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.
Portugal
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 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 N23-1 Scorodite, Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal
Blue and green scorodite. A specimen acquired at the 2023 Joint Australasian Mineralogical Societies Seminar in Tasmania. Width of view 6mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
20111 Fluorapatite, Cassiterite, Arsenopyrite, Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal
A cluster of yellow-green apatite crystals with the largest 31mm wide, with minor cassiterite and arsenopyrite. The apatite exhibits orange zoned fluorescence. Ex Barry Porter Collection. Ex Mike and Coralie Fisher Collection. Click on the...
9049 JP2360 Phenakite, Quartz, Assunção Mine, Aldeia Nova, Ferreira de Aves, Sátão, Viseu District, Portugal
Colourless crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
30054 Fluorapatite, Siderite, Panasqueira Mine, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal
Fluorapatite crystals to 14mm across, pale pink fluorescence under longwave with blue rims. No response under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
ncat JP0354 Hureaulite, Mangualde, Viseu District, Portugal
Carolinos Mine, Jack Nelson Collection
ncat JP0346 Phosphosiderite, Mangualde, Viseu District, Portugal
Carolinos Mine, Jack Nelson Collection
4696 Phosphosiderite, Sitio do Castelo Mine (Folgosinho quarry), Folgosinho, Gouveia, Guarda District, Portugal
ex Jacques-Yves Desescaut, Marseilles, swapped in 2005, Helmut Braith
4697 Scorodite, Carminite, Alto das Quelhas do Gestoso Mine, Gestoso, Manhouce, Sao Pedro do Sul, Viseu District, Portugal
ex Jacques-Yves Desescaut, Marseilles, Helmut Braith
10065 Fluorapatite, Quartz, Tourmaline, Pyrite, Panasqueira Mine – Couto Mineiro da Panasqueira, Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco District, Portugal
Purple hexagonal apatite crystals on a pale smoky quartz with tourmaline inclusions and minor pyrite.
