). Precise locality not known. There are a few possibilities: Dossi di Franscia and the Sferlùn asbestos mine amongst others. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1762 Weilite, Erythrite, Sainfeldite, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süß, Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
White weilite with pink tufts of erythrite, and pale pink balls of sainfeldite(?) and deeper pink-purple prismatic crystals of sainfeldite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 37 images (weilite) and 63 images (erythrite).
ncat JP2198 Kladnoite, Kladno Mine, Libusin, Kladno, Central Bohemia Region, Czech Republic
Colourless flat bladed crystals. Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2234 Faujasite, Opal, Limberg Quarries, Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl, Emmendingen, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Octahedral crystals of faujasite with opal spheres and coating. Exact species of faujasite not known. Ca, Mg and Na recorded (the latter two being Type Locality species). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 51 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1658 Melanophlogite, Fortullino, Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Four spheres with a slight pinkish hue. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 63 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0036 M3823 Cinnabar, Almadén, Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Interesting choice of mounting with this specimen. There is really only one decent crystal, the rest of the cinnabar being patches frozen in matrix, and that crystal is right down the bottom edge of the specimen. Width of view 5mm....
0032 Ferrierite-Mg, Calcite, Basalt quarry, Weitendorf, Wildon, Leibnitz District, Styria, Austria
White sprays of ferrierite on tan calcite. Heulandite crystal not in photo. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3563 Monteponite, Smithsonite, Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Type Locality for monteponite. Tan smithsonite with yellow and brown monteponite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4772 Erythrite, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Pink puffballs of erythrite in a cavity that was originally likely filled with sulphides. Acquired from Helmut Braith. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.