Off-white rosettes and platey crystals of epididymite with green aegirine needles. Width of view 8.63. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Specimen measures 38x37x30mm and is shown under white light, longwave UV, medium wave UV and shortwave UV.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
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...
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...
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...
Single black crystal with greenish patches.
Sodalite orange fluorscence, Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Sodalite orange fluorscence, Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Washington Pass is the Type Locality for Zektzerite. Collected by Bruce Kelley, 2014,
Washington Pass is the Type Locality for Zektzerite. Collected by Bruce Kelley, 2014,
Comes from a single find made about 20 years ago (~1995). This is a lovely group of 5mm natrolite prisms perched on slender black aegirine crystals. Very aesthetic from any side, and an excellent example...
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Type locality for arisite-(Ce) which is pale pinkish thin hexagonal plates. Tuperssuatsiaite is brownish-red sprays
White hexagonal plates. Other species present (maybe fluorapatite, analcime, albite?). Collected in 1994.
