2298 Aubertite, Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Pale blue crystalline crust of aubertite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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4562 Obradovicite Group, Gypsum, Chuquicamata Mine, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Yellow-green crust of one of the Obradovicite Group species with minor white gypsum. Ex Jim Daly. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2-24-2 A2105 Creedite, Hall Molybdenum Mine, San Antone District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA
Closeup of a single creedite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7386 JL1972 Connellite, Cuprite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
An acicular hemisphere of blue connellite needles. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $6.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar. Width of view 3mm. Stack of...
5155 JL1463 Copper, Cuprite, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, District Council of Mount Remarkable, South Australia
A couple of dark cuprite crystals with iridescent dendritic copper. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Purchased by Joan from Brian Beyer for $1 at the Australasian Mineral Societies Seminar in Melbourne in 1990. Width of view...
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.
2948 Gold, Enterprise Mine, Edie Creek goldfield, Morobe goldfields, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Loose pieces of crystalline gold. Enterprise Mine not in Mindat. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5343 Luinaite-(OH), Fluorite, Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Luinaite is now considered a triclinc dimorph of schorl. Here as radiating groups of small grey to green acicular crystals with pale purple fluorite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
1516 Ludwigite, Pyroaurite-2H (Sjögrenite), Tenth Legion mine, Mt Heemskirk mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Radiating black needles of ludwigite and pale yellow pyroaurite-2H (sjögrenite) frozen in matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1014 Löllingite, Dry Creek, Eldorado, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Patches of Löllingite in granite. Ex Don Billinghurst Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2990 Löllingite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
A single crystal with minor tarnishing and no matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1107 Löllingite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Silver crystal of Löllingite. Ex Albert Chapman. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
7456 JL0793 Lithiophorite, Warburton, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria
Black botryoidal lithiophorite in sandstone. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat WD108 Plancheite, Shattuckite, Chrysocolla, Azurite Mine, Tortolita Mountains, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Blue puffballs of plancheite with bluish-green chrysocolla. Shattuckite present elsewhere on the specimen. Ex Steve Pullman (purchased by him at Tucson in 1991). Width of view 6mm. Stack of 69 images. Click on the image...
20140 Palladium metal
Two small pieces of palladium metal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.
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.
3264 Linarite, Cerussite, Dundasite, Kapi Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Tiny blue linarite crystals with grey reticulated cerussite and white sprays of dundasite. Ex Shane Dohnt. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2871 Linarite, Brochantite, Unknown Yellow-Green Sulphate, Tasman Crown Mine, Mt Lyell, Tasmania
Tiny blue crystals of linarite with a green crust of brochantite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2899 Linarite, Cerussite, Brochantite, Ktenasite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Tiny blue linarite crystals with green brochantite, white cerussite and possible ktenasite. Unidentified brown pseudomorph(?), perhaps originally a chlorite mineral? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat BDAU M3010 Likasite, Cuprite, Quartz, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, District Council of Mount Remarkable, South Australia
Blue bladed crystals of likasite on cuprite (top left). Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU002 Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Pink rhodochrosite balls and isolated rhombohedral crystals on quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 90 images.
ncat BDMAR01 M3786 Turquoise, Fluorapatite, Libethenite, Albite, Orthoclase, Smoky Quartz, Muscovite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
A green spray of libethenite crystals with pale blue turquoise on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz, with very pale pink fluorapatite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on...
0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga, Victoria0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Two genereations of spiky balls of green libethenite in a quartz cavity. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JL3769 Libethenite, Pseudomalachite, Wheal Hancock, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station) , South Australia
Green pseudo-octahedral crystals with bluish-green pseudomalachite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP0502 Libethenite, Goethite, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, District Council of Mount Remarkable, South Australia
Dark green pseudo-octahedral crystals on dark brown goethite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0230 Libethenite, Burra Burra Copper Mine, Burra, Goyder Regional Council, South Australia
Dark green, almost black, libethenite crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1746 Libethenite, Great Boulder Mine, Arkaroola Region, South Australia
Green libethenite crystals that have grown in a restricted width fracture resulting in some with a bladed habit. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat YU Libethenite, Pseudomalachite, Inkerman Mine, Cattle Creek area, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Acquired by Margaret 6/1985 from Brian Beyer for $3. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0294 Libethenite, Turquoise, Mount Oxide Copper mine, Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland
Green pseudo-octahedral libethenite on crystalline turquoise, some of which has formed as epimorphs after an unknown mineral. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2716 Libethenite, Pseudomalachite, Quartz, Bluebell Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Light green sprays of prismatic libethenite with blue-green pseudomalachite on quartz crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0229 Libethenite, Umbarwaroa Gorge, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
Olive green prismatic crystals in gossan. Ex John Carey. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1234 Pseudomalachite, Libethenite, Quartz, West Bogan Mine, Collorina, New South Wales
Pale green opaque sprays of libethenite with globular pseudomalachite, and quartz crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
9098 JP2809 Libethenite, Girilambone Copper Mine (Murrawombie open pit; West Bogan Mine; West Bogan No.5 block), Girilambone, Canbelego Co., New South Wales
Dark green pseudo-octahedral libethenite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 115 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3555 Pseudomalachite, Libethenite, Sampleite, Quartz, Endeavour 26 Open Cut, North Parkes Mine, Parkes, New South Wales
Platy blue sampleite, light green libethenite sprays, and darker green pseudomalachite. Libethenite photo: Width of view 6mm, stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5045 Liandratite, Columbite-(Fe), Kempton Brothers Beryl Mine, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia
Yellow coating on black columbite. Ex Gunnar Färber. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3812 Hematite, Prehnite, Albite, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Specular iridescent hematite with botryoidal prehnite and minor white albite. Some massive calcite present, some of which fluoresces red under longwave UV. Width of view 3mm, stack of 50 images (hematite). Width of view 6mm,...
7232 JL1390 Grossular, Hematite, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Brown grossular garnet crystals in vughs with trigonal hematite crystals. Acquired by Joan in 1994 from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Second photo 6mm...
2943 M2032 Epidote, Albite, Thomsonite(?), Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Green epidote, white albite and colourless thomsonite? Light green balls may be chlorite or pumpellyite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
2941 M1244 Garnet Group, Hematite, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Two generations of garnet, the first being darker orange-brown, the second being smaller very pale orange. Hematite in an adjacent vugh. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on...
ncat JP1649 Calcite, Prehnite, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Colourless calcite crystals with a ball of prehnite (not in photo) and a pinwheel prehnite (bottom right of photo). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image...
2939 Anthophyllite, Chlorite, Calcite, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Pale bluish-green fibrous anthophyllite on green chlorite. Calcite crystals in some vughs. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Chlorite alone image 3mm and 80. Click on the images below for a higher resolution...
2938 Analcime, Garnet Group, Thomsonite-Ca, Hematite, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
A white analcime crystal 20mm across, with orange to pink garnets on a green garnet matrix, colourless prismatic thomsonite(?) and black hematite.
2928 Albite, Epidote, Thomsonite-Ca, Chlorite, Calcite, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
White albite, green epidote, and colourless thomsonite, with tiny grey-green chlorite crystals. A vugh on the “bottom” of the specimen contains some nice calcite crystals that fluoresce red under shortwave UV. Width of view 6mm....
4526 Libethenite, Old Reliable Mine, Copper Creek, Bunker Hill District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
Green acicular sprays of libethenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP702 Libethenite, Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Green pseudo-octahedral crystals on quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RG Libethenite, Castle Dome Mine, Castle Dome area, Inspiration, Miami-Inspiration Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Isolated green libethenite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4093 Cornetite, Libethenite, Pseudomalachite, Blue Mine, (Blue Springbok Mine), Springbok, Okiep Copper District, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
Green libethenite with dark blue cornetite and botryoidal green pseudomalachite (not in photo). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 65 images. Ex Diederik Visser 6/2005. 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...
ncat BDUK M3750 Libethenite, Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
Doubly-terminated green libethenite crystals. Ex Chris Jewson. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3608 Brochantite, Libethenite, Pseudomalachite, Gunheath China Clay Pit, Stenalees, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK
Bluish-green pseudomalachite and brochantite with green libethenite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1849 Libethenite, Chrysocolla, L’Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Labelled simply as Shaba, Zaire, based on photos in Mindat, L’Etoile du Congo Mine looks the most likely source. But you can never be sure! Platy crystals of libethenite with pale blue chrysocolla, lighter on...
ncat GLEE Libethenite, La Farola Mine, Cerro Pintado, Las Pintadas mining district, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Mid green tufts of prismatic crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat GLEE Libethenite, Brochantite, Los Azules mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Prismatic libethenite crystals with the smaller ones being a transparent light “epidote” green, and the larger ones being a very dark blackish-green. Greenish blue brochantite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 130 images. Click on...
ncat JR12 Levyne-Ca, Erionite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Thin plates of levyne with silky overgrowth of erionite. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0617 Chabazite, Levyne-Na, ‘Pyrolusite’, Erionite, Sunderland Bluff, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Orange rhombohedral chabazite on hexagonal crystals of levyne. Black “pyrolusite” balls are sprinkled around. Erionite is evident as a very thin coating of levyne, obvious when you look at the broken crystals. Width of view...
ncat JP892 Levyne, Erionite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Silky fibrous erionite growing epitaxially on thin levyne crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR12 Levyne, Chabazite, Road metal quarry, Howitt Plains, Wellington Shire, Victoria
Unusually blocky levyne crystals with lustrous chabazite perched on them. Ex Roger Colling. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD107 Levyne, Phillipsite, Chabazite, Upper May Plain, near Cradle Mountain, Tasmania
Thin hexagonal plates of levyne. Nearby cavities have phillipsite or chabazite. Ex Mat Latham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0697 Levyne-Ca, Thomsonite-Ca, Erionite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Thin blades of levyne with a silky overgrowth of erionite. Thomsonite in nearby cavity. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD202 Levyne, Erionite, Thomsonite-Ca, Laidley Creek, Gatton Valley, Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland
White hexagonal levyne crystals with overgrowth of erionite. Broken surfaces show the silky nature. White balls of thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JP2551 Leucophosphite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Aggregates of pink and green bladed crystals of leucophosphite. The colours are probably being transmitted from the underlying material. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image...
ncat RD Diopside, Fluorapatite, Nepheline, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Leucite, Sanidine, Biotite, Clinopyroxene, Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
(Photo) Leucite as grey-white material in groundmass (“leucitite”). Elsewhere on specimen: Green prismatic diopside. Brown-black prismatic clinopyroxene. Nepheline as hexagonal prisms. Nepheline with hollow cores have been altered to analcime. Colourless needles of fluorapatite. Grey...
9075 JP2812 Lepidocrocite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Bladed crystals with a reddish tinge. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0986 Lepidocrocite, Anglesite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
Reddish brown lepidocrocite on grey anglesite crystals. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW103 Lepidocrocite, Goethite, Tom’s Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia
Blocky reddish lepidocrocite crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDAU M3073 Lepidocrocite, Rosasite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Lustrous black bladed crystals with blue rosasite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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))....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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.
ncat EA4 Kutnohorite, Quartz, Pyrite, Calcite, North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Groups of typical kutnohorite with quartz and a little pyrite, all on a matrix of pale pink fluorescent manganoan calcite. Specimen measures 60x40x20mm.
ncat OW106 M46 Quartz, Calcite, Pyrite, Kutnohorite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Quartz crystals and a couple of fluorescent red calcite crystals on a spray of kutnohorite. There are pyrite crystals included in the quartz, as well as on the quartz and on the kutnohorite, some of...
ncat WD212 2659 Kutnohorite, Quartz, Pyrite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Pale crystals of kutnohorite on quartz with pyrite, all on a bed of fluorescent Mn-calcite. Specimen measures 4×5.5cm. Ex W.F. Davidson Collection. Ex Ralph Merrill Collection. Close up photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of...
0835 Kunatite, Turquoise/Chalcosiderite, Torbernite, Albite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Greenish-yellow balls of kunatite (previously Unknown Cu Fe Phosphate), with blue-green balls of turquoise/chalcosiderite, a square-shaped torbernite crystal, and some unidentified darker green balls (pseudomalachite?), all on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz. Collected by John...
ncat JPK1 Hokkaidoite, Opal, Shikaribetsu Lake, Shikaoi (Shikaoi-Chō), Kato District, Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan
Type Locality. Yellow-fluorescent hokkaidoite in opal that fluoresces in a range of colours. Close up is under longwave and 9mm across. The other two are iPhone photos. The one that is more pink bottom right...
5124 Ktenasite, Brochantite, Cerussite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Sky blue ktenasite with green brochantite on reticulated cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Peter Elliott. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD202 Gordaite, Ktenasite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Blue coating of ktenasite. Gordaite not in photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Peter Elliott. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat NOVM Köttigite, Penguin Mine (Penguin silver mine), Penguin, Central Coast municipality, Tasmania
Pink cobalt and nickel-bearing köttigite acicular crystals in a vein of sulphides – sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and arsenopyrite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat NOVM Köttigite, Penguin Mine (Penguin silver mine), Penguin, Central Coast municipality, Tasmania
Pink cobalt and nickel-bearing köttigite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TH Kornerupine, Whites Dam Area, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Terminated crystal in schistose biotite granulite. Specimen measures 90x75x50mm.
ncat YB Kornerupine, Mount Riddock Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory
A kornerupine crystal in matrix, with a smaller one at the back. Specimen measures 47x28x25mm.
ncat TA4 Kornerupine, Harts Range, Northern Territory
A crystal fragment 23mm wide.
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....
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.
2624 Chalcanthite, East Pit (Triako open cut; Eastern crosscut), Mineral Hill field, Condobolin district, Kennedy Co., New South Wales
Pale blue crystals, post-mining occurrence. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images.
ncat ANK MSH57 Sabinaite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Pale yellowish thin tabular pseudo-hexagonal crystals. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Ex Jean P Beckerich. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
9082 JP2789 Koechlinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Very pale platy to fibrous crystals on gossan. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
9051 JP2199 Koechlinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Pale yellow plates of koechlinite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2456 Koechlinite, Little Bygoo group mines, Ardlethan, Bourke Co., New South Wales
Greenish-yellow masses. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR1 Kleemanite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Type Locality. Colourless crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2759 Kleemanite, Smithsonite, Linarite, Cerussite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
White acicular sprays of kleemanite on green smithsonite. Also present but not in photo, cerussite and linarite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8086 Kipushite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Tiny green crystal aggregates. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW106 M442 Kintoreite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Type Locality. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD202 Kintoreite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Two pieces. Type Locality. Pale olive green with brighter yellow-green balls. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK KG24 Gelosaite, Kingsgateite, Smoky Quartz, Old 25 Pipe (Pipe No. 14), Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales
Type Locality for kingsgateite. Yellowish green kingsgateite with blue gelosaite on smoky quartz. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. XRD Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below...
ncat ANK KG23 Gelosaite, Kingsgateite, Smoky Quartz, Old 25 Pipe (Pipe No. 14), Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales
Type Locality for kingsgateite. Tiny green kingsgateite crystals with blue gelosaite on smoky quartz. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 160 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat VHD15 Gold, Galena, Wattle Gully Gold Mine, Chewton, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Crystalline gold with galena and possibly other sulphides on quartz. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP Kidwellite, Strengite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Pale greenish-yellow tufts of kidwellite with pale purple strengite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1717 Kingite, Fairview Quarry, Robertstown, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Type Locality. White nodule 19mm wide. Ex John and Betty Weir.
ncat OW102 Analcime, Wattle Gully Gold Mine, Chewton, Victoria
Monchiquite – a rare basic rock that has analcime instead of feldspar. From No. 12 Level (1086 feet).
0277 Kidwellite, Cyrilovite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Very pale tufts of kidwellite with greenish-yellow cyrilovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2621 Kidwellite, Tsumebite, Dufrenite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Silky kidwellite on dark green dufrenite. Green spheres of chalcosiderite? Yellow-green hinsdalite. Colourless prismatic pyromorphite? Blue-green tsumebite not in photo. Ex Pat Sutton Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the...
ncat RAM4 CW11 Nontronite, Celadonite, Wolf Creek Pass, Archuleta County, Colorado, USA
Brown platy/scaly crystals of nontronite in vughs lined with green celadonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image 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...
ncat JR1 Kermesite, Stibnite, Hillgrove, Sandon Co., New South Wales
Sprays of dark red kermesite on black stibnite. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2270 Paradocrasite, Kermesite, Consols Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Red kermesite with silver paradocrasite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
20129 VHD1 Millerite, Chalcopyrite, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA
Fine hair-like millerite with a chalcopyrite crystal. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
20128 VHD1 Quartz after Barite, Sumbawa Besar, Sumbawa Island, West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
Drusy colourless quartz crystals after barite (epimorphs). Width of view 9mm. Stack of 175 images.
ncat JR3 Uranophane, Kasolite, Wild Dog Uranium Mine, Myponga, District Council of Yankalilla, South Australia
Tiny pale greenish-yellow crystal sprays. Ex Michael Hirst. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat NOVM Kasolite, British Empire Mine, Mawson Plateau – Paralana Hot Springs area, Arkaroola Region, South Australia
Yellow bladed crystals. Ex Ian Everard. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD109 Kasolite, British Empire Mine, Mawson Plateau – Paralana Hot Springs area, Arkaroola Region, South Australia
Pale yellow sprays of flat bladed crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RAM4 CW38 5123 Realgar, Stibnite, Orpiment, Sulphur, Quartz, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Red realgar with orange orpiment, silver stibnite, pale yellow sulphur, tiny colourless quartz crystals, and some unknowns. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for...
ncat VHD4 M3787 Kasolite, Brochantite, Andradite, Mottramite, Green Parrot Mine, Jervois Range, Jervois Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
Bluish-green brochantite with yellow kasolite, brown andradite, and yellow-green mottramite(?), Green Parrot Mine, Jervois Range, Northern Territory. Below: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Below: Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images....
ncat RAM4 CW63 Wavellite (or Fluorwavellite), Variscite, Wood Mine, Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
Colourless-white radiating sprays of wavellite (or fluorwavellite) with pale pink (ferrian) variscite crystals. The paper describing fluorwavellite states that all specimens analysed were fluorwavellite, but that does not guarantee that wavellite doesn’t occur. Without analysis,...
ncat RAM4 CW62 4841 Vivianite, Wheeler Road, Oxon Hill, Prince Georges County, Maryland, USA
Dark blue vivianite crystals in cavities in a nodule, with the matrix showing cracks due to dehydration. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for...
ncat RAM4 CW49 8538, Spessartine, Quartz, Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
Well-formed orange crystals on colourless quartz crystals. The matrix fluoresces pink under shortwave ultraviolet light. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
1928 Spessartine, Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
A single dark red spessartine. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Probably collected by Ted Johnson. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RAM4 CW26 Kasolite, El Sherana mine, South Alligator River, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory
Tiny yellow crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat GTJ3 59 Anorthite, Miyake Island, Miyake Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Three pieces in a round container. Ex Ueno Scientific Co.
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...
ncat VHD15 Thomasclarkite-(Y), Molybdenite, Elpidite, Siderite, Aegirine, Sodalite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Greyish-green prismatic spray of crystals of elpidite (green fluorescence), pale yellow tabular thomasclarkite, silver hexagonal molybdenite, tiny brown siderite, green prismatic aegirine, and sodalite (orange fluorescence), in white albite (pink fluorescence). A yellow arrow points...
2677 Vanadinite, Upper Level, Gray Horse Mine, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila Co., Arizona, USA
Red hexagonal prisms of vanadinite. One crystal shows two interesting features. One is that it is partly hollow. The other is that only three adjacent sides of the hexagon have prism faces. The other three...
ncat JP1758 Descloizite, Vanadinite, Grey Horse Mine, Riverside, Riverside District, Dripping Spring Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Dark brown descloizite on a bed of orange vanadinite. Lustrous yellow hexagonal vanadinite (or possibly mimetite?) in a small vugh on the side. Ex Jo Price Collection. Descloizite photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of...
ncat JP1695 Vanadinite, Descloizite, Mimetite, Grey Horse Mine, Riverside, Riverside District, Dripping Spring Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Orange colour-zoned hexagonal vanadinite with brown to greenish-black descloizite, and tiny white needles of mimetite. The vanadinite is interesting, with some hollow crystals, and others that look like they have been etched away or resorbed....
ncat TI Descloizite, Calcite, Grey Horse Mine, Riverside, Riverside Mining District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Colourless calcite crystals that fluoresce pale pink under shortwave UV, with dark brown descloizite crystals. An interesting specimen. There appears to be multiple generations of calcite. The “Mercedes” faces are obviously a later addition, and...
ncat JP3529 Kapundaite, Tom’s Quarry, Koonunga, Kapunda, Light Regional Council, South Australia
Golden fibrous crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW103 Kapundaite, Tom’s Quarry, Koonunga, Kapunda, Light Regional Council, South Australia
Golden matted fibres, with some pseudomorphing to goethite. Ex Vince Peisley. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3295 Quartz, Topaz, Kaolinite, Dolcoath Hill Quarry (Moina Quarry), Moina – Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania
Brown topaz crystals embedded in white kaolinite on the side of a quartz crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5162 JL0236 Gold, Kaolinite, Messenger’s Patch gold area, Wadgingarra Goldfield, Yalgoo Shire, Western Australia
Tiny gold crystals on/in grey kaolinite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW203 Kaolinite, Imerys Australian Kaolin Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Cream to white kaolinite cementing broken quartz pieces and pearly mica flakes. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat GLEE Chrysocolla, Kaolinite, Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
White tufts of kaolinite on blue chrysocolla. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU006 Kaolinite, Segnitite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
White kaolinite on dark green segnitite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1041 Kaolinite after Smithsonite, Chlorargyrite (Bromian), Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
A complete replacement of smithsonite by creamy white kaolinite. Olive-green chlorargyrite crystals also present. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ZZ Kaolinite, Goethite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Bluish-grey kaolinite completely covering goethite stalactites. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width 32mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4271 Tenorite, Kaolinite, Cadia, Bathurst Co., New South Wales
Kaolinite matrix hosting (and being replaced by?) grey tenorite. Ex Diederik Visser. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR1 Kambaldaite, Gaspéite, Gypsum, Otter Shoot Nickel Mine, Juan complex, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
Bright green acicular kambaldaite crystals on duller green gaspéite. In the vugh on the right, the kambaldaite looks like it is overgrown by gypsum crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on...
6029 Kambaldaite, Widgiemoolthalite, Gaspeite, 132 North Mine, Widgiemooltha, Western Australia
Type locality for widgiemoolthalite. Kambaldaite as bright green crystals(!) with pale bluish spheres of widgiemoolthalite on green gaspeite. From Westaus Mineral Museum (Blair Gartrell). Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the...
ncat JR2 Kaersutite, West Head, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Lustrous black kaersutite in a basaltic matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell. Specimen measures 33mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR1 Kaersutite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
Many loose crystals and fragments. In photo largest is 18mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5143 Kaersutite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
A single loose crystal. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5084 Kaersutite, Brownes Road, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
A single crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2466 Kaersutite, Ringarooma United Mine, Alberton, Dorset municipality, Tasmania
Black phenocrysts embedded in matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2-24-2 B791 Erythrite, Mansfieldite, Heterogenite, Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Balls of deep pink erythrite crystals, many bent, with pale pink glassy mansfieldite and black heterogenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a...
9125 JP2659 Jamesonite, Hillgrove, Sandon Co., New South Wales
Tarnished curved crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image 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 MAR01 M826 Brewsterite-Sr, Calcite, Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Brewsterite fluoresces light blue under longwave UV. Calcite fluoresces red under mediumwave UV. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
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...
7322 JL3215 Aurichalcite, Witherite, Anglezarke Mines, Anglezarke, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK
Type Locality for witherite. Pale blue balls of aurichalcite on colourless witherite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for...