1046 Corundum (Sapphire), Anamushi alluvials, Kashiba City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
About 20 1mm gem blue zoned sapphires from a placer deposit.
1016 Gold, Second Broad river, Rutherford Co., North Carolina, USA
Four gold nuggets panned by Charles Willett in Second Broad River, Near Marion,, Rutherford Co., mounted on cork post (standard micromount support).
1013 Gold, Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Georgia, USA
Gold nugget panned by E Lee Wood. Mounted by Charles Willett on a cactus needle.
1000 Whewellite, Gluck Auf Schacht, Burgk, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
1.18x.95x.75cm, ex Freiberg Academy. A rare, old time example of this unusual mineral species from Germany. This specimen host a complex, gemmy, colorless crystal of whewellite on a small amount of matrix. The crystal has...
0987 Pyromorphite, Plumbogummite, Sylvester Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania
Labelled as hinsdalite, but now thought to be plumbogummite from this location.
0979 Emerald, Muzo Mine, Mun. de Muzo, Vasquez-Yacopi Mining District, Boyaca Department, Colombia
Trapiche emerald Type 2 star ~3mm across
0978 Jasper, Loire River alluvials, Amboise, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France
Waterworn pieces of jasper collected by Laura Gadsden in 2013
0971 Chrysothallite, Belloite, Avdoninite, Chlorothionite, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast’, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Another NEW SPECIES from this bizarre geological environment in Kamchatka, chrysothallite occurs as extremely small, bright golden yellow, equant micro crystals perched in scoria vugs, often with olive green belloite and occasionally other rare species...
0963 Stilbite, Chlorite (Corrensite?), Natrolite, Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, USA
Neal Yedlin mount. The label is affixed atop another label on one of the old carboard micromount display cases as were popular in the first half of the 20th Century. Display face measures 1.6×1.6cm. Specimen...
0930 Elbaite, Albite, Muscovite, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Numerous perfectly terminated, colour zoned elbaite crystals artfully positioned on a matrix of albite which is coated by a nicely contrasting carpet of tiny white muscovite crystals. 55x30x25mm.
0905 Tantalite-(Mn), Elbaite, Albite, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Blue cap elbaite with small brown tantalite 47x42x30mm.
0900 Elbaite, Quartz, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Colourless capped green elbaite on side of quartz crystal 44x26x25mm.
0892 Celestine, Beineu-Kyr (Beyneu Kyr), Tuarkyr, Turkmenistan
Colourless crystals on matrix of celestine. Micro specimen of a larger piece (since let go).
0871 Malachite, Pyromorphite, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Northern Territory
Pyromorphite on malachite from The Golden Pocket, collected December 2012 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Specimen measures 80x+60x45mm.
0864 Connellite, La Finosa Mine (Fontana Rossa Mine), Ghisoni, Corte, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France
6x3mm patch of crystalline connellite on the 1.6×1.3cm display face of this micromount. It is mounted on a cork pedestal in a two piece black plastic micromount display case. Specimen is from the collection of...
0843 Albite, Fluorapatite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria
Single iron-stained fluorapatite with three small albite crystals, sitting on orthoclase
0834 Bleasdaleite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria
Tiny clusters of olive crystals
0816 Elbaite, Albite, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Pink cap multi-colour single crystal of elbaite. The crystal is doubly terminated and without any damage. 42 ct and 50x20x16mm.
0808 Elbaite, Lepidolite, Paprok Mine (Papruk Mine; Paprowk Mine), Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province (Nurestan Province; Nooristan Province; Nuristan), Afghanistan
Deep pink rubellite tourmaline cluster with dark green cores. 33 ct and 30x22x20mm.
0807 Elbaite, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Pink cap multi-colour single crystal of elbaite. The crystal is doubly terminated and without any damage. 43.95 ct and 29x13x12mm.
0806 Halotrichite, Flux Mine (Goshen Mine), Flux Gulch, Alum Gulch, Harshaw District, Patagonia Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA
A vintage David Shannon (with label) thumbnail with a 32x22mm display face. It makes for a prize-worthy halotrichite thumbnail in its own right.
0803 Metatorbernite, Heulandite, Ray Mine, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District (Ray District), Dripping Spring Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Said to be uncommon at the Ray Mine, this metatorbernite is beautiful and hardly even looks hydrated enough to be metatorbernite. Perched upon a bed of clear white heulandite crystals, this all makes for a...
0794 Xanthoconite, Proustite, Dyscrasite, O’Brien Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Vintage micro. This specimen was part of the collection of micromount Hall of Famer (ind. 1997) Bill Henderson. According to Henderson’s label, Neal Yedlin, the most renowned of all micromounters, originally placed it into circulation,...
0787 Seamanite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Very pale pink prismatic crystals
0783 Calcite, Agate Creek, Etheridge Shire, Queensland
Cluster of calcite crystals from inside a geode
0775 Calcite, 6 Level, CSA Mine, Cobar, New South Wales
Small cluster of calcite crystals, no matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0753 Barite, Moralana, South Australia
This site is apparently extinct. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
