Lots of chalcopyrite crystals on small purple cubes of fluorite and red-fluorescing double-terminated calcite crystals. A few small yellow barite crystals also present. Even smaller pyrite crystals are sprinkled on the barite, and to a...
Stunning chalcopyrite crystals looking hoppered with balls of goethite needles on barite.
Blue-black crystals of covellite on iridescent chalcopyrite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Acquired by Margaret in 1994 from Trevor Dart. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A tiny ball of dark blue covellite crystals, probably covering a chalcopyrite crystal, with prismatic brown dravite, and a vein of pyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view...
A single mounted chalcopyrite crystal, no matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hematite crystals on a hollowed out chalcopyrite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tarnished chalcopyrite crystals. Specimen measures 74x42x40mm. Ex Rory McCann. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded chalcopyrite crystals. Specimen measures 53x34x33mm. Ex Rory McCann. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tarnished crystals on pink-fluorescing calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interesting twinned chalcopyrite crystals without matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of iridescent chalcopyrite crystals on ankerite/dolomite with quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One main twinned and iridescent chalcopyrite crystal with a few smaller ones, with hematite and fibrous cream sepiolite on dolomite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a...
Tiny sharp calcite crystals that look like they may have replaced something else, something vaguely cubic. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2003 from John Haupt. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ankerite with colourless prismatic quartz and minor chalcopyrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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....
Sharp crystals of pale brass arsenopyrite and black sphalerite, and a tiny bit of chalcopyrite. Photo width 9mm. Stack of 50 images (arsenopyrite), and 60 images (sphalerite). Ex Jo Price specimen.
A lot going on here. Orange phantoms in quartz crystals. These are coated in white drusy quartz. Then there are colourless quartz scepters. But not just at the tips. There are tiny little sceptres ALONG...
Tiny white calcite on yellowish calcite, chalcopyrite partially covered by sphalerite, and quartz and colourless fluorite. Video best viewed full screen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Ex Erwin Schuhbauer Collection, Helmut Braith
Pinkish raspite (single crystal), cream chamosite balls, prismatic arsenopyrite, including some partial trillings, colourless fluorite, well-formed chalcopyrite crystals and colourless quartz crystals. Ex Wolfgang Henkel.
Superb twinned chalcopyrite crystals, similar to one found at Mt Lyell in Tasmania. Mindat suggests chalcopyrite is doubtful from this locality.
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
An unusual cluster of chalcopyrite crystals measuring 3.5x3x2cm.
4700 Chalcopyrite, Clara Mine, Germany Sharp crystals of chalcopyrite from the Clara Mine, Wolfach, Germany.
