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.
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...
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.
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.
Partially polished crystal of green andradite (Demantoid) showing horsetail inclusions. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images.
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.
Extremely rich 8x7x2mm specimen containing abundant inclusions (red arrowed) of brown biraite-(Ce) – an extremely rare silico-carbonate of REE. Biraite contains microscopic inclusions of hydroxylbastnasite-(Ce) and intergrows with its more yellow macro grains well recognisable under magnification (yellow arrowed). Light matrix of the sample represented by pale-greenish, apatite-like strontianite-aragonite with...
Type Locality. Tiny green grains. Ex Peter Hall Collection.
Lustrous black rounded wires of tenorite. Width 7.5mm. Stack of 90 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.
A lot going on here. Orange phantoms in quartz crystals. These are coated in white drusy quartz. Then there are colourless quartz scepters. But not just at the tips. There are tiny little sceptres ALONG the quartz crystals too. Oh, and also tiny pyrite cubes here and there. And, underneath,...
Complex black sphalerite with orange coated quartz crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Fracture runs right through specimen. No sign of any repairs. Video best viewed full screen.
Tiny white calcite on yellowish calcite, chalcopyrite partially covered by sphalerite, and quartz and colourless fluorite. Video best viewed full screen.
Brown ball on quartz matrix. Minor pyrite present. Ex Elena van Schriver.
Cream flattened calcite crystals on tapering quartz crystals. [private role=”administrator”]Purchased at Keystone, priced at $250.[/private]
Stalactite of black crystals of sphalerite with a quartz crystal and minor pyrite on a few sphalerite crystal terminations, 58mm wide. [private role=”administrator”]Purchased at Keystone, priced at $150.[/private]
Bruzie Mine, Urals, Russia
Ex John Sobolewski, Matt Gibbs
A single rubellite crystal, typical pink, 25x5x5mm.
The Rocket. Group of beta-quartz like crystals that looks like a rocket ready for lift-off.
Type Locality. Small shiny black crystalline masses and grains of this unusual borate in white brucite marble. Analysed material, obtained in 2001. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (3828)
Type Locality. Tiny green chip in capsule. Alters in air. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (3839).
Small capsule of brown fibrous material of this rare manganese borate mineral. Obtained in 1997. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (3345)
Small, glassy colourless inclusions (fluorescent blue in SW UV) in natrolite. A very rare sodium-calcium-barium phosphate, obtained in 2008 (at some cost!). Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (4408)
Type Locality. Rich green uvarovite crystals to 1mm on every side.
Sauktown 6/2006. Likely Lemmleinite-Ba (no such mineral as Lemmleinite-Mg)
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Brown couloured kentbrooksite in a matrix
Green euchlorine on matrix in vial
ex Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Moscow.
