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.
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.
Opaque dull light green crystals, undoubtedly metatorbernite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green platy crystals of metatorbernite, yellow phurcalite (fluorescent), colourless crystals (some as sceptres), and a colourless platy crystal (left side of photo and in closeup). The latter is a similar habit to torbernite, but there is no hint of green! Matrix is composed mostly of andradite garnet(?). Width of view...
Ex-John O. Griesbach well-known and oft published geologist with his personal hand-written label and ex Scott J. Williams with his dealer label. Specimen measures 4 cm. x 3.3 cm. x 2.9 cm.
Said to be uncommon at the Ray Mine, this metatorbernite is beautiful and hardly even looks hydrated enough to be metatorbernite. Perched upon a bed of clear white heulandite crystals, this all makes for a glorious micromount. It’s flat on the surface of a chunk of wood or cork resting...
