Tiny pale baby blue crystals of fluorapatite. Yellow plates of saleeite also present on the specimen. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green dufrénite with brown eosphorite and highly fluorescent saléeite. Ex Pat Sutton. Dufrénite not listed in Mindat, but I assume Pat analysed. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 76 images. Click on the image below...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Thin elongated saléeite crystals, extremely responsive to ultraviolet. Ex Bernie Day collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images (white light) and 14 images (UV image).
Greenish yellow platy crystals that react strongly to Convoy longwave ultraviolet light. Width 9.25mm. Stack of 120 images (white light). Stack of 15 images (UV). Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
Pale yellow fibres of studtite on matrix with bright yellow crusts made up of a mixture of phosphuranylite and saleeite. Studtite is a very unusual uranium species because it is the only known mineral that...
JL1541. Richard Bacon $1
Ex Joan Lamond 3836, received as a gift from Joan Sidaway (Bendigo).
A classic Australian saléeite from the Ranger Mine (Ranger Uranium Mine), Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory. Highly fluorescent as can be seen in the photo below.
