Pale bluish-green fibrous anthophyllite on green chlorite. Calcite crystals in some vughs. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Chlorite alone image 3mm and 80. Click on the images below for a higher resolution...
White albite, green epidote, and colourless thomsonite, with tiny grey-green chlorite crystals. A vugh on the “bottom” of the specimen contains some nice calcite crystals that fluoresce red under shortwave UV. Width of view 6mm....
Black magnetite octahedra, some with traces of chlorite on their faces. Some magnetite crystals are completely encased in chlorite. Blocky orthoclase crystals form part of the cavity lining. Brown sheaf or club-shaped siderite, yellow hexagonal...
Rhombohedral siderite (after calcite?), chabazite-Na (herschelite), and a needle of apatite with orange chlorite grown on it (in front of siderite). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for...
Tiny purple octahedral fluorite crystalson albite with greenish chlorite, white prismatic crystals of natrolite(?), colourless quartz, and brown pyrophanite. Also on specimen magnetite, Ex Art Smith Collection (collected in 1979). Width of view 11.5mm. Stack...
Orange coffin-shaped heulandite crystals coating the inside of a vesicle in basalt, from a locality first discovered in the 1960s. Also present is rosettes of green chlorite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria.
Epidote and chlorite as inclusions
A group of golden titanite crystals, the front one being 2mm across, from Plattenkogel north slope, Anlauf valley, Gastein valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria. Other species present include adularia, a chlorite-group mineral, and albite.
