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.
North and Central Americas
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.
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.
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 OW402 Molybdenite, Moly Hill Mine, La Motte, Quebec, Canada
A single hexagonal molybdenite crystal on quartz. Specimen measures 42x22x15mm.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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 SMLN Celestite, Clay Center, Allen Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, USA
Three colours of celestite. Blue-grey main crystals with white fibrous-like outer surface, and small colourless crystals attached. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1035 Celestite, White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Allen Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, USA
Colourless crystals of celestite. Predates Stoneco (1995) so just “White Rock Quarry”. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993. Collected by an unknown person some time before that. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images....
ncat VHD4 Kernite, Western Borax Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA
Probably a cleavage piece of kernite. The specimen measures 44x18x5mm.
7281 JL3356 Kurnakovite, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA
A pale brownish transparent crystal of kurnakovite with a white surface alteration to tincalconite? Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999 from Peter Elliott. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click...
ncat VHD3, Erionite, Levyne, Adel, Lake Co., Oregon, USA
Silky erionite growing epitaxially on levyne. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4029 Aguilarite, San Carlos Mine, La Luz, Guanajuato Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico
Type Locality. Small crystalline specimen without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width 2.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5586 Schrockingerite, Rabbittite, Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
White acicular rabbittite with green platy aggregates of schröckingerite that is highly fluorescent. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5594 Johannite, Chalcanthite, Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
Yellow johannite on green unknown (more crystalline and bright fluorescence), and blue chalcanthite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5589 Bayleyite, Calcite, Gypsum, Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
Tiny creamy-white radial sprays of bayleyite with calcite, gypsum, and unidentified copper and uranium species. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
5590 Bayleyite, Almandine, Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
Ex Al Wilkins. Labelled simply bayleyite but I can’t find any distinct material. Some of the matrix is made up of garnet crystals, the garnet from here being almandine. So I can put that on...
1487 Cerussite, Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Grand Reef Mountain, Klondyke, Aravaipa Mining District, Graham County, Arizona, USA
Reticulated sixling cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0497 Azurite, Cerussite, Smithsonite(?), Chihuahua, Mexico
Reticulated partial sixling white cerussite with dark blue azurite. A small amount of bubbly smithsonite(?) also present on the azurite just below left of centre. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on...
4985 Fornacite, Wulfenite, Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Olive-green fornacite with orange-red wulfenite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3245 Perite, Hemimorphite, Chlorargyrite, Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Yellow scales of perite with a radiating group of colourless hemimorphite crystals. Olive green crystal of chlorargyrite not in photo. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the...
ncat JP3077 Anatase, Poudrette quarry , Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of 4.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0371 Epistilbite, Scolecite, Kailua, Oahu Island, Honolulu Co., Hawaii, USA
Typical epistilbite habit on crystals in one cavity, with smaller crystals associated with prismatic scolecite (not in photo) in another. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
0334 Vesuvianite, Diopside, Jeffrey Mine (Jeffrey Quarry; Johns-Manville Mine), Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
A small specimen of manganoan vesuvianite crystals with transparent diopsides. The perfectly terminated vesuvianites have varying colour from intense purple to very pleasing apple yellow-green and some gemmy areas. With exemplary lustre and good light...
ncat NHFL M531 Beryl, Ruby Violet claims (Wah Wah Mountains), Beaver County, Utah, USA
Red Beryl. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
20064 Falcondoite, Falcondo Mines, Bonao, Monseñor Nouel Province, Dominican Republic
Bluish-green massive falcondoite. Specimen is 30x25x25mm. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3539 Ancylite-(Ce), Albite, Aegirine, Burbankite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless to greyish, and pinky-orange crystals of ancylite-(Ce), or possibly calcioancylite in small cavities in albite. In the second photo, white (probable) calcioburbankite (Type Locality). You can see the hexagonal cross section if you look...
ncat JR3 Benitoite, Neptunite, California State Gem Mine, Santa Rita Peak, San Benito County, California, USA
Two joined benitoite crystals (I hesitate to say twinned as I don’t know what sorts of twins can occur), shown in normal, longwave ultraviolet (red), and shortwave ultraviolet (blue). It is really interesting how different...
1709 Benitoite, California State Gem Mine, Santa Rita Peak, San Benito County, California, USA
Dark blue benitoite, shown in white light, under longwave UV with a red fluorescence, and shortwave UV with a blue fluorescence. Width of view 12mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR01 JL1691 Hewettite, Variscite, Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA
Reddish-brown fibres of hewettite with bubbly grey variscite balls and unknown lime green mineral (vésigniéite? maybe). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat BDUK M1775 Cobaltite, Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Dark grey pseudocubic crystal embedded in matrix. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RAM4 1295 Calcite, Pyrite, Gray Quarry, Gray, Sullivan Co., Tennessee, USA
Small pyrite crystals on calcite crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Allegedly, a dead tree once stood over this quarry with the inscription “D. Boon (Daniel Boone) Cilled...
ncat VIN Wardite, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Sunshine Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
Green and bluish-green wardite in yellow crandallite with white crandallite and pale pinkish crandallite. Type Locality for wardite. Vintage micromount collected and mounted by John Melhase in 1935. Ex John Malhase. Ex California Academy of...
ncat MBBD M1821-2 Rhodochrosite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Dark red spheres of rhodochrosite on white albite. Colourless crystals in the foreground and on the left may be pectolite. Minor green aegirine also present. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on...
4392 Svanbergite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Mount Brussilof mine (Bay Mag Mine), Radium Hot Springs, Golden Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Orange pseudocubic svanbergite with a pyritohedron pyrite crystal (altering to goethite) on white dolomite. Ex Ray Hill 7/2007. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
1207 Adamite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Pale green crystals on a quartz matrix, that really light up under longwave ultraviolet light. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat Gypsum, Guntown, Mississippi, USA
A cluster of pinkish gypsum crystals.
ncat TP D28-25 Manganbabingtonite, Vulcan Quarry, Pacolel, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina, USA
Lustrous black crystals. Ex Ed and Martha Cunningham Collection.
2289 Mixite, Adamite (Cuprian), Simon Mine (Nevada Mine), Bell Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
Labelled as mixite and cuprian adamite. Is it mixite or agardite? Cuprian adamite or zincolivenite? Mindat lists all. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JT1 Bastnäsite-(Ce), Rhodochrosite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Grey hexagonal crystals of bastnäsite. Ex H. William “Bill” Meinert. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 88 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2678 Vanadinite, Descloizite, Calcite, Upper Level, Grey Horse Mine, Riverside, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
Image showing the termination of one of the vanadinite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 51 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5178 JL0333 Gold, Wire Patch Mine, Farncomb Hill, French Gulch, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Harold Gallasch of Hahndorf, South Australia in 1995 for $15. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
0383 Iranite, Evening Star Mine, Tiger Wash, Tonopah, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Dark brown crystals of iranite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat SD Kulanite, Fluorapatite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
Very dark platy crystals of kulanite that are green with transmitted light, with white to colourless fluorapatite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
2290 Scheelite, Quartz, Ophir Hill Consolidated Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Yellow crystals of scheelite on quartz. The scheelite fluoresces bluish-white under shortwave UV. Minor sulphides also present. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images (white light), and 31 images (Shortwave UV). Click on the...
ncat JP1547, Scheelite, Quartz, Ophir Hill Consolidated Mine (Montana Mine; Ophir Coalition Mine), Ophir, Ophir District, Oquirrh Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA
Yellow crystals of scheelite on quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MAR05 Magnesiopascoite, Burro Mine, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
Stacked plates of orange magnesiopascoite crystals. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 87 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1283 Perovskite, Andradite, Chlorite, Actinolite, Perovskite Peak, San Benito Peak, San Benito Co., California, USA
Three stepped black perovskite crystals with brown centres, and smaller black melanite andradite garnets. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW307 Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Tetrahedrite, Pyrite, Corner Pocket, Watercourse Rise, Watercourse Extension Drift, Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA
Collected September 1994. Pink rhombs of rhodochrosite with a couple of quartz crystals and a group of small pyrite crystals, all on a cluster of tetrahedrite crystals. Width of the specimen 18mm. Stack of 65...
ncat JP1096 Dioptase, Christmas Mine, Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
A tough one to photograph! Green prismatic crystals of dioptase from this classic locality. Ex Jo Price Collection, Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
3654 Weeksite, Opal, Autunite No 8 Claim, Thomas Mountains, Juab Co, Utah, USA
There are two distinct species here based on the fluorescence response. Pale yellow fibrous sprays of weeksite that look like they fluoresce yellow, but are just reflecting the surrounding opal that fluoresce strongly. Width of...
0582 Neptunite, Dallas gem mine, San Benito Co., California, USA
A single black crystal with a hint of internal red fire. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2485 Sylvite, Esterhazy Soak, New York, USA
Locality not listed in Mindat, nor can I find any other reference to it. Single sylvite crystal without matrix. Sheila Harper found this reference so that might help a bit. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack...
2913 Pyrite, Barite, Fluorite, Nakaye mine (Alamo mine), Derry District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
Tiny pyrite crystals on the face of a barite crystal, with dark purple fluorite associated. The barite is said to be coloured because of pyrite inclusions, but that even under a microscope, crystals can’t be...
2902 Gypsum, Nakaye mine (Alamo mine), Derry District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
A small piece of gypsum collected at the same time as specimens of barite, calcite and fluorite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5808 A2985 6666m Fluorite, Quartz, Pine Canyon deposit, West Burro Mountains, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Blue fluorescent purple octahedral crystals on quartz. Ex Art Smith Collection. Ex Carl Stazak. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5807 A2983 672marps Fluorite, Siderite, Pyrite, K Feldspar, Albite, Granite Mountain Quarry #1, Granite Mountain Area, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
Octahedral fluorite colourless through to a fracture, then pale purple-grey over the rest of the crystal. Blue fluorescence. Hemisphere of brown siderite(?), rounded pyrite, and colourless albite, all on pinkish-tan K feldspar. Ex Art Smith...
5806 A2964 680marps Fluorite, Pyrophanite, Aegirine (Acmite), Albite, Holiday Inn Quarry, Granite Mountain area, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
Purple fluorite cluster and isolated crystals with green needles of aegirine, brown pseudohexagonal pyrophanite, and colourless albite crystals, all in a white albite matrix. Ex Art Smith Collection (collected in 1986). Width of view 8.63mm....
5805 A2980 523marps Fluorite, Chlorite, Magnetite, Albite, Pyrophanite, Natrolite(?), Big Rock Quarry (3M Quarry), Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
Tiny purple octahedral fluorite crystalson albite with greenish chlorite, white prismatic crystals of natrolite(?), colourless quartz, and brown pyrophanite. Also on specimen magnetite, Ex Art Smith Collection (collected in 1979). Width of view 11.5mm. Stack...
ncat JP345 Montgomeryite, Whitlockite, Fluorapatite, Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA
Colourless rhombs of whitlockite on orange bladed montgomeryite, it partially coated by white balls of fluorapatite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the...
ncat JP340 Whitlockite, Childrenite-Eosphorite, Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA
Transparent tan-coloured rhombohedral crystals of whitlockite with prismatic crystals of childrenite? Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Edit: May be eosphorite rather than childrenite (or somewhere in the series)....
ncat JP355, Bermanite, Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA
Red-brown to blackish crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP882, Strengite, Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co., Alabama, USA
Sharp pale lilac crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 180 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JL0571 Lazulite, Whiteite, Quartz, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Dark blue lazulite crystals with tan whiteite and colourless quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
5673 Elbaite, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Single green terminated crystal 13mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK F48 Fluorite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Bluffton Stone Company Quarry, Bluffton, Richland Township, Allen Co., Ohio, USA
Purple fluorite tabular crystals (one axis is shorter than the other two) with very tiny modifications on the corners (modified by the trapezohedron). Colourless to greyish white dolomite crystals (matrix is a dolostone). Tiny pyrite...
ncat ANK MSH128 Sphalerite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
A sharp metallic black tetrahedral sphalerite crystal on white albite. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 109 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat ANK MSH126 Rhodochrosite, Aegirine, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Deep sharp red-brown rhombohedral crystals, one perched on aegirine crystal. There are also colourless reticulated crystals below right of centre. Maybe albite? One small area on top of rhodochrosite (not in photo) fluoresces orange. Ex...
ncat ANK MSH87 Franconite, Actinolite, Zircon, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Franconite (white spheres), actinolite (green sprays) and brown crystals of zircon(?) that fluoresce orange. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 59 images. Click on the...
ncat ANK MSH93 Lorenzenite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Pinkish acicular crystals of lorenzenite. There are a couple of unknowns too, the pale greenish prismatic crystal and the brown material upper left (it fluoresces orange). Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre...
ncat ANK MSH147 Calcioburbankite, Petersenite-(Ce), Siderite, Hilairite(?), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
As with many MSH specimens, you don’t always know what you’ve got! White to tan calcioburbankite on hexagonal prismatic petersenite-(Ce). Many of the brown crystals, the lighter ones, are siderite, but some, the darker brown...
ncat ANK MSH65 Dawsonite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless striated prisms. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Pete Richards. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 68 images. Blue sodalite (part of matrix) fluoresces a strong orange. Click on the image below for...
ncat ANK MSH44 Eudialyte, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Rootbeer brown crystal. It is labelled as eudialyte but it is not known if it has been analysed. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich, collected May 2007. Width of view 5.75mm....
ncat ANK MSH137 Neighborite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Small cluster of brown cubes. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH71 Pectolite, Phlogopite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Phlogopite pseudohexagonal plates on prismatic colourless pectolite. Pectolite crystals have zoned fluorescence, pink with blue caps. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Comparison image...
ncat ANK MSH81 Burbankite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Yellow “reverse sceptre” burbankite. Second photo ilmenite and burbankite. Calcite also present on specimen. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 18 images (burbankite). Stack of...
ncat ANK MSH123 Epididymite, Franconite, Analcime, Muscovite, Pyrite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless twinned epididymite with cream hemispheres of franconite(?), with tiny silver pseudohexagonal muscovite, and tiny pyrite crystals, minor albite, all on analcime. There is also a prismatic hexagonal crystal of epididymite pointing down to the...
ncat ANK MSH110 Elpidite, Gaidonnayite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Elpidite greenish and bright fluorescent green under longwave UV, gaidonnayite (not in photo) clear. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 57 images (white light) and...
ncat ANK MSH107 Serandite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Prismatic pale pink crystals. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 134 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH103 Vinogradovite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Thin tan blades. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH100 Monteregianite-(Y), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Sprays of thin grey prismatic crystals. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 95 images. Most of the matrix fluoresces orange, probably nepheline. Click on the...
ncat ANK MSH100 Hilairite, Gaidonnayite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Type Locality for hilairite. Brown hilairite with colourless/grey twinned gaidonnayite. Hilairite fluoresce green under longwave UV, but gaidonnayite doesn’t appear to respond. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view...
ncat ANK MSH1 Ferrokentbrooksite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Small orange crystals. Originally labelled as kentbrooksite, but probably ferrokentbrooksite and most likely collected before that mineral was described as a new species. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean P Beckerich. Width of...
2337 Desautelsite, Artinite pit, Picacho Peak, New Idria Mining District, San Benito Co., California, USA
Orange crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Desautelsite is named after Paul Desautels (1920-1991), well-known mineral micromounter and Curator of Gems and Minerals in the Department of Mineral Sciences of the U.S....
20107 Wulfenite, Erupción Mine, Los Lamentos Mts, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Tabular orange wulfenite with a brown core (sandwich). Shown backlit. Width of view 17.25mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
20083 Voglite, Zellerite(?), White Canyon No. 1 Mine (Cameo Mine), Fry Mesa, White Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
Green fluorescent voglite with platy yellow zellerite(?).
20080 Vrbaite, Avicennite, Parapierottite, Lookout Pass Thallium prospect, Little Valley, Lookout Pass Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Microcrystalline black vrbaite, brown avicennite and metallic grey parapierrotite coating chert matrix.
2672 Metauranocircite, Davier Mine, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA
Lemon-yellow platy crystals of metauranocircite. Highly fluorescent. Ex Jim Daly. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images (white light) and 8 (longwave UV). Use the slider on the photo below to compare the white...
4972 Metauranocircite-I, Davier Mine, Bald Mountain District, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA
Lemon-yellow highly fluorescent plates on a goethite matrix. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images (white light), 10 images (longwave UV). Use the slider on the photo below to compare the...
ncat WD205 Topaz, Artroyos Mine, Potrillos, Sierra de San Francisco, América-Sapioris District (Potrillos), Coneto de Comonfort Municipality, Durango, Mexico
An interesting little specimen of topaz that measures just 24mm in width. Ex Mike New Collection.
5792 Sanidine, Mordenite, Seco Creek, Caballo, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA
Collected by Mike Reinke. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5791 Amethyst, Rutile, Kelly Canyon West, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA
Amethyst and red rutile found in a boulder by Jerry Cone when in an arroyo with Mike Reinke where Route 187 crosses over Kelly Canyon West, a few kilometres north of Caballo. Width of view...
5790 Amethyst, Rutile, Kelly Canyon West, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA
Amethyst and red rutile found in a boulder by Jerry Cone when in an arroyo with Mike Reinke where Route 187 crosses over Kelly Canyon West, a few kilometres north of Caballo. Width of view...
5789 Tridymite, Truth or Consequences, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
Pseudohexagonal white plates of tridymite with black balls of hematite(?). Branching stalactitic groups of stacked crystals may also be tridymite. Collected by Mike Reinke on open land near to ToR. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack...
5788 Alum, Calcite, Ash Canyon, Truth or Consequences, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA
Fibrous white alum with calcite (it dissolves leaving alum). Visual ID by Rolf Leutcke photo in Mindat. Collected by Mike Reinke. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for...
5787 Tridymite, Titanite, “Pyrobole”, Animas Creek, Caballo, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA
Colourless bladed stellate tridymite, orange titanite(?) and grey-green “pyrobole”, an unidentified pyroxene or amphibole. Collected from a boulder on the ridge above Animas Creek by Mike Reinke. Width of view 4.9mm and a stack of...
5786 Molybdofornacite, Quartz, Comfort claim, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
Tiny green crystal aggregate on quartz. Ex Mike Reinke, Jerry Cone. Width of view 3.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5785 Surite, Wicks Vein (Wicks Mine), Hillsboro Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
Delicate flakes in cavities where once was a sulphide. Ex Mike Reinke. Width of view 3.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5784 Obsidian, Ash Canyon, Truth or Consequences, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA
Chips of obsidian can be picked up off the open ground north of the TorC Elementary School. This specimen collected by Mike Reinke in situ in Ash Canyon, just east of TorC. Width of view...
5783 Goethite, Palomas Gap, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
Massive goethite with a fibrous look on the edge, with a glassy surface. In this are some orange/brown rings with a blue tint. Collected by Mike Reinke downstream from Palomas Gap. Width of view 6.5mm....
5782 Topaz, King Canyon, New Mexico State Road 187, North of Caballo, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
Blue-tinted topaz in rhyolite. May be coloured by what is under it. Collected by Mike Reinke. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4037 Buddingtonite, San Mateo Co., California, USA
Massive fine-grained material. Acquired from Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width of specimen 13.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2237 Calcite, Chlorite Group, O & G Southbury Quarry (Silliman Quarry), Southbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA
Green chlorite (labelled clinochlore) on and under zoned colourless/white calcite crystals from the Silliman Quarry (as per the label). Little balls of chlorite can be seen perched on the termination of a couple of the...
ncat 2RG Beryl var Bixbite, Ruby Violet claims, Beaver County, Utah, USA
A single deep purplish-red hexagonal crystal 7mm long and 6mm across in matrix. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8054 Carletonite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
A single crystal without matrix showing perfect cleavage. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1613 Spodumene (Hiddenite), Hiddenite (near), Alexander Co, North Carolina, USA
A pale green hiddenite crystal without matrix. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW403 Azurite, Holbrook Extension, Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
A lovely cluster of azurite crystals without matrix, labelled as from the Holbrook Extension. Width of view 32mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5517 Grossular, Jeffrey Mine, Val-des-Sources (previously Asbestos), Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
A group of pale but lustrous grossular garnets with interesting surface features. Ex John Sobolewski. Ex Matt Gibbs. Width of specimen 12mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
20078 VHD10 Grossular, Sierra de Cruces, Sierra Mojada Municipality, Coahuila, Mexico
A single deep pink/purple grossular crystal on a small amount of wollastonite matrix. A few smaller crystals are dotted around. The garnet, a darker pink than many, fluoresces red under longwave UV. Ex Keith Williams,...
1652 Cacoxenite, Bachman Mine, Hellertown, Lower Saucon Township, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania, USA
Zoned yellow cacoxenite hemispheres. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
10086 Topaz, Tribute Pocket, Agnus Dei Claim, Pikes Peak, El Paso Co., Colorado, USA
Pale peach/pink coloured topaz 38x35x26mm. Found by Rich Fretterd during an episode of The Prospectors. See article in Minerals Newspaper.
7079 JL0772 Weloganite, Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1985 from a collector in Edmonton, Canada. Width of specimen 9mm. Stack of 112 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2023 Goudeyite, Olivenite, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Type Locality for goudeyite. Green patches of botryoidal goudeyite and tiny needles visible under higher magnification, with pale-coloured prismatic olivenite crystals. Ex Richard Grant Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 47 images. Click on...
1403 Strengite, Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co, Alabama, USA
Lilac bladed crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 21 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0052 Gold, Timroseite, Khinite, Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
Visible gold (just above centre) with yellow timroseite and green khinite. Type Locality for timroseite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 51 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4525 Maricopaite, Mimetite, Moon Anchor Mine, Hummingbird Spring, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
White sprays of maricopaite with yellow mimetite. Type Locality for maricopaite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4507 Searlesite, Esmeralda Formation, Silver Peak Range, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA
Colourless prismatic crystals. Ex Jim Ferraiolo. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 51 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
6073 Adamite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Vintage Neal Yedlin micromount. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 44 images. A fine adamite from the Ojuela Mine, mounted by Yedlin on a piece of black cork in a hand-labeled vintage cardboard micromount box,...
2549 Palermoite, Palermo #1 Mine, North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA
Type Locality. Light orange stained crystals. White arrow points to spot. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0456 Brazilianite, Quartz, G. E. Smith Mine (Chandler Mills Quarry), Newport, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire, USA
Pale yellow brazilianite with colourless quartz collected in 1969, mounted Feb. 5, 1984, and from the renowned collection of J.W. Grandy. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 100. Click on the mineral image below for...
0885 Gold, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, Mother Lode Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA
Hackly gold in a quartz vein. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0413 Cacoxenite, Girard, Girard District, Burke Co., Georgia, USA
Nicely protected yellow sprays in a quartz vugh. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0228 Zunyite, Zuni Mine (Zuñi Mine), Anvil Mountain, Red Mountain Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Type Locality. Brownish modified tetrahedra frozen in matrix. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0064 Chalcophyllite, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Bluish-green platy crystals of chalcophyllite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0034 Metaheinrichite, White King Mine, Lakeview, Lake Co., Oregon, USA
Type Locality for metaheinrichite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images (white light), stack of 20 images (UV). Use the slider to see specimen under white light and longwave UV. Click...
0037 Heulandite, Chlorite, Rock Creek, Stevenson, Skamania Co., Washington, USA
Orange coffin-shaped heulandite crystals coating the inside of a vesicle in basalt, from a locality first discovered in the 1960s. Also present is rosettes of green chlorite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack...
0022 Boleite, Pseudoboleite, Boleo District, Santa Rosalía, Mulegé Municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Type Locality. Cubic crystal of boleite upon which plates of pseudoboleite have grown epitactically on the boleite cube faces. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image...
4401 Smithsonite, Silver Hill Mine, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
Acquired from Mark Ascher 9/2007. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2846 Dioptase, Fluorite, Quartz, Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Specimen acquired in the micromount room at the Tucson Show. Ex Bob Jenkins. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JSM Analcime, Heulandite, Four Mile Quarry, Porter, Grays Harbor Co., Washington, USA
Colourless analcime crystals on heulandite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
30132 Silver, Langis Mine, Casey Township, Cobalt Area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Silver in matrix slice, 67x45x7mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4070 Pottsite, Clinobisvanite, Linka Mine, Potts, Lander Co., Nevada, USA
Yellow pottsite and small areas of orange clinobisvanite. Specimen is 6mm wide. Type Locality for pottsite. Acquired from Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
20076 Amethyst, Pohndorf Mine, Toll Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA
Interesting textures. Specimen is 34mm wide. Ex Bart Cannon. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5747 Stibnite, Calcite, Jamesonite, Sombrerete Mine, Sombrerete, Sombrerete Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Labelled as boulangerite, El Sombrette Mine, Durango. Likely jamesonite, and from the Sombrerete Mine, in Zacatecas, but close to the border with Durango. Ex John Lewis Collection.
4979 Vanadinite, Descloizite, A. O. Prospect, Mount General, Hinkley, Barstow District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
Purplish-grey vanadinite with yellow descloizite. A.O. stands for Al Ordway who found nice micro vanadinite and descloizite. Acquired from Al Wilkins. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for...
7451 JL0945 Gold, Wapiti Mine, Farncomb Co., California, USA
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
1034 Erionite-K, Heulandite, Malpais Hill, Dudleyville, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Colourless blocky coffin-shaped heulandite crystals with colourless prisms of erionite-K. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1452 Volborthite, Monument Valley, Navajo Co, Arizona, USA
Obtained in a trade with Al Wilkins. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
1637 Hendricksite, Franklinite, Trotter Shaft, Franklin, New Jersey, USA
A black franklinite crystal is either a seed for, or an inclusion in, a brown hendricksite crystal. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1638 Franklinite, Rhodonite, Calcite, Trotter Shaft, Franklin, New Jersey, USA
Black franklinite, pink rhodonite and red fluorescent colourless calcite. Width of view 10mm. UV photo using a Convoy S2+. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
1641 Azurite, Franklinite, Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, New Jersey, USA
Black franklinite crystals with secondary copper minerals in between. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Type Locality for franklinite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7310 JL3028 Conichalcite, Olivenite, Binghampton Mine, Mayer, Agua Fria Mining District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Dark olive green olivenite with thin bands of lime green conichalcite. The white mineral between is unknown. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998. Click...
4580 Milarite, Valenciana Silver Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico
Colourless to yellowish hexagonal prisms of milarite. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Walter Bagley. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4572 Serandite, Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Pale orange serandite crystals. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Giles Haineault. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 39 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2891 Rontgenite-(Ce), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
An artful ex-Bob Rothenberg mount (also ex Robin Tibbit). The little disc on which he’s mounted the crystals has a diameter of 6 mm. The disc sits atop a cork pedestal affixed to the black...
4575 Tyuyamunite, Marie Mine, Carbon Co., Montana, USA
Bright yellow flowers of tyuyamunite. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD109 Sabinaite, Dawsonite, Sodalite, Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
A really difficult one to photograph. Transparent colourless sabinaite crystal (centre of photo) with white dawsonite and blue sodalite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
7411 JL1902 Synchysite-(Ce), Pyrite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Yellowish pseudohexagonal plates of synchysite-(Ce) with tiny pyrite crystals sprinkled on them. White albite crystals at the base. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite-(Y)). Width of view 3.5mm....
8520 Vanadinite, Descloizite, Calcite, C and B Mine, Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila Co., Arizona, USA
Orange hexagonal vanadinite with greenish brown thin plates of descloizite, with colourless calcite crystals. Calcite exhibits a pale yellow-orange fluorescence. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
ncat RAM3 Cuprite, Mission Mine, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
Deep red chalcotrichite variety of cuprite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RC1329 Creedite, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex Rock Currier Collection #1329. Sharp creedite crystals with a pale lavender hue. Measures 58x30x28mm.
7434 JL1919 Smoky Quartz, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite).
7430 JL3060 Apachite, Socorro Peak, Socorro Peak District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Rob Sielecki for $10.00.
0010 Zemannite, Spiroffite, Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Tiny brown crystals of zemannite and pink spiroffite(?). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images.
7396 JL1899 Anatase, Albite, Aegirine, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
7392 JL1683 Kettnerite, Mixite, Northern Spy Mine, Tintic Mining District, Utah Co., Utah, USA
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Joe Marty.
7385 JL2236 Churchite-(Y), Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co., Alabama, USA
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from Larry Queen for $5.00 at the Queensland Mineralogical Societies Seminar.
7382 JL1686 Weeksite, Carnotite, Anderson Mine (Date Creek project; U-V Mine; Uranium-Air Mine), Date Creek Basin, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Joe Marty.
7381 JL2315 Theisite, Aurichalcite, Tuckerville prospects, Hinsdale Co., Colorado, USA
Type Locality for theisite. Incorrectly labelled as La Plata Co. (refer comment in Mindat). Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from a Swiss Collection for $2.00.
7375 JL1926 Nepheline, Albite, Unknown Pink, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat.
7372 JL3695 Tiptopite, Roscherite, Montgomeryite, Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA
Type Locality for tiptopite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Peter Elliott for $10.00.
7368 JL4977 Schuetteite, Rainbow mine, Brewster Co., Texas, USA
Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
7361 JL3747 Hancockite, Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Peter Elliott at the Ballarat Gemboree for $4.00.
7351 JL3681 Cornubite, Hardshell Mine, Hardshell Gulch, Harshaw, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Peter Elliott for $2.00.
7312 JL3750 Wightmanite, Commercial Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA
Type Locality. Obtained by Joan Lamond from Peter Elliott at the 2000 Ballarat Gemboree for $5.00.
7305 JL3576 Normandite, Poudrette Quarry, Mont St Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Kevin Davy at the Waverley Show in 1995 for $10.00.
5728 Strontiodresserite, Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Type Locality. White crystal sprays.
5723 Lansfordite, Tunnel #1, Nesquehoning Coal Mine, Nesquehoning, Lansford, Carbon Co., Pennsylvania, USA
Type Locality. Parallel group of crystals. Ex Peter Hall Collection.
20070 Wulfenite, Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos, Mexico
Butterscotch tabular crystals, largest 15mm across. Five views of the one specimen, each taken with iPhone 11 Pro Max plus Struman macro lens.
ncat AA6 Adamite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Highly fluorescent under longwave and shortwave. Size 45x30x25mm.
10027 Fluorite, Wulfenite, Barite, Blue Star prospect, South Canyon District, Dona Ana Co., New Mexico, USA
Colourless cubes of fluorite with thin purple edges, colourless fluorite with hematite inclusions/staining, purple cubes, yellow tabular wulfenite, minor white barite. Specimen is 50x36x30mm. Second image is under shortwave ultraviolet light.
20069 Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
Stalactite of tabular orange wulfenite crystals 25mm in longest direction.
20067 Barite, Hematite, Magma Mine (Magma Superior Mine; Magma Copper Mine), Superior, Pioneer Mining District, Pinal Mountains, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Dark tabular barite crystals on a fragment of hematite matrix. Ex George Reimherr Collection. 15mm wide.
ncat AA3 Stilbite, Neer Road, Goble, Columbia Co., Oregon, USA
Larger stilbite crystals with multiple terminations (parallel growth?) on smaller crystals with single terminations. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 80 images. Exact species unknown.
30107 Heulandite-Ca, Mordenite, Rat’s Nest claim (Rat’s Nest mine), Challis, Bay Horse Mining District, Custer Co., Idaho, USA
Pink heulandite with white mordenite from John Cornish’s Rat’s Nest Claim. Acquired from John in Tucson 2007. Measures 46mm wide.
5711 Goethite, Quartz, Robert Mine (Roberts Mine; Kennedy Mine), Cuyuna Range, Crow Wing Co., Minnesota, USA
Reddish brown goethite botryoidal matrix hosting colourless quartz crystals. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 240 images. Ex Lundgren Collection.
5313 Caledonite, Blue Bell Claims (A2″), Baker, San Bernadino Co.,California
Thin vein of light blue caledonite crystals. Width of view 7.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
5710 Copper in Gypsum, Mission pit, Mission complex, San Xavier, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
Arborescent copper included in gypsum. Width of view 7.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Ex Charles Willett Collection.
1447 Fluorite, Natrolite, Rhodochrosite, Aegirine?, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Wedge-shaped reddish-brown rhodochrosite on and with natrolite, colourless tiny cubes of fluorite with small octahedral corners on thin acicular aegirine(?) (see first crop). Unidentified white platy crystals (see second crop). Width of view 7.5mm. Stack...
8515 Adamite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Pale yellow radiating groups that strongly fluoresce green under Convoy longwave light. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 126 images (white light). Stack of 34 images (UV). Ex Malte Bartholomaus.
1005 Spinel, Crazy Sphinx Mine, Helena, Helena Mining District, Lewis and Clark Co., Montana, USA
A single blue octahedral spinel with minor matrix attached. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images. Ex Ted Johnson. Collected in July 1987.
1004 Bixbyite, Topaz, Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
A single black bixbyite with pale pinkish topaz crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images. Ex Ted Johnson. Labelled as from Delta, Utah.
1002 Gold, Eagle Mine, Potomac, Montgomery Co., Maryland, USA
A single grain of gold approximately 1mm wide, mounted on the point of a pin. Label says recovered from the rock run below the Eagle mine. Width 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Label also includes...
8202 M354 Epidote, Laumontite, Pumpellyite, Quartz, Kapaa Quarries, Kailua, Oahu, Honolulu Co., Hawaii, USA
Green prismatic epidote with apparent paler tips, white prismatic flattened crystals of laumontite, and green platelets of pumpellyite. Small colourless quartz crystals. Width 9mm, stack of 78 images (epidote). Width 4.5mm, stack of 30 images...
5688 Sphalerite, Quartz, Dolomite, Lockport, Niagara Co., New York, USA
Zoned yellow and brown sphalerite crystals with colourless rhombs of dolomite and colourless round groups of quartz crystals. A couple of very pale yellow sphalerite crystals exhibit an unusual pinkish fluorescence. Width 9mm. Stack of...
5685 Axinite-(Mn), Iron Cap Mine, Landsman Camp (Landsman group), Aravaipa, Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa Mining District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA
Pale green transparent crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex John Sobolewski. Ex Matt Gibbs.
5684 Azurite, Malachite, Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Azurite roses. Width 11mm. Stack of 130 images. Ex John Sobolewski. Ex Matt Gibbs.
5683 Goldichite, Halotrichite, Dexter No. 7 Mine, Calf Mesa, San Rafael Mining District, Emery Co., Utah, USA
Yellow masses of crystals of the rare potassium sulphate goldichite on crystalline pinkish halotrichite. Type Locality for goldichite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 170 images. Ex John Sobolewski. Ex Matt Gibbs.