6038 Asbecasite, Wanni glacier – Scherbadung (Monte Cervandone) area, Kriegalp Valley, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland
Type locality. Partial orange crystal 9mm wide, no matrix.
4108 Aragonite, Malachite, Barite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
White acicular-fibrous crystals of aragonite that fluoresce bright white, then fade to a greenish glow, with malachite on barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4110 Aragonite, Barite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
White acicular-fibrous crystals of aragonite that fluoresce bright white, then fade to a greenish glow, on barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4106 Smithsonite, Barite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
White dumbbell-shaped smithsonite on white bladed barite in massive pink barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4117 Phosgenite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Square cross section brown crystals of phosgenite. Strong fluorescence under longwave UV. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4118 Fluorite, Covellite, Cerussite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK 3mm 60 2k
Two purple cubes of fluorite (not fluorescent) associated with covellite and cerussite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4111 Dolomite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Tan coloured rhombohedral dolomite with minor copper mineralisation. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4115 Chalcopyrite, Barite, Malachite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Twinned chalcopyrite crystal on pink bladed barite. Malachite sprays also present. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4105 Beudantite, Cerussite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Tiny olive green beudantite crystals in gossan. White cerussite crystals that fluoresce yellow under longwave and mediumwave UV. Width of view 6mm (beudantite), stack of 60 images. Width of view 3mm (fluorescent cerussite), stack of 16 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
4109 Barite, Malachite, Calcite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
White prismatic calcite and bladed barite in one vugh, dark green malachite balls and bladed barite in another. The calcite fluoresces strongly bluish-white. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50/80 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
4126 Malachite, Barite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
A malachite “pipe” on bladed barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4129 Cerussite, Covellite, Malachite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Bladed and prismatic white cerussite crystals in gossanous cavities, some coated in iron oxide/hydroxide, in a barite matrix. Elsewhere covellite and malachite present. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 100 specimens. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4125 Malachite, Galena, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Cubic galena frozen in a barite matrix. Some alteration evident in some of the galena crystals (possibly to anglesite). One vugh in the barite contains some malachite (not in photo). Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4123 Azurite, Malachite, Barite, Copper, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Blue bowties of azurite with a malachite (or possibly rosasite) ball on pink to tan to white bladed barite. Native copper crystals towards the top left of the image. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4124 Aurichalcite, Rosasite, Barite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Pale blue aurichalcite with darker blue rosasite on pink barite. White smithsonite(?) on rosasite. Greenish phosgenite(?) sprays. Unidentified sulphides. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80/90 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
4121 Aurichalcite, Rosasite, Barite, Clevedon, North Somerset, England, UK
Pale blue aurichalcite with darker blue rosasite(?) on pink barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR9 Analcime, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Pale yellow clay(?) coating on analcime. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR9 Analcime, Calcite, Middlehurst Station, Marlborough Region, New Zealand
Ragged white calcite on red-white analcime crystals. The calcite fluoresces bright white. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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 EUR3 Analcime, Croft Quarry, Croft, Blaby, Leicestershire, England, UK
Labelled as Croft and Huncote Quarry. Distorted elongated analcime crystal. Ex Münchener Mikromounter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3593 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Analcime, Cambokeels Mine, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
Colourless blocky fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals, with some rainbows, on colourless, hard to see, almost invisible, trapezohedrons of analcime. Ex Richard Bell. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH25 Analcime, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Green inclusions of chlorite(?) in analcime. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Ex Francoise Duranleau, Montreal, 09/06. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 photos. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1208 Perovskite, Oka, Quebec, Canada
Two small crystals without matrix. One a cube (2.5mm) and the other an octahedron (4.5mm). Ex Mark Hallam Collection.
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.
ncat JP1811 Leadhillite, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Colourless hexagonal plates in slag. Ex Jo Price Collection. White light photo: Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Longwave UV photo: Width of view 3mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4595 Gold, Bear Mountain Gold Mine, Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada
A gold crystal that is almost a sphere. The flat crystal faces are pretty small. Ex Ray Hill. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ER6 Zircon, Lazulite, Scorzalite, Unnamed phosphate occurrence, Mount Perry, North Burnett Region, Queensland
Blue veins of lazulite/scorzalite with small zircons. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2-24-2 Lazulite, Tepko, Mid Murray Council, South Australia
Blue crystals in a granite pegmatite matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1331 Minium, Fluorite, Pyromorphite, Hydrocerussite/Laurionite, Avondale Mine, Lyndhurst, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Colourless fluorite that fluoresces zoned green under medium and shortwave, with minium under fluorite (not in photo). Hydrocerussite/laurionite occurs as a creamy aggregate, pink and purple fluorescence under mediumwave, duller under shortwave. Tiny acicular pyromorphite lines cavities vacated by galena. Width of view of all photos is 6mm. Click on...
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.
ncat OW402 Molybdenite, Moly Hill Mine, La Motte, Quebec, Canada
A single hexagonal molybdenite crystal on quartz. Specimen measures 42x22x15mm.
20132 Stibnite, Pyrite, Akadani Mine, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Stibnite as small veins frozen in quartz with a couple of small pyrite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1250 Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Glogfawr Mine, Lisburne Lead and Silver Mines, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
Drusy green crystals of pyromorphite on quartz. One orange tabular wulfenite (not in photo). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 140 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2723 Pyromorphite, Quartz, Bunker Hill Mine, Wardner, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
Greenish-yellow crystals showing some sceptre growth. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4397 Pyromorphite, Hardshell Mine, Hardshell Gulch, Harshaw, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
Lemony-green barrel-shaped crystals, some with paler green terminations. Ex Mark Ascher 9/2007. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4871 Plumbogummite epimorphs after Galena pseudomorphs after Pyromorphite, Cerussite, Wheal Hope, Hendra Croft, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
Plumbogummite epimorphs after galena pseudomorphs after pyromorphite (Plumbeine). Pale coloured cerussite is forming in the hollow of the galena (and elsewhere) too. This shows up particularly under longwave ultraviolet light. Ex Richard Bell. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
1696 Pyromorphite, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK
Pale coloured pyromorphite that has formed in fractures in galena. The galena has subsequently disappeared. The pyromorphite could be grading into phosphohedyphane. Look closely, and you can also see a blade or two of cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 105 images. Click on the image below for a...
1308 Pyromorphite, Mexico Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Olive green barrel-shaped hexagonal prisms as well as a more tabular habit. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1334 Pyromorphite, Plumbogummite, Quartz, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Sharp steeply terminated green crystals of pyromorphite, some partly coated with plumbogummite, on quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 115 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1655 Pyromorphite, Quartz, Burgam Mine (Burgham Mine; Burgum Mine), Stiperstones, Hope-Shelve District, Shropshire, England, UK
Yellowish-green to green hexagonal prisms in clusters. Some tiny colourless quartz crystals. Some zoning. Some barrel-shaped crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 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.
ncat WD206 Pyromorphite, Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin, Guangxi, China
A plate of pyromorphite with the larger crystals zoned and barrel-shaped. Specimen measures 60x50x20mm. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 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 SE Cerussite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat JP2455, Bastnasite-(Ce), Pyrite, Fluorite, Barite, Red Cloud Fluorite mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln Co., New Mexico, USA
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...
ncat SE Muscovite, Fluorite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Pyrite, Mottramite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Kaolinite?, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Fluorite, Chrysocolla, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Wulfenite, Mottramite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Calcite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Hyalite Opal, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Fluorite, Chrysocolla, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Quartz, Chrysocolla, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Quartz, Agardite-(La), Chrysocolla, Fluorite, Mottramite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Fluorite, Chrysocolla, Wulfenite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Mottramite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Wulfenite, Vanadinite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Fluorite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE Hemimorphite, Conichalcite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE SB16499 Chrysocolla after Azurite, Bastnäsite-(Ce), Agardite-(La), Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE SB16188 Mottramite, Vanadinite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE SB16321 Mimetite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE SB16167 Mimetite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
Yellow prismatic mimetite crystals. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
ncat SE SB16500 Vanadinite, Mottramite, Wulfenite, Mimetite, Adamite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE SB16140 Vanadinite, Mottramite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat SE SB16156 Wulfenite, Vanadinite, Mottramite, Fluorite, Mimetite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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...
SE SB16512 Calcite, Mimetite, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
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.
ncat VHD4, Calcite, Stilbite, Laumontite, Pyrite, Graham Quarry, Kellow Road, Cosgrove, Victoria
Photo shows a white crystal of laumontite on calcite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4582 Hematite, Laumontite, Hazell Bros Leslie Vale quarry (HBMI), Leslie Vale, Kingborough municipality, Tasmania
Found in driveway gravel that was known to have come from the quarry. White flat-laying crystals of laumontite that fluoresces bluish-purple (best under medium wave) with small hematite crystals. Width of view 9mm and stack of 30 images (fluorescent image). Width of view 6mm and stack of 30 images (hematite)....
1876 Chabazite, Stilbite, Laumontite, Hazell Bros Leslie Vale quarry (HBMI), Leslie Vale, Kingborough municipality, Tasmania
White (dehydrating) laumontite with colourless chabazite and stilbite. The laumontite is very unstable, and unfortunately not only breaks down itself, but also the matrix. Photo widths 6mm. Stack of 45 images (laumontite) and 65 images (chabazite). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
3934 Stellerite, Laumontite, Tambar Springs, Pottinger Co., New South Wales
Ex Hetty’s Rockshop, Christchurch, New Zealand, 9/2004. White laumontite on orange stellerite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5575 Lead, Laumontite, Southern operations mine (Pasminco mine; Perilya mine; Consolidated Zinc Mine; CRA mine; New Broken Hill Consolidated Mine; NBHC Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
From Level 16, NBHC. See https://rruff.info/uploads/CM46_73.pdf. Laumontite fluoresces blue under LWUV. Laumontite photo: First image: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Second image: Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
ncat YA Pyromorphite, Langite, Blackwood Open Cut, MMM Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Deep blue crystalline coating in corroded galena. Also present light blue caledonite(?), and prismatic pyromorphite. Other species also present (eg: spessartine, chlorargyrite). Ex Mal Annear collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2336 Langite, Dundas, Tasmania
A mass of blue crystals on a small piece of matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4359 Langite, Mt. Malvern, near Clarendon, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Ian Hammond Collection. Tiny light blue crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TJ2 Linarite, Langite, Anglesite, Paddy’s River Mine, Paddy’s River District, Australian Capital Territory
Prismatic blue linarite (not in photo) with blocky blue crystals of langite, and white crystals of anglesite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat GTJ2 Scheelite, Andradite, Ferberite, Otome mine, Kurobera, Kofu City, Kinpuzan mining district, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Labelled as Otome Mine, a name applied generically to material from many different mines in the Kinpuzan mining district. Scheelite specimens in Mindat appear to be from hydrothermal veins, whereas this specimen is clearly from a skarn. There appears to be a small area of ferberite adjacent to the scheelite...
1556 Libethenite, Mindola pit, Nkana Mine (Rokana Mine), Kitwe, Kitwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
A dark green (almost black) libethenite with a tiny amount of pale blue turquoise(?). From the 104 metre bench. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 98 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MAR01 M825 Gmelinite, Tacharanite, Phillipsite, North John Day River, Grant Co., Oregon, USA
White/colourless twinned zoned gmelinite on a bed of phillipsite. White flowery tacharanite bottom right. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA4 Gmelinite, Pyrite, Laurel Hill (Snake Hill; Penitentiary Quarry), Secaucus, Hudson Co., New Jersey, USA
Sharp hexagonal gmelinite with minor pyrite. Ex Jim Daly. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 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.
1419 Pyrite in Chabazite, Queen Mary’s Falls National Park, Killarney, Southern Downs Region, Queensland
Originally labelled as gmelinite, but looks much more like re-entrant chabazite twins. Chabazite is the only zeolite mentioned from the location too. Interesting surface features and reflections. There are tiny pyrite crystal included. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for...
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...
ncat JP1460 Gmelinite-Na, Siderite, Calcite, Pyrite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Dark grey hexagonal gmelinite crystal with pyrite inclusions, pale tan siderite, red fluorescing calcite, and pyrite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD312 Gmelinite, Stilbite, Pinnacle Island, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Pink-orange gmelinite after chabazite, with tiny white stilbite clusters. There are hollows on the back from where an unknown mineral had been. Specimen measures 25x25x15mm.
ncat OW102 Gmelinite-Na, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Closeup photo of a relatively thin platy etched/resorbed gmelinite crystals coloured red by iron oxides or hydroxides, with sharp crystals of analcime. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3827 Columbite-(Mn), Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
Black columbite enclosed in matrix. Mostly broken but with occasional crystal faces showing. Ex Richard Bell. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
6030 Carlosbarbosaite, Jaguaraçu pegmatite, Jaguaraçu, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Type Locality. Curved fibrous pale yellow crystals of carlosbarbosaite. Apparently the discovery was very limited, about 100 specimens, all micros. It has since been reported from another half a dozen localities. Ex Chris Stefano. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
20130 Niobium
Niobium metal. Width of view 4.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR1 Kyanite, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
Single crystal sorted by Judy Rowe from heavy mineral concentrates. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW309 Kutnohorite, Dolomite, Calcite, North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Grey rhombs of dolomite that fluoresce white are perched on the tips of kutnohorite sprays. Red fluorescing calcite present in the matrix. Patchy yellow fluorescence is probably cerussite. Specimen measures 80x65x10mm.
2462 Kutnohorite, 10 Level, South Workings, Rosebery, Tasmania
Cream kutnohorite with pyrite on a quartz matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.