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...
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...
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...
Type Locality. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
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...
Type Locality. White nodule 19mm wide. Ex John and Betty Weir.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Type Locality. Straw-coloured felted fibrous mass of yuksporite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black jeppeite with brown resinous priderite in a matrix containing celadonite. Type Locality for both jeppeite and priderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below...
Type Locality. Reddish brown aggregates. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange crystals of jahnsite with black natrodufrenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sliced, polished sample, showing pale blue vein of itoigawaite in jadeite matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Width of specimen 40mm.
Type Locality for both cuspidine and vesuvianite. Dark to olive green vesuvianite with tan cuspidine (not in photo). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1997 as part of a Swiss collection. Width of...
Type Locality. Tiny metallic needles. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for alfredopetrovite. White balls with a greenish-grey tint of alfredopetrovite, minor pink Co-bearing ahlfeldite, minor light blue chalcomenite(?), minor silver penroseite, white patches of felsőbányaite, and thin colourless blades and colourless blocky crystals...
Type Locality. Grains of black cadmoselite with orange-brown sphalerite, and silvery metallic clausthalite? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue fibrous nakauriite. This species forms as vivid fibrous blue crystals on/in brucite-bearing serpentine. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow rhombohedral söhngeite crystals in gallite-germanite-tennantite matrix. Type locality for söhngeite and germanite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Second image (separate specimen) includes a tiny green crystal towards the top, perhaps...
Tiny tan crystals from the Type Locality. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Nimite (Type Locality) is a chlorite group mineral (yellowish-green but can be stained by iron oxides), whilst népouite (bluish-green) is a serpentine group mineral. Ex Jim Ferraiolo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images....
Bluish-green massive falcondoite. Specimen is 30x25x25mm. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
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...
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.
Purple cobaltkoritnigite, pink erythrite balls, thin bladed prismatic silky white hörnesite, pale pink sainfeldite, white weilite, and silky white sprays of picropharmacolite. Type Locality for picropharmacolite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 36 images. Click...
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...
Almost pure pale beige fine-grained mass of tobelite. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Greenish-brown, massive bunnoite on black hausmannite. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Marzio Mamberti in 2017. Type Locality for bunnoite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Dark green gillardite. Light green gaspeite. Colourless gypsum. Gillardite Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 130 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Pale pinkish platy crystals of brizziite on yellow sulphur. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Massive white peisleyite finely intergrown on a μm scale with fluorwavellite. SEM shows that ‘massive peisleyite’ consists of zones of intergrown peisleyite crystals (<3 μm in size) forming mats intermixed with zones of massive ‘wavellite’...
Yellow material labelled as francevillite or carnotite, on davidite-(La). It is most likely carnotite but would need analysis to confirm. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
Type Locality. Cluster of crude black crystals. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Not as aesthetic as those from the better-known occurrence at Aris, Namibia, but this one is from the Type Locality. Tan radiating sprays. Collected by Ole-Thorstein Ljøstad. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images....
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Typical green crystals. Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Obvious pinkish massive and small veins in 1.5cm. Type Locality.
Type Locality. Tiny black-brown inclusions in quartz. Associated with brown-orange almandine-spessartine. Ex Gunnar Färber. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 128 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny piece in a capsule. Type Locality.
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...
Tiny thin beige veins in matrix. Type Locality.
Clusters of snow-white crystals on prismatic orange crocoite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue crystals of domerock (eg: centre of image) with green balls of conichalcite (eg two spheres top right of photo) and white kaolinite. Type Locality. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 26 images. Click...
Pale blue tiny crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images.
Roxbyite inclusions in massive djurleite. 22x11x6mm. Type Locality for roxbyite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria, collected by Neville Cook in 1983. 18mm wide. Labelled as Mount Titiroa but there is doubt about the locality, especially with brown akatoreite present. More likely Akatore Creek....
Type Locality for aldridgeite. Tiny pale blue acicular crystals of aldridgeite. Blue platy crystals of niedermayrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sawn specimen. Grey fine-grained material material with galena and intergrown with other sulphides. Ex Rob Sielecki. Type Locality. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Type locality. Yellow crusts with probable strands of colourless gypsum. Ex Gunnar Färber. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 39 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark olive-green coating of cobaltaustinite with lustrous purple-pink erythrite crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Dome Rock is the Type Locality for cobaltaustinite. Click on the image below...
Pale blue rosettes. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Purplish crystal of henmilite on white olshanskyite. Type Locality for henmilite. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
Type Locality. Tiny pale blue crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 61 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
Colourless flat bladed crystals. Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green bayldonite with colourless prisms of mimetite (see second photo), and coated quartz crystals (not in photos). Type Locality for bayldonite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 60 images (first photo). Width of view 5mm....
Octahedral crystals of faujasite with opal spheres and coating. Exact species of faujasite not known. Ca, Mg and Na recorded (the latter two being Type Locality species). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 51 images....
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.
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.
Type Locality for jeppeite and priderite. Black jeppeite with brown priderite in a lamproite matrix comprised of green celadonite and chlorite pseudomorphs of olivine, pyroxene and leucite. Width of view 24mm. Stack of 49 images....
Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Specimen measures 9x7x3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for davidite-(La). Old German label. Yellow carnotite on massive davidite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
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.
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...
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...
Type Locality for monteponite. Tan smithsonite with yellow and brown monteponite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Extremely rich 8x7x2mm specimen containing abundant inclusions (red arrowed) of brown biraite-(Ce) – an extremely rare silico-carbonate of REE. Biraite contains microscopic inclusions of hydroxylbastnasite-(Ce) and intergrows with its more yellow macro grains well recognisable...
Colourless to tan crusts on bat guano. Type Locality. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
Type Locality. Microscopic green spots on pink rhodonite.
Type Locality. Yellowish-green spots in aegirine syenite.
Yellow patches in matrix. Ōmi is noted as the Type Locality but it is not clear exactly where. Probably Ōmi River rather than this locality.
Type Locality for parasibirskite. C. Loranth photo.
Type Locality C. Loranth photo.
Type Locality for both species. C. Loranth photo.
Type Locality for tvalchrelidzeite, a rare sulphosalt with a specific composition of Hg3SbAsS3. A little red cinnabar too. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
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.
Bright blue crystals of ashburtonite from the Type Locality. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Rob Sielecki in 1998 for $15.00. Click on the...
~1mm buff-coloured crystals. Type Locality. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for norrishite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Type Locality for clinocervantite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Peter Elliott for $5.00.
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
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.
Type Locality. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from a Swiss Collection for $3.00.
Type Locality for tiptopite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Peter Elliott for $10.00.
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Type Locality. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Rob Sielecki for $10.00.
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Type Locality. Obtained by Joan Lamond from Peter Elliott at the 2000 Ballarat Gemboree for $5.00.
Type Locality. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from the Holland Micro Group.
Type Locality. White crystal sprays.
Type Locality. Tiny yellow cubes of this rare thallium species. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Type Locality. Tiny green grains. Ex Peter Hall Collection.
Type Locality. Colourless to white prismatic crystals.
Type Locality. Parallel group of crystals. Ex Peter Hall Collection.
Type Locality. Pale yellow crust of this rare thallium species.
Type Locality. Orange fibrous laths frozen in matrix. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 120 images.
Green transparent sprays of ulrichite with a couple of turquoise balls. Height 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Type Locality.
Orange cubes. Type Locality. Width 6mm. Stack of 90 images.
Pink villiaumite, brown tuperssuatsiaite, white ellingsenite, tiny brown unnamed Fe analogue of zakharovite, green prismatic aegirine, colourless albite. Type Locality for ellingsenite and unnamed Fe analogue of zakharovite. Villiaumite fluoresces red (Convoy LW) and nepheline...
Type Locality. Polished section & analysis of this very rare lead-iron analogue of pentlandite, from the type locality, present as typical submicroscopic grains embedded in massive sulphides. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (4272) obtained in 2007....
Pale blue tufts of cavansite with green crystal of waipouaite(?) on chabazite pseudocubes. Aranga is the Type Locality for waipouaite. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Most crystals of waipouaite are almost black, but many...
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.
Brown barwoodite in matrix, tan to brown fibrous to acicular eggletonite, and green aegirine. Portrait photo height 4.5mm, stack of 80 images. Landscape photo width 9mm, stack of 94 images. Type Locality for barwoodite and...
Feathery apple-green sprays of the rare copper uranium phosphate, ulrichite. 5mm across.
Blebs of purple stichtite enclosing relict chromite in serpentine. One face polished. Type Locality. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Type Locality.
Particles of HOLOTYPE material of Mongolite – extremely rare niobo-silicate known only in two localities worldwide. Sample comes from ex-collection of Dr. E.I. Semenov (Semenovite-(Ce)) obtained by him from the author of the mineral Dr....
Type Locality. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection No. 3252.
Type Locality. Tiny white fibres in a vial. Ex R. C. Erd, 1961.
Type Locality. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $3.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 14 images.
Type Locality for both species
Olive green cubes. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Type Locality.
Black prismatic, dark massive. Calcite fluorescent. Type Locality for blatterite, Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Type Locality, Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Type Locality. Specimen from the same rock as the Type Specimen., Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Type Locality. Collected by Torfinn Kjaernet., Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Type Locality. Ex John Lewis collection.
Type Locality. Tiny brown crystals on calcite, Peter Hall
Type Locality. Colourless crystals. Pink under LWUV. Labelled as Northern Rhodesia.,
Type Locality. Tiny blue crystals., Helmut Braith
Type Locality, Richard Bell
Small capsule of brown fibrous material of this rare manganese borate mineral. Obtained in 1997. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (3345)
Type Locality. A couple of tiny white crystals on matrix. Approved 2015.
Type Locality. Tan crystals on matrix. Approved 2014.
Type Locality. Red patches of ambrinoite with yellow orpiment.
Type locality. Gatehouseite was first found at Iron Monarch in 1987. It occurs as radiating clusters of pale yellow and yellow to pale brownish orange micro crystals with barite and hematite.
Type locality. Greenish yellow acicular sprays. Formerly known as kankite from this locality.
Type locality. Brown patches. Ex Richard Tayler Minerals, Cobham, Surrey
Vintage micromount: A superb 4x3mm display face specimen of Gratonite from its type locality, Cerro do Pasco, Peru. It was once a duplicate in the collection (later bequeathed the Smithsonian) of the late Neal Yedlin....
Type locality. Pale yellow crystals. Ex Dr Fred P. d’Esopo Collection via William Pinch
Type locality. Sky blue crystals
JL0537. Rodger Colling $1
Tiny clusters of olive crystals
Lovely pale blue decrespignyite-(Y) from the Type Locality, Paratoo copper mine, Yunta, Olary Province, South Australia. Specimen is 35mm wide.
