White silky “Cat’s Eye” terminations on vesuvianite crystals that are zoned yellowish-greenish, root-beer brown, and even a purplish-black. Specimen measures 28x15x14mm. Ex Brian Kosnar. Ex Rob Lavinski. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images....
Type Locality for both cuspidine and vesuvianite. Dark to olive green vesuvianite with tan cuspidine (not in photo). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1997 as part of a Swiss collection. Width of...
Cyprine was originally defined as a blue variety of vesuvianite. However, cyprine is now a recognised distinct species. Without analysis, a firm distinction can’t be made. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images.
Dark brown crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Location in Japanese 長野県南佐久郡川上村甲武信鈜山 Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small specimen of manganoan vesuvianite crystals with transparent diopsides. The perfectly terminated vesuvianites have varying colour from intense purple to very pleasing apple yellow-green and some gemmy areas. With exemplary lustre and good light...
Small grey-green grossular garnets with white wollastonite and yellow-orange vesuvianite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White foshagite with yellow-green vesuvianite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Specimen measures 12x8x5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque white radiating crystals with dark green prismatic actinolite and light green vesuvianite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected by Bill Birch and Dermot Henry in 1996. Pictured is purple axinite and colourless danburite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image...
Bi-coloured pink and green. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Doubly terminated crystal in matrix. Ex Bob and Vera Turner Collection, El Paso, Texas. Ex Elena van Schriver. Labelled as Lake Jaco. According to Mindat, this is incorrect.
Labelled Mont Saint Hilaire. Purple Mn-vesuvianite. Green is highly fluorescent.
JL1071 Barraba? Karl Schultz
