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"A " Mineral Photos (221)
Abelsonite Image

Images: Abelsonite

Comments: Purplish red crystal fragment of
abelsonite.
Location: Green River formation, Uintah
County, Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1.8
mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Abernathyite Image

Images: Abernathyite

Comments: Clear, yellow, crystalline abernathyite
crystal group.
Location: Temple Mountain, Ev ery County, Utah,
USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Abhurite Image

Images: Abhurite

Comments: Pearly translucent pale yellow
crystalline abhurite.
Location: Shipwreck off Hidra, Vest-Agder,
Norway. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to
Mineral Species

Acanthite Image

Images: Acanthite

Comments: Pseudo cubic acanthite
crystals on matrix.
Location: Rayas mine, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Scale: Size Not Given.

Acanthite Image

Images: Acanthite Argentite

Comments: Dark metallic acanthite crystals
up to 3 mm. Most of the crystals are a cubic
habit, so the acanthite is pseudomorphing
the original argentite.
Location: San Juan de Rayas Mine (Rayas
Mine), Guanajuato, Mun. de Guanajuato,
Guanajuato, Mexico. Scale: 18x12x12 mm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Acetamide Image

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Images: Acetamide

Comments: White crystalline crust of
acetamide on black shale.
Location: Shamokin, Northumberland
County, Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Actinolite Image

Images: Actinolite

Comments: Sharp, floater actinolite crystal with a
slight green tint.
Location: Namibian dessert, more or less due West
of Uis, Namibia. Scale: 8.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Adamite Image

Images: Adamite

Comments: Sprays of adamite with intense
color and well defined crystals which
stand out from the matrix.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: 5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Adamite Image

Images: Adamite Cryptomelane

Comments: Black, rounded balls of
cryptomelane and purple, transparent
adamite.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Druango,
Mexico. Scale: Not Given.

Adamsite-(Y) Image

Images: Adamsite-(Y)

Comments: Sprays of adamsite-(Y) crystals
on matrix.
Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Aegirine Image

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Images: Aegirine

Comments: Fully-terminated, prismatic crystal
of aegirine.
Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Scale: Crystal size 2.8 cm.
© John Veevaert

Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Catapleiite

Comments: Clear crystals of catapleiite
with an attached 1.8 cm prismatic crystal
of dark aegirine.
Scale: 3.5 x 2.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Henrymeyerite

Comments: A nearly black crystal of
henrymeyerite with dark green prismatic
crystals of aegirine in quartz.
County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.

Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Lourenswalsite

Comments: Light brownish rosettes of
lourenswalsite with dark green crystals of
aegirine and white feldspar.
Location: Diamond Jo quarry, Magnet
Cove, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas, USA.
Scale: Picture size 3 mm.

Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Pectolite

Comments: White, cottony pectolite tufts
with acicular aegirine.
Location: 3M quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.

Aegirine Image

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Images: Aegirine Calcioburbankite

Comments: Tan crystal spray of
calcioburbankite on dark green aegirine.
Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Manganotychite

Comments: Pale rose-tan granular
manganotychite with black aegirine prism.
Location: Lov ozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Aegirine-augite Image

Images: Aegirine-augite Dellaventuraite

Comments: View in plane-polarized light of
reddish brown dellaventuraite (OPTK) as
an overgrowth on purple-gray aegirine-
augite (AE-AG) in a matrix of rounded
quartz (QZ) with minor rounded (high relief)
apatite grains. (AmMin 90:306).
Location: Kajlidongri manganese mine,
Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Scale: Picture size 2.5 cm.
© American Mineralogist

Aenigmatite Image

Images: Aenigmatite

Comments: Dark, crystal prism of
aenigmatite in white albite with
astrophyllite.
Location: Mount Eveslogchorr, Khibiny
Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,
Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Aerinite Image

Images: Aerinite

Comments: Pale blue massive aerinite.
Location: Cripple Creek, Teller County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Aerugite Image

Images: Aerugite

Comments: Small dark green crystals of
aerugite.
Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.

Aeschynite-(Y) Image

Images: Aeschynite-(Y)

Comments: Square crystal of
aeschynite-(Y) on a matrix of albite, quartz
and muscovite.
Location: Val. Pellice, Piedmont, Italy.
Scale: Crystal Size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert

Afghanite Image

Images: Afghanite

Comments: Parallel grouping of three,
terminated, blue, opaque afghanite crystals set
in matrix.
Location: Sar-eSang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.
Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Afwillite Image

Images: Afwillite

Comments: Crystallized afwillite prisms.
Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari
Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Agardite-(Ca) Image

Images: Agardite-(Ca)

Comments: Green, acicular sprays of
agardite (agardite-Ca?) on matrix.
Location: Big Three mine, Silver Peak,
Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA. Scale:
Size Not Given.

Agardite-(Y) Image

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Images: Agardite-(Y)

Comments: Fibrous to fine acicular green
micro crystals of agardite-(Y) (chlorotile) to
1mm.
Location: Clara mine, Wolfach,
Schwarzwald, Baden-W?rttemberg,
Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Agrellite Image

Images: Agrellite Eudialyte

Comments: Tan agrellite grain, with red
eudialyte.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Agrinierite Image

Images: Agrinierite

Comments: Golden yellow, transparent
agrinierite crystals.
Location: Margnac mine, Compreignac,
Haute-Vienne, France. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Aheylite Image

Images: Aheylite

Comments: Colorless radiating spray of
aheylite crystals.
Location: Huanuni, Bolivia. Scale: Picture
size 3 mm.

Ahlfeldite Image

Images: Ahlfeldite

Comments: Green encrustations of
ahlfeldite on matrix.
Location: Mina El Dragon, Potosi, Bolivia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Aikinite Image

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Images: Aikinite

Comments: Gray metallic prismatic crystals
of aikinite and crystalline quartz.
Location: Mike Mine, San Juan County,
Mineral Species

Aikinite Image

Images: Aikinite Berryite

Comments: Fine-grained, gray, metallic
granular berryite with silvery, metallic,
prismatic aikinite.
Colorado. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ajoite Image

Images: Ajoite

Comments: Bluish, bladed ajoite crystals.
Location: New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Ajoite Image

Images: Ajoite Shattuckite

Comments: Dark blue, tabular crystals of
shattuckite on light blue ajoite.
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Ajoite Image

Images: Ajoite

Comments: Aqua blue, long bladed
crystals or ajoite on matrix.
Location: New Cornelia mine, Pima Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.75 mm.

Akaganeite Image

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Images: Akaganeite

Comments: Rusty brown coating of
akaganeite on rock.
Location: Wells, Elko County, Nevada, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Akatoreite Image

Images: Akatoreite Rhodonite

Comments: Brown akatoreite in pink
rhodonite.
Location: Akatore Creek, Eastern Otago
Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Akdalaite Image

Images: Akdalaite

Comments: Crystalline white akdalaite.
Location: Bulla Island, Caspian Sea,
Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Akermanite Image

Images: Akermanite

Comments: White translucent crystals
akermanite.
Location: Lago de Vico, Viterbo, Lazio,
Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Akhtenskite Image

Images: Akhtenskite

Comments: Dark gray grains of akhtenskite
with brown superficial coating.
Location: Akhtenskoye Deposit,
Chelyabinsk District, Urals, Russia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Akimotoite Image

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Images: Akimotoite

Comments: Electron micrograph of
akimotoite (Ak) as columnar grains.
Aggregates of akimotoite are adjacent to
a large clinoenstatite grain (Cen) with (100)
twin lamallae. (AmMin 84:268).
Location: Shock-metamorphosed Tenham
chondrite. Scale: See Image.

Akrochordite Image

Images: Akrochordite Eveite

Comments: Micro crystals (to about
0.75mm) of very pale grayish green eveite
in tiny vug with light pink akrochordite.
Co-Type specimen & type locality.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: 13x10x4 mm.

Aktashite Image

Images: Aktashite

Comments: Metallic gray grain of aktashite
in quartz gangue.
Location: Moctezuma, Mun. de
Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Alabandite Image

Images: Alabandite

Comments: Dark gray stalactitic
alabandite.
Location: Broken Hill Proprietary Mine,
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Alabandite Image

Images: Alabandite Daubreelite

Comments: Daubreelite (D), bright metallic
white, with alabandite (A) (dull yellow) as
inclusions in a polished section of an
achondrite meteorite.
Location: Norton County, Kansas. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Alacranite Image

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Images: Alacranite

Comments: Red crystals of alacranite.
Location: Mine Wilmsdorfer Schacht,
Possendorf near Dresden, Sachsen,
Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Alamosite Image

Images: Alamosite

Comments: White alamosite crystal group.
John Schneider Collection.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 3.5x3x2
cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Albite Image

Images: Albite Plagioclase

Comments: Colorless, lustrous blocky albite
crystals to 3 cm in size with a thick dusting
of micaceous green micro chlorite.
Location: Acushnet Quarry, Bristol Co.,
Massachussetts, USA. Scale: 17 x 15 x 7.5
cm matrix.
© Dan Weinrich

Albite Image

Images: Albite Plagioclase

Comments: Crystal group of bladed albite
(variety cleav elandite) crystals.
Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 7.4 x 5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Albite Image

Images: Albite Schorl

Comments: Several jet-black lustrous
crystals of schorl perched on a white albite
matrix.
Location: Shengus, Gilgit, Pakistan. Scale: 4
x 3 x 2 cm.
© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Algodonite Image

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Images: Algodonite

Comments: Massive specimen of dark
algodonite with vuggy areas filled with
minute crystals.
Location: Algodones Mines, Coqu?mbo
Province, Chile. Scale: 4x3x3 cm.

Algodonite Image

Images: Algodonite Koutekite

Comments: Silv ery metallic koutekite with
darker gray algodonite.
Location: Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw
County, Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Aliettite Image

Images: Aliettite

Comments: Tan to brownish pseudomorph
of aliettite after wollastonite.
Location: Ingichka, Uzbekistan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Allabogdanite Image

Images: Allabogdanite Schreibersite

Comments: Relict grain of allabogdanite
crystal (ABG) surrounded by schreibersite
rim (SCHR) in plessite matrix (PL). Black
phase is a secondary Fe-Ni-hydroxide.
Backscattered electron image. (AmMin,
87:1249).
Location: Onello iron meteorite (high-Ni
ataxite) Onello Riv er basin, Aldan shield,
Saha (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Scale bar 10
µ-m.

Allactite Image

Images: Allactite

Comments: Brownish red allactite crystals.
Location: Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex
County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Allanite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Allanite-(Ce)

Comments: Dual views of the same 0.8 cm Jet
black allanite-(Ce) on quartz.
Location: Tiro Estrella Mine, El Capitan Mts., Lincoln
Co., New Mexico, USA. Scale: Crystal Size 0.8 cm.
© John Veevaert

Allanite-(La) Image

Images: Allanite-(La)

Comments: A single prismatic allanite-(La) crystal
with small, lustrous black magnetite crystals, all on
a matrix of hedenbergite.
Location: Mina Nueva Vizcaya, Sierra Gorda,
Burguillos del Cerro, Badajoz, Spain. Scale: Crystal
size 0.9 x 0.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Allanite-(Y) Image

Images: Allanite-(Y)

Comments: Dark brown allanite-(Y) in
matrix.
Location: Boden, Marienberg District,
Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 10 mm.

Allargentum Image

Images: Allargentum

Comments: Irregular crystalline aggregate
grain of allargentum.
Location: Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein
area, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Specimen size 43 mm.

Alleghanyite Image

Images: Alleghanyite

Comments: Massiv e, brown alleghanyite
with white calcite.
Location: Parker Shaft, Franklin, Sussex
County, New Jersey. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Alleghanyite Image

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Images: Alleghanyite Galaxite

Comments: Black granular galaxite with
reddish alleghanyite and white kutnohorite.
Location: Bald Knob, Alleghany County,
North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Allophane Image

Images: Allophane

Comments: Blue, cuprian, botryoidal
allophane on matrix.
Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Himmelfahrt
Mine, Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,

Alluaudite Image

Images: Alluaudite

Comments: Nearly pure crystalline dark
green brown mass of alluaudite.
Location: Warusenge Pegmatite, Buranga,
Rwanda. Scale: Size Not Given.
© John Veevaert

Alluaudite Image

Images: Alluaudite Heterosite

Comments: Purple crystalline heterosite
with yellow coatings of alluaudite.
Location: Palermo Mine, North Groton,
Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Almandine Image

Images: Almandine

Comments: Two reddish brown crystals of
almandine on matrix.
Location: Fanny Gorge mine, Spruce Pine,
Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA.

Almandine Image

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Images: Almandine Hypersthene

Comments: Dark green blocky crystals
hypersthene with reddish almandine.
Location: Barton Garnet Mine, North Creek,
Warren County, Adirondacks, New York,
USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Alsakharovite-Zn Image

Images: Alsakharovite-Zn

Comments: Light brown crystal fragment of
alsakharovite-Zn.
Location: Lepkhe Nelm Mountain,
Lov ozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:
Crystal size 2 mm.

Alstonite Image

Images: Alstonite

Comments: Transparent alstonite crystals.
Location: Hexham, Northumberland,
England. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Altaite Image

Images: Altaite

Comments: Bronze yellow metallic altaite
crystals.
Location: Sonora, Tuolumne County,
California, USA. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Altaite Image

Images: Altaite Mattagamite
Tellurantimony

Comments: Silvery metallic intergrowths of
mattagamite with tellurantimony and
altaite.
Location: Mattagami Lake Mine, Quebec,
Mineral Species

Altaite Image

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Images: Altaite Maslovite Froodite

Comments: Reflected light
photomicrograph of maslovite (M), froodite
(F), and altaite (A), in chalcopyrite matrix.
Location: Oktyabr'skoye Mine, Norilsk,
Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Althausite Image

Images: Althausite

Comments: Grayish to maroon colored
and opaque crystals of althausite on
matrix.
Location: Overntjern, Buskerud, Norway.
Scale: 3.2 x 5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Aluminite Image

Images: Aluminite

Comments: Snow-white, very pure nodules
of aluminite.
Location: Newhaven, Sussex, Great Britain.
Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Aluminoceladonite Image

Images: Aluminoceladonite Muscovite

Comments: Large, 1cm, purple crystals of
muscovite/leucophyllite, (var. alurgite
which is an intermediate composition to
muscovite and leucophyllite
(aluminoceladonite).
Location: Ultevis, Sweden. Scale:
5x3.5x3cm.

Aluminocopiapite Image

Images: Aluminocopiapite

Comments: Small yellow crystals of
aluminocopiapite.
Location: Willi Agatz Mine, Dresden, Saxony,

Aluminoferrotschermakite Image

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Images: Aluminoferrotschermakite
Tuperssuatsiaite

Comments: Golden acicular
tuperssuatsiaite crystal spray with clear
apophyllite and dark green
aluminoferrotschermigite.
Location: Aris Quarry, Khomas, Namibia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Aluminum Image

Images: Aluminum

Comments: Native aluminum in a polished
section.
Location: From a mud volcano in the
Caspian Sea near Baku, Azerbaidzhan.
Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.

Alumohydrocalcite Image

Images: Alumohydrocalcite

Comments: Pinkish-white globular
aggregates of alumohydrocalcite.
Location: Carriere de Richelle, Vise,
Belgium. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Alumoklyuchevskite Image

Images: Alumoklyuchevskite

Comments: Very small olive-greenish
prismatic crystals of alumoklyuchev skite.
Location: Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka,
Russia. Scale: Sample size 1.8 x 1.5 mm.

Alunite Image

Images: Alunite

Comments: Octahedral clear to tan tinted
crystals of alunite.
Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah,
Mineral Species

Alunogen Image

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Images: Alunogen Jarosite

Comments: Colorless to white, tabular
crystals alunogen on reddish jarosite.
Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera
district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Alunogen Image

Images: Alunogen Metavoltine

Comments: Yellow metavoltine with white
alunogen.
Location: Carola Mine, Freital, near
Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Alunogen Image

Images: Alunogen Voltaite

Comments: Dark greenish-black crystals of
voltaite on white alunogen.
Location: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden,

Amarantite Image

Images: Amarantite

Comments: Amber-like, long, prismatic,
bright red amarantite crystals.
Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,
Chile. Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.

Amber Image

Images: Amber

Comments: Rectangular specimen of dark,
transparent amber with a large spider
entombed inside.
Location: Bitterfeld, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
14x10x10 mm.

Amblygonite Image

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Images: Amblygonite

Comments: Grayish, massiv e amblygonite
from the type locality.
Location: Chursdorf, Penig, Chemnitz,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 35
mm.

Amesite Image

Images: Amesite

Comments: White, massive amesite
between quartz.
Location: Missoula, Missoula County,
Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Amesite Image

Images: Amesite Titanite

Comments: Green titanite (sphene) crystals
on purple chromamesite (clinochlore?).
Location: Saranovskaya Deposit, Middle
Ural Mountains, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Amicite Image

Images: Amicite

Comments: White amicite crystals in
massive amicite.
Location: Howenegg, Hegau, Baden-
Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Aminoffite Image

Images: Aminoffite

Comments: Clear, pyramidal aminoffite
crystal.

Ammonioalunite Image

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Images: Ammonioalunite Kaolinite

Comments: White chalky ammonioalunite
on darker kaolinite.
Location: Schoeller Mine, Kladno,
Stredocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Analcime Image

Images: Analcime

Comments: Brownish yellow transparent
analcime crystals.
Location: Guam. Scale: Size Not Given.

Analcime Image

Images: Analcime Serandite Natrolite

Comments: Orange-red, blocky serandite with
white, blocky natrolite and white, equant grains
of analcime.
Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Canada. Scale: 4 x 3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Analcime Image

Images: Analcime Behoite

Comments: Gray-white microcline crystals
up to 4 cm coated with overgrowth of
analcime 18 mm diameter, black aegirine
up to 25 mm and most notable, a pale
pink behoite.
Location: Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry;
Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mt Saint-
Hilaire, Rouville Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: 5x4x3 cm.

Anandite Image

Images: Anandite Gillespite

Comments: Black micaceous anandite
with dark red gillespite.
Location: Esquire No. 7 Claim, Big Creek,
Fresno County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

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Anapaite Image

Images: Anapaite

Comments: Specimen of anapaite on
limonite. There are two distinct crystal forms
of anapaite - both bladed or tabular and
spiky (See inset images).
Location: Taman Peninsula, Black Sea,
Russia. Scale: 6 x 5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Anatase Image

Images: Anatase

Comments: anatase with calcite.
Location: Hardangervidda, Norway, (1999). Scale:
1.5 x 3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Ancylite-(Ce) Image

Images: Ancylite-(Ce)

Comments: Pinkish brown ancylite-(Ce)
blades.
Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: Size Not Given.

Andalusite Image

Images: Andalusite

Comments: Wine colored andalusite
associated with mica.
Location: Sierra Albarrana, Cordoba,
Spain. Scale: 4.5 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Andersonite Image

Images: Andersonite

Comments: Yellow crusts of andersonite in
sandstone.
Location: Atomic King mine, San Juan
County, Utah, USA. Scale: 4x3x2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Andersonite Image

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Images: Andersonite

Comments: Veins of bright yellowish green,
andersonite in sandstone. The fluorescence
of this mineral is noticeable under ambient
office lighting plus a UV lamp.
Location: Atomic King Mine, Cane Creek
Canyon, Grand County, Utah, USA. Scale:
Specimen size 6 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Andesine Image

Images: Andesine Plagioclase

Comments: Translucent andesine crystal
twin.
Location: Maeyama Ueda shi, Nagano,
Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Andorite Image

Images: Andorite

Comments: Metallic, prismatic andorite
crystal.
Location: Baie Sprie (Felsobanya),
Maramures, Romania. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Andorite Image

Images: Andorite Ferrokesterite

Comments: Small, tetragonal crystal of
gray ferrokesterite (circled in thumbnail)
attached on the surface of a larger
striated andorite specimen.
Location: San Jose mine, Oruro, Bolivia.
Scale: Crystal size 0.2 mm.
© John Veevaert

Andradite Image

Images: Andradite Clinochlore

Comments: Transparent topazolite, the
yellow variety of andradite on clinochlore.
Location: Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria
District, San Benito County. California, USA.
© Fabre Minerals

Andradite Image

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Images: Andradite

Comments: Andradite (var. Demantoid)
Garnet.
Location: Namgar mine, Erongo Mts.
Namibia. Scale: 3.5 x 3.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Anduoite Image

Images: Anduoite

Comments: Backscattered electron Image
of euhedral anduoite crystal enclosed in
chromian spinel containing lamellae of
ilmenite. Image on left is large view, image
on right is detailed view. (CanMin, v 39, p
596).
Location: Chromitite ore, Kapitanov
deposit, Ukrainian Shield, Ukraine. Scale:
See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Angelellite Image

Images: Angelellite

Comments: Back microcrystalline
angelellite on matrix.
Location: Cerro Pululus Tin Mine, Jujuy,
Argentina. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Anglesite Image

Images: Anglesite

Comments: Crystalline anglesite with minor
duftite. The crystal at the top of the
specimen is partially doubly terminated.
Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.
© John Veevaert

Anglesite Image

Images: Anglesite

Comments: White anglesite crystals with
dark gray posnjackite.
Location: (1st Oxidation Zone), Tsumeb,
Namibia. Scale: 8.5 x 5 x 4 cm.
© John Schneider

Anhydrite Image

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Images: Anhydrite

Comments: Several terminated groups of
light blue anhydrite crystals in parallel
growth.
Location: Naica. Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale:
9.5 x 8 x 6 cm.

Ankerite Image

Images: Ankerite Sphalerite Dickite

Comments: White, rhombohedral crystals of
ankerite and dark gray, metallic sphalerite
on beige dickite.
Location: Prego mine, Kladno, Czech
Rebublic. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Annabergite Image

Images: Annabergite

Comments: Green spray of annabergite
crystals.
Location: Laurium, Greece. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Annite Image

Images: Annite

Comments: Bottle-green manganoan
annite fragment.
Location: Thiemendorf, K?nigshain,
Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 2.5 mm.

Anorthite Image

Images: Anorthite Plagioclase

Comments: Opaque white crystal of anorthite
with dark brown solidified lava coating.
Location: Miyake-jima, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Anorthoclase Image

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Images: Anorthoclase

Comments: Two white crystals of
anorthoclase (possibly mislabeled and
actually anorthite.
Location: Kusukidani, Wakayama
Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu island,
Japan. Scale: 15x14x6 mm.

Ansermetite Image

Images: Ansermetite

Comments: Environmental scanning
electron microscope image of the
ansermetite crystals. (CanMin, v 41, p
1425).
Location: Fianel, Val Ferrera, Eastern Swiss
Alps. Scale: Scale bar 20 µ-m.

Anthoinite Image

Images: Anthoinite Cerotungstite-(Ce)
Ferberite

Comments: Yellow cerotungstite-(Ce), with
black ferberite veins and whitish anthoinite.
Location: Bugarama, Rwanda. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Anthoinite Image

Images: Anthoinite Mpororoite

Comments: White chalky massive
mpororoite with brown anthoinite.
Location: Kara Mine, Tasmania, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Anthophyllite Image

Images: Anthophyllite Biotite

Comments: Fibrous mass of anthophyllite
as a shell around biotite.
Location: Hermanov, Sev erocesky, Czech
Republic. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Antigorite Image

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Images: Antigorite

Comments: Yellowish green, fibrous
antigorite.
Location: East Broughon, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: 22x10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Antigorite Image

Images: Antigorite Chromite

Comments: Chromite veins in yellow to
green antigorite with picrolite, chromian
antigorite and dolomite (polished section).
Location: Wood's Mine, near 'Texas', Little
Britain Township, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Antimony Image

Images: Antimony

Comments: Massive pure native antimony.
Location: Arechuybo, Chihuahua, Mexico.
© John Veevaert

Antimony Image

Images: Antimony Valentinite

Comments: Beige v alentinite crystals with
red kermesite in a matrix of gray, massiv e
antimony.
Location: South-Ham Antimony mine, Lake
Nicolet, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture
Size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Antlerite Image

Images: Antlerite

Comments: Dark green crystals of antlerite
on sandstone.
Location: Ray mine, Ray, Pinal County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.

Antlerite Image

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Images: Antlerite Metaschoepite

Comments: Yellow crystals of
metaschoepite with green antlerite.
Location: P?hla-Tellerh?user Gallery, P?hla,
Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.

Apachite Image

Images: Apachite

Comments: Blue crusts of apachite on
skarn rock.
Location: Christmas Mine, near Hayden,
Gila County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Apachite Image

Images: Apachite

Comments: Spherical crystals 0.2mm of
blue apachite as grape-like botryodal
aggregates.
Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,
USA. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.

Apatite Image

Images: Apatite Carbonate-fluorapatite

Comments: Pink, colliform carbonate-
fluorapatite on matrix.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer
County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Apatite Image

Images: Apatite Fluorapatite Beryl
Muscovite

Comments: Pink crystals of fluorapatite
with pale blue beryl (aquamarine) on
books of muscovite crystals.
Location: Nagar area, Gilgit district,
Northern Areas, Pakistan. Scale: 3 x 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Apatite Image

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Images: Apatite Robertsite Carbonate-
hydroxylapatite

Comments: Black crystals of Robertsite on
pink carbonate-hydroxylapatite.
County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Aphthitalite Image

Images: Aphthitalite

Comments: Aphthitalite crystals.
Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino
County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Apjohnite Image

Images: Apjohnite

Comments: White crystalline mass of
apjohnite.
Location: Terlano, Bolzano, Italy. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Aplowite Image

Images: Aplowite Villiaumite

Comments: Pink aplowite laths intergrown
with lustrous, red, massive villiaumite.
Location: Mt Rasvumchorr, Khibiny Massif,
Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',
Northern Region, Russia. Scale: 20x19x18
mm.

Apophyllite Image

Images: Apophyllite Hydroxyapophyllite
Stilbite

Comments: 3 cm. pink-colored rosette of
stilbite and clear "apophyllite" (probably
hydroxyapophyllite) in an amygdaloidal
cav ity.
Location: Aurangabad District, Jalgaon,
India. Scale: Specimen size 6 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Apophyllite Image

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Images: Apophyllite Fluorapophyllite
Stilbite

Comments: Doubly terminated, very clear
and perfect fluorapophyllite with white
stilbite.
Location: Jalgaon, India. Scale: 4 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Apophyllite Image

Images: Apophyllite Hydroxyapophyllite

Comments: Crystal cluster of tabular
hydroxyapophyllite.
South Africa. Scale: 2.5 x 2.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Apophyllite Image

Images: Apophyllite Kinoite

Comments: Crystals of dark blue kinoite
and clear apophyllite.
Location: Christmas Mine, Gila County,
© John Veevaert

Apophyllite Image

Images: Apophyllite

Comments: Mint green to clear apophyllite
flat top crystals in a circular stellate cluster
on pink stilbite.
Location: Rahuri, Maharashtra State, India.
Scale: Specimen size 10 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Apuanite Image

Images: Apuanite

Comments: Black tabular crystal of
apuanite on matrix.
Location: Buca della Vena Mine,
Stazzema, Versilia Valley, Apuan Alps,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.

Aragonite Image

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Images: Aragonite

Comments: Clear, crystalline aragonite prism.
Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale:
Size Not Given.

Aramayoite Image

Images: Aramayoite Miargyrite

Comments: Aramayoite is present as large
thin plates (blue iridescence) to 1mm in
massive gray miargyrite matrix.
Location: Julcani Silver mine,
Huancav elica Dept., Peru. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Aravaipaite Image

Images: Aravaipaite

Comments: Colorless thin tabular crystals
of aravaipaite.
Location: Grand Reef Mine, Aravaipa
District, Graham County, Arizona, USA.

Arcanite Image

Images: Arcanite

Comments: Opaque oliv e-green mottled-
colored arcanite.
Location: Tunnel #1, Santa Ana Tin Mine,
Orange County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Archerite Image

Images: Archerite Biphosphammite

Comments: Buff-colored biphosphammite
with white archerite crusts.
Location: Cockelbiddy Cav e, Western
Australia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Arctite Image

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Images: Arctite

Comments: Clear glassy crystalline arctite
with magenta villiaumite in pegmatite.
Location: Vuonnemiok River, Khibiny Massif,
Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ardealite Image

Images: Ardealite

Comments: Ardealite powder.
Location: Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay,
Western Australia, Australia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Ardennite Image

Images: Ardennite

Comments: Yellow ardennite crystals in
white quartz matrix.
Location: Salmch?teau, Vielsalm, Stavelot
Massif, Ardennes, Luxembourg Province,
Belgium. Scale: 30x20x17 mm.

Arfvedsonite Image

Images: Arfvedsonite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of black
arfvedsonite in white feldspar matrix.
Location: Kangerdluarsuk, Il?maussaq
Massif, Greenland. Scale: 8x3x3 cm.

Arfvedsonite Image

Images: Arfvedsonite Seidozerite

Comments: Dark red translucent
seidozerite with v itreous, black
arfvedsonite.
Location: Seidozero Lake, Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Argentite Image

Images: Argentite Acanthite

Comments: Dark metallic acanthite crystals
up to 3 mm. Most of the crystals are a cubic
habit, so the acanthite is pseudomorphing
the original argentite.
Location: San Juan de Rayas Mine (Rayas
Mine), Guanajuato, Mun. de Guanajuato,
Guanajuato, Mexico. Scale: 18x12x12 mm.

Argentojarosite Image

Images: Argentojarosite

Comments: Yellow crystalline massive
argentojarosite.
Location: Eagle Mine, Juab County, Utah,
Mineral Species

Argentopyrite Image

Images: Argentopyrite

Comments: Metallic, twinned
argentopyrite grain on matrix.
Location: St. Andreasberg, Harz, Lower
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.

Argyrodite Image

Images: Argyrodite

Comments: Lead gray metallic aggregate
of argyrodite crystals.
Location: Veta Galufa, Colquechaca,
Potosi Dept., Bolivia. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Argyrodite Image

Images: Argyrodite

Comments: Gray, metallic, massiv e,
crystalline argyrodite ore.
Location: Himmelsf?rst mine, Brand-
Erbisdorf bei Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen.

Arhbarite Image

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Images: Arhbarite

Comments: Deep blue, smooth, botryoidal
aggregate of arhbarite in a 2mm vug
associated with atacamite.
Location: El Guanaco mine, Atacama, Tal
Tal(?), Chile. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Armenite Image

Images: Armenite

Comments: Translucent, white armenite
crystals.
Location: Simplon Pass, Brig, Valais,
Switzerland. Scale: Size Not Given.

Armstrongite Image

Images: Armstrongite

Comments: Tan massive armstrongite
aggregate in granite.
Location: Khan-Bogdo Massif, Gobi,
Mongolia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Arrojadite Image

Images: Arrojadite

Comments: Brownish to clear crystals of
arrojadite on matrix.
Location: Big Fish river area, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Arrojadite Image

Images: Arrojadite

Comments: Tabular, diamond shaped
golden yellow crystal of arrojadite.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.
Scale: Crystal to 5mm..

Arsendescloizite Image

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Images: Arsendescloizite

Comments: Spherical aggregates of
arsendescloizite crystals.
Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.

Arsenic Image

Images: Arsenic

Comments: Bright, metallic, gray,
crystalline aggregate or arsenic.
Location: Niederschlema, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Arsenic Image

Images: Arsenic

Comments: Botryoidal-concentric
aggregate of arsenic with white calcite
crystals.
Location: Schneeberg, Erzgebirge,
Sachsen, Germany. Scale: 7 x 4 cm.

Arsenic Image

Images: Arsenic Claudetite

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystal of
claudetite on native arsenic.
Location: J?chymov (St Joachimsthal),
Krusn? Hory (Erzgebirge), Z?padocesk? Kraj,
Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture
size 2 mm.

Arseniopleite Image

Images: Arseniopleite

Comments: Massive, orange arseniopleite.
Location: Sj?gruvan, Grythyttan, ?rebro,
Sweden. Scale: Not Given.

Arseniosiderite Image

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Images: Arseniosiderite

Comments: Yellowish brown, roughly
spherical aggregates of arseniosiderite
crystals on matrix.

Arseniosiderite Image

Images: Arseniosiderite Cobaltarthurite

Comments: Oliv e-greenish crystalline druse
of cobaltarthurite with spherical
arseniosiderite.
Location: Pastrana, Mazarr?n, Murcia,
Spain. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.

Arsenocrandallite Image

Images: Arsenocrandallite

Comments: Micro, pale blue botryoids of
arsenocrandallite on dark green olivenite
and quartz.
Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, Juab
County, Utah. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Arsenogorceixite Image

Images: Arsenogorceixite

Comments: Lime colored crystalline
arsenogorceixite on dark green oliv enite.
Location: Bali Lo, Ashburton Downs,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Arsenogorceixite Image

Images: Arsenogorceixite

Comments: White arsenogorceixite
spherules to less than 0.25mm in vuggy
matrix.
Location: Clara mine, Schwarzwald,

Arsenogoyazite Image

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Images: Arsenogoyazite Olivenite

Comments: White micro-botryoids of
arsenogoyazite with light green acicular
crystal sprays of olivenite and dark green
malachite on brown limonite.
Mineral Species

Arsenogoyazite Image

Images: Arsenogoyazite

Comments: Clear, white micro (<0.25mm)
rhombohedral arsenogoyazite crystals.
Location: Clara mine, Schwarzwald,

Arsenolamprite Image

Images: Arsenolamprite

Comments: Needle like gray crystals of
arsenolamprite in calcite matrix.
Location: Mackenheim,, Odenwald,
Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.



Comments: REM (Raster Electron
Microscope) image of well cristallized
arsenolamprite fragments.
Location: Mine dump near shaft 371,
Hartenstein, Germany. Scale: See Image.
© Thomas Schlothauer



Comments: Vein of arsenolamprite in
matrix.
Location: Mine dump near shaft 371,
Hartenstein, Germany. Scale: See Image.

Arsenolite Image

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Images: Arsenolite

Comments: Brownish yellow octahedrons
of arsenolite on matrix.
Location: White Caps mine, Manhattan,
Nye County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Arsenopalladinite Image

Images: Arsenopalladinite Isomertieite
Gold Bornite

Comments: Light grayish grain of intimately
intergrown isomertieite and
arsenopalladinite (in the center of the
picture), with pale yellow gold and
brownish to violet bornite. Polished section
(from microprobe analysis) in reflected
light.
Location: Noril'sk, Putoran Mts, Taymyrskiy
Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian
Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.1 mm.

Arsenopalladinite Image

Images: Arsenopalladinite

Comments: Arsenopalladinite micro
crystal.
Location: Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
Not Given.
Mineral Species

Arsenopyrite Image

Images: Arsenopyrite Siderite

Comments: White, metallic arsenopyrite
and tan siderite crystals.
Location: Panasqueira (2000, 3rd lev el), in
the region of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale:
11 x 7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Arsenpolybasite Image

Images: Arsenpolybasite

Comments: Back, crystalline
arsenpolybasite in quartz.
Location: Medenec, Severocesky, Moravia,
Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Arsentsumebite Image

Images: Arsentsumebite

Comments: Crystallized arsentsumebite in
a vuggy rock matrix.
Scale: Crystals to 0.25mm.
© John Veevaert

Arsenuranylite Image

Images: Arsenuranylite

Comments: Yellow crystalline
arsenuranylite.
Location: Rudnoje, Bukhara District,
Uzbekistan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Arthurite Image

Images: Arthurite Pharmacosiderite

Comments: Altered rhyolite vug lined with
brilliant apple green arthurite and cubic
green crystals of pharmacosiderite.
Location: Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing
County, Nevada. USA. Scale: 2.7 x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Arthurite Image

Images: Arthurite

Comments: Radiating sprays of acicular
arthurite.
Location: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Spray size 2.5
mm.

Artinite Image

Images: Artinite

Comments: Bright, white acicular sprays of
artinite crystals on matrix.
Location: New Idria district, San Benito
County, California, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Artinite Image

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Images: Artinite

Comments: White, acicular clusters of
artinite on matrix.
Location: San Benito County, California,
USA. Scale: Cluster size 1.3 cm.
© Minernet

Artsmithite Image

Images: Artsmithite

Comments: White to tan, radial, acicular
crystals of artsmithite on matrix.
Location: Funderburk Prospect, Pike
County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size
0.7 cm.
Mineral Species

Artsmithite Image

Images: Artsmithite

Comments: White or faint green platy
micro crystals of artsmithite on matrix.
Location: Funderburk prospect, Pike
County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Crystal size
0.5 mm.

Asbecasite Image

Images: Asbecasite

Comments: Brownish yellow asbecasite
prismatic crystal.
Location: Cervandone, Val d'Ossola,
Lombardy, Italy. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Asbolane Image

Images: Asbolane

Comments: Brownish red dull grains of
asbolane to 2mm in matrix.
Location: Lipovka, Middla Urals, Russia.
Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Ashburtonite Image

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Images: Ashburtonite

Comments: Blue-green crystalline crust of
ashburtonite on matrix.
Location: Anticline Deposit, Ashburton
Downs, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Asisite Image

Images: Asisite

Comments: Orange brownish asisite on
matrix.
Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat, Namibia.

Asselbornite Image

Images: Asselbornite

Comments: Small orange cubes of
asselbornite on yellow uranophane.
Location: Wei?er Hirsch Mine, Schneeberg,
Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.

Astrocyanite-(Ce) Image

Images: Astrocyanite-(Ce)

Comments: Blue-green bladed
astrocyanite-(Ce) crystals on black
uraninite ore. Schumacher Collection.
Location: Kamoto East Open cut, Kamoto,
Kolwezi, Western area, Shaba Cu belt,
Shaba (Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale:
Picture size 2 cm.

Astrophyllite Image

Images: Astrophyllite

Comments: Dark brown acicular masses of
astrophyllite in calcite matrix.
Location: Khibini, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Scale: 11 x 9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Atacamite Image

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Images: Atacamite

Comments: Atacamite in a well
crystallized pocket.
Location: Mina Lily, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept.
Peru. Scale: 5 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Athabascaite Image

Images: Athabascaite Umangite
Berzelianite

photomicrograph of umangite (pinkish),
berzelianite (gray), athabascaite (small
white areas in berzelianite), calcite (olive).
Location: Sierra de Umango, La Rioja,
Argentin. Scale: Not Given.
Mineral Species

Atokite Image

Images: Atokite Taimyrite

Comments: Photomicrograph (oil
immersion) of atokite and taimyrite
intergrowth inside tetraauricupride reaction
rim on Pt-Fe alloy. Outlined section shows
atokite relics within taimyrite. (CanMin, v 42,
p 610).
Location: Kondyor PGE placer,
Khabarov skiy Kray, eastern Siberia, Russia,.
Scale: See Image.

Atokite Image

Images: Atokite Sobolevskite

Comments: Back-scattered electron
image showing a) intergrowth of atokite,
mertieite-II [Pd8Sb3] and telluroan
sobolevskite [(Pd,Pt)(Bi,Te)] within tetra-
auricupride rim. (CanMin, v 42, p 611).
Khabarovskiy Kray, eastern Siberia, Russia.
Scale: See Image.

Attakolite Image

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Images: Attakolite

Comments: Pink to yellowish attakolite with
black hematite.
Location: Vestana Iron Mine, near Nasum,
Skane, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Aubertite Image

Images: Aubertite

Comments: Aqua to white massive
aubertite.
Chile. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Augelite Image

Images: Augelite

Comments: Apple green augelite with
semi-transparent, well developed, brilliant
crystals.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. Scale:
3.5 x 2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Augelite Image

Images: Augelite

Comments: Green to white, striated,
blocky augelite crystal on matrix.
Location: Ortega mine, Ancash dept., Peru.
Scale: Crystal length 2.3 cm.

Augite Image

Images: Augite

Comments: Clear, dark gray augite prisms
in matrix.
Location: Isle of Ischia, near Naples,
Compania, Italy. Scale: Size Not Given.

Augite Image

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Images: Augite Calzirtite Richterite

Comments: Gray irregular grain of calzirtite
(see arrow) in fibrous augite with dark red
richterite.
Location: Jacupiranga Mine, Cajati, Sao
Paulo, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Augite Image

Images: Augite Tuscanite

Comments: Translucent tuscanite
microcrystal in in v ug in low-Fe augite (var.
fassaite).
Location: Pitigliano Quarry, Grosseto,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Aurichalcite Image

Images: Aurichalcite

Comments: Sky-blue radiating acicular
crystals of aurichalcite cov ering matrix.
Location: Lucin, Utah, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x 2
cm with 5 mm crystals.
© Dan Weinrich

Auricupride Image

Images: Auricupride

Comments: Golden metallic veins of
auricupride in quartz.
Location: Vacos Hielados, Chile. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Aurorite Image

Images: Aurorite

Comments: Brown, dendritic aurorite in
white calcite.
Location: Aurora Mine, Hamilton, White Pine
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Austinite Image

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Images: Austinite

Comments: Green, spherulitic clusters of
austinite crystals.
Location: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts.,
Tooele County, Utah, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Autunite Image

Images: Autunite

Comments: Fluorescent, tabular to platy,
yellow green autunite crystals on matrix.
Location: Margnac, Haute Vienne, France.
Scale: 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Autunite Image

Images: Autunite Meta-autunite

Comments: Corner of a meta-autunite
crystal showing the dehydration of autunite
(dark green) to meta-autunite (lighter
yellowish green)..
Location: Daybreak Mine, Spokane County,
Washington, U.S.A.. Scale: See Image.

Avogadrite Image

Images: Avogadrite Ferruccite

Comments: Very small, white crystals of
ferrite on massive, yellowish avogadrite.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples, Naples
province, Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Avogadrite Image

Images: Avogadrite Malladrite

Comments: Botryoidal pinkish-white
avogadrite with yellow malladrite.
Location: Eruption of 1926, Vesuvius,
Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Avogadrite Image

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Images: Avogadrite Malladrite

Comments: Yellow-orange crystalline
malladrite with pinkish white av ogadrite.
Mineral Species

Awaruite Image

Images: Awaruite

Comments: Massive awaruite.
Location: Heazlewood River, Tasmania,
Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Azoproite Image

Images: Azoproite

Comments: Black, acicular azoproite in
matrix.
Location: Tazheran Massif, Transbaikalia,
Irkutsk District, Siberia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Azurite Image

Images: Azurite Malachite

Comments: Dark blue stubby pyramidal
azurite crystals and green botryoidal-
shaped radial aggregates of malachite.
Location: Nevada Lode Mine, San Juan
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: 4 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Azurite Image

Images: Azurite Clinotyrolite

Comments: Light blue acicular crystals of
clinotyrolite on dark blue azurite.
Location: Lov elock mine, Churchill County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Azurite Image

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Images: Azurite

Comments: Sharp, dark blue, crystalline azurite
group.
Location: Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda. Scale: 5 x 3.3 x 1.3
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Azurite Image

Images: Azurite Cyanotrichite

Comments: Blue, hairy crystals of
cyanotrichite with dark-blue, blocky azurite
on a green, malachite matrix.
Location: Maid of Sunshine Mine, Cochise
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species


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"B " Mineral Photos (259)
Babingtonite Image

Images: Babingtonite

Comments: Small, single crystal of babingtonite
on matrix.
Location: Blueberry Mountain, Woburn.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Scale:
Size Not Given.

Baddeleyite Image

Images: Baddeleyite

Comments: Single crystal specimen of very
rare baddeleyite pseudomorphing
kimzeyite (garnet).
Location: Perovskite Hill, Magnet Cove,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: 0.9 X 1.0 cm.
© John Veevaert

Bafertisite Image

Images: Bafertisite

Comments: Tan crystal spray of bafertisite
in pegmatite.
Location: Fountain Quarry, Pitt County,
Mineral Species

Bahianite Image

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Images: Bahianite

Comments: Rounded grain of bahianite.
Location: Garimpo de Morro, Paramirim
Region, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bakerite Image

Images: Bakerite

Comments: Porcelain-like, massive
bakerite.
Location: Twenty Mule Canyon, Death
Valley, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bakhchisaraitsevite Image

Images: Bakhchisaraitsevite

Comments: Yellow-brown, platy or thin
tabular crystals of bakhchisaraitsevite from
an Iron mine. Red arrow indicates the
mineral.
Location: Kovdor massif, Kola peninsula,
Russia. Scale: 5mm.

Bakhchisaraitsevite Image

Images: Bakhchisaraitsevite

Comments: Crystals of beige-colored
bakhchisaraitsevite crystals in hydrothermal
assemblage with colorless bobierrite on dolomite
from a cavity in a deformed vein of dolomite
carbonatite (CanMin, v 38, p 832).
Location: Kovdor Phosphorite-Carbonatite
complex, Russia. Scale: See Image.
© Nataly A. Pekova

Baksanite Image

Images: Baksanite

Comments: Gray metallic grain of
baksanite surrounded by white calcite.
Location: Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria
Republic, North Caucasus, Russia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Balangeroite Image

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Images: Balangeroite

Comments: Brown fiberous crystals of
balangeroite in metamorphic shist.
Location: Mt. S,Vittore, Balangero,
Piedmont, Italy. Scale: 5 1/2" x 2 1/4".
© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Bamfordite Image

Images: Bamfordite

Comments: Scanning electron micrograph
showing the typical morphology of bamfordite
crystals. (AmMin, 83:173).
Location: Abandoned W-Mo-Bi mines at
Bamford, Queensland, Australia. Scale: Scale
Bar 20 µm.

Bandylite Image

Images: Bandylite

Comments: Blue crystals of bandylite on
quartz.
Location: Quet?na mine, Calama,
Antofag?sta Province, Chile. Scale: 8x5x3
cm.

Bannisterite Image

Images: Bannisterite

Comments: Deep red micaceous
bannisterite.
Location: Zinc Mine, Broken Hill, New South
Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Baotite Image

Images: Baotite Ferrocolumbite

Comments: Minute brown crystalline grains
of baotite in dark ferrocolumbite.
Location: Sheep Creek, Ravalli County,
Montana. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Baotite Image

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Images: Baotite

Comments: Brown masses of crystalline
baotite in white quartz matrix.
Location: Inner Mongolia, Autonomous
Region, China. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.

Bararite Image

Images: Bararite Cryptohalite

Comments: White crystalline bararite
intermixed with cryptohalite colored
yellow by selenium.
County, Pennsylvani, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Baratovite Image

Images: Baratovite

Comments: Pale pink, pearly, micaceous
baratovite in syenite rock.
Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien Shan, Tadzhikistan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Barberiite Image

Images: Barberiite

Comments: Thin, colorless, tabular blades
of barberiite crystals.
Location: Vulcano, Italy. Scale: 1 mm.

Barbertonite Image

Images: Barbertonite

Comments: Crystalline, red barbertonite in
white and green serpentinite rock.
Location: Nevada Creek, Tasmania,
Mineral Species

Barbosalite Image

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Images: Barbosalite

Comments: Black, cruciform quadrilling
twins of barbosalite crystals.
Location: Sapucaia, Mina Gerais, Brazil.

Barbosalite Image

Images: Barbosalite Phosphosiderite

Comments: Transparent, brown crystal of
phosphosiderite on black barbosalite.
Location: Bull Moose mine, Custer, Custer
Giv en.

Barentsite Image

Images: Barentsite

Comments: White, powdery barentsite.
Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species

Baricite Image

Images: Baricite

Comments: Blue, micaceous baricite with
some yellow iron staining.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species

Bario-orthojoaquinite Image

Images: Bario-orthojoaquinite

Comments: Several 0.75mm brownish red
micro-crystals of bario-orthojoaquinite in
matrix.
Location: Dallas Gem mine, San Benito Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.

Bariopyrochlore Image

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Images: Bariopyrochlore

Comments: Yellow crystalline massive
bariopyrochlore.
Location: Catalao #2 Mine, Goias, Brazil.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bariosincosite Image

Images: Bariosincosite Fluellite

Comments: Viv id green crystals of
bariosincosite well placed on a matrix
covered by colorless, tabular fluellite with
some minor metavariscite.
Location: Eugui Quarry, Cantera Azkarate,
Eugui, Navarra, Spain. Scale: Rosette size:
0.3 x 0.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Barite Image

Images: Barite

Comments: Honey-colored very transparent
barite crystal group.
Location: (1998) Meikle mine, Elko Co. Nevada,
USA. Scale: 5 x 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Barite Image

Images: Barite Jacobsite

Comments: Sharp, octahedral crystals of
Jacobsite on a bladed barite matrix.
Location: N' Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman,
South Africa. Scale: 3x2.5x1.9 cm.

Barite Image

Images: Barite Wurtzite

Comments: Compact, dark, metallic
crystals of wurtzite intermixed with galena
crystals and white barite blades.
Location: Huanzala, Huanuco Dept., Peru.
Scale: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm.

Barite Image

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Images: Barite

Comments: Tabular, clear crystal of barite
on a small matrix of pinkish dolomite.
Fluorescence under UV light.
Location: Cerro Warihuyn, 2850 m,
Miraflores, Huamalias, Huanuco Peru.
Scale: 3.4 x 2.8 x 0.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Barium-pharmacosiderite Image

Images: Barium-pharmacosiderite

Comments: Reddish brown, crystal of
barium-pharmacosiderite on matrix.
Location: Clara Mine, Wolfach, Baden-
Wurt., Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.

Barnesite Image

Images: Barnesite

Comments: Bright red, acicular crystals of
barnesite on matrix.
Location: Cactus Rat claim, Thompson,
Grand County, Utah, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Barrerite Image

Images: Barrerite

Comments: Barrerite, an extremely rare
zeolite was found in large cavities on a tidal
flat.
Location: Rocky Pass, Kuiu Island, Alaska.
Scale: 5.5 x 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Barringerite Image

Images: Barringerite

Comments: Dark barringerite inclusions in
nickel-iron meteorite (polished section.
Location: Canon Diablo Meteorite, Meteor
Crater, Canon Diablo, Coconino County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Barringtonite Image

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Images: Barringtonite Lansfordite

Comments: Optical images of clusters of
glassy lansfordite crystals and one white
dehydrated barringtonite ? crystal.
(AmMin, 88:1883).
Location: Crystals associated with the
remains of a saguaro, Carnegiea gigantea
from south and west central Arizona.
Scale: Scale bar 800 µ-m.

Barroisite Image

Images: Barroisite

Comments: Black, acicular, compact,
massiv e barroisite.
Location: Monte Beigua, Savona, Liguria,
Mineral Species

Barylite Image

Images: Barylite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of barylite
exposed in a vug.
Location: Eveslogchorr Mt , Khibiny Massif,
Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.

Barylite Image

Images: Barylite

Comments: Blocky prisimatic clear crystals
of barylite with black aegirine.
Location: Mt. Malosa, Zomba plateau
Malawi. Scale: 2 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Barysilite Image

Images: Barysilite

Comments: Clear, round plates of barysilite
on a manganiferous matrix.

Barytocalcite Image

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Images: Barytocalcite

Comments: Pale pink crystalline
barytocalcite in dark matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Barytocalcite Image

Images: Barytocalcite

Comments: White prismatic barytocalcite
crystals to 6mm. Former Eaton Collection.
Location: Alston Moor, Cumberland,
England. Scale: 3x2x2cm.

Barytolamprophyllite Image

Images: Barytolamprophyllite
Lamprophyllite

Comments: Brownish-yellow
barytolamprophyllite on dark green
lamprophyllite.
Mineral Species

Basaluminite Image

Images: Basaluminite

Comments: Clear, radial sprays of
basaluminite crystals.
Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cochise
Giv en.

Bassanite Image

Images: Bassanite

Comments: White, blocky bassanite
crystals on matrix.
Location: Taft, Kern County, California, USA.

Bassetite Image

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Images: Bassetite

Comments: Bright yellow, bladed crystals
of bassetite.
Location: Capoterra, near Cagliari,
Sardinia, Italy. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Bastnasite-(Ce) Image

Images: Bastnasite-(Ce)

Comments: Platy crystal of bastn?site-(Ce).
Location: Trimouns, Luzenac, Ari?ge,
France. Scale: 0.8 cm.
© John Veevaert

Bastnasite-(La) Image

Images: Bastnasite-(La)

Comments: Orange, hexagonal crystal of
bastn?site-(La).
Location: Red Cloud mines, Gallinas
Mountains, Lincoln County, New Mexico,

Batiferrite Image

Images: Batiferrite

Comments: Gray hexagonal crystal of
batiferrite on matrix.
Location: Graulai (Grauley), near
Hillesheim, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate,

Batisite Image

Images: Batisite

Comments: Vitreous, translucent, brownish
orange crystals of batisite.
Location: Malyi Murun, Siberia, Russia.
Scale: crystals up to 4 to 7 mm.
© John Veevaert

Baumhauerite Image

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Images: Baumhauerite

Comments: Opaque, lustrous, parallel
crystalline baumhauerite aggregates.
Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Baumhauerite Image

Images: Baumhauerite

Comments: Black, rounded, specular
baumhauerite crystal on white dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture width 1
cm.
© Walter Gabriel

Baumhauerite-2a Image

Images: Baumhauerite-2a Sphalerite

Comments: Dark crystal of baumhauerite-2a
(same shape as baumhauerite) with oliv e-green
transparent sphalerite crystal on white dolomite.
Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais,
Switzerland. Scale: Picture 2 cm tall.
© Walter Gabriel

Baumstarkite Image

Images: Baumstarkite

Comments: Fragments of baumstarkite
with zoning of darker lamellae with higher
As content. (AmMin 87:755).
Location: San Genaro mine, Huancavelica
Department, Peru.. Scale: See Image.

Bauranoite Image

Images: Bauranoite

Comments: Massive, orange-brown
crystalline aggregate of bauranoite.
Location: Strel'tsovskoye ore field,
Krasnokamensk, Chitinskaya Oblast',
Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 6
mm.

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Bavenite Image

Images: Bavenite

Comments: Clear, acicular bavenite
crystals.
Location: Foote mine, Kings Mountain,
Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA.

Bayldonite Image

Images: Bayldonite

Comments: Green, rounded, crystalline
bayldonite aggregates.

Bayleyite Image

Images: Bayleyite

Comments: Stellate aggregates of pale
greenish white, acicular bayleyite crystals
on a gossanous matrix with white, snowy
aragonite.
Location: Hideout #1 mine, White Canyon
district, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale:

Bayleyite Image

Images: Bayleyite

Comments: Bright yellow coatings of
bayleyite.
Location: Near Moab, Grand County, Utah,
Mineral Species

Bayleyite Image

Images: Bayleyite

Comments: Stellate aggregates of
acicular bayleyite crystals under short
wave UV light showing pale green
fluorescence.
Location: Hideout #1 mine, White Canyon
district, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale:

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Bazhenovite Image

Images: Bazhenovite

Comments: Yellow, bladed crystals of
bazhenovite on matrix.
size 2 mm.

Bazirite Image

Images: Bazirite Sanbornite

Comments: Clear glassy minute grains of
bazinite to 1mm through out matrix of
milky-white sanbornite. The bazirite
fluoresces light blue.
Location: Snow Cap mine, Rush Creek,
Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x
2.5cm.

Bazzite Image

Images: Bazzite

Comments: Blue crystals of bazzite.
Location: Thiemendorf near K?nigshain,
Lausitz, Sachsen, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 1.3 mm.

Beaverite Image

Images: Beaverite Mottramite

Comments: Specimen of quartz with a
thick druse of green mottramite
(cuprodescloizite) crystals and a scattered
grouping of micro beav erite crystals
(lemon yellow in color).
© John Veevaert

Beaverite Image

Images: Beaverite

Comments: Yellow earthy coating of
beaverite.
Location: Hornsilv er Mine, Frisco, Beaver
County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Becquerelite Image

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Images: Becquerelite

Comments: Yellow becquerelite crystals.
Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara,
Shaba, Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: Size
Not Given.

Becquerelite Image

Images: Becquerelite Schoepite

Comments: Bright yellow crystals of
schoepite on transparent yellow
becquerelite.
Shaba, Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Scale: .

Bederite Image

Images: Bederite

Comments: Dark brown massive bederite.
Location: El Penon Pegmatite, Nevados de
Palermo, Salta, Argentina. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Behierite Image

Images: Behierite

Comments: A light brownish crystal of
behierite in matrix.
Location: Manjaka, Sahatany Valley,
Antsirabe Region, Madagascar. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Behoite Image

Images: Behoite Analcime

Comments: Gray-white microcline crystals
up to 4 cm coated with overgrowth of
analcime 18 mm diameter, black aegirine
up to 25 mm and most notable, a pale
pink behoite.
Scale: 5x4x3 cm.

Beidellite Image

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Images: Beidellite

Comments: Pure white chalky massive
beidellite.
Location: From near Charlestown, Nevis,
Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Belendorffite Image

Images: Belendorffite

Comments: Small grains of belendorffite
from concentrates.
Location: Moschellandsberg, Pfalz,

Bellbergite Image

Images: Bellbergite

Comments: Small colorless to white
hexagonal crystals of bellbergite on matrix.
Location: Ettringer Bellerberg, Ettringen,
near Mayen, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-
Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1
mm.

Bellidoite Image

Images: Bellidoite Berzelianite Umangite

Comments: Dark bellidoite inclusions in
black berzelianite with white umangite.
Location: Habri, near Tisnov, Jihomoravsky,
Czech Republi. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bellingerite Image

Images: Bellingerite

Comments: Green crystal of bellingerite on
matrix.
Chile. Scale: Picture size 8 mm.

Belovite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Belovite-(Ce)

Comments: Light yellow vitreous crystals of
belovite-Ce up to 2 mm.
Location: Malyi Punkaruaiv Mt, Lovozero
Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja
Oblast', Northern Region, Russia. Scale:
2.5x3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Belovite-(La) Image

Images: Belovite-(La)

Comments: Yellow, pseudo-hexagonal
crystal of belovite-(La) in calcite.
Location: Khibina massif, Kola Peninsula,
Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.

Belyankinite Image

Images: Belyankinite

Comments: Thin beige coating of
belyankinite.
Mineral Species

Bementite Image

Images: Bementite

Comments: Brown massive bementite.
Location: Olympic Mountains, Washington,
Mineral Species

Benitoite Image

Images: Benitoite

Comments: Benitoite crystals in a natrolite
and crossite matrix.
Location: Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito
Co., California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1.5
cm.
© John Veevaert

Benjaminite Image

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Images: Benjaminite Krupkaite Friedrichite

Comments: Crystals of a mixture of
friedrichite, krupkaite, and benjaminite, with
quartz crystals.
Location: Estela Mine, Julcani District, Junin,
Peru. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Benstonite Image

Images: Benstonite

Comments: Light pink benstonite crystals
epitaxially formed on calcite needles.
Location: Minerva #1 Mine, Hardin County,
Illinois, USA. Scale: 13 x 11 mm.
© John Veevaert

Bentorite Image

Images: Bentorite

Comments: Violet crystalline bentorite.
Location: Hatrurim Area, West of Dead Sea,
Israel. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Beraunite Image

Images: Beraunite

Comments: Green and reddish brown,
beraunite aggregates.
Location: Arean Claim, Three Oak Gap,
Mena, Polk County, Arkansas, USA. Scale:
Size Not Given.

Berborite Image

Images: Berborite

Comments: Colorless, nearly transparent
crystalline berborite in matrix.
Location: Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Vestfold,
Mineral Species

Bergenite Image

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Images: Bergenite

Comments: Yellow bladed bergenite
crystals.
Location: Mechelserrun, Saxony, Germany.

Bergenite Image

Images: Bergenite

Comments: Bladed, radial aggregates of
yellow bergenite crystals on matrix.
Location: Bergen, Falkenstein, Vogtland,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 2.5
mm.

Bergslagite Image

Images: Bergslagite

Comments: White (fluorescent) veinlet of
bergslagite cutting through metallic, gray
hematite.
Location: Langban Mine Dump, Langban,
Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Berlinite Image

Images: Berlinite Trolleite

Comments: Pinkish crystalline berlinite with
blue trolleite.
Location: Ijzer Mine, Vestana, Christiansted,
Mineral Species

Berlinite Image

Images: Berlinite Lacroixite

Comments: Pale olive green crystalline
lacroixite with white crystalline berlinite.
Location: Rusororo Pegmatite, Gatumba,
Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bermanite Image

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Images: Bermanite

Comments: Brown bermanite crystal.
Giv en.

Berndtite Image

Images: Berndtite Tschermigite

Comments: Yellow crystalline berndtite on
tschermigite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Berryite Image

Images: Berryite Aikinite

Comments: Fine-grained, gray, metallic
granular berryite with silvery, metallic,
prismatic aikinite.
Colorado. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Berthierine Image

Images: Berthierine

Comments: Berthierine-1M, black
pseudomorphs after cordylite-(Ce) crystals.
Mineral Species

Berthierite Image

Images: Berthierite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of berthierite,
tarnished bronze metallic, with stibnite and
quartz crystals.
Location: San Martin Mine, Zacatecas,
Mexico. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bertossaite Image

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Images: Bertossaite

Comments: Pale pinkish crystalline
bertossaite with yellowish apatite and blue
lazulite.
Location: Buranga Pegmatite, near
Gatumba, Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Bertrandite Image

Images: Bertrandite

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystals of
bertrandite on matrix with pale pink
rhombohedral crystals of rhodochrosite.
Location: Yiaoguanshen mine, Hunan
Province, China. Scale: 3.5 x 4 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Bertrandite Image

Images: Bertrandite

Comments: Fan-like clusters of bertrandite
crystals with brown rhodochrosite and
quartz.
Location: Kara Oba, Kazakhstan. Scale:
Crystal size 1.1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl

Comments: Transparent Goshenite, the
colorless variety of beryl with orthoclase
and muscovite.
Location: Pingwu, Sichuan, China. Scale: 9
x 8.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl

Comments: Transparent Aquamarine, the blue
variety of beryl.
Location: Nagar, Pakistan. Scale: 3 x 4 x 8.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Beryl Image

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Images: Beryl Calcite

Comments: Transparent emerald, the green
v ariety of beryl on calcite (marble) matrix.
Location: Coscuez, Boyac?, Colombia. Scale:
2.5 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl

Comments: Transparent Morganite, the
pink v ariety of beryl.
Location: Nuristan, Laghman Province,
Afghanistan. Scale: 9.2 x 6.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl

Comments: Transparent Heliodor, the
yellow variety of beryl.
Location: Wolodarsk, Wolynsky, Ukraine.
© John Veevaert

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl

Comments: Red beryl prism on rhyolite matrix.
Location: Violet claims, Wah Wah Mountains,
Beaver County, Utah, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl Fluorapatite Muscovite
Apatite

© Dan Weinrich

Beryllite Image

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Images: Beryllite

Comments: Dirty white, soft, chalky filling of
beryllite (Green Arrow) in a vuggy matrix.
Location: Lovozero, Mt. Karnasurt, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Size Not Given.

Beryllonite Image

Images: Beryllonite

Comments: Clear twinned crystal of
beryllonite.
Location: Telecio mine, Linopolis, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite Athabascaite
Umangite

Mineral Species

Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite Bellidoite Umangite

Mineral Species

Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite

Comments: Blue-black metallic massive
berzelianite.
Location: Bukov, Western Moravia,
Severocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

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Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite Novakite

Comments: Gray metallic dendritic
novakite in white calcite with tarnished
black berzelianite.
Location: Cerny Dul, Bohemia,
Vychodocesky, Czech Republic. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite Umangite

Comments: Black massive umangite
intergrown with dark blue metallic
berzelianite.
Location: Borsov, Bohemia, Vychodocesky,
Mineral Species

Berzeliite Image

Images: Berzeliite

Comments: White calcite with included
grains of yellowish-orange berzeliite in
matrix.
Location: Langban, Filipstad, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: 3 x 2.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Betafite Image

Images: Betafite

Comments: Brown hexoctahedral crystal of
betafite on greenish apatite crystals.
Location: Silv er Crater Mine, Bancroft,
Ontario, Canada. Scale: 2-1/4 cm across.

Betekhtinite Image

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Images: Betekhtinite

Comments: Black crystalline aggregate of
betekhtinite with white calcite.
Location: Twin Pocket, Mine #57, Dzhezkazgan,
Kazakhstan. Scale: 9.5 x 7.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Betpakdalite Image

Images: Betpakdalite

Comments: Yellow crust of betpakdalite
on quartzite.
Location: Sadisdorf, Erzgebirge, Sachsen,
Germany. Scale: 10 x 6 cm.

Beudantite Image

Images: Beudantite

Comments: Sharp and lustrous crystals of
beudantite to 4 mm across on quartz.
© John Veevaert

Beudantite Image

Images: Beudantite Scorodite

Comments: Blue, 2 cm in length scorodite
crystals on a sparkling matrix of brilliant
brown-black beudantite.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 8 x 5 x 3
cm.
© John Schneider

Beusite Image

Images: Beusite

Comments: Massive pale pinkish-beige
beusite with blue vivianite.
Location: Remmelberg, Oberpfalz, Bav aria,

Beyerite Image

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Images: Beyerite

Comments: Greenish yellow crusts of
beyerite on pegmatite.
Location: Harding Mine, Taos County, New
Mexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bianchite Image

Images: Bianchite

Comments: White powdery crust of
bianchite on clear to white gypsum.
Location: Glomsrudhollen, Amot, Modum,
Buskerud, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bideauxite Image

Images: Bideauxite

Comments: Brownish cubic crystals of
bideauxite with blue boleite in tan limonitic
matrix.
Location: Mammoth-St Anthony mine, Pinal
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Specimen size
2 x 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Bideauxite Image

Images: Bideauxite

Comments: Richard Bideaux, American
mineralogist, co-author of the Handbook of
Mineralogy, Volumes I to V, mineral collector,
and the person whom bideauxite is named
after, kindly provided the mineral name
pronunciation for bideauxite.
Location: Tucson Convention Center, 50th
Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, February 14,
2004. Scale: NA.
© Dav e Barthelmy

Bieberite Image

Images: Bieberite

Comments: Pink crust of bieberite with dark
blue chalcanthite.
Location: Katanga, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

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Biehlite Image

Images: Biehlite

Comments: White fibrous crystals of biehlite.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: Picture
size 8 mm.

Bigcreekite Image

Images: Bigcreekite Gillespite Sanbornite

Comments: Tiny white, spherical patterns,
halo-like crystals of bigcreekite to about
0.5mm and reddish gillespite in a matrix of
pale yellowish sanbornite.
Location: Trumbull Peak, Mariposa Co.,
California, United States. Scale: 2.5 x 2 x
2cm.

Bikitaite Image

Images: Bikitaite

Comments: Clear, crystalline bikitaite laths
on matrix.

Bilinite Image

Images: Bilinite

Comments: Powdery crust of white bilinite
on pyrite.
Location: Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona,
Mineral Species

Billietite Image

Images: Billietite

Comments: Clear, yellow crystal of billietite.
Shaba, Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: Size Not
Given.

Billietite Image

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Images: Billietite Studtite

Comments: Acicular, white sprays of
studtite crystals on yellow, tabular billietite.
Congo. Scale: Not Given.

Bindheimite Image

Images: Bindheimite

Comments: Yellow earthy bindheimite
covering red, massive crocoite.
Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) open
cut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,

Biotite Image

Images: Biotite

Comments: Brown book of
pseudohexagonal biotite crystals in matrix.
Location: Sattleberg, Laacher See,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Size
Not Given.

Biotite Image

Images: Biotite

Comments: Sharp hexagonal plates of
dark brown biotite to 2.5 cm. across, with
white albite.
Location: Brazil. Scale: 6.9x5.5x3 cm.
© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Biotite Image

Images: Biotite Anthophyllite

Comments: Fibrous mass of anthophyllite
as a shell around biotite.
Location: Hermanov, Sev erocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Biotite Image

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Images: Biotite Wohlerite

Comments: Prismatic wohlerite crystals
with lepidomelane (Fe-rich biotite).
Location: Langevannet, Tvedalen,
Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Biphosphammite Image

Images: Biphosphammite

Comments: Vuggy, dark green-brown
biphosphammite.
Location: Mason Bat Cave, Mason County,
Texas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Biphosphammite Image

Images: Biphosphammite Archerite

Comments: Buff-colored biphosphammite
with white archerite crusts.
Location: Cockelbiddy Cav e, Western
Mineral Species

Birnessite Image

Images: Birnessite

Comments: Gray birnessite. Very small
crystals on massive material.
Location: Das Aufgekl?rte Gl?ck Mine,
Hasserode, Wernigerode, Harz Mts, Saxony-
Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.

Birnessite Image

Images: Birnessite Buserite

Comments: Round, "rabbit pellets" of
buserite which dehydrates to birnessite
when dry. Image photographed through
water which is needed to preserve this
species.
Location: Aomori Springs, Oppu, Japan.
Scale: Sphere size 7 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Bischofite Image

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Images: Bischofite

Comments: Colorless grains of bischofite.
The mineral is v ery hygroscopic and must
be stored in a closed vial.
Location: Stassfurt, Stassfurt Deposit,
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Bismite Image

Images: Bismite

Comments: Tan, massive bismite with
quartz.
Location: Schneeberg, Sachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bismite Image

Images: Bismite Waylandite

Comments: Gray massiv e stream rounded
waylandite with tan bismite crusts.
Location: Mumba, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bismoclite Image

Images: Bismoclite

Comments: Opaque white pearly
crystalline bismoclite on matrix.
Location: Falcacci Mine, Rio Marina, Elba,
Mineral Species

Bismuth Image

Images: Bismuth

Comments: Skeletal trigonal crystal of
native bismuth.
Location: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany.

Bismuth Image

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Images: Bismuth

Comments: Coarsely crystalline bismuth.
Location: Biggenden, Queensland, Australia.
Scale: 2.9 x 1.8 x 2.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Bismuthinite Image

Images: Bismuthinite

Comments: Metallic, prismatic bismuthinite crystal
topped with botryoidal marcasite.
Location: Veta Farell?n viejo, Tazna, Potos?, Boliv ia.
Scale: 4.4x1.3x0.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Bismuthinite Image

Images: Bismuthinite Cannonite

Comments: Opaque white crystal tufts of
cannonite on quartz crystals with dark,
metallic bismuthinite.
Mineral Species

Bismutite Image

Images: Bismutite

Comments: White to green earthy crust of
bismutite.
Location: La Higuera, Coquimbo, Chile.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bismutoferrite Image

Images: Bismutoferrite

Comments: Yellow-greenish, earthy
bismutoferrite.
Location: Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 8.5
cm.

Bismutomicrolite Image

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Images: Bismutomicrolite

Comments: A dark crystal of
bismutomicrolite in pearly muscovite.
Location: Malkhan Range, Krasny Chikoy,
Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia, Eastern-
mm.

Bismutotantalite Image

Images: Bismutotantalite

Comments: Tan coatings of
bismutotantalite on white feldspar with
pink lepidolite.
Mineral Species

Bityite Image

Images: Bityite

Comments: White crystalline bityite in
silvery mica matrix.
Mineral Species

Bixbyite Image

Images: Bixbyite

Comments: Cubic crystals of bixbyite
reaching 5 mm sit on a crude
pseudomorph of hematite after garnet.
Location: Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah,
USA. Scale: 1.5 x 1.6 cm.

Bjarebyite Image

Images: Bjarebyite

Comments: Green, pyramidal crystals of
bjarebyite.
Location: Palermo No. 1 mine, North
Groton, Grafton County, New Hamphshire,

Blakeite Image

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Images: Blakeite

Comments: Brown crusts of blakeite on
quartz.
Location: Goldfield, Esmeralda County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Blatonite Image

Images: Blatonite

Comments: Bright yellow granular masses
of blatonite and white crystalline gypsum.
Location: . Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Blatonite Image

Images: Blatonite

Comments: Acicular, yellow blatonite
crystals with white aragonite on matrix.
Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon,White
Canyon District (White Canyon), San Juan
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.

Blixite Image

Images: Blixite

Comments: Pale yellow crystalline blixite
on dark matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Blodite Image

Images: Blodite Tamarugite

Comments: Clear, yellow bl?dite with
white tamarugite.

Bobfergusonite Image

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Images: Bobfergusonite

Comments: Opaque dark green to brown
crystalline bobfergusonite in pegmatite.
Location: Cross Lake, Manitoba, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bobierrite Image

Images: Bobierrite

Comments: Crystal group of bobierrite
partially covered by yellow calcite.
Location: Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola
Penisula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Bobierrite Image

Images: Bobierrite Strontiowhitlockite

Comments: Pale white to pink fine grained
strontiowhitlockite with bobierrite.
Location: Kov dor Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species

Bobjonesite Image

Images: Bobjonesite

Comments: The silicified log and its
coalified margin that hosts bobjonesite and
other sulfate minerals. (CanMin, 41:85).
Location: Temple Mountain, Emery County,
Utah, USA. Scale: Bob Jones is shown for
scale.

Boehmite Image

Images: Boehmite

Comments: Crystalline boehmite in bauxite
rock.
Location: Bauxite, Saline County, Arkansas,
Mineral Species

Boggsite Image

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Images: Boggsite

Comments: White translucent botryoidal
crystals of boggsite lining vug in basalt.
Location: Neer Road Pit, Goble, Columbia
County, Oregon, uSA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Boggsite Image

Images: Boggsite

Comments: Pure white spheroidal boggsite
crystal.
Location: Neer Road, Goble, Columbia
Co., Oregon, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5
mm.

Bokite Image

Images: Bokite

Comments: Dark brown micro crystal
rosettes of bokite in matrix.
Location: Monument #2 Mine, Apache
County, Arizona. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bokite Image

Images: Bokite

Comments: Tannish "spots" as very micro
acicular bokite crystals filling in between
grains. Eaton Collection.
Location: Monument #2 mine, Apache
Co.,, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5
cm.

Boleite Image

Images: Boleite

Comments: Floater crystal of deep, inky
blue boleite with interpenetration twinning.
Location: Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja
California, Mexico. Scale: 0.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Boleite Image

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Images: Boleite Cumengite

Comments: Inky blue cumengite "sixling"
epitaxially overgrown on boleite.
Location: Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja
California Sur, Mexico. Scale: Not Giv en.

Bolivarite Image

Images: Bolivarite

Comments: Yellow translucent mass of
bolivarite.
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Boltwoodite Image

Images: Boltwoodite

Comments: Sprays of boltwoodite
covering matrix.
Location: Rossing, Namibia. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
© John Veevaert

Boltwoodite Image

Images: Boltwoodite

Comments: Bright yellow, prismatic crystals
of boltwoodite.
Location: R?ssing mine, Swakopmund
District, Namibia. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.

Boltwoodite Image

Images: Boltwoodite

Comments: Yellow, globular aggregates
of boltwoodite on a ferruginous matrix.
Location: Repete Mine, San Juan County,
Utah, USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Bonattite Image

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Images: Bonattite

Comments: Blue bonattite on siliceous
sinter.
Location: Steamboat Springs, Washoe
Mineral Species

Bonshtedtite Image

Images: Bonshtedtite

Comments: Oriented gray bands of
bonshtedtite in calcite.
Location: Kov dor Massif, Kola Peninsula.

Boothite Image

Images: Boothite Halotrichite

Comments: Pale blue earthy boothite with
white halotrichite.
Location: Copiapo, Atacama, Chile. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Boracite Image

Images: Boracite

Comments: Clear, pale green
pseudo-cubic boracite crystal.
Location: Sonderhausen, Thuringia,

Boracite Image

Images: Boracite

Comments: A greenish crystal of boracite,
a tetrahedron modified by cube and
dodecahedral faces.
Location: Bernburg, Sachsen-Anhalt,

Boracite Image

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Images: Boracite Hilgardite

Comments: Sub-mm reddish orange
crystals of hilgardite on white boracite.
Location: Boulby Mine, Loftus, Cleveland,
Great Britain. Scale: 1.5 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Borax Image

Images: Borax

Comments: Translucent crystal of borax
preserved in oil to prevent dehydration to
tincalconite.
Mineral Species

Borcarite Image

Images: Borcarite Szaibelyite

Comments: Pale aqua granular borcarite
with white fibrous to granular szaibelyite.
Location: Nalednoya, Republic of Sakha,
Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Bornemanite Image

Images: Bornemanite Lomonosovite

Comments: Yellow crystalline bornemanite
in dark brown lomonosovite.
Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Lovozero
Mineral Species

Bornemanite Image

Images: Bornemanite

Comments: Pale yellow or peach colored,
massive bornemanite.
Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region,
Russia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Bornite Image

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Images: Bornite

Comments: Metallic, crystalline bornite
crystal with bluish tarnish.
Location: Kamoto mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,
Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Bornite Image

Images: Bornite Isomertieite
Arsenopalladinite Gold

light.

Borocookeite Image

Images: Borocookeite

Comments: Black and white image of
multicolored tourmaline crystals (1) in
fine-flaky aggregate of borocookeite (2).
(AmMin, v 88, p 831).
Location: Sosedka and Mokhovaya
pegmatite veins, Malkhan gem tourmaline
deposit, Chikoy district, Chita oblast, Russia.
Scale: Sample size is 5 x 5 cm.

Boromuscovite Image

Images: Boromuscovite

Comments: Grayish-white coatings of
boromuscovite on lav ender lepidolite
crystals.
Location: Little Three Mine, Ramona, San
Diego County, Californi, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Borovskite Image

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Images: Borovskite Temagamite
Merenskyite

Comments: Borovskite (Bvk) - temagamite
(Tmg) - merenskyite (Mrk) composite grain
included in chalcopyrite (Ccp). (CanMin, v
42, p 674).
Location: McBratney high-grade PGE-Au
occurrence, Bear Lake mafic unit,
Proterozoic Flin Flon greenstone belt,
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: See Image.

Botallackite Image

Images: Botallackite

Comments: Well crystallized (although the
crystals are small) botallackite on matrix.
Location: A European classic from the type
locality, Botallack mine, St Just, England.
Scale: 5 x 4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Botryogen Image

Images: Botryogen

Comments: Bright orange botryogen on
white calcite showing it's characteristic
botryoidal "grape-like" morphology.
Location: Cerro Pintados, Poza Almonte,
Pampa del Tamarugal, Chile. Scale:
Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Botryogen Image

Images: Botryogen

Comments: Reddish to yellowish crystalline
botryogen.
Location: Redington Mercury Mine,
Knoxville, Napa County, California, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Botryogen Image

Images: Botryogen Redingtonite

Comments: Pale pink granular redingtonite
on yellow-brown botryogen.
Location: Redington Mine, Knoxville, Napa
Mineral Species

Bottinoite Image

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Images: Bottinoite

Comments: Pale blue botryoidal bottinoite
on calcite.
Location: Dornberg, Ramsbeck, Sauerland,
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Boulangerite Image

Images: Boulangerite

Comments: Specimen of sulfide rich matrix
with a surface coated with hair-like crystals
of boulangerite.
Location: Noche Buena Mine, Zacatecas,
Mexico. Scale: 9 x 6.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Bournonite Image

Images: Bournonite

Comments: Lustrous, silvery crystals of
bournonite on massive bournonite.
Location: Mercedes Mine, Huanuco Dept.,
Peru. Scale: 3x3x2.7 cm.

Bournonite Image

Images: Bournonite

Comments: Bright, blocky crystalline
aggregate of steel gray bournonite
crystals.
Location: Yao-gan-xian mine, Hunan
China. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Boussingaultite Image

Images: Boussingaultite

Comments: White, crystalline aggregates
boussingaultite.
Location: Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Aachen,
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Boyleite Image

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Images: Boyleite

Comments: Powdery white crust of
boyleite on pyrite.
Location: Kotzebue, Alaska, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Brabantite Image

Images: Brabantite

Comments: Altering micro grain of
brabantite.
Location: Kuttakuzhi, near Trivandrum,
Travancore, Kerala, India. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Brackebuschite Image

Images: Brackebuschite Krettnichite

Comments: Scanning electron microscope
image of a prismatic krettnichite (kr)
aggregate associated with manganite
(ma) and barian brackebuschite (br) in a
vug. The inset is a close-up illustrating the
morphology of brackebuschite. (Eur. J.
Mineral, 13:146).
Location: hydrothermal manganite-quartz
vein at the historic manganese deposit of
Krettnich, Saarland, Germany. Scale: See
Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Bradaczekite Image

Images: Bradaczekite

Comments: SEM image of the aggregates
of bradaczekite crystals. (CanMin, v39 , p
1116).
Location: North Breach of the Great fissure
Tolbachik eruption (GFTE) in 1975-1976,
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Scale:
Magnification: ~ 600x.

Bradleyite Image

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Images: Bradleyite Loughlinite

Comments: Silky fibrous v einlets of
loughlinite with bradleyite.
Location: Green River area, Sweetwater
County, Wyoming, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Braggite Image

Images: Braggite

Comments: Silv ery grain of braggite in
brassy-iridescent pentlandite matrix.
Location: Stillwater Complex, Sweetwater
Co., Montana, USA. Scale: 3 mm grain.

Brammallite Image

Images: Brammallite

Comments: Dark gray-brown fine grained
massive brammallite.
Location: Near Ione, Amador County,
California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Brandtite Image

Images: Brandtite

Comments: Clear, crystalline brandtite
aggregates.
Location: Harstig mine, Pajsberg, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: Size Not Giv en.

Brannerite Image

Images: Brannerite

Comments: Black grains of brannerite with
gold and other minerals.
Location: Witwatersrand field, South Africa.

Brannockite Image

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Images: Brannockite

Comments: Clear, hexagonal plates of
brannockite crystals.

Brass Image

Images: Brass

Comments: Small brassy metallic grain of
brass.
Location: Nurek Ore District, Uzbekistan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Brassite Image

Images: Brassite

Comments: Opaque white botryoidal
masses of brassite on matrix.
Location: Mine de Salsigne, Aude, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Braunite-I Image

Images: Braunite-I Braunite-II

Comments: Crystals of braunite.
Location: Black Rock Mine, Kalahari
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Braunite-I Image

Images: Braunite-I Donpeacorite

Comments: Brown crystalline massive
donpeacorite with dark brown black
braunite.
Location: Zinc Corporation of America Mine
#4, Balmat, Saint Lawrence County, New
York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Braunite-I Image

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Images: Braunite-I Macfallite
Johnsenite-(Ce)

Comments: Tiny - less than 1mm - maroon
crystals of mcfallite suspended as
inclusions in massiv e quartz along with
larger spots of brown johnsenite-(Ce) and
braunite.
Location: Artur mine, Jaguaracu, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Overall 3 x 2.5 slab.

Braunite-II Image

Images: Braunite-II Braunite-I

Comments: Crystals of braunite.
Location: Black Rock Mine, Kalahari
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Bravoite Image

Images: Bravoite

Comments: Steel gray, metallic crystal of
bravoite on brassy yellow chalcopyrite.
Location: Gey, Rhineland-Palatinate,

Brazilianite Image

Images: Brazilianite

Comments: Gemmy brazilianite crystal.
Location: Marcel Telirio mine, Divino das
Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
© Fabre Minerals

Bredigite Image

Images: Bredigite Spurrite

Comments: White veins of bredigite in
massive gray spurrite (slabbed specimen).
Location: Camphouse, Ardnamurchan,
Argyll, Highland, Scotland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Breithauptite Image

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Images: Breithauptite

Comments: Three brownish, metallic
hexagonal prisms of breithauptite in
calcite.
Location: Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:
Size Not Given.

Brendelite Image

Images: Brendelite

Comments: Small brown tabular crystals of
brendelite on matrix.
Location: G?ldener Falk Mine, Schneeberg,
Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.

Brenkite Image

Images: Brenkite

Comments: Spherical aggregate of
colorless crystals of brenkite.
Location: Schellkopf, Brenk, Eifel Mts,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:

Brewsterite-Sr Image

Images: Brewsterite-Sr

Comments: Translucent brewsterite crystals
on matrix.
Location: Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos
Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada.
Scale: 35x30x20 mm.

Brianyoungite Image

Images: Brianyoungite

Comments: Silky white aggregates of
brianyoungite with small yellow crystals of
sulfur on sphalerite.
Location: St Johannes Mine, Wolkenstein,
Picture size 3 mm.

Brindleyite Image

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Images: Brindleyite

Comments: Greenish waxy crust of
brindleyite.
Location: Hachita, Grant County, New
Mineral Species

Britholite-(Ce) Image

Images: Britholite-(Ce)

Comments: Dark gray, parallel aggregates
of britholite-(Ce) crystals in matix..
Location: Rusty Gold Mine, Jamestown
District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Image.

Brochantite Image

Images: Brochantite

Comments: Blue green spray of acicular
brochantite crystals on matrix.
Location: Douglas Hill, Lidwig, Lyon County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.

Brochantite Image

Images: Brochantite Linarite

Comments: Deep blue, acicular, linarite
with light blue, globular brochantite on
white quartz.
Location: Goulmina, Er Rachidia, Morroco.
© Fabre Minerals

Brochantite Image

Images: Brochantite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of blue green
brochantite.
Location: Grand View Mine, Grand
Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Brockite Image

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Images: Brockite

Comments: Red-brown opaque massive
brockite.
Location: Anna Lee Mine, Custer County,
Mineral Species

Bromargyrite Image

Images: Bromargyrite

Comments: Butterscotch colored
bromargyrite cube.
Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales,
Australia. Scale: Size Not Given.

Bromellite Image

Images: Bromellite

Comments: Nearly colorless translucent
crystalline bromellite in chloritic schistose
rock.
Location: Pitkyaranta, Republic of Karelia,
Mineral Species

Bromellite Image

Images: Bromellite Magnesioferrite

Comments: A micro, water color,
hexagonal or barrel shaped crystal of
white bromellite to about 0.3 mm on
yellowish calcite with associated black
magnesioferrite.
Scale: 18x9x10mm.

Brookite Image

Images: Brookite

Comments: Brookite crystal group on matrix.
During the 19th century this site produced
some of the best brookite ever seen.
Location: Classic Welsh locality of Prenteg,
Gwynedd, Wales, UK. Scale: 4 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Brownmillerite Image

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Images: Brownmillerite

Comments: Brownish-orange masses of
brownmillerite in skarn.
Location: Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel
Mountains, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Brownmillerite Image

Images: Brownmillerite Reinhardbraunsite

Comments: Pink crystalline
reinhardbraunsite in brownmillerite.
Location: Near Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-
Pflaz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Brucite Image

Images: Brucite

Comments: Crystal cluster of brucite.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari
South Africa. Scale: 7 x 5 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Brucite Image

Images: Brucite

Comments: Pearly white,
pseudohexagonal crystals of brucite on
matrix.
Location: Pilcante, Trentino, Italy. Scale:
© Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it

Brugnatellite Image

Images: Brugnatellite

Comments: Botryoidal brugnatellite.
Location: Monte Ramazzo, Liguria, Italy.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Brushite Image

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Images: Brushite

Comments: Tan coatings of brushite on
calcite.
Location: Oberschleme, Erzgebirge
Mountains, Sachsen, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Buddingtonite Image

Images: Buddingtonite

Comments: Chalky massive buddingtonite.
Location: Sharon Heights, Menlo Park, San
Mateo County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Buergerite Image

Images: Buergerite

Comments: Doubly-terminated brownish
buergerite tourmaline crystals on matrix.
Location: Mexquitic, San Luis Potos?, Mexico.
Scale: 26x15x13 mm.

Bukovite Image

Images: Bukovite

Comments: Silvery metallic minute
aggregates of bukovite in white calcite
(polished mount).
Location: Predborice, Stredocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Bukovskyite Image

Images: Bukovskyite Zykaite

Comments: Pale beige acicular crystals of
bukovsk?ite with white zykaite.
Location: Christbescherung Mine,
Gro?voigtsberg, Freiberg District,

Bultfonteinite Image

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Images: Bultfonteinite

Comments: Rounded, spherical aggregation
of acicular bultfonteinite crystals.
© John Veevaert


Images: Bultfonteinite Oyelite

Comments: White encrustation of oyelite
covering brownish botryoidal bultfonteinite.
South Africa. Scale: 2 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert


Images: Bultfonteinite Poldervaartite

Comments: Bow-tie clusters of white,
acicular bultfonteinite and blocky, beige-
colored poldervaartite on matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning mine, South Africa.
Scale: picture size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Bunsenite Image

Images: Bunsenite

Comments: Greenish earthy bunsenite.

Burbankite Image

Images: Burbankite

Comments: White crystal of burbankite
(see arrow) and bluish green fluorite on
matrix.
Location: Pocos de Caldes, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.
© John Veevaert

Burbankite Image

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Images: Burbankite

Comments: Yellow massive burbankite.
Location: Big Sandy Creek, near Rocky Boy,
Big Bear Paw Mountains, Hill County,
Mineral Species

Burckhardtite Image

Images: Burckhardtite Moctezumite

Comments: Pink crusts of burckhardtite
with yellow crystalline moctezumite on
quartz.
Location: Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma,
Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Burkeite Image

Images: Burkeite

Comments: Translucent to opaque vuggy
mass of burkeite.
Mineral Species

Burnsite Image

Images: Burnsite Cotunnite

Comments: Images of burnsite grains (dark)
in intimate intergrowth with cotunnite
(light). Images obtained by scanning
electron microscopy.
Location: North Breach of the great fissure
Tolbachik v olcano eruption (1975-1976),
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Scale
bar: 20 µ-m.

Burpalite Image

Images: Burpalite

Comments: Yellow crystalline grains of
burpalite.
Location: Burpala, Transbaikal, Republic of
Buryatia, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Buryatite Image

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Images: Buryatite

Comments: Vitreous colorless buryatite on
matrix.
Location: Solongo B deposit, Buriatia
(Buryatia) Republic, Transbaikalia
(Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region,

Buserite Image

Images: Buserite Birnessite

Comments: Round, "rabbit pellets" of
buserite which dehydrates to birnessite
when dry. Image photographed through
water which is needed to preserve this
species.
Location: Aomori Springs, Oppu, Japan.
Scale: Sphere size 7 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Bustamite Image

Images: Bustamite

Comments: Very course crystals of
brownish red bustamite to 3cm in pink
calcite.
Location: Zinc Corp mine, Broken Hill, NSW,
Australia. Scale: 7 cm.
© John Attard

Butlerite Image

Images: Butlerite

Comments: Orange butlerite crystals.
Location: United Verde mine, Jerome,
Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size
Not Given.

Butschliite Image

Images: Butschliite

Comments: Slightly fibrous to granular
massive butschliite.
Location: Near Shavings Lake, Renfrew
County, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Buttgenbachite Image

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Images: Buttgenbachite

Comments: A blue crystal of
buttgenbachite.
Location: Likasi Mine, Likasi, Shaba
(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Crystal
length 3.1 mm.

Bystrite Image

Images: Bystrite Lazulite

Comments: Brownish-yellow bystrite grains
with blue lazulite in an igneous rock.
Location: Malo-Bystrinskoye lazurite deposit,
Tunka Valley, Sludyanka, Lake Baikal
Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.

Bystromite Image

Images: Bystromite

Comments: Dark brown bystromite in
quartz.
Location: La Fortuna Mine, El Antimonio,
Aqua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Bytownite Image

Images: Bytownite Plagioclase

Comments: Translucent crystalline
bytownite.
Location: Crystal Bay, Hennepin County,
Minnesota, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species


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Cabalzarite Image

Images: Cabalzarite

Comments: Brownish crystals of cabalzarite
on matrix.
Location: Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Sursass
(Oberhalbstein), Grischun (Grisons;
Graub?nden), Switzerland. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Cabriite Image

Images: Cabriite Sperrylite

Comments: Small crystal of dull gray
cabriite on a larger tin-white sperrylite
crystal.
Location: Dzhezhazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:
Crystal size 1.5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Cacoxenite Image

Images: Cacoxenite

Comments: Radial, spherical individual
crystal sprays of brownish yellow
cacoxenite.
Location: El Horcajo (Ciudad Real), Spain.
Scale: 0.5 mm diameter.

Cacoxenite Image

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Images: Cacoxenite Strengite

Comments: Lilac colored, spear-head
shape crystals of strengite to 5mm in large,
open vug associated with golden fibrous
cacoxenite.
Location: Coon Creek, Polk Co., Arkansas,
USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.

Cadmoselite Image

Images: Cadmoselite

Comments: Black cadmoselite grains in
quartz.
Location: Republic of Tuva, Siberia, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cadwaladerite Image

Images: Cadwaladerite

Comments: Yellow crystalline grain of
cadwaladerite, somewhat deliquescent.
Location: Cerro Pintados, south east of
Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cafarsite Image

Images: Cafarsite

Comments: Octahedron of cafarsite with a
green coloration (?) on a gneiss matrix.
Location: Vasl D' Aosta, Italy. Scale:
4.6x4.5x3.2 cm.

Cafarsite Image

Images: Cafarsite

Comments: Small, cubic crystal of cafarsite
on matrix.
Location: Wannigletscher, Binntal,
Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Cafetite Image

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Images: Cafetite

Comments: Ocher-colored aggregates of
cafetite in pegmatite, intimately mixed with
iron hydroxides.
Location: Mount Rasv umchorr, Khibiny
Mineral Species

Cahnite Image

Images: Cahnite

Comments: White, translucent cahnite
crystal on hodgkinsonite.
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New
Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.

Calaverite Image

Images: Calaverite

Comments: Quartz matrix with abundant
calaverite crystals.
Location: Cripple Creek, Teller County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.

Calciborite Image

Images: Calciborite

Comments: Translucent colorless crystalline
calciborite.
Location: Novofrolovskoye, Sverdlovsk
District, Northern Urals, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Calcio-ancylite-(Ce) Image

Images: Calcio-ancylite-(Ce)

Comments: Gray calcio-ancylite
pseudomorphs after remondite crystals up
to 4 cm long.
Scale: 5x4x4 cm.

Calcio-andyrobertsite-1M Image

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Images: Calcio-andyrobertsite-1M
Tennantite

Comments: Vein of blue
calcioandyrobertsite in massive dark gray
tennantite. The v ein of
calcioandyrobertsite extends for 0.8cm.
Scale: Specimen size 1.1 x 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Calcioburbankite Image

Images: Calcioburbankite Aegirine

Comments: Tan crystal spray of
calcioburbankite on dark green aegirine.
Mineral Species

Calciocopiapite Image

Images: Calciocopiapite

Comments: Greenish yellow crystalline
crust of calciocopiapite.
Location: Borate, San Bernardino County,
Mineral Species

Calcioferrite Image

Images: Calcioferrite

Comments: Whitish green botryoidal crust
of calcioferrite on matrix.
Location: Brugues, Barcelona, Catalunya,
Spain. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Calcite Image

Images: Calcite Quartz

Comments: Purple-colored druse of
amethystine quartz and white calcite.
Location: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Scale:
Sample size 20 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Calcite Image

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Images: Calcite Beryl

Comments: Transparent emerald, the green
v ariety of beryl on calcite (marble) matrix.
Location: Coscuez, Boyac?, Colombia. Scale:
2.5 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Calcite Image

Images: Calcite

Comments: White, divergent calcite
scalenohedral crystals.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, S.A., Mexico.
Scale: 8 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Calcite Image

Images: Calcite

Comments: Cream-colored crystalline
aggregate of calcite crystals.
20 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Calcurmolite Image

Images: Calcurmolite

Comments: Calcurmolite in yellow
globular aggregates of radiating fibers.
Location: Rabejac, Lodeve, Herault,
France. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.

Calderite Image

Images: Calderite

Comments: Dark red brown translucent
crystalline calderite.
Location: Hazaribag, Bihar, India. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Calderonite Image

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Images: Calderonite

Comments: Secondary electron image
showing a cluster of prismatic calderonite
crystals. (AmMin, 88:1704).
Location: Santa Marta, Badajoz province,
Spain. Scale: See Image.

Caledonite Image

Images: Caledonite

Comments: Transparent, blue caledonite
crystals.
Location: Mammoth mine, Tiger, Pinal
Giv en.

Callaghanite Image

Images: Callaghanite

Comments: Blue crystals of callaghanite
on matrix.
Location: Gabbs, Nevada, USA. Scale:
Picture size 4 mm.

Calomel Image

Images: Calomel

Comments: A grayish aggregate of
calomel on a rufous matrix.
Location: Landsberg (Moschellandsberg),
Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-
mm.

Calumetite Image

Images: Calumetite

Comments: Light blue botryoidal coatings
of calumetite on tarnished copper with
green paratacamite.
Location: Centennial Mine, Houghton
Mineral Species

Calzirtite Image

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Images: Calzirtite Augite Richterite

richterite.
Mineral Species

Camerolaite Image

Images: Camerolaite

Comments: Blue spherical aggregates of
camerolaite on matrix.
Location: Lubietov? (Libethen), Bansk?
Bystrica (Neusohl), Banskobystricky Kraj,
Slovak Republic. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.

Caminite Image

Images: Caminite

Comments: White crystalline massive
caminite.
Location: Nepian Deposit, East Siberian Salt
Basin, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Campigliaite Image

Images: Campigliaite

Comments: Sparse pale blue coatings of
campigliaite on matrix.
Location: Richfield, Sev ier County, Utah,
Mineral Species

Canasite Image

Images: Canasite

Comments: Yellow translucent canasite
grain with nepheline.
Location: Kirovskii Mine, Khibiny Massif, Kola
Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Canavesite Image

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Images: Canavesite

Comments: White acicular crystals of
canavesite on matrix.
Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Piedmont,
Italy. Scale: Picture size 9 mm.

Cancrinite Image

Images: Cancrinite

Comments: Milky white, translucent
fan-shaped sprays of cancrinite crystals.
Location: Point of Rocks Mesa, Colfax
County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Cancrisilite Image

Images: Cancrisilite

Comments: Light pink crystalline cancrisilite.
Mineral Species

Canfieldite Image

Images: Canfieldite

Comments: Dull, black pseudo-octahedral
crystals of canfieldite.
Location: Gallofa vein, Colquechaca,
Chayanta, Potosi, Bolivia. Scale: Crystal size
2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Cannizzarite Image

Images: Cannizzarite

Comments: Very delicate 2 mm. crystals of
dark gray cannizzarite on matrix.
Location: Kudryaviy Volcano, Iturup Island,
Kurilian Island Chain, Russia. Scale:
3.8x3x2.4 cm.

Cannonite Image

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Images: Cannonite Bismuthinite

Comments: Opaque white crystal tufts of
cannonite on quartz crystals with dark,
metallic bismuthinite.
Mineral Species

Caoxite Image

Images: Caoxite

Comments: Colorless to white crystals of
caoxite on matrix.
Location: Cerchiara Mine, Faggiona, Vara
valley, La Spezia province, Liguria, Italy.

Capgaronnite Image

Images: Capgaronnite

Comments: Very small black prismatic
crystals of capgaronnite in matrix.
Location: Cap Garonne, Var, France.

Caracolite Image

Images: Caracolite

Comments: Nearly transparent colorless
thin crystalline crust of caracolite.
Location: Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Caracolite Image

Images: Caracolite

Comments: Flat lying hexagonal prismatic
crystals of caracolite on matrix.
Location: Challacollo Mine near Oficina
Victoria, Chile. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Carboborite Image

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Images: Carboborite

Comments: Pure crystalline cleavage
fragment of carboborite.
Location: Inlamartit, Turkey. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Carbocernaite Image

Images: Carbocernaite

Comments: Light brownish massive
carbocernaite.
Location: Olenii (Oleny) Ruchei Stream
apatite deposit, Khibiny Massif, Kola
Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern

Carbonate-cyanotrichite Image

Images: Carbonate-cyanotrichite

Comments: Bright blue micro crystals of
carbonate-cyanotrichite on matrix.
Location: Widowmaker mine, Fry Canyon,
San Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size
0.1 mm.

Carbonate-fluorapatite Image

Images: Carbonate-fluorapatite Apatite

Comments: Pink, colliform carbonate-
fluorapatite on matrix.
Giv en.

Carbonate-hydroxylapatite Image

Images: Carbonate-hydroxylapatite
Robertsite Apatite

Giv en.

Caresite Image

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Images: Caresite

Comments: Tabular brownish-yellow
crystals of caresite in matrix.
Location: Poudrette quarry, Mt Saint-Hilaire,
Rouv ille Co., Qu?bec, Canada. Scale:

Carletonite Image

Images: Carletonite

Comments: Sev eral crystals of blue and
white carletonite.
© John Veevaert

Carlfriesite Image

Images: Carlfriesite

Comments: Pale bright yellow crystalline
carlfriesite botryoids on white calcite.
Location: Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Carlhintzeite Image

Images: Carlhintzeite

Comments: Colorless tabular crystals of
carlhintzeite on matrix.
Location: Hagendorf, Bayern, Germany.

Carlosturanite Image

Images: Carlosturanite

Comments: White to tan fibrous coatings of
carlosturanite on matrix.
Location: Val Varaita, Cuneo, Piemonte,
Mineral Species

Carlsbergite Image

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Images: Carlsbergite Kamacite

Comments: Polished section showing a
small light gray elongated inclusion of
carlsbergite in massive kamacite.
Location: Kenton County meteorite, Kenton
Co., Kentucky, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.08
mm.

Carmichaelite Image

Images: Carmichaelite

Comments: Backscattered electron (BSE)
image of a grain of carmichaelite included
in pyrope in GRPy-40. (AmMin 85:794).
Location: Garnet Ridge, an ultramafic
diatreme on the Colorado Plateau in
Arizona.. Scale: See Image.

Carminite Image

Images: Carminite

Comments: Brownish red carminite crystals
in matrix.
Location: San Rafael mine, Gabbs, Nye
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.

Carnallite Image

Images: Carnallite Rinneite

Comments: Orange to light brown rinneite
with colorless carnallite.
Location: Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Rh?n,
Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.

Carnallite Image

Images: Carnallite

Comments: Clear crystalline massive
carnallite.
Location: Stassfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt,
Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Carnallite Image

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Images: Carnallite Rokuhnite

Comments: Reddish brown rokuhnite, with
carnallite (deliquescent).
Location: Salzdetfurth Mine, Hildesheim,
near Hanov er, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Carnotite Image

Images: Carnotite

Comments: Bright yellow, fluorescent
crystals of carnotite on sandstone.
Location: Anderson Mine, Yavapai County,

Carpholite Image

Images: Carpholite

Comments: Golden yellow compact
radiating massive carpholite.
Location: Schlaggenwald, Bohemia,
Zapadocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Carraraite Image

Images: Carraraite

image of tabular, hexagonal carraraite
crystals. (AmMin 86:1294).
Location: Marble quarries of the Carrara
basin (Apuan Alps, Italy). Scale: See
Image.

Carrboydite Image

Images: Carrboydite

Comments: bluish green crusts of
carrboydite.
Location: Carr-Boyd Nickel Mine, Western
Mineral Species

Carrollite Image

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Images: Carrollite

Comments: Carrollite crystal with minor
attached matrix.
Location: Komoto-Frond in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Scale: 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Caryinite Image

Images: Caryinite Rhodonite

Comments: Yellow crystalline caryinite with
pink rhodonite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Caryopilite Image

Images: Caryopilite

Comments: Small white balls of caryopilite
next to larger barite crystals.

Cassedanneite Image

Images: Cassedanneite

Comments: Crystalline mass of
cassedanneite, colored green by included
descloizite.
Location: Berezovskoye Mine, near
Yekaterinburg, Sv erdlovsk District, Middle
Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cassiterite Image

Images: Cassiterite

Comments: Very brilliant black crystals of
cassiterite on white mica.
Location: Xue Bao Diang, Sichuan, China.
© Fabre Minerals

Cassiterite Image

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Images: Cassiterite

Comments: Gemmy, doubly terminated
cassiterite on quartz-mica matrix.
Location: Langcangjiang riv er area, Yunnan,
China. Scale: 2.7 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Catamarcaite Image

Images: Catamarcaite Putzite

Comments: Polished section of putzite (pu) grain
in close association with unnamed
Cu8Fe2ZnGe2S12 (un1) and catamarcaite (ca),
as inclusions in chalcocite-sphalerite (cc/sp)
(CanMin 42:1761).
Location: Old dumps near the Rosario vein,
Capillitas mining district, Department of
Andalgal?, Catamarca Province, Argentina..
Scale: See Image.

Catapleiite Image

Images: Catapleiite Aegirine

Comments: Clear crystals of catapleiite
with an attached 1.8 cm prismatic crystal
of dark aegirine.
© John Veevaert

Cattierite Image

Images: Cattierite Siegenite

Comments: Pinkish metallic cattierite,
intergrown with gray siegenite.
Location: Shinkolobwe, Katanga, Shaba,
Zaire. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cattiite Image

Images: Cattiite

Comments: Colorless cattiite grain
fragment.
Location: Zheleznyi Fe Mine, Kovdor Massif,
Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Grain size 2
mm.

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Cavansite Image

Images: Cavansite

Comments: Brilliant blue balls of acicular
crystals of cavansite to 1 cm in size richly
scattered about a matrix of colorless
stilbite crystals.
Location: Wagholi, Poona district,
Maharashtra, India. Scale: 7.5 x 9 x 8 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Cebollite Image

Images: Cebollite

Comments: Green to white fibrous coating
of cebollite on granular iron stained quartz.
Location: Cebola Creek, Gunnison County,
Mineral Species

Cechite Image

Images: Cechite

Comments: Black tabular crystal of
cechite on matrix.
Location: Alexander Gallery, Vrancice,
Pr?bram, Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia,
Czech Republic. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.

Celadonite Image

Images: Celadonite

Comments: Greenish masses of celadonite
filling vesicles in basaltic rock.
Location: Socorro County, New Mexico,
Mineral Species

Celestine Image

Images: Celestine

Comments: Transparent blue orthorhombic
crystals of celestine, some doubly
terminated to 15 mm in size, on a limestone
matrix.
Location: Clay Center, Ohio, USA. Scale: 5
x 9 x 2.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Celsian Image

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Images: Celsian Hendricksite

Comments: Gray massive celsian with dark
red hendricksite.
Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cerianite-(Ce) Image

Images: Cerianite-(Ce)

Comments: Black crystal of cerianite-(Ce)
on matrix.
Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.2
mm.

Cerite-(La) Image

Images: Cerite-(La)

Comments: Orange aggregates of
cerite-(La) in matrix, (CanMin, 40:1179).
Location: Mt. Yuksporr, Khibina massif, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Specimen size 3.5
cm.

Cerite-(La) Image

Images: Cerite-(La)

Comments: SEM photomicrograph of a
rhombohedral crystal of cerite-(La).
Location: Mt. Yuksporr, Khibina massif, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.

Cerotungstite-(Ce) Image

Images: Cerotungstite-(Ce) Anthoinite
Ferberite

Photo.
Mineral Species

Ceruleite Image

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Images: Ceruleite

Comments: Blue globular clusters of
ceruleite.
Location: Wheal Gorland, Gwennap,
Cornwall, England. Scale: Size Not Given.

Cerussite Image

Images: Cerussite

Comments: Transparent reticulated crystal
of cerussite.
Location: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Scale: 5
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Cerussite Image

Images: Cerussite Hydrocerussite

Comments: Platy crystals of milky white
hydrocerussite covering cerussite.
Scale: 6 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Cerussite Image

Images: Cerussite Mimetite

Comments: Creamy white crystal of cerussite
measuring 11 x 22 mm in size nestled nicely in a
vug which is lined by bright-yellow, lustrous,
prismatic mimetite crystals. The mimetites
av erage 5 mm in length.
Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Cerussite Image

Images: Cerussite

Comments: Jack-straw aggregate of
reticulated, white cerussite. Former John
Innes collection.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 9.75 x 5
x 2.5.
© John Schneider

Cervantite Image

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Images: Cervantite

Comments: Brownish-yellow, rounded
crystalline aggregate of cervantite on
quartz.
Location: Clara Mine, Oberwolfach,
Wolfach Valley, Black Forest, Baden-
W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale: Picture size
1.6 mm.

Cesarolite Image

Images: Cesarolite

Comments: Black to dark brown botryoidal
masses of cesarolite in white calcite.
Location: Sidi-amor-ben-Salem, Tunisia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cesbronite Image

Images: Cesbronite

Comments: Minute green spherical
cesbronite on calcite.
Location: Mina La Oriental, Moctezuma,
Mineral Species

Cesium-kupletskite Image

Images: Cesium-kupletskite Tienshanite

Comments: Dark olive-green colored
crystalline tienshanite with cesium-
kupletskite in microcline.
Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cetineite Image

Images: Cetineite Valentinite

Comments: Orange-reddish acicular
crystals of cetineite with white valentinite.
Location: Cetine di Cotorniano mine
(Cetine mine), Rosia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy.

Chabazite-Ca Image

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Images: Chabazite-Ca

Comments: Colorless hexagonal plates of
chabazite.
Location: Boral quarry, Bundoora, Victoria,
Australia. Scale: Size Not Given.

Chabazite-Ca Image


Comments: Twinned, white, blocky crystals
of chabazite on basalt matrix.
Location: Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia. Scale: 7x6x2 cm.

Chabazite-Ca Image


Comments: Pinkish orange colored
chabazite-Ca displaying a blocky,
near-cubic form of triclinic crystals.
Location: Imilchil, Anti-Atlas Morocco.
Scale: 4.2 x 3.7 x 1.6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Chabazite-Na Image

Images: Chabazite-Na Herschelite

Comments: Rounded transparent crystals
of chabazite-Na (herschelite).
Location: Horseshoe Dam, Maricopa

Chaidamuite Image

Images: Chaidamuite

Comments: Pale yellow earthy coatings of
chaidamuite with brown limonite on friable
matrix.
Location: Getchell Mine, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species

Chalcanthite Image

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Images: Chalcanthite Chalcocyanite

Comments: White to pale bluish
chalcocyanite with darker bluish
chalcanthite. The mineral is hygroscopic
and must be stored in a closed box.
size 4 mm.

Chalcanthite Image

Images: Chalcanthite Dolerophanite
Fedotovite

Comments: Brown crystals of
dolerophanite with blue chalcanthite and
green fedotovite.
Location: Great Fissure (Main Fracture)
eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka
Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale:
Picture size 3 mm.

Chalcanthite Image

Images: Chalcanthite Fedotovite

Comments: Green fedotovite with pale
blue chalcanthite.
Picture size 4 mm.

Chalcanthite Image

Images: Chalcanthite

Comments: Fibrous columnar crystalline
chalcanthite.
Location: Planet Mine, La Paz County,
Mineral Species

Chalcoalumite Image

Images: Chalcoalumite

Comments: Pale bluish stellate twins of
chalcoalumite on matrix.
Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cohchise
Giv en.

Chalcocite Image

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Images: Chalcocite

Comments: Chalcocite crystals in this
specimen vary in size up to 1.2 cm across.
Location: Bristol nr. Hartford, Connecticut,
USA. Scale: 7.6 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Chalcocite Image

Images: Chalcocite Eskolaite

Comments: Green crystalline eskolaite on
massive chalcocite.
Location: Lubelin, Poland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Chalcocyanite Image

Images: Chalcocyanite Chalcanthite

chalcocyanite with darker bluish
chalcanthite. The mineral is hygroscopic
and must be stored in a closed box.
size 4 mm.

Chalcomenite Image

Images: Chalcomenite

Comments: Blue crystals of chalcomenite
on matrix.
Location: El Drag?n mine, Quijarro
province, Potos?, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size
4 mm.

Chalconatronite Image

Images: Chalconatronite

Comments: Crystalline crusts of blue
chalconatronite on sandstone.
Location: Slick Rock, Egnar Area, San
Miguel County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Chalconatronite Image

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Images: Chalconatronite IMA2006-009
Sanromanite Juangodoyite

Comments: Yellowish, long balded
sanromanite crystals in vug with platy, blue
juangodoyite replacing green
chalconatronite.
Location: Santa Rosa mine, Iquique
Province, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: Picture
size 3 mm.

Chalcophanite Image

Images: Chalcophanite

Comments: Large mass of rounded
gray-black chalcophanite.
Location: Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill,
Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex
Co., New Jersey, USA. Scale: 14x11x7 cm.

Chalcophyllite Image

Images: Chalcophyllite

chalcophyllite crystals. The largest crystal is
0.5 cm across and several have the
perfect "stop sign" hexagon form.
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 2
cm.
© John Veevaert

Chalcopyrite Image

Images: Chalcopyrite Quartz

Comments: Well-formed crystals of
chalcopyrite and quartz.
Location: Boldut mine, 61 level (350 meters
deep), Cavnic, Maramures, Rumania.
© Fabre Minerals

Chalcopyrite Image

Images: Chalcopyrite Moncheite

Comments: White moncheite with
chalcopyrite (orange, blue and violet
tarnishing colors) in silicate matrix. Polished
section (from microprobe analysis) in
reflected light.
Location: Lukkulaisvaara ultrabasic Massif,
Olanga (Oulanka) Riv er, Oulanka plutonic
complex, Karelia Republic, Northern

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Chalcopyrite Image

Images: Chalcopyrite Oulankaite
Telargpalite Tulameenite

Comments: Gray long-prismatic crystal of
oulankaite with light grayish telargpalite
and pale yellowish-white rims of
tulameenite in massive yellowish
chalcopyrite. Polished section (from
microprobe analysis) in reflected light.

Chalcosiderite Image

Images: Chalcosiderite

Comments: Pale bluish transparent crystal
of chalcosiderite on matrix.
Location: Cornwall, England. Scale: Size
Not Given.

Chalcostibite Image

Images: Chalcostibite

Comments: Partial crystal of chalcostibite.
The crystal is partially altered to blue
azurite and green malachite.
Location: Gar El Anz, Morocco. Scale: 3 x
1.8 cm.
© John Veevaert

Chalcostibite Image

Images: Chalcostibite

Comments: Dark gray crystals of chalcostibite
on white quartz matrix.
Location: Boldut mine, Cav nic Maramures,
Rumania. Scale: 7 x 7 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Challacolloite Image

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Images: Challacolloite

Comments: White to transparent
challacolloite crystals on matrix.
Location: Eruption of 1855, Mount Vesuvius,
Campania, Italy. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Chambersite Image

Images: Chambersite

Comments: Tetragonal crystals of
chambersite extracted from salt dome
deposits.
Location: Barkers Hill, Mont Belvieu,
Chambers County, Texas, USA. Scale: Size
Not Given.

Chamosite Image

Images: Chamosite

Comments: Dark green sectile massive
chamosite.
Location: Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Chaoite Image

Images: Chaoite

Comments: Dark masses of chaoite
intermixed with graphite on rock shocked
by meteorite impact.
Location: Ries Crater, Bopfingen, Bav aria,
Baden-Wurttemberg. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Chapmanite Image

Images: Chapmanite

Comments: Green, earthy chapmanite on
quartz-sulfide matrix.
Location: Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine,
Br?unsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,

Charlesite Image

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Images: Charlesite

Comments: 1 cm white crystal of charlesite
on calcite with small (2 mm) octahedral
crystals of galena.
South Africa. Scale: Picture size 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Charoite Image

Images: Charoite

Comments: Polished slab of purple
charoite.
Location: Murun Massif, Chara River,
Davan, Torgo Riv er Basin, Aldan Shield,
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size
6.5 cm.

Charoite Image

Images: Charoite Fedorite

Comments: Tan crystalline platy fedorite in
pale violet charoite.
Location: Murun, Republic of Sakha, Siberia,
Mineral Species

Charoite Image

Images: Charoite Tinaksite

Comments: Yellow-brown prismatic
tinaksite crystals in purple charoite with
black aegirine.
Location: Murun, Aldan Uplift, Chara and
Olekma Rivers, near Olekminsk, Republic of
Sakha, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Charoite Image

Images: Charoite Tokkoite

Comments: Yellow crystalline tokkoite
intermixed with purple charoite (viewed
cross-sectional to fiber direction).
Location: Murun, Aldan, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species

Charoite Image

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Images: Charoite Tinaksite

Comments: Polished slab of deep purple
chariote with inclusions of black augite,
white feldspar and orange tinaksite.
Location: Murun, Siberia, Russia. Scale:
Picture size 10 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Chayesite Image

Images: Chayesite

Comments: Crystalline aggregate of rusty
red, thin tabular hexagonal plates of
chayesite stacked along the c-axis on
matrix.
Location: Pauliberg Mt., Kobersdorf,
Oberpullendorf, Burgenland, Austria. Scale:

Chelkarite Image

Images: Chelkarite

Comments: Minute transparent nearly
colorless microcrystals of chelkarite.
Location: Chelkar, Zapadno-Kazahstan,
Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Chenevixite Image

Images: Chenevixite

Comments: Green micro crystals of
chenevixite on matrix.
Location: Majuba Hill, Pershing County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© John Veevaert

Chenite Image

Images: Chenite

Comments: Sky blue crystalline coating of
chenite on matrix.
Location: Silberhutte, Altenau, Harz
Mountains, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cheralite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Cheralite-(Ce)

Comments: Brown to tan, massive
cheralite-(Ce) showing cleavage traces.
Location: Uranium King Mine, Trent Creek,
Encampment Copper District, Sierra Madre
Mts., Carbon Co., Wyoming, USA. Scale:
Picture size 1.4 cm.

Cherepanovite Image

Images: Cherepanovite Cooperite
Platinum

Comments: Creamy-grayish fractured
grains of cherepanov ite with gray granular
cooperite and white massiv e grains of
iridian ruthenian platinum. Polished section
in reflected light.
Location: Placer Deposit, Northern Pekul'nei
Riv er, Pekul'nei Range, Chukotka
(Tchukotka) Okrug, Chukot Peninsula,
Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture
size 0.12 mm.

Chernovite-(Y) Image

Images: Chernovite-(Y)

Comments: Dark brown irregular masses
and veinlets of chernovite-(Y) in pale
creamy tan-colored matrix.
Location: Montaldo Mine, Piedmont, Italy.
Scale: 2 1/4" x 2".

Chernykhite Image

Images: Chernykhite

Comments: Dark green flake of
chernykhite.
Location: Balasauskandyk, Juzno-
Kazahstan, Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Chervetite Image

Images: Chervetite Francevillite

Comments: Bottle brown tabular crystals
of chervetite on yellow francevilleite.
Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.

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Chesterite Image

Images: Chesterite Magnetite

Comments: Green platy chesterite in
black, metallic magnetite.
Location: Near Missoula, Missoula County,
Mineral Species

Chestermanite Image

Images: Chestermanite Ludwigite

Comments: Black capillary crystals of
ludwigite with green inclusions of
chestermanite in impure marble.
Location: Near Potter Pass, Fresno County,
Mineral Species

Chevkinite-(Ce) Image

Images: Chevkinite-(Ce)

Comments: Dark brown crystal of
chevkinite-(Ce).
Location: Miass, Central Ural Mountains,
Russia. Scale: 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Chiavennite Image

Images: Chiavennite

Comments: Prismatic micro crystals of
chiavennite less than 1mm.
Location: Ute, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.

Childrenite Image

Images: Childrenite

Comments: Single, terminated crystal of
childrenite.
Location: Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
2.6 cm.
© John Veev aert

Childrenite Image

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Images: Childrenite

Comments: Light-brown, acicular,
div ergent sprays of childrenite.

Childrenite Image

Images: Childrenite

Comments: Columnar, brown, prismatic,
crystalline aggregate of childrenite with
dark blue lazulite.
Canada. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Chiolite Image

Images: Chiolite

Comments: White translucent crystalline
massive chiolite.
Location: Ivigtut, Arksukjiord, Greenland.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Chkalovite Image

Images: Chkalovite

Comments: Massive, white chkalovite
associated with dark aegerine.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland.
Scale: 4.5 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Chlorapatite Image

Images: Chlorapatite

Comments: Blocky crystals of chlorapatite.
Location: Oyna, Froland, Norway. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Chlorargyrite Image

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Images: Chlorargyrite

Comments: Butterscotch colored cubic
crystals of chlorargyrite on malachite.

Chlorargyrite Image

Images: Chlorargyrite

Comments: Dark (by exposure to light)
octahedral crystals of chlorargyrite with
brownish goethite in a vug.
Location: Broken Hill, NWS, Australia. Scale:
Crystal size 3 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Chlorartinite Image

Images: Chlorartinite

Comments: Opaque white crystalline
chlorartinite on volcanic glass.
Location: Vulcan Tolbachik, Kamchatka
District, Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Chlorbartonite Image

Images: Chlorbartonite

Comments: Black grains of chlorbartonite in
sodalite-natrolite aggregates.
Location: Mount Koashva, Khibina massif,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.

Chloritoid Image

Images: Chloritoid Paragonite

Comments: Grayish crystalline inclusion of
chloritoid in white, massive paragonite.
Location: Drandorf Fundgrube Mine,
Bockau, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge,

Chloromenite Image

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Images: Chloromenite Melanothallite

Comments: Oliv e green crystalline
chloromenite on blue-green
melanothallite.
Location: North Break, Second Cone of
main fracture eruption, Tolbachik Volcano,
Kamchatka District, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Chlorophoenicite Image

Images: Chlorophoenicite

Comments: Clear tabular crystals of
chlorophoenicite.
Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.

Chlorothionite Image

Images: Chlorothionite

Comments: Pale blue granular crystalline
chlorothionite.
Location: Vesuvius, Napoli, Campania,
Mineral Species

Chloroxiphite Image

Images: Chloroxiphite Mendipite
Crednerite

Comments: Green, opaque granular
chloroxiphite with mendipite and black
crednerite.
Location: Higher Pitts Farm, Priddy, Mendip
Hills, Somerset, England. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Chloroxiphite Image

Images: Chloroxiphite Mendipite
Crednerite

Comments: Radiating compact with clear
to white crystalline mendipite with black
crednerite and green chloroxiphite.
Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Choloalite Image

Images: Choloalite Hessite

Comments: Sparse green crusts of
choloalite with metallic hessite.
Location: McAlpine Mine, Tuolumne
Mineral Species

Chondrodite Image

Images: Chondrodite

Comments: Lustrous and semi-transparent
crystal of reddish brown chondrodite 1 cm
in size with magnetite and muscovite.
Location: Palabora mine, Loolekop,
Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South
Africa. Scale: 4 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm.

Chondrodite Image

Images: Chondrodite Warwickite

Comments: Black crystalline warwickite
with tan chondrodite in white marble.
Location: Amity, near Warwick, Orange
County, New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Christelite Image

Images: Christelite Paratacamite

Comments: Robins-egg blue christelite with dark
green paratacamite on matrix.
Location: San Francisco mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile.
Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Chromite Image

Images: Chromite Antigorite

Comments: Chromite veins in yellow to
green antigorite with picrolite, chromian
antigorite and dolomite (polished section).
Location: Wood's Mine, near 'Texas', Little
Britain Township, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Chromite Image

Images: Chromite Theophrastite

Comments: Green pearly scaly
theophrastite coatings on massive dark
chromite.
Location: Vermion Region, near
Thessaloniki, Kedriki Makedhonia, Greece.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Chromium Image

Images: Chromium

Comments: Small silvery-gray metallic
grain of native chromium.
Location: Sichuan, China. Scale: Grain size
0.7 mm.

Chrysoberyl Image

Images: Chrysoberyl

Comments: Chrysoberyl (alexandrite)
sixling twin crystal.
Location: Zimbabwe. Scale: Crystal size 2.3
cm.

Chrysoberyl Image

Images: Chrysoberyl

Comments: Chrysoberyl (Alexandrite)
crystal on matrix with excellent color
change (Daylight, Tungsten Bulb).
Location: Malyshevo, Yekaterina Oblast',
Urals, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1.2 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Chrysocolla Image

Images: Chrysocolla

Comments: Botryoidal chrysocolla lining a vug.
Location: Inca del Oro, Copiap?, Chile. Scale: 7.5
x 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

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Chrysocolla Image

Images: Chrysocolla Cuprite

Comments: Semi-metallic, dark reddish gray,
cuprite crystals on blue chrysocolla.
Location: Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Congo.
Scale: 7.5 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Chrysocolla Image

Images: Chrysocolla Tenorite

Comments: Lustrous black botryoidal Tenorite
mostly covering a sky-blue massive
chrysocolla matrix.
Location: 79 mine, Banner district, Pinal Co.,
Arizona. Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Chrysotile Image

Images: Chrysotile

Comments: Polished slab of chrysotile
asbestos minerals showing the fibrous,
chatoyant crystal patterns.
Location: Globe, Globe-Miami District, Gila
Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: 8x7x1 cm.

Churchite-(Y) Image

Images: Churchite-(Y)

Comments: Acicular, radiating crystals of
churchite-(Y).
Location: Leoni mine, Auerbach, Bavaria,

Chvaleticeite Image

Images: Chvaleticeite

Comments: Powdery mass of
chv aleticeite.
Location: Chvaletice, Bohemia,
See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Cinnabar Image

Images: Cinnabar

Comments: Red single hexagonal
(Trigonal) crystal of cinnabar on dolomite.
Location: Fenghuang, Hunan Province,
Peoples Republic of China. Scale: Crystal
size 1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Cinnabar Image

Images: Cinnabar Edoylerite

Comments: Yellow prismatic crystals of
edoylerite with red cinnabar.
Location: Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek
Mine), New Idria district, San Benito Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.

Ciprianiite Image

Images: Ciprianiite

Comments: Black crystal of ciprianiite in
quartz.
Location: Monte Cav alluccio, Capagnano,
Roma, Lazio, Italy. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.

Clairite Image

Images: Clairite Rostite

Comments: Brownish crystals of clairite on
white massive rostite.
Picture size 5 mm.

Claraite Image

Images: Claraite

Comments: Green, round spherical grain of
claraite on fluorite.
1.5 mm.

Claringbullite Image

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Images: Claringbullite

Comments: Velv ety micro botryoids of
claringbullite lining vug in slag.
Location: Val Varenna, Pegli, Genov a,
Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clarkeite Image

Images: Clarkeite

Comments: Massive orange clarkeite.
Location: Bjertnes,Kr?deren, Buskerud,
Norway. Scale: Picture size 8 mm.

Claudetite Image

Images: Claudetite Arsenic

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystal of
claudetite on native arsenic.
size 2 mm.

Clausthalite Image

Images: Clausthalite

Comments: black massive and botryoidal
clausthalite on matrix.
Location: Lasovice, Mittelbuhmen,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Clausthalite Image

Images: Clausthalite Schlemaite Eucairite

Comments: Reflected-light digital-image of
the intermixed schlemaite grain in type
sample F2, from which the reflectance,
crystallographic and crystal-structure data
were obtained. (CanMin, v 41, p 1435).
Location: "Tiber" dike, -855-m level, block
5128, main shaft # 371, Niederschlema-
Alberoda v ein-type uranium depost at
Hartensein, Erzgebirge, Germany. Scale:
See Picture.

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Cliffordite Image

Images: Cliffordite

Comments: Small greenish crystals of
cliffordite encrusting matrix.
Location: Candelaria Mine, Moctezuma,
Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Clinoatacamite Image

Images: Clinoatacamite

Comments: Green clinoatacamite on
halite and anhydrite.
Location: Bernburg, Stassfurt Deposit,
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 4 mm.

Clinobisvanite Image

Images: Clinobisvanite

Comments: Numerous yellow to yellowish-
orange sub-mm crystals of clinobisvanite
on matrix.
Location: Linka Mine, Lander County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: 2.2 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Clinobisvanite Image

Images: Clinobisvanite

Comments: Deep yellow platy crystals of
clinobisvanite to less than 0.2mm.
Location: Linka mine, Lander Co., Nevada,
USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.

Clinocervantite Image

Images: Clinocervantite

Comments: White crystals of
Clinocervantite.

Clinochalcomenite Image

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Images: Clinochalcomenite

Comments: Blue-green crystalline coating
of clinochalcomenite on sulfide ore.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clinochalcomenite Image

Images: Clinochalcomenite Kerstenite
Krutaite

Comments: Tan opaque fibrous kerstenite
with possible blue clinochalcomenite on
dark krutaite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clinochlore Image

Images: Clinochlore Andradite

Comments: Transparent topazolite, the
yellow variety of andradite on clinochlore.
Location: Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria
District, San Benito County. California, USA.
© Fabre Minerals

Clinochlore Image

Images: Clinochlore

Comments: Purple clinochlore
(Kammererite) crystal cluster.
Location: Kop Daglari, Turkey. Scale: 1.4
cm across.
© John Veevaert

Clinochlore Image

Images: Clinochlore Perovskite

Comments: Square, opaque perovskite on
green clinochlore. Very brilliant and with
large crystals (2 x 1.5 cm.).
Location: Ilmen Mountains. Chelyabinsk,
Urals, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Clinochrysotile Image

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Images: Clinochrysotile

Comments: Asbestiform crystals of brown
Clinochrysotile.

Clinoclase Image

Images: Clinoclase

Comments: Acicular, radiating crystals of
clinoclase.
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Clinoclase Image

Images: Clinoclase

Comments: Divergent, elongated, bladed blue
crystals of clinoclase to 1mm on matrix.
Location: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada,
USA. Scale: Picture size 5x7 mm.

Clinoenstatite Image

Images: Clinoenstatite

Comments: Crystalline massive
clinoenstatite.
Location: Cape Vogel, Papua New
Guinea. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clinoferrosilite Image

Images: Clinoferrosilite

Comments: Light green crystalline
clinoferrosilite with dark green diopside.
Location: Bushveld Complex, Merensky
Reef, Rustenberg, Northern Province, South
Africa. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clinohedrite Image

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Images: Clinohedrite Hancockite

Comments: Clear crystals of clinohedrite
on hancockite.
Jersey, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.

Clinoholmquistite Image

Images: Clinoholmquistite
Magnesioclinoholmquistite Fluoro-
sodic-pedrizite

Comments: Dark blue fibrous
clinoholmquistite with radiating structure,
v ariety magnesioclinoholmquistite.
Clinoholmsquitite may be a new aphibole,
fluoro-sodic-pedrizite..
Location: Near Murun, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species

Clinohumite Image

Images: Clinohumite

Comments: Orange-brown glassy
crystalline clinohumite.
Location: Kuhi-Lal, Pamir, Gorno-Badahsan,
Tadzhikistan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clinojimthompsonite Image

Images: Clinojimthompsonite
Jimthompsonite

Comments: Pale green to white glassy
crystalline fibrous clinojimthompsonite
intergrown with jimthompsonite.
Location: Chester, Windsor County,
Vermont, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clinomimetite Image

Images: Clinomimetite

clinomimetite.
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Size of the largest
crystal 12 mm.

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Clinoptilolite-K Image

Images: Clinoptilolite-K

Comments: Thin, bladed aggregates of
authigenic clinoptilolite covering an
altered rock fragment. SEM image of a
core sample.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 50
µ-m.
© OMNI Laboratories, Inc

Clinosafflorite Image

Images: Clinosafflorite

Comments: Silvery metallic granular
clinosafflorite in rock.
Location: Nordmark, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clinotobermorite Image

Images: Clinotobermorite

Comments: Opaque white pure massive
clinotobermorite.
Location: Bazhenovskoe, Asbest,
Sverdlov sk District, Middle Urals, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Clinotyrolite Image

Images: Clinotyrolite Azurite

Comments: Light blue acicular crystals of
clinotyrolite on dark blue azurite.
Location: Lov elock mine, Churchill County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Clinozoisite Image

Images: Clinozoisite

Comments: Light pink stellate crystal
cluster of clinozoisite.
Location: Sunnyside mine, Silverton District,
San Juan County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Clinozoisite Image

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Images: Clinozoisite

Comments: Brown, prismatic crystal of clinozoisite.
Location: Alchuri, Shigar Skardu district, Pakistan.
Scale: Crystal size 7x2.3x1.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Clintonite Image

Images: Clintonite

Comments: Several interconnected platy
crystals of black clintonite v ariety
xanthophyllite on vuggy matrix.
Location: Green Monster Mountain, Prince
of Wales Island, Prince of Wales-Outer
Ketchikan Co., Alaska, USA. Scale: 4x3x2
cm.

Coalingite Image

Images: Coalingite

Comments: Brown micaceous sub-metallic
coatings of coalingite on serpentinite rock.
Location: Near Gem Mine, San Benito
Mineral Species

Cobaltarthurite Image

Images: Cobaltarthurite Arseniosiderite

Comments: Oliv e-greenish crystalline druse
of cobaltarthurite with spherical
arseniosiderite.
Location: Pastrana, Mazarr?n, Murcia,
Spain. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.

Cobaltaustinite Image

Images: Cobaltaustinite

Comments: Green, tabular crystal of
cobaltaustinite.
Location: Rappold Mine, Neust?dtel,
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Cobaltite Image

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Images: Cobaltite

Comments: Cobaltite embedded in
greenish gray dolomite.
Location: Espanola, Ontario, Canada.
Scale: 1.3 cm across.
© John Veevaert

Cobaltkoritnigite Image

Images: Cobaltkoritnigite Erythrite

Comments: Dark purplish cobaltkoritnigite
with pink erythrite.

Cobaltlotharmeyerite Image

Images: Cobaltlotharmeyerite

Comments: Brown crystalline aggregates
of cobaltlotharmeyerite on matrix.
Location: Sauschwart Mine, Neust?dtel,
Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm..

Cobaltomenite Image

Images: Cobaltomenite

Comments: Purple micro crystals of
cobaltomenite on matrix.
Location: Paris #25 mine, Thompson district,
Utah, USA. Scale: 2.5 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Cobalttsumcorite Image

Images: Cobalttsumcorite

cobalttsumcorite.
Location: Rappold Mine, Neust?dtel,

Coccinite Image

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Images: Coccinite Sulfur

Comments: Orange-red coccinite on sulfur.
Due to the volatility of the mineral at room
temperature, the sample is preserved in a
closed vial. The photo was made through
the vial, therefore the sharpness is
reduced.
Location: Lichtenberg Mine, Ronneburg U
Deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany.

Coconinoite Image

Images: Coconinoite

Comments: Dull, putty-colored clay-like
mass of coconinoite on a sandstone matrix.
Location: Jomas mine, White Canyon, San
Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size
1.2 cm.

Coconinoite Image

Images: Coconinoite

Comments: Pale yellow coatings of
coconinoite on sandstone.
Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon, San
Juan County, Utah. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Coeruleolactite Image

Images: Coeruleolactite

Comments: Hexagonal green crystal of
coeruleolactite with brownish surface coating.
Location: Turquoise Mine, Cripple Creek,
Cripple Creek District, Teller Co., Colorado,
USA. Scale: 12x5x4 mm.

Coesite Image

Images: Coesite

Comments: Fine-grained, massive coesite.
Location: Meteor Crater, Canyon Diablo,
Coconino County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

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Coesite Image

Images: Coesite

Comments: Coesite inclusion in garnet of
eclogite sample (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:567).
Location: Ultra high-pressure metamorphic
area of the Saidenbach reservoir,
Erzgebirge, Germany, where micro-
diamond-bearing gneiss occurs. Scale:
Scale Bar 50 µm.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Coffinite Image

Images: Coffinite

Comments: Black, interstitial coffinite
cementing a sub-angular quartzose
sandstone. Schumacher Collection.
Location: Temple Mountain, San Rafael
District (San Rafael Swell), Emery Co., Utah,
USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Cohenite Image

Images: Cohenite

Comments: Bluish gray, metallic iridescent
crystals of cohenite on matrix.
Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk Oblast',
Urals Region, Russia. Scale: 2.3 mm.

Cohenite Image

Images: Cohenite Troilite Kamacite
Taenite

Comments: Brown masses of troilite, with
white cohenite, in kamacite/taenite matrix,
in meteorite (polished section).
Photo.
Mineral Species

Colemanite Image

Images: Colemanite

Comments: Coarsely crystalline
colemanite, in part, covered with minute
acicular crystals of strontianite.
Location: Boraxo #3 pit, Death Valley,
California, USA. Scale: 30 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

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Colemanite Image

Images: Colemanite

Comments: Large crystals of brown colemanite
with second generation of absolutely clear and
gemmy (colorless) colemanite. Intensely
fluorescent in long and short UV..
Location: Mustafakemalpascha Mine,
West-Anatolia Turkey. Scale: Crystal size: 1.3 x 1
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Collinsite Image

Images: Collinsite

Comments: Half nodule of nearly pure
collinsite. The center of the specimen is a
small piece of volcanic rock surrounded
by collinsite.
Location: Francois Lake, British Columbia,
Canada. Scale: 7 x 5.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Coloradoite Image

Images: Coloradoite

Comments: Massiv e, metallic coloradoite.
Location: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia,
Australia. Scale: 5x2.5x1.5 cm.

Colquiriite Image

Images: Colquiriite

Comments: Colorless tabular crystals of
colquiriite on matrix.
Location: Serra Branca pegmatite, Pedra
Lavrada, Picu?, Para?ba, Northeast
Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 0.8 mm.

Colusite Image

Images: Colusite

Comments: Bronzy, metallic tetragonal
crystals of colusite in white marble.
Location: Val Bona quarry, Carrara, Italy.
© Dave Barthelmy

Comancheite Image

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Images: Comancheite

Comments: Small orange crystals of
comancheite on matrix.
Location: Mariposa mine, Terlingua,
Terlingua district, Brewster County, Texas,
USA. Scale: Picture size 1.4 mm.

Combeite Image

Images: Combeite

Comments: Crystalline cleav age fragment
of combeite.
Mineral Species

Compreignacite Image

Images: Compreignacite

compreignacite on matrix.
size 1.5 mm.

Congolite Image

Images: Congolite

Comments: Pearly crystalline grains of
congolite.
Location: Brazzav ille, Pool, Congo. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Conichalcite Image

Images: Conichalcite Willemite

Comments: Conichalcite with willemite.
Location: Collected from the 30 level of
the Tsumeb mine. Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale:
2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Conichalcite Image

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Images: Conichalcite Cornubite

Comments: Blue green crystalline
cornubite alteration of enargite with green
conichalcite in white calcite.
Location: Lime Bluff Quarry, Lycoming
Photo.
Mineral Species

Connellite Image

Images: Connellite

Comments: Blue acicular crystals of
connellite.
Location: Deep Creek Mountains, Tooele
County, Utah, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Cookeite Image

Images: Cookeite

Comments: Large tan-colored cookeite
epimorph after a large 12 cm quartz
crystal. The outer faces of the epimorph
are ov ergrown with milky quartz crystals
up to 15 mm long.
Location: Bennett & Orchard Pit mines,
Buckfield, Oxford Co., Maine, USA. Scale:
17x17x11 cm.

Coombsite Image

Images: Coombsite

Comments: Sawed slab with brownish
veining in pink (?) matrix.
Location: Watson's Beach, Otago, South
Island,, New Zealand. Scale: 3x2cm x
5mm.

Cooperite Image

Images: Cooperite Cherepanovite
Platinum

in reflected light.

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size 0.12 mm.

Cooperite Image

Images: Cooperite Osmium Vasilite
Vysotskite

Comments: BSE image taken with a SEM of
the sulfide-dominant microparagenesis
filling a gas vacuole. Cooperite crystal
surrounded by Pd-Cu-Pt-S phase (v asilite?),
vysotskite and osmium laths (white) in
chalcopyrite-bornite matrix (dark). (CanMin
38:1258).
Location: Pustaya River placer deposit,
situated within the Koryak-Kamchatka
platinum-bearing belt of Alaskan-type
intrusions in eastern Russia. Scale: See
Image.

Copiapite Image

Images: Copiapite

Comments: Brownish yellow tabular
crystals of copiapite.
Location: Saghand, near Yazd, Yadz
Prov ince, Iran. Scale: Not Giv en.

Copiapite Image

Images: Copiapite Rozenite Ferrinatrite

Comments: White powdery rozenite
coating with yellow ferrinatrite on purple
copiapite.
Location: Le Cetine Mine, Siena, Tuscany,
Mineral Species

Copper Image

Images: Copper

Comments: Native copper forming a
branching cluster of crystals with some
massive calcite.
Location: Houghton County, Michigan, USA.
© Dan Weinrich

Coquandite Image

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Images: Coquandite

Comments: Silky coquandite with stibnite.
Location: Pereta mine, Grosseto, Tuscany,

Coquimbite Image

Images: Coquimbite

Comments: Brownish yellow tabular
crystals of coquimbite.
Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cochise

Coquimbite Image

Images: Coquimbite Goldichite
Ferricopiapite

Comments: Prismatic to fibrous crystals of
goldichite on white massive coquimbite
with yellow ferricopiapite.
Location: Dexter No. 7 Mine, Calf Mesa,
San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Corderoite Image

Images: Corderoite

Comments: Small dark brown
dodecahedral crystal of corderoite.
Location: Hohe Buche, K?nigsberg,
Wolfstein, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate,

Cordierite Image

Images: Cordierite

Comments: Brown rectangular cordierite
crystals in matrix. These crystals are not
gemmy enough to be called iolite.
Location: Richmond Soapstone Quarry,
Richmond, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire,

Cordylite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Cordylite-(Ce) Synchysite-(Ce)

cordylite-(Ce) on light brownish
synchysite-(Ce).
Location: Narss?rssuk (Narsarsuk), Igaliko,
Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.

Corkite Image

Images: Corkite Hinsdalite

Comments: Small brown rounded
translucent crystals of corkite on darker
brown botryoidal hinsdalite.
Location: Grube Schone Aussicht, near
Dernbach, Montabaur, Rheinland-Pflaz,
Mineral Species

Cornetite Image

Images: Cornetite

Comments: Crystals of cornetite on matrix.
Location: Etoile Mine, Katanga Province,
Dem. Rep. of Congo. Scale: Crystal size 0.5
cm.
© John Veevaert

Cornetite Image

Images: Cornetite

Comments: Radial groups of intense blue
cornetite crystals in green malachite.
Location: Mine de l'Etoile, Shaba,
Lubumbashi Zaire. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Cornubite Image

Images: Cornubite Conichalcite

Comments: Blue green crystalline
cornubite alteration of enargite with green
conichalcite in white calcite.
Location: Lime Bluff Quarry, Lycoming
Photo.
Mineral Species

Cornwallite Image

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Images: Cornwallite

Comments: Emerald green botryoidal
crystals of cornwallite.
Location: Tintic District, Juab County, Utah,
USA. Scale: Not Giv en.

Coronadite Image

Images: Coronadite Crocoite

Comments: Black coronadite with red
crocoite on matrix.
Germany. Scale: Specimen size 7 cm.

Coronadite Image

Images: Coronadite Iodargyrite

Comments: Dark, fine-grained massive
coronadite with yellowish octahedral
iodargyrite crystals.
Australia. Scale: Picture size 3x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Corrensite Image

Images: Corrensite

Comments: Platy, authigenic chloritic
mixed-layer clays (Corrensite?), lining the
pore spaces of a sandstone. SEM image
from a core sample.
µ-m.

Corrensite Image

Images: Corrensite

Comments: White earthy crust of corrensite
on matrix.
Location: Bolet, Varmland, Sweden. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Corundum Image

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Images: Corundum

Comments: corundum (variety Sapphire).
Location: Miass, Urals, Russia. Scale: 10 x 8
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Corundum Image

Images: Corundum Zincohogbomite-2N2S

Comments: Thin-Section (Plane Polarized
Light) of a brown, twinned
zincoh?gbomite-2N2S crystal with blue
corundum.
Location: Mikro-Lakka Emery deposit,
Kerketeas Mt, S?mos Island, Aegean
Islands Department, Greece. Scale: Picture
size 1.1 mm.

Corundum Image

Images: Corundum

Comments: Bright red ruby corundum
crystals in white marble matrix.
Location: Jagdalak (Jagdalek; Jagdalik)
Ruby Mine, Sorobi District, Konar (Kunar;
Konarh; Konarha; Nuristan) Province,
Afghanistan. Scale: 4x3.5x3 cm.

Corvusite Image

Images: Corvusite

Comments: Silky to dull brown corv usite
in/on sandstone.
Location: Fire Fly Mine, near Delta, Emery
Mineral Species

Corvusite Image

Images: Corvusite Vanoxite

Comments: Blue-black, somewhat silky
vanoxite, with brown corv usite on
sandstone.
Location: Club Mine, Uravan, Montrose
County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cosalite Image

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Images: Cosalite

Comments: Metallic-lustered cosalite on
matrix.
Location: Limestone Quarry,
Hammerunterwiesenthal, Oberwiesenthal,
Picture size 8 mm.

Cotunnite Image

Images: Cotunnite

Comments: White to tan translucent
crystalline cotunnite on volcanic slag.
Location: Vesuvius, Campania, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cotunnite Image

Images: Cotunnite Burnsite

Comments: Images of burnsite grains (dark)
in intimate intergrowth with cotunnite
(light). Images obtained by scanning
electron microscopy.
Location: North Breach of the great fissure
Tolbachik v olcano eruption (1975-1976),
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Scale
bar: 20 µ-m.

Cousinite Image

Images: Cousinite

Comments: minute aggregate of greenish
black platy crystals of Cousinite.
Mineral Species

Coutinhoite Image

Images: Coutinhoite

Comments: New mineral, IMA 2003-025,
from this pegmatite. This is a co-type
specimen. Flaky crystals of choutinhoite to
less than 0.25mm in gelatin capsule.
Location: Lavra do Urucum, Serra do
Urucum, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
Crystal size 0.25mm.

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Coutinhoite Image

Images: Coutinhoite

Comments: Irregular aggregate of yellow
coutinhoite. (AmMin, v 89, p 721).
Location: Urucum mine, Galil?ia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Image.

Covellite Image

Images: Covellite

Comments: Covellite crystal group.
Location: Butte, Montana, USA. Scale: 8 x 4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Covellite Image

Images: Covellite Nukundamite

Comments: Metallic brownish rim of
nukundamite with dark purplish-blue
cov ellite on fine-grained pyrite.
size 7 mm.

Cowlesite Image

Images: Cowlesite

Comments: Milky bluish translucent
botryoidal cowlesite in vug.
Location: Goble, Columbia County,
Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Coyoteite Image

Images: Coyoteite

Comments: Black and white image of a
polished section showing coyoteite crystals
showing chevron pattern developed by
opposing cleavage sets. Continuous
parallel lines are polishing scratches.
(AmMin 68:252).
Location: Coyote Peak mafic alkalic
diatreme near Orick, Humboldt County,

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California. USA. Scale: Image size 0.26 mm.

Crandallite Image

Images: Crandallite Wardite

Comments: Sliced and polished slab of
yellow to white mixture of wardite and
crandallite.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co.,
Utah, USA. Scale: 11x6x.6 cm.

Crandallite Image

Images: Crandallite Phosphofibrite

Comments: Olive-green colored fibrous
phosphofibrite aggregates with white
crandallite.
Location: Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species

Creaseyite Image

Images: Creaseyite

Comments: Sparse light green micro
crystalline creaseyite on crystalline quartz.
Location: Navajoa, Sonora, Mexico. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Creaseyite Image

Images: Creaseyite

Comments: Green acicular sprays of creaseyite
to 0.5mm on matrix.
Location: Rawhide mine, Mohave County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Crednerite Image

Images: Crednerite Mendipite

Comments: Sooty, deep-black, granular to
platy crednerite with mendipite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Crednerite Image

Images: Crednerite Chloroxiphite
Mendipite

crednerite.
Mineral Species

Crednerite Image

Images: Crednerite Mendipite
Chloroxiphite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Creedite Image

Images: Creedite

Comments: Colorless, bladed creedite
crystals.
Location: Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico.
© John Veevaert

Creedite Image

Images: Creedite Fluorite

Comments: Well-developed, prismatic,
reddish creedite crystals on green fluorite.
Location: Mina Navidad, Rodeo, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: 9 x 5 x 5.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Creedite Image

Images: Creedite Smithsonite

Comments: Purple transparent crystals of
creedite to 6 mm on matrix of creamy
botryoidal crystalline smithsonite.
Location: Level 8 San Antonio mine, Santa
Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: 7 x 3.5 x
2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

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Crichtonite Image

Images: Crichtonite

Comments: Black crichtonite crystal in
quartz.
Location: Kriegalptal, Binntal, Wallis
(Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 1.5
mm.

Cristobalite Image

Images: Cristobalite

Comments: White crystals of cristobalite
frozen in obsidian glass.
Location: Cerro San Cristobal, Pachuca,
Hidalgo, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.

Crocoite Image

Images: Crocoite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of red-orange
crocoite.
Location: Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania.
© Dave Barthelmy

Crocoite Image

Images: Crocoite Vauquelinite

Comments: Oliv e-greenish vauquelinite
encrusting red crocoite.

Crocoite Image

Images: Crocoite Coronadite

Comments: Black coronadite with red
crocoite on matrix.

Cronstedtite Image

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Images: Cronstedtite

Comments: Pyramidal crystals of
cronstedtite.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua,

Cronusite Image

Images: Cronusite

Comments: Light gray grain of cronusite.
Polished section (from microprobe analysis)
in reflected light.
Location: Enstatite meteorite, Norton Co.,
Kansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.18 mm.

Crookesite Image

Images: Crookesite Eucairite

Comments: Polished section (PPL) showing
zoned crystal of cream-colored eucairite
and pale lav ender crookesite along with
steel blue umangite and white clausthalite
in dark gray gangue..
Location: Mine dump (tailings) of Shaft 371
near Hartenstein/Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Crossite Image

Images: Crossite

Comments: Black prismatic crystal clusters
of crossite.
Location: near Valley Ford, Sonoma
Mineral Species

Crossite Image

Images: Crossite

Comments: Long metallic, black, prismatic
crystals or crossite on matrix.
Location: Webbing, Lammertal, Salzburg,
Austria. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.

Cryolite Image

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Images: Cryolite Ralstonite

Comments: Massiv e cryolite with solution
cavities lined with octahedral ralstonite
crystals.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: Picture
size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Cryolite Image

Images: Cryolite Thomsenolite

Comments: Massive, white cryolite with
solution cavities lined with prismatic
Thomsenolite crystals.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: .
© John Veevaert

Cryolite Image

Images: Cryolite

Comments: Massiv e cryolite with one
section of lustrous crystal faces.
size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Cryolite Image

Images: Cryolite Cryolithionite

cryolithionite in brown cryolite.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Cryolite Image

Images: Cryolite

Comments: Red-brown crystalline massive
cryolite.
Location: Katugin River, Siberia, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cryolite Image

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Images: Cryolite Weberite

Comments: Gray weberite masses in white
cryolite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Cryolithionite Image

Images: Cryolithionite Cryolite

cryolithionite in brown cryolite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Cryptohalite Image

Images: Cryptohalite

Comments: White to colorless crystals of
cryptohalite. The red color is due to
admixtured (amorphous ?) selenium.
Location: Kladno, Stredocesk? Kraj,
size 5 mm.

Cryptohalite Image

Images: Cryptohalite Bararite

Comments: White crystalline bararite
intermixed with cryptohalite colored
yellow by selenium.
County, Pennsylvani, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Cryptomelane Image

Images: Cryptomelane Adamite

Comments: Black, rounded balls of
cryptomelane and purple, transparent
adamite.

Cubanite Image

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Images: Cubanite

Comments: Brassy, lustrous, cyclic-twinned
cubanite on matrix.
Location: Henderson # 2 Mine,
Chibougamau, Quebec, Canada. Scale:
10x6 mm.

Cumengite Image

Images: Cumengite Boleite

Comments: Inky blue cumengite "sixling"
epitaxially overgrown on boleite.
Location: Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja
California Sur, Mexico. Scale: Not Giv en.

Cummingtonite Image

Images: Cummingtonite

Comments: Light brown prismatic
crystalline aggregate of cummingtonite
with radiating structure.
Location: West Chesterfield, Hampshire
County, Massachusetts, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Cuprite Image

Images: Cuprite

Comments: Dark red ball or sphere of
cuprite crystals set on a pearly white
dolomite crystal matrix.
Scale: 5 x 2.5 x 4 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Cuprite Image

Images: Cuprite Chrysocolla

Comments: Semi-metallic, dark reddish gray,
cuprite crystals on blue chrysocolla.
Location: Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Congo.
Scale: 7.5 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Cuprite Image

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Images: Cuprite

Comments: Red, acicular chalcotrichite
crystals as a fine, fibrous red mass on
matrix.

Cuprobismutite Image

Images: Cuprobismutite Kupcikite

Comments: Backscattered electron image
of kupc?kite (ku) replacing cuprobismutite
(cu); both phases are in turn replaced by
bsimuthinite deriv ative (bd79-92).
Location: Felbertal, Austria. Scale: Scale
bar 100 µ-m.

Cuprocopiapite Image

Images: Cuprocopiapite

Comments: Grayish green crusts of
cuprocopiapite on gypsum.
Location: Copper Queen Mine, Double
Mountain Fork of Brazois River, Stonewall
County, Texas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cuproiridsite Image

Images: Cuproiridsite Isoferroplatinum

Comments: Gray equant crystal of
cuproiridsite in light gray isoferroplatinum.
in reflected light.
Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-
ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Saha
(Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian

Cupromakovickyite Image

Images: Cupromakovickyite Hodrushite

Comments: Kup?c?kite (ku) and hodrushite
(ho) partly replaced by bismuthinite
derivative (bd56) with relict lamellae of
low-Cu (4P) and cupromakovickyite
[4P(Cu,Pb)]. (CanMin, 41:1165).
Location: Scheelite deposit of Felbertal,
Austria. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µm.

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Cuprorivaite Image

Images: Cuprorivaite

Comments: Pale blue grains of
cuproriv aite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cuprosklodowskite Image

Images: Cuprosklodowskite

Comments: Very-fine, acicular crystals of
apple green cuprosklodowskite on matrix.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Katanga,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale:
Not Given.
© John Veevaert

Cuprosklodowskite Image

Images: Cuprosklodowskite

Comments: Green, acicular
cuprosklodowskite crystals.
Location: Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi,
Picture size 3 mm.

Cuprospinel Image

Images: Cuprospinel

Comments: 2mm piece of from the type
specimen matrix with disseminated, black
cuprospinel.
Location: Consolidated Rambler mine, Baie
Verte, Newfoundland, Canada. Scale:
Specimen size 2 mm.

Cuprostibite Image

Images: Cuprostibite Ussingite

Comments: Massive ussingite hosting grains of the
very rare copper antimony-thallium bearing
cuprostibite.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland. Scale:
4.8 x3.4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Cuprotungstite Image

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Images: Cuprotungstite

Comments: Tan coatings of cuprotungstite
on quartz.
Location: Lida, Esmeralda County,
Mineral Species

Cuprotungstite Image

Images: Cuprotungstite Jixianite

Comments: Reddish brown crystal druse of
jixianite with minor tan cuprotungstite.
Location: Apache Mine, Hidalgo County,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Curetonite Image

Images: Curetonite

Comments: Translucent tabular crystal of
curetonite in crystalline barite.
Location: Near Golconda, Humboldt
Mineral Species

Curienite Image

Images: Curienite Francevillite

Comments: Intense yellow curienite and
orange francevillite.
Location: Mouonana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Curite Image

Images: Curite

Comments: Orangish red curite crystals.

Cuspidine Image

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Images: Cuspidine

Comments: Tan spear-shaped micro
crystals of cuspidine in diopside.
Location: San Vito Quarry, Vesuvius, Napoli,
Mineral Species

Cuzticite Image

Images: Cuzticite

Comments: Thin scaly yellow-brown crust
of cuzticite on quartz.
Location: Mina Bambollita, Moctezuma,
Mineral Species

Cyanochroite Image

Images: Cyanochroite

Comments: Pale blue crystal cluster of
cyanochroite.
Location: Eruption of 1870, Mount Vesuvius,
Napoli, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cyanotrichite Image

Images: Cyanotrichite

cyanotrichite.
Location: Grandview mine, Grand Canyon,
Coconino County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Cyanotrichite Image

Images: Cyanotrichite Azurite

cyanotrichite with dark-blue, blocky azurite
on a green, malachite matrix.
Mineral Species

Cyanotrichite Image

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Images: Cyanotrichite

Comments: Blue, acicular sprays of
cyanotrichite on a gray matrix.
Mineral Species

Cylindrite Image

Images: Cylindrite

Comments: Cylindrical crystals of cylindrite
in granular tin sulfide ore.
Location: Montserrat Mine, Poopo, Oruro,
Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Cymrite Image

Images: Cymrite

Comments: Pearly white cymrite with
jadeite in greywacke rock.
Location: Pacheco Pass, Santa Clara
Mineral Species

Cyrilovite Image

Images: Cyrilovite

Comments: Greenish-yellow crystals of
cyrilovite in matrix.
Location: Rengersdorf, G?rlitz, Oberlausitz,
mm.


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"D " Mineral Photos (101)
Dachiardite-Na Image

Images: Dachiardite-Na

Comments: Orange flat radial crystals of
dachiardite-Na to 2cm across on matrix.
Location: Alpe di Siusi, Bolanzo,
Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Scale: Specimen
size: 6x4x3cm.

Dadsonite Image

Images: Dadsonite

Comments: Gay metallic massive
dadsonite.
Location: Wolfsberg, Harzgerode, Sachsen-
Anhalt, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dalyite Image

Images: Dalyite Janhaugite

Comments: Tan crystalline dalyite (arrow)
with reddish brown janhaugite.
Location: Gjerdingen, Nordmark, north of
Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Danburite Image

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Images: Danburite

Comments: Very-fine, large, single transparent
crystal of danburite with minor crystals of colorless
calcite all around the base.
Location: Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Scale: 4
x 2.5 x 9.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Darapskite Image

Images: Darapskite

Comments: White crystalline granular
darapskite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dashkovaite Image

Images: Dashkovaite

Comments: White fibrous dashkovaite.
Location: Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic,
Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size
2.3 mm.

Datolite Image

Images: Datolite

Comments: Cluster of doubly-terminated
datolite crystals to 3.3 cm across with a
scattering of brown inclusions.
Location: Boron Pit, Dal'Negorsk, Russia.
Scale: 5x3.9x3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Daubreeite Image

Images: Daubreeite

Comments: Massiv e yellow daubreeite.
Location: Cerro Tazna, Atocha-Quechisla
district, Nor Chichas Prov ince, Potos?
Department, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Daubreelite Image

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Images: Daubreelite Alabandite

Comments: Daubreelite (D), bright metallic
white, with alabandite (A) (dull yellow) as
inclusions in a polished section of an
achondrite meteorite.
Location: Norton County, Kansas. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Davidite-(La) Image

Images: Davidite-(La)

Comments: Prismatic crystals of davidite in
carbonatite.
Location: Thackering, South West Australia,
Australia. Scale: Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Davreuxite Image

Images: Davreuxite

Comments: Pale yellow fibrous davreuxite
on quartz.
Location: Ottre, Luxembourg, Belgium.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Davyne Image

Images: Davyne

Comments: Yellow translucent micro
crystal of davyne in sanidine.
Location: Laacher See, Rheinland-Pfalz,
Mineral Species

Dawsonite Image

Images: Dawsonite

Comments: White, radial crystalline
aggregates of dawsonite crystals.
Canada. Scale: Not Given.

Decrespignyite-(Y) Image

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Images: Decrespignyite-(Y)

Comments: Blue, rounded aggregates of
decrespignyite-(Y) on matrix.
Location: Paratoo copper mine, Yunta,
Olary Province, South Australia, Australia.

Defernite Image

Images: Defernite Hematite

Comments: Specular hematite rich with
crystalline grains of reddish brown
defernite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat,
Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region,
© John Veevaert

Defernite Image

Images: Defernite Vaterite Manganite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous vaterite
with red defernite and black manganite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi,
Otjozondjupa, Namibia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Delafossite Image

Images: Delafossite

Comments: Black crystals of delafossite on
matrix.
Location: Clara Mine, Rankach v alley,
Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest,
Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Deliensite Image

Images: Deliensite

Comments: Specimen is covered with
abundant micro crystals of deliensite.
Location: Mas d'Alary Village, Le Bosc
Lodeve, Herault, France. Scale: Not Given.
© John Veevaert

Delindeite Image

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Images: Delindeite

Comments: pale pink acicular crystal
sprays of delindeite on matrix.
Location: Diamond Jo Quarry, Hot Spring
County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dellaite Image

Images: Dellaite Rustumite

Comments: White grains of dellaite,
intermixed with rustumite.
Location: Queretaro, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dellaventuraite Image

Images: Dellaventuraite Aegirine-augite

Comments: View in plane-polarized light of
reddish brown dellaventuraite (OPTK) as
an overgrowth on purple-gray aegirine-
augite (AE-AG) in a matrix of rounded
quartz (QZ) with minor rounded (high relief)
apatite grains. (AmMin 90:306).
Location: Kajlidongri manganese mine,
Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Delrioite Image

Images: Delrioite Metadelrioite

Comments: Yellow metadelrioite and delrioite,
with orange rossite/metarossite on a sandstone
matrix. See inset image.
Location: Jo Dandy Mine, Montrose CO., USA.
Scale: 6 1/4" x 5 1/2".

Delvauxite Image

Images: Delvauxite

Comments: Pure botryoidal massiv e
delvauxite.
Location: Kutna Hora, Stredocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Demesmaekerite Image

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Images: Demesmaekerite Malachite

Comments: Pale green crystals of
demesmaekerite on dark green malachite.
Crystal Size 3mm.
© John Veevaert

Demesmaekerite Image

Images: Demesmaekerite

Comments: Tabular, light green and spear-
shaped dark greenish brown demesmaekerite
crystals.
Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba
(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 3
mm.

Denisovite Image

Images: Denisovite

Comments: Grayish-white fibrous
denisovite.
Location: Eveslogchorr Mt , Khibiny Massif,
mm.

Denningite Image

Images: Denningite Tellurite

Comments: Vitreous colorless to very pale
yellowish elongated crystals denningite
with yellow tellurite.
Location: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma,
Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.

Derbylite Image

Images: Derbylite

Comments: Small black crystals of
derbylite in matrix.
Location: Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema
(Ponte Stazzemese), Versilia, Apuan Alps,
Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:

Derriksite Image

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Images: Derriksite

Comments: Light blue crystalline
aggregates of derriksite.
Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,
Not Given.

Desautelsite Image

Images: Desautelsite

Comments: Serpentinite with scaly reddish-
orange crystals of desautelsite.
Location: Artinite Pit, San Benito County,
California, USA. Scale: 3 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Descloizite Image

Images: Descloizite

Comments: Dark reddish brown, crystalline
aggregate of descloizite.
Location: Grootfontein. Namibia. Scale: 3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Devilline Image

Images: Devilline Malachite

Comments: Blue crystals of devilline on
green, botryoidal malachite.
Location: Spania Dolina (Herrengrund),
Slovakia. Scale: Not Given.

Devilline Image

Images: Devilline

Comments: Laminar crystals of blue
devilline on matrix..
Location: Spania Dolina (ex-Herrengrund)
Bansk? Bystrica Slovak Republic. Scale:
Specimen size: 6.9 x 3.3 x 5.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Dewindtite Image

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Images: Dewindtite

Comments: Yellow dewindtite exposed on
fracture surface. Schumacher Collection.
Location: Les Bois-Noirs Mine, Loire, Rh?ne-
Alpes, France. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Dewindtite Image

Images: Dewindtite Kivuite

Comments: Pale yellow coatings of kivuite
with yellowier dewindtite on pegmatite.
Location: Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Diaboleite Image

Images: Diaboleite

Comments: Coarsely crystalline, blue
diaboleite.
Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Arizona.
© John Veevaert

Diaboleite Image

Images: Diaboleite Yedlinite

Comments: Minute cranberry-colored
rounded yedlinite crystal with blue
diaboleite on yellow-brown wulfenite.
Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Pinal
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Diadochite Image

Images: Diadochite

Comments: Brown balls of diadochite on
matrix.
Location: Union Carbide mine, Garland

Diamond Image

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Images: Diamond

Comments: Single octahedral crystal of
diamond.
Location: Ghana, Africa. Scale: Not Given.

Diamond Image

Images: Diamond

Comments: Translucent diamond penetration
twin crystals.
Location: Mbuji-Mayi (Miba), Democratic
Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Scale: 3.70
carats, 7x7x7 mm.

Diamond Image

Images: Diamond

Comments: Photomicrographs (PPL) of
numerous microdiamonds in Kumdy-Kol
caboniferous dolomite marble (Elements
v1, no 2).
Location: Kokchetav Massif, Kumdy-Kol
ultra high pressure facies area, northern
Kazakhstan. Scale: See Image.
© Elements Magazine

Diaoyudaoite Image

Images: Diaoyudaoite

Comments: Dark green crystalline
diaoyudaoite.
Location: Novosibirsk District, Siberia, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Diaphorite Image

Images: Diaphorite

Comments: Prismatic, striated, metallic
diaphorite crystal on quartz.
Location: Morey, Nye County, Nevada,

Diaspore Image

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Images: Diaspore

Comments: Crystals of deep violet-colored
diaspore exposed from numerous vugs.
Location: Saga Quarry, Oslo Region
Norway. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Dickinsonite Image

Images: Dickinsonite

Comments: Salmon-colored, crystalline
dickinsonite.
Location: Branchville, Fairfield County,
Connecticut, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dickite Image

Images: Dickite Ankerite Sphalerite

on beige dickite.
© Dave Barthelmy

Dickite Image

Images: Dickite

Comments: Porcelaneous pure white
massive dickite.
Location: Beaver County, Utah, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dickthomssenite Image

Images: Dickthomssenite

Comments: Yellowish white, prismatic
crystals of dickthomssenite on matrix.
Location: Firefly-Pigmay Mine, La Sal
Quadrangle, San Juan Co., Utah, USA.


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Comments: Yellowish prismatic-looking,
radial aggregates of dickthomssenite
forming "balls" to 2mm on matrix.
Location: Firefly-Pigmy mine, San Juan Co.,
Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.



Comments: White, translucent balls of fiberous
aggregates of dickthomssenite on matrix.
Location: Vanadium Queen Mine, Paradox
District, La Sal Area, San Juan County, Utah,
USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Dietrichite Image

Images: Dietrichite

Comments: Pale beige fibrous dietrichite.
Location: Baia Sprie, Transylv ania,
Maramures, Romania. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dietzeite Image

Images: Dietzeite

Comments: Yellow crystalline coating of
dietzeite on matrix.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Digenite Image

Images: Digenite

Comments: Bluish trigonal crystal of
Digenite.
Location: Butte, Silv er Bow County,
Montana, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Dilithium Image

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Images: Dilithium

Comments: Reaction chamber image at
warp-factor-2 showng synthetic dilithium
(Di) crystal converting matter-antimatter
streams to high energy plasma.
Location: Engine room, U.S.S. Enterprise
NCC-1701-D, classified location in the
gamma quadrant. Scale: Cyastal size 5 x 2
x 6 cm.
© LeVar Burton

Dimorphite Image

Images: Dimorphite

Comments: Orange to yellow-orange
crystals of dimorphite on matrix.
Location: Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Vesuvius,
Naples, Naples province, Campania, Italy.

Diopside Image

Images: Diopside Grossular

Comments: Pale blue prismatic crystal of
diopside with orange-brown grossular.
Location: Val d'Aosta, Italy. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Diopside Image

Images: Diopside Magnesioferrite

Comments: Very dark brown Magnesioferrite
Pleonaste (Iron-Magnesium spinel) with cream
colored Calcite and gray green diopside.
Location: Aldan, Gon River, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Dioptase Image

Images: Dioptase

Comments: Dark-blue-green crystals of
dioptase on matrix. The color of dioptase
does not photograph well and must be
seen in person to appreciate.
Location: Altyn-tyube, Kasakhstan. Scale:
Crystal size 5 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Dioptase Image

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Images: Dioptase

Comments: Emerald green lustrous crystals
of dioptase to 14 mm in size and doubly
terminated, set upon a limestone and
massive calcite matrix.
Location: Altyn-Tyube, South Kazakhstan
Oblast', Kazakhstan. Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Dioptase Image

Images: Dioptase Minrecordite

Comments: Blue-green dioptase cov ered
with minute, rhombic crystals of
transparent minrecordite one mm or less in
size.
© John Veevaert

Dioptase Image

Images: Dioptase Kinoite

Comments: Fibrous crystals of blue-green
dioptase to 0.75mm on clear apophyllite
associated with dark blue kinoite.
USA. Scale: Pictures size 6 mm.

Dissakisite-(Ce) Image

Images: Dissakisite-(Ce) Dolomite

Comments: Small, prisimatic, acicular
crystals of tan-colored dissakisite-(Ce)
scatterd on white crystalline dolomite.
Location: Trimouns mine, Luzenac, Ari?ge
France. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Dittmarite Image

Images: Dittmarite Newberyite

dittmaritewith more opaque newberyite.
Location: Skipton Caves, Victoria, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dixenite Image

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Images: Dixenite

Comments: Deep red translucent
crystalline grains of dixenite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Djerfisherite Image

Images: Djerfisherite

Comments: Bronze metallic grains of
djerfisherite in white feldspar.
Mineral Species

Djurleite Image

Images: Djurleite

Comments: Dark, metallic djurleite with
transparent quartz and white calcite.
Location: Dzhezkazgan. Kazakhstan. Scale:
4.5 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Dmisteinbergite Image

Images: Dmisteinbergite Wairakite

Comments: Pearly platy crystalline
dmisteinbergite with dull white wairakite on
matrix.
Location: Kurumazawa, Katashina,
Gumma, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dolerophanite Image

Images: Dolerophanite Chalcanthite
Fedotovite

green fedotovite.
Picture size 3 mm.

Dollaseite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Dollaseite-(Ce)

Comments: Glassy brown crystalline grains
of dollaseite-(Ce) in matrix.
Location: Ostanmossagruvan, Norberg,
Sweden. Scale: Grain size 1 mm.

Dolomite Image

Images: Dolomite

Comments: Pink rhombohedral crystals of
dolomite on matrix.
Location: Eugui, Navarra Province,
Navarra, Spain. Scale: Not Giv en.

Dolomite Image

Images: Dolomite Dissakisite-(Ce)

Comments: Small, prisimatic, acicular
crystals of tan-colored dissakisite-(Ce)
scatterd on white crystalline dolomite.
Location: Trimouns mine, Luzenac, Ari?ge
France. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Doloresite Image

Images: Doloresite

Comments: black radiating doloresite and
crystalline doloresite with white calcite.
Location: Grants, Valencia County, New
Mineral Species

Domeykite Image

Images: Domeykite

Comments: Metallic nugget of domeykite.
Location: Cashin Mine, Montrose County,
Mineral Species

Donathite Image

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Images: Donathite

Comments: Black granular donathite on
iron.
Location: Hestmondo Island, Nordland,
Mineral Species

Donbassite Image

Images: Donbassite

Comments: Translucent white crystalline
donbassite.
Location: Donetz Basin, Ukraine. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Donnayite-(Y) Image

Images: Donnayite-(Y)

Comments: Brown micro-crystals of
donnayite-(Y) covering matrix.
Location: Mont. St. Hilaire, Rouville Co.,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture size 1.5
cm.

Donpeacorite Image

Images: Donpeacorite Braunite-I

Comments: Brown crystalline massive
donpeacorite with dark brown black
braunite.
Location: Zinc Corporation of America Mine
#4, Balmat, Saint Lawrence County, New
York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Dorfmanite Image

Images: Dorfmanite

Comments: White cottony coatings of
dorfmanite on matrix.
Mineral Species

Dorrite Image

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Images: Dorrite

Comments: Dark brown micaceous dorrite
(arrow) on matrix.
Location: Eicher, Sattel, Baden-
Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Douglasite Image

Images: Douglasite

Comments: Small red-brown translucent grain of
douglasite with white halite.
Location: Koningshutte, Silesia, Poland. Scale: See
Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral
Species

Doyleite Image

Images: Doyleite Gibbsite

Comments: Botryoidal spheres of doyleite
growing along with its dimorph gibbsite.
Analysis shows that doyleite dominates the
mix. There are also minor canary yellow
phlogopite crystals.
Location: Baoshan, Yunnan, China. Scale: 8
x 6.5 x 1.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Dravite Image

Images: Dravite

Comments: Doubly terminated dravite
crystal on white mica shist matrix.
Location: Yinnietharra Station, Gascoyne,
Western Australia. Scale: 4 x 4 x 2.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Dravite Image

Images: Dravite

Comments: Greenish-brown chrome-rich
dravite tourmaline crystals up to 13 mm long
with complex terminations. Fluoresces mildly
under UV illumination.
Location: Shako Ranch, Mwatate Kabanga,
Voi, Taita-Taveta district, Coast Province, Kenya.
Scale: 14x13x10 mm.

Dresserite Image

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Images: Dresserite

Comments: Radiating spheres of dresserite
on matrix.
Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal,
Mineral Species

Dresserite Image

Images: Dresserite

Comments: White divergent sprays of fibrous
crystals dresserite crystals.
Location: Francon quarry, Montr?al,
Jacques Cartier Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: Crystal size 5mm.

Dufrenite Image

Images: Dufrenite

Comments: Dark olive-greenish crystal of
dufrenite on matrix.

Dufrenoysite Image

Images: Dufrenoysite

Comments: Black prismatic crystal of
Dufrenoysite with brassy yellow pyrite on
succroidal dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Not Giv en.

Dufrenoysite Image

Images: Dufrenoysite

Comments: Single, black dufr?noysite crystal in a
vug in white dolomite.
Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 2.5 mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Duftite-alpha Image

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Images: Duftite-alpha Mimetite

Comments: Mimetite crystals are replaced
by Duftite-alpha on a gossanous matrix.
Location: Mt. Bonnie Mine, Northern
Territory, Australia. Scale: Crystal size to
3mm.
© John Veevaert

Duftite-beta Image

Images: Duftite-beta

Comments: Intensely green Duftite-beta on
fluorescent calcite.
Scale: .
© Fabre Minerals

Dugganite Image

Images: Dugganite

Comments: Green crystalline aggregate of
dugganite.
Location: Tombstone, Cochise County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.

Dukeite Image

Images: Dukeite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph showing
part of a dukeite sheave (AmMin, 85:1823).
Location: Found on a museum specimen
labeled as originating from the S?o Jos?
Mine, Breja?ba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
See Image.

Dumontite Image

Images: Dumontite

Comments: Bright yellow acicular crystals
of dumontite on matrix.

Dumortierite Image

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Images: Dumortierite

Comments: Blue dumortierite in matrix.
Location: Hartmannsdorf, Chemnitz,

Dumortierite Image


Comments: Divergent fans of acicular
purple to lilac colored dumortierite crystals
in white andalusite matrix.
Location: Dehesa, San Diego Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 2.3cm.

Dumortierite Image


Comments: Low-magnification, bright-field
image showing dispersed dumortierite fibers
extracted from rose quartz on a carbon film.
(AmMin 87:270).
Location: Madagascar. Scale: See Image.

Dundasite Image

Images: Dundasite

Comments: Bluish crystalline spray of
Dundasite on azurite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Duranusite Image

Images: Duranusite Realgar

Comments: Small black Duranusite in
orange-red realgar matrix.
Location: Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes,
Prov ence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France.

Dwornikite Image

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Images: Dwornikite

Comments: Green earthy, powdery
dwornikite on or replacing millerite as
acicular crystals in 1cm vug.
Location: Lipovka Ni deposit, Rezh District,
Central Urals, Urals Region, Russia. Scale:

Dypingite Image

Images: Dypingite

Comments: White spherical aggregates of
dypingite on matrix.
Location: Jeremias Gl?ck Mine (Fairy
Grotto), Garnsdorf, Saalfeld, Thuringia,

Dyscrasite Image

Images: Dyscrasite

Comments: Metallic-silv er, prismatic,
crystallized dyscrasite. Individual crystal
spears to 8 mm in size.
Location: Mine #21, Pribram, Bohemia,
Czech Republic. Scale: 6 x 10 x 6.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich


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Eakerite Image

Images: Eakerite

Comments: Transparent, prismatic crystal
of eakerite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Earlshannonite Image

Images: Earlshannonite

Comments: Brownish earlshonnonite
aggregate surrounded by white,
pegmatitic matrix.
Location: Foote Mine, Kings Mtn, North
Carolina, USA. Scale: 2 1/2" x 2".

Eastonite Image

Images: Eastonite

Comments: Small micaceous area of
eastonite in quartz.
Location: C.K. Williams Quarry, Easton,
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Eckermannite Image

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Images: Eckermannite

Comments: Dark blue-green prismatic
crystalline eckermannite in matrix.
Location: Norra Karr, Granna, Jonkoping,
Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Eclarite Image

Images: Eclarite

Comments: Black crystalline masses and
prismatic crystals of eclarite in fine grained
quartz.
Location: Barenbad Mine, Hollersbachtal,
Salzburg, Oberosterrich, Austria. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Edenharterite Image

Images: Edenharterite

Comments: Submetallic, deep brownish
black crystalline aggregate of
edenharterite crystals in white dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 2
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Edenite Image

Images: Edenite Pargasite

Comments: Blocky, dark green crystals of
visually indistinguishable pargasite and
edenite.
Location: Kolonne bei, Embilipitiya, Sri
Lanka. Scale: 4.5 x 1.7 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Edenite Image

Images: Edenite

Comments: Green granular edenite in
fine-grained phlogopite.
Mineral Species

Edgarbaileyite Image

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Images: Edgarbaileyite

Comments: Resinous yellow masses of
edgarbaileyite in quartz.
Location: Clear Creek Mine, San Benito
Mineral Species

Edgarite Image

Images: Edgarite

Comments: Scanning electron
micro-image edgarite (EDG, fibrous
appearing) inclusion in pyrrhotite (PY) with
marcasite (MRC, slightly lower reflectance)
in silicate matrix (SIL, lowest reflectance).
Mineral Species

Edgarite Image

Images: Edgarite

Comments: Silvery metallic edgarite
crystal to about 0.3mm embedded
between pegmatite grains.
Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region,

Edingtonite Image

Images: Edingtonite

Comments: Lath-shaped crystalline
aggregates of edingtonite.
Location: Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paolo,
Brazil. Scale: Not Given.

Edingtonite Image

Images: Edingtonite

Comments: White, stout prisms of calcite on
pinkish analcime with small, cream-
colored bladed edingtionite crystals.
Location: Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshite,
Scotland. Scale: Picture Size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Edoylerite Image

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Images: Edoylerite Cinnabar

Comments: Yellow prismatic crystals of
edoylerite with red cinnabar.
Location: Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek
Mine), New Idria district, San Benito Co.,

Effenbergerite Image

Images: Effenbergerite Sugilite

Comments: Blue effenbergerite pods to
across in massive purple sugilite.
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert

Efremovite Image

Images: Efremovite

Comments: White, massive efremovite. The
mineral is hygroscopic and must be stored
in a closed box.
size 6 mm.

Eggletonite Image

Images: Eggletonite

Comments: Brown micro crystals of
eggletonite in syenite.
Location: 3M Quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski
Mineral Species

Eglestonite Image

Images: Eglestonite

Comments: Small yellow crystals and
massive aggregates of eglestonite.
Location: Landsberg (Moschellandsberg),
Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-
Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.8
mm.

Ehrleite Image

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Images: Ehrleite Parascholzite

Comments: White to clear, slender, 1-2mm,
prismatic crystals of ehrleite associated
with massive parascholzite. Type specimen
courtesy of Museum of Geology, SD School
of Mines.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County,
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2
mm.

Eifelite Image

Images: Eifelite

Comments: Clear glassy microcrystal of
eifelite.
Location: Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Eitelite Image

Images: Eitelite

Comments: Pale yellow crystalline eitelite.
Location: Mapco Shrine Hospital Well #1
drill core, Green River Formation, Duchesne
Mineral Species

Ekanite Image

Images: Ekanite

Comments: Complex specimen of many
minerals, most notable are four red ekanite
crystals (rare!) scattered around the
specimen.
Scale: 6x4x4 cm.

Ekaterinite Image

Images: Ekaterinite

Comments: Pale pink crystalline cleavage
fragment of ekaterinite.
Photo.

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Mineral Species

Elbaite Image

Images: Elbaite

Comments: Doubly terminated tri-color
elbaite (tourmaline) with minor white
clev elandite (albite).
Location: Himalaya mine, San Diego
County, California, USA. Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Elbaite Image

Images: Elbaite

Comments: Gemmy-blue crystal of elbaite (Indicolite)
tourmaline.
Location: Morro Redondo Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
© Kevin Ward

Ellenbergerite Image

Images: Ellenbergerite

Comments: Pale pink glassy nearly pure
mass of ellenbergerite.
Location: Dora-Meira Massif, Parigi,
Piemonte, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ellestadite Image

Images: Ellestadite

Comments: Honey yellow hexagonal
dipyramids of ellestadite in light blue
marble matrix.
Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside
County, California, USA. Scale: 6 x 7.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Elpasolite Image

Images: Elpasolite

Comments: Colorless crystal of elpasolite in
matrix.

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Elpidite Image

Images: Elpidite

Comments: Blocky, intergrown crystals of
elpidite.
Location: Narsasuk, Greenland. Scale:
Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Elyite Image

Images: Elyite

Comments: Purple acicular crystals of
elyite.
Location: Kurfurst-Ernst, Bonkhausen,
Sauerland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Embolite Image

Images: Embolite

Comments: An exposed 3 x 2 cm vug in
barite completely filled with a mass of
embolite comprised of myriad crystals to 2
mm.
Location: Broken Hill Mine, New South
Wales, Australia. Scale: Picture size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Embolite Image

Images: Embolite Iodargyrite

Comments: Cubo-octahedral crystals of
iodaryrite (I) with smaller and darker
octahedral crystals of embolite (E).
Australia. Scale: Specimen size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Embreyite Image

Images: Embreyite

Comments: Orange embreyite crystals on
matrix.
Location: Cumbria, England. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Emeleusite Image

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Images: Emeleusite

Comments: Clear to pale tan glassy
crystalline emeleusite with white albite and
dark green aegirine.
Location: Igdlutalik, Greenland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Emmonsite Image

Images: Emmonsite

Comments: Quartz with small blebs of pea
green emmonsite.
Location: Barrbolla Mine, Moctezuma,
Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Bleb size 2 mm.
© John Veevaert

Emmonsite Image

Images: Emmonsite Schmitterite

Comments: Yellow schmitterite with green
emmonsite.
size 4 mm.

Emmonsite Image

Images: Emmonsite

Comments: Green, mossy emmonsite on
matrix..
Location: Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.

Emplectite Image

Images: Emplectite

Comments: Metallic emplectite wire in
quartz.
Location: Schwarzenberg, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Not Given.

Empressite Image

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Images: Empressite Tellurium

Comments: Bronze-colored microcrystals
of empressite with bright native tellurium
crystals.
Location: Rex mine, Boulder County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm.

Enargite Image

Images: Enargite

Comments: Lustrous, metallic gray
columnar crystals of enargite with minor
quartz.
Location: Quiruvilca, La Libertad Dept.,
Peru. Scale: 4.2x2x2.3 cm.

Enargite Image

Images: Enargite Famatinite

Comments: Violet metallic crystalline
famatinite with black massive enargite.
Location: Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Endellite Image

Images: Endellite

Comments: Gray to white massive
endellite.
Location: Buck Reef Deposit, Ravenswood,
Queensland, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Englishite Image

Images: Englishite

Comments: Bluish colliform englishite
crystals.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah
County, Utah. Scale: Not Given.

Englishite Image

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Images: Englishite Roscherite

roscherite on white englishite.
Giv en.

Englishite Image

Images: Englishite Tiptopite
Montgomeryite

Comments: Red montgomeryite lath-like
crystals to 1mm in 2mm rosettes associated
with clear, acicular sprays of tiptopite to
0.75mm and white cottonball-like crystals
of englishite to 0.2mm.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South
Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Enstatite Image

Images: Enstatite

Comments: Single, terminated, brown, transparent
to translucent enstatite crystal.
Location: Mpwa-Mpwa, Tanzania. Scale: 17x17x27
mm.
© Dan Weinrich

Eosphorite Image

Images: Eosphorite Zanazziite

Comments: Minor crystals of equant, olive
green zanazziite and brown, lath-like
crystals of eosphorite on quartz.
© John Veevaert

Eosphorite Image

Images: Eosphorite Vivianite

Comments: Bottle-green translucent
vivianite crystal (2cm) associated with
reddish, micro eosphorite crystals.
Location: Lav ra do ?nio pegmatite,
Galil?ia, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm..

Ephesite Image

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Images: Ephesite Hausmannite

Comments: Flesh-colored ephesite associated
with dark brownish black hausmannite.
Location: Gloucester mine. Postmasburg, Cape
prov ince. S. Africa. Scale: 5.5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Epididymite Image

Images: Epididymite

Comments: Trilling twinned crystal of
epididymite on matrix.

Epididymite Image

Images: Epididymite Eudidymite

Comments: Translucent prismatic crystals
of eudidymite on white opaque
epididymite.
Location: Narsaarsuk, Greenland. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Epidote Image

Images: Epidote

Comments: Dark green, blocky epidote
with transparent quartz.
Location: Copper Mt., Prince of Wales,
Alaska. Scale: 7 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Epistilbite Image

Images: Epistilbite Quartz

Comments: White epistilbite cluster 25 mm
across on amethyst quartz crystal matrix.
Location: Sawda, Jalgaon, Maharashtra,
India. Scale: 10x8x5 cm.

Epistolite Image

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Images: Epistolite

Comments: Plate-like crystals of pearly
white epistolite to 2.7 cm.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Kvanefjeld,
Greenland. Scale: 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Epsomite Image

Images: Epsomite

Comments: Pure white compact fibrous
mass of epsomite.
Location: Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon,
Spain. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ercitite Image

Images: Ercitite

Comments: Back-scattered electron images of
ercitite (medium gray) showing lath-shaped
habit and cleavages and splintering on
mechanical disturbance. W: whitlockite, F:
fairfieldite, C: unidentified. (CanMin, v 38, p 896).
Location: Tanco pegmatite, southeastern
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: Image size 150 µ-m.

Erdite Image

Images: Erdite

Comments: Red-brown columnar
crystalline erdite in matrix.
Location: Coyote Peak, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species

Ericaite Image

Images: Ericaite

Comments: Cubic crystal ericaite.
Location: Bischofferode, Nordhausen, Erfurt
district, Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:

Ericssonite Image

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Images: Ericssonite Orthoericssonite
Tephroite

Comments: Dark brown ericssonite,
intergrown with orthoericssonite, with pink
rhodonite, light brown diopside (v ar.
schefferite) and gray tephroite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Eriochalcite Image

Images: Eriochalcite

Comments: Green grains of eriochalcite
from the eruption of 1875, Vesuvius
volcano.
Location: Vesuvius volcano. Vesuvius,
Naples, Naples province, Campania, Italy.

Erionite-Na Image

Images: Erionite-Na

Comments: White to pale green radiating
erionite.
Location: Shurdo, Caucasus Mountains,
Georgia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Erlichmanite Image

Images: Erlichmanite

Comments: Large gray fractured grain of
erlichmanite. Polished section in reflected
light.

Ernienickelite Image

Images: Ernienickelite

Comments: Very small reddish-black
tabular crystals of ernienickelite on quartz.
Location: Siberia complex, Western
Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture size 0.7
mm.

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Ernstite Image

Images: Ernstite Schoonerite

Comments: 1 mm honey brown, acicular,
radial sprays of ernstite with light green
fibrous schoonerite and apatite in siderite.
Location: White Cap mine, Pennington
County., South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.

Ershovite Image

Images: Ershovite

Comments: Oliv e green coatings of
ershovite on green aegirine.
Location: Mount Koashva, Khibiny Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Erythrite Image

Images: Erythrite Cobaltkoritnigite

Comments: Dark purplish cobaltkoritnigite
with pink erythrite.

Erythrite Image

Images: Erythrite Skutterudite

Comments: Erythrite crystal on massive
skutterudite.
Location: Bou Azzer, Morocco. Scale:
© John Veevaert

Erythrosiderite Image

Images: Erythrosiderite Sal-ammoniac

Comments: Orange-brown aggregates of
erythrosiderite with sal ammoniac. Material
from the 1926 eruption of the Erythrosiderite
is hygroscopic and must be stored in a
the vial.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples Province,
Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

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Eskebornite Image

Images: Eskebornite Jolliffeite

image of jolliffeite in sulfurian eskebornite.
Note the cracked appearance and the
different brightness of eskebornite, which is
a reflection of v ariable ratio of selenium to
sulfur. (CanMin v 42, p 844).
Location: Niederschlema-Alberoda
uranium deposit, in the Erzgebirge region of
Germany. Scale: See Image.

Eskimoite Image

Images: Eskimoite

Comments: Gray metallic eskimoite in
quartz.
Location: Manhattan, Nye County,
Mineral Species

Eskolaite Image

Images: Eskolaite Chalcocite

Comments: Green crystalline eskolaite on
massive chalcocite.
Location: Lubelin, Poland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Esperanzaite Image

Images: Esperanzaite

Comments: Pale blue-green botryoidal
esperanzaite in rhyolite.
Location: Mina La Esperanza, Durango,
Mineral Species

Esperite Image

Images: Esperite Hardystonite Franklinite

Comments: Pale brown porcelaneous
esperite with pinkish gray hardystonite and
black franklinite.
Jersey. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Esseneite Image

Images: Esseneite

Comments: Orange-brown crystalline
coating of esseneite on anorthite.
Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk District,
Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ettringite Image

Images: Ettringite

Comments: Small glassy whitish micro
crystals of ettringite on a white powdery
matrix.
Location: Ettringen, Eifel, Allemagne,
Germany. Scale: 2.5 x 1 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Ettringite Image

Images: Ettringite

Comments: Doubly-terminated crystals of
glassy yellow ettringite on matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, near Kuruman,
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 4 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Eucairite Image

Images: Eucairite

Comments: Black dendritic eucairite in
white calcite crystal.
Location: Skrikerum Copper Mine, near
Tyrsarum, Kalmar, Sweden. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Eucairite Image

Images: Eucairite Schlemaite Clausthalite


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See Picture.

Eucairite Image

Images: Eucairite Crookesite

Comments: Polished section (PPL) showing
zoned crystal of cream-colored eucairite
and pale lav ender crookesite along with
steel blue umangite and white clausthalite
in dark gray gangue..
Location: Mine dump (tailings) of Shaft 371
near Hartenstein/Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Euchlorine Image

Images: Euchlorine

Comments: Olive green crusts of
euchlorine on v olcanic rock.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Euchroite Image

Images: Euchroite

Comments: Dark green, blocky crystals of
euchroite on matrix.
Location: Missoula County, Montana, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Euchroite Image

Images: Euchroite

Comments: Green, well developed,
coarsely-crystalline euchroite on matrix.
Location: L'Ubietov? (Libethen) Slovak
Republic. Scale: 1.9 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Euclase Image

Images: Euclase

Comments: Euclase with sharp edges and great
color. This specimen is from one of the famous
and finest world finds of euclase, in the
Colombian Emeralds area.
Location: Chiv or, Columbia. Scale: 1.2 x 0.6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

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Eucryptite Image

Images: Eucryptite

Comments: Gray massive eucryptite.
Location: Parker Mountain, Center
Strafford, Strafford County, New Hampshire,
Mineral Species

Eucryptite Image

Images: Eucryptite

Comments: Fine grained, massive
eucryptite. Fluorescent Red under SW.
Location: Midnight Owl mine, Yavapai Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: 6x4x4cm.

Eudialyte Image

Images: Eudialyte Natrolite

Comments: Druse of gemmy, red eudialyte
crystals to 1 mm on white natrolite.
© John Veevaert

Eudialyte Image

Images: Eudialyte Vlasovite

Comments: Transparent yellow-gray
v lasovite crystal frozen in pink eudialyte
matrix.
Location: Kipawa alkaline complex, near
Sheffield Lake, Villedieu Township,
T?miscamingue Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: 2x2x1 cm.

Eudialyte Image

Images: Eudialyte Agrellite

Comments: Tan agrellite grain, with red
eudialyte.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu,
Mineral Species

Eudialyte Image

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Images: Eudialyte Gittinsite

Comments: White crystalline gittinsite with
red eudialyte.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu
Township, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Eudidymite Image

Images: Eudidymite Epididymite

Comments: Translucent prismatic crystals
of eudidymite on white opaque
epididymite.
Location: Narsaarsuk, Greenland. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Eugenite Image

Images: Eugenite

Comments: Metallic, silvery eugenite.
Location: Copiap?, Atacama, Chile. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Eugenite Image

Images: Eugenite

Comments: Brassy, silvery eugenite
alteration of leaf silver to 4mm.
Location: Elisa de Bordos mine, Copiap?,
Atacama Province, Chile. Scale: Picture
size 1 cm.

Eulytite Image

Images: Eulytite

Comments: Brown, isometric crystals of
eulytite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Euxenite-(Y) Image

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Images: Euxenite-(Y)

Comments: Crystal of euxenite-(Y) in
matrix.
Location: Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee
County, Colorado, USA. Scale: Crystal size
1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Evansite Image

Images: Evansite

Comments: Cream-colored, amorphous
ev ansite coating an unknown striated,
prismatic mineral, now missing (see hollow
shells)..
Location: Cobalt, Idaho. Scale: Picture size
3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Eveite Image

Images: Eveite Akrochordite

Comments: Micro crystals (to about
0.75mm) of very pale grayish green eveite
in tiny vug with light pink akrochordite.
Co-Type specimen & type locality.
Scale: 13x10x4 mm.

Evenkite Image

Images: Evenkite

Comments: Colorless flake of evenkite on
an orange background.
Location: Khavokiperskiye Rocks
polymetallic occurrence, Evenkia,
Nizhnyaya Tunguska Riv er, Nizhnyaya
Tunguska River Basin, Krasnoyarskiy Kray,
Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Size 4
mm.

Eyselite Image

Images: Eyselite

Comments: Pale yellowish brown crystalline
aggregate of eyselite in a vug on sulfide ore.
(CanMin 42:1773).
Location: Ge-bearing ore samples from Tsumeb
mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: See Scale Bar.

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Eyselite Image

Images: Eyselite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph of
platy/tabular crystals of eyselite. (CanMin
42:1773).
Location: Ge-bearing ore samples from
Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: See
Scale Bar.

Ezcurrite Image

Images: Ezcurrite

Comments: Translucent white crystalline
massive ezcurrite.
Location: Tincalaya, Salta, Argentina.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Eztlite Image

Images: Eztlite

Comments: Reddish-brown crystalline
eztlite on matrix.
size 4 mm.


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Fahleite Image

Images: Fahleite

Comments: Crystalline cleav age fragment
of fahleite.
Location: Tsumeb, Oshikoto, Namibia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fairbankite Image

Images: Fairbankite Jarosite

fairbankite with orangish brown jarosite.
Location: Tombstone, Tombstone District,
Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 mm.

Fairfieldite Image

Images: Fairfieldite

Comments: Transparent, cockscomb druse
of fairfieldite crystals.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Falcondoite Image

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Images: Falcondoite

Comments: Solid mass of lime green
falcondoite.
Location: Riddle, Douglas County, Oregon.
USA. Scale: 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Falkmanite Image

Images: Falkmanite

Comments: Metallic black platy striated
falkmanite, with bronze luster in spots.
Location: Grube Bayerland, Waldsassen,
Bavaria, Bayern, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Famatinite Image

Images: Famatinite Enargite

Comments: Violet metallic crystalline
famatinite with black massive enargite.
Location: Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Famatinite Image

Images: Famatinite

Comments: Dark, purplish black, massiv e
famatinite.
Location: Tertiary v olcanic massif, the
Serrania de Laurani, Bolivia. Scale: Picture
size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Fangite Image

Images: Fangite Lorandite

Comments: Brown crystals of fangite with
red lorandite.
Location: Allchar, Roszdan, FYR
Macedonia. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.

Faujasite-Na Image

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Images: Faujasite-Na

Comments: Intergrown crystals of faujasite
coated with opal.
Location: Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Wurttemburg,

Faustite Image

Images: Faustite

Comments: White botryoidal faustite on
matrix.
Location: Rain Mine, Eureka County,
Mineral Species

Fayalite Image

Images: Fayalite

Comments: Flattened crystals of fayalite
on cristobalite.
Location: Coso Hot Springs, Inyo County,
California. Scale: Not Given.

Fedorite Image

Images: Fedorite Charoite

Comments: Tan crystalline platy fedorite in
pale violet charoite.
Location: Murun, Republic of Sakha, Siberia,
Mineral Species

Fedorovskite Image

Images: Fedorovskite

Comments: Brown crystalline fedorovskite.
Location: Solongo, Republic of Buryatia,
Mineral Species

Fedotovite Image

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Images: Fedotovite Dolerophanite
Chalcanthite

green fedotovite.
Picture size 3 mm.

Fedotovite Image

Images: Fedotovite Chalcanthite

Comments: Green fedotovite with pale
blue chalcanthite.
Picture size 4 mm.

Feitknechtite Image

Images: Feitknechtite

Comments: Brown feitknechtite with pink
rhodonite.
Location: Ioi Mine, Ritto Cho, Shiga, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Feklichevite Image

Images: Feklichevite

Comments: Brownish to purplish-brownish
crystal of feklichevite.
Location: Kovdor Mine, Kovdor massif, Kola

Felsobanyaite Image

Images: Felsobanyaite

Comments: Gray white crystalline micro
grains of fels?banyaite on brown to yellow
opal.
Location: Cavnik, Felsobanya, Maramures,
Romania. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fenaksite Image

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Images: Fenaksite

Comments: Tan to rose colored crystalline
fenaksite with dark green-black crystalline
pyroxene.
Mineral Species

Fencooperite Image

Images: Fencooperite

Comments: Micro black needles of
fencooperite in white sanbornite and
pinkish gillespite matrix.
Location: Trumbull Peak, Sierra Nevada,
Mariposa Co., California, USA. Scale:
2x2x2cm.

Ferberite Image

Images: Ferberite

Comments: Ferberite with minor siderite
selvage.
Location: Panasqueira (2nd level), in the
region of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale: 6 x 5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Ferberite Image

Images: Ferberite Anthoinite
Cerotungstite-(Ce)

Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferchromide Image

Images: Ferchromide

Comments: Metallic microcrystal of
ferchromide.
Location: Verkhneivinsk, Sverdlovsk District,
Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fergusonite-(Y) Image

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Images: Fergusonite-(Y)

Comments: Heavy mass of fergusonite-(Y)
with one face polished flat to show the
solid interior. Radioactive.
Location: Ambatofotsy, Betafo - Antsirab?
region, Antananarivo Province,
Madagascar. Scale: 6x2.5x1.5 cm.

Fermorite Image

Images: Fermorite

Comments: Pinkish crystalline massive
fermorite.
Location: Sitipar, Chindwara District, India.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fernandinite Image

Images: Fernandinite

Comments: Greenish-yellow fernandinite
coatings on sandstone.
Location: Deremo-Snyder Mine, Egnar, San
Miguel County, Colorado. USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Feroxyhyte Image

Images: Feroxyhyte

Comments: Brown botryoidal feroxyhyte.
Location: Pachi Limani, Laurium, Attiki,
Greece. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferrarisite Image

Images: Ferrarisite

Comments: Translucent crystal spray of
ferrarisite on matrix.
Location: Gift Grube, Sainte-Marie-
aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferricopiapite Image

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Images: Ferricopiapite

Comments: Earthy, yellow ferricopiapite,
v ariety chalcanthite.
Mineral Species

Ferricopiapite Image

Images: Ferricopiapite Goldichite
Coquimbite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferrierite-Na Image

Images: Ferrierite-Na

Comments: Rounded crystalline
aggregate of yellow to brown ferrierite.
Location: Monte Lake, British Columbia,

Ferrilotharmeyerite Image

Images: Ferrilotharmeyerite

Comments: Brown crystalline aggregates
of ferrilotharmeyerite on quartz.
Location: Pucher Shaft, Schneeberg District,
Picture size 6 mm.

Ferrimolybdite Image

Images: Ferrimolybdite

Comments: Greenish-yellow crystalline
aggregates of ferrimolybdite on a
gossanous matrix.
Location: Quarry No 2, K?nigshain,

Ferrinatrite Image

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Images: Ferrinatrite

ferrinatrite with gypsum needles.

Ferrinatrite Image

Images: Ferrinatrite Rozenite Copiapite

copiapite.
Mineral Species

Ferripyrophyllite Image

Images: Ferripyrophyllite

Comments: Brown crystal prism of
ferripyrophyllite in earthy matrix.
Location: Talagai, Kazakhstan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferrisicklerite Image

Images: Ferrisicklerite

Comments: Dark brown massiv e
ferrisicklerite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferristrunzite Image

Images: Ferristrunzite

Comments: Radiating yellow crystals of
ferristrunzite on black matrix.
Location: Blaton, Hainaut (Henegouwen;
Hennegau) Province, Belgium. Scale:
35x25x15 mm.

Ferrisurite Image

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Images: Ferrisurite

Comments: Olive-green crystalline
ferrisurite, with radiating structure.
Location: Shirley Ann Claim, near Darwin,
Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferritaramite Image

Images: Ferritaramite Potassic-ferritaramite

Comments: Lightly to moderately etched, blocky, jet
black ferritaramite (potassic-ferritaramite is a not
approved mineral name).
Location: Niaslo, Basha Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan.
Scale: 5 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Ferritungstite Image

Images: Ferritungstite

Comments: Small, yellow crystals of
ferritungstite on matrix.
5 mm.

Ferro-actinolite Image

Images: Ferro-actinolite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of ferro-actinolite
showing terminal crystal faces..
Location: Astor, Shigar Valley Pakistan. Scale: 4.5
x 3.3 x 4.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Ferroalluaudite Image

Images: Ferroalluaudite

Comments: Dark green crystalline ferro
alluaudite in pegmatite.
Location: Chandler Mills Mine, Newport,
Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Ferroaxinite Image

Images: Ferroaxinite

Comments: Doubly terminated ferroaxinite
crystal with good luster and form.
Location: Puyva, Polar Ural, Russia. Scale:
3x5x2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Ferrobustamite Image

Images: Ferrobustamite

Comments: Grayish crystalline
ferrobustamite with white calcite, golden
colored phlogopite and green actinolite.
Mineral Species

Ferrocarpholite Image

Images: Ferrocarpholite

Comments: Pale yellow radiating
ferrocarpholite crystals.
Location: Krasno, Zapadocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Ferroceladonite Image

Images: Ferroceladonite

Comments: Micaceous ferro celadonite,
comprising schistose rock.
Location: Mikhailovsky Mine, Malkhan
Range, Central Transbaikalia, Chita District,
Mineral Species

Ferrocolumbite Image

Images: Ferrocolumbite Microcline

Comments: Blocky, dark brown ferrocolumbite on
pale greenish blue amazonite (microcline).
Location: Crystal Park, El Paso Co., Colorado,
© Fabre Minerals

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Images: Ferrocolumbite Baotite

Comments: Minute brown crystalline grains
of baotite in dark ferrocolumbite.
Location: Sheep Creek, Ravalli County,
Montana. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species


Images: Ferrocolumbite Plumbopyrochlore

Comments: Brown plumbopyrochlore
crystal with dark brown ferrocolumbite.
Location: Holdazan, Buregteg, Mongolia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferrohexahydrite Image

Images: Ferrohexahydrite

Comments: White to light brownish crust of
ferrohexahydrite on matrix.
Location: Sohland, Bautzen, Oberlausitz,

Ferrohogbomite-2N2S Image

Images: Ferrohogbomite-2N2S

Comments: Photomicrograph of euhedral
ferrohogbomite-2N2S grains (Hog) in
magnetite (Mgt). (MinMag, v 67, p 1084).
Location: Eastern Ghats belt, Andhra
Pradesh, India. Scale: See Image.
© Mineralogical Magazine

Ferroholmquistite Image

Images: Ferroholmquistite

Comments: Dark green ferroholmquistite,
with silv ery luster, prismatic crystalline
ferroholmquistite in cesium rich reddish
brown biotite.
Location: Goltsy, Eastern Sayan Mountains,
See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Ferrohornblende Image

Images: Ferrohornblende Hornblende

Comments: Dark gray prismatic crystal of
ferrohornblende in a white feldspar matrix.
Location: Monte Somma (Vesuv ius),
Campania, Italy. Scale: Not Given.

Ferrokentbrooksite Image

Images: Ferrokentbrooksite

Comments: A crystal of red
ferrokentbrooksite in matrix.
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.
© L?szl? Horv?th

Ferrokesterite Image

Images: Ferrokesterite Andorite

Comments: Small, tetragonal crystal of
gray ferrokesterite (circled in thumbnail)
attached on the surface of a larger
striated andorite specimen.
Location: San Jose mine, Oruro, Bolivia.
© John Veevaert

Ferrolaueite Image

Images: Ferrolaueite

Comments: Pale tan microcrystal
aggregates of ferro laueite on quartz.
Location: My Creek, Burlington County,
New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferropargasite Image

Images: Ferropargasite

Comments: Dark to medium green
crystalline granular ferropargasite.
Location: Ginevro Mine, Elba, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferropyrosmalite Image

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Images: Ferropyrosmalite

Comments: Crystal of ferropyrosmalite on
clinochlore schist.
Location: Normark, Wermland, Sweden.
© John Veevaert

Ferrorichterite Image

Images: Ferrorichterite

Comments: Brownish-yellow fibrous
ferrorichterite on matrix.
Location: Brunsheon, Gruvan, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferrosilite Image

Images: Ferrosilite

Comments: Transparent, brown prismatic
blades of ferrosilite crystals on matrix.
Location: Summit Rock, Diamond Lake,
Douglas County, Oregon, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Ferrostrunzite Image

Images: Ferrostrunzite

Comments: Yellowish acicular crystals of
ferrostrunzite.
Location: Grav el Hill mine, Perranzabuloe,
Cornwall, England, UK. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Ferrotantalite Image

Images: Ferrotantalite

Comments: Rounded black crystal of
ferrotantalite.
Location: Mount Surprise, Queensland,
Mineral Species

Ferrotantalite Image

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Images: Ferrotantalite

Comments: Blocky, crystalline aggregate
of ferrotantalite crystals weighing ov er one
kilogram.
Location: Ecuador, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 10 x 6 x 5 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Ferrotapiolite Image

Images: Ferrotapiolite

Comments: Twinned, brown, dipyramid crystal of
ferrotapiolite.
Location: Sapucaia district, Galileia, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: 4.2x3.1x3.1 cm.

Ferrotapiolite Image

Images: Ferrotapiolite

Comments: Ferrotapiolite crystal in white
quartz and mica matrix.
Location: Quixab? Mine, Frei Martinho,
Para?ba Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 1 x 0.8
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Ferrotschermakite Image

Images: Ferrotschermakite

Comments: Medium green crystalline
massive ferrotschermakite with
yellow-brown massive andradite.
Location: Old Tip Quarry, Dookie
Mineralogical Reserve, Dookie, Victoria,
Mineral Species

Ferrotychite Image

Images: Ferrotychite

Comments: Yellow crystalline granular
ferrotychite in white analcime (drill core).
Location: Olenii Ruchei, Khibiny Massif, Kola
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferrowinchite Image

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Images: Ferrowinchite

Comments: Dark green divergent fibrous
ferrowinchite.
Location: Harstigen, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferrowodginite Image

Images: Ferrowodginite

Comments: Dark brown massiv e
ferrowodginite.
Location: Nyanga Number 2 Pegmatite,
Ankole, Uganda. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferrowyllieite Image

Images: Ferrowyllieite

Comments: Deep greenish black massive
ferrowyllieite with brown to white quartz.
Location: Victory Mine, near Custer, Custer
County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Ferruccite Image

Images: Ferruccite Avogadrite

Comments: Very small, white crystals of
ferrite on massive, yellowish avogadrite.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples, Naples
province, Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Fersmanite Image

Images: Fersmanite

Comments: Large single crystal of brown
fersmanite in quartz matrix.
Russia. Scale: 4x3x2 cm.

Fersmite Image

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Images: Fersmite

Comments: Brown prismatic crystal of
fersmite in matrix.
Location: Alpe Rosso, Vigezzo v alley,
Novara, Piedmont, Italy. Scale: Picture size
1.7 mm.

Fervanite Image

Images: Fervanite Hewettite

acicular microcrystals of fervanite with
blocky hewettite.
Location: Gold Quarry Mine, Carlin Trend,
Eureka County, Nev ada, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Fetiasite Image

Images: Fetiasite

Comments: Sub metallic grayish black
crystals of fetiasite on matrix.
Location: Gorb, Binntal, Wallis (Valais),
Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.

Fettelite Image

Images: Fettelite

Comments: Deep scarlet red crystals of
fettelite.
Location: Glasberg Quarry, Nieder-
Beerbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany.

Fianelite Image

Images: Fianelite

Comments: Small reddish-brown inclusions
of fianelite in matrix.
Location: Fianel Mine, Val Ferrera, Grischun
(Grisons; Graub?nden), Switzerland. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.

Fibroferrite Image

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Images: Fibroferrite

Comments: Tan-white, acicular crystals of
fibroferrite on matrix.

Fichtelite Image

Images: Fichtelite

Comments: Colorless crystals of fichtelite
on fossil wood.
Location: Marktredwitz, Fichtelgebirge,
Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Picture size 6
mm.

Fiedlerite Image

Images: Fiedlerite

fiedlerite on matrix.
Giv en.

Filipstadite Image

Images: Filipstadite Hausmannite

Comments: Dark minute grains of
filipstadtite in hausmannite (slabbed
specimen).
Location: Jacobsberg Mine, near
Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Finnemanite Image

Images: Finnemanite

Comments: Black, prismatic, twinned
crystal of finnemanite.
Location: L?ngban, Filipstad, V?rmland,
Sweden. Scale: Crystal length 4.5 mm.

Fizelyite Image

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Images: Fizelyite

Comments: Galena and sphalerite with
minor chalcopyrite and a heavy druse of
acicular fizelyite crystals.
Location: Herja, Kisbanya, Transylvania,
Romania. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© John Veevaert

Flagstaffite Image

Images: Flagstaffite

Comments: Colorless transparent
microcrystal fragment of flagstaffite.
Location: San Francisco Mountains, near
Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fleischerite Image

Images: Fleischerite

Comments: Pale pink transparent acicular
crystals of fleischerite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Florencite-(Ce) Image

Images: Florencite-(Ce)

Comments: Butterscotch colored
florencite-(Ce) on a quartz crystal.
Location: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Scale:
Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert

Florencite-(La) Image

Images: Florencite-(La)

Comments: Green, acicular crystalline
aggregates of florencite-(La).
Location: Igarap? Bahia Mine, Caraj?s
ridge, Par?, North Region, Brazil. Scale:

Florenskyite Image

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Images: Florenskyite

of the serpentine mass containing bright
florenskyite grains (arrow). (AmMin,
85:1083).
Location: Kaidun chondritic meteorite,
which fell in South Yemen in 1980. Scale:
See Image.

Fluckite Image

Images: Fluckite

Comments: White to pale pink crystalline
translucent botryoids of fluckite.
Location: Giftgrube, Sainte-Marie-
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fluellite Image

Images: Fluellite

Comments: Tabular, transparent,
pseudohexagonal crystals of fluellite.
Location: Tom's quarry, Kapunda, South
Australia. Scale: Not Given.

Fluellite Image

Images: Fluellite Bariosincosite

Comments: Viv id green crystals of
bariosincosite well placed on a matrix
covered by colorless, tabular fluellite with
some minor metavariscite.
Location: Eugui Quarry, Cantera Azkarate,
Eugui, Navarra, Spain. Scale: Rosette size:
0.3 x 0.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Fluoborite Image

Images: Fluoborite

Comments: Silky fibrous fluoborite with
purple fluorite.
Location: Ludlaw, San Bernardino County,
Mineral Species

Fluorapatite Image

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Images: Fluorapatite Beryl Muscovite
Apatite

© Dan Weinrich

Fluorapatite Image

Images: Fluorapatite Quartz

Comments: Purple crystal of fluorapatite on
slightly smoky quartz crystals. Former Dr. E.E.
Dav id and Houston Museum collections.
Location: Pech, Kunar Province, Nuristan,
Afghanistan. Scale: Crystal size 3.0 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm.
© Ed Rosenzweig

Fluorapatite Image

Images: Fluorapatite Gatumbaite

Comments: White crystalline gatumbaite
with yellow brazilianite in massive blue
fluorapatite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Fluorapophyllite Image

Images: Fluorapophyllite Stilbite
Apophyllite

stilbite.
© Fabre Minerals

Fluorbritholite-(Ce) Image

Images: Fluorbritholite-(Ce)

Comments: Amorphous (metamict) grain
of fluorbritholite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Norra Karr, Grena, Jonkoping,
Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Fluorcaphite Image

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Images: Fluorcaphite

Comments: Massiv e, coarsely crystalline,
pale yellowish fluorcaphite.
Location: Koashva Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola

Fluorellestadite Image

Images: Fluorellestadite

Comments: Blue-green granular
fluorellestadite in calcium rich rock matrix.
Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk District,
Mineral Species

Fluorite Image

Images: Fluorite

Comments: Cubic fluorite crystals with
octahedral galena crystals. The largest
crystal is 2.1 cm across. Note the
exceptional fluorescence of these crystals.
Location: Rogerley Mine, in Weardale,
England. Scale: 7.8 x 5.5.
© John Veevaert

Fluorite Image

Images: Fluorite Creedite

Comments: Well-developed, prismatic,
reddish creedite crystals on green fluorite.
Location: Mina Navidad, Rodeo, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: 9 x 5 x 5.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Fluorite Image

Images: Fluorite

Comments: Red-orange octahedral
fluorite crystals on an albite matrix with
well defined edges and faces.
Location: Pointe Kurz (3600 m altitude),
Mont Blanc Massif, Haute-Savoie, France.
Scale: Crystal size is 2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Fluoro-edenite Image

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Images: Fluoro-edenite

Comments: Two, tabular crystals of fluoro-
edenite on matrix.
Location: Mt. Calv ario, (Mt. Etna Volcano),
Biancavilla, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy.

Fluoro-sodic-pedrizite Image

Images: Fluoro-sodic-pedrizite
Clinoholmquistite
Magnesioclinoholmquistite

Mineral Species

Fluorocannilloite Image

Images: Fluorocannilloite

Comments: Greenish, prismatic crystals of
fluorocannilloite in matrix.
Location: Yuang Yang Province, Yunnan,
China. Scale: Picture size 6 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Fluororichterite Image

Images: Fluororichterite

Comments: Doubly-terminated, stubby,
black fluororichterite crystal.
Location: Wilberforce, Monmouth Township,
Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada. Scale:
22x21x15 mm.

Fluorvesuvianite Image

Images: Fluorvesuvianite

Comments: Acicular crystals of fluorv esuvianite in
a clear, calcite matrix. (CanMin, v 41, p 1375).
Location: Lupikko iron mine, Pitkaranta, Karelia,
Russia. Scale: Picture size 1.2 cm.

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Foggite Image

Images: Foggite

Comments: Bright yellow, rounded
crystalline aggregates of foggite on matrix.
Location: Palermo #1 mine, North Groton,
Crafton County, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Foitite Image

Images: Foitite

Comments: Dark greenish-black
termination of foitite on pinkish elbaite.
Location: Dobra Voda, Moravia,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Foordite Image

Images: Foordite

Comments: Brownish massive foordite.
Location: Manono, Shaba (Katanga),
Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 7 mm.

Fornacite Image

Images: Fornacite

Comments: Dark, prismatic crystals of
fornacite on matrix.
Location: El Khun mine, Anarak, Iran. Scale:
Not Given.

Fornacite Image

Images: Fornacite

Comments: Emerald green platy crystals
to 0.75mm on a pink to white, siliceous
matrix.
Location: Lone Star mine, Copperopolis,
Yavapai County, Arizona. Scale: Picture
size 1.4 cm.

Forsterite Image

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Images: Forsterite Olivine

Comments: Peridot (Forsterite)
recrystallized at the base.
Location: Skardu, Nooristan, Pakistan.
© Fabre Minerals

Foshagite Image

Images: Foshagite

Comments: Tan to gray fibrous to columnar
aggregate of foshagite.
Mineral Species

Foshallasite Image

Images: Foshallasite

Comments: Pearly translucent white
somewhat fibrous aggregate of
foshallasite.
Location: Mount Yukspor, Khibiny Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fourmarierite Image

Images: Fourmarierite

Comments: Thick tabular orange crystals of
fourmarierite.

Fraipontite Image

Images: Fraipontite Zaccagnaite

image of hexagonal, tapering, prismatic
zaccagnaite crystals, covered by a thin
crust of fraipontite. (AmMin 86:1294).
Image.

Francevillite Image

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Images: Francevillite Chervetite

Comments: Bottle brown tabular crystals
of chervetite on yellow francevilleite.

Francevillite Image

Images: Francevillite Curienite

Comments: Intense yellow curienite and
orange francevillite.
Location: Mouonana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Francevillite Image

Images: Francevillite

Comments: Specimen of orange
francevillite with minor yellow curienite.
Location: Mouana Mine, Gabon. Scale:
Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert

Francevillite Image

Images: Francevillite Mounanaite

Comments: Stout, yellow, transparent,
prismatic, striated crystals of francevillite on
brownish red mounanaite matrix.
Location: Mounana mine, Franceville,
Haut-Ogoou?, Gabon. Scale: Picture size
1.5 cm.

Franciscanite-III Image

Images: Franciscanite-III

Comments: Dark reddish brown large
franciscanite grains to 1.5cm in tan-colored
gageite matrix.
Location: Pennsylvania mine, Santa Clara
Co., California, USA. Scale: 5.5 x 4 x 3cm.

Francisite Image

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Images: Francisite

Comments: Greenish crusts of francisite on
matrix.
Location: Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu,
Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:

Francisite Image

Images: Francisite

Comments: Fine acicular crystals of green
francisite to 0.1mm on matrix.
Location: Iron Monarch iron mine, Iron
Knob, South Australia, Australia. Scale:

Franckeite Image

Images: Franckeite

Comments: Massive franckeite with pockets
of small .5 mm crystals.
Location: Animas Mine, Atocha-Quechisla
district, Sud Chichas Prov ince, Potos?
Department, Bolivia. Scale: 25x20x15 mm.

Franckeite Image

Images: Franckeite Potosiite

Comments: Visually indistinguishable metallic
potosiite/franckeite crystals to 6 mm..
Location: San Jose mine, Oruro City, Oruro
Department, Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size 6
mm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Francoanellite Image

Images: Francoanellite

Comments: Chalky massiv e francoanellite.
Location: Giottodi Castellana Cave,
Puglia, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Frankhawthorneite Image

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Images: Frankhawthorneite

Comments: Very small green crystals of
frankhawthorneite on a light green
unknown mineral.
Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, Tintic
District, Juab Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1 mm.

Franklinite Image

Images: Franklinite

Comments: Black, octahedral franklinite
crystals to 1.4 cm across on white calcite.
Jersey, USA. Scale: 2.9 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Franklinite Image

Images: Franklinite Esperite Hardystonite

black franklinite.
Mineral Species

Fransoletite Image

Images: Fransoletite

Comments: Light blue crystals of
fransoletite.
Giv en.

Franzinite Image

Images: Franzinite

Comments: Opaque white platy crystals of
franzinite on brown vesuvianite crystals.
Location: Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany,
Mineral Species

Fredrikssonite Image

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Images: Fredrikssonite Hausmannite

Comments: Red-brown elongated
crystalline fredrikssonite in calcite with
granular hausmannite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Freibergite Image

Images: Freibergite

Comments: Dark metallic freibergite in white
quartz.
Location: Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: 35x20x10 mm.

Freieslebenite Image

Images: Freieslebenite

freieslebenite on quartz.
mm.

Fresnoite Image

Images: Fresnoite

Comments: Yellow to peach colored
crystals of fresnoite.
Location: Junnila Mine, San Benito County,
California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Freudenbergite Image

Images: Freudenbergite

Comments: BSE image of a sector-zoned
crystal of freudenbergite. The bright
pyramids correspond to sector (001), and
the darker ones belong to sector (100).
Location: Peralkaline alkali syenite dikes at
Katzenbuckel, southwestern Germany.
Scale: See Image.

Friedelite Image

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Images: Friedelite

Comments: Rose red crystals of friedelite
on matrix.
County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Friedrichite Image

Images: Friedrichite Krupkaite Benjaminite

quartz crystals.
Mineral Species

Frolovite Image

Images: Frolovite

Comments: Clear to white crystalline
frolovite in rock.
Mineral Species

Frondelite Image

Images: Frondelite Kidwellite

Comments: Root beer colored crystals of
frondelite and white kidwellite sticks on
matrix.
Location: Sapucaia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Froodite Image

Images: Froodite

Comments: Froodite grain (see arrow) in
mostly chalcopyrite matrix.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Froodite Image

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Images: Froodite Maslovite Altaite

See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fukuchilite Image

Images: Fukuchilite

Comments: Dark brown fine-grained
fukuchilite in white gypsum.
Location: Hanawa Mine, Kazuno City,
Akita, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Fuloppite Image

Images: Fuloppite

Comments: Gray crystals of f?l?ppite on
quartz.

Furongite Image

Images: Furongite

Comments: Pale yellow crystalline
furongite.
Location: Furong Lin, Ling Wu, Western
Hunan Province, China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species


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Gabrielsonite Image

Images: Gabrielsonite

Comments: Jet black, lustrous crystal grain,
showing no faces, fractured to about
0.75mm with white pectolite-hematite
matrix.
Scale: 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5cm.

Gadolinite-(Ce) Image

Images: Gadolinite-(Ce)

Comments: Sharp, well crystallized single
crystal of brown gadolinite.
Location: Buer, Bj?rkedalen, Porsgrunn,
Telemark, Norway. Scale: 18x14x8 mm.

Gagarinite-(Y) Image

Images: Gagarinite-(Y)

Comments: Brownish to gray crystals of
gagarinite-(Y) in matrix.
Location: Gjerdingen, Jevnaker, Oppland,

Gageite Image

Images: Gageite

Comments: Preserved sprays of inesite
completely replaced by tan-colored
gageite crystals.
South Africa. Scale: 5 x 4.6 cm.
© John Veevaert

Gahnite Image

Images: Gahnite

Comments: Deep blue octahedral crystals
of gahnite in quartz.
Mineral Species

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Gahnite Image

Images: Gahnite

Comments: Optical micrograph of gahnite
(blue) + Na-Ca-Li mica pseudomorph after
staurolite in calcite matrix pigmented with
brownish Fe-(hydr)oxide. (AmMin, 88:794).
Location: Diaspore-bearing metabauxite
from East Samos (Greece). Scale: See
Image.

Gaidonnayite Image

Images: Gaidonnayite

Comments: Translucent tan spherical
gaidonnayite crystal aggregates.
Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Rouville
County, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Gaitite Image

Images: Gaitite

Comments: Opaque white spherical gaitite
with transparent crystalline calcite.
Location: Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species

Galaxite Image

Images: Galaxite Alleghanyite

Comments: Black granular galaxite with
reddish alleghanyite and white kutnohorite.
Location: Bald Knob, Alleghany County,
Mineral Species

Galeite Image

Images: Galeite

Comments: White translucent spherical
crystalline aggregates of galeite in clay.
Mineral Species

Galena Image

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Images: Galena

Comments: Galena on pyrrhotite. The
crystals of galena reach to 1.5 cm across.
All are cubic with octahedral
modifications.
Location: Dal'Negorsk, Russia. Scale: 8x10
cm.
© John Veevaert

Galena Image

Images: Galena Plumbojarosite

Comments: Yellow, earthy plumbojarosite
on massive, gray galena.
Picture size 4 mm.

Galenobismutite Image

Images: Galenobismutite

Comments: Black metallic massiv e
galenobismutite in translucent quartz.
Location: Vastervik, Smaland, Kalmar,
Mineral Species

Galkhaite Image

Images: Galkhaite

Comments: Cherry red crystals of galkhaite on
matrix.
Location: Getchell mine, Humboldt County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert

Gallite Image

Images: Gallite

Comments: A mixture of massive high
grade ore with grains of gallite (gray)
occuring with germanite and renierite. Most
of what can be seen is the renierite, which
has reddish and purple iridescence.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: Picture
size 1 cm.

Gamagarite Image

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Images: Gamagarite

Comments: Dark red-brown crystalline
gamagarite in white calcite.
Location: Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia,
Genova, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ganomalite Image

Images: Ganomalite Jacobsite

Comments: White crystalline ganomalite
with dark granular jacobsite.
Location: Jacobsberg, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ganophyllite Image

Images: Ganophyllite

Comments: Light brown micaceous
ganophyllite with milky quartz.
Location: Gambatesa Mine, Genov a,
Mineral Species

Ganophyllite Image

Images: Ganophyllite

Comments: SEM image of a ganophyllite
crystal. (AmMin, 88:1325).
Italy. Scale: Scale bar 100 µ-m.

Ganterite Image

Images: Ganterite

Comments: Black and white thin-section
micrograph of ganterite in white mica
schist (sample SS9787) (S.Gt: synkinematic
ganterite; P.Gt: postkinematic ganterite.
(CanMin 41:1284).
Location: Metamorphosed basement rocks
from the Berisal Complex, Simplon Region,
Switzerland. Scale: See Image.

Garronite Image

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Images: Garronite Siderite

Comments: Translucent white micro
crystals of garronite on brown siderite
crystals.
Mineral Species

Gartrellite Image

Images: Gartrellite

Comments: Lime green gartrellite on matrix
associated with mimetite. Former Mart?n
Oliete Fontela collection.
Scale: 6x4x3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Garyansellite Image

Images: Garyansellite

Comments: Brown crystalline garyansellite
with quartz.
Mineral Species

Gaspeite Image

Images: Gaspeite

Comments: Green, crystalline massive
gaspeite in matrix.
Location: Lemieux Township, Gaspe
Peninsula, Gaspe Nord County, Quebec,
Mineral Species

Gatumbaite Image

Images: Gatumbaite Fluorapatite

Comments: White crystalline gatumbaite
with yellow brazilianite in massive blue
fluorapatite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Gaudefroyite Image

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Images: Gaudefroyite

Comments: Dark gray, prismatic
gaudefroyite with crystals to 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Gaylussite Image

Images: Gaylussite

Comments: Clear, nearly colorless crystals
of gaylussite.
Location: Trona, Searles Lake, San
Bernardino County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gearksutite Image

Images: Gearksutite

Comments: White gearksutite crust on
quartz.
Location: Saint Peter's Dome, El Paso
Mineral Species

Gedrite Image

Images: Gedrite

Comments: Back prismatic crystalline
gedrite in rock.
Location: Schissgruv an, near Ludvika,
Dalarna, Kopparberg, Sweden. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Gehlenite Image

Images: Gehlenite

Comments: Crystalline massive gehlenite.
Mineral Species

Gehlenite Image

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Images: Gehlenite

Comments: Contact area between
v esuvianite (right) and gehlenite (left).
Note the lamellae of clintonite included
mainly in the gehlenite crystals (CanMin v .
41. p 1259).
Location: Skarns along the contact of a
diorite intrusion at Oravit?a, Banat, in
Romania. Scale: Image size 2.7 mm.

Geigerite Image

Images: Geigerite

Comments: Small, brownish grains of
transparent geigerite (see lower image) in a
silicous breccia.
Location: Mt. Nero Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La
Spieza, Italy. Scale: 3.5 x 1.5 cm.
© Rich Geiger

Geikielite Image

Images: Geikielite

Comments: Black, lustrous crystals of
geikielite in matrix.
Location: Monte dei tre Abati, Coli,
Piacenza Prov ince, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Geminite Image

Images: Geminite

Comments: Pale greenish crystals of
geminite with a light blue, lavendulane-
related mineral.
Picture size 4 mm.

Genthelvite Image

Images: Genthelvite

Comments: Pyramidal crystals of
genthelvite.

Geocronite Image

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Images: Geocronite

Comments: Many black geocronite
crystals intergrown in milky quartz(?) matrix.
Location: Sala Silver Mine, Sala,
V?stmanland, Sweden. Scale: 17x17x12
mm.

Georgeericksenite Image

Images: Georgeericksenite

(SEM) photomicrograph of part of a
georgeericksenite aggregate: note the
cracking of the crystals due to H2O loss
under the SEM vacuum. (AmMin 83:391).
Location: Museum specimen labeled as
originating from Oficina Chacabuco, Chile..
Scale: See Image.

Georgeite Image

Images: Georgeite

Comments: Pale blue crusts of georgeite
with dark green atacamite.
Mineral Species

Georgiadesite Image

Images: Georgiadesite

Comments: Light blue, pseudo-cubic
crystal of georgiadesite.
Giv en.

Gerasimovskite Image

Images: Gerasimovskite Ussingite

Comments: Pale tan gerasimovskite
pseudomorphous after epistolite crystal, in
purple ussingite.
Mineral Species

Gerhardtite Image

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Images: Gerhardtite

Comments: Emerald green crystalline crust
of gerhardtite on copper.
Location: Greenland, Ontonagon County,
Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Germanite Image

Images: Germanite

Comments: Red metallic germanite,
tarnishing black.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gersdorffite Image

Images: Gersdorffite

Comments: Massive to coarse-grained
lead-gray gersdorffite crystals.
Location: Ait Ahmane Mine, Bou Azzer, Anti
Atlas Mts., Morocco. Scale: Not Given.
© John Veevaert

Gerstleyite Image

Images: Gerstleyite

Comments: Small prismatic crystals and
massive cinnabar-red gerstleyite on matrix.
Location: Baker mine, U.S. Borax Mine,
Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co., California,

Getchellite Image

Images: Getchellite

Comments: Bright red getchellite on matrix.
Location: Khaidarkan (Chaidarkan) Sb-Hg
deposit, Fergana Valley, Osh District,
Kyrgyzstan. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.

Gianellaite Image

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Images: Gianellaite

Comments: Yellow crystalline coatings of
gianellaite on calcite.
Location: Mariposa Mine, Terlingua,
Brewster County, Texas, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Gibbsite Image

Images: Gibbsite

Comments: Transparent to white, tabular-
prismatic gibbsite crystals.
Location: Saga Quarry, Langesundfjord,
Oslo Region, Norway. Scale: Crystal size 1
mm.
© John Veevaert

Gibbsite Image

Images: Gibbsite Doyleite

Comments: Botryoidal spheres of doyleite
growing along with its dimorph gibbsite.
Analysis shows that doyleite dominates the
mix. There are also minor canary yellow
phlogopite crystals.
Location: Baoshan, Yunnan, China. Scale: 8
x 6.5 x 1.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Giessenite Image

Images: Giessenite

Comments: Small clumps of acicular
crystal mats of giessenite with rounded
cosalite grains (as photographed on pure
white fibrous backing material).
Location: Otome Mine, near Kofu,
Yamanashi, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gilalite Image

Images: Gilalite

Comments: Striated, prismatic pale
greenish yellow crystal of gilalite.
Location: Christmas mine, Hayden, Gila

Gilalite Image

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Images: Gilalite

Comments: Green spherical crystals of
gilalite to 0.3mm in grape-like bunches.

Gillespite Image

Images: Gillespite Anandite

Comments: Black micaceous anandite
with dark red gillespite.
Location: Esquire No. 7 Claim, Big Creek,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Gillespite Image

Images: Gillespite Pellyite

Comments: Red crystalline gillespite with
yellow pellyite rock matrix.
Location: GUN claims, Itsi Mountains,
MacMillan Pass Area, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species

Gillespite Image

Images: Gillespite Bigcreekite Sanbornite

2cm.

Gillulyite Image

Images: Gillulyite

Comments: Dark red crystalline gillulyite in
white calcite.
Location: South Mercur Pit, Barrick Gold
Mine, Mercur, Tooele County, Utah, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gilmarite Image

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Images: Gilmarite

Comments: Scanning electron image of
prismatic gilmarite crystals (Eur. J. Mineral,
11:549).
Location: Roua deposit, Guillaumes
municipality, about 50 km from Nice,
France. Scale: Picture size 80 µm.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Giniite Image

Images: Giniite

Comments: Dark greenish black crystals of
giniite on matrix.
Location: Sandamab, Usakos, Namibia.

Ginorite Image

Images: Ginorite Priceite

Comments: Clear platy crystalline coatings
of ginorite on rock with white priceite.
Location: Corkscrew Canyon, Death
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Giorgiosite Image

Images: Giorgiosite

Comments: Opaque white nodular
giorgiosite.
Location: Alphroessa, Santorini (Thira)
Island, Notion Aiyalon, Greece. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Girdite Image

Images: Girdite

Comments: White chalky crystalline
spherical massive girdite in rock.
Location: Grand Central Mine, Tombstone,
Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Girvasite Image

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Images: Girvasite

Comments: Translucent aggregate of
girvasite.
Location: Kovdor Mine, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species

Gismondine Image

Images: Gismondine

Comments: Clear crystal of gismondine on
matrix.
Location: Alban Hills, near Rome, Latium,
Italy. Scale: Not Given.

Gittinsite Image

Images: Gittinsite Eudialyte

Comments: White crystalline gittinsite with
red eudialyte.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu
Township, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Giuseppettite Image

Images: Giuseppettite

Comments: Pale bluish-violet giuseppettite
crystals.
Location: Sacrofano, Campagnano, Lazio,

Gjerdingenite-Fe Image

Images: Gjerdingenite-Fe

gjerdingenite-Fe on matrix.
Location: Gjerdingen, Vestbygda,
Nordmarka, Jevnaker, Oppland, Norway.

Gjerdingenite-Fe Image

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Images: Gjerdingenite-Fe Ralstonite

gjerdingenite-Fe. The mineral is dusted with tiny
crystals of two phases. At high magnification,
one of them is seen to form cubes and is
probably ralstonite.
Location: Gjerdingselva, Lunner, Oppland, Oslo
Region, Norway. Scale: Crystal length 0.5 mm.

Gladite Image

Images: Gladite

Comments: Bluish-gray prismatic crystal of
gladite on calcite.
Location: Holzm?hlental quarry,
Flechtingen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Gladiusite Image

Images: Gladiusite

Comments: Radiating group of dark olive-
greenish acicular crystals of gladiusite on
matrix.

Gladiusite Image

Images: Gladiusite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph showing the
morphology of the free-standing crystals of
gladiusite. (CanMin v. 38, p 1480).
Location: Kovdor alkaline-ultramafic complex,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image.

Glauberite Image

Images: Glauberite

Comments: Translucent crystals of
glauberite.
Location: Superior, Pinal County, Arizona,
Mineral Species

Glauberite Image

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Images: Glauberite Hydroglauberite

Comments: Putty-colored chalky
hydroglauberite on glauberite crystals.
Location: Camp Verde, Yavapai County,
Mineral Species

Glaucocerinite Image

Images: Glaucocerinite

Comments: Botryoidal crust of blue
glaucocerinite.
Location: Mina Serpieri, Laurium, Attiki,
Mineral Species

Glaucochroite Image

Images: Glaucochroite Zincite Willemite

Comments: Pinkish gray crystalline
glaucochroite intermixed with pale green
willemite, with dark red zincite and white
calcite.
Mineral Species

Glaucodot Image

Images: Glaucodot

Comments: Metallic lustered crystal of
glaucodot on matrix.
Location: Hakansboda, Vastmanland,

Glauconite Image

Images: Glauconite

Comments: Green glauconite intermixed
with quartz.
Location: Ightham, Kent, England. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Glaucophane Image

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Images: Glaucophane

Comments: Pale violet to gray fibrous
massiv e glaucophane.
Location: Lac Malartic, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Glaukosphaerite Image

Images: Glaukosphaerite

Comments: Green botryoidal crust of
glaukosphaerite.
Mineral Species

Glucine Image

Images: Glucine Moraesite

Comments: Light brown glucine with white
moraesite.
Location: Boevskoye Mine, Sverdlovsk
District, Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Glushinskite Image

Images: Glushinskite

Comments: White coatings of glushinskite
on dirty, tan gypsum.
Location: San Simon, Cochise County,
Mineral Species

Glushinskite Image

Images: Glushinskite

Comments: SEM photo of two large
euhedral glushinskite crystals partially
embedded in the dried, rotten saguaro
matrix. (AmMin, 88:1883).

Gmelinite-Na Image

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Images: Gmelinite-Na

Comments: White crystalline aggregate of
gmelinite.
Location: Antrim, Northern Ireland. Scale:
Not Given.

Gobbinsite Image

Images: Gobbinsite

Comments: White opaque crystalline
gobbinsite in v ug.
Location: Island Magee, County, Antrim,
Northern Ireland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Godovikovite Image

Images: Godovikovite

Comments: A porous aggregate of
massive yellow godovikovite.
cm.

Goedkenite Image

Images: Goedkenite

Comments: Clear, pointed goedkenite
crystals epitaxially overgrown on
palermoite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Goethite Image

Images: Goethite

Comments: Stellate crystalline aggregates
of acicular goethite crystals.
Location: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech
Republic. Scale: Not Giv en.

Goethite Image

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Images: Goethite Laubmannite

Comments: Reddish brown goethite
hosting radiating sprays of olive green
laubmannite to 3 cm across.
Location: Buckeye Mountain, Polk County,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: 10.5 x 7.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Gold Image

Images: Gold Silver

Comments: Very well crystallized Electrum
(Silver rich gold) on quartz. The analysis
gave 31.47% silv er.
Location: Verespatak (now Rosia
Montana), Transylvania, Romania. Scale:
2.8 x 3.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Gold Image

Images: Gold

Comments: Well crystallized bright metallic gold
specimen.
Location: Red Ledge mine, Nevada Co., California.
Scale: 3.5 x 6 cm in size.
© Dan Weinrich

Gold Image

Images: Gold Isomertieite
Arsenopalladinite Bornite

light.

Gold Image

Images: Gold Petzite

Comments: Dark, stubby petzite crystals
with native gold on quartz.
Location: Rosia Montana (Verespatak),
Transylvania, Romania. Scale: Not Giv en.

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Gold Image

Images: Gold

Comments: Two skeletal octahedral
crystals of gold. Stereo pair images..
Location: Berezov sk Mine, Russia. Scale:
© John Veevaert

Goldfieldite Image

Images: Goldfieldite

Comments: Back granular goldfieldite in
white quartz.
Location: Mohawk Mine, Goldfield,
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Goldichite Image

Images: Goldichite Coquimbite
Ferricopiapite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Goldmanite Image

Images: Goldmanite

Comments: Dark gray granular goldmanite
grains in sandstone.
Location: Sandy Mine, Laguna, Cibola
County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Goldquarryite Image

Images: Goldquarryite

Comments: Single crystal of goldquarryite.
Location: Gold Quarry mine, Eureka
County, Nev ada, USA.. Scale: Crystal
length 0.5 mm.

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Gonnardite Image

Images: Gonnardite

gonnardite on matrix.
Location: White spherical aggregates of
Gonnardite on matrix. Scale: Not Given.

Gonnardite Image

Images: Gonnardite Tetranatrolite

Comments: White, pseudocubic crystals of
tetranatrolite (gonnardite) on matrix.
County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Gonyerite Image

Images: Gonyerite

Comments: Brown massive gonyerite in
manganese ore.
Location: Harstigen, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Goosecreekite Image

Images: Goosecreekite

Comments: Large cluster of many rosettes
of white goosecreekite.
Scale: 15x14x7 cm.

Gorceixite Image

Images: Gorceixite

Comments: Translucent platy crystals of
gorceixite on tan siderite with white
aragonite coatings.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gorceixite Image

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Images: Gorceixite

Click Here for Comments: Translucent, pseudohexagonal
crystal of groceixite in matrix.
Larger Image Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.
Scale: Crystal Size 3 mm.

Gordaite Image

Images: Gordaite

Comments: Colorless to white tabular
crystals of gordaite on matrix.
Location: Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt,

Gordonite Image

Images: Gordonite Wardite

Comments: Prismatic gordonite crystals on
massiv e wardite.

Gorgeyite Image

Images: Gorgeyite

Comments: g?rgeyite crystal prism.
Location: Lake Inder, Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gormanite Image

Images: Gormanite

Comments: Elongated, dark bluish green, fibrous
crystals of gormanite and quartz on a matrix of
quartz and water clear apatite crystals.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada.
© John Veevaert

Gormanite Image

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Images: Gormanite

Comments: Dark green, velvety mass of
gormanite crystals on matrix.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada.
Scale: 3 x 4.5 cm.
© Dav e Barthelmy

Goslarite Image

Images: Goslarite

Comments: Pale yellow to egg-shell white
fibrous goslarite with radiating structure.
Location: Rammelsberg, near Goslar, Harz
Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gottlobite Image

Images: Gottlobite

Comments: Orange-brownish tabular
crystals of gottlobite with black
hausmannite and colorless barite.
Location: Gl?cksstern Mine, Gottlob Hill,
Friedrichroda, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia,

Gotzenite Image

Images: Gotzenite

Comments: Yellow-brown, thin crystals of
g?tzenite in white feldspar matrix.
Location: Barkevik, Langesundsfjorden,
Vestfold, Norway. Scale: 3.5x3x3 cm.

Goudeyite Image

Images: Goudeyite

Comments: Green crusts and micro
crystals of goudeyite on matrix.
Location: Majuba Hill, Pershing County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Specimen size 1x3
cm.
© John Veevaert

Gowerite Image

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Images: Gowerite

Comments: Coatings of acicular radiating
crystal clusters of gowerite.
Location: Furnace Creek, Death Valley,
Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Goyazite Image

Images: Goyazite

Comments: Flat, tabular crystals of
goyazite on dolomite.
Location: Langenbach quarry, Binntal,

Graemite Image

Images: Graemite

Comments: Blue, massiv e graemite on
quartz.
size 5.5 mm.

Graftonite Image

Images: Graftonite Heterosite

Comments: Whitish graftonite intergrown
with dark purple to brown heterosite.
Location: Grafton, Grafton County, New
Hampshire, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Grandidierite Image

Images: Grandidierite

Comments: Translucent blue-green
crystalline grandidierite in pegmatite.
Location: Vohibola, Madagascar. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Grantsite Image

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Images: Grantsite Tyuyamunite

Comments: Dark olive green waxy
coatings of grantsite with greenish-yellow
tyuyamunite and sandstone.
Location: F-33 Mine, near Grants, Valencia
Photo.
Mineral Species

Graphite Image

Images: Graphite

Comments: A crystal of graphite in gneiss.
Location: Forchheim, Pockau, Erzgebirge,

Graphite Image

Images: Graphite

Comments: Black, sub-hexagonal crystal
of graphite in calcite.
Location: Lead Hill Mine, (near
Ticonderoga), Essex Co., New York, USA.
Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.

Gratonite Image

Images: Gratonite

Comments: Crystal cluster of gratonite. The
largest crystal is 2.5 mm across.
Location: Excelsior mine, Cerro de Pasco,
Pasco dept., Peru. Scale: 1.5 x 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Grattarolaite Image

Images: Grattarolaite Rodolicoite

Comments: Brown grattarolaite, intimately
intergrown with brown rodolicoite.
Location: Castelnuovo Mine, Santa
Barbara lignite district, San Giov anni
Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno), Arezzo
Prov ince, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size
4 mm.

Graulichite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Graulichite-(Ce)

image of rhombohedral graulichite-(Ce)
crystals on goethite.
Location: Hourt quarry, Stavelot Massif,
Belgian Ardennes. Scale: See Image.
© University de Liege

Greenalite Image

Images: Greenalite

Comments: Dark olive-green massiv e
greenalite with metallic galena.
Location: La Union Mine, Murcia, Spain.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Greenockite Image

Images: Greenockite

Comments: Brown, equant crystal of
greenockite on prehnite.
Location: Summit, Union County, New

Gregoryite Image

Images: Gregoryite Nyerereite

Comments: Sodium (nyereteite) and
potassium (gregoryite) carbonates, not
stable in normal atmosphere, collected
molten from the v olcano and maintained
in inert argon atmosphere.
Location: Ol Doinyo Lengai Vulkan, Maasai
Steppe, East Africa Rift Valley, Tanzania.
See Link. Scale: Rock size 2 cm.

Greifensteinite Image

Images: Greifensteinite

Comments: Tabular crystal of
greifensteinite impaled on acicular
tourmaline.
Location: Greifenstein Rocks,
Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Griceite Image

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Images: Griceite Villiaumite

Comments: White aggregates of griceite
with pinkish v illiaumite.

Grimaldiite Image

Images: Grimaldiite

Comments: Grimaldiite, variety merumite,
stream rounded crystalline grains.
Location: Merume River, Mazaruni-Potaro
District, Guyana. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Grimselite Image

Images: Grimselite

Comments: Small yellow crystals of
grimselite in matrix.
Location: Gerstenegg/Sommerloch tunnel,
Grimsel Region, Hasli Valley, Bern,

Grimselite Image

Images: Grimselite

Comments: Bright yellow coatings and
minor, small crystals of grimselite on a
white quartz matrix..
Location: Gerstenegg - Sommerloch
Tunnel, Grimsel, Hasli Tal, Bern, Schweiz
(Switzerland).. Scale: See Image.

Griphite Image

Images: Griphite

Comments: Dark red-brown v itreous
crystalline massive griphite.
Location: Sitting Bull Mine, Pennington
Photo.
Mineral Species

Grossular Image

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Images: Grossular Diopside

Comments: Pale blue prismatic crystal of
diopside with orange-brown grossular.
Location: Val d'Aosta, Italy. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Grossular Image

Images: Grossular

Comments: Gemmy, transparent,
cinnamon-colored grossular crystals
averaging 7 mm in size.
Location: Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: 3.5 x 4 x 1.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Grossular Image

Images: Grossular Vesuvianite

Comments: Blocky, tan-colored vesuvianite with
white grossular (garnet).
Location: Sierra de la Cruz, Lago Jaco, Coahuila,
Mexico. Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Groutite Image

Images: Groutite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of groutite in
white marble.
Location: Talcville, Saint Lawrence County,
New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Grumiplucite Image

Images: Grumiplucite

Comments: Gray crystals of grumiplucite
on quartz.
Location: Levigliani, Apuan Alps, Lucca
1.2 mm.

Grunerite Image

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Images: Grunerite

Comments: Oliv e green fibrous crystal
aggregates of grunerite in rock matrix.
Location: Michigamme, Iron County,
Mineral Species

Guanacoite Image

Images: Guanacoite

Comments: Deep blue, bladed, glassy
crystals of guanacoite to 0.75mm lining
vugs of Arhbarite..
Location: El Guanaco Mine, Guanaco,
Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Scale:
Picture Size 5mm.

Guanajuatite Image

Images: Guanajuatite

Comments: Prismatic crystalline
guanajuatite, altering to a blue crust, in
white calcite.
Location: Falun, Kopparberg, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gudmundite Image

Images: Gudmundite

Comments: Steel gray metallic crystalline
gudmundite, tarnishing, massive in rock.
Location: Pezinock, Zapadoslovensky,
Slovakia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Guerinite Image

Images: Guerinite

Comments: White blebs of guerinite on
erythrite.
Location: Wechsel Schacht, Richelsdorf,
Hesse, Germany. Scale: Not Given.

Guildite Image

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Images: Guildite Magnesiocopiapite

Comments: Brown granular guildite with
greenish yellow magnesiocopiapite.
Location: United Verde Mine, Jerome,
Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Guilleminite Image

Images: Guilleminite

Comments: Radial, yellow aggregates of
acicular crystals of guilleminite on green
malachite.
Not Given.

Gunningite Image

Images: Gunningite

Comments: White crust of gunningite on
massiv e sulfide ore.
Location: Brunswick 12 Open Pit, Bathurst,
New Brunswick, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gustavite Image

Images: Gustavite

Comments: Gray metallic gustavite in
matrix.
Location: South Mountain, Owyhee County,
Idaho, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Gutsevichite Image

Images: Gutsevichite

Comments: White efflorescence of
gutsevichite on sandstone.
Location: Long Park, Urav an, Montrose
Mineral Species

Gypsum Image

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Images: Gypsum

Comments: Bladed rosettes of gypsum.
Location: unknown. Scale: Specimen size 6
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Gypsum Image

Images: Gypsum

Comments: Pencil-sized acicular crystals of
gypsum.
Location: Naica, Chihuahua, S.A., Mexico.
© Dave Barthelmy

Gyrolite Image

Images: Gyrolite

Comments: Two round beige gyrolite
aggregates each about 5cm diameter.
Location: Bombay, India. Scale: Specimen
size 10cm.
© John Attard


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Hagendorfite Image

Images: Hagendorfite

Comments: Greenish-black massive
hagendorfite.
Location: Hagendorf South Pegmatite
(Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open
Cut), Waidhaus, Vohenstrau?, Oberpfalz,
mm.

Haggertyite Image

Images: Haggertyite

Comments: Backscattered electron
photomicrograph showing a hexagonal
haggertyite crystal (white) in contact with
richterite (light gray) and serpentized
olivine (dark gray). (AmMin, v 83, p 1324).
Location: Prairie Creek lamproite, Arkansas,
USA. Scale: See Image.

Haggite Image

Images: Haggite

Comments: Black botryoidal to massiv e
haggite in beige calcite with yellowish
tyuyamunite.
Location: Section 33 Mine, near Grants,
Valencia County, New Mexico, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Haidingerite Image

Images: Haidingerite Pharmacolite

spherical aggregate of haidingerite with
white pharmacolite.
Location: Jachymov, Zapadocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Haineaultite Image

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Images: Haineaultite

Comments: Transparent, yellow crystals to
5 mm of haineaultite on matrix.
Canada. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Hainite Image

Images: Hainite

Comments: Brownish-yellow crystal of
hainite in pegmatite matrix.
Location: Bortolan Quarry, Pocos de
Caldos, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Haiweeite Image

Images: Haiweeite

Comments: Minute divergent acicular
crystals of white haiweeite on matrix.
Location: Coso Uranium Mine, Inyo County,
Mineral Species

Haiweeite Image

Images: Haiweeite Metahaiweeite

Comments: Pale yellow scaly
metahaiweeite coating on quartz with
minute haiweeite acicular crystals.
Mineral Species

Haiweeite Image

Images: Haiweeite

Comments: Yellow, spherical, aggregates
of acicular haiweeite with clear calcite
scalenohedrons.
Location: Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil..

Haleniusite-(La) Image

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Images: Haleniusite-(La)

Comments: Secondary electron
microscope (SEM) image showing tabular
brochantite crystals growing on a
featureless h?leniusite-(La) substrate.
(CanMin 42:1099).
Location: Mine dumps of Bastn?s deposit,
Skinnskatteberg District, V?stmanland
County, Sweden. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µ-m.

Haleniusite-(La) Image

Images: Haleniusite-(La)

Comments: Back-scattered electron (BSE)
micrograph of a section of bastn?site-(La)
showing partial alteration to
h?leniusite-(La), which is white on the
image. Black areas are voids. (CanMin
42:1099).
Location: Mine dumps of Bastn?s deposit,
Skinnskatteberg District, V?stmanland
County, Sweden. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µ-m.

Halite Image

Images: Halite

Comments: Hoppered pink halite crystals
from the evaporation ponds. The pink color
is due to the organism Halo bacterium that
liv es in the concentrated brine.
Location: Searles Lake, Trona, San
Bernadino County, California, USA. Scale:
Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Hallimondite Image

Images: Hallimondite

Comments: Yellow scaly crusts of
hallimondite.
Location: Ellweiler, near Richenbach,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Halloysite Image

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Images: Halloysite Pseudomalachite

Comments: Deep green pseudomalachite
crystals on cuprous halloysite.
Location: Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg,
Granite Co., Montana, USA. Scale: Crystal
size 1-2 mm.
© John Veevaert

Halloysite Image

Images: Halloysite

Comments: Pale tan sectile porcelaneous
massive halloysite.
Location: Monroe County, Indiana, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Halotrichite Image

Images: Halotrichite

Comments: White, fibrous halotrichite on
rock.

Halotrichite Image

Images: Halotrichite Boothite

Comments: Pale blue earthy boothite with
white halotrichite.
Location: Copiapo, Atacama, Chile. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Halotrichite Image

Images: Halotrichite Szomolnokite

Comments: Tan powdery szomolnokite
crust on silky fibrous halotrichite with yellow
metavoltine.
Location: Markey Mine, Red Canyon, San
Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Halurgite Image

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Images: Halurgite

Comments: Nearly opaque granular halurgite.
Location: Chelkar Salt Dome, Zapadno-
Mineral Species

Hambergite Image

Images: Hambergite

Comments: Clear colorless prismatic
crystal of hambergite.
Location: Imalo, near Mania, Madagascar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hammarite Image

Images: Hammarite

Comments: Metallic, white to gray
hammarite with native bismuth in fluorite
and quartz.
Location: Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg,
Picture size 5 mm.

Hancockite Image

Images: Hancockite Clinohedrite

Comments: Clear crystals of clinohedrite
on hancockite.

Hancockite Image

Images: Hancockite

Comments: Reddish brown prisms of
hancockite on matrix.

Hancockite Image

Images: Hancockite Nasonite

Comments: Colorless, transparent
hexagonal prism of Nasonite on reddish
brown hancockite.

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Hanksite Image

Images: Hanksite

Comments: Translucent, hexagonal crystal
of hanksite.
Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Hannayite Image

Images: Hannayite Newberyite

Comments: Translucent white prismatic
crystals of hannayite on brown newberyite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hannebachite Image

Images: Hannebachite

Comments: Small .5 mm crystals of
colorless hannebachite on matrix.
Location: Hannebach, Niederzissen, Eifel
Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:
35x35x24 mm.

Hapkeite Image

Images: Hapkeite

Comments: Reflected-light image of an
area in the regolith clast showing
distribution of FeNi metal and hapkeite
(Fe2Si) metal grains in a feldspathic matrix,
Msk, Maskelynite.. (Proc. Nat. Acad.
Sci.,101:6848).
Location: Dhofar 280 (Dh-280) is a lunar
fragmental breccia meteorite found in the
Dhofar region of Oman, in April, 2001.
Scale: See Image.
© PNAS

Haradaite Image

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Images: Haradaite

Comments: Translucent green crystal prism
fragments of haradaite.
Location: Gambatesa Mine, Val Grav eglia,
Mineral Species

Hardystonite Image

Images: Hardystonite Esperite Franklinite

black franklinite.
Mineral Species

Harmotome Image

Images: Harmotome

Comments: Root beer colored calcite
covered with harmotome crystals from 1
mm to 1 cm.
Location: Strontian Hills, Strontian, Argyll,
Scotland. Scale: 5.5 x 4.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Harrisonite Image

Images: Harrisonite

Comments: Glassy brown crystalline
harrisonite grains in matrix.
Location: Arcedeckne Island, District of
Franklin, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hartite Image

Images: Hartite

Comments: White, translucent waxy
crystalline hartite in wood.
Location: Santa Barbara Mine, San
Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hastingsite Image

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Images: Hastingsite

Comments: Greenish-white fibrous mass of
hastingsite.
Location: Calamite Mine, Elba, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hatchite Image

Images: Hatchite

Comments: Platy microcrystal aggregate
of hatchite.
Location: Lengenbach Quarry, Binnental,
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hatchite Image

Images: Hatchite

Comments: Specular, black aggregate of
hatchite crystals with red realgar on white
dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Big crystal 1.5
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Hauckite Image

Images: Hauckite

Comments: Orange-yellow crystalline
hauckite with pink calcite and black
franklinite.
Location: Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex
County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Hauerite Image

Images: Hauerite Rambergite

Comments: Small black octahedral
crystals of hauerite with small brown
crystals of rambergite.
size 0.8 mm.

Hausmannite Image

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Images: Hausmannite Ephesite

Comments: Flesh-colored ephesite associated
with dark brownish black hausmannite.
Location: Gloucester mine. Postmasburg, Cape
prov ince. S. Africa. Scale: 5.5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Hausmannite Image

Images: Hausmannite

Comments: Black hausmannite crystals
with minor brucite.
Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari, South
Africa. Scale: 6.5 x 6 cm.
© John Veevaert

Hausmannite Image

Images: Hausmannite Kombatite

Comments: Yellow kombatite crystals in
black hausmannite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi, Namibia.

Hausmannite Image

Images: Hausmannite Fredrikssonite

Comments: Red-brown elongated
crystalline fredrikssonite in calcite with
granular hausmannite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hausmannite Image

Images: Hausmannite Filipstadite

Comments: Dark minute grains of
filipstadtite in hausmannite (slabbed
specimen).
Location: Jacobsberg Mine, near
Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hauyne Image

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Images: Hauyne

Comments: Grains of deep blue hauyne
crystals in matrix.
Location: Niedermendig, Eifel, Germany.
© John Veevaert

Hawleyite Image

Images: Hawleyite

Comments: Shale coated with brilliant
yellow hawleyite.
Location: Mco. la Plane de Bosc, France.
Scale: 4 x 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Haynesite Image

Images: Haynesite

Comments: Yellow tufts of haynesite.
Location: Repete mine, San Juan County,
Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 mm.

Haynesite Image

Images: Haynesite

Comments: Bright yellow sunburst clusters
of haynesite on a fracture surface..
Location: Repete Mine, San Juan Co., Utah,

Heazlewoodite Image

Images: Heazlewoodite

Comments: Small crystal aggregate of
heazlewoodite.
Location: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec,
Mineral Species

Hechtsbergite Image

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Images: Hechtsbergite

Comments: Light brownish crystals of
hechtsbergite in matrix.
Location: Hechtsberg Quarry, Hausach,
Kinzig Valley, Black Forest, Baden-
1.3 mm.

Hectorfloresite Image

Images: Hectorfloresite

Comments: Prismatic twinned crystal of
hectorfloresite.
Location: Pampa Rica, Antofagasta, Chile.

Hectorite Image

Images: Hectorite

Comments: Pure white paper-like matted
masses of hectorite.
Location: near Hector, San Bernardino
Mineral Species

Hedenbergite Image

Images: Hedenbergite

Comments: Thick, bluish gray blocky prisms
of hedenbergite on matrix.

Hedenbergite Image

Images: Hedenbergite Ilvaite

Comments: Doubly terminated, black
ilv aite on crystals of greenish gray
hedenbergite with minor galena.
Location: First Sovietsky mine, Dalnjegorsk,
Russia. Scale: 4 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Hedyphane Image

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Images: Hedyphane

Comments: Phlogopite with yellowish
orange hedyphane.
© John Veevaert

Heidornite Image

Images: Heidornite

Comments: Colorless crystals of heidornite.
Location: Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen,
Erfurt district, Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany.

Heinrichite Image

Images: Heinrichite

Comments: Pale greenish-yellow
crystalline heinrichite crusts on clay.
Location: Lakeview, Lake County, Oregon,
Mineral Species

Hejtmanite Image

Images: Hejtmanite

Comments: Bronze sub-metallic micaceous
crystalline hejtmanite with dark green
aegirine on white feldspar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hellyerite Image

Images: Hellyerite

Comments: Green botryoidal hellyerite on
matrix.
Location: Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood,
Tasmania, Australia. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Helvite Image

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Images: Helvite Rhodochrosite

Comments: Yellow crystals of helvite on
quartz and pink rhodochrosite.
Location: Galerie Elisabeth, Cavnic,
Maramures, Romaina. Scale: Not Given.

Helvite Image

Images: Helvite

Comments: Large (for the species),
triangular yellowish creamy colored
crystals of helvite on white, albite matrix.
Location: Navegador mine, Conselheiro
Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal
size 0.7 x 0.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Hematite Image

Images: Hematite

Comments: Black, platy hematite and
minor white magnesite.
Location: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: 9 x
4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Hematite Image

Images: Hematite Defernite

Comments: Specular hematite rich with
crystalline grains of reddish brown
defernite.
Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region,
© John Veevaert

Hematite Image

Images: Hematite Rutile

Comments: Acicular, golden yellow
crystals of rutile epitaxially overgrown on
black crystals of hematite. The
overgrowths are perpendicular to the
trigonal crystallography of the hematite.
Location: Novo Horizonte, Bahia Brazil.
© Fabre Minerals

Hematolite Image

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Images: Hematolite

Comments: Reddish-orange granular
hematolite in white quartz.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hematophanite Image

Images: Hematophanite

Comments: Deep red earthy
hematophanite in manganese ore matrix.
Mineral Species

Hemihedrite Image

Images: Hemihedrite

Comments: Reddish brown crystals of
hemihedrite on matrix.
Location: Florence Pb-Ag mine,
Whckenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona,

Hemihedrite Image

Images: Hemihedrite Phoenicochroite

Comments: Yellow hemihedrite crystals to
1 mm within pockets of dark red
phoenicochroite crystalline aggregates on
matrix.
Location: Pack Rat claim, Maricopa Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

Hemimorphite Image

Images: Hemimorphite

Comments: Lustrous, mostly colorless to
slightly reddish-brown hemimorphite crystals,
the largest 13 x 20 x 2 mm in size.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Scale: 25 x 10 x 25 mm.
© Dan Weinrich

Hendricksite Image

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Images: Hendricksite Celsian

Comments: Gray massive celsian with dark
red hendricksite.
Mineral Species

Hendricksite Image

Images: Hendricksite

Comments: Reddish black hendricksite
crystal in cream-colored willemite.
Location: 'Mill Site', Franklin, Sussex County,
New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Heneuite Image

Images: Heneuite Raadeite

Comments: Translucent aqua colored
greasy heneuite grain, surrounded by
beige rim of raadeite, with dark blue
phosphoellenbergerite inclusion (near top
of heneuite), in quartz apatite rock.
Location: Tingelstadt Iron Mine, Modum,
Mineral Species

Henmilite Image

Images: Henmilite

Comments: Blue crystals of henmilite in
matrix.
Location: Fuka Mine, Bitchu-Cho, Okayama
Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island,
Japan. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© John Veevaert

Henmilite Image

Images: Henmilite Olshanskyite

Comments: Milky white olshanskyite hosting
crystals of deep blue henmilite to 6 mm
across.
Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town,
Kawakama Co., Okayama Pref., Japan.
© John Veevaert

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Hennomartinite Image

Images: Hennomartinite

Comments: Reddish brown hennomartinite
included in purple sugilite.
South Africa. Scale: 0.5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Henrymeyerite Image

Images: Henrymeyerite Aegirine

Comments: A nearly black crystal of
henrymeyerite with dark green prismatic
crystals of aegirine in quartz.
County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.

Henrymeyerite Image

Images: Henrymeyerite

Comments: Slender prismatic crystals of
henrymeyerite intergrown with stubby
hexagonal prisms of fluorapatite and
dolomite rhombohedra. (CanMin v 38. p
620).
Location: Kovdor alkaline ultramafic
complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:
Image size 0.2 mm.

Hentschelite Image

Images: Hentschelite

Comments: Dark green botryoidal
hentschelite in transparent quartz.
Location: Spring Creek Mine, near
Wilmington, South Australia, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Herbertsmithite Image

Images: Herbertsmithite

Comments: Black and white image of dark
green herbertsmithite crystals on pale buff
matrix. (Mineralogical Magazine, 68:5310.
Location: Mina Los Tres Presidentes, Sierra
Gorda, Chile.. Scale: See Image.

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Hercynite Image

Images: Hercynite

Comments: Brownish black granular
hercynite.
Location: Nacetin, Severocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Herderite Image

Images: Herderite

Comments: Partially transparent herderite
crystal with minor white albite.
Location: Alto do Corrego Frio, Linopolis, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.1x2.7x2.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Herschelite Image

Images: Herschelite Chabazite-Na

Comments: Rounded transparent crystals
of chabazite-Na (herschelite).
Location: Horseshoe Dam, Maricopa

Hessite Image

Images: Hessite

Comments: Metallic crystal of hessite on
matrix.
Location: Botes, Zlatna, Transylvania,
Romania. Scale: Not Given.

Hessite Image

Images: Hessite Choloalite

Comments: Sparse green crusts of
choloalite with metallic hessite.
Location: McAlpine Mine, Tuolumne
Mineral Species

Hessite Image

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Images: Hessite

Comments: Complex latticework of hessite
with minor white quartz.
Location: Bot?s Mountains, Bot?s,
Transilvania Rumania. Scale: Crystal size: 1
x 0.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Hetaerolite Image

Images: Hetaerolite Hodgkinsonite

Comments: Dark crystal of hetaerolite on
hodgkinsonite.
Giv en.

Heterogenite-2H Image

Images: Heterogenite-2H

Comments: Shiny black botryoidal
heterogenite-2H.
Location: Star of the Congo mine,
Katanga, Congo. Scale: 6 cm.
© John Attard

Heteromorphite Image

Images: Heteromorphite

Comments: Steel gray metallic acicular
crystal mat of heteromorphite on clear
calcite crystals.
Location: Wolfsberg, Harz Mountains,
Niedersachsen, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Heterosite Image

Images: Heterosite Alluaudite

Comments: Purple crystalline heterosite
with yellow coatings of alluaudite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Heterosite Image

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Images: Heterosite Graftonite

Comments: Whitish graftonite intergrown
with dark purple to brown heterosite.
Location: Grafton, Grafton County, New
Hampshire, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Heulandite Image

Images: Heulandite Mordenite

Comments: White, acicular crystals of
mordenite in heulandite geode.
Location: Rock Creek, Stevenson,
Skamania County, Washington, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Heulandite-Ca Image

Images: Heulandite-Ca

Comments: Crystals of heulandite with a
green color due to chlorite inclusions.
Location: Malagaon, India. Scale: 5 x 4.5 x
3 cm.

Heulandite-Ca Image

Images: Heulandite-Ca Mordenite

Comments: Pink heulandite crystals up to
15 mm in fibrous white mordenite matrix.
Location: Rats Nest Claim, Challis, Custer
Co., Idaho, USA. Scale: 6x6x4 cm.

Heulandite-Sr Image

Images: Heulandite-Sr

Comments: Colorless prismatic-pinacoidal
crystal of heulandite-Sr.
Location: Campegli mine, Sestri Levante,
Genova province, Liguria, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Hewettite Image

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Images: Hewettite Fervanite

acicular microcrystals of fervanite with
blocky hewettite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Hewettite Image

Images: Hewettite

Comments: Red sub-metallic fibrous mats
of hewettite on matrix.
Location: Cactus Rat Mine, Thompson's
District, Grand Count, Utah, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Hexahydrite Image

Images: Hexahydrite

Comments: White fibrous mats and
powdery encrustation of hexahydrite on
matrix.
Location: near Basque, Bonaparte River,
British Columbia, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Hexahydroborite Image

Images: Hexahydroborite

Comments: White to translucent
hexahydroborite.
Location: Solongo B deposit, Vitim Plateau,
Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic, Transbaikalia

Heyite Image

Images: Heyite

Comments: Mustard yellow colored
microcrystalline aggregates of heyite on
quartz.
Location: Betty Joe Claim, near Ely, White
Pine County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

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Heyrovskyite Image

Images: Heyrovskyite

Comments: Metallic, gray heyrovskyite in
quartz.
Location: H?rky u Cist?, Velk? Chmelistn?
(Gro?meleschen), Rakovnik, Stredocesk?
Kraj, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale:
Picture size 4 mm.

Hiarneite Image

Images: Hiarneite

Comments: A bright red single grain of
hiarneite about 0.25mm in matrix with
magnetoplumbite.

Hibbingite Image

Images: Hibbingite

Comments: Orange crystalline hibbingite
grains in rock matrix.
Location: 900' level drill core, Duluth
Complex, near Hibbing, Saint Louis County,
Mineral Species

Hibonite Image

Images: Hibonite

Comments: Crystalline spire-like specimen
of hibonite.
Location: Ambindandrakemba,
Madagascar. Scale: 2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Hibschite Image

Images: Hibschite

Comments: Deep red translucent
dodecahedral crystals of hibschite.
Location: Monte Faiello, Liguria, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hidalgoite Image

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Images: Hidalgoite

Comments: White to light gray crystalline
druze of hidalgoite.
Location: Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf,
Picture size 3 mm.

Hieratite Image

Images: Hieratite

stalactic aggregate of hieratite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Hilgardite Image

Images: Hilgardite Boracite

Comments: Sub-mm reddish orange
crystals of hilgardite on white boracite.
Location: Boulby Mine, Loftus, Cleveland,
Great Britain. Scale: 1.5 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Hillebrandite Image

Images: Hillebrandite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous
hillebrandite on marble.
Mineral Species

Hillite Image

Images: Hillite Scholzite

Comments: Morphology of a
homogeneous larger cluster of hillite
growing on an acicular crystal of scholzite.
SEM back-scattered electron image.
Location: Lower Cambrian Parachilna
Formation, Reaphook Hill, South Australia,
Australia. Scale: See Image.

Hinsdalite Image

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Images: Hinsdalite

Comments: Transparent crystal of
hinsdalite on quartz.
Location: Butte, Silv er Bow County,
Montana, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Hinsdalite Image

Images: Hinsdalite Corkite

Comments: Small brown rounded
translucent crystals of corkite on darker
brown botryoidal hinsdalite.
Location: Grube Schone Aussicht, near
Dernbach, Montabaur, Rheinland-Pflaz,
Mineral Species

Hiortdahlite Image

Images: Hiortdahlite

Comments: Yellow translucent crystals of
hiortdahlite in syenite matrix.
Location: Norra Karr, Granna, Jonkoping,
Mineral Species

Hisingerite Image

Images: Hisingerite

Comments: Resinous reddish brown
coatings of hisingerite on rock.
Location: Agnew Nickel Deposit, near
Leinster, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hochelagaite Image

Images: Hochelagaite

Comments: White aggregate of small
fibrous crystals of hochelagaite in matrix.

Hodgkinsonite Image

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Images: Hodgkinsonite Hetaerolite

Comments: Dark crystal of hetaerolite on
hodgkinsonite.
Giv en.

Hodgkinsonite Image

Images: Hodgkinsonite

Comments: Pink, transparent crystal of
hodgkinsonite with franklinite.

Hodrushite Image

Images: Hodrushite Cupromakovickyite

Comments: Kup?c?kite (ku) and hodrushite
(ho) partly replaced by bismuthinite
derivative (bd56) with relict lamellae of
low-Cu (4P) and cupromakovickyite
[4P(Cu,Pb)]. (CanMin, 41:1165).
Location: Scheelite deposit of Felbertal,
Austria. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µm.

Hoelite Image

Images: Hoelite

Comments: Yellow acicular crystals of
hoelite with blocky yellow crystals of sulfur.
size 10 mm.

Hogtuvaite Image

Images: Hogtuvaite

Comments: Dark platy crystals of
hogtuv aite in matrix.
Location: Hogtuva, Mo i Rana, Nordland,
Mineral Species

Hohmannite Image

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Images: Hohmannite Metahohmannite

Comments: Orange opaque prismatic
microcrystals of hohmannite mixed with
yellow metahohmanite.
Mineral Species

Holdenite Image

Images: Holdenite

Comments: Pink translucent holdenite vein
with red willemite and black franlinite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Holfertite Image

Images: Holfertite

Comments: Yellow prismatic micro crystal
of holfertite on clear topaz.
Location: Starv ation Canyon, Topaz Valley,
Juab Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5
mm.

Hollandite Image

Images: Hollandite

Comments: Gray, feathery aggregates of
hollandite.
Location: Sieben Br?der Mine, Langenberg,

Hollingworthite Image

Images: Hollingworthite Laurite

Comments: Gray grain of hollingworthite (in
the center of the picture) with very slightly
darker gray laurite (at the right margin).
Polished section (from microprobe
analysis).

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Hollingworthite Image

Images: Hollingworthite Laurite

Comments: Gray laurite with two smaller
grains of hollingworthite (left and right from
the laurite, v ery slightly lighter gray).
in reflected light.

Holmquistite Image

Images: Holmquistite

Comments: Greenish-black prismatic
crystals of holmquistite in matrix.
Location: Uto, Sodermanland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Holtedahlite Image

Images: Holtedahlite

Comments: Colorless glassy crystalline
granular holtedahlite (appears gray in
image) with yellow serpentinite rock and
white apatite.
Location: Tingelstadtjern, Modum, Buskerud,
Mineral Species

Holtite Image

Images: Holtite

Comments: Pale violet crystalline granular
holtite in pegmatite.
Location: Vasin-Myl'k Mountain, Voron'i
Tundry, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,
Mineral Species

Homilite Image

Images: Homilite

Comments: Brown crystalline masses of
homilite in white feldspar.
Location: Aroy, Langesundfjord, Telemark,

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Mineral Species

Honessite Image

Images: Honessite

Comments: Medium green honessite
pseudomorphous after acicular millerite
crystals, in white calcite.
Location: Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri,
Mineral Species

Hongshiite Image

Images: Hongshiite Palladodymite
Ruthenium

Comments: Palladodymite (light gray, in
two small grains), hongshiite (pale creamy
grayish, tarnished brownish) in massive
ruthenium. Polished section (from
Location: Miass Riv er, Zlatoust, Ilmen Mts,
Chelyabinsk Oblast', Urals Region, Russia.

Hopeite Image

Images: Hopeite

Comments: Brownish pink, transparent
crystalline aggregate of hopeite crystals.
Location: Broken Hill mine, Kabwe, Central,
Zambia. Scale: Not Giv en.

Hornblende Image

Images: Hornblende Ferrohornblende

ferrohornblende in a white feldspar matrix.

Hornblende Image

Images: Hornblende Magnesiohornblende

Comments: Dark greenish-black massive
magnesiohornblende.

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Hornesite Image

Images: Hornesite

Comments: Aggregate of white pearly
platy crystals of hornesite on matrix.
Location: Bauhaus, Richelsdorf, Hessen,
Mineral Species

Horvathite-(Y) Image

Images: Horvathite-(Y)

Comments: Blocky crystals of
horvathite-(Y) in matrix.

Howieite Image

Images: Howieite

Comments: Black vitreous radiating
crystalline howieite.
Location: Longv ale Quarry, Mendocino
Mineral Species

Howlite Image

Images: Howlite

Comments: Silky nodule of howlite.
Location: Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hsianghualite Image

Images: Hsianghualite

Comments: White crystalline areas of
hsianghualite in dark green chloritic
schist(?).
Location: Xianghualing Mine, Hunan,
Central South Region, China. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Hubeite Image

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Images: Hubeite Inesite

Comments: Brown hubeite aggregates
accompanied by prismatic pinkish inesite
crystals.
Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei
© Fabre Minerals

Hubeite Image

Images: Hubeite Inesite

Comments: Translucent, deep root beer
brown, platy hueite crystals in fan-like
groups to 1mm with delicate pink laths of
inesite.
Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co.,
Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Prov ince,
China. Scale: Picture Size 5 mm.

Hubnerite Image

Images: Hubnerite

Comments: Sharp, dark tabular crystals of
h?bnerite with pyrite.
Location: Cavnic, Romania. Scale: Crystal
size 2 cm.
© John Attard

Huemulite Image

Images: Huemulite

Comments: Brownish orange aggregate of
huemulite crystals.
Location: Walker mine, Thompson, Grand
County, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Hulsite Image

Images: Hulsite

Comments: Black crystalline granular
massive hulsite.
Location: Brooks Range, Seward Peninsula,
Alaska, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Humberstonite Image

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Images: Humberstonite

Comments: White powdery aggregate of
humberstonite.
Location: Oficina Alemanin, Antofagasta,
Mineral Species

Humboldtine Image

Images: Humboldtine

humboldtine.
Location: Lomnice, Sokolov , Z?padocesk?
Kraj, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale:

Humite Image

Images: Humite

Comments: Striated, brown, tabular
crystals of humite.

Hummerite Image

Images: Hummerite

Comments: Orange-yellow hummerite on
fossil wood.
district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:
Specimen size 65 mm.

Hunchunite Image

Images: Hunchunite

Comments: Bluish-gray hunchunite in a
polished section in reflected light.
Location: Nizhne-Tagil'skoye
(Mednorudyanskoye) Cu Deposit, Nizhnii
Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Urals Region,
Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.2 mm.

Huntite Image

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Images: Huntite

Comments: pure white chalky massive
huntite.
Location: Near Austin, Lander County,
Mineral Species

Hureaulite Image

Images: Hureaulite

Comments: Pink crystals of hureaulite on
matrix.
Giv en.

Hureaulite Image

Images: Hureaulite Tavorite

Comments: Lime green tavorite micro
crystals with pink, gemmy hureaulite.
Dakota, United States. Scale: Picture size
1.0 cm.

Hurlbutite Image

Images: Hurlbutite Roscherite

Comments: White, round crystal clusters of
hurlbutite on reddish brown roscherite.
Giv en.

Hutchinsonite Image

Images: Hutchinsonite

Comments: Dark, striated, prismatic crystal
of hutchinsonite on matrix.
Location: Quiruvica, La Libertad Dept.,
Peru. Scale: Not Given.

Hutchinsonite Image

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Comments: Aggregate of red colored
needles of hutchinsonite on white
dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Hutchinsonite Image


Comments: Transparent, striated,
cherry-red crystal of hutchinsonite on white
dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Hyalophane Image

Images: Hyalophane

Comments: Twinned crystal of hyalophane
slightly yellow from iron stains.
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia.
Scale: 4 x 3 cm.

Hydrobiotite Image

Images: Hydrobiotite

Comments: Silvery brown micaceous
hydrobiotite.
Location: Oaxaca, Mexico. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Hydroboracite Image

Images: Hydroboracite

Comments: White, acicular crystal clusters
of hydroboracite.
Location: U. S. Borax Open Pit, Boron, Kern
County, California, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Hydrocalumite Image

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Images: Hydrocalumite

Comments: Bright white platy crystal
aggregate of hydrocalumite.
Location: Boissejour, Puy-de-Dome, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hydrocerussite Image

Images: Hydrocerussite Cerussite

Comments: Platy crystals of milky white
hydrocerussite covering cerussite.
Scale: 6 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Hydrochlorborite Image

Images: Hydrochlorborite

Comments: White botryoidal crust of
hydrochlorborite on massive white
anhydrite.
Location: Takuko, Tibet. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hydrodelhayelite Image

Images: Hydrodelhayelite

Comments: Tan platy crystalline
hydrodelhayelite in white syenite matrix.
Mineral Species

Hydrodresserite Image

Images: Hydrodresserite Weloganite

hydrodresserite with radiating structure with
columnar weloganite.
Mineral Species

Hydroglauberite Image

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Images: Hydroglauberite Glauberite

Comments: Putty-colored chalky
hydroglauberite on glauberite crystals.
Location: Camp Verde, Yavapai County,
Mineral Species

Hydrohetaerolite Image

Images: Hydrohetaerolite

Comments: Dull brown patches of
hydrohetaerolite in franklinite.
Mineral Species

Hydrohonessite Image

Images: Hydrohonessite

Comments: Yellow to brown crusts of
hydrohonessite on matrix.
Location: Otter Shoot, Kambalda, Western
Mineral Species

Hydromagnesite Image

Images: Hydromagnesite

Comments: White, blocky crystals of
hydromagnesite.
Location: Lobming, Styria, Austria. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Hydromagnesite Image

Images: Hydromagnesite Pokrovskite

Comments: Tan spherical pokrovskite on
serpentinite rock with white
hydromagnesite sprays.
Location: KCA Quarry, San Benito County,
Mineral Species

Hydronium-jarosite Image

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Images: Hydronium-jarosite

Comments: Yellow, earthy hydronium-
jarosite.
Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Himmelfahrt
Mine, Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,
cm.

Hydroscarbroite Image

Images: Hydroscarbroite Scarbroite

Comments: White to tan nodular
hydroscarbroite intermixed with scarbroite
in sandstone.
Location: Weston Favell, Northamptonshire,
England. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hydrotalcite Image

Images: Hydrotalcite

Comments: Pearly white foliated masses of
hydrotalcite on serpentinite rock.
Location: Snarum, Vikersund, Buskerud,
Mineral Species

Hydrotungstite Image

Images: Hydrotungstite

Comments: Bright yellow crystalline crusts
of hydrotungstite on matrix.
Location: Colquiri Mine, Colquiri, La Paz,
Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hydrowoodwardite Image

Images: Hydrowoodwardite

Comments: Massive blue to greenish-blue
hydrowoodwardite.
Location: St Christoph Mine, B?renhecke,
Glash?tte, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
Scale: Specimen size 3.4 cm.

Hydroxyapophyllite Image

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Images: Hydroxyapophyllite Apophyllite
Stilbite

cav ity.
© Dave Barthelmy

Hydroxyapophyllite Image

Images: Hydroxyapophyllite Apophyllite

Comments: Crystal cluster of tabular
hydroxyapophyllite.
© John Veevaert

Hydroxycancrinite Image

Images: Hydroxycancrinite

Comments: Pale grayish-blue, massiv e
hydroxycancrinite.
Location: Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola

Hydroxylapatite Image

Images: Hydroxylapatite

Comments: Opaque white blocky crystal
of hydroxylapatite.
Location: Snarum, Buskerud, Norway.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Hydroxylellestadite Image

Images: Hydroxylellestadite Yeelimite

Comments: Ye'elimite and
hydroxylellestadite intimately intergrown as
a brownish aggregate in massive
anhydrite.
size 6 mm.

Hydroxylellestadite Image

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Images: Hydroxylellestadite

Comments: Pale v iolet crystalline massive
hydroxylellestadite.
Mineral Species

Hydroxylherderite Image

Images: Hydroxylherderite

Comments: Transparent crystals of
hydroxylherderite.
Location: Lord Hill quarry, Stonehame,
Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Hydrozincite Image

Images: Hydrozincite

Comments: Well crystallized, colorless
hydrozincite crystals encrusting a limonitic
gossan matrix. Fluoresces bright blue-white
under UV illumination.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapim?, Mun. de
Mapim?, Durango, Mexico. Scale: 3x3x2
cm.

Hypersthene Image

Images: Hypersthene Almandine

Comments: Dark green blocky crystals
hypersthene with reddish almandine.
Location: Barton Garnet Mine, North Creek,
Warren County, Adirondacks, New York,
Mineral Species


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"I " Mineral Photos (66)
Ianthinite Image

Images: Ianthinite Schoepite

Comments: Purple to brown resinous
ianthinite with yellow schoepite and
orange becquerelite.
Location: Colorado Plateau area,
Saguache County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ice Image

Images: Ice

Comments: White to clear crystals of ice
formed on a window at -15 Deg. C.
Location: Minot, North Dakota, USA. Scale:
Picture Size 30 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Ice Image

Images: Ice

Comments: Classic snowflake (stellar
dendrite ice crystal) formed from v apor-rich
air between -10 to -22 deg C. Low
Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope
(LT-SEM) image with inset light microscope
image.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 0.25
mm.
© Eric Erbe / Beltsville Agricultural Research
Center

Ice Image

Images: Ice

Comments: Rimed ice crystal. Composite
column and plate crystal covered with
tubercle deposits from contact with liquid
water (supercooled fog). Low Temperature
Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM)
image.
mm.
© Eric Erbe / Beltsv ille Agricultural Research
Center

Ice Image

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Images: Ice

Comments: Hexagonal ice plate formed
from vapor deposition in air at 0 to -3 or -10
to -35 deg. C. Low Temperature Scanning
Electron Microscope (LT-SEM) image with inset
light microscope image.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 0.6
mm.
Center

Ice Image

Images: Ice

Comments: Acicular ice crystals formed from
vapor deposition in air at -3 to -10 deg. C.
Low Temperature Scanning Electron
Microscope (LT-SEM) image with inset light
microscope image.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.
Center

Idaite Image

Images: Idaite

Comments: Deep blue metallic idaite in
milky quartz.
Location: Winston, Sierra County, New
Mineral Species

Idrialite Image

Images: Idrialite

Comments: Yellow platy crystalline idrialite
on matrix.
Location: Skaggs Springs, Sonoma County,
Mineral Species

Iimoriite-(Y) Image

Images: Iimoriite-(Y)

Comments: Nearly colorless prismatic
crystal of immolate-(Y) on dolomite.
Location: Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac,
Ari?ge, Midi-Pyr?n?es, France. Scale:

Ikranite Image

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Images: Ikranite

Comments: Top and bottom images of
brownish yellow ikranite aggregate in a
green matrix.
Russia. Scale: 1 3/4" x 1".

Ilesite Image

Images: Ilesite

Comments: Botryoidal to earthy, cream-
colored ilesite.
Location: Chvaletice, Kutn? Hora,
Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, Czech
Republic. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Ilinskite Image

Images: Ilinskite

Comments: Dark green crystals of ilinskite
on matrix.
Picture size 1 mm.

Illite Image

Images: Illite

Comments: Wispy, authigenic illite crystals
lining a pore space in sandstone. SEM
image from a core sample.
µ-m.

Ilmajokite Image

Images: Ilmajokite

Comments: Opaque dull yellow ilmajokite
in syenite matrix.
Location: valley of Ilmajok River, Lov ozero
Mineral Species

Ilmenite Image

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Images: Ilmenite

Comments: Sharp, opaque crystal of Ilmenite.
Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Ilmenorutile Image

Images: Ilmenorutile

Comments: Dark brown ilmenorutile crystal
in matrix.
Location: Iveland, Aust-Agder, Norway.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ilsemannite Image

Images: Ilsemannite

Comments: Dark blue ilsemannite.
Location: Gl?ckauf Shaft, Himmelsf?rst
Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District,
Picture size 5 mm.

Ilvaite Image

Images: Ilvaite Quartz

Comments: Black, prismatic ilvaite with quartz.
Location: First Sovietskij mine, Dalnjegorsk, Russia.
© Fabre Minerals

Ilvaite Image

Images: Ilvaite Hedenbergite

Comments: Doubly terminated, black
ilv aite on crystals of greenish gray
hedenbergite with minor galena.
Location: First Sovietsky mine, Dalnjegorsk,
Russia. Scale: 4 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

IMA1999-004a Image

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Images: IMA1999-004a Rheniite

Comments: Specimen covered with rheniite as
micro crystals to .25 mm across.
Location: Kudryav iy Volcano, Iturup Island,
Kurilian Chain, Russia. Scale: 4.7 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

IMA2002-016 Image

Images: IMA2002-016 Manganilvaite

Comments: Small, black, very bright crystals
of manganilvaite on a matrix of clear quartz,
white calcite, and tiny brassy pyrite crystals.
Location: Daye mining area, Hubei, China.
Scale: 6 x 5.6 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

IMA2005-023 Image

Images: IMA2005-023 Menezesite

Comments: Orange rhombododecahedral
crystals of menezesite to 0.75mm on matrix.
Location: Jacupiranga mine, Cajati county,
Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

IMA2005-026 Image

Images: IMA2005-026 Phosphohedyphane

Comments: Clear, prismatic
phosphohedyphane crystal on matrix.
Location: Argentena mine, Goodsprings,
Clark Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size
0.5mm.

IMA2006-009 Image

Images: IMA2006-009 Sanromanite
Juangodoyite Chalconatronite

chalconatronite.
size 3 mm.

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IMA2007-005 Image

Images: IMA2007-005 Lasalite

Comments: Bright orange efflorescent
lasalite crust on sandstone.
Location: Vanadium Queen mine, San
Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture Size 2 x
2 cm.

Imhofite Image

Images: Imhofite

Comments: Dark red crystals and
aggregates of imhofite in matrix.
Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture
size 1.2 mm.

Imhofite Image

Images: Imhofite

Comments: Spherical, spikey-radial
brownish black aggregate of imhofite with
blocky gray sulfosalt on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Imiterite Image

Images: Imiterite

Comments: Back metallic prismatic
microcrystals of imiterite in white calcite.
Location: Imiter Mine, Jbel Sarho, Anti-Atlas
Region, Morocco. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Imiterite Image

Images: Imiterite

Comments: Silv ery needle-like wire crystals
of imiterite with rounded tips to 0.5 to
.75mm in vuggy calcite.
Location: Imiter mine, Anti-Atlas Mts.,
Dades Region, Morocco. Scale: Picture size
0.5 cm.

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Imogolite Image

Images: Imogolite

Comments: Tan powdery massive
imogolite.
Location: Fukaiwa, Nanuma-shi, Tochigi,
Mineral Species

Incaite Image

Images: Incaite

Comments: Formless gray lump of incaite,
sawn on 2 sides. Former Franz Bauer
(Munich) collection.
Location: The label says "Mejillones, Chile"
which is certainly wrong, but Mejillones is a
railhead and port which served exports
from Pirquitas Ag-Sn Deposit, Rinconada
Department, Jujuy, Argentina. Scale: Lump
size 2 mm.

Inderborite Image

Images: Inderborite

Comments: Translucent glassy crystalline
inderborite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Inderite Image

Images: Inderite

Comments: Prismatic colorless crystal of
inderite.
Location: Boron, Kern County, California,
Mineral Species

Inderite Image

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Images: Inderite Pinnoite

Comments: Pale green translucent
crystalline pinnoite on chalky white inderite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Indialite Image

Images: Indialite

Comments: Gray glassy crystalline indialite
in rock.
Location: Daimonji yama, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto,
Mineral Species

Indialite Image

Images: Indialite

Comments: SEM images of indialite clusters.
(AmMin, 89:3).
Location: Somma-Vesuvius volcano in
unusual pyrometamorphic ejecta. Scale:
Scale bar 100 µ-m.

Indium Image

Images: Indium

Comments: A grain of native indium.
Location: Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye),
Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale:

Inesite Image

Images: Inesite

Comments: Bladed crystals of orangish
pink Inesite.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari, South
Africa. Scale: 14 x 7.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Inesite Image

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Images: Inesite Ruizite

Comments: 1- 3 mm crystal spray of red
orange ruizite in an exposed vug in pink
inesite.
South Africa. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Inesite Image

Images: Inesite Hubeite

Comments: Brown hubeite aggregates
accompanied by prismatic pinkish inesite
crystals.
Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei
© Fabre Minerals

Inesite Image

Images: Inesite Hubeite

Comments: Translucent, deep root beer
brown, platy hueite crystals in fan-like
groups to 1mm with delicate pink laths of
inesite.
Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co.,
Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Prov ince,
China. Scale: Picture Size 5 mm.

Ingersonite Image

Images: Ingersonite

Comments: Yellowish green crystals of
ingersonite to about 0.7mm embedded in
matrix rich in dark grains of flipstadite.
Scale: 14x10x6mm.

Innelite Image

Images: Innelite

Comments: Yellow crystalline granular
innelite.
Location: Inagli, Aldan, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species

Insizwaite Image

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Images: Insizwaite Moncheite

image showing b) intergrowth of taimyrite-
tatyanaite with moncheitei-insizwaite
(CanMin, v 42, p 611).
Scale: See Image.

Inyoite Image

Images: Inyoite

Comments: Glassy gray translucent crystals
of inyoite 1.5 cm.+, with minor alteration to
white meyerhofferite.
Location: Loma Blanca Mine, Jujuy Province,
Argentina. Scale: 5.2x4.1x3.1 cm.

Iodargyrite Image

Images: Iodargyrite

Comments: Aggregate crystal of
Iodargyrite on matrix.

Iodargyrite Image

Images: Iodargyrite Embolite

Comments: Cubo-octahedral crystals of
iodaryrite (I) with smaller and darker
octahedral crystals of embolite (E).
Australia. Scale: Specimen size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Iodargyrite Image

Images: Iodargyrite Coronadite

Comments: Dark, fine-grained massive
coronadite with yellowish octahedral
iodargyrite crystals.
Australia. Scale: Picture size 3x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Iowaite Image

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Images: Iowaite

Comments: Floater crystal of iowaite.
Location: Palabora Mine, Transvaal, South
Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Iquiqueite Image

Images: Iquiqueite Nitratine

Comments: Yellow iquiqueiite in clear,
massive nitration.
Location: Salar de Miraje, Antofagasta,

Iranite Image

Images: Iranite

Comments: Crystals of iranite to 3mm on
brecciated, siliceous matrix.
Location: Sebarz mine, Anarak, Iran. Scale:
3.7 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Irhtemite Image

Images: Irhtemite

Comments: Pink acicular divergent
microcrystals of irhtemite on matrix.
Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou-Azzer,
Ouarzazate, Morocco. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Iridium Image

Images: Iridium

Comments: Silvery metallic crystalline
iridium micrograin and irregular nuggets.
Location: Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay,
Mineral Species

Iriginite Image

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Images: Iriginite

Comments: Yellow aggregates of iriginite
on matrix.
Location: Cameron area, Coconino
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 2.5
mm.

Iriginite Image

Images: Iriginite Mourite

Comments: Purple to violet sub-metallic
mourite coatings with yellow iriginite.
Location: 'North Caucasus', probably
Kyzylsai Deposit, Chu-Ili Mountains,
Balkhash, Zezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Iron Image

Images: Iron

Comments: Specimen of volcanic rock
containing dark gray grains of native Iron.
This locality is one of the very few known
localities for terrestrial nativ e iron.
Location: Disko Island, Greenland. Scale:
Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Ishikawaite Image

Images: Ishikawaite

Comments: Blocky, metamict crystals of
ishikawaite.
Location: Spinelli Quarry (Spinelli prospect),
South Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut,

Isoferroplatinum Image

Images: Isoferroplatinum Cuproiridsite

Comments: Gray equant crystal of
cuproiridsite in light gray isoferroplatinum.
in reflected light.

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Images: Isoferroplatinum

Comments: Irregularly shaped silver
metallic nugget of isoferroplatinum with
minor chromite.
Location: Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay.
Mineral Species


Images: Isoferroplatinum Ruthenium

of polished section of ruthenium nugget
with isoferroplatinum inclusions.
Location: Miass River, Chelyabinsk District,
Mineral Species

Isokite Image

Images: Isokite

Comments: Pale brownish to brown isokite
in quartz.
Picture size 7 mm.

Isomertieite Image

Images: Isomertieite Arsenopalladinite
Gold Bornite

light.

Isovite Image

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Images: Isovite

Comments: Dark gray metallic grain of
isovite.
Location: Verkhneivinsk, Sverdlov skaya
Oblast', Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Grain
size 0.7 mm.

Iwakiite Image

Images: Iwakiite

Comments: Back fine-grained granular
iwakiite in pink rhodonite.
Location: Gazaisho Mine, Iwaki, Fukushima,
Mineral Species

Ixiolite Image

Images: Ixiolite

Comments: Hemispherical crystalline
aggregate of ixiolite.
Location: Muiane mine, Zambesia,
Mozambique. Scale: Specimen size 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Izoklakeite Image

Images: Izoklakeite

Comments: Prismatic metallic gray
microcrystal of izoklakeite (mounted on
paper).
Location: Vena Mine, Bergslagen, Orebro,
Mineral Species


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Jachymovite Image

Images: Jachymovite

Comments: Yellow crystals of j?chymov ite.
size 3 mm.

Jacobsite Image

Images: Jacobsite Barite

Comments: Sharp, octahedral crystals of
Jacobsite on a bladed barite matrix.
Location: N' Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman,
South Africa. Scale: 3x2.5x1.9 cm.

Jacobsite Image

Images: Jacobsite Ganomalite

Comments: White crystalline ganomalite
with dark granular jacobsite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jadeite Image

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Images: Jadeite

Comments: Fibrous crystals of Jadeite.
Location: Russian River, near Cloverdale,
Mendocino County, California, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Jadeite Image

Images: Jadeite Stronalsite

Comments: White stronalsite veinlets in
massiv e pale green jadeite.
Location: Ohasa, Okayama, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jagoite Image

Images: Jagoite

Comments: Yellow crystalline fragment of
jagoite in hausmannite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jagowerite Image

Images: Jagowerite

Comments: Pale green to white massive
jagowerite.
Location: Hess River, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species

Jagowerite Image

Images: Jagowerite Penikisite

Comments: Light green crystal of
jagowerite intergrown with darker green
penikisite in a tetrahedrite (black) and
Location: From quartz veins cutting clays
26 km N of Hess River, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Scale: Sample size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Jagueite Image

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Images: Jagueite

Comments: Polished section (oil-immersion,
plain polarized on left, cross-polarized on
right) showing lobate grains of
chrisstanleyite (Chr), replaced by jagu?ite
(Jag), with tiemannite (Tie). The jagu?ite
twinning is evident by banding in both
images.
Location: El Chire prospect, Los Llantenes
District of La Rioja Province, Argentina..
Scale: Picture size 150 µm.

Jahnsite-(CaMnMg) Image

Images: Jahnsite-(CaMnMg)

Comments: Brown, striated, transparent
crystals of jahnsite-(CaMnMg) on matrix.
Giv en.

Jalpaite Image

Images: Jalpaite

Comments: Tarnished black lustrous
masses of jalpaite in rock with blue
chrysocolla.
Location: La Mesa, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jamborite Image

Images: Jamborite

Comments: Green coatings of jamborite on
millerite filaments, in v ug.
Location: Halls Gap, Lincoln County,
Kentucky, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jamesonite Image

Images: Jamesonite

Comments: Metallic, hair-like, crystals of
jamesonite on matrix.
Location: Baie Sprie (Felsobanya),
Maraures, Romania. Scale: Not Given.

Janhaugite Image

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Images: Janhaugite Dalyite

Comments: Tan crystalline dalyite (arrow)
with reddish brown janhaugite.
Mineral Species

Janhaugite Image

Images: Janhaugite

Comments: Reddish-brown columnar
crystalline janhaugite in white matrix.
Mineral Species

Jarlite Image

Images: Jarlite

Comments: Tan radial botryoidal waxy
masses of jarlite in matrix.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Jarosite Image

Images: Jarosite Alunogen

Comments: Colorless to white, tabular
crystals alunogen on reddish jarosite.
size 5 mm.

Jarosite Image

Images: Jarosite Fairbankite

fairbankite with orangish brown jarosite.
size 1.5 mm.

Jarosite Image

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Images: Jarosite

Comments: Deep brown lustrous crystals of
Jarosite to 2 mm.
Location: Soureza, Attika, Greece. Scale:
2.8 x 1.6 cm.
© John Veevaert

Jarosite Image

Images: Jarosite Winstanleyite

Comments: Small, yellow octahedral
crystal of winstanleyite on brownish red
jarosite.
size 0.9 mm.

Jaskolskiite Image

Images: Jaskolskiite

Comments: Silvery gray metallic granular
jaskolskiite (mounted on paper).
Location: Vena, Bergslagen, Orebro,
Mineral Species

Jeanbandyite Image

Images: Jeanbandyite

Comments: Yellowish brown translucent
microcrystal of jeanbandyite on mineral
encrusted fluorite.
Location: Mount Pleasant Tin Mine, New
Brunswick, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jennite Image

Images: Jennite

Comments: Bright white fibrous jennite
veinlet in rock.
Mineral Species

Jensenite Image

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Images: Jensenite

Comments: Small green crystals of
jensenite in matrix.
size 1.2 mm.

Jentschite Image

Images: Jentschite

Comments: Black and dark red translucent
needles of jentschite on white dolomite.
cm.
© Walter Gabriel

Jeppeite Image

Images: Jeppeite

Comments: Dark brown crystalline
granular jeppeite.
Location: Walgidee Hills, Western Australia,
Mineral Species

Jeremejevite Image

Images: Jeremejevite

Comments: Partial crystal fragment of
jeremejevite.
Location: Mile 72, Swakopmund, Namibia.
© John Veevaert

Jeremejevite Image

Images: Jeremejevite

Comments: Two-toned hexagonal crystal of
jeremejevite with blue bases and white terminations.
Location: Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Scale: Crystal
size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Jeromite Image

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Images: Jeromite

Comments: Orange, powdery jeromite on
matrix.
Location: Salar de Surire, Tarapaca, Chile.

Jimboite Image

Images: Jimboite

Comments: Dark red-brown crystalline
jimboite veinlet in massive rhodochrosite.
Location: Rito Mine, Azuma Mura, Seta-gun,
Mineral Species

Jimthompsonite Image

Images: Jimthompsonite
Clinojimthompsonite

Comments: Pale green to white glassy
crystalline fibrous clinojimthompsonite
intergrown with jimthompsonite.
Location: Chester, Windsor County,
Vermont, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jinshajiangite Image

Images: Jinshajiangite

Comments: Reddish elongated
junshajiangite grain to 0.3mm in matrix.
Location: Norra Karr, Sweden. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Jixianite Image

Images: Jixianite Cuprotungstite

Comments: Reddish brown crystal druse of
jixianite with minor tan cuprotungstite.
Location: Apache Mine, Hidalgo County,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Joaquinite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Joaquinite-(Ce)

Comments: Brown crystal of
joaquinite-(Ce).
Location: Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito

Johannite Image

Images: Johannite

Comments: Green colored johannite
crystals.
Location: Happy Jack mine, White Canyon,
San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Johannite Image

Images: Johannite Uranopilite

Comments: Bright yellow rosettes of
uranopilite with pale greenish yellow
johannite on matrix.
Location: Apex Mine, Lander Co., Nevada,

Johannite Image

Images: Johannite Uranopilite

Comments: Green aggregates of minute,
acicular johannite and yellow uranopilite
and clear, tabular aragonite crystals on
matrix.

Johannsenite Image

Images: Johannsenite

Comments: Mass of prismatic bluish green
colored johannsenite crystals.
South Africa. Scale: 7.2 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Johannsenite Image

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Images: Johannsenite

Comments: Rounded glassy prismatic
crystals of dark violet brown johannsenite
to 1.4 cm. Long.
Location: Consols Mine, Broken Hill, NSW,
Australia. Scale: 1.5x1.5x1 cm.

Johnbaumite Image

Images: Johnbaumite Tephroite

Comments: Violet crystalline massive
johnbaumite with brown tephroite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Johninnesite Image

Images: Johninnesite

Comments: Orange crystalline vein of
johninnesite in manganese oxide matrix.
Location: Ausserferrera, Val Ferrera,
Graubundun, Switzerland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Johnsenite-(Ce) Image

Images: Johnsenite-(Ce) Macfallite
Braunite-I

braunite.

Johnsomervilleite Image

Images: Johnsomervilleite

Comments: Dark brownish
johnsomervilleite.
Location: Sapucaia Mine, Conselheiro Pena
district, Galil?ia, Governador Valadares,
Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region,
Brazil. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Jokokuite Image

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Images: Jokokuite

Comments: Pale pink stalactic mass of
jokokuite.
Location: Jokoku Mine, Haminokuni,
Hokkaido, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jolliffeite Image

Images: Jolliffeite Eskebornite

image of jolliffeite in sulfurian eskebornite.
Note the cracked appearance and the
different brightness of eskebornite, which is
a reflection of v ariable ratio of selenium to
sulfur. (CanMin v 42, p 844).
Location: Niederschlema-Alberoda
uranium deposit, in the Erzgebirge region of

Jonesite Image

Images: Jonesite

Comments: Transparent, bladed crystal of
jonesite on matrix.
Location: Dallas Gem Mine (Gem Mine;
Benitoite Mine), New Idria District, San
Benito Co., California, USA. Scale: Crystal
size 3.5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Jordanite Image

Images: Jordanite

Comments: Gray metallic crystalline
jordanite in fine-grained marble.
Mineral Species

Jordanite Image

Images: Jordanite

Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal, metallic
gray crystal of jordanite with purple tarnish
on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Jordanite Image

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Images: Jordanite Marrite

Comments: Aggregate of gray prismatic crystals of
marrite on fine-grained jordanite.
Switzerland. Scale: Picture high 5 mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Jordisite Image

Images: Jordisite

Comments: Black earthy jordisite on matrix.
Location: Gl?ckauf Shaft, Himmelsf?rst
Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District,
Picture size 6 mm.

Joseite Image

Images: Joseite

Comments: Milky quartz matrix with a 15
mm long group of metallic joseite crystals.
Location: Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria,
England, UK. Scale: 5x3.5x2.5 cm.

Jouravskite Image

Images: Jouravskite

Comments: Lemon yellow granular
jourav skite.
© John Veevaert

Juangodoyite Image

Images: Juangodoyite

Comments: Rich blue veinlets of
juangodoyite in matrix..
Location: Mina Santa Rosa, Iquique, Chile.

Juangodoyite Image

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Images: Juangodoyite IMA2006-009
Sanromanite Chalconatronite

chalconatronite.
size 3 mm.

Juanitaite Image

Images: Juanitaite

Comments: Microplates of juanitaite on
matrix. Scanning Electron Microscope
Image.
Location: Gold Hill, Utah. Scale: Field of
View 125 ?m.
© William Wise

Juanitaite Image

Images: Juanitaite

Comments: Green juanitaite in quartz
matrix, with conichalcite and sulfides.
Location: Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County,
Utah, USA. Scale: 5.4 x 4 x 2.6 cm.

Julgoldite-(Fe++) Image

Images: Julgoldite-(Fe++)

Comments: Black julgodite-(Fe) and
doubly-terminated, brilliant, water clear
fluorapophyllite crystals on basalt.
© Fabre Minerals

Julgoldite-(Fe+++) Image

Images: Julgoldite-(Fe+++)

Comments: Black, prismatic micro-crystals
of julgoldite-(Fe+++) in white apophyllite.
Location: Langban mine, Filipstad ,
V?rmland, Sweden. Scale: 5x3mm.

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Julienite Image

Images: Julienite

Comments: Bright blue nearly opaque
prismatic micro crystal of julienite.
Location: Chamibumba, near Kambov e,
Katanga, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Jungite Image

Images: Jungite

Comments: Translucent cleavage
fragment of jungite.
Location: Hagendorf, Bayern, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Junitoite Image

Images: Junitoite

Comments: Platy transparent junitoite
crystal cluster lying flat on white limestone
matrix.
Location: Christmas Mine, near Hayden,
Gila County, Arizona. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Junitoite Image

Images: Junitoite

Comments: Clear, platy, flat lying crystals
of junitoite (red marker) to 2mm associated
with lavender smectite.

Junoite Image

Images: Junoite

Comments: Solid crystalline mass of dark
gray, metallic junoite. Partially sawed
indicating analytical verification.
Location: 700 level, Juno Mine, Tennant
Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Scale:
3x2x2cm.

Juonniite Image

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Images: Juonniite

Comments: Brownish grain of juonniite on
matrix.

Jurbanite Image

Images: Jurbanite

Comments: White spherical crusts of
jurbanite on matrix.
Mineral Species


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Kaatialaite Image

Images: Kaatialaite

Comments: White kaatialaite with
arsenolite on nativ e arsenic.
Picture size 5 mm.

Kaersutite Image

Images: Kaersutite

Comments: Dark greenish-brown prismatic
kaersutite crystals in matrix.
Location: Nugssuaq, Umanak, Greenland.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kafehydrocyanite Image

Images: Kafehydrocyanite

Comments: Micro platy crystal of
kafehydrocyanite.
Location: Medvezhii Log, East Sayan Mountains,
Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kainite Image

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Images: Kainite Szaibelyite

Comments: pale violet granular kainite
intermixed with white ascharite
(szaibelyite).
Location: Havesa, Empelde, Hannover,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kaliborite Image

Images: Kaliborite

Comments: Translucent colorless crystal of
kaliborite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kalifersite Image

Images: Kalifersite

Comments: Brownish-red crystalline
granular aggregates of kalifersite in rock
matrix composed of fibers to 5mm.
Location: Mt. Rasvumchorr, Khibiny massif,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Specimen size
3.5 x 2 x 1.5cm.

Kaliophilite Image

Images: Kaliophilite Meionite

Comments: Tan to white fibrous kaliophilite
crystal bundle with white translucent
meionite on matrix.
Location: Mont Somma, Naples,
Mineral Species

Kalipyrochlore Image

Images: Kalipyrochlore

Comments: Opaque yellowish green to
tan octahedral crystal of kalipyrochlore.
Location: Lueshe, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kalsilite Image

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Images: Kalsilite

Comments: Small, hair-like crystals of
kalsilite on crystals of phlogopite and
smaller crystals of analcime and
fluorapatite.
Location: San Venanzo, Tern, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Kamacite Image

Images: Kamacite Carlsbergite

Comments: Polished section showing a
small light gray elongated inclusion of
carlsbergite in massive kamacite.
mm.

Kamacite Image

Images: Kamacite Nickelphosphide

Comments: Small inclusion of
nickelphosphide in massiv e kamacite.
mm.

Kamacite Image

Images: Kamacite Troilite Cohenite
Taenite

Photo.
Mineral Species

Kamacite Image

Images: Kamacite Taenite Troilite

Comments: Polished and acid etched
slice, with crust, illustrating Widmanstaaten
lines, with taenite darker areas between
kamacite crystals, with tarnished troilite
inclusions, in fine octahedrite meteorite.
Location: Gibeon Meteorite, found 1836,
Great Namaqualand, Hardap, Namibia.
Scale: See Photo.

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Mineral Species

Kambaldaite Image

Images: Kambaldaite

Comments: Light green kambaldaite blebs
and crusts.
Location: Kambalda Nickel deposit,
Kambalda, WA, Australia. Scale: Picture
size 3 mm.

Kamiokite Image

Images: Kamiokite

Comments: Dull dark gray-black sectile
massive kamiokite.
Location: Krupka, Sev erocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Kamotoite-(Y) Image

Images: Kamotoite-(Y)

Comments: Bright greenish yellow
kamotoite-(Y) crystals.
Not Given.

Kamotoite-(Y) Image

Images: Kamotoite-(Y)

Comments: Bright yellow, feather-like
kamotoite-(Y) crystal habits.
Picture size 2 cm.

Kampfite Image

Images: Kampfite

Comments: Light, bluish-gray crystalline
kampfite.
Location: Esquire #1 Claim, Rush Creek,
Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: Picture
size 4 mm.

Kampfite Image

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Images: Kampfite

Comments: Anthony Kampf, Curator and Section
Head of the Mineral Sciences Section at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Natural History and
the person whom kampfite was named for, kindly
provided the pronunciation of the mineral
kampfite.
Location: Tucson Convention Center, 50th Tucson
Gem and Mineral Show, February 12, 2004. Scale:
NA.
© Dav e Barthelmy

Kamphaugite-(Y) Image

Images: Kamphaugite-(Y)

Comments: Small white crystals of
kamphaugite-(Y).
Location: T?rdal (Hj?ndalen), Telemark,

Kanemite Image

Images: Kanemite

Comments: Yellowish white translucent
micro spherical aggregate of kanemite.
Location: Kanem, Chad. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kankite Image

Images: Kankite

Comments: Greenish botryoidal
aggregates of kankite.
Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Freiberg,
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Kanoite Image

Images: Kanoite

Comments: Brown, prismatic crystals of
kanoite in matrix.
Location: Tatehira, Oshima Peninsula,
Hokkaido, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kanonaite Image

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Images: Kanonaite

Comments: Dark greenish black
microcrystal of kanonaite in matrix.
Location: Le Coreaux, near Salmchateau,
Luxembourg, Belgium. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kaolinite Image

Images: Kaolinite

Comments: Authigenic kaolinite plates
cov ering a quartz grain overgrown with
authigenic quartz. SEM image of a core
sample.
µ-m.

Kaolinite Image

Images: Kaolinite Ammonioalunite

Comments: White chalky ammonioalunite
on darker kaolinite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kaolinite Image

Images: Kaolinite Pianlinite

Comments: Off-white colored minute
pianlinite (kaolinite) fragment.
Location: Pianling, China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Karelianite Image

Images: Karelianite

Comments: Dark bluish-black granular
karelianite.
Location: Outokumpu, Pohjois-Karjala,
Finland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Karibibite Image

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Images: Karibibite

Comments: Orange yellow, radial sprays
of karibibite on l?llingite to 0.75mm.
Location: Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: picture size 5 mm.

Karlite Image

Images: Karlite

Comments: Pale lemon yellow colored translucent
crystalline fragment of karlite.
Location: Schlegeistal, Zillertaler Alpen, Tirol,
Austria. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral
Species

Karpatite Image

Images: Karpatite

Comments: Pale greenish karpatite with
minor red cinnabar.
Location: 4th of July mine, New Idria
district, San Benito Co., California, USA.

Karpatite Image

Images: Karpatite

Comments: Flat lying sprays of fibrous crystals of
yellow karpatite to 2.8 cm in length on siliceous
jasperoid with drusy quartz. Lower image taken
using SW UV light.
Location: Los Picachos, near Picacho Peak, San
Benito County, California, USA. Scale: 9.3 x 4.5 x 3.5
cm.
© John Veevaert

Kashinite Image

Images: Kashinite Laurite

Comments: Gray kashinite with darker gray
laurite. Polished section (from microprobe
analysis) in reflected light.

Kasolite Image

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Images: Kasolite

Comments: Golden yellow crystals of
kasolite.
Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tatara,

Kasolite Image

Images: Kasolite

Comments: Bright yellow kasolite crystal
"flowers" on matrix.
Location: Kambove, (Kakanda) Mine,
Katanga District, Shaba (Katanga),
Republic of the Congo, (Za?re). Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Kasolite Image

Images: Kasolite Sklodowskite

Comments: Greenish yellow, acicular
sklodowskite crystals and yellow, bladed
kasolite crystals.
Picture size 1 cm.

Kastningite Image

Images: Kastningite

Comments: Colorless crystals of kastningite.
Location: Silbergrube Quarry, Waidhaus,
Vohenstrau?, Oberpfalz, Bavaria,

Kazakhstanite Image

Images: Kazakhstanite

Comments: Deep black sooty coatings of
kazakhstanite on silicified rock.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Keckite Image

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Images: Keckite

Comments: Brown crystals of keckite on
matrix.
Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany.
Scale: .

Keithconnite Image

Images: Keithconnite Kotulskite
Telluropalladinite

Comments: Polyphase grain of (1) ferroan
platinum corroded by (2) Pt(Fe,Cu) and
overgrown by (5) telluropalladinite, an
unknown (6) Pd-Te-Fe-Si-O phase, (7)
Fe-hydroxide and (8) a Ca-Mn-Fe silicate
with inclusions of (3) kotulskite and (4)
keithconnite. (BGR).
Location: Stream sediments of rivers in the
vicinity of the original discovery of the
Merensky Reef on the farm Maandagshoek
close to Burgersfort in the Eastern Bushveld,
South Africa.. Scale: See Image.
© Federal Institute for Geosciences and
Natural Resources

Kemmlitzite Image

Images: Kemmlitzite

Comments: Tan granular kemmlitzite in
sand.
Location: Kemmlitz Deposit, Oschatz,
Sachsen, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kenhsuite Image

Images: Kenhsuite

Comments: Yellow crystalline kenhsuite on
montmorillonite matrix (light sensitive).
Location: McDermitt Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species

Kentbrooksite Image

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Images: Kentbrooksite

Comments: Orange translucent crystals of
kentbrooksite frozen in syenite rock.
Location: Mount Alluiav , Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kentrolite Image

Images: Kentrolite

Comments: Brownish red grains of kentrolite
in matrix.
Location: Langban mine, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Kenyaite Image

Images: Kenyaite

Comments: Compact granular massive
kenyaite possibly with other phases.
Location: Lake Magadi, Rift Valley Province,
Kenya. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kermesite Image

Images: Kermesite

Comments: Reddish brown radiating spray
of kermesite crystals on matrix.
Location: Pezinok (Pernek), near Bratislava,
Solvakia. Scale: Not Given.

Kermesite Image

Images: Kermesite Paakkonenite

Comments: Much of the matrix is the gray
metallic paakkonenite with red crystals of
kermesite and minute yellow crystals of
v alentinite.
Location: Cai' ao mine, Danfong Co.,
Shaanxi Prov., China. Scale: 3x2x2cm.

Kernite Image

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Images: Kernite

Comments: Translucent kernite cleavage
prism with white superficial dehydration
coating.
Location: Pacific Coast Boron Mine, Boron,
Kern County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kerstenite Image

Images: Kerstenite Clinochalcomenite
Krutaite

dark krutaite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kesterite Image

Images: Kesterite Mushistonite

Comments: Sharp, kesterite crystal,
greenish in color due to a mushistonite
coating with clear, prismatic beryl crystals.
Location: Xue Bao Diang Mountains, north
of Pingwu, Sichuan Prov ince, China. Scale:
Crystal size 1 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Kettnerite Image

Images: Kettnerite

Comments: Brown crystals of kettnerite.
Picture size 4 mm.

Keyite Image

Images: Keyite

Comments: Brilliant blue keyite crystals on
a matrix of white, metallic suflide-arsenide
ore.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 0.9 x 0.7
x 0.7 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Keystoneite Image

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Images: Keystoneite

Comments: Yellow, feathery keystoneite
on quartz.
Location: Mcalpine Mine, Moccasin,
Tuolumne Co., California, USA. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.

Khademite Image

Images: Khademite

Comments: Pale blue botryoidal
khademite on matrix.
Location: Bergmann Liegendes,
Rammelsberg, Harz Mountains,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Khaidarkanite Image

Images: Khaidarkanite

Comments: Sky blue acicular radial sprays
of khaidarkanite.
Location: Khaidarkan, Kyrgizia. Scale:
Crystal size 1 mm.

Kidwellite Image

Images: Kidwellite Frondelite

Comments: Root beer colored crystals of
frondelite and white kidwellite sticks on
matrix.
Location: Sapucaia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Kidwellite Image

Images: Kidwellite

Comments: Yellowish green columnar
aggregates of kidwellite crystals.
Location: Indian Mountain, Cherokee
County, Alabama, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Kidwellite Image

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Images: Kidwellite Strengite

Comments: Spherical, crystalline aggregate of
purple strengite on green kidwellite.
Location: Three Oak Gap, Polk Co., Arkansas,
USA. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.

Kieserite Image

Images: Kieserite

Comments: Translucent crystalline mass of
kieserite with white alteration products.
Mineral Species

Kimzeyite Image

Images: Kimzeyite

Comments: Black isometric crystal of
kimzeyite garnet.
Location: Kimzey pit, Magnet Cove, Hot
Spring County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Kingite Image

Images: Kingite

Comments: White flakes of kingite in matrix.
size 1.3 mm.

Kingsmountite Image

Images: Kingsmountite

Comments: White, radial spray of
kingsmountite crystals.
Location: Kings Mountain, Cleveland
County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Kinoite Image

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Images: Kinoite Apophyllite

Comments: Crystals of dark blue kinoite
and clear apophyllite.
Location: Christmas Mine, Gila County,
© John Veevaert

Kinoite Image

Images: Kinoite Dioptase

Comments: Fibrous crystals of blue-green
dioptase to 0.75mm on clear apophyllite
associated with dark blue kinoite.
USA. Scale: Pictures size 6 mm.

Kinoite Image

Images: Kinoite

Comments: Kinoite crystals as single
tabular or platy blue crystals to about
0.3mm and as fan-like sprays. The crystals
exhibit striations, a key to distinguishing it
from stringhamite.

Kintoreite Image

Images: Kintoreite

Comments: Yellow rounded crystal grains
of kintoreite on limonite.
Location: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill,
New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kipushite Image

Images: Kipushite

Comments: Green microcrystals of
kipushite on matrix.
Location: Kipushi, Shaba, Zaire. Scale:
10x8x5 mm.

Kipushite Image

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Images: Kipushite

Comments: Prismatic emerald green
microcrystals of kipushite on quartz.
Location: Snowshoe Claim, near Battle
Mountain, Lander County, Nevada, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kirschsteinite Image

Images: Kirschsteinite

Comments: Grayish green crystalline
massiv e kirschsteinite.
Location: Mazarron, Murcia, Spain. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kivuite Image

Images: Kivuite Dewindtite

Comments: Pale yellow coatings of kivuite
with yellowier dewindtite on pegmatite.
Location: Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kladnoite Image

Images: Kladnoite

Comments: Glassy prismatic colorless
kladnoite crystals on matrix.
Location: Kladno, Stredocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Klebelsbergite Image

Images: Klebelsbergite

Comments: Small, acicular sprays of
klebelsbergite with yellow crystals of sulfur
on stibnite.
Location: Pereta Mine, Grosseto Province,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Kleinite Image

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Images: Kleinite

Comments: Crystalline druse of bright
canary yellow kleinite on matrix.
Location: McDermmitt, Humboldt County,
Nevada. USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2 mm.
© John Veevaert

Klockmannite Image

Images: Klockmannite

Comments: Klockmannite intergrown with
covellite on quartz.

Koashvite Image

Images: Koashvite

Comments: Brown translucent crystalline
fragment of koashvite.
Location: Mount Koashva, Khibiny Massive,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kobeite-(Y) Image

Images: Kobeite-(Y)

Comments: Subparallel aggregate of black,
tabular, euhedral kobeite-(Y) crystals in matrix.
Location: Ohro, Kobe, Kyoto, Japan. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Kobellite Image

Images: Kobellite

Comments: Dark gray metallic crystalline
kobellite with quartz.
Location: Crabtree Quarry, Raleigh, Wake
County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kochsandorite Image

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Images: Kochsandorite

Comments: Pearly circles of radiating white
microcrystals of kochsandorite on coal.
Location: Many coal deposit, Bicske-
Zsambeki Basin, Tatabanya. Scale:
2.5x1.7x1.1 cm.

Kochsandorite Image

Images: Kochsandorite

Comments: White fibers of kochandorite on
coal-marl matrix.
Location: M?ny coal field, Tatab?nya,
Hungary. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Koechlinite Image

Images: Koechlinite

Comments: Greenish yellow crystal of
koechlinite on quartz.
Location: Adam Heber Mine, Neust?dtel,
Schneeberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Koenenite Image

Images: Koenenite

Comments: Koenenite with cleavage
planes.
Location: Bergmannssegen-Hugo Mine,
Lehrte, near Hanover, Lower Saxony,

Kogarkoite Image

Images: Kogarkoite

Comments: Pale green granular mass of
kogarkoite with yellow native sulfur.
Location: Vulcano, Sicily, Italy. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Koktaite Image

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Images: Koktaite

Comments: Tan to white scaly coating of
koktaite.
Location: Zastavka, near Brna,
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kolbeckite Image

Images: Kolbeckite

Comments: Spherical ball of acicular
kolbeckite on matrix.
Location: Gleichenberger Klause, Bad
Gleichenberg, Steiermark, Austria. Scale:
Specimen size 1.5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Kolicite Image

Images: Kolicite

Comments: Minute orange crystal of
kolicite in franklinite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kolovratite Image

Images: Kolovratite

Comments: Aqua-colored botryoidal crust
of kolovratite.
Location: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango,
Mineral Species

Kolwezite Image

Images: Kolwezite

Comments: Green kolwezite cotton balls
on pink cobaltian calcite.
Location: Musononi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,
Not Given.

Komarovite Image

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Images: Komarovite

komarov ite v ein in syenite rock.
Location: Mount Karnasurt, Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kombatite Image

Images: Kombatite Hausmannite

Comments: Yellow kombatite crystals in
black hausmannite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi, Namibia.

Koninckite Image

Images: Koninckite

Comments: Pale pink botryoidal crust of
koninckite on rock.
Location: Richelle, Liege, Belgium. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Konyaite Image

Images: Konyaite

Comments: white powdery konyaite.
Location: Great Konya Basin, Konya,
Turkey. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Koragoite Image

Images: Koragoite

Comments: Black tabular crystals of
koragoite in matrix.
Location: Vez-Dara River Valley,
Shakhdara Range, Khorog Region, Gorno-
Badakhshan District, Pamir Mts, Tajikistan.

Koritnigite Image

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Images: Koritnigite

Comments: Translucent nearly colorless
fragment of koritnigite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kornelite Image

Images: Kornelite

Comments: Sulfate matrix with several 1
cm sprays of kornelite. This specimen has to
be protected from air as it is readily soluble
in water.
Location: Rio Tinto Mine, Huelva, Spain.
© John Veevaert

Kornerupine Image

Images: Kornerupine

Comments: Greenish gray mottled crystal
prism of kornerupine.
Location: Western Hart's Range, Northern
Territory, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Korobitsynite Image

Images: Korobitsynite

korobitsynite.
Location: Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola

Korshunovskite Image

Images: Korshunovskite

Comments: White fibrous korshunov skite
crystals.
Location: Korshunovskoye skarn Fe Deposit,
Irkutsk, Irkutskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia

Korzhinskite Image

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Images: Korzhinskite

Comments: Translucent fragment of
korzhinskite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kosmochlor Image

Images: Kosmochlor

Comments: Green resinous massive
kosmochlor, variety ureyite, in serpentinite.
Location: Myanmar. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kosnarite Image

Images: Kosnarite

Comments: Pale bluish crystals of kosnarite
in matrix.
Location: Mt Mica mine, Paris, Oxford Co.,
Maine, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.

Kosnarite Image

Images: Kosnarite

Comments: Transparent crystals of
kosnarite on matrix.
Location: Itinga Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
© John Veevaert

Kosnarite Image

Images: Kosnarite Zanazziite

Comments: Beige crystals of kosnarite with
pinkish, radial aggregates of zanazziite on
whte albite matrix.
Location: Jenipapo, Itinga, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Picture size 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Kotoite Image

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Images: Kotoite

Comments: White massiv e kotoite crystals.
Location: Baita Mine (R?zb?nya), Nucet,
Bihor Co., Romania. Scale: Picture size 8
mm.

Kottigite Image

Images: Kottigite

Comments: K?ttigite crystals on gossanous
matrix up to 0.5 cm in length.
Location: Oujela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Kotulskite Image

Images: Kotulskite Telluropalladinite
Keithconnite

Natural Resources

Koutekite Image

Images: Koutekite Algodonite

Comments: Silv ery metallic koutekite with
darker gray algodonite.
Location: Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw
Mineral Species

Kovdorskite Image

Images: Kovdorskite

Comments: Gemmy crystal of icy blue
kovdorskite.
Location: Kheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola
Penisula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

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Kozoite-(La) Image

Images: Kozoite-(La) Kozoite-(Nd)

Comments: Backscatter electron image of
polished section through a sperical
aggregate showing the zonation form
kosoite-(La) to kosolite-(Nd). (JMPS, v 98, p
138).
Location: Cavity in alkaline basalt near
Mitsukoshi, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Scale:
See Image.
© JMPS

Kozoite-(Nd) Image

Images: Kozoite-(Nd)

Comments: White grain of kozoite-(Nd) in
matrix.
Location: Niikoba, Hizen-cho, Higashi-
Matsuura-gun, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu
Island, Japan. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.

Kozoite-(Nd) Image

Images: Kozoite-(Nd)

Comments: Photomicrograph of the
spherical aggregate composed of
kosoite-(Nd). (JMPS, v 98, p 138).
See Image.
© JMPS

Kozoite-(Nd) Image

Images: Kozoite-(Nd) Kozoite-(La)

polished section through a sperical
aggregate showing the zonation form
kosoite-(La) to kosolite-(Nd). (JMPS, v 98, p
138).
See Image.
© JMPS

Kozulite Image

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Images: Kozulite

Comments: Dark reddish-black granular
kozulite in pale pink rhodonite with dark
brown braunite.
Location: Tanohata Mine, Tanohata Muro,
Shimoheii gun, Iwate, Japan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kraisslite Image

Images: Kraisslite

Comments: Yellow crystalline kraisslite in
calcite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kratochvilite Image

Images: Kratochvilite

Comments: Pale yellow to brown
crystalline crust of kratochvilite on shale.
Location: Zastavka, near Brna,
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Krausite Image

Images: Krausite

Comments: Pale yellowish crystals of
krausite on black matrix.

Krauskopfite Image

Images: Krauskopfite

Comments: White pearly crystalline
krauskopfite on quartz.
Location: Rush Creek, Fresno County,
Mineral Species

Krautite Image

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Images: Krautite

Comments: Pale pink aggregates of
krautite on greenish colored matrix.
Location: Jachymov, Bohemia,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Kremersite Image

Images: Kremersite

Comments: Orange crystals of kremersite.

Krennerite Image

Images: Krennerite

Comments: Metallic krennerite crystals on
quartz.
Location: Emperor mine, Vatukoula, Viti
Levu, Fiji. Scale: Not Given.

Krettnichite Image

Images: Krettnichite

Comments: Dark brown to nearly black
crystals of krettnichite.
Location: Johann Shaft; Jakob Tunnel
(Dump), Krettnich, Wadern, Saarland,

Krettnichite Image

Images: Krettnichite Brackebuschite

image of a prismatic krettnichite (kr)
aggregate associated with manganite
(ma) and barian brackebuschite (br) in a
vug. The inset is a close-up illustrating the
morphology of brackebuschite. (Eur. J.
Mineral, 13:146).
Location: hydrothermal manganite-quartz
vein at the historic manganese deposit of
Krettnich, Saarland, Germany. Scale: See
Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Kristiansenite Image

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Images: Kristiansenite

Comments: Two very nice, clear,
intergrown crystals of kristiansenite in pinkish
matrix.
Location: Heftetjern pegmatite, T?rdal,
Drangedal, Telemark, Norway. Scale:
Crystal size 1 mm.

Krohnkite Image

Images: Krohnkite Natrochalcite

Comments: Royal blue kr?hnkite and
green natrochalcite.
Location: Chiquicamata, Chile. Scale: 3.5 x
2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Krupkaite Image

Images: Krupkaite Friedrichite Benjaminite

quartz crystals.
Mineral Species

Krupkaite Image

Images: Krupkaite

Comments: Acicular, fine metallic crystal
sprays of krupkaite to 4mm with pale
yellow manganoan siderite.
Location: Julcani district, Peru. Scale:
Picture size 1 cm.

Krutaite Image

Images: Krutaite

Comments: Dark gray, metallic,
octahedral crystals of krutaite on matrix.
Location: El Drag?n mine, Quijarro
province, Potos?, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size
4 mm.

Krutaite Image

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Images: Krutaite Kerstenite
Clinochalcomenite

dark krutaite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Kryzhanovskite Image

Images: Kryzhanovskite

kryzhanovskite.
mm.

Ktenasite Image

Images: Ktenasite

Comments: Turquoise blue ktenasite on
matrix.
Location: Gelbe Birke Mine, Schwarzenberg
District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.

Kukharenkoite-(Ce) Image

Images: Kukharenkoite-(Ce)

Comments: White-tan crystals of
kukharenkoite-(Ce).
Location: Kirovskii (Kirovsky) apatite mine,
Mt Kukisvumchorr, Khibiny Massif, Kola

Kulanite Image

Images: Kulanite

Comments: White apatite crystals to 0.5 cm in
length and abundant, bladed, deep olive
green crystals (see inset image) of kulanite.
Canada. Scale: 4.3 x 3.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

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Kupcikite Image

Images: Kupcikite Cuprobismutite

of kupc?kite (ku) replacing cuprobismutite
(cu); both phases are in turn replaced by
bsimuthinite deriv ative (bd79-92).
Location: Felbertal, Austria. Scale: Scale
bar 100 µ-m.

Kupletskite Image

Images: Kupletskite

Comments: Bronze-colored stellate
crystalline spray of kupletskite on white
orthoclase.

Kupletskite Image

Images: Kupletskite Niobokupletskite

image of Niobokupletskite (Nkpt) rimming
kupletskite (Kpt). The zoning in the
kupletskite is from Nb-poor to Nb-rich in the
direction of the arrow (dark to medium
gray). (CanMin v 38, p 628).
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: Scale bar 100 µ-m.

Kuranakhite Image

Images: Kuranakhite

Comments: Reddish-brown kuranakhite on
matrix.
size 5 mm.

Kurchatovite Image

Images: Kurchatovite

Comments: Gray crystalline kurchatovite
(arrow) in matrix (distinguishable by violet
fluorescence).
Mineral Species

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Kurnakovite Image

Images: Kurnakovite

Comments: Very pale lilac-colored crystal
of kurnakov ite.
Location: Boron, Kramer District, Kern
County, California, USA. Scale: 7.2x4x2.5
cm.

Kurnakovite Image

Images: Kurnakovite

Comments: Chalky white outer alteration,
else gray, translucent, coarsely-crystalline
kurnakov ite.
Location: The Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co.,
California, USA. Scale: 5x4x3cm.

Kutnohorite Image

Images: Kutnohorite

Comments: Light-pinkish, parallel bundles
of kutnohorite crystals on matrix.
Location: Wessels mine, Hotazel, Kuruman
District, South Africa. Scale: 5 x 4.7 x 3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Kyanite Image

Images: Kyanite

Comments: Two terminated, bright blue
crystals of kyanite in a white quartz matrix.
Location: Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 9.5 x 4 x 4 cm.

Kyanite Image

Images: Kyanite

Comments: Cluster of 4, green, gemmy, fluorescent
blades of kyanite.
Location: Pech, Afghanistan. Scale: 1.7 x 1.0 x 0.3
cm.
© Kieth Hayes

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Kyzylkumite Image

Images: Kyzylkumite

Comments: A small crystal of kyzylkumite
with a triangular face.
Location: Koscheka U Deposit, Auminzatau
Mtns., Central Kyzylkum Region, Kyzylkum
Desert, Uzbekistan. Scale: Picture size 1
mm.


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Labradorite Image

Images: Labradorite Plagioclase

Comments: Dual view of a cleavage
fragment of labradorite showing the multi-
colored labradorescence (schiller effect)
and the same area viewed without the
color. The color is due to optical
interference on the 010 polysynthetic
twinning planes (Albite Law).
Location: Ihosy, Betroka district, Toliara
Province, Madagascar. Scale: Picture size
3x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Labuntsovite-Mn Image

Images: Labuntsovite-Mn

Comments: Cinnamon colored crystals of
labuntsovite-Mn to 3 mm on dolomite
matrix.
Location: Kovdor Mine, Kola Peninsula,
Russia. Scale: Picture size 1.5x2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Lacroixite Image

Images: Lacroixite Berlinite

Comments: Pale olive green crystalline
lacroixite with white crystalline berlinite.
Location: Rusororo Pegmatite, Gatumba,
Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Laffittite Image

Images: Laffittite

Comments: A short-prismatic, dark brown
crystal of laffittite with red realgar and
yellow orpiment.
Location: Getchell Mine, Adam Peak,
Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA. Scale:

Lammerite Image

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Images: Lammerite

Comments: Emerald green crystalline
lammerite in matrix.
Location: Laurani Mine, South Yeronime,
Laurani, La Paz, Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lammerite Image

Images: Lammerite

Comments: Deep, lustrous green
lammerite crystals to about 1mm
throughout vuggy matrix.
Location: Guanaco mine, Taltal,
Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.

Lamprophyllite Image

Images: Lamprophyllite

Comments: Deep-red, acicular spray of
lamprophyllite in matrix.
Location: Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:

Lamprophyllite Image

Images: Lamprophyllite
Barytolamprophyllite

Comments: Brownish-yellow
barytolamprophyllite on dark green
lamprophyllite.
Mineral Species

Lanarkite Image

Images: Lanarkite

Comments: White, acicular spray of
lanarkite on matrix.
Location: Meadowfoot smelter,
Wanlockhead, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Lanarkite Image

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Images: Lanarkite

Comments: Cleaved crystals of greenish
beige lanakite on matrix.
Location: Leadhills, Scotland. Scale: Picture
size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Landauite Image

Images: Landauite

Comments: Black granular landauite in
matrix.
Location: Northwest Territories, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Landesite Image

Images: Landesite

Comments: Brown translucent crystalline
crust of landesite.
Location: Hagendorf-Sud, Bayern,
Mineral Species

Langbanite Image

Images: Langbanite

Comments: Stout black langbanite crystal
in white matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Langbeinite Image

Images: Langbeinite

Comments: Pale brownish pink crystalline
aggregate of langbeinite.
Location: Carlsbad, Eddy County, New
Mineral Species

Langisite Image

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Images: Langisite

Comments: Gray metallic massive
langisite, altering, in white quartzite.
Location: Uncompaghre Mountains,
Montrose County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Langite Image

Images: Langite

Comments: Bluish, tabular blades of
twinned langite crystals on matrix.
Location: Mollau, France. Scale: Not Giv en.

Langite Image

Images: Langite

Comments: Encrustation of small (less than
one mm.) sky blue langite crystals, on
matrix.
Location: Lubietov a, Slov akia. Scale:

Lannonite Image

Images: Lannonite

Comments: White crusts of lannonite on
matrix.
Location: Silver City, Grant County, New
Mineral Species

Lansfordite Image

Images: Lansfordite Barringtonite

Comments: Optical images of clusters of
glassy lansfordite crystals and one white
dehydrated barringtonite ? crystal.
(AmMin, 88:1883).

Lanthanite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Lanthanite-(Ce)

Comments: Brownish, square crystals of
lanthanite-(Ce) ?.
Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.

Lanthanite-(Nd) Image

Images: Lanthanite-(Nd)

Comments: Beige aggregate of scaly,
platy lanthanite-(Nd) crystals.
Location: Curitiba, Paran?, Brazil. Scale: 2.5
x 2 cm.

Laphamite Image

Images: Laphamite

Comments: Brown grain of laphamite.
Location: Northumberland County,
Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: Grain size 1.5
mm.

Larderellite Image

Images: Larderellite

Comments: Colorless larderellite crystals.
Location: Larderello, Cecina Valley, Pisa
province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size
4 mm.

Larisaite Image

Images: Larisaite

Comments: Yellow, acicular, radial sprays
of greenish yellow larisaite on matrix.
Location: Repete Mine, San Juan County,
Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.

Larnite Image

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Images: Larnite

Comments: Gray larnite masses in rock.
Location: Scawt Hills, Larne, County Antrim,
Northern Ireland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Larnite Image

Images: Larnite Paraspurrite

Comments: Violet-tinted gray crystalline
pure paraspurrite mass with larnite veinlets.
Location: Near Darwin, Inyo County,
Mineral Species

Larsenite Image

Images: Larsenite

Comments: Aggregate of acicular
microcrystals and crystalline larsenite.
Mineral Species

Lasalite Image

Images: Lasalite IMA2007-005

Comments: Bright orange efflorescent
lasalite crust on sandstone.
Location: Vanadium Queen mine, San
Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture Size 2 x
2 cm.

Latiumite Image

Images: Latiumite

Comments: Tan opaque prismatic crystals
of latiumite.
Location: Capagnano, Lazio, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Latrappite Image

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Images: Latrappite

Comments: Black, sub-metallic crystals of
latrappite on matrix.
Location: La Trappe Quarry, Oka, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: Crystal size 4 X 4 mm.
© John Veevaert

Laubmannite Image

Images: Laubmannite Goethite

Comments: Reddish brown goethite
hosting radiating sprays of olive green
laubmannite to 3 cm across.
Location: Buckeye Mountain, Polk County,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: 10.5 x 7.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Laueite Image

Images: Laueite

Comments: Purple crystal of laueite on
matrix.
Location: Tip Top Mine, Custer County,
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.4
cm.
© John Veevaert

Laumontite Image

Images: Laumontite

Comments: Diamond-shaped prism of
laumontite with chrysocolla.
Location: Azurite mine, Pinal County,

Laumontite Image

Images: Laumontite

Comments: White, well developed
laumontite crystals up to 1 cm. on matrix.
Location: Osilo, Sardegna, Italy. Scale:
Specimen size 6 x 4.5 cm.
© Minernet

Laurelite Image

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Images: Laurelite

Comments: Snow white acicular crystals of
laurelite.
Location: Grand Reef mine, Graham Co.,
Arizona, United States. Scale: Crystal size 7
mm.

Laurionite Image

Images: Laurionite

Comments: Colorless, stellate spray of
acicular Laurionite crystals on matrix.
Giv en.

Laurite Image

Images: Laurite Hollingworthite

Comments: Gray grain of hollingworthite (in
the center of the picture) with very slightly
darker gray laurite (at the right margin).
Polished section (from microprobe
analysis).

Laurite Image

Images: Laurite Kashinite

Comments: Gray kashinite with darker gray
laurite. Polished section (from microprobe
analysis) in reflected light.

Laurite Image

Images: Laurite Hollingworthite

Comments: Gray laurite with two smaller
grains of hollingworthite (left and right from
the laurite, v ery slightly lighter gray).
in reflected light.

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Lausenite Image

Images: Lausenite

Comments: Pale tan crystalline powdery
aggregate of lausenite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Lautite Image

Images: Lautite

Comments: Metallic dark gray Lautite
aggregate.
Location: Rudolph Shaft, Lauta, Marienberg

Lavendulan Image

Images: Lavendulan

Comments: Bright blue crystals of
Lav endulan crystals.
Location: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek
Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Lavenite Image

Images: Lavenite

Comments: Orange crystalline lavenite
grains in pegmatite.
Location: Mount Takhtarvumchorr, Khibiny
Mineral Species

Lawsonite Image

Images: Lawsonite

Comments: Glaucophane schist with a
heav y druse of lawsonite crystals.
Location: Reed Station, Tiburon, Marin
County, California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 7
mm.
© John Veevaert

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Lazarenkoite Image

Images: Lazarenkoite

Comments: Orange, fibrous lazarenkoite in
a v ug.
Location: Khovu-Asky Ni-Co Deposit, Tuva
Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia.

Lazulite Image

Images: Lazulite Bystrite

Comments: Brownish-yellow bystrite grains
with blue lazulite in an igneous rock.
Location: Malo-Bystrinskoye lazurite deposit,
Tunka Valley, Sludyanka, Lake Baikal

Lazulite Image

Images: Lazulite

Comments: Lustrous dark blackish-blue
crystals of lazulite to 5 mm in size.
Location: Crosscut Creek, Rapid Creek,
Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: 3 x 4.2 x 1.5
cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Lazulite Image

Images: Lazulite Whiteite-(CaMnMg)

Comments: Light beige-colored
whiteite-(CaMnMg) crystal perched on
dark blue lazulite.

Lazulite Image

Images: Lazulite Trolleite

Comments: Pale blue trolleite with darker
blue lazulite.
Location: Champion Mine, White Mountains,
Mono County, California. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lazurite Image

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Images: Lazurite

Comments: A single, deep blue,
dodecahedron of Lazurite measuring 1 cm on
a white marble matrix.
Location: Firgamu, Badakhashan Province,
Afghanistan. Scale: 1.2 x 1 x 0.9 cm.

Lazurite Image

Images: Lazurite Phlogopite

Comments: Gemmy brownish phlogopite
crystals on blue lazurite (lapis) matrix with
minor pyrite.
Location: Koksha Valley, Badakhshan
Province, Afghanistan. Scale: 10 x 11.5 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Lead Image

Images: Lead

Comments: Native lead sheet partially
covering an actinolite schist.
Location: Garpenberg Norra, Hedemorra,
Sweden. Scale: 7.5 x 4.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Lead Image

Images: Lead

Comments: Irregular mass of native lead
from a lead-zinc-silver ore deposit.
Location: Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. Scale:
8 cm across.
© Dave Barthelmy

Leadamalgam Image

Images: Leadamalgam

Comments: Dark gray coatings of
leadamalgam on weathered ore rock.
Mineral Species

Leadhillite Image

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Images: Leadhillite

Comments: Clear crystal of leadhillite on
matrix.
Location: Leadhills, Lanark, Scotland.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Lechatelierite Image

Images: Lechatelierite Trinitite

Comments: Fused silica sand (trinitite)
generated by the first nuclear (fission)
bomb. Although man-made and not a
valid mineral, the specimen has historic
value.
Location: Trinity Flats, White Sands, New
Mexico. It came into existance at 5:29 a.m.,
July 16, 1945. Scale: Specimen size 4.1 cm.

Legrandite Image

Images: Legrandite

Comments: Prismatic crystal of yellow legrandite
on a gossanous matrix.
Location: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.
Scale: 2.5 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Legrandite Image

Images: Legrandite

Comments: Yellow crystals of legrandite
partially covering an iron-oxide gossan.
Location: Oujela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 6 mm.
© John Veevaert

Leifite Image

Images: Leifite

Comments: Tan translucent crystal spray of
leifite in syenite rock.
Mineral Species

Leifite Image

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Images: Leifite

Comments: Snow white, prismatic, crystal
aggregate of leifite.
Location: Poudrette Quarry, Mont St. Hilaire,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: 3x1cm.

Leightonite Image

Images: Leightonite

Comments: Pale Leightonite with dark
green atacamite.
Chile. Scale: Not Giv en.

Leisingite Image

Images: Leisingite

Comments: Very small yellow crystal of
Leisingite on quartz.
size 0.8 mm.

Leiteite Image

Images: Leiteite

Comments: Specimen of leiteite with
inclusions of ludlockite. This Leiteite
specimen varies from 1 to 3.5 mm in
thickness.
© John Veevaert

Lemanskiite Image

Images: Lemanskiite

Comments: Electric blue lemanskiite sprays
on matrix.
Location: Abundancia Mine, Guanaco,
Chile. Scale: Picture size 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Lemmleinite-Ba Image

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Images: Lemmleinite-Ba

Comments: Orange-brown pyramidal
crystals of lemmleinite-Ba with greenish
aegirine crystals.
Location: Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif,
mm.

Lemmleinite-K Image

Images: Lemmleinite-K

Comments: Transparent, pyramidal crystals
of lemmleinite-K on matrix.

Lemoynite Image

Images: Lemoynite

Comments: Yellowish white, radial,
spherical spray of prismatic Lemoynite
crystals to 5mm in diameter on matrix.
Canada. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Lengenbachite Image

Images: Lengenbachite

Comments: Shiny, opaque crystalline spray
of lengenbachite on white dolomite?.

Lengenbachite Image

Images: Lengenbachite

Comments: Metallic gray, thin plates and
sheets of lengenbachite in a vug in white
dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture width 1.2
cm.
© Walter Gabriel

Lennilenapeite Image

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Images: Lennilenapeite

Comments: Dark greenish brown
sub-metallic micaceous lennilenapeite in
white calcite.
Mineral Species

Lenoblite Image

Images: Lenoblite

Comments: Yellow coating of lenoblite on
uraninite.
Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Leogangite Image

Images: Leogangite

Comments: Cotype sample of leogangite
(A. Strasser) showing the thin tabular habit
parallel to (100). (Mineralogy and
Petrology, 81:190).
Location: Mine dumps of the Danielstollen
and Inschlagalm in the Schwarzleo valley,
both part of the polymetallic ore district of
Leogang, Salzburg province, Austria. Scale:
See Image.
© Mineralogy and Petrology

Leonite Image

Images: Leonite

Comments: Translucent pale yellow
crystalline massive leonite, with white
alteration coating.
Location: Near Carlsbad, Eddy County,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lepidocrocite Image

Images: Lepidocrocite

Comments: Translucent, red-brown crystals of
lepidocrocite lining cavities in gossan matrix.
Location: Eisenzecher Zug Mine, Eiserfeld, Siegen
District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Scale:
7x5x3 cm.

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Lepidolite Image

Images: Lepidolite

Comments: Pale lavender micaceous
plates of lepidolite on matrix.
Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Lesukite Image

Images: Lesukite

Comments: Yellow to orange-yellow
lesukite.
Location: Deutschlandschacht Mine,
Oelsnitz, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Letovicite Image

Images: Letovicite

Comments: Pearly opaque white
crystalline letov icite on matrix.
Location: Kladno, Stredocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Leucite Image

Images: Leucite

Comments: Large single crystal of dark gray
leucite.
Location: Roccamonfina, Caserta Province,
Campania, Italy. Scale: 20x20x20 mm.

Leucophanite Image

Images: Leucophanite

Comments: Pseudo-cubic crystals of
leucophanite.

Leucophoenicite Image

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Images: Leucophoenicite

Comments: Cinnamon brown crystals of
leucophoenicite ov er deep reddish pink
crystals of rhodochrosite.
© John Veevaert

Leucophosphite Image

Images: Leucophosphite Messelite

Comments: White messelite crystals with
greenish leucophosphite.
Giv en.


Images: Leucophosphite

Comments: Transparent greenish brown
microcrystal of leucophosphite.
Location: Lone Tree Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species


Images: Leucophosphite

Comments: Crude or etched purple
crystals of leucophospiite to 1mm in vuggy
triphylite matrix.
Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Leucosphenite Image

Images: Leucosphenite

Comments: Glassy crystal of leucosphenite
in mudstone.
Location: Uintah Basin, Uintah County, Utah,
Mineral Species

Levinsonite-(Y) Image

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Images: Levinsonite-(Y)

Comments: Colorless thick tabular crystal
of levinsonite-(Y).
Location: Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky
Mts, Tennessee, USA. Scale: Picture size 1
mm.

Levyne-Ca Image

Images: Levyne-Ca

Comments: Vesicle in basalt matrix lined
with white levyne crystals.
Location: Beech Creek Quarry, Mount
Vernon, Grant Co., Oregon, USA. Scale:
32x22x20 mm.

Liandratite Image

Images: Liandratite

Comments: Yellow crystalline liandratite
crust on pegmatite.
Location: Antsakoa I Pegmatite, near
Berere, Mahajanga, Madagascar. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Libethenite Image

Images: Libethenite

Comments: Rich pine green crystals of
libethenite on matrix.
Location: Tyrone, Grant Co., New Mexico.
USA. Scale: Crystal size to 2mm.
© John Veevaert

Libethenite Image

Images: Libethenite

Comments: Dark to light green pseudo-
octahedral crystals of libethenite to 1.5mm
on matrix.
Location: KOV pit, Kolwezi, Katanga,
Congo. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Liddicoatite Image

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Images: Liddicoatite

Comments: Dark green translucent
liddicoatite crystal prism.
Location: Antandrokomby, Madagascar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Liddicoatite Image

Images: Liddicoatite

Comments: Complexly colored red zone, and the
skin which varies from green to yellow terminated
crystals of liddicoatite.
Location: Anjanabonoina, Betafo, Antsirab?
Madagascar. Scale: Specimen size: 3.3 x 1.8 x 1.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Liebigite Image

Images: Liebigite

Comments: Yellow liebigite crystals on
Quartz.
Location: Le Bosc, Lodev e, Herault, France.
Scale: 1.5 x 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Liebigite Image

Images: Liebigite Voglite

Comments: Green voglite with yellow
liebigite.
size 3.2 mm.

Likasite Image

Images: Likasite

Comments: Blue likasite encrustation.
Location: Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan) Mine,
Jezkazgan Oblast', Kazakhstan. Scale:
Picture size 6 mm.

Lillianite Image

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Images: Lillianite

Comments: Gray metallic massive lillianite
in clear quartz.
Location: Gladhammar, Kalmar, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Linarite Image

Images: Linarite

Comments: Deep blue prismatic crystals of
linarite on matrix.

Linarite Image

Images: Linarite Macphersonite

Comments: Colorless macphersonite with
blue linarite.
Location: Leadhills, Strathclyde, Scotland,
UK. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.

Linarite Image

Images: Linarite Schulenbergite

Comments: Light greenish rosettes of
schulenbergite with small green crystals of
ramsbeckite and blue crystals of linarite.

Linarite Image

Images: Linarite Brochantite

Comments: Deep blue, acicular, linarite
with light blue, globular brochantite on
white quartz.
Location: Goulmina, Er Rachidia, Morroco.
© Fabre Minerals

Linarite Image

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Images: Linarite

Comments: Deep blue, blocky, linarite crystal
blades in quartz vug and breccia matrix.
Location: Grand Reef Mine in Graham County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: 8 cm by 7 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Lindackerite Image

Images: Lindackerite

Comments: Greenish crystals of
lindackerite.
size 2.2 mm.

Lindbergite Image

Images: Lindbergite Rockbridgeite

Comments: Rare organic mineral -
lindbergite (Mn dihydrate oxalate) in white
patches on rockbridgeite matrix.
Location: Boca Rica mine, Sapucaia do
Norte, Gilileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
Spot size 1 mm.

Lindbergite Image

Images: Lindbergite

Comments: Secondary electron image of
interlocked irregularly contoured platelets
of lindbergite. (AmMin v 89, p 1088).
See Image.

Lindgrenite Image

Images: Lindgrenite

Comments: Transparent green plates of
lindgrenite on matrix.

Lindstromite Image

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Images: Lindstromite

Comments: Silvery metallic lindstromite on
matrix.
Location: Silv er Miller Mine, Cobalt, Ontario,
Mineral Species

Linnaeite Image

Images: Linnaeite

Comments: Brassy metallic octahedral
crystal of linnaeite on matrix.
Location: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. Scale:
Not Given.

Lintisite Image

Images: Lintisite Serandite

Comments: Yellowish-white fibrous veinlets
of lintisite in brown serandite.
Location: Mount Alluaiv , Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Liottite Image

Images: Liottite

Comments: Transparent colorless liottite
crystal on vesuvianite.
Location: Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany,
Mineral Species

Lipscombite Image

Images: Lipscombite

Comments: Light to dark green botryoidal
lipscombite crust on rock.
Location: Valmy, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species

Liroconite Image

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Images: Liroconite

Comments: Large crystals of liroconite up
to 1.3 cm.
Location: Gwennap, Cornwall, England.
Scale: 6 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Liskeardite Image

Images: Liskeardite

Comments: Botryoidal liskeardite crusts.
Location: Saint Hillary, Cornwall, England.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Litharge Image

Images: Litharge Massicot

Comments: Dark red litharge with
brownish-yellow scaly massicot and white
cerussite.
Location: Patagonia, Santa Cruz County,
Mineral Species

Lithiomarsturite Image

Images: Lithiomarsturite Lithiophosphate

Comments: Tan-brown lithiomarsturite with
cream-colored lithiophosphate in matrix.
Carolina, USA. Scale: 2" x 3".

Lithiophilite Image

Images: Lithiophilite

Comments: Twinned crystals of yellowish
brown lithiophilite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Lithiophilite Image

Images: Lithiophilite Sicklerite

Comments: Mottled tan-green-pink
massive sicklerite with dark brown
lithiophilite on quartz.
Location: Custer Mountain Lode, Custer

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Mineral Species

Lithiophilite Image

Images: Lithiophilite Triploidite

Comments: Salmon-colored prismatic
crystalline triploidite with brown lithiophilite.
Location: Capoeira Mine, near Parelhas,
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Lithiophorite Image

Images: Lithiophorite

Comments: Black Lithiophorite cementing
gravel.
Location: P?hlberg, Annaberg - Buchholz,
Specimen size 6 cm.

Lithiophosphate Image

Images: Lithiophosphate Lithiomarsturite

Comments: Tan-brown lithiomarsturite with
cream-colored lithiophosphate in matrix.
Carolina, USA. Scale: 2" x 3".

Lithiowodginite Image

Images: Lithiowodginite

Comments: Black crystalline grains of
lithiowodginite in pegmatite.
Location: Tanco Mine, Bernic Lake,
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lithosite Image

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Images: Lithosite

Comments: Transparent nearly colorless
lithosite in syenite rock.
Location: Vuonnemiok River, Khibiny Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Litidionite Image

Images: Litidionite

Comments: Bright blue crystalline litidionite
fragment.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Litvinskite Image

Images: Litvinskite

Comments: Dark cherry-red litvinskite in
matrix.
Location: Shkatulka pegmatite, Umbozero
mine, Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola

Liveingite Image

Images: Liveingite

Comments: Deep blue striated prismatic crystal of
liveingite on a white dolomite matrix.
Location: Lengenbach quarry Binntal, Valais,
Switzerland. Scale: Not Given.

Liveingite Image

Images: Liveingite Seligmannite

Comments: Black prismatic seligmannite
crystals with crystalline black liveingite.
Mineral Species

Liveingite Image

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Images: Liveingite

Comments: Strongly striated, metallic gray
liveingite crystal on white dolomite.
Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Livingstonite Image

Images: Livingstonite

Comments: Dark brown, acicular-
columnar crystals of livingstonite in
anhydrite.
Location: Guerrero, Mexico. Scale: 2x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Lizardite Image

Images: Lizardite

Comments: Lizardite pseudomorphously
replacing olivine.
Location: Snarum, Norway. Scale: 2x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Lollingite Image

Images: Lollingite

Comments: Sharp, twinned crystals
L?llingite on matrix.
Location: Oruro, Oruro Department, Boliv ia.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Lomonosovite Image

Images: Lomonosovite

Comments: Aegerine schist with reddish
crystalline grains of lomonosovite.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Kvanefjeld,
Greenland. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Lomonosovite Image

Images: Lomonosovite Bornemanite

Comments: Yellow crystalline bornemanite
in dark brown lomonosovite.
Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Lovozero

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Mineral Species

Londonite Image

Images: Londonite

Comments: A dodecahedral crystal of
londonite.
Location: Antandrokomby pegmatite,
Manandona valley, Sahatany Valley,
Betafo - Antsirab? region, Antananarivo
Province, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 7
mm.

Londonite Image

Images: Londonite

Comments: A yellow , lustrous, well
developed londonite crystal 1.2 cm. on
matrix.
Location: Antandrokomby, Sahatany
valley, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 1.2
cm.

Lonsdaleite Image

Images: Lonsdaleite

Comments: a) A Reflected light
photograph of lonsdaleite and unidentified
polymorph (New Phase) with lead
comtamination. b) synchrotron X-ray
diffraction, imaging and X-ray fluorescence
fine-scale mapping of the different phases.
(ESRF 2003 highlights).
Location: Shocked gneisses from the
Popigai Crater, Russia. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. Sync. Rad. Fac.

Loparite-(Ce) Image

Images: Loparite-(Ce)

Comments: Sharp penetration twin of cubic
loparite-(Ce) about 7 mm. across on
phoenite matrix.
Location: Flora Mt., Lovosero massif, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: 3.8x3.3x2.6 cm.

Loparite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Loparite-(Ce) Perrierite-(Ce)
Pyrochlore Zircon

Comments: Reddish black perrierite crystal,
with orange-brown pyrochlore crystal,
yellow-brown zircon, and grayish-black
loparite.
Location: Buer, Bjorkedalen,
Langesundfjord, Telemark, Norway. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lopezite Image

Images: Lopezite

Comments: yellowish granular lopezite.
Location: Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Lorandite Image

Images: Lorandite Fangite

Comments: Brown crystals of fangite with
red lorandite.

Lorandite Image

Images: Lorandite

Comments: Gemmy, transparent reddish
brown crystals of lorandite on matrix.
Location: Allchar, near Majdan,
Macedonia. Scale: Not Given.

Lorenzenite Image

Images: Lorenzenite Orthoclase

Comments: Striated, dark violet crystal of
lorenzenite in cream-colored orthoclase.
Russia. Scale: 1.3 x 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Lorenzenite Image

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Images: Lorenzenite Vuonnemite

Comments: Square vuonnemite crystal
with brown, lorenzenite crystals in syenite
rock.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Greenland. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lorettoite Image

Images: Lorettoite

Comments: Orange crystalline lorettoite in
matrix.
Otjozondjuba, Namibia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lotharmeyerite Image

Images: Lotharmeyerite

Comments: Brown, prismatic crystals
lotharmeyerite on matrix.

Loughlinite Image

Images: Loughlinite Bradleyite

Comments: Silky fibrous v einlets of
loughlinite with bradleyite.
Location: Green River area, Sweetwater
County, Wyoming, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lourenswalsite Image

Images: Lourenswalsite Aegirine

Comments: Light brownish rosettes of
lourenswalsite with dark green crystals of
aegirine and white feldspar.
Location: Diamond Jo quarry, Magnet
Cove, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas, USA.

Lovdarite Image

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Images: Lovdarite

Comments: Bright white crystal sprays of
lovdarite on fine-grained white natrolite.
Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Mount
Karnasurt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Murmansk, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lovozerite Image

Images: Lovozerite

Comments: Pinkish lovozerite with red
crystalline eudialyte.
Mineral Species

Loweite Image

Images: Loweite

l?weite with clear colorless halite.
Location: Wilhelmshall, near Stassfurt,
Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Luanheite Image

Images: Luanheite

Comments: Inclusions of luanheite, in
tellurium, in quartz.
Location: Mina Bambolla, Moctezuma,
Mineral Species

Ludjibaite Image

Images: Ludjibaite

Comments: Coating of intense blue-green
microcrystals and crystalline ludjibaite.
Location: Shituru, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

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Ludlamite Image

Images: Ludlamite

Comments: crystal group of Ludlamite.
Location: Huanuni Mine, Oruro Department,
Bolivia. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 x 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Ludlockite Image

Images: Ludlockite

Comments: Acicular crystals of red-orange
ludlockite on quartz and chalcocite.
© John Veevaert

Ludwigite Image

Images: Ludwigite

Comments: Limonitic matrix with blue
crystals of ludwigite.
Location: Simms Pass, Lemhi County, Idaho,
© John Veevaert

Ludwigite Image

Images: Ludwigite Chestermanite

Comments: Black capillary crystals of
ludwigite with green inclusions of
chestermanite in impure marble.
Location: Near Potter Pass, Fresno County,
Mineral Species

Ludwigite Image

Images: Ludwigite

Comments: Bright black, radial fibrous
aggregates of ludwigite.
Location: Brosso mine, Piemonte, Italy.
Scale: Sample size 4x3 cm.
© Minernet

Lueshite Image

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Images: Lueshite

Comments: Opaque, brownish,
pseudo-cubic crystals of lueshite.
Location: Republic of Congo. Scale:
Crystal size 8 mm.
© John Attard

Luetheite Image

Images: Luetheite

Comments: Blue to greenish crystalline
luetheite crust on altering rock matrix.
Mineral Species

Lulzacite Image

Images: Lulzacite

Comments: Dark gray siderite with grayish
green lulzacite.
Location: St. Aubindes Chateaux, Loire,
France. Scale: 1.7 x 1.4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Luzonite Image

Images: Luzonite

Comments: Pinkish-brown metallic luzonite,
tarnishing gray, crystalline.
Location: Chin Kuashih, Kagoshima, Taiwan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Lyonsite Image

Images: Lyonsite

Comments: Black, prismatic crystals of
lyonsite in matrix.
size 0.8 mm.


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Macdonaldite Image

Images: Macdonaldite

Comments: Bright white flattened radial
macdonaldite aggregate on quartz.
Mineral Species

Macfallite Image

Images: Macfallite Johnsenite-(Ce)
Braunite-I

braunite.

Mackayite Image

Images: Mackayite

Comments: Greenish brown crystals of
mackayite on matrix.
Location: McGuinnity shaft, Goldfield,
Not Given.

Mackinawite Image

Images: Mackinawite

Comments: Mackinawite inclusions in
sulfide ore (polished specimen).
Location: Mackinaw Mine, Snohomish
County, Washington, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Macphersonite Image

Images: Macphersonite Linarite

Comments: Colorless macphersonite with
blue linarite.
Location: Leadhills, Strathclyde, Scotland,
UK. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.

Macquartite Image

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Images: Macquartite

Comments: Straw-like prismatic yellow
micro crystals of macquartite to about
0.5mm on matrix.
Location: Mammoth - St. Anthony mine,
Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Macquartite Image

Images: Macquartite

Comments: Bright yellow, prismatic crystals
of macquartite in radial sprays to 0.75mm.
Location: Tiger, Mammoth district, Pinal
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Madocite Image

Images: Madocite

Comments: Gray metallic massive
madocite fragment.
Location: Madoc, Ontario, Canada. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Magadiite Image

Images: Magadiite Rhodesite

Comments: Earth pale tan massive
magadiite with dark yellow crystalline
rhodesite.
Location: East Fork, Trinity River, Trinity
Mineral Species

Maghemite Image

Images: Maghemite

Comments: Fine-grained massive
maghemite intermixed with hematite.
Location: Gara Djebilet, Algeria. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Magnesio-axinite Image

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Images: Magnesio-axinite

Comments: Cinnamon brown crystal of
"axinite" (probably magnesio-axinite).
Location: El Fenomino Tungsten Mine,
Northern Baja Californa, Mexico. Scale:
Crystal size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Magnesioaubertite Image

Images: Magnesioaubertite Pickeringite

Comments: Aqua crystalline
magnesioaubertite with white pickeringite.
Location: Grotto di Faraglione, Vulcano,
Sicily, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Magnesiochromite Image

Images: Magnesiochromite

Comments: Black crystalline
magnesiochromite grains in serpentinite.
Location: Red Pit, Fulton Township,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Magnesioclinoholmquistite Image

Images: Magnesioclinoholmquistite
Clinoholmquistite Fluoro-sodic-
pedrizite

Mineral Species

Magnesiocopiapite Image

Images: Magnesiocopiapite Guildite

Comments: Brown granular guildite with
greenish yellow magnesiocopiapite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

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Magnesiocopiapite Image

Images: Magnesiocopiapite

Comments: Pale yellow opaque
aggregate of magnesiocopiapite.
Location: Denver Mine, Santa Cruz County,
Mineral Species

Magnesioferrite Image

Images: Magnesioferrite Diopside

Comments: Very dark brown Magnesioferrite
Pleonaste (Iron-Magnesium spinel) with cream
colored Calcite and gray green diopside.
Location: Aldan, Gon River, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Magnesioferrite Image

Images: Magnesioferrite Bromellite

Comments: A micro, water color,
hexagonal or barrel shaped crystal of
white bromellite to about 0.3 mm on
yellowish calcite with associated black
magnesioferrite.
Scale: 18x9x10mm.

Magnesiofoitite Image

Images: Magnesiofoitite

Comments: Aggregate of greenish-brown
acicular crystals of magnesiofoitite.
Location: Kyonosawa, Mitomi-mura,
Yamanashi prefecture, Chubu region,
Honshu island, Japan. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Magnesiohastingsite Image

Images: Magnesiohastingsite

Comments: Dark black-brown crystalline
massiv e magnesiohastingsite.
Location: Afrikanda Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species

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Magnesiohornblende Image

Images: Magnesiohornblende Hornblende

Comments: Dark greenish-black massive
magnesiohornblende.

Magnesiohulsite Image

Images: Magnesiohulsite

Comments: Green fibrous massive
magnesiohulsite.
Location: Itenyurgin, Chukot Peninsula,
Magadan District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Magnesiokatophorite Image

Images: Magnesiokatophorite

Comments: Black crystalline
magnesiokatophorite in syenite.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Quebec,
Mineral Species

Magnesioriebeckite Image

Images: Magnesioriebeckite

Comments: Crystal of magnesioriebeckite
showing massive and asbestosform habits.
Location: Cochabamba Dept, Bolivia.
Scale: 2.5 cm.
© John Attard

Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S Image

Images: Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S Taaffeite

Comments: Faucetted purple
magnesiotaaffeite. These specimens are
very rare and un-cut samples ev er rarer..
Location: Ceylon gem grav els, Ratnapura,
Sri Lanka. Scale: See Image.
© Dave Barthelmy

Magnesiotaramite Image

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Images: Magnesiotaramite

Comments: Dark blue granular massive
magnesiotaramite.
Location: Liset, Selje, Sogn og Fjordane,
Mineral Species

Magnesite Image

Images: Magnesite

Comments: Magnesite crystal group. The
crystals have rhombic habit. The largest on
this specimen is 3.7 cm across.
Location: Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil.
Scale: Photo by John Veevaert.
© John Veevaert

Magnetite Image

Images: Magnetite

Comments: Black, opaque octahedral
crystals of magnetite on matrix.
Location: Isle of Ischia, near Naples,
Compania, Italy. Scale: Not Giv en.

Magnetite Image

Images: Magnetite Nordenskioldine

Comments: Colorless to white bladed
crystals of nordenski?ldine with black
magnetite.

Magnetite Image

Images: Magnetite Chesterite

Comments: Green platy chesterite in
black, metallic magnetite.
Location: Near Missoula, Missoula County,
Mineral Species

Magnetoplumbite Image

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Images: Magnetoplumbite

Comments: Black magnetoplumbite
masses in calcite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Magniotriplite Image

Images: Magniotriplite

Comments: Red-brown crystalline
magniotriplite masses in pegmatite.
Location: Kyrk-Bulak pegmatite,
Turkestanskij Range, Os, Kyrgyzstan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Magnussonite Image

Images: Magnussonite

Comments: Bright green crystalline
magnussonite grains with willemite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Mahnertite Image

Images: Mahnertite

Comments: Blue mahnertite in quartz.
Location: Cap Garonne Mine, Pradet, Var,

Makatite Image

Images: Makatite

Comments: Thin white bladed crystals of
makatite.
Location: Aris Phonolite, S. of Windhoek,
Namibia. Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Makatite Image

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Images: Makatite

Comments: White acicular sprays of
makatite crystals in a vug with pink
villiaumite.
Location: Aris Phonolite, Namibia. Scale:
Picture size 2 cm.
© Minernet

Malachite Image

Images: Malachite Azurite

Comments: Dark blue stubby pyramidal
azurite crystals and green botryoidal-
shaped radial aggregates of malachite.
Location: Nevada Lode Mine, San Juan
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: 4 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Malachite Image

Images: Malachite Demesmaekerite

Comments: Pale green crystals of
demesmaekerite on dark green malachite.
Crystal Size 3mm.
© John Veevaert

Malachite Image

Images: Malachite Devilline

Comments: Blue crystals of devilline on
green, botryoidal malachite.
Location: Spania Dolina (Herrengrund),
Slovakia. Scale: Not Given.

Malachite Image

Images: Malachite

Comments: Botryoidal malachite.
Location: Mindigi, Shaba, Congo. Scale: 7.5 x 5.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Malayaite Image

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Images: Malayaite

Comments: Pale bluish colored malayaite under
visible and SWUV light.
Location: Red-a-Ven Mine, Meldon, Okehampton,
Dev on, Great Britain. Scale: 3.7 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Maleevite Image

Images: Maleevite

Comments: Backscatter elecron images of
(a) an intergrowth of maleev ite (Mal) and
quartz (Qtz) and unknown Y-silicate (Y-Si);
(b) maleevite (Mal) in arfvedsonite and
astrophyllite (Astr) (CanMin, v 42, p 109).
Location: Moraine of the Dara-i-Pioz
glacier, Alai range, Tien Shan, northern
Tajikistan. Scale: See Image.

Malhmoodite Image

Images: Malhmoodite

Comments: Small white aggregate of
malhmoodite on matrix.
Location: Union Carbide Mine, Wilson
Springs (Potash Sulfur Springs), Garland Co.,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.

Malinkoite Image

Images: Malinkoite

Comments: White to clear glassy mico
crystals of malinkoite to less than 0.75mm
deep in a vug.
Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Rouville Co.,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm.

Malladrite Image

Images: Malladrite Avogadrite

Comments: Botryoidal pinkish-white
avogadrite with yellow malladrite.
Mineral Species

Malladrite Image

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Images: Malladrite Avogadrite

Comments: Yellow-orange crystalline
malladrite with pinkish white av ogadrite.
Mineral Species

Mallestigite Image

Images: Mallestigite

mallestigite.
Location: Mallestiger Mittagskogel,
Finkenstein, Villach, Carinthia, Austria.

Mammothite Image

Images: Mammothite

Comments: Sparse blue crystalline
mammothite in slag.
Location: Laurium, Attiki, Greece. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Manandonite Image

Images: Manandonite

Comments: Massive manandonite with
crystals to 2 mm.
Location: Manandona River, Sahatany
Valley, Madagascar. Scale: 2.2 x 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Manasseite Image

Images: Manasseite

Comments: Brownish yellow crystal of
manasseite on dolomite matrix.
Location: Jacupiranga mine, Jacupiranga,
Sao Paolo, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.

Mandarinoite Image

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Images: Mandarinoite

Comments: Specimen of solid
manandonite with crystals to 2 mm.
Location: Manandona River, Sahatany
Valley, Madagascar. Scale: 2.2 x 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Mangan-neptunite Image

Images: Mangan-neptunite

mangan-neptunite on matrix.
Location: Kibblehouse quarry,
Perkiomenville, Pennsylv ania, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Mangan-neptunite Image

Images: Mangan-neptunite Shkatulkalite

Comments: Pearly white shkatulkalite with
brown mangan-neptunite grains.

Manganaxinite Image

Images: Manganaxinite

manganaxinite on matrix.
Location: Kibblehouse quarry,
Perkiomenville, Pennsylv ania, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Manganbabingtonite Image

Images: Manganbabingtonite

Comments: Brownish black
manganbabingtonite associated with pink
Inesite blades.
Location: Hubei, China. Scale: 8 x 5.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Manganbelyankinite Image

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Images: Manganbelyankinite

Comments: Brownish to blackish
manganbelyankinite coatings on syenite
rock.
Location: Punkurvaiv, Lovozero Massif, Kola
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Manganberzeliite Image

Images: Manganberzeliite

Comments: Orange translucent crystalline
manganberzeliite in clear calcite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Manganese-hornesite Image

Images: Manganese-hornesite

Comments: Micro, white, needles of
manganese-hornesite to about 0.75mm on
hausmannite-rich matrix.
Scale: 5.5 x 4 x 2.5cm.

Mangangordonite Image

Images: Mangangordonite

Comments: White, blocky crystal of
mangangordonite to 0.5mm on matrix.
Location: Foote mine, Cleveland Co.,
North Carolina, USA. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Manganilvaite Image

Images: Manganilvaite IMA2002-016

Comments: Small, black, very bright crystals
of manganilvaite on a matrix of clear quartz,
white calcite, and tiny brassy pyrite crystals.
Location: Daye mining area, Hubei, China.
Scale: 6 x 5.6 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Manganite Image

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Images: Manganite

Comments: Lustrous feathery crystals of
manganite to 0.75 cm.
© John Veevaert

Manganite Image

Images: Manganite Sudoite

Comments: Pinkish to nearly white earthy
sudoite with dark manganite.
Location: Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Erfurt district,
Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 4 mm.

Manganite Image

Images: Manganite Vaterite Defernite

Mineral Species

Manganlotharmeyerite Image

Images: Manganlotharmeyerite

of subparallel crystals of
manganlotharmeyerite.
Location: Massive braunite ores at the
Starlera Mn deposit in the Eastern Alps of
Switzerland. Scale: See Picture.

Manganocolumbite Image

Images: Manganocolumbite

Comments: Small brown tabular crystals of
manganocolumbite in a pegmatite.
Location: Neuland Quarry, D?bsch?tz,
K?nigshain, Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany.

Manganocummingtonite Image

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Images: Manganocummingtonite

Comments: Dark green fibrous
manganocummingtonite.
Mineral Species

Manganogrunerite Image

Images: Manganogrunerite

Comments: Brown fibrous massive, iron
stained manganogrunerite.
Location: Hallefors, Orebro, Sweden. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Manganokukisvumite Image

Images: Manganokukisvumite

photomicrograph of manganokukisvumite.
(CanMin, v 42 , p 782).
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.
Scale: See Image.

Manganosite Image

Images: Manganosite

Comments: Dark green manganosite in
matrix.
Location: Nordmark, Filipstad, V?rmland,
Sweden. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.

Manganotantalite Image

Images: Manganotantalite

Comments: Floater crystal of doubly
terminated, brilliant, with a little red tint
manganotantalite.
Location: Pech, Kunar, Afganistan. Scale: 5.5 x 7
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Manganotapiolite Image

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Images: Manganotapiolite

Comments: Black opaque resinous massive
manganotapiolite.
Location: Skogbole Mine, Kimito, Turku ja
Pori, Finland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Manganotychite Image

Images: Manganotychite Aegirine

Comments: Pale rose-tan granular
manganotychite with black aegirine prism.
Mineral Species

Manganpyrosmalite Image

Images: Manganpyrosmalite

Comments: Greenish brown, blocky
crystals of manganpyrosmalite in matrix.
Individual crystals are up to 7 mm long.
Location: Nordmark, Varmland, Sweden.
© John Veevaert

Manganpyrosmalite Image

Images: Manganpyrosmalite

Comments: Hexagonal, light brown
crystals of manganpyrosmalite.
Location: Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.

Manganvesuvianite Image

Images: Manganvesuvianite

Comments: Dark cherry red prismatic,
crystals or manganvisuvianite to 2mm on
matrix.
Location: N'Chwanning mine, Kalahari Mn
Field, North Cape Province, South Africa.

Manjiroite Image

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Images: Manjiroite

Comments: Dark brownish black massive
sample of manjiroite.
Location: Arizona, USA. Scale: 3.8 X 5.6 cm.
© John Veevaert

Mannardite Image

Images: Mannardite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of black,
metallic lustered mannardite crystals in
matrix.
Location: Kechica River, British Columbia,
Canada. Scale: 3.4 X 4.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Mansfieldite Image

Images: Mansfieldite

Comments: White, spherical aggregates of
mansfieldite.

Marcasite Image

Images: Marcasite

Comments: Metallic, brassy-colored
marcasite with minor translucent quartz
and white dolomite.
Location: Panasqueira (3rd level), in the
region of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale: 8 x
5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Marecottite Image

Images: Marecottite

Comments: SEM image of a typical
marecottite aggregate. Note the perfect
cleavage along (011) and the trace of the
twin composition plane (arrow). (AmMin, v
88, p 678).
Location: La Creusaz, Swiss Alps. Scale: See
Image.

Margaritasite Image

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Images: Margaritasite

Comments: Bright yellow earthy
margaritasite crust on rhyolite.
Location: Margaritas Open Pit Mine, Sierra
Pena Blanca, Chihuahua,. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Margarite Image

Images: Margarite

Comments: Beige, massive, fibrous/foliated
aggregate of margarite crystals.
Location: Long Hill/Old Tungsten Mine in
Trumbull, Connecticut, USA. Scale: 10 x 5
cm.
© Walter Mroch / Gem and Mineral
Exploration Company

Margarosanite Image

Images: Margarosanite Minehillite
Wollastonite-1A

minehillite with white margarosanite and
dark gray lead, in pale pink opaque
wollastonite (distinguished by blue-white
fluorescence).
Mineral Species

Margarosanite Image

Images: Margarosanite

Comments: Clear or white, long, thin
bladed crystals of margarosanite on
matrix.
Scale: Crystal size 1cm.

Marialite Image

Images: Marialite

Comments: Fully terminated 4.3 cm crystal of
marialite. Weakly fluorescent red under SW UV
light.
Location: Gooderham, Haliburton Co., Ontario,
Canada. Scale: 6 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

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Maricite Image

Images: Maricite Vivianite

Comments: Brown maricite nodule with
internal radiating structure, with blue
vivianite.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species

Maricopaite Image

Images: Maricopaite

Comments: Opaque white prismatic
maricopaite microcrystals and yellow
crystalline mimetite.
Location: Moon Anchor Mine, near
Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Marokite Image

Images: Marokite

Comments: Dark brown crystalline massive
marokite.
Location: vein #2, Tachgagalt, Ouarzazet,
Morocco. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Marrite Image

Images: Marrite

Comments: A prismatic crystal of marrite
with small rounded crystals of galena in
quartz.
size 1.3 mm.

Marrite Image

Images: Marrite Jordanite

Comments: Aggregate of gray prismatic crystals of
marrite on fine-grained jordanite.
© Walter Gabriel

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Marshite Image

Images: Marshite

Comments: Translucent tetragonal crystal
of marshite on matrix.

Marsturite Image

Images: Marsturite

Comments: Orange scaly marsturite on
matrix.
Genoa, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Marthozite Image

Images: Marthozite

Comments: Yellowish green coating of
marthozite on matrix.
Not Given.
© John Veevaert

Marthozite Image

Images: Marthozite

Comments: Olive green crystal of
marthozite showing multiple face
development on main crystal.
Schumacher Collection.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Western
area, Shaba Cu belt, Shaba (Katanga),
Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Mascagnite Image

Images: Mascagnite

Comments: White, botryoidal mascagnite.

Maslovite Image

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Images: Maslovite Froodite Altaite

See Photo.
Mineral Species

Massicot Image

Images: Massicot

Comments: Small nugget of reddish-yellow
massicot.
Location: Wytheville, Wythe Co., Virginia,

Massicot Image

Images: Massicot Litharge

Comments: Dark red litharge with
brownish-yellow scaly massicot and white
cerussite.
Mineral Species

Masutomilite Image

Images: Masutomilite

Comments: Transparent to translucent
micaceous pale violet masutomilite with
yellow iron stains.
Location: Hisu Kawa Mine, Gifu, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Masuyite Image

Images: Masuyite

Comments: Bright reddish orange crystals
of masuyite.

Masuyite Image

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Images: Masuyite

Comments: Dark reddish brown aggregate of
masuyite with green metatorbernite on matrix.
(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 2
mm.

Matildite Image

Images: Matildite

Comments: Gray platy metallic crystalline
matildite in white quartz.
Location: Sulliv an Mountain, Montezuma
District, Summit County, Colorado, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Matlockite Image

Images: Matlockite

Comments: Pale cream colored rosettes of
matlockite crystals on matrix.
Giv en.

Matsubaraite Image

Images: Matsubaraite

Comments: Minute, dark grains of
matsubaraite in a very pale green jadeite
matrix.
Location: Itoigawa-Ohmi, Niigata
Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Mattagamite Image

Images: Mattagamite Altaite
Tellurantimony

altaite.
Mineral Species

Matulaite Image

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Images: Matulaite

Comments: Opaque white pearly
crystalline matulaite coating on quartz and
brown limonite.
Location: Bachman Iron Mine, Hellertown,
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Maucherite Image

Images: Maucherite

Comments: Massive, fine-grained, dark
maucherite with cream-colored barite.
Location: Eisleben, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-
Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 8
cm.

Maucherite Image

Images: Maucherite

Comments: Reddish, semi-metallic
aggregate of feathery maucherite crystals
on matrix.
Location: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.
© Reiner Mielke

Mawbyite Image

Images: Mawbyite

Comments: Brown crystalline mawbyite in
quartz.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Mawsonite Image

Images: Mawsonite

Comments: Mawsonite inclusions in brassy
yellow chalcopyrite.
Location: Mount Lyell, Queenstown,
Tasmania, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Maxwellite Image

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Images: Maxwellite

Comments: Minute red translucent
maxwellite crystal in rhyolite.
Location: Squaw Creek Tin Mine, Black
Range, Catron County, New Mexico, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mazzettiite Image

Images: Mazzettiite

photograph (SEM) of mazzettiite (M),
associated with altaite (A), galena (G) and
quartz (Q).
Location: Museum specimen in the
Mineralogical Collection of the Institut royal
des Sciences naturelles de Belgique,
Bruxelles (Belgium). Findlay Gulch,
Saguache Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Image.

Mazzite Image

Images: Mazzite

Comments: Clear colorless microcrystals
and crystalline mazzite in vug.
Location: Mont Simiol, Loire, France. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mbobomkulite Image

Images: Mbobomkulite

Comments: White earthy mbobomkulite.
Location: Jomac Uranium mine, White
Canyon, San Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale:

Mcallisterite Image

Images: Mcallisterite

Comments: Tan to white opaque porous
aggregate of mcallisterite.
Location: Qinghai, China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Mcalpineite Image

Images: Mcalpineite

Comments: Dark green crystals of
mcalpineite in matrix.
size 1.7 mm.

Mcgillite Image

Images: Mcgillite

Comments: Pink crystalline mcgillite with
galena.
Location: Near Kimberley, Kootenay
District, British Columbia, Canada. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mcgovernite Image

Images: Mcgovernite

Comments: Golden sub-metallic
micaceous mcgovernite with black
franklinite, red willemite, and white calcite.
Mineral Species

Mcguinnessite Image

Images: Mcguinnessite

Comments: Cotton ball clusters of vivid
blue mcguinnessite crystals on matrix.
Location: Miners Ridge, Red Mountain,
Mendocino County, California, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Mcguinnessite Image

Images: Mcguinnessite Vuagnatite

Comments: Translucent colorless
vuagnatite microcrystals with
mcguinnessite.
Location: Near Red Mountain, Mendocino
Mineral Species

Mckinstryite Image

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Images: Mckinstryite Silver

mckinstryite with wire silver.
Location: Peregrina Mine, Guanajuato,
Mineral Species

Mcnearite Image

Images: Mcnearite

Comments: Crystalline mcnearite micro
botryoids on matrix.
Location: Gabbe Gottes, Sainte-Marie-
aux-Mines, Haute-Rhin, France. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Medaite Image

Images: Medaite

Comments: Orange crystalline medaite
crust.
Location: Molinello Mine, near Chiavari,
Mineral Species

Meionite Image

Images: Meionite

Comments: Clear meionite crystal on
matrix.

Meionite Image

Images: Meionite Kaliophilite

Comments: Tan to white fibrous kaliophilite
crystal bundle with white translucent
meionite on matrix.
Location: Mont Somma, Naples,
Mineral Species

Meixnerite Image

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Images: Meixnerite

Comments: Colorless crystals of meixnerite.
Location: Zeilberg Quarry, Maroldsweisach,
mm.

Melanocerite-(Ce) Image

Images: Melanocerite-(Ce)

Comments: Black, v itreous, crystalline
aggregates of melanocerite-(Ce) in matrix.
Location: Cardiff Uranium mine,
Wilberforce, Monmouth Township,
Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada. Scale:
See Image.

Melanophlogite Image

Images: Melanophlogite

Comments: Yellow, transparent
Melanophlogite crystals.
Location: Racalmuto, Sicily, Italy. Scale:
Not Given.

Melanotekite Image

Images: Melanotekite

Comments: Black metallic granular
melanotekite with reddish brown
andradite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Melanothallite Image

Images: Melanothallite Chloromenite

Comments: Oliv e green crystalline
chloromenite on blue-green
melanothallite.
Location: North Break, Second Cone of
main fracture eruption, Tolbachik Volcano,
Kamchatka District, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Melanothallite Image

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Images: Melanothallite

Comments: Bluish green melanothallite grain.
Location: North Break, Second Cone, Main
Eruption Site, Tolbachik, Kamchatka District,
Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Melanovanadite Image

Images: Melanovanadite

Comments: Dark greenish-black
fine-grained massive melanovanadite.
Location: Minas Ragra, near Cerro de
Pasco, Junin, Peru. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Melanterite Image

Images: Melanterite

Comments: Deep greenish blue
encrustation of melanterite. The pistanite
v ariety is copper-bearing where Cu
replaces some of the Fe in the crystal
structure.
Location: Patagonia District, Arizona, USA.
Scale: 5 x 9.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Melilite Image

Images: Melilite

Comments: Barrel-shaped root-beer
colored melilite crystal with clear
nepheline.
Location: Udersdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate,

Melilite Image

Images: Melilite Monticellite

Comments: Thin-section image of
monticellite interstitial between unaltered
melilite crystals (CanMin v. 41. p 1259).
Romania. Scale: Field of View 2.7 mm.

Meliphanite Image

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Images: Meliphanite

Comments: Honey yellow, translucent
sample of Meliphanite.
Location: Aroy, Langesundsfjorden,
Norway. Scale: 3.6 X 5.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Mellite Image

Images: Mellite

Comments: Specimen of crystalline mellite.
Mellite is a naturally occurring organic
mineral species.
Location: Csordakhut, Tatabanya,
Hungary. Scale: 4 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Melonite Image

Images: Melonite

Comments: Metallic foil of melonite.
Location: Cresson Mine, Cripple Creek,
Teller County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Mendipite Image

Images: Mendipite Crednerite

Comments: Sooty, deep-black, granular to
platy crednerite with mendipite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mendipite Image

Images: Mendipite Chloroxiphite
Crednerite

crednerite.
Mineral Species

Mendipite Image

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Images: Mendipite Crednerite
Chloroxiphite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mendozavilite Image

Images: Mendozavilite

Comments: Vuggy matrix covered with
yellow micro crystals of mendozavilite.
Location: Rustler mine, Tooele County,
Utah, USA. Scale: Specimen size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Mendozavilite Image

Images: Mendozavilite

Comments: Light yellow micro crystals of
mendozavilite and earthy alterations in
v uggy quartz matrix with black schorl.
Location: Rustler mine, Tooele Co., Utah,

Mendozite Image

Images: Mendozite

mendozite.
Location: Gold Bottom Mine, Inyo County,
Mineral Species

Meneghinite Image

Images: Meneghinite

Comments: Black, acicular crystals of
meneghinite on matrix.
Location: Bottino Mine, Tuscany, Italy.
Scale: 1x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Menezesite Image

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Images: Menezesite IMA2005-023

Comments: Orange rhombododecahedral
crystals of menezesite to 0.75mm on matrix.
Location: Jacupiranga mine, Cajati county,
Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Mercallite Image

Images: Mercallite

Comments: Pale blue to white powdery
aggregate of mercallite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mercury Image

Images: Mercury

Comments: Silvery metallic mercury
coatings on quartz.
Location: Socrates Mine, Sonoma County,
Mineral Species

Mercury Image

Images: Mercury

Comments: Small silvery droplets of
mercury on tan-colored rock matrix.
Location: Sonoma Co., California, USA.
© Kevin Ward

Mereheadite Image

Images: Mereheadite

Comments: Yellowish crystals of
mereheadite to 1mm embedded in matrix.
Location: Merehead quarry, Shepton
Mallet, Somerset, England. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Merenskyite Image

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Images: Merenskyite Borovskite
Temagamite

42, p 674).

Merlinoite Image

Images: Merlinoite

Comments: Colorless transparent prismatic
merlinoite microcrystals in vug.
Location: Lagno Ahendo Lare, Vesuvius,
Naples, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mertieite-II Image

Images: Mertieite-II

Comments: Oil immersion hotomicrograph
of inclusions of mertieite-II in matrix of Pt-Fe
alloy (CanMin, v 42, p 614).
Scale: See Image.

Merwinite Image

Images: Merwinite

merwinite in light green crystalline massive
marble.
Mineral Species

Mesolite Image

Images: Mesolite

Comments: Cotton-ball cluster of acicular
white mesolite crystals on celestine.
Location: Cheyenne, Laramie County,
Wyoming. Scale: Not Given.

Messelite Image

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Images: Messelite Leucophosphite

Comments: White messelite crystals with
greenish leucophosphite.
Giv en.

Meta-autunite Image

Images: Meta-autunite

Comments: Platy meta-autunite crystals
fluorescing greenish yellow.
Location: Carretona, Spain. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Meta-autunite Image

Images: Meta-autunite Autunite

Comments: Corner of a meta-autunite
crystal showing the dehydration of autunite
(dark green) to meta-autunite (lighter
yellowish green)..
Location: Daybreak Mine, Spokane County,
Washington, U.S.A.. Scale: See Image.

Meta-uranocircite Image

Images: Meta-uranocircite

meta-uranocircite.
Location: Krunkelbachtal, Baden-
Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: Not Giv en.


Images: Meta-uranocircite Uranocircite

Comments: Brilliant, fluorescent yellow
green crystals of uranocircite altered to
meta-uranocircite.
Location: Bergen, Vogtland, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: 2.3 x 2.2 cm.
© John Veevaert


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Images: Meta-uranocircite Uranocircite

Comments: Crystal fragment of
uranocircite fracturing due to dehydration
to meta-uranocircite. The most common
are 100 and 010 fractures, with 110 close
behind. But notice the 210 and 410
fractures (breaks) as well.
Location: . Scale: Crystal size 2x3.5 cm.


Images: Meta-uranocircite

Comments: Lemon yellow platy
meta-uranocircite crystals on matrix.

Metacinnabar Image

Images: Metacinnabar

Comments: Spherical metacinnabar
crystals on quartz.
Location: Mt. Diablo mine, Contra Costa

Metadelrioite Image

Images: Metadelrioite Delrioite

Comments: Yellow metadelrioite and delrioite,
with orange rossite/metarossite on a sandstone
matrix. See inset image.
Location: Jo Dandy Mine, Montrose CO., USA.
Scale: 6 1/4" x 5 1/2".

Metahaiweeite Image

Images: Metahaiweeite Haiweeite

Comments: Pale yellow scaly
metahaiweeite coating on quartz with
minute haiweeite acicular crystals.
Mineral Species

Metaheinrichite Image

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Images: Metaheinrichite

Comments: Siliceous jasperoid with a black
crust of uraninite (?) and bright canary
yellow crystals of metaheinrichite crystals
to 2.5mm across.
Location: White King Mine, Lakeview,
Oregon, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Metaheinrichite Image

Images: Metaheinrichite

Comments: Very pale greenish crystals of
metaheinrichite on matrix.
Location: Schmiedestollenhalde mine,
Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Schwartzwald
(Black Forest), Baden-W?rttemberg,

Metahewettite Image

Images: Metahewettite

Comments: Deep red, vibrant, radial micro
crystals of metahewettite to 3mm in
diameter on matrix.
Location: Cactus Rat mine, Grand County,
Utah. Scale: 4 x 4 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Metahohmannite Image

Images: Metahohmannite Hohmannite

Comments: Orange opaque prismatic
microcrystals of hohmannite mixed with
yellow metahohmanite.
Mineral Species

Metahohmannite Image

Images: Metahohmannite

Comments: Orange-yellow earthy massive
metahohmannite with orange hohmannite.
Location: Quetena, Antofagasta, Chile.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Metakottigite Image

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Images: Metakottigite

Comments: Bladed crystalline sprays of
metakottigite crystals on matrix.

Metamunirite Image

Images: Metamunirite

Comments: Colorless, acicular crystals of
metamunirite.
Location: Burro Mine, Slick Rock District, San
Miguel Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1.6 mm.

Metanovacekite Image

Images: Metanovacekite Novacekite

Comments: Yellow, translucent platy
novacekite/metanovacekite crystal
aggregate.
Location: Rabejac Mine, Olmet, Herault,
France. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Metanovacekite Image

Images: Metanovacekite

Comments: Bright yellow crystalline
metanovacekite coatings on white
crystalline gypsum.
Location: Las Animas Mine, Municipio do
Heuiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Metarossite Image

Images: Metarossite

Comments: Light yellow metarossite on
sandstone.
Location: Burro Mine, Slick Rock District, San
Miguel Co., Colorado. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Metarossite Image

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Images: Metarossite

Comments: Bright yellow platy crystals to
about 0.5mm covering sandstone matrix.
Location: Arrowhead Claim, San Miguel
Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.

Metaschoderite Image

Images: Metaschoderite

Comments: Orange crystalline
metaschoderite crust on shale.
Location: 25 miles east of Eureka, Fish
Creek Range, Eureka County, Nevada,
Mineral Species

Metaschoepite Image

Images: Metaschoepite Antlerite

metaschoepite with green antlerite.

Metasideronatrite Image

Images: Metasideronatrite Tamarugite

Comments: Orange metasideronatrite with
white tamarugite.

Metasideronatrite Image

Images: Metasideronatrite Ungemachite

Comments: Translucent rounded
ungemachite microcrystal on yellow
metasideronatrite.
Mineral Species

Metastibnite Image

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Images: Metastibnite Sulfur

Comments: Red coatings of metastibnite
with yellow sulfur.
Mineral Species

Metastudtite Image

Images: Metastudtite

Comments: White acicular microcrystal
metastudtite clusters on dark yellow to
brown sklodowskite grains.
Location: Musonoi, Katanga, Shaba, Zaire.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Metaswitzerite Image

Images: Metaswitzerite

Comments: Bladed crystalline sprays of
milk chocolate-colored metaswitzerite
crystals.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Metatorbernite Image

Images: Metatorbernite

Comments: Green, square, tabular crystals
of metatorbernite on matrix.
Location: Wheal Basset, Illogan, Cornwall,
England, UK. Scale: Not Given.


Images: Metatorbernite Schoepite

Comments: Green, tabular crystals of
metatorbernite and acicular, yellow
schoepite on matrix.
(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture
size 2.5 mm.


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Images: Metatorbernite Metatyuyamunite

Comments: Yellow, platy
metatyuyamunite and transparent, tabular
green metatorbernite crystals with a minor
amount of white, snowy-looking saleeite.

Metatyuyamunite Image

Images: Metatyuyamunite

Comments: Bright yellow bladed crystals
of metatyuyamunite.
Location: Mashamba mine, Kolwezi,

Metatyuyamunite Image

Images: Metatyuyamunite Metatorbernite

Comments: Yellow, platy
metatyuyamunite and transparent, tabular
green metatorbernite crystals with a minor
amount of white, snowy-looking saleeite.

Metavariscite Image

Images: Metavariscite

metavariscite.
Location: Utahlite claim, Lucin, Box Elder

Metavauxite Image

Images: Metavauxite

Comments: Clear acicular crystals of
metavauxite.
Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department, Bolivia.
Scale: Not Given.

Metavauxite Image

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Images: Metavauxite

Comments: Creamy colored prismatic
metavauxite crystals to 3mm.
Location: Siglo XX, Llallagua, Bolivia. Scale:
Picture size 3 mm.

Metavivianite Image

Images: Metavivianite

Comments: Rust-brown, metavivianite var.
kertschenite crystals to 1.5 cm in length.
Location: Kertsch Crimea, Ukraine. Scale:
5.5 x 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Metavoltine Image

Images: Metavoltine Alunogen

Comments: Yellow metavoltine with white
alunogen.
size 5 mm.

Metazellerite Image

Images: Metazellerite Voglite

metazellerite in matrix, with green voglite.
Location: White Canyon #1 Mine, Frey Point,
San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Metazeunerite Image

Images: Metazeunerite

Comments: Lime green crystals of
metazeunerite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Metazeunerite Image

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Images: Metazeunerite Trogerite

Comments: Yellow crystals of tr?gerite with
green metazeunerite.
Location: Walpurgis Flats, Wei?er Hirsch
Mine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District,
Picture size 5 mm.

Methane hydrate-I Image

Images: Methane hydrate-I

Comments: Yellow to white outcropping of
massive methane hydrate infested with 2
to 5 cm polychaete worms (Hesiocoeca
sp), AKA "ice worms".
Location: 540 meters deep in the Gulf of
Mexico. Scale: Picture size 30 cm.
© Charles Fisher / Penn State

Meurigite Image

Images: Meurigite

Comments: Brown muirite oolite showing
the concentric-fibrous internal structure.

Meurigite Image

Images: Meurigite

Comments: Yellow, radial acicular sprays
of meurigite to about 0.75 mm.
Location: Teskov quarry, near Prague,
size 1.5 cm.

Meurigite Image

Images: Meurigite

Comments: Yellow-green spheroidal
crystals of meurigite to 0.1mm, in a 5mm
vug in black rockbridgeite(?) matrix.
Location: Hagendorf Sud Pegmatite,
Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Scale:

Meyerhofferite Image

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Images: Meyerhofferite

Comments: Transparent, tabular crystals of
meyerhofferite on matrix.
Location: 20-Mule Team Canyon, Death
© John Veevaert

Meymacite Image

Images: Meymacite

Comments: Orange-brownish to yellow
massiv e Meymacite.
Location: Meymac, Corr?ze, Limousin,
France. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Miargyrite Image

Images: Miargyrite

Comments: Metallic miargyrite crystal on
quartz.
Location: Braunsdorf, Saxony, Germay.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Miargyrite Image

Images: Miargyrite Aramayoite

Comments: Aramayoite is present as large
thin plates (blue iridescence) to 1mm in
massive gray miargyrite matrix.
Location: Julcani Silver mine,
Huancav elica Dept., Peru. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Microcline Image

Images: Microcline Ferrocolumbite

Comments: Blocky, dark brown ferrocolumbite on
pale greenish blue amazonite (microcline).
Location: Crystal Park, El Paso Co., Colorado,
© Fabre Minerals

Microcline Image

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Images: Microcline

Comments: Opaque blocky tan crystal of
microcline.
Location: Moat Mountain, near Conway,
Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Microlite Image

Images: Microlite

Comments: Brown crystal of microlite 10 mm in
an albite matrix.
Location: Morefield Mine, Winterham, Amelia
Co., Virginia, USA. Scale: 5x4x3 cm.

Microlite Image

Images: Microlite

Comments: Golden-colored microlite
octahedrons on white albite.
Location: Maxixe Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Crystal size .5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Microsommite Image

Images: Microsommite

Comments: Colorless prismatic
microsommite microcrystals in v ug.
Location: Novella Quarry, Vesuv ius,
Naples, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Microsommite Image

Images: Microsommite

Comments: White acycular microsommite
crystals (one mm. long) in small vugs in
matrix.
Location: Monte Somma - Vesuvio - NA,
Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Miersite Image

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Images: Miersite

Comments: Translucent miersite crystals on
matrix.

Mikasaite Image

Images: Mikasaite

Comments: Pale yellow to white platy
crystalline mikasaite cluster.
Location: Ikushunbetsu, Mikassa, Hokkaido,
Mineral Species

Milarite Image

Images: Milarite

Comments: Single transparent crystal of
yellow Milarite.
Location: Near Rossing, Namibia. Scale:
Not Given.

Milarite Image

Images: Milarite

Comments: Blocky, barrel-shaped crystal
of milarite on muscovite..
Location: Jagauaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: Crystal size 2.5 x 1 x 1 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Millerite Image

Images: Millerite

Comments: Fragile, acicular crystals of
metallic yellow millerite in a vug.
Location: Hall's Gap, Lincoln County,
Kentucky, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Millerite Image

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Images: Millerite

Comments: Dense tuft of hair-like millerite crystals.
Location: Kerr-Addison mine, Timmons, Ontario,
Canada. Scale: Tuft height 5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Millisite Image

Images: Millisite

Comments: Milky cream-colored crystals of
millisite.

Millosevichite Image

Images: Millosevichite

Comments: Porous crust of Millosevichite.
Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, Czech

Mimetite Image

Images: Mimetite Duftite-alpha

Comments: Mimetite crystals are replaced
by Duftite-alpha on a gossanous matrix.
Location: Mt. Bonnie Mine, Northern
Territory, Australia. Scale: Crystal size to
3mm.
© John Veevaert

Mimetite Image

Images: Mimetite Cerussite

Comments: Creamy white crystal of cerussite
measuring 11 x 22 mm in size nestled nicely in a
vug which is lined by bright-yellow, lustrous,
prismatic mimetite crystals. The mimetites
av erage 5 mm in length.
Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Mimetite Image

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Images: Mimetite

Comments: Crystals of tan colored
Mimetite. The largest crystal is 1 cm across.
Location: Mt. Bonnie Mine, Northen Territory,
Austalia. Scale: 2.9 x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Mimetite Image

Images: Mimetite Plumbogummite

Comments: White, fuzzy aggregates of
plumbogummite covering lime green
mimetite (campylite) crystals.
England. Scale: Not Given.

Mimetite Image

Images: Mimetite Wulfenite

Comments: Gemmy, pale yellow mimetite
crystal with brownish-orange wulfenite. Former
James and Dawn Minette Collection.
Location: Gem Pocket 1971, Tsumeb, Namibia.
© Rob Lav insky

Minamiite Image

Images: Minamiite

Comments: White granular powdery
minamiite aggregate.
Location: Okumanza, Gumma, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Minasragrite Image

Images: Minasragrite Patronite

Comments: Blue coatings of minasragrite
on patronite.
Mineral Species

Minehillite Image

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Images: Minehillite Margarosanite
Wollastonite-1A

fluorescence).
Mineral Species

Minium Image

Images: Minium

Comments: Bright orange minium with
curved, conchoidal surfaces.
Location: Santa F? Mine, Bola?os, Mun. de
Bola?os, Jalisco, Mexico. Scale: 33x22x14
mm.

Minnesotaite Image

Images: Minnesotaite

Comments: Greenish-gray dull
minnesotaite masses in iron ore matrix.
Location: Virginia, Saint Louis County,
Mineral Species

Minrecordite Image

Images: Minrecordite Dioptase

Comments: Blue-green dioptase cov ered
with minute, rhombic crystals of
transparent minrecordite one mm or less in
size.
© John Veevaert

Minrecordite Image

Images: Minrecordite Wendwilsonite

Comments: Wendell Wilson, publisher, editor-
in-chief of the Mineralogical Record, and the
person whom wendwilsonite was named after,
kindly provided the mineral name pronunciations
for minrecordite and wendwilsonite.

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© Dav e Barthelmy

Minyulite Image

Images: Minyulite

Comments: Crystals of minyulite on matrix.
Location: St. John's Quarry, Kapunda, South
Australia. Scale: Crystal size 4-5 mm to 5
mm.
© John Veevaert

Minyulite Image

Images: Minyulite Sincosite

Comments: Pale greenish white acicular
radial sprays of minyulite to 8mm with
small, green, tabular sincosite.
Location: Ross Hannibal mine, Lawrence
County, South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 2
cm.

Mirabilite Image

Images: Mirabilite

Comments: Colorless grains and indistinct
crystals of mirabilite. The mineral
dehydrates quickly in dry air and must be
preserved in a closed box.

Miserite Image

Images: Miserite

Comments: Silky crystalline inclusions of
maroon-colored miserite with a dark
amphibole and white feldspar.
Location: Hodza, Achkan, Kyrgyzstan.
© John Veevaert

Mitridatite Image

Images: Mitridatite

Comments: Dark brown crystals of
mitridatite on whitlockite.
Giv en.

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Mixite Image

Images: Mixite

Comments: Vuggy quartz matrix with
green radial sprays of mixite crystals.
Location: Northern Star mine, Tintic district,
Utah, USA. Scale: 6 x 5 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Moctezumite Image

Images: Moctezumite

Comments: Orange crystals of
moctezumite on matrix.
size 4 mm.

Moctezumite Image

Images: Moctezumite Burckhardtite

Comments: Pink crusts of burckhardtite
with yellow crystalline moctezumite on
quartz.
Location: Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma,
Mineral Species

Modderite Image

Images: Modderite

Comments: Synthetic crystal of modderite
grown for study of this extremely rare
mineral.
Location: None, grown in a laboratory.
Scale: Grain size 100 µ-m.
© Katie Phillips / Vassar College

Moeloite Image

Images: Moeloite

Comments: Dark gray, metallic grains of
moelite on white dolomite.
Location: Cava Ceragiola, Seravezza,
Lucca, Italy. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Mohrite Image

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Images: Mohrite

Comments: Opaque botryoidal mohrite
aggregate.
Location: Saint Etienne, Layonnais,
Languedoc, Loire, France. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Moissanite Image

Images: Moissanite

Comments: Gemmy, platy crystal of
moissanite shown with largest (001) face.
The arrow indicates a drop-shaped, black
metallic inclusion. (AmMin, 88:1818).
Location: Found in a cobble at a beach
along the Turkish coast of the
Mediterranean Sea, around 150 km NW
from Izmir, and is most likely derived from
Tertiary volcanic rocks outcropping in the
area. Scale: Scale bar 300 µ-m.

Moissanite Image

Images: Moissanite Silicon

of metallic inclusion in moissanite (SiC). The
gray shading in the BSE mage consists
mainly of pure silicon (Si metal). The
brighter areas are composed of Fe-silicide.
(AmMin, 88:1818).
area. Scale: Scalebar 200 µ-m.

Moluranite Image

Images: Moluranite

Comments: Dark gray-black moluranite
coatings on sandstone.
Location: La Sal, San Juan County, Utah,
Mineral Species

Molybdenite Image

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Images: Molybdenite

Comments: Sharp metallic molybdenite
crystal on matrix.
Location: Crown Point Mine, Washington.
Scale: 4x4x2.3 cm.

Molybdite Image

Images: Molybdite

Comments: Greenish yellow molybdite
crust on quartz.
Location: Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Molybdofornacite Image

Images: Molybdofornacite

Comments: Lime green, tabular crystals of
molybdofornacite on matrix.
Location: Mahoney district, Tres Hermanas
Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Molysite Image

Images: Molysite

Comments: Yellow earthy molysite
coatings.
Location: Sasso Pisano, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Monazite-(Ce) Image

Images: Monazite-(Ce)

monazite-(Ce) on lepidolite.
Location: Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Not Given.

Monazite-(Sm) Image

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Images: Monazite-(Sm)

image of the main aggregate of
monazite-(Sm) and manganocolumbite
(C) embedded in quartz (black). Variations
in brightness of the monazite-(Sm) are
controlled by the Th content, whereas the
ratio Nb/Ta affects manganotantalite.
Location: Annie Claim #3 pod, Greer Lake
intrusion, Archean Bird River Subprovince of
the Superior Province, Southeastern
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: Grain size 0.8
mm.

Moncheite Image

Images: Moncheite Chalcopyrite

Comments: White moncheite with
chalcopyrite (orange, blue and violet
tarnishing colors) in silicate matrix. Polished
section (from microprobe analysis) in
reflected light.

Moncheite Image

Images: Moncheite Insizwaite

image showing b) intergrowth of taimyrite-
tatyanaite with moncheitei-insizwaite
(CanMin, v 42, p 611).
Scale: See Image.

Monetite Image

Images: Monetite Newberyite

Comments: Tan coatings of monetite on
white newberyite pseudomorphous after
struvite crystal.
Location: Mono Lake, Mono County,
Mineral Species

Mongolite Image

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Images: Mongolite

Comments: White to pinkish massive
mongolite.
Location: Khan-Bogdinskii massif, Gobi
Desert, Mongolia. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.

Monimolite Image

Images: Monimolite

Comments: Pale green monimolite crusts
on matrix.
Location: Altar, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Monohydrocalcite Image

Images: Monohydrocalcite

Comments: Gray to pale blue, due to
copper staining, botryoidal
monohydrocalcite crust.
Location: 40' level, Saint Pierre Mine, Sainte-
Marie-aux-Mines, Vosges Mountains,
Haute-Rhin, France. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Montanite Image

Images: Montanite

Comments: Grayish-green montanite grain
in matrix.
Location: Zupkov (Zsubko; Schubkau),
Stredoslovensk? Kraj, Slovak Republic.

Montdorite Image

Images: Montdorite

Comments: Pale green fine granular
montdorite in iron-stained matrix.
Location: Charlunnes, Mont Dore,
Puy-de-Dome, France. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Montebrasite Image

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Images: Montebrasite

Comments: Transparent, pale yellow,
tabular crystals of Montebrasite on matrix.
Location: Newry, Oxford County, Maine,

Montesommaite Image

Images: Montesommaite

Comments: Translucent prismatic
montesommaite crystals in vugs.
Location: Pollena Quarry, Vesuv ius, Naples,
Mineral Species

Montgomeryite Image

Images: Montgomeryite

Comments: Matrix specimen covered with
sprays to 0.5 cm of salmon colored
montgomeryite crystals.
Location: Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South
Dakota, USA. Scale: 13 x 8 cm.
© John Veevaert

Montgomeryite Image

Images: Montgomeryite Tiptopite

Comments: Clear, acicular crystals of
tiptopite with red montgomeryite.
Giv en.

Montgomeryite Image

Images: Montgomeryite Tiptopite
Englishite


Monticellite Image

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Images: Monticellite

Comments: Pale brown crystalline massive
monticellite.
Mineral Species

Monticellite Image

Images: Monticellite Melilite

Comments: Thin-section image of
monticellite interstitial between unaltered
melilite crystals (CanMin v. 41. p 1259).
Romania. Scale: Field of View 2.7 mm.

Montmorillonite Image

Images: Montmorillonite

Comments: Authigenic smectite
(montmorillonite) overgrown on pore
spaces and authigenicly-overgrown quartz
grains in a sandstone. SEM image of a core
sample.
µ-m.

Montmorillonite Image

Images: Montmorillonite

Comments: Bright pink chalky massive
montmorillonite.
Location: Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood,
Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Montroseite Image

Images: Montroseite

Comments: Black silky fibrous montroseite
on sandstone with tyuyamunite.
Location: Monument No. 2 Mine, Kayenta,
Apache County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Montroyalite Image

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Images: Montroyalite

Comments: Translucent micro spherical
montroyalite on matrix.
Mineral Species

Montroydite Image

Images: Montroydite

Comments: Red to orange radial and
crystalline montroydite aggregates on
black calcite.
Location: Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas,
Mineral Species

Montroydite Image

Images: Montroydite Pinchite

Comments: Minute lustrous black pinchite
crystals on white montroydite.
Mineral Species

Mooihoekite Image

Images: Mooihoekite

Comments: Lighter toned brassy metallic
mooihoekite masses in chalcopyrite with
magnetite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Moolooite Image

Images: Moolooite

Comments: Light bluish moolooite
encrustation.
Location: Ibergstausee, Stempeda,
S?dharz, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 0.9 mm.

Mooreite Image

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Images: Mooreite

Comments: Translucent, wedge-shaped crystals of
mooreite on matrix.
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA.
Scale: Not Given.

Moorhouseite Image

Images: Moorhouseite

Comments: Pink crystalline moorhouseite in
sandstone.
Location: Cameron, Coconino County,
Mineral Species

Mopungite Image

Images: Mopungite

Comments: White mopungite encrustations.
Location: Cetine di Cotorniano Mine
(Cetine Mine), Rosia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy.

Moraesite Image

Images: Moraesite

Comments: Silky, tufted crystals of white
moraesite on matrix.
Location: Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.

Moraesite Image

Images: Moraesite Glucine

Comments: Light brown glucine with white
moraesite.
Location: Boevskoye Mine, Sverdlovsk
Photo.
Mineral Species

Mordenite Image

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Images: Mordenite Heulandite

mordenite in heulandite geode.
Location: Rock Creek, Stevenson,
Skamania County, Washington, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Mordenite Image

Images: Mordenite Heulandite-Ca

Comments: Pink heulandite crystals up to
15 mm in fibrous white mordenite matrix.
Location: Rats Nest Claim, Challis, Custer
Co., Idaho, USA. Scale: 6x6x4 cm.

Morenosite Image

Images: Morenosite

Comments: Pale greenish blue crust of
morenosite.
Location: Gorner Glacier, Furi, Zermatt,
size 5 mm.

Morinite Image

Images: Morinite

Comments: Pale violet crystalline morinite
in white crystalline fluorapatite.
Location: Hugo Mine, Keystone, Pennington
Photo.
Mineral Species

Mosandrite Image

Images: Mosandrite

Comments: Yellow to brown resinous
crystalline mosandrite with black aegirine.
Mineral Species

Moschellandsbergite Image

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Images: Moschellandsbergite

moschellandsbergite aggregate.
Location: Moschellandsberg, Rheinland-
Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mosesite Image

Images: Mosesite

Comments: Yellow, hoppered crystal of
mosesite on matrix.
Location: Terllingua, Brewster County,
Texas, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Mottanaite-(Ce) Image

Images: Mottanaite-(Ce)

mottanaite-(Ce) in matrix.
Location: Monte Cavallucio, Sacrofano,
Campagnano, Latium (Lazio), Italy. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Mottramite Image

Images: Mottramite Beaverite

Comments: Specimen of quartz with a
thick druse of green mottramite
(cuprodescloizite) crystals and a scattered
grouping of micro beav erite crystals
(lemon yellow in color).
© John Veevaert

Mottramite Image

Images: Mottramite

Comments: Botryoidal green mottramite
on white calcite.
Location: Tsumeb Mine,Tsumeb, Namibia.
Scale: 7.5 cm by 8 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Motukoreaite Image

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Images: Motukoreaite

Comments: Colorless, tabular crystals of
motukoreaite.
Location: Stradnerkogel Quarry,
Wilhelmsdorf, Styria, Austria. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 mm.

Mounanaite Image

Images: Mounanaite

Comments: Yellow crystal of mounanaite
on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Mounanaite Image

Images: Mounanaite Francevillite

Comments: Stout, yellow, transparent,
prismatic, striated crystals of francevillite on
brownish red mounanaite matrix.
Location: Mounana mine, Franceville,
Haut-Ogoou?, Gabon. Scale: Picture size
1.5 cm.

Mountainite Image

Images: Mountainite Raite

Comments: Bright white fibrous acicular
mountainite crystal aggregate with pale
golden raite.
Mineral Species

Mountkeithite Image

Images: Mountkeithite

Comments: Pinkish mountkeithite grain in
matrix.
Location: Mount Keith nickel deposit,
Western Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture
size 2 mm.

Mourite Image

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Images: Mourite Iriginite

Comments: Purple to violet sub-metallic
mourite coatings with yellow iriginite.
Location: 'North Caucasus', probably
Kyzylsai Deposit, Chu-Ili Mountains,
Balkhash, Zezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mozartite Image

Images: Mozartite

Comments: Massive, crystalline mozartite.
© John Veevaert

Mpororoite Image

Images: Mpororoite Anthoinite

mpororoite with brown anthoinite.
Location: Kara Mine, Tasmania, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mrazekite Image

Images: Mrazekite

Comments: Blue, prismatic crystal of
mr?zekite on matrix.
Location: Arme Hilfe Mine, Ullersreuth,
Hirschberg, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany.

Muckeite Image

Images: Muckeite

Comments: Dark gray tabular crystals of
M?ckeite.
Location: Gr?neau Mine (Gr?ne Au Mine;
Gr?nau Mine), Schutzbach, Betzdorf, Siegen
District (W), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Muirite Image

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Images: Muirite Sanbornite

Comments: Translucent orange crystalline
muirite in sanbornite.
Location: Big Creek, Fresno County,
Mineral Species

Mullite Image

Images: Mullite

Comments: Opaque white mullite masses
with mica.
Location: Nijar, Almeria, Andalucia, Spain.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Mullite Image

Images: Mullite

Comments: Surface of a kaolinite stratum
altered to white mullite by a prehistoric
coal-seam-fire..
Location: Mt. Wingen (Burning Mountain),
NSW, Australia. Scale: Picture size 6x4 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Mundite Image

Images: Mundite

mundite grains.
Location: Kobokobo, Sud-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Munirite Image

Images: Munirite

Comments: Bright yellow-orange crystalline
munirite on matrix.
Location: Brushy Creek, Uravan, Montrose
Mineral Species

Murdochite Image

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Images: Murdochite Smithsonite

Comments: Dark metallic micro crystals of
murdochite on pale blue-gray smithsonite
crystal covered matrix.
Location: Silver Hill Mine group, Silv er Hill,
Waterman District, Waterman Mts, Pima

Murmanite Image

Images: Murmanite

Comments: Metavolcanic matrix hosting
several bright pink lath shaped crystals of
murmanite.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Illua, Greenland.
© John Veevaert

Muscovite Image

Images: Muscovite Fluorapatite Beryl
Apatite

© Dan Weinrich

Muscovite Image

Images: Muscovite

Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal crystalline
aggregate of muscovite.
Location: Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Muscovite Image

Images: Muscovite

Comments: Seams of green muscovite var.
fuchsite in quartz matrix with minor pyrite
crystals.
Location: Wolfe's Neck locality, Freeport,
Cumberland Co., Maine, USA. Scale: 7x5x4
cm.

Muscovite Image

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Images: Muscovite Aluminoceladonite

Comments: Large, 1cm, purple crystals of
muscovite/leucophyllite, (var. alurgite
which is an intermediate composition to
muscovite and leucophyllite
(aluminoceladonite).
Location: Ultevis, Sweden. Scale:
5x3.5x3cm.

Mushistonite Image

Images: Mushistonite Kesterite

Comments: Sharp, kesterite crystal,
greenish in color due to a mushistonite
coating with clear, prismatic beryl crystals.
Location: Xue Bao Diang Mountains, north
of Pingwu, Sichuan Prov ince, China. Scale:
Crystal size 1 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Mushistonite Image

Images: Mushistonite

Comments: Green crystalline mushistonite
coatings on quartz.
Location: Etta Mine, Keystone, Pennington
Photo.
Mineral Species

Muthmannite Image

Images: Muthmannite

Comments: Backscattered scanning
electron microphotograph of muthmannite
(light gray) rimming a sylvanite (dark gray)
grain. (AmMin 89:1506).
Location: Museum specimen from a
gold-telluride deposit of Sacar?mb,
Metaliferi Mountains, western Romania..
Scale: See Image.


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Nabaphite Image

Images: Nabaphite

Comments: Translucent tetrahedral
nabaphite microcrystal.
Location: Mount Kukisv umchorr, Khibiny
Mineral Species

Nabesite Image

Images: Nabesite

Comments: White, tabular crystals of
nabesite.
Location: Kv anefjeld plateau, Il?maussaq
massif, Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.7
mm.

Nacaphite Image

Images: Nacaphite Thermonatrite

Comments: Sparse pale yellow-brown
microcrystal and crystalline nacaphite with
white thermonatrite on a dark matrix.
Mineral Species

Nacareniobsite-(Ce) Image

Images: Nacareniobsite-(Ce)

Comments: White to light brownish
nacareniobsite-(Ce) in an igneous rock
matrix.
Location: Kvanefjeld Tunnel, Il?maussaq
massif, Greenland. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Nacrite Image

Images: Nacrite

Comments: Colorless, transparent crystal
of macrite on matrix.
Location: Hunersedge mine, Baden-
Wurttemburg, Germany. Scale: Not Giv en.

Nadorite Image

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Images: Nadorite

Comments: Blocky, yellowish brown
crystals of nadorite on matrix.
Location: Langban mine, Filipstad ,
V?rmland, Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1
mm.

Nafertisite Image

Images: Nafertisite

Comments: Dark green fibrous nafertisite
masses in pegmatite rock.
Mineral Species

Nagyagite Image

Images: Nagyagite

Comments: Nagyagite partially covered
with calcite.
Location: Sacaramb (Nagyag), Romania.
© John Veevaert

Nahcolite Image

Images: Nahcolite

Comments: Massive, translucent nahcolite.
Location: Anvil Point, Rifle, Garfield County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: 2.1 x 1.4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Nahcolite Image

Images: Nahcolite Trona

Comments: Massive, coarse-grained Trona
from a drill core of the upper mixed-layer
Saltbed. White areas are nahcolite
alteration.
County, California, USA. Scale: 12 x 15 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Nahpoite Image

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Images: Nahpoite

Comments: Nearly opaque white powdery
nahpoite.
Mineral Species

Nakauriite Image

Images: Nakauriite

Comments: Blue crystals of nakauriite on
green serpentinite.
Location: Lobming, Styria, Austria. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Namansilite Image

Images: Namansilite

Comments: Dark red namansilite veinlets in
rock (slabbed specimen).
Location: Woods mine, near Tamworth,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Nambulite Image

Images: Nambulite

Comments: Brown crystalline nambulite
with pinkish rhodonite.
Location: Gozaisho Mine, Iwaki, Fukushima,
Mineral Species

Namibite Image

Images: Namibite

Comments: Dark green crystals of namibite
on matrix.

Namuwite Image

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Images: Namuwite

Comments: Sky-blue, platy crystals of
namuwite on matrix.

Narsarsukite Image

Images: Narsarsukite

Comments: Narsarsukite crystal in matrix.

Nasonite Image

Images: Nasonite Hancockite

Comments: Colorless, transparent
hexagonal prism of Nasonite on reddish
brown hancockite.

Nastrophite Image

Images: Nastrophite

Comments: Glassy to chalky crystalline
nastrophite fragment.
Mineral Species

Natanite Image

Images: Natanite

Comments: Reddish brown crystal of
natanite on matrix.
Location: Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia,
Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.

Natrite Image

Images: Natrite

Comments: White opaque massiv e natrite.
Mineral Species

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Natroalunite Image

Images: Natroalunite

Comments: Pure white porcelaneous
massive natroalunite.
Location: Sugarloaf Butte, Quartzite, La Paz
Mineral Species

Natroapophyllite Image

Images: Natroapophyllite

Comments: Pale pink opaque blocky
crystal natroapophyllite aggregate.
Location: Boghil Quarry, Glengormley,
Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern
Ireland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Natrochalcite Image

Images: Natrochalcite Krohnkite

Comments: Royal blue kr?hnkite and
green natrochalcite.
Location: Chiquicamata, Chile. Scale: 3.5 x
2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Natrochalcite Image

Images: Natrochalcite

Comments: Green, transparent crystals of
natrochalcite on dark green atacamite.

Natrodufrenite Image

Images: Natrodufrenite

Comments: Greenish gray, botryoidal
aggregates natrodufrenite on hematite-
stained quartz.

Natrojarosite Image

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Images: Natrojarosite

Comments: Yellow brown natrojarosite
crystals.
Location: Kamareza Mine, Laurium, Attiki,
Mineral Species

Natrolemoynite Image

Images: Natrolemoynite

Comments: Radiating spray of tan
natrolemoynite crystals, with brown
coating, with white albite.
Mineral Species

Natrolite Image

Images: Natrolite Eudialyte

Comments: Druse of gemmy, red eudialyte
crystals to 1 mm on white natrolite.
© John Veevaert

Natrolite Image

Images: Natrolite

Comments: Transparent prismatic crystals
of natrolite.
Location: Usti (Aussig), Bohemia, Czech
Republic. Scale: Not Giv en.

Natrolite Image

Images: Natrolite Neptunite

Comments: Jet-black square prisms of
neptunite etched out of the enclosing white
natrolite with minor benitoite.
Location: Benitoite Gem Mine. San Benito Co.
California, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Natrolite Image

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Images: Natrolite Serandite Analcime

of analcime.
© Fabre Minerals

Natromontebrasite Image

Images: Natromontebrasite

Comments: Pale tan to orange
natromontebrasite cleavages in quartz.
Location: Mica Load, Canon City, Fremont
Mineral Species

Natron Image

Images: Natron

Comments: Opaque white powdery
massive natron.
Location: Atlin, British Columbia, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Natroniobite Image

Images: Natroniobite

Comments: Olive-green colored
translucent crystalline natroniobite
fragments.
Location: Lesnaya Varaka Massif, Kola
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Natrosilite Image

Images: Natrosilite

Comments: Colorless, clear to translucent
crystalline natrosilite fragment, found in
pale pink ussingite.
Mineral Species

Natroxalate Image

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Images: Natroxalate

crystalline natroxalate fragment.
Mineral Species

Naujakasite Image

Images: Naujakasite Villiaumite

Comments: Greenish-gray crystals of
naujakasite with red villiaumite.
Location: Narsaq river, Kvanefjeld Mt.,
Il?maussaq massif, Greenland. Scale:
Picture size 4 mm.

Naumannite Image

Images: Naumannite

Comments: Black crystal of Naumannite in
a quartz-lined vug.
Location: DeLamar mine, DeLamar,
Owyhee County, Idaho. Scale: Not Giv en.

Navajoite Image

Images: Navajoite

Comments: Purple-brown adamantine
nav ajoite coatings on conglomerate.
Location: Monument #2 Mine, Monument
Valley, Apache County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Nealite Image

Images: Nealite

Comments: Orange-yellow prismatic
crystals of Nealite on matrix.
Location: Lavrion District slag localities,
Attik? (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece.

Nealite-(H2O) Image

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Images: Nealite-(H2O)

nealite-(H2O) on matrix.
Giv en.

Nekoite Image

Images: Nekoite

Comments: Sprays of translucent acicular
nekoite crystals.
Location: Iron Cap Mine, Graham County,
Mineral Species

Neltnerite Image

Images: Neltnerite

Comments: Black neltnerite microcrystals
lining vugs.
Location: Manganese Creek, Keeweenaw
Mineral Species

Nenadkevichite Image

Images: Nenadkevichite

Comments: Pinkish crystal of
nenadkevichite on matrix.
Location: Monte St. Hilaire, Quebec,

Neotocite Image

Images: Neotocite

Comments: Dark brown resinous massive
neotocite.
Location: Buzzarla Mine, San Luis Obispo
Mineral Species

Nepheline Image

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Images: Nepheline

Comments: Stubby, hexagonal prism of
Nepheline in matrix.
County, New Mexico. Scale: Not Given.

Nepouite Image

Images: Nepouite

Comments: Massive, green n?pouite.

Neptunite Image

Images: Neptunite Natrolite

Comments: Jet-black square prisms of
neptunite etched out of the enclosing white
natrolite with minor benitoite.
Location: Benitoite Gem Mine. San Benito Co.
© Fabre Minerals

Nesquehonite Image

Images: Nesquehonite

Comments: Scanning electron micrographs
of nesquehonite clusters showing the
typical elongated habit. (AmMin, 88:1882).
Scale: Scale Bar 50 µ-m (lower left).

Neustadtelite Image

Images: Neustadtelite

micrograph of neust?dtelite. (AmMin
87:728).
Location: Mine dumps of the G?ldener Falk
mine near Schneeberg-Neust?dtel, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Scale Bar 15 µm.

Nevadaite Image

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Images: Nevadaite

Comments: Robin's egg blue radiating
acicular sprays of nev adaite to about 0.3
mm.
Location: Gold Quarry mine, Eureka Co.,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.

Newberyite Image

Images: Newberyite Dittmarite

dittmaritewith more opaque newberyite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Newberyite Image

Images: Newberyite Hannayite

crystals of hannayite on brown newberyite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Newberyite Image

Images: Newberyite Monetite

Comments: Tan coatings of monetite on
white newberyite pseudomorphous after
struvite crystal.
Location: Mono Lake, Mono County,
Mineral Species

Newberyite Image

Images: Newberyite

Comments: Crudely formed crystal
newberyite aggregate.
Location: Skipton Caves, near Balarat,
Victoria, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Neyite Image

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Images: Neyite

Comments: Black foliated metallic neyite
on quartz.
Location: near Hope, British Columbia,
Mineral Species

Nezilovite Image

Images: Nezilovite

Comments: Small black grains of nezilovite
in matrix.
Location: Nezilov o, FYR Macedonia. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.

Nickel Image

Images: Nickel

Comments: Very small cubic crystal of
nativ e Nickel, isolated from an ore
concentrate.
Location: Noum?a, New Caledonia. Scale:

Nickel-skutterudite Image

Images: Nickel-skutterudite

Comments: Gray, blocky crystals of nickel-
skutterudite (chloanthite) with minor yellow
pyrite.
Location: Gowganda, Ontario, Canada.

Nickel-zippeite Image

Images: Nickel-zippeite

Comments: Yellow crust of nickel-zippeite
on matrix.
size 4 mm.

Nickelhexahydrite Image

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Images: Nickelhexahydrite

Comments: Pale greenish crust of ferroan
nickelhexahydrite.
Location: Sohland, Bautzen, Oberlausitz,

Nickeline Image

Images: Nickeline

Comments: Stubby, crude blocky crystals
of nickeline.
Location: Gowaganda, Ontario, Canada.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Nickellotharmeyerite Image

Images: Nickellotharmeyerite

Comments: Brown, microcrystalline
nickellotharmeyerite.

Nickelphosphide Image

Images: Nickelphosphide Kamacite

Comments: Small inclusion of
nickelphosphide in massiv e kamacite.
mm.

Nickelschneebergite Image

Images: Nickelschneebergite

Comments: Small crystals of
nickelschneebergite.
Location: Roter Berg, Neust?dtel,

Nickenichite Image

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Images: Nickenichite

Comments: Blue crystals of nickenichite on
matrix.
Location: Nickenich, near Kruft, Eifel Mts,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.

Nifontovite Image

Images: Nifontovite

Comments: Transparent spray of nifontovite
crystals.
Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town, Kawakama
Co., Okayama Pref., Japan. Scale: Crystal size
2.3x0.7x0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Niigataite Image

Images: Niigataite

Comments: Boulder consisting of prehenite,
diaspore, chlorite and niigataite. The pale
lavender is prehenite/diaspore and the
very pale green is chlorite/niigataite..
Location: Itoigawa, riv er Kazuo, Niigata
prefecture, Japan. Scale: Specimen size
19cm x 16 cm.

Niigataite Image

Images: Niigataite

Comments: Backscatter electronic image
of niigataite (bright) which is partially
replacing a chlorite (med gray) grain in a
diaspore (dark gray, rod-shaped) and
prehenite (light gray) matrix.
Location: Itoigawa, riv er Kazuo, Niigata
prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Nikischerite Image

Images: Nikischerite

Comments: Yellowish green nikischerite on
matrix.
Location: Huanuni Mine, Dalence Prov ince,
Bolivia. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm.

Nikischerite Image

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Images: Nikischerite

Comments: Tony Nikischer, Chairman of the
Board of The Hudson Institute of Mineralogy,
president of Excalibur Mineral Corporation, and
the person whom nikischerite is named for, kindly
provided the pronunciation of the mineral
nikischerite.
Location: Executive Inn hotel, Room 128, Tucson,
Feburary 9, 2004. Scale: NA.
© Dave Barthelmy

Nimite Image

Images: Nimite

Comments: Dark green nimite aggregates
on white calcite.
Location: Planalto, Rio Grande do Sol,
Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ningyoite Image

Images: Ningyoite

Comments: Greenish-black fine grained
ningyoite masses with minor rock.
Location: Ningyo-Toge Mine, Okayama,
Mineral Species

Niobocarbide Image

Images: Niobocarbide

Comments: Small metallic grain of
niobocarbide.
Russia. Scale: Grain size 0.3 mm.

Niobokupletskite Image

Images: Niobokupletskite Kupletskite

image of Niobokupletskite (Nkpt) rimming
kupletskite (Kpt). The zoning in the
kupletskite is from Nb-poor to Nb-rich in the
direction of the arrow (dark to medium
gray). (CanMin v 38, p 628).
Canada. Scale: Scale bar 100 µ-m.

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Niobophyllite Image

Images: Niobophyllite

Comments: Blackish-brown resinous to silky
fibrous niobophyllite coatings on quartz.
Location: Seal Lake area, Labrador,
Newfoundland, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Nissonite Image

Images: Nissonite

Comments: Pale blue nissonite crusts on
rock.
Location: Panoche Valley, San Benito
Mineral Species

Niter Image

Images: Niter

Comments: Tan to white crystalline
granular niter.
Location: Buffalo River Valley, Searcy
Mineral Species

Nitratine Image

Images: Nitratine Iquiqueite

Comments: Yellow iquiqueiite in clear,
massive nitration.
Location: Salar de Miraje, Antofagasta,

Nitratine Image

Images: Nitratine

Comments: Euhedral crystalline aggregate
of nitratine.
Location: Taltal, Antofagasta, Chile. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Nitromagnesite Image

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Images: Nitromagnesite

Comments: Tan crystalline nitromagnesite
grain, deliquescent.
Location: Baume, Jura, France. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Nobleite Image

Images: Nobleite

Comments: Platy nobleite microcrystals on
colemanite.
Location: Corkscrew Mine, Corkscrew
Canyon, Death Valley, Inyo County,
Mineral Species

Noelbensonite Image

Images: Noelbensonite

Comments: Brownish, massive
no?lbensonite.
Location: Woods Mine (Wood's Rhodonite
Mine), Tamworth, New South Wales,
Australia. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.

Nolanite Image

Images: Nolanite

Comments: Dark gray to black massive
nolanite.
Location: Fishhook Bay, Saskatchewan,
Mineral Species

Nontronite Image

Images: Nontronite

Comments: Green massive nontronite in
quartz.
Location: Horni Slavkov, Zapadocesky,
Mineral Species

Norbergite Image

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Images: Norbergite

Comments: Numerous orange to
orange-brown dipyramidal crystals of
norbergite in white matrix.
Location: Piukkala, Near Pargas, Finland.
Scale: 2.1 X 2.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Norbergite Image

Images: Norbergite

Comments: Yellow orange norbergite
inclustions in white marble (calcite)..
Location: Oakssaung Hill, Mogok,
Mandalay Myanmar. Scale: Crystal size 5
mm.
© Fabre Minerals

Nordenskioldine Image

Images: Nordenskioldine Magnetite

Comments: Colorless to white bladed
crystals of nordenski?ldine with black
magnetite.

Nordstrandite Image

Images: Nordstrandite

Comments: Large pale brownish crystals of
nordstrandite.
Location: B?renstein Quarry, Niederschlag,
Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Normandite Image

Images: Normandite

Comments: Divergent acicular normandite
crystals in pegmatite.
Location: Mount Partomchorr, Khibiny
Mineral Species

Norrishite Image

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Images: Norrishite

Comments: Thin section photomicrograph
showing norrishite (Nrs) associated with
kornite (Krn), sugilite (Sgl), and Mn-rich
pectolite (Pct) (AmMin 88:190).
Location: Silicate-rich sample from the
Wessels mine, Kalahari manganese field,
South Africa. Scale: Picture Size 2.4 mm.

Northupite Image

Images: Northupite

Comments: Single octahedron of
Northupite.
County, California, USA. Scale: Grain size 8
mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Nosean Image

Images: Nosean

Comments: Stubby crystal of nosean on
matrix.
Location: Mendig, Laacher See,
Rhineland-Pal., Germany. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Novacekite Image

Images: Novacekite Metanovacekite

Comments: Yellow, translucent platy
novacekite/metanovacekite crystal
aggregate.
Location: Rabejac Mine, Olmet, Herault,
Mineral Species

Novacekite Image

Images: Novacekite

Comments: Scanner image of massive,
yellow novacekite cov ering matrix.
Location: Serra das ?guas,Bahia, Northeast
Region, Brazil. Scale: Specimen size 4.1 cm.

Novakite Image

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Images: Novakite Berzelianite

novakite in white calcite with tarnished
black berzelianite.
Location: Cerny Dul, Bohemia,
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Novgorodovaite Image

Images: Novgorodovaite

Comments: A small fragment of the
oxalate mineral novgorodovaite.
Location: Chelkar salt dome, Aksai Valley,
Aqt?be Oblysy (Aktubinsk [Aktyubinsk;
Aktubinskaya] Oblast'), Kazakhstan. Scale:
Grain size 0.8 mm.

Nsutite Image

Images: Nsutite

Comments: Dark gray to black
sub-metallic to dull massive nsutite.
Location: Nsuta, Western Province, Ghana.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Nukundamite Image

Images: Nukundamite Covellite

Comments: Metallic brownish rim of
nukundamite with dark purplish-blue
cov ellite on fine-grained pyrite.
size 7 mm.

Nyerereite Image

Images: Nyerereite Gregoryite

Comments: Sodium (nyereteite) and
potassium (gregoryite) carbonates, not
stable in normal atmosphere, collected
molten from the v olcano and maintained
in inert argon atmosphere.
Location: Ol Doinyo Lengai Vulkan, Maasai
Steppe, East Africa Rift Valley, Tanzania.
See Link. Scale: Rock size 2 cm.

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Obradovicite Image

Images: Obradovicite

Comments: Brownish yellow obradov icite
coatings on quartz.
Mineral Species

Offretite Image

Images: Offretite

Comments: Clear crystal of offretite on
matrix.
Location: Mont Simiouse, near Montbrison,
Loire, France. Scale: Not Given.

Ogdensburgite Image

Images: Ogdensburgite

Comments: Reddish-brown, massive
ogdensburgite.
Location: Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining
District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA. Scale:
Picture size 6 mm.

Ohmilite Image

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Images: Ohmilite

Comments: Pale yellow translucent
acicular ohmilite crystal cluster in matrix.
Location: Hashidate, Ohmi cho, Niigata,
Mineral Species

Ojuelaite Image

Images: Ojuelaite

Comments: Yellow-green ojuelaite masses
on limonite and quartz.
Location: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango,
Mineral Species

Okanoganite-(Y) Image

Images: Okanoganite-(Y)

Comments: Cream-colored twinned
crystal of okanoganite-(Y) on matrix.
Location: Washington Pass, Okanogan
County, Washington, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.

Okenite Image

Images: Okenite

Comments: Cotton-ball cluster of white
okenite crystals.
Location: Khandivali quarry, Maharashtra,

Oldhamite Image

Images: Oldhamite

Comments: Brown crystalline oldhamite
grains in anhydrite.
Location: Ronneburg, Thuringen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Olenite Image

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Images: Olenite

Comments: Colorless, boron-rich crystal of
Olenite in quartz.
Location: Koralpe, Styria, Austria. Scale:
Crystal size 3 cm.
© Andreas Ertl / Institut f?r Mineralogie und
Kristallographie

Oligoclase Image

Images: Oligoclase Plagioclase

Comments: Rectangular cleavage
fragment of salmon-orange oligoclase
(sunstone) feldspar.
Location: Norway. Scale: 47x30x7 mm.

Oligoclase Image

Images: Oligoclase Plagioclase

Comments: Clear glassy crystalline
oligoclase with milky quartz and
muscov ite.
Location: Bakersville, Mitchell County,
Mineral Species

Olivenite Image

Images: Olivenite

Comments: Dark green crystals of olivenite
on matrix.
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Olivenite Image

Images: Olivenite Arsenogoyazite

Comments: White micro-botryoids of
arsenogoyazite with light green acicular
crystal sprays of olivenite and dark green
malachite on brown limonite.
Mineral Species

Olivine Image

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Images: Olivine Forsterite

Comments: Peridot (Forsterite)
recrystallized at the base.
Location: Skardu, Nooristan, Pakistan.
© Fabre Minerals

Olmsteadite Image

Images: Olmsteadite

Comments: Dark brown crystals of
olmsteadite with jahnsite on siderite.
Location: Big Chief mine, Keystone,
Penningtion County, South Dakota, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Olsacherite Image

Images: Olsacherite

Comments: Light yellow crystals of
olsacherite up to 2 mm in matrix.
Location: Colquechaca, Potos?, Bolivia.
© John Veevaert

Olshanskyite Image

Images: Olshanskyite Henmilite

Comments: Milky white olshanskyite hosting
crystals of deep blue henmilite to 6 mm
across.
© John Veevaert

Ominelite Image

Images: Ominelite

Comments: Photomicrograph of
thin-section (plain light) of zoned ominelite
(omn) with quartz (qtz) and plagioclase
(pl) in alkali feldspar. (AmMin 87:163).
Location: Misen River in Tenkawa, Yoshino,
Nara Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Grain size
0.6 mm.

Omphacite Image

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Images: Omphacite

Comments: Dark green crystalline
omphacite with glaucophane.
Location: Healdsburg, Sonoma County,
Mineral Species

Onoratoite Image

Images: Onoratoite

Comments: White crystals of onoratoite
with a yellow crystal of sulphur.
(Cetine Mine; Tafone Mine), Rosia, Siena,

Opal Image

Images: Opal

Comments: Colorful white opal on a
sandstone matrix.
Location: Queensland, Australia. Scale: 9 x
6 x 3 cm.

Opal Image

Images: Opal

Comments: Section of fossilized tree limb
that is now completely replaced by black
opal.
Location: Virgin Valley District, Humboldt
Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: 20x13x11 mm.

Opal Image

Images: Opal Todorokite

Comments: Dendritic todorokite in white
opal.
Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Torino,
Mineral Species

Orcelite Image

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Images: Orcelite

Comments: Bronze micro spherical orcelite
coated with greenish zaratite.
Location: Tiebaghi Massif, New Caledonia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ordonezite Image

Images: Ordonezite

Comments: Greenish, glassy crystals of
ordonezite.
Location: Santin mine, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Oregonite Image

Images: Oregonite

Comments: Steel gray, altering to brown,
rounded oregonite pebble with
serpentinite rock.
Location: Josephine Creek, Josephine
County, Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Orickite Image

Images: Orickite

polished section showing intergrown
crystals of orickite in sodalite (dark). (AmMin
68:246).
Location: Mafic alkalic diatreme at Coyote
Peak near Orick, Humboldt County,
California, USA. Scale: Image size 0.44 mm.

Orientite Image

Images: Orientite

Comments: Reddish brown massive
orientite with pyrolusite.
Location: Oriente Prov ince, Cuba. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Orlandiite Image

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Images: Orlandiite

orlandiite.
Location: Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu,
Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.

Orlymanite Image

Images: Orlymanite

Comments: Brown crystalline orlymanite
with radiating structure, on inesite.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kuruman,
Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Orpheite Image

Images: Orpheite

Comments: Opaque botryoidal orpheite
crust.
Location: Near Valmy, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species

Orpiment Image

Images: Orpiment

Comments: Deep orange-colored
orpiment crystal aggregate.
Location: Twin Creeks mine, 62 bench,
north of Winnemucca, Humboldt County,
Nevada. USA. Scale: 6.5 x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Orthochamosite Image

Images: Orthochamosite

Comments: Pale green micaceous
orthochamosite in quartz.
Location: Near Manggruvan, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Orthochrysotile Image

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Images: Orthochrysotile

Comments: Pale tan asbestos fiber
(orthochrysotile) vein in rock.
Location: El Dorado Mine, Salt River
Canyon, Gila County, Arizona, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Orthoclase Image

Images: Orthoclase Lorenzenite

Comments: Striated, dark violet crystal of
lorenzenite in cream-colored orthoclase.
© John Veevaert

Orthoclase Image

Images: Orthoclase

Comments: Carlsbad twinned crystal of
orthoclase. Former Mart?n Oliete Fontela
collection.
Location: Zarzalejo, Madrid. Scale:
5.2x4.6x2.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Orthoclase Image

Images: Orthoclase

Comments: Gemmy, twinned adularia
(orthoclase) specimen on matrix. Former Bally
Museum collection.
Location: Rhonegletscher, Switzerland. Scale:
Crystal size 3 x 2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Orthoericssonite Image

Images: Orthoericssonite Ericssonite
Tephroite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Orthominasragrite Image

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Images: Orthominasragrite

Comments: Dark blue, spherical
aggregate of orthominasragrite.
Location: Temple Mountain, Emery Co.,

Orthoserpierite Image

Images: Orthoserpierite

Comments: Vivid blue green sheets and
coatings of orthoserpierite on matrix.
Location: Galiuro Mt. Copper Creek, Pinal
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: 3.0 X 4.4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Osarizawaite Image

Images: Osarizawaite

Comments: Light blue micro crystals of
osarizawaite and minor azurite filling vugs.
Location: Silver Hill Mine, near Marana,
Pinal Co. Arizona, USA. Scale: 3 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Osmium Image

Images: Osmium Cooperite Vasilite
Vysotskite

38:1258).
Image.

Osumilite-(Fe) Image

Images: Osumilite-(Fe)

Comments: Dark blue crystals of
osumilite-(Fe) in matrix.
Location: Cava Fontana, Monte Arci,
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Scale: Not Given.

Oswaldpeetersite Image

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Images: Oswaldpeetersite

Comments: Yellow oswaldpeetersite in
matrix.
Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon,White
Canyon District (White Canyon), San Juan
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.

Oswaldpeetersite Image

Images: Oswaldpeetersite

Comments: Greenish-yellow, acicular,
radial-spherical blebs of oswaldpeetersite
on matrix.
Location: Jomac Mine, San Juan County,

Ottrelite Image

Images: Ottrelite

Comments: Dark green crystalline ottrelite
in quartz.
Location: Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Belgium.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Otwayite Image

Images: Otwayite

Comments: Pale green botryoidal
otwayite on serpentinite rock.
Location: Otway Prospect, Nullagin Plain,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Oulankaite Image

Images: Oulankaite Telargpalite
Tulameenite Chalcopyrite


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Owyheeite Image

Images: Owyheeite

Comments: Acicular owyheeite
microcrystals in quartz.
Location: Lower Magnolia Mine, Morey
District, Nye County, Nevada, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Oxammite Image

Images: Oxammite

Comments: Pale yellow translucent
crystalline granular oxammite.
Location: Petrogale Cave, Western
Mineral Species

Oxiberaunite Image

Images: Oxiberaunite

Comments: Red-brown ball of radiating
acicular oxiberaunite (eleonorite)
microcrystals, on pegmatitic matrix.
Location: LCA Mine, Bessemer City, Gaston
County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: Box size
3.18 cm x 3.18 cm.

Oyelite Image

Images: Oyelite Bultfonteinite

Comments: White encrustation of oyelite
covering brownish botryoidal bultfonteinite.
South Africa. Scale: 2 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Oyelite Image

Images: Oyelite

Comments: Tufts of white acicular
millimetric oyelite crystals on matrix.
© Minernet


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Paakkonenite Image

Images: Paakkonenite Kermesite

Comments: Much of the matrix is the gray
metallic paakkonenite with red crystals of
kermesite and minute yellow crystals of
v alentinite.
Location: Cai' ao mine, Danfong Co.,
Shaanxi Prov., China. Scale: 3x2x2cm.

Pabstite Image

Images: Pabstite

Comments: Pabstite grains in matrix. It is essentially
the tin analog of benitoite with tin replacing
titanium in the formula 3:1. Pabstite fluoresces
under SW UV light as seen in the photo.
Location: Kalkar Quarry, Santa Cruz County,
© John Veevaert

Pachnolite Image

Images: Pachnolite

Comments: Color-zoned (darker core)
prismatic translucent pachnolite crystals,
with secondary white prismatic
microcrystals.
Photo.
Mineral Species

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Paganoite Image

Images: Paganoite

photomicrograph of blocky subhedral to
euhedral crystals of paganoite and more
fine-grained mottled material that is
aerugite. (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:169).
Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony,
Germany, mined in the mid-1800?s, nothing
was preserved of its previous history until it
was located in 1981 by the American
mineral dealer David New in the back of a
drawer in an old mineral shop in Germany..
Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Pahasapaite Image

Images: Pahasapaite

Comments: Lilac colored pahasapaite in
matrix.
Location: Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer
District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA.

Painite Image

Images: Painite

Comments: Painite #12, is an orange-brown,
0.156 gram, transparent, uniaxial, gemmy
crystal with one perfect termination.
Location: Ongaing village, Mogok region,
Myanmar. Scale: Not Given.
© S Naung II

Painite Image

Images: Painite

Comments: Four brown, prismatic painite
crystals wth red rubys and violet sapphires
(corundum) in a matrix composed of
painite, pink and white corundum.
Location: Ongaing, near Mogok Stone
Tract, Burma. Scale: 3.0 x 2.0 x 3.6 inches.
© Lyn Tynan / T G Fine Minerals

Palenzonaite Image

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Images: Palenzonaite

Comments: Dark reddish-brown
palenzonaite.
Liguria, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.

Palermoite Image

Images: Palermoite

Comments: Less than 1cm, vug with micro
crystals of palermoite.
Location: Palermo mine, New Hampshire,
© John Veevaert

Palladium Image

Images: Palladium

Comments: Platinum-rich palladium
nugget, mounted in epoxy, with one side
polished.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Palladodymite Image

Images: Palladodymite Hongshiite
Ruthenium


Palladseite Image

Images: Palladseite

Comments: Irregular metallic palladseite
grain.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Palygorskite Image

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Images: Palygorskite

Comments: Compact massive
palygorskite.
Location: Senton, Dev on, England. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Panunzite Image

Images: Panunzite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous
panunzite coatings.
Location: Pilcante, Trentino, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Papagoite Image

Images: Papagoite

Comments: Electric blue crystals of
papagoite in matrix.
County, Arizona. USA. Scale: Not Given.

Parabutlerite Image

Images: Parabutlerite

Comments: Yellow to brownish yellow
parabutlerite crystals.
Location: Shagand Yazd, Iran. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Paracelsian Image

Images: Paracelsian

Comments: Translucent paracelsian
crystals on matrix.
Location: Benalt Mine, Rhiw,
Carnarvonshire, Gwynedd, Wales. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Parachrysotile Image

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Images: Parachrysotile

Comments: Asbestos fibers of greenish
parachrysotile.
Location: Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale:
8x10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Paradamite Image

Images: Paradamite

Comments: Yellow paradamite crystals on
a gossanous matrix.

Paradocrasite Image

Images: Paradocrasite

Comments: Metallic white columnar
aggregates of paradocrasite.
Moctezuma, Sonora. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Parafransoletite Image

Images: Parafransoletite Roscherite

Comments: White, crystalline aggregate
sprays of parafransoletite on dark reddish
brown roscherite with massive, white,
sucrosic whitlockite.
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Paragonite Image

Images: Paragonite Chloritoid

Comments: Grayish crystalline inclusion of
chloritoid in white, massive paragonite.
Location: Drandorf Fundgrube Mine,
Bockau, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge,

Paragonite Image

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Images: Paragonite

Comments: Silvery micaceous paragonite
comprising schist rock, with garnet crystals.
Location: Gassettts, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Paraguanajuatite Image

Images: Paraguanajuatite Platynite

Comments: Bright metallic gray platy
crystalline platynite, with dull black
paraguanajuatite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Parahopeite Image

Images: Parahopeite

Comments: Transparent, prismatic
parahopeite crystals with keckite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Parakeldyshite Image

Images: Parakeldyshite

parakeldyshite in rock.
Location: Lagendalen, Larv ik, Vestfold,
Mineral Species

Paralaurionite Image

Images: Paralaurionite

Comments: Transparent, prismatic
Paralaurionite crystal.
Giv en.

Paralstonite Image

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Images: Paralstonite

Comments: Translucent bright white steep
pyramidal paralstonite microcrystals on
fluorite.
Location: Bethel Level, Minerva #1 Mine,
Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Paramelaconite Image

Images: Paramelaconite

Comments: black paramelaconite masses
with blue chrysocolla.
Location: Algoma Mine, Otonagon County,
Mineral Species

Paramendozavilite Image

Images: Paramendozavilite

Comments: Bright yellow
paramendozavilite coatings on matrix.
Location: Cumobabi, Sonora, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Paranatrolite Image

Images: Paranatrolite

Comments: Translucent prismatic
paranatrolite crystal aggregate.
Mineral Species

Paraotwayite Image

Images: Paraotwayite

Comments: Pale green, fibrous, silky, free
standing paraotwayite crystals to about
0.25mm.
Location: Vaca Murta meteorite, Taltal,
Atacama, Chile. Scale: Crystal size .25 mm.

Parapierrotite Image

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Images: Parapierrotite

Comments: Silv ery metallic prismatic
parapierrotite grains in translucent quartz
rock.
Location: Lookout Pass, Tooele County,
Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pararammelsbergite Image

Images: Pararammelsbergite

Comments: Columnar crystals of metallic gray
pararammelsbergite on massive arsenide ore.
Location: Lawson Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada.
© Reiner Mielke

Pararealgar Image

Images: Pararealgar

Comments: Orange pararealgar on matrix.
Location: H?nichen, Dresden, Saxony,

Parascholzite Image

Images: Parascholzite Ehrleite

Comments: White to clear, slender, 1-2mm,
prismatic crystals of ehrleite associated
with massive parascholzite. Type specimen
courtesy of Museum of Geology, SD School
of Mines.
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2
mm.

Parascholzite Image

Images: Parascholzite

Comments: Bluish, transparent, prismatic
parascholzite crystals on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Parascorodite Image

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Images: Parascorodite

Comments: Powdery parascorodite mass.
Location: Kank, near Kutna Hora,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Paraspurrite Image

Images: Paraspurrite Larnite

Comments: Violet-tinted gray crystalline
pure paraspurrite mass with larnite veinlets.
Location: Near Darwin, Inyo County,
Mineral Species

Parasymplesite Image

Images: Parasymplesite

Comments: Opaque, prismatic
parasymplesite crystals.

Paratacamite Image

Images: Paratacamite Christelite

Comments: Robins-egg blue christelite with dark
green paratacamite on matrix.
Location: San Francisco mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile.
Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Paratacamite Image

Images: Paratacamite

Comments: Deep green crystal
paratacamite rosettes on rusty quartz.
Location: Churchill Butte, Lyon County,
Mineral Species

Paratellurite Image

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Images: Paratellurite

Comments: Light yellow crystals of
paratellurite in quartz.

Paravauxite Image

Images: Paravauxite

Comments: Radiating group of pastel
blue/green paravauxite crystals to 1cm.
Location: Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Bolivia.
Scale: 1.8 x 1.5 x 1 cm.

Paravauxite Image

Images: Paravauxite

Comments: Light-green, elongated
parav auxite crystals.
Location: Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bolivia.
© Minernet

Pargasite Image

Images: Pargasite

Comments: Lime green, prismatic crystals
of pargasite in matrix.
Location: Luc Yen, Vietnam. Scale: 12x10
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Pargasite Image

Images: Pargasite Edenite

Comments: Blocky, dark green crystals of
visually indistinguishable pargasite and
edenite.
Location: Kolonne bei, Embilipitiya, Sri
Lanka. Scale: 4.5 x 1.7 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Parisite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Parisite-(Ce)

Comments: Brown crystals of parisite-(Ce)
in matrix.
Location: Narssarssuk, Igaliko, Greenland.

Parisite-(Ce) Image

Images: Parisite-(Ce)

Comments: Columnar, hexagonal crystal
of orangy brown parisite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Somewhere near Boyaca,
Colombia. Scale: Scale not given.
© Diego Rodriguez Acosta

Parnauite Image

Images: Parnauite

Comments: Green tabular crystals of
parnauite.
Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District,
Picture size 1 mm.

Parsettensite Image

Images: Parsettensite

Comments: Yellowish brown microcrystals
of parsettensite on a crystalline matrix with
pyrite and apatite.
Location: Foote mine, Clev eland County,
North Carolina, USA. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.
© John Veevaert

Parsonsite Image

Images: Parsonsite

Comments: Bright yellow parsonsite
crystals on matrix.
Location: La Chaux, France. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Partheite Image

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Images: Partheite

Comments: 3 mm thick white band of
partheite in matrix.
Location: Denezhkin, Kamen, Nord Urals,
© John Veevaert

Partzite Image

Images: Partzite

Comments: Light to dark green partzite
encrustations with sky-blue chrysocolla
and limonite gossan matrix.
Location: Comanche mine, Blind Spring Hill,
Benton, Mono Co., California, USA. Scale:
5.5 x 3.5 x 4cm.

Pascoite Image

Images: Pascoite

Comments: Deep reddish-orange coatings of
pascoite. Individual crystals up to about 0.25
mm.
Location: Slick Rock, Enar Area, San Miguel
County, Utah, USA. Scale: 3 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pascoite Image

Images: Pascoite

Comments: Bright orange sugary crusts of
pascoite across sandstone matrix.
Location: Black Stone Incline, Thompson
dist., Grand Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture
size 2 cm.

Patronite Image

Images: Patronite Minasragrite

Comments: Blue coatings of minasragrite
on patronite.
Mineral Species

Patronite Image

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Images: Patronite

Comments: Dark brownish black fine
grained massive patronite.
Mineral Species

Patronite Image

Images: Patronite Stanleyite

Comments: Blue crystalline stanleyite on
dark patronite.
Location: Minas Ragra, Junin, Peru. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Paulingite-K Image

Images: Paulingite-K

Comments: Glassy clear micro crystals of
paulingite line a vug in the basalt matrix.
Location: Ritter, Grant County, Oregon, USA.
Scale: 2.5 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Paulkerrite Image

Images: Paulkerrite

Comments: Transparent yellow tabular
paulkerrite microcrystal.
Location: Folgosinho, Guarda, Portugal.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pavonite Image

Images: Pavonite

Comments: Silvery metallic pavonite
masses with brassy pyrite.
Location: Alaska Mine, San Juan County,
Mineral Species

Pearceite Image

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Images: Pearceite

Comments: Crystals of metallic pearceite to
0.75 mm scattered in vug.
Location: Sarbaiskoe, Kazakhstan. Scale: 4x3x3
cm.

Pectolite Image

Images: Pectolite Aegirine

Comments: White, cottony pectolite tufts
with acicular aegirine.

Pectolite Image

Images: Pectolite Sugilite

Comments: Sharp terminated purple
crystals of sugilite to 5mm on white,
acicular pectolite.
Africa. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Peisleyite Image

Images: Peisleyite

Comments: Off-white opaque
porcelaneous peisleyite mass.
Location: Tom's Phosphate Quarry, near
Kapunda, South Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pekovite Image

Images: Pekovite

Comments: Backscatter elecron image of
(a) an intergrowth of pekov ite (Pkv) and
pectolite (Pct) and (b), an enlarged area
of (a) showing details. (CanMin, v 42, p
110).
Location: Moraine of the Dara-i-Pioz
glacier, Alai range, Tien Shan, northern
Tajikistan. Scale: See Image.

Pellyite Image

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Images: Pellyite Gillespite

Comments: Red crystalline gillespite with
yellow pellyite rock matrix.
Location: GUN claims, Itsi Mountains,
MacMillan Pass Area, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species

Pellyite Image

Images: Pellyite

Comments: Brown massive pellyite in
barite.
Mineral Species

Penfieldite Image

Images: Penfieldite

Comments: Greenish, acicular penfieldite
crystals.
Giv en.

Penfieldite Image

Images: Penfieldite

Comments: White to clear or light blue,
doubly terminated, striated penfieldite
crystals from 0.5 to 2mm associated with
boleite as micro coatings.
Location: Margarita mine, Sierra Gorda,

Penikisite Image

Images: Penikisite Jagowerite

Comments: Light green crystal of
jagowerite intergrown with darker green
penikisite in a tetrahedrite (black) and
Location: From quartz veins cutting clays
26 km N of Hess River, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Scale: Sample size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Penkvilksite Image

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Images: Penkvilksite

Comments: Massiv e white cluster of
Penkvilksite.
Location: Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Scale: .5 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pennantite Image

Images: Pennantite

Comments: Dark brown micaceous
pennantite.
Location: Gambatesa Mine, Val Grav eglia,
Genova, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Penroseite Image

Images: Penroseite

Comments: Silvery metallic penroseite
masses in matrix.
Location: Unnamed prospect in Pacajake
Canyon, near Culquechaca, Potosi, Bolivia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pentagonite Image

Images: Pentagonite

Comments: Blue, crystalline aggregate of
pentagonite on zeolite.
Location: Wagholi quarries, Poona, India.
Scale: Grain size 1.2 cm.

Pentahydrite Image

Images: Pentahydrite

Comments: White, powdery pentahydrite.
Picture size 4 mm.

Pentahydroborite Image

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Images: Pentahydroborite

Comments: Transparent, tabular crystal of
pentahydroborite on massive material.
© John Veevaert

Pentlandite Image

Images: Pentlandite

Comments: Ore sample of a mixture of
several sulfide minerals: pentlandite,
chalcopyrite, and pyrrhotite.
Location: Frood-Stobie Mine, Sudbury
District, Ontario, Canada. Scale: 20x15x7
mm.

Peretaite Image

Images: Peretaite

Comments: Clear, tabular, bladed,
stellate spray of transparent peretaite
crystals.
Location: Pereta mine, Scansano, Tuscany,
Italy. Scale: Not Given.

Perhamite Image

Images: Perhamite

Comments: Squat, columnar perhamite
crystals on matrix.
Location: Emmons quarry, Greenwood,
Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Periclase Image

Images: Periclase

Comments: Green nickel-rich periclase on
matrix.
size 1.5 mm.

Periclase Image

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Images: Periclase Srebrodolskite

Comments: Black grains of srebrodolskite
with white periclase.
size 2 mm.

Perite Image

Images: Perite

Comments: Pale yellow scaly crystalline
perite on quartz.
Location: Benson, Cochise County, Arizona,
Mineral Species

Perlialite Image

Images: Perlialite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous perlialite
coating on syenite rock.
Mineral Species

Perloffite Image

Images: Perloffite

Comments: Black, prismatic perloffite
crystals on matrix.
Pennington County, South Dakota, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Perovskite Image

Images: Perovskite Clinochlore

Comments: Square, opaque perovskite on
green clinochlore. Very brilliant and with
large crystals (2 x 1.5 cm.).
Location: Ilmen Mountains. Chelyabinsk,
Urals, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Perovskite Image

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Images: Perovskite Sodalite

Comments: Clear crystals of sodalite with
hoppered perovskite on matrix.

Perraultite Image

Images: Perraultite

Comments: Dark red prismatic crystal of
perraultite to 1mm in matrix.
Location: Mariupol massif, Azov Sea
Region, Ukraine. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.

Perrierite-(Ce) Image

Images: Perrierite-(Ce) Pyrochlore Zircon
Loparite-(Ce)

loparite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Perrierite-(Ce) Image

Images: Perrierite-(Ce)

Comments: Black, granular perrierite in
white calcite.
Location: Buer, Bj?rkedalen, Porsgrunn,
Telemark, Norway. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.

Perroudite Image

Images: Perroudite

Comments: Cluster of needle-like crystals
of red perroudite in quartz matrix.
Location: Gap Garonne Mine, Le Pradet,
Var, France. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert

Pertsevite Image

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Images: Pertsevite

Comments: Backscattered electron (BSE)
picture of pertsevite (P, darker grey)
partially replacing clinohumite (C, lighter
grey). The still lighter grey mineral with
cleavage at the top contacting only
pertsevite is calcite. (Eur. J. Mineral,
15:1008).
Location: Contact-metasomatic kotoite
marble from the region east of
Verkhoyansk, Sakha-Yakutia, northeastern
Siberia.. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Petalite Image

Images: Petalite

Comments: Translucent, gemmy , equant
petalite crystal with an etched surface texture
resulting in irregular faces.
Location: Paprok, Konar (Kunar; Konarh;
Konarha; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan.
Scale: 5x3.5x3 cm.

Petarasite Image

Images: Petarasite

Comments: Mottled tan prismatic
petarasite crystal in syenite rock.
Location: De Mix Quarry, Mont Saint Hilaire,
Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Petersite-(Y) Image

Images: Petersite-(Y)

Comments: Fine, light green, acicular
crystals of petersite-(Y) to less than 0.2mm
occupying an area of about 1mm on dark
green malachite.
Location: Laurel Hill, Hudson Co., New
Jersey, USA. Scale: Picture size .5 cm.

Petewilliamsite Image

Images: Petewilliamsite

Comments: SEM image of a portion of a
petewilliamsite aggregate. Note the
rounded nature of the crystal faces. (Min.
Mag. 68:235).
Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony,

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Petterdite Image

Images: Petterdite

Comments: Pinkish-violet crystalline
aggregate of petterdite on matrix.

Petterdite Image

Images: Petterdite

Comments: Petterdite (Pe) forming a thin
pink layer in grey-yellow anglesite (At) and
cerussite, replacing galena (Gn),
overgrown by red-yellow crocoite (Cr)
and brown goethite (Gt). (CanMin,
38:1469).
Location: Red Lead mine, on the
Zeehan?Dundas mining field in
northwestern Tasmania, Australia.. Scale:
Field of view: 15 9 mm.

Petzite Image

Images: Petzite Gold

Comments: Dark, stubby petzite crystals
with native gold on quartz.

Pezzottaite Image

Images: Pezzottaite

Comments: Hot-pink, hexagonal, floater
crystal of pezzottaite.
Location: Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro,
Antsirabe, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size
1.6x1.2x0.6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Pharmacolite Image

Images: Pharmacolite

Comments: Pink, fuzzy ball of pharmacolite
crystals on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

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Pharmacolite Image

Images: Pharmacolite Haidingerite

spherical aggregate of haidingerite with
white pharmacolite.
Location: Jachymov, Zapadocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Pharmacosiderite Image

Images: Pharmacosiderite Arthurite

brilliant apple green arthurite and cubic
green crystals of pharmacosiderite.
County, Nevada. USA. Scale: 2.7 x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pharmacosiderite Image

Images: Pharmacosiderite

Comments: Translucent yellow-brown
cubic Pharmacosiderite crystals.
Location: Wheal Gorland, Saint Day,
Cornwall, England. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Phaunouxite Image

Images: Phaunouxite

Comments: Aggregate of transparent
colorless acicular phaunouxite
microcrystals.
Location: Grube Gabe Gottes, Sainte-
Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin,
Mineral Species

Phenakite Image

Images: Phenakite

Comments: Prismatic, terminated crystal of
phenakite on matrix.
Location: Mt Antero, Chaffee County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Philipsbornite Image

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Images: Philipsbornite

Comments: Greenish-yellow philipsbornite
botryoidal crust.
Location: Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Philipsburgite Image

Images: Philipsburgite

Comments: Green botryoidal micro
crystals of philipsburgite.
Location: Gold Hill mine, Tooele County,
© John Veevaert

Phillipsite Image

Images: Phillipsite Tacharanite

Comments: Spherical tacharanite
aggregates on phillipsite crystals.
Location: Espalion, Aveyron, France. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Phillipsite-K Image

Images: Phillipsite-K

Comments: Clear crystalline ball of
phillipsite-K crystals.
Location: Bova, Calabria, Italy. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Phillipsite-Na Image

Images: Phillipsite-Na

Comments: Phillipsite, variety wellsite,
crystals on matrix.
Location: Near Ronca, Verona, Veneto,
Mineral Species

Phlogopite Image

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Images: Phlogopite

Comments: Exceptionally well-crystallized
wine-colored pseudo-hexagonal crystal of
phlogopite on white calcite.
Location: Kalu Khan, Badakhshan,
Afghanistan. Scale: 6 x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Phlogopite Image

Images: Phlogopite Serendibite

Comments: Blue serendibite, with golden
colored phlogopite, in white marble.
Location: Near Johnsberg, Warren County,
Mineral Species

Phlogopite Image

Images: Phlogopite Lazurite

Comments: Gemmy brownish phlogopite
crystals on blue lazurite (lapis) matrix with
minor pyrite.
Location: Koksha Valley, Badakhshan
Province, Afghanistan. Scale: 10 x 11.5 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Phoenicochroite Image

Images: Phoenicochroite

Comments: Deep red phoenicochroite
with crocoite in matrix.

Phoenicochroite Image

Images: Phoenicochroite Hemihedrite

Comments: Yellow hemihedrite crystals to
1 mm within pockets of dark red
phoenicochroite crystalline aggregates on
matrix.
Location: Pack Rat claim, Maricopa Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

Phosgenite Image

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Images: Phosgenite

Comments: Clear pseudo-cubic crystals of
phosgenite on matrix.
Giv en.

Phosgenite Image

Images: Phosgenite

Comments: Terminated, very large crystal
of partly transparent, deep brown
phosgenite.
Location: Touissit, Morocco. Scale:
7.1x5.5x2.4 cm.

Phosphammite Image

Images: Phosphammite

Comments: Tan opaque granular
phosphammite.
Location: Guanape Islands, La Libertad,
Mineral Species

Phosphoferrite Image

Images: Phosphoferrite

Comments: Translucent, brown crystal of
phosphoferrite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Phosphofibrite Image

Images: Phosphofibrite Crandallite

Comments: Olive-green colored fibrous
phosphofibrite aggregates with white
crandallite.
Location: Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species

Phosphohedyphane Image

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Images: Phosphohedyphane IMA2005-026

Comments: Clear, prismatic
phosphohedyphane crystal on matrix.
Location: Argentena mine, Goodsprings,
Clark Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size
0.5mm.

Phosphophyllite Image

Images: Phosphophyllite

Comments: Transparent, blue crystal of
phosphophyllite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Phosphosiderite Image

Images: Phosphosiderite Barbosalite

Comments: Transparent, brown crystal of
phosphosiderite on black barbosalite.
Location: Bull Moose mine, Custer, Custer
Giv en.

Phosphosiderite Image

Images: Phosphosiderite Tinsleyite
Rockbridgeite

Comments: Violet botryoidal tinsleyite on
bluish-purple botryoidal phosphosiderite on
dark, massive rockbridgeite.
Location: Bendada, Guarda, Portugal.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Phosphovanadylite Image

Images: Phosphovanadylite

micrographs showing the cubic habit of
phosphovanadylite. (AmMin 83:890).
Location: Phosphoria Formation at
Monsanto?s Enoch Valley Mine, Soda
Springs, Idaho. Scale: Crystal size 40 µm.

Phosphowalpurgite Image

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Images: Phosphowalpurgite

photomicrograph of tabular crystals (up to
330 micro m) of phosphowalpurgite,
(CanMin, 42:966)..
Location: Old mine dumps of an
abandoned small ore deposit near
Smrkovec, located 10 km NNE of Mari?nsk?
L?zne, Slavkovsk? Les Mountains, western
Size 515 µ-m.

Phosphuranylite Image

Images: Phosphuranylite

Comments: Bright yellow orange crystals of
phosphuranylite on matrix.
Location: Wagontown, Chester County,
Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Phosphuranylite Image

Images: Phosphuranylite Uranocircite

Comments: Yellow, waxy phosphuranylite
with green uranocircite in matrix.
cm.

Phuralumite Image

Images: Phuralumite

Comments: Yellow crystals of phuralumite
scattered on white matrix.
Location: Kobokobo Pegmatite, Lusungu
Riv er District, Kiv u, Congo (Za?re). Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Phurcalite Image

Images: Phurcalite

Comments: Yellow phurcalite crystals on
white aragonite.
Location: Posey Mine, White Canyon
District, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale:
Picture site 0.5 cm.

Phurcalite Image

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Images: Phurcalite

Comments: Coatings of minute acicular
phurcalite crystals on sandstone.
Location: Posey Mine, Red Canyon, White
Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah,
Mineral Species

Phurcalite Image

Images: Phurcalite

Comments: Bright canary yellow acicular
phurcalite crystals to about 0.25mm.
Seems to have overgrown perhaps
torbernite and individual groups are to
1mm.
Location: El Azul mine, Los Azules district,
Copiapo Prov ince, Atacama, Chile. Scale:
Picture Size 5 mm.

Pianlinite Image

Images: Pianlinite Kaolinite

Comments: Off-white colored minute
pianlinite (kaolinite) fragment.
Location: Pianling, China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pickeringite Image

Images: Pickeringite Magnesioaubertite

Comments: Aqua crystalline
magnesioaubertite with white pickeringite.
Location: Grotto di Faraglione, Vulcano,
Sicily, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pickeringite Image

Images: Pickeringite

Comments: Radiating fibrous pickeringite.
Mineral Species

Picropharmacolite Image

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Images: Picropharmacolite

Comments: White, acicular crystalline
sprays of picropharmacolite on matrix.

Picropharmacolite Image

Images: Picropharmacolite

Comments: Snow white acicular, radial
spray of picropharmacolite with pink
sainfeldite.
Location: Wilhelm Mine, Richelsdorf District,
Hesse, Germany. Scale: Cluster size 6 mm.

Piemontite Image

Images: Piemontite

Comments: Red, acicular crystalline
aggregates of piemontite.
Location: N'Chwaning mine, Kuruman,
Nothern Cape, South Africa. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Pigeonite Image

Images: Pigeonite

Comments: Dark green prismatic pigeonite
crystals in matrix.
Location: Belmont Quarry, Louden County,
Virginia, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pillaite Image

Images: Pillaite

image of acicular pillaite fibers. (Eur. J.
Mineral, 13:606).
Location: Buca della Vena mine in the
Apuan Alps, northern Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Pilsenite Image

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Images: Pilsenite

Comments: Silvery metallic pilsenite
v einlets in quartz.
Location: Near Hope, British Columbia,
Mineral Species

Pinakiolite Image

Images: Pinakiolite

Comments: Black submetallic platy
pinakiolite crystals in white calcite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pinalite Image

Images: Pinalite

Comments: Yellow needles of pinalite from
0.2 to 0.5mm in rose quartz and blue
caledonite.
Location: Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona, USA.

Pinchite Image

Images: Pinchite Montroydite

Comments: Minute lustrous black pinchite
crystals on white montroydite.
Mineral Species

Pinnoite Image

Images: Pinnoite Inderite

Comments: Pale green translucent
crystalline pinnoite on chalky white inderite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pintadoite Image

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Images: Pintadoite

Comments: Dark green to lighter green
pintadoite coatings on sandstone.
Location: Deremo-Snyder Mine, San Miguel
Mineral Species

Pirssonite Image

Images: Pirssonite

Comments: Almost transparent platy
pirssonite crystal.
Mineral Species

Pitiglianoite Image

Images: Pitiglianoite

Comments: Colorless, prismatic crystals of
pitiglianoite.
Location: Monte Cavallucio, Sacrofano,
Campagnano, Lazio, Italy. Scale: Picture
size 2.5 mm.

Pitticite Image

Images: Pitticite

Comments: Dark brown to orange-brown
massive Pitticite.
Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District,
Picture size 6 mm.

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Albite

Comments: Colorless, lustrous blocky albite
crystals to 3 cm in size with a thick dusting
of micaceous green micro chlorite.
Location: Acushnet Quarry, Bristol Co.,
Massachussetts, USA. Scale: 17 x 15 x 7.5
cm matrix.
© Dan Weinrich

Plagioclase Image

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Images: Plagioclase Albite

Comments: Crystal group of bladed albite
(variety cleav elandite) crystals.
Scale: 7.4 x 5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Labradorite

Comments: Dual view of a cleavage
fragment of labradorite showing the multi-
colored labradorescence (schiller effect)
and the same area viewed without the
color. The color is due to optical
interference on the 010 polysynthetic
twinning planes (Albite Law).
Location: Ihosy, Betroka district, Toliara
Province, Madagascar. Scale: Picture size
3x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Oligoclase

Comments: Rectangular cleavage
fragment of salmon-orange oligoclase
(sunstone) feldspar.
Location: Norway. Scale: 47x30x7 mm.

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Anorthite

Comments: Opaque white crystal of anorthite
with dark brown solidified lava coating.
Location: Miyake-jima, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Andesine

Comments: Translucent andesine crystal
twin.
Location: Maeyama Ueda shi, Nagano,
Mineral Species

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Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Bytownite

bytownite.
Location: Crystal Bay, Hennepin County,
Mineral Species

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Oligoclase

Comments: Clear glassy crystalline
oligoclase with milky quartz and
muscov ite.
Location: Bakersville, Mitchell County,
Mineral Species

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase

Comments: Plagioclase, v ariety kenyite,
crystals in volcanic rock.
Location: Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), Central
Province, Kenya. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Plagionite Image

Images: Plagionite

Comments: Silvery metallic crystalline
plagionite with brassy chalcopyrite.
Location: Rocker Creek, Jefferson County,
Mineral Species

Plagionite Image

Images: Plagionite

Comments: Lead-gray crystals (to 2mm) of
plagionite with a bluish tarnish on vuggy
white calcite matrix.
Location: Wolfsberg, Harz, Germany. Scale:
3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5cm.

Plancheite Image

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Images: Plancheite

Comments: Open vug lined with indiv idual
plancheite crystals to 3mm.
Location: Mashamba West Mine, Shaba,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: 2.5
x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Planerite Image

Images: Planerite

Comments: Light green, oolitic coatings of
planerite on matrix.
Location: Mauldin Mountain Quarry, Mt.
Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA.
© John Veevaert

Platinum Image

Images: Platinum Cherepanovite
Cooperite

in reflected light.
size 0.12 mm.

Platinum Image

Images: Platinum

Comments: Crystallized platinum nugget.
Location: Russia. Scale: 0.5 x 0.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Platinum Image

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Images: Platinum

Comments: Stream-worn, platinum nugget
with chromite? Inclusions.
Location: Rio Tinto, San Juan Riv er Basin,
Papayan, Cauca, Columbia. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 cm.

Plattnerite Image

Images: Plattnerite

Comments: Rhombic calcite crystals with
overgrowth of sparkling black plattnerite
crystals.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapim?, Mun. de
Mapim?, Durango, Mexico. Scale: 5x3x2
cm..

Platynite Image

Images: Platynite Paraguanajuatite

Comments: Bright metallic gray platy
crystalline platynite, with dull black
paraguanajuatite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Plombierite Image

Images: Plombierite

Comments: Whitish chalky massive,
somewhat fibrous plombierite, in
vesuv ianite.
Mineral Species

Plumbobetafite Image

Images: Plumbobetafite Plumbopyrochlore

Comments: Brown resinous plumbobetafite
with yellowish plumbopyrochlore.
Location: Ploskaya Mountain, Keiv y Region,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Plumbogummite Image

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Images: Plumbogummite Mimetite

Comments: White, fuzzy aggregates of
plumbogummite covering lime green
mimetite (campylite) crystals.
England. Scale: Not Given.

Plumbojarosite Image

Images: Plumbojarosite Galena

Comments: Yellow, earthy plumbojarosite
on massive, gray galena.
Picture size 4 mm.

Plumbomicrolite Image

Images: Plumbomicrolite

Comments: Gray, octahedral crystal of
plumbomicrolite.
Location: Ploskaya Mt, Keivy Massif, Kola
Region, Russia. Scale: 20x17x13 mm.

Plumbomicrolite Image

Images: Plumbomicrolite

Comments: Large octahedral crystal of
brownish black plumbomicrolite on matrix.
Location: Berg Ploskaya, West Keivy Massif,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image.

Plumbopyrochlore Image

Images: Plumbopyrochlore Ferrocolumbite

Comments: Brown plumbopyrochlore
crystal with dark brown ferrocolumbite.
Location: Holdazan, Buregteg, Mongolia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Plumbopyrochlore Image

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Images: Plumbopyrochlore Plumbobetafite

Comments: Brown resinous plumbobetafite
with yellowish plumbopyrochlore.
Location: Ploskaya Mountain, Keiv y Region,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Plumbotsumite Image

Images: Plumbotsumite

Comments: Translucent plumbotsumite
microcrystals.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Poitevinite Image

Images: Poitevinite

Comments: Pale brown powdery
poitev inite mass with pale blue
chalcanthite.
Location: Bonaparte River, Kamloops
District, British Columbia, Canada. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pokrovskite Image

Images: Pokrovskite Hydromagnesite

Comments: Tan spherical pokrovskite on
serpentinite rock with white
hydromagnesite sprays.
Location: KCA Quarry, San Benito County,
Mineral Species

Poldervaartite Image

Images: Poldervaartite

Comments: Moderate reddish tint to
yellowish poldervaartite crystalline druze
on matrix.
Location: N'chwaning II mine, section 5
south, stope 46-47 roof, Kuruman, Kalahari
desert, South Africa. Scale: 6 x 3.5 x 4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Poldervaartite Image

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Images: Poldervaartite Bultfonteinite

Comments: Bow-tie clusters of white,
acicular bultfonteinite and blocky, beige-
colored poldervaartite on matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning mine, South Africa.
Scale: picture size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pollucite Image

Images: Pollucite

Comments: Isometric crystal of pollucite
with clear quartz and sucrosic albite
matrix.
Location: Shigar mine, Dossu, Skardu,
Pakistan. Scale: 14.6x10x11.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Polybasite Image

Images: Polybasite

Comments: Lustrous, metallic steel-gray
rosette of polybasite crystals.
Location: Guanajuato, Mexico. Scale: 18 x
16 x 8 mm.
© Dan Weinrich

Polycrase-(Y) Image

Images: Polycrase-(Y)

Comments: Large, black, blocky
polycrase-(Y) crystal.
Location: Hidra, Vest-Agder, Norway.
Scale: Crystal size 0.8 X 2.0 cm.
© John Veevaert

Polydymite Image

Images: Polydymite

Comments: Octahedral crystals of
polydymite on matrix.
Location: Gr?neau Mine (Gr?ne Au Mine;
Gr?nau Mine), Schutzbach, Betzdorf, Siegen
District (W), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Polyhalite Image

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Images: Polyhalite

Comments: White crystals of polyhalite in
matrix.
size 1.5 mm.

Polylithionite Image

Images: Polylithionite

Comments: Rosette of polylithionite
crystals.
© John Veevaert

Polylithionite Image

Images: Polylithionite Shibkovite

Comments: Clear crystalline shibkovite
aggregates with peach colored
translucent polylithionite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ponomarevite Image

Images: Ponomarevite

Comments: Orange ponomarevite. The
sample stored in a closed vial. The photo
was made through the vial.
Location: Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka
Picture size 3 mm.

Portlandite Image

Images: Portlandite

Comments: Cleav ed mass of white
portlandite.
© John Veevaert

Posnjakite Image

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Images: Posnjakite

Comments: Waxy blue aggregates of
posnjakite.
Location: Ecton mine, Audubon,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Potassic-carpholite Image

Images: Potassic-carpholite

Comments: Tan prismatic crystal sprays of
potassic-carpholite to about 2mm in
matrix.
Location: Sawtooth Batholith, near
Centerville, Boise Co., Idaho, USA. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Potassic-ferritaramite Image

Images: Potassic-ferritaramite Ferritaramite

Comments: Lightly to moderately etched, blocky, jet
black ferritaramite (potassic-ferritaramite is a not
approved mineral name).
Location: Niaslo, Basha Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan.
Scale: 5 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Potassicleakeite Image

Images: Potassicleakeite Watatsumiite

Comments: Yellow green prismatic crystal
of watatsumiite terminated by pyramidal
faces associated with reddish brown
potassicleakeite and clear quartz (JMPS, v
98, p 149).
Location: Tanohata mine, Iwate Prefecture,
Japan. Scale: See Image.
© JMPS

Potassicpargasite Image

Images: Potassicpargasite

Comments: Brownish-black
potassicpargasite crystal in calcite
(repaired).
Location: Simonby, Pargas, Turku ja Pori,
Finland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Potassicsadanagaite Image

Images: Potassicsadanagaite

Comments: Dark greenish black crystalline
potassicsadanagaite fragments.
Location: Ilmeny Mountains, Chelyabinsk
District, Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Potosiite Image

Images: Potosiite Franckeite

Comments: Visually indistinguishable metallic
potosiite/franckeite crystals to 6 mm..
Location: San Jose mine, Oruro City, Oruro
Department, Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size 6
mm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Pottsite Image

Images: Pottsite

Comments: Sub-mm, bright yellow to orange
pottsite crystals form coating on one side of
specimen.
Location: Linka Mine, Potts, Lander County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: 3.5 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Poubaite Image

Images: Poubaite

Comments: Gray granular crystalline
poubaite in white calcite.
Location: Oldrichov, near Tachov, western
Bohemia, Zapadocesky, Czech Republic.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Poughite Image

Images: Poughite

Comments: Yellow coatings of poughite
on matrix.
Location: Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora,
Mexico. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.

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Povondraite Image

Images: Povondraite

Comments: Deep greenish black
povondraite crystals.
Location: Malacacheta, Minas Gerais,
Mineral Species

Powellite Image

Images: Powellite

Comments: Sharp, thumbnail-sized crystal
group of yellowish brown lustrous powellite
crystals, the largest measuring 15 x 18 mm
in size.
Location: Pandulane quarry, Nasik district,
Maharashtra, India. Scale: 20 x 25 x 16 mm.
© Dan Weinrich

Poyarkovite Image

Images: Poyarkovite

Comments: Dark greenish black thin
poyarkovite film on white chert.
Location: Elena, Durango, Mexico. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Prehnite Image

Images: Prehnite

Comments: Very lustrous and brilliant
prehnite.
Location: Deep Sahara, Morocco: Djbel
Melh, Bou-Arfa. Scale: 9 x 6.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Preisingerite Image

Images: Preisingerite

Comments: Oliv e-greenish crystals of
preisingerite on quartz.
Picture size 5 mm.

Preiswerkite Image

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Images: Preiswerkite

Comments: Pale green fine grained
preiswerkite masses in dark amphibolite
rock.
Location: Geisspfad, Binnental, Valias,
Switzerland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Preobrazhenskite Image

Images: Preobrazhenskite

Comments: Crudely formed white to tan
translucent preobrazhenskite crystal on
yellow crystalline massiv e material.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pretulite Image

Images: Pretulite

Comments: SEM-BSE image of a euhedral
crystal of pretulite (left), and proposed
crystal forms (right).
Location: Apatite-rich oolitic Ordovician
ironstone at Saint-Aubin-des-Ch?teaux,
Armorican Massif, France. Scale: See
Picture.

Priceite Image

Images: Priceite Ginorite

Comments: Clear platy crystalline coatings
of ginorite on rock with white priceite.
Location: Corkscrew Canyon, Death
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Priceite Image

Images: Priceite

Comments: Botryoidal priceite aggregate.
Location: Lone Randi Quarry, Curry County,
Mineral Species

Priderite Image

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Images: Priderite

Comments: Clusters of sub-mm black,
opaque crystals of priderite.
Location: Eveslogchorr Mt., Khibiny, Kola,
© John Veevaert

Prismatine Image

Images: Prismatine

Comments: Prismatic crystals of prismatine
in matrix.
Location: Waldheim, Saxony, Germany.

Probertite Image

Images: Probertite

Comments: Large colorless prismatic crystal of
probertite.
Location: Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Erfurt
district, Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:
Crystal length 4.7 cm.

Prosopite Image

Images: Prosopite

Comments: Pale violet prosopite
microcrystals.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Protasite Image

Images: Protasite

Comments: Orange crystals of protasite on
matrix.
Location: Shinkolobwe mine (Kasolo mine),
Picture size 5 mm.

Protoanthophyllite Image

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Images: Protoanthophyllite

Comments: Drill core showing white
acicular crystalline aggregates of
protoanthophyllite in matrix with a close up
image on the right..
Location: Drill-core sample from the waste
dump of the abandoned Takase chromite
mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Scale:
Core size 3 cm.

Proustite Image

Images: Proustite

Comments: Crystal group of gemmy, red
proustite. Smithsonian collection.
Location: Dolores I Mine, Cha?arcillo,
Atac?ma Province, Chile. Scale: Specimen
Size 6x8 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Pseudoboleite Image

Images: Pseudoboleite

Comments: Blue crystal of pseudoboleite.
Location: Curuglu Mine, Santa Rosal?a (El
Bole?), Bole? District, Mun. de Muleg?, Baja
California Sur, Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 4.5
mm.

Pseudobrookite Image

Images: Pseudobrookite

Comments: Black, prismatic crystals of
pseudobrookite on matrix.
Location: Sierra County, New Mexico, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Pseudocotunnite Image

Images: Pseudocotunnite

Comments: Bright white botryoidal
pseudocotunnite coatings.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pseudolaueite Image

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Images: Pseudolaueite

Comments: Brownish yellow crystals of
pseudolaueite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Pseudomalachite Image

Images: Pseudomalachite Halloysite

Comments: Deep green pseudomalachite
crystals on cuprous halloysite.
Granite Co., Montana, USA. Scale: Crystal
size 1-2 mm.
© John Veevaert

Pseudorutile Image

Images: Pseudorutile

Comments: Dark brown grain of
hydroxyian pseudorutile (Kleberite), from a
heavy mineral concentrate.
Location: K?nigshain, Mittweida, Saxony,

Psilomelane Image

Images: Psilomelane

Comments: Banded massive psilomelane.
Location: Compton, Virginia, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pucherite Image

Images: Pucherite Schumacherite

Comments: Brown crystals of pucherite
with yellow schumacherite on matrix.
Picture size 5 mm.

Pumpellyite-(Fe++) Image

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Images: Pumpellyite-(Fe++)

Comments: Gas cavities in basalt matrix
lined with sprays of 1 mm green
pumpellyite-(Fe) crystals.
Location: Braen's Quarry, Haledon, Passaic
Co., New Jersey, USA. Scale: 25x15x15 mm.

Pumpellyite-(Mg) Image

Images: Pumpellyite-(Mg)

Comments: Greenish, flattened, prismatic
crystals of pumpellyite-(Mg) ? to 3mm.
Location: Deere Island, Novato, Marin Co.,

Purpurite Image

Images: Purpurite

Comments: Massive purpurite, which never
forms crystals but is only found in masses.
Location: Newry, Maine, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 4
cm.
© John Veevaert

Pushcharovskite Image

Images: Pushcharovskite

Comments: Light bluish, acicular crystals of
pushcharovskite.
Location: Salsigne Mine, Montagne Noire,
Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

Putzite Image

Images: Putzite Catamarcaite

Comments: Polished section of putzite (pu) grain
in close association with unnamed
Cu8Fe2ZnGe2S12 (un1) and catamarcaite (ca),
as inclusions in chalcocite-sphalerite (cc/sp)
(CanMin 42:1761).
Location: Old dumps near the Rosario vein,
Capillitas mining district, Department of
Andalgal?, Catamarca Province, Argentina..
Scale: See Image.

Pyrargyrite Image

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Images: Pyrargyrite

Comments: Pyrargyrite with quartz.
Location: Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Scale: 3 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Pyrite Image

Images: Pyrite

Comments: Lustrous 1 - 2 cm cubes of
pyrite encased in a very fine-grained
sedimentary marlstone (clay and calcite).
Location: Nav ajun-(La Rioja)-Spain. Scale:
6x5x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Pyroaurite Image

Images: Pyroaurite

Comments: Green, hexagonal plates of
pyroaurite in quartz.
Location: Varmland, Sweden. Scale:
Crystal size 1 mm.

Pyroaurite Image

Images: Pyroaurite

Comments: Golden yellow platy crystals
of pyroaurite to 1mm on matrix.
Location: Langban mine, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Pyrobelonite Image

Images: Pyrobelonite

picture, showing idiomorphic pyrobelonite
crystals (pb) growing on, and intergrown
with brackebuschite (bk). (Eur. J. Mineral,
13:147).
Location: Mullock dumps lining the outcrop
of the manganite vein south of Krettnich,
Saarland, Germany. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Pyrochlore Image

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Images: Pyrochlore

Comments: Deep brownish black crystals of
pyrochlore to 0.9 cm across.
Location: Lauzon Farm, Oka, Quebec, Canada.
© John Veev aert

Pyrochlore Image

Images: Pyrochlore Perrierite-(Ce) Zircon
Loparite-(Ce)

loparite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pyrochroite Image

Images: Pyrochroite

Comments: Pseudo-cubic crystal of
pyrochroite on matrix.

Pyrochroite Image

Images: Pyrochroite Shigaite

Comments: Bronzy yellow crystals of
shigaite set in a crystalline matrix of reddish
black pychroite.
© John Veevaert

Pyrolusite Image

Images: Pyrolusite

Comments: Steel-gray metallic prismatic
pyrolusite crystals.
Location: Hori Blatna, Czech Republic.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Pyromorphite Image

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Images: Pyromorphite

Comments: Apple green pyromorphite.
Location: San Andres Mine, Villaviciosa,
Cordoba, Spain. Scale: 6.5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Pyrope Image

Images: Pyrope

Comments: Transparent, dark-red pyrope
garnet.
Location: Governador Valadares, Rio Doce,
Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale:
6x6x6 mm.

Pyrophyllite Image

Images: Pyrophyllite Rutile

Comments: Rutile on fine-grained pyrophyllite.
Location: Graves Mt. Georgia, USA. Scale: 4.5
x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Pyrostilpnite Image

Images: Pyrostilpnite

Comments: Reddish brown, crystalline
aggregate of pyrostilpnite on matrix.
Location: St. Audreasberg, Hartz, Lower
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Not Given.

Pyrostilpnite Image

Images: Pyrostilpnite

Comments: Deep bright-red, acicular
crystals of pyrostilpnite to 1mm in v uggy
sulfide matrix.
Location: Cerro Rico, Potosi City, Potosi
Dept., Bolivia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Pyroxferroite Image

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Images: Pyroxferroite

Comments: Brown crystalline pyroxferroite
cleavage.
Location: Ohnari Mine, Mineyama-cho,
Naka-Gun, Kyoto, Japan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Pyroxmangite Image

Images: Pyroxmangite

Comments: Pinkish red nearly opaque
crystalline pyroxmangite.
Location: Shidara, Kitashidara-Gun, Aichi,
Mineral Species

Pyrrhotite Image

Images: Pyrrhotite

Comments: Lustrous sharp crystals of
pyrrhotite to 3.5 cm in size with minor
sphalerite and chalcopyrite.
Location: Nikolaev skiy mine, Dal'negors,
Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Scale: 4 x 5 x 5.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich


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Quadratite Image

Images: Quadratite

Comments: Tabular crystals of quadratite
with small silvery gray, rounded crystals of
galena.
size 0.8 mm.

Quadratite Image

Images: Quadratite

Comments: Aggregate of 3 black tabular
crystals of quadratite (reflecting light) on
jordanite/lengenbachite and white
dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 0.2
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Quadridavyne Image

Images: Quadridavyne

Comments: Colorless hexagonal crystals of
quadridav yne.
mm.

Quartz Image

Images: Quartz Calcite

Comments: Purple-colored druse of
amethystine quartz and white calcite.
Sample size 20 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Quartz Image

Images: Quartz Chalcopyrite

Comments: Well-formed crystals of
chalcopyrite and quartz.
Location: Boldut mine, 61 level (350 meters
deep), Cavnic, Maramures, Rumania.
© Fabre Minerals

Quartz Image

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Images: Quartz Ilvaite

Comments: Black, prismatic ilvaite with quartz.
Location: First Sovietskij mine, Dalnjegorsk, Russia.
© Fabre Minerals

Quartz Image

Images: Quartz

Comments: Crystal druse of transparent
quartz crystals.
Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. Scale:
Specimen size 6 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Quartz Image

Images: Quartz Fluorapatite

Comments: Purple crystal of fluorapatite on
slightly smoky quartz crystals. Former Dr. E.E.
Dav id and Houston Museum collections.
Location: Pech, Kunar Province, Nuristan,
Afghanistan. Scale: Crystal size 3.0 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm.
© Ed Rosenzweig

Quartz Image

Images: Quartz Epistilbite

Comments: White epistilbite cluster 25 mm
across on amethyst quartz crystal matrix.
Location: Sawda, Jalgaon, Maharashtra,

Quartz Image

Images: Quartz

Comments: Slightly smokey quartz overgrown
with rose quartz. Note the exceptional
transparency of the rose quartz.
Location: Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: 10 cm by 5.2 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Queitite Image

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Images: Queitite

Comments: White earthy queitite masses
on quartz.
Location: Tombstone, Cochise County,
Mineral Species

Quenselite Image

Images: Quenselite

Comments: Square crystal of quenselite on
matrix.
Location: Langban, Sweden. Scale: Crystal
size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert

Quenselite Image

Images: Quenselite

Comments: Jet black tabular crystals of
quenselite, some striated on matrix.
Scale: Crystal size 1.75mm.

Quenstedtite Image

Images: Quenstedtite

Comments: White crystalline quenstedtite
crust.
Location: Richelsdorf, Hessen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Quetzalcoatlite Image

Images: Quetzalcoatlite

Comments: Green encrustation of
quetzalcoatlite.
size 3.5 mm.

Quintinite-2H Image

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Images: Quintinite-2H Quintinite-3T

Comments: Pale brownish crystals of
quintinite, 2H or 2T polytype unknown.
Location: Jacupiranga Mine, S?o Paulo,
Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size
7 mm.

Quintinite-3T Image

Images: Quintinite-3T Quintinite-2H

Comments: Pale brownish crystals of
quintinite, 2H or 2T polytype unknown.
Location: Jacupiranga Mine, S?o Paulo,
Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size
7 mm.


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Raadeite Image

Images: Raadeite Heneuite

Comments: Translucent aqua colored
greasy heneuite grain, surrounded by
beige rim of raadeite, with dark blue
phosphoellenbergerite inclusion (near top
of heneuite), in quartz apatite rock.
Location: Tingelstadt Iron Mine, Modum,
Mineral Species

Raadeite Image

Images: Raadeite

petrographic thin section showing two crystals of
raadeite (arrows) included in holtedahlite. (Eur. J.
Mineral, 13:320).
Location: Nodules of apatite + Mg-phosphates
within the Tingelstadtjern serpentinite body,
Modum district, Norway. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Rabbittite Image

Images: Rabbittite

Comments: Fine, yellow, acicular sprays of
rabbittite to about 1mm on matrix.
Location: Hideout mine, San Juan Co.,
Utah, USA. Scale: 20x10x4mm.

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Rabejacite Image

Images: Rabejacite

Comments: Yellow rabejacite grains on
matrix.
Location: Mas d'Alary, Lod?v e, H?rault,
Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Scale:

Raguinite Image

Images: Raguinite

Comments: Murky gray-brown fine grained
raguinite mass, intermixed with pyrite.
Location: Allchar, Macedonia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Raite Image

Images: Raite

Comments: Golden raite crystals up to 2
mm long filling cav ities in white microcline
with minor lomonosovite and natrolite.
Russia. Scale: 7x4x3 cm.

Raite Image

Images: Raite Mountainite

Comments: Bright white fibrous acicular
mountainite crystal aggregate with pale
golden raite.
Mineral Species

Rajite Image

Images: Rajite

Comments: Bluish green coating of rajite on
matrix.
Location: Lone Pine mine, Catron Co., New
Mexico, USA. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.

Ralstonite Image

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Images: Ralstonite Cryolite

Comments: Massiv e cryolite with solution
cavities lined with octahedral ralstonite
crystals.
size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Ralstonite Image

Images: Ralstonite Gjerdingenite-Fe

gjerdingenite-Fe. The mineral is dusted with tiny
crystals of two phases. At high magnification,
one of them is seen to form cubes and is
probably ralstonite.
Location: Gjerdingselva, Lunner, Oppland, Oslo
Region, Norway. Scale: Crystal length 0.5 mm.

Rambergite Image

Images: Rambergite Hauerite

Comments: Small black octahedral
crystals of hauerite with small brown
crystals of rambergite.
size 0.8 mm.

Rambergite Image

Images: Rambergite

Comments: Dark reddish-brown
rambergite mass in matrix.
Location: Ronneberg, Thuringen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rammelsbergite Image

Images: Rammelsbergite

Comments: Dull gray metallic botryoidal
rammelsbergite aggregate with crystalline
surface.
Location: Hudson Bay Mine, Rusty Lake,
Gowganda, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Ramsbeckite Image

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Images: Ramsbeckite

Comments: Green crystals of ramsbeckite
on matrix.

Ramsdellite Image

Images: Ramsdellite

Comments: Large mass of radiating
ramsdellite crystals with terminated
crystals.
Location: Lake Valley District, Sierra Co.,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: 11x10x8 cm.

Rancieite Image

Images: Rancieite

Comments: Brown resinous rancieite
veinlets in limonite / wad rock.
Location: Montmirat, Lozere, France. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rankamaite Image

Images: Rankamaite

Comments: White, massive-fibrous
rankamaite.
Location: Mumba, Kivu, Congo (Za?re).

Ransomite Image

Images: Ransomite

Comments: Pale bluish-green powdery
ransomite.
Black Hills, Verde District, Yav apai Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.

Rapidcreekite Image

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Images: Rapidcreekite

Comments: Colorless, radial-acicular
crystals of rapidcreekite on matrix.

Raspite Image

Images: Raspite

Comments: Brown, tabular crystal of
raspite on matrix.

Rasvumite Image

Images: Rasvumite

Comments: Opaque dull orange fibrous
rasv umite masses.
Location: Coyote Peak, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species

Rasvumite Image

Images: Rasvumite

Comments: Reddish brown micro crystals
of rasvumite in vugs to about 0.75mm.
Location: Kirovskiy mine, Khibina massif,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: 3.5 x 2.5 x
2.5cm.

Rathite Image

Images: Rathite

Comments: Gray metallic foliated rathite,
with pyrite in sugary dolomite.
Mineral Species

Rathite Image

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Images: Rathite

Comments: Black prismatic crystal of
rathite with glossy surface and red realgar
on white dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal length 5
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Rauenthalite Image

Images: Rauenthalite

Comments: Bright white botryoidal to
transparent colorless prismatic rauenthalite
microcrystals.
Location: Gabe Gottes, Sainte-Marie-
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rauvite Image

Images: Rauvite

Comments: Irregular grains of dark-colored
rauv ite in matrix.
Location: Monument No. 2 Mine,
Monument Valley, Apache County,

Rauvite Image

Images: Rauvite

Comments: Brownish-yellow scaly rauvite
on sandstone.
Location: Monument Valley, Apache
Mineral Species

Ravatite Image

Images: Ravatite

Comments: Small crystals of ravatite.
size 5 mm.

Realgar Image

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Images: Realgar Duranusite

Comments: Small black Duranusite in
orange-red realgar matrix.
Location: Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes,

Realgar Image

Images: Realgar

Comments: Sharp, dark red crystals of
realgar to 2 cm on calcite.
Location: Hunan Province, Chin. Scale:
Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Attard

Realgar Image

Images: Realgar Rebulite

Comments: Dark gray rebulite grain in red,
massive realgar.
Macedonia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Realgar Image

Images: Realgar Vrbaite

Comments: Black grain of vrbaite in red
realgar matrix.

Rebulite Image

Images: Rebulite Realgar

Comments: Dark gray rebulite grain in red,
massive realgar.
Macedonia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Rectorite Image

Images: Rectorite

Comments: Blue Mountain District, Marble
Township, Garland Co., Arkansas, USA.
Location: Five pieces of leather-like
fragments of rectorite in twisted, irregular
shapes. Scale: Specimen size 1-4 cm.

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Reddingite Image

Images: Reddingite

Comments: Opaque brown crystalline
reddingite.
Location: Tip Top Quarry, Custer County,
South Dakota, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Reddingite Image

Images: Reddingite

Comments: Brown crystals of reddingite on
matrix.
Location: Boa Vista creek, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
© Minernet

Reddingite Image

Images: Reddingite

Comments: Golden brown to brown,
highly lustrous, pseudo-octahedral crystals
of reddinite.
Location: Cigana mine, Galileia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 mm.

Redingtonite Image

Images: Redingtonite Botryogen

Comments: Pale pink granular redingtonite
on yellow-brown botryogen.
Location: Redington Mine, Knoxville, Napa
Mineral Species

Redledgeite Image

Images: Redledgeite

Comments: Red Ledge Mine, Washington,
Washington District, Nevada Co., California,
USA.
Location: Green, massive redledgeite.

Reedmergnerite Image

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Images: Reedmergnerite

Comments: Peach colored crystalline
reedmergnerite in quartz.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Reevesite Image

Images: Reevesite

Comments: Green reevesite coatings on
serpentinite rock.
Location: Pacific Asbestos Corporation
Mine, near Copperopolis, Tuolumne
Mineral Species

Reichenbachite Image

Images: Reichenbachite

Comments: Green crystals of
reichenbachite on quartz.
Location: Bergen, near Falkenstein,
Vogtland, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 4 mm.

Reidite Image

Images: Reidite

photomicrograph of the surface of an
etched shocked zircon with a skeletal
crystalline phase that may be reidite. X-ray
diffraction data indicate that this zircon
contains minor amounts of reidite. (AmMin
87:563).
Location: Found in an upper Eocene
impact ejecta layer in marine sediments on
the upper continental slope off New Jersey
and on Barbados. Scale: See Image.

Reinhardbraunsite Image

Images: Reinhardbraunsite Brownmillerite

Comments: Pink crystalline
reinhardbraunsite in brownmillerite.
Location: Near Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-
Pflaz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Renardite Image

Images: Renardite

Comments: Bright yellow, tabular crystals
of renardite on matrix.
Location: Grury, Saone-et-Loire, France.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Renierite Image

Images: Renierite

Comments: Dull dark orange tarnished
renierite with brassy chalcopyrite.
Location: Prince Leopold Mine, Kipushi,
Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Reppiaite Image

Images: Reppiaite

Comments: Vitreous orange crystals of
reppiaite embedded in matrix.
Location: Gambatesa mine, Genova,
Ligurai, Italy. Scale: Crystal size 0.5mm.

Retgersite Image

Images: Retgersite

Comments: Pale blue powdery retgersite
on rock.
Location: Mina La Motte, near
Frederocktown, Madison County, Missouri,
Mineral Species

Rhabdophane-(Ce) Image

Images: Rhabdophane-(Ce)

Comments: White acicular crystals
rhabdophane-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Reinersreuth Quarry (K?hlerloch),
Gro?er Waldstein, Wei?enstadt,
Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany. Scale:

Rheniite Image

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Images: Rheniite IMA1999-004a

Comments: Specimen covered with rheniite as
micro crystals to .25 mm across.
Location: Kudryav iy Volcano, Iturup Island,
Kurilian Chain, Russia. Scale: 4.7 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Rhenium Image

Images: Rhenium

Comments: Dark gray metallic rhenium
flakes.
Location: Transbaikalia Region, Chita
District, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rhodesite Image

Images: Rhodesite Magadiite

Comments: Earth pale tan massive
magadiite with dark yellow crystalline
rhodesite.
Location: East Fork, Trinity River, Trinity
Mineral Species

Rhodesite Image

Images: Rhodesite

Comments: Pearly white to tan rhodesite
crusts.
Location: Quarter-mile east of Trinity River,
Trinity County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Rhodizite Image

Images: Rhodizite

Comments: Two large, blocky, greenish
crystals of rhodizite on matrix.
Location: Antsogombato, Antsirabe,
Madagascar. Scale: 2.6 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Rhodizite Image

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Images: Rhodizite

Comments: Several yellow, gemmy
crystals of rhodizite frozen in a feldspar
matrix.
Location: Sahanivotry, Sahatany Valley,
Madagascar. Scale: 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm.

Rhodochrosite Image

Images: Rhodochrosite Helvite

Comments: Yellow crystals of helvite on
quartz and pink rhodochrosite.
Location: Galerie Elisabeth, Cavnic,
Maramures, Romaina. Scale: Not Given.

Rhodochrosite Image

Images: Rhodochrosite

Comments: Cherry red rhodochrosite with
quartz, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite and
fluorite matrix.
Location: Rivas Pocket, Fluorite Raise,
Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado, USA.
Scale: 8 x 8cm..
© Fabre Minerals

Rhodonite Image

Images: Rhodonite

Comments: Light red rhodonite and minor
quartz.
Location: Chiurucu mine, Dos de Mayo,
Peru. Scale: 3 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Rhodonite Image

Images: Rhodonite Akatoreite

Comments: Brown akatoreite in pink
rhodonite.
Location: Akatore Creek, Eastern Otago
Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rhodonite Image

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Images: Rhodonite Caryinite

Comments: Yellow crystalline caryinite with
pink rhodonite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rhodonite Image

Images: Rhodonite

Comments: Deep red blocky prismatic
crystals of rhodonite to 3cm.
Location: Broken Hill mine, New South
Wales, Australia. Scale: 6.5 x 5 x 4cm.

Rhomboclase Image

Images: Rhomboclase

Comments: Platy crystal rhomboclase
spray.
Location: Rio Tinto, Andalucia, Spain. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rhonite Image

Images: Rhonite

Comments: Brown, striated, tabular crystal
of rhonite on matrix.
Location: Sattleberg, Laacher See,
Rhineland-Pal., Germany. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Richellite Image

Images: Richellite

Comments: Khaki-colored earthy richellite
masses.
Location: Richelle, near Vise, Liege,
Belgium. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Richelsdorfite Image

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Images: Richelsdorfite

Comments: Greenish rounded aggregates
of richelsdorfite on matrix.
Location: Wilhelm Mine; Wechselschacht,
near Bauhaus, Richelsdorf District, Hesse,

Richterite Image

Images: Richterite Calzirtite Augite

richterite.
Mineral Species

Richterite Image

Images: Richterite

Comments: Richterite crystal in tan calcite.
Location: Bancroft, Ontario, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Riebeckite Image

Images: Riebeckite

Comments: Grayish black, coniform,
massive crystals of riebeckite.
Location: Cape Province, South Africa.
Scale: 8x6 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Rilandite Image

Images: Rilandite

Comments: Dark brown opaque resinous
rilandite cleavage fragment.
Location: J. L. Riland Claim, near Meeker, Rio
Blanco County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Rinneite Image

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Images: Rinneite Carnallite

Comments: Orange to light brown rinneite
with colorless carnallite.
Location: Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Rh?n,
Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.

Rivadavite Image

Images: Rivadavite

Comments: Translucent white rivadavite
nodule with some adhering earthy
material.
Location: Tincalayu, Salta Province,
Mineral Species

Riversideite Image

Images: Riversideite

Comments: Opaque off-white finely fibrous
riv ersideite veins in vesuvianite / grossular
matrix.
Mineral Species

Robertsite Image

Images: Robertsite Carbonate-
hydroxylapatite Apatite

Giv en.

Robinsonite Image

Images: Robinsonite

Comments: Dark gray, prismatic-acicular
crystals of robinsonite on white marble.
Location: Pitone Quarry, Seravezza, Lucca,
Italy. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Rockbridgeite Image

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Images: Rockbridgeite

Comments: Black cruciform twins of
rockbridgeite on siderite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Rockbridgeite Image

Images: Rockbridgeite Stewartite

Comments: Pointed, brownish yellow
stewartite crystals on massive, dark
rockbridgeite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Rockbridgeite Image

Images: Rockbridgeite Wilhelmvierlingite

Comments: Yellow brown crystals
wilhelmv ierlingite with black rockbridgeite.
mm.

Rockbridgeite Image

Images: Rockbridgeite Tinsleyite
Phosphosiderite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rockbridgeite Image

Images: Rockbridgeite Lindbergite

Comments: Rare organic mineral -
lindbergite (Mn dihydrate oxalate) in white
patches on rockbridgeite matrix.
Spot size 1 mm.

Rodalquilarite Image

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Images: Rodalquilarite

Comments: Green crystals of rodalquilarite
on matrix.
size 4 m.

Rodalquilarite Image

Images: Rodalquilarite Schieffelinite

Comments: Creamy white Schieffelinite
with minor green rodalquilarite.
size 6 mm.

Rodolicoite Image

Images: Rodolicoite Grattarolaite

Comments: Brown grattarolaite, intimately
intergrown with brown rodolicoite.
Location: Castelnuovo Mine, Santa
Barbara lignite district, San Giov anni
Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno), Arezzo
4 mm.

Roeblingite Image

Images: Roeblingite

Comments: Pure white opaque
porcelaneous roeblingite mass.
Mineral Species

Roedderite Image

Images: Roedderite

Comments: Deep green transparent
roedderite microcrystal.
Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pflaz,
Mineral Species

Roggianite Image

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Images: Roggianite

Comments: Glassy white fibrous roggianite
aggregate.
Location: Murzinka, Sverdlovsk District,
Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rokuhnite Image

Images: Rokuhnite Carnallite

Comments: Reddish brown rokuhnite, with
carnallite (deliquescent).
Location: Salzdetfurth Mine, Hildesheim,
near Hanov er, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Romanechite Image

Images: Romanechite

Comments: Black botryoidal roman?chite.
Germany. Scale: Specimen size 9 mm.

Romarchite Image

Images: Romarchite

Comments: SEM photograph of romarchite
precipitating on quartz sand grains on the
surface of a pewter artifact.
(Geoarchaeology, 19:538).
Location: Wreck of the Queen Anne?s
Revenge (A.D. 1718). Scale: Scale Bar 30
µm.
© Geoarchaeology

Romeite Image

Images: Romeite

Comments: Tan fibrous romeite on quartz.
Location: Sant Marcel, Piemonte, Italy.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Romerite Image

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Images: Romerite

Comments: Massiv e, pale reddish-brown
R?merite.
Germany. Scale: Specimen size 5.8 cm.

Ronneburgite Image

Images: Ronneburgite

Comments: Reddish-brown crystals of
ronneburgite on matrix.
size 2 mm.

Rontgenite-(Ce) Image

Images: Rontgenite-(Ce)

Comments: Gemmy and lustrous rontgenite-(Ce)
crystals to 1.5 mm on an albite matrix.
Location: Narsarsuk, Igaliko, Greenland. Scale: 3.7
x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Rooseveltite Image

Images: Rooseveltite

Comments: Gray glassy crystalline
rooseveltite with purple fluorite.
Location: Josef Fluorite Mine, Krune Hora
Mountains, near Teplice, Seversocesky,
Mineral Species

Rorisite Image

Images: Rorisite

Comments: Colorless to white tabular
crystals of Rorisite. Rorisite is extremely
hygroscopic and must be stored in closed
vials. The picture was made through the
vial.
Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk Oblast',
Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 2
mm.

Rosasite Image

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Images: Rosasite

Comments: Rosasite on malachite after azurite.
Blocky crystals of azurite to 2.5 cm in size,
completely altered to malachite, then coated
by pale sky-blue rosasite.
Location: Silver Bill mine, Gleeson, Cochise Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: 4 x 7.5 x 2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Roscherite Image

Images: Roscherite Hurlbutite

Comments: White, round crystal clusters of
hurlbutite on reddish brown roscherite.
Giv en.

Roscherite Image

Images: Roscherite Parafransoletite

Comments: White, crystalline aggregate
sprays of parafransoletite on dark reddish
brown roscherite with massive, white,
sucrosic whitlockite.
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Roscherite Image

Images: Roscherite Englishite

roscherite on white englishite.
Giv en.

Roscherite Image

Images: Roscherite Viitaniemiite

Comments: Colorless to pink viitaniemiite
with brownish roscherite.

Roscherite Image

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Images: Roscherite Ushkovite

Comments: Translucent ushkovite
microcrystals with orange roscherite on
feldspar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Roscoelite Image

Images: Roscoelite

Comments: Dull olive green fine grained
roscoelite cementing sandstone.
Location: Rifle Mine, Garfield County,
Mineral Species

Roselite Image

Images: Roselite

Comments: Gemmy crystals of roselite.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mts.,
Morocco. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© John Veevaert

Roselite-beta Image

Images: Roselite-beta

Comments: Clear, rose-colored
roselite-beta crystalline grains.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mountains,
Morocco. Scale: Not Given.

Roselite-beta Image

Images: Roselite-beta

Comments: Deep red, well crystallized
roselite-beta covering a small pocket in
white calcite.
Location: Ahrbar, Bou-Azzer area. Scale: 7
x 4 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Rosenbergite Image

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Images: Rosenbergite

rosenbergite on a dark matrix.
(Cetine Mine; Tafone Mine), Rosia, Siena,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.

Rosenbuschite Image

Images: Rosenbuschite

Comments: Tan prismatic crystalline
rosenbuschite in schist.
Location: Norra Karr, Jonkoping, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rosenhahnite Image

Images: Rosenhahnite

Comments: Crystalline massive
rosenhahnite.
Location: Near Healdsburg, Mendocino
Mineral Species

Rosiaite Image

Images: Rosiaite Valentinite

Comments: Beige crystals of rosiaite with a
colorless valentinite prism.
Location: Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto,

Rosickyite Image

Images: Rosickyite

Comments: Orange selenian rosickyite
(containing 48.9 wt-% Se).

Rossite Image

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Images: Rossite

Comments: Scaly crystalline rossite on silty
sandstone.
Location: Buckhorn Mine, San Miguel
Mineral Species

Rosslerite Image

Images: Rosslerite

Comments: Colorless crystals of r?sslerite.
size 3.5 mm.

Rossmanite Image

Images: Rossmanite

Comments: Pale pink to tan translucent
prismatic rossmanite crystals.
Location: Near Rozna, Western Moravia,
Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Rostite Image

Images: Rostite Clairite

Comments: Brownish crystals of clairite on
white massive rostite.
Picture size 5 mm.

Rostite Image

Images: Rostite

Comments: White crystals of rostite on a
dark matrix.
Location: Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-
Westphalia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.

Roweite Image

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Images: Roweite

Comments: Pinkish nodular massive
roweite.
Mineral Species

Rozenite Image

Images: Rozenite Ferrinatrite Copiapite

copiapite.
Mineral Species

Rubicline Image

Images: Rubicline

Comments: Rubicline (white) including
grains of quartz (black) in microcline (gray)
associated with albite (black) and
muscovite (mottled dark gray). BSE image
(AmMin, 83:1336).
Location: Pollucite-bearing rare-element
pegmatite at San Piero in Campo, Elba,
Italy. Scale: Grain size 20 µm.

Ruizite Image

Images: Ruizite Inesite

Comments: 1- 3 mm crystal spray of red
orange ruizite in an exposed vug in pink
inesite.
© John Veevaert

Ruizite Image

Images: Ruizite

Comments: Deep reddish brown crystals of
ruizite as radial, acicular sprays to 0.1mm.

Rusakovite Image

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Images: Rusakovite

Comments: Orange-brown rusakovite
coatings on dark brown sandstone.
Location: Long Park, Montrose County,
Mineral Species

Russellite Image

Images: Russellite

Comments: Pale yellowish beige veinlet
and thin crusts of russellite.
Location: Himmelfahrt Mine, Steinbach,
Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Rustenburgite Image

Images: Rustenburgite Tatyanaite

images showing inclusions of rustenburgite
intergrown with taimyrite-tatyanaite
aggregates. (AmMin, v 42, p 608).
Scale: See Image.

Rustumite Image

Images: Rustumite Dellaite

Comments: White grains of dellaite,
intermixed with rustumite.
Location: Queretaro, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rutheniridosmine Image

Images: Rutheniridosmine

Comments: Grain of rutheniridosmine.
Location: Nev jansk, Ural Mts., Russia. Scale:
Grain size 2.5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Ruthenium Image

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Images: Ruthenium Palladodymite
Hongshiite


Ruthenium Image

Images: Ruthenium Isoferroplatinum

of polished section of ruthenium nugget
with isoferroplatinum inclusions.
Location: Miass River, Chelyabinsk District,
Mineral Species

Rutherfordine Image

Images: Rutherfordine

Comments: Yellow, bladed crystals of
rutherfordine.
Location: Shinkolobwe Mine, Tantara,

Rutherfordine Image

Images: Rutherfordine Wyartite

Comments: Brown, acicular wyartite
crystals next to bright yellow rutherfordine
tufts.
Location: Shinokolbwe mine, Tantara,

Rutile Image

Images: Rutile Pyrophyllite

Comments: Rutile on fine-grained pyrophyllite.
Location: Graves Mt. Georgia, USA. Scale: 4.5
x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

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Rutile Image

Images: Rutile Hematite

Comments: Acicular, golden yellow
crystals of rutile epitaxially overgrown on
black crystals of hematite. The
overgrowths are perpendicular to the
trigonal crystallography of the hematite.
Location: Novo Horizonte, Bahia Brazil.
© Fabre Minerals

Rynersonite Image

Images: Rynersonite

Comments: Off-white fibrous rynersonite.
Location: Brown Derby No. 1 Mine,
Gunnison County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Rynersonite Image

Images: Rynersonite Schiavinatoite

Comments: Brown, columnar
schiavinatoite with minor white rynersonite
sticks on quartz.
Location: Ampanodiana Sud, Tetezantsio,
Mahaiza, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species


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Sabelliite Image

Images: Sabelliite

Comments: Green crystalline sabelliite on
matrix.
Location: West Schrofen, Brixlegg, Tirol,
Austria. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sabieite Image

Images: Sabieite

Comments: Massiv e, porous aggregate of
sabieite.
cm.

Sabinaite Image

Images: Sabinaite

Comments: White, prismatic crystals of
sabinaite on matrix.
Location: Poudrette quarry, Mont St Hilaire,
Rouville county, Quebec. Scale: 4.5 x 3.8 x
3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Sabugalite Image

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Images: Sabugalite

Comments: Platy sabugalite crystals.
Location: Margnac, Haute-Vienne, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sabugalite Image

Images: Sabugalite

Comments: Squarish, platy, pale yellowish
green sabugalite crystals.
Location: Sabugal County, Beira Alta
Province, Portugal. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.

Sacrofanite Image

Images: Sacrofanite

sacrofanite on diopside.
Location: Sacrofano Quarry, Rome, Lazio,
Mineral Species

Safflorite Image

Images: Safflorite

Comments: Safflorite covering three faces
of the specimen, with silver.
Location: Castle Mine (Castle-Tretheway
Mine), Gowganda, Haultain Township,
Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada.
Scale: 7x 3x 3.5 cm.
© Ibrahim Jameel / Khyber Mineral
Company

Sahlinite Image

Images: Sahlinite

Comments: Light lemon yellow sahlinite on
dark hausmannite and white dolomite
matrix.
Location: Langban mine, Filipstad,
V?rmland , Sweden. Scale: Crystal size
1.5cm.

Sainfeldite Image

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Images: Sainfeldite

Comments: Rose-colored crystalline
aggregate of Sainfeldite.

Sal-ammoniac Image

Images: Sal-ammoniac

Comments: Network of white or slightly grayish
sal-ammoniac crystals with some sulfur.
Location: Rav at, Tien Shan Mtns, Central
Tajikistan. Scale: 6 x 4 x 3 cm.
© John Attard

Sal-ammoniac Image

Images: Sal-ammoniac Erythrosiderite

Comments: Orange-brown aggregates of
erythrosiderite with sal ammoniac. Material
from the 1926 eruption of the Erythrosiderite
is hygroscopic and must be stored in a
the vial.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples Province,
Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.

Saleeite Image

Images: Saleeite

Comments: Gossanous matrix hosting
abundant crystals of bright canary yellow
sal?eite to 1.2 cm across.
Location: Ranger Mine, Northern Territories,
Australia. Scale: 9 x 5.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Saleeite Image

Images: Saleeite

Comments: Square, tabular crystalline
aggregates of greenish yellow sal?eite on
matrix.
Location: Ranger Uranium Mine, Jabiru,
Northern Territory, Australia. Scale: Picture
size 1cm.

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Salesite Image

Images: Salesite

Comments: Blue, prismatic crystal of
Salesite in matrix.

Samarskite-(Y) Image

Images: Samarskite-(Y)

Comments: A black crystal of samarskite.
Ex collection Gustav Rose 1832, found on
his trav el together with Alexander von
Humboldt through the Ural Mts.
Location: Miass, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk
Oblast', Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Crystal
size 8 mm.


Images: Samarskite-(Y) Uranpyrochlore

Comments: Deep greenish-brown resinous
crystalline massive uranpyrochlore with
black samarskite-(Y).
Location: Beryl Hill, near Yinnietharra
Station, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species


Images: Samarskite-(Y)

Comments: Dark, coaly black, weathered
granular samarskite-(Y).
Location: Spinelli Samarskite Prospect,
Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut,

Sampleite Image

Images: Sampleite

Comments: Sampleite crystal groups 3 to 8
mm wide on a dark matrix.
Location: Santa Catalina Mine, Sierra
Gorda, Chile. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Sampleite Image

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Images: Sampleite

Comments: Sky blue lamellar crystals of
sampleite up to 2 mm. scattered on matrix.
Chile. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Minernet

Sampleite Image

Images: Sampleite

Comments: Blue, spherical, radial
crystalling aggregates of sampleite on a
fracture surface.
Location: North Parkes Mine, Parkes, New
South Wales, Australia. Scale: Picture size
6x5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Samsonite Image

Images: Samsonite

Comments: Black, prismatic crystal of samsonite in
matrix.
Location: St. Andreasberg, Harz, Lower Saxony,

Samuelsonite Image

Images: Samuelsonite

samuelsonite.
Location: Palermo #1 mine, Groton,
Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA. Scale:

Sanbornite Image

Images: Sanbornite Muirite

Comments: Translucent orange crystalline
muirite in sanbornite.
Location: Big Creek, Fresno County,
Mineral Species

Sanbornite Image

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Images: Sanbornite

Comments: Micaceous sanbornite.
Location: Esquire No. 1 Mine, Big Creek,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Sanbornite Image

Images: Sanbornite Traskite

traskite in white sanbornite.
Mineral Species

Sanbornite Image

Images: Sanbornite Bazirite

Comments: Clear glassy minute grains of
bazinite to 1mm through out matrix of
milky-white sanbornite. The bazirite
fluoresces light blue.
Location: Snow Cap mine, Rush Creek,
Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x
2.5cm.

Sanbornite Image

Images: Sanbornite Bigcreekite Gillespite

2cm.

Saneroite Image

Images: Saneroite

Comments: Reddish orange crystals of
saneroite to 3 mm.
Location: Vrancice near Pribram, Czech
Republic. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Sanidine Image

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Images: Sanidine

Comments: Blocky, opalescent crystal of
sanidine.
Location: Mina La Pili, Carmago, Chihuahua,
Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 3x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Sanjuanite Image

Images: Sanjuanite

Comments: Silky sanjuanite mass.
Location: Chica del Zonda, San Juan,
Mineral Species

Sanromanite Image

Images: Sanromanite IMA2006-009
Juangodoyite Chalconatronite

chalconatronite.
size 3 mm.

Santabarbaraite Image

Images: Santabarbaraite

Comments: Orange santabarbaraite
pseudomorphous after vivianite.
Location: Santa Barbara lignite district, San
Giovanni Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno),
Arezzo Province, Tuscany. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 mm.

Santaclaraite Image

Images: Santaclaraite

Comments: Flesh-colored crystalline
aggregates of Santaclaraite.
Location: Corral Hollow, Alemada County,
California, USA. Scale: Not Given.

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Santafeite Image

Images: Santafeite

Comments: Brownish-black silky santafeite
in rusty quartz.
Location: Monument Valley, Navajo
Mineral Species

Saponite Image

Images: Saponite

Comments: Light brown saponite
pseudomorphs after stilbite crystals up to 6
mm.
Location: Thetford Mines, M?gantic Co.,
Qu?bec, Canada. Scale: 25x25x12 mm.

Sapphirine Image

Images: Sapphirine

Comments: Large complex crystalline cluster
of dark blue to black sapphirine.
Location: Betroka district, Toliara (Tul?ar)
Province, Madagascar. Scale: 15x14x10 mm.

Sarabauite Image

Images: Sarabauite

Comments: Deep red crystalline sarabauite in
matrix.
Location: Sarabau Mine, Sarawak Province,
Borneo. Scale: 2.2x1.2x1 cm.

Sarcopside Image

Images: Sarcopside

Comments: Brown massive sarcopside.
Location: Bull Moose Mine, Custer County,
South Dakota, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Sarkinite Image

Images: Sarkinite

Comments: Reddish brown crystalline
aggregates of sarkinite on matrix.
Giv en.

Sarmientite Image

Images: Sarmientite

Comments: Pale olive-green chalky
massive sarmientite.
Location: Kotzebue, Alaska, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sartorite Image

Images: Sartorite

Comments: Black, striated crystal of
Sartorite on dolomite.

Sartorite Image

Images: Sartorite

Comments: Excellent prismatic sartorite
crystal on white dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal length 1
cm.
© Walter Gabriel

Sasaite Image

Images: Sasaite

Comments: Whitish sasaite coatings on
altering serpentinite rock.
Location: Breitenau, Steiermark, Austria.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sassolite Image

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Images: Sassolite

Comments: Colorless, pseudohexagonal
crystals of sassolite.

Satimolite Image

Images: Satimolite

Comments: Porcelaneous massive
satimolite.
Location: Satimola-Sahstock, Zapadno-
Mineral Species

Satterlyite Image

Images: Satterlyite

Comments: Cleaved nodule of brown
crystalline satterlyite aggregate.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada.
Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Sauconite Image

Images: Sauconite

Comments: Pale brown earthy sauconite
on hemimorphite microcrystals.
Location: Doughty Mine, near Sunbury,
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania,
Mineral Species

Sazykinaite-(Y) Image

Images: Sazykinaite-(Y)

Comments: Light brown crystals of
sazykinaite-(Y).

Sborgite Image

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Images: Sborgite

Comments: Pale grayish-green massive
sborgite.
Location: Furnace Creek borate area,
Death Valley, Inyo County, California, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Scacchite Image

Images: Scacchite

Comments: Deliquescent reddish
scacchite crust on volcanic rock.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Scainiite Image

Images: Scainiite

Comments: Black metallic prismatic
scainite crystals and crystalline masses on
limestone.
Location: Tafone Mine, near Manciano,
Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Scandiobabingtonite Image

Images: Scandiobabingtonite

Comments: Green micro crystals of
scandiobabingtonite to about 0.75mm with
several grayish brown ball-like micro
crystals of titanite to 0.75mm scattered in a
large vug.
Location: Heftetjern pegmatite, T?rdal,
Drangedal, Telemark, Norway. Scale:

Scapolite Image

Images: Scapolite

Comments: Violet colored, gemmy crystal of
Scapolite, with upper terminations.
Location: Dodoma, Tanzania. Scale: 1 x 0.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

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Scarbroite Image

Images: Scarbroite

Comments: White earthy scarbroite.
Location: South Bay, Scarborough, North
Yorkshire, England, UK. Scale: Picture size 8
mm.

Scarbroite Image

Images: Scarbroite Hydroscarbroite

Comments: White to tan nodular
hydroscarbroite intermixed with scarbroite
in sandstone.
Location: Weston Favell, Northamptonshire,
England. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Scawtite Image

Images: Scawtite

Comments: 1 to 2 mm transparent crystals
of Scawtite on dark matrix (see pink arrows
in photo).
Location: Scawt Hill, Antrim, Ireland. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Schachnerite Image

Images: Schachnerite

Comments: Schachnerite tarnishing silvery
metallic.
Location: Sala, Vastmanland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Schafarzikite Image

Images: Schafarzikite

Comments: Dull black irregular
schafarzikite masses in white marble.
Location: Bucca della Vena Mine, Valdi
Castello, Carducci, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Schaurteite Image

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Images: Schaurteite Tennantite

Comments: Bright white silky fibrous
schaurteite on dark tennantite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Scheelite Image

Images: Scheelite

Comments: Orange scheelite with white
mica.
Location: Pingwu, Sichuan, China. Scale:
9.5 x 9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Schertelite Image

Images: Schertelite

Comments: Transparent glassy crystalline
schertelite grains.
Location: Skipton Caves, Ballarat, Victoria,
Mineral Species

Schiavinatoite Image

Images: Schiavinatoite

Comments: Black, 3mm euhedral crystal of
schiavinatoite in matrix.
Mahaiza, Madagascar. Scale: 3x2x2cm.

Schiavinatoite Image

Images: Schiavinatoite Rynersonite

Comments: Brown, columnar
schiavinatoite with minor white rynersonite
sticks on quartz.
Mahaiza, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Schieffelinite Image

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Images: Schieffelinite Rodalquilarite

Comments: Creamy white Schieffelinite
with minor green rodalquilarite.
size 6 mm.

Schirmerite Image

Images: Schirmerite

Comments: Gray metallic granular
schirmerite in quartz.
Location: Grand Trunk, Geneva District,
Park County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Schlemaite Image

Images: Schlemaite Clausthalite Eucairite

See Picture.

Schlossmacherite Image

Images: Schlossmacherite

Comments: Small (up to 3 mm) clusters of
pale yellow green Schlossmacherite
crystals on a siliceous matrix.
Location: Guanaco, Chile. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Schmiederite Image

Images: Schmiederite

Comments: Acicular schmiederite micro
crystals in quartz.
Location: Condor Mine, La Rioja, Argentina.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Schmitterite Image

Images: Schmitterite Emmonsite

Comments: Yellow schmitterite with green
emmonsite.
size 4 mm.

Schneebergite Image

Images: Schneebergite

Comments: Prismatic, acicular crystals of
schneebergite.
Location: Roter Berg, Neust?dtel,

Schneiderhohnite Image

Images: Schneiderhohnite

Comments: Quartz with a 0.8 cm partial
crystal of schneiderh?hnite and several
smaller complete crystals of
schneiderh?hnite to 3 mm.
© John Veevaert

Schoderite Image

Images: Schoderite

Comments: Sub-mm coatings of yellow to
deep orange Schoderite on matrix.
Location: Fish Creek Range, Eureka County,
© John Veevaert

Schoenfliesite Image

Images: Schoenfliesite

Comments: Yellow-brown schoenfliesite on
matrix.
Location: Zlaty Kopec, J?chymov (St
Joachimsthal), Krusn? Hory (Erzgebirge),
Z?padocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, Czech

Schoepite Image

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Images: Schoepite Becquerelite

schoepite on transparent yellow
becquerelite.
Congo. Scale: .

Schoepite Image

Images: Schoepite Metatorbernite

Comments: Green, tabular crystals of
metatorbernite and acicular, yellow
schoepite on matrix.
size 2.5 mm.

Schoepite Image

Images: Schoepite Ianthinite

Comments: Purple to brown resinous
ianthinite with yellow schoepite and
orange becquerelite.
Location: Colorado Plateau area,
Saguache County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Scholzite Image

Images: Scholzite

Comments: Sprays of Scholzite crystals to 1
cm line exposed vugs.
Location: Reaphook Hill, Blinman, South
Australia. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Scholzite Image

Images: Scholzite Hillite

Comments: Morphology of a
homogeneous larger cluster of hillite
growing on an acicular crystal of scholzite.
SEM back-scattered electron image.
Location: Lower Cambrian Parachilna
Formation, Reaphook Hill, South Australia,

Schoonerite Image

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Images: Schoonerite Ernstite

Comments: 1 mm honey brown, acicular,
radial sprays of ernstite with light green
fibrous schoonerite and apatite in siderite.
Location: White Cap mine, Pennington
County., South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.

Schoonerite Image

Images: Schoonerite

Comments: Dark crystals of schoonerite on
matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Schorl Image

Images: Schorl Albite

Comments: Several jet-black lustrous
crystals of schorl perched on a white albite
matrix.
Location: Shengus, Gilgit, Pakistan. Scale: 4
x 3 x 2 cm.

Schorl Image

Images: Schorl

Comments: Parallel grouping of sharp,
black schorl crystals showing terminations.
Location: Davib Ost, Erongo Mountains
Namibia. Scale: Crystal size: 1.7 x 1.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Schorlomite Image

Images: Schorlomite

Comments: Lustrous massive black
schorlomite.
Location: Magnet Cov e, Hot Spring
Mineral Species

Schreibersite Image

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Images: Schreibersite

Comments: Golden metallic schreibersite
cleavage fragment from type IIB
octahedrite meteorite.
Location: Sau Luiao de Moreira Meteorite,
Ponte de Lima, Minho, Viana do Castelo,
Portugal. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Schreibersite Image

Images: Schreibersite Allabogdanite

Comments: Relict grain of allabogdanite
crystal (ABG) surrounded by schreibersite
rim (SCHR) in plessite matrix (PL). Black
phase is a secondary Fe-Ni-hydroxide.
Backscattered electron image. (AmMin,
87:1249).
Location: Onello iron meteorite (high-Ni
ataxite) Onello Riv er basin, Aldan shield,
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Scale bar 10
µ-m.

Schrockingerite Image

Images: Schrockingerite

Comments: Pale greenish-yellow
schr?ckingerite aggregates on matrix.

Schrockingerite Image

Images: Schrockingerite

Comments: Pale greenish-yellow, platy
schr?ckingerite on matrix.
Location: Jack Daniels No. 1 Mine,
Cameron District, Coconino County,

Schuetteite Image

Images: Schuetteite

Comments: Yellow earthy schuetteite
coatings.
Location: Oceanic Mine, San Luis Obispo
County, California. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Schuilingite-(Nd) Image

Images: Schuilingite-(Nd)

Comments: Blue crystals of
Schuilingite-(Nd).
Location: Kasompi Mine, Kambove, Shaba
size 1.8 mm.

Schulenbergite Image

Images: Schulenbergite Linarite

Comments: Light greenish rosettes of
schulenbergite with small green crystals of
ramsbeckite and blue crystals of linarite.

Schultenite Image

Images: Schultenite

Comments: Arrow-shaped crystals of
schultenite on matrix.
Location: Gifford Lakes, King County,
Washington, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Schumacherite Image

Images: Schumacherite Pucherite

Comments: Brown crystals of pucherite
with yellow schumacherite on matrix.
Picture size 5 mm.

Scolecite Image

Images: Scolecite

Comments: Delicate cluster spray of
colorless transparent acicular crystals of
scolecite. The scolecites measure to 3 mm
in thickness.
Location: Nasik district, Maharashtra, India.
Scale: 5 x 3.5 x 9.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Scorodite Image

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Images: Scorodite

Comments: Quartz with an exposed vug
lined with lustrous bluish colored crystals of
scorodite to 4 mm across.
Location: Hemerdon Mine, Sparkwell,
Devon, England. Scale: 5 x 3.6 cm.
© John Veev aert

Scorodite Image

Images: Scorodite Beudantite

Comments: Blue, 2 cm in length scorodite
crystals on a sparkling matrix of brilliant
brown-black beudantite.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 8 x 5 x 3
cm.
© John Schneider

Scorodite Image

Images: Scorodite

Comments: Color changing scorodite,
green (left image) in daylight, red (right
image) under indoor lighting.
Location: Ahgbar, Morocco. Scale: NA.
© John Veevaert

Scorzalite Image

Images: Scorzalite

Comments: Deep blue scorzalite with
muscovite, quartz, and feldspar in matrix.
Location: Polermo Mine, North Groten, New
Hampshire, USA. Scale: 5 x 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Scrutinyite Image

Images: Scrutinyite

Comments: Acicular crystals of scrutinyite.
Location: Hilarion Mine, Agios Konstantinos,
Lavrion District, Attik? Prefecture, Greece.

Searlesite Image

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Images: Searlesite

Comments: Clear, prismatic crystal of Searlesite.
Location: Point of Rocks Mesa. Colfax County,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.

Seeligerite Image

Images: Seeligerite

Comments: Orange crystalline seeligerite in
matrix.
Location: Casucha Mine, Sierra Gorda,
Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Segelerite Image

Images: Segelerite

Comments: Yellow, prismatic, striated
crystal of Segelerite.
Giv en.

Segnitite Image

Images: Segnitite

Comments: Translucent yellow crystalline
segnitite crust.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Seidite-(Ce) Image

Images: Seidite-(Ce)

Comments: Scanning Electron image of
seidite-(Ce) with the axial components of a
and c superimposed on crystal.
Location: Yubileynaya pegmatite at Mount
Karnasurt, Lov ozero alkaline massif, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Image size 0.5 mm.

Seidozerite Image

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Images: Seidozerite Arfvedsonite

Comments: Dark red translucent
seidozerite with v itreous, black
arfvedsonite.
Location: Seidozero Lake, Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sekaninaite Image

Images: Sekaninaite

Comments: Black-green crystalline
sekaninaite cleavage with dark purple
colored fracture surface.
Location: Rozna, Morav ia, Jihomoravsky,
Mineral Species

Selenium Image

Images: Selenium

Comments: Acicular crystals of native
Selenium (up to 1 cm in length).
district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:
Specimen size 3 cm.

Seligmannite Image

Images: Seligmannite Liveingite

Comments: Black prismatic seligmannite
crystals with crystalline black liveingite.
Mineral Species

Seligmannite Image

Images: Seligmannite

Comments: Lead gray, prismatic
seligmannite crystal with brassy yellow
pyrite on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Sellaite Image

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Images: Sellaite

Comments: Compact, white acicular sellaite
crystals.
Location: Clara Mine, Rankach valley,
Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-
W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale: 21x16x10 mm.

Semenovite Image

Images: Semenovite

Comments: Tan crystals of semenovite to 1
mm across on matrix.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland.
© John Veevaert

Semseyite Image

Images: Semseyite

Comments: Crystal clusters of semseyite
crystals to 1 cm on sphalerite.
Location: Herja, Romania. Scale: Picture
size 5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Semseyite Image

Images: Semseyite

Comments: Tabular crystals forming groups
and rosettes of gray semseyite with
creamy greenish yellow siderite.
Location: Herja mine, Maramures Rumania.
Scale: 6.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Senaite Image

Images: Senaite

Comments: Brownish-black senaite
cleavage.
Location: Dattas, near Diamantina, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Senaite Image

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Images: Senaite

Comments: Black crystal of senaite.
Location: Presidente Kibitschek, Minas
Gerias, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Senarmontite Image

Images: Senarmontite

Comments: Perfect octahedral,
transparent, light to dark gray senarmontite
crystals to 3mm.
Location: Djebel Haminate mine, Ain Beida,
Constantine, Algeria. Scale: Pictrure size 1.5
cm.

Senegalite Image

Images: Senegalite

Comments: Yellowish green, prismatic,
crystals of senegalite.
Location: Faleme River, Senegal. Scale:
Not Given.

Sengierite Image

Images: Sengierite

Comments: Green, tabular, crystals of
sengierite on matrix.
Location: Lubumbashi, Shaba, Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Scale: Not Given.

Sepiolite Image

Images: Sepiolite

Comments: Sectile to chalky massiv e
sepiolite.
Location: Pinos Altos, Grant County, New
Mineral Species

Serandite Image

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Images: Serandite Analcime Natrolite

of analcime.
© Fabre Minerals

Serandite Image

Images: Serandite Lintisite

Comments: Yellowish-white fibrous veinlets
of lintisite in brown serandite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Serendibite Image

Images: Serendibite Phlogopite

Comments: Blue serendibite, with golden
colored phlogopite, in white marble.
Location: Near Johnsberg, Warren County,
Mineral Species

Serpierite Image

Images: Serpierite

Comments: Blue, acicular crystals of
serpierite.
Location: Serpieri mine, Laurium, Greece.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Serrabrancaite Image

Images: Serrabrancaite

Comments: SEM micrograph of dark brown
to dark greenish black isometric crystals of
serrabrancaite up to 0.3 mm size. (AmMin,
85:848).
Location: Alto Serra Branca pegmatite
near Pedra Lavrada, Paraiba, Brazil. Scale:
See Image.

Sewardite Image

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Images: Sewardite

Comments: Photomicrograph of an
isolated fragment of red sewardite as well
as a fragment in green to black botryoidal
matrix.
Location: Single specimen of gangue
collected from the 31st lev el of the
Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: See
Image.

Sewardite Image

Images: Sewardite

Comments: Deep red, micaceous
sewardite crystals mistakenly identified as
carminite.
Location: Benjamin Hill, Sonora, Mexico.

Shabynite Image

Images: Shabynite

Comments: Translucent shabynite grains.
Location: Korshunovskoye Deposit, Irkutsk
District, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Shafranovskite Image

Images: Shafranovskite

Comments: Yellow-brown fine grained
shafranovskite with red eudialyte and
black aegirine.
Massif, Kola Peninsular, Murmansk District,
Mineral Species

Shattuckite Image

Images: Shattuckite Ajoite

Comments: Dark blue, tabular crystals of
shattuckite on light blue ajoite.

Shattuckite Image

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Images: Shattuckite

Comments: Blue micro acicular or fibrous
crystals of shattuckite to 0.1mm free
standing in vug.
Location: New Cornelia mine, Pima Co.,

Shattuckite Image

Images: Shattuckite

Comments: Blue, globular aggregates of
radial shattuckite crystals.
Location: Grand View Mine, Grand
Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species

Shcherbakovite Image

Images: Shcherbakovite

Comments: Secondary electron image of
a shcherbakov ite crystal.
Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, Khibina
massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See
Image.

Shcherbinaite Image

Images: Shcherbinaite

Comments: Yellow-brown acicular crystals
of shcherbinaite.
size 1.4 mm.

Sherwoodite Image

Images: Sherwoodite

Comments: Dark blackish-violet
sherwoodite, altering to translucent green,
crystalline crust.
Location: San Juan County, Colorado, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Shibkovite Image

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Images: Shibkovite Polylithionite

Comments: Clear crystalline shibkovite
aggregates with peach colored
translucent polylithionite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Shigaite Image

Images: Shigaite Pyrochroite

Comments: Bronzy yellow crystals of
shigaite set in a crystalline matrix of reddish
black pychroite.
© John Veevaert

Shigaite Image

Images: Shigaite

Comments: Cluster of sharp, transparent
crystals of brown shigaite to 1.2 cm across.
Location: N'Chwaning mine. South Africa.
Scale: Aggregate size 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Shigaite Image

Images: Shigaite

Comments: Hexagonal aggregate of
orange platy shigaite crystals on a jpale
pink rhodocrosite matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning mine. South Africa.
© Minernet

Shirozulite Image

Images: Shirozulite

Comments: Back-scattered-electron
image of shirozulite. Shr = shirozulite; Tp =
tephroite; Ap = apatite; Rds =
rhodochrosite; Bm = bementite. (AmMin,
89:233).
Location: Tauchi mine, Aichi Prefecture,

Shkatulkalite Image

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Images: Shkatulkalite Mangan-neptunite

Comments: Pearly white shkatulkalite with
brown mangan-neptunite grains.

Shortite Image

Images: Shortite

Comments: Colorless crystal of shortite on
matrix.
Location: Green River Formation,
Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. Scale:
Picture size 6 mm.

Shortite Image

Images: Shortite

Click Here Comments: Triangular shortite crystal in
kerogenaceous dolomitic marlstone from the
for Larger saline zone in the Green River Formation.
Image Location: Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming,
USA. Scale: Crystal Size 2 mm.

Shuiskite Image

Images: Shuiskite

Comments: Acicular shuiskite microcrystal
sprays with epidote and prehnite.
Location: Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton
Mineral Species

Sibirskite Image

Images: Sibirskite

Comments: Translucent granular sibirskite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Sicklerite Image

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Images: Sicklerite Lithiophilite

Comments: Mottled tan-green-pink
massive sicklerite with dark brown
lithiophilite on quartz.
Location: Custer Mountain Lode, Custer
Photo.
Mineral Species

Siderazot Image

Images: Siderazot

Comments: Bluish siderazot coatings on
scoria lava rock.
Mineral Species

Siderite Image

Images: Siderite Arsenopyrite

Comments: White, metallic arsenopyrite
and tan siderite crystals.
Location: Panasqueira (2000, 3rd lev el), in
the region of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale:
11 x 7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Siderite Image

Images: Siderite

Comments: Blocky siderite crystals on quartz.
Location: Panasqueira (2nd level), in the region
of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale: 7 x 8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Siderite Image

Images: Siderite

Comments: Bladed siderite crystal groups
on crystallized quartz matrix.
Location: Peyrebrune, Tarn, France. Scale:
8.7 x 6.5 x 4.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Siderite Image

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Images: Siderite Garronite

Comments: Translucent white micro
crystals of garronite on brown siderite
crystals.
Mineral Species

Sideronatrite Image

Images: Sideronatrite

Comments: Golden yellow acicular sprays
of sideronatrite crystals on matrix.
Location: Sulfur pit, Crescent Valley,
Nevada, USA. Scale: 6 x 5 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert

Siderophyllite Image

Images: Siderophyllite

Comments: Micaceous siderophyllite with
quartz.
Location: Karaoba, Aktjubinsk, Kazakhstan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Siderotil Image

Images: Siderotil

Comments: Siderotil pseudomorphs after
melanterite.
Location: 2700' level, Campbell Shaft,
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sidorenkite Image

Images: Sidorenkite

Comments: Dark brown sidorenkite masses
in syenite rock.
Mineral Species

Sidwillite Image

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Images: Sidwillite

Comments: Thin olive-green sidwillite
coatings on quartz crystals.
Location: Lake Como, Summit County,
Mineral Species

Siegenite Image

Images: Siegenite

Comments: Equant, dark gray, metallic
crystals of siegenite on matrix.
Location: LaMotte mine, Fredericktown,
Madison County, Missouri, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Siegenite Image

Images: Siegenite Cattierite

Comments: Pinkish metallic cattierite,
intergrown with gray siegenite.
Mineral Species

Sigloite Image

Images: Sigloite Vauxite

Comments: Lime green, crystalline
aggregate of sigloite on massive, blue
vauxite.
Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department,
Boliv ia. Scale: Not Giv en.

Silhydrite Image

Images: Silhydrite

Comments: Fine grained massive silhydrite.
Location: Near Rome, Oregon, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Silicon Image

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Images: Silicon Moissanite

of metallic inclusion in moissanite (SiC). The
gray shading in the BSE mage consists
mainly of pure silicon (Si metal). The
brighter areas are composed of Fe-silicide.
(AmMin, 88:1818).
area. Scale: Scalebar 200 µ-m.

Sillenite Image

Images: Sillenite

Comments: Greenish to yellowish grains of
sill?nite in matrix.

Sillimanite Image

Images: Sillimanite

Comments: Silky massive sillimanite.
Location: Khasia Hills, Assum, India. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Silver Image

Images: Silver Gold

Comments: Very well crystallized Electrum
(Silver rich gold) on quartz. The analysis
gave 31.47% silv er.
Location: Verespatak (now Rosia
Montana), Transylvania, Romania. Scale:
2.8 x 3.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Silver Image

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Images: Silver

Comments: Numerous fine, silver wires to 4 mm
in diameter attached to a matrix of massiv e
white calcite and minor sulfides.
Location: Himmelsfahrt mine, near Freiberg,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: 4 x 4.5 x 6 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Silver Image

Images: Silver Stephanite

Comments: Thick, ropy, nativ e silv er wires
with blocky, well-crystallized stephanite on
white and tan calcite matrix.
Location: Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Alemania, Germay. Scale: Picture size 3
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Silver Image

Images: Silver Mckinstryite

mckinstryite with wire silver.
Location: Peregrina Mine, Guanajuato,
Mineral Species

Simmonsite Image

Images: Simmonsite

Comments: Backscattered electron
images of primary assemblage of cryolite-
cryolithionite (cl) simmonsite (sm) and trace
elpasolite (ep). (AmMin, v 84, p 770).
Location: Zapot amazonite-topaz-
zinnwaldite pegmatite located in the Gillis
Range, Mineral Co., Nev ada, USA. Scale:
See Image.

Simonellite Image

Images: Simonellite

Comments: Colorless to white Simonellite
on fossil wood.
Location: Fognano, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 6 mm.

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Simonkolleite Image

Images: Simonkolleite

Comments: Very small colorless crystals
with hexagonal shape of simonkolleite.
Location: Richelsdorf Smelter, S?ss,
Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany. Scale:

Simpsonite Image

Images: Simpsonite

Comments: Translucent pale pink
simpsonite crystal fragment.
Location: Alto do Giz, Equidor, Rio Grande
do Sol, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sincosite Image

Images: Sincosite Minyulite

Comments: Pale greenish white acicular
radial sprays of minyulite to 8mm with
small, green, tabular sincosite.
Location: Ross Hannibal mine, Lawrence
County, South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 2
cm.

Sincosite Image

Images: Sincosite

Comments: Tabular single crystals of
sincosite to 2 mm on drusy quartz.
Location: Ross Hannibal Mine, Lawrence
Co., South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size
1.5 cm.

Sinhalite Image

Images: Sinhalite

Comments: Crystalline sinhalite in white
marble.
Mineral Species

Sinkankasite Image

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Images: Sinkankasite

Comments: White crystalline spray of
acicular sinkankasite to 1mm on matrix.
Location: Barker mine, Keystone,

Sinnerite Image

Images: Sinnerite

Comments: Blackish-grey aggregate of sinnerite
crystals with red realgar on white dolomite.
© Walter Gabriel

Sitinakite Image

Images: Sitinakite

Comments: Beige translucent crudely
formed sitinakite (arrow) crystal with white
natrolite and dark, acicular aegirine.
Mineral Species

Sjogrenite Image

Images: Sjogrenite

Comments: Red-brown sjogrenite crust on
serpentinite rock.
Location: Fort Point, San Francisco County,
Mineral Species

Skaergaardite Image

Images: Skaergaardite

Comments: (e) A euhedral crystal of
skaergaardite exhibiting the form cube
{100} (possibly distorted) included in a
bornite-chalcocite i(BN+CC) grain. (f)
bornite (BN)+ chalcopyrite (CP)
microglobule with a skaergaardite cube
with rounded edges. (MinMag 68:615).
Location: Drill core taken from the
Skaergaard intrusion, Kangerdlugssuaq
area, East Greenland. Scale: See Image.

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Skinnerite Image

Images: Skinnerite

Comments: Dark gray skinnerite on matrix.
Location: Bankove, Kosice,
Vychodoslov ensky, Slovakia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Sklodowskite Image

Images: Sklodowskite

Comments: Yellow cotton-ball spray of
acicular sklodowskite.

Sklodowskite Image

Images: Sklodowskite Kasolite

Comments: Greenish yellow, acicular
sklodowskite crystals and yellow, bladed
kasolite crystals.
Picture size 1 cm.

Skutterudite Image

Images: Skutterudite Erythrite

Comments: Erythrite crystal on massive
skutterudite.
© John Veevaert

Skutterudite Image

Images: Skutterudite

Comments: Cubic crystals of Skutterudite
on matrix.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mountains,
Morrocco. Scale: Not Given.

Skutterudite Image

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Images: Skutterudite

Comments: Bright, untarnished, metallic
crystals of skutterudite up to 1 cm.
Picture size 3 cm.
© Minernet

Slavikite Image

Images: Slavikite

Comments: Bubbly slavikite crust.
Location: Smolnicka Huta,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Slawsonite Image

Images: Slawsonite

Comments: White crystalline slawsonite in
rock.
Location: Sarisaka, Kagami, Kochi, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Smithite Image

Images: Smithite

Comments: Spheric, pseudo-hexagonal,
reddish crystal of smithite with a gray
sulfosalt on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Smithsonite Image

Images: Smithsonite Creedite

Comments: Purple transparent crystals of
creedite to 6 mm on matrix of creamy
botryoidal crystalline smithsonite.
Location: Level 8 San Antonio mine, Santa
Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: 7 x 3.5 x
2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Smithsonite Image

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Images: Smithsonite

Comments: Twinned crystals of smithsonite
on matrix.

Smithsonite Image

Images: Smithsonite Murdochite

Comments: Dark metallic micro crystals of
murdochite on pale blue-gray smithsonite
crystal covered matrix.
Location: Silver Hill Mine group, Silv er Hill,
Waterman District, Waterman Mts, Pima

Smithsonite Image

Images: Smithsonite

Comments: Yellow, cadmian-bearing
smithsonite crystalline aggregate.
Location: Rush Mine in Marion County,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 11 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Smolianinovite Image

Images: Smolianinovite

Comments: Tan to brown smolianinovite
pseudomorphs after cobaltite crystals, with
erythrite and tarnished cobaltite.
Location: Mount Cobalt, Cloncurry,
Queensland, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Smrkovecite Image

Images: Smrkovecite

Comments: Waxy smrkovecite botryoids in
vuggy quartz.
Location: Smrkovec, Zapadocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Sobolevite Image

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Images: Sobolevite

sobolevite cleavage.
Location: Mount Alluaiv, Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sobolevskite Image

Images: Sobolevskite Atokite

image showing a) intergrowth of atokite,
mertieite-II [Pd8Sb3] and telluroan
sobolevskite [(Pd,Pt)(Bi,Te)] within tetra-
auricupride rim. (CanMin, v 42, p 611).
Scale: See Image.

Sodalite Image

Images: Sodalite Perovskite

Comments: Clear crystals of sodalite with
hoppered perovskite on matrix.

Sodalite Image

Images: Sodalite Winchite

Comments: Purple sodalite with some
crystal faces, supporting a very sharp,
transparent winchite crystal, terminated on
one end.
Location: Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley,
Badakshan Province, Afghanistan. Scale:
11x10x8 mm.

Soddyite Image

Images: Soddyite

Comments: Yellow crystals of soddyite.
Location: Swambo mine, Mindingi, Shaba,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: Not
Given.

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Soddyite Image

Images: Soddyite

Comments: Blocky, tabular crystals of
yellow soddyite.
Location: Swambo (Kambove), Shaba
size 2 mm.

Sodium-zippeite Image

Images: Sodium-zippeite

Comments: Yellow encrustations of
sodium-zippeite on matrix.
Location: Kovagoszolos, Mecsek Mts., Pecs
Co., Hungary. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.

Sogdianite Image

Images: Sogdianite

Comments: Somewhat greasy to v itreous
massive sogdianite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sohngeite Image

Images: Sohngeite

Comments: Minute, pale yellow sohngeite
crystals to less than 0.2mm on matrix.
Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb , Namibia.

Sonolite Image

Images: Sonolite

Comments: Dark red anhedral grains of
sonolite in matrix.
Location: Crouse mine, Bald Knob,
Alleghany Co., North Carolina, USA. Scale:

Sonoraite Image

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Images: Sonoraite

Comments: Lime green crystalline
aggregate of sonoraite.
Location: Joe Shaft, Tombstone, Cochise

Sophiite Image

Images: Sophiite

Comments: White, tabular crystal of
sophiite in matrix.
Picture size 1 mm.

Sorbyite Image

Images: Sorbyite

Comments: Gray metallic sorbyite stringers
in white quartz.
Location: Candelaria, Mineral County,
Mineral Species

Sorensenite Image

Images: Sorensenite

sorensenite crystals and crystalline in dark
aegirine.
Location: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq,
Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sorensenite Image

Images: Sorensenite

Comments: Lght pink, prismatic crystals of
sorensite to 5mm in dark green aegerine
matrix.
Location: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq,
Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

Sorosite Image

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Images: Sorosite Tin Stistaite

image of large sorosite crystal (So=partly
skeletal) adjacent to stistaite (St). Tn=native
tin. Note abundant microcrystals of sorosite
isolated within nativ e tin. (AmMin 83:903).
Location: Baimka gold-platinum group
mineral placer deposit, Chukotka, Russian
Far East. Scale: Image Size 1.5 cm.

Souzalite Image

Images: Souzalite

Comments: Blue-gray radial sprays of
souzalite in brown siderite.
Mineral Species

Spadaite Image

Images: Spadaite

Comments: Tan mottled silky fibrous
spadaite, slightly flexible coatings.
Location: Palos Verdes Hills, Los Angeles
Mineral Species

Spangolite Image

Images: Spangolite

Comments: Blue, hexagonal (trigonal)
crystals of spangolite on matrix.
Location: Blanchard mine, Bingham,
Socorro County, New Mexico, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Spencerite Image

Images: Spencerite

Comments: Pale green pearly translucent
spencerite, with divergent structure.
Location: Salmo, Nelson Mining District,
British Columbia, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Sperrylite Image

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Images: Sperrylite

Comments: Tin-white grain of sperrylite in
chalcopyrite matrix.
Location: Vermillion mine, Sudbury, Ontario,

Sperrylite Image

Images: Sperrylite

Comments: Brilliant, mirror-like modified
octahedral crystals of sperrylite to 1.3 cm
on chalcopyrite matrix..
Location: Talnak deposit, near Noril'sk,
Russia. Scale: 4.4 x 2.3 x 2cm.

Sperrylite Image

Images: Sperrylite Cabriite

Comments: Small crystal of dull gray
cabriite on a larger tin-white sperrylite
crystal.
Location: Dzhezhazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:
© John Veevaert

Spertiniite Image

Images: Spertiniite

Comments: Sparse blue spertiniite on
serpentinite rock.
Location: Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos,
Mineral Species

Spessartine Image

Images: Spessartine

Comments: Dodecahedral crystal of
spessartine garnet on matrix.
Location: Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan,
Northern Areas, Pakastan. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Sphaerobertrandite Image

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Images: Sphaerobertrandite

Comments: White to pale brownish, radial-
concentric aggregates of
sphaerobertrandite.
Location: Sengischorr Mt, Lovozero Massif,
mm.

Sphaerocobaltite Image

Images: Sphaerocobaltite

Comments: Calcite with numerous crystals
of red sphaerocobaltite to 3 mm across.
Location: Kamoto Mine, Mashamba,
Katanga, Dem. Rep. of the Congo. Scale:
© John Veevaert

Sphaerocobaltite Image

Images: Sphaerocobaltite Vladimirite

v ladimirite microcrystals with pink
sphaerocobaltite.
Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou Azzer,
Mineral Species

Sphalerite Image

Images: Sphalerite

Comments: Highly lustrous, black, complex
sphalerite crystals to 15 mm in size
completely covering the top of a sulfide
matrix.
Location: Nanisiv ik mine, Baffin Island,
Northwest Territories, Canada. Scale: 6.5 x
7.5 x 1.8 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Sphalerite Image

Images: Sphalerite Ankerite Dickite

on beige dickite.
© Dave Barthelmy

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Sphalerite Image

Images: Sphalerite Baumhauerite-2a

Comments: Dark crystal of baumhauerite-2a
(same shape as baumhauerite) with oliv e-green
transparent sphalerite crystal on white dolomite.
Switzerland. Scale: Picture 2 cm tall.
© Walter Gabriel

Spinel Image

Images: Spinel

Comments: Spinel on white marble.
Location: Mogok, Myanmar. Scale: 2.2 x 1.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Spionkopite Image

Images: Spionkopite Yarrowite

Comments: Blue-black metallic granular
spionkopite, intermixed with yarrowite
altering, with quartz.
Location: Yarrow Creek, Alberta, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Spionkopite Image

Images: Spionkopite Yarrowite

Comments: Blue-gray metallic yarrowite
grains in granular quartz rock with
spionkopite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Spiroffite Image

Images: Spiroffite

Comments: Milky yellow crystalline
aggregate of Spiroffite on matrix.
Location: Moctezuma mine, Sonora,

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Spodumene Image

Images: Spodumene

Comments: Stacked crystals of Spodumene (Var.
Kunzite).
Location: Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
Crystal size 7 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Spriggite Image

Images: Spriggite

Comments: Secondary electron microscope
image of spriggite crystals and twins.
(AmMin, 89:341).
Location: Number 2 workings, Radium Ridge,
Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Scale: See Image.

Spurrite Image

Images: Spurrite Bredigite

Comments: White veins of bredigite in
massive gray spurrite (slabbed specimen).
Location: Camphouse, Ardnamurchan,
Argyll, Highland, Scotland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Spurrite Image

Images: Spurrite

Comments: Dark to light purple massive
spurrite (cut face).
Location: South Sister Peak, Tres Hermanas
Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Srebrodolskite Image

Images: Srebrodolskite Periclase

Comments: Black grains of srebrodolskite
with white periclase.
size 2 mm.

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Srilankite Image

Images: Srilankite

srilankite (Sri) - rutile (Rt) - ilmenite (Ilm)
composite grain (AmMin, v 89, p 761).
Location: Atlantis II Fracture Zone,
Southwest Indian Ridge, Southern Indian
Ocean. Scale: See Image.

Stanleyite Image

Images: Stanleyite Patronite

Comments: Blue crystalline stanleyite on
dark patronite.
Location: Minas Ragra, Junin, Peru. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Stannite Image

Images: Stannite

Comments: Stannite crystal cluster at the
base of a quartz crystal.
Location: Yaogangxian mine, Hunan,
China. Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.
© John Attard

Stannite Image

Images: Stannite Zinkenite

Comments: Acicular crystals of zinkenite perched on
a twinned, crystal of stannite.
Location: Mina San Jos?, Oruro, Boliv ia. Scale: 4 x 2.3
x 1.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Stannomicrolite Image

Images: Stannomicrolite Stokesite

Comments: Stokesite "ball" composed of
lath-like tan or clear crystals with several
micro crystals of yellow stannomicrolite.
Location: Urucum mine, Galileia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.2 cm.

Starkeyite Image

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Images: Starkeyite

Comments: Translucent starkeyite on rock.
Location: Barvue Mine, Barv ille, Quebec,
Mineral Species

Staurolite Image

Images: Staurolite

Comments: Cruciform twinned staurolite
crystals without matrix.
Location: Marble, Cherokee Co., North
Carolina, USA. Scale: 3x2.5x1.5 cm.

Steacyite Image

Images: Steacyite

Comments: Square prismatic crystal of
steacyite on acicular aegirine.

Steenstrupine-(Ce) Image

Images: Steenstrupine-(Ce)

Comments: Dark gray, coarse grained,
elongated crystals of steenstrupine-(Ce) in
matrix.
Location: Kvanefield, Ilimanssaq,
Greenland. Scale: Specimen Size 5.6 cm.

Steigerite Image

Images: Steigerite

Comments: Earthy yellow steigerite masses
on sandstone.
Location: Yellow Cat District, Grand
Mineral Species

Stellerite Image

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Images: Stellerite

Comments: Hemispherical crystal cluster
35 mm diameter of white stellerite crystals
in a pocket lined with drusy quartz.
Location: Pune (Poonah), Maharashtra,

Stellerite Image

Images: Stellerite

Comments: Orange, blocky crystalline
stellerite aggregate.
Location: Tambar Springs, New South
Wales, Australia. Scale: Picture size 6x4 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Stenonite Image

Images: Stenonite

Comments: White nearly opaque stenonite
with minor pyrite grains.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Stepanovite Image

Images: Stepanovite

Comments: Translucent yellow crystalline
stepanovite fragment.
Location: Chai-Tumus, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species

Stephanite Image

Images: Stephanite

Comments: Group of steel gray lustrous stephanite
crystals to 8 mm in diameter. Caleb Simkoff
Collection.
Location: Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Scale: 10 x
12 x 23 mm.
© Dan Weinrich

Stephanite Image

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Images: Stephanite Silver

Comments: Thick, ropy, nativ e silv er wires
with blocky, well-crystallized stephanite on
white and tan calcite matrix.
Location: Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Alemania, Germay. Scale: Picture size 3
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Sterryite Image

Images: Sterryite

Comments: Back prismatic sterryite
microcrystals and massive in white calcite.
Location: Taylor Pit, Madoc, Ontario,
Mineral Species

Stetefeldtite Image

Images: Stetefeldtite

Comments: Light yellow, massive, earthy
stetefeldtite aggregates.
Location: Snyder Hill Mine, Tucson
Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona, USA. Scale:
2.5x2x1cm.

Stevensite Image

Images: Stevensite

Comments: Granular massive stevensite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Stewartite Image

Images: Stewartite Rockbridgeite

Comments: Pointed, brownish yellow
stewartite crystals on massive, dark
rockbridgeite.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Stibarsen Image

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Images: Stibarsen

Comments: Massive Stibarsen.
Location: Bohemia, Czechoslov akia. Scale:
3 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Stibiconite Image

Images: Stibiconite

Comments: Yellowish druses of microscopic
stibiconite pseudomorphic after sharply
terminated stibnite crystals.
Location: Xi Kuang Shang mine, Len Shui Jiang,
Hunan Province, China. Scale: 31x11x8 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Stibiopalladinite Image

Images: Stibiopalladinite

Comments: Gray metallic stibiopalladinite,
with bronze tarnish, flattened crystal grains.
Location: Choco, Columbia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Stibiotantalite Image

Images: Stibiotantalite

Comments: Translucent stibiotantalite
crystal.
Location: Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande,
San Diego County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Stibivanite Image

Images: Stibivanite

Comments: Green crystals of stibivanite on
matrix.
Location: Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema
(Ponte Stazzemese), Versilia, Apuan Alps,
Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:

Stibnite Image

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Images: Stibnite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of metallic-
lustered stibnite.
Location: Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijang,
Hunan Prov ince, China. Scale: Crystal size
5-10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Stichtite Image

Images: Stichtite

Comments: Massive, fibrous, lavender-
purple stichtite.
Location: Kaapsche Hoop, Barberton
District, Mpumalanga Province, South
Africa. Scale: 5x3x2 cm.

Stilbite Image

Images: Stilbite Apophyllite
Hydroxyapophyllite

cav ity.
© Dave Barthelmy

Stilbite Image

Images: Stilbite Fluorapophyllite
Apophyllite

stilbite.
© Fabre Minerals

Stilbite-Ca Image

Images: Stilbite-Ca

Comments: Tabular, honey-colored stilbite
(stilbite-Ca?) crystals on matrix.
Location: Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia.
Scale: Not Given.

Stilbite-Ca Image

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Images: Stilbite-Ca Thomsonite-Ca

Comments: Peach colored stilbite crystals
to 3.5 cm in size is hosting two finely
crystallized balls of powdery white
thomsonite.
Location: Near Jalgaon, Maharashtra
State, India. Scale: Picture size 15 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Stilpnomelane Image

Images: Stilpnomelane

Comments: Golden metallic scaly
stilpnomelane on pink orthoclase.
Location: French Creek No. 2 Mine, near
Saint Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania,
Mineral Species

Stistaite Image

Images: Stistaite

Comments: Minute stistaite crystal.
Location: Edjej River, Kyrgyzstan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Stistaite Image

Images: Stistaite Sorosite Tin


Stokesite Image

Images: Stokesite

Comments: Colorless transparent stokesite
microcrystal in albite.
Location: Corrego do Urucum, Galileia,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Stokesite Image

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Images: Stokesite

Comments: Thick, tabular crystals of stokesite,
perched atop a 2 cm sphere of feldspar
crystals.
Location: Corrego do Urucum, near Galilea,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.3 x 2.5 x 2 cm.
© Rob Lav insky

Stokesite Image

Images: Stokesite Stannomicrolite

Comments: Stokesite "ball" composed of
lath-like tan or clear crystals with several
micro crystals of yellow stannomicrolite.
Location: Urucum mine, Galileia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.2 cm.

Stolzite Image

Images: Stolzite

Comments: White stolzite crystals on matrix.
Location: Tuena mine, New South Wales,

Straczekite Image

Images: Straczekite

Comments: Greenish-black, prismatic-
acicular crystals of straczekite.
Location: Union Carbide Mine, Wilson
Springs (Potash Sulfur Springs), Garland Co.,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.

Stranskiite Image

Images: Stranskiite

Comments: Blue fibrous Stranskiite veinlets
in white quartz.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Strashimirite Image

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Images: Strashimirite

Comments: Green, radial sprays of
acicular strashimirite crystals on matrix.
County, Nevada. Scale: Not Given.

Stratlingite Image

Images: Stratlingite

Comments: Transparent blue-tinted platy
stratlingite crystal aggregate in v ug.
Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pfalz,
Mineral Species

Strengite Image

Images: Strengite

Comments: Pink, bladed, stellate spray of strengite
crystals on matrix.
Location: Indian Mountain, Cherokee County,
Alabama, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Strengite Image

Images: Strengite Cacoxenite

Comments: Lilac colored, spear-head
shape crystals of strengite to 5mm in large,
open vug associated with golden fibrous
cacoxenite.
Location: Coon Creek, Polk Co., Arkansas,

Strengite Image

Images: Strengite Kidwellite

Comments: Spherical, crystalline aggregate of
purple strengite on green kidwellite.
Location: Three Oak Gap, Polk Co., Arkansas,

Stringhamite Image

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Images: Stringhamite Wollastonite-1A

Comments: Rounded aggregate of dark
blue stringhamite crystals on bladed, white
wollastonite.

Stromeyerite Image

Images: Stromeyerite

Comments: 1.5 cm spray of hair-like
Stromeyerite crystals on quartz and calcite
matrix.
Location: Vrancice near Pribram, Czech
Republic. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Stronalsite Image

Images: Stronalsite Jadeite

Comments: White stronalsite veinlets in
massiv e pale green jadeite.
Location: Ohasa, Okayama, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Strontianite Image

Images: Strontianite

Comments: Lustrous, white strontianite crystals
covering all sides of matrix. The strontianite
fluoresces bright blue-white under UV
illumination.
Location: Lime City Quarry, Lime City, Wood
Co., Ohio, USA. Scale: 6x5x4 cm.

Strontiodresserite Image

Images: Strontiodresserite

Comments: Opaque white spherical
strontiodresserite, with radial structure.
Mineral Species

Strontiojoaquinite Image

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Images: Strontiojoaquinite

Comments: Yellow, pointed crystals of
Strontiojoaquinite on matrix.
Location: Mina Numero Uno, San Benito

Strontiowhitlockite Image

Images: Strontiowhitlockite Bobierrite

Comments: Pale white to pink fine grained
strontiowhitlockite with bobierrite.
Location: Kov dor Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species

Strunzite Image

Images: Strunzite

Comments: Acicular, stellate sprays of
strunzite crystals on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Struverite Image

Images: Struverite

Comments: Struverite crystal in white
feldspar.
Location: Pisek, Jihocesky, Czech Republic.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Struvite Image

Images: Struvite

Comments: Opaque, white crystal struvite
aggregates in earthy matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Studenitsite Image

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Images: Studenitsite

studenitsite micro fragment.
Location: Piskanja, Srbija, Yugoslavia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Studtite Image

Images: Studtite Billietite

Comments: Acicular, white sprays of
studtite crystals on yellow, tabular billietite.

Sturmanite Image

Images: Sturmanite

Comments: Sharply terminated dark
yellowish crystal of sturmanite with a few
lesser crystals attached to one side.
Location: N'Chwaning mine, Kalahari
South Africa. Scale: 17 x 10 x 16 mm.
© Dan Weinrich

Sturtite Image

Images: Sturtite

Comments: Dark red-brown resinous
massiv e sturtite.
Location: North Mine, Broken Hill, New
South Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Stutzite Image

Images: Stutzite

Comments: Dull black stutzite grains in
white-green calcite.
Mineral Species

Suanite Image

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Images: Suanite

Comments: Dark olive green nearly
opaque suanite cleavage.
Location: Houxianya, Yingkou, Liaoning,
China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sudoite Image

Images: Sudoite Manganite

Comments: Pinkish to nearly white earthy
sudoite with dark manganite.
Location: Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Erfurt district,
size 4 mm.

Sugilite Image

Images: Sugilite Effenbergerite

Comments: Blue effenbergerite pods to
across in massive purple sugilite.
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert

Sugilite Image

Images: Sugilite Pectolite

Comments: Sharp terminated purple
crystals of sugilite to 5mm on white,
acicular pectolite.
Africa. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Sulfoborite Image

Images: Sulfoborite

sulfoborite crystal.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sulfur Image

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Images: Sulfur Coccinite

Comments: Orange-red coccinite on sulfur.
Due to the volatility of the mineral at room
temperature, the sample is preserved in a
the vial, therefore the sharpness is
reduced.

Sulfur Image

Images: Sulfur

Comments: Single complex crystal of sulfur on
white, sucrosic aragonite.
Location: Girgenti, Sicily, Italy. Scale: Crystal size
4.5.
© John Veevaert

Sulfur Image

Images: Sulfur Metastibnite

Comments: Red coatings of metastibnite
with yellow sulfur.
Mineral Species

Sulphohalite Image

Images: Sulphohalite

Comments: Octahedral sulphohalite
crystal.
Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Sulphotsumoite Image

Images: Sulphotsumoite

Comments: Dark gray sulphotsumoite,
tarnishing, foliated in milky quartz.
Location: Mina de la Carcel, Zacatecas,
Mineral Species

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Sulvanite Image

Images: Sulvanite

Comments: Cubic grains of bronze-gray
sulvanite crystals in marble.
Location: Val Bona quarry, Carrara, Italy.
© Dave Barthelmy

Sundiusite Image

Images: Sundiusite

Comments: Clear to white platy crystals to
1mm covering Hausmannite matrix.

Suolunite Image

Images: Suolunite

Comments: Translucent massive suolunite.
Location: Oman. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Suredaite Image

Images: Suredaite

Comments: Silvery metallic columnar
suredaite in matrix.
Location: Pirquitas Mine, Jujuy, Argentina.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Suredaite Image

Images: Suredaite

Comments: BSE image of a large zoned
crystal of suredaite, chemically SU-3,
surrounded (replaced) by SU-2. White is
skeletal galena. (AmMin 85:1068).
Location: Pirquitas Ag-Sn deposit (Province
Jujuy, NW-Argentina). Scale: See Image.

Surite Image

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Images: Surite

Comments: Pearly white, almost
micaceous surite crystals on vuggy matrix
with yellow cerussite.
Location: Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine,
Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1 cm.

Sursassite Image

Images: Sursassite

Comments: Coppery-red colored silky
fibrous sursassite vein with white quartz in
rock.
Location: Strategic Manganese Mine, near
Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sussexite Image

Images: Sussexite

Comments: Red resinous sussexite in ore
matrix.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Svabite Image

Images: Svabite

Comments: Prismatic white crystals of
svabite on matrix.

Svanbergite Image

Images: Svanbergite

Comments: Milky white dolomite with
scattered cinnamon brown crystals of
svanbergite to 2 mm across.
Location: Mt. Brussilof Mine, near Radium,
British Columbia, Canada. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Svyazhinite Image

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Images: Svyazhinite

Comments: Granular svyazhinite
aggregate.
Location: Chelyabinsk Coal Basin, Kopeisk,
Chelyabinsk District, Southern Urals, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Swamboite Image

Images: Swamboite

Comments: Yellow crystals of Swamboite
to 0.5 mm across.
Location: Swambo, Katanga, Dem. Rep. of
the Congo. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Swartzite Image

Images: Swartzite

Comments: Pale yellow powdery
swartzite, intermixed with gypsum on schist
rock.
Location: Hillside Mine, Bagdad, Yavapai
Mineral Species

Swedenborgite Image

Images: Swedenborgite

Comments: Water clear, prismatic crystal
of swedenborgite on matrix. Under UV light
it glows intense blue.

Sweetite Image

Images: Sweetite

Comments: A white, pseudocubic crystal
of sweetite.
Location: Milltown Quarry, Ashover,
Derbyshire, England, UK. Scale: Picture size
1.4 mm.

Swinefordite Image

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Images: Swinefordite

Comments: Dark green leathery
swinefordite coating on pegmatite.
Location: Foote Mine, King's Mountain,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Switzerite Image

Images: Switzerite

Comments: Pale brown sub-metallic thin
platy switzerite coatings.
Location: Foote Mine, King's Mountain,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Sylvanite Image

Images: Sylvanite

Comments: Flat-lying, metallic crystallized
sylv anite on a quartz rich matrix. Caleb
Simkoff Collection.
Location: Sacaramb (Nagyag),
Transylv ania, Romania. Scale: 7.5 x 8.5 x 4
cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Sylvite Image

Images: Sylvite

Comments: Translucent sylvite crystal
cluster, somewhat deliquescent.
Location: F.O. Kailwerk, Sigmundshall, near
Wunstorf, Niedersachsen, Germany. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Symplesite Image

Images: Symplesite

Comments: Fan-shaped spray of acicular
symplesite on matrix.
Location: Saubachthal, Saxony, Germany.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Synchysite-(Ce) Image

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Images: Synchysite-(Ce) Cordylite-(Ce)

cordylite-(Ce) on light brownish
synchysite-(Ce).
Location: Narss?rssuk (Narsarsuk), Igaliko,
Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.

Synchysite-(Ce) Image

Images: Synchysite-(Ce)

Comments: Prismatic crystals of
synchysite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Kaiserer quarry, Raurisertal,
Salzburg, Austria. Scale: Not Given.

Synchysite-(Y) Image

Images: Synchysite-(Y)

Comments: Small thin tabular crystals of
synchysite-(Y) in a vug.
Location: Cuasso da Monte, Varese
province, Lombardy, Italy. Scale: Picture
size 3 mm.

Syngenite Image

Images: Syngenite

Comments: Opaque platy crystal
syngenite rosette on massive white halite.
Location: Sigmundshall Mine, Bokelch,
Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Szaibelyite Image

Images: Szaibelyite Borcarite

Comments: Pale aqua granular borcarite
with white fibrous to granular szaibelyite.
Location: Nalednoya, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species

Szaibelyite Image

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Images: Szaibelyite Kainite

Comments: pale violet granular kainite
intermixed with white ascharite
(szaibelyite).
Location: Havesa, Empelde, Hannover,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Szaibelyite Image

Images: Szaibelyite

Comments: Bright white fibrous szaibelyite
coating on serpentinite rock.
Location: Stinson Beach, Marin County,
Mineral Species

Szenicsite Image

Images: Szenicsite

Comments: Deep green szenicsite crystals
on siliceous green to brown jasperoid.
Location: Jardinera #1 Mine, Atacama
Province, Chile. Scale: 6.2 x 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Szmikite Image

Images: Szmikite

Comments: Tan translucent szmikite.
Location: Calumet Mine, Galena Hill, Yukon
Territory, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Szomolnokite Image

Images: Szomolnokite Voltaite

Comments: Whitish crystalline crust of voltaite
on crystals of brown szomolnokite.
Location: Alcaparrosa Mine, Cerritos Bayos,
© John Veevaert

Szomolnokite Image

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Images: Szomolnokite Halotrichite

Comments: Tan powdery szomolnokite
crust on silky fibrous halotrichite with yellow
metavoltine.
Location: Markey Mine, Red Canyon, San
Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species


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Taaffeite Image

Images: Taaffeite Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S

Comments: Faucetted purple
magnesiotaaffeite. These specimens are
very rare and un-cut samples ev er rarer..
Location: Ceylon gem grav els, Ratnapura,
Sri Lanka. Scale: See Image.
© Dave Barthelmy

Tacharanite Image

Images: Tacharanite Phillipsite

Comments: Spherical tacharanite
aggregates on phillipsite crystals.
Location: Espalion, Aveyron, France. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tachyhydrite Image

Images: Tachyhydrite

Comments: Translucent pink tinted
granular tachyhydrite.
Mineral Species

Taenite Image

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Images: Taenite Troilite Cohenite
Kamacite

Photo.
Mineral Species

Taenite Image

Images: Taenite Kamacite Troilite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Taenite Image

Images: Taenite

Comments: Massive taenite, altering,
intermixed with kamacite, in meteorite.
Location: Agtalilik Meteorite, Melv ille Bay,
Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Taimyrite Image

Images: Taimyrite Atokite

Comments: Photomicrograph (oil
immersion) of atokite and taimyrite
intergrowth inside tetraauricupride reaction
rim on Pt-Fe alloy. Outlined section shows
atokite relics within taimyrite. (CanMin, v 42,
p 610).
Khabarov skiy Kray, eastern Siberia, Russia,.
Scale: See Image.

Tainiolite Image

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Images: Tainiolite

Comments: Micaceous tainiolite aggregate.
Location: Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Takedaite Image

Images: Takedaite

Comments: Translucent granular takedaite.
Location: Fuka, Okayama, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Takeuchiite Image

Images: Takeuchiite

Comments: Aggregates of black prismatic
takeuchiite crystals.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Takovite Image

Images: Takovite

Comments: Aqua-colored takov ite on
rock.
Mineral Species

Talc Image

Images: Talc

Comments: White Talc pseudomorphous
after quartz.
Location: Johannezeche, Bavaria,

Talmessite Image

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Images: Talmessite

Comments: Pale green, crystalline
aggregates of talmessite on reddish,
hematite-stained calcite.
Location: Ourlil, Bou Azzer, Anti Atlas Mts.,
© John Veevaert

Talmessite Image

Images: Talmessite

talmessite microcrystals.
Location: Old Gold Hill Mine, Tooele
Mineral Species

Talmessite Image

Images: Talmessite

Comments: Vivid pink-colored talmessite
crystalline aggregates scattered on matrix.
Picture size 2 cm.

Talnakhite Image

Images: Talnakhite

Comments: Tarnished brown talnakhite
with brassy chalcopyrite.
Location: Talnakh Deposit, Norilsk,
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tamarugite Image

Images: Tamarugite Blodite

Comments: Clear, yellow bl?dite with
white tamarugite.

Tamarugite Image

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Images: Tamarugite Metasideronatrite

Comments: Orange metasideronatrite with
white tamarugite.

Tamarugite Image

Images: Tamarugite

Comments: Small white flakes of
Tamarugite.
size 5 mm.

Taneyamalite Image

Images: Taneyamalite

Comments: Dark brown silky fibrous
taneyamalite vein in manganese ore.
Location: Taneyama Mine, Toyo,
Kumamoto, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tangeite Image

Images: Tangeite

Comments: Green. rosette crystalline-aggregates
of tangeite on sandstone matrix.
Location: Thompson, Grand County, Utah, USA.
Scale: Not Given.

Tantalcarbide Image

Images: Tantalcarbide

Comments: Dark gray metallic
tantalcarbide grains in sand.
Location: Nizhnii Tagil Massif, Sverdlovsk
Photo.
Mineral Species

Taramellite Image

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Images: Taramellite

taramellite.
Location: Candoglia, Domo d'Ossola, Val
Toce, Piedmonte, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Taramite Image

Images: Taramite

Comments: Taramite, variety mboziite,
black microcrystal prisms in quartz.
Location: Foyaite Dike, Mbozi Syenite-
Gabbro Complex, 50 miles south of
Mbeya, Mbeya, Tanzania. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Taranakite Image

Images: Taranakite

Comments: Bright white chalky powdery
taranakite mass.
Location: South Farallon Island, near San
Francicso, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tarapacaite Image

Images: Tarapacaite

Comments: Pale brown translucent
tarapacaite, deliquescent granular.
Location: Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tarbuttite Image

Images: Tarbuttite

Comments: Clear, prismatic crystal of
tarbuttite on matrix.
Location: Broken Hill Mine, Kabwe, Central
Zambia. Scale: Not Giv en.

Tarkianite Image

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Images: Tarkianite

Comments: A euhedral grain of tarkianite
associated with sperrylite (Sp) in heav y-
mineral concentrate. Plane-polarized light,
oil immersion, sample 2_72_6.
Location: Sulfide concentrate from Hitura
Ni-Cu-PGE mine, Nivala, western central
Finland. Scale: See Scale Bar.

Tatyanaite Image

Images: Tatyanaite Rustenburgite

images showing inclusions of rustenburgite
intergrown with taimyrite-tatyanaite
aggregates. (AmMin, v 42, p 608).
Scale: See Image.

Tausonite Image

Images: Tausonite

Comments: Brown crystal of tausonite in
matrix.
Location: Murun massif, Chara Riv er,
Davan, Torgo Riv er Basin, Aldan Shield,
mm.

Tavorite Image

Images: Tavorite

Comments: Tabular, prismatic crystals of
tavorite on matrix.
Giv en.

Tavorite Image

Images: Tavorite Hureaulite

Comments: Lime green tavorite micro
crystals with pink, gemmy hureaulite.
Dakota, United States. Scale: Picture size
1.0 cm.

Tazheranite Image

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Images: Tazheranite

Comments: Brown grain of tazheranite in
matrix.
Location: Tazheran Massif, Lake Baikal
area, Irkutskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia

Teallite Image

Images: Teallite

Comments: Gray, metallic v ein of coarsely
crystalline teallite.
Location: Carguaycollo mine (type
locality), Potos? , Bolivia. Scale: 4.5x4x2.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Teepleite Image

Images: Teepleite

Comments: Tan bladed crystals teepleite
on massive halite.
Location: Borax Lake, Lake County,
Mineral Species

Tegengrenite Image

Images: Tegengrenite

Comments: Red, pseudo-octahedral
crystal of tegengrenite in quartz.
Location: Jakobsberg, Nordmark, Filipstad,
V?rmland, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 0.8
mm.

Telargpalite Image

Images: Telargpalite Oulankaite
Tulameenite Chalcopyrite


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Tellurantimony Image

Images: Tellurantimony Mattagamite
Altaite

altaite.
Mineral Species

Tellurite Image

Images: Tellurite Denningite

Comments: Vitreous colorless to very pale
yellowish elongated crystals denningite
with yellow tellurite.

Tellurite Image

Images: Tellurite

Comments: Scaly yellow tellurite on white
quartz.
Mineral Species

Tellurium Image

Images: Tellurium

Comments: Crystalline native tellurium on
quartz.

Tellurium Image

Images: Tellurium Empressite

Comments: Bronze-colored microcrystals
of empressite with bright native tellurium
crystals.
Location: Rex mine, Boulder County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm.

Tellurobismuthite Image

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Images: Tellurobismuthite

Comments: Platy hexagonal metallic
crystals of tellurobismuthite to 3+ mm. in
matrix.
Location: Boliden, Skellefte?, V?sterbotten,
Sweden. Scale: 2.7x1.6x0.7 cm.

Tellurobismuthite Image

Images: Tellurobismuthite

Comments: Metallic tellurobismuthite
crystal fragment.
Location: Boliden, Vasterbotten, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Telluropalladinite Image

Images: Telluropalladinite Kotulskite
Keithconnite

Natural Resources

Temagamite Image

Images: Temagamite Borovskite
Merenskyite

42, p 674).

Tennantite Image

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Images: Tennantite Calcio-
andyrobertsite-1M

Comments: Vein of blue
calcioandyrobertsite in massive dark gray
tennantite. The v ein of
calcioandyrobertsite extends for 0.8cm.
© John Veevaert

Tennantite Image

Images: Tennantite

Comments: Crystals of dark gray tennantite on
white quartz.
Location: Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas,
Mexico. Scale: 6 x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Tennantite Image

Images: Tennantite Schaurteite

Comments: Bright white silky fibrous
schaurteite on dark tennantite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tennantite Image

Images: Tennantite

Comments: Micro-quartz coated, dark
gray tennantite on quartz. Former Sussman
Tsumeb specimen.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: Crystal
size 5 cm.
© John Schneider

Tenorite Image

Images: Tenorite Chrysocolla

Comments: Lustrous black botryoidal Tenorite
mostly covering a sky-blue massive
chrysocolla matrix.
Location: 79 mine, Banner district, Pinal Co.,
Arizona. Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Tephroite Image

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Images: Tephroite

Comments: Sharp crystals of tephroite to
1.2 cm across.
© John Veevaert

Tephroite Image

Images: Tephroite Ericssonite
Orthoericssonite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tephroite Image

Images: Tephroite Johnbaumite

Comments: Violet crystalline massive
johnbaumite with brown tephroite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Terlinguacreekite Image

Images: Terlinguacreekite

Comments: Reddish brown crystalline
aggregates of eglestonite? or
montroydite? in calcite matrix covered
with yellow crusts of terlinguacreekite.
Location: Mariposa Mine, Terlingua,
Brewster County, Texas, USA. Scale: See
Image.
Mineral Species

Terlinguaite Image

Images: Terlinguaite

Comments: Beige, massiv e granular
crystals of terlinguaite on pink calcite.
Location: Mariposa mine, Terlingua,
Terlingua district, Brewster Co., Texas, USA.

Ternesite Image

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Images: Ternesite

Comments: Pale blue crystalline ternesite.
Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pflaz,
Mineral Species

Terskite Image

Images: Terskite

Comments: Pale v iolet terskite fragment.
Mineral Species

Tertschite Image

Images: Tertschite

Comments: Bright white fibrous powdery
tertschite.
Location: Kurtpinari Mine, Faras, Balikesir,
Turkey. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Teruggite Image

Images: Teruggite

Comments: Opaque rounded teruggite
aggregate.
Location: Loma Blanca, Jujuy, Argentina.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tetra-auricupride Image

Images: Tetra-auricupride

Comments: Golden brown crystals of
tetra-auricupride on matrix.
Location: Karabash (Karabasch),

Tetradymite Image

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Images: Tetradymite

Comments: Gray metallic foliated
tetradymite in quartz.
Location: Mangfallberg, Boliden,
Vasterbotten, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tetrahedrite Image

Images: Tetrahedrite

Comments: A very brilliant tetrahedrite
group with the tops of the crystals covered
in chalcopyrite.
Location: Casapalca, Lima, Peru. Scale: 8 x
6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Tetrahedrite Image

Images: Tetrahedrite

Comments: Bright sharp metallic
tetrahedrite crystals to 1 cm in size on
pinkish to colorless crystalline calcite
matrix.
Location: Cavnic (Kapnik), Maramures,
Romania. Scale: 14 x 11 x 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Tetranatrolite Image

Images: Tetranatrolite Gonnardite

Comments: White, pseudocubic crystals of
tetranatrolite (gonnardite) on matrix.
County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Tetrarooseveltite Image

Images: Tetrarooseveltite

Comments: Light-yellow, earthy
tetrarooseveltite.
Location: Moldava, Teplice (Teplitz), Krusn?
Hory (Erzgebirge), Severocesk? Kraj,
size 4.5 mm.

Tetrawickmanite Image

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Images: Tetrawickmanite

Comments: Tan, pseudoctahedral crystal
of tetrawickmanite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Thalenite-(Y) Image

Images: Thalenite-(Y)

Comments: Subhedral, brownish
thalenite-(Y) crystal embedded in a
sucrosic matrix of yttrian fluorite.
Location: Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Norway.
Scale: 0.5 cm.
© Sigurd Stordal / University of Tromsoe

Thalfenisite Image

Images: Thalfenisite

Comments: Polished 2mm fragment of
thalfenisite in epoxy mount..
Location: Oktyabr'sky mine, Noril'sk, Siberia,
Russia. Scale: 1.2cm across.

Thaumasite Image

Images: Thaumasite

Comments: Doubly-terminated Thaumasite.
South Africa. Scale: 1 cm across.
© John Veevaert

Thaumasite Image

Images: Thaumasite

thaumasite.
© John Veevaert

Theisite Image

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Images: Theisite

Comments: Pale blue pearly theisite
scattered on matrix.
Location: Grand Junction, Mesa County,
Mineral Species

Thenardite Image

Images: Thenardite

Comments: White thenardite on augite-
nephelinite rock.
Location: B?renstein Quarry, Niederschlag,
Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Theophrastite Image

Images: Theophrastite Chromite

Comments: Green pearly scaly
theophrastite coatings on massive dark
chromite.
Location: Vermion Region, near
Thessaloniki, Kedriki Makedhonia, Greece.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Thermonatrite Image

Images: Thermonatrite Nacaphite

Comments: Sparse pale yellow-brown
microcrystal and crystalline nacaphite with
white thermonatrite on a dark matrix.
Mineral Species

Thermonatrite Image

Images: Thermonatrite

Comments: Granular thermonatrite.
Mineral Species

Thomasclarkite-(Y) Image

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Images: Thomasclarkite-(Y)

Comments: Transparent, yellowish crystal
of thomasclarkite-(Y).
Scale: 0.75 mm.
© John Veevaert

Thometzekite Image

Images: Thometzekite

Comments: Pale olive-green colored
thometzekite crusts on quartz.
Location: Moldovo. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Thomsenolite Image

Images: Thomsenolite Cryolite

Comments: Massive, white cryolite with
solution cavities lined with prismatic
Thomsenolite crystals.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: .
© John Veevaert

Thomsonite-Ca Image

Images: Thomsonite-Ca Stilbite-Ca

Comments: Peach colored stilbite crystals
to 3.5 cm in size is hosting two finely
crystallized balls of powdery white
thomsonite.
Location: Near Jalgaon, Maharashtra
State, India. Scale: Picture size 15 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Thoreaulite Image

Images: Thoreaulite

Comments: Yellow thoreaulite grain.
Location: Ognevka Ta Deposit, Kalba
Range, Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy
(Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya [Eastern-
Kazakhstan] Oblast'), Kazakhstan. Scale:
Grain size 1 mm.

Thorianite Image

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Images: Thorianite

Comments: Thorianite penetration twin.
Location: Huddersfield, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Thorikosite Image

Images: Thorikosite

Comments: Yellow, prismatic crystals of
Thorikosite on matrix.
Location: Passa Limani Cove slag locality,
Passa Limani area, Lavrion District, Attik?
(Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece. Scale:

Thorite Image

Images: Thorite

Comments: Brown crude crystal of thorite
var. uranothorite with still visible termination
on both ends. Mildly radioactiv e.
Location: Kemp Uranium Mine, Cheddar,
Cardiff Township, Haliburton Co., Ontario,
Canada. Scale: 15x14x13 mm.

Thorite Image

Images: Thorite

Comments: Several small, black cubic
crystals of thorite.
Location: Balangoda, Ratnapura,
Sabaragamuwa province, Sri Lanka. Scale:

Thornasite Image

Images: Thornasite

Comments: Opaque thornasite
microcrystals.
Location: DeMix-Varennes Quarry, Saint
Amable Sill, Varennes, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Thorogummite Image

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Images: Thorogummite

Comments: Yellow-tan resinous
thorogummite with calcite.
Location: Fort Dauphin, Toliara,
Madagascar. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Thorogummite Image

Images: Thorogummite

Comments: Pale tan to yellowish
thorogummite pseudomorphous after
thorite in matrix.
Location: Fort Dauphin (T?lanaro) area,
Toliara (Tul?ar) Province, Madagascar.

Thortveitite Image

Images: Thortveitite

Comments: Small white prismatic crystals
of thortveitite on matrix.
Location: A4 highway tunnel, Thiemendorf,

Threadgoldite Image

Images: Threadgoldite

Comments: Beige threadgoldite filling
cracks in, and coating, black uraninite.
Schumacher Collection.
Location: Kobokobo Pegmatite, Lusungu
Riv er District, Kiv u, Congo (Za?re). Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Tiemannite Image

Images: Tiemannite

Comments: Dull black tiemannite masses
on limestone.
Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah.
Mineral Species

Tiemannite Image

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Images: Tiemannite

Comments: Dull steel-gray, tetragonal
crystals of tiemannite to 0.5mm with
modifications and striations, slight purple
tinge.
Location: Rio Blanco, Pinal De Arvole,
Atriagu, Queretare, Mexico. Scale: Picture
size 2 mm.

Tienshanite Image

Images: Tienshanite Cesium-kupletskite

Comments: Dark olive-green colored
crystalline tienshanite with cesium-
kupletskite in microcline.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tikhonenkovite Image

Images: Tikhonenkovite

Comments: Colorless tikhonenkovite grain.
Location: Karasug Fe-REE-barite-fluorite
Deposit, Tannu-Ola Range, Tuva Republic,
Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Grain
length 1.8 mm.

Tilasite Image

Images: Tilasite

Comments: Brownish, prismatic crystals of
tilasite.
Location: Cervandone, Val d'Ossola
Lombardy, Italy. Scale: Not Given.

Tilleyite Image

Images: Tilleyite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous tilleyite
with blue calcite.
Mineral Species

Tin Image

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Images: Tin

Comments: Stream rounded silvery
metallic tin grains.
Location: Near Oban, New South Wales,
Mineral Species

Tin Image

Images: Tin Sorosite Stistaite


Tinaksite Image

Images: Tinaksite Charoite

Comments: Yellow-brown prismatic
tinaksite crystals in purple charoite with
black aegirine.
Location: Murun, Aldan Uplift, Chara and
Olekma Rivers, near Olekminsk, Republic of
Sakha, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tinaksite Image

Images: Tinaksite Charoite

Comments: Polished slab of deep purple
chariote with inclusions of black augite,
white feldspar and orange tinaksite.
Location: Murun, Siberia, Russia. Scale:
Picture size 10 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Tincalconite Image

Images: Tincalconite

Comments: Pristine white tincalconite
pseudomorph after a single borax crystal.
Location: Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co.,
California, USA. Scale: 30x14x5 mm.

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Tinsleyite Image

Images: Tinsleyite Phosphosiderite
Rockbridgeite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tinticite Image

Images: Tinticite

Comments: Porcelaneous tinticite chip.
Location: Near Tintic Standard Mine, Tintic
District, Juab County, Utah, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tinzenite Image

Images: Tinzenite

Comments: Orange crystalline tinzenite
with quartz and black braunite.
Location: Cassagne mine, near Chiav ari,
Mineral Species

Tinzenite Image

Images: Tinzenite

Comments: Orange bladed aggregate of
tinzenite crystals and clear quartz.
Location: Molinello mine, Val Graveglia,
Italy. Scale: 5.8x3.6x3.3 cm.

Tiptopite Image

Images: Tiptopite Montgomeryite

Comments: Clear, acicular crystals of
tiptopite with red montgomeryite.
Giv en.

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Tiptopite Image

Images: Tiptopite Englishite
Montgomeryite


Tiragalloite Image

Images: Tiragalloite

Comments: Orange crystals of tiragalloite
in matrix.
Liguria, Italy. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.

Tisinalite Image

Images: Tisinalite

Comments: Yellow tisinalite in syenite
pegmatite matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Titanite Image

Images: Titanite

Comments: Several twinned green crystals
of Titanite (sphene) on matrix.
Location: Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 5.5x5x3.5 cm.

Titanite Image

Images: Titanite Amesite

Comments: Green titanite (sphene) crystals
on purple chromamesite (clinochlore?).
Location: Saranovskaya Deposit, Middle
Ural Mountains, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

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Titanowodginite Image

Images: Titanowodginite

Comments: Black crystals of
titanowodginite in matrix.
Location: Tanco Mine (Bernic Lake Mine),
Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet area,
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.

Titantaramellite Image

Images: Titantaramellite

Comments: Dark brownish black
titantaramellite crystal in quartz.
Mineral Species

Tlalocite Image

Images: Tlalocite

Comments: Green, spherulitic aggregates
of Tlalocite on matrix.
size 1 mm.

Tlapallite Image

Images: Tlapallite

Comments: Green, microcrystalline druse
of tlapallite grains.
Location: Bambollita Mine (Oriental Mine),
Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora,
Mexico. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Tobelite Image

Images: Tobelite

Comments: Fine grained massive tobelite.
Location: Tobe, Ehime, Japan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tobermorite Image

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Images: Tobermorite

Comments: Bright white tobermorite with
blue calcite, USA.
County, California. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tochilinite Image

Images: Tochilinite

Comments: Grayish-black, metallic wires of
tochilinite on matrix.
Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Piedmont,

Todorokite Image

Images: Todorokite Opal

Comments: Dendritic todorokite in white
opal.
Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Torino,
Mineral Species

Tokkoite Image

Images: Tokkoite Charoite

Comments: Yellow crystalline tokkoite
intermixed with purple charoite (viewed
cross-sectional to fiber direction).
Location: Murun, Aldan, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species

Tokyoite Image

Images: Tokyoite

Comments: Metallic reddish brown crystals
of tokyoite (< 0.3 mm) on dark gray
braunite matrix.
Location: Gambatesa mine, Graveglia
Valley,, Genova, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.

Tolbachite Image

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Images: Tolbachite

Comments: Small orange-brownish crystals
of tolbachite.
Location: Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka

Tomichite Image

Images: Tomichite

Comments: Section of drill core with a very
rare crystal of tomichite to 1mm.
Location: Hemlo Gold mine, Ontario,
Canada. Scale: Core size 2.5 cm.

Topaz Image

Images: Topaz

Comments: Transparent sharp gem topaz
crystal set upon a matrix of crystallized
white albite and silvery muscovite.
Location: Yunu Village, Shigar, Gilgit
div ision, Pakistan. Scale: 1.6 x 1.8 x 4.2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Torbernite Image

Images: Torbernite

Comments: Bright green platy crystals of
torbernite on matrix.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Shaba, Zaire.
Scale: 7x5x5 cm.

Torbernite Image

Images: Torbernite

Comments: Cluster of green torbernite
crystals. Radioactiv e.
Location: Margabal Mine, Entraygues-
sur-Truy?re, Aveyron, Midi-Pyr?n?es, France.
Scale: 22x13x10 mm.

Torreyite Image

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Images: Torreyite

Comments: Whitish translucent granular
torreyite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tosudite Image

Images: Tosudite

Comments: Fine grained massive tosudite.
Location: Takatama Mine, Fukushima,
Mineral Species

Traskite Image

Images: Traskite Sanbornite

traskite in white sanbornite.
Mineral Species

Trechmannite Image

Images: Trechmannite

Comments: Dark red, trigonal pyramid
crystal of trechmannite on dolomite.

Trechmannite Image


Comments: Red prismatic crystals of
trechmannite with minor gray glossy
sulfosalt (rathite?) on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Trechmannite Image

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Comments: Colorfull assemblege of
techmannite (reddish black) with orpiment
(golden yellow) and realgar (reddish
orange) in white dolomite.
Wallis, Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.

Tremolite Image

Images: Tremolite

Comments: Dark green tremolite crystal cluster.
Location: Selleck Road Locality, West Pierrepont, St
Lawrence Co., New York, USA. Scale: 4.5x2x1.5 cm.

Trevorite Image

Images: Trevorite Willemseite

Comments: Small trevorite crystal in
massive willemseite.
Location: Bon Accord, Barberton Mountain,
Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Trevorite Image

Images: Trevorite Willemseite

Comments: Waxy translucent green
willemseite with black trevorite in schistose
rock.
Location: Near Scotia Talc Mine, Barberton
Mountain, Transv aal, Mpumalanga, South
Mineral Species

Triangulite Image

Images: Triangulite

Comments: Bright yellow triangulite filling
vugs in rhyolite.
Location: Rhyolite Ridge, near Mina, Mineral
Mineral Species

Tridymite Image

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Images: Tridymite

Comments: Clear, pseudohexagonal
crystals of tridymite on matrix.
Location: Bellerberg quarry, Laacher See,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Not
Giv en.

Trilithionite Image

Images: Trilithionite

Comments: Pinkish trilithionite in matrix.
Location: Neuland Quarry, D?bsch?tz,

Trimerite Image

Images: Trimerite

Comments: Pinkish crystalline trimerite in
ore.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Trinitite Image

Images: Trinitite Lechatelierite

Comments: Fused silica sand (trinitite)
generated by the first nuclear (fission)
bomb. Although man-made and not a
valid mineral, the specimen has historic
value.
Location: Trinity Flats, White Sands, New
Mexico. It came into existance at 5:29 a.m.,
July 16, 1945. Scale: Specimen size 4.1 cm.

Triphylite Image

Images: Triphylite

Comments: Dark gray-blue prismatic
triphylite crystals in pegmatite rock.
Location: Newry, Oxford County, Maine,
Mineral Species

Triplite Image

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Images: Triplite

Comments: Dark brown vitreous triplite.
Location: Abravazes Pegmatite, Beira Alta,
Viseu, Portugal. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Triploidite Image

Images: Triploidite Lithiophilite

Comments: Salmon-colored prismatic
crystalline triploidite with brown lithiophilite.
Location: Capoeira Mine, near Parelhas,
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tripuhyite Image

Images: Tripuhyite

Comments: Brown tripuhyite on matrix.
Location: Clara Mine, Rankach v alley,
Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest,
Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Tritomite-(Ce) Image

Images: Tritomite-(Ce)

Comments: Dark brown, vitreous grains of
tritomite-(Ce) in pegmatite matrix.
Location: Langesundsfjorden, Larvik,
Vestfold, Norway. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

Trogerite Image

Images: Trogerite Metazeunerite

Comments: Yellow crystals of tr?gerite with
green metazeunerite.
Location: Walpurgis Flats, Wei?er Hirsch
Mine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District,
Picture size 5 mm.

Troilite Image

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Images: Troilite Cohenite Kamacite
Taenite

Photo.
Mineral Species

Troilite Image

Images: Troilite Kamacite Taenite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Trolleite Image

Images: Trolleite Berlinite

Comments: Pinkish crystalline berlinite with
blue trolleite.
Location: Ijzer Mine, Vestana, Christiansted,
Mineral Species

Trolleite Image

Images: Trolleite Lazulite

Comments: Pale blue trolleite with darker
blue lazulite.
Location: Champion Mine, White Mountains,
Mono County, California. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Trolleite Image

Images: Trolleite Viseite

Comments: Chalky white massive v iseite
with bluish trolleite.
Location: Champion Sillimanite Mine, near
Laws, Mono County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Trona Image

Images: Trona Nahcolite

Comments: Massive, coarse-grained Trona
from a drill core of the upper mixed-layer
Saltbed. White areas are nahcolite
alteration.
County, California, USA. Scale: 12 x 15 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Truscottite Image

Images: Truscottite

Comments: Whitish pearly scaly massive
truscottite.
Location: Lebong Donok Mine, Benkeelen,
Sumatra Island, Indonesia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tsaregorodtsevite Image

Images: Tsaregorodtsevite

Comments: Translucent tsaregorodtsevite
crystals, with small quartz crystals, on mica
schist.
Location: Near Mount Yaruta,
Man-Khambo Range, Republic of Komi,
Near-Polar Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tschermakite Image

Images: Tschermakite

Comments: Dark green tschermakite with
compact divergent structure.
Location: Elba, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tschermigite Image

Images: Tschermigite

Comments: Clear crystal of tschernichite in
a v ug.
Location: Goble, Colombia County,
Oregon, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Tschermigite Image

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Images: Tschermigite Berndtite

Comments: Yellow crystalline berndtite on
tschermigite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tschernichite Image

Images: Tschernichite

Comments: Clear crystal of tschernichite in
a v ug.
Location: Goble, Colombia County,
Oregon, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Tschortnerite Image

Images: Tschortnerite

of tschortnerite. (AmMin 83:608).
Location: Ca-rich xenolith at the Bellberg
volcano near Mayen, Eifel, Germany.
Scale: Scale Bar 20 µm.

Tsepinite-Na Image

Images: Tsepinite-Na

Comments: Brown, needle-like crystals of
tsepinite-Na in matrix.
Location: Lephke-Nelm, Lov ozero, Kola,
Russia. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.

Tsugaruite Image

Images: Tsugaruite

Comments: Brown-gray fibrous spherical
tsugaruite on matrix.
Location: Yunosawa Mine, Aomori, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tsugaruite Image

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Images: Tsugaruite

Comments: Dark gray veinlet of tsuraruite
in matrix.
Location: Yunosawa mine, Tsugaru District,
Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picure
size 3x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Tsumcorite Image

Images: Tsumcorite

Comments: Yellow tsumcorite crystalline
rosettes on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Tsumebite Image

Images: Tsumebite

Comments: Green crystalline aggregates
of tsumebite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Tsumoite Image

Images: Tsumoite

Comments: Gray metallic tsumoite in milky
quartz.
Location: Biorkdalsgruvan, Sweden. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tugtupite Image

Images: Tugtupite

Comments: Albite hosting a 1.2 cm mass of
partially gem quality tugtupite.
Location: Tugtup, Greenland. Scale: 2.1
x1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Tuhualite Image

Images: Tuhualite

Comments: Black, tabular crystals of
tuhualite on matrix.
Location: Opo Bay, Mayor Island, New
Zealand. Scale: Not Given.

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Tulameenite Image

Images: Tulameenite Oulankaite
Telargpalite Chalcopyrite


Tumchaite Image

Images: Tumchaite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph of typical
tumchaite crystals shaped by the prism {hkl},
and by two pinacoids {100} and {h0l}. Grains are
tabular on (100), elongated along [001].
(AmMin 85:1517).
Location: Vuoriyarvi alkali-ultrabasic massif,
Murmansk Region, Russia. Scale: See Image.

Tunellite Image

Images: Tunellite

Comments: Clear, prismatic crystals of
tunellite on matrix.
Location: Death Valley, Inyo County,
California, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Tungstenite Image

Images: Tungstenite

Comments: Tungstenite, variety
tungstenite-2H, gray metallic flakes in rock.
Location: Rita, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tungstibite Image

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Images: Tungstibite

Comments: Dark olive-green spherical
aggregate of tungstibite in matrix.
4 mm.

Tungstite Image

Images: Tungstite

Comments: Yellow tungstite.
Location: San Antonio de Calacalani mine,
Cercado, Oruro, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size
5 mm.

Tungusite Image

Images: Tungusite

Comments: Green to white platy tungusite
rosettes.
Location: Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, near
Tura, Evenkia, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia,
Mineral Species

Tunisite Image

Images: Tunisite

Comments: Transparent pearly platy
tunisite microcrystal.
Location: Condorcet, Drome, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tuperssuatsiaite Image

Images: Tuperssuatsiaite
Aluminoferrotschermakite

Comments: Golden acicular
tuperssuatsiaite crystal spray with clear
apophyllite and dark green
aluminoferrotschermigite.
Location: Aris Quarry, Khomas, Namibia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species


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Comments: Rich, brown tufts up to 0,4 cm
of acicular tuperssuatsiaite crystals on a
phonolite matrix.
Location: Aris Phonolite, Namibia. Scale:
Picture size 4 cm.
© Minernet



Comments: Two mm golden acicular
sprays of tuperssuatsiaite on matrix.
Location: Aris Quarry, Windhoek, Namibia.

Turanite Image

Images: Turanite

Comments: The holotype specimen of
botryodal, olive green turanite (#3578) in a
cavite in white barite from the collection of
the Fersman Mineralogical Museum
(Moscow, Russia). (CanMin, v 42, p732).
Location: Tyuya-Muyun Ra-U deposit, the
Alai Ridge foothills, Osh district, Kyrgyzstan.
© N.A. Pekova

Turanite Image

Images: Turanite

Comments: SEM image of turanite crystals
(a) parallel intergrown crystals.
Location: Tyuya-Muyun Ra-U deposit, the
Alai Ridge foothills, Osh district, Kyrgyzstan.
Scale: See ImaGE.

Turkestanite Image

Images: Turkestanite

Comments: Green, blocky, prismatic
crystal of turkestanite in matrix.
Location: Dara-i-Pioz Glacier, Alayskiy (Alai)
Range, Tien Shan Mts, Districts of the
Republican Subordination, Tajikistan. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Turquoise Image

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Images: Turquoise

Comments: Blue, triclinic crystals (rare) of
turquoise on matrix.
Location: Lynch Station, Campbell County,
Virginia, USA. Scale: Not Given.

Turtmannite Image

Images: Turtmannite

Comments: Orange-brownish grains of
turtmannite in matrix.
Location: Pipji Glacier, Turtmanntal
(Turtmann Valley), Wallis (Valais),

Tuscanite Image

Images: Tuscanite Augite

Comments: Translucent tuscanite
microcrystal in in v ug in low-Fe augite (var.
fassaite).
Location: Pitigliano Quarry, Grosseto,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tuzlaite Image

Images: Tuzlaite

Comments: Prismatic colorless crystals of
tuzlaite.
Location: Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen,
size 5 mm.

Tweddillite Image

Images: Tweddillite

Comments: Thin-section of (100) twinned
tweddillite blades (red-orange-magenta )
in a matrix of serandite-pectolite (white-
grey-yellow). Crossed polarizers. (MinMag
66:144).
Location: Kalahari manganese fields
(Republic of South Africa). Scale: Picture
Size 1 mm.

Tychite Image

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Images: Tychite

Comments: Nearly transparent tychite
crystal.
Mineral Species

Tyretskite Image

Images: Tyretskite

Comments: Gray granular tyretskite
coating.
Location: Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tyrolite Image

Images: Tyrolite

Comments: Blue, crystalline aggregates of
tyrolite on matrix.
Location: Lake Serene mine, Index,
Snohomish County, Washington, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Tyrolite Image

Images: Tyrolite

Comments: Blue-green flattened, felted,
platy crystals of tyrolite to 3mm on matrix.
Location: Centennial Eureka mine, Juab
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Tyrrellite Image

Images: Tyrrellite Umangite

Comments: Bright metallic partial cubic
tyrrellite crystal in altering umangite.
Location: Eagle Claims, near Hal Lake,
Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Tyuyamunite Image

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Images: Tyuyamunite

Comments: Yellow tyuyamunite crystals 1
mm in size.
Location: Marie Mine, Carbon Co.,
Montana. USA. Scale: picture size 2 cm..
© John Veevaert

Tyuyamunite Image

Images: Tyuyamunite Grantsite

Comments: Dark olive green waxy
coatings of grantsite with greenish-yellow
tyuyamunite and sandstone.
Location: F-33 Mine, near Grants, Valencia
Photo.
Mineral Species

Tyuyamunite Image

Images: Tyuyamunite

Comments: Bright yellow rosette crystals of
tyuyamunite on matrix.
Location: Marie mine, Carbon County,
Montana, USA. Scale: Rosette size 0.5 mm.


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Uchucchacuaite Image

Images: Uchucchacuaite

Comments: Corroded grain of
uchucchacuaite in matrix.
Location: Bera Basin #4 mine, King Co.,
Washington, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.

Uhligite Image

Images: Uhligite

Comments: Black granular uhligite in
syenite rock.
Location: near Lake Magadi, Rift Valley
Province, Kenya. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Uklonskovite Image

Images: Uklonskovite

Comments: Minute crystals and crystalline
uklonskovite.
Location: Pampa del Pique III,
Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ulexite Image

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Images: Ulexite

Comments: Tray of fibrous Ulexite
fragments which have been cut and
polished perpendicular to the fibers. This
shows the fiber-optic "TV stone" effect
which transmit images through the
fragments.
Location: U.S. Borax Mine, Boron, Kramer
District, Kern County, California, USA. Scale:
Picture size 10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Ulrichite Image

Images: Ulrichite

Comments: Green ulrichite microcrystal tuft
on quartz.
Location: Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ulrichite Image

Images: Ulrichite

Comments: Green, acicular crystals of
ulrichite on matrix. Co-type specimen (?)
collected by the discoverer, Anthony
Fraser.
Location: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake
Boga, Victoria, Australia. Scale: Picture size
2 mm.

Ulvospinel Image

Images: Ulvospinel

Comments: Black sub-metallic massive
ulv?spinel.
Location: Otanmaki, Sout, Oulu, Finland.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Umangite Image

Images: Umangite Athabascaite
Berzelianite


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Mineral Species

Umangite Image

Images: Umangite Bellidoite Berzelianite

Mineral Species

Umangite Image

Images: Umangite Tyrrellite

Comments: Bright metallic partial cubic
tyrrellite crystal in altering umangite.
Location: Eagle Claims, near Hal Lake,
Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Umangite Image

Images: Umangite Berzelianite

Comments: Black massive umangite
intergrown with dark blue metallic
berzelianite.
Location: Borsov, Bohemia, Vychodocesky,
Mineral Species

Umbozerite Image

Images: Umbozerite

Comments: Dark brown prismatic
umbozerite masses in pegmatite rock.
Location: Pegmatite #100, Mount
Karnasurt, Lov ozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Murmansk District,. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Umohoite Image

Images: Umohoite

Comments: Orange Umohoite aggregates
on matrix.
Location: Rab?jac, Lod?ve, H?rault,
Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.

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Ungarettiite Image

Images: Ungarettiite

Comments: Dark red ungarettiite veinlets in
rock.
Location: Hoskins Mine, near Grenfell, New
Mineral Species

Ungemachite Image

Images: Ungemachite Metasideronatrite

Comments: Translucent rounded
ungemachite microcrystal on yellow
metasideronatrite.
Mineral Species

Uralolite Image

Images: Uralolite

Comments: Radiating aggregates of
uralolite.
Location: Brandr?cken, Weinebene pass,
Koralpe Mts, Carinthia, Austria. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Uramphite Image

Images: Uramphite

Comments: Thin encrustions of urampite on
a fracture surface in sub-bituminous coal.
Location: Tura-Kavak, Issyk-Kul'skaya
Oblast', Kyrgyzstan. Scale: See Image.

Urancalcarite Image

Images: Urancalcarite

Comments: Bright yellow earthy spots
composed of micro acicular urancalcarite
crystals associated with rusty browm
huemulite.
Location: Huemul mine, Malargue,
Mendoza, Argentina. Scale: Picture size 1.5
cm.

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Uraninite Image

Images: Uraninite Uranophane

Comments: Sharp, cubic crystals of black
uraninite on yellow uranophane.
Location: Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Uraninite Image

Images: Uraninite

Comments: Polished slab of black
"gummite" ore with the uraninite altering to
various secondary uranium minerals in a
brecciated matrix.
Location: Ruggles mine, Graton, New
Hampshire, USA. Scale: Specimen size 11.4
cm.

Uraninite Image

Images: Uraninite

Comments: Black uraninite impregnating
coaly wood fragments. You can see the
woody structure in detail preserved in the
uraninite.
Location: Grants mineral district, Westwater
Canyon Member of the Morrison
Formation.. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Uranocircite Image

Images: Uranocircite Meta-uranocircite

Comments: Brilliant, fluorescent yellow
green crystals of uranocircite altered to
meta-uranocircite.
Location: Bergen, Vogtland, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: 2.3 x 2.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Uranocircite Image

Images: Uranocircite Phosphuranylite

Comments: Yellow, waxy phosphuranylite
with green uranocircite in matrix.
cm.

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Uranocircite Image

Images: Uranocircite Meta-uranocircite

Comments: Crystal fragment of
uranocircite fracturing due to dehydration
to meta-uranocircite. The most common
are 100 and 010 fractures, with 110 close
behind. But notice the 210 and 410
fractures (breaks) as well.
Location: . Scale: Crystal size 2x3.5 cm.

Uranocircite Image

Images: Uranocircite

Comments: Yellowish green square,
foliated uranocircite crystal.
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1.3
cm.

Uranophane Image

Images: Uranophane

uranophane with black uraninite.

Uranophane Image

Images: Uranophane Uraninite

Comments: Sharp, cubic crystals of black
uraninite on yellow uranophane.

Uranophane Image

Images: Uranophane

Comments: Yellow uranophane acicular
crystal tufts.
Location: Faraday Mine, Bancroft, Ontario,
Mineral Species

Uranophane-beta Image

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Images: Uranophane-beta

Comments: Bright yellow
uranophane-beta crystalline aggregates.
Location: Rossing mine, Rossing, Namibia.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Uranopilite Image

Images: Uranopilite Zippeite

Comments: Bright yellow uranopilite and
reddish brown zippeite encrustations on
uranium ore.
Location: Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon,
Utah. Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Uranopilite Image

Images: Uranopilite

uranopilite aggregate of prismatic
microcrystals.
Location: Jachymov, Northwestern
Bohemia, Zapadocesky, Czech Republic.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Uranopilite Image

Images: Uranopilite Johannite

Comments: Bright yellow rosettes of
uranopilite with pale greenish yellow
johannite on matrix.

Uranopilite Image

Images: Uranopilite Johannite

Comments: Green aggregates of minute,
acicular johannite and yellow uranopilite
and clear, tabular aragonite crystals on
matrix.

Uranopolycrase Image

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Images: Uranopolycrase

Comments: Brownish-black
uranopolycrase microcrystals on quartz.
Location: Fonte del Prete, near San Piero in
Campo, Elba, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Uranopolycrase Image

Images: Uranopolycrase

Comments: Brown to black, paper thin,
elongated uranopolycrase crystals to
1mm.
Location: Cavetta Bassa, Elba Isle, Livorno
2 mm.

Uranospathite Image

Images: Uranospathite

Comments: Minute, less than 0.1cm platy
yellow crystals or uranospahtite on matrix.
Location: Pedro Alvaro, Salamanca, Spain.

Uranosphaerite Image

Images: Uranosphaerite

Comments: Yellow-orange earthy
uranosphaerite crusts.
Location: Kersegalec en Lignol, Vendee,
Mineral Species

Uranospinite Image

Images: Uranospinite

Comments: Translucent platy uranospinite
microcrystals on matrix.
Location: Grube Buhlskopf, near Ellweiler,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Uranpyrochlore Image

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Images: Uranpyrochlore Samarskite-(Y)

Comments: Deep greenish-brown resinous
crystalline massive uranpyrochlore with
black samarskite-(Y).
Location: Beryl Hill, near Yinnietharra
Station, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Uricite Image

Images: Uricite

Comments: White powdery uricite
aggregate.
Location: Dingo Donga Cave, near
Rawlinna, Western Australia, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Urusovite Image

Images: Urusovite

Comments: Green urusovite grain.
Location: Northern Breakthrough, Great
Fissure (Main Fracture) eruption, Tolbachik
volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern
Region, Russia. Scale: Crystal length 0.7
mm.

Ushkovite Image

Images: Ushkovite Roscherite

Comments: Translucent ushkovite
microcrystals with orange roscherite on
feldspar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Ussingite Image

Images: Ussingite Cuprostibite

Comments: Massive ussingite hosting grains of the
very rare copper antimony-thallium bearing
cuprostibite.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland. Scale:
4.8 x3.4 cm.
© John Veevaert

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Ussingite Image

Images: Ussingite Vuonnemite

Comments: Massive, violet colored
ussingite with a single bladed partial
crystal of white vuonnemite 1.5 cm in
length.
Location: Mt. Karnasurf, Lovozero, Russia.
Scale: 4.2 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Ussingite Image

Images: Ussingite Gerasimovskite

Comments: Pale tan gerasimovskite
pseudomorphous after epistolite crystal, in
purple ussingite.
Mineral Species

Utahite Image

Images: Utahite

Comments: Blue utahite grain in matrix.
District (East Tintic Mountains), Juab Co.,

Uvanite Image

Images: Uvanite

Comments: Yellowish brown uvanite
coating on sandstone.
Location: Temple Rock, Emery County,
Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Uvarovite Image

Images: Uvarovite

Comments: Green uvarovite (garnet) crystal
group.
Location: Mokkivaara mine, Outokumpu,
Finland. Scale: 1.3x1.2x1 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Uvite Image

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Images: Uvite

Comments: Reddish brown, prismatic uvite
crystals.
Location: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: 4.5
x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Uytenbogaardtite Image

Images: Uytenbogaardtite

Comments: Gray crystal grains of
uytenbogaardtite to 1mm throughout matrix
with electrum.
Location: Bullfrog mine, Nye County, Nevada,
USA. Scale: Slab 1cm thick 6x6cm.

Uzonite Image

Images: Uzonite

Comments: Yellow powdery uzonite
encrustation.
Location: Uzon Volcano, Kamchatka
District, Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species


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Vaesite Image

Images: Vaesite

Comments: Metallic black v aesite
microcrystals.
Location: Ca'de Ladri, Bologna, Emilia-
Romagna, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vajdakite Image

Images: Vajdakite

photograph of aggregate of acicular
vajdakite crystals (AmMin, 87:984).
Location: J?chymov , NW Bohemia, Czech
Republic. Scale: 300x magnification.

Valentinite Image

Images: Valentinite Cetineite

Comments: Orange-reddish acicular
crystals of cetineite with white valentinite.

Valentinite Image

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Images: Valentinite Rosiaite

Comments: Beige crystals of rosiaite with a
colorless valentinite prism.
Location: Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto,

Valentinite Image

Images: Valentinite

Comments: 6mm spray of bladed
valentinite crystals on siderite matrix.
Location: Potosi, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size
1.5 cm.
© John Attard

Valentinite Image

Images: Valentinite Antimony

Comments: Beige v alentinite crystals with
red kermesite in a matrix of gray, massiv e
antimony.
Location: South-Ham Antimony mine, Lake
Nicolet, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture
Size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Valleriite Image

Images: Valleriite

Comments: Bronze-brown colored metallic
valleriite, somewhat foliated.
Location: Pima Mine, near Tucson, Pima
Mineral Species

Vanadinite Image

Images: Vanadinite

Comments: Tabular, hexagonal crystals of
vanadinite.
Location: Mibladen, Midelt, Morocco.
Scale: 3 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Vanadiocarpholite Image

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Images: Vanadiocarpholite

Comments: Micro-fibrous tan crystals of
vanadiocarpholite to 0.75mm.
Location: Molinello Mine, Graveglia Valley,
Ne, Genova Province, Liguria, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.

Vandenbrandeite Image

Images: Vandenbrandeite

Comments: Cluster of deep greenish black
crystals of vandenbrandeite to 2 mm.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Katanga, Dem.
Rep. of the Congo. Scale: Picture size 1.5
cm.
© John Veevaert

Vandenbrandeite Image

Images: Vandenbrandeite

Comments: Dark green vandenbrandeite
crystal showing termination details.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Western
area, Shaba Cu belt, Shaba (Katanga),
Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 3.5 cm.

Vandendriesscheite Image

Images: Vandendriesscheite

Comments: Sparse waxy yellow
v andendriesscheite on rock.
Location: Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro,
Tanzania. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vanoxite Image

Images: Vanoxite Corvusite

Comments: Blue-black, somewhat silky
vanoxite, with brown corv usite on
sandstone.
Location: Club Mine, Uravan, Montrose
Mineral Species

Vantasselite Image

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Images: Vantasselite

Comments: Rosette of pearly platy
vantasselite crystals.
Location: Bihain, Luxembourg, Belgium.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vanthoffite Image

Images: Vanthoffite

Comments: Colorless to white fragment of
vanthoffite.
Location: Berlepsch Mine, Stassfurt, Stassfurt
Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 7 mm.

Vanuralite Image

Images: Vanuralite

Comments: Massive, granular, yellow
vanuralite.
Location: Mounana mine (Mouana),
Franceville, Haut-Ogoou?, Gabon. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.

Varennesite Image

Images: Varennesite

Comments: Brown to tan varennesite
crystal embedded in nepheline-syenite
rock.
Location: DeMix Quarry, Varennes,
Mineral Species

Variscite Image

Images: Variscite

Comments: Polished slice of lime green
variscite.
Location: Fairfield, Utah. USA. Scale: 5.5 x
8.5 cm x 3 mm.
© Dan Weinrich

Variscite Image

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Images: Variscite

Comments: Deep rasberry red drusy micro
crystals of variscite in vuggy matrix.
Location: Iron Monarch quarry, Iron Knob,
South Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture size
1 cm.

Variscite Image

Images: Variscite

Comments: Brilliant cherry red
well-defined, clusters of variscite crystals
forming tiny single spheroids on white
quartz.
Location: Boa Vista, Galileia, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Sphere size 0.3 mm.

Varlamoffite Image

Images: Varlamoffite

Comments: Yellowish earthy varlamoffite
masses with quartz.
Location: Saint Austell, Cornwall, England.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Varulite Image

Images: Varulite

Comments: Dark brown to dark green
varulite in white feldspar.
Location: Varutrask, Vasterbotten,
Mineral Species

Vashegyite Image

Images: Vashegyite Volborthite

Comments: Small bluish-white crystals of
vashegyite with green volborthite.

Vasilite Image

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Images: Vasilite Osmium Cooperite
Vysotskite

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Vaterite Image

Images: Vaterite Defernite Manganite

Mineral Species

Vauquelinite Image

Images: Vauquelinite Crocoite

Comments: Oliv e-greenish vauquelinite
encrusting red crocoite.

Vauxite Image

Images: Vauxite Sigloite

Comments: Lime green, crystalline
aggregate of sigloite on massive, blue
vauxite.
Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department,
Boliv ia. Scale: Not Giv en.

Vauxite Image

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Images: Vauxite

Comments: Crystals of v auxite to 1.4mm.
Location: Siglo Mine, Llallagua, Bolivia. Scale:
Picture size 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Vayrynenite Image

Images: Vayrynenite

Comments: Pink, massive v ?yrynenite.
Location: Viitaniemi pegmatite, Er?j?rvi
area, Orivesi, Etel?-Suomen L??ni, Finland.

Vermiculite Image

Images: Vermiculite

Comments: Micaceous vermiculite book.
Location: Brinton's Quarry, near West
Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania,
Mineral Species

Vernadite Image

Images: Vernadite

Comments: Black sub-metallic rounded
vernadite crystals.
Location: Km3, Laurium, Attiki, Greece.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Verplanckite Image

Images: Verplanckite

Comments: Orange translucent
verplanckite in sanbornite.
Location: Esquire #7 Mine, Big Creek, Fresno
Mineral Species

Versiliaite Image

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Images: Versiliaite

Comments: Black sub-metallic v ersiliaite
masses in marble.
Location: Bucca della Vena Mine, Val di
Castello Carducci, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vesignieite Image

Images: Vesignieite

Comments: Green crystalline vesignieite
crust with crudely developed radiating
structure.
Location: Newmont Gold Mine, Carlin, Elko
Mineral Species

Vesuvianite Image

Images: Vesuvianite

Comments: Clear, purple vesuvianite
crystals.
Location: Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: Crystal size 5x3.5x3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Vesuvianite Image

Images: Vesuvianite Grossular

Comments: Blocky, tan-colored vesuvianite with
white grossular (garnet).
Location: Sierra de la Cruz, Lago Jaco, Coahuila,
Mexico. Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Veszelyite Image

Images: Veszelyite

Comments: Terminated and lustrous
crystals of blue-green v eszelyite to 0.5 cm
in length.
Granite County, Montana, USA. Scale:
Picture size 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Vigezzite Image

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Images: Vigezzite

Comments: Translucent brown vigezzite
microcrystal in marble.
Location: Alpe Rosso, Val Vigezzo,
Orcesco, Novara, Piemonte, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vihorlatite Image

Images: Vihorlatite

Comments: Dark gray sub-metallic platy
vihorlatite in fine grained matrix.
Location: Poruba, Vohorlat Mountains,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Viitaniemiite Image

Images: Viitaniemiite Roscherite

Comments: Colorless to pink viitaniemiite
with brownish roscherite.

Vikingite Image

Images: Vikingite

Comments: Gray to bronze tarnished platy
vikingite masses in quartz.
Location: Roche Balue, Vendee, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Villamaninite Image

Images: Villamaninite

Comments: Dull black v illamaninite masses
in dolomitic rock.
Location: Villamanin, Carmenes District,
Castilla y Leon, Spain. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Villiaumite Image

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Images: Villiaumite Griceite

Comments: White aggregates of griceite
with pinkish v illiaumite.

Villiaumite Image

Images: Villiaumite Naujakasite

Comments: Greenish-gray crystals of
naujakasite with red villiaumite.
Location: Narsaq river, Kvanefjeld Mt.,
Il?maussaq massif, Greenland. Scale:
Picture size 4 mm.

Villiaumite Image

Images: Villiaumite Aplowite

Comments: Pink aplowite laths intergrown
with lustrous, red, massive villiaumite.
Location: Mt Rasvumchorr, Khibiny Massif,
Northern Region, Russia. Scale: 20x19x18
mm.

Villiaumite Image

Images: Villiaumite

Comments: Nearly opaque crystalline
villiaumite cleavage.
Mineral Species

Villyaellenite Image

Images: Villyaellenite

Comments: Bright rose red crystals of
v illyaellenite to 2.5 mm on gossan.
Location: Veta Negra Mine, Tierra Amarilla,
Chile. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Villyaellenite Image

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Images: Villyaellenite

Comments: Peach colored radial sprays of
villyaellenite 2 to 3mm in size.
Location: Veta Negra mine, Pampa Larga,
Copiapo, Atacama Province, Chile. Scale:

Vinogradovite Image

Images: Vinogradovite

Comments: Off-white scaly vinogradov ite
on matrix.
Mineral Species

Violarite Image

Images: Violarite

Comments: Bronze massive violarite,
tarnished, with gray colored rock.
Location: Marbridge Mines ltd., Abitibi
District, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Viseite Image

Images: Viseite Trolleite

Comments: Chalky white massive v iseite
with bluish trolleite.
Location: Champion Sillimanite Mine, near
Laws, Mono County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vishnevite Image

Images: Vishnevite

Comments: Pale blue massive vishnevite.
Location: Loch Borrolan, Rosshire, Highland,
Scotland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vistepite Image

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Images: Vistepite

Comments: Translucent platy vistepite
fragment.
Location: Inelchek, Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan,
Tadzhikistan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vivianite Image

Images: Vivianite

Comments: Transparent, bluish crystal
aggregate of vivianite on matrix.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua,

Vivianite Image

Images: Vivianite Maricite

Comments: Brown maricite nodule with
internal radiating structure, with blue
vivianite.
Mineral Species

Vivianite Image

Images: Vivianite Eosphorite

Comments: Bottle-green translucent
vivianite crystal (2cm) associated with
reddish, micro eosphorite crystals.
Location: Lav ra do ?nio pegmatite,
Galil?ia, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm..

Vladimirite Image

Images: Vladimirite Sphaerocobaltite

v ladimirite microcrystals with pink
sphaerocobaltite.
Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou Azzer,
Mineral Species

Vladimirite Image

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Images: Vladimirite

Comments: Snow white radial, acicular
sprays, thick on calcite matrix.
Location: Ait Ahmane, Bou Azzer district,,

Vladimirite Image

Images: Vladimirite

Comments: Sprays of platy, elongated,
white tiny crystals of vladimirite, associated
with minor aragonite.
Location: Irhtem, Morocco. Scale: Picture
size 3 cm.
© Minernet

Vlasovite Image

Images: Vlasovite Eudialyte

Comments: Transparent yellow-gray
v lasovite crystal frozen in pink eudialyte
matrix.
Location: Kipawa alkaline complex, near
Sheffield Lake, Villedieu Township,
T?miscamingue Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: 2x2x1 cm.

Voggite Image

Images: Voggite

Comments: Scanning-electron
photomicrograph of voggite showing
typical habit of crystals.
Location: Silicocarbonatite sills exposed at
the Francon limestone quarry, Montreal,
Quebec. Scale: Image size 360 µm.

Voglite Image

Images: Voglite Liebigite

Comments: Green voglite with yellow
liebigite.
size 3.2 mm.

Voglite Image

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Images: Voglite Metazellerite

metazellerite in matrix, with green voglite.
Location: White Canyon #1 Mine, Frey Point,
San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Volborthite Image

Images: Volborthite Vashegyite

Comments: Small bluish-white crystals of
vashegyite with green volborthite.

Volborthite Image

Images: Volborthite

Comments: Shale with a heavy coating of
brilliant green, scaly crystals of v olborthite.
Location: Monument #1 Mine, Apache
County, Arizona. Scale: 6.5 x 5.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Volkonskoite Image

Images: Volkonskoite

Comments: Specimen of massiv e, green
volkonskoite.
Location: Efimyatskaja Perm, Ural Mts.,
Russia. Scale: 1.1 x 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Volkovskite Image

Images: Volkovskite

Comments: Transparent colorless platy
volkovskite cleavage.
Location: Nepskoye Deposit, Irkutsk Distict,
Mineral Species

Voltaite Image

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Images: Voltaite Alunogen

Comments: Dark greenish-black crystals of
voltaite on white alunogen.

Voltaite Image

Images: Voltaite Szomolnokite

Comments: Whitish crystalline crust of voltaite
on crystals of brown szomolnokite.
Location: Alcaparrosa Mine, Cerritos Bayos,
© John Veevaert

Vonbezingite Image

Images: Vonbezingite

Comments: Dark blue, blocky crystals of
vonbezingite on matirx.
Location: Kalahari Manganese District,
Cape Province, South Africa. Scale: Crystal
size 0.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Vonsenite Image

Images: Vonsenite

Comments: Opaque vonsenite
microcrystal.
Location: Colle del Pero Quarry, Laghelto
di Montecompatri, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vrbaite Image

Images: Vrbaite Realgar

Comments: Black grain of vrbaite in red
realgar matrix.

Vuagnatite Image

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Images: Vuagnatite Mcguinnessite

Comments: Translucent colorless
vuagnatite microcrystals with
mcguinnessite.
Location: Near Red Mountain, Mendocino
Mineral Species

Vulcanite Image

Images: Vulcanite

Comments: Pale yellow metallic massive
vulcanite in rock.
Location: Iriki Mine, Kagoshima, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vuonnemite Image

Images: Vuonnemite Ussingite

Comments: Massive, violet colored
ussingite with a single bladed partial
crystal of white vuonnemite 1.5 cm in
length.
Location: Mt. Karnasurf, Lovozero, Russia.
Scale: 4.2 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Vuonnemite Image

Images: Vuonnemite Lorenzenite

Comments: Square vuonnemite crystal
with brown, lorenzenite crystals in syenite
rock.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Vysotskite Image

Images: Vysotskite Osmium Cooperite
Vasilite

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Wadalite Image

Images: Wadalite

Comments: Gray wadalite masses in
matrix.
Location: Tadano, Koriyama, Fukushima,
Mineral Species

Wadeite Image

Images: Wadeite

Comments: Sharp hexagonal crystal of
wadeite with included dark green aegirine.
Location: Mt. Kukisvumchurr, Khibiny Massif
(Russia). Scale: 12x10x6 mm.

Wagnerite Image

Images: Wagnerite

Comments: Crudely formed opaque
wagnerite crystal in pegmatite.
Location: Hollengraben, Salzberg, Austria.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Wairakite Image

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Images: Wairakite Dmisteinbergite

Comments: Pearly platy crystalline
dmisteinbergite with dull white wairakite on
matrix.
Location: Kurumazawa, Katashina,
Mineral Species

Wairakite Image

Images: Wairakite

Comments: White nearly opaque
crystalline massive wairakite, with a few
crystals faces present.
Location: Tohi Mine, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Wakabayashilite Image

Images: Wakabayashilite

Comments: Golden colored, acicular
crystals of wakabayashilite on matrix.
Location: White Cap mine, Nye County,
© Dave Barthelmy

Wakefieldite-(Ce) Image

Images: Wakefieldite-(Ce)

Comments: Bluish black crystal of
wakefieldite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Yellow Lake, Olala, British
Columbia, Canada. Scale: Not Given.

Walentaite Image

Images: Walentaite

Comments: Greenish yellow, flattened,
radial, crystalline aggregates of walentaite
on quartz.
Location: White Elephant mine, Custer
County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 cm.

Walkerite Image

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Images: Walkerite

of an acicular walkerite crystal.
Location: Potash Corporation of
Saskatchewan (New Brunswick Division)
mine at Penobsquis, near Sussex, Kings
County, New Brunswick, Canada. Scale:
See Picture.

Wallisite Image

Images: Wallisite

Comments: Gray black, blocky crystalline
aggregate of wallisite on striated sulfosalt
(dufr?noysite?).
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Aggregate 5
mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Wallkilldellite-(Fe) Image

Images: Wallkilldellite-(Fe)

Comments: Brown wallkilldellite-(Fe) with
reddish cuprite.
Location: Roua Mine, Alpes-Maritimes,

Walpurgite Image

Images: Walpurgite

Comments: Clear, yellow laths of
walpurgite crystals.
Location: Schneesberg, Saxony, Germany.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Walpurgite Image

Images: Walpurgite

Comments: Elongated, pale yellow, triclinic
crystalline aggregate of walpurgite on calcite.
Location: Walpurgis Flacher vein, Wei?er Hirsch
Mine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

Wardite Image

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Images: Wardite Gordonite

Comments: Prismatic gordonite crystals on
massiv e wardite.

Wardite Image

Images: Wardite

Comments: Cream-colored, blocky
wardite crystals. The largest wardite crystal
is 0.5 cm across.
© John Veevaert

Wardite Image

Images: Wardite Crandallite

Comments: Sliced and polished slab of
yellow to white mixture of wardite and
crandallite.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co.,
Utah, USA. Scale: 11x6x.6 cm.

Warikahnite Image

Images: Warikahnite

Comments: Div ergent, acicular aggregate of
yellowish, brownish orange warikahnite crystals
on a white quartz matrix. William Pinch
collection. Featured on the cover of the
Mineralogical Record, 36:4..
Location: O stope, 31st lev el, Tsumeb mine,
Namibia.. Scale: 3 x 4.9 cm.
© Jeff Scovil

Warwickite Image

Images: Warwickite Chondrodite

Comments: Black crystalline warwickite
with tan chondrodite in white marble.
Mineral Species

Watatsumiite Image

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Images: Watatsumiite Potassicleakeite

Comments: Yellow green prismatic crystal
of watatsumiite terminated by pyramidal
faces associated with reddish brown
potassicleakeite and clear quartz (JMPS, v
98, p 149).
Location: Tanohata mine, Iwate Prefecture,
© JMPS

Wattersite Image

Images: Wattersite

Comments: Deep red-black resinous
wattersite on quartz.
Location: Clear Creek Mine, San Benito
Mineral Species

Wavellite Image

Images: Wavellite

Comments: Greenish yellow spray of
wavellite crystals.
Location: Slate Mountains, El Dorado

Wavellite Image

Images: Wavellite

Comments: Green prismatic crystals of
wavellite in complete radial stellar
aggregate.
Location: Flinders Range, South Australia,
Australia. Scale: Sphere size 8 mm.

Waylandite Image

Images: Waylandite Bismite

Comments: Gray massiv e stream rounded
waylandite with tan bismite crusts.
Location: Mumba, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Weberite Image

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Images: Weberite Cryolite

Comments: Gray weberite masses in white
cryolite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Weddellite Image

Images: Weddellite

Comments: Tan prismatic weddellite
crystal sprays in vug.
Location: Near Biggs, Wasco County,
Mineral Species

Weeksite Image

Images: Weeksite

Comments: Bright yellow weeksite
aggregates.
Location: Anderson mine, Yavapai County,

Weeksite Image

Images: Weeksite

Comments: Globular masses of yellow
weeksite crystals with white aragonite on a
sandstone matrix.
Location: Jackpile Mine, Laguna District,
Cibola County, New Mexico, USA. Scale:
Picture size 1 cm.

Wegscheiderite Image

Images: Wegscheiderite

Comments: Greasy pale pink translucent
platy crystalline wegscheiderite in syenite
rock.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Weilite Image

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Images: Weilite

Comments: White, radial aggregates
weilite on matrix.
Location: Schlema, Schlema-Hartenstein
Picture size 4 mm.

Weinebeneite Image

Images: Weinebeneite

Comments: Colorless Weinebeneite on
brown matrix.
Location: Koralpe Mts, Carinthia, Austria.

Weissbergite Image

Images: Weissbergite

Comments: A metallic grain of weissbergite
in matrix.
Location: Lookout Pass, Tooele Co., Utah,
USA. Scale: Grain size 0.75 mm.

Weloganite Image

Images: Weloganite

Comments: Columnar aggregates of
Weloganite crystals.
Location: Francon quarry, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: Not Given.

Weloganite Image

Images: Weloganite Hydrodresserite

hydrodresserite with radiating structure with
columnar weloganite.
Mineral Species

Weloganite Image

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Images: Weloganite

Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal "stacked"
plates of white weloganite with flat pedion
termination.
Location: Francon quarry, Montr?al,
Jacques Cartier Co., Qu?bec, Canada.

Welshite Image

Images: Welshite

Comments: Deep red, prismatic crystal of
welshite in matrix.

Wendwilsonite Image

Images: Wendwilsonite

Comments: Gemmy crystals of
wendwilsonite to 4 mm.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mts.,
Morocco. Scale: Picture size .5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Wendwilsonite Image

Images: Wendwilsonite Minrecordite

Comments: Wendell Wilson, publisher, editor-
in-chief of the Mineralogical Record, and the
person whom wendwilsonite was named after,
kindly provided the mineral name pronunciations
for minrecordite and wendwilsonite.
NA.
© Dav e Barthelmy

Wenkite Image

Images: Wenkite

wenkite crystal in vug.
Location: Garpenberg Mine, Kopparberg,
Mineral Species

Wermlandite Image

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Images: Wermlandite

Comments: Dark colored, hexagonal
platelet of wermlandite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Westerveldite Image

Images: Westerveldite

Comments: Silvery metallic westerveldite
grains in syenite rock.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Wherryite Image

Images: Wherryite

Comments: Green, acicular wherryite
crystals.

Whewellite Image

Images: Whewellite

Comments: Colorless, twinned crystal of
Whewellite.
Location: Burgk, near Dresden, Saxony, Germany.

Whewellite Image

Images: Whewellite

Comments: White crystal of whewellite,
perched on a spray of brown calcite
crystals.
Location: Shaft 21, Schlema, Hartenstein,
Germany. Scale: 7 x 6 x 4 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Whiteite-(CaFeMg) Image

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Images: Whiteite-(CaFeMg)

Comments: Blocky, beige-pink
whiteite-(CaFeMg) crystals on matrix.
Location: Cross-cut Creek, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Scale: Crystal size 2x3x3.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Whiteite-(CaMnMg) Image

Images: Whiteite-(CaMnMg) Lazulite

Comments: Light beige-colored
whiteite-(CaMnMg) crystal perched on
dark blue lazulite.

Whitlockite Image

Images: Whitlockite

Comments: Clear, transparent whitlockite
crystal.
Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale:
Not Given.

Whitmoreite Image

Images: Whitmoreite

Comments: Two stellate crystal clusters of
whitmoreite.
Penninton County, South Dakota, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Wickenburgite Image

Images: Wickenburgite

Comments: Transparent colorless
wickenburgite microcrystals.
Location: Wickenburg, Maricopa County,
Mineral Species

Wickmanite Image

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Images: Wickmanite

Comments: Colorless wickmanite crystals.
Scale: Not Giv en.

Wicksite Image

Images: Wicksite Wolfeite

Comments: Cleaved nodule of
fine-grained aggregate of wicksite and
wolfeite.
Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Widgiemoolthalite Image

Images: Widgiemoolthalite

Comments: Green crystals of
widgiemoolthalite.
Location: 132 North Mine, Widgiemooltha,
Western Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.

Wightmanite Image

Images: Wightmanite

Comments: Tan silky prismatic wightmanite
in pale blue calcite.
Mineral Species

Wilcoxite Image

Images: Wilcoxite

Comments: Small, transparent crystals of
wilcoxite.

Wilhelmvierlingite Image

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Images: Wilhelmvierlingite Rockbridgeite

Comments: Yellow brown crystals
wilhelmv ierlingite with black rockbridgeite.
mm.

Wilkinsonite Image

Images: Wilkinsonite

Comments: Black wilkinsonite grains with
anorthoclase.
Location: Warrumbungle Volcano, New
Mineral Species

Willemite Image

Images: Willemite Conichalcite

Comments: Conichalcite with willemite.
Location: Collected from the 30 level of
the Tsumeb mine. Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale:
2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Willemite Image

Images: Willemite

Comments: Sky blue botryoidal willemite
with dark to white dolomite.
Location: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Scale: 6 x
3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Willemite Image

Images: Willemite

Comments: Specimen of blocky willemite crystals.
The lower picture shows willemite under SW UV
light.
Location: Franklin, New Jersey, USA. Scale: 2.8 x 2.3
cm..
© John Veevaert

Willemite Image

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Images: Willemite Glaucochroite Zincite

calcite.
Mineral Species

Willemseite Image

Images: Willemseite Trevorite

Comments: Small trevorite crystal in
massive willemseite.
Location: Bon Accord, Barberton Mountain,
Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Willemseite Image

Images: Willemseite Trevorite

Comments: Waxy translucent green
willemseite with black trevorite in schistose
rock.
Location: Near Scotia Talc Mine, Barberton
Mountain, Transv aal, Mpumalanga, South
Mineral Species

Willyamite Image

Images: Willyamite

Comments: Gray granular massive
willyamite.
Location: Consols Lode, Broken Hill,
Willyama Township, New South Wales,
Mineral Species

Wiluite Image

Images: Wiluite

Comments: Dark green, blocky wiluite
crystal.
Location: Wilui River Region, Russia. Scale:
1-1/8" x 1"..

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Winchite Image

Images: Winchite

Comments: Magenta crystalline winchite in
manganese ore.
Location: Tirodi Mines, Madhya Pradesh,
India. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Winchite Image

Images: Winchite Sodalite

Comments: Purple sodalite with some
crystal faces, supporting a very sharp,
transparent winchite crystal, terminated on
one end.
Location: Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley,
Badakshan Province, Afghanistan. Scale:
11x10x8 mm.

Winstanleyite Image

Images: Winstanleyite Jarosite

Comments: Small, yellow octahedral
crystal of winstanleyite on brownish red
jarosite.
size 0.9 mm.

Wiserite Image

Images: Wiserite

Comments: Pale pink granular wiserite.
Mineral Species

Witherite Image

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Images: Witherite

Comments: Specimen of witherite with a rounded
(stellate) habit. The lower picture was taken under
SW UV light and shows the crystalline aggregates.
Location: Minerva #1 Mine, Hardin County, Illinois,
© John Veevaert

Wittichenite Image

Images: Wittichenite

Comments: Black metallic wittichenite in
white barite.
Location: Schmiedestollen, Wittichen, Black
Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Wittite Image

Images: Wittite

Comments: Gray metallic wittite in quartz.
Location: Falu Mine, Falun, Kopparberg,
Mineral Species

Wodginite Image

Images: Wodginite

Comments: Dark, lustrous crystal of
wodginite.
Location: Sapucaia do Norte, Galileia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.3 x 0.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Wohlerite Image

Images: Wohlerite Biotite

Comments: Prismatic wohlerite crystals
with lepidomelane (Fe-rich biotite).
Location: Langevannet, Tvedalen,
Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Wolfeite Image

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Images: Wolfeite

Comments: Opaque massive wolfeite.
Location: Wilson's Pegmatite, Broken Hill,
Photo.
Mineral Species

Wolfeite Image

Images: Wolfeite Wicksite

Comments: Cleaved nodule of
fine-grained aggregate of wicksite and
wolfeite.
Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Wolframite Image

Images: Wolframite

Comments: Dark gray, tabular crystals of
wolframite to 2 cm. Carsten Sukatsch
collection.
Location: Kara-Oba, Republic of
Kazakstan. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.
© Willibald B?del

Wolframoixiolite Image

Images: Wolframoixiolite

Comments: Wolframoixiolite crystals in
quartz.
Location: Zinnwald, Severocesky, Czech
Mineral Species

Wollastonite-1A Image

Images: Wollastonite-1A Stringhamite

Comments: Rounded aggregate of dark
blue stringhamite crystals on bladed, white
wollastonite.

Wollastonite-1A Image

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Images: Wollastonite-1A Minehillite
Margarosanite

fluorescence).
Mineral Species

Wollastonite-2M Image

Images: Wollastonite-2M

Comments: Wollastonite-2M crystals.

Wolsendorfite Image

Images: Wolsendorfite

Comments: Red orange druse of tabular
wolsendorfite crystals.

Wonesite Image

Images: Wonesite

Comments: Dark greenish black
micaceous wonesite flake.
Location: Post Pond Volcanics, Wilmount
Mountain, Mount Cube Quadrangle,
Orange County, Vermont. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Woodhouseite Image

Images: Woodhouseite

Comments: Crystals of woodhouseite to 0.5
cm across on an exposed quartz vein.
Location: Champion Mine, Inyo County,
California, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Woodruffite Image

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Images: Woodruffite

Comments: Dull brown massive
woodruffite with limonite.
Photo.
Mineral Species

Woodwardite Image

Images: Woodwardite

Comments: Greenish-blue botryoidal crust
of woodwardite.
Location: Green River Formation, Uintah
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.8 mm.

Wroewolfeite Image

Images: Wroewolfeite

Comments: Blue, lath-shaped crystals of
wroewolfeite on matrix.

Wulfenite Image

Images: Wulfenite

Comments: Tabular crystal druse of
brownish orange wulfenite on matrix.
Location: Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos,
Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 5-10
mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Wulfenite Image

Images: Wulfenite Mimetite

Comments: Gemmy, pale yellow mimetite
crystal with brownish-orange wulfenite. Former
James and Dawn Minette Collection.
Location: Gem Pocket 1971, Tsumeb, Namibia.
© Rob Lav insky

Wulfingite Image

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Images: Wulfingite

Comments: Colorless equant crystal of
w?lfingite.
Location: Richelsdorf Smelter, S?ss,
Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany. Scale:

Wupatkiite Image

Images: Wupatkiite

Comments: Pinkish yellow opaque
wupatkiite microcrystal in sandstone.
Location: Cameroon, Coconino County,
Mineral Species

Wurtzite Image

Images: Wurtzite Barite

Comments: Compact, dark, metallic
crystals of wurtzite intermixed with galena
crystals and white barite blades.
Location: Huanzala, Huanuco Dept., Peru.
Scale: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm.

Wustite Image

Images: Wustite

Comments: Orange botryoidal wustite on
green calcite.
Location: Zacatecas, Mexico. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Wyartite Image

Images: Wyartite Rutherfordine

Comments: Brown, acicular wyartite
crystals next to bright yellow rutherfordine
tufts.
Location: Shinokolbwe mine, Tantara,

Wycheproofite Image

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Images: Wycheproofite

Comments: Pearly, orange-white crystal
group of wycheproofite. This is the type
specimen for the species by the
discov erer, Bill Birch..
Location: A granite quarry near
Wycheproof, northwestern Victoria,
Australia.. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm tall.
© Bill Birch

Wyllieite Image

Images: Wyllieite

Comments: Dark bluish-black massive
wyllieite in pegmatite.
Location: Victory Mine, Custer, Custer
Photo.
Mineral Species


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Xanthoconite Image

Images: Xanthoconite

Comments: Wine-colored, tabular crystal
of xanthoconite on matrix.
Location: Schlema, Schlema-Hartenstein

Xanthoxenite Image

Images: Xanthoxenite

Comments: Xanthoxenite crystalline
coating.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Xenotime-(Y) Image

Images: Xenotime-(Y)

Comments: Dark brown colored Xenotime-(Y)
crystal.
Location: Hurricane Mountain, Conway, Carroll
County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.

Xilingolite Image

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Images: Xilingolite

Comments: Elongate and striated crystal
of xilingolite, roughly 2 mm long, on galena
showing an octahedral cleavage,
together with quartz. (CanMin, v 39, p
1665).
Location: Found on dumps excavated
during tunnel construction between Mittal
and Hohtenn in Valais, Switzerland. Scale:
Picture Size 4 mm.

Xocomecatlite Image

Images: Xocomecatlite

Comments: Green botryoidal
xocomecatlite coatings.
Mineral Species

Xocomecatlite Image

Images: Xocomecatlite

Comments: Green spheroidal crystals to
0.5 mm of very rare xocometcatlite.
Location: Centennial-Eureka mine, Tintic
district, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.

Xonotlite Image

Images: Xonotlite

Comments: Tufts of hair-like Xonotlite
crystals on datolite rich matrix.
Location: Kalahari Manganese Field,
Kuruman Hills, Cape Province, South Africa.
© John Veevaert

Xonotlite Image

Images: Xonotlite

Comments: White fibrous crystals of
xonotlite to 1mm in a v ug.
United States. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


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Yanomamite Image

Images: Yanomamite

Comments: Gray-blue waxy yanomamite
coatings on quartz.
Location: Mangabeira Tin Deposit, Goias,
Mineral Species

Yarrowite Image

Images: Yarrowite Spionkopite

Comments: Blue-black metallic granular
spionkopite, intermixed with yarrowite
altering, with quartz.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Yarrowite Image

Images: Yarrowite Spionkopite

Comments: Blue-gray metallic yarrowite
grains in granular quartz rock with
spionkopite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Yecoraite Image

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Images: Yecoraite

Comments: Tan to reddish brown resinous
yecoraite coatings on quartz.
Location: Marie Elena Mine, Yecora,
Mineral Species

Yedlinite Image

Images: Yedlinite Diaboleite

Comments: Minute cranberry-colored
rounded yedlinite crystal with blue
diaboleite on yellow-brown wulfenite.
Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Pinal
Mineral Species

Yeelimite Image

Images: Yeelimite Hydroxylellestadite

Comments: Ye'elimite and
hydroxylellestadite intimately intergrown as
a brownish aggregate in massive
anhydrite.
size 6 mm.

Yingjiangite Image

Images: Yingjiangite

Comments: Thin coating of yellow
yingjiangite on matrix.
Location: Kladaske Mine, Erzgeborge,
Czech Republi. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Yoderite Image

Images: Yoderite

Comments: Dark bluish-black prismatic
yoderite in quartz.
Location: Mautia Hill, Dodoma, Tanzania.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Yofortierite Image

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Images: Yofortierite

Comments: Radial spray of yofortierite in
matrix.
© John Veevaert

Yoshimuraite Image

Images: Yoshimuraite

Comments: Translucent, brown
yoshimuraite microcrystal.
Location: Toguchi Mine, Shidara,
Kitashidara-Gun, Aichi, Japan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Yttrotantalite-(Y) Image

Images: Yttrotantalite-(Y)

Comments: Dark greenish-black crystal of
Yttrotantalite-(Y).
Location: Ytterby, Resar?, Vaxholm,
Stockholm, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 8
mm.

Yttrotungstite-(Y) Image

Images: Yttrotungstite-(Y)

Yttrotungstite-(Y).
Location: Kramat Pulai mine, Kinta, Perak,
Malaysia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Yugawaralite Image

Images: Yugawaralite

Comments: Pearly translucent colorless
yugawaralite microcrystals.
Location: Klif Hv alfjordur, Iceland. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Yugawaralite Image

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Images: Yugawaralite

Comments: Yugawaralite, in well
developed vitreous crystals up to 1 cm. in
a large vug on matix.
Location: Khandivaly Quarry, Maharastra,
India. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Minernet

Yukonite Image

Images: Yukonite

Comments: dark red brown resinous
Yukonite on limonite.
Location: Venus Gold-Silver mine, Yukon
Territory, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Yuksporite Image

Images: Yuksporite

Comments: Opaque fibrous yuksporite
aggregate.
Location: Mount Yukspor, Khibiny Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Yvonite Image

Images: Yvonite

Comments: Bluish green or turquoise-
colored microcrystals of yvonite on
metallic matrix of arsenopyrite & native
bismuth.
Location: Salsigne mine, Carcassone,
Aude, France. Scale: 2 cm.
© John Attard


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"Z " Mineral Photos (52)
Zaccagnaite Image

Images: Zaccagnaite Zincowoodwardite

zaccagnaite intimately intergrown with
zincowoodwardite.

Zaccagnaite Image

Images: Zaccagnaite Fraipontite

image of hexagonal, tapering, prismatic
zaccagnaite crystals, covered by a thin
crust of fraipontite. (AmMin 86:1294).
Image.

Zaherite Image

Images: Zaherite

Comments: Gray to white translucent
prismatic to massiv e zaherite comprising
portion of rock.
Location: Pella, Namaqualand, Northern
Cape Province, South Africa. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Zajacite-(Ce) Image

Images: Zajacite-(Ce)

Comments: Specimen of granodiorite hosting
cream colored phenocrysts of zajacite-Ce. This is
one of the few minerals (less than 20) that
contain Praseodymium.
Location: Strange Lake, Lac Brasson, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: 4.3 x 2.9 cm.
© John Veevaert

Zalesiite Image

Images: Zalesiite

Comments: Green crusts of z?les?ite on
matrix.
Location: Z?les? deposit, Javorn?k,
Moravia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture
size 6 mm.

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Zalesiite Image

Images: Zalesiite

Click Here for Comments: Light blue acicular sprays of
zalesiite to 0.75mm.
Larger Image Location: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah,

Zanazziite Image

Images: Zanazziite Eosphorite

Comments: Minor crystals of equant, olive
green zanazziite and brown, lath-like
crystals of eosphorite on quartz.
© John Veevaert

Zanazziite Image

Images: Zanazziite

Comments: Olive-green prismatic
translucent zanazziite microcrystals on
quartz.
Location: Taquarel, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Zanazziite Image

Images: Zanazziite Kosnarite

Comments: Beige crystals of kosnarite with
pinkish, radial aggregates of zanazziite on
whte albite matrix.
Location: Jenipapo, Itinga, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Picture size 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Zapatalite Image

Images: Zapatalite

Comments: Bright blue zapatalite coating
on rock.
Location: near Battle Mountain, Lander
Mineral Species

Zaratite Image

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Images: Zaratite

Comments: Specimen exceptionally rich in
apple green zaratite - a carbonate of nickel.
Location: Lord Brassy Mine Tasmania, Australia.
© John Veevaert

Zavaritskite Image

Images: Zavaritskite

Comments: Green to greenish black
zavaritskite in purplish fluorite.
Location: Josef Fluorite Mine, Moldava,
Severocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Zdenekite Image

Images: Zdenekite

Comments: Blue crystals of zdenekite on
matrix.

Zektzerite Image

Images: Zektzerite

Comments: Pale peach-colored crystal of
zektzerite on white feldspar.
Location: Golden Horn batholith,
Okanogan County, Oregon, USA. Scale:
Crystal size 1 cm.
© Dav e Barthelmy

Zellerite Image

Images: Zellerite

Comments: Yellowish zellerite aggregates
on matrix.
Location: J?chymov, Krusn? Hory
(Erzgebirge), Z?padocesk? Kraj, Bohemia,
Czech Republic. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

Zemannite Image

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Images: Zemannite

Comments: Root beer-colored zemannite
hexagonal prisms.
Location: Moctezuma mine, Sonora,

Zeophyllite Image

Images: Zeophyllite

Comments: Numerous white zeophyllite
spheroids on a tan matrix.
Location: Brenk, Eifel, Germany. Scale: 2.5 x
1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Zeunerite Image

Images: Zeunerite

Comments: Thin, tabular crystals of
Zeunerite on matrix.
Location: Cinovec, Erzgebirge, the Czech
Republic. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.

Zinc Image

Images: Zinc

Comments: Dull light gray zinc grain.
Location: Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Zincaluminite Image

Images: Zincaluminite

Comments: Bright white to pastel blue
botryoidal zincaluminite with cuprian-
adamite.
Location: Kamariza Mine, Laurium, Attiki,
Mineral Species

Zincite Image

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Images: Zincite

Comments: Orange Zincite hexagonal
pyramid.

Zincite Image

Images: Zincite Glaucochroite Willemite

calcite.
Mineral Species

Zincobotryogen Image

Images: Zincobotryogen

Comments: Translucent bright yellow
crystalline zincobotryogen.
Mineral Species

Zincocopiapite Image

Images: Zincocopiapite

Comments: Pale yellow zincocopiapite
coating on quartz.
Location: Les Valettes, Valais, Switzerland.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Zincohogbomite-2N2S Image

Images: Zincohogbomite-2N2S Corundum

Comments: Thin-Section (Plane Polarized
Light) of a brown, twinned
zincoh?gbomite-2N2S crystal with blue
corundum.
Location: Mikro-Lakka Emery deposit,
Kerketeas Mt, S?mos Island, Aegean
Islands Department, Greece. Scale: Picture
size 1.1 mm.

Zincospiroffite Image

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Images: Zincospiroffite

Comments: Polished section showing
zincospiroffite (x) intergrown with native
gold (Ng) as the oxidation products of
calaverite (Cv) + sphalerite (Sph) ? pyrite.
(CanMin, v 42, p 765).
Location: Quartz ore of the Zhongshangou
gold deposit, Chongli County, Hebei
Province, China. Scale: Field of v iew 2 mm.

Zincowoodwardite Image

Images: Zincowoodwardite Zaccagnaite

zaccagnaite intimately intergrown with
zincowoodwardite.

Zincowoodwardite Image

Images: Zincowoodwardite

Comments: Botryoidal zincowoodwardite.
The bluish-green color is due to a copper
content.
Location: Christiana Mine, Agios
Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attik?
Prefecture, Greece. Scale: Picture size 10
mm.

Zincrosasite Image

Images: Zincrosasite

Comments: Spherical zincrosasite
aggregates on limonite.
Location: Kali Kafi Mine, Anarak District,
Great Salt Desert, Esfahan, Iran. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species

Zincsilite Image

Images: Zincsilite

Comments: Chalky massiv e zincsilite.
Location: Horado Mine, Horado Cho, Mugi
Gun, Gifu, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

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Zinkenite Image

Images: Zinkenite

Comments: Jackstraw zinkenite crystals.
Individual crystals reach up to 2 cm in
length.
Location: Monserrat Mine, Antequera,
Oruro, Bolivia. Scale: 4.5 x 3.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Zinkenite Image

Images: Zinkenite Stannite

Comments: Acicular crystals of zinkenite perched on
a twinned, crystal of stannite.
Location: Mina San Jos?, Oruro, Boliv ia. Scale: 4 x 2.3
x 1.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Zinnwaldite Image

Images: Zinnwaldite

Comments: Zinnwaldite crystal section.
Location: Wig-Wam Creek, Jefferson
Mineral Species

Zippeite Image

Images: Zippeite

Comments: Sandstone with a 1.5 cm v ein
of black uraninite bisected with a 2mm
vein of bright yellow zippeite.
Location: Jackpot Mine, Laguna Mining
District, Cibole City, New Mexico. Scale: 4.8
cm high.

Zippeite Image

Images: Zippeite Uranopilite

Comments: Bright yellow uranopilite and
reddish brown zippeite encrustations on
uranium ore.
Location: Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon,
Utah. Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

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Zircon Image

Images: Zircon

Comments: Clear, crystalline zircon prism with
pyramidal termination.
Location: Laacher See, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Germany. Scale: Not Giv en.

Zircon Image

Images: Zircon Perrierite-(Ce) Pyrochlore
Loparite-(Ce)

loparite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species

Zircon Image

Images: Zircon

Comments: Deep red-wine colored,
lustrous, internally bright zircon crystals in
matrix.
Location: Thorfjord, Seiland, Alta, Norway.
Scale: 13 x 10.5 x 9 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Zircon Image

Images: Zircon

Comments: Cathodoluminescence image
of earth's oldest-known mineral (zircon
grain - W74/2-36) with inset concordia plot
showing the 4,404 billion year old region.
Note the oscillatory zoning in the outer rim.
Image by John W. Valley.
Location: Interlayered red quartzites and
metaconglomerates, Jack Hills, Western
© Univ ersity of Wisconsin

Zircosulfate Image

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Images: Zircosulfate

Comments: Powdery zircosulfate
aggregate.
Location: Korgeredaba Massif, Republic of
Tuva, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species

Zirkelite Image

Images: Zirkelite

Comments: Sub-metallic zirkelite crystal
aggregate.
Location: Jacupiranga Mine, Sao Paulo,
Mineral Species

Zirkelite Image

Images: Zirkelite

Comments: Black, massiv e aggregate of
zirkelite with minor brown biotite and a thin
v ein of white calcite.
Location: Palabora Open Pit mine,
Loolekop, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province,
Transvaal, Republic of South Africa. Scale:

Zirsinalite Image

Images: Zirsinalite

Comments: Translucent pale olive-green-
colored zirsinalite replacing reddish
eudialyte.
Mineral Species

Znucalite Image

Images: Znucalite

Comments: Cream-yellow botryoidal
znucalite.

Znucalite Image

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Images: Znucalite

Comments: Very pale bluish white,
porcelaneous crust of znucalite on matrix.
Location: Mine dump near: Pribam,
size 5 mm.

Zoisite Image

Images: Zoisite

Comments: Gem quality crystal of zoisite
with the striking pleochroism displayed in
three different views.
Location: Alchuri Village, Shigar Valley,
north of Skardu, Baltistan, Pakistan. Scale:
1x1x3.8 cm.
© Dan Weinrich

Zoisite Image

Images: Zoisite

Comments: Dual views of a large crystal of
blue-violet zoisite (v ar. tanzanite) showing
the pleochroism.
Location: Merelani Hills, Umba Valley,
Lelatema Mts., Arusha Region, Tanzania.
Scale: 35 mm 42.32 ct.

Zorite Image

Images: Zorite

Comments: Pale pink translucent spherical
zorite crystal aggregate on dark green
aegirine.
Mineral Species

Zunyite Image

Images: Zunyite

Comments: Octahedral crystals of zunyite
to 5 mm on matrix.
Location: Quartzsite, Arizona. Scale: 5+ cm.
© John Veevaert

Zwieselite Image

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Images: Zwieselite

Comments: Brown zwieselite in granite
pegmatite.
Specimen size 9 mm.

Zykaite Image

Images: Zykaite Bukovskyite

Comments: Pale beige acicular crystals of
bukovsk?ite with white zykaite.
Location: Christbescherung Mine,
Gro?voigtsberg, Freiberg District,

Zykaite Image

Images: Zykaite

Comments: Round aggregates of Zykaite.
Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Freiberg,
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Specimen size 37 mm.


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