30082 Amethsyt, Hematite, Keem, Achill Island, County Mayo, Connacht, Ireland
Hematite inclusions in amethyst. Video best viewed full screen.
Hematite inclusions in amethyst. Video best viewed full screen.
Sharp green dioptase crystals on calcite. Ex Roger Colling Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pink-orange chabazite and colourless pearlescent heulandite. Includes old label. Video best viewed full screen.
Pale “fibrous” termination on main crystal. No matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
A tiny calcite crystal is perched on hematite-coated gmelinite in a vugh of analcime. Collected when it was called Fieldwicks Quarry. Video best viewed full screen.
Dull brown (metamict?) zircon crystal. Video best viewed full screen.
Old specimen of largish hemimorphite crystals partially coated by calcite crystals and glued to a glass base. Acquired from Crystal Habit. Ex J. Strange Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
K & M Brown Collection Video best viewed full screen.
Dehne McLaughlin 2/2005 Video best viewed full screen.
Tiny white calcite on yellowish calcite, chalcopyrite partially covered by sphalerite, and quartz and colourless fluorite. Video best viewed full screen.
Yellow bypyramidal crystals of wulfenite with green mimetite balls. Video best viewed full screen.
Sharp cassiterite crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Two separate habits of erythrite, distinct sharp dark purple crystals and small hemispheres of pink crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Blebs of purple stichtite enclosing relict chromite in serpentine. One face polished. Type Locality. Video best viewed full screen.
Typical “Campylite” from this famous occurrence. Video best viewed full screen.
Rhodochrosite epimorphs after ?? With tiny quartz crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Mass of arborescent copper. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Labelled as N’Chwaning II but should be N’Chwaning I according to Mindat. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Type Locality.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorite is white, only picked up under longwave UV. Tiny scalenohedral calcite crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Single twinned crystal. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pale yellow fluorite cubes, blue under longwave UV, with siderite on and in. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Flattened hexagonal dipyramid yellow crystals with pronounced pinacoid faces, and with tiny colourless-white acicular crystals of quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pink rhodochrosite with small white crystals (kutnohorite?). These white crystals are also included in the quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Black groutite on an unknown brown stalactitic mineral with calcite that fluoresces red. Ex Barry Johnson Collection.
Cream bertrandite with small pyrite cubes, black ferberite, and orange-brown rhodochrosite. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Olmiite fluoresces bright red under longwave UV. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Labelled as clinozoisite but according to Mindat, all analysed specimens are epidote.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Some orange fluorescence – cerussite maybe. Video best viewed full screen.
Yellow fluorescence under longwave (indicating the presence of molybdenum). Bluish-white under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorapatite crystals to 14mm across, pale pink fluorescence under longwave with blue rims. No response under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Two small anatase crystals and albite on matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Cave-formation white aragonite. Bright white fluorescence with pale blue crystal tips under longwave, pale pink under shortwave.
Bi-coloured pink and green. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Group of platy hematite crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
White spiky balls of calcite on quartz. Fluorescent pink.
Single twinned crystal on matrix. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Cluster of lustrous sharp crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
A rich specimen of apple-green micro crystals of ulrichite.
A group of parallel oriented sharp black ferberite crystals on a cloudy quartz crystal with a clear tip.
Superb azurite crystal altering from within to malachite.
Yellow crystals of tellurite on platey brownish denningite with silver tellurium.
Greenish-yellow pearly hemispheres
Schmitterite as tiny yellow to cream sprays, emmonsite green
Blocky malachite crystals on cuprite and quartz.
Grey complex dolomite crystals with a single brownish cerussite crystal from the Kintore open cut, Broken Hill. In addition, there are tufts of an unknown white mineral. Candidates could be sepiolite (not recorded at Broken...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
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....
Micro-nugget ~0.83×0.52×0.20 mm of pure, analyticaly confirmed by microprobe Stistaite from placer of Edzhei river. Dark in BSE phase on the SEM image (which is megascopically white) is thin film of Senarmontite, covering surface of...
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
A single blocky hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystal on a bed of prismatic colourless natrolite crystals. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Mick Hately Collection. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
Pseudo after crinoid stem
Very rare location. The site is only available to Chris Jewson. Very little in the literature about this very small mine.
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals. LB Collection.
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals.
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals.
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals.
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals.