5727 Lafossaite, La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Type Locality. Tiny yellow cubes of this rare thallium species. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Type Locality. Tiny yellow cubes of this rare thallium species. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Type Locality. Tiny green grains. Ex Peter Hall Collection.
Type Locality. Colourless to white prismatic crystals.
Type Locality. Parallel group of crystals. Ex Peter Hall Collection.
Type Locality. Pale yellow crust of this rare thallium species.
Type Locality. Orange fibrous laths frozen in matrix. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 120 images.
Green transparent sprays of ulrichite with a couple of turquoise balls. Height 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Type Locality.
Orange cubes. Type Locality. Width 6mm. Stack of 90 images.
Pink villiaumite, brown tuperssuatsiaite, white ellingsenite, tiny brown unnamed Fe analogue of zakharovite, green prismatic aegirine, colourless albite. Type Locality for ellingsenite and unnamed Fe analogue of zakharovite. Villiaumite fluoresces red (Convoy LW) and nepheline in matrix fluoresces orange. Width 6mm. Stack of 140 images.
Type Locality. Polished section & analysis of this very rare lead-iron analogue of pentlandite, from the type locality, present as typical submicroscopic grains embedded in massive sulphides. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (4272) obtained in 2007. Includes shadlunite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite, cubanite, magnetite, galena, sphalerite, and silver.
Pale blue tufts of cavansite with green crystal of waipouaite(?) on chabazite pseudocubes. Aranga is the Type Locality for waipouaite. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Most crystals of waipouaite are almost black, but many have a zone around them that is a “vanadium green” around them that is the...
Yellow masses of crystals of the rare potassium sulphate goldichite on crystalline pinkish halotrichite. Type Locality for goldichite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 170 images. Ex John Sobolewski. Ex Matt Gibbs.