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Abelsonite Image

Images: Abelsonite

Comments: Purplish red crystal fragment ofabelsonite.

Location: Green River formation, UintahCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1.8

mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Abernathyite Image

Images: Abernathyite

Comments: Clear, yellow, crystalline abernathyitecrystal group.

Location: Temple Mountain, Every County, Utah,USA. Scale: Size Not Given.

© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Abhurite Image

Images: Abhurite

Comments: Pearly translucent pale yellowcrystalline abhurite.

Location: Shipwreck off Hidra, Vest-Agder,Norway. Scale: See Photo.

© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide toMineral Species

Acanthite Image

Images: Acanthite

Comments: Pseudo cubic acanthitecrystals on matrix.

Location: Rayas mine, Guanajuato, Mexico.Scale: Size Not Given.


Acanthite Image

Images: Acanthite Argentite

Comments: Dark metallic acanthite crystalsup to 3 mm. Most of the crystals are a cubichabit, so the acanthite is pseudomorphing

the original argentite.Location: San Juan de Rayas Mine (RayasMine), 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 ofacetamide on black shale.

Location: Shamokin, NorthumberlandCounty, Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: See

Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Actinolite Image

Images: Actinolite

Comments: Sharp, floater actinolite crystal with aslight green tint.

Location: Namibian dessert, more or less due Westof Uis, Namibia. Scale: 8.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Adamite Image

Images: Adamite

Comments: Sprays of adamite with intensecolor 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 ofcryptomelane and purple, transparent

adamite.Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Druango,

Mexico. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Adamsite-(Y) Image

Images: Adamsite-(Y)

Comments: Sprays of adamsite-(Y) crystalson 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 crystalof aegirine.

Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia.Scale: Crystal size 2.8 cm.

© John Veevaert

Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Catapleiite

Comments: Clear crystals of catapleiitewith an attached 1.8 cm prismatic crystal

of dark aegirine.Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.

Scale: 3.5 x 2.2 cm.© John Veevaert

Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Henrymeyerite

Comments: A nearly black crystal ofhenrymeyerite with dark green prismatic

crystals of aegirine in quartz.Location: Green River formation, UintahCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 3


Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Lourenswalsite

Comments: Light brownish rosettes oflourenswalsite with dark green crystals of

aegirine and white feldspar.Location: Diamond Jo quarry, MagnetCove, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas, USA.

Scale: Picture size 3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Pectolite

Comments: White, cottony pectolite tuftswith acicular aegirine.

Location: 3M quarry, Little Rock, PulaskiCounty, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Aegirine Image


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Images: Aegirine Calcioburbankite

Comments: Tan crystal spray ofcalcioburbankite on dark green aegirine.

Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Aegirine Image

Images: Aegirine Manganotychite

Comments: Pale rose-tan granularmanganotychite with black aegirine prism.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,

Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Aegirine-augite Image

Images: Aegirine-augite Dellaventuraite

Comments: View in plane-polarized light ofreddish brown dellaventuraite (OPTK) asan 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 ofaenigmatite in white albite with

astrophyllite.Location: Mount Eveslogchorr, Khibiny

Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Aerinite Image

Images: Aerinite

Comments: Pale blue massive aerinite.Location: Cripple Creek, Teller County,

Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species


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Aerugite Image

Images: Aerugite

Comments: Small dark green crystals ofaerugite.

Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.

© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Aeschynite-(Y) Image

Images: Aeschynite-(Y)

Comments: Square crystal ofaeschynite-(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 ofagardite (agardite-Ca?) on matrix.

Location: Big Three mine, Silver Peak,Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA. Scale:

Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Agardite-(Y) Image


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Images: Agardite-(Y)

Comments: Fibrous to fine acicular greenmicro 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 redeudialyte.

Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu,Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Agrinierite Image

Images: Agrinierite

Comments: Golden yellow, transparentagrinierite crystals.

Location: Margnac mine, Compreignac,Haute-Vienne, France. Scale: Size Not

Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Aheylite Image

Images: Aheylite

Comments: Colorless radiating spray ofaheylite crystals.

Location: Huanuni, Boliv ia. Scale: Picturesize 3 mm.


Ahlfeldite Image

Images: Ahlfeldite

Comments: Green encrustations ofahlfeldite on matrix.

Location: Mina El Dragon, Potosi, Boliv ia.Scale: See Photo.


Aikinite Image


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Images: Aikinite

Comments: Gray metallic prismatic crystalsof aikinite and crystalline quartz.

Location: Mike Mine, San Juan County,Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Aikinite Image

Images: Aikinite Berryite

Comments: Fine-grained, gray, metallicgranular berryite with silvery, metallic,

prismatic aikinite.Location: Mike Mine, San Juan County,

Colorado. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Ajoite Image

Images: Ajoite

Comments: Bluish, bladed ajoite crystals.Location: New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima

County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size NotGiven.


Ajoite Image

Images: Ajoite Shattuckite

Comments: Dark blue, tabular crystals ofshattuckite on light blue ajoite.

Location: New Cornelia mine, Ajo, PimaCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Ajoite Image

Images: Ajoite

Comments: Aqua blue, long bladedcrystals 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 ofakaganeite on rock.

Location: Wells, Elko County, Nevada, USA.Scale: See Photo.


Akatoreite Image

Images: Akatoreite Rhodonite

Comments: Brown akatoreite in pinkrhodonite.

Location: Akatore Creek, Eastern OtagoPeninsula, South Island, New Zealand.

Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Akdalaite Image

Images: Akdalaite

Comments: Crystalline white akdalaite.Location: Bulla Island, Caspian Sea,

Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Akermanite Image

Images: Akermanite

Comments: White translucent crystalsakermanite.

Location: Lago de Vico, Viterbo, Lazio,Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Akhtenskite Image

Images: Akhtenskite

Comments: Dark gray grains of akhtenskitewith brown superficial coating.Location: Akhtenskoye Deposit,

Chelyabinsk District, Urals, Russia. Scale:See Photo.


Akimotoite Image


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Images: Akimotoite

Comments: Electron micrograph ofakimotoite (Ak) as columnar grains.

Aggregates of akimotoite are adjacent toa large clinoenstatite grain (Cen) with (100)

twin lamallae. (AmMin 84:268).Location: Shock-metamorphosed Tenham

chondrite. Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Akrochordite Image

Images: Akrochordite Eveite

Comments: Micro crystals (to about0.75mm) 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 aktashitein quartz gangue.

Location: Moctezuma, Mun. deMoctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture

size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Alabandite Image

Images: Alabandite

Comments: Dark gray stalactiticalabandite.

Location: Broken Hill Proprietary Mine,Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.


Mineral Species

Alabandite Image

Images: Alabandite Daubreelite

Comments: Daubreelite (D), bright metallicwhite, with alabandite (A) (dull yellow) as

inclusions in a polished section of anachondrite meteorite.

Location: Norton County, Kansas. Scale:See Photo.


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.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Alamosite Image

Images: Alamosite

Comments: White alamosite crystal group.John Schneider Collection.

Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 3.5x3x2cm.

© Dan Weinrich

Albite Image

Images: Albite Plagioclase

Comments: Colorless, lustrous blocky albitecrystals 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 7.5cm matrix.

© Dan Weinrich

Albite Image

Images: Albite Plagioclase

Comments: Crystal group of bladed albite(variety cleavelandite) crystals.

Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil.Scale: 7.4 x 5 cm.© John Veevaert

Albite Image

Images: Albite Schorl

Comments: Several jet-black lustrouscrystals 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 darkalgodonite with vuggy areas filled with

minute crystals.Location: Algodones Mines, Coqu?mbo

Province, Chile. Scale: 4x3x3 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Algodonite Image

Images: Algodonite Koutekite

Comments: Silvery metallic koutekite withdarker gray algodonite.

Location: Mohawk Mine, KeweenawCounty, Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Aliettite Image

Images: Aliettite

Comments: Tan to brownish pseudomorphof aliettite after wollastonite.

Location: Ingichka, Uzbekistan. Scale: SeePhoto.


Allabogdanite Image

Images: Allabogdanite Schreibersite

Comments: Relict grain of allabogdanitecrystal (ABG) surrounded by schreibersite

rim (SCHR) in plessite matrix (PL). Blackphase is a secondary Fe-Ni-hydroxide.

Backscattered electron image. (AmMin,87:1249).

Location: Onello iron meteorite (high-Niataxite) Onello River basin, Aldan shield,

Saha (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Scale bar 10

µ-m.© American Mineralogist

Allactite Image

Images: Allactite

Comments: Brownish red allactite crystals.Location: Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, SussexCounty, New Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not


Allanite-(Ce) Image


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Images: Allanite-(Ce)

Comments: Dual views of the same 0.8 cm Jetblack allanite-(Ce) on quartz.

Location: Tiro Estrella Mine, El Capitan Mts., LincolnCo., New Mexico, USA. Scale: Crystal Size 0.8 cm.

© John Veevaert

Allanite-(La) Image

Images: Allanite-(La)

Comments: A single prismatic allanite-(La) crystalwith small, lustrous black magnetite crystals, all on

a matrix of hedenbergite.Location: Mina Nueva Vizcaya, Sierra Gorda,

Burguillos del Cerro, Badajoz, Spain. Scale: Crystalsize 0.9 x 0.5 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Allanite-(Y) Image

Images: Allanite-(Y)

Comments: Dark brown allanite-(Y) inmatrix.

Location: Boden, Marienberg District,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:

Picture size 10 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Allargentum Image

Images: Allargentum

Comments: Irregular crystalline aggregategrain of allargentum.

Location: Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartensteinarea, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:

Specimen size 43 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Alleghanyite Image

Images: Alleghanyite

Comments: Massive, brown alleghanyitewith white calcite.

Location: Parker Shaft, Franklin, SussexCounty, New Jersey. Scale: See Photo.


Alleghanyite Image


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Images: Alleghanyite Galaxite

Comments: Black granular galaxite withreddish alleghanyite and white kutnohorite.

Location: Bald Knob, Alleghany County,North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Allophane Image

Images: Allophane

Comments: Blue, cuprian, botryoidalallophane on matrix.

Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, HimmelfahrtMine, Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,

Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Alluaudite Image

Images: Alluaudite

Comments: Nearly pure crystalline darkgreen brown mass of alluaudite.

Location: Warusenge Pegmatite, Buranga,Rwanda. Scale: Size Not Given.

© John Veevaert

Alluaudite Image

Images: Alluaudite Heterosite

Comments: Purple crystalline heterositewith yellow coatings of alluaudite.

Location: Palermo Mine, North Groton,Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA.


Mineral Species

Almandine Image

Images: Almandine

Comments: Two reddish brown crystals ofalmandine on matrix.

Location: Fanny Gorge mine, Spruce Pine,Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA.

Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Almandine Image


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Images: Almandine Hypersthene

Comments: Dark green blocky crystalshypersthene with reddish almandine.

Location: Barton Garnet Mine, North Creek,Warren County, Adirondacks, New York,

USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Alsakharovite-Zn Image

Images: Alsakharovite-Zn

Comments: Light brown crystal fragment ofalsakharovite-Zn.

Location: Lepkhe Nelm Mountain,Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:

Crystal size 2 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Alstonite Image

Images: Alstonite

Comments: Transparent alstonite crystals.Location: Hexham, Northumberland,

England. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Altaite Image

Images: Altaite

Comments: Bronze yellow metallic altaitecrystals.

Location: Sonora, Tuolumne County,California, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Altaite Image

Images: Altaite MattagamiteTellurantimony

Comments: Silvery metallic intergrowths ofmattagamite with tellurantimony and

altaite.Location: Mattagami Lake Mine, Quebec,

Canada. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Altaite Image


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Images: Altaite Maslovite Froodite

Comments: Reflected lightphotomicrograph of maslovite (M), froodite(F), and altaite (A), in chalcopyrite matrix.

Location: Oktyabr'skoye Mine, Norilsk,Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale:

See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Althausite Image

Images: Althausite

Comments: Grayish to maroon coloredand 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 nodulesof aluminite.

Location: Newhaven, Sussex, Great Britain.Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.© John Veevaert

Aluminoceladonite Image

Images: Aluminoceladonite Muscovite

Comments: Large, 1cm, purple crystals ofmuscovite/leucophyllite, (var. alurgite

which is an intermediate composition tomuscovite and leucophyllite

(aluminoceladonite).Location: Ultevis, Sweden. Scale:

5x3.5x3cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Aluminocopiapite Image

Images: Aluminocopiapite

Comments: Small yellow crystals ofaluminocopiapite.

Location: Willi Agatz Mine, Dresden, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Aluminoferrotschermakite Image


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Images: AluminoferrotschermakiteTuperssuatsiaite

Comments: Golden aciculartuperssuatsiaite crystal spray with clear

apophyllite and dark greenaluminoferrotschermigite.

Location: Aris Quarry, Khomas, Namibia.Scale: See Photo.


Aluminum Image

Images: Aluminum

Comments: Native aluminum in a polishedsection.

Location: From a mud volcano in theCaspian Sea near Baku, Azerbaidzhan.

Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Alumohydrocalcite Image

Images: Alumohydrocalcite

Comments: Pinkish-white globularaggregates of alumohydrocalcite.Location: Carriere de Richelle, Vise,Belgium. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Alumoklyuchevskite Image

Images: Alumoklyuchevskite

Comments: Very small olive-greenishprismatic crystals of alumoklyuchevskite.

Location: Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka,Russia. Scale: Sample size 1.8 x 1.5 mm.


Alunite Image

Images: Alunite

Comments: Octahedral clear to tan tintedcrystals of alunite.

Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Alunogen Image


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Images: Alunogen Jarosite

Comments: Colorless to white, tabularcrystals alunogen on reddish jarosite.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera

district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picturesize 5 mm.


Alunogen Image

Images: Alunogen Metavoltine

Comments: Yellow metavoltine with whitealunogen.

Location: Carola Mine, Freital, nearDresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture


Alunogen Image

Images: Alunogen Voltaite

Comments: Dark greenish-black crystals ofvoltaite on white alunogen.

Location: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Amarantite Image

Images: Amarantite

Comments: Amber-like, long, prismatic,bright red amarantite crystals.

Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,Chile. Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Amber Image

Images: Amber

Comments: Rectangular specimen of dark,transparent amber with a large spider

entombed inside.Location: Bitterfeld, Saxony, Germany. Scale:

14x10x10 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Amblygonite Image


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Images: Amblygonite

Comments: Grayish, massive amblygonitefrom the type locality.

Location: Chursdorf, Penig, Chemnitz,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 35


Amesite Image

Images: Amesite

Comments: White, massive amesitebetween quartz.

Location: Missoula, Missoula County,Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Amesite Image

Images: Amesite Titanite

Comments: Green titanite (sphene) crystalson purple chromamesite (clinochlore?).Location: Saranovskaya Deposit, Middle

Ural Mountains, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Amicite Image

Images: Amicite

Comments: White amicite crystals inmassive amicite.

Location: Howenegg, Hegau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Aminoffite Image

Images: Aminoffite

Comments: Clear, pyramidal aminoffitecrystal.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: Size Not Given.


Ammonioalunite Image


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Images: Ammonioalunite Kaolinite

Comments: White chalky ammonioaluniteon darker kaolinite.

Location: Schoeller Mine, Kladno,Stredocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Analcime Image

Images: Analcime

Comments: Brownish yellow transparentanalcime crystals.

Location: Guam. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Analcime Image

Images: Analcime Serandite Natrolite

Comments: Orange-red, blocky serandite withwhite, 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 crystalsup to 4 cm coated with overgrowth of

analcime 18 mm diameter, black aegirineup 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 ananditewith dark red gillespite.

Location: Esquire No. 7 Claim, Big Creek,Fresno County, California, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species


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Anapaite Image

Images: Anapaite

Comments: Specimen of anapaite onlimonite. There are two distinct crystal formsof 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 andalusiteassociated 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 insandstone.

Location: Atomic King mine, San JuanCounty, 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 fluorescenceof 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 crystaltwin.

Location: Maeyama Ueda shi, Nagano,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Andorite Image

Images: Andorite

Comments: Metallic, prismatic andoritecrystal.

Location: Baie Sprie (Felsobanya),Maramures, Romania. Scale: Size Not


Andorite Image

Images: Andorite Ferrokesterite

Comments: Small, tetragonal crystal ofgray ferrokesterite (circled in thumbnail)

attached on the surface of a largerstriated andorite specimen.

Location: San Jose mine, Oruro, Boliv ia.Scale: Crystal size 0.2 mm.

© John Veevaert

Andradite Image

Images: Andradite Clinochlore

Comments: Transparent topazolite, theyellow variety of andradite on clinochlore.

Location: Yellow Cat Mine, New IdriaDistrict, San Benito County. California, USA.

Scale: 2.7 x 2.5 cm.© 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 Imageof euhedral anduoite crystal enclosed inchromian spinel containing lamellae of

ilmenite. Image on left is large view, imageon 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 microcrystallineangelellite on matrix.

Location: Cerro Pululus Tin Mine, Jujuy,Argentina. Scale: See Photo.


Anglesite Image

Images: Anglesite

Comments: Crystalline anglesite with minorduftite. The crystal at the top of the

specimen is partially doubly terminated.Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.


Anglesite Image

Images: Anglesite

Comments: White anglesite crystals withdark 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 oflight blue anhydrite crystals in parallel

growth.Location: Naica. Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale:

9.5 x 8 x 6 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Ankerite Image

Images: Ankerite Sphalerite Dickite

Comments: White, rhombohedral crystals ofankerite 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 annabergitecrystals.

Location: Laurium, Greece. Scale: NotGiven.


Annite Image

Images: Annite

Comments: Bottle-green manganoanannite fragment.

Location: Thiemendorf, K?nigshain,Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany. Scale:

Picture size 2.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Anorthite Image

Images: Anorthite Plagioclase

Comments: Opaque white crystal of anorthitewith dark brown solidified lava coating.

Location: Miyake-jima, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:See Photo.


Anorthoclase Image


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Images: Anorthoclase

Comments: Two white crystals ofanorthoclase (possibly mislabeled and

actually anorthite.Location: Kusukidani, Wakayama

Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu island,Japan. Scale: 15x14x6 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Ansermetite Image

Images: Ansermetite

Comments: Environmental scanningelectron microscope image of the

ansermetite crystals. (CanMin, v 41, p1425).

Location: Fianel, Val Ferrera, Eastern SwissAlps. Scale: Scale bar 20 µ-m.


Anthoinite Image

Images: Anthoinite Cerotungstite-(Ce)Ferberite

Comments: Yellow cerotungstite-(Ce), withblack ferberite veins and whitish anthoinite.Location: Bugarama, Rwanda. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Anthoinite Image

Images: Anthoinite Mpororoite

Comments: White chalky massivempororoite with brown anthoinite.

Location: Kara Mine, Tasmania, Australia.Scale: See Photo.


Anthophyllite Image

Images: Anthophyllite Biotite

Comments: Fibrous mass of anthophylliteas a shell around biotite.

Location: Hermanov, Severocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Antigorite Image


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Images: Antigorite

Comments: Yellowish green, fibrousantigorite.

Location: East Broughon, Quebec,Canada. Scale: 22x10 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Antigorite Image

Images: Antigorite Chromite

Comments: Chromite veins in yellow togreen 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.


Antimony Image

Images: Antimony

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

Scale: Size Not Given.© John Veevaert

Antimony Image

Images: Antimony Valentinite

Comments: Beige valentinite crystals withred kermesite in a matrix of gray, massive

antimony.Location: South-Ham Antimony mine, LakeNicolet, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture

Size 3 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Antlerite Image

Images: Antlerite

Comments: Dark green crystals of antleriteon 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 ofmetaschoepite with green antlerite.

Location: P?hla-Tellerh?user Gallery, P?hla,Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Apachite Image

Images: Apachite

Comments: Blue crusts of apachite onskarn rock.

Location: Christmas Mine, near Hayden,Gila County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Apachite Image

Images: Apachite

Comments: Spherical crystals 0.2mm ofblue apachite as grape-like botryodal

aggregates.Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,

USA. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Apatite Image

Images: Apatite Carbonate-fluorapatite

Comments: Pink, colliform carbonate-fluorapatite on matrix.

Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, CusterCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Size Not


Apatite Image

Images: Apatite Fluorapatite BerylMuscovite

Comments: Pink crystals of fluorapatitewith 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 onpink carbonate-hydroxylapatite.

Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, CusterCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not


Aphthitalite Image

Images: Aphthitalite

Comments: Aphthitalite crystals.Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino

County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Apjohnite Image

Images: Apjohnite

Comments: White crystalline mass ofapjohnite.

Location: Terlano, Bolzano, Italy. Scale: SeePhoto.


Aplowite Image

Images: Aplowite Villiaumite

Comments: Pink aplowite laths intergrownwith lustrous, red, massive villiaumite.

Location: Mt Rasvumchorr, Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',

Northern Region, Russia. Scale: 20x19x18mm.


Apophyllite Image

Images: Apophyllite HydroxyapophylliteStilbite

Comments: 3 cm. pink-colored rosette ofstilbite and clear "apophyllite" (probablyhydroxyapophyllite) in an amygdaloidal

cavity.Location: Aurangabad District, Jalgaon,

India. Scale: Specimen size 6 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Apophyllite Image


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Images: Apophyllite FluorapophylliteStilbite

Comments: Doubly terminated, very clearand 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 tabularhydroxyapophyllite.

Location: Wessels Mine, KalahariManganese Field, Northern Cape Province,

South Africa. Scale: 2.5 x 2.3 cm.© John Veevaert

Apophyllite Image

Images: Apophyllite Kinoite

Comments: Crystals of dark blue kinoiteand clear apophyllite.

Location: Christmas Mine, Gila County,Arizona, USA. Scale: Crystal size 2.5 mm.

© John Veevaert

Apophyllite Image

Images: Apophyllite

Comments: Mint green to clear apophylliteflat 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 ofapuanite on matrix.

Location: Buca della Vena Mine,Stazzema, Versilia Valley, Apuan Alps,

Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Aragonite Image


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Images: Aragonite

Comments: Clear, crystalline aragonite prism.Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale:


Aramayoite Image

Images: Aramayoite Miargyrite

Comments: Aramayoite is present as largethin plates (blue iridescence) to 1mm in

massive gray miargyrite matrix.Location: Julcani Silver mine,

Huancavelica Dept., Peru. Scale: Picturesize 5 mm.


Aravaipaite Image

Images: Aravaipaite

Comments: Colorless thin tabular crystalsof aravaipaite.

Location: Grand Reef Mine, AravaipaDistrict, Graham County, Arizona, USA.


Arcanite Image

Images: Arcanite

Comments: Opaque olive-green mottled-colored arcanite.

Location: Tunnel #1, Santa Ana Tin Mine,Orange County, California, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Archerite Image

Images: Archerite Biphosphammite

Comments: Buff-colored biphosphammitewith white archerite crusts.

Location: Cockelbiddy Cave, WesternAustralia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Arctite Image


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Images: Arctite

Comments: Clear glassy crystalline arctitewith magenta villiaumite in pegmatite.

Location: Vuonnemiok River, Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Ardealite Image

Images: Ardealite

Comments: Ardealite powder.Location: Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay,

Western Australia, Australia. Scale: SeePhoto.


Ardennite Image

Images: Ardennite

Comments: Yellow ardennite crystals inwhite quartz matrix.

Location: Salmch?teau, Vielsalm, StavelotMassif, Ardennes, Luxembourg Province,

Belgium. Scale: 30x20x17 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Arfvedsonite Image

Images: Arfvedsonite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of blackarfvedsonite in white feldspar matrix.Location: Kangerdluarsuk, Il?maussaq

Massif, Greenland. Scale: 8x3x3 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Arfvedsonite Image

Images: Arfvedsonite Seidozerite

Comments: Dark red translucentseidozerite with vitreous, black

arfvedsonite.Location: Seidozero Lake, Lovozero Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species


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Argentite Image

Images: Argentite Acanthite

Comments: Dark metallic acanthite crystalsup to 3 mm. Most of the crystals are a cubichabit, so the acanthite is pseudomorphing

the original argentite.Location: San Juan de Rayas Mine (RayasMine), Guanajuato, Mun. de Guanajuato,Guanajuato, Mexico. Scale: 18x12x12 mm.


Argentojarosite Image

Images: Argentojarosite

Comments: Yellow crystalline massiveargentojarosite.

Location: Eagle Mine, Juab County, Utah,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Argentopyrite Image

Images: Argentopyrite

Comments: Metallic, twinnedargentopyrite grain on matrix.

Location: St. Andreasberg, Harz, LowerSaxony, Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.


Argyrodite Image

Images: Argyrodite

Comments: Lead gray metallic aggregateof argyrodite crystals.

Location: Veta Galufa, Colquechaca,Potosi Dept., Boliv ia. Scale: Size Not Given.


Argyrodite Image

Images: Argyrodite

Comments: Gray, metallic, massive,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, botryoidalaggregate of arhbarite in a 2mm vug

associated with atacamite.Location: El Guanaco mine, Atacama, Tal

Tal(?), Chile. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Armenite Image

Images: Armenite

Comments: Translucent, white armenitecrystals.

Location: Simplon Pass, Brig, Valais,Switzerland. Scale: Size Not Given.


Armstrongite Image

Images: Armstrongite

Comments: Tan massive armstrongiteaggregate in granite.

Location: Khan-Bogdo Massif, Gobi,Mongolia. Scale: See Photo.


Arrojadite Image

Images: Arrojadite

Comments: Brownish to clear crystals ofarrojadite on matrix.

Location: Big Fish river area, Yukon Territory,Canada. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Arrojadite Image

Images: Arrojadite

Comments: Tabular, diamond shapedgolden yellow crystal of arrojadite.

Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.Scale: Crystal to 5mm..


Arsendescloizite Image


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Images: Arsendescloizite

Comments: Spherical aggregates ofarsendescloizite crystals.

Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Size Not Given.


Arsenic Image

Images: Arsenic

Comments: Bright, metallic, gray,crystalline aggregate or arsenic.

Location: Niederschlema, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.


Arsenic Image

Images: Arsenic

Comments: Botryoidal-concentricaggregate of arsenic with white calcite

crystals.Location: Schneeberg, Erzgebirge,

Sachsen, Germany. Scale: 7 x 4 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Arsenic Image

Images: Arsenic Claudetite

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystal ofclaudetite on native arsenic.

Location: J?chymov (St Joachimsthal),Krusn? Hory (Erzgebirge), Z?padocesk? Kraj,

Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picturesize 2 mm.


Arseniopleite Image

Images: Arseniopleite

Comments: Massive, orange arseniopleite.Location: Sj?gruvan, Grythyttan, ?rebro,

Sweden. Scale: Not Given.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Arseniosiderite Image


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Images: Arseniosiderite

Comments: Yellowish brown, roughlyspherical aggregates of arseniosiderite

crystals on matrix.Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.


Arseniosiderite Image

Images: Arseniosiderite Cobaltarthurite

Comments: Olive-greenish crystalline druseof cobaltarthurite with spherical

arseniosiderite.Location: Pastrana, Mazarr?n, Murcia,

Spain. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Arsenocrandallite Image

Images: Arsenocrandallite

Comments: Micro, pale blue botryoids ofarsenocrandallite on dark green olivenite

and quartz.Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, Juab

County, Utah. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Arsenogorceixite Image

Images: Arsenogorceixite

Comments: Lime colored crystallinearsenogorceixite on dark green olivenite.

Location: Bali Lo, Ashburton Downs,Western Australia, Australia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Arsenogorceixite Image

Images: Arsenogorceixite

Comments: White arsenogorceixitespherules to less than 0.25mm in vuggy

matrix.Location: Clara mine, Schwarzwald,Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.


Arsenogoyazite Image


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Images: Arsenogoyazite Olivenite

Comments: White micro-botryoids ofarsenogoyazite with light green acicular

crystal sprays of olivenite and dark greenmalachite on brown limonite.

Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, JuabCounty, Utah. Scale: See Photo.


Arsenogoyazite Image

Images: Arsenogoyazite

Comments: Clear, white micro (<0.25mm)rhombohedral arsenogoyazite crystals.

Location: Clara mine, Schwarzwald,Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.


Arsenolamprite Image

Images: Arsenolamprite

Comments: Needle like gray crystals ofarsenolamprite in calcite matrix.

Location: Mackenheim,, Odenwald,Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.




Comments: REM (Raster ElectronMicroscope) image of well cristallized

arsenolamprite fragments.Location: Mine dump near shaft 371,

Hartenstein, Germany. Scale: See Image.© Thomas Schlothauer



Comments: Vein of arsenolamprite inmatrix.

Location: Mine dump near shaft 371,Hartenstein, Germany. Scale: See Image.

© Thomas Schlothauer

Arsenolite Image


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Images: Arsenolite

Comments: Brownish yellow octahedronsof arsenolite on matrix.

Location: White Caps mine, Manhattan,Nye County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not


Arsenopalladinite Image

Images: Arsenopalladinite IsomertieiteGold Bornite

Comments: Light grayish grain of intimatelyintergrown isomertieite and

arsenopalladinite (in the center of thepicture), 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-SiberianRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.1 mm.


Arsenopalladinite Image

Images: Arsenopalladinite

Comments: Arsenopalladinite microcrystal.

Location: Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:Not Given.


Arsenopyrite Image

Images: Arsenopyrite Siderite

Comments: White, metallic arsenopyriteand tan siderite crystals.

Location: Panasqueira (2000, 3rd level), inthe region of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale:

11 x 7 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Arsenpolybasite Image

Images: Arsenpolybasite

Comments: Back, crystallinearsenpolybasite in quartz.

Location: Medenec, Severocesky, Moravia,Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.



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Arsentsumebite Image

Images: Arsentsumebite

Comments: Crystallized arsentsumebite ina vuggy rock matrix.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Crystals to 0.25mm.

© John Veevaert

Arsenuranylite Image

Images: Arsenuranylite

Comments: Yellow crystallinearsenuranylite.

Location: Rudnoje, Bukhara District,Uzbekistan. Scale: See Photo.


Arthurite Image

Images: Arthurite Pharmacosiderite

Comments: Altered rhyolite vug lined withbrilliant 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 aciculararthurite.

Location: Majuba Hill mine, PershingCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: Spray size 2.5

mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Artinite Image

Images: Artinite

Comments: Bright, white acicular sprays ofartinite crystals on matrix.

Location: New Idria district, San BenitoCounty, California, USA. Scale: Size Not


Artinite Image


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Images: Artinite

Comments: White, acicular clusters ofartinite on matrix.

Location: San Benito County, California,USA. Scale: Cluster size 1.3 cm.

© Minernet

Artsmithite Image

Images: Artsmithite

Comments: White to tan, radial, acicularcrystals of artsmithite on matrix.

Location: Funderburk Prospect, PikeCounty, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size

0.7 cm.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Artsmithite Image

Images: Artsmithite

Comments: White or faint green platymicro crystals of artsmithite on matrix.Location: Funderburk prospect, Pike

County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Crystal size0.5 mm.


Asbecasite Image

Images: Asbecasite

Comments: Brownish yellow asbecasiteprismatic crystal.

Location: Cervandone, Val d'Ossola,Lombardy, Italy. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Asbolane Image

Images: Asbolane

Comments: Brownish red dull grains ofasbolane 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 ofashburtonite on matrix.

Location: Anticline Deposit, AshburtonDowns, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:


Mineral Species

Asisite Image

Images: Asisite

Comments: Orange brownish asisite onmatrix.

Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat, Namibia.Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Asselbornite Image

Images: Asselbornite

Comments: Small orange cubes ofasselbornite on yellow uranophane.

Location: Wei?er Hirsch Mine, Schneeberg,Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. Scale:


Astrocyanite-(Ce) Image

Images: Astrocyanite-(Ce)

Comments: Blue-green bladedastrocyanite-(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.© Paul M. Schumacher

Astrophyllite Image

Images: Astrophyllite

Comments: Dark brown acicular masses ofastrophyllite 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 wellcrystallized pocket.

Location: Mina Lily, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept.Peru. Scale: 5 x 4.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Athabascaite Image

Images: Athabascaite UmangiteBerzelianite

Comments: Reflected lightphotomicrograph of umangite (pinkish),berzelianite (gray), athabascaite (small

white areas in berzelianite), calcite (olive).Location: Sierra de Umango, La Rioja,

Argentin. Scale: Not Given.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Atokite Image

Images: Atokite Taimyrite

Comments: Photomicrograph (oilimmersion) of atokite and taimyrite

intergrowth inside tetraauricupride reactionrim on Pt-Fe alloy. Outlined section shows

atokite relics within taimyrite. (CanMin, v 42,p 610).

Location: Kondyor PGE placer,Khabarovskiy Kray, eastern Siberia, Russia,.

Scale: See Image.© Canadian Mineralogist

Atokite Image

Images: Atokite Sobolevskite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage showing a) intergrowth of atokite,

mertieite-II [Pd8Sb3] and telluroansobolevskite [(Pd,Pt)(Bi,Te)] within tetra-auricupride rim. (CanMin, v 42, p 611).

Location: Kondyor PGE placer,Khabarovskiy Kray, eastern Siberia, Russia.


Attakolite Image


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Images: Attakolite

Comments: Pink to yellowish attakolite withblack hematite.

Location: Vestana Iron Mine, near Nasum,Skane, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Aubertite Image

Images: Aubertite

Comments: Aqua to white massiveaubertite.

Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,Chile. Scale: See Photo.


Augelite Image

Images: Augelite

Comments: Apple green augelite withsemi-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 prismsin matrix.

Location: Isle of Ischia, near Naples,Compania, Italy. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

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.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Augite Image

Images: Augite Tuscanite

Comments: Translucent tuscanitemicrocrystal in in vug in low-Fe augite (var.

fassaite).Location: Pitigliano Quarry, Grosseto,

Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Aurichalcite Image

Images: Aurichalcite

Comments: Sky-blue radiating acicularcrystals of aurichalcite covering matrix.

Location: Lucin, Utah, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x 2cm with 5 mm crystals.

© Dan Weinrich

Auricupride Image

Images: Auricupride

Comments: Golden metallic veins ofauricupride in quartz.

Location: Vacos Hielados, Chile. Scale: SeePhoto.


Aurorite Image

Images: Aurorite

Comments: Brown, dendritic aurorite inwhite calcite.

Location: Aurora Mine, Hamilton, White PineCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Austinite Image


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Images: Austinite

Comments: Green, spherulitic clusters ofaustinite crystals.

Location: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts.,Tooele County, Utah, USA. Scale: Size Not


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-autunitecrystal showing the dehydration of autunite

(dark green) to meta-autunite (lighteryellowish green)..

Location: Daybreak Mine, Spokane County,Washington, U.S.A.. Scale: See Image.


Avogadrite Image

Images: Avogadrite Ferruccite

Comments: Very small, white crystals offerrite on massive, yellowish avogadrite.

Location: Vesuvius, Naples, Naplesprovince, Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture


Avogadrite Image

Images: Avogadrite Malladrite

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


Avogadrite Image


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Images: Avogadrite Malladrite

Comments: Yellow-orange crystallinemalladrite with pinkish white avogadrite.

Location: Eruption of 1926, Vesuvius,Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Awaruite Image

Images: Awaruite

Comments: Massive awaruite.Location: Heazlewood River, Tasmania,

Australia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Azoproite Image

Images: Azoproite

Comments: Black, acicular azoproite inmatrix.

Location: Tazheran Massif, Transbaikalia,Irkutsk District, Siberia. Scale: See Photo.


Azurite Image

Images: Azurite Malachite

Comments: Dark blue stubby pyramidalazurite 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 ofclinotyrolite on dark blue azurite.

Location: Lovelock mine, Churchill County,Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Azurite Image


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Images: Azurite

Comments: Sharp, dark blue, crystalline azuritegroup.

Location: Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda. Scale: 5 x 3.3 x 1.3cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Azurite Image

Images: Azurite Cyanotrichite

Comments: Blue, hairy crystals ofcyanotrichite with dark-blue, blocky azurite

on a green, malachite matrix.Location: Maid of Sunshine Mine, CochiseCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Image.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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"B " Mineral Photos (259)

Babingtonite Image

Images: Babingtonite

Comments: Small, single crystal of babingtoniteon matrix.

Location: Blueberry Mountain, Woburn.Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Scale:


Baddeleyite Image

Images: Baddeleyite

Comments: Single crystal specimen of veryrare 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 bafertisitein pegmatite.

Location: Fountain Quarry, Pitt County,North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Bahianite Image

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Images: Bahianite

Comments: Rounded grain of bahianite.Location: Garimpo de Morro, ParamirimRegion, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.


Bakerite Image

Images: Bakerite

Comments: Porcelain-like, massivebakerite.

Location: Twenty Mule Canyon, DeathValley, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale:


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Bakhchisaraitsevite Image

Images: Bakhchisaraitsevite

Comments: Yellow-brown, platy or thintabular crystals of bakhchisaraitsevite from

an Iron mine. Red arrow indicates themineral.

Location: Kovdor massif, Kola peninsula,Russia. Scale: 5mm.


Bakhchisaraitsevite Image

Images: Bakhchisaraitsevite

Comments: Crystals of beige-coloredbakhchisaraitsevite crystals in hydrothermal

assemblage with colorless bobierrite on dolomitefrom 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 ofbaksanite surrounded by white calcite.Location: Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria

Republic, North Caucasus, Russia. Scale:See Photo.


Balangeroite Image


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Images: Balangeroite

Comments: Brown fiberous crystals ofbalangeroite 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 micrographshowing the typical morphology of bamfordite

crystals. (AmMin, 83:173).Location: Abandoned W-Mo-Bi mines at

Bamford, Queensland, Australia. Scale: ScaleBar 20 µm.

© American Mineralogist

Bandylite Image

Images: Bandylite

Comments: Blue crystals of bandylite onquartz.

Location: Quet?na mine, Calama,Antofag?sta Province, Chile. Scale: 8x5x3

cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Bannisterite Image

Images: Bannisterite

Comments: Deep red micaceousbannisterite.

Location: Zinc Mine, Broken Hill, New SouthWales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Baotite Image

Images: Baotite Ferrocolumbite

Comments: Minute brown crystalline grainsof baotite in dark ferrocolumbite.

Location: Sheep Creek, Ravalli County,Montana. Scale: See Photo.


Baotite Image


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Images: Baotite

Comments: Brown masses of crystallinebaotite in white quartz matrix.

Location: Inner Mongolia, AutonomousRegion, China. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.


Bararite Image

Images: Bararite Cryptohalite

Comments: White crystalline barariteintermixed with cryptohalite colored

yellow by selenium.Location: Shamokin, NorthumberlandCounty, Pennsylvani, USA. Scale: See


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Baratovite Image

Images: Baratovite

Comments: Pale pink, pearly, micaceousbaratovite in syenite rock.

Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien Shan, Tadzhikistan.Scale: See Photo.


Barberiite Image

Images: Barberiite

Comments: Thin, colorless, tabular bladesof barberiite crystals.

Location: Vulcano, Italy. Scale: 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Barbertonite Image

Images: Barbertonite

Comments: Crystalline, red barbertonite inwhite and green serpentinite rock.

Location: Nevada Creek, Tasmania,Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Barbosalite Image


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Images: Barbosalite

Comments: Black, cruciform quadrillingtwins of barbosalite crystals.

Location: Sapucaia, Mina Gerais, Brazil.Scale: Size Not Given.


Barbosalite Image

Images: Barbosalite Phosphosiderite

Comments: Transparent, brown crystal ofphosphosiderite on black barbosalite.

Location: Bull Moose mine, Custer, CusterCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not


Barentsite Image

Images: Barentsite

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


Mineral Species

Baricite Image

Images: Baricite

Comments: Blue, micaceous baricite withsome yellow iron staining.

Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Bario-orthojoaquinite Image

Images: Bario-orthojoaquinite

Comments: Several 0.75mm brownish redmicro-crystals of bario-orthojoaquinite in

matrix.Location: Dallas Gem mine, San Benito Co.,

California, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Bariopyrochlore Image


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Images: Bariopyrochlore

Comments: Yellow crystalline massivebariopyrochlore.

Location: Catalao #2 Mine, Goias, Brazil.Scale: See Photo.


Bariosincosite Image

Images: Bariosincosite Fluellite

Comments: Viv id green crystals ofbariosincosite well placed on a matrix

covered by colorless, tabular fluellite withsome 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 transparentbarite 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 ofJacobsite on a bladed barite matrix.

Location: N' Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman,South Africa. Scale: 3x2.5x1.9 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Barite Image

Images: Barite Wurtzite

Comments: Compact, dark, metalliccrystals of wurtzite intermixed with galena

crystals and white barite blades.Location: Huanzala, Huanuco Dept., Peru.

Scale: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Barite Image


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Images: Barite

Comments: Tabular, clear crystal of bariteon 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 ofbarium-pharmacosiderite on matrix.

Location: Clara Mine, Wolfach, Baden-Wurt., Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Barnesite Image

Images: Barnesite

Comments: Bright red, acicular crystals ofbarnesite on matrix.

Location: Cactus Rat claim, Thompson,Grand County, Utah, USA. Scale: Size Not


Barrerite Image

Images: Barrerite

Comments: Barrerite, an extremely rarezeolite 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 innickel-iron meteorite (polished section.

Location: Canon Diablo Meteorite, MeteorCrater, Canon Diablo, Coconino County,

Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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Barringtonite Image


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Images: Barringtonite Lansfordite

Comments: Optical images of clusters ofglassy lansfordite crystals and one white

dehydrated barringtonite ? crystal.(AmMin, 88:1883).

Location: Crystals associated with theremains of a saguaro, Carnegiea gigantea

from south and west central Arizona.Scale: Scale bar 800 µ-m.© American Mineralogist

Barroisite Image

Images: Barroisite

Comments: Black, acicular, compact,massive barroisite.

Location: Monte Beigua, Savona, Liguria,Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Barylite Image

Images: Barylite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of baryliteexposed in a vug.

Location: Eveslogchorr Mt , Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',

Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4mm.


Barylite Image

Images: Barylite

Comments: Blocky prisimatic clear crystalsof barylite with black aegirine.

Location: Mt. Malosa, Zomba plateauMalawi. Scale: 2 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Barysilite Image

Images: Barysilite

Comments: Clear, round plates of barysiliteon a manganiferous matrix.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Barytocalcite Image


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Images: Barytocalcite

Comments: Pale pink crystallinebarytocalcite in dark matrix.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Barytocalcite Image

Images: Barytocalcite

Comments: White prismatic barytocalcitecrystals to 6mm. Former Eaton Collection.

Location: Alston Moor, Cumberland,England. Scale: 3x2x2cm.


Barytolamprophyllite Image

Images: BarytolamprophylliteLamprophyllite

Comments: Brownish-yellowbarytolamprophyllite on dark green

lamprophyllite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Basaluminite Image

Images: Basaluminite

Comments: Clear, radial sprays ofbasaluminite crystals.

Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, CochiseCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size Not


Bassanite Image

Images: Bassanite

Comments: White, blocky bassanitecrystals on matrix.

Location: Taft, Kern County, California, USA.Scale: Size Not Given.


Bassetite Image


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Images: Bassetite

Comments: Bright yellow, bladed crystalsof bassetite.

Location: Capoterra, near Cagliari,Sardinia, Italy. Scale: Size Not Given.


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 ofbastn?site-(La).

Location: Red Cloud mines, GallinasMountains, Lincoln County, New Mexico,

USA. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Batiferrite Image

Images: Batiferrite

Comments: Gray hexagonal crystal ofbatiferrite on matrix.

Location: Graulai (Grauley), nearHillesheim, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate,


Batisite Image

Images: Batisite

Comments: Vitreous, translucent, brownishorange 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, parallelcrystalline baumhauerite aggregates.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Baumhauerite Image

Images: Baumhauerite

Comments: Black, rounded, specularbaumhauerite crystal on white dolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,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 olive-greentransparent 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 baumstarkitewith zoning of darker lamellae with higher

As content. (AmMin 87:755).Location: San Genaro mine, Huancavelica

Department, Peru.. Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Bauranoite Image

Images: Bauranoite

Comments: Massive, orange-browncrystalline aggregate of bauranoite.

Location: Strel'tsovskoye ore field,Krasnokamensk, Chitinskaya Oblast',Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-

Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 6mm.



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Bavenite Image

Images: Bavenite

Comments: Clear, acicular bavenitecrystals.

Location: Foote mine, Kings Mountain,Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA.


Bayldonite Image

Images: Bayldonite

Comments: Green, rounded, crystallinebayldonite aggregates.

Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Size Not Given.


Bayleyite Image

Images: Bayleyite

Comments: Stellate aggregates of palegreenish white, acicular bayleyite crystalson a gossanous matrix with white, snowy

aragonite.Location: Hideout #1 mine, White Canyon

district, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale:Picture size 3.5 mm.


Bayleyite Image

Images: Bayleyite

Comments: Bright yellow coatings ofbayleyite.

Location: Near Moab, Grand County, Utah,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Bayleyite Image

Images: Bayleyite

Comments: Stellate aggregates ofacicular bayleyite crystals under short

wave UV light showing pale greenfluorescence.

Location: Hideout #1 mine, White Canyondistrict, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale:

Picture size 3.5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher


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Bazhenovite Image

Images: Bazhenovite

Comments: Yellow, bladed crystals ofbazhenovite on matrix.

Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Geradistrict, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture


Bazirite Image

Images: Bazirite Sanbornite

Comments: Clear glassy minute grains ofbazinite to 1mm through out matrix of

milky-white sanbornite. The baziritefluoresces light blue.

Location: Snow Cap mine, Rush Creek,Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x

2.5cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Bazzite Image

Images: Bazzite

Comments: Blue crystals of bazzite.Location: Thiemendorf near K?nigshain,

Lausitz, Sachsen, Germany. Scale: Picturesize 1.3 mm.


Beaverite Image

Images: Beaverite Mottramite

Comments: Specimen of quartz with athick druse of green mottramite

(cuprodescloizite) crystals and a scatteredgrouping of micro beaverite crystals

(lemon yellow in color).Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.


Beaverite Image

Images: Beaverite

Comments: Yellow earthy coating ofbeaverite.

Location: Hornsilver Mine, Frisco, BeaverCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Becquerelite Image


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Images: Becquerelite

Comments: Yellow becquerelite crystals.Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara,

Shaba, Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: SizeNot Given.


Becquerelite Image

Images: Becquerelite Schoepite

Comments: Bright yellow crystals ofschoepite on transparent yellow

becquerelite.Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the

Congo. Scale: .© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Bederite Image

Images: Bederite

Comments: Dark brown massive bederite.Location: El Penon Pegmatite, Nevados de

Palermo, Salta, Argentina. Scale: SeePhoto.


Behierite Image

Images: Behierite

Comments: A light brownish crystal ofbehierite in matrix.

Location: Manjaka, Sahatany Valley,Antsirabe Region, Madagascar. Scale:


Behoite Image

Images: Behoite Analcime

Comments: Gray-white microcline crystalsup to 4 cm coated with overgrowth of

analcime 18 mm diameter, black aegirineup to 25 mm and most notable, a pale

pink behoite.Location: Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry;Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mt Saint-



Beidellite Image


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Images: Beidellite

Comments: Pure white chalky massivebeidellite.

Location: From near Charlestown, Nevis,Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Scale: See


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Belendorffite Image

Images: Belendorffite

Comments: Small grains of belendorffitefrom concentrates.

Location: Moschellandsberg, Pfalz,Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Bellbergite Image

Images: Bellbergite

Comments: Small colorless to whitehexagonal crystals of bellbergite on matrix.

Location: Ettringer Bellerberg, Ettringen,near Mayen, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-

Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1mm.


Bellidoite Image

Images: Bellidoite Berzelianite Umangite

Comments: Dark bellidoite inclusions inblack berzelianite with white umangite.

Location: Habri, near Tisnov, Jihomoravsky,Czech Republi. Scale: See Photo.


Bellingerite Image

Images: Bellingerite

Comments: Green crystal of bellingerite onmatrix.

Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,Chile. Scale: Picture size 8 mm.


Belovite-(Ce) Image


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Images: Belovite-(Ce)

Comments: Light yellow vitreous crystals ofbelovite-Ce up to 2 mm.

Location: Malyi Punkaruaiv Mt, LovozeroMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja

Oblast', Northern Region, Russia. Scale:2.5x3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Belovite-(La) Image

Images: Belovite-(La)

Comments: Yellow, pseudo-hexagonalcrystal 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 ofbelyankinite.

Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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 natroliteand crossite matrix.

Location: Benitoite Gem Mine, San BenitoCo., 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 offriedrichite, krupkaite, and benjaminite, with

quartz crystals.Location: Estela Mine, Julcani District, Junin,

Peru. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Benstonite Image

Images: Benstonite

Comments: Light pink benstonite crystalsepitaxially 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.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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:


Berborite Image

Images: Berborite

Comments: Colorless, nearly transparentcrystalline berborite in matrix.

Location: Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Vestfold,Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Bergenite Image


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Images: Bergenite

Comments: Yellow bladed bergenitecrystals.

Location: Mechelserrun, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Size Not Given.


Bergenite Image

Images: Bergenite

Comments: Bladed, radial aggregates ofyellow bergenite crystals on matrix.

Location: Bergen, Falkenstein, Vogtland,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 2.5

mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Bergslagite Image

Images: Bergslagite

Comments: White (fluorescent) veinlet ofbergslagite cutting through metallic, gray

hematite.Location: Langban Mine Dump, Langban,

Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Berlinite Image

Images: Berlinite Trolleite

Comments: Pinkish crystalline berlinite withblue trolleite.

Location: Ijzer Mine, Vestana, Christiansted,Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.


Berlinite Image

Images: Berlinite Lacroixite

Comments: Pale olive green crystallinelacroixite with white crystalline berlinite.

Location: Rusororo Pegmatite, Gatumba,Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See Photo.


Bermanite Image


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Images: Bermanite

Comments: Brown bermanite crystal.Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer

County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Size NotGiven.


Berndtite Image

Images: Berndtite Tschermigite

Comments: Yellow crystalline berndtite ontschermigite.



Mineral Species

Berryite Image

Images: Berryite Aikinite

Comments: Fine-grained, gray, metallicgranular berryite with silvery, metallic,

prismatic aikinite.Location: Mike Mine, San Juan County,

Colorado. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Berthierine Image

Images: Berthierine

Comments: Berthierine-1M, blackpseudomorphs after cordylite-(Ce) crystals.



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.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Bertossaite Image


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Images: Bertossaite

Comments: Pale pinkish crystallinebertossaite with yellowish apatite and blue

lazulite.Location: Buranga Pegmatite, near

Gatumba, Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: SeePhoto.


Bertrandite Image

Images: Bertrandite

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystals ofbertrandite 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 bertranditecrystals with brown rhodochrosite and

quartz.Location: Kara Oba, Kazakhstan. Scale:

Crystal size 1.1 cm.© John Veevaert

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl

Comments: Transparent Goshenite, thecolorless 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 bluevariety 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 greenvariety 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, thepink variety of beryl.

Location: Nuristan, Laghman Province,Afghanistan. Scale: 9.2 x 6.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl

Comments: Transparent Heliodor, theyellow variety of beryl.

Location: Wolodarsk, Wolynsky, Ukraine.Scale: 2.8 x 0.7 cm.© 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.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Beryl Image

Images: Beryl Fluorapatite MuscoviteApatite




Beryllite Image


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Images: Beryllite

Comments: Dirty white, soft, chalky filling ofberyllite (Green Arrow) in a vuggy matrix.

Location: Lovozero, Mt. Karnasurt, KolaPeninsula, Russia. Scale: Size Not Given.


Beryllonite Image

Images: Beryllonite

Comments: Clear twinned crystal ofberyllonite.

Location: Telecio mine, Linopolis, MinasGerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite AthabascaiteUmangite




Mineral Species

Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite Bellidoite Umangite




Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite

Comments: Blue-black metallic massiveberzelianite.

Location: Bukov, Western Moravia,Severocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


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Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite Novakite

Comments: Gray metallic dendriticnovakite in white calcite with tarnished

black berzelianite.Location: Cerny Dul, Bohemia,

Vychodocesky, Czech Republic. Scale:See Photo.


Berzelianite Image

Images: Berzelianite Umangite

Comments: Black massive umangiteintergrown with dark blue metallic

berzelianite.Location: Borsov, Bohemia, Vychodocesky,

Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Berzeliite Image

Images: Berzeliite

Comments: White calcite with includedgrains 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 ofbetafite on greenish apatite crystals.Location: Silver Crater Mine, Bancroft,

Ontario, Canada. Scale: 2-1/4 cm across.© Paul M. Schumacher

Betekhtinite Image


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Images: Betekhtinite

Comments: Black crystalline aggregate ofbetekhtinite 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 betpakdaliteon quartzite.

Location: Sadisdorf, Erzgebirge, Sachsen,Germany. Scale: 10 x 6 cm.


Beudantite Image

Images: Beudantite

Comments: Sharp and lustrous crystals ofbeudantite to 4 mm across on quartz.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: 2.7 x 2.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Beudantite Image

Images: Beudantite Scorodite

Comments: Blue, 2 cm in length scoroditecrystals 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-beigebeusite with blue vivianite.

Location: Remmelberg, Oberpfalz, Bavaria,Germany. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Beyerite Image


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Images: Beyerite

Comments: Greenish yellow crusts ofbeyerite on pegmatite.

Location: Harding Mine, Taos County, NewMexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Bianchite Image

Images: Bianchite

Comments: White powdery crust ofbianchite on clear to white gypsum.

Location: Glomsrudhollen, Amot, Modum,Buskerud, Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Bideauxite Image

Images: Bideauxite

Comments: Brownish cubic crystals ofbideauxite with blue boleite in tan limonitic

matrix.Location: Mammoth-St Anthony mine, PinalCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Specimen size

2 x 3 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Bideauxite Image

Images: Bideauxite

Comments: Richard Bideaux, Americanmineralogist, 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 namepronunciation for bideauxite.

Location: Tucson Convention Center, 50thTucson Gem and Mineral Show, February 14,

2004. Scale: NA.© Dave Barthelmy

Bieberite Image

Images: Bieberite

Comments: Pink crust of bieberite with darkblue chalcanthite.

Location: Katanga, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: SeePhoto.



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Biehlite Image

Images: Biehlite

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


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 ofpale yellowish sanbornite.

Location: Trumbull Peak, Mariposa Co.,California, United States. Scale: 2.5 x 2 x

2cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Bikitaite Image

Images: Bikitaite

Comments: Clear, crystalline bikitaite lathson matrix.



Bilinite Image

Images: Bilinite

Comments: Powdery crust of white biliniteon pyrite.

Location: Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Billietite Image

Images: Billietite

Comments: Clear, yellow crystal of billietite.Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara,

Shaba, Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: Size NotGiven.


Billietite Image


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Images: Billietite Studtite

Comments: Acicular, white sprays ofstudtite crystals on yellow, tabular billietite.

Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the

Congo. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Bindheimite Image

Images: Bindheimite

Comments: Yellow earthy bindheimitecovering red, massive crocoite.

Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) opencut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Biotite Image

Images: Biotite

Comments: Brown book ofpseudohexagonal biotite crystals in matrix.

Location: Sattleberg, Laacher See,Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Size

Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Biotite Image

Images: Biotite

Comments: Sharp hexagonal plates ofdark 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 anthophylliteas a shell around biotite.

Location: Hermanov, Severocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Biotite Image


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Images: Biotite Wohlerite

Comments: Prismatic wohlerite crystalswith lepidomelane (Fe-rich biotite).Location: Langevannet, Tvedalen,

Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Biphosphammite Image

Images: Biphosphammite

Comments: Vuggy, dark green-brownbiphosphammite.

Location: Mason Bat Cave, Mason County,Texas, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Biphosphammite Image

Images: Biphosphammite Archerite

Comments: Buff-colored biphosphammitewith white archerite crusts.

Location: Cockelbiddy Cave, WesternAustralia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Birnessite Image

Images: Birnessite

Comments: Gray birnessite. Very smallcrystals 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" ofbuserite which dehydrates to birnessite

when dry. Image photographed throughwater 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 very hygroscopic and must

be stored in a closed vial.Location: Stassfurt, Stassfurt Deposit,

Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Picturesize 5 mm.


Bismite Image

Images: Bismite

Comments: Tan, massive bismite withquartz.

Location: Schneeberg, Sachsen, Germany.Scale: See Photo.


Bismite Image

Images: Bismite Waylandite

Comments: Gray massive stream roundedwaylandite with tan bismite crusts.

Location: Mumba, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:See Photo.


Bismoclite Image

Images: Bismoclite

Comments: Opaque white pearlycrystalline bismoclite on matrix.

Location: Falcacci Mine, Rio Marina, Elba,Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Bismuth Image

Images: Bismuth

Comments: Skeletal trigonal crystal ofnative bismuth.

Location: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Size Not Given.


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 crystaltopped 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 ofcannonite on quartz crystals with dark,

metallic bismuthinite.Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah,


Mineral Species

Bismutite Image

Images: Bismutite

Comments: White to green earthy crust ofbismutite.

Location: La Higuera, Coquimbo, Chile.Scale: See Photo.


Bismutoferrite Image

Images: Bismutoferrite

Comments: Yellow-greenish, earthybismutoferrite.

Location: Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 8.5

cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Bismutomicrolite Image


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Images: Bismutomicrolite

Comments: A dark crystal ofbismutomicrolite in pearly muscovite.

Location: Malkhan Range, Krasny Chikoy,Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4


Bismutotantalite Image

Images: Bismutotantalite

Comments: Tan coatings ofbismutotantalite on white feldspar with

pink lepidolite.Location: Harding Mine, Taos County, New

Mexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Bityite Image

Images: Bityite

Comments: White crystalline bityite insilvery mica matrix.

Location: Harding Mine, Taos County, NewMexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Bixbyite Image

Images: Bixbyite

Comments: Cubic crystals of bixbyitereaching 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.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Bjarebyite Image

Images: Bjarebyite

Comments: Green, pyramidal crystals ofbjarebyite.

Location: Palermo No. 1 mine, NorthGroton, Grafton County, New Hamphshire,

USA. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Blakeite Image


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Images: Blakeite

Comments: Brown crusts of blakeite onquartz.

Location: Goldfield, Esmeralda County,Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Blatonite Image

Images: Blatonite

Comments: Bright yellow granular massesof blatonite and white crystalline gypsum.

Location: . Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Blatonite Image

Images: Blatonite

Comments: Acicular, yellow blatonitecrystals with white aragonite on matrix.

Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon,WhiteCanyon District (White Canyon), San JuanCo., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Blixite Image

Images: Blixite

Comments: Pale yellow crystalline blixiteon dark matrix.



Blodite Image

Images: Blodite Tamarugite

Comments: Clear, yellow bl?dite withwhite tamarugite.


Bobfergusonite Image


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Images: Bobfergusonite

Comments: Opaque dark green to browncrystalline bobfergusonite in pegmatite.

Location: Cross Lake, Manitoba, Canada.Scale: See Photo.


Bobierrite Image

Images: Bobierrite

Comments: Crystal group of bobierritepartially covered by yellow calcite.

Location: Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, KolaPenisula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Bobierrite Image

Images: Bobierrite Strontiowhitlockite

Comments: Pale white to pink fine grainedstrontiowhitlockite with bobierrite.

Location: Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Bobjonesite Image

Images: Bobjonesite

Comments: The silicified log and itscoalified margin that hosts bobjonesite and

other sulfate minerals. (CanMin, 41:85).Location: Temple Mountain, Emery County,

Utah, USA. Scale: Bob Jones is shown forscale.


Boehmite Image

Images: Boehmite

Comments: Crystalline boehmite in bauxiterock.

Location: Bauxite, Saline County, Arkansas,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Boggsite Image


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Images: Boggsite

Comments: White translucent botryoidalcrystals of boggsite lining vug in basalt.

Location: Neer Road Pit, Goble, ColumbiaCounty, Oregon, uSA. Scale: See Photo.


Boggsite Image

Images: Boggsite

Comments: Pure white spheroidal boggsitecrystal.

Location: Neer Road, Goble, ColumbiaCo., Oregon, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5


Bokite Image

Images: Bokite

Comments: Dark brown micro crystalrosettes of bokite in matrix.

Location: Monument #2 Mine, ApacheCounty, Arizona. Scale: See Photo.


Bokite Image

Images: Bokite

Comments: Tannish "spots" as very microacicular bokite crystals filling in between

grains. Eaton Collection.Location: Monument #2 mine, ApacheCo.,, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5

cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Boleite Image

Images: Boleite

Comments: Floater crystal of deep, inkyblue 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, BajaCalifornia Sur, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.


Bolivarite Image

Images: Bolivarite

Comments: Yellow translucent mass ofbolivarite.

Location: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.Scale: See Photo.


Boltwoodite Image

Images: Boltwoodite

Comments: Sprays of boltwooditecovering matrix.

Location: Rossing, Namibia. Scale: Size NotGiven.

© John Veevaert

Boltwoodite Image

Images: Boltwoodite

Comments: Bright yellow, prismatic crystalsof boltwoodite.

Location: R?ssing mine, SwakopmundDistrict, Namibia. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.


Boltwoodite Image

Images: Boltwoodite

Comments: Yellow, globular aggregatesof boltwoodite on a ferruginous matrix.

Location: Repete Mine, San Juan County,Utah, USA. Scale: See Image.


Bonattite Image


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Images: Bonattite

Comments: Blue bonattite on siliceoussinter.

Location: Steamboat Springs, WashoeCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Bonshtedtite Image

Images: Bonshtedtite

Comments: Oriented gray bands ofbonshtedtite in calcite.

Location: Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula.Scale: 3.9x2.3x1.5 cm.


Boothite Image

Images: Boothite Halotrichite

Comments: Pale blue earthy boothite withwhite halotrichite.

Location: Copiapo, Atacama, Chile. Scale:See Photo.


Boracite Image

Images: Boracite

Comments: Clear, pale greenpseudo-cubic boracite crystal.

Location: Sonderhausen, Thuringia,Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.


Boracite Image

Images: Boracite

Comments: A greenish crystal of boracite,a tetrahedron modified by cube and

dodecahedral faces.Location: Bernburg, Sachsen-Anhalt,Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Boracite Image


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Images: Boracite Hilgardite

Comments: Sub-mm reddish orangecrystals 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 boraxpreserved in oil to prevent dehydration to

tincalconite.Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino


Mineral Species

Borcarite Image

Images: Borcarite Szaibelyite

Comments: Pale aqua granular borcaritewith white fibrous to granular szaibelyite.Location: Nalednoya, Republic of Sakha,

Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Bornemanite Image

Images: Bornemanite Lomonosovite

Comments: Yellow crystalline bornemanitein dark brown lomonosovite.

Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, LovozeroMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,

Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Bornemanite Image

Images: Bornemanite

Comments: Pale yellow or peach colored,massive bornemanite.

Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region,

Russia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Bornite Image


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Images: Bornite

Comments: Metallic, crystalline bornitecrystal with bluish tarnish.

Location: Kamoto mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: Size Not Given.


Bornite Image

Images: Bornite IsomertieiteArsenopalladinite Gold







Borocookeite Image

Images: Borocookeite

Comments: Black and white image ofmulticolored tourmaline crystals (1) in

fine-flaky aggregate of borocookeite (2).(AmMin, v 88, p 831).

Location: Sosedka and Mokhovayapegmatite veins, Malkhan gem tourmalinedeposit, Chikoy district, Chita oblast, Russia.

Scale: Sample size is 5 x 5 cm.© American Mineralogist

Boromuscovite Image

Images: Boromuscovite

Comments: Grayish-white coatings ofboromuscovite on lavender lepidolite

crystals.Location: Little Three Mine, Ramona, SanDiego County, Californi, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Borovskite Image


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Images: Borovskite TemagamiteMerenskyite

Comments: Borovskite (Bvk) - temagamite(Tmg) - merenskyite (Mrk) composite grain

included in chalcopyrite (Ccp). (CanMin, v42, p 674).

Location: McBratney high-grade PGE-Auoccurrence, Bear Lake mafic unit,

Proterozoic Flin Flon greenstone belt,Manitoba, Canada. Scale: See Image.


Botallackite Image

Images: Botallackite

Comments: Well crystallized (although thecrystals are small) botallackite on matrix.

Location: A European classic from the typelocality, Botallack mine, St Just, England.

Scale: 5 x 4 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Botryogen Image

Images: Botryogen

Comments: Bright orange botryogen onwhite 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 crystallinebotryogen.

Location: Redington Mercury Mine,Knoxville, Napa County, California, USA.


Mineral Species

Botryogen Image

Images: Botryogen Redingtonite

Comments: Pale pink granular redingtoniteon yellow-brown botryogen.

Location: Redington Mine, Knoxville, NapaCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Bottinoite Image


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Images: Bottinoite

Comments: Pale blue botryoidal bottinoiteon calcite.

Location: Dornberg, Ramsbeck, Sauerland,Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Boulangerite Image

Images: Boulangerite

Comments: Specimen of sulfide rich matrixwith 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 ofbournonite on massive bournonite.

Location: Mercedes Mine, Huanuco Dept.,Peru. Scale: 3x3x2.7 cm.

© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Bournonite Image

Images: Bournonite

Comments: Bright, blocky crystallineaggregate 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 aggregatesboussingaultite.

Location: Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Aachen,North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Scale:


Boyleite Image


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Images: Boyleite

Comments: Powdery white crust ofboyleite on pyrite.

Location: Kotzebue, Alaska, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Brabantite Image

Images: Brabantite

Comments: Altering micro grain ofbrabantite.

Location: Kuttakuzhi, near Trivandrum,Travancore, Kerala, India. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Brackebuschite Image

Images: Brackebuschite Krettnichite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopeimage of a prismatic krettnichite (kr)

aggregate associated with manganite(ma) and barian brackebuschite (br) in avug. The inset is a close-up illustrating the

morphology of brackebuschite. (Eur. J.Mineral, 13:146).

Location: hydrothermal manganite-quartzvein at the historic manganese deposit ofKrettnich, Saarland, Germany. Scale: See

Image.© Eur. J. Mineral

Bradaczekite Image

Images: Bradaczekite

Comments: SEM image of the aggregatesof 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.© Canadian Mineralogist

Bradleyite Image


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Images: Bradleyite Loughlinite

Comments: Silky fibrous veinlets ofloughlinite with bradleyite.

Location: Green River area, SweetwaterCounty, Wyoming, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Braggite Image

Images: Braggite

Comments: Silvery grain of braggite inbrassy-iridescent pentlandite matrix.

Location: Stillwater Complex, SweetwaterCo., Montana, USA. Scale: 3 mm grain.


Brammallite Image

Images: Brammallite

Comments: Dark gray-brown fine grainedmassive brammallite.

Location: Near Ione, Amador County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Brandtite Image

Images: Brandtite

Comments: Clear, crystalline brandtiteaggregates.

Location: Harstig mine, Pajsberg, Varmland,Sweden. Scale: Size Not Given.


Brannerite Image

Images: Brannerite

Comments: Black grains of brannerite withgold and other minerals.

Location: Witwatersrand field, South Africa.Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Brannockite Image


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Images: Brannockite

Comments: Clear, hexagonal plates ofbrannockite crystals.



Brass Image

Images: Brass

Comments: Small brassy metallic grain ofbrass.

Location: Nurek Ore District, Uzbekistan.Scale: See Photo.


Brassite Image

Images: Brassite

Comments: Opaque white botryoidalmasses of brassite on matrix.

Location: Mine de Salsigne, Aude, France.Scale: See Photo.


Braunite-I Image

Images: Braunite-I Braunite-II

Comments: Crystals of braunite.Location: Black Rock Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Braunite-I Image

Images: Braunite-I Donpeacorite

Comments: Brown crystalline massivedonpeacorite with dark brown black

braunite.Location: Zinc Corporation of America Mine#4, Balmat, Saint Lawrence County, New

York, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Braunite-I Image


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Images: Braunite-I MacfalliteJohnsenite-(Ce)

Comments: Tiny - less than 1mm - marooncrystals of mcfallite suspended as

inclusions in massive quartz along withlarger spots of brown johnsenite-(Ce) and

braunite.Location: Artur mine, Jaguaracu, MinasGerais, 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

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Bravoite Image

Images: Bravoite

Comments: Steel gray, metallic crystal ofbravoite on brassy yellow chalcopyrite.

Location: Gey, Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.


Brazilianite Image

Images: Brazilianite

Comments: Gemmy brazilianite crystal.Location: Marcel Telirio mine, Divino das

Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Size NotGiven.

© Fabre Minerals

Bredigite Image

Images: Bredigite Spurrite

Comments: White veins of bredigite inmassive gray spurrite (slabbed specimen).

Location: Camphouse, Ardnamurchan,Argyll, Highland, Scotland. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Breithauptite Image


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Images: Breithauptite

Comments: Three brownish, metallichexagonal prisms of breithauptite in

calcite.Location: Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:


Brendelite Image

Images: Brendelite

Comments: Small brown tabular crystals ofbrendelite on matrix.

Location: G?ldener Falk Mine, Schneeberg,Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. Scale:


Brenkite Image

Images: Brenkite

Comments: Spherical aggregate ofcolorless crystals of brenkite.

Location: Schellkopf, Brenk, Eifel Mts,Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:


Brewsterite-Sr Image

Images: Brewsterite-Sr

Comments: Translucent brewsterite crystalson matrix.

Location: Yellow Lake, Olalla, OsoyoosMining Division, British Columbia, Canada.

Scale: 35x30x20 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Brianyoungite Image

Images: Brianyoungite

Comments: Silky white aggregates ofbrianyoungite with small yellow crystals of

sulfur on sphalerite.Location: St Johannes Mine, Wolkenstein,

Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:Picture size 3 mm.


Brindleyite Image


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Images: Brindleyite

Comments: Greenish waxy crust ofbrindleyite.

Location: Hachita, Grant County, NewMexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Britholite-(Ce) Image

Images: Britholite-(Ce)

Comments: Dark gray, parallel aggregatesof britholite-(Ce) crystals in matix..

Location: Rusty Gold Mine, JamestownDistrict, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA. Scale:

See Image.© Paul M. Schumacher

Brochantite Image

Images: Brochantite

Comments: Blue green spray of acicularbrochantite crystals on matrix.

Location: Douglas Hill, Lidwig, Lyon County,Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Brochantite Image

Images: Brochantite Linarite

Comments: Deep blue, acicular, linaritewith light blue, globular brochantite on

white quartz.Location: Goulmina, Er Rachidia, Morroco.

Scale: Crystal size 1.5 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Brochantite Image

Images: Brochantite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of blue greenbrochantite.

Location: Grand View Mine, GrandCanyon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.

Scale: See Image.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Brockite Image


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Images: Brockite

Comments: Red-brown opaque massivebrockite.

Location: Anna Lee Mine, Custer County,Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Bromargyrite Image

Images: Bromargyrite

Comments: Butterscotch coloredbromargyrite cube.

Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales,Australia. Scale: Size Not Given.


Bromellite Image

Images: Bromellite

Comments: Nearly colorless translucentcrystalline 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 ofwhite bromellite to about 0.3 mm on

yellowish calcite with associated blackmagnesioferrite.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.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 ofbrownmillerite in skarn.

Location: Bellerberg, Ettringen, EifelMountains, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.


Mineral Species

Brownmillerite Image

Images: Brownmillerite Reinhardbraunsite

Comments: Pink crystallinereinhardbraunsite in brownmillerite.

Location: Near Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pflaz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Brucite Image

Images: Brucite

Comments: Crystal cluster of brucite.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,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:

Crystal size 1.6 cm.© Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it

Brugnatellite Image

Images: Brugnatellite

Comments: Botryoidal brugnatellite.Location: Monte Ramazzo, Liguria, Italy.


Mineral Species

Brushite Image


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Images: Brushite

Comments: Tan coatings of brushite oncalcite.

Location: Oberschleme, ErzgebirgeMountains, Sachsen, Germany. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Buddingtonite Image

Images: Buddingtonite

Comments: Chalky massive buddingtonite.Location: Sharon Heights, Menlo Park, SanMateo County, California, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Buergerite Image

Images: Buergerite

Comments: Doubly-terminated brownishbuergerite tourmaline crystals on matrix.

Location: Mexquitic, San Luis Potos?, Mexico.Scale: 26x15x13 mm.


Bukovite Image

Images: Bukovite

Comments: Silvery metallic minuteaggregates of bukovite in white calcite

(polished mount).Location: Predborice, Stredocesky, Czech

Republic. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Bukovskyite Image

Images: Bukovskyite Zykaite

Comments: Pale beige acicular crystals ofbukovsk?ite with white zykaite.

Location: Christbescherung Mine,Gro?voigtsberg, Freiberg District,

Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:Picture size 1.3 mm.


Bultfonteinite Image


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Images: Bultfonteinite

Comments: Rounded, spherical aggregationof acicular bultfonteinite crystals.

Location: N'Chwaning Mine, KalahariManganese Field, Northern Cape Province,



Images: Bultfonteinite Oyelite

Comments: White encrustation of oyelitecovering 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.Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


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,Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Burckhardtite Image

Images: Burckhardtite Moctezumite

Comments: Pink crusts of burckhardtitewith yellow crystalline moctezumite on

quartz.Location: Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma,

Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Burkeite Image

Images: Burkeite

Comments: Translucent to opaque vuggymass of burkeite.

Location: Searles Lake, San BernardinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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 fissureTolbachik volcano eruption (1975-1976),

Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Scalebar: 20 µ-m.


Burpalite Image

Images: Burpalite

Comments: Yellow crystalline grains ofburpalite.

Location: Burpala, Transbaikal, Republic ofBuryatia, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Buryatite Image


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Images: Buryatite

Comments: Vitreous colorless buryatite onmatrix.

Location: Solongo B deposit, Buriatia(Buryatia) Republic, Transbaikalia

(Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region,Russia. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Buserite Image

Images: Buserite Birnessite

Comments: Round, "rabbit pellets" ofbuserite which dehydrates to birnessite

when dry. Image photographed throughwater 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 ofbrownish 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: SizeNot Given.


Butschliite Image

Images: Butschliite

Comments: Slightly fibrous to granularmassive butschliite.

Location: Near Shavings Lake, RenfrewCounty, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Buttgenbachite Image


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Images: Buttgenbachite

Comments: A blue crystal ofbuttgenbachite.

Location: Likasi Mine, Likasi, Shaba(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Crystal

length 3.1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Bystrite Image

Images: Bystrite Lazulite

Comments: Brownish-yellow bystrite grainswith blue lazulite in an igneous rock.

Location: Malo-Bystrinskoye lazurite deposit,Tunka Valley, Sludyanka, Lake Baikal

Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Bystromite Image

Images: Bystromite

Comments: Dark brown bystromite inquartz.

Location: La Fortuna Mine, El Antimonio,Aqua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Bytownite Image

Images: Bytownite Plagioclase

Comments: Translucent crystallinebytownite.

Location: Crystal Bay, Hennepin County,Minnesota, USA. Scale: See Photo.





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Cabalzarite Image

Images: Cabalzarite

Comments: Brownish crystals of cabalzariteon matrix.

Location: Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Sursass(Oberhalbstein), Grischun (Grisons;

Graub?nden), Switzerland. Scale: Picturesize 5 mm.


Cabriite Image

Images: Cabriite Sperrylite

Comments: Small crystal of dull graycabriite 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 individualcrystal sprays of brownish yellow

cacoxenite.Location: El Horcajo (Ciudad Real), Spain.

Scale: 0.5 mm diameter.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Cacoxenite Image

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Images: Cacoxenite Strengite

Comments: Lilac colored, spear-headshape 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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Cadmoselite Image

Images: Cadmoselite

Comments: Black cadmoselite grains inquartz.

Location: Republic of Tuva, Siberia, Russia.Scale: See Photo.


Cadwaladerite Image

Images: Cadwaladerite

Comments: Yellow crystalline grain ofcadwaladerite, somewhat deliquescent.

Location: Cerro Pintados, south east ofIquique, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cafarsite Image

Images: Cafarsite

Comments: Octahedron of cafarsite with agreen 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 cafarsiteon 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 ofcafetite in pegmatite, intimately mixed with

iron hydroxides.Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, Khibiny



Cahnite Image

Images: Cahnite

Comments: White, translucent cahnitecrystal on hodgkinsonite.

Location: Franklin, Sussex County, NewJersey, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.


Calaverite Image

Images: Calaverite

Comments: Quartz matrix with abundantcalaverite crystals.

Location: Cripple Creek, Teller County,Colorado, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Calciborite Image

Images: Calciborite

Comments: Translucent colorless crystallinecalciborite.

Location: Novofrolovskoye, SverdlovskDistrict, Northern Urals, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Calcio-ancylite-(Ce) Image

Images: Calcio-ancylite-(Ce)

Comments: Gray calcio-ancylitepseudomorphs after remondite crystals up

to 4 cm long.Location: Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry;Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mt Saint-



Calcio-andyrobertsite-1M Image


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Images: Calcio-andyrobertsite-1MTennantite

Comments: Vein of bluecalcioandyrobertsite in massive dark gray

tennantite. The vein ofcalcioandyrobertsite extends for 0.8cm.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Specimen size 1.1 x 0.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Calcioburbankite Image

Images: Calcioburbankite Aegirine

Comments: Tan crystal spray ofcalcioburbankite on dark green aegirine.



Calciocopiapite Image

Images: Calciocopiapite

Comments: Greenish yellow crystallinecrust of calciocopiapite.

Location: Borate, San Bernardino County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Calcioferrite Image

Images: Calcioferrite

Comments: Whitish green botryoidal crustof calcioferrite on matrix.

Location: Brugues, Barcelona, Catalunya,Spain. Scale: See Photo.


Calcite Image

Images: Calcite Quartz

Comments: Purple-colored druse ofamethystine 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 greenvariety 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 calcitescalenohedral crystals.

Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, S.A., Mexico.Scale: 8 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Calcite Image

Images: Calcite

Comments: Cream-colored crystallineaggregate of calcite crystals.

Location: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Scale:20 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Calcurmolite Image

Images: Calcurmolite

Comments: Calcurmolite in yellowglobular aggregates of radiating fibers.

Location: Rabejac, Lodeve, Herault,France. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.


Calderite Image

Images: Calderite

Comments: Dark red brown translucentcrystalline calderite.

Location: Hazaribag, Bihar, India. Scale:See Photo.


Calderonite Image


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Images: Calderonite

Comments: Secondary electron imageshowing a cluster of prismatic calderonite

crystals. (AmMin, 88:1704).Location: Santa Marta, Badajoz province,

Spain. Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Caledonite Image

Images: Caledonite

Comments: Transparent, blue caledonitecrystals.

Location: Mammoth mine, Tiger, PinalCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size Not


Callaghanite Image

Images: Callaghanite

Comments: Blue crystals of callaghaniteon matrix.

Location: Gabbs, Nevada, USA. Scale:Picture size 4 mm.


Calomel Image

Images: Calomel

Comments: A grayish aggregate ofcalomel on a rufous matrix.

Location: Landsberg (Moschellandsberg),Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-



Calumetite Image

Images: Calumetite

Comments: Light blue botryoidal coatingsof calumetite on tarnished copper with

green paratacamite.Location: Centennial Mine, Houghton

County, Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Calzirtite Image


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Images: Calzirtite Augite Richterite




Mineral Species

Camerolaite Image

Images: Camerolaite

Comments: Blue spherical aggregates ofcamerolaite on matrix.

Location: Lubietov? (Libethen), Bansk?Bystrica (Neusohl), Banskobystricky Kraj,

Slovak Republic. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Caminite Image

Images: Caminite

Comments: White crystalline massivecaminite.

Location: Nepian Deposit, East Siberian SaltBasin, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Campigliaite Image

Images: Campigliaite

Comments: Sparse pale blue coatings ofcampigliaite on matrix.

Location: Richfield, Sevier County, Utah,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Canasite Image

Images: Canasite

Comments: Yellow translucent canasitegrain with nepheline.

Location: Kirovskii Mine, Khibiny Massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale:


Mineral Species

Canavesite Image


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Images: Canavesite

Comments: White acicular crystals ofcanavesite on matrix.

Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Piedmont,Italy. Scale: Picture size 9 mm.


Cancrinite Image

Images: Cancrinite

Comments: Milky white, translucentfan-shaped sprays of cancrinite crystals.

Location: Point of Rocks Mesa, ColfaxCounty, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Size Not


Cancrisilite Image

Images: Cancrisilite

Comments: Light pink crystalline cancrisilite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Canfieldite Image

Images: Canfieldite

Comments: Dull, black pseudo-octahedralcrystals of canfieldite.

Location: Gallofa vein, Colquechaca,Chayanta, Potosi, Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size

2 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Cannizzarite Image

Images: Cannizzarite

Comments: Very delicate 2 mm. crystals ofdark gray cannizzarite on matrix.

Location: Kudryaviy Volcano, Iturup Island,Kurilian Island Chain, Russia. Scale:

3.8x3x2.4 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Cannonite Image


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Images: Cannonite Bismuthinite

Comments: Opaque white crystal tufts ofcannonite on quartz crystals with dark,

metallic bismuthinite.Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah,


Mineral Species

Caoxite Image

Images: Caoxite

Comments: Colorless to white crystals ofcaoxite on matrix.

Location: Cerchiara Mine, Faggiona, Varavalley, La Spezia province, Liguria, Italy.


Capgaronnite Image

Images: Capgaronnite

Comments: Very small black prismaticcrystals of capgaronnite in matrix.

Location: Cap Garonne, Var, France.Scale: Picture size 0.7 mm.


Caracolite Image

Images: Caracolite

Comments: Nearly transparent colorlessthin crystalline crust of caracolite.

Location: Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale:See Photo.


Caracolite Image

Images: Caracolite

Comments: Flat lying hexagonal prismaticcrystals of caracolite on matrix.

Location: Challacollo Mine near OficinaVictoria, Chile. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Carboborite Image


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Images: Carboborite

Comments: Pure crystalline cleavagefragment of carboborite.

Location: Inlamartit, Turkey. Scale: SeePhoto.


Carbocernaite Image

Images: Carbocernaite

Comments: Light brownish massivecarbocernaite.

Location: Olenii (Oleny) Ruchei Streamapatite deposit, Khibiny Massif, Kola

Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Carbonate-cyanotrichite Image

Images: Carbonate-cyanotrichite

Comments: Bright blue micro crystals ofcarbonate-cyanotrichite on matrix.

Location: Widowmaker mine, Fry Canyon,San Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size

0.1 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Carbonate-fluorapatite Image

Images: Carbonate-fluorapatite Apatite

Comments: Pink, colliform carbonate-fluorapatite on matrix.

Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, CusterCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Size Not


Carbonate-hydroxylapatite Image

Images: Carbonate-hydroxylapatiteRobertsite Apatite




Caresite Image


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Images: Caresite

Comments: Tabular brownish-yellowcrystals of caresite in matrix.

Location: Poudrette quarry, Mt Saint-Hilaire,Rouville Co., Qu?bec, Canada. Scale:


Carletonite Image

Images: Carletonite

Comments: Several crystals of blue andwhite carletonite.

Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.Scale: 2.8 x 2.7 cm.© John Veevaert

Carlfriesite Image

Images: Carlfriesite

Comments: Pale bright yellow crystallinecarlfriesite botryoids on white calcite.

Location: Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.Scale: See Photo.


Carlhintzeite Image

Images: Carlhintzeite

Comments: Colorless tabular crystals ofcarlhintzeite on matrix.

Location: Hagendorf, Bayern, Germany.Scale: Picture size 1 mm.


Carlosturanite Image

Images: Carlosturanite

Comments: White to tan fibrous coatings ofcarlosturanite on matrix.

Location: Val Varaita, Cuneo, Piemonte,Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Carlsbergite Image


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Images: Carlsbergite Kamacite

Comments: Polished section showing asmall light gray elongated inclusion of

carlsbergite in massive kamacite.Location: Kenton County meteorite, KentonCo., Kentucky, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.08


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 ultramaficdiatreme on the Colorado Plateau in

Arizona.. Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Carminite Image

Images: Carminite

Comments: Brownish red carminite crystalsin matrix.

Location: San Rafael mine, Gabbs, NyeCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not


Carnallite Image

Images: Carnallite Rinneite

Comments: Orange to light brown rinneitewith colorless carnallite.

Location: Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Rh?n,Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4


Carnallite Image

Images: Carnallite

Comments: Clear crystalline massivecarnallite.

Location: Stassfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt,Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Carnallite Image


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Images: Carnallite Rokuhnite

Comments: Reddish brown rokuhnite, withcarnallite (deliquescent).

Location: Salzdetfurth Mine, Hildesheim,near Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


Mineral Species

Carnotite Image

Images: Carnotite

Comments: Bright yellow, fluorescentcrystals of carnotite on sandstone.

Location: Anderson Mine, Yavapai County,USA. Scale: Size Not Given.


Carpholite Image

Images: Carpholite

Comments: Golden yellow compactradiating massive carpholite.

Location: Schlaggenwald, Bohemia,Zapadocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Carraraite Image

Images: Carraraite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopeimage of tabular, hexagonal carraraite

crystals. (AmMin 86:1294).Location: Marble quarries of the Carrara

basin (Apuan Alps, Italy). Scale: SeeImage.


Carrboydite Image

Images: Carrboydite

Comments: bluish green crusts ofcarrboydite.

Location: Carr-Boyd Nickel Mine, WesternAustralia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Carrollite Image


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Images: Carrollite

Comments: Carrollite crystal with minorattached matrix.

Location: Komoto-Frond in the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo. Scale: 1.2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Caryinite Image

Images: Caryinite Rhodonite

Comments: Yellow crystalline caryinite withpink rhodonite.



Caryopilite Image

Images: Caryopilite

Comments: Small white balls of caryopilitenext to larger barite crystals.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: Size Not Given.


Cassedanneite Image

Images: Cassedanneite

Comments: Crystalline mass ofcassedanneite, colored green by included

descloizite.Location: Berezovskoye Mine, near

Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk District, MiddleUrals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Cassiterite Image

Images: Cassiterite

Comments: Very brilliant black crystals ofcassiterite on white mica.

Location: Xue Bao Diang, Sichuan, China.Scale: Size Not Given.

© Fabre Minerals

Cassiterite Image


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Images: Cassiterite

Comments: Gemmy, doubly terminatedcassiterite on quartz-mica matrix.

Location: Langcangjiang river 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) grainin 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 ofAndalgal?, Catamarca Province, Argentina..


Catapleiite Image

Images: Catapleiite Aegirine

Comments: Clear crystals of catapleiitewith an attached 1.8 cm prismatic crystal

of dark aegirine.Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.


Cattierite Image

Images: Cattierite Siegenite

Comments: Pinkish metallic cattierite,intergrown with gray siegenite.

Location: Shinkolobwe, Katanga, Shaba,Zaire. Scale: See Photo.


Cattiite Image

Images: Cattiite

Comments: Colorless cattiite grainfragment.

Location: Zheleznyi Fe Mine, Kovdor Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',

Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Grain size 2mm.



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Cavansite Image

Images: Cavansite

Comments: Brilliant blue balls of acicularcrystals of cavansite to 1 cm in size richly

scattered about a matrix of colorlessstilbite 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 coatingof cebollite on granular iron stained quartz.Location: Cebola Creek, Gunnison County,


Mineral Species

Cechite Image

Images: Cechite

Comments: Black tabular crystal ofcechite on matrix.

Location: Alexander Gallery, Vrancice,Pr?bram, Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia,

Czech Republic. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Celadonite Image

Images: Celadonite

Comments: Greenish masses of celadonitefilling vesicles in basaltic rock.

Location: Socorro County, New Mexico,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Celestine Image

Images: Celestine

Comments: Transparent blue orthorhombiccrystals of celestine, some doubly

terminated to 15 mm in size, on a limestonematrix.

Location: Clay Center, Ohio, USA. Scale: 5x 9 x 2.5 cm.

© Dan Weinrich

Celsian Image


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Images: Celsian Hendricksite

Comments: Gray massive celsian with darkred hendricksite.

Location: Franklin, Sussex County, NewJersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Cerianite-(Ce) Image

Images: Cerianite-(Ce)

Comments: Black crystal of cerianite-(Ce)on matrix.


Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.2mm.


Cerite-(La) Image

Images: Cerite-(La)

Comments: Orange aggregates ofcerite-(La) in matrix, (CanMin, 40:1179).

Location: Mt. Yuksporr, Khibina massif, KolaPeninsula, Russia. Scale: Specimen size 3.5

cm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Cerite-(La) Image

Images: Cerite-(La)

Comments: SEM photomicrograph of arhombohedral crystal of cerite-(La).

Location: Mt. Yuksporr, Khibina massif, KolaPeninsula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.


Cerotungstite-(Ce) Image

Images: Cerotungstite-(Ce) AnthoiniteFerberite



Mineral Species

Ceruleite Image


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Images: Ceruleite

Comments: Blue globular clusters ofceruleite.

Location: Wheal Gorland, Gwennap,Cornwall, England. Scale: Size Not Given.


Cerussite Image

Images: Cerussite

Comments: Transparent reticulated crystalof cerussite.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Scale: 5cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Cerussite Image

Images: Cerussite Hydrocerussite

Comments: Platy crystals of milky whitehydrocerussite covering cerussite.

Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: 6 x 5 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Cerussite Image

Images: Cerussite Mimetite

Comments: Creamy white crystal of cerussitemeasuring 11 x 22 mm in size nestled nicely in a

vug which is lined by bright-yellow, lustrous,prismatic mimetite crystals. The mimetites

average 5 mm in length.Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.

Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm.© Dan Weinrich

Cerussite Image

Images: Cerussite

Comments: Jack-straw aggregate ofreticulated, 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, roundedcrystalline aggregate of cervantite on

quartz.Location: Clara Mine, Oberwolfach,Wolfach Valley, Black Forest, Baden-

W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale: Picture size1.6 mm.


Cesarolite Image

Images: Cesarolite

Comments: Black to dark brown botryoidalmasses of cesarolite in white calcite.

Location: Sidi-amor-ben-Salem, Tunisia.Scale: See Photo.


Cesbronite Image

Images: Cesbronite

Comments: Minute green sphericalcesbronite on calcite.

Location: Mina La Oriental, Moctezuma,Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Cesium-kupletskite Image

Images: Cesium-kupletskite Tienshanite

Comments: Dark olive-green coloredcrystalline tienshanite with cesium-

kupletskite in microcline.Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.


Mineral Species

Cetineite Image

Images: Cetineite Valentinite

Comments: Orange-reddish acicularcrystals 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 ofchabazite.

Location: Boral quarry, Bundoora, Victoria,Australia. Scale: Size Not Given.


Chabazite-Ca Image


Comments: Twinned, white, blocky crystalsof chabazite on basalt matrix.

Location: Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria,Australia. Scale: 7x6x2 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Chabazite-Ca Image


Comments: Pinkish orange coloredchabazite-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 crystalsof chabazite-Na (herschelite).

Location: Horseshoe Dam, MaricopaCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Chaidamuite Image

Images: Chaidamuite

Comments: Pale yellow earthy coatings ofchaidamuite with brown limonite on friable

matrix.Location: Getchell Mine, Humboldt County,

Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Chalcanthite Image


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Images: Chalcanthite Chalcocyanite

Comments: White to pale bluishchalcocyanite with darker bluish

chalcanthite. The mineral is hygroscopicand must be stored in a closed box.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera



Chalcanthite Image

Images: Chalcanthite DolerophaniteFedotovite

Comments: Brown crystals ofdolerophanite with blue chalcanthite and

green fedotovite.Location: Great Fissure (Main Fracture)

eruption, Tolbachik volcano, KamchatkaOblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale:


Chalcanthite Image

Images: Chalcanthite Fedotovite

Comments: Green fedotovite with paleblue chalcanthite.

Location: Great Fissure (Main Fracture)eruption, Tolbachik volcano, KamchatkaOblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale:


Chalcanthite Image

Images: Chalcanthite

Comments: Fibrous columnar crystallinechalcanthite.

Location: Planet Mine, La Paz County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Chalcoalumite Image

Images: Chalcoalumite

Comments: Pale bluish stellate twins ofchalcoalumite on matrix.

Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, CohchiseCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size Not


Chalcocite Image


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Images: Chalcocite

Comments: Chalcocite crystals in thisspecimen 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 onmassive chalcocite.

Location: Lubelin, Poland. Scale: SeePhoto.


Chalcocyanite Image

Images: Chalcocyanite Chalcanthite

Comments: White to pale bluishchalcocyanite with darker bluish

chalcanthite. The mineral is hygroscopicand must be stored in a closed box.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera



Chalcomenite Image

Images: Chalcomenite

Comments: Blue crystals of chalcomeniteon matrix.

Location: El Drag?n mine, Quijarroprovince, Potos?, Boliv ia. Scale: Picture size

4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Chalconatronite Image

Images: Chalconatronite

Comments: Crystalline crusts of bluechalconatronite on sandstone.

Location: Slick Rock, Egnar Area, SanMiguel County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Chalconatronite Image


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Images: Chalconatronite IMA2006-009Sanromanite Juangodoyite

Comments: Yellowish, long baldedsanromanite crystals in vug with platy, blue

juangodoyite replacing greenchalconatronite.

Location: Santa Rosa mine, IquiqueProvince, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: Picture

size 3 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Chalcophanite Image

Images: Chalcophanite

Comments: Large mass of roundedgray-black chalcophanite.

Location: Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill,Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, SussexCo., New Jersey, USA. Scale: 14x11x7 cm.


Chalcophyllite Image

Images: Chalcophyllite

Comments: Altered rhyolite vug lined withchalcophyllite crystals. The largest crystal is

0.5 cm across and several have theperfect "stop sign" hexagon form.

Location: Majuba Hill Mine, PershingCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 2

cm.© John Veevaert

Chalcopyrite Image

Images: Chalcopyrite Quartz

Comments: Well-formed crystals ofchalcopyrite and quartz.

Location: Boldut mine, 61 level (350 metersdeep), Cavnic, Maramures, Rumania.


Chalcopyrite Image

Images: Chalcopyrite Moncheite

Comments: White moncheite withchalcopyrite (orange, blue and violet

tarnishing colors) in silicate matrix. Polishedsection (from microprobe analysis) in

reflected light.Location: Lukkulaisvaara ultrabasic Massif,Olanga (Oulanka) River, Oulanka plutonic

complex, Karelia Republic, NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.11 mm.


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Chalcopyrite Image

Images: Chalcopyrite OulankaiteTelargpalite Tulameenite

Comments: Gray long-prismatic crystal ofoulankaite with light grayish telargpalite

and pale yellowish-white rims oftulameenite in massive yellowish

chalcopyrite. Polished section (frommicroprobe analysis) in reflected light.

Location: Lukkulaisvaara ultrabasic Massif,Olanga (Oulanka) River, Oulanka plutonic



Chalcosiderite Image

Images: Chalcosiderite

Comments: Pale bluish transparent crystalof chalcosiderite on matrix.

Location: Cornwall, England. Scale: SizeNot 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 chalcostibiteon white quartz matrix.

Location: Boldut mine, Cavnic Maramures,Rumania. Scale: 7 x 7 x 3.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Challacolloite Image


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Images: Challacolloite

Comments: White to transparentchallacolloite crystals on matrix.

Location: Eruption of 1855, Mount Vesuvius,Campania, Italy. Scale: See Image.


Chambersite Image

Images: Chambersite

Comments: Tetragonal crystals ofchambersite extracted from salt dome

deposits.Location: Barkers Hill, Mont Belvieu,

Chambers County, Texas, USA. Scale: SizeNot Given.


Chamosite Image

Images: Chamosite

Comments: Dark green sectile massivechamosite.

Location: Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.Scale: See Photo.


Chaoite Image

Images: Chaoite

Comments: Dark masses of chaoiteintermixed with graphite on rock shocked

by meteorite impact.Location: Ries Crater, Bopfingen, Bavaria,Baden-Wurttemberg. Scale: See Photo.


Chapmanite Image

Images: Chapmanite

Comments: Green, earthy chapmanite onquartz-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 charlesiteon calcite with small (2 mm) octahedral

crystals of galena.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: Picture size 2.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Charoite Image

Images: Charoite

Comments: Polished slab of purplecharoite.

Location: Murun Massif, Chara River,Davan, Torgo River Basin, Aldan Shield,

Saha (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size

6.5 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Charoite Image

Images: Charoite Fedorite

Comments: Tan crystalline platy fedorite inpale violet charoite.

Location: Murun, Republic of Sakha, Siberia,Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Charoite Image

Images: Charoite Tinaksite

Comments: Yellow-brown prismatictinaksite crystals in purple charoite with

black aegirine.Location: Murun, Aldan Uplift, Chara and

Olekma Rivers, near Olekminsk, Republic ofSakha, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Charoite Image

Images: Charoite Tokkoite

Comments: Yellow crystalline tokkoiteintermixed 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 purplechariote 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 rustyred, thin tabular hexagonal plates of

chayesite stacked along the c-axis onmatrix.

Location: Pauliberg Mt., Kobersdorf,Oberpullendorf, Burgenland, Austria. Scale:

Crystal size 0.5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Chelkarite Image

Images: Chelkarite

Comments: Minute transparent nearlycolorless microcrystals of chelkarite.

Location: Chelkar, Zapadno-Kazahstan,Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.


Chenevixite Image

Images: Chenevixite

Comments: Green micro crystals ofchenevixite on matrix.

Location: Majuba Hill, Pershing County,Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.

© John Veevaert

Chenite Image

Images: Chenite

Comments: Sky blue crystalline coating ofchenite on matrix.

Location: Silberhutte, Altenau, HarzMountains, Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Cheralite-(Ce) Image


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Images: Cheralite-(Ce)

Comments: Brown to tan, massivecheralite-(Ce) showing cleavage traces.Location: Uranium King Mine, Trent Creek,

Encampment Copper District, Sierra MadreMts., Carbon Co., Wyoming, USA. Scale:

Picture size 1.4 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Cherepanovite Image

Images: Cherepanovite CooperitePlatinum

Comments: Creamy-grayish fracturedgrains of cherepanovite with gray granular

cooperite and white massive grains ofiridian ruthenian platinum. Polished section

in reflected light.Location: Placer Deposit, Northern Pekul'nei

River, Pekul'nei Range, Chukotka(Tchukotka) Okrug, Chukot Peninsula,

Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale: Picturesize 0.12 mm.


Chernovite-(Y) Image

Images: Chernovite-(Y)

Comments: Dark brown irregular massesand veinlets of chernovite-(Y) in pale

creamy tan-colored matrix.Location: Montaldo Mine, Piedmont, Italy.

Scale: 2 1/4" x 2".© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Chernykhite Image

Images: Chernykhite

Comments: Dark green flake ofchernykhite.

Location: Balasauskandyk, Juzno-Kazahstan, Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Chervetite Image

Images: Chervetite Francevillite

Comments: Bottle brown tabular crystalsof chervetite on yellow francevilleite.

Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.Scale: Size Not Given.



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Chesterite Image

Images: Chesterite Magnetite

Comments: Green platy chesterite inblack, metallic magnetite.

Location: Near Missoula, Missoula County,Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Chestermanite Image

Images: Chestermanite Ludwigite

Comments: Black capillary crystals ofludwigite with green inclusions ofchestermanite in impure marble.

Location: Near Potter Pass, Fresno County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Chevkinite-(Ce) Image

Images: Chevkinite-(Ce)

Comments: Dark brown crystal ofchevkinite-(Ce).

Location: Miass, Central Ural Mountains,Russia. Scale: 3 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Chiavennite Image

Images: Chiavennite

Comments: Prismatic micro crystals ofchiavennite less than 1mm.

Location: Ute, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 1cm.


Childrenite Image

Images: Childrenite

Comments: Single, terminated crystal ofchildrenite.

Location: Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:2.6 cm.

© John Veevaert

Childrenite Image


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Images: Childrenite

Comments: Light-brown, acicular,divergent sprays of childrenite.

Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.Scale: Picture size 1 cm.


Childrenite Image

Images: Childrenite

Comments: Columnar, brown, prismatic,crystalline aggregate of childrenite with

dark blue lazulite.Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory,

Canada. Scale: See Image.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Chiolite Image

Images: Chiolite

Comments: White translucent crystallinemassive chiolite.

Location: Iv igtut, Arksukjiord, Greenland.Scale: See Photo.


Chkalovite Image

Images: Chkalovite

Comments: Massive, white chkaloviteassociated 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:


Mineral Species

Chlorargyrite Image


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Images: Chlorargyrite

Comments: Butterscotch colored cubiccrystals of chlorargyrite on malachite.

Location: Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona,USA. Scale: Size Not Given.


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 crystallinechlorartinite on volcanic glass.

Location: Vulcan Tolbachik, KamchatkaDistrict, Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Chlorbartonite Image

Images: Chlorbartonite

Comments: Black grains of chlorbartonite insodalite-natrolite aggregates.

Location: Mount Koashva, Khibina massif,Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Picture size 1

cm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Chloritoid Image

Images: Chloritoid Paragonite

Comments: Grayish crystalline inclusion ofchloritoid in white, massive paragonite.

Location: Drandorf Fundgrube Mine,Bockau, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Chloromenite Image


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Images: Chloromenite Melanothallite

Comments: Olive green crystallinechloromenite on blue-green

melanothallite.Location: North Break, Second Cone of

main fracture eruption, Tolbachik Volcano,Kamchatka District, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Chlorophoenicite Image

Images: Chlorophoenicite

Comments: Clear tabular crystals ofchlorophoenicite.

Location: Franklin, Sussex County, NewJersey, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.


Chlorothionite Image

Images: Chlorothionite

Comments: Pale blue granular crystallinechlorothionite.

Location: Vesuvius, Napoli, Campania,Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Chloroxiphite Image

Images: Chloroxiphite MendipiteCrednerite

Comments: Green, opaque granularchloroxiphite with mendipite and black

crednerite.Location: Higher Pitts Farm, Priddy, MendipHills, Somerset, England. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Chloroxiphite Image

Images: Chloroxiphite MendipiteCrednerite

Comments: Radiating compact with clearto white crystalline mendipite with black

crednerite and green chloroxiphite.Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.


Mineral Species


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Choloalite Image

Images: Choloalite Hessite

Comments: Sparse green crusts ofcholoalite with metallic hessite.

Location: McAlpine Mine, TuolumneCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Chondrodite Image

Images: Chondrodite

Comments: Lustrous and semi-transparentcrystal of reddish brown chondrodite 1 cm

in size with magnetite and muscovite.Location: Palabora mine, Loolekop,

Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, SouthAfrica. Scale: 4 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm.


Chondrodite Image

Images: Chondrodite Warwickite

Comments: Black crystalline warwickitewith tan chondrodite in white marble.

Location: Amity, near Warwick, OrangeCounty, New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Christelite Image

Images: Christelite Paratacamite

Comments: Robins-egg blue christelite with darkgreen 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 togreen 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.



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Chromite Image

Images: Chromite Theophrastite

Comments: Green pearly scalytheophrastite coatings on massive dark

chromite.Location: Vermion Region, near

Thessaloniki, Kedriki Makedhonia, Greece.Scale: See Photo.


Chromium Image

Images: Chromium

Comments: Small silvery-gray metallicgrain of native chromium.

Location: Sichuan, China. Scale: Grain size0.7 mm.


Chrysoberyl Image

Images: Chrysoberyl

Comments: Chrysoberyl (alexandrite)sixling twin crystal.

Location: Zimbabwe. Scale: Crystal size 2.3cm.


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 Tenoritemostly 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 chrysotileasbestos minerals showing the fibrous,

chatoyant crystal patterns.Location: Globe, Globe-Miami District, Gila

Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: 8x7x1 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Churchite-(Y) Image

Images: Churchite-(Y)

Comments: Acicular, radiating crystals ofchurchite-(Y).

Location: Leoni mine, Auerbach, Bavaria,Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.


Chvaleticeite Image

Images: Chvaleticeite

Comments: Powdery mass ofchvaleticeite.

Location: Chvaletice, Bohemia,Vychodocesky, Czech Republic. Scale:


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 ofedoylerite with red cinnabar.

Location: Clear Creek Claim (Clear CreekMine), New Idria district, San Benito Co.,California, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.


Ciprianiite Image

Images: Ciprianiite

Comments: Black crystal of ciprianiite inquartz.

Location: Monte Cavalluccio, Capagnano,Roma, Lazio, Italy. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.


Clairite Image

Images: Clairite Rostite

Comments: Brownish crystals of clairite onwhite massive rostite.



Claraite Image

Images: Claraite

Comments: Green, round spherical grain ofclaraite on fluorite.

Location: Clara Mine, Oberwolfach,Wolfach Valley, Black Forest, Baden-



Claringbullite Image


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Images: Claringbullite

Comments: Velvety micro botryoids ofclaringbullite lining vug in slag.

Location: Val Varenna, Pegli, Genova,Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Clarkeite Image

Images: Clarkeite

Comments: Massive orange clarkeite.Location: Bjertnes,Kr?deren, Buskerud,

Norway. Scale: Picture size 8 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Claudetite Image

Images: Claudetite Arsenic

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystal ofclaudetite on native arsenic.




Clausthalite Image

Images: Clausthalite

Comments: black massive and botryoidalclausthalite on matrix.

Location: Lasovice, Mittelbuhmen,Stredocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Clausthalite Image

Images: Clausthalite Schlemaite Eucairite

Comments: Reflected-light digital-image ofthe intermixed schlemaite grain in typesample F2, from which the reflectance,

crystallographic and crystal-structure datawere obtained. (CanMin, v 41, p 1435).

Location: "Tiber" dike, -855-m level, block5128, main shaft # 371, Niederschlema-Alberoda vein-type uranium depost atHartensein, Erzgebirge, Germany. Scale:

See Picture.© Canadian Mineralogist


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Cliffordite Image

Images: Cliffordite

Comments: Small greenish crystals ofcliffordite encrusting matrix.

Location: Candelaria Mine, Moctezuma,Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Clinoatacamite Image

Images: Clinoatacamite

Comments: Green clinoatacamite onhalite and anhydrite.

Location: Bernburg, Stassfurt Deposit,Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Picture


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 ofclinobisvanite to less than 0.2mm.

Location: Linka mine, Lander Co., Nevada,USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Clinocervantite Image

Images: Clinocervantite

Comments: White crystals ofClinocervantite.



Clinochalcomenite Image


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Images: Clinochalcomenite

Comments: Blue-green crystalline coatingof clinochalcomenite on sulfide ore.

Location: Mina El Dragon, Potosi, Boliv ia.Scale: See Photo.


Clinochalcomenite Image

Images: Clinochalcomenite KersteniteKrutaite

Comments: Tan opaque fibrous kerstenitewith possible blue clinochalcomenite on

dark krutaite.Location: Mina El Dragon, Potosi, Boliv ia.


Mineral Species

Clinochlore Image

Images: Clinochlore Andradite

Comments: Transparent topazolite, theyellow variety of andradite on clinochlore.

Location: Yellow Cat Mine, New IdriaDistrict, San Benito County. California, USA.


Clinochlore Image

Images: Clinochlore

Comments: Purple clinochlore(Kammererite) crystal cluster.

Location: Kop Daglari, Turkey. Scale: 1.4cm across.

© John Veevaert

Clinochlore Image

Images: Clinochlore Perovskite

Comments: Square, opaque perovskite ongreen 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 brownClinochrysotile.


Clinoclase Image

Images: Clinoclase

Comments: Acicular, radiating crystals ofclinoclase.

Location: Majuba Hill mine, PershingCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Clinoclase Image

Images: Clinoclase

Comments: Divergent, elongated, bladed bluecrystals of clinoclase to 1mm on matrix.

Location: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada,USA. Scale: Picture size 5x7 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Clinoenstatite Image

Images: Clinoenstatite

Comments: Crystalline massiveclinoenstatite.

Location: Cape Vogel, Papua NewGuinea. Scale: See Photo.


Clinoferrosilite Image

Images: Clinoferrosilite

Comments: Light green crystallineclinoferrosilite with dark green diopside.Location: Bushveld Complex, Merensky

Reef, Rustenberg, Northern Province, SouthAfrica. Scale: See Photo.


Clinohedrite Image


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Images: Clinohedrite Hancockite

Comments: Clear crystals of clinohedriteon hancockite.

Location: Franklin, Sussex County, NewJersey, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Clinoholmquistite Image

Images: ClinoholmquistiteMagnesioclinoholmquistite Fluoro-sodic-pedrizite

Comments: Dark blue fibrousclinoholmquistite with radiating structure,

variety 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 glassycrystalline clinohumite.

Location: Kuhi-Lal, Pamir, Gorno-Badahsan,Tadzhikistan. Scale: See Photo.


Clinojimthompsonite Image

Images: ClinojimthompsoniteJimthompsonite

Comments: Pale green to white glassycrystalline fibrous clinojimthompsonite

intergrown with jimthompsonite.Location: Chester, Windsor County,

Vermont, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Clinomimetite Image

Images: Clinomimetite

Comments: Yellow crystals ofclinomimetite.

Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Size of the largest

crystal 12 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag


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Clinoptilolite-K Image

Images: Clinoptilolite-K

Comments: Thin, bladed aggregates ofauthigenic clinoptilolite covering an

altered rock fragment. SEM image of acore sample.

Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 50µ-m.

© OMNI Laboratories, Inc

Clinosafflorite Image

Images: Clinosafflorite

Comments: Silvery metallic granularclinosafflorite in rock.

Location: Nordmark, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Clinotobermorite Image

Images: Clinotobermorite

Comments: Opaque white pure massiveclinotobermorite.

Location: Bazhenovskoe, Asbest,Sverdlovsk District, Middle Urals, Russia.


Mineral Species

Clinotyrolite Image

Images: Clinotyrolite Azurite

Comments: Light blue acicular crystals ofclinotyrolite on dark blue azurite.

Location: Lovelock mine, Churchill County,Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Clinozoisite Image

Images: Clinozoisite

Comments: Light pink stellate crystalcluster of clinozoisite.

Location: Sunnyside mine, Silverton District,San Juan County, Colorado, USA. Scale:


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 platycrystals of black clintonite varietyxanthophyllite on vuggy matrix.

Location: Green Monster Mountain, Princeof Wales Island, Prince of Wales-Outer

Ketchikan Co., Alaska, USA. Scale: 4x3x2cm.


Coalingite Image

Images: Coalingite

Comments: Brown micaceous sub-metalliccoatings of coalingite on serpentinite rock.

Location: Near Gem Mine, San BenitoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cobaltarthurite Image

Images: Cobaltarthurite Arseniosiderite

Comments: Olive-greenish crystalline druseof cobaltarthurite with spherical

arseniosiderite.Location: Pastrana, Mazarr?n, Murcia,

Spain. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Cobaltaustinite Image

Images: Cobaltaustinite

Comments: Green, tabular crystal ofcobaltaustinite.

Location: Rappold Mine, Neust?dtel,Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Germany. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Cobaltite Image


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Images: Cobaltite

Comments: Cobaltite embedded ingreenish gray dolomite.

Location: Espanola, Ontario, Canada.Scale: 1.3 cm across.

© John Veevaert

Cobaltkoritnigite Image

Images: Cobaltkoritnigite Erythrite

Comments: Dark purplish cobaltkoritnigitewith pink erythrite.

Location: Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Cobaltlotharmeyerite Image

Images: Cobaltlotharmeyerite

Comments: Brown crystalline aggregatesof cobaltlotharmeyerite on matrix.

Location: Sauschwart Mine, Neust?dtel,Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm..© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Cobaltomenite Image

Images: Cobaltomenite

Comments: Purple micro crystals ofcobaltomenite on matrix.

Location: Paris #25 mine, Thompson district,Utah, USA. Scale: 2.5 x 2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Cobalttsumcorite Image

Images: Cobalttsumcorite

Comments: Brown crystals ofcobalttsumcorite.

Location: Rappold Mine, Neust?dtel,Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Coccinite Image


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Images: Coccinite Sulfur

Comments: Orange-red coccinite on sulfur.Due to the volatility of the mineral at roomtemperature, the sample is preserved in aclosed vial. The photo was made through

the vial, therefore the sharpness isreduced.

Location: Lichtenberg Mine, Ronneburg UDeposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany.


Coconinoite Image

Images: Coconinoite

Comments: Dull, putty-colored clay-likemass of coconinoite on a sandstone matrix.Location: Jomas mine, White Canyon, SanJuan County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size

1.2 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Coconinoite Image

Images: Coconinoite

Comments: Pale yellow coatings ofcoconinoite on sandstone.

Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon, SanJuan County, Utah. Scale: See Photo.


Coeruleolactite Image

Images: Coeruleolactite

Comments: Hexagonal green crystal ofcoeruleolactite with brownish surface coating.

Location: Turquoise Mine, Cripple Creek,Cripple Creek District, Teller Co., Colorado,

USA. Scale: 12x5x4 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Coesite Image

Images: Coesite

Comments: Fine-grained, massive coesite.Location: Meteor Crater, Canyon Diablo,

Coconino County, Arizona, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.



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Coesite Image

Images: Coesite

Comments: Coesite inclusion in garnet ofeclogite sample (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:567).

Location: Ultra high-pressure metamorphicarea 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 coffinitecementing a sub-angular quartzosesandstone. Schumacher Collection.

Location: Temple Mountain, San RafaelDistrict (San Rafael Swell), Emery Co., Utah,

USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Cohenite Image

Images: Cohenite

Comments: Bluish gray, metallic iridescentcrystals of cohenite on matrix.

Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk Oblast',Urals Region, Russia. Scale: 2.3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Cohenite Image

Images: Cohenite Troilite KamaciteTaenite

Comments: Brown masses of troilite, withwhite cohenite, in kamacite/taenite matrix,

in meteorite (polished section).Location: Meteor Crater, Canyon Diablo,



Colemanite Image

Images: Colemanite

Comments: Coarsely crystallinecolemanite, 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 colemanitewith second generation of absolutely clear and

gemmy (colorless) colemanite. Intenselyfluorescent 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 purecollinsite. The center of the specimen is asmall 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: Massive, metallic coloradoite.Location: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia,

Australia. Scale: 5x2.5x1.5 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Colquiriite Image

Images: Colquiriite

Comments: Colorless tabular crystals ofcolquiriite on matrix.

Location: Serra Branca pegmatite, PedraLavrada, Picu?, Para?ba, Northeast

Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 0.8 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Colusite Image

Images: Colusite

Comments: Bronzy, metallic tetragonalcrystals of colusite in white marble.

Location: Val Bona quarry, Carrara, Italy.Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Comancheite Image


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Images: Comancheite

Comments: Small orange crystals ofcomancheite on matrix.

Location: Mariposa mine, Terlingua,Terlingua district, Brewster County, Texas,

USA. Scale: Picture size 1.4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Combeite Image

Images: Combeite

Comments: Crystalline cleavage fragmentof combeite.



Compreignacite Image

Images: Compreignacite

Comments: Yellow crystals ofcompreignacite on matrix.


size 1.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Congolite Image

Images: Congolite

Comments: Pearly crystalline grains ofcongolite.

Location: Brazzaville, Pool, Congo. Scale:See Photo.


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 crystallinecornubite alteration of enargite with green

conichalcite in white calcite.Location: Lime Bluff Quarry, Lycoming

County, Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Connellite Image

Images: Connellite

Comments: Blue acicular crystals ofconnellite.

Location: Deep Creek Mountains, TooeleCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Cookeite Image

Images: Cookeite

Comments: Large tan-colored cookeiteepimorph after a large 12 cm quartz

crystal. The outer faces of the epimorphare overgrown 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 brownishveining in pink (?) matrix.

Location: Watson's Beach, Otago, SouthIsland,, New Zealand. Scale: 3x2cm x

5mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Cooperite Image

Images: Cooperite CherepanovitePlatinum





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Cooperite Image

Images: Cooperite Osmium VasiliteVysotskite

Comments: BSE image taken with a SEM ofthe sulfide-dominant microparagenesisfilling a gas vacuole. Cooperite crystal

surrounded by Pd-Cu-Pt-S phase (vasilite?),vysotskite and osmium laths (white) in

chalcopyrite-bornite matrix (dark). (CanMin38:1258).

Location: Pustaya River placer deposit,situated within the Koryak-Kamchatkaplatinum-bearing belt of Alaskan-typeintrusions in eastern Russia. Scale: See

Image.© Canadian Mineralogist

Copiapite Image

Images: Copiapite

Comments: Brownish yellow tabularcrystals of copiapite.

Location: Saghand, near Yazd, YadzProvince, Iran. Scale: Not Given.


Copiapite Image

Images: Copiapite Rozenite Ferrinatrite

Comments: White powdery rozenitecoating with yellow ferrinatrite on purple

copiapite.Location: Le Cetine Mine, Siena, Tuscany,

Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Copper Image

Images: Copper

Comments: Native copper forming abranching cluster of crystals with some

massive calcite.Location: Houghton County, Michigan, USA.

Scale: Crystal size 1.5 cm.© Dan Weinrich

Coquandite Image


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Images: Coquandite

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

Italy. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Coquimbite Image

Images: Coquimbite

Comments: Brownish yellow tabularcrystals of coquimbite.

Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, CochiseCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Coquimbite Image

Images: Coquimbite GoldichiteFerricopiapite

Comments: Prismatic to fibrous crystals ofgoldichite on white massive coquimbite

with yellow ferricopiapite.Location: Dexter No. 7 Mine, Calf Mesa,

San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah, USA.Scale: See Photo.


Corderoite Image

Images: Corderoite

Comments: Small dark browndodecahedral crystal of corderoite.Location: Hohe Buche, K?nigsberg,

Wolfstein, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Cordierite Image

Images: Cordierite

Comments: Brown rectangular cordieritecrystals in matrix. These crystals are not

gemmy enough to be called iolite.Location: Richmond Soapstone Quarry,

Richmond, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire,USA. Scale: 24x20x15 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Cordylite-(Ce) Image


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

Comments: Yellow crystals ofcordylite-(Ce) on light brownish

synchysite-(Ce).Location: Narss?rssuk (Narsarsuk), Igaliko,

Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Corkite Image

Images: Corkite Hinsdalite

Comments: Small brown roundedtranslucent crystals of corkite on darker

brown botryoidal hinsdalite.Location: Grube Schone Aussicht, nearDernbach, Montabaur, Rheinland-Pflaz,

Germany. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cornetite Image

Images: Cornetite

Comments: Crystals of cornetite on matrix.Location: Etoile Mine, Katanga Province,

Dem. Rep. of Congo. Scale: Crystal size 0.5cm.

© John Veevaert

Cornetite Image

Images: Cornetite

Comments: Radial groups of intense bluecornetite 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 crystallinecornubite alteration of enargite with green

conichalcite in white calcite.Location: Lime Bluff Quarry, Lycoming

County, Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Cornwallite Image


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Images: Cornwallite

Comments: Emerald green botryoidalcrystals of cornwallite.

Location: Tintic District, Juab County, Utah,USA. Scale: Not Given.


Coronadite Image

Images: Coronadite Crocoite

Comments: Black coronadite with redcrocoite on matrix.

Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) opencut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,

Germany. Scale: Specimen size 7 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Coronadite Image

Images: Coronadite Iodargyrite

Comments: Dark, fine-grained massivecoronadite with yellowish octahedral

iodargyrite crystals.Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales,

Australia. Scale: Picture size 3x2 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Corrensite Image

Images: Corrensite

Comments: Platy, authigenic chloriticmixed-layer clays (Corrensite?), lining thepore spaces of a sandstone. SEM image

from a core sample.Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 33

µ-m.© OMNI Laboratories, Inc

Corrensite Image

Images: Corrensite

Comments: White earthy crust of corrensiteon matrix.

Location: Bolet, Varmland, Sweden. Scale:See Photo.


Corundum Image


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Images: Corundum

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


Corundum Image

Images: Corundum Zincohogbomite-2N2S

Comments: Thin-Section (Plane PolarizedLight) of a brown, twinned

zincoh?gbomite-2N2S crystal with bluecorundum.

Location: Mikro-Lakka Emery deposit,Kerketeas Mt, S?mos Island, Aegean

Islands Department, Greece. Scale: Picturesize 1.1 mm.


Corundum Image

Images: Corundum

Comments: Bright red ruby corundumcrystals 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 corvusitein/on sandstone.

Location: Fire Fly Mine, near Delta, EmeryCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Corvusite Image

Images: Corvusite Vanoxite

Comments: Blue-black, somewhat silkyvanoxite, with brown corvusite on

sandstone.Location: Club Mine, Uravan, Montrose

County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cosalite Image


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Images: Cosalite

Comments: Metallic-lustered cosalite onmatrix.

Location: Limestone Quarry,Hammerunterwiesenthal, Oberwiesenthal,



Cotunnite Image

Images: Cotunnite

Comments: White to tan translucentcrystalline cotunnite on volcanic slag.

Location: Vesuvius, Campania, Italy. Scale:See Photo.


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 fissureTolbachik volcano eruption (1975-1976),

Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Scalebar: 20 µ-m.


Cousinite Image

Images: Cousinite

Comments: minute aggregate of greenishblack platy crystals of Cousinite.



Coutinhoite Image

Images: Coutinhoite

Comments: New mineral, IMA 2003-025,from this pegmatite. This is a co-type

specimen. Flaky crystals of choutinhoite toless 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 yellowcoutinhoite. (AmMin, v 89, p 721).

Location: Urucum mine, Galil?ia, MinasGerais, 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 ofnukundamite with dark purplish-blue

covellite on fine-grained pyrite.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera



Cowlesite Image

Images: Cowlesite

Comments: Milky bluish translucentbotryoidal cowlesite in vug.

Location: Goble, Columbia County,Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Coyoteite Image

Images: Coyoteite

Comments: Black and white image of apolished section showing coyoteite crystals

showing chevron pattern developed byopposing cleavage sets. Continuousparallel lines are polishing scratches.

(AmMin 68:252).Location: Coyote Peak mafic alkalic

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California. USA. Scale: Image size 0.26 mm.© American Mineralogist

Crandallite Image

Images: Crandallite Wardite

Comments: Sliced and polished slab ofyellow to white mixture of wardite and

crandallite.Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co.,

Utah, USA. Scale: 11x6x.6 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Crandallite Image

Images: Crandallite Phosphofibrite

Comments: Olive-green colored fibrousphosphofibrite aggregates with white

crandallite.Location: Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt

County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Creaseyite Image

Images: Creaseyite

Comments: Sparse light green microcrystalline creaseyite on crystalline quartz.Location: Navajoa, Sonora, Mexico. Scale:


Mineral Species

Creaseyite Image

Images: Creaseyite

Comments: Green acicular sprays of creaseyiteto 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 toplaty crednerite with mendipite.

Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.Scale: See Photo.



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Crednerite Image

Images: Crednerite ChloroxiphiteMendipite



Mineral Species

Crednerite Image

Images: Crednerite MendipiteChloroxiphite




Mineral Species

Creedite Image

Images: Creedite

Comments: Colorless, bladed creeditecrystals.

Location: Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico.Scale: Crystal size 1.4 cm.

© 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 ofcreedite to 6 mm on matrix of creamy

botryoidal crystalline smithsonite.Location: Level 8 San Antonio mine, SantaEulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: 7 x 3.5 x

2 cm.© Dan Weinrich


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Crichtonite Image

Images: Crichtonite

Comments: Black crichtonite crystal inquartz.

Location: Kriegalptal, Binntal, Wallis(Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 1.5


Cristobalite Image

Images: Cristobalite

Comments: White crystals of cristobalitefrozen in obsidian glass.

Location: Cerro San Cristobal, Pachuca,Hidalgo, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.


Crocoite Image

Images: Crocoite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of red-orangecrocoite.

Location: Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania.Scale: Specimen size 5 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Crocoite Image

Images: Crocoite Vauquelinite

Comments: Olive-greenish vauqueliniteencrusting red crocoite.


Crocoite Image

Images: Crocoite Coronadite

Comments: Black coronadite with redcrocoite on matrix.

Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) opencut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,

Germany. Scale: Specimen size 7 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Cronstedtite Image


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Images: Cronstedtite

Comments: Pyramidal crystals ofcronstedtite.

Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua,Mexico. Scale: Not Given.


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) showingzoned crystal of cream-colored eucairiteand pale lavender crookesite along with

steel blue umangite and white clausthalitein dark gray gangue..

Location: Mine dump (tailings) of Shaft 371near Hartenstein/Saxony, Germany. Scale:

Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Schlothauer

Crossite Image

Images: Crossite

Comments: Black prismatic crystal clustersof crossite.

Location: near Valley Ford, SonomaCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Crossite Image

Images: Crossite

Comments: Long metallic, black, prismaticcrystals 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: Massive cryolite with solutioncavities lined with octahedral ralstonite

crystals.Location: Iv igtut, Greenland. Scale: Picture

size 0.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Cryolite Image

Images: Cryolite Thomsenolite

Comments: Massive, white cryolite withsolution cavities lined with prismatic

Thomsenolite crystals.Location: Iv igtut, Greenland. Scale: .

© John Veevaert

Cryolite Image

Images: Cryolite

Comments: Massive cryolite with onesection of lustrous crystal faces.

Location: Iv igtut, Greenland. Scale: Picturesize 4 cm.

© John Veevaert

Cryolite Image

Images: Cryolite Cryolithionite

Comments: White translucent crystallinecryolithionite in brown cryolite.

Location: Iv igtut, Greenland. Scale: SeePhoto.


Cryolite Image

Images: Cryolite

Comments: Red-brown crystalline massivecryolite.

Location: Katugin River, Siberia, Russia.Scale: See Photo.


Cryolite Image


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Images: Cryolite Weberite

Comments: Gray weberite masses in whitecryolite.



Cryolithionite Image

Images: Cryolithionite Cryolite

Comments: White translucent crystallinecryolithionite in brown cryolite.



Cryptohalite Image

Images: Cryptohalite

Comments: White to colorless crystals ofcryptohalite. The red color is due to

admixtured (amorphous ?) selenium.Location: Kladno, Stredocesk? Kraj,



Cryptohalite Image

Images: Cryptohalite Bararite

Comments: White crystalline barariteintermixed with cryptohalite colored

yellow by selenium.Location: Shamokin, NorthumberlandCounty, Pennsylvani, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Cryptomelane Image

Images: Cryptomelane Adamite

Comments: Black, rounded balls ofcryptomelane and purple, transparent

adamite.Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Druango,

Mexico. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Cubanite Image


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Images: Cubanite

Comments: Brassy, lustrous, cyclic-twinnedcubanite on matrix.

Location: Henderson # 2 Mine,Chibougamau, Quebec, Canada. Scale:

10x6 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Cumengite Image

Images: Cumengite Boleite

Comments: Inky blue cumengite "sixling"epitaxially overgrown on boleite.

Location: Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, BajaCalifornia Sur, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.


Cummingtonite Image

Images: Cummingtonite

Comments: Light brown prismaticcrystalline aggregate of cummingtonite

with radiating structure.Location: West Chesterfield, HampshireCounty, Massachusetts, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Cuprite Image

Images: Cuprite

Comments: Dark red ball or sphere ofcuprite crystals set on a pearly white

dolomite crystal matrix.Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.

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 chalcotrichitecrystals as a fine, fibrous red mass on

matrix.Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,

USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Cuprobismutite Image

Images: Cuprobismutite Kupcikite

Comments: Backscattered electron imageof kupc?kite (ku) replacing cuprobismutite(cu); both phases are in turn replaced by

bsimuthinite derivative (bd79-92).Location: Felbertal, Austria. Scale: Scale

bar 100 µ-m.© Canadian Mineralogist

Cuprocopiapite Image

Images: Cuprocopiapite

Comments: Grayish green crusts ofcuprocopiapite on gypsum.

Location: Copper Queen Mine, DoubleMountain Fork of Brazois River, Stonewall

County, Texas, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cuproiridsite Image

Images: Cuproiridsite Isoferroplatinum

Comments: Gray equant crystal ofcuproiridsite in light gray isoferroplatinum.

Polished section (from microprobe analysis)in reflected light.

Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Saha

(Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-SiberianRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.14 mm.


Cupromakovickyite Image

Images: Cupromakovickyite Hodrushite

Comments: Kup?c?kite (ku) and hodrushite(ho) partly replaced by bismuthinite

derivative (bd56) with relict lamellae oflow-Cu (4P) and cupromakovickyite

[4P(Cu,Pb)]. (CanMin, 41:1165).Location: Scheelite deposit of Felbertal,

Austria. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µm.© Canadian Mineralogist


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Cuprorivaite Image

Images: Cuprorivaite

Comments: Pale blue grains ofcuprorivaite.



Cuprosklodowskite Image

Images: Cuprosklodowskite

Comments: Very-fine, acicular crystals ofapple green cuprosklodowskite on matrix.

Location: Musonoi Mine, Katanga,Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale:

Not Given.© John Veevaert

Cuprosklodowskite Image

Images: Cuprosklodowskite

Comments: Green, acicularcuprosklodowskite crystals.

Location: Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi,Shaba (Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale:

Picture size 3 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Cuprospinel Image

Images: Cuprospinel

Comments: 2mm piece of from the typespecimen 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 thevery 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 cuprotungstiteon quartz.

Location: Lida, Esmeralda County,Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Cuprotungstite Image

Images: Cuprotungstite Jixianite

Comments: Reddish brown crystal druse ofjixianite with minor tan cuprotungstite.

Location: Apache Mine, Hidalgo County,New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Image.


Curetonite Image

Images: Curetonite

Comments: Translucent tabular crystal ofcuretonite in crystalline barite.

Location: Near Golconda, HumboldtCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Curienite Image

Images: Curienite Francevillite

Comments: Intense yellow curienite andorange francevillite.

Location: Mouonana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.Scale: Not Given.


Curite Image

Images: Curite

Comments: Orangish red curite crystals.Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the


Cuspidine Image


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Images: Cuspidine

Comments: Tan spear-shaped microcrystals of cuspidine in diopside.

Location: San Vito Quarry, Vesuvius, Napoli,Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Cuzticite Image

Images: Cuzticite

Comments: Thin scaly yellow-brown crustof cuzticite on quartz.

Location: Mina Bambollita, Moctezuma,Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Cyanochroite Image

Images: Cyanochroite

Comments: Pale blue crystal cluster ofcyanochroite.

Location: Eruption of 1870, Mount Vesuvius,Napoli, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cyanotrichite Image

Images: Cyanotrichite

Comments: Blue, hairy crystals ofcyanotrichite.

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


Cyanotrichite Image

Images: Cyanotrichite Azurite

Comments: Blue, hairy crystals ofcyanotrichite with dark-blue, blocky azurite

on a green, malachite matrix.Location: Maid of Sunshine Mine, CochiseCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Image.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cyanotrichite Image


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Images: Cyanotrichite

Comments: Blue, acicular sprays ofcyanotrichite on a gray matrix.

Location: Maid of Sunshine Mine, CochiseCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Image.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cylindrite Image

Images: Cylindrite

Comments: Cylindrical crystals of cylindritein granular tin sulfide ore.

Location: Montserrat Mine, Poopo, Oruro,Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.


Cymrite Image

Images: Cymrite

Comments: Pearly white cymrite withjadeite in greywacke rock.

Location: Pacheco Pass, Santa ClaraCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Cyrilovite Image

Images: Cyrilovite

Comments: Greenish-yellow crystals ofcyrilovite in matrix.

Location: Rengersdorf, G?rlitz, Oberlausitz,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.5





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Dachiardite-Na Image

Images: Dachiardite-Na

Comments: Orange flat radial crystals ofdachiardite-Na to 2cm across on matrix.

Location: Alpe di Siusi, Bolanzo,Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Scale: Specimen

size: 6x4x3cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Dadsonite Image

Images: Dadsonite

Comments: Gay metallic massivedadsonite.

Location: Wolfsberg, Harzgerode, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Dalyite Image

Images: Dalyite Janhaugite

Comments: Tan crystalline dalyite (arrow)with reddish brown janhaugite.

Location: Gjerdingen, Nordmark, north ofOslo, Oslo, Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Danburite Image

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Images: Danburite

Comments: Very-fine, large, single transparentcrystal 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 granulardarapskite.



Dashkovaite Image

Images: Dashkovaite

Comments: White fibrous dashkovaite.Location: Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic,Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-

Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size2.3 mm.


Datolite Image

Images: Datolite

Comments: Cluster of doubly-terminateddatolite 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: Massive yellow daubreeite.Location: Cerro Tazna, Atocha-Quechisla

district, Nor Chichas Province, Potos?Department, Boliv ia. Scale: Picture size 5


Daubreelite Image


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Images: Daubreelite Alabandite

Comments: Daubreelite (D), bright metallicwhite, with alabandite (A) (dull yellow) as

inclusions in a polished section of anachondrite meteorite.

Location: Norton County, Kansas. Scale:See Photo.


Davidite-(La) Image

Images: Davidite-(La)

Comments: Prismatic crystals of davidite incarbonatite.

Location: Thackering, South West Australia,Australia. Scale: Crystal size 2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Davreuxite Image

Images: Davreuxite

Comments: Pale yellow fibrous davreuxiteon quartz.

Location: Ottre, Luxembourg, Belgium.Scale: See Photo.


Davyne Image

Images: Davyne

Comments: Yellow translucent microcrystal of davyne in sanidine.

Location: Laacher See, Rheinland-Pfalz,Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Dawsonite Image

Images: Dawsonite

Comments: White, radial crystallineaggregates of dawsonite crystals.Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec,

Canada. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Decrespignyite-(Y) Image


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Images: Decrespignyite-(Y)

Comments: Blue, rounded aggregates ofdecrespignyite-(Y) on matrix.

Location: Paratoo copper mine, Yunta,Olary Province, South Australia, Australia.


Defernite Image

Images: Defernite Hematite

Comments: Specular hematite rich withcrystalline grains of reddish brown

defernite.Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat,

Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region,Namibia. Scale: 3.9 x 2.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Defernite Image

Images: Defernite Vaterite Manganite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous vateritewith red defernite and black manganite.

Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi,Otjozondjupa, Namibia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Delafossite Image

Images: Delafossite

Comments: Black crystals of delafossite onmatrix.

Location: Clara Mine, Rankach valley,Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest,

Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale:Picture size 5 mm.


Deliensite Image

Images: Deliensite

Comments: Specimen is covered withabundant 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 crystalsprays of delindeite on matrix.

Location: Diamond Jo Quarry, Hot SpringCounty, Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Dellaite Image

Images: Dellaite Rustumite

Comments: White grains of dellaite,intermixed with rustumite.

Location: Queretaro, Zacatecas, Mexico.Scale: See Photo.


Dellaventuraite Image

Images: Dellaventuraite Aegirine-augite

Comments: View in plane-polarized light ofreddish brown dellaventuraite (OPTK) asan 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

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".© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Delvauxite Image

Images: Delvauxite

Comments: Pure botryoidal massivedelvauxite.

Location: Kutna Hora, Stredocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Demesmaekerite Image


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Images: Demesmaekerite Malachite

Comments: Pale green crystals ofdemesmaekerite 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 3mm.


Denisovite Image

Images: Denisovite

Comments: Grayish-white fibrousdenisovite.

Location: Eveslogchorr Mt , Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',

Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 5mm.


Denningite Image

Images: Denningite Tellurite

Comments: Vitreous colorless to very paleyellowish elongated crystals denningite

with yellow tellurite.Location: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma,Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.


Derbylite Image

Images: Derbylite

Comments: Small black crystals ofderbylite in matrix.

Location: Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema(Ponte Stazzemese), Versilia, Apuan Alps,

Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:Picture size 1.2 mm.


Derriksite Image


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Images: Derriksite

Comments: Light blue crystallineaggregates of derriksite.

Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale:


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, crystallineaggregate of descloizite.

Location: Grootfontein. Namibia. Scale: 3 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Devilline Image

Images: Devilline Malachite

Comments: Blue crystals of devilline ongreen, botryoidal malachite.

Location: Spania Dolina (Herrengrund),Slovakia. Scale: Not Given.


Devilline Image

Images: Devilline

Comments: Laminar crystals of bluedevilline 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 onfracture surface. Schumacher Collection.Location: Les Bois-Noirs Mine, Loire, Rh?ne-

Alpes, France. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Dewindtite Image

Images: Dewindtite Kivuite

Comments: Pale yellow coatings of kivuitewith yellowier dewindtite on pegmatite.Location: Ruggles Mine, Grafton, GraftonCounty, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Diaboleite Image

Images: Diaboleite

Comments: Coarsely crystalline, bluediaboleite.

Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Arizona.USA. Scale: 2.8 x 2.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Diaboleite Image

Images: Diaboleite Yedlinite

Comments: Minute cranberry-coloredrounded yedlinite crystal with blue

diaboleite on yellow-brown wulfenite.Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Pinal

County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Diadochite Image

Images: Diadochite

Comments: Brown balls of diadochite onmatrix.

Location: Union Carbide mine, GarlandCounty, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Diamond Image


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Images: Diamond

Comments: Single octahedral crystal ofdiamond.

Location: Ghana, Africa. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Diamond Image

Images: Diamond

Comments: Translucent diamond penetrationtwin crystals.

Location: Mbuji-Mayi (Miba), DemocraticRepublic of the Congo (Zaire). Scale: 3.70

carats, 7x7x7 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Diamond Image

Images: Diamond

Comments: Photomicrographs (PPL) ofnumerous microdiamonds in Kumdy-Kol

caboniferous dolomite marble (Elementsv1, no 2).

Location: Kokchetav Massif, Kumdy-Kolultra high pressure facies area, northern

Kazakhstan. Scale: See Image.© Elements Magazine

Diaoyudaoite Image

Images: Diaoyudaoite

Comments: Dark green crystallinediaoyudaoite.

Location: Novosibirsk District, Siberia, Russia.Scale: See Photo.


Diaphorite Image

Images: Diaphorite

Comments: Prismatic, striated, metallicdiaphorite crystal on quartz.

Location: Morey, Nye County, Nevada,USA. Scale: Not Given.


Diaspore Image


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Images: Diaspore

Comments: Crystals of deep violet-coloreddiaspore exposed from numerous vugs.

Location: Saga Quarry, Oslo RegionNorway. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Dickinsonite Image

Images: Dickinsonite

Comments: Salmon-colored, crystallinedickinsonite.

Location: Branchville, Fairfield County,Connecticut, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Dickite Image

Images: Dickite Ankerite Sphalerite




Dickite Image

Images: Dickite

Comments: Porcelaneous pure whitemassive dickite.

Location: Beaver County, Utah, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Dickthomssenite Image

Images: Dickthomssenite

Comments: Yellowish white, prismaticcrystals of dickthomssenite on matrix.Location: Firefly-Pigmay Mine, La Sal

Quadrangle, San Juan Co., Utah, USA.Scale: Picture size 2 mm.




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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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix



Comments: White, translucent balls of fiberousaggregates of dickthomssenite on matrix.

Location: Vanadium Queen Mine, ParadoxDistrict, La Sal Area, San Juan County, Utah,

USA. Scale: See Image.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Dietrichite Image

Images: Dietrichite

Comments: Pale beige fibrous dietrichite.Location: Baia Sprie, Transylvania,

Maramures, Romania. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Dietzeite Image

Images: Dietzeite

Comments: Yellow crystalline coating ofdietzeite on matrix.



Digenite Image

Images: Digenite

Comments: Bluish trigonal crystal ofDigenite.

Location: Butte, Silver Bow County,Montana, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Dilithium Image


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Images: Dilithium

Comments: Reaction chamber image atwarp-factor-2 showng synthetic dilithium(Di) crystal converting matter-antimatter

streams to high energy plasma.Location: Engine room, U.S.S. EnterpriseNCC-1701-D, classified location in the

gamma quadrant. Scale: Cyastal size 5 x 2x 6 cm.

© LeVar Burton

Dimorphite Image

Images: Dimorphite

Comments: Orange to yellow-orangecrystals of dimorphite on matrix.

Location: Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Vesuvius,Naples, Naples province, Campania, Italy.


Diopside Image

Images: Diopside Grossular

Comments: Pale blue prismatic crystal ofdiopside with orange-brown grossular.Location: Val d'Aosta, Italy. Scale: Not


Diopside Image

Images: Diopside Magnesioferrite

Comments: Very dark brown MagnesioferritePleonaste (Iron-Magnesium spinel) with cream

colored Calcite and gray green diopside.Location: Aldan, Gon River, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5


Dioptase Image

Images: Dioptase

Comments: Dark-blue-green crystals ofdioptase on matrix. The color of dioptasedoes 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 crystalsof dioptase to 14 mm in size and doublyterminated, 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 coveredwith minute, rhombic crystals of

transparent minrecordite one mm or less insize.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Dioptase Image

Images: Dioptase Kinoite

Comments: Fibrous crystals of blue-greendioptase to 0.75mm on clear apophyllite

associated with dark blue kinoite.Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,

USA. Scale: Pictures size 6 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Dissakisite-(Ce) Image

Images: Dissakisite-(Ce) Dolomite

Comments: Small, prisimatic, acicularcrystals of tan-colored dissakisite-(Ce)scatterd on white crystalline dolomite.

Location: Trimouns mine, Luzenac, Ari?geFrance. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Dittmarite Image

Images: Dittmarite Newberyite

Comments: Translucent crystallinedittmaritewith more opaque newberyite.

Location: Skipton Caves, Victoria, Australia.Scale: See Photo.


Dixenite Image


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Images: Dixenite

Comments: Deep red translucentcrystalline grains of dixenite.



Djerfisherite Image

Images: Djerfisherite

Comments: Bronze metallic grains ofdjerfisherite in white feldspar.

Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Djurleite Image

Images: Djurleite

Comments: Dark, metallic djurleite withtransparent quartz and white calcite.

Location: Dzhezkazgan. Kazakhstan. Scale:4.5 x 4.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Dmisteinbergite Image

Images: Dmisteinbergite Wairakite

Comments: Pearly platy crystallinedmisteinbergite with dull white wairakite on

matrix.Location: Kurumazawa, Katashina,Gumma, Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Dolerophanite Image

Images: Dolerophanite ChalcanthiteFedotovite





Dollaseite-(Ce) Image


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Images: Dollaseite-(Ce)

Comments: Glassy brown crystalline grainsof dollaseite-(Ce) in matrix.

Location: Ostanmossagruvan, Norberg,Sweden. Scale: Grain size 1 mm.


Dolomite Image

Images: Dolomite

Comments: Pink rhombohedral crystals ofdolomite on matrix.

Location: Eugui, Navarra Province,Navarra, Spain. Scale: Not Given.


Dolomite Image

Images: Dolomite Dissakisite-(Ce)

Comments: Small, prisimatic, acicularcrystals of tan-colored dissakisite-(Ce)scatterd on white crystalline dolomite.

Location: Trimouns mine, Luzenac, Ari?geFrance. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Doloresite Image

Images: Doloresite

Comments: black radiating doloresite andcrystalline doloresite with white calcite.

Location: Grants, Valencia County, NewMexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.


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 oniron.

Location: Hestmondo Island, Nordland,Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Donbassite Image

Images: Donbassite

Comments: Translucent white crystallinedonbassite.

Location: Donetz Basin, Ukraine. Scale: SeePhoto.


Donnayite-(Y) Image

Images: Donnayite-(Y)

Comments: Brown micro-crystals ofdonnayite-(Y) covering matrix.

Location: Mont. St. Hilaire, Rouville Co.,Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture size 1.5


Donpeacorite Image

Images: Donpeacorite Braunite-I

Comments: Brown crystalline massivedonpeacorite with dark brown black

braunite.Location: Zinc Corporation of America Mine#4, Balmat, Saint Lawrence County, New

York, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Dorfmanite Image

Images: Dorfmanite

Comments: White cottony coatings ofdorfmanite 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.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Douglasite Image

Images: Douglasite

Comments: Small red-brown translucent grain ofdouglasite with white halite.

Location: Koningshutte, Silesia, Poland. Scale: SeePhoto.

© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to MineralSpecies

Doyleite Image

Images: Doyleite Gibbsite

Comments: Botryoidal spheres of doyleitegrowing along with its dimorph gibbsite.

Analysis shows that doyleite dominates themix. 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 dravitecrystal 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-richdravite tourmaline crystals up to 13 mm longwith 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 dresseriteon matrix.

Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal,Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Dresserite Image

Images: Dresserite

Comments: White divergent sprays of fibrouscrystals dresserite crystals.

Location: Francon quarry, Montr?al,Jacques Cartier Co., Qu?bec, Canada.

Scale: Crystal size 5mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Dufrenite Image

Images: Dufrenite

Comments: Dark olive-greenish crystal ofdufrenite on matrix.

Location: Rengersdorf, G?rlitz, Oberlausitz,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Dufrenoysite Image

Images: Dufrenoysite

Comments: Black prismatic crystal ofDufrenoysite with brassy yellow pyrite on

succroidal dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Dufrenoysite Image

Images: Dufrenoysite

Comments: Single, black dufr?noysite crystal in avug in white dolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais,Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 2.5 mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Duftite-alpha Image


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Images: Duftite-alpha Mimetite

Comments: Mimetite crystals are replacedby Duftite-alpha on a gossanous matrix.

Location: Mt. Bonnie Mine, NorthernTerritory, Australia. Scale: Crystal size to

3mm.© John Veevaert

Duftite-beta Image

Images: Duftite-beta

Comments: Intensely green Duftite-beta onfluorescent calcite.

Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: .

© Fabre Minerals

Dugganite Image

Images: Dugganite

Comments: Green crystalline aggregate ofdugganite.

Location: Tombstone, Cochise County,Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Dukeite Image

Images: Dukeite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph showingpart of a dukeite sheave (AmMin, 85:1823).Location: Found on a museum specimenlabeled as originating from the S?o Jos?

Mine, Breja?ba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:See Image.


Dumontite Image

Images: Dumontite

Comments: Bright yellow acicular crystalsof 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 acicularpurple to lilac colored dumortierite crystals

in white andalusite matrix.Location: Dehesa, San Diego Co.,

California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 2.3cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Dumortierite Image


Comments: Low-magnification, bright-fieldimage showing dispersed dumortierite fibersextracted from rose quartz on a carbon film.

(AmMin 87:270).Location: Madagascar. Scale: See Image.


Dundasite Image

Images: Dundasite

Comments: Bluish crystalline spray ofDundasite on azurite.

Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Not Given.


Duranusite Image

Images: Duranusite Realgar

Comments: Small black Duranusite inorange-red realgar matrix.

Location: Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes,Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France.


Dwornikite Image


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Images: Dwornikite

Comments: Green earthy, powderydwornikite on or replacing millerite as

acicular crystals in 1cm vug.Location: Lipovka Ni deposit, Rezh District,Central Urals, Urals Region, Russia. Scale:

Picture size 1.2 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Dypingite Image

Images: Dypingite

Comments: White spherical aggregates ofdypingite on matrix.

Location: Jeremias Gl?ck Mine (FairyGrotto), Garnsdorf, Saalfeld, Thuringia,


Dyscrasite Image

Images: Dyscrasite

Comments: Metallic-silver, 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.

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Eakerite Image

Images: Eakerite

Comments: Transparent, prismatic crystalof eakerite.


Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Earlshannonite Image

Images: Earlshannonite

Comments: Brownish earlshonnoniteaggregate surrounded by white,

pegmatitic matrix.Location: Foote Mine, Kings Mtn, North

Carolina, USA. Scale: 2 1/2" x 2".© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Eastonite Image

Images: Eastonite

Comments: Small micaceous area ofeastonite in quartz.

Location: C.K. Williams Quarry, Easton,Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA.


Mineral Species

Eckermannite Image

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Images: Eckermannite

Comments: Dark blue-green prismaticcrystalline eckermannite in matrix.

Location: Norra Karr, Granna, Jonkoping,Sweden. Scale: See Photo.


Eclarite Image

Images: Eclarite

Comments: Black crystalline masses andprismatic crystals of eclarite in fine grained

quartz.Location: Barenbad Mine, Hollersbachtal,Salzburg, Oberosterrich, Austria. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Edenharterite Image

Images: Edenharterite

Comments: Submetallic, deep brownishblack crystalline aggregate of

edenharterite crystals in white dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 2mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Edenite Image

Images: Edenite Pargasite

Comments: Blocky, dark green crystals ofvisually 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 infine-grained phlogopite.



Edgarbaileyite Image


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Images: Edgarbaileyite

Comments: Resinous yellow masses ofedgarbaileyite in quartz.

Location: Clear Creek Mine, San BenitoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Edgarite Image

Images: Edgarite

Comments: Scanning electronmicro-image edgarite (EDG, fibrous

appearing) inclusion in pyrrhotite (PY) withmarcasite (MRC, slightly lower reflectance)

in silicate matrix (SIL, lowest reflectance).Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Edgarite Image

Images: Edgarite

Comments: Silvery metallic edgaritecrystal to about 0.3mm embedded

between pegmatite grains.Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region,

Russia. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Edingtonite Image

Images: Edingtonite

Comments: Lath-shaped crystallineaggregates of edingtonite.

Location: Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paolo,Brazil. Scale: Not Given.


Edingtonite Image

Images: Edingtonite

Comments: White, stout prisms of calcite onpinkish 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 ofedoylerite with red cinnabar.

Location: Clear Creek Claim (Clear CreekMine), New Idria district, San Benito Co.,California, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.


Effenbergerite Image

Images: Effenbergerite Sugilite

Comments: Blue effenbergerite pods toacross in massive purple sugilite.Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 4 mm.

© John Veevaert

Efremovite Image

Images: Efremovite

Comments: White, massive efremovite. Themineral is hygroscopic and must be stored

in a closed box.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera



Eggletonite Image

Images: Eggletonite

Comments: Brown micro crystals ofeggletonite in syenite.

Location: 3M Quarry, Little Rock, PulaskiCounty, Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Eglestonite Image

Images: Eglestonite

Comments: Small yellow crystals andmassive aggregates of eglestonite.

Location: Landsberg (Moschellandsberg),Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-

Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.8mm.


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 specimencourtesy of Museum of Geology, SD School

of Mines.Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County,

South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2mm.


Eifelite Image

Images: Eifelite

Comments: Clear glassy microcrystal ofeifelite.

Location: Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel,Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Eitelite Image

Images: Eitelite

Comments: Pale yellow crystalline eitelite.Location: Mapco Shrine Hospital Well #1

drill core, Green River Formation, DuchesneCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Ekanite Image

Images: Ekanite

Comments: Complex specimen of manyminerals, most notable are four red ekanite

crystals (rare!) scattered around thespecimen.

Location: Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry;Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mt Saint-



Ekaterinite Image

Images: Ekaterinite

Comments: Pale pink crystalline cleavagefragment of ekaterinite.




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Mineral Species

Elbaite Image

Images: Elbaite

Comments: Doubly terminated tri-colorelbaite (tourmaline) with minor white

clevelandite (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.Scale: Crystal size 8.5 cm.

© Kevin Ward

Ellenbergerite Image

Images: Ellenbergerite

Comments: Pale pink glassy nearly puremass of ellenbergerite.

Location: Dora-Meira Massif, Parigi,Piemonte, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Ellestadite Image

Images: Ellestadite

Comments: Honey yellow hexagonaldipyramids 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 inmatrix.




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Elpidite Image

Images: Elpidite

Comments: Blocky, intergrown crystals ofelpidite.

Location: Narsasuk, Greenland. Scale:Crystal size 2 cm.© John Veevaert

Elyite Image

Images: Elyite

Comments: Purple acicular crystals ofelyite.

Location: Kurfurst-Ernst, Bonkhausen,Sauerland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


Mineral Species

Embolite Image

Images: Embolite

Comments: An exposed 3 x 2 cm vug inbarite completely filled with a mass of

embolite comprised of myriad crystals to 2mm.

Location: Broken Hill Mine, New SouthWales, Australia. Scale: Picture size 4 cm.

© John Veevaert

Embolite Image

Images: Embolite Iodargyrite

Comments: Cubo-octahedral crystals ofiodaryrite (I) with smaller and darkeroctahedral crystals of embolite (E).

Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales,Australia. Scale: Specimen size 2x1 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Embreyite Image

Images: Embreyite

Comments: Orange embreyite crystals onmatrix.

Location: Cumbria, England. Scale: NotGiven.


Emeleusite Image


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Images: Emeleusite

Comments: Clear to pale tan glassycrystalline emeleusite with white albite and

dark green aegirine.Location: Igdlutalik, Greenland. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Emmonsite Image

Images: Emmonsite

Comments: Quartz with small blebs of peagreen emmonsite.

Location: Barrbolla Mine, Moctezuma,Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Bleb size 2 mm.

© John Veevaert

Emmonsite Image

Images: Emmonsite Schmitterite

Comments: Yellow schmitterite with greenemmonsite.



Emmonsite Image

Images: Emmonsite

Comments: Green, mossy emmonsite onmatrix..

Location: Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Emplectite Image

Images: Emplectite

Comments: Metallic emplectite wire inquartz.

Location: Schwarzenberg, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Empressite Image


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Images: Empressite Tellurium

Comments: Bronze-colored microcrystalsof empressite with bright native tellurium

crystals.Location: Rex mine, Boulder County,

Colorado, USA. Scale: 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Enargite Image

Images: Enargite

Comments: Lustrous, metallic graycolumnar crystals of enargite with minor

quartz.Location: Quiruvilca, La Libertad Dept.,

Peru. Scale: 4.2x2x2.3 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Enargite Image

Images: Enargite Famatinite

Comments: Violet metallic crystallinefamatinite with black massive enargite.Location: Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru.


Mineral Species

Endellite Image

Images: Endellite

Comments: Gray to white massiveendellite.

Location: Buck Reef Deposit, Ravenswood,Queensland, Australia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Englishite Image

Images: Englishite

Comments: Bluish colliform englishitecrystals.

Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, UtahCounty, Utah. Scale: Not Given.


Englishite Image


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Images: Englishite Roscherite

Comments: Black crystalline aggregate ofroscherite on white englishite.



Englishite Image

Images: Englishite TiptopiteMontgomeryite

Comments: Red montgomeryite lath-likecrystals to 1mm in 2mm rosettes associated

with clear, acicular sprays of tiptopite to0.75mm and white cottonball-like crystals

of englishite to 0.2mm.Location: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South

Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Enstatite Image

Images: Enstatite

Comments: Single, terminated, brown, transparentto translucent enstatite crystal.

Location: Mpwa-Mpwa, Tanzania. Scale: 17x17x27mm.

© Dan Weinrich

Eosphorite Image

Images: Eosphorite Zanazziite

Comments: Minor crystals of equant, olivegreen zanazziite and brown, lath-like

crystals of eosphorite on quartz.Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© John Veevaert

Eosphorite Image

Images: Eosphorite Vivianite

Comments: Bottle-green translucentvivianite crystal (2cm) associated with

reddish, micro eosphorite crystals.Location: Lavra 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 associatedwith dark brownish black hausmannite.

Location: Gloucester mine. Postmasburg, Capeprovince. S. Africa. Scale: 5.5 x 5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Epididymite Image

Images: Epididymite

Comments: Trilling twinned crystal ofepididymite on matrix.

Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec,Canada. Scale: Not Given.


Epididymite Image

Images: Epididymite Eudidymite

Comments: Translucent prismatic crystalsof eudidymite on white opaque

epididymite.Location: Narsaarsuk, Greenland. Scale:


Mineral Species

Epidote Image

Images: Epidote

Comments: Dark green, blocky epidotewith 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 mmacross on amethyst quartz crystal matrix.Location: Sawda, Jalgaon, Maharashtra,

India. Scale: 10x8x5 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Epistolite Image


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Images: Epistolite

Comments: Plate-like crystals of pearlywhite epistolite to 2.7 cm.

Location: Ilimaussaq, Kvanefjeld,Greenland. Scale: 3.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Epsomite Image

Images: Epsomite

Comments: Pure white compact fibrousmass of epsomite.

Location: Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon,Spain. Scale: See Photo.


Ercitite Image

Images: Ercitite

Comments: Back-scattered electron images ofercitite (medium gray) showing lath-shaped

habit and cleavages and splintering onmechanical disturbance. W: whitlockite, F:

fairfieldite, C: unidentified. (CanMin, v 38, p 896).Location: Tanco pegmatite, southeastern

Manitoba, Canada. Scale: Image size 150 µ-m.© Canadian Mineralogist

Erdite Image

Images: Erdite

Comments: Red-brown columnarcrystalline erdite in matrix.

Location: Coyote Peak, Humboldt County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Ericaite Image

Images: Ericaite

Comments: Cubic crystal ericaite.Location: Bischofferode, Nordhausen, Erfurtdistrict, Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:

Crystal size 3.7 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Ericssonite Image


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Images: Ericssonite OrthoericssoniteTephroite

Comments: Dark brown ericssonite,intergrown with orthoericssonite, with pink

rhodonite, light brown diopside (var.schefferite) and gray tephroite.



Eriochalcite Image

Images: Eriochalcite

Comments: Green grains of eriochalcitefrom the eruption of 1875, Vesuvius

volcano.Location: Vesuvius volcano. Vesuvius,

Naples, Naples province, Campania, Italy.Scale: Picture size 3 mm.


Erionite-Na Image

Images: Erionite-Na

Comments: White to pale green radiatingerionite.

Location: Shurdo, Caucasus Mountains,Georgia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Erlichmanite Image

Images: Erlichmanite

Comments: Large gray fractured grain oferlichmanite. Polished section in reflected

light.Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-

ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Saha(Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-SiberianRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.25 mm.


Ernienickelite Image

Images: Ernienickelite

Comments: Very small reddish-blacktabular crystals of ernienickelite on quartz.

Location: Siberia complex, WesternAustralia, Australia. Scale: Picture size 0.7



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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 3mm.


Ershovite Image

Images: Ershovite

Comments: Olive green coatings ofershovite on green aegirine.

Location: Mount Koashva, Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Erythrite Image

Images: Erythrite Cobaltkoritnigite

Comments: Dark purplish cobaltkoritnigitewith pink erythrite.



Erythrite Image

Images: Erythrite Skutterudite

Comments: Erythrite crystal on massiveskutterudite.

Location: Bou Azzer, Morocco. Scale:Crystal size 1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Erythrosiderite Image

Images: Erythrosiderite Sal-ammoniac

Comments: Orange-brown aggregates oferythrosiderite with sal ammoniac. Materialfrom the 1926 eruption of the Erythrosiderite

is hygroscopic and must be stored in aclosed vial. The photo was made through

the vial.Location: Vesuvius, Naples Province,

Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag


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Eskebornite Image

Images: Eskebornite Jolliffeite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage of jolliffeite in sulfurian eskebornite.Note the cracked appearance and the

different brightness of eskebornite, which isa reflection of variable ratio of selenium to

sulfur. (CanMin v 42, p 844).Location: Niederschlema-Alberoda

uranium deposit, in the Erzgebirge region ofGermany. Scale: See Image.


Eskimoite Image

Images: Eskimoite

Comments: Gray metallic eskimoite inquartz.

Location: Manhattan, Nye County,Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Eskolaite Image

Images: Eskolaite Chalcocite

Comments: Green crystalline eskolaite onmassive chalcocite.

Location: Lubelin, Poland. Scale: SeePhoto.


Esperanzaite Image

Images: Esperanzaite

Comments: Pale blue-green botryoidalesperanzaite in rhyolite.

Location: Mina La Esperanza, Durango,Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Esperite Image

Images: Esperite Hardystonite Franklinite

Comments: Pale brown porcelaneousesperite with pinkish gray hardystonite and

black franklinite.Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New

Jersey. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species


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Esseneite Image

Images: Esseneite

Comments: Orange-brown crystallinecoating of esseneite on anorthite.

Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk District,Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Ettringite Image

Images: Ettringite

Comments: Small glassy whitish microcrystals 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 ofglassy 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 inwhite calcite crystal.

Location: Skrikerum Copper Mine, nearTyrsarum, Kalmar, Sweden. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Eucairite Image

Images: Eucairite Schlemaite Clausthalite





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Eucairite Image

Images: Eucairite Crookesite

Comments: Polished section (PPL) showingzoned crystal of cream-colored eucairiteand pale lavender crookesite along with

steel blue umangite and white clausthalitein dark gray gangue..

Location: Mine dump (tailings) of Shaft 371near Hartenstein/Saxony, Germany. Scale:

Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Schlothauer

Euchlorine Image

Images: Euchlorine

Comments: Olive green crusts ofeuchlorine on volcanic rock.



Euchroite Image

Images: Euchroite

Comments: Dark green, blocky crystals ofeuchroite on matrix.

Location: Missoula County, Montana, USA.Scale: Not Given.


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 greatcolor. This specimen is from one of the famous

and finest world finds of euclase, in theColombian Emeralds area.

Location: Chivor, 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,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Eucryptite Image

Images: Eucryptite

Comments: Fine grained, massiveeucryptite. Fluorescent Red under SW.

Location: Midnight Owl mine, Yavapai Co.,Arizona, USA. Scale: 6x4x4cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Eudialyte Image

Images: Eudialyte Natrolite

Comments: Druse of gemmy, red eudialytecrystals to 1 mm on white natrolite.

Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Eudialyte Image

Images: Eudialyte Vlasovite

Comments: Transparent yellow-grayvlasovite crystal frozen in pink eudialyte

matrix.Location: Kipawa alkaline complex, near

Sheffield Lake, Villedieu Township,T?miscamingue Co., Qu?bec, Canada.

Scale: 2x2x1 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Eudialyte Image

Images: Eudialyte Agrellite

Comments: Tan agrellite grain, with redeudialyte.

Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu,Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Eudialyte Image


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Images: Eudialyte Gittinsite

Comments: White crystalline gittinsite withred eudialyte.

Location: Kipiwa Complex, VilledieuTownship, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Eudidymite Image

Images: Eudidymite Epididymite

Comments: Translucent prismatic crystalsof eudidymite on white opaque

epididymite.Location: Narsaarsuk, Greenland. Scale:


Mineral Species

Eugenite Image

Images: Eugenite

Comments: Metallic, silvery eugenite.Location: Copiap?, Atacama, Chile. Scale:


Eugenite Image

Images: Eugenite

Comments: Brassy, silvery eugenitealteration of leaf silver to 4mm.

Location: Elisa de Bordos mine, Copiap?,Atacama Province, Chile. Scale: Picture

size 1 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Eulytite Image

Images: Eulytite

Comments: Brown, isometric crystals ofeulytite on matrix.

Location: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Not Given.


Euxenite-(Y) Image


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Images: Euxenite-(Y)

Comments: Crystal of euxenite-(Y) inmatrix.

Location: Trout Creek Pass, ChaffeeCounty, Colorado, USA. Scale: Crystal size

1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Evansite Image

Images: Evansite

Comments: Cream-colored, amorphousevansite coating an unknown striated,

prismatic mineral, now missing (see hollowshells)..

Location: Cobalt, Idaho. Scale: Picture size3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Eveite Image

Images: Eveite Akrochordite

Comments: Micro crystals (to about0.75mm) 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.


Evenkite Image

Images: Evenkite

Comments: Colorless flake of evenkite onan orange background.

Location: Khavokiperskiye Rockspolymetallic occurrence, Evenkia,

Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, NizhnyayaTunguska River Basin, Krasnoyarskiy Kray,

Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Size 4mm.


Eyselite Image

Images: Eyselite

Comments: Pale yellowish brown crystallineaggregate 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.© Canadian Mineralogist


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Eyselite Image

Images: Eyselite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph ofplaty/tabular crystals of eyselite. (CanMin

42:1773).Location: Ge-bearing ore samples from

Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: SeeScale Bar.


Ezcurrite Image

Images: Ezcurrite

Comments: Translucent white crystallinemassive ezcurrite.

Location: Tincalaya, Salta, Argentina.Scale: See Photo.


Eztlite Image

Images: Eztlite

Comments: Reddish-brown crystallineeztlite on matrix.






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"F " Mineral Photos (147)

Fahleite Image

Images: Fahleite

Comments: Crystalline cleavage fragmentof fahleite.

Location: Tsumeb, Oshikoto, Namibia.Scale: See Photo.


Fairbankite Image

Images: Fairbankite Jarosite

Comments: Colorless to white crystals offairbankite with orangish brown jarosite.

Location: Tombstone, Tombstone District,Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture


Fairfieldite Image

Images: Fairfieldite

Comments: Transparent, cockscomb druseof fairfieldite crystals.



Falcondoite Image

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Images: Falcondoite

Comments: Solid mass of lime greenfalcondoite.

Location: Riddle, Douglas County, Oregon.USA. Scale: 4 cm.© John Veevaert

Falkmanite Image

Images: Falkmanite

Comments: Metallic black platy striatedfalkmanite, with bronze luster in spots.

Location: Grube Bayerland, Waldsassen,Bavaria, Bayern, Germany. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Famatinite Image

Images: Famatinite Enargite

Comments: Violet metallic crystallinefamatinite with black massive enargite.Location: Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru.


Mineral Species

Famatinite Image

Images: Famatinite

Comments: Dark, purplish black, massivefamatinite.

Location: Tertiary volcanic massif, theSerrania de Laurani, Boliv ia. Scale: Picture

size 2 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Fangite Image

Images: Fangite Lorandite

Comments: Brown crystals of fangite withred lorandite.

Location: Allchar, Roszdan, FYRMacedonia. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.


Faujasite-Na Image


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Images: Faujasite-Na

Comments: Intergrown crystals of faujasitecoated with opal.

Location: Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Wurttemburg,Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Faustite Image

Images: Faustite

Comments: White botryoidal faustite onmatrix.

Location: Rain Mine, Eureka County,Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Fayalite Image

Images: Fayalite

Comments: Flattened crystals of fayaliteon cristobalite.

Location: Coso Hot Springs, Inyo County,California. Scale: Not Given.


Fedorite Image

Images: Fedorite Charoite

Comments: Tan crystalline platy fedorite inpale violet charoite.

Location: Murun, Republic of Sakha, Siberia,Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Fedorovskite Image

Images: Fedorovskite

Comments: Brown crystalline fedorovskite.Location: Solongo, Republic of Buryatia,


Mineral Species

Fedotovite Image


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Images: Fedotovite DolerophaniteChalcanthite





Fedotovite Image

Images: Fedotovite Chalcanthite

Comments: Green fedotovite with paleblue chalcanthite.



Feitknechtite Image

Images: Feitknechtite

Comments: Brown feitknechtite with pinkrhodonite.

Location: Ioi Mine, Ritto Cho, Shiga, Japan.Scale: See Photo.


Feklichevite Image

Images: Feklichevite

Comments: Brownish to purplish-brownishcrystal of feklichevite.

Location: Kovdor Mine, Kovdor massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Felsobanyaite Image

Images: Felsobanyaite

Comments: Gray white crystalline micrograins of fels?banyaite on brown to yellow

opal.Location: Cavnik, Felsobanya, Maramures,

Romania. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Fenaksite Image


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Images: Fenaksite

Comments: Tan to rose colored crystallinefenaksite with dark green-black crystalline

pyroxene.Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Fencooperite Image

Images: Fencooperite

Comments: Micro black needles offencooperite 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 sideriteselvage.

Location: Panasqueira (2nd level), in theregion of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale: 6 x 5


Ferberite Image

Images: Ferberite AnthoiniteCerotungstite-(Ce)



Mineral Species

Ferchromide Image

Images: Ferchromide

Comments: Metallic microcrystal offerchromide.

Location: Verkhneivinsk, Sverdlovsk District,Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


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 massivefermorite.

Location: Sitipar, Chindwara District, India.Scale: See Photo.


Fernandinite Image

Images: Fernandinite

Comments: Greenish-yellow fernandinitecoatings on sandstone.

Location: Deremo-Snyder Mine, Egnar, SanMiguel County, Colorado. USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Feroxyhyte Image

Images: Feroxyhyte

Comments: Brown botryoidal feroxyhyte.Location: Pachi Limani, Laurium, Attiki,

Greece. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Ferrarisite Image

Images: Ferrarisite

Comments: Translucent crystal spray offerrarisite on matrix.

Location: Gift Grube, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin, France.


Mineral Species

Ferricopiapite Image


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Images: Ferricopiapite

Comments: Earthy, yellow ferricopiapite,variety chalcanthite.



Ferricopiapite Image

Images: Ferricopiapite GoldichiteCoquimbite





Ferrierite-Na Image

Images: Ferrierite-Na

Comments: Rounded crystallineaggregate of yellow to brown ferrierite.Location: Monte Lake, British Columbia,


Ferrilotharmeyerite Image

Images: Ferrilotharmeyerite

Comments: Brown crystalline aggregatesof ferrilotharmeyerite on quartz.

Location: Pucher Shaft, Schneeberg District,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Ferrimolybdite Image

Images: Ferrimolybdite

Comments: Greenish-yellow crystallineaggregates of ferrimolybdite on a

gossanous matrix.Location: Quarry No 2, K?nigshain,

Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany. Scale:Picture size 1.5 mm.


Ferrinatrite Image


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Images: Ferrinatrite

Comments: White spherical aggregates offerrinatrite with gypsum needles.


Ferrinatrite Image

Images: Ferrinatrite Rozenite Copiapite




Mineral Species

Ferripyrophyllite Image

Images: Ferripyrophyllite

Comments: Brown crystal prism offerripyrophyllite in earthy matrix.

Location: Talagai, Kazakhstan. Scale: SeePhoto.


Ferrisicklerite Image

Images: Ferrisicklerite

Comments: Dark brown massiveferrisicklerite.



Mineral Species

Ferristrunzite Image

Images: Ferristrunzite

Comments: Radiating yellow crystals offerristrunzite on black matrix.

Location: Blaton, Hainaut (Henegouwen;Hennegau) Province, Belgium. Scale:


Ferrisurite Image


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Images: Ferrisurite

Comments: Olive-green crystallineferrisurite, with radiating structure.

Location: Shirley Ann Claim, near Darwin,Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Ferritaramite Image

Images: Ferritaramite Potassic-ferritaramite

Comments: Lightly to moderately etched, blocky, jetblack 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 offerritungstite on matrix.


W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale: Picture size5 mm.


Ferro-actinolite Image

Images: Ferro-actinolite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of ferro-actinoliteshowing terminal crystal faces..

Location: Astor, Shigar Valley Pakistan. Scale: 4.5x 3.3 x 4.2 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Ferroalluaudite Image

Images: Ferroalluaudite

Comments: Dark green crystalline ferroalluaudite in pegmatite.

Location: Chandler Mills Mine, Newport,Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA.


Mineral Species


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Ferroaxinite Image

Images: Ferroaxinite

Comments: Doubly terminated ferroaxinitecrystal with good luster and form.

Location: Puyva, Polar Ural, Russia. Scale:3x5x2 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Ferrobustamite Image

Images: Ferrobustamite

Comments: Grayish crystallineferrobustamite with white calcite, goldencolored phlogopite and green actinolite.



Ferrocarpholite Image

Images: Ferrocarpholite

Comments: Pale yellow radiatingferrocarpholite crystals.

Location: Krasno, Zapadocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Ferroceladonite Image

Images: Ferroceladonite

Comments: Micaceous ferro celadonite,comprising schistose rock.

Location: Mikhailovsky Mine, MalkhanRange, Central Transbaikalia, Chita District,


Mineral Species

Ferrocolumbite Image

Images: Ferrocolumbite Microcline

Comments: Blocky, dark brown ferrocolumbite onpale greenish blue amazonite (microcline).

Location: Crystal Park, El Paso Co., Colorado,USA. Scale: 2.5 x 1.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals


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Images: Ferrocolumbite Baotite

Comments: Minute brown crystalline grainsof baotite in dark ferrocolumbite.

Location: Sheep Creek, Ravalli County,Montana. Scale: See Photo.



Images: Ferrocolumbite Plumbopyrochlore

Comments: Brown plumbopyrochlorecrystal with dark brown ferrocolumbite.

Location: Holdazan, Buregteg, Mongolia.Scale: See Photo.


Ferrohexahydrite Image

Images: Ferrohexahydrite

Comments: White to light brownish crust offerrohexahydrite on matrix.

Location: Sohland, Bautzen, Oberlausitz,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Ferrohogbomite-2N2S Image

Images: Ferrohogbomite-2N2S

Comments: Photomicrograph of euhedralferrohogbomite-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 silvery luster, prismatic crystallineferroholmquistite in cesium rich reddish

brown biotite.Location: Goltsy, Eastern Sayan Mountains,Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale:


Mineral Species


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Ferrohornblende Image

Images: Ferrohornblende Hornblende

Comments: Dark gray prismatic crystal offerrohornblende in a white feldspar matrix.

Location: Monte Somma (Vesuvius),Campania, Italy. Scale: Not Given.


Ferrokentbrooksite Image

Images: Ferrokentbrooksite

Comments: A crystal of redferrokentbrooksite in matrix.

Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.

© L?szl? Horv?th

Ferrokesterite Image

Images: Ferrokesterite Andorite

Comments: Small, tetragonal crystal ofgray ferrokesterite (circled in thumbnail)

attached on the surface of a largerstriated andorite specimen.

Location: San Jose mine, Oruro, Boliv ia.Scale: Crystal size 0.2 mm.

© John Veevaert

Ferrolaueite Image

Images: Ferrolaueite

Comments: Pale tan microcrystalaggregates of ferro laueite on quartz.Location: My Creek, Burlington County,

New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Ferropargasite Image

Images: Ferropargasite

Comments: Dark to medium greencrystalline granular ferropargasite.

Location: Ginevro Mine, Elba, Italy. Scale:See Photo.


Ferropyrosmalite Image


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Images: Ferropyrosmalite

Comments: Crystal of ferropyrosmalite onclinochlore schist.

Location: Normark, Wermland, Sweden.Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Ferrorichterite Image

Images: Ferrorichterite

Comments: Brownish-yellow fibrousferrorichterite on matrix.

Location: Brunsheon, Gruvan, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Ferrosilite Image

Images: Ferrosilite

Comments: Transparent, brown prismaticblades of ferrosilite crystals on matrix.

Location: Summit Rock, Diamond Lake,Douglas County, Oregon, USA. Scale: Not


Ferrostrunzite Image

Images: Ferrostrunzite

Comments: Yellowish acicular crystals offerrostrunzite.

Location: Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe,Cornwall, England, UK. Scale: Picture size 5


Ferrotantalite Image

Images: Ferrotantalite

Comments: Rounded black crystal offerrotantalite.

Location: Mount Surprise, Queensland,Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Ferrotantalite Image


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Images: Ferrotantalite

Comments: Blocky, crystalline aggregateof ferrotantalite crystals weighing over 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 offerrotapiolite.

Location: Sapucaia district, Galileia, Minas Gerais,Brazil. Scale: 4.2x3.1x3.1 cm.


Ferrotapiolite Image

Images: Ferrotapiolite

Comments: Ferrotapiolite crystal in whitequartz and mica matrix.

Location: Quixab? Mine, Frei Martinho,Para?ba Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 1 x 0.8


Ferrotschermakite Image

Images: Ferrotschermakite

Comments: Medium green crystallinemassive ferrotschermakite with

yellow-brown massive andradite.Location: Old Tip Quarry, Dookie

Mineralogical Reserve, Dookie, Victoria,Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Ferrotychite Image

Images: Ferrotychite

Comments: Yellow crystalline granularferrotychite in white analcime (drill core).

Location: Olenii Ruchei, Khibiny Massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale:


Mineral Species

Ferrowinchite Image


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Images: Ferrowinchite

Comments: Dark green divergent fibrousferrowinchite.

Location: Harstigen, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Ferrowodginite Image

Images: Ferrowodginite

Comments: Dark brown massiveferrowodginite.

Location: Nyanga Number 2 Pegmatite,Ankole, Uganda. Scale: See Photo.


Ferrowyllieite Image

Images: Ferrowyllieite

Comments: Deep greenish black massiveferrowyllieite with brown to white quartz.

Location: Victory Mine, near Custer, CusterCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Ferruccite Image

Images: Ferruccite Avogadrite

Comments: Very small, white crystals offerrite on massive, yellowish avogadrite.

Location: Vesuvius, Naples, Naplesprovince, Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture


Fersmanite Image

Images: Fersmanite

Comments: Large single crystal of brownfersmanite in quartz matrix.

Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region,

Russia. Scale: 4x3x2 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Fersmite Image


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Images: Fersmite

Comments: Brown prismatic crystal offersmite in matrix.

Location: Alpe Rosso, Vigezzo valley,Novara, Piedmont, Italy. Scale: Picture size

1.7 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Fervanite Image

Images: Fervanite Hewettite

Comments: Spherical aggregate ofacicular microcrystals of fervanite with

blocky hewettite.Location: Gold Quarry Mine, Carlin Trend,Eureka County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Fetiasite Image

Images: Fetiasite

Comments: Sub metallic grayish blackcrystals of fetiasite on matrix.

Location: Gorb, Binntal, Wallis (Valais),Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Fettelite Image

Images: Fettelite

Comments: Deep scarlet red crystals offettelite.

Location: Glasberg Quarry, Nieder-Beerbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany.


Fianelite Image

Images: Fianelite

Comments: Small reddish-brown inclusionsof fianelite in matrix.

Location: Fianel Mine, Val Ferrera, Grischun(Grisons; Graub?nden), Switzerland. Scale:


Fibroferrite Image


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Images: Fibroferrite

Comments: Tan-white, acicular crystals offibroferrite on matrix.



Fichtelite Image

Images: Fichtelite

Comments: Colorless crystals of fichteliteon fossil wood.

Location: Marktredwitz, Fichtelgebirge,Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Picture size 6


Fiedlerite Image

Images: Fiedlerite

Comments: Clear tabular crystals offiedlerite on matrix.



Filipstadite Image

Images: Filipstadite Hausmannite

Comments: Dark minute grains offilipstadtite in hausmannite (slabbed

specimen).Location: Jacobsberg Mine, near

Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Finnemanite Image

Images: Finnemanite

Comments: Black, prismatic, twinnedcrystal 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 withminor 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 transparentmicrocrystal fragment of flagstaffite.

Location: San Francisco Mountains, nearFlagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.


Mineral Species

Fleischerite Image

Images: Fleischerite

Comments: Pale pink transparent acicularcrystals of fleischerite.



Florencite-(Ce) Image

Images: Florencite-(Ce)

Comments: Butterscotch coloredflorencite-(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 crystallineaggregates of florencite-(La).

Location: Igarap? Bahia Mine, Caraj?sridge, Par?, North Region, Brazil. Scale:


Florenskyite Image


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Images: Florenskyite

Comments: Backscattered electron imageof 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.© American Mineralogist

Fluckite Image

Images: Fluckite

Comments: White to pale pink crystallinetranslucent botryoids of fluckite.

Location: Giftgrube, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin, France.


Mineral Species

Fluellite Image

Images: Fluellite

Comments: Tabular, transparent,pseudohexagonal crystals of fluellite.

Location: Tom's quarry, Kapunda, SouthAustralia. Scale: Not Given.


Fluellite Image

Images: Fluellite Bariosincosite

Comments: Viv id green crystals ofbariosincosite well placed on a matrix

covered by colorless, tabular fluellite withsome 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 withpurple fluorite.

Location: Ludlaw, San Bernardino County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Fluorapatite Image


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Images: Fluorapatite Beryl MuscoviteApatite




Fluorapatite Image

Images: Fluorapatite Quartz

Comments: Purple crystal of fluorapatite onslightly smoky quartz crystals. Former Dr. E.E.

David 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 gatumbaitewith yellow brazilianite in massive blue

fluorapatite.Location: Buranga Pegmatite, near



Fluorapophyllite Image

Images: Fluorapophyllite StilbiteApophyllite



© Fabre Minerals

Fluorbritholite-(Ce) Image

Images: Fluorbritholite-(Ce)

Comments: Amorphous (metamict) grainof 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: Massive, coarsely crystalline,pale yellowish fluorcaphite.

Location: Koashva Mt, Khibiny Massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Fluorellestadite Image

Images: Fluorellestadite

Comments: Blue-green granularfluorellestadite in calcium rich rock matrix.

Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk District,Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Fluorite Image

Images: Fluorite

Comments: Cubic fluorite crystals withoctahedral galena crystals. The largest

crystal is 2.1 cm across. Note theexceptional 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 octahedralfluorite 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. Calvario, (Mt. Etna Volcano),Biancavilla, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy.


Fluoro-sodic-pedrizite Image

Images: Fluoro-sodic-pedriziteClinoholmquistiteMagnesioclinoholmquistite





Mineral Species

Fluorocannilloite Image

Images: Fluorocannilloite

Comments: Greenish, prismatic crystals offluorocannilloite 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:


Fluorvesuvianite Image

Images: Fluorvesuvianite

Comments: Acicular crystals of fluorvesuvianite ina clear, calcite matrix. (CanMin, v 41, p 1375).Location: Lupikko iron mine, Pitkaranta, Karelia,

Russia. Scale: Picture size 1.2 cm.© Canadian Mineralogist


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Foggite Image

Images: Foggite

Comments: Bright yellow, roundedcrystalline aggregates of foggite on matrix.Location: Palermo #1 mine, North Groton,

Crafton County, New Hampshire, USA.Scale: Not Given.


Foitite Image

Images: Foitite

Comments: Dark greenish-blacktermination of foitite on pinkish elbaite.

Location: Dobra Voda, Moravia,Zapadocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Foordite Image

Images: Foordite

Comments: Brownish massive foordite.Location: Manono, Shaba (Katanga),

Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 7 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Fornacite Image

Images: Fornacite

Comments: Dark, prismatic crystals offornacite on matrix.

Location: El Khun mine, Anarak, Iran. Scale:Not Given.


Fornacite Image

Images: Fornacite

Comments: Emerald green platy crystalsto 0.75mm on a pink to white, siliceous

matrix.Location: Lone Star mine, Copperopolis,Yavapai County, Arizona. Scale: Picture

size 1.4 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Forsterite Image


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Images: Forsterite Olivine

Comments: Peridot (Forsterite)recrystallized at the base.

Location: Skardu, Nooristan, Pakistan.Scale: 2.5 x 2.7 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Foshagite Image

Images: Foshagite

Comments: Tan to gray fibrous to columnaraggregate of foshagite.

Location: Crestmore Quarry, RiversideCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Foshallasite Image

Images: Foshallasite

Comments: Pearly translucent whitesomewhat fibrous aggregate of

foshallasite.Location: Mount Yukspor, Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Fourmarierite Image

Images: Fourmarierite

Comments: Thick tabular orange crystals offourmarierite.



Fraipontite Image

Images: Fraipontite Zaccagnaite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopeimage of hexagonal, tapering, prismaticzaccagnaite crystals, covered by a thin

crust of fraipontite. (AmMin 86:1294).Location: Marble quarries of the Carrara



Francevillite Image


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Images: Francevillite Chervetite

Comments: Bottle brown tabular crystalsof chervetite on yellow francevilleite.

Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.Scale: Size Not Given.


Francevillite Image

Images: Francevillite Curienite

Comments: Intense yellow curienite andorange francevillite.

Location: Mouonana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.Scale: Not Given.


Francevillite Image

Images: Francevillite

Comments: Specimen of orangefrancevillite 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 size1.5 cm.


Franciscanite-III Image

Images: Franciscanite-III

Comments: Dark reddish brown largefranciscanite grains to 1.5cm in tan-colored

gageite matrix.Location: Pennsylvania mine, Santa ClaraCo., California, USA. Scale: 5.5 x 4 x 3cm.


Francisite Image


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Images: Francisite

Comments: Greenish crusts of francisite onmatrix.

Location: Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu,Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:


Francisite Image

Images: Francisite

Comments: Fine acicular crystals of greenfrancisite to 0.1mm on matrix.

Location: Iron Monarch iron mine, IronKnob, South Australia, Australia. Scale:


Franckeite Image

Images: Franckeite

Comments: Massive franckeite with pocketsof small .5 mm crystals.

Location: Animas Mine, Atocha-Quechisladistrict, Sud Chichas Province, Potos?

Department, Boliv ia. Scale: 25x20x15 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Franckeite Image

Images: Franckeite Potosiite

Comments: Visually indistinguishable metallicpotosiite/franckeite crystals to 6 mm..

Location: San Jose mine, Oruro City, OruroDepartment, Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size 6

mm.© Rob Lavinsky

Francoanellite Image

Images: Francoanellite

Comments: Chalky massive francoanellite.Location: Giottodi Castellana Cave,

Puglia, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Frankhawthorneite Image


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Images: Frankhawthorneite

Comments: Very small green crystals offrankhawthorneite on a light green

unknown mineral.Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, Tintic

District, Juab Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picturesize 1 mm.


Franklinite Image

Images: Franklinite

Comments: Black, octahedral franklinitecrystals to 1.4 cm across on white calcite.

Location: Franklin, Sussex County, NewJersey, USA. Scale: 2.9 x 2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Franklinite Image

Images: Franklinite Esperite Hardystonite




Mineral Species

Fransoletite Image

Images: Fransoletite

Comments: Light blue crystals offransoletite.



Franzinite Image

Images: Franzinite

Comments: Opaque white platy crystals offranzinite on brown vesuvianite crystals.Location: Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany,


Mineral Species

Fredrikssonite Image


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Images: Fredrikssonite Hausmannite

Comments: Red-brown elongatedcrystalline fredrikssonite in calcite with

granular hausmannite.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.


Mineral Species

Freibergite Image

Images: Freibergite

Comments: Dark metallic freibergite in whitequartz.

Location: Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,Saxony, Germany. Scale: 35x20x10 mm.


Freieslebenite Image

Images: Freieslebenite

Comments: Dark gray prismatic crystal offreieslebenite on quartz.


Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.5mm.


Fresnoite Image

Images: Fresnoite

Comments: Yellow to peach coloredcrystals 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-zonedcrystal of freudenbergite. The bright

pyramids correspond to sector (001), andthe darker ones belong to sector (100).

Location: Peralkaline alkali syenite dikes atKatzenbuckel, southwestern Germany.


Friedelite Image


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Images: Friedelite

Comments: Rose red crystals of friedeliteon matrix.

Location: Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, SussexCounty, New Jersey, USA. Scale: Not


Friedrichite Image

Images: Friedrichite Krupkaite Benjaminite




Mineral Species

Frolovite Image

Images: Frolovite

Comments: Clear to white crystallinefrolovite in rock.

Location: Solongo, Republic of Buryatia,Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Frondelite Image

Images: Frondelite Kidwellite

Comments: Root beer colored crystals offrondelite and white kidwellite sticks on

matrix.Location: Sapucaia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.


Froodite Image

Images: Froodite

Comments: Froodite grain (see arrow) inmostly chalcopyrite matrix.



Mineral Species

Froodite Image


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Images: Froodite Maslovite Altaite




Mineral Species

Fukuchilite Image

Images: Fukuchilite

Comments: Dark brown fine-grainedfukuchilite in white gypsum.

Location: Hanawa Mine, Kazuno City,Akita, Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Fuloppite Image

Images: Fuloppite

Comments: Gray crystals of f?l?ppite onquartz.



Furongite Image

Images: Furongite

Comments: Pale yellow crystallinefurongite.

Location: Furong Lin, Ling Wu, WesternHunan Province, China. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species




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Gabrielsonite Image

Images: Gabrielsonite

Comments: Jet black, lustrous crystal grain,showing no faces, fractured to about0.75mm with white pectolite-hematite

matrix.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.

Scale: 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Gadolinite-(Ce) Image

Images: Gadolinite-(Ce)

Comments: Sharp, well crystallized singlecrystal of brown gadolinite.

Location: Buer, Bj?rkedalen, Porsgrunn,Telemark, Norway. Scale: 18x14x8 mm.


Gagarinite-(Y) Image

Images: Gagarinite-(Y)

Comments: Brownish to gray crystals ofgagarinite-(Y) in matrix.

Location: Gjerdingen, Jevnaker, Oppland,Norway. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Gageite Image

Images: Gageite

Comments: Preserved sprays of inesitecompletely replaced by tan-colored

gageite crystals.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: 5 x 4.6 cm.

© John Veevaert

Gahnite Image

Images: Gahnite

Comments: Deep blue octahedral crystalsof gahnite in quartz.




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Gahnite Image

Images: Gahnite

Comments: Optical micrograph of gahnite(blue) + Na-Ca-Li mica pseudomorph afterstaurolite in calcite matrix pigmented withbrownish Fe-(hydr)oxide. (AmMin, 88:794).Location: Diaspore-bearing metabauxite

from East Samos (Greece). Scale: SeeImage.


Gaidonnayite Image

Images: Gaidonnayite

Comments: Translucent tan sphericalgaidonnayite crystal aggregates.

Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, RouvilleCounty, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Gaitite Image

Images: Gaitite

Comments: Opaque white spherical gaititewith transparent crystalline calcite.

Location: Twin Creeks Mine, HumboldtCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Galaxite Image

Images: Galaxite Alleghanyite

Comments: Black granular galaxite withreddish alleghanyite and white kutnohorite.

Location: Bald Knob, Alleghany County,North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Galeite Image

Images: Galeite

Comments: White translucent sphericalcrystalline aggregates of galeite in clay.Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino


Mineral Species

Galena Image


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Images: Galena

Comments: Galena on pyrrhotite. Thecrystals of galena reach to 1.5 cm across.

All are cubic with octahedralmodifications.

Location: Dal'Negorsk, Russia. Scale: 8x10cm.

© John Veevaert

Galena Image

Images: Galena Plumbojarosite

Comments: Yellow, earthy plumbojarositeon massive, gray galena.

Location: Quarry No 3, K?nigshain,Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Galenobismutite Image

Images: Galenobismutite

Comments: Black metallic massivegalenobismutite in translucent quartz.Location: Vastervik, Smaland, Kalmar,

Sweden. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Galkhaite Image

Images: Galkhaite

Comments: Cherry red crystals of galkhaite onmatrix.

Location: Getchell mine, Humboldt County,Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.

© John Veevaert

Gallite Image

Images: Gallite

Comments: A mixture of massive highgrade ore with grains of gallite (gray)

occuring with germanite and renierite. Mostof what can be seen is the renierite, which

has reddish and purple iridescence.Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: Picture


Gamagarite Image


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Images: Gamagarite

Comments: Dark red-brown crystallinegamagarite in white calcite.

Location: Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia,Genova, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Ganomalite Image

Images: Ganomalite Jacobsite

Comments: White crystalline ganomalitewith dark granular jacobsite.

Location: Jacobsberg, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Ganophyllite Image

Images: Ganophyllite

Comments: Light brown micaceousganophyllite with milky quartz.

Location: Gambatesa Mine, Genova,Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Ganophyllite Image

Images: Ganophyllite

Comments: SEM image of a ganophyllitecrystal. (AmMin, 88:1325).

Location: Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia,Italy. Scale: Scale bar 100 µ-m.


Ganterite Image

Images: Ganterite

Comments: Black and white thin-sectionmicrograph of ganterite in white mica

schist (sample SS9787) (S.Gt: synkinematicganterite; P.Gt: postkinematic ganterite.

(CanMin 41:1284).Location: Metamorphosed basement rocksfrom the Berisal Complex, Simplon Region,

Switzerland. Scale: See Image.© Canadian Mineralogist

Garronite Image


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Images: Garronite Siderite

Comments: Translucent white microcrystals of garronite on brown siderite

crystals.Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec,


Mineral Species

Gartrellite Image

Images: Gartrellite

Comments: Lime green gartrellite on matrixassociated with mimetite. Former Mart?n

Oliete Fontela collection.Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.

Scale: 6x4x3 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Garyansellite Image

Images: Garyansellite

Comments: Brown crystalline garyansellitewith quartz.



Gaspeite Image

Images: Gaspeite

Comments: Green, crystalline massivegaspeite in matrix.

Location: Lemieux Township, GaspePeninsula, Gaspe Nord County, Quebec,


Mineral Species

Gatumbaite Image

Images: Gatumbaite Fluorapatite

Comments: White crystalline gatumbaitewith yellow brazilianite in massive blue

fluorapatite.Location: Buranga Pegmatite, near



Gaudefroyite Image


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Images: Gaudefroyite

Comments: Dark gray, prismaticgaudefroyite with crystals to 1.5 cm.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: 7.8 x 4.2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Gaylussite Image

Images: Gaylussite

Comments: Clear, nearly colorless crystalsof gaylussite.

Location: Trona, Searles Lake, SanBernardino County, California, USA. Scale:


Mineral Species

Gearksutite Image

Images: Gearksutite

Comments: White gearksutite crust onquartz.

Location: Saint Peter's Dome, El PasoCounty, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Gedrite Image

Images: Gedrite

Comments: Back prismatic crystallinegedrite in rock.

Location: Schissgruvan, near Ludvika,Dalarna, Kopparberg, Sweden. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Gehlenite Image

Images: Gehlenite

Comments: Crystalline massive gehlenite.Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside


Mineral Species

Gehlenite Image


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Images: Gehlenite

Comments: Contact area betweenvesuvianite (right) and gehlenite (left).

Note the lamellae of clintonite includedmainly in the gehlenite crystals (CanMin v.

41. p 1259).Location: Skarns along the contact of a

diorite intrusion at Oravit?a, Banat, inRomania. Scale: Image size 2.7 mm.


Geigerite Image

Images: Geigerite

Comments: Small, brownish grains oftransparent 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 ofgeikielite in matrix.

Location: Monte dei tre Abati, Coli,Piacenza Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


Geminite Image

Images: Geminite

Comments: Pale greenish crystals ofgeminite with a light blue, lavendulane-

related mineral.Location: Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein

area, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:Picture size 4 mm.


Genthelvite Image

Images: Genthelvite

Comments: Pyramidal crystals ofgenthelvite.



Geocronite Image


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Images: Geocronite

Comments: Many black geocronitecrystals intergrown in milky quartz(?) matrix.

Location: Sala Silver Mine, Sala,V?stmanland, Sweden. Scale: 17x17x12

mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Georgeericksenite Image

Images: Georgeericksenite

Comments: Scanning electron microscope(SEM) photomicrograph of part of a

georgeericksenite aggregate: note thecracking of the crystals due to H2O lossunder 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 georgeitewith dark green atacamite.



Georgiadesite Image

Images: Georgiadesite

Comments: Light blue, pseudo-cubiccrystal of georgiadesite.



Gerasimovskite Image

Images: Gerasimovskite Ussingite

Comments: Pale tan gerasimovskitepseudomorphous after epistolite crystal, in

purple ussingite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Gerhardtite Image


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Images: Gerhardtite

Comments: Emerald green crystalline crustof gerhardtite on copper.

Location: Greenland, Ontonagon County,Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Germanite Image

Images: Germanite

Comments: Red metallic germanite,tarnishing black.



Gersdorffite Image

Images: Gersdorffite

Comments: Massive to coarse-grainedlead-gray gersdorffite crystals.

Location: Ait Ahmane Mine, Bou Azzer, AntiAtlas Mts., Morocco. Scale: Not Given.

© John Veevaert

Gerstleyite Image

Images: Gerstleyite

Comments: Small prismatic crystals andmassive cinnabar-red gerstleyite on matrix.

Location: Baker mine, U.S. Borax Mine,Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co., California,

USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

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.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Gianellaite Image


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Images: Gianellaite

Comments: Yellow crystalline coatings ofgianellaite on calcite.

Location: Mariposa Mine, Terlingua,Brewster County, Texas, USA. Scale: See


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 doyleitegrowing along with its dimorph gibbsite.

Analysis shows that doyleite dominates themix. 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 acicularcrystal mats of giessenite with rounded

cosalite grains (as photographed on purewhite fibrous backing material).

Location: Otome Mine, near Kofu,Yamanashi, Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Gilalite Image

Images: Gilalite

Comments: Striated, prismatic palegreenish yellow crystal of gilalite.

Location: Christmas mine, Hayden, GilaCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Gilalite Image


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Images: Gilalite

Comments: Green spherical crystals ofgilalite to 0.3mm in grape-like bunches.

Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Gillespite Image

Images: Gillespite Anandite

Comments: Black micaceous ananditewith dark red gillespite.

Location: Esquire No. 7 Claim, Big Creek,Fresno County, California, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Gillespite Image

Images: Gillespite Pellyite

Comments: Red crystalline gillespite withyellow pellyite rock matrix.

Location: GUN claims, Itsi Mountains,MacMillan Pass Area, Yukon Territory,


Mineral Species

Gillespite Image

Images: Gillespite Bigcreekite Sanbornite





Gillulyite Image

Images: Gillulyite

Comments: Dark red crystalline gillulyite inwhite calcite.

Location: South Mercur Pit, Barrick GoldMine, Mercur, Tooele County, Utah, USA.


Mineral Species

Gilmarite Image


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Images: Gilmarite

Comments: Scanning electron image ofprismatic 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 ofginiite on matrix.

Location: Sandamab, Usakos, Namibia.Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.


Ginorite Image

Images: Ginorite Priceite

Comments: Clear platy crystalline coatingsof ginorite on rock with white priceite.Location: Corkscrew Canyon, Death

Valley, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Giorgiosite Image

Images: Giorgiosite

Comments: Opaque white nodulargiorgiosite.

Location: Alphroessa, Santorini (Thira)Island, Notion Aiyalon, Greece. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Girdite Image

Images: Girdite

Comments: White chalky crystallinespherical massive girdite in rock.

Location: Grand Central Mine, Tombstone,Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Girvasite Image


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Images: Girvasite

Comments: Translucent aggregate ofgirvasite.

Location: Kovdor Mine, Kola Peninsula,Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Gismondine Image

Images: Gismondine

Comments: Clear crystal of gismondine onmatrix.

Location: Alban Hills, near Rome, Latium,Italy. Scale: Not Given.


Gittinsite Image

Images: Gittinsite Eudialyte

Comments: White crystalline gittinsite withred eudialyte.

Location: Kipiwa Complex, VilledieuTownship, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Giuseppettite Image

Images: Giuseppettite

Comments: Pale bluish-violet giuseppettitecrystals.

Location: Sacrofano, Campagnano, Lazio,Italy. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Gjerdingenite-Fe Image

Images: Gjerdingenite-Fe

Comments: Brown crystals ofgjerdingenite-Fe on matrix.

Location: Gjerdingen, Vestbygda,Nordmarka, Jevnaker, Oppland, Norway.


Gjerdingenite-Fe Image


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Images: Gjerdingenite-Fe Ralstonite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph ofgjerdingenite-Fe. The mineral is dusted with tinycrystals of two phases. At high magnification,

one of them is seen to form cubes and isprobably ralstonite.

Location: Gjerdingselva, Lunner, Oppland, OsloRegion, Norway. Scale: Crystal length 0.5 mm.


Gladite Image

Images: Gladite

Comments: Bluish-gray prismatic crystal ofgladite 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.Location: Kovdor Mine, Kovdor massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.


Gladiusite Image

Images: Gladiusite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph showing themorphology of the free-standing crystals of

gladiusite. (CanMin v. 38, p 1480).Location: Kovdor alkaline-ultramafic complex,

Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image.© Canadian Mineralogist

Glauberite Image

Images: Glauberite

Comments: Translucent crystals ofglauberite.

Location: Superior, Pinal County, Arizona,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Glauberite Image


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Images: Glauberite Hydroglauberite

Comments: Putty-colored chalkyhydroglauberite on glauberite crystals.

Location: Camp Verde, Yavapai County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Glaucocerinite Image

Images: Glaucocerinite

Comments: Botryoidal crust of blueglaucocerinite.

Location: Mina Serpieri, Laurium, Attiki,Greece. Scale: See Photo.


Glaucochroite Image

Images: Glaucochroite Zincite Willemite

Comments: Pinkish gray crystallineglaucochroite intermixed with pale greenwillemite, with dark red zincite and white

calcite.Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New

Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Glaucodot Image

Images: Glaucodot

Comments: Metallic lustered crystal ofglaucodot on matrix.

Location: Hakansboda, Vastmanland,Sweden. Scale: Not Given.


Glauconite Image

Images: Glauconite

Comments: Green glauconite intermixedwith quartz.

Location: Ightham, Kent, England. Scale:See Photo.


Glaucophane Image


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Images: Glaucophane

Comments: Pale violet to gray fibrousmassive glaucophane.

Location: Lac Malartic, Quebec, Canada.Scale: See Photo.


Glaukosphaerite Image

Images: Glaukosphaerite

Comments: Green botryoidal crust ofglaukosphaerite.



Glucine Image

Images: Glucine Moraesite

Comments: Light brown glucine with whitemoraesite.

Location: Boevskoye Mine, SverdlovskDistrict, Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Glushinskite Image

Images: Glushinskite

Comments: White coatings of glushinskiteon dirty, tan gypsum.

Location: San Simon, Cochise County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Glushinskite Image

Images: Glushinskite

Comments: SEM photo of two largeeuhedral glushinskite crystals partially

embedded in the dried, rotten saguaromatrix. (AmMin, 88:1883).



Gmelinite-Na Image


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Images: Gmelinite-Na

Comments: White crystalline aggregate ofgmelinite.

Location: Antrim, Northern Ireland. Scale:Not Given.


Gobbinsite Image

Images: Gobbinsite

Comments: White opaque crystallinegobbinsite in vug.

Location: Island Magee, County, Antrim,Northern Ireland. Scale: See Photo.


Godovikovite Image

Images: Godovikovite

Comments: A porous aggregate ofmassive yellow godovikovite.

Location: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 4.2


Goedkenite Image

Images: Goedkenite

Comments: Clear, pointed goedkenitecrystals epitaxially overgrown on

palermoite.Location: Palermo #1 mine, North Groton,

Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA.Scale: Not Given.


Goethite Image

Images: Goethite

Comments: Stellate crystalline aggregatesof acicular goethite crystals.

Location: Pribram, Bohemia, CzechRepublic. Scale: Not Given.


Goethite Image


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Images: Goethite Laubmannite

Comments: Reddish brown goethitehosting 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% silver.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 goldspecimen.

Location: Red Ledge mine, Nevada Co., California.Scale: 3.5 x 6 cm in size.

© Dan Weinrich

Gold Image

Images: Gold IsomertieiteArsenopalladinite Bornite







Gold Image

Images: Gold Petzite

Comments: Dark, stubby petzite crystalswith native gold on quartz.

Location: Rosia Montana (Verespatak),Transylvania, Romania. Scale: Not Given.



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Gold Image

Images: Gold

Comments: Two skeletal octahedralcrystals of gold. Stereo pair images..

Location: Berezovsk Mine, Russia. Scale:Crystal size 1.1 cm.© John Veevaert

Goldfieldite Image

Images: Goldfieldite

Comments: Back granular goldfieldite inwhite quartz.

Location: Mohawk Mine, Goldfield,Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA. Scale:


Mineral Species

Goldichite Image

Images: Goldichite CoquimbiteFerricopiapite





Goldmanite Image

Images: Goldmanite

Comments: Dark gray granular goldmanitegrains in sandstone.

Location: Sandy Mine, Laguna, CibolaCounty, New Mexico, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Goldquarryite Image

Images: Goldquarryite

Comments: Single crystal of goldquarryite.Location: Gold Quarry mine, Eureka

County, Nevada, USA.. Scale: Crystallength 0.5 mm.



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Gonnardite Image

Images: Gonnardite

Comments: White spherical aggregates ofgonnardite on matrix.

Location: White spherical aggregates ofGonnardite on matrix. Scale: Not Given.


Gonnardite Image

Images: Gonnardite Tetranatrolite

Comments: White, pseudocubic crystals oftetranatrolite (gonnardite) on matrix.Location: Point of Rocks Mesa, ColfaxCounty, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Not


Gonyerite Image

Images: Gonyerite

Comments: Brown massive gonyerite inmanganese ore.

Location: Harstigen, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Goosecreekite Image

Images: Goosecreekite

Comments: Large cluster of many rosettesof white goosecreekite.

Location: Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.Scale: 15x14x7 cm.


Gorceixite Image

Images: Gorceixite

Comments: Translucent platy crystals ofgorceixite on tan siderite with white

aragonite coatings.Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.


Mineral Species

Gorceixite Image


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Gorceixite

Comments: Translucent, pseudohexagonalcrystal of groceixite in matrix.

Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.Scale: Crystal Size 3 mm.


Gordaite Image

Images: Gordaite

Comments: Colorless to white tabularcrystals of gordaite on matrix.

Location: Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt,Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Gordonite Image

Images: Gordonite Wardite

Comments: Prismatic gordonite crystals onmassive wardite.

Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, UtahCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Gorgeyite Image

Images: Gorgeyite

Comments: g?rgeyite crystal prism.Location: Lake Inder, Atyrau, Kazakhstan.


Mineral Species

Gormanite Image

Images: Gormanite

Comments: Elongated, dark bluish green, fibrouscrystals of gormanite and quartz on a matrix of

quartz and water clear apatite crystals.Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada.


Gormanite Image


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Images: Gormanite

Comments: Dark green, velvety mass ofgormanite crystals on matrix.

Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada.Scale: 3 x 4.5 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Goslarite Image

Images: Goslarite

Comments: Pale yellow to egg-shell whitefibrous goslarite with radiating structure.

Location: Rammelsberg, near Goslar, HarzMountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.


Mineral Species

Gottlobite Image

Images: Gottlobite

Comments: Orange-brownish tabularcrystals of gottlobite with black

hausmannite and colorless barite.Location: Gl?cksstern Mine, Gottlob Hill,

Friedrichroda, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia,Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Gotzenite Image

Images: Gotzenite

Comments: Yellow-brown, thin crystals ofg?tzenite in white feldspar matrix.

Location: Barkevik, Langesundsfjorden,Vestfold, Norway. Scale: 3.5x3x3 cm.


Goudeyite Image

Images: Goudeyite

Comments: Green crusts and microcrystals 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 radiatingcrystal clusters of gowerite.

Location: Furnace Creek, Death Valley,Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Goyazite Image

Images: Goyazite

Comments: Flat, tabular crystals ofgoyazite on dolomite.

Location: Langenbach quarry, Binntal,Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Graemite Image

Images: Graemite

Comments: Blue, massive graemite onquartz.



Graftonite Image

Images: Graftonite Heterosite

Comments: Whitish graftonite intergrownwith dark purple to brown heterosite.

Location: Grafton, Grafton County, NewHampshire, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Grandidierite Image

Images: Grandidierite

Comments: Translucent blue-greencrystalline grandidierite in pegmatite.

Location: Vohibola, Madagascar. Scale:See Photo.


Grantsite Image


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Images: Grantsite Tyuyamunite

Comments: Dark olive green waxycoatings of grantsite with greenish-yellow

tyuyamunite and sandstone.Location: F-33 Mine, near Grants, Valencia

County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Graphite Image

Images: Graphite

Comments: A crystal of graphite in gneiss.Location: Forchheim, Pockau, Erzgebirge,


Graphite Image

Images: Graphite

Comments: Black, sub-hexagonal crystalof graphite in calcite.

Location: Lead Hill Mine, (nearTiconderoga), Essex Co., New York, USA.

Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Gratonite Image

Images: Gratonite

Comments: Crystal cluster of gratonite. Thelargest 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, intimatelyintergrown with brown rodolicoite.Location: Castelnuovo Mine, SantaBarbara lignite district, San Giovanni

Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno), ArezzoProvince, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size


Graulichite-(Ce) Image


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Images: Graulichite-(Ce)

Comments: Scanning electron microscopeimage 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 massivegreenalite with metallic galena.

Location: La Union Mine, Murcia, Spain.Scale: See Photo.


Greenockite Image

Images: Greenockite

Comments: Brown, equant crystal ofgreenockite on prehnite.

Location: Summit, Union County, NewJersey, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Gregoryite Image

Images: Gregoryite Nyerereite

Comments: Sodium (nyereteite) andpotassium (gregoryite) carbonates, notstable in normal atmosphere, collected

molten from the volcano and maintainedin inert argon atmosphere.

Location: Ol Doinyo Lengai Vulkan, MaasaiSteppe, East Africa Rift Valley, Tanzania.

See Link. Scale: Rock size 2 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Greifensteinite Image

Images: Greifensteinite

Comments: Tabular crystal ofgreifensteinite impaled on acicular

tourmaline.Location: Greifenstein Rocks,

Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Griceite Image


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Images: Griceite Villiaumite

Comments: White aggregates of griceitewith pinkish v illiaumite.


Hilaire, Rouville Co., Qu?bec, Canada.Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.


Grimaldiite Image

Images: Grimaldiite

Comments: Grimaldiite, variety merumite,stream rounded crystalline grains.

Location: Merume River, Mazaruni-PotaroDistrict, Guyana. Scale: See Photo.


Grimselite Image

Images: Grimselite

Comments: Small yellow crystals ofgrimselite in matrix.

Location: Gerstenegg/Sommerloch tunnel,Grimsel Region, Hasli Valley, Bern,

Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Grimselite Image

Images: Grimselite

Comments: Bright yellow coatings andminor, 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 vitreouscrystalline massive griphite.

Location: Sitting Bull Mine, PenningtonCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Grossular Image


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Images: Grossular Diopside

Comments: Pale blue prismatic crystal ofdiopside with orange-brown grossular.Location: Val d'Aosta, Italy. Scale: Not


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 withwhite 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 inwhite marble.

Location: Talcville, Saint Lawrence County,New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Grumiplucite Image

Images: Grumiplucite

Comments: Gray crystals of grumipluciteon quartz.

Location: Levigliani, Apuan Alps, LuccaProvince, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size

1.2 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Grunerite Image


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Images: Grunerite

Comments: Olive green fibrous crystalaggregates of grunerite in rock matrix.Location: Michigamme, Iron County,

Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Guanacoite Image

Images: Guanacoite

Comments: Deep blue, bladed, glassycrystals 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 crystallineguanajuatite, altering to a blue crust, in

white calcite.Location: Falun, Kopparberg, Sweden.


Mineral Species

Gudmundite Image

Images: Gudmundite

Comments: Steel gray metallic crystallinegudmundite, tarnishing, massive in rock.Location: Pezinock, Zapadoslovensky,

Slovakia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Guerinite Image

Images: Guerinite

Comments: White blebs of guerinite onerythrite.

Location: Wechsel Schacht, Richelsdorf,Hesse, Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Guildite Image


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Images: Guildite Magnesiocopiapite

Comments: Brown granular guildite withgreenish yellow magnesiocopiapite.

Location: United Verde Mine, Jerome,Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Guilleminite Image

Images: Guilleminite

Comments: Radial, yellow aggregates ofacicular crystals of guilleminite on green

malachite.Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,

Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale:Not Given.


Gunningite Image

Images: Gunningite

Comments: White crust of gunningite onmassive sulfide ore.

Location: Brunswick 12 Open Pit, Bathurst,New Brunswick, Canada. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Gustavite Image

Images: Gustavite

Comments: Gray metallic gustavite inmatrix.

Location: South Mountain, Owyhee County,Idaho, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Gutsevichite Image

Images: Gutsevichite

Comments: White efflorescence ofgutsevichite on sandstone.

Location: Long Park, Uravan, MontroseCounty, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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 ofgypsum.

Location: Naica, Chihuahua, S.A., Mexico.Scale: Specimen size 5 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Gyrolite Image

Images: Gyrolite

Comments: Two round beige gyroliteaggregates each about 5cm diameter.

Location: Bombay, India. Scale: Specimensize 10cm.

© John Attard




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Hagendorfite Image

Images: Hagendorfite

Comments: Greenish-black massivehagendorfite.

Location: Hagendorf South Pegmatite(Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open

Cut), Waidhaus, Vohenstrau?, Oberpfalz,Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5


Haggertyite Image

Images: Haggertyite

Comments: Backscattered electronphotomicrograph showing a hexagonal

haggertyite crystal (white) in contact withrichterite (light gray) and serpentized

oliv ine (dark gray). (AmMin, v 83, p 1324).Location: Prairie Creek lamproite, Arkansas,

USA. Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Haggite Image

Images: Haggite

Comments: Black botryoidal to massivehaggite in beige calcite with yellowish

tyuyamunite.Location: Section 33 Mine, near Grants,

Valencia County, New Mexico, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Haidingerite Image

Images: Haidingerite Pharmacolite

Comments: Translucent colorless crystallinespherical aggregate of haidingerite with

white pharmacolite.Location: Jachymov, Zapadocesky, Czech


Mineral Species

Haineaultite Image


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Images: Haineaultite

Comments: Transparent, yellow crystals to5 mm of haineaultite on matrix.

Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec,Canada. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

© Rob Lavinsky

Hainite Image

Images: Hainite

Comments: Brownish-yellow crystal ofhainite in pegmatite matrix.

Location: Bortolan Quarry, Pocos deCaldos, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Haiweeite Image

Images: Haiweeite

Comments: Minute divergent acicularcrystals of white haiweeite on matrix.

Location: Coso Uranium Mine, Inyo County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Haiweeite Image

Images: Haiweeite Metahaiweeite

Comments: Pale yellow scalymetahaiweeite coating on quartz with

minute haiweeite acicular crystals.Location: Coso Uranium Mine, Inyo County,

California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Haiweeite Image

Images: Haiweeite

Comments: Yellow, spherical, aggregatesof acicular haiweeite with clear calcite

scalenohedrons.Location: Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil..

Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Haleniusite-(La) Image


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Images: Haleniusite-(La)

Comments: Secondary electronmicroscope (SEM) image showing tabular

brochantite crystals growing on afeatureless h?leniusite-(La) substrate.

(CanMin 42:1099).Location: Mine dumps of Bastn?s deposit,

Skinnskatteberg District, V?stmanlandCounty, 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 toh?leniusite-(La), which is white on the

image. Black areas are voids. (CanMin42:1099).

Location: Mine dumps of Bastn?s deposit,Skinnskatteberg District, V?stmanland

County, Sweden. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µ-m.© Canadian Mineralogist

Halite Image

Images: Halite

Comments: Hoppered pink halite crystalsfrom the evaporation ponds. The pink coloris due to the organism Halo bacterium that

lives 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 ofhallimondite.

Location: Ellweiler, near Richenbach,Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Halloysite Image


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Images: Halloysite Pseudomalachite

Comments: Deep green pseudomalachitecrystals 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 porcelaneousmassive halloysite.

Location: Monroe County, Indiana, USA.Scale: See Photo.


Halotrichite Image

Images: Halotrichite

Comments: White, fibrous halotrichite onrock.

Location: Willi Agatz Mine, Dresden, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 4.5 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Halotrichite Image

Images: Halotrichite Boothite

Comments: Pale blue earthy boothite withwhite halotrichite.

Location: Copiapo, Atacama, Chile. Scale:See Photo.


Halotrichite Image

Images: Halotrichite Szomolnokite

Comments: Tan powdery szomolnokitecrust on silky fibrous halotrichite with yellow

metavoltine.Location: Markey Mine, Red Canyon, San

Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Halurgite Image


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Images: Halurgite

Comments: Nearly opaque granular halurgite.Location: Chelkar Salt Dome, Zapadno-

Kazahstan, Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Hambergite Image

Images: Hambergite

Comments: Clear colorless prismaticcrystal of hambergite.

Location: Imalo, near Mania, Madagascar.Scale: See Photo.


Hammarite Image

Images: Hammarite

Comments: Metallic, white to grayhammarite with native bismuth in fluorite

and quartz.Location: Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg,



Hancockite Image

Images: Hancockite Clinohedrite

Comments: Clear crystals of clinohedriteon hancockite.



Hancockite Image

Images: Hancockite

Comments: Reddish brown prisms ofhancockite on matrix.



Hancockite Image

Images: Hancockite Nasonite

Comments: Colorless, transparenthexagonal prism of Nasonite on reddish

brown hancockite.Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New


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Jersey, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Hanksite Image

Images: Hanksite

Comments: Translucent, hexagonal crystalof hanksite.

Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co.,California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Hannayite Image

Images: Hannayite Newberyite

Comments: Translucent white prismaticcrystals of hannayite on brown newberyite.Location: Skipton Caves, Victoria, Australia.


Mineral Species

Hannebachite Image

Images: Hannebachite

Comments: Small .5 mm crystals ofcolorless hannebachite on matrix.

Location: Hannebach, Niederzissen, EifelMts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:


Hapkeite Image

Images: Hapkeite

Comments: Reflected-light image of anarea 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 lunarfragmental 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 prismfragments of haradaite.

Location: Gambatesa Mine, Val Graveglia,Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Hardystonite Image

Images: Hardystonite Esperite Franklinite




Mineral Species

Harmotome Image

Images: Harmotome

Comments: Root beer colored calcitecovered 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 crystallineharrisonite grains in matrix.

Location: Arcedeckne Island, District ofFranklin, Northwest Territories, Canada.


Mineral Species

Hartite Image

Images: Hartite

Comments: White, translucent waxycrystalline hartite in wood.

Location: Santa Barbara Mine, SanGiovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:


Mineral Species

Hastingsite Image


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Images: Hastingsite

Comments: Greenish-white fibrous mass ofhastingsite.

Location: Calamite Mine, Elba, Italy. Scale:See Photo.


Hatchite Image

Images: Hatchite

Comments: Platy microcrystal aggregateof hatchite.

Location: Lengenbach Quarry, Binnental,Valais, Switzerland. Scale: See Photo.


Hatchite Image

Images: Hatchite

Comments: Specular, black aggregate ofhatchite crystals with red realgar on white

dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Big crystal 1.5mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Hauckite Image

Images: Hauckite

Comments: Orange-yellow crystallinehauckite with pink calcite and black

franklinite.Location: Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex

County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Hauerite Image

Images: Hauerite Rambergite

Comments: Small black octahedralcrystals of hauerite with small brown

crystals of rambergite.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera

district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picturesize 0.8 mm.


Hausmannite Image


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Images: Hausmannite Ephesite

Comments: Flesh-colored ephesite associatedwith dark brownish black hausmannite.

Location: Gloucester mine. Postmasburg, Capeprovince. S. Africa. Scale: 5.5 x 5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Hausmannite Image

Images: Hausmannite

Comments: Black hausmannite crystalswith minor brucite.

Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari, SouthAfrica. Scale: 6.5 x 6 cm.

© John Veevaert

Hausmannite Image

Images: Hausmannite Kombatite

Comments: Yellow kombatite crystals inblack hausmannite.

Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi, Namibia.Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Hausmannite Image

Images: Hausmannite Fredrikssonite

Comments: Red-brown elongatedcrystalline fredrikssonite in calcite with

granular hausmannite.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.


Mineral Species

Hausmannite Image

Images: Hausmannite Filipstadite

Comments: Dark minute grains offilipstadtite in hausmannite (slabbed

specimen).Location: Jacobsberg Mine, near

Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Hauyne Image


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Images: Hauyne

Comments: Grains of deep blue hauynecrystals in matrix.

Location: Niedermendig, Eifel, Germany.Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

© John Veevaert

Hawleyite Image

Images: Hawleyite

Comments: Shale coated with brilliantyellow 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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Haynesite Image

Images: Haynesite

Comments: Bright yellow sunburst clustersof haynesite on a fracture surface..

Location: Repete Mine, San Juan Co., Utah,USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.


Heazlewoodite Image

Images: Heazlewoodite

Comments: Small crystal aggregate ofheazlewoodite.

Location: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Hechtsbergite Image


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Images: Hechtsbergite

Comments: Light brownish crystals ofhechtsbergite in matrix.

Location: Hechtsberg Quarry, Hausach,Kinzig Valley, Black Forest, Baden-



Hectorfloresite Image

Images: Hectorfloresite

Comments: Prismatic twinned crystal ofhectorfloresite.

Location: Pampa Rica, Antofagasta, Chile.Scale: Picture size 2 mm.


Hectorite Image

Images: Hectorite

Comments: Pure white paper-like mattedmasses of hectorite.

Location: near Hector, San BernardinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Hedenbergite Image

Images: Hedenbergite

Comments: Thick, bluish gray blocky prismsof hedenbergite on matrix.

Location: Harstig mine, Pajsberg, Varmland,Sweden. Scale: Not Given.


Hedenbergite Image

Images: Hedenbergite Ilvaite

Comments: Doubly terminated, blackilvaite on crystals of greenish grayhedenbergite 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 yellowishorange hedyphane.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: 4.4 x 2.2 cm.© 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-yellowcrystalline heinrichite crusts on clay.

Location: Lakeview, Lake County, Oregon,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Hejtmanite Image

Images: Hejtmanite

Comments: Bronze sub-metallic micaceouscrystalline hejtmanite with dark green

aegirine on white feldspar.Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.


Mineral Species

Hellyerite Image

Images: Hellyerite

Comments: Green botryoidal hellyerite onmatrix.

Location: Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood,Tasmania, Australia. Scale: Picture size 5


Helvite Image


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Images: Helvite Rhodochrosite

Comments: Yellow crystals of helvite onquartz 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, ConselheiroPena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal

size 0.7 x 0.7 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Hematite Image

Images: Hematite

Comments: Black, platy hematite andminor white magnesite.

Location: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: 9 x4.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Hematite Image

Images: Hematite Defernite

Comments: Specular hematite rich withcrystalline grains of reddish brown

defernite.Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat,

Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region,Namibia. Scale: 3.9 x 2.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Hematite Image

Images: Hematite Rutile

Comments: Acicular, golden yellowcrystals of rutile epitaxially overgrown on

black crystals of hematite. Theovergrowths are perpendicular to the

trigonal crystallography of the hematite.Location: Novo Horizonte, Bahia Brazil.

Scale: 4 x 3.5 x 3 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Hematolite Image


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Images: Hematolite

Comments: Reddish-orange granularhematolite in white quartz.



Hematophanite Image

Images: Hematophanite

Comments: Deep red earthyhematophanite in manganese ore matrix.


Mineral Species

Hemihedrite Image

Images: Hemihedrite

Comments: Reddish brown crystals ofhemihedrite on matrix.

Location: Florence Pb-Ag mine,Whckenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona,

USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Hemihedrite Image

Images: Hemihedrite Phoenicochroite

Comments: Yellow hemihedrite crystals to1 mm within pockets of dark red

phoenicochroite crystalline aggregates onmatrix.

Location: Pack Rat claim, Maricopa Co.,Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.


Hemimorphite Image

Images: Hemimorphite

Comments: Lustrous, mostly colorless toslightly 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 darkred hendricksite.



Hendricksite Image

Images: Hendricksite

Comments: Reddish black hendricksitecrystal in cream-colored willemite.

Location: 'Mill Site', Franklin, Sussex County,New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Heneuite Image

Images: Heneuite Raadeite

Comments: Translucent aqua coloredgreasy heneuite grain, surrounded bybeige rim of raadeite, with dark blue

phosphoellenbergerite inclusion (near topof heneuite), in quartz apatite rock.

Location: Tingelstadt Iron Mine, Modum,Buskerud, Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Henmilite Image

Images: Henmilite

Comments: Blue crystals of henmilite inmatrix.

Location: Fuka Mine, Bitchu-Cho, OkayamaPrefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island,

Japan. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.© John Veevaert

Henmilite Image

Images: Henmilite Olshanskyite

Comments: Milky white olshanskyite hostingcrystals of deep blue henmilite to 6 mm

across.Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town,

Kawakama Co., Okayama Pref., Japan.Scale: Crystal size 6 mm.

© John Veevaert


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Hennomartinite Image

Images: Hennomartinite

Comments: Reddish brown hennomartiniteincluded in purple sugilite.


South Africa. Scale: 0.5 mm.© John Veevaert

Henrymeyerite Image

Images: Henrymeyerite Aegirine

Comments: A nearly black crystal ofhenrymeyerite with dark green prismatic

crystals of aegirine in quartz.Location: Green River formation, UintahCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 3


Henrymeyerite Image

Images: Henrymeyerite

Comments: Slender prismatic crystals ofhenrymeyerite intergrown with stubbyhexagonal prisms of fluorapatite and

dolomite rhombohedra. (CanMin v 38. p620).

Location: Kovdor alkaline ultramaficcomplex, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:

Image size 0.2 mm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Hentschelite Image

Images: Hentschelite

Comments: Dark green botryoidalhentschelite in transparent quartz.Location: Spring Creek Mine, near

Wilmington, South Australia, Australia.Scale: See Photo.


Herbertsmithite Image

Images: Herbertsmithite

Comments: Black and white image of darkgreen herbertsmithite crystals on pale buffmatrix. (Mineralogical Magazine, 68:5310.Location: Mina Los Tres Presidentes, Sierra

Gorda, Chile.. Scale: See Image.© Mineralogical Magazine


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Hercynite Image

Images: Hercynite

Comments: Brownish black granularhercynite.

Location: Nacetin, Severocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Herderite Image

Images: Herderite

Comments: Partially transparent herderitecrystal with minor white albite.

Location: Alto do Corrego Frio, Linopolis, MinasGerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.1x2.7x2.9 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Herschelite Image

Images: Herschelite Chabazite-Na

Comments: Rounded transparent crystalsof chabazite-Na (herschelite).

Location: Horseshoe Dam, MaricopaCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Hessite Image

Images: Hessite

Comments: Metallic crystal of hessite onmatrix.

Location: Botes, Zlatna, Transylvania,Romania. Scale: Not Given.


Hessite Image

Images: Hessite Choloalite

Comments: Sparse green crusts ofcholoalite with metallic hessite.

Location: McAlpine Mine, TuolumneCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Hessite Image


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Images: Hessite

Comments: Complex latticework of hessitewith 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 onhodgkinsonite.



Heterogenite-2H Image

Images: Heterogenite-2H

Comments: Shiny black botryoidalheterogenite-2H.

Location: Star of the Congo mine,Katanga, Congo. Scale: 6 cm.

© John Attard

Heteromorphite Image

Images: Heteromorphite

Comments: Steel gray metallic acicularcrystal mat of heteromorphite on clear

calcite crystals.Location: Wolfsberg, Harz Mountains,Niedersachsen, Germany. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Heterosite Image

Images: Heterosite Alluaudite

Comments: Purple crystalline heterositewith yellow coatings of alluaudite.



Mineral Species

Heterosite Image


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Images: Heterosite Graftonite

Comments: Whitish graftonite intergrownwith dark purple to brown heterosite.

Location: Grafton, Grafton County, NewHampshire, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Heulandite Image

Images: Heulandite Mordenite

Comments: White, acicular crystals ofmordenite in heulandite geode.

Location: Rock Creek, Stevenson,Skamania County, Washington, USA. Scale:


Heulandite-Ca Image

Images: Heulandite-Ca

Comments: Crystals of heulandite with agreen color due to chlorite inclusions.

Location: Malagaon, India. Scale: 5 x 4.5 x3 cm.


Heulandite-Ca Image

Images: Heulandite-Ca Mordenite

Comments: Pink heulandite crystals up to15 mm in fibrous white mordenite matrix.Location: Rats Nest Claim, Challis, Custer

Co., Idaho, USA. Scale: 6x6x4 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Heulandite-Sr Image

Images: Heulandite-Sr

Comments: Colorless prismatic-pinacoidalcrystal of heulandite-Sr.

Location: Campegli mine, Sestri Levante,Genova province, Liguria, Italy. Scale:


Hewettite Image


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Images: Hewettite Fervanite

Comments: Spherical aggregate ofacicular microcrystals of fervanite with

blocky hewettite.Location: Gold Quarry Mine, Carlin Trend,Eureka County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Hewettite Image

Images: Hewettite

Comments: Red sub-metallic fibrous matsof hewettite on matrix.

Location: Cactus Rat Mine, Thompson'sDistrict, Grand Count, Utah, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Hexahydrite Image

Images: Hexahydrite

Comments: White fibrous mats andpowdery encrustation of hexahydrite on

matrix.Location: near Basque, Bonaparte River,

British Columbia, Canada. Scale: SeePhoto.


Hexahydroborite Image

Images: Hexahydroborite

Comments: White to translucenthexahydroborite.

Location: Solongo B deposit, Vitim Plateau,Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic, Transbaikalia

(Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region,Russia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Heyite Image

Images: Heyite

Comments: Mustard yellow coloredmicrocrystalline aggregates of heyite on

quartz.Location: Betty Joe Claim, near Ely, White

Pine County, Nevada, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.



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Heyrovskyite Image

Images: Heyrovskyite

Comments: Metallic, gray heyrovskyite inquartz.

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 ofhiarneite about 0.25mm in matrix with

magnetoplumbite.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.

Scale: Picture size 2 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Hibbingite Image

Images: Hibbingite

Comments: Orange crystalline hibbingitegrains in rock matrix.

Location: 900' level drill core, DuluthComplex, near Hibbing, Saint Louis County,

Minnesota, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Hibonite Image

Images: Hibonite

Comments: Crystalline spire-like specimenof hibonite.

Location: Ambindandrakemba,Madagascar. Scale: 2.1 x 1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Hibschite Image

Images: Hibschite

Comments: Deep red translucentdodecahedral crystals of hibschite.

Location: Monte Faiello, Liguria, Italy. Scale:See Photo.


Hidalgoite Image


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Images: Hidalgoite

Comments: White to light gray crystallinedruze of hidalgoite.

Location: Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Hieratite Image

Images: Hieratite

Comments: Opaque white crystallinestalactic aggregate of hieratite.



Mineral Species

Hilgardite Image

Images: Hilgardite Boracite

Comments: Sub-mm reddish orangecrystals 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 fibroushillebrandite on marble.


Mineral Species

Hillite Image

Images: Hillite Scholzite

Comments: Morphology of ahomogeneous larger cluster of hillite

growing on an acicular crystal of scholzite.SEM back-scattered electron image.

Location: Lower Cambrian ParachilnaFormation, Reaphook Hill, South Australia,

Australia. Scale: See Image.© Canadian Mineralogist

Hinsdalite Image


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Images: Hinsdalite

Comments: Transparent crystal ofhinsdalite on quartz.

Location: Butte, Silver Bow County,Montana, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Hinsdalite Image

Images: Hinsdalite Corkite

Comments: Small brown roundedtranslucent crystals of corkite on darker

brown botryoidal hinsdalite.Location: Grube Schone Aussicht, nearDernbach, Montabaur, Rheinland-Pflaz,


Mineral Species

Hiortdahlite Image

Images: Hiortdahlite

Comments: Yellow translucent crystals ofhiortdahlite in syenite matrix.

Location: Norra Karr, Granna, Jonkoping,Sweden. Scale: See Photo.


Hisingerite Image

Images: Hisingerite

Comments: Resinous reddish browncoatings of hisingerite on rock.

Location: Agnew Nickel Deposit, nearLeinster, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:


Mineral Species

Hochelagaite Image

Images: Hochelagaite

Comments: White aggregate of smallfibrous crystals of hochelagaite in matrix.




Hodgkinsonite Image


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Images: Hodgkinsonite Hetaerolite

Comments: Dark crystal of hetaerolite onhodgkinsonite.



Hodgkinsonite Image

Images: Hodgkinsonite

Comments: Pink, transparent crystal ofhodgkinsonite with franklinite.



Hodrushite Image

Images: Hodrushite Cupromakovickyite

Comments: Kup?c?kite (ku) and hodrushite(ho) partly replaced by bismuthinite

derivative (bd56) with relict lamellae oflow-Cu (4P) and cupromakovickyite

[4P(Cu,Pb)]. (CanMin, 41:1165).Location: Scheelite deposit of Felbertal,

Austria. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Hoelite Image

Images: Hoelite

Comments: Yellow acicular crystals ofhoelite with blocky yellow crystals of sulfur.



Hogtuvaite Image

Images: Hogtuvaite

Comments: Dark platy crystals ofhogtuvaite in matrix.

Location: Hogtuva, Mo i Rana, Nordland,Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Hohmannite Image


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Images: Hohmannite Metahohmannite

Comments: Orange opaque prismaticmicrocrystals of hohmannite mixed with

yellow metahohmanite.Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,

Chile. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Holdenite Image

Images: Holdenite

Comments: Pink translucent holdenite veinwith red willemite and black franlinite.

Location: Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, SussexCounty, New Jersey, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Holfertite Image

Images: Holfertite

Comments: Yellow prismatic micro crystalof holfertite on clear topaz.

Location: Starvation Canyon, Topaz Valley,Juab Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5


Hollandite Image

Images: Hollandite

Comments: Gray, feathery aggregates ofhollandite.

Location: Sieben Br?der Mine, Langenberg,Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Hollingworthite Image

Images: Hollingworthite Laurite

Comments: Gray grain of hollingworthite (inthe center of the picture) with very slightly

darker gray laurite (at the right margin).Polished section (from microprobe

analysis).Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-

ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Saha(Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian

Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag


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Hollingworthite Image

Images: Hollingworthite Laurite

Comments: Gray laurite with two smallergrains of hollingworthite (left and right from

the laurite, very slightly lighter gray).Polished section (from microprobe analysis)

in reflected light.Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-



Holmquistite Image

Images: Holmquistite

Comments: Greenish-black prismaticcrystals of holmquistite in matrix.

Location: Uto, Sodermanland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Holtedahlite Image

Images: Holtedahlite

Comments: Colorless glassy crystallinegranular holtedahlite (appears gray in

image) with yellow serpentinite rock andwhite apatite.

Location: Tingelstadtjern, Modum, Buskerud,Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Holtite Image

Images: Holtite

Comments: Pale violet crystalline granularholtite in pegmatite.

Location: Vasin-Myl'k Mountain, Voron'iTundry, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,


Mineral Species

Homilite Image

Images: Homilite

Comments: Brown crystalline masses ofhomilite in white feldspar.

Location: Aroy, Langesundfjord, Telemark,Norway. Scale: See Photo.

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Mineral Species

Honessite Image

Images: Honessite

Comments: Medium green honessitepseudomorphous after acicular millerite

crystals, in white calcite.Location: Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri,


Mineral Species

Hongshiite Image

Images: Hongshiite PalladodymiteRuthenium

Comments: Palladodymite (light gray, intwo small grains), hongshiite (pale creamy

grayish, tarnished brownish) in massiveruthenium. Polished section (from

microprobe analysis) in reflected light.Location: Miass River, Zlatoust, Ilmen Mts,Chelyabinsk Oblast', Urals Region, Russia.


Hopeite Image

Images: Hopeite

Comments: Brownish pink, transparentcrystalline aggregate of hopeite crystals.

Location: Broken Hill mine, Kabwe, Central,Zambia. Scale: Not Given.


Hornblende Image

Images: Hornblende Ferrohornblende

Comments: Dark gray prismatic crystal offerrohornblende in a white feldspar matrix.



Hornblende Image

Images: Hornblende Magnesiohornblende

Comments: Dark greenish-black massivemagnesiohornblende.



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Hornesite Image

Images: Hornesite

Comments: Aggregate of white pearlyplaty crystals of hornesite on matrix.

Location: Bauhaus, Richelsdorf, Hessen,Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Horvathite-(Y) Image

Images: Horvathite-(Y)

Comments: Blocky crystals ofhorvathite-(Y) in matrix.




Howieite Image

Images: Howieite

Comments: Black vitreous radiatingcrystalline howieite.

Location: Longvale Quarry, MendocinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Howlite Image

Images: Howlite

Comments: Silky nodule of howlite.Location: Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.


Mineral Species

Hsianghualite Image

Images: Hsianghualite

Comments: White crystalline areas ofhsianghualite in dark green chloritic

schist(?).Location: Xianghualing Mine, Hunan,

Central South Region, China. Scale: NotGiven.


Hubeite Image


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Images: Hubeite Inesite

Comments: Brown hubeite aggregatesaccompanied by prismatic pinkish inesite

crystals.Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei

China. Scale: 5.3 x 3.7 x 1.1 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Hubeite Image

Images: Hubeite Inesite

Comments: Translucent, deep root beerbrown, platy hueite crystals in fan-like

groups to 1mm with delicate pink laths ofinesite.

Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co.,Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province,

China. Scale: Picture Size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Hubnerite Image

Images: Hubnerite

Comments: Sharp, dark tabular crystals ofh?bnerite with pyrite.

Location: Cavnic, Romania. Scale: Crystalsize 2 cm.

© John Attard

Huemulite Image

Images: Huemulite

Comments: Brownish orange aggregate ofhuemulite crystals.

Location: Walker mine, Thompson, GrandCounty, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Hulsite Image

Images: Hulsite

Comments: Black crystalline granularmassive hulsite.

Location: Brooks Range, Seward Peninsula,Alaska, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Humberstonite Image


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Images: Humberstonite

Comments: White powdery aggregate ofhumberstonite.

Location: Oficina Alemanin, Antofagasta,Chile. Scale: See Photo.


Humboldtine Image

Images: Humboldtine

Comments: Yellow crystals ofhumboldtine.

Location: Lomnice, Sokolov, Z?padocesk?Kraj, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale:


Humite Image

Images: Humite

Comments: Striated, brown, tabularcrystals of humite.



Hummerite Image

Images: Hummerite

Comments: Orange-yellow hummerite onfossil wood.

Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Geradistrict, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:


Hunchunite Image

Images: Hunchunite

Comments: Bluish-gray hunchunite in apolished 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 massivehuntite.

Location: Near Austin, Lander County,Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Hureaulite Image

Images: Hureaulite

Comments: Pink crystals of hureaulite onmatrix.



Hureaulite Image

Images: Hureaulite Tavorite

Comments: Lime green tavorite microcrystals with pink, gemmy hureaulite.

Location: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., SouthDakota, United States. Scale: Picture size

1.0 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Hurlbutite Image

Images: Hurlbutite Roscherite

Comments: White, round crystal clusters ofhurlbutite on reddish brown roscherite.Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer

County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: NotGiven.


Hutchinsonite Image

Images: Hutchinsonite

Comments: Dark, striated, prismatic crystalof hutchinsonite on matrix.

Location: Quiruvica, La Libertad Dept.,Peru. Scale: Not Given.


Hutchinsonite Image


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Comments: Aggregate of red coloredneedles of hutchinsonite on white


Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture width 6mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Hutchinsonite Image


Comments: Transparent, striated,cherry-red crystal of hutchinsonite on white



© Walter Gabriel

Hyalophane Image

Images: Hyalophane

Comments: Twinned crystal of hyalophaneslightly yellow from iron stains.

Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia.Scale: 4 x 3 cm.


Hydrobiotite Image

Images: Hydrobiotite

Comments: Silvery brown micaceoushydrobiotite.

Location: Oaxaca, Mexico. Scale: SeePhoto.


Hydroboracite Image

Images: Hydroboracite

Comments: White, acicular crystal clustersof hydroboracite.

Location: U. S. Borax Open Pit, Boron, KernCounty, California, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Hydrocalumite Image


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Images: Hydrocalumite

Comments: Bright white platy crystalaggregate of hydrocalumite.

Location: Boissejour, Puy-de-Dome, France.Scale: See Photo.


Hydrocerussite Image

Images: Hydrocerussite Cerussite

Comments: Platy crystals of milky whitehydrocerussite covering cerussite.

Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: 6 x 5 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Hydrochlorborite Image

Images: Hydrochlorborite

Comments: White botryoidal crust ofhydrochlorborite on massive white

anhydrite.Location: Takuko, Tibet. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Hydrodelhayelite Image

Images: Hydrodelhayelite

Comments: Tan platy crystallinehydrodelhayelite in white syenite matrix.Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Hydrodresserite Image

Images: Hydrodresserite Weloganite

Comments: White spherical aggregates ofhydrodresserite with radiating structure with

columnar weloganite.Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal,Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Hydroglauberite Image


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Images: Hydroglauberite Glauberite

Comments: Putty-colored chalkyhydroglauberite on glauberite crystals.

Location: Camp Verde, Yavapai County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Hydrohetaerolite Image

Images: Hydrohetaerolite

Comments: Dull brown patches ofhydrohetaerolite in franklinite.



Hydrohonessite Image

Images: Hydrohonessite

Comments: Yellow to brown crusts ofhydrohonessite on matrix.

Location: Otter Shoot, Kambalda, WesternAustralia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Hydromagnesite Image

Images: Hydromagnesite

Comments: White, blocky crystals ofhydromagnesite.

Location: Lobming, Styria, Austria. Scale:Picture size 5 mm.


Hydromagnesite Image

Images: Hydromagnesite Pokrovskite

Comments: Tan spherical pokrovskite onserpentinite 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, HimmelfahrtMine, Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,

Saxony, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 3.3cm.


Hydroscarbroite Image

Images: Hydroscarbroite Scarbroite

Comments: White to tan nodularhydroscarbroite intermixed with scarbroite

in sandstone.Location: Weston Favell, Northamptonshire,

England. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Hydrotalcite Image

Images: Hydrotalcite

Comments: Pearly white foliated masses ofhydrotalcite on serpentinite rock.

Location: Snarum, Vikersund, Buskerud,Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Hydrotungstite Image

Images: Hydrotungstite

Comments: Bright yellow crystalline crustsof hydrotungstite on matrix.

Location: Colquiri Mine, Colquiri, La Paz,Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.


Hydrowoodwardite Image

Images: Hydrowoodwardite

Comments: Massive blue to greenish-bluehydrowoodwardite.

Location: St Christoph Mine, B?renhecke,Glash?tte, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.

Scale: Specimen size 3.4 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Hydroxyapophyllite Image


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Images: Hydroxyapophyllite ApophylliteStilbite




Hydroxyapophyllite Image

Images: Hydroxyapophyllite Apophyllite

Comments: Crystal cluster of tabularhydroxyapophyllite.



Hydroxycancrinite Image

Images: Hydroxycancrinite

Comments: Pale grayish-blue, massivehydroxycancrinite.

Location: Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Hydroxylapatite Image

Images: Hydroxylapatite

Comments: Opaque white blocky crystalof hydroxylapatite.

Location: Snarum, Buskerud, Norway.Scale: See Photo.


Hydroxylellestadite Image

Images: Hydroxylellestadite Yeelimite

Comments: Ye'elimite andhydroxylellestadite intimately intergrown as

a brownish aggregate in massiveanhydrite.



Hydroxylellestadite Image


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Images: Hydroxylellestadite

Comments: Pale violet crystalline massivehydroxylellestadite.


Mineral Species

Hydroxylherderite Image

Images: Hydroxylherderite

Comments: Transparent crystals ofhydroxylherderite.

Location: Lord Hill quarry, Stonehame,Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: Not


Hydrozincite Image

Images: Hydrozincite

Comments: Well crystallized, colorlesshydrozincite crystals encrusting a limonitic

gossan matrix. Fluoresces bright blue-whiteunder UV illumination.

Location: Ojuela mine, Mapim?, Mun. deMapim?, Durango, Mexico. Scale: 3x3x2

cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Hypersthene Image

Images: Hypersthene Almandine

Comments: Dark green blocky crystalshypersthene with reddish almandine.

Location: Barton Garnet Mine, North Creek,Warren County, Adirondacks, New York,


Mineral Species




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Ianthinite Image

Images: Ianthinite Schoepite

Comments: Purple to brown resinousianthinite with yellow schoepite and

orange becquerelite.Location: Colorado Plateau area,

Saguache County, Colorado, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Ice Image

Images: Ice

Comments: White to clear crystals of iceformed 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 (stellardendrite ice crystal) formed from vapor-rich

air between -10 to -22 deg C. LowTemperature 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. Compositecolumn and plate crystal covered with

tubercle deposits from contact with liquidwater (supercooled fog). Low Temperature

Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM)image.

Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 1mm.

© Eric Erbe / Beltsv ille Agricultural ResearchCenter

Ice Image


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Images: Ice

Comments: Hexagonal ice plate formedfrom vapor deposition in air at 0 to -3 or -10to -35 deg. C. Low Temperature Scanning

Electron Microscope (LT-SEM) image with insetlight microscope image.

Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 0.6mm.

© Eric Erbe / Beltsville Agricultural ResearchCenter

Ice Image

Images: Ice

Comments: Acicular ice crystals formed fromvapor deposition in air at -3 to -10 deg. C.

Low Temperature Scanning ElectronMicroscope (LT-SEM) image with inset light

microscope image.Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.© Eric Erbe / Beltsville Agricultural Research

Center

Idaite Image

Images: Idaite

Comments: Deep blue metallic idaite inmilky quartz.

Location: Winston, Sierra County, NewMexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Idrialite Image

Images: Idrialite

Comments: Yellow platy crystalline idrialiteon matrix.

Location: Skaggs Springs, Sonoma County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Iimoriite-(Y) Image

Images: Iimoriite-(Y)

Comments: Nearly colorless prismaticcrystal 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 ofbrownish yellow ikranite aggregate in a

green matrix.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,

Russia. Scale: 1 3/4" x 1".© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Ilesite Image

Images: Ilesite

Comments: Botryoidal to earthy, cream-colored ilesite.

Location: Chvaletice, Kutn? Hora,Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, CzechRepublic. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Ilinskite Image

Images: Ilinskite

Comments: Dark green crystals of ilinskiteon matrix.



Illite Image

Images: Illite

Comments: Wispy, authigenic illite crystalslining a pore space in sandstone. SEM

image from a core sample.Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 33


Ilmajokite Image

Images: Ilmajokite

Comments: Opaque dull yellow ilmajokitein syenite matrix.

Location: valley of Ilmajok River, LovozeroMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,


Mineral Species

Ilmenite Image


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Images: Ilmenite

Comments: Sharp, opaque crystal of Ilmenite.Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.


Ilmenorutile Image

Images: Ilmenorutile

Comments: Dark brown ilmenorutile crystalin matrix.

Location: Iveland, Aust-Agder, Norway.Scale: See Photo.


Ilsemannite Image

Images: Ilsemannite

Comments: Dark blue ilsemannite.Location: Gl?ckauf Shaft, Himmelsf?rstMine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Ilvaite Image

Images: Ilvaite Quartz

Comments: Black, prismatic ilvaite with quartz.Location: First Sovietskij mine, Dalnjegorsk, Russia.


Ilvaite Image

Images: Ilvaite Hedenbergite

Comments: Doubly terminated, blackilvaite on crystals of greenish grayhedenbergite with minor galena.

Location: First Sovietsky mine, Dalnjegorsk,Russia. Scale: 4 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

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Images: IMA1999-004a Rheniite

Comments: Specimen covered with rheniite asmicro crystals to .25 mm across.

Location: Kudryaviy 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 crystalsof 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 rhombododecahedralcrystals 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, prismaticphosphohedyphane crystal on matrix.

Location: Argentena mine, Goodsprings,Clark Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size

0.5mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

IMA2006-009 Image

Images: IMA2006-009 SanromaniteJuangodoyite Chalconatronite






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IMA2007-005 Image

Images: IMA2007-005 Lasalite

Comments: Bright orange efflorescentlasalite crust on sandstone.

Location: Vanadium Queen mine, SanJuan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture Size 2 x

2 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Imhofite Image

Images: Imhofite

Comments: Dark red crystals andaggregates of imhofite in matrix.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture


Imhofite Image

Images: Imhofite

Comments: Spherical, spikey-radialbrownish black aggregate of imhofite with

blocky gray sulfosalt on white dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture width 3mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Imiterite Image

Images: Imiterite

Comments: Back metallic prismaticmicrocrystals of imiterite in white calcite.

Location: Imiter Mine, Jbel Sarho, Anti-AtlasRegion, Morocco. Scale: See Photo.


Imiterite Image

Images: Imiterite

Comments: Silvery needle-like wire crystalsof imiterite with rounded tips to 0.5 to

.75mm in vuggy calcite.Location: Imiter mine, Anti-Atlas Mts.,

Dades Region, Morocco. Scale: Picture size0.5 cm.



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Imogolite Image

Images: Imogolite

Comments: Tan powdery massiveimogolite.

Location: Fukaiwa, Nanuma-shi, Tochigi,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


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 exportsfrom Pirquitas Ag-Sn Deposit, Rinconada

Department, Jujuy, Argentina. Scale: Lumpsize 2 mm.


Inderborite Image

Images: Inderborite

Comments: Translucent glassy crystallineinderborite.

Location: Lake Inder, Atyrau, Kazakhstan.Scale: See Photo.


Inderite Image

Images: Inderite

Comments: Prismatic colorless crystal ofinderite.

Location: Boron, Kern County, California,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Inderite Image


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Images: Inderite Pinnoite

Comments: Pale green translucentcrystalline pinnoite on chalky white inderite.Location: Lake Inder, Atyrau, Kazakhstan.


Mineral Species

Indialite Image

Images: Indialite

Comments: Gray glassy crystalline indialitein rock.

Location: Daimonji yama, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Indialite Image

Images: Indialite

Comments: SEM images of indialite clusters.(AmMin, 89:3).

Location: Somma-Vesuvius volcano inunusual pyrometamorphic ejecta. Scale:

Scale bar 100 µ-m.© American Mineralogist

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 orangishpink Inesite.

Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari, SouthAfrica. Scale: 14 x 7.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Inesite Image


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Images: Inesite Ruizite

Comments: 1- 3 mm crystal spray of redorange ruizite in an exposed vug in pink

inesite.Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Inesite Image

Images: Inesite Hubeite

Comments: Brown hubeite aggregatesaccompanied by prismatic pinkish inesite

crystals.Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei

China. Scale: 5.3 x 3.7 x 1.1 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Inesite Image

Images: Inesite Hubeite

Comments: Translucent, deep root beerbrown, platy hueite crystals in fan-like

groups to 1mm with delicate pink laths ofinesite.

Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co.,Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province,

China. Scale: Picture Size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Ingersonite Image

Images: Ingersonite

Comments: Yellowish green crystals ofingersonite to about 0.7mm embedded in

matrix rich in dark grains of flipstadite.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.

Scale: 14x10x6mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Innelite Image

Images: Innelite

Comments: Yellow crystalline granularinnelite.

Location: Inagli, Aldan, Republic of Sakha,Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Insizwaite Image


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Images: Insizwaite Moncheite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage showing b) intergrowth of taimyrite-

tatyanaite with moncheitei-insizwaite(CanMin, v 42, p 611).



Inyoite Image

Images: Inyoite

Comments: Glassy gray translucent crystalsof inyoite 1.5 cm.+, with minor alteration to

white meyerhofferite.Location: Loma Blanca Mine, Jujuy Province,

Argentina. Scale: 5.2x4.1x3.1 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Iodargyrite Image

Images: Iodargyrite

Comments: Aggregate crystal ofIodargyrite on matrix.

Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales,Australia. Scale: Not Given.


Iodargyrite Image

Images: Iodargyrite Embolite

Comments: Cubo-octahedral crystals ofiodaryrite (I) with smaller and darkeroctahedral crystals of embolite (E).

Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales,Australia. Scale: Specimen size 2x1 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Iodargyrite Image

Images: Iodargyrite Coronadite

Comments: Dark, fine-grained massivecoronadite with yellowish octahedral

iodargyrite crystals.Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales,

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,Chile. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Iranite Image

Images: Iranite

Comments: Crystals of iranite to 3mm onbrecciated, siliceous matrix.

Location: Sebarz mine, Anarak, Iran. Scale:3.7 x 2.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Irhtemite Image

Images: Irhtemite

Comments: Pink acicular divergentmicrocrystals of irhtemite on matrix.

Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou-Azzer,Ouarzazate, Morocco. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Iridium Image

Images: Iridium

Comments: Silvery metallic crystallineiridium micrograin and irregular nuggets.

Location: Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay,Alaska, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Iriginite Image


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Images: Iriginite

Comments: Yellow aggregates of iriginiteon matrix.

Location: Cameron area, CoconinoCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 2.5


Iriginite Image

Images: Iriginite Mourite

Comments: Purple to violet sub-metallicmourite coatings with yellow iriginite.Location: 'North Caucasus', probably

Kyzylsai Deposit, Chu-Ili Mountains,Balkhash, Zezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:


Mineral Species

Iron Image

Images: Iron

Comments: Specimen of volcanic rockcontaining dark gray grains of native Iron.This locality is one of the very few known

localities for terrestrial native iron.Location: Disko Island, Greenland. Scale:

Picture size 1 cm.© John Veevaert

Ishikawaite Image

Images: Ishikawaite

Comments: Blocky, metamict crystals ofishikawaite.

Location: Spinelli Quarry (Spinelli prospect),South Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut,

USA. Scale: 15x15x10 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Isoferroplatinum Image

Images: Isoferroplatinum Cuproiridsite

Comments: Gray equant crystal ofcuproiridsite in light gray isoferroplatinum.

Polished section (from microprobe analysis)in reflected light.

Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Saha

(Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-SiberianRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.14 mm.



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Images: Isoferroplatinum

Comments: Irregularly shaped silvermetallic nugget of isoferroplatinum with

minor chromite.Location: Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay.

Alaska, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species


Images: Isoferroplatinum Ruthenium

Comments: Scanning electron micrographof polished section of ruthenium nugget

with isoferroplatinum inclusions.Location: Miass River, Chelyabinsk District,Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Isokite Image

Images: Isokite

Comments: Pale brownish to brown isokitein quartz.



Isomertieite Image

Images: Isomertieite ArsenopalladiniteGold Bornite







Isovite Image


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Images: Isovite

Comments: Dark gray metallic grain ofisovite.

Location: Verkhneivinsk, SverdlovskayaOblast', Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Grain


Iwakiite Image

Images: Iwakiite

Comments: Back fine-grained granulariwakiite in pink rhodonite.

Location: Gazaisho Mine, Iwaki, Fukushima,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Ixiolite Image

Images: Ixiolite

Comments: Hemispherical crystallineaggregate of ixiolite.

Location: Muiane mine, Zambesia,Mozambique. Scale: Specimen size 1.3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Izoklakeite Image

Images: Izoklakeite

Comments: Prismatic metallic graymicrocrystal of izoklakeite (mounted on

paper).Location: Vena Mine, Bergslagen, Orebro,


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Jachymovite Image

Images: Jachymovite

Comments: Yellow crystals of j?chymovite.Location: J?chymov (St Joachimsthal),

Krusn? Hory (Erzgebirge), Z?padocesk? Kraj,Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture


Jacobsite Image

Images: Jacobsite Barite

Comments: Sharp, octahedral crystals ofJacobsite on a bladed barite matrix.

Location: N' Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman,South Africa. Scale: 3x2.5x1.9 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Jacobsite Image

Images: Jacobsite Ganomalite

Comments: White crystalline ganomalitewith dark granular jacobsite.



Jadeite Image

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Images: Jadeite

Comments: Fibrous crystals of Jadeite.Location: Russian River, near Cloverdale,

Mendocino County, California, USA. Scale: NotGiven.


Jadeite Image

Images: Jadeite Stronalsite

Comments: White stronalsite veinlets inmassive pale green jadeite.

Location: Ohasa, Okayama, Japan. Scale:See Photo.


Jagoite Image

Images: Jagoite

Comments: Yellow crystalline fragment ofjagoite in hausmannite.



Jagowerite Image

Images: Jagowerite

Comments: Pale green to white massivejagowerite.

Location: Hess River, Yukon Territory,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Jagowerite Image

Images: Jagowerite Penikisite

Comments: Light green crystal ofjagowerite intergrown with darker greenpenikisite in a tetrahedrite (black) and

white quartz matrix.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 ofchrisstanleyite (Chr), replaced by jagu?ite

(Jag), with tiemannite (Tie). The jagu?itetwinning is evident by banding in both

images.Location: El Chire prospect, Los Llantenes

District of La Rioja Province, Argentina..Scale: Picture size 150 µm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Jahnsite-(CaMnMg) Image

Images: Jahnsite-(CaMnMg)

Comments: Brown, striated, transparentcrystals of jahnsite-(CaMnMg) on matrix.



Jalpaite Image

Images: Jalpaite

Comments: Tarnished black lustrousmasses of jalpaite in rock with blue

chrysocolla.Location: La Mesa, Chihuahua, Mexico.


Mineral Species

Jamborite Image

Images: Jamborite

Comments: Green coatings of jamborite onmillerite filaments, in vug.

Location: Halls Gap, Lincoln County,Kentucky, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Jamesonite Image

Images: Jamesonite

Comments: Metallic, hair-like, crystals ofjamesonite on matrix.

Location: Baie Sprie (Felsobanya),Maraures, Romania. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Janhaugite Image


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Images: Janhaugite Dalyite

Comments: Tan crystalline dalyite (arrow)with reddish brown janhaugite.



Janhaugite Image

Images: Janhaugite

Comments: Reddish-brown columnarcrystalline janhaugite in white matrix.



Jarlite Image

Images: Jarlite

Comments: Tan radial botryoidal waxymasses of jarlite in matrix.



Jarosite Image

Images: Jarosite Alunogen

Comments: Colorless to white, tabularcrystals alunogen on reddish jarosite.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera



Jarosite Image

Images: Jarosite Fairbankite

Comments: Colorless to white crystals offairbankite with orangish brown jarosite.



Jarosite Image


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Images: Jarosite

Comments: Deep brown lustrous crystals ofJarosite to 2 mm.

Location: Soureza, Attika, Greece. Scale:2.8 x 1.6 cm.

© John Veevaert

Jarosite Image

Images: Jarosite Winstanleyite

Comments: Small, yellow octahedralcrystal of winstanleyite on brownish red

jarosite.Location: Tombstone, Tombstone District,Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture


Jaskolskiite Image

Images: Jaskolskiite

Comments: Silvery gray metallic granularjaskolskiite (mounted on paper).

Location: Vena, Bergslagen, Orebro,Sweden. Scale: See Photo.


Jeanbandyite Image

Images: Jeanbandyite

Comments: Yellowish brown translucentmicrocrystal of jeanbandyite on mineral

encrusted fluorite.Location: Mount Pleasant Tin Mine, NewBrunswick, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Jennite Image

Images: Jennite

Comments: Bright white fibrous jenniteveinlet in rock.


Mineral Species

Jensenite Image


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Images: Jensenite

Comments: Small green crystals ofjensenite in matrix.

Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, TinticDistrict, Juab Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture


Jentschite Image

Images: Jentschite

Comments: Black and dark red translucentneedles of jentschite on white dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture width 1cm.

© Walter Gabriel

Jeppeite Image

Images: Jeppeite

Comments: Dark brown crystallinegranular jeppeite.

Location: Walgidee Hills, Western Australia,Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Jeremejevite Image

Images: Jeremejevite

Comments: Partial crystal fragment ofjeremejevite.

Location: Mile 72, Swakopmund, Namibia.Scale: Crystal size 0.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Jeremejevite Image

Images: Jeremejevite

Comments: Two-toned hexagonal crystal ofjeremejevite 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 onmatrix.

Location: Salar de Surire, Tarapaca, Chile.Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Jimboite Image

Images: Jimboite

Comments: Dark red-brown crystallinejimboite veinlet in massive rhodochrosite.

Location: Rito Mine, Azuma Mura, Seta-gun,Gumma, Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Jimthompsonite Image

Images: JimthompsoniteClinojimthompsonite

Comments: Pale green to white glassycrystalline fibrous clinojimthompsonite

intergrown with jimthompsonite.Location: Chester, Windsor County,

Vermont, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Jinshajiangite Image

Images: Jinshajiangite

Comments: Reddish elongatedjunshajiangite grain to 0.3mm in matrix.Location: Norra Karr, Sweden. Scale:

Picture size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Jixianite Image

Images: Jixianite Cuprotungstite

Comments: Reddish brown crystal druse ofjixianite with minor tan cuprotungstite.

Location: Apache Mine, Hidalgo County,New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Image.


Joaquinite-(Ce) Image


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Images: Joaquinite-(Ce)

Comments: Brown crystal ofjoaquinite-(Ce).

Location: Benitoite Gem mine, San BenitoCounty, California, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Johannite Image

Images: Johannite

Comments: Green colored johannitecrystals.

Location: Happy Jack mine, White Canyon,San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: Not


Johannite Image

Images: Johannite Uranopilite

Comments: Bright yellow rosettes ofuranopilite with pale greenish yellow

johannite on matrix.Location: Apex Mine, Lander Co., Nevada,

USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Johannite Image

Images: Johannite Uranopilite

Comments: Green aggregates of minute,acicular johannite and yellow uranopiliteand clear, tabular aragonite crystals on

matrix.Location: Apex Mine, Lander Co., Nevada,


Johannsenite Image

Images: Johannsenite

Comments: Mass of prismatic bluish greencolored johannsenite crystals.


South Africa. Scale: 7.2 x 4 cm.© John Veevaert

Johannsenite Image


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Images: Johannsenite

Comments: Rounded glassy prismaticcrystals of dark violet brown johannsenite

to 1.4 cm. Long.Location: Consols Mine, Broken Hill, NSW,

Australia. Scale: 1.5x1.5x1 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Johnbaumite Image

Images: Johnbaumite Tephroite

Comments: Violet crystalline massivejohnbaumite with brown tephroite.



Johninnesite Image

Images: Johninnesite

Comments: Orange crystalline vein ofjohninnesite in manganese oxide matrix.

Location: Ausserferrera, Val Ferrera,Graubundun, Switzerland. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Johnsenite-(Ce) Image

Images: Johnsenite-(Ce) MacfalliteBraunite-I





Johnsomervilleite Image

Images: Johnsomervilleite

Comments: Dark brownishjohnsomervilleite.

Location: Sapucaia Mine, Conselheiro Penadistrict, 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 ofjokokuite.

Location: Jokoku Mine, Haminokuni,Hokkaido, Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Jolliffeite Image

Images: Jolliffeite Eskebornite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage of jolliffeite in sulfurian eskebornite.Note the cracked appearance and the

different brightness of eskebornite, which isa reflection of variable ratio of selenium to

sulfur. (CanMin v 42, p 844).Location: Niederschlema-Alberoda

uranium deposit, in the Erzgebirge region ofGermany. Scale: See Image.


Jonesite Image

Images: Jonesite

Comments: Transparent, bladed crystal ofjonesite on matrix.

Location: Dallas Gem Mine (Gem Mine;Benitoite Mine), New Idria District, San

Benito Co., California, USA. Scale: Crystalsize 3.5 mm.

© John Veevaert

Jordanite Image

Images: Jordanite

Comments: Gray metallic crystallinejordanite in fine-grained marble.



Jordanite Image

Images: Jordanite

Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal, metallicgray crystal of jordanite with purple tarnish

on white dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,


© Walter Gabriel

Jordanite Image


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Images: Jordanite Marrite

Comments: Aggregate of gray prismatic crystals ofmarrite on fine-grained jordanite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais,Switzerland. Scale: Picture high 5 mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Jordisite Image

Images: Jordisite

Comments: Black earthy jordisite on matrix.Location: Gl?ckauf Shaft, Himmelsf?rstMine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Joseite Image

Images: Joseite

Comments: Milky quartz matrix with a 15mm long group of metallic joseite crystals.

Location: Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria,England, UK. Scale: 5x3.5x2.5 cm.


Jouravskite Image

Images: Jouravskite

Comments: Lemon yellow granularjouravskite.



Juangodoyite Image

Images: Juangodoyite

Comments: Rich blue veinlets ofjuangodoyite in matrix..

Location: Mina Santa Rosa, Iquique, Chile.Scale: 3.5x2.9x2.2 cm.


Juangodoyite Image


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Images: Juangodoyite IMA2006-009Sanromanite Chalconatronite





Juanitaite Image

Images: Juanitaite

Comments: Microplates of juanitaite onmatrix. Scanning Electron Microscope

Image.Location: Gold Hill, Utah. Scale: Field of

View 125 ?m.© William Wise

Juanitaite Image

Images: Juanitaite

Comments: Green juanitaite in quartzmatrix, 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) anddoubly-terminated, brilliant, water clear

fluorapophyllite crystals on basalt.Location: Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.

Scale: 20 x 13 x 5 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Julgoldite-(Fe+++) Image

Images: Julgoldite-(Fe+++)

Comments: Black, prismatic micro-crystalsof 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 opaqueprismatic micro crystal of julienite.

Location: Chamibumba, near Kambove,Katanga, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Jungite Image

Images: Jungite

Comments: Translucent cleavagefragment of jungite.

Location: Hagendorf, Bayern, Germany.Scale: See Photo.


Junitoite Image

Images: Junitoite

Comments: Platy transparent junitoitecrystal cluster lying flat on white limestone

matrix.Location: Christmas Mine, near Hayden,Gila County, Arizona. Scale: See Photo.


Junitoite Image

Images: Junitoite

Comments: Clear, platy, flat lying crystalsof junitoite (red marker) to 2mm associated

with lavender smectite.Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,


Junoite Image

Images: Junoite

Comments: Solid crystalline mass of darkgray, 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 onmatrix.

Location: Kovdor Mine, Kovdor massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Jurbanite Image

Images: Jurbanite

Comments: White spherical crusts ofjurbanite on matrix.

Location: Le Cetine Mine, Siena, Tuscany,Italy. Scale: See Photo.





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Kaatialaite Image

Images: Kaatialaite

Comments: White kaatialaite witharsenolite on native arsenic.

Location: Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartensteinarea, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Kaersutite Image

Images: Kaersutite

Comments: Dark greenish-brown prismatickaersutite crystals in matrix.

Location: Nugssuaq, Umanak, Greenland.Scale: See Photo.


Kafehydrocyanite Image

Images: Kafehydrocyanite

Comments: Micro platy crystal ofkafehydrocyanite.

Location: Medvezhii Log, East Sayan Mountains,Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Kainite Image

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Images: Kainite Szaibelyite

Comments: pale violet granular kainiteintermixed with white ascharite

(szaibelyite).Location: Havesa, Empelde, Hannover,

Niedersachsen, Germany. Scale: SeePhoto.


Kaliborite Image

Images: Kaliborite

Comments: Translucent colorless crystal ofkaliborite.



Kalifersite Image

Images: Kalifersite

Comments: Brownish-red crystallinegranular aggregates of kalifersite in rock

matrix composed of fibers to 5mm.Location: Mt. Rasvumchorr, Khibiny massif,

Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Specimen size3.5 x 2 x 1.5cm.


Kaliophilite Image

Images: Kaliophilite Meionite

Comments: Tan to white fibrous kaliophilitecrystal bundle with white translucent

meionite on matrix.Location: Mont Somma, Naples,

Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Kalipyrochlore Image

Images: Kalipyrochlore

Comments: Opaque yellowish green totan octahedral crystal of kalipyrochlore.Location: Lueshe, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:


Mineral Species

Kalsilite Image


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Images: Kalsilite

Comments: Small, hair-like crystals ofkalsilite on crystals of phlogopite and

smaller crystals of analcime andfluorapatite.

Location: San Venanzo, Tern, Italy. Scale:Picture size 5 mm.© John Veevaert

Kamacite Image

Images: Kamacite Carlsbergite

Comments: Polished section showing asmall light gray elongated inclusion of

carlsbergite in massive kamacite.Location: Kenton County meteorite, KentonCo., Kentucky, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.08


Kamacite Image

Images: Kamacite Nickelphosphide

Comments: Small inclusion ofnickelphosphide in massive kamacite.

Location: Kenton County meteorite, KentonCo., Kentucky, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.09


Kamacite Image

Images: Kamacite Troilite CoheniteTaenite





Kamacite Image

Images: Kamacite Taenite Troilite

Comments: Polished and acid etchedslice, with crust, illustrating Widmanstaatenlines, with taenite darker areas betweenkamacite crystals, with tarnished troiliteinclusions, in fine octahedrite meteorite.Location: Gibeon Meteorite, found 1836,Great Namaqualand, Hardap, Namibia.



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Mineral Species

Kambaldaite Image

Images: Kambaldaite

Comments: Light green kambaldaite blebsand crusts.

Location: Kambalda Nickel deposit,Kambalda, WA, Australia. Scale: Picture


Kamiokite Image

Images: Kamiokite

Comments: Dull dark gray-black sectilemassive kamiokite.

Location: Krupka, Severocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Kamotoite-(Y) Image

Images: Kamotoite-(Y)

Comments: Bright greenish yellowkamotoite-(Y) crystals.

Location: Kamoto mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale:


Kamotoite-(Y) Image

Images: Kamotoite-(Y)

Comments: Bright yellow, feather-likekamotoite-(Y) crystal habits.

Location: Kamoto mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale:

Picture size 2 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Kampfite Image

Images: Kampfite

Comments: Light, bluish-gray crystallinekampfite.

Location: Esquire #1 Claim, Rush Creek,Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: Picture


Kampfite Image


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Images: Kampfite

Comments: Anthony Kampf, Curator and SectionHead of the Mineral Sciences Section at the LosAngeles County Museum of Natural History and

the person whom kampfite was named for, kindlyprovided the pronunciation of the mineral

kampfite.Location: Tucson Convention Center, 50th TucsonGem and Mineral Show, February 12, 2004. Scale:

NA.© Dave Barthelmy

Kamphaugite-(Y) Image

Images: Kamphaugite-(Y)

Comments: Small white crystals ofkamphaugite-(Y).

Location: T?rdal (Hj?ndalen), Telemark,Norway. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Kanemite Image

Images: Kanemite

Comments: Yellowish white translucentmicro spherical aggregate of kanemite.

Location: Kanem, Chad. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Kankite Image

Images: Kankite

Comments: Greenish botryoidalaggregates of kankite.

Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Freiberg,Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Kanoite Image

Images: Kanoite

Comments: Brown, prismatic crystals ofkanoite in matrix.

Location: Tatehira, Oshima Peninsula,Hokkaido, Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Kanonaite Image


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Images: Kanonaite

Comments: Dark greenish blackmicrocrystal of kanonaite in matrix.

Location: Le Coreaux, near Salmchateau,Luxembourg, Belgium. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Kaolinite Image

Images: Kaolinite

Comments: Authigenic kaolinite platescovering a quartz grain overgrown withauthigenic quartz. SEM image of a core

sample.Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 50


Kaolinite Image

Images: Kaolinite Ammonioalunite

Comments: White chalky ammonioaluniteon darker kaolinite.

Location: Schoeller Mine, Kladno,Stredocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Kaolinite Image

Images: Kaolinite Pianlinite

Comments: Off-white colored minutepianlinite (kaolinite) fragment.

Location: Pianling, China. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Karelianite Image

Images: Karelianite

Comments: Dark bluish-black granularkarelianite.

Location: Outokumpu, Pohjois-Karjala,Finland. Scale: See Photo.


Karibibite Image


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Images: Karibibite

Comments: Orange yellow, radial spraysof 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 translucentcrystalline fragment of karlite.

Location: Schlegeistal, Zillertaler Alpen, Tirol,Austria. Scale: See Photo.

© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to MineralSpecies

Karpatite Image

Images: Karpatite

Comments: Pale greenish karpatite withminor red cinnabar.

Location: 4th of July mine, New Idriadistrict, San Benito Co., California, USA.


Karpatite Image

Images: Karpatite

Comments: Flat lying sprays of fibrous crystals ofyellow karpatite to 2.8 cm in length on siliceousjasperoid 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 3.5cm.

© John Veevaert

Kashinite Image

Images: Kashinite Laurite

Comments: Gray kashinite with darker graylaurite. Polished section (from microprobe

analysis) in reflected light.Location: Nizhne-Tagil'skoye

(Mednorudyanskoye) Cu Deposit, NizhniiTagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Urals Region,

Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.2 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Kasolite Image


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Images: Kasolite

Comments: Golden yellow crystals ofkasolite.

Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tatara,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the


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, acicularsklodowskite crystals and yellow, bladed

kasolite crystals.Location: Kambove, (Kakanda) Mine,

Katanga District, Shaba (Katanga),Republic of the Congo, (Za?re). Scale:


Kastningite Image

Images: Kastningite

Comments: Colorless crystals of kastningite.Location: Silbergrube Quarry, Waidhaus,

Vohenstrau?, Oberpfalz, Bavaria,Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Kazakhstanite Image

Images: Kazakhstanite

Comments: Deep black sooty coatings ofkazakhstanite on silicified rock.

Location: Gold Quarry Mine, Carlin Trend,Eureka County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Keckite Image


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Images: Keckite

Comments: Brown crystals of keckite onmatrix.

Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany.Scale: .


Keithconnite Image

Images: Keithconnite KotulskiteTelluropalladinite

Comments: Polyphase grain of (1) ferroanplatinum corroded by (2) Pt(Fe,Cu) andovergrown by (5) telluropalladinite, anunknown (6) Pd-Te-Fe-Si-O phase, (7)

Fe-hydroxide and (8) a Ca-Mn-Fe silicatewith inclusions of (3) kotulskite and (4)

keithconnite. (BGR).Location: Stream sediments of rivers in the

vicinity of the original discovery of theMerensky Reef on the farm Maandagshoekclose 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 insand.

Location: Kemmlitz Deposit, Oschatz,Sachsen, Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Kenhsuite Image

Images: Kenhsuite

Comments: Yellow crystalline kenhsuite onmontmorillonite matrix (light sensitive).Location: McDermitt Mine, Humboldt


Mineral Species

Kentbrooksite Image


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Images: Kentbrooksite

Comments: Orange translucent crystals ofkentbrooksite frozen in syenite rock.

Location: Mount Alluiav, Lovozero Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Kentrolite Image

Images: Kentrolite

Comments: Brownish red grains of kentrolitein matrix.

Location: Langban mine, Varmland,Sweden. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Kenyaite Image

Images: Kenyaite

Comments: Compact granular massivekenyaite possibly with other phases.

Location: Lake Magadi, Rift Valley Province,Kenya. Scale: See Photo.


Kermesite Image

Images: Kermesite

Comments: Reddish brown radiating sprayof 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 graymetallic paakkonenite with red crystals of

kermesite and minute yellow crystals ofvalentinite.

Location: Cai' ao mine, Danfong Co.,Shaanxi Prov., China. Scale: 3x2x2cm.


Kernite Image


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Images: Kernite

Comments: Translucent kernite cleavageprism with white superficial dehydration

coating.Location: Pacific Coast Boron Mine, Boron,

Kern County, California, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Kerstenite Image

Images: Kerstenite ClinochalcomeniteKrutaite




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, northof Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China. Scale:

Crystal size 1 cm.© Dan Weinrich

Kettnerite Image

Images: Kettnerite

Comments: Brown crystals of kettnerite.Location: Shaft 250, Schlema-Hartenstein



Keyite Image

Images: Keyite

Comments: Brilliant blue keyite crystals ona 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 keystoneiteon quartz.

Location: Mcalpine Mine, Moccasin,Tuolumne Co., California, USA. Scale:


Khademite Image

Images: Khademite

Comments: Pale blue botryoidalkhademite on matrix.

Location: Bergmann Liegendes,Rammelsberg, Harz Mountains,



Khaidarkanite Image

Images: Khaidarkanite

Comments: Sky blue acicular radial spraysof khaidarkanite.

Location: Khaidarkan, Kyrgizia. Scale:Crystal size 1 mm.


Kidwellite Image

Images: Kidwellite Frondelite

Comments: Root beer colored crystals offrondelite and white kidwellite sticks on

matrix.Location: Sapucaia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.


Kidwellite Image

Images: Kidwellite

Comments: Yellowish green columnaraggregates of kidwellite crystals.

Location: Indian Mountain, CherokeeCounty, Alabama, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Kidwellite Image


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Images: Kidwellite Strengite

Comments: Spherical, crystalline aggregate ofpurple strengite on green kidwellite.

Location: Three Oak Gap, Polk Co., Arkansas,USA. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Kieserite Image

Images: Kieserite

Comments: Translucent crystalline mass ofkieserite with white alteration products.



Kimzeyite Image

Images: Kimzeyite

Comments: Black isometric crystal ofkimzeyite garnet.

Location: Kimzey pit, Magnet Cove, HotSpring County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not


Kingite Image

Images: Kingite

Comments: White flakes of kingite in matrix.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera



Kingsmountite Image

Images: Kingsmountite

Comments: White, radial spray ofkingsmountite crystals.

Location: Kings Mountain, ClevelandCounty, North Carolina, USA. Scale: Not


Kinoite Image


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Images: Kinoite Apophyllite

Comments: Crystals of dark blue kinoiteand clear apophyllite.

Location: Christmas Mine, Gila County,Arizona, USA. Scale: Crystal size 2.5 mm.

© John Veevaert

Kinoite Image

Images: Kinoite Dioptase

Comments: Fibrous crystals of blue-greendioptase to 0.75mm on clear apophyllite

associated with dark blue kinoite.Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,

USA. Scale: Pictures size 6 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Kinoite Image

Images: Kinoite

Comments: Kinoite crystals as singletabular or platy blue crystals to about

0.3mm and as fan-like sprays. The crystalsexhibit striations, a key to distinguishing it

from stringhamite.Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,


Kintoreite Image

Images: Kintoreite

Comments: Yellow rounded crystal grainsof kintoreite on limonite.

Location: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill,New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Kipushite Image

Images: Kipushite

Comments: Green microcrystals ofkipushite on matrix.

Location: Kipushi, Shaba, Zaire. Scale:10x8x5 mm.


Kipushite Image


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Images: Kipushite

Comments: Prismatic emerald greenmicrocrystals of kipushite on quartz.

Location: Snowshoe Claim, near BattleMountain, Lander County, Nevada, USA.


Mineral Species

Kirschsteinite Image

Images: Kirschsteinite

Comments: Grayish green crystallinemassive kirschsteinite.

Location: Mazarron, Murcia, Spain. Scale:See Photo.


Kivuite Image

Images: Kivuite Dewindtite

Comments: Pale yellow coatings of kivuitewith yellowier dewindtite on pegmatite.Location: Ruggles Mine, Grafton, GraftonCounty, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Kladnoite Image

Images: Kladnoite

Comments: Glassy prismatic colorlesskladnoite crystals on matrix.

Location: Kladno, Stredocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Klebelsbergite Image

Images: Klebelsbergite

Comments: Small, acicular sprays ofklebelsbergite with yellow crystals of sulfur

on stibnite.Location: Pereta Mine, Grosseto Province,

Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Kleinite Image


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Images: Kleinite

Comments: Crystalline druse of brightcanary 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 withcovellite on quartz.



Koashvite Image

Images: Koashvite

Comments: Brown translucent crystallinefragment of koashvite.

Location: Mount Koashva, Khibiny Massive,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


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 crystallinekobellite with quartz.

Location: Crabtree Quarry, Raleigh, WakeCounty, North Carolina, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Kochsandorite Image


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Images: Kochsandorite

Comments: Pearly circles of radiating whitemicrocrystals of kochsandorite on coal.

Location: Many coal deposit, Bicske-Zsambeki Basin, Tatabanya. Scale:

2.5x1.7x1.1 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Kochsandorite Image

Images: Kochsandorite

Comments: White fibers of kochandorite oncoal-marl matrix.

Location: M?ny coal field, Tatab?nya,Hungary. Scale: See Image.


Koechlinite Image

Images: Koechlinite

Comments: Greenish yellow crystal ofkoechlinite on quartz.

Location: Adam Heber Mine, Neust?dtel,Schneeberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Koenenite Image

Images: Koenenite

Comments: Koenenite with cleavageplanes.

Location: Bergmannssegen-Hugo Mine,Lehrte, near Hanover, Lower Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Kogarkoite Image

Images: Kogarkoite

Comments: Pale green granular mass ofkogarkoite with yellow native sulfur.

Location: Vulcano, Sicily, Italy. Scale: SeePhoto.


Koktaite Image


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Images: Koktaite

Comments: Tan to white scaly coating ofkoktaite.

Location: Zastavka, near Brna,Vychodocesky, Czech Republic. Scale:


Mineral Species

Kolbeckite Image

Images: Kolbeckite

Comments: Spherical ball of acicularkolbeckite on matrix.

Location: Gleichenberger Klause, BadGleichenberg, Steiermark, Austria. Scale:

Specimen size 1.5 mm.© John Veevaert

Kolicite Image

Images: Kolicite

Comments: Minute orange crystal ofkolicite in franklinite.



Mineral Species

Kolovratite Image

Images: Kolovratite

Comments: Aqua-colored botryoidal crustof kolovratite.

Location: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango,Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Kolwezite Image

Images: Kolwezite

Comments: Green kolwezite cotton ballson pink cobaltian calcite.

Location: Musononi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale:


Komarovite Image


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Images: Komarovite

Comments: Pale pink crystallinekomarovite vein in syenite rock.

Location: Mount Karnasurt, Lovozero Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Kombatite Image

Images: Kombatite Hausmannite

Comments: Yellow kombatite crystals inblack hausmannite.

Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi, Namibia.Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Koninckite Image

Images: Koninckite

Comments: Pale pink botryoidal crust ofkoninckite on rock.

Location: Richelle, Liege, Belgium. Scale: SeePhoto.


Konyaite Image

Images: Konyaite

Comments: white powdery konyaite.Location: Great Konya Basin, Konya,

Turkey. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Koragoite Image

Images: Koragoite

Comments: Black tabular crystals ofkoragoite 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 colorlessfragment of koritnigite.



Kornelite Image

Images: Kornelite

Comments: Sulfate matrix with several 1cm sprays of kornelite. This specimen has tobe protected from air as it is readily soluble

in water.Location: Rio Tinto Mine, Huelva, Spain.


Kornerupine Image

Images: Kornerupine

Comments: Greenish gray mottled crystalprism of kornerupine.

Location: Western Hart's Range, NorthernTerritory, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Korobitsynite Image

Images: Korobitsynite

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystals ofkorobitsynite.

Location: Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.


Korshunovskite Image

Images: Korshunovskite

Comments: White fibrous korshunovskitecrystals.

Location: Korshunovskoye skarn Fe Deposit,Irkutsk, Irkutskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia(Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region,

Russia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Korzhinskite Image


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Images: Korzhinskite

Comments: Translucent fragment ofkorzhinskite.



Mineral Species

Kosmochlor Image

Images: Kosmochlor

Comments: Green resinous massivekosmochlor, variety ureyite, in serpentinite.

Location: Myanmar. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Kosnarite Image

Images: Kosnarite

Comments: Pale bluish crystals of kosnaritein matrix.

Location: Mt Mica mine, Paris, Oxford Co.,Maine, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.


Kosnarite Image

Images: Kosnarite

Comments: Transparent crystals ofkosnarite on matrix.

Location: Itinga Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil.Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.

© John Veevaert

Kosnarite Image

Images: Kosnarite Zanazziite

Comments: Beige crystals of kosnarite withpinkish, 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 massive kotoite crystals.Location: Baita Mine (R?zb?nya), Nucet,Bihor Co., Romania. Scale: Picture size 8


Kottigite Image

Images: Kottigite

Comments: K?ttigite crystals on gossanousmatrix up to 0.5 cm in length.

Location: Oujela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,Mexico. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Kotulskite Image

Images: Kotulskite TelluropalladiniteKeithconnite






Natural Resources

Koutekite Image

Images: Koutekite Algodonite

Comments: Silvery metallic koutekite withdarker gray algodonite.

Location: Mohawk Mine, KeweenawCounty, Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Kovdorskite Image

Images: Kovdorskite

Comments: Gemmy crystal of icy bluekovdorskite.

Location: Kheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, KolaPenisula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert


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Kozoite-(La) Image

Images: Kozoite-(La) Kozoite-(Nd)

Comments: Backscatter electron image ofpolished section through a sperical

aggregate showing the zonation formkosoite-(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) inmatrix.

Location: Niikoba, Hizen-cho, Higashi-Matsuura-gun, Saga Prefecture, KyushuIsland, Japan. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Kozoite-(Nd) Image

Images: Kozoite-(Nd)

Comments: Photomicrograph of thespherical aggregate composed of

kosoite-(Nd). (JMPS, v 98, p 138).Location: Cavity in alkaline basalt near


© JMPS

Kozoite-(Nd) Image

Images: Kozoite-(Nd) Kozoite-(La)

Comments: Backscatter electron image ofpolished section through a sperical

aggregate showing the zonation formkosoite-(La) to kosolite-(Nd). (JMPS, v 98, p

138).Location: Cavity in alkaline basalt near


© JMPS

Kozulite Image


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Images: Kozulite

Comments: Dark reddish-black granularkozulite in pale pink rhodonite with dark

brown braunite.Location: Tanohata Mine, Tanohata Muro,Shimoheii gun, Iwate, Japan. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Kraisslite Image

Images: Kraisslite

Comments: Yellow crystalline kraisslite incalcite.



Mineral Species

Kratochvilite Image

Images: Kratochvilite

Comments: Pale yellow to browncrystalline crust of kratochvilite on shale.

Location: Zastavka, near Brna,Vychodocesky, Czech Republic. Scale:


Mineral Species

Krausite Image

Images: Krausite

Comments: Pale yellowish crystals ofkrausite on black matrix.

Location: Willi Agatz Mine, Dresden, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.7 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Krauskopfite Image

Images: Krauskopfite

Comments: White pearly crystallinekrauskopfite on quartz.

Location: Rush Creek, Fresno County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Krautite Image


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Images: Krautite

Comments: Pale pink aggregates ofkrautite on greenish colored matrix.

Location: Jachymov, Bohemia,Zapadocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Kremersite Image

Images: Kremersite

Comments: Orange crystals of kremersite.Location: Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Aachen,

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Scale:Picture size 1.5 mm.


Krennerite Image

Images: Krennerite

Comments: Metallic krennerite crystals onquartz.

Location: Emperor mine, Vatukoula, VitiLevu, Fiji. Scale: Not Given.


Krettnichite Image

Images: Krettnichite

Comments: Dark brown to nearly blackcrystals of krettnichite.

Location: Johann Shaft; Jakob Tunnel(Dump), Krettnich, Wadern, Saarland,Germany. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Krettnichite Image

Images: Krettnichite Brackebuschite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopeimage of a prismatic krettnichite (kr)

aggregate associated with manganite(ma) and barian brackebuschite (br) in avug. The inset is a close-up illustrating the

morphology of brackebuschite. (Eur. J.Mineral, 13:146).

Location: hydrothermal manganite-quartzvein at the historic manganese deposit ofKrettnich, 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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Krohnkite Image

Images: Krohnkite Natrochalcite

Comments: Royal blue kr?hnkite andgreen natrochalcite.

Location: Chiquicamata, Chile. Scale: 3.5 x2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Krupkaite Image

Images: Krupkaite Friedrichite Benjaminite




Mineral Species

Krupkaite Image

Images: Krupkaite

Comments: Acicular, fine metallic crystalsprays of krupkaite to 4mm with pale

yellow manganoan siderite.Location: Julcani district, Peru. Scale:

Picture size 1 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Krutaite Image

Images: Krutaite

Comments: Dark gray, metallic,octahedral crystals of krutaite on matrix.

Location: El Drag?n mine, Quijarroprovince, Potos?, Boliv ia. Scale: Picture size


Krutaite Image


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Images: Krutaite KersteniteClinochalcomenite




Mineral Species

Kryzhanovskite Image

Images: Kryzhanovskite

Comments: Brown crystals ofkryzhanovskite.




Ktenasite Image

Images: Ktenasite

Comments: Turquoise blue ktenasite onmatrix.

Location: Gelbe Birke Mine, SchwarzenbergDistrict, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.


Kukharenkoite-(Ce) Image

Images: Kukharenkoite-(Ce)

Comments: White-tan crystals ofkukharenkoite-(Ce).

Location: Kirovskii (Kirovsky) apatite mine,Mt Kukisvumchorr, Khibiny Massif, Kola



Kulanite Image

Images: Kulanite

Comments: White apatite crystals to 0.5 cm inlength and abundant, bladed, deep olivegreen crystals (see inset image) of kulanite.

Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory,Canada. Scale: 4.3 x 3.2 cm.

© John Veevaert


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Kupcikite Image

Images: Kupcikite Cuprobismutite

Comments: Backscattered electron imageof kupc?kite (ku) replacing cuprobismutite(cu); both phases are in turn replaced by

bsimuthinite derivative (bd79-92).Location: Felbertal, Austria. Scale: Scale

bar 100 µ-m.© Canadian Mineralogist

Kupletskite Image

Images: Kupletskite

Comments: Bronze-colored stellatecrystalline spray of kupletskite on white

orthoclase.Location: 3M quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski

County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Kupletskite Image

Images: Kupletskite Niobokupletskite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage of Niobokupletskite (Nkpt) rimming

kupletskite (Kpt). The zoning in thekupletskite is from Nb-poor to Nb-rich in the

direction of the arrow (dark to mediumgray). (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 onmatrix.



Kurchatovite Image

Images: Kurchatovite

Comments: Gray crystalline kurchatovite(arrow) in matrix (distinguishable by violet

fluorescence).Location: Solongo, Republic of Buryatia,


Mineral Species


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Kurnakovite Image

Images: Kurnakovite

Comments: Very pale lilac-colored crystalof kurnakovite.

Location: Boron, Kramer District, KernCounty, California, USA. Scale: 7.2x4x2.5

cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Kurnakovite Image

Images: Kurnakovite

Comments: Chalky white outer alteration,else gray, translucent, coarsely-crystalline

kurnakovite.Location: The Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co.,

California, USA. Scale: 5x4x3cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Kutnohorite Image

Images: Kutnohorite

Comments: Light-pinkish, parallel bundlesof kutnohorite crystals on matrix.

Location: Wessels mine, Hotazel, KurumanDistrict, South Africa. Scale: 5 x 4.7 x 3 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Kyanite Image

Images: Kyanite

Comments: Two terminated, bright bluecrystals 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, fluorescentblades of kyanite.

Location: Pech, Afghanistan. Scale: 1.7 x 1.0 x 0.3cm.

© Kieth Hayes


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Kyzylkumite Image

Images: Kyzylkumite

Comments: A small crystal of kyzylkumitewith a triangular face.

Location: Koscheka U Deposit, AuminzatauMtns., Central Kyzylkum Region, Kyzylkum

Desert, Uzbekistan. Scale: Picture size 1mm.





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Labradorite Image

Images: Labradorite Plagioclase

Comments: Dual view of a cleavagefragment of labradorite showing the multi-colored labradorescence (schiller effect)and the same area viewed without the

color. The color is due to opticalinterference on the 010 polysynthetic

twinning planes (Albite Law).Location: Ihosy, Betroka district, Toliara

Province, Madagascar. Scale: Picture size3x3 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Labuntsovite-Mn Image

Images: Labuntsovite-Mn

Comments: Cinnamon colored crystals oflabuntsovite-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 crystallinelacroixite with white crystalline berlinite.

Location: Rusororo Pegmatite, Gatumba,Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See Photo.


Laffittite Image

Images: Laffittite

Comments: A short-prismatic, dark browncrystal 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 crystallinelammerite in matrix.

Location: Laurani Mine, South Yeronime,Laurani, La Paz, Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Lammerite Image

Images: Lammerite

Comments: Deep, lustrous greenlammerite crystals to about 1mm

throughout vuggy matrix.Location: Guanaco mine, Taltal,

Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: Picture size 1cm.


Lamprophyllite Image

Images: Lamprophyllite

Comments: Deep-red, acicular spray oflamprophyllite in matrix.

Location: Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:Crystal size 1.5 cm.


Lamprophyllite Image

Images: LamprophylliteBarytolamprophyllite

Comments: Brownish-yellowbarytolamprophyllite on dark green

lamprophyllite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Lanarkite Image

Images: Lanarkite

Comments: White, acicular spray oflanarkite on matrix.

Location: Meadowfoot smelter,Wanlockhead, Lanarkshire, Scotland.


Lanarkite Image


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Images: Lanarkite

Comments: Cleaved crystals of greenishbeige lanakite on matrix.

Location: Leadhills, Scotland. Scale: Picturesize 2 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Landauite Image

Images: Landauite

Comments: Black granular landauite inmatrix.

Location: Northwest Territories, Canada.Scale: See Photo.


Landesite Image

Images: Landesite

Comments: Brown translucent crystallinecrust of landesite.

Location: Hagendorf-Sud, Bayern,Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Langbanite Image

Images: Langbanite

Comments: Stout black langbanite crystalin white matrix.



Langbeinite Image

Images: Langbeinite

Comments: Pale brownish pink crystallineaggregate of langbeinite.

Location: Carlsbad, Eddy County, NewMexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Langisite Image


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Images: Langisite

Comments: Gray metallic massivelangisite, altering, in white quartzite.Location: Uncompaghre Mountains,

Montrose County, Colorado, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Langite Image

Images: Langite

Comments: Bluish, tabular blades oftwinned langite crystals on matrix.

Location: Mollau, France. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Langite Image

Images: Langite

Comments: Encrustation of small (less thanone mm.) sky blue langite crystals, on

matrix.Location: Lubietova, Slovakia. Scale:

Picture size 1.5 cm.© Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it

Lannonite Image

Images: Lannonite

Comments: White crusts of lannonite onmatrix.

Location: Silver City, Grant County, NewMexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Lansfordite Image

Images: Lansfordite Barringtonite

Comments: Optical images of clusters ofglassy 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 oflanthanite-(Ce) ?.

Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Lanthanite-(Nd) Image

Images: Lanthanite-(Nd)

Comments: Beige aggregate of scaly,platy lanthanite-(Nd) crystals.

Location: Curitiba, Paran?, Brazil. Scale: 2.5x 2 cm.

© Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it

Laphamite Image

Images: Laphamite

Comments: Brown grain of laphamite.Location: Northumberland County,

Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: Grain size 1.5mm.


Larderellite Image

Images: Larderellite

Comments: Colorless larderellite crystals.Location: Larderello, Cecina Valley, Pisa

province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size4 mm.


Larisaite Image

Images: Larisaite

Comments: Yellow, acicular, radial spraysof 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.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Larnite Image

Images: Larnite Paraspurrite

Comments: Violet-tinted gray crystallinepure paraspurrite mass with larnite veinlets.

Location: Near Darwin, Inyo County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Larsenite Image

Images: Larsenite

Comments: Aggregate of acicularmicrocrystals and crystalline larsenite.Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New


Mineral Species

Lasalite Image

Images: Lasalite IMA2007-005

Comments: Bright orange efflorescentlasalite crust on sandstone.

Location: Vanadium Queen mine, SanJuan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture Size 2 x


Latiumite Image

Images: Latiumite

Comments: Tan opaque prismatic crystalsof latiumite.

Location: Capagnano, Lazio, Italy. Scale:See Photo.


Latrappite Image


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Images: Latrappite

Comments: Black, sub-metallic crystals oflatrappite 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 goethitehosting 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 onmatrix.

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 oflaumontite with chrysocolla.

Location: Azurite mine, Pinal County,Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Laumontite Image

Images: Laumontite

Comments: White, well developedlaumontite 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 oflaurelite.

Location: Grand Reef mine, Graham Co.,Arizona, United States. Scale: Crystal size 7


Laurionite Image

Images: Laurionite

Comments: Colorless, stellate spray ofacicular Laurionite crystals on matrix.



Laurite Image

Images: Laurite Hollingworthite

Comments: Gray grain of hollingworthite (inthe center of the picture) with very slightly

darker gray laurite (at the right margin).Polished section (from microprobe

analysis).Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-

ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Saha(Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian

Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Laurite Image

Images: Laurite Kashinite

Comments: Gray kashinite with darker graylaurite. Polished section (from microprobe

analysis) in reflected light.Location: Nizhne-Tagil'skoye

(Mednorudyanskoye) Cu Deposit, NizhniiTagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Urals Region,

Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.2 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Laurite Image

Images: Laurite Hollingworthite

Comments: Gray laurite with two smallergrains of hollingworthite (left and right from

the laurite, very slightly lighter gray).Polished section (from microprobe analysis)

in reflected light.Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-



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Lausenite Image

Images: Lausenite

Comments: Pale tan crystalline powderyaggregate of lausenite.



Mineral Species

Lautite Image

Images: Lautite

Comments: Metallic dark gray Lautiteaggregate.

Location: Rudolph Shaft, Lauta, MarienbergDistrict, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.

Scale: Specimen size 3 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Lavendulan Image

Images: Lavendulan

Comments: Bright blue crystals ofLavendulan crystals.

Location: Gold Hill mine, Deep CreekMountains, Tooele County, Utah, USA.


Lavenite Image

Images: Lavenite

Comments: Orange crystalline lavenitegrains in pegmatite.

Location: Mount Takhtarvumchorr, KhibinyMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,


Mineral Species

Lawsonite Image

Images: Lawsonite

Comments: Glaucophane schist with aheavy druse of lawsonite crystals.

Location: Reed Station, Tiburon, MarinCounty, California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 7

mm.© John Veevaert


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Lazarenkoite Image

Images: Lazarenkoite

Comments: Orange, fibrous lazarenkoite ina vug.

Location: Khovu-Asky Ni-Co Deposit, TuvaRepublic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia.


Lazulite Image

Images: Lazulite Bystrite

Comments: Brownish-yellow bystrite grainswith blue lazulite in an igneous rock.

Location: Malo-Bystrinskoye lazurite deposit,Tunka Valley, Sludyanka, Lake Baikal

Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Lazulite Image

Images: Lazulite

Comments: Lustrous dark blackish-bluecrystals 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-coloredwhiteite-(CaMnMg) crystal perched on



Lazulite Image

Images: Lazulite Trolleite

Comments: Pale blue trolleite with darkerblue lazulite.

Location: Champion Mine, White Mountains,Mono County, California. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Lazurite Image

Images: Lazurite Phlogopite

Comments: Gemmy brownish phlogopitecrystals 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 partiallycovering 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 leadfrom 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 ofleadamalgam on weathered ore rock.Location: Mina Bambollita, Moctezuma,


Mineral Species

Leadhillite Image


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Images: Leadhillite

Comments: Clear crystal of leadhillite onmatrix.

Location: Leadhills, Lanark, Scotland.Scale: Not Given.


Lechatelierite Image

Images: Lechatelierite Trinitite

Comments: Fused silica sand (trinitite)generated by the first nuclear (fission)

bomb. Although man-made and not avalid 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 legranditeon 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 legranditepartially 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 ofleifite in syenite rock.


Mineral Species

Leifite Image


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Images: Leifite

Comments: Snow white, prismatic, crystalaggregate of leifite.

Location: Poudrette Quarry, Mont St. Hilaire,Quebec, Canada. Scale: 3x1cm.


Leightonite Image

Images: Leightonite

Comments: Pale Leightonite with darkgreen atacamite.

Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,Chile. Scale: Not Given.


Leisingite Image

Images: Leisingite

Comments: Very small yellow crystal ofLeisingite on quartz.



Leiteite Image

Images: Leiteite

Comments: Specimen of leiteite withinclusions of ludlockite. This Leiteite

specimen varies from 1 to 3.5 mm inthickness.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: 3.7 x 1.3 cm.© John Veevaert

Lemanskiite Image

Images: Lemanskiite

Comments: Electric blue lemanskiite sprayson 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 pyramidalcrystals of lemmleinite-Ba with greenish

aegirine crystals.Location: Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif,

Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 3


Lemmleinite-K Image

Images: Lemmleinite-K

Comments: Transparent, pyramidal crystalsof lemmleinite-K on matrix.



Lemoynite Image

Images: Lemoynite

Comments: Yellowish white, radial,spherical spray of prismatic Lemoynitecrystals to 5mm in diameter on matrix.

Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec,Canada. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.


Lengenbachite Image

Images: Lengenbachite

Comments: Shiny, opaque crystalline sprayof lengenbachite on white dolomite?.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Lengenbachite Image

Images: Lengenbachite

Comments: Metallic gray, thin plates andsheets of lengenbachite in a vug in white


Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture width 1.2cm.

© Walter Gabriel

Lennilenapeite Image


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Images: Lennilenapeite

Comments: Dark greenish brownsub-metallic micaceous lennilenapeite in

white calcite.Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New


Mineral Species

Lenoblite Image

Images: Lenoblite

Comments: Yellow coating of lenoblite onuraninite.

Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon.Scale: See Photo.


Leogangite Image

Images: Leogangite

Comments: Cotype sample of leogangite(A. Strasser) showing the thin tabular habit

parallel to (100). (Mineralogy andPetrology, 81:190).

Location: Mine dumps of the Danielstollenand Inschlagalm in the Schwarzleo valley,both part of the polymetallic ore district ofLeogang, Salzburg province, Austria. Scale:

See Image.© Mineralogy and Petrology

Leonite Image

Images: Leonite

Comments: Translucent pale yellowcrystalline massive leonite, with white

alteration coating.Location: Near Carlsbad, Eddy County,

New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Lepidocrocite Image

Images: Lepidocrocite

Comments: Translucent, red-brown crystals oflepidocrocite lining cavities in gossan matrix.

Location: Eisenzecher Zug Mine, Eiserfeld, SiegenDistrict, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Scale:

7x5x3 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals


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Lepidolite Image

Images: Lepidolite

Comments: Pale lavender micaceousplates of lepidolite on matrix.

Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: NotGiven.


Lesukite Image

Images: Lesukite

Comments: Yellow to orange-yellowlesukite.

Location: Deutschlandschacht Mine,Oelsnitz, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Letovicite Image

Images: Letovicite

Comments: Pearly opaque whitecrystalline letovicite on matrix.

Location: Kladno, Stredocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Leucite Image

Images: Leucite

Comments: Large single crystal of dark grayleucite.

Location: Roccamonfina, Caserta Province,Campania, Italy. Scale: 20x20x20 mm.


Leucophanite Image

Images: Leucophanite

Comments: Pseudo-cubic crystals ofleucophanite.



Leucophoenicite Image


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Images: Leucophoenicite

Comments: Cinnamon brown crystals ofleucophoenicite over deep reddish pink

crystals of rhodochrosite.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: 8 x 4.2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Leucophosphite Image

Images: Leucophosphite Messelite

Comments: White messelite crystals withgreenish leucophosphite.




Images: Leucophosphite

Comments: Transparent greenish brownmicrocrystal of leucophosphite.

Location: Lone Tree Mine, HumboldtCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species


Images: Leucophosphite

Comments: Crude or etched purplecrystals of leucophospiite to 1mm in vuggy

triphylite matrix.Location: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South

Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Leucosphenite Image

Images: Leucosphenite

Comments: Glassy crystal of leucosphenitein mudstone.

Location: Uintah Basin, Uintah County, Utah,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Levinsonite-(Y) Image


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Images: Levinsonite-(Y)

Comments: Colorless thick tabular crystalof levinsonite-(Y).

Location: Alum Cave Bluff, Great SmokyMts, Tennessee, USA. Scale: Picture size 1


Levyne-Ca Image

Images: Levyne-Ca

Comments: Vesicle in basalt matrix linedwith white levyne crystals.

Location: Beech Creek Quarry, MountVernon, Grant Co., Oregon, USA. Scale:


Liandratite Image

Images: Liandratite

Comments: Yellow crystalline liandratitecrust on pegmatite.

Location: Antsakoa I Pegmatite, nearBerere, Mahajanga, Madagascar. Scale:


Mineral Species

Libethenite Image

Images: Libethenite

Comments: Rich pine green crystals oflibethenite 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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Liddicoatite Image


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Images: Liddicoatite

Comments: Dark green translucentliddicoatite crystal prism.

Location: Antandrokomby, Madagascar.Scale: See Photo.


Liddicoatite Image

Images: Liddicoatite

Comments: Complexly colored red zone, and theskin which varies from green to yellow terminated

crystals of liddicoatite.Location: Anjanabonoina, Betafo, Antsirab?

Madagascar. Scale: Specimen size: 3.3 x 1.8 x 1.5cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Liebigite Image

Images: Liebigite

Comments: Yellow liebigite crystals onQuartz.

Location: Le Bosc, Lodeve, Herault, France.Scale: 1.5 x 1 cm.© John Veevaert

Liebigite Image

Images: Liebigite Voglite

Comments: Green voglite with yellowliebigite.


Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picturesize 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 lillianitein clear quartz.

Location: Gladhammar, Kalmar, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Linarite Image

Images: Linarite

Comments: Deep blue prismatic crystals oflinarite on matrix.

Location: Mammoth mine, Tiger, PinalCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Linarite Image

Images: Linarite Macphersonite

Comments: Colorless macphersonite withblue linarite.

Location: Leadhills, Strathclyde, Scotland,UK. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.


Linarite Image

Images: Linarite Schulenbergite

Comments: Light greenish rosettes ofschulenbergite with small green crystals oframsbeckite and blue crystals of linarite.



Linarite Image

Images: Linarite Brochantite

Comments: Deep blue, acicular, linaritewith light blue, globular brochantite on

white quartz.Location: Goulmina, Er Rachidia, Morroco.

Scale: Crystal size 1.5 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Linarite Image


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Images: Linarite

Comments: Deep blue, blocky, linarite crystalblades 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 oflindackerite.




Lindbergite Image

Images: Lindbergite Rockbridgeite

Comments: Rare organic mineral -lindbergite (Mn dihydrate oxalate) in white

patches on rockbridgeite matrix.Location: Boca Rica mine, Sapucaia doNorte, Gilileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:

Spot size 1 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Lindbergite Image

Images: Lindbergite

Comments: Secondary electron image ofinterlocked irregularly contoured platelets

of lindbergite. (AmMin v 89, p 1088).Location: Boca Rica mine, Sapucaia doNorte, Gilileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:


Lindgrenite Image

Images: Lindgrenite

Comments: Transparent green plates oflindgrenite on matrix.



Lindstromite Image


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Images: Lindstromite

Comments: Silvery metallic lindstromite onmatrix.

Location: Silver Miller Mine, Cobalt, Ontario,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Linnaeite Image

Images: Linnaeite

Comments: Brassy metallic octahedralcrystal of linnaeite on matrix.

Location: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. Scale:Not Given.


Lintisite Image

Images: Lintisite Serandite

Comments: Yellowish-white fibrous veinletsof lintisite in brown serandite.

Location: Mount Alluaiv, Lovozero Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Liottite Image

Images: Liottite

Comments: Transparent colorless liottitecrystal on vesuvianite.

Location: Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany,Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Lipscombite Image

Images: Lipscombite

Comments: Light to dark green botryoidallipscombite crust on rock.

Location: Valmy, Humboldt County,Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Liroconite Image


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Images: Liroconite

Comments: Large crystals of liroconite upto 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.


Mineral Species

Litharge Image

Images: Litharge Massicot

Comments: Dark red litharge withbrownish-yellow scaly massicot and white

cerussite.Location: Patagonia, Santa Cruz County,


Mineral Species

Lithiomarsturite Image

Images: Lithiomarsturite Lithiophosphate

Comments: Tan-brown lithiomarsturite withcream-colored lithiophosphate in matrix.

Location: Foote Mine, Kings Mtn, NorthCarolina, USA. Scale: 2" x 3".

© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Lithiophilite Image

Images: Lithiophilite

Comments: Twinned crystals of yellowishbrown lithiophilite.



Lithiophilite Image

Images: Lithiophilite Sicklerite

Comments: Mottled tan-green-pinkmassive sicklerite with dark brown

lithiophilite on quartz.Location: Custer Mountain Lode, Custer


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County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Lithiophilite Image

Images: Lithiophilite Triploidite

Comments: Salmon-colored prismaticcrystalline triploidite with brown lithiophilite.

Location: Capoeira Mine, near Parelhas,Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Lithiophorite Image

Images: Lithiophorite

Comments: Black Lithiophorite cementinggravel.

Location: P?hlberg, Annaberg - Buchholz,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:

Specimen size 6 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Lithiophosphate Image

Images: Lithiophosphate Lithiomarsturite

Comments: Tan-brown lithiomarsturite withcream-colored lithiophosphate in matrix.

Location: Foote Mine, Kings Mtn, NorthCarolina, USA. Scale: 2" x 3".


Lithiowodginite Image

Images: Lithiowodginite

Comments: Black crystalline grains oflithiowodginite in pegmatite.

Location: Tanco Mine, Bernic Lake,Manitoba, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Lithosite Image


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Images: Lithosite

Comments: Transparent nearly colorlesslithosite in syenite rock.

Location: Vuonnemiok River, Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Litidionite Image

Images: Litidionite

Comments: Bright blue crystalline litidionitefragment.



Litvinskite Image

Images: Litvinskite

Comments: Dark cherry-red litv inskite inmatrix.

Location: Shkatulka pegmatite, Umbozeromine, Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola



Liveingite Image

Images: Liveingite

Comments: Deep blue striated prismatic crystal ofliveingite on a white dolomite matrix.

Location: Lengenbach quarry Binntal, Valais,Switzerland. Scale: Not Given.


Liveingite Image

Images: Liveingite Seligmannite

Comments: Black prismatic seligmannitecrystals with crystalline black liveingite.



Liveingite Image


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Images: Liveingite

Comments: Strongly striated, metallic grayliveingite crystal on white dolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais,Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Livingstonite Image

Images: Livingstonite

Comments: Dark brown, acicular-columnar crystals of liv ingstonite in

anhydrite.Location: Guerrero, Mexico. Scale: 2x3 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Lizardite Image

Images: Lizardite

Comments: Lizardite pseudomorphouslyreplacing oliv ine.

Location: Snarum, Norway. Scale: 2x2 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Lollingite Image

Images: Lollingite

Comments: Sharp, twinned crystalsL?llingite on matrix.

Location: Oruro, Oruro Department, Boliv ia.Scale: Not Given.


Lomonosovite Image

Images: Lomonosovite

Comments: Aegerine schist with reddishcrystalline grains of lomonosovite.Location: Ilimaussaq, Kvanefjeld,

Greenland. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Lomonosovite Image

Images: Lomonosovite Bornemanite

Comments: Yellow crystalline bornemanitein dark brown lomonosovite.

Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, LovozeroMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,


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Mineral Species

Londonite Image

Images: Londonite

Comments: A dodecahedral crystal oflondonite.

Location: Antandrokomby pegmatite,Manandona valley, Sahatany Valley,

Betafo - Antsirab? region, AntananarivoProvince, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 7


Londonite Image

Images: Londonite

Comments: A yellow , lustrous, welldeveloped londonite crystal 1.2 cm. on

matrix.Location: Antandrokomby, Sahatany

valley, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 1.2cm.


Lonsdaleite Image

Images: Lonsdaleite

Comments: a) A Reflected lightphotograph of lonsdaleite and unidentified

polymorph (New Phase) with leadcomtamination. b) synchrotron X-ray

diffraction, imaging and X-ray fluorescencefine-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 cubicloparite-(Ce) about 7 mm. across on

phoenite matrix.Location: Flora Mt., Lovosero massif, KolaPeninsula, 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.


Lopezite Image

Images: Lopezite

Comments: yellowish granular lopezite.Location: Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Lorandite Image

Images: Lorandite Fangite

Comments: Brown crystals of fangite withred lorandite.



Lorandite Image

Images: Lorandite

Comments: Gemmy, transparent reddishbrown crystals of lorandite on matrix.

Location: Allchar, near Majdan,Macedonia. Scale: Not Given.


Lorenzenite Image

Images: Lorenzenite Orthoclase

Comments: Striated, dark violet crystal oflorenzenite in cream-colored orthoclase.Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,

Russia. Scale: 1.3 x 1.2 cm.© John Veevaert

Lorenzenite Image


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Images: Lorenzenite Vuonnemite

Comments: Square vuonnemite crystalwith brown, lorenzenite crystals in syenite

rock.Location: Ilimaussaq, Greenland. Scale:


Mineral Species

Lorettoite Image

Images: Lorettoite

Comments: Orange crystalline lorettoite inmatrix.

Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat,Otjozondjuba, Namibia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Lotharmeyerite Image

Images: Lotharmeyerite

Comments: Brown, prismatic crystalslotharmeyerite on matrix.

Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango,Mexico. Scale: Not Given.


Loughlinite Image

Images: Loughlinite Bradleyite

Comments: Silky fibrous veinlets ofloughlinite with bradleyite.

Location: Green River area, SweetwaterCounty, Wyoming, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Lourenswalsite Image

Images: Lourenswalsite Aegirine

Comments: Light brownish rosettes oflourenswalsite with dark green crystals of

aegirine and white feldspar.Location: Diamond Jo quarry, MagnetCove, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas, USA.


Lovdarite Image


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Images: Lovdarite

Comments: Bright white crystal sprays oflovdarite on fine-grained white natrolite.Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Mount

Karnasurt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmansk, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Lovozerite Image

Images: Lovozerite

Comments: Pinkish lovozerite with redcrystalline eudialyte.

Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, KhibinyMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,


Mineral Species

Loweite Image

Images: Loweite

Comments: Opaque white crystallinel?weite with clear colorless halite.

Location: Wilhelmshall, near Stassfurt,Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Luanheite Image

Images: Luanheite

Comments: Inclusions of luanheite, intellurium, in quartz.

Location: Mina Bambolla, Moctezuma,Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Ludjibaite Image

Images: Ludjibaite

Comments: Coating of intense blue-greenmicrocrystals and crystalline ludjibaite.

Location: Shituru, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: SeePhoto.



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Ludlamite Image

Images: Ludlamite

Comments: crystal group of Ludlamite.Location: Huanuni Mine, Oruro Department,

Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 x 1 cm.© John Veevaert

Ludlockite Image

Images: Ludlockite

Comments: Acicular crystals of red-orangeludlockite on quartz and chalcocite.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Crystal size 0.4 cm.

© John Veevaert

Ludwigite Image

Images: Ludwigite

Comments: Limonitic matrix with bluecrystals of ludwigite.

Location: Simms Pass, Lemhi County, Idaho,USA. Scale: Crystal size 9 mm.

© John Veevaert

Ludwigite Image

Images: Ludwigite Chestermanite

Comments: Black capillary crystals ofludwigite with green inclusions ofchestermanite in impure marble.

Location: Near Potter Pass, Fresno County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Ludwigite Image

Images: Ludwigite

Comments: Bright black, radial fibrousaggregates 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 crystallineluetheite crust on altering rock matrix.

Location: Patagonia, Santa Cruz County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Lulzacite Image

Images: Lulzacite

Comments: Dark gray siderite with grayishgreen 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.


Lyonsite Image

Images: Lyonsite

Comments: Black, prismatic crystals oflyonsite in matrix.






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Macdonaldite Image

Images: Macdonaldite

Comments: Bright white flattened radialmacdonaldite aggregate on quartz.Location: Rush Creek, Fresno County,


Mineral Species

Macfallite Image

Images: Macfallite Johnsenite-(Ce)Braunite-I





Mackayite Image

Images: Mackayite

Comments: Greenish brown crystals ofmackayite on matrix.

Location: McGuinnity shaft, Goldfield,Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA. Scale:


Mackinawite Image

Images: Mackinawite

Comments: Mackinawite inclusions insulfide ore (polished specimen).

Location: Mackinaw Mine, SnohomishCounty, Washington, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Macphersonite Image

Images: Macphersonite Linarite

Comments: Colorless macphersonite withblue linarite.

Location: Leadhills, Strathclyde, Scotland,UK. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.


Macquartite Image


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Images: Macquartite

Comments: Straw-like prismatic yellowmicro crystals of macquartite to about

0.5mm on matrix.Location: Mammoth - St. Anthony mine,

Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picturesize 5 mm.


Macquartite Image

Images: Macquartite

Comments: Bright yellow, prismatic crystalsof macquartite in radial sprays to 0.75mm.

Location: Tiger, Mammoth district, PinalCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 5


Madocite Image

Images: Madocite

Comments: Gray metallic massivemadocite fragment.

Location: Madoc, Ontario, Canada. Scale:See Photo.


Magadiite Image

Images: Magadiite Rhodesite

Comments: Earth pale tan massivemagadiite with dark yellow crystalline

rhodesite.Location: East Fork, Trinity River, Trinity


Mineral Species

Maghemite Image

Images: Maghemite

Comments: Fine-grained massivemaghemite intermixed with hematite.

Location: Gara Djebilet, Algeria. Scale: SeePhoto.


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 crystallinemagnesioaubertite with white pickeringite.Location: Grotto di Faraglione, Vulcano,

Sicily, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Magnesiochromite Image

Images: Magnesiochromite

Comments: Black crystallinemagnesiochromite grains in serpentinite.

Location: Red Pit, Fulton Township,Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.


Mineral Species

Magnesioclinoholmquistite Image

Images: MagnesioclinoholmquistiteClinoholmquistite Fluoro-sodic-pedrizite





Mineral Species

Magnesiocopiapite Image

Images: Magnesiocopiapite Guildite

Comments: Brown granular guildite withgreenish yellow magnesiocopiapite.



Mineral Species


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Magnesiocopiapite Image

Images: Magnesiocopiapite

Comments: Pale yellow opaqueaggregate of magnesiocopiapite.

Location: Denver Mine, Santa Cruz County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Magnesioferrite Image

Images: Magnesioferrite Diopside

Comments: Very dark brown MagnesioferritePleonaste (Iron-Magnesium spinel) with cream

colored Calcite and gray green diopside.Location: Aldan, Gon River, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5


Magnesioferrite Image

Images: Magnesioferrite Bromellite

Comments: A micro, water color,hexagonal or barrel shaped crystal ofwhite bromellite to about 0.3 mm on

yellowish calcite with associated blackmagnesioferrite.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: 18x9x10mm.


Magnesiofoitite Image

Images: Magnesiofoitite

Comments: Aggregate of greenish-brownacicular crystals of magnesiofoitite.Location: Kyonosawa, Mitomi-mura,

Yamanashi prefecture, Chubu region,Honshu island, Japan. Scale: Picture size 5


Magnesiohastingsite Image

Images: Magnesiohastingsite

Comments: Dark black-brown crystallinemassive magnesiohastingsite.

Location: Afrikanda Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species


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Magnesiohornblende Image

Images: Magnesiohornblende Hornblende

Comments: Dark greenish-black massivemagnesiohornblende.


Magnesiohulsite Image

Images: Magnesiohulsite

Comments: Green fibrous massivemagnesiohulsite.

Location: Itenyurgin, Chukot Peninsula,Magadan District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Magnesiokatophorite Image

Images: Magnesiokatophorite

Comments: Black crystallinemagnesiokatophorite in syenite.

Location: Kipiwa Complex, Quebec,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Magnesioriebeckite Image

Images: Magnesioriebeckite

Comments: Crystal of magnesioriebeckiteshowing massive and asbestosform habits.

Location: Cochabamba Dept, Boliv ia.Scale: 2.5 cm.© John Attard

Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S Image

Images: Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S Taaffeite

Comments: Faucetted purplemagnesiotaaffeite. These specimens are

very rare and un-cut samples ever rarer..Location: Ceylon gem gravels, Ratnapura,

Sri Lanka. Scale: See Image.© Dave Barthelmy

Magnesiotaramite Image


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Images: Magnesiotaramite

Comments: Dark blue granular massivemagnesiotaramite.

Location: Liset, Selje, Sogn og Fjordane,Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Magnesite Image

Images: Magnesite

Comments: Magnesite crystal group. Thecrystals 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 octahedralcrystals of magnetite on matrix.

Location: Isle of Ischia, near Naples,Compania, Italy. Scale: Not Given.


Magnetite Image

Images: Magnetite Nordenskioldine

Comments: Colorless to white bladedcrystals of nordenski?ldine with black

magnetite.Location: P?hla-Tellerh?user Gallery, P?hla,Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Magnetite Image

Images: Magnetite Chesterite

Comments: Green platy chesterite inblack, metallic magnetite.

Location: Near Missoula, Missoula County,Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Magnetoplumbite Image


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Images: Magnetoplumbite

Comments: Black magnetoplumbitemasses in calcite.



Magniotriplite Image

Images: Magniotriplite

Comments: Red-brown crystallinemagniotriplite masses in pegmatite.

Location: Kyrk-Bulak pegmatite,Turkestanskij Range, Os, Kyrgyzstan. Scale:


Mineral Species

Magnussonite Image

Images: Magnussonite

Comments: Bright green crystallinemagnussonite grains with willemite.



Mineral Species

Mahnertite Image

Images: Mahnertite

Comments: Blue mahnertite in quartz.Location: Cap Garonne Mine, Pradet, Var,

Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France.Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.


Makatite Image

Images: Makatite

Comments: Thin white bladed crystals ofmakatite.

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 ofmakatite 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 pyramidalazurite 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 ofdemesmaekerite on dark green malachite.


Crystal Size 3mm.© John Veevaert

Malachite Image

Images: Malachite Devilline

Comments: Blue crystals of devilline ongreen, 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


Malayaite Image


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Images: Malayaite

Comments: Pale bluish colored malayaite undervisible and SWUV light.

Location: Red-a-Ven Mine, Meldon, Okehampton,Devon, Great Britain. Scale: 3.7 x 2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Maleevite Image

Images: Maleevite

Comments: Backscatter elecron images of(a) an intergrowth of maleevite (Mal) andquartz (Qtz) and unknown Y-silicate (Y-Si);(b) maleevite (Mal) in arfvedsonite andastrophyllite (Astr) (CanMin, v 42, p 109).

Location: Moraine of the Dara-i-Piozglacier, Alai range, Tien Shan, northern

Tajikistan. Scale: See Image.© Canadian Mineralogist

Malhmoodite Image

Images: Malhmoodite

Comments: Small white aggregate ofmalhmoodite on matrix.

Location: Union Carbide Mine, WilsonSprings (Potash Sulfur Springs), Garland Co.,

Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Malinkoite Image

Images: Malinkoite

Comments: White to clear glassy micocrystals 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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Malladrite Image

Images: Malladrite Avogadrite

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


Malladrite Image


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Images: Malladrite Avogadrite

Comments: Yellow-orange crystallinemalladrite with pinkish white avogadrite.



Mallestigite Image

Images: Mallestigite

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystals ofmallestigite.

Location: Mallestiger Mittagskogel,Finkenstein, Villach, Carinthia, Austria.


Mammothite Image

Images: Mammothite

Comments: Sparse blue crystallinemammothite in slag.

Location: Laurium, Attiki, Greece. Scale:See Photo.


Manandonite Image

Images: Manandonite

Comments: Massive manandonite withcrystals to 2 mm.

Location: Manandona River, SahatanyValley, Madagascar. Scale: 2.2 x 1.3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Manasseite Image

Images: Manasseite

Comments: Brownish yellow crystal ofmanasseite on dolomite matrix.

Location: Jacupiranga mine, Jacupiranga,Sao Paolo, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.


Mandarinoite Image


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Images: Mandarinoite

Comments: Specimen of solidmanandonite with crystals to 2 mm.

Location: Manandona River, SahatanyValley, Madagascar. Scale: 2.2 x 1.3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Mangan-neptunite Image

Images: Mangan-neptunite

Comments: Dark brown crystal ofmangan-neptunite on matrix.Location: Kibblehouse quarry,

Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, USA. Scale:Not Given.


Mangan-neptunite Image

Images: Mangan-neptunite Shkatulkalite

Comments: Pearly white shkatulkalite withbrown mangan-neptunite grains.


Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.


Manganaxinite Image

Images: Manganaxinite

Comments: Dark brown crystal ofmanganaxinite on matrix.

Location: Kibblehouse quarry,Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, USA. Scale:


Manganbabingtonite Image

Images: Manganbabingtonite

Comments: Brownish blackmanganbabingtonite 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 blackishmanganbelyankinite coatings on syenite

rock.Location: Punkurvaiv, Lovozero Massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale:


Mineral Species

Manganberzeliite Image

Images: Manganberzeliite

Comments: Orange translucent crystallinemanganberzeliite in clear calcite.



Manganese-hornesite Image

Images: Manganese-hornesite

Comments: Micro, white, needles ofmanganese-hornesite to about 0.75mm on

hausmannite-rich matrix.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.

Scale: 5.5 x 4 x 2.5cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Mangangordonite Image

Images: Mangangordonite

Comments: White, blocky crystal ofmangangordonite to 0.5mm on matrix.Location: Foote mine, Cleveland Co.,

North Carolina, USA. Scale: Picture size 5mm.


Manganilvaite Image

Images: Manganilvaite IMA2002-016

Comments: Small, black, very bright crystalsof 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 ofmanganite to 0.75 cm.



Manganite Image

Images: Manganite Sudoite

Comments: Pinkish to nearly white earthysudoite with dark manganite.

Location: Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Erfurt district,Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture


Manganite Image

Images: Manganite Vaterite Defernite



Mineral Species

Manganlotharmeyerite Image

Images: Manganlotharmeyerite

Comments: Scanning electron micrographof subparallel crystals ofmanganlotharmeyerite.

Location: Massive braunite ores at theStarlera Mn deposit in the Eastern Alps of

Switzerland. Scale: See Picture.© Canadian Mineralogist

Manganocolumbite Image

Images: Manganocolumbite

Comments: Small brown tabular crystals ofmanganocolumbite 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 fibrousmanganocummingtonite.



Manganogrunerite Image

Images: Manganogrunerite

Comments: Brown fibrous massive, ironstained manganogrunerite.

Location: Hallefors, Orebro, Sweden. Scale:See Photo.


Manganokukisvumite Image

Images: Manganokukisvumite

Comments: Scanning electronphotomicrograph of manganokukisvumite.

(CanMin, v 42 , p 782).Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.


Manganosite Image

Images: Manganosite

Comments: Dark green manganosite inmatrix.

Location: Nordmark, Filipstad, V?rmland,Sweden. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Manganotantalite Image

Images: Manganotantalite

Comments: Floater crystal of doublyterminated, brilliant, with a little red tint

manganotantalite.Location: Pech, Kunar, Afganistan. Scale: 5.5 x 7


Manganotapiolite Image


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Images: Manganotapiolite

Comments: Black opaque resinous massivemanganotapiolite.

Location: Skogbole Mine, Kimito, Turku jaPori, Finland. Scale: See Photo.


Manganotychite Image

Images: Manganotychite Aegirine

Comments: Pale rose-tan granularmanganotychite with black aegirine prism.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Manganpyrosmalite Image

Images: Manganpyrosmalite

Comments: Greenish brown, blockycrystals of manganpyrosmalite in matrix.Individual crystals are up to 7 mm long.

Location: Nordmark, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: Picture size 5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Manganpyrosmalite Image

Images: Manganpyrosmalite

Comments: Hexagonal, light browncrystals 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 MnField, North Cape Province, South Africa.


Manjiroite Image


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Images: Manjiroite

Comments: Dark brownish black massivesample 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 ofmansfieldite.

Location: Cap Garonne Mine, Pradet, Var,Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France.


Marcasite Image

Images: Marcasite

Comments: Metallic, brassy-coloredmarcasite with minor translucent quartz

and white dolomite.Location: Panasqueira (3rd level), in theregion of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale: 8 x

5.5 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Marecottite Image

Images: Marecottite

Comments: SEM image of a typicalmarecottite aggregate. Note the perfect

cleavage along (011) and the trace of thetwin composition plane (arrow). (AmMin, v

88, p 678).Location: La Creusaz, Swiss Alps. Scale: See

Image.© American Mineralogist

Margaritasite Image


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Images: Margaritasite

Comments: Bright yellow earthymargaritasite crust on rhyolite.

Location: Margaritas Open Pit Mine, SierraPena Blanca, Chihuahua,. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Margarite Image

Images: Margarite

Comments: Beige, massive, fibrous/foliatedaggregate of margarite crystals.

Location: Long Hill/Old Tungsten Mine inTrumbull, Connecticut, USA. Scale: 10 x 5

cm.© Walter Mroch / Gem and Mineral

Exploration Company

Margarosanite Image

Images: Margarosanite MinehilliteWollastonite-1A

Comments: White pearly crystallineminehillite with white margarosanite and

dark gray lead, in pale pink opaquewollastonite (distinguished by blue-white

fluorescence).Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New


Mineral Species

Margarosanite Image

Images: Margarosanite

Comments: Clear or white, long, thinbladed crystals of margarosanite on

matrix.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.

Scale: Crystal size 1cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Marialite Image

Images: Marialite

Comments: Fully terminated 4.3 cm crystal ofmarialite. 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 withinternal radiating structure, with blue

vivianite.Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory,


Mineral Species

Maricopaite Image

Images: Maricopaite

Comments: Opaque white prismaticmaricopaite microcrystals and yellow

crystalline mimetite.Location: Moon Anchor Mine, near

Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA.Scale: See Photo.


Marokite Image

Images: Marokite

Comments: Dark brown crystalline massivemarokite.

Location: vein #2, Tachgagalt, Ouarzazet,Morocco. Scale: See Photo.


Marrite Image

Images: Marrite

Comments: A prismatic crystal of marritewith small rounded crystals of galena in

quartz.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picturesize 1.3 mm.


Marrite Image

Images: Marrite Jordanite

Comments: Aggregate of gray prismatic crystals ofmarrite on fine-grained jordanite.


© Walter Gabriel


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Marshite Image

Images: Marshite

Comments: Translucent tetragonal crystalof marshite on matrix.



Marsturite Image

Images: Marsturite

Comments: Orange scaly marsturite onmatrix.

Location: Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia,Genoa, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Marthozite Image

Images: Marthozite

Comments: Yellowish green coating ofmarthozite on matrix.


Not Given.© John Veevaert

Marthozite Image

Images: Marthozite

Comments: Olive green crystal ofmarthozite showing multiple face

development on main crystal.Schumacher Collection.

Location: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Westernarea, Shaba Cu belt, Shaba (Katanga),Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Mascagnite Image

Images: Mascagnite

Comments: White, botryoidal mascagnite.Location: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden,


Maslovite Image


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Images: Maslovite Froodite Altaite




Mineral Species

Massicot Image

Images: Massicot

Comments: Small nugget of reddish-yellowmassicot.

Location: Wytheville, Wythe Co., Virginia,USA. Scale: 18x10x5 mm.


Massicot Image

Images: Massicot Litharge

Comments: Dark red litharge withbrownish-yellow scaly massicot and white

cerussite.Location: Patagonia, Santa Cruz County,


Mineral Species

Masutomilite Image

Images: Masutomilite

Comments: Transparent to translucentmicaceous pale violet masutomilite with

yellow iron stains.Location: Hisu Kawa Mine, Gifu, Japan.


Mineral Species

Masuyite Image

Images: Masuyite

Comments: Bright reddish orange crystalsof masuyite.



Masuyite Image


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Images: Masuyite

Comments: Dark reddish brown aggregate ofmasuyite with green metatorbernite on matrix.

Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 2


Matildite Image

Images: Matildite

Comments: Gray platy metallic crystallinematildite in white quartz.

Location: Sullivan Mountain, MontezumaDistrict, Summit County, Colorado, USA.


Mineral Species

Matlockite Image

Images: Matlockite

Comments: Pale cream colored rosettes ofmatlockite crystals on matrix.



Matsubaraite Image

Images: Matsubaraite

Comments: Minute, dark grains ofmatsubaraite in a very pale green jadeite

matrix.Location: Itoigawa-Ohmi, Niigata

Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© American Mineralogist

Mattagamite Image

Images: Mattagamite AltaiteTellurantimony




Mineral Species

Matulaite Image


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Images: Matulaite

Comments: Opaque white pearlycrystalline matulaite coating on quartz and

brown limonite.Location: Bachman Iron Mine, Hellertown,Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA.


Mineral Species

Maucherite Image

Images: Maucherite

Comments: Massive, fine-grained, darkmaucherite with cream-colored barite.

Location: Eisleben, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 8


Maucherite Image

Images: Maucherite

Comments: Reddish, semi-metallicaggregate 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 inquartz.



Mineral Species

Mawsonite Image

Images: Mawsonite

Comments: Mawsonite inclusions in brassyyellow chalcopyrite.

Location: Mount Lyell, Queenstown,Tasmania, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Maxwellite Image


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Images: Maxwellite

Comments: Minute red translucentmaxwellite crystal in rhyolite.

Location: Squaw Creek Tin Mine, BlackRange, Catron County, New Mexico, USA.


Mineral Species

Mazzettiite Image

Images: Mazzettiite

Comments: Back-scattered electronphotograph (SEM) of mazzettiite (M),

associated with altaite (A), galena (G) andquartz (Q).

Location: Museum specimen in theMineralogical Collection of the Institut royal

des Sciences naturelles de Belgique,Bruxelles (Belgium). Findlay Gulch,

Saguache Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: SeeImage.


Mazzite Image

Images: Mazzite

Comments: Clear colorless microcrystalsand crystalline mazzite in vug.

Location: Mont Simiol, Loire, France. Scale:See Photo.


Mbobomkulite Image

Images: Mbobomkulite

Comments: White earthy mbobomkulite.Location: Jomac Uranium mine, White

Canyon, San Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale:Picture size 3.5 mm.


Mcallisterite Image

Images: Mcallisterite

Comments: Tan to white opaque porousaggregate of mcallisterite.

Location: Qinghai, China. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species


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Mcalpineite Image

Images: Mcalpineite

Comments: Dark green crystals ofmcalpineite in matrix.



Mcgillite Image

Images: Mcgillite

Comments: Pink crystalline mcgillite withgalena.

Location: Near Kimberley, KootenayDistrict, British Columbia, Canada. Scale:


Mineral Species

Mcgovernite Image

Images: Mcgovernite

Comments: Golden sub-metallicmicaceous mcgovernite with black

franklinite, red willemite, and white calcite.Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New


Mineral Species

Mcguinnessite Image

Images: Mcguinnessite

Comments: Cotton ball clusters of vividblue mcguinnessite crystals on matrix.Location: Miners Ridge, Red Mountain,

Mendocino County, California, USA. Scale:Not Given.


Mcguinnessite Image

Images: Mcguinnessite Vuagnatite

Comments: Translucent colorlessvuagnatite microcrystals with

mcguinnessite.Location: Near Red Mountain, MendocinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Mckinstryite Image


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Images: Mckinstryite Silver

Comments: Black metallic massivemckinstryite with wire silver.

Location: Peregrina Mine, Guanajuato,Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Mcnearite Image

Images: Mcnearite

Comments: Crystalline mcnearite microbotryoids on matrix.

Location: Gabbe Gottes, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haute-Rhin, France. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Medaite Image

Images: Medaite

Comments: Orange crystalline medaitecrust.

Location: Molinello Mine, near Chiavari,Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Meionite Image

Images: Meionite

Comments: Clear meionite crystal onmatrix.



Meionite Image

Images: Meionite Kaliophilite

Comments: Tan to white fibrous kaliophilitecrystal bundle with white translucent

meionite on matrix.Location: Mont Somma, Naples,

Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Meixnerite Image


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Images: Meixnerite

Comments: Colorless crystals of meixnerite.Location: Zeilberg Quarry, Maroldsweisach,

Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5mm.


Melanocerite-(Ce) Image

Images: Melanocerite-(Ce)

Comments: Black, v itreous, crystallineaggregates 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, transparentMelanophlogite crystals.

Location: Racalmuto, Sicily, Italy. Scale:Not Given.


Melanotekite Image

Images: Melanotekite

Comments: Black metallic granularmelanotekite with reddish brown

andradite.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.


Mineral Species

Melanothallite Image

Images: Melanothallite Chloromenite

Comments: Olive green crystallinechloromenite on blue-green

melanothallite.Location: North Break, Second Cone of

main fracture eruption, Tolbachik Volcano,Kamchatka District, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Melanothallite Image


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Images: Melanothallite

Comments: Bluish green melanothallite grain.Location: North Break, Second Cone, MainEruption Site, Tolbachik, Kamchatka District,Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Melanovanadite Image

Images: Melanovanadite

Comments: Dark greenish-blackfine-grained massive melanovanadite.Location: Minas Ragra, near Cerro dePasco, Junin, Peru. Scale: See Photo.


Melanterite Image

Images: Melanterite

Comments: Deep greenish blueencrustation of melanterite. The pistanite

variety is copper-bearing where Cureplaces 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-beercolored melilite crystal with clear

nepheline.Location: Udersdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate,

Germany. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Melilite Image

Images: Melilite Monticellite

Comments: Thin-section image ofmonticellite interstitial between unaltered

melilite crystals (CanMin v. 41. p 1259).Location: Skarns along the contact of a

diorite intrusion at Oravit?a, Banat, inRomania. Scale: Field of View 2.7 mm.


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Images: Meliphanite

Comments: Honey yellow, translucentsample 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: SeePhoto.


Mendipite Image

Images: Mendipite Crednerite

Comments: Sooty, deep-black, granular toplaty crednerite with mendipite.

Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.Scale: See Photo.


Mendipite Image

Images: Mendipite ChloroxiphiteCrednerite



Mineral Species

Mendipite Image


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Images: Mendipite CredneriteChloroxiphite




Mineral Species

Mendozavilite Image

Images: Mendozavilite

Comments: Vuggy matrix covered withyellow 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 ofmendozavilite and earthy alterations invuggy quartz matrix with black schorl.

Location: Rustler mine, Tooele Co., Utah,USA. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Mendozite Image

Images: Mendozite

Comments: White chalky massivemendozite.

Location: Gold Bottom Mine, Inyo County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Meneghinite Image

Images: Meneghinite

Comments: Black, acicular crystals ofmeneghinite on matrix.

Location: Bottino Mine, Tuscany, Italy.Scale: 1x1 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Menezesite Image


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Images: Menezesite IMA2005-023

Comments: Orange rhombododecahedralcrystals 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 powderyaggregate of mercallite.



Mercury Image

Images: Mercury

Comments: Silvery metallic mercurycoatings on quartz.

Location: Socrates Mine, Sonoma County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Mercury Image

Images: Mercury

Comments: Small silvery droplets ofmercury on tan-colored rock matrix.

Location: Sonoma Co., California, USA.Scale: Picture size 5 cm.

© Kevin Ward

Mereheadite Image

Images: Mereheadite

Comments: Yellowish crystals ofmereheadite to 1mm embedded in matrix.

Location: Merehead quarry, SheptonMallet, Somerset, England. Scale: Picture


Merenskyite Image


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Images: Merenskyite BorovskiteTemagamite






Merlinoite Image

Images: Merlinoite

Comments: Colorless transparent prismaticmerlinoite microcrystals in vug.

Location: Lagno Ahendo Lare, Vesuvius,Naples, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Mertieite-II Image

Images: Mertieite-II

Comments: Oil immersion hotomicrographof inclusions of mertieite-II in matrix of Pt-Fe

alloy (CanMin, v 42, p 614).Location: Kondyor PGE placer,

Khabarovskiy Kray, eastern Siberia, Russia.Scale: See Image.


Merwinite Image

Images: Merwinite

Comments: Dark brown crystallinemerwinite in light green crystalline massive

marble.Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside


Mineral Species

Mesolite Image

Images: Mesolite

Comments: Cotton-ball cluster of acicularwhite 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 withgreenish leucophosphite.



Meta-autunite Image

Images: Meta-autunite

Comments: Platy meta-autunite crystalsfluorescing greenish yellow.

Location: Carretona, Spain. Scale: NotGiven.


Meta-autunite Image

Images: Meta-autunite Autunite

Comments: Corner of a meta-autunitecrystal showing the dehydration of autunite

(dark green) to meta-autunite (lighteryellowish green)..

Location: Daybreak Mine, Spokane County,Washington, U.S.A.. Scale: See Image.


Meta-uranocircite Image

Images: Meta-uranocircite

Comments: Yellow crystals ofmeta-uranocircite.

Location: Krunkelbachtal, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: Not Given.



Images: Meta-uranocircite Uranocircite

Comments: Brilliant, fluorescent yellowgreen 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 ofuranocircite fracturing due to dehydrationto meta-uranocircite. The most commonare 100 and 010 fractures, with 110 close

behind. But notice the 210 and 410fractures (breaks) as well.

Location: . Scale: Crystal size 2x3.5 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher


Images: Meta-uranocircite

Comments: Lemon yellow platymeta-uranocircite crystals on matrix.

Location: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.


Metacinnabar Image

Images: Metacinnabar

Comments: Spherical metacinnabarcrystals on quartz.

Location: Mt. Diablo mine, Contra CostaCounty, California, USA. Scale: Not Given.


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".© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Metahaiweeite Image

Images: Metahaiweeite Haiweeite

Comments: Pale yellow scalymetahaiweeite coating on quartz with

minute haiweeite acicular crystals.Location: Coso Uranium Mine, Inyo County,


Mineral Species

Metaheinrichite Image


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Images: Metaheinrichite

Comments: Siliceous jasperoid with a blackcrust of uraninite (?) and bright canary

yellow crystals of metaheinrichite crystalsto 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 ofmetaheinrichite on matrix.

Location: Schmiedestollenhalde mine,Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Schwartzwald

(Black Forest), Baden-W?rttemberg,Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.


Metahewettite Image

Images: Metahewettite

Comments: Deep red, vibrant, radial microcrystals 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 prismaticmicrocrystals of hohmannite mixed with

yellow metahohmanite.Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,


Mineral Species

Metahohmannite Image

Images: Metahohmannite

Comments: Orange-yellow earthy massivemetahohmannite with orange hohmannite.

Location: Quetena, Antofagasta, Chile.Scale: See Photo.


Metakottigite Image


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Images: Metakottigite

Comments: Bladed crystalline sprays ofmetakottigite crystals on matrix.



Metamunirite Image

Images: Metamunirite

Comments: Colorless, acicular crystals ofmetamunirite.

Location: Burro Mine, Slick Rock District, SanMiguel Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: Picture


Metanovacekite Image

Images: Metanovacekite Novacekite

Comments: Yellow, translucent platynovacekite/metanovacekite crystal

aggregate.Location: Rabejac Mine, Olmet, Herault,

France. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Metanovacekite Image

Images: Metanovacekite

Comments: Bright yellow crystallinemetanovacekite coatings on white

crystalline gypsum.Location: Las Animas Mine, Municipio do

Heuiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale:See Photo.


Metarossite Image

Images: Metarossite

Comments: Light yellow metarossite onsandstone.

Location: Burro Mine, Slick Rock District, SanMiguel Co., Colorado. Scale: Picture size 5


Metarossite Image


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Images: Metarossite

Comments: Bright yellow platy crystals toabout 0.5mm covering sandstone matrix.Location: Arrowhead Claim, San MiguelCo., Colorado, USA. Scale: Picture size 1


Metaschoderite Image

Images: Metaschoderite

Comments: Orange crystallinemetaschoderite crust on shale.

Location: 25 miles east of Eureka, FishCreek Range, Eureka County, Nevada,


Mineral Species

Metaschoepite Image

Images: Metaschoepite Antlerite

Comments: Yellow crystals ofmetaschoepite with green antlerite.

Location: P?hla-Tellerh?user Gallery, P?hla,Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Metasideronatrite Image

Images: Metasideronatrite Tamarugite

Comments: Orange metasideronatrite withwhite tamarugite.


Metasideronatrite Image

Images: Metasideronatrite Ungemachite

Comments: Translucent roundedungemachite microcrystal on yellow

metasideronatrite.Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,


Mineral Species

Metastibnite Image


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Images: Metastibnite Sulfur

Comments: Red coatings of metastibnitewith yellow sulfur.


Mineral Species

Metastudtite Image

Images: Metastudtite

Comments: White acicular microcrystalmetastudtite clusters on dark yellow to

brown sklodowskite grains.Location: Musonoi, Katanga, Shaba, Zaire.


Mineral Species

Metaswitzerite Image

Images: Metaswitzerite

Comments: Bladed crystalline sprays ofmilk chocolate-colored metaswitzerite

crystals.Location: Foote mine, Kings Mountain,

Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA.Scale: Not Given.


Metatorbernite Image

Images: Metatorbernite

Comments: Green, square, tabular crystalsof metatorbernite on matrix.

Location: Wheal Basset, Illogan, Cornwall,England, UK. Scale: Not Given.



Images: Metatorbernite Schoepite

Comments: Green, tabular crystals ofmetatorbernite and acicular, yellow

schoepite on matrix.Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture

size 2.5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher



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Images: Metatorbernite Metatyuyamunite

Comments: Yellow, platymetatyuyamunite and transparent, tabulargreen metatorbernite crystals with a minoramount of white, snowy-looking saleeite.Location: Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi,Shaba (Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale:


Metatyuyamunite Image

Images: Metatyuyamunite

Comments: Bright yellow bladed crystalsof metatyuyamunite.

Location: Mashamba mine, Kolwezi,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the


Metatyuyamunite Image

Images: Metatyuyamunite Metatorbernite

Comments: Yellow, platymetatyuyamunite and transparent, tabulargreen metatorbernite crystals with a minoramount of white, snowy-looking saleeite.Location: Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi,Shaba (Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale:


Metavariscite Image

Images: Metavariscite

Comments: Clear tabular crystals ofmetavariscite.

Location: Utahlite claim, Lucin, Box ElderCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Metavauxite Image

Images: Metavauxite

Comments: Clear acicular crystals ofmetavauxite.

Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department, Boliv ia.Scale: Not Given.


Metavauxite Image


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Images: Metavauxite

Comments: Creamy colored prismaticmetavauxite crystals to 3mm.

Location: Siglo XX, Llallagua, Boliv ia. 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 whitealunogen.



Metazellerite Image

Images: Metazellerite Voglite

Comments: Pale yellow crystallinemetazellerite in matrix, with green voglite.

Location: White Canyon #1 Mine, Frey Point,San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Metazeunerite Image

Images: Metazeunerite

Comments: Lime green crystals ofmetazeunerite on matrix.



Metazeunerite Image


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Images: Metazeunerite Trogerite

Comments: Yellow crystals of tr?gerite withgreen metazeunerite.

Location: Walpurgis Flats, Wei?er HirschMine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Methane hydrate-I Image

Images: Methane hydrate-I

Comments: Yellow to white outcropping ofmassive methane hydrate infested with 2to 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 showingthe concentric-fibrous internal structure.

Location: Rengersdorf, G?rlitz, Oberlausitz,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Meurigite Image

Images: Meurigite

Comments: Yellow, radial acicular spraysof meurigite to about 0.75 mm.

Location: Teskov quarry, near Prague,Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture

size 1.5 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Meurigite Image

Images: Meurigite

Comments: Yellow-green spheroidalcrystals 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 ofmeyerhofferite on matrix.

Location: 20-Mule Team Canyon, DeathValley, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale:

Crystal size 1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Meymacite Image

Images: Meymacite

Comments: Orange-brownish to yellowmassive Meymacite.

Location: Meymac, Corr?ze, Limousin,France. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Miargyrite Image

Images: Miargyrite

Comments: Metallic miargyrite crystal onquartz.

Location: Braunsdorf, Saxony, Germay.Scale: Not Given.


Miargyrite Image

Images: Miargyrite Aramayoite

Comments: Aramayoite is present as largethin plates (blue iridescence) to 1mm in

massive gray miargyrite matrix.Location: Julcani Silver mine,

Huancavelica Dept., Peru. Scale: Picturesize 5 mm.


Microcline Image

Images: Microcline Ferrocolumbite

Comments: Blocky, dark brown ferrocolumbite onpale greenish blue amazonite (microcline).

Location: Crystal Park, El Paso Co., Colorado,USA. Scale: 2.5 x 1.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Microcline Image


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Images: Microcline

Comments: Opaque blocky tan crystal ofmicrocline.

Location: Moat Mountain, near Conway,Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA.


Mineral Species

Microlite Image

Images: Microlite

Comments: Brown crystal of microlite 10 mm inan albite matrix.

Location: Morefield Mine, Winterham, AmeliaCo., Virginia, USA. Scale: 5x4x3 cm.


Microlite Image

Images: Microlite

Comments: Golden-colored microliteoctahedrons on white albite.

Location: Maxixe Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais,Brazil. Scale: Crystal size .5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Microsommite Image

Images: Microsommite

Comments: Colorless prismaticmicrosommite microcrystals in vug.Location: Novella Quarry, Vesuvius,

Naples, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Microsommite Image

Images: Microsommite

Comments: White acycular microsommitecrystals (one mm. long) in small vugs in

matrix.Location: Monte Somma - Vesuvio - NA,

Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it

Miersite Image


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Images: Miersite

Comments: Translucent miersite crystals onmatrix.



Mikasaite Image

Images: Mikasaite

Comments: Pale yellow to white platycrystalline mikasaite cluster.

Location: Ikushunbetsu, Mikassa, Hokkaido,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Milarite Image

Images: Milarite

Comments: Single transparent crystal ofyellow Milarite.

Location: Near Rossing, Namibia. Scale:Not Given.


Milarite Image

Images: Milarite

Comments: Blocky, barrel-shaped crystalof 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 ofmetallic 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 ofmillisite.


Millosevichite Image

Images: Millosevichite

Comments: Porous crust of Millosevichite.Location: Schoeller Mine, Kladno,Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, CzechRepublic. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Mimetite Image

Images: Mimetite Duftite-alpha

Comments: Mimetite crystals are replacedby Duftite-alpha on a gossanous matrix.

Location: Mt. Bonnie Mine, NorthernTerritory, Australia. Scale: Crystal size to

3mm.© John Veevaert

Mimetite Image

Images: Mimetite Cerussite

Comments: Creamy white crystal of cerussitemeasuring 11 x 22 mm in size nestled nicely in a

vug which is lined by bright-yellow, lustrous,prismatic mimetite crystals. The mimetites

average 5 mm in length.Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.

Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm.© Dan Weinrich

Mimetite Image


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Images: Mimetite

Comments: Crystals of tan coloredMimetite. 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 ofplumbogummite covering lime green

mimetite (campylite) crystals.Location: Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria,

England. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Mimetite Image

Images: Mimetite Wulfenite

Comments: Gemmy, pale yellow mimetitecrystal with brownish-orange wulfenite. Former

James and Dawn Minette Collection.Location: Gem Pocket 1971, Tsumeb, Namibia.


Minamiite Image

Images: Minamiite

Comments: White granular powderyminamiite aggregate.

Location: Okumanza, Gumma, Japan.Scale: See Photo.


Minasragrite Image

Images: Minasragrite Patronite

Comments: Blue coatings of minasragriteon patronite.

Location: Minas Ragra, near Cerro dePasco, Junin, Peru. Scale: See Photo.


Minehillite Image


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Images: Minehillite MargarosaniteWollastonite-1A





Mineral Species

Minium Image

Images: Minium

Comments: Bright orange minium withcurved, conchoidal surfaces.

Location: Santa F? Mine, Bola?os, Mun. deBola?os, Jalisco, Mexico. Scale: 33x22x14

mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Minnesotaite Image

Images: Minnesotaite

Comments: Greenish-gray dullminnesotaite masses in iron ore matrix.Location: Virginia, Saint Louis County,

Minnesota, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Minrecordite Image

Images: Minrecordite Dioptase

Comments: Blue-green dioptase coveredwith minute, rhombic crystals of

transparent minrecordite one mm or less insize.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© 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.Location: Tucson Convention Center, 50th TucsonGem and Mineral Show, February 14, 2004. Scale:


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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 5mm.

© John Veevaert

Minyulite Image

Images: Minyulite Sincosite

Comments: Pale greenish white acicularradial sprays of minyulite to 8mm with

small, green, tabular sincosite.Location: Ross Hannibal mine, Lawrence

County, South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 2cm.


Mirabilite Image

Images: Mirabilite

Comments: Colorless grains and indistinctcrystals of mirabilite. The mineral

dehydrates quickly in dry air and must bepreserved in a closed box.


Miserite Image

Images: Miserite

Comments: Silky crystalline inclusions ofmaroon-colored miserite with a dark

amphibole and white feldspar.Location: Hodza, Achkan, Kyrgyzstan.


Mitridatite Image

Images: Mitridatite

Comments: Dark brown crystals ofmitridatite on whitlockite.




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Mixite Image

Images: Mixite

Comments: Vuggy quartz matrix withgreen 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 ofmoctezumite on matrix.



Moctezumite Image

Images: Moctezumite Burckhardtite

Comments: Pink crusts of burckhardtitewith yellow crystalline moctezumite on

quartz.Location: Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma,


Mineral Species

Modderite Image

Images: Modderite

Comments: Synthetic crystal of modderitegrown 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 ofmoelite 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 mohriteaggregate.

Location: Saint Etienne, Layonnais,Languedoc, Loire, France. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Moissanite Image

Images: Moissanite

Comments: Gemmy, platy crystal ofmoissanite shown with largest (001) face.

The arrow indicates a drop-shaped, blackmetallic inclusion. (AmMin, 88:1818).

Location: Found in a cobble at a beachalong the Turkish coast of the

Mediterranean Sea, around 150 km NWfrom Izmir, and is most likely derived fromTertiary volcanic rocks outcropping in the

area. Scale: Scale bar 300 µ-m.© American Mineralogist

Moissanite Image

Images: Moissanite Silicon

Comments: Backscattered electron imageof metallic inclusion in moissanite (SiC). The

gray shading in the BSE mage consistsmainly of pure silicon (Si metal). The

brighter areas are composed of Fe-silicide.(AmMin, 88:1818).



area. Scale: Scalebar 200 µ-m.© American Mineralogist

Moluranite Image

Images: Moluranite

Comments: Dark gray-black moluranitecoatings on sandstone.

Location: La Sal, San Juan County, Utah,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Molybdenite Image


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Images: Molybdenite

Comments: Sharp metallic molybdenitecrystal on matrix.

Location: Crown Point Mine, Washington.Scale: 4x4x2.3 cm.


Molybdite Image

Images: Molybdite

Comments: Greenish yellow molybditecrust on quartz.

Location: Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Molybdofornacite Image

Images: Molybdofornacite

Comments: Lime green, tabular crystals ofmolybdofornacite on matrix.

Location: Mahoney district, Tres HermanasMountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA.


Molysite Image

Images: Molysite

Comments: Yellow earthy molysitecoatings.

Location: Sasso Pisano, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.Scale: See Photo.


Monazite-(Ce) Image

Images: Monazite-(Ce)

Comments: Orange crystals ofmonazite-(Ce) on lepidolite.

Location: Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais,Brazil. Scale: Not Given.


Monazite-(Sm) Image


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Images: Monazite-(Sm)

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage of the main aggregate of

monazite-(Sm) and manganocolumbite(C) embedded in quartz (black). Variations

in brightness of the monazite-(Sm) arecontrolled by the Th content, whereas the

ratio Nb/Ta affects manganotantalite.Location: Annie Claim #3 pod, Greer Lakeintrusion, Archean Bird River Subprovince of

the Superior Province, SoutheasternManitoba, Canada. Scale: Grain size 0.8

mm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Moncheite Image

Images: Moncheite Chalcopyrite

Comments: White moncheite withchalcopyrite (orange, blue and violet

tarnishing colors) in silicate matrix. Polishedsection (from microprobe analysis) in

reflected light.Location: Lukkulaisvaara ultrabasic Massif,Olanga (Oulanka) River, Oulanka plutonic



Moncheite Image

Images: Moncheite Insizwaite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage showing b) intergrowth of taimyrite-

tatyanaite with moncheitei-insizwaite(CanMin, v 42, p 611).



Monetite Image

Images: Monetite Newberyite

Comments: Tan coatings of monetite onwhite newberyite pseudomorphous after

struvite crystal.Location: Mono Lake, Mono County,


Mineral Species

Mongolite Image


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Images: Mongolite

Comments: White to pinkish massivemongolite.

Location: Khan-Bogdinskii massif, GobiDesert, Mongolia. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Monimolite Image

Images: Monimolite

Comments: Pale green monimolite crustson matrix.

Location: Altar, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: SeePhoto.


Monohydrocalcite Image

Images: Monohydrocalcite

Comments: Gray to pale blue, due tocopper staining, botryoidal

monohydrocalcite crust.Location: 40' level, Saint Pierre Mine, Sainte-

Marie-aux-Mines, Vosges Mountains,Haute-Rhin, France. Scale: See Photo.


Montanite Image

Images: Montanite

Comments: Grayish-green montanite grainin matrix.

Location: Zupkov (Zsubko; Schubkau),Stredoslovensk? Kraj, Slovak Republic.


Montdorite Image

Images: Montdorite

Comments: Pale green fine granularmontdorite in iron-stained matrix.Location: Charlunnes, Mont Dore,

Puy-de-Dome, France. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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,

USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Montesommaite Image

Images: Montesommaite

Comments: Translucent prismaticmontesommaite crystals in vugs.

Location: Pollena Quarry, Vesuvius, Naples,Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Montgomeryite Image

Images: Montgomeryite

Comments: Matrix specimen covered withsprays 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 oftiptopite with red montgomeryite.



Montgomeryite Image

Images: Montgomeryite TiptopiteEnglishite





Monticellite Image


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Images: Monticellite

Comments: Pale brown crystalline massivemonticellite.


Mineral Species

Monticellite Image

Images: Monticellite Melilite

Comments: Thin-section image ofmonticellite interstitial between unaltered

melilite crystals (CanMin v. 41. p 1259).Location: Skarns along the contact of a

diorite intrusion at Oravit?a, Banat, inRomania. Scale: Field of View 2.7 mm.


Montmorillonite Image

Images: Montmorillonite

Comments: Authigenic smectite(montmorillonite) overgrown on pore

spaces and authigenicly-overgrown quartzgrains in a sandstone. SEM image of a core

sample.Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 67


Montmorillonite Image

Images: Montmorillonite

Comments: Bright pink chalky massivemontmorillonite.

Location: Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood,Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Montroseite Image

Images: Montroseite

Comments: Black silky fibrous montroseiteon sandstone with tyuyamunite.

Location: Monument No. 2 Mine, Kayenta,Apache County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Montroyalite Image


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Images: Montroyalite

Comments: Translucent micro sphericalmontroyalite on matrix.

Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal,Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Montroydite Image

Images: Montroydite

Comments: Red to orange radial andcrystalline montroydite aggregates on

black calcite.Location: Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas,


Mineral Species

Montroydite Image

Images: Montroydite Pinchite

Comments: Minute lustrous black pinchitecrystals on white montroydite.

Location: Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Mooihoekite Image

Images: Mooihoekite

Comments: Lighter toned brassy metallicmooihoekite masses in chalcopyrite with

magnetite.Location: Oktyabr'skoye Mine, Norilsk,

Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale:See Photo.


Moolooite Image

Images: Moolooite

Comments: Light bluish moolooiteencrustation.

Location: Ibergstausee, Stempeda,S?dharz, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture


Mooreite Image


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Images: Mooreite

Comments: Translucent, wedge-shaped crystals ofmooreite on matrix.

Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA.Scale: Not Given.


Moorhouseite Image

Images: Moorhouseite

Comments: Pink crystalline moorhouseite insandstone.

Location: Cameron, Coconino County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Mopungite Image

Images: Mopungite

Comments: White mopungite encrustations.Location: Cetine di Cotorniano Mine

(Cetine Mine), Rosia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy.Scale: Picture size 7 mm.


Moraesite Image

Images: Moraesite

Comments: Silky, tufted crystals of whitemoraesite on matrix.

Location: Divino das Laranjeiras, MinasGerais, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.


Moraesite Image

Images: Moraesite Glucine

Comments: Light brown glucine with whitemoraesite.

Location: Boevskoye Mine, SverdlovskDistrict, Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Mordenite Image


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Images: Mordenite Heulandite

Comments: White, acicular crystals ofmordenite in heulandite geode.

Location: Rock Creek, Stevenson,Skamania County, Washington, USA. Scale:


Mordenite Image

Images: Mordenite Heulandite-Ca

Comments: Pink heulandite crystals up to15 mm in fibrous white mordenite matrix.Location: Rats Nest Claim, Challis, Custer

Co., Idaho, USA. Scale: 6x6x4 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Morenosite Image

Images: Morenosite

Comments: Pale greenish blue crust ofmorenosite.

Location: Gorner Glacier, Furi, Zermatt,Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture


Morinite Image

Images: Morinite

Comments: Pale violet crystalline morinitein white crystalline fluorapatite.

Location: Hugo Mine, Keystone, PenningtonCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Mosandrite Image

Images: Mosandrite

Comments: Yellow to brown resinouscrystalline mosandrite with black aegirine.


Mineral Species

Moschellandsbergite Image


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Images: Moschellandsbergite

Comments: Gray metallic dendriticmoschellandsbergite aggregate.

Location: Moschellandsberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Mosesite Image

Images: Mosesite

Comments: Yellow, hoppered crystal ofmosesite on matrix.

Location: Terllingua, Brewster County,Texas, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Mottanaite-(Ce) Image

Images: Mottanaite-(Ce)

Comments: Brown crystals ofmottanaite-(Ce) in matrix.

Location: Monte Cavallucio, Sacrofano,Campagnano, Latium (Lazio), Italy. Scale:


Mottramite Image

Images: Mottramite Beaverite

Comments: Specimen of quartz with athick druse of green mottramite

(cuprodescloizite) crystals and a scatteredgrouping of micro beaverite crystals

(lemon yellow in color).Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.


Mottramite Image

Images: Mottramite

Comments: Botryoidal green mottramiteon 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 ofmotukoreaite.

Location: Stradnerkogel Quarry,Wilhelmsdorf, Styria, Austria. Scale: Picture


Mounanaite Image

Images: Mounanaite

Comments: Yellow crystal of mounanaiteon matrix.

Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.Scale: Not Given.


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 size1.5 cm.


Mountainite Image

Images: Mountainite Raite

Comments: Bright white fibrous acicularmountainite crystal aggregate with pale

golden raite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Mountkeithite Image

Images: Mountkeithite

Comments: Pinkish mountkeithite grain inmatrix.

Location: Mount Keith nickel deposit,Western Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture


Mourite Image


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Images: Mourite Iriginite

Comments: Purple to violet sub-metallicmourite coatings with yellow iriginite.Location: 'North Caucasus', probably

Kyzylsai Deposit, Chu-Ili Mountains,Balkhash, Zezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:


Mineral Species

Mozartite Image

Images: Mozartite

Comments: Massive, crystalline mozartite.Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari


© John Veevaert

Mpororoite Image

Images: Mpororoite Anthoinite

Comments: White chalky massivempororoite with brown anthoinite.

Location: Kara Mine, Tasmania, Australia.Scale: See Photo.


Mrazekite Image

Images: Mrazekite

Comments: Blue, prismatic crystal ofmr?zekite on matrix.

Location: Arme Hilfe Mine, Ullersreuth,Hirschberg, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany.


Muckeite Image

Images: Muckeite

Comments: Dark gray tabular crystals ofM?ckeite.

Location: Gr?neau Mine (Gr?ne Au Mine;Gr?nau Mine), Schutzbach, Betzdorf, SiegenDistrict (W), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.


Muirite Image


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Images: Muirite Sanbornite

Comments: Translucent orange crystallinemuirite in sanbornite.

Location: Big Creek, Fresno County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Mullite Image

Images: Mullite

Comments: Opaque white mullite masseswith mica.

Location: Nijar, Almeria, Andalucia, Spain.Scale: See Photo.


Mullite Image

Images: Mullite

Comments: Surface of a kaolinite stratumaltered 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

Comments: Bright yellow crystallinemundite grains.

Location: Kobokobo, Sud-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:See Photo.


Munirite Image

Images: Munirite

Comments: Bright yellow-orange crystallinemunirite on matrix.

Location: Brushy Creek, Uravan, MontroseCounty, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Murdochite Image


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Images: Murdochite Smithsonite

Comments: Dark metallic micro crystals ofmurdochite on pale blue-gray smithsonite

crystal covered matrix.Location: Silver Hill Mine group, Silver Hill,Waterman District, Waterman Mts, Pima


Murmanite Image

Images: Murmanite

Comments: Metavolcanic matrix hostingseveral bright pink lath shaped crystals of

murmanite.Location: Ilimaussaq, Illua, Greenland.

Scale: Crystal size 1.6 cm.© John Veevaert

Muscovite Image

Images: Muscovite Fluorapatite BerylApatite




Muscovite Image

Images: Muscovite

Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal crystallineaggregate 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: 7x5x4cm.


Muscovite Image


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Images: Muscovite Aluminoceladonite

Comments: Large, 1cm, purple crystals ofmuscovite/leucophyllite, (var. alurgite

which is an intermediate composition tomuscovite and leucophyllite

(aluminoceladonite).Location: Ultevis, Sweden. Scale:

5x3.5x3cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

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, northof Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China. Scale:

Crystal size 1 cm.© Dan Weinrich

Mushistonite Image

Images: Mushistonite

Comments: Green crystalline mushistonitecoatings on quartz.

Location: Etta Mine, Keystone, PenningtonCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Muthmannite Image

Images: Muthmannite

Comments: Backscattered scanningelectron microphotograph of muthmannite(light gray) rimming a sylvanite (dark gray)

grain. (AmMin 89:1506).Location: Museum specimen from agold-telluride deposit of Sacar?mb,

Metaliferi Mountains, western Romania..Scale: See Image.





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Nabaphite Image

Images: Nabaphite

Comments: Translucent tetrahedralnabaphite microcrystal.

Location: Mount Kukisvumchorr, KhibinyMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,


Mineral Species

Nabesite Image

Images: Nabesite

Comments: White, tabular crystals ofnabesite.

Location: Kvanefjeld plateau, Il?maussaqmassif, Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.7


Nacaphite Image

Images: Nacaphite Thermonatrite

Comments: Sparse pale yellow-brownmicrocrystal and crystalline nacaphite with

white thermonatrite on a dark matrix.Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Nacareniobsite-(Ce) Image

Images: Nacareniobsite-(Ce)

Comments: White to light brownishnacareniobsite-(Ce) in an igneous rock

matrix.Location: Kvanefjeld Tunnel, Il?maussaq

massif, Greenland. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Nacrite Image

Images: Nacrite

Comments: Colorless, transparent crystalof macrite on matrix.

Location: Hunersedge mine, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Nadorite Image


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Images: Nadorite

Comments: Blocky, yellowish browncrystals of nadorite on matrix.

Location: Langban mine, Filipstad ,V?rmland, Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1


Nafertisite Image

Images: Nafertisite

Comments: Dark green fibrous nafertisitemasses in pegmatite rock.



Mineral Species

Nagyagite Image

Images: Nagyagite

Comments: Nagyagite partially coveredwith calcite.

Location: Sacaramb (Nagyag), Romania.Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

© 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 Tronafrom a drill core of the upper mixed-layer

Saltbed. White areas are nahcolitealteration.

Location: Searles Lake, San BernardinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: 12 x 15 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Nahpoite Image


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Images: Nahpoite

Comments: Nearly opaque white powderynahpoite.

Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Nakauriite Image

Images: Nakauriite

Comments: Blue crystals of nakauriite ongreen serpentinite.

Location: Lobming, Styria, Austria. Scale:Picture size 5 mm.


Namansilite Image

Images: Namansilite

Comments: Dark red namansilite veinlets inrock (slabbed specimen).

Location: Woods mine, near Tamworth,New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Nambulite Image

Images: Nambulite

Comments: Brown crystalline nambulitewith pinkish rhodonite.

Location: Gozaisho Mine, Iwaki, Fukushima,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Namibite Image

Images: Namibite

Comments: Dark green crystals of namibiteon matrix.



Namuwite Image


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Images: Namuwite

Comments: Sky-blue, platy crystals ofnamuwite on matrix.



Narsarsukite Image

Images: Narsarsukite

Comments: Narsarsukite crystal in matrix.Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec,


Nasonite Image

Images: Nasonite Hancockite

Comments: Colorless, transparenthexagonal prism of Nasonite on reddish

brown hancockite.Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New

Jersey, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Nastrophite Image

Images: Nastrophite

Comments: Glassy to chalky crystallinenastrophite fragment.


Mineral Species

Natanite Image

Images: Natanite

Comments: Reddish brown crystal ofnatanite on matrix.

Location: Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia,Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Natrite Image

Images: Natrite

Comments: White opaque massive natrite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species


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Natroalunite Image

Images: Natroalunite

Comments: Pure white porcelaneousmassive natroalunite.

Location: Sugarloaf Butte, Quartzite, La PazCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Natroapophyllite Image

Images: Natroapophyllite

Comments: Pale pink opaque blockycrystal natroapophyllite aggregate.

Location: Boghil Quarry, Glengormley,Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern

Ireland. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Natrochalcite Image

Images: Natrochalcite Krohnkite

Comments: Royal blue kr?hnkite andgreen natrochalcite.

Location: Chiquicamata, Chile. Scale: 3.5 x2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Natrochalcite Image

Images: Natrochalcite

Comments: Green, transparent crystals ofnatrochalcite on dark green atacamite.Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,

Chile. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Natrodufrenite Image

Images: Natrodufrenite

Comments: Greenish gray, botryoidalaggregates natrodufrenite on hematite-

stained quartz.Location: Greifenstein Rocks,

Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Natrojarosite Image


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Images: Natrojarosite

Comments: Yellow brown natrojarositecrystals.

Location: Kamareza Mine, Laurium, Attiki,Greece. Scale: See Photo.


Natrolemoynite Image

Images: Natrolemoynite

Comments: Radiating spray of tannatrolemoynite crystals, with brown

coating, with white albite.Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec,


Mineral Species

Natrolite Image

Images: Natrolite Eudialyte

Comments: Druse of gemmy, red eudialytecrystals to 1 mm on white natrolite.


© John Veevaert

Natrolite Image

Images: Natrolite

Comments: Transparent prismatic crystalsof natrolite.

Location: Usti (Aussig), Bohemia, CzechRepublic. Scale: Not Given.


Natrolite Image

Images: Natrolite Neptunite

Comments: Jet-black square prisms ofneptunite 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



© Fabre Minerals

Natromontebrasite Image

Images: Natromontebrasite

Comments: Pale tan to orangenatromontebrasite cleavages in quartz.

Location: Mica Load, Canon City, FremontCounty, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Natron Image

Images: Natron

Comments: Opaque white powderymassive natron.

Location: Atlin, British Columbia, Canada.Scale: See Photo.


Natroniobite Image

Images: Natroniobite

Comments: Olive-green coloredtranslucent crystalline natroniobite

fragments.Location: Lesnaya Varaka Massif, Kola

Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale:See Photo.


Natrosilite Image

Images: Natrosilite

Comments: Colorless, clear to translucentcrystalline natrosilite fragment, found in

pale pink ussingite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Natroxalate Image


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Images: Natroxalate

Comments: Colorless transparentcrystalline natroxalate fragment.



Mineral Species

Naujakasite Image

Images: Naujakasite Villiaumite

Comments: Greenish-gray crystals ofnaujakasite with red villiaumite.

Location: Narsaq river, Kvanefjeld Mt.,Il?maussaq massif, Greenland. Scale:


Naumannite Image

Images: Naumannite

Comments: Black crystal of Naumannite ina quartz-lined vug.

Location: DeLamar mine, DeLamar,Owyhee County, Idaho. Scale: Not Given.


Navajoite Image

Images: Navajoite

Comments: Purple-brown adamantinenavajoite coatings on conglomerate.

Location: Monument #2 Mine, MonumentValley, Apache County, Arizona, USA.


Mineral Species

Nealite Image

Images: Nealite

Comments: Orange-yellow prismaticcrystals of Nealite on matrix.

Location: Lavrion District slag localities,Attik? (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece.


Nealite-(H2O) Image


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Images: Nealite-(H2O)

Comments: Orange crystals ofnealite-(H2O) on matrix.



Nekoite Image

Images: Nekoite

Comments: Sprays of translucent acicularnekoite crystals.

Location: Iron Cap Mine, Graham County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Neltnerite Image

Images: Neltnerite

Comments: Black neltnerite microcrystalslining vugs.

Location: Manganese Creek, KeeweenawCounty, Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Nenadkevichite Image

Images: Nenadkevichite

Comments: Pinkish crystal ofnenadkevichite on matrix.

Location: Monte St. Hilaire, Quebec,Canada. Scale: Not Given.


Neotocite Image

Images: Neotocite

Comments: Dark brown resinous massiveneotocite.

Location: Buzzarla Mine, San Luis ObispoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Nepheline Image


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Images: Nepheline

Comments: Stubby, hexagonal prism ofNepheline in matrix.

Location: Point of Rocks Mesa, ColfaxCounty, New Mexico. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Nepouite Image

Images: Nepouite

Comments: Massive, green n?pouite.Location: Callenberg North (no. 2) open

cut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Specimen size 4 cm.


Neptunite Image

Images: Neptunite Natrolite

Comments: Jet-black square prisms ofneptunite 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

Nesquehonite Image

Images: Nesquehonite

Comments: Scanning electron micrographsof nesquehonite clusters showing the

typical elongated habit. (AmMin, 88:1882).Location: Crystals associated with the

remains of a saguaro, Carnegiea giganteafrom south and west central Arizona.Scale: Scale Bar 50 µ-m (lower left).


Neustadtelite Image

Images: Neustadtelite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopemicrograph of neust?dtelite. (AmMin

87:728).Location: Mine dumps of the G?ldener Falkmine near Schneeberg-Neust?dtel, Saxony,

Germany. Scale: Scale Bar 15 µm.© American Mineralogist

Nevadaite Image


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Images: Nevadaite

Comments: Robin's egg blue radiatingacicular sprays of nevadaite to about 0.3

mm.Location: Gold Quarry mine, Eureka Co.,Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.


Newberyite Image

Images: Newberyite Dittmarite

Comments: Translucent crystallinedittmaritewith more opaque newberyite.



Newberyite Image

Images: Newberyite Hannayite

Comments: Translucent white prismaticcrystals of hannayite on brown newberyite.Location: Skipton Caves, Victoria, Australia.


Mineral Species

Newberyite Image

Images: Newberyite Monetite

Comments: Tan coatings of monetite onwhite newberyite pseudomorphous after

struvite crystal.Location: Mono Lake, Mono County,


Mineral Species

Newberyite Image

Images: Newberyite

Comments: Crudely formed crystalnewberyite aggregate.

Location: Skipton Caves, near Balarat,Victoria, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Neyite Image


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Images: Neyite

Comments: Black foliated metallic neyiteon quartz.

Location: near Hope, British Columbia,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Nezilovite Image

Images: Nezilovite

Comments: Small black grains of nezilovitein matrix.

Location: Nezilovo, FYR Macedonia. Scale:Picture size 1 mm.


Nickel Image

Images: Nickel

Comments: Very small cubic crystal ofnative Nickel, isolated from an ore

concentrate.Location: Noum?a, New Caledonia. Scale:

Crystal size 0.1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Nickel-skutterudite Image

Images: Nickel-skutterudite

Comments: Gray, blocky crystals of nickel-skutterudite (chloanthite) with minor yellow

pyrite.Location: Gowganda, Ontario, Canada.

Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Nickel-zippeite Image

Images: Nickel-zippeite

Comments: Yellow crust of nickel-zippeiteon matrix.



Nickelhexahydrite Image


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Images: Nickelhexahydrite

Comments: Pale greenish crust of ferroannickelhexahydrite.

Location: Sohland, Bautzen, Oberlausitz,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Nickeline Image

Images: Nickeline

Comments: Stubby, crude blocky crystalsof nickeline.

Location: Gowaganda, Ontario, Canada.Scale: Not Given.


Nickellotharmeyerite Image

Images: Nickellotharmeyerite

Comments: Brown, microcrystallinenickellotharmeyerite.



Nickelphosphide Image

Images: Nickelphosphide Kamacite

Comments: Small inclusion ofnickelphosphide in massive kamacite.

Location: Kenton County meteorite, KentonCo., Kentucky, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.09


Nickelschneebergite Image

Images: Nickelschneebergite

Comments: Small crystals ofnickelschneebergite.

Location: Roter Berg, Neust?dtel,Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Nickenichite Image


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Images: Nickenichite

Comments: Blue crystals of nickenichite onmatrix.

Location: Nickenich, near Kruft, Eifel Mts,Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:


Nifontovite Image

Images: Nifontovite

Comments: Transparent spray of nifontovitecrystals.

Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town, KawakamaCo., 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 palelavender is prehenite/diaspore and the

very pale green is chlorite/niigataite..Location: Itoigawa, river Kazuo, Niigataprefecture, Japan. Scale: Specimen size

19cm x 16 cm.© American Mineralogist

Niigataite Image

Images: Niigataite

Comments: Backscatter electronic imageof niigataite (bright) which is partially

replacing a chlorite (med gray) grain in adiaspore (dark gray, rod-shaped) and

prehenite (light gray) matrix.Location: Itoigawa, river Kazuo, Niigataprefecture, Japan. Scale: Picture size 5

mm.© American Mineralogist

Nikischerite Image

Images: Nikischerite

Comments: Yellowish green nikischerite onmatrix.

Location: Huanuni Mine, Dalence Province,Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Nikischerite Image


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Images: Nikischerite

Comments: Tony Nikischer, Chairman of theBoard of The Hudson Institute of Mineralogy,

president of Excalibur Mineral Corporation, andthe person whom nikischerite is named for, kindly

provided the pronunciation of the mineralnikischerite.

Location: Executive Inn hotel, Room 128, Tucson,Feburary 9, 2004. Scale: NA.

© Dave Barthelmy

Nimite Image

Images: Nimite

Comments: Dark green nimite aggregateson white calcite.

Location: Planalto, Rio Grande do Sol,Brazil. Scale: See Photo.


Ningyoite Image

Images: Ningyoite

Comments: Greenish-black fine grainedningyoite masses with minor rock.

Location: Ningyo-Toge Mine, Okayama,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Niobocarbide Image

Images: Niobocarbide

Comments: Small metallic grain ofniobocarbide.

Location: Nizhne-Tagil'skoye(Mednorudyanskoye) Cu Deposit, Nizhnii

Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Urals Region,Russia. Scale: Grain size 0.3 mm.


Niobokupletskite Image

Images: Niobokupletskite Kupletskite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage of Niobokupletskite (Nkpt) rimming

kupletskite (Kpt). The zoning in thekupletskite is from Nb-poor to Nb-rich in the

direction of the arrow (dark to mediumgray). (CanMin v 38, p 628).

Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec,Canada. Scale: Scale bar 100 µ-m.



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Niobophyllite Image

Images: Niobophyllite

Comments: Blackish-brown resinous to silkyfibrous niobophyllite coatings on quartz.

Location: Seal Lake area, Labrador,Newfoundland, Canada. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Nissonite Image

Images: Nissonite

Comments: Pale blue nissonite crusts onrock.

Location: Panoche Valley, San BenitoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Niter Image

Images: Niter

Comments: Tan to white crystallinegranular niter.

Location: Buffalo River Valley, SearcyCounty, Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Nitratine Image

Images: Nitratine Iquiqueite

Comments: Yellow iquiqueiite in clear,massive nitration.

Location: Salar de Miraje, Antofagasta,Chile. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Nitratine Image

Images: Nitratine

Comments: Euhedral crystalline aggregateof nitratine.

Location: Taltal, Antofagasta, Chile. Scale:Picture size 5 mm.


Nitromagnesite Image


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Images: Nitromagnesite

Comments: Tan crystalline nitromagnesitegrain, deliquescent.

Location: Baume, Jura, France. Scale: SeePhoto.


Nobleite Image

Images: Nobleite

Comments: Platy nobleite microcrystals oncolemanite.

Location: Corkscrew Mine, CorkscrewCanyon, Death Valley, Inyo County,


Mineral Species

Noelbensonite Image

Images: Noelbensonite

Comments: Brownish, massiveno?lbensonite.

Location: Woods Mine (Wood's RhodoniteMine), Tamworth, New South Wales,Australia. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Nolanite Image

Images: Nolanite

Comments: Dark gray to black massivenolanite.

Location: Fishhook Bay, Saskatchewan,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Nontronite Image

Images: Nontronite

Comments: Green massive nontronite inquartz.

Location: Horni Slavkov, Zapadocesky,Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.


Norbergite Image


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Images: Norbergite

Comments: Numerous orange toorange-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 norbergiteinclustions 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 bladedcrystals of nordenski?ldine with black

magnetite.Location: P?hla-Tellerh?user Gallery, P?hla,Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Nordstrandite Image

Images: Nordstrandite

Comments: Large pale brownish crystals ofnordstrandite.

Location: B?renstein Quarry, Niederschlag,Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 35 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Normandite Image

Images: Normandite

Comments: Divergent acicular normanditecrystals in pegmatite.

Location: Mount Partomchorr, KhibinyMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,


Mineral Species

Norrishite Image


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Images: Norrishite

Comments: Thin section photomicrographshowing norrishite (Nrs) associated withkornite (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 ofNorthupite.

Location: Searles Lake, San BernardinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: Grain size 8

mm.© Dave Barthelmy

Nosean Image

Images: Nosean

Comments: Stubby crystal of nosean onmatrix.

Location: Mendig, Laacher See,Rhineland-Pal., Germany. Scale: Not


Novacekite Image

Images: Novacekite Metanovacekite

Comments: Yellow, translucent platynovacekite/metanovacekite crystal

aggregate.Location: Rabejac Mine, Olmet, Herault,


Mineral Species

Novacekite Image

Images: Novacekite

Comments: Scanner image of massive,yellow novacekite covering matrix.

Location: Serra das ?guas,Bahia, NortheastRegion, Brazil. Scale: Specimen size 4.1 cm.


Novakite Image


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Images: Novakite Berzelianite

Comments: Gray metallic dendriticnovakite in white calcite with tarnished

black berzelianite.Location: Cerny Dul, Bohemia,

Vychodocesky, Czech Republic. Scale:See Photo.


Novgorodovaite Image

Images: Novgorodovaite

Comments: A small fragment of theoxalate 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 blacksub-metallic to dull massive nsutite.

Location: Nsuta, Western Province, Ghana.Scale: See Photo.


Nukundamite Image

Images: Nukundamite Covellite

Comments: Metallic brownish rim ofnukundamite with dark purplish-blue

covellite on fine-grained pyrite.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera



Nyerereite Image

Images: Nyerereite Gregoryite

Comments: Sodium (nyereteite) andpotassium (gregoryite) carbonates, notstable in normal atmosphere, collected

molten from the volcano and maintainedin inert argon atmosphere.

Location: Ol Doinyo Lengai Vulkan, MaasaiSteppe, East Africa Rift Valley, Tanzania.

See Link. Scale: Rock size 2 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals


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Obradovicite Image

Images: Obradovicite

Comments: Brownish yellow obradovicitecoatings on quartz.

Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,Chile. Scale: See Photo.


Offretite Image

Images: Offretite

Comments: Clear crystal of offretite onmatrix.

Location: Mont Simiouse, near Montbrison,Loire, France. Scale: Not Given.


Ogdensburgite Image

Images: Ogdensburgite

Comments: Reddish-brown, massiveogdensburgite.

Location: Ogdensburg, Franklin MiningDistrict, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA. Scale:


Ohmilite Image

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Images: Ohmilite

Comments: Pale yellow translucentacicular ohmilite crystal cluster in matrix.Location: Hashidate, Ohmi cho, Niigata,

Japan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Ojuelaite Image

Images: Ojuelaite

Comments: Yellow-green ojuelaite masseson limonite and quartz.

Location: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango,Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Okanoganite-(Y) Image

Images: Okanoganite-(Y)

Comments: Cream-colored twinnedcrystal of okanoganite-(Y) on matrix.

Location: Washington Pass, OkanoganCounty, Washington, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Okenite Image

Images: Okenite

Comments: Cotton-ball cluster of whiteokenite crystals.

Location: Khandivali quarry, Maharashtra,India. Scale: 3x3x2 cm.


Oldhamite Image

Images: Oldhamite

Comments: Brown crystalline oldhamitegrains in anhydrite.

Location: Ronneburg, Thuringen, Germany.Scale: See Photo.


Olenite Image


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Images: Olenite

Comments: Colorless, boron-rich crystal ofOlenite in quartz.

Location: Koralpe, Styria, Austria. Scale:Crystal size 3 cm.

© Andreas Ertl / Institut f?r Mineralogie undKristallographie

Oligoclase Image

Images: Oligoclase Plagioclase

Comments: Rectangular cleavagefragment of salmon-orange oligoclase

(sunstone) feldspar.Location: Norway. Scale: 47x30x7 mm.


Oligoclase Image

Images: Oligoclase Plagioclase

Comments: Clear glassy crystallineoligoclase with milky quartz and

muscovite.Location: Bakersville, Mitchell County,North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Olivenite Image

Images: Olivenite

Comments: Dark green crystals of oliveniteon matrix.

Location: Majuba Hill mine, PershingCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Olivenite Image

Images: Olivenite Arsenogoyazite

Comments: White micro-botryoids ofarsenogoyazite with light green acicular

crystal sprays of olivenite and dark greenmalachite on brown limonite.

Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, JuabCounty, Utah. Scale: See Photo.


Olivine Image


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Images: Olivine Forsterite

Comments: Peridot (Forsterite)recrystallized at the base.

Location: Skardu, Nooristan, Pakistan.Scale: 2.5 x 2.7 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Olmsteadite Image

Images: Olmsteadite

Comments: Dark brown crystals ofolmsteadite with jahnsite on siderite.Location: Big Chief mine, Keystone,

Penningtion County, South Dakota, USA.Scale: Not Given.


Olsacherite Image

Images: Olsacherite

Comments: Light yellow crystals ofolsacherite up to 2 mm in matrix.

Location: Colquechaca, Potos?, Boliv ia.Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Olshanskyite Image

Images: Olshanskyite Henmilite

Comments: Milky white olshanskyite hostingcrystals of deep blue henmilite to 6 mm

across.Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town,

Kawakama Co., Okayama Pref., Japan.Scale: Crystal size 6 mm.

© John Veevaert

Ominelite Image

Images: Ominelite

Comments: Photomicrograph ofthin-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.© American Mineralogist

Omphacite Image


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Images: Omphacite

Comments: Dark green crystallineomphacite with glaucophane.

Location: Healdsburg, Sonoma County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Onoratoite Image

Images: Onoratoite

Comments: White crystals of onoratoitewith a yellow crystal of sulphur.

Location: Cetine di Cotorniano Mine(Cetine Mine; Tafone Mine), Rosia, Siena,Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Opal Image

Images: Opal

Comments: Colorful white opal on asandstone matrix.

Location: Queensland, Australia. Scale: 9 x6 x 3 cm.


Opal Image

Images: Opal

Comments: Section of fossilized tree limbthat is now completely replaced by black

opal.Location: Virgin Valley District, HumboldtCo., Nevada, USA. Scale: 20x13x11 mm.


Opal Image

Images: Opal Todorokite

Comments: Dendritic todorokite in whiteopal.

Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Torino,Piemonte, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Orcelite Image


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Images: Orcelite

Comments: Bronze micro spherical orcelitecoated with greenish zaratite.

Location: Tiebaghi Massif, New Caledonia.Scale: See Photo.


Ordonezite Image

Images: Ordonezite

Comments: Greenish, glassy crystals ofordonezite.

Location: Santin mine, Guanajuato, Mexico.Scale: Not Given.


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.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Orickite Image

Images: Orickite

Comments: Black and white image of apolished section showing intergrown

crystals of orickite in sodalite (dark). (AmMin68:246).

Location: Mafic alkalic diatreme at CoyotePeak near Orick, Humboldt County,

California, USA. Scale: Image size 0.44 mm.© American Mineralogist

Orientite Image

Images: Orientite

Comments: Reddish brown massiveorientite with pyrolusite.

Location: Oriente Province, Cuba. Scale:See Photo.


Orlandiite Image


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Images: Orlandiite

Comments: White, acicular crystals oforlandiite.

Location: Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu,Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:


Orlymanite Image

Images: Orlymanite

Comments: Brown crystalline orlymanitewith radiating structure, on inesite.

Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kuruman,Northern Cape Province, South Africa.


Mineral Species

Orpheite Image

Images: Orpheite

Comments: Opaque botryoidal orpheitecrust.

Location: Near Valmy, Humboldt County,Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Orpiment Image

Images: Orpiment

Comments: Deep orange-coloredorpiment 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 micaceousorthochamosite in quartz.

Location: Near Manggruvan, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Orthochrysotile Image


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Images: Orthochrysotile

Comments: Pale tan asbestos fiber(orthochrysotile) vein in rock.

Location: El Dorado Mine, Salt RiverCanyon, Gila County, Arizona, USA. Scale:


Mineral Species

Orthoclase Image

Images: Orthoclase Lorenzenite

Comments: Striated, dark violet crystal oflorenzenite in cream-colored orthoclase.Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,

Russia. Scale: 1.3 x 1.2 cm.© John Veevaert

Orthoclase Image

Images: Orthoclase

Comments: Carlsbad twinned crystal oforthoclase. 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 EricssoniteTephroite





Orthominasragrite Image


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Images: Orthominasragrite

Comments: Dark blue, sphericalaggregate of orthominasragrite.

Location: Temple Mountain, Emery Co.,Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Orthoserpierite Image

Images: Orthoserpierite

Comments: Vivid blue green sheets andcoatings of orthoserpierite on matrix.

Location: Galiuro Mt. Copper Creek, PinalCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: 3.0 X 4.4 cm.

© John Veevaert

Osarizawaite Image

Images: Osarizawaite

Comments: Light blue micro crystals ofosarizawaite 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 VasiliteVysotskite






Osumilite-(Fe) Image

Images: Osumilite-(Fe)

Comments: Dark blue crystals ofosumilite-(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 inmatrix.

Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon,WhiteCanyon District (White Canyon), San JuanCo., 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,

Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Ottrelite Image

Images: Ottrelite

Comments: Dark green crystalline ottrelitein quartz.

Location: Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Belgium.Scale: See Photo.


Otwayite Image

Images: Otwayite

Comments: Pale green botryoidalotwayite on serpentinite rock.

Location: Otway Prospect, Nullagin Plain,Western Australia, Australia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Oulankaite Image

Images: Oulankaite TelargpaliteTulameenite Chalcopyrite








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Owyheeite Image

Images: Owyheeite

Comments: Acicular owyheeitemicrocrystals in quartz.

Location: Lower Magnolia Mine, MoreyDistrict, Nye County, Nevada, USA. Scale:


Mineral Species

Oxammite Image

Images: Oxammite

Comments: Pale yellow translucentcrystalline granular oxammite.

Location: Petrogale Cave, WesternAustralia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Oxiberaunite Image

Images: Oxiberaunite

Comments: Red-brown ball of radiatingacicular oxiberaunite (eleonorite)

microcrystals, on pegmatitic matrix.Location: LCA Mine, Bessemer City, GastonCounty, North Carolina, USA. Scale: Box size

3.18 cm x 3.18 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Oyelite Image

Images: Oyelite Bultfonteinite

Comments: White encrustation of oyelitecovering brownish botryoidal bultfonteinite.


South Africa. Scale: 2 x 4 cm.© John Veevaert

Oyelite Image

Images: Oyelite

Comments: Tufts of white acicularmillimetric oyelite crystals on matrix.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari


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Paakkonenite Image

Images: Paakkonenite Kermesite

Comments: Much of the matrix is the graymetallic paakkonenite with red crystals of

kermesite and minute yellow crystals ofvalentinite.

Location: Cai' ao mine, Danfong Co.,Shaanxi Prov., China. Scale: 3x2x2cm.


Pabstite Image

Images: Pabstite

Comments: Pabstite grains in matrix. It is essentiallythe tin analog of benitoite with tin replacing

titanium in the formula 3:1. Pabstite fluorescesunder SW UV light as seen in the photo.

Location: Kalkar Quarry, Santa Cruz County,California, USA. Scale: 4.5 x 3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Pachnolite Image

Images: Pachnolite

Comments: Color-zoned (darker core)prismatic translucent pachnolite crystals,

with secondary white prismaticmicrocrystals.



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Paganoite Image

Images: Paganoite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopephotomicrograph of blocky subhedral toeuhedral crystals of paganoite and more

fine-grained mottled material that isaerugite. (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:169).

Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony,Germany, mined in the mid-1800?s, nothingwas preserved of its previous history until it

was located in 1981 by the Americanmineral dealer David New in the back of adrawer in an old mineral shop in Germany..

Scale: See Image.© Eur. J. Mineral

Pahasapaite Image

Images: Pahasapaite

Comments: Lilac colored pahasapaite inmatrix.

Location: Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, CusterDistrict, 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 painitecrystals wth red rubys and violet sapphires

(corundum) in a matrix composed ofpainite, pink and white corundum.

Location: Ongaing, near Mogok StoneTract, 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-brownpalenzonaite.

Location: Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia,Liguria, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.


Palermoite Image

Images: Palermoite

Comments: Less than 1cm, vug with microcrystals of palermoite.

Location: Palermo mine, New Hampshire,USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Palladium Image

Images: Palladium

Comments: Platinum-rich palladiumnugget, mounted in epoxy, with one side

polished.Location: Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:


Mineral Species

Palladodymite Image

Images: Palladodymite HongshiiteRuthenium





Palladseite Image

Images: Palladseite

Comments: Irregular metallic palladseitegrain.

Location: Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:See Photo.


Palygorskite Image


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Images: Palygorskite

Comments: Compact massivepalygorskite.

Location: Senton, Devon, England. Scale:See Photo.


Panunzite Image

Images: Panunzite

Comments: Opaque white fibrouspanunzite coatings.

Location: Pilcante, Trentino, Italy. Scale:See Photo.


Papagoite Image

Images: Papagoite

Comments: Electric blue crystals ofpapagoite in matrix.

Location: New Cornelia mine, Ajo, PimaCounty, Arizona. USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Parabutlerite Image

Images: Parabutlerite

Comments: Yellow to brownish yellowparabutlerite crystals.

Location: Shagand Yazd, Iran. Scale: NotGiven.


Paracelsian Image

Images: Paracelsian

Comments: Translucent paracelsiancrystals on matrix.

Location: Benalt Mine, Rhiw,Carnarvonshire, Gwynedd, Wales. Scale:


Mineral Species

Parachrysotile Image


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Images: Parachrysotile

Comments: Asbestos fibers of greenishparachrysotile.

Location: Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale:8x10 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Paradamite Image

Images: Paradamite

Comments: Yellow paradamite crystals ona gossanous matrix.

Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Druango,Mexico. Scale: Not Given.


Paradocrasite Image

Images: Paradocrasite

Comments: Metallic white columnaraggregates of paradocrasite.

Location: Moctezuma, Mun. deMoctezuma, Sonora. Scale: Picture size 5


Parafransoletite Image

Images: Parafransoletite Roscherite

Comments: White, crystalline aggregatesprays of parafransoletite on dark reddish

brown roscherite with massive, white,sucrosic whitlockite.

Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County,South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5


Paragonite Image

Images: Paragonite Chloritoid

Comments: Grayish crystalline inclusion ofchloritoid in white, massive paragonite.

Location: Drandorf Fundgrube Mine,Bockau, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Paragonite Image


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Images: Paragonite

Comments: Silvery micaceous paragonitecomprising schist rock, with garnet crystals.Location: Gassettts, New Hampshire, USA.


Mineral Species

Paraguanajuatite Image

Images: Paraguanajuatite Platynite

Comments: Bright metallic gray platycrystalline platynite, with dull black

paraguanajuatite.Location: Falun, Kopparberg, Sweden.


Mineral Species

Parahopeite Image

Images: Parahopeite

Comments: Transparent, prismaticparahopeite crystals with keckite.

Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany.Scale: Not Given.


Parakeldyshite Image

Images: Parakeldyshite

Comments: White pearly crystallineparakeldyshite in rock.

Location: Lagendalen, Larv ik, Vestfold,Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Paralaurionite Image

Images: Paralaurionite

Comments: Transparent, prismaticParalaurionite crystal.



Paralstonite Image


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Images: Paralstonite

Comments: Translucent bright white steeppyramidal paralstonite microcrystals on

fluorite.Location: Bethel Level, Minerva #1 Mine,

Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, USA.Scale: See Photo.


Paramelaconite Image

Images: Paramelaconite

Comments: black paramelaconite masseswith blue chrysocolla.

Location: Algoma Mine, Otonagon County,Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Paramendozavilite Image

Images: Paramendozavilite

Comments: Bright yellowparamendozavilite coatings on matrix.Location: Cumobabi, Sonora, Mexico.


Mineral Species

Paranatrolite Image

Images: Paranatrolite

Comments: Translucent prismaticparanatrolite crystal aggregate.



Paraotwayite Image

Images: Paraotwayite

Comments: Pale green, fibrous, silky, freestanding paraotwayite crystals to about

0.25mm.Location: Vaca Murta meteorite, Taltal,

Atacama, Chile. Scale: Crystal size .25 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Parapierrotite Image


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Images: Parapierrotite

Comments: Silvery metallic prismaticparapierrotite grains in translucent quartz

rock.Location: Lookout Pass, Tooele County,

Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Pararammelsbergite Image

Images: Pararammelsbergite

Comments: Columnar crystals of metallic graypararammelsbergite on massive arsenide ore.

Location: Lawson Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada.Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.

© 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 specimencourtesy of Museum of Geology, SD School

of Mines.Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County,

South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2mm.


Parascholzite Image

Images: Parascholzite

Comments: Bluish, transparent, prismaticparascholzite crystals on matrix.



Parascorodite Image


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Images: Parascorodite

Comments: Powdery parascorodite mass.Location: Kank, near Kutna Hora,

Stredocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: SeePhoto.


Paraspurrite Image

Images: Paraspurrite Larnite

Comments: Violet-tinted gray crystallinepure paraspurrite mass with larnite veinlets.

Location: Near Darwin, Inyo County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Parasymplesite Image

Images: Parasymplesite

Comments: Opaque, prismaticparasymplesite crystals.



Paratacamite Image

Images: Paratacamite Christelite

Comments: Robins-egg blue christelite with darkgreen paratacamite on matrix.

Location: San Francisco mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile.Scale: 3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Paratacamite Image

Images: Paratacamite

Comments: Deep green crystalparatacamite rosettes on rusty quartz.Location: Churchill Butte, Lyon County,

Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Paratellurite Image


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Images: Paratellurite

Comments: Light yellow crystals ofparatellurite in quartz.

Location: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma,Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.


Paravauxite Image

Images: Paravauxite

Comments: Radiating group of pastelblue/green paravauxite crystals to 1cm.Location: Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Boliv ia.

Scale: 1.8 x 1.5 x 1 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Paravauxite Image

Images: Paravauxite

Comments: Light-green, elongatedparavauxite crystals.

Location: Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Boliv ia.Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.

© Minernet

Pargasite Image

Images: Pargasite

Comments: Lime green, prismatic crystalsof pargasite in matrix.

Location: Luc Yen, Vietnam. Scale: 12x10cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Pargasite Image

Images: Pargasite Edenite

Comments: Blocky, dark green crystals ofvisually 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.Scale: Picture size 7 mm.


Parisite-(Ce) Image

Images: Parisite-(Ce)

Comments: Columnar, hexagonal crystalof 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 ofparnauite.

Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Parsettensite Image

Images: Parsettensite

Comments: Yellowish brown microcrystalsof parsettensite on a crystalline matrix with

pyrite and apatite.Location: Foote mine, Cleveland County,North Carolina, USA. Scale: Picture size 1

cm.© John Veevaert

Parsonsite Image

Images: Parsonsite

Comments: Bright yellow parsonsitecrystals on matrix.

Location: La Chaux, France. Scale: NotGiven.


Partheite Image


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Images: Partheite

Comments: 3 mm thick white band ofpartheite in matrix.

Location: Denezhkin, Kamen, Nord Urals,Russia. Scale: 0.9 x 1.6 cm.

© John Veevaert

Partzite Image

Images: Partzite

Comments: Light to dark green partziteencrustations 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 ofpascoite. 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 ofpascoite across sandstone matrix.

Location: Black Stone Incline, Thompsondist., Grand Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture


Patronite Image

Images: Patronite Minasragrite

Comments: Blue coatings of minasragriteon patronite.



Patronite Image


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Images: Patronite

Comments: Dark brownish black finegrained massive patronite.



Patronite Image

Images: Patronite Stanleyite

Comments: Blue crystalline stanleyite ondark patronite.

Location: Minas Ragra, Junin, Peru. Scale:See Photo.


Paulingite-K Image

Images: Paulingite-K

Comments: Glassy clear micro crystals ofpaulingite 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 tabularpaulkerrite microcrystal.

Location: Folgosinho, Guarda, Portugal.Scale: See Photo.


Pavonite Image

Images: Pavonite

Comments: Silvery metallic pavonitemasses with brassy pyrite.

Location: Alaska Mine, San Juan County,Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Pearceite Image


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Images: Pearceite

Comments: Crystals of metallic pearceite to0.75 mm scattered in vug.

Location: Sarbaiskoe, Kazakhstan. Scale: 4x3x3cm.


Pectolite Image

Images: Pectolite Aegirine

Comments: White, cottony pectolite tuftswith acicular aegirine.

Location: 3M quarry, Little Rock, PulaskiCounty, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Pectolite Image

Images: Pectolite Sugilite

Comments: Sharp terminated purplecrystals of sugilite to 5mm on white,

acicular pectolite.Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari, South

Africa. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Peisleyite Image

Images: Peisleyite

Comments: Off-white opaqueporcelaneous peisleyite mass.

Location: Tom's Phosphate Quarry, nearKapunda, South Australia, Australia. Scale:


Mineral Species

Pekovite Image

Images: Pekovite

Comments: Backscatter elecron image of(a) an intergrowth of pekovite (Pkv) and

pectolite (Pct) and (b), an enlarged areaof (a) showing details. (CanMin, v 42, p

110).Location: Moraine of the Dara-i-Pioz

glacier, Alai range, Tien Shan, northernTajikistan. Scale: See Image.


Pellyite Image


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Images: Pellyite Gillespite

Comments: Red crystalline gillespite withyellow pellyite rock matrix.

Location: GUN claims, Itsi Mountains,MacMillan Pass Area, Yukon Territory,


Mineral Species

Pellyite Image

Images: Pellyite

Comments: Brown massive pellyite inbarite.



Penfieldite Image

Images: Penfieldite

Comments: Greenish, acicular penfielditecrystals.



Penfieldite Image

Images: Penfieldite

Comments: White to clear or light blue,doubly terminated, striated penfieldite

crystals from 0.5 to 2mm associated withboleite as micro coatings.

Location: Margarita mine, Sierra Gorda,Chile. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Penikisite Image

Images: Penikisite Jagowerite

Comments: Light green crystal ofjagowerite intergrown with darker greenpenikisite in a tetrahedrite (black) and

white quartz matrix.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: Massive white cluster ofPenkvilksite.

Location: Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia.Scale: .5 x 2.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Pennantite Image

Images: Pennantite

Comments: Dark brown micaceouspennantite.

Location: Gambatesa Mine, Val Graveglia,Genova, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Penroseite Image

Images: Penroseite

Comments: Silvery metallic penroseitemasses in matrix.

Location: Unnamed prospect in PacajakeCanyon, near Culquechaca, Potosi, Boliv ia.


Mineral Species

Pentagonite Image

Images: Pentagonite

Comments: Blue, crystalline aggregate ofpentagonite on zeolite.

Location: Wagholi quarries, Poona, India.Scale: Grain size 1.2 cm.


Pentahydrite Image

Images: Pentahydrite

Comments: White, powdery pentahydrite.Location: Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein



Pentahydroborite Image


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Images: Pentahydroborite

Comments: Transparent, tabular crystal ofpentahydroborite on massive material.

Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town,Kawakama Co., Okayama Pref., Japan.

Scale: Crystal size 0.8 cm.© John Veevaert

Pentlandite Image

Images: Pentlandite

Comments: Ore sample of a mixture ofseveral sulfide minerals: pentlandite,

chalcopyrite, and pyrrhotite.Location: Frood-Stobie Mine, Sudbury

District, Ontario, Canada. Scale: 20x15x7mm.


Peretaite Image

Images: Peretaite

Comments: Clear, tabular, bladed,stellate spray of transparent peretaite

crystals.Location: Pereta mine, Scansano, Tuscany,

Italy. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Perhamite Image

Images: Perhamite

Comments: Squat, columnar perhamitecrystals on matrix.

Location: Emmons quarry, Greenwood,Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: Not


Periclase Image

Images: Periclase

Comments: Green nickel-rich periclase onmatrix.



Periclase Image


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Images: Periclase Srebrodolskite

Comments: Black grains of srebrodolskitewith white periclase.



Perite Image

Images: Perite

Comments: Pale yellow scaly crystallineperite on quartz.

Location: Benson, Cochise County, Arizona,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Perlialite Image

Images: Perlialite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous perlialitecoating on syenite rock.


Mineral Species

Perloffite Image

Images: Perloffite

Comments: Black, prismatic perloffitecrystals on matrix.

Location: Big Chief mine, Keystone,Pennington County, South Dakota, USA.


Perovskite Image

Images: Perovskite Clinochlore

Comments: Square, opaque perovskite ongreen 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 withhoppered perovskite on matrix.

Location: Udersdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Perraultite Image

Images: Perraultite

Comments: Dark red prismatic crystal ofperraultite to 1mm in matrix.

Location: Mariupol massif, Azov SeaRegion, Ukraine. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.


Perrierite-(Ce) Image

Images: Perrierite-(Ce) Pyrochlore ZirconLoparite-(Ce)





Perrierite-(Ce) Image

Images: Perrierite-(Ce)

Comments: Black, granular perrierite inwhite calcite.

Location: Buer, Bj?rkedalen, Porsgrunn,Telemark, Norway. Scale: Picture size 3


Perroudite Image

Images: Perroudite

Comments: Cluster of needle-like crystalsof 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, lightergrey). The still lighter grey mineral withcleavage at the top contacting onlypertsevite is calcite. (Eur. J. Mineral,

15:1008).Location: Contact-metasomatic kotoite

marble from the region east ofVerkhoyansk, Sakha-Yakutia, northeastern

Siberia.. Scale: See Image.© Eur. J. Mineral

Petalite Image

Images: Petalite

Comments: Translucent, gemmy , equantpetalite 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 prismaticpetarasite crystal in syenite rock.

Location: De Mix Quarry, Mont Saint Hilaire,Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Scale:


Mineral Species

Petersite-(Y) Image

Images: Petersite-(Y)

Comments: Fine, light green, acicularcrystals of petersite-(Y) to less than 0.2mmoccupying an area of about 1mm on dark

green malachite.Location: Laurel Hill, Hudson Co., NewJersey, USA. Scale: Picture size .5 cm.


Petewilliamsite Image

Images: Petewilliamsite

Comments: SEM image of a portion of apetewilliamsite aggregate. Note the

rounded nature of the crystal faces. (Min.Mag. 68:235).

Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony,


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Germany. Scale: See Image.© Mineralogical Magazine

Petterdite Image

Images: Petterdite

Comments: Pinkish-violet crystallineaggregate of petterdite on matrix.

Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) opencut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Petterdite Image

Images: Petterdite

Comments: Petterdite (Pe) forming a thinpink 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 theZeehan?Dundas mining field in

northwestern Tasmania, Australia.. Scale:Field of view: 15 9 mm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Petzite Image

Images: Petzite Gold

Comments: Dark, stubby petzite crystalswith native gold on quartz.



Pezzottaite Image

Images: Pezzottaite

Comments: Hot-pink, hexagonal, floatercrystal 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 pharmacolitecrystals on matrix.




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Pharmacolite Image

Images: Pharmacolite Haidingerite

Comments: Translucent colorless crystallinespherical aggregate of haidingerite with

white pharmacolite.Location: Jachymov, Zapadocesky, Czech


Mineral Species

Pharmacosiderite Image

Images: Pharmacosiderite Arthurite

Comments: Altered rhyolite vug lined withbrilliant 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

Pharmacosiderite Image

Images: Pharmacosiderite

Comments: Translucent yellow-browncubic Pharmacosiderite crystals.

Location: Wheal Gorland, Saint Day,Cornwall, England. Scale: See Photo.


Phaunouxite Image

Images: Phaunouxite

Comments: Aggregate of transparentcolorless acicular phaunouxite

microcrystals.Location: Grube Gabe Gottes, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin,


Mineral Species

Phenakite Image

Images: Phenakite

Comments: Prismatic, terminated crystal ofphenakite on matrix.

Location: Mt Antero, Chaffee County,Colorado, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Philipsbornite Image


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Images: Philipsbornite

Comments: Greenish-yellow philipsbornitebotryoidal crust.

Location: Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.Scale: See Photo.


Philipsburgite Image

Images: Philipsburgite

Comments: Green botryoidal microcrystals of philipsburgite.

Location: Gold Hill mine, Tooele County,Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.

© John Veevaert

Phillipsite Image

Images: Phillipsite Tacharanite

Comments: Spherical tacharaniteaggregates on phillipsite crystals.

Location: Espalion, Aveyron, France. Scale:See Photo.


Phillipsite-K Image

Images: Phillipsite-K

Comments: Clear crystalline ball ofphillipsite-K crystals.

Location: Bova, Calabria, Italy. Scale: NotGiven.


Phillipsite-Na Image

Images: Phillipsite-Na

Comments: Phillipsite, variety wellsite,crystals on matrix.

Location: Near Ronca, Verona, Veneto,Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Phlogopite Image


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Images: Phlogopite

Comments: Exceptionally well-crystallizedwine-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 goldencolored phlogopite, in white marble.

Location: Near Johnsberg, Warren County,New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Phlogopite Image

Images: Phlogopite Lazurite

Comments: Gemmy brownish phlogopitecrystals 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 phoenicochroitewith crocoite in matrix.

Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) opencut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 6.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Phoenicochroite Image

Images: Phoenicochroite Hemihedrite

Comments: Yellow hemihedrite crystals to1 mm within pockets of dark red

phoenicochroite crystalline aggregates onmatrix.

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 ofphosgenite on matrix.



Phosgenite Image

Images: Phosgenite

Comments: Terminated, very large crystalof partly transparent, deep brown

phosgenite.Location: Touissit, Morocco. Scale:

7.1x5.5x2.4 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Phosphammite Image

Images: Phosphammite

Comments: Tan opaque granularphosphammite.

Location: Guanape Islands, La Libertad,Peru. Scale: See Photo.


Phosphoferrite Image

Images: Phosphoferrite

Comments: Translucent, brown crystal ofphosphoferrite on matrix.



Phosphofibrite Image

Images: Phosphofibrite Crandallite

Comments: Olive-green colored fibrousphosphofibrite aggregates with white

crandallite.Location: Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt


Mineral Species

Phosphohedyphane Image


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Images: Phosphohedyphane IMA2005-026

Comments: Clear, prismaticphosphohedyphane crystal on matrix.

Location: Argentena mine, Goodsprings,Clark Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size

0.5mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Phosphophyllite Image

Images: Phosphophyllite

Comments: Transparent, blue crystal ofphosphophyllite.



Phosphosiderite Image

Images: Phosphosiderite Barbosalite

Comments: Transparent, brown crystal ofphosphosiderite on black barbosalite.

Location: Bull Moose mine, Custer, CusterCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not


Phosphosiderite Image

Images: Phosphosiderite TinsleyiteRockbridgeite

Comments: Violet botryoidal tinsleyite onbluish-purple botryoidal phosphosiderite on

dark, massive rockbridgeite.Location: Bendada, Guarda, Portugal.


Mineral Species

Phosphovanadylite Image

Images: Phosphovanadylite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopemicrographs showing the cubic habit of

phosphovanadylite. (AmMin 83:890).Location: Phosphoria Formation at

Monsanto?s Enoch Valley Mine, SodaSprings, Idaho. Scale: Crystal size 40 µm.


Phosphowalpurgite Image


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Images: Phosphowalpurgite

Comments: Scanning electronphotomicrograph of tabular crystals (up to

330 micro m) of phosphowalpurgite,(CanMin, 42:966)..

Location: Old mine dumps of anabandoned small ore deposit near

Smrkovec, located 10 km NNE of Mari?nsk?L?zne, Slavkovsk? Les Mountains, westernBohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture

Size 515 µ-m.© Canadian Mineralogist

Phosphuranylite Image

Images: Phosphuranylite

Comments: Bright yellow orange crystals ofphosphuranylite on matrix.

Location: Wagontown, Chester County,Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Phosphuranylite Image

Images: Phosphuranylite Uranocircite

Comments: Yellow, waxy phosphuranylitewith green uranocircite in matrix.


cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Phuralumite Image

Images: Phuralumite

Comments: Yellow crystals of phuralumitescattered on white matrix.

Location: Kobokobo Pegmatite, LusunguRiver District, Kivu, Congo (Za?re). Scale:


Phurcalite Image

Images: Phurcalite

Comments: Yellow phurcalite crystals onwhite aragonite.

Location: Posey Mine, White CanyonDistrict, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale:

Picture site 0.5 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Phurcalite Image


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Images: Phurcalite

Comments: Coatings of minute acicularphurcalite crystals on sandstone.

Location: Posey Mine, Red Canyon, WhiteCanyon District, San Juan County, Utah,


Mineral Species

Phurcalite Image

Images: Phurcalite

Comments: Bright canary yellow acicularphurcalite crystals to about 0.25mm.Seems to have overgrown perhaps

torbernite and individual groups are to1mm.

Location: El Azul mine, Los Azules district,Copiapo Province, Atacama, Chile. Scale:

Picture Size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Pianlinite Image

Images: Pianlinite Kaolinite

Comments: Off-white colored minutepianlinite (kaolinite) fragment.

Location: Pianling, China. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Pickeringite Image

Images: Pickeringite Magnesioaubertite

Comments: Aqua crystallinemagnesioaubertite with white pickeringite.Location: Grotto di Faraglione, Vulcano,

Sicily, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Pickeringite Image

Images: Pickeringite

Comments: Radiating fibrous pickeringite.Location: Patagonia, Santa Cruz County,


Mineral Species

Picropharmacolite Image


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Images: Picropharmacolite

Comments: White, acicular crystallinesprays of picropharmacolite on matrix.Location: Wechsel Schacht, Richelsdorf,

Hesse, Germany. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Picropharmacolite Image

Images: Picropharmacolite

Comments: Snow white acicular, radialspray of picropharmacolite with pink

sainfeldite.Location: Wilhelm Mine, Richelsdorf District,Hesse, Germany. Scale: Cluster size 6 mm.


Piemontite Image

Images: Piemontite

Comments: Red, acicular crystallineaggregates of piemontite.

Location: N'Chwaning mine, Kuruman,Nothern Cape, South Africa. Scale: Not


Pigeonite Image

Images: Pigeonite

Comments: Dark green prismatic pigeonitecrystals in matrix.

Location: Belmont Quarry, Louden County,Virginia, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Pillaite Image

Images: Pillaite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopeimage 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 pilseniteveinlets in quartz.

Location: Near Hope, British Columbia,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Pinakiolite Image

Images: Pinakiolite

Comments: Black submetallic platypinakiolite crystals in white calcite.



Pinalite Image

Images: Pinalite

Comments: Yellow needles of pinalite from0.2 to 0.5mm in rose quartz and blue

caledonite.Location: Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona, USA.


Pinchite Image

Images: Pinchite Montroydite

Comments: Minute lustrous black pinchitecrystals on white montroydite.

Location: Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Pinnoite Image

Images: Pinnoite Inderite

Comments: Pale green translucentcrystalline pinnoite on chalky white inderite.Location: Lake Inder, Atyrau, Kazakhstan.


Mineral Species

Pintadoite Image


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Images: Pintadoite

Comments: Dark green to lighter greenpintadoite coatings on sandstone.

Location: Deremo-Snyder Mine, San MiguelCounty, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Pirssonite Image

Images: Pirssonite

Comments: Almost transparent platypirssonite crystal.


Mineral Species

Pitiglianoite Image

Images: Pitiglianoite

Comments: Colorless, prismatic crystals ofpitiglianoite.

Location: Monte Cavallucio, Sacrofano,Campagnano, Lazio, Italy. Scale: Picture


Pitticite Image

Images: Pitticite

Comments: Dark brown to orange-brownmassive Pitticite.

Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Albite

Comments: Colorless, lustrous blocky albitecrystals 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 7.5cm matrix.

© Dan Weinrich

Plagioclase Image


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Images: Plagioclase Albite

Comments: Crystal group of bladed albite(variety cleavelandite) crystals.

Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil.Scale: 7.4 x 5 cm.© John Veevaert

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Labradorite

Comments: Dual view of a cleavagefragment of labradorite showing the multi-colored labradorescence (schiller effect)and the same area viewed without the

color. The color is due to opticalinterference on the 010 polysynthetic

twinning planes (Albite Law).Location: Ihosy, Betroka district, Toliara

Province, Madagascar. Scale: Picture size3x3 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Oligoclase

Comments: Rectangular cleavagefragment of salmon-orange oligoclase

(sunstone) feldspar.Location: Norway. Scale: 47x30x7 mm.


Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Anorthite

Comments: Opaque white crystal of anorthitewith dark brown solidified lava coating.

Location: Miyake-jima, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:See Photo.


Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Andesine

Comments: Translucent andesine crystaltwin.

Location: Maeyama Ueda shi, Nagano,Japan. Scale: See Photo.



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Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Bytownite

Comments: Translucent crystallinebytownite.

Location: Crystal Bay, Hennepin County,Minnesota, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase Oligoclase

Comments: Clear glassy crystallineoligoclase with milky quartz and

muscovite.Location: Bakersville, Mitchell County,North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Plagioclase Image

Images: Plagioclase

Comments: Plagioclase, variety kenyite,crystals in volcanic rock.

Location: Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), CentralProvince, Kenya. Scale: See Photo.


Plagionite Image

Images: Plagionite

Comments: Silvery metallic crystallineplagionite with brassy chalcopyrite.

Location: Rocker Creek, Jefferson County,Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Plagionite Image

Images: Plagionite

Comments: Lead-gray crystals (to 2mm) ofplagionite with a bluish tarnish on vuggy

white calcite matrix.Location: Wolfsberg, Harz, Germany. Scale:

3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Plancheite Image


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Images: Plancheite

Comments: Open vug lined with indiv idualplancheite 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 ofplanerite on matrix.

Location: Mauldin Mountain Quarry, Mt.Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA.

Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Platinum Image

Images: Platinum CherepanoviteCooperite





Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale: Picturesize 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 nuggetwith chromite? Inclusions.

Location: Rio Tinto, San Juan River Basin,Papayan, Cauca, Columbia. Scale: Picture

size 1.5 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Plattnerite Image

Images: Plattnerite

Comments: Rhombic calcite crystals withovergrowth of sparkling black plattnerite

crystals.Location: Ojuela mine, Mapim?, Mun. deMapim?, Durango, Mexico. Scale: 5x3x2

cm..© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Platynite Image

Images: Platynite Paraguanajuatite

Comments: Bright metallic gray platycrystalline platynite, with dull black

paraguanajuatite.Location: Falun, Kopparberg, Sweden.


Mineral Species

Plombierite Image

Images: Plombierite

Comments: Whitish chalky massive,somewhat fibrous plombierite, in

vesuvianite.Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside


Mineral Species

Plumbobetafite Image

Images: Plumbobetafite Plumbopyrochlore

Comments: Brown resinous plumbobetafitewith yellowish plumbopyrochlore.

Location: Ploskaya Mountain, Keivy Region,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Plumbogummite Image


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Images: Plumbogummite Mimetite

Comments: White, fuzzy aggregates ofplumbogummite covering lime green

mimetite (campylite) crystals.Location: Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria,

England. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Plumbojarosite Image

Images: Plumbojarosite Galena

Comments: Yellow, earthy plumbojarositeon massive, gray galena.

Location: Quarry No 3, K?nigshain,Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Plumbomicrolite Image

Images: Plumbomicrolite

Comments: Gray, octahedral crystal ofplumbomicrolite.

Location: Ploskaya Mt, Keivy Massif, KolaPeninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern

Region, Russia. Scale: 20x17x13 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Plumbomicrolite Image

Images: Plumbomicrolite

Comments: Large octahedral crystal ofbrownish black plumbomicrolite on matrix.Location: Berg Ploskaya, West Keivy Massif,Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image.


Plumbopyrochlore Image

Images: Plumbopyrochlore Ferrocolumbite

Comments: Brown plumbopyrochlorecrystal with dark brown ferrocolumbite.

Location: Holdazan, Buregteg, Mongolia.Scale: See Photo.


Plumbopyrochlore Image


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Images: Plumbopyrochlore Plumbobetafite

Comments: Brown resinous plumbobetafitewith yellowish plumbopyrochlore.

Location: Ploskaya Mountain, Keivy Region,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Plumbotsumite Image

Images: Plumbotsumite

Comments: Translucent plumbotsumitemicrocrystals.



Poitevinite Image

Images: Poitevinite

Comments: Pale brown powderypoitevinite mass with pale blue

chalcanthite.Location: Bonaparte River, Kamloops

District, British Columbia, Canada. Scale:See Photo.


Pokrovskite Image

Images: Pokrovskite Hydromagnesite

Comments: Tan spherical pokrovskite onserpentinite rock with white

hydromagnesite sprays.Location: KCA Quarry, San Benito County,


Mineral Species

Poldervaartite Image

Images: Poldervaartite

Comments: Moderate reddish tint toyellowish poldervaartite crystalline druze

on matrix.Location: N'chwaning II mine, section 5

south, stope 46-47 roof, Kuruman, Kalaharidesert, 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 pollucitewith 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-grayrosette of polybasite crystals.

Location: Guanajuato, Mexico. Scale: 18 x16 x 8 mm.

© Dan Weinrich

Polycrase-(Y) Image

Images: Polycrase-(Y)

Comments: Large, black, blockypolycrase-(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 ofpolydymite on matrix.

Location: Gr?neau Mine (Gr?ne Au Mine;Gr?nau Mine), Schutzbach, Betzdorf, SiegenDistrict (W), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.


Polyhalite Image


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Images: Polyhalite

Comments: White crystals of polyhalite inmatrix.



Polylithionite Image

Images: Polylithionite

Comments: Rosette of polylithionitecrystals.

Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.Scale: 2.5 x 2.3 cm.© John Veevaert

Polylithionite Image

Images: Polylithionite Shibkovite

Comments: Clear crystalline shibkoviteaggregates with peach colored

translucent polylithionite.Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.


Mineral Species

Ponomarevite Image

Images: Ponomarevite

Comments: Orange ponomarevite. Thesample stored in a closed vial. The photo

was made through the vial.Location: Tolbachik volcano, KamchatkaOblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale:


Portlandite Image

Images: Portlandite

Comments: Cleaved mass of whiteportlandite.


South Africa. Scale: 4 x 1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Posnjakite Image


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Images: Posnjakite

Comments: Waxy blue aggregates ofposnjakite.

Location: Ecton mine, Audubon,Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.


Potassic-carpholite Image

Images: Potassic-carpholite

Comments: Tan prismatic crystal sprays ofpotassic-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, jetblack 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 crystalof watatsumiite terminated by pyramidal

faces associated with reddish brownpotassicleakeite and clear quartz (JMPS, v

98, p 149).Location: Tanohata mine, Iwate Prefecture,

Japan. Scale: See Image.© JMPS

Potassicpargasite Image

Images: Potassicpargasite

Comments: Brownish-blackpotassicpargasite crystal in calcite

(repaired).Location: Simonby, Pargas, Turku ja Pori,

Finland. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species


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Potassicsadanagaite Image

Images: Potassicsadanagaite

Comments: Dark greenish black crystallinepotassicsadanagaite fragments.

Location: Ilmeny Mountains, ChelyabinskDistrict, Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Potosiite Image

Images: Potosiite Franckeite

Comments: Visually indistinguishable metallicpotosiite/franckeite crystals to 6 mm..

Location: San Jose mine, Oruro City, OruroDepartment, Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size 6

mm.© Rob Lavinsky

Pottsite Image

Images: Pottsite

Comments: Sub-mm, bright yellow to orangepottsite 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 crystallinepoubaite in white calcite.

Location: Oldrichov, near Tachov, westernBohemia, Zapadocesky, Czech Republic.


Mineral Species

Poughite Image

Images: Poughite

Comments: Yellow coatings of poughiteon matrix.

Location: Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora,Mexico. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.



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Povondraite Image

Images: Povondraite

Comments: Deep greenish blackpovondraite crystals.

Location: Malacacheta, Minas Gerais,Brazil. Scale: See Photo.


Powellite Image

Images: Powellite

Comments: Sharp, thumbnail-sized crystalgroup of yellowish brown lustrous powellitecrystals, 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 thinpoyarkovite film on white chert.

Location: Elena, Durango, Mexico. Scale:See Photo.


Prehnite Image

Images: Prehnite

Comments: Very lustrous and brilliantprehnite.

Location: Deep Sahara, Morocco: DjbelMelh, Bou-Arfa. Scale: 9 x 6.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Preisingerite Image

Images: Preisingerite

Comments: Olive-greenish crystals ofpreisingerite on quartz.



Preiswerkite Image


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Images: Preiswerkite

Comments: Pale green fine grainedpreiswerkite masses in dark amphibolite

rock.Location: Geisspfad, Binnental, Valias,

Switzerland. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Preobrazhenskite Image

Images: Preobrazhenskite

Comments: Crudely formed white to tantranslucent preobrazhenskite crystal on

yellow crystalline massive material.Location: Lake Inder, Atyrau, Kazakhstan.


Mineral Species

Pretulite Image

Images: Pretulite

Comments: SEM-BSE image of a euhedralcrystal of pretulite (left), and proposed

crystal forms (right).Location: Apatite-rich oolitic Ordovicianironstone at Saint-Aubin-des-Ch?teaux,

Armorican Massif, France. Scale: SeePicture.


Priceite Image

Images: Priceite Ginorite

Comments: Clear platy crystalline coatingsof ginorite on rock with white priceite.Location: Corkscrew Canyon, Death

Valley, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Priceite Image

Images: Priceite

Comments: Botryoidal priceite aggregate.Location: Lone Randi Quarry, Curry County,

Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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,Russia. Scale: 2.5 x 3.4 cm.

© John Veevaert

Prismatine Image

Images: Prismatine

Comments: Prismatic crystals of prismatinein matrix.

Location: Waldheim, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Picture size 7 mm.


Probertite Image

Images: Probertite

Comments: Large colorless prismatic crystal ofprobertite.

Location: Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Erfurtdistrict, Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:

Crystal length 4.7 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Prosopite Image

Images: Prosopite

Comments: Pale violet prosopitemicrocrystals.



Protasite Image

Images: Protasite

Comments: Orange crystals of protasite onmatrix.

Location: Shinkolobwe mine (Kasolo mine),Shaba (Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale:


Protoanthophyllite Image


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Images: Protoanthophyllite

Comments: Drill core showing whiteacicular crystalline aggregates of

protoanthophyllite in matrix with a close upimage on the right..

Location: Drill-core sample from the wastedump of the abandoned Takase chromitemine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Scale:

Core size 3 cm.© American Mineralogist

Proustite Image

Images: Proustite

Comments: Crystal group of gemmy, redproustite. 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?, BajaCalifornia Sur, Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 4.5


Pseudobrookite Image

Images: Pseudobrookite

Comments: Black, prismatic crystals ofpseudobrookite on matrix.

Location: Sierra County, New Mexico, USA.Scale: Not Given.


Pseudocotunnite Image

Images: Pseudocotunnite

Comments: Bright white botryoidalpseudocotunnite coatings.



Pseudolaueite Image


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Images: Pseudolaueite

Comments: Brownish yellow crystals ofpseudolaueite.



Pseudomalachite Image

Images: Pseudomalachite Halloysite

Comments: Deep green pseudomalachitecrystals on cuprous halloysite.

Location: Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg,Granite Co., Montana, USA. Scale: Crystal

size 1-2 mm.© John Veevaert

Pseudorutile Image

Images: Pseudorutile

Comments: Dark brown grain ofhydroxyian 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:


Mineral Species

Pucherite Image

Images: Pucherite Schumacherite

Comments: Brown crystals of pucheritewith yellow schumacherite on matrix.



Pumpellyite-(Fe++) Image


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Images: Pumpellyite-(Fe++)

Comments: Gas cavities in basalt matrixlined with sprays of 1 mm green

pumpellyite-(Fe) crystals.Location: Braen's Quarry, Haledon, PassaicCo., New Jersey, USA. Scale: 25x15x15 mm.


Pumpellyite-(Mg) Image

Images: Pumpellyite-(Mg)

Comments: Greenish, flattened, prismaticcrystals of pumpellyite-(Mg) ? to 3mm.

Location: Deere Island, Novato, Marin Co.,California, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Purpurite Image

Images: Purpurite

Comments: Massive purpurite, which neverforms crystals but is only found in masses.

Location: Newry, Maine, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 4cm.

© John Veevaert

Pushcharovskite Image

Images: Pushcharovskite

Comments: Light bluish, acicular crystals ofpushcharovskite.

Location: Salsigne Mine, Montagne Noire,Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.


Putzite Image

Images: Putzite Catamarcaite

Comments: Polished section of putzite (pu) grainin 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 ofAndalgal?, Catamarca Province, Argentina..


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 ofpyrite encased in a very fine-grained

sedimentary marlstone (clay and calcite).Location: Navajun-(La Rioja)-Spain. Scale:

6x5x3 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Pyroaurite Image

Images: Pyroaurite

Comments: Green, hexagonal plates ofpyroaurite in quartz.

Location: Varmland, Sweden. Scale:Crystal size 1 mm.


Pyroaurite Image

Images: Pyroaurite

Comments: Golden yellow platy crystalsof pyroaurite to 1mm on matrix.

Location: Langban mine, Varmland,Sweden. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.


Pyrobelonite Image

Images: Pyrobelonite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopepicture, showing idiomorphic pyrobelonitecrystals (pb) growing on, and intergrownwith 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 ofpyrochlore to 0.9 cm across.

Location: Lauzon Farm, Oka, Quebec, Canada.Scale: 3.9 x 2.9 cm.© John Veevaert

Pyrochlore Image

Images: Pyrochlore Perrierite-(Ce) ZirconLoparite-(Ce)





Pyrochroite Image

Images: Pyrochroite

Comments: Pseudo-cubic crystal ofpyrochroite on matrix.



Pyrochroite Image

Images: Pyrochroite Shigaite

Comments: Bronzy yellow crystals ofshigaite set in a crystalline matrix of reddish

black pychroite.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari


© John Veevaert

Pyrolusite Image

Images: Pyrolusite

Comments: Steel-gray metallic prismaticpyrolusite crystals.

Location: Hori Blatna, Czech Republic.Scale: See Photo.


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 pyropegarnet.

Location: Governador Valadares, Rio Doce,Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale:


Pyrophyllite Image

Images: Pyrophyllite Rutile

Comments: Rutile on fine-grained pyrophyllite.Location: Graves Mt. Georgia, USA. Scale: 4.5


Pyrostilpnite Image

Images: Pyrostilpnite

Comments: Reddish brown, crystallineaggregate of pyrostilpnite on matrix.

Location: St. Audreasberg, Hartz, LowerSaxony, Germany. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Pyrostilpnite Image

Images: Pyrostilpnite

Comments: Deep bright-red, acicularcrystals of pyrostilpnite to 1mm in vuggy

sulfide matrix.Location: Cerro Rico, Potosi City, PotosiDept., Boliv ia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Pyroxferroite Image


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Images: Pyroxferroite

Comments: Brown crystalline pyroxferroitecleavage.

Location: Ohnari Mine, Mineyama-cho,Naka-Gun, Kyoto, Japan. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Pyroxmangite Image

Images: Pyroxmangite

Comments: Pinkish red nearly opaquecrystalline pyroxmangite.

Location: Shidara, Kitashidara-Gun, Aichi,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Pyrrhotite Image

Images: Pyrrhotite

Comments: Lustrous sharp crystals ofpyrrhotite to 3.5 cm in size with minor

sphalerite and chalcopyrite.Location: Nikolaevskiy 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 quadratitewith small silvery gray, rounded crystals of

galena.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picturesize 0.8 mm.


Quadratite Image

Images: Quadratite

Comments: Aggregate of 3 black tabularcrystals of quadratite (reflecting light) on

jordanite/lengenbachite and whitedolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 0.2

mm.© Walter Gabriel

Quadridavyne Image

Images: Quadridavyne

Comments: Colorless hexagonal crystals ofquadridavyne.




Quartz Image

Images: Quartz Calcite

Comments: Purple-colored druse ofamethystine quartz and white calcite.

Location: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Scale:Sample size 20 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Quartz Image

Images: Quartz Chalcopyrite

Comments: Well-formed crystals ofchalcopyrite and quartz.

Location: Boldut mine, 61 level (350 metersdeep), Cavnic, Maramures, Rumania.


Quartz Image


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Images: Quartz Ilvaite

Comments: Black, prismatic ilvaite with quartz.Location: First Sovietskij mine, Dalnjegorsk, Russia.


Quartz Image

Images: Quartz

Comments: Crystal druse of transparentquartz crystals.

Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. Scale:Specimen size 6 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Quartz Image

Images: Quartz Fluorapatite

Comments: Purple crystal of fluorapatite onslightly smoky quartz crystals. Former Dr. E.E.

David 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 mmacross on amethyst quartz crystal matrix.Location: Sawda, Jalgaon, Maharashtra,


Quartz Image

Images: Quartz

Comments: Slightly smokey quartz overgrownwith 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 masseson quartz.

Location: Tombstone, Cochise County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Quenselite Image

Images: Quenselite

Comments: Square crystal of quenselite onmatrix.

Location: Langban, Sweden. Scale: Crystalsize 1 mm.

© John Veevaert

Quenselite Image

Images: Quenselite

Comments: Jet black tabular crystals ofquenselite, some striated on matrix.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: Crystal size 1.75mm.


Quenstedtite Image

Images: Quenstedtite

Comments: White crystalline quenstedtitecrust.

Location: Richelsdorf, Hessen, Germany.Scale: See Photo.


Quetzalcoatlite Image

Images: Quetzalcoatlite

Comments: Green encrustation ofquetzalcoatlite.



Quintinite-2H Image


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Images: Quintinite-2H Quintinite-3T

Comments: Pale brownish crystals ofquintinite, 2H or 2T polytype unknown.

Location: Jacupiranga Mine, S?o Paulo,Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size


Quintinite-3T Image

Images: Quintinite-3T Quintinite-2H

Comments: Pale brownish crystals ofquintinite, 2H or 2T polytype unknown.

Location: Jacupiranga Mine, S?o Paulo,Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size





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Raadeite Image

Images: Raadeite Heneuite

Comments: Translucent aqua coloredgreasy heneuite grain, surrounded bybeige rim of raadeite, with dark blue

phosphoellenbergerite inclusion (near topof heneuite), in quartz apatite rock.

Location: Tingelstadt Iron Mine, Modum,Buskerud, Norway. Scale: See Photo.


Raadeite Image

Images: Raadeite

Comments: Black and white image of apetrographic thin section showing two crystals ofraadeite (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 ofrabbittite to about 1mm on matrix.

Location: Hideout mine, San Juan Co.,Utah, USA. Scale: 20x10x4mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

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Rabejacite Image

Images: Rabejacite

Comments: Yellow rabejacite grains onmatrix.

Location: Mas d'Alary, Lod?ve, H?rault,Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Scale:


Raguinite Image

Images: Raguinite

Comments: Murky gray-brown fine grainedraguinite mass, intermixed with pyrite.

Location: Allchar, Macedonia. Scale: SeePhoto.


Raite Image

Images: Raite

Comments: Golden raite crystals up to 2mm long filling cavities in white microcline

with minor lomonosovite and natrolite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,

Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region,Russia. Scale: 7x4x3 cm.


Raite Image

Images: Raite Mountainite

Comments: Bright white fibrous acicularmountainite crystal aggregate with pale

golden raite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Rajite Image

Images: Rajite

Comments: Bluish green coating of rajite onmatrix.

Location: Lone Pine mine, Catron Co., NewMexico, USA. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.


Ralstonite Image


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Images: Ralstonite Cryolite

Comments: Massive cryolite with solutioncavities lined with octahedral ralstonite

crystals.Location: Iv igtut, Greenland. Scale: Picture


Ralstonite Image

Images: Ralstonite Gjerdingenite-Fe

Comments: SEM photomicrograph ofgjerdingenite-Fe. The mineral is dusted with tinycrystals of two phases. At high magnification,

one of them is seen to form cubes and isprobably ralstonite.

Location: Gjerdingselva, Lunner, Oppland, OsloRegion, Norway. Scale: Crystal length 0.5 mm.


Rambergite Image

Images: Rambergite Hauerite

Comments: Small black octahedralcrystals of hauerite with small brown

crystals of rambergite.Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera



Rambergite Image

Images: Rambergite

Comments: Dark reddish-brownrambergite mass in matrix.

Location: Ronneberg, Thuringen, Germany.Scale: See Photo.


Rammelsbergite Image

Images: Rammelsbergite

Comments: Dull gray metallic botryoidalrammelsbergite aggregate with crystalline

surface.Location: Hudson Bay Mine, Rusty Lake,

Gowganda, Ontario, Canada. Scale: SeePhoto.


Ramsbeckite Image


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Images: Ramsbeckite

Comments: Green crystals of ramsbeckiteon matrix.



Ramsdellite Image

Images: Ramsdellite

Comments: Large mass of radiatingramsdellite crystals with terminated

crystals.Location: Lake Valley District, Sierra Co.,

New Mexico, USA. Scale: 11x10x8 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Rancieite Image

Images: Rancieite

Comments: Brown resinous rancieiteveinlets in limonite / wad rock.

Location: Montmirat, Lozere, France. Scale:See Photo.


Rankamaite Image

Images: Rankamaite

Comments: White, massive-fibrousrankamaite.

Location: Mumba, Kivu, Congo (Za?re).Scale: Picture size 2 mm.


Ransomite Image

Images: Ransomite

Comments: Pale bluish-green powderyransomite.

Location: United Verde Mine, Jerome,Black Hills, Verde District, Yavapai Co.,Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.


Rapidcreekite Image


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Images: Rapidcreekite

Comments: Colorless, radial-acicularcrystals of rapidcreekite on matrix.

Location: Jeremias Gl?ck Mine (FairyGrotto), Garnsdorf, Saalfeld, Thuringia,


Raspite Image

Images: Raspite

Comments: Brown, tabular crystal ofraspite on matrix.



Rasvumite Image

Images: Rasvumite

Comments: Opaque dull orange fibrousrasvumite masses.

Location: Coyote Peak, Humboldt County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Rasvumite Image

Images: Rasvumite

Comments: Reddish brown micro crystalsof rasvumite in vugs to about 0.75mm.Location: Kirovskiy mine, Khibina massif,Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: 3.5 x 2.5 x


Rathite Image

Images: Rathite

Comments: Gray metallic foliated rathite,with pyrite in sugary dolomite.



Rathite Image


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Images: Rathite

Comments: Black prismatic crystal ofrathite with glossy surface and red realgar

on white dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal length 5mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Rauenthalite Image

Images: Rauenthalite

Comments: Bright white botryoidal totransparent colorless prismatic rauenthalite

microcrystals.Location: Gabe Gottes, Sainte-Marie-

aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin, France.Scale: See Photo.


Rauvite Image

Images: Rauvite

Comments: Irregular grains of dark-coloredrauvite in matrix.

Location: Monument No. 2 Mine,Monument Valley, Apache County,

Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Rauvite Image

Images: Rauvite

Comments: Brownish-yellow scaly rauviteon sandstone.

Location: Monument Valley, ApacheCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Ravatite Image

Images: Ravatite

Comments: Small crystals of ravatite.Location: Carola Mine, Freital, near

Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picturesize 5 mm.


Realgar Image


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Images: Realgar Duranusite

Comments: Small black Duranusite inorange-red realgar matrix.

Location: Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes,Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France.


Realgar Image

Images: Realgar

Comments: Sharp, dark red crystals ofrealgar 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.

Location: Allchar, Roszdan, FYRMacedonia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Realgar Image

Images: Realgar Vrbaite

Comments: Black grain of vrbaite in redrealgar matrix.



Rebulite Image

Images: Rebulite Realgar

Comments: Dark gray rebulite grain in red,massive realgar.

Location: Allchar, Roszdan, FYRMacedonia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Rectorite Image

Images: Rectorite

Comments: Blue Mountain District, MarbleTownship, Garland Co., Arkansas, USA.

Location: Five pieces of leather-likefragments of rectorite in twisted, irregular

shapes. Scale: Specimen size 1-4 cm.


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Reddingite Image

Images: Reddingite

Comments: Opaque brown crystallinereddingite.

Location: Tip Top Quarry, Custer County,South Dakota, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Reddingite Image

Images: Reddingite

Comments: Brown crystals of reddingite onmatrix.

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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Redingtonite Image

Images: Redingtonite Botryogen

Comments: Pale pink granular redingtoniteon yellow-brown botryogen.

Location: Redington Mine, Knoxville, NapaCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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 crystallinereedmergnerite in quartz.

Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.Scale: See Photo.


Reevesite Image

Images: Reevesite

Comments: Green reevesite coatings onserpentinite rock.

Location: Pacific Asbestos CorporationMine, near Copperopolis, Tuolumne


Mineral Species

Reichenbachite Image

Images: Reichenbachite

Comments: Green crystals ofreichenbachite on quartz.

Location: Bergen, near Falkenstein,Vogtland, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture


Reidite Image

Images: Reidite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopephotomicrograph of the surface of anetched shocked zircon with a skeletal

crystalline phase that may be reidite. X-raydiffraction data indicate that this zircon

contains minor amounts of reidite. (AmMin87:563).

Location: Found in an upper Eoceneimpact ejecta layer in marine sediments onthe upper continental slope off New Jersey

and on Barbados. Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Reinhardbraunsite Image

Images: Reinhardbraunsite Brownmillerite

Comments: Pink crystallinereinhardbraunsite in brownmillerite.

Location: Near Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pflaz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.



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Renardite Image

Images: Renardite

Comments: Bright yellow, tabular crystalsof renardite on matrix.

Location: Grury, Saone-et-Loire, France.Scale: Not Given.


Renierite Image

Images: Renierite

Comments: Dull dark orange tarnishedrenierite with brassy chalcopyrite.

Location: Prince Leopold Mine, Kipushi,Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See Photo.


Reppiaite Image

Images: Reppiaite

Comments: Vitreous orange crystals ofreppiaite embedded in matrix.

Location: Gambatesa mine, Genova,Ligurai, Italy. Scale: Crystal size 0.5mm.


Retgersite Image

Images: Retgersite

Comments: Pale blue powdery retgersiteon rock.

Location: Mina La Motte, nearFrederocktown, Madison County, Missouri,


Mineral Species

Rhabdophane-(Ce) Image

Images: Rhabdophane-(Ce)

Comments: White acicular crystalsrhabdophane-(Ce) on matrix.

Location: Reinersreuth Quarry (K?hlerloch),Gro?er Waldstein, Wei?enstadt,

Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany. Scale:Picture size 1.3 mm.


Rheniite Image


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Images: Rheniite IMA1999-004a

Comments: Specimen covered with rheniite asmicro crystals to .25 mm across.

Location: Kudryaviy Volcano, Iturup Island,Kurilian Chain, Russia. Scale: 4.7 x 3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Rhenium Image

Images: Rhenium

Comments: Dark gray metallic rheniumflakes.

Location: Transbaikalia Region, ChitaDistrict, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Rhodesite Image

Images: Rhodesite Magadiite

Comments: Earth pale tan massivemagadiite with dark yellow crystalline

rhodesite.Location: East Fork, Trinity River, Trinity


Mineral Species

Rhodesite Image

Images: Rhodesite

Comments: Pearly white to tan rhodesitecrusts.

Location: Quarter-mile east of Trinity River,Trinity County, California, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Rhodizite Image

Images: Rhodizite

Comments: Two large, blocky, greenishcrystals 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, gemmycrystals of rhodizite frozen in a feldspar

matrix.Location: Sahanivotry, Sahatany Valley,

Madagascar. Scale: 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Rhodochrosite Image

Images: Rhodochrosite Helvite

Comments: Yellow crystals of helvite onquartz and pink rhodochrosite.

Location: Galerie Elisabeth, Cavnic,Maramures, Romaina. Scale: Not Given.


Rhodochrosite Image

Images: Rhodochrosite

Comments: Cherry red rhodochrosite withquartz, 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 minorquartz.

Location: Chiurucu mine, Dos de Mayo,Peru. Scale: 3 x 3.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Rhodonite Image

Images: Rhodonite Akatoreite

Comments: Brown akatoreite in pinkrhodonite.

Location: Akatore Creek, Eastern OtagoPeninsula, South Island, New Zealand.


Mineral Species

Rhodonite Image


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Images: Rhodonite Caryinite

Comments: Yellow crystalline caryinite withpink rhodonite.



Rhodonite Image

Images: Rhodonite

Comments: Deep red blocky prismaticcrystals of rhodonite to 3cm.

Location: Broken Hill mine, New SouthWales, Australia. Scale: 6.5 x 5 x 4cm.


Rhomboclase Image

Images: Rhomboclase

Comments: Platy crystal rhomboclasespray.

Location: Rio Tinto, Andalucia, Spain. Scale:See Photo.


Rhonite Image

Images: Rhonite

Comments: Brown, striated, tabular crystalof rhonite on matrix.

Location: Sattleberg, Laacher See,Rhineland-Pal., Germany. Scale: Not


Richellite Image

Images: Richellite

Comments: Khaki-colored earthy richellitemasses.

Location: Richelle, near Vise, Liege,Belgium. Scale: See Photo.


Richelsdorfite Image


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Images: Richelsdorfite

Comments: Greenish rounded aggregatesof richelsdorfite on matrix.

Location: Wilhelm Mine; Wechselschacht,near Bauhaus, Richelsdorf District, Hesse,


Richterite Image

Images: Richterite Calzirtite Augite




Mineral Species

Richterite Image

Images: Richterite

Comments: Richterite crystal in tan calcite.Location: Bancroft, Ontario, Canada.


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 resinousrilandite cleavage fragment.

Location: J. L. Riland Claim, near Meeker, RioBlanco County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Rinneite Image


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Images: Rinneite Carnallite

Comments: Orange to light brown rinneitewith colorless carnallite.

Location: Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Rh?n,Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4


Rivadavite Image

Images: Rivadavite

Comments: Translucent white rivadavitenodule with some adhering earthy

material.Location: Tincalayu, Salta Province,

Argentina. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Riversideite Image

Images: Riversideite

Comments: Opaque off-white finely fibrousriversideite veins in vesuvianite / grossular

matrix.Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside


Mineral Species

Robertsite Image

Images: Robertsite Carbonate-hydroxylapatite Apatite




Robinsonite Image

Images: Robinsonite

Comments: Dark gray, prismatic-acicularcrystals 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 ofrockbridgeite on siderite.



Rockbridgeite Image

Images: Rockbridgeite Stewartite

Comments: Pointed, brownish yellowstewartite crystals on massive, dark

rockbridgeite.Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany.


Rockbridgeite Image

Images: Rockbridgeite Wilhelmvierlingite

Comments: Yellow brown crystalswilhelmvierlingite with black rockbridgeite.




Rockbridgeite Image

Images: Rockbridgeite TinsleyitePhosphosiderite




Mineral Species

Rockbridgeite Image

Images: Rockbridgeite Lindbergite

Comments: Rare organic mineral -lindbergite (Mn dihydrate oxalate) in white

patches on rockbridgeite matrix.Location: Boca Rica mine, Sapucaia doNorte, Gilileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:

Spot size 1 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Rodalquilarite Image


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Images: Rodalquilarite

Comments: Green crystals of rodalquilariteon matrix.


size 4 m.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Rodalquilarite Image

Images: Rodalquilarite Schieffelinite

Comments: Creamy white Schieffelinitewith minor green rodalquilarite.



Rodolicoite Image

Images: Rodolicoite Grattarolaite

Comments: Brown grattarolaite, intimatelyintergrown with brown rodolicoite.Location: Castelnuovo Mine, SantaBarbara lignite district, San Giovanni

Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno), ArezzoProvince, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size


Roeblingite Image

Images: Roeblingite

Comments: Pure white opaqueporcelaneous roeblingite mass.



Roedderite Image

Images: Roedderite

Comments: Deep green transparentroedderite microcrystal.

Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pflaz,Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Roggianite Image


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Images: Roggianite

Comments: Glassy white fibrous roggianiteaggregate.

Location: Murzinka, Sverdlovsk District,Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Rokuhnite Image

Images: Rokuhnite Carnallite

Comments: Reddish brown rokuhnite, withcarnallite (deliquescent).

Location: Salzdetfurth Mine, Hildesheim,near Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


Mineral Species

Romanechite Image

Images: Romanechite

Comments: Black botryoidal roman?chite.Location: Callenberg North (no. 2) open

cut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Specimen size 9 mm.


Romarchite Image

Images: Romarchite

Comments: SEM photograph of romarchiteprecipitating on quartz sand grains on the

surface of a pewter artifact.(Geoarchaeology, 19:538).

Location: Wreck of the Queen Anne?sRevenge (A.D. 1718). Scale: Scale Bar 30

µm.© Geoarchaeology

Romeite Image

Images: Romeite

Comments: Tan fibrous romeite on quartz.Location: Sant Marcel, Piemonte, Italy.


Mineral Species

Romerite Image


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Images: Romerite

Comments: Massive, pale reddish-brownR?merite.

Location: Willi Agatz Mine, Dresden, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Specimen size 5.8 cm.


Ronneburgite Image

Images: Ronneburgite

Comments: Reddish-brown crystals ofronneburgite on matrix.



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: 3.7x 1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Rooseveltite Image

Images: Rooseveltite

Comments: Gray glassy crystallinerooseveltite with purple fluorite.

Location: Josef Fluorite Mine, Krune HoraMountains, near Teplice, Seversocesky,


Mineral Species

Rorisite Image

Images: Rorisite

Comments: Colorless to white tabularcrystals of Rorisite. Rorisite is extremely

hygroscopic and must be stored in closedvials. The picture was made through the

vial.Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk Oblast',Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 2


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 coatedby 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 ofhurlbutite on reddish brown roscherite.Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer

County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: NotGiven.


Roscherite Image

Images: Roscherite Parafransoletite

Comments: White, crystalline aggregatesprays of parafransoletite on dark reddish

brown roscherite with massive, white,sucrosic whitlockite.

Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County,South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5


Roscherite Image

Images: Roscherite Englishite

Comments: Black crystalline aggregate ofroscherite on white englishite.



Roscherite Image

Images: Roscherite Viitaniemiite

Comments: Colorless to pink viitaniemiitewith brownish roscherite.

Location: Greifenstein Rocks,Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Roscherite Image


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Images: Roscherite Ushkovite

Comments: Translucent ushkovitemicrocrystals with orange roscherite on

feldspar.Location: Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.


Mineral Species

Roscoelite Image

Images: Roscoelite

Comments: Dull olive green fine grainedroscoelite cementing sandstone.

Location: Rifle Mine, Garfield County,Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.


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-coloredroselite-beta crystalline grains.

Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mountains,Morocco. Scale: Not Given.


Roselite-beta Image

Images: Roselite-beta

Comments: Deep red, well crystallizedroselite-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

Comments: Colorless prismatic crystals ofrosenbergite on a dark matrix.

Location: Cetine di Cotorniano Mine(Cetine Mine; Tafone Mine), Rosia, Siena,Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.


Rosenbuschite Image

Images: Rosenbuschite

Comments: Tan prismatic crystallinerosenbuschite in schist.

Location: Norra Karr, Jonkoping, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Rosenhahnite Image

Images: Rosenhahnite

Comments: Crystalline massiverosenhahnite.

Location: Near Healdsburg, MendocinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Rosiaite Image

Images: Rosiaite Valentinite

Comments: Beige crystals of rosiaite with acolorless valentinite prism.

Location: Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto,Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


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 siltysandstone.

Location: Buckhorn Mine, San MiguelCounty, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Rosslerite Image

Images: Rosslerite

Comments: Colorless crystals of r?sslerite.Location: J?chymov (St Joachimsthal),

Krusn? Hory (Erzgebirge), Z?padocesk? Kraj,Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture


Rossmanite Image

Images: Rossmanite

Comments: Pale pink to tan translucentprismatic rossmanite crystals.

Location: Near Rozna, Western Moravia,Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Rostite Image

Images: Rostite Clairite

Comments: Brownish crystals of clairite onwhite massive rostite.



Rostite Image

Images: Rostite

Comments: White crystals of rostite on adark matrix.

Location: Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5


Roweite Image


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Images: Roweite

Comments: Pinkish nodular massiveroweite.

Location: Solongo, Republic of Buryatia,Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Rozenite Image

Images: Rozenite Ferrinatrite Copiapite




Mineral Species

Rubicline Image

Images: Rubicline

Comments: Rubicline (white) includinggrains of quartz (black) in microcline (gray)

associated with albite (black) andmuscovite (mottled dark gray). BSE image

(AmMin, 83:1336).Location: Pollucite-bearing rare-elementpegmatite at San Piero in Campo, Elba,

Italy. Scale: Grain size 20 µm.© American Mineralogist

Ruizite Image

Images: Ruizite Inesite

Comments: 1- 3 mm crystal spray of redorange ruizite in an exposed vug in pink

inesite.Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari


© John Veevaert

Ruizite Image

Images: Ruizite

Comments: Deep reddish brown crystals ofruizite as radial, acicular sprays to 0.1mm.

Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Rusakovite Image


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Images: Rusakovite

Comments: Orange-brown rusakovitecoatings on dark brown sandstone.

Location: Long Park, Montrose County,Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Russellite Image

Images: Russellite

Comments: Pale yellowish beige veinletand thin crusts of russellite.

Location: Himmelfahrt Mine, Steinbach,Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Rustenburgite Image

Images: Rustenburgite Tatyanaite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimages showing inclusions of rustenburgite

intergrown with taimyrite-tatyanaiteaggregates. (AmMin, v 42, p 608).


Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Rustumite Image

Images: Rustumite Dellaite

Comments: White grains of dellaite,intermixed with rustumite.

Location: Queretaro, Zacatecas, Mexico.Scale: See Photo.


Rutheniridosmine Image

Images: Rutheniridosmine

Comments: Grain of rutheniridosmine.Location: Nevjansk, Ural Mts., Russia. Scale:

Grain size 2.5 mm.© John Veevaert

Ruthenium Image


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Images: Ruthenium PalladodymiteHongshiite





Ruthenium Image

Images: Ruthenium Isoferroplatinum

Comments: Scanning electron micrographof polished section of ruthenium nugget

with isoferroplatinum inclusions.Location: Miass River, Chelyabinsk District,Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Rutherfordine Image

Images: Rutherfordine

Comments: Yellow, bladed crystals ofrutherfordine.

Location: Shinkolobwe Mine, Tantara,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the


Rutherfordine Image

Images: Rutherfordine Wyartite

Comments: Brown, acicular wyartitecrystals next to bright yellow rutherfordine

tufts.Location: Shinokolbwe mine, Tantara,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the


Rutile Image

Images: Rutile Pyrophyllite

Comments: Rutile on fine-grained pyrophyllite.Location: Graves Mt. Georgia, USA. Scale: 4.5



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Rutile Image

Images: Rutile Hematite

Comments: Acicular, golden yellowcrystals of rutile epitaxially overgrown on

black crystals of hematite. Theovergrowths are perpendicular to the

trigonal crystallography of the hematite.Location: Novo Horizonte, Bahia Brazil.

Scale: 4 x 3.5 x 3 cm.© Fabre Minerals

Rynersonite Image

Images: Rynersonite

Comments: Off-white fibrous rynersonite.Location: Brown Derby No. 1 Mine,

Gunnison County, Colorado, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Rynersonite Image

Images: Rynersonite Schiavinatoite

Comments: Brown, columnarschiavinatoite with minor white rynersonite

sticks on quartz.Location: Ampanodiana Sud, Tetezantsio,

Mahaiza, Antananarivo, Madagascar.Scale: See Image.





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Mineral Thumbnail Images (S)





"S " Mineral Photos (333)

Sabelliite Image

Images: Sabelliite

Comments: Green crystalline sabelliite onmatrix.

Location: West Schrofen, Brixlegg, Tirol,Austria. Scale: See Photo.


Sabieite Image

Images: Sabieite

Comments: Massive, porous aggregate ofsabieite.

Location: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4.5


Sabinaite Image

Images: Sabinaite

Comments: White, prismatic crystals ofsabinaite 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.


Mineral Species

Sabugalite Image

Images: Sabugalite

Comments: Squarish, platy, pale yellowishgreen sabugalite crystals.

Location: Sabugal County, Beira AltaProvince, Portugal. Scale: Picture size 3


Sacrofanite Image

Images: Sacrofanite

Comments: Translucent crystallinesacrofanite on diopside.

Location: Sacrofano Quarry, Rome, Lazio,Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Safflorite Image

Images: Safflorite

Comments: Safflorite covering three facesof the specimen, with silver.

Location: Castle Mine (Castle-TrethewayMine), 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 ondark hausmannite and white dolomite

matrix.Location: Langban mine, Filipstad,

V?rmland , Sweden. Scale: Crystal size1.5cm.


Sainfeldite Image


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Images: Sainfeldite

Comments: Rose-colored crystallineaggregate of Sainfeldite.

Location: Wechsel Schacht, Richelsdorf,Hesse, Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Sal-ammoniac Image

Images: Sal-ammoniac

Comments: Network of white or slightly grayishsal-ammoniac crystals with some sulfur.Location: Ravat, 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 oferythrosiderite with sal ammoniac. Materialfrom the 1926 eruption of the Erythrosiderite

is hygroscopic and must be stored in aclosed vial. The photo was made through

the vial.Location: Vesuvius, Naples Province,

Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Saleeite Image

Images: Saleeite

Comments: Gossanous matrix hostingabundant 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 crystallineaggregates of greenish yellow sal?eite on

matrix.Location: Ranger Uranium Mine, Jabiru,

Northern Territory, Australia. Scale: Picturesize 1cm.



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Salesite Image

Images: Salesite

Comments: Blue, prismatic crystal ofSalesite in matrix.



Samarskite-(Y) Image

Images: Samarskite-(Y)

Comments: A black crystal of samarskite.Ex collection Gustav Rose 1832, found on

his travel together with Alexander vonHumboldt through the Ural Mts.

Location: Miass, Ilmen Mts, ChelyabinskOblast', Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Crystal



Images: Samarskite-(Y) Uranpyrochlore

Comments: Deep greenish-brown resinouscrystalline massive uranpyrochlore with

black samarskite-(Y).Location: Beryl Hill, near Yinnietharra

Station, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:See Photo.



Images: Samarskite-(Y)

Comments: Dark, coaly black, weatheredgranular samarskite-(Y).

Location: Spinelli Samarskite Prospect,Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut,

USA. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Sampleite Image

Images: Sampleite

Comments: Sampleite crystal groups 3 to 8mm wide on a dark matrix.

Location: Santa Catalina Mine, SierraGorda, Chile. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Sampleite Image


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Images: Sampleite

Comments: Sky blue lamellar crystals ofsampleite up to 2 mm. scattered on matrix.

Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,Chile. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.

© Minernet

Sampleite Image

Images: Sampleite

Comments: Blue, spherical, radialcrystalling aggregates of sampleite on a

fracture surface.Location: North Parkes Mine, Parkes, NewSouth Wales, Australia. Scale: Picture size

6x5 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Samsonite Image

Images: Samsonite

Comments: Black, prismatic crystal of samsonite inmatrix.

Location: St. Andreasberg, Harz, Lower Saxony,Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Samuelsonite Image

Images: Samuelsonite

Comments: Transparent crystal ofsamuelsonite.

Location: Palermo #1 mine, Groton,Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA. Scale:


Sanbornite Image

Images: Sanbornite Muirite

Comments: Translucent orange crystallinemuirite in sanbornite.

Location: Big Creek, Fresno County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Sanbornite Image


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Images: Sanbornite

Comments: Micaceous sanbornite.Location: Esquire No. 1 Mine, Big Creek,

Fresno County, California, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Sanbornite Image

Images: Sanbornite Traskite

Comments: Orange translucent crystallinetraskite in white sanbornite.



Sanbornite Image

Images: Sanbornite Bazirite

Comments: Clear glassy minute grains ofbazinite to 1mm through out matrix of

milky-white sanbornite. The baziritefluoresces light blue.

Location: Snow Cap mine, Rush Creek,Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x


Sanbornite Image

Images: Sanbornite Bigcreekite Gillespite





Saneroite Image

Images: Saneroite

Comments: Reddish orange crystals ofsaneroite to 3 mm.

Location: Vrancice near Pribram, CzechRepublic. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Sanidine Image


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Images: Sanidine

Comments: Blocky, opalescent crystal ofsanidine.

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,

Argentina. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Sanromanite Image

Images: Sanromanite IMA2006-009Juangodoyite Chalconatronite





Santabarbaraite Image

Images: Santabarbaraite

Comments: Orange santabarbaraitepseudomorphous after vivianite.

Location: Santa Barbara lignite district, SanGiovanni Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno),

Arezzo Province, Tuscany. Scale: Picturesize 1.5 mm.


Santaclaraite Image

Images: Santaclaraite

Comments: Flesh-colored crystallineaggregates of Santaclaraite.

Location: Corral Hollow, Alemada County,California, USA. Scale: Not Given.



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Santafeite Image

Images: Santafeite

Comments: Brownish-black silky santafeitein rusty quartz.

Location: Monument Valley, NavajoCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Saponite Image

Images: Saponite

Comments: Light brown saponitepseudomorphs 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 clusterof 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 inmatrix.

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.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species


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Sarkinite Image

Images: Sarkinite

Comments: Reddish brown crystallineaggregates of sarkinite on matrix.



Sarmientite Image

Images: Sarmientite

Comments: Pale olive-green chalkymassive sarmientite.

Location: Kotzebue, Alaska, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Sartorite Image

Images: Sartorite

Comments: Black, striated crystal ofSartorite on dolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Sartorite Image

Images: Sartorite

Comments: Excellent prismatic sartoritecrystal on white dolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal length 1

cm.© Walter Gabriel

Sasaite Image

Images: Sasaite

Comments: Whitish sasaite coatings onaltering serpentinite rock.

Location: Breitenau, Steiermark, Austria.Scale: See Photo.


Sassolite Image


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Images: Sassolite

Comments: Colorless, pseudohexagonalcrystals of sassolite.



Satimolite Image

Images: Satimolite

Comments: Porcelaneous massivesatimolite.

Location: Satimola-Sahstock, Zapadno-Kazahstan, Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Satterlyite Image

Images: Satterlyite

Comments: Cleaved nodule of browncrystalline satterlyite aggregate.

Location: Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada.Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Sauconite Image

Images: Sauconite

Comments: Pale brown earthy sauconiteon hemimorphite microcrystals.

Location: Doughty Mine, near Sunbury,Northumberland County, Pennsylvania,


Mineral Species

Sazykinaite-(Y) Image

Images: Sazykinaite-(Y)

Comments: Light brown crystals ofsazykinaite-(Y).



Sborgite Image


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Images: Sborgite

Comments: Pale grayish-green massivesborgite.

Location: Furnace Creek borate area,Death Valley, Inyo County, California, USA.


Mineral Species

Scacchite Image

Images: Scacchite

Comments: Deliquescent reddishscacchite crust on volcanic rock.



Scainiite Image

Images: Scainiite

Comments: Black metallic prismaticscainite crystals and crystalline masses on

limestone.Location: Tafone Mine, near Manciano,

Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Scandiobabingtonite Image

Images: Scandiobabingtonite

Comments: Green micro crystals ofscandiobabingtonite to about 0.75mm with

several grayish brown ball-like microcrystals of titanite to 0.75mm scattered in a

large vug.Location: Heftetjern pegmatite, T?rdal,Drangedal, Telemark, Norway. Scale:

Picture size 2.5 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Scapolite Image

Images: Scapolite

Comments: Violet colored, gemmy crystal ofScapolite, with upper terminations.

Location: Dodoma, Tanzania. Scale: 1 x 0.5cm.

© 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 8mm.


Scarbroite Image

Images: Scarbroite Hydroscarbroite

Comments: White to tan nodularhydroscarbroite intermixed with scarbroite

in sandstone.Location: Weston Favell, Northamptonshire,

England. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Scawtite Image

Images: Scawtite

Comments: 1 to 2 mm transparent crystalsof 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 silverymetallic.

Location: Sala, Vastmanland, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Schafarzikite Image

Images: Schafarzikite

Comments: Dull black irregularschafarzikite masses in white marble.

Location: Bucca della Vena Mine, ValdiCastello, Carducci, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:


Mineral Species

Schaurteite Image


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Images: Schaurteite Tennantite

Comments: Bright white silky fibrousschaurteite on dark tennantite.



Scheelite Image

Images: Scheelite

Comments: Orange scheelite with whitemica.

Location: Pingwu, Sichuan, China. Scale:9.5 x 9 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Schertelite Image

Images: Schertelite

Comments: Transparent glassy crystallineschertelite grains.

Location: Skipton Caves, Ballarat, Victoria,Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Schiavinatoite Image

Images: Schiavinatoite

Comments: Black, 3mm euhedral crystal ofschiavinatoite in matrix.

Location: Ampanodiana Sud, Tetezantsio,Mahaiza, Madagascar. Scale: 3x2x2cm.


Schiavinatoite Image

Images: Schiavinatoite Rynersonite

Comments: Brown, columnarschiavinatoite with minor white rynersonite

sticks on quartz.Location: Ampanodiana Sud, Tetezantsio,

Mahaiza, Antananarivo, Madagascar.Scale: See Image.


Schieffelinite Image


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Images: Schieffelinite Rodalquilarite

Comments: Creamy white Schieffelinitewith minor green rodalquilarite.



Schirmerite Image

Images: Schirmerite

Comments: Gray metallic granularschirmerite in quartz.

Location: Grand Trunk, Geneva District,Park County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Schlemaite Image

Images: Schlemaite Clausthalite Eucairite





Schlossmacherite Image

Images: Schlossmacherite

Comments: Small (up to 3 mm) clusters ofpale 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 microcrystals in quartz.

Location: Condor Mine, La Rioja, Argentina.Scale: See Photo.



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Schmitterite Image

Images: Schmitterite Emmonsite

Comments: Yellow schmitterite with greenemmonsite.



Schneebergite Image

Images: Schneebergite

Comments: Prismatic, acicular crystals ofschneebergite.

Location: Roter Berg, Neust?dtel,Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,


Schneiderhohnite Image

Images: Schneiderhohnite

Comments: Quartz with a 0.8 cm partialcrystal of schneiderh?hnite and several

smaller complete crystals ofschneiderh?hnite to 3 mm.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Schoderite Image

Images: Schoderite

Comments: Sub-mm coatings of yellow todeep orange Schoderite on matrix.

Location: Fish Creek Range, Eureka County,Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.

© John Veevaert

Schoenfliesite Image

Images: Schoenfliesite

Comments: Yellow-brown schoenfliesite onmatrix.

Location: Zlaty Kopec, J?chymov (StJoachimsthal), Krusn? Hory (Erzgebirge),

Z?padocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, CzechRepublic. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Schoepite Image


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Images: Schoepite Becquerelite

Comments: Bright yellow crystals ofschoepite on transparent yellow

becquerelite.Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the

Congo. Scale: .© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Schoepite Image

Images: Schoepite Metatorbernite

Comments: Green, tabular crystals ofmetatorbernite and acicular, yellow

schoepite on matrix.Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture

size 2.5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Schoepite Image

Images: Schoepite Ianthinite

Comments: Purple to brown resinousianthinite with yellow schoepite and

orange becquerelite.Location: Colorado Plateau area,

Saguache County, Colorado, USA. Scale:See Photo.


Scholzite Image

Images: Scholzite

Comments: Sprays of Scholzite crystals to 1cm line exposed vugs.

Location: Reaphook Hill, Blinman, SouthAustralia. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Scholzite Image

Images: Scholzite Hillite

Comments: Morphology of ahomogeneous larger cluster of hillite

growing on an acicular crystal of scholzite.SEM back-scattered electron image.

Location: Lower Cambrian ParachilnaFormation, Reaphook Hill, South Australia,

Australia. Scale: See Image.© Canadian Mineralogist

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 3mm.


Schoonerite Image

Images: Schoonerite

Comments: Dark crystals of schoonerite onmatrix.



Schorl Image

Images: Schorl Albite

Comments: Several jet-black lustrouscrystals of schorl perched on a white albite

matrix.Location: Shengus, Gilgit, Pakistan. Scale: 4

x 3 x 2 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Schorl Image

Images: Schorl

Comments: Parallel grouping of sharp,black schorl crystals showing terminations.

Location: Davib Ost, Erongo MountainsNamibia. Scale: Crystal size: 1.7 x 1.4 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Schorlomite Image

Images: Schorlomite

Comments: Lustrous massive blackschorlomite.

Location: Magnet Cove, Hot SpringCounty, Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Schreibersite Image


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Images: Schreibersite

Comments: Golden metallic schreibersitecleavage fragment from type IIB

octahedrite meteorite.Location: Sau Luiao de Moreira Meteorite,Ponte de Lima, Minho, Viana do Castelo,

Portugal. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Schreibersite Image

Images: Schreibersite Allabogdanite

Comments: Relict grain of allabogdanitecrystal (ABG) surrounded by schreibersite

rim (SCHR) in plessite matrix (PL). Blackphase is a secondary Fe-Ni-hydroxide.

Backscattered electron image. (AmMin,87:1249).

Location: Onello iron meteorite (high-Niataxite) Onello River basin, Aldan shield,

Saha (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Scale bar 10

µ-m.© American Mineralogist

Schrockingerite Image

Images: Schrockingerite

Comments: Pale greenish-yellowschr?ckingerite aggregates on matrix.



Schrockingerite Image

Images: Schrockingerite

Comments: Pale greenish-yellow, platyschr?ckingerite on matrix.

Location: Jack Daniels No. 1 Mine,Cameron District, Coconino County,

Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Paul M. Schumacher

Schuetteite Image

Images: Schuetteite

Comments: Yellow earthy schuetteitecoatings.

Location: Oceanic Mine, San Luis ObispoCounty, California. Scale: See Photo.



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Schuilingite-(Nd) Image

Images: Schuilingite-(Nd)

Comments: Blue crystals ofSchuilingite-(Nd).

Location: Kasompi Mine, Kambove, Shaba(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture


Schulenbergite Image

Images: Schulenbergite Linarite

Comments: Light greenish rosettes ofschulenbergite with small green crystals oframsbeckite and blue crystals of linarite.



Schultenite Image

Images: Schultenite

Comments: Arrow-shaped crystals ofschultenite on matrix.

Location: Gifford Lakes, King County,Washington, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Schumacherite Image

Images: Schumacherite Pucherite

Comments: Brown crystals of pucheritewith yellow schumacherite on matrix.



Scolecite Image

Images: Scolecite

Comments: Delicate cluster spray ofcolorless transparent acicular crystals of

scolecite. The scolecites measure to 3 mmin 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 vuglined with lustrous bluish colored crystals of

scorodite to 4 mm across.Location: Hemerdon Mine, Sparkwell,

Devon, England. Scale: 5 x 3.6 cm.© John Veevaert

Scorodite Image

Images: Scorodite Beudantite

Comments: Blue, 2 cm in length scoroditecrystals 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 withmuscovite, quartz, and feldspar in matrix.

Location: Polermo Mine, North Groten, NewHampshire, 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 Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Seeligerite Image

Images: Seeligerite

Comments: Orange crystalline seeligerite inmatrix.

Location: Casucha Mine, Sierra Gorda,Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: See Photo.


Segelerite Image

Images: Segelerite

Comments: Yellow, prismatic, striatedcrystal of Segelerite.



Segnitite Image

Images: Segnitite

Comments: Translucent yellow crystallinesegnitite crust.



Mineral Species

Seidite-(Ce) Image

Images: Seidite-(Ce)

Comments: Scanning Electron image ofseidite-(Ce) with the axial components of a

and c superimposed on crystal.Location: Yubileynaya pegmatite at Mount

Karnasurt, Lovozero alkaline massif, KolaPeninsula, Russia. Scale: Image size 0.5 mm.


Seidozerite Image


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Images: Seidozerite Arfvedsonite

Comments: Dark red translucentseidozerite with vitreous, black

arfvedsonite.Location: Seidozero Lake, Lovozero Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Sekaninaite Image

Images: Sekaninaite

Comments: Black-green crystallinesekaninaite cleavage with dark purple

colored fracture surface.Location: Rozna, Moravia, Jihomoravsky,


Mineral Species

Selenium Image

Images: Selenium

Comments: Acicular crystals of nativeSelenium (up to 1 cm in length).

Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Geradistrict, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:

Specimen size 3 cm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Seligmannite Image

Images: Seligmannite Liveingite

Comments: Black prismatic seligmannitecrystals with crystalline black liveingite.



Seligmannite Image

Images: Seligmannite

Comments: Lead gray, prismaticseligmannite crystal with brassy yellow

pyrite on white dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,


© Walter Gabriel

Sellaite Image


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Images: Sellaite

Comments: Compact, white acicular sellaitecrystals.

Location: Clara Mine, Rankach valley,Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-

W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale: 21x16x10 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Semenovite Image

Images: Semenovite

Comments: Tan crystals of semenovite to 1mm across on matrix.

Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland.Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Semseyite Image

Images: Semseyite

Comments: Crystal clusters of semseyitecrystals to 1 cm on sphalerite.

Location: Herja, Romania. Scale: Picturesize 5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Semseyite Image

Images: Semseyite

Comments: Tabular crystals forming groupsand 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 senaitecleavage.

Location: Dattas, near Diamantina, MinasGerais, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.


Senaite Image


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Images: Senaite

Comments: Black crystal of senaite.Location: Presidente Kibitschek, MinasGerias, 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


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 ofsengierite on matrix.

Location: Lubumbashi, Shaba, DemocraticRepublic of the Congo. Scale: Not Given.


Sepiolite Image

Images: Sepiolite

Comments: Sectile to chalky massivesepiolite.

Location: Pinos Altos, Grant County, NewMexico. Scale: See Photo.


Serandite Image


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Images: Serandite Analcime Natrolite



© Fabre Minerals

Serandite Image

Images: Serandite Lintisite

Comments: Yellowish-white fibrous veinletsof lintisite in brown serandite.



Mineral Species

Serendibite Image

Images: Serendibite Phlogopite

Comments: Blue serendibite, with goldencolored phlogopite, in white marble.

Location: Near Johnsberg, Warren County,New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Serpierite Image

Images: Serpierite

Comments: Blue, acicular crystals ofserpierite.

Location: Serpieri mine, Laurium, Greece.Scale: Not Given.


Serrabrancaite Image

Images: Serrabrancaite

Comments: SEM micrograph of dark brownto dark greenish black isometric crystals ofserrabrancaite 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 anisolated fragment of red sewardite as wellas a fragment in green to black botryoidal

matrix.Location: Single specimen of ganguecollected from the 31st level of the

Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: SeeImage.


Sewardite Image

Images: Sewardite

Comments: Deep red, micaceoussewardite crystals mistakenly identified as

carminite.Location: Benjamin Hill, Sonora, Mexico.

Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Shabynite Image

Images: Shabynite

Comments: Translucent shabynite grains.Location: Korshunovskoye Deposit, IrkutskDistrict, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Shafranovskite Image

Images: Shafranovskite

Comments: Yellow-brown fine grainedshafranovskite with red eudialyte and

black aegirine.Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, Khibiny

Massif, Kola Peninsular, Murmansk District,Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Shattuckite Image

Images: Shattuckite Ajoite

Comments: Dark blue, tabular crystals ofshattuckite on light blue ajoite.

Location: New Cornelia mine, Ajo, PimaCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Shattuckite Image


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Images: Shattuckite

Comments: Blue micro acicular or fibrouscrystals of shattuckite to 0.1mm free

standing in vug.Location: New Cornelia mine, Pima Co.,Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.


Shattuckite Image

Images: Shattuckite

Comments: Blue, globular aggregates ofradial shattuckite crystals.

Location: Grand View Mine, GrandCanyon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.

Scale: See Image.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Shcherbakovite Image

Images: Shcherbakovite

Comments: Secondary electron image ofa shcherbakovite crystal.

Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, Khibinamassif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See


Shcherbinaite Image

Images: Shcherbinaite

Comments: Yellow-brown acicular crystalsof shcherbinaite.



Sherwoodite Image

Images: Sherwoodite

Comments: Dark blackish-violetsherwoodite, altering to translucent green,

crystalline crust.Location: San Juan County, Colorado, USA.


Mineral Species

Shibkovite Image


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Images: Shibkovite Polylithionite

Comments: Clear crystalline shibkoviteaggregates with peach colored

translucent polylithionite.Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.


Mineral Species

Shigaite Image

Images: Shigaite Pyrochroite

Comments: Bronzy yellow crystals ofshigaite set in a crystalline matrix of reddish

black pychroite.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari


© John Veevaert

Shigaite Image

Images: Shigaite

Comments: Cluster of sharp, transparentcrystals 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 oforange platy shigaite crystals on a jpale

pink rhodocrosite matrix.Location: N'Chwaning mine. South Africa.

Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.© Minernet

Shirozulite Image

Images: Shirozulite

Comments: Back-scattered-electronimage of shirozulite. Shr = shirozulite; Tp =

tephroite; Ap = apatite; Rds =rhodochrosite; Bm = bementite. (AmMin,

89:233).Location: Tauchi mine, Aichi Prefecture,

Japan. Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Shkatulkalite Image


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Images: Shkatulkalite Mangan-neptunite

Comments: Pearly white shkatulkalite withbrown mangan-neptunite grains.


Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', NorthernRegion, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.


Shortite Image

Images: Shortite

Comments: Colorless crystal of shortite onmatrix.

Location: Green River Formation,Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. Scale:


Shortite Image

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Shortite

Comments: Triangular shortite crystal inkerogenaceous dolomitic marlstone from the

saline zone in the Green River Formation.Location: Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming,

USA. Scale: Crystal Size 2 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Shuiskite Image

Images: Shuiskite

Comments: Acicular shuiskite microcrystalsprays with epidote and prehnite.

Location: Quincy Mine, Hancock, HoughtonCounty, Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Sibirskite Image

Images: Sibirskite

Comments: Translucent granular sibirskite.Location: Novofrolovskoye, Sverdlovsk

District, Northern Urals, Russia. Scale: SeePhoto.


Sicklerite Image


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Images: Sicklerite Lithiophilite

Comments: Mottled tan-green-pinkmassive sicklerite with dark brown

lithiophilite on quartz.Location: Custer Mountain Lode, CusterCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Siderazot Image

Images: Siderazot

Comments: Bluish siderazot coatings onscoria lava rock.



Siderite Image

Images: Siderite Arsenopyrite

Comments: White, metallic arsenopyriteand tan siderite crystals.

Location: Panasqueira (2000, 3rd level), inthe 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 groupson 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 microcrystals of garronite on brown siderite

crystals.Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec,


Mineral Species

Sideronatrite Image

Images: Sideronatrite

Comments: Golden yellow acicular spraysof 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 withquartz.

Location: Karaoba, Aktjubinsk, Kazakhstan.Scale: See Photo.


Siderotil Image

Images: Siderotil

Comments: Siderotil pseudomorphs aftermelanterite.

Location: 2700' level, Campbell Shaft,Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.


Mineral Species

Sidorenkite Image

Images: Sidorenkite

Comments: Dark brown sidorenkite massesin syenite rock.



Sidwillite Image


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Images: Sidwillite

Comments: Thin olive-green sidwillitecoatings on quartz crystals.

Location: Lake Como, Summit County,Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Siegenite Image

Images: Siegenite

Comments: Equant, dark gray, metalliccrystals of siegenite on matrix.

Location: LaMotte mine, Fredericktown,Madison County, Missouri, USA. Scale: Not


Siegenite Image

Images: Siegenite Cattierite

Comments: Pinkish metallic cattierite,intergrown with gray siegenite.



Sigloite Image

Images: Sigloite Vauxite

Comments: Lime green, crystallineaggregate of sigloite on massive, blue

vauxite.Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department,

Boliv ia. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Silhydrite Image

Images: Silhydrite

Comments: Fine grained massive silhydrite.Location: Near Rome, Oregon, USA. Scale:


Mineral Species

Silicon Image


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Images: Silicon Moissanite

Comments: Backscattered electron imageof metallic inclusion in moissanite (SiC). The

gray shading in the BSE mage consistsmainly of pure silicon (Si metal). The

brighter areas are composed of Fe-silicide.(AmMin, 88:1818).



area. Scale: Scalebar 200 µ-m.© American Mineralogist

Sillenite Image

Images: Sillenite

Comments: Greenish to yellowish grains ofsill?nite in matrix.



Sillimanite Image

Images: Sillimanite

Comments: Silky massive sillimanite.Location: Khasia Hills, Assum, India. Scale:


Mineral Species

Silver Image

Images: Silver Gold

Comments: Very well crystallized Electrum(Silver rich gold) on quartz. The analysis

gave 31.47% silver.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 mmin diameter attached to a matrix of massive

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, native silver wireswith blocky, well-crystallized stephanite on

white and tan calcite matrix.Location: Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Alemania, Germay. Scale: Picture size 3cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Silver Image

Images: Silver Mckinstryite

Comments: Black metallic massivemckinstryite with wire silver.

Location: Peregrina Mine, Guanajuato,Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Simmonsite Image

Images: Simmonsite

Comments: Backscattered electronimages of primary assemblage of cryolite-

cryolithionite (cl) simmonsite (sm) and traceelpasolite (ep). (AmMin, v 84, p 770).Location: Zapot amazonite-topaz-

zinnwaldite pegmatite located in the GillisRange, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA. Scale:


Simonellite Image

Images: Simonellite

Comments: Colorless to white Simonelliteon fossil wood.

Location: Fognano, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:Picture size 6 mm.



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Simonkolleite Image

Images: Simonkolleite

Comments: Very small colorless crystalswith hexagonal shape of simonkolleite.

Location: Richelsdorf Smelter, S?ss,Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany. Scale:


Simpsonite Image

Images: Simpsonite

Comments: Translucent pale pinksimpsonite crystal fragment.

Location: Alto do Giz, Equidor, Rio Grandedo Sol, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.


Sincosite Image

Images: Sincosite Minyulite

Comments: Pale greenish white acicularradial sprays of minyulite to 8mm with

small, green, tabular sincosite.Location: Ross Hannibal mine, Lawrence

County, South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 2cm.


Sincosite Image

Images: Sincosite

Comments: Tabular single crystals ofsincosite to 2 mm on drusy quartz.

Location: Ross Hannibal Mine, LawrenceCo., South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size


Sinhalite Image

Images: Sinhalite

Comments: Crystalline sinhalite in whitemarble.


Mineral Species

Sinkankasite Image


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Images: Sinkankasite

Comments: White crystalline spray ofacicular sinkankasite to 1mm on matrix.

Location: Barker mine, Keystone,Pennington County, South Dakota, USA.


Sinnerite Image

Images: Sinnerite

Comments: Blackish-grey aggregate of sinneritecrystals with red realgar on white dolomite.


© Walter Gabriel

Sitinakite Image

Images: Sitinakite

Comments: Beige translucent crudelyformed sitinakite (arrow) crystal with white

natrolite and dark, acicular aegirine.Location: Mount Kukisvumchorr, KhibinyMassif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,


Mineral Species

Sjogrenite Image

Images: Sjogrenite

Comments: Red-brown sjogrenite crust onserpentinite rock.

Location: Fort Point, San Francisco County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Skaergaardite Image

Images: Skaergaardite

Comments: (e) A euhedral crystal ofskaergaardite exhibiting the form cube{100} (possibly distorted) included in abornite-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, Kangerdlugssuaqarea, East Greenland. Scale: See Image.

© Mineralogical Magazine


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Skinnerite Image

Images: Skinnerite

Comments: Dark gray skinnerite on matrix.Location: Bankove, Kosice,

Vychodoslovensky, Slovakia. Scale: SeePhoto.


Sklodowskite Image

Images: Sklodowskite

Comments: Yellow cotton-ball spray ofacicular sklodowskite.



Sklodowskite Image

Images: Sklodowskite Kasolite

Comments: Greenish yellow, acicularsklodowskite crystals and yellow, bladed

kasolite crystals.Location: Kambove, (Kakanda) Mine,

Katanga District, Shaba (Katanga),Republic of the Congo, (Za?re). Scale:


Skutterudite Image

Images: Skutterudite Erythrite

Comments: Erythrite crystal on massiveskutterudite.

Location: Bou Azzer, Morocco. Scale:Crystal size 1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Skutterudite Image

Images: Skutterudite

Comments: Cubic crystals of Skutteruditeon matrix.

Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mountains,Morrocco. Scale: Not Given.


Skutterudite Image


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Images: Skutterudite

Comments: Bright, untarnished, metalliccrystals of skutterudite up to 1 cm.

Location: Bou Azzer, Morocco. Scale:Picture size 3 cm.

© Minernet

Slavikite Image

Images: Slavikite

Comments: Bubbly slavikite crust.Location: Smolnicka Huta,

Vychodoslovensky, Slovakia. Scale: SeePhoto.


Slawsonite Image

Images: Slawsonite

Comments: White crystalline slawsonite inrock.

Location: Sarisaka, Kagami, Kochi, Japan.Scale: See Photo.


Smithite Image

Images: Smithite

Comments: Spheric, pseudo-hexagonal,reddish crystal of smithite with a gray

sulfosalt on white dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 0.5mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Smithsonite Image

Images: Smithsonite Creedite

Comments: Purple transparent crystals ofcreedite to 6 mm on matrix of creamy

botryoidal crystalline smithsonite.Location: Level 8 San Antonio mine, SantaEulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: 7 x 3.5 x

2 cm.© Dan Weinrich

Smithsonite Image


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Images: Smithsonite

Comments: Twinned crystals of smithsoniteon matrix.



Smithsonite Image

Images: Smithsonite Murdochite

Comments: Dark metallic micro crystals ofmurdochite on pale blue-gray smithsonite

crystal covered matrix.Location: Silver Hill Mine group, Silver Hill,Waterman District, Waterman Mts, Pima


Smithsonite Image

Images: Smithsonite

Comments: Yellow, cadmian-bearingsmithsonite 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 smolianinovitepseudomorphs after cobaltite crystals, with

erythrite and tarnished cobaltite.Location: Mount Cobalt, Cloncurry,

Queensland, Australia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Smrkovecite Image

Images: Smrkovecite

Comments: Waxy smrkovecite botryoids invuggy quartz.

Location: Smrkovec, Zapadocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Sobolevite Image


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Images: Sobolevite

Comments: Translucent crystallinesobolevite cleavage.



Mineral Species

Sobolevskite Image

Images: Sobolevskite Atokite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage showing a) intergrowth of atokite,

mertieite-II [Pd8Sb3] and telluroansobolevskite [(Pd,Pt)(Bi,Te)] within tetra-auricupride rim. (CanMin, v 42, p 611).



Sodalite Image

Images: Sodalite Perovskite

Comments: Clear crystals of sodalite withhoppered perovskite on matrix.

Location: Udersdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Sodalite Image

Images: Sodalite Winchite

Comments: Purple sodalite with somecrystal faces, supporting a very sharp,

transparent winchite crystal, terminated onone end.

Location: Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley,Badakshan Province, Afghanistan. Scale:

11x10x8 mm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Soddyite Image

Images: Soddyite

Comments: Yellow crystals of soddyite.Location: Swambo mine, Mindingi, Shaba,

Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: NotGiven.



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Soddyite Image

Images: Soddyite

Comments: Blocky, tabular crystals ofyellow soddyite.

Location: Swambo (Kambove), Shaba(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture

size 2 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Sodium-zippeite Image

Images: Sodium-zippeite

Comments: Yellow encrustations ofsodium-zippeite on matrix.

Location: Kovagoszolos, Mecsek Mts., PecsCo., Hungary. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.


Sogdianite Image

Images: Sogdianite

Comments: Somewhat greasy to vitreousmassive sogdianite.

Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.Scale: See Photo.


Sohngeite Image

Images: Sohngeite

Comments: Minute, pale yellow sohngeitecrystals to less than 0.2mm on matrix.

Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb , Namibia.Scale: Picture size 3 mm.


Sonolite Image

Images: Sonolite

Comments: Dark red anhedral grains ofsonolite in matrix.

Location: Crouse mine, Bald Knob,Alleghany Co., North Carolina, USA. Scale:

Crystal size 0.75 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Sonoraite Image


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Images: Sonoraite

Comments: Lime green crystallineaggregate of sonoraite.

Location: Joe Shaft, Tombstone, CochiseCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Sophiite Image

Images: Sophiite

Comments: White, tabular crystal ofsophiite in matrix.



Sorbyite Image

Images: Sorbyite

Comments: Gray metallic sorbyite stringersin white quartz.

Location: Candelaria, Mineral County,Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Sorensenite Image

Images: Sorensenite

Comments: Translucent white prismaticsorensenite crystals and crystalline in dark

aegirine.Location: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq,

Greenland. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Sorensenite Image

Images: Sorensenite

Comments: Lght pink, prismatic crystals ofsorensite to 5mm in dark green aegerine

matrix.Location: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq,

Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Sorosite Image


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Images: Sorosite Tin Stistaite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimage of large sorosite crystal (So=partly

skeletal) adjacent to stistaite (St). Tn=nativetin. Note abundant microcrystals of sorosite

isolated within native tin. (AmMin 83:903).Location: Baimka gold-platinum group

mineral placer deposit, Chukotka, RussianFar East. Scale: Image Size 1.5 cm.


Souzalite Image

Images: Souzalite

Comments: Blue-gray radial sprays ofsouzalite in brown siderite.



Spadaite Image

Images: Spadaite

Comments: Tan mottled silky fibrousspadaite, slightly flexible coatings.

Location: Palos Verdes Hills, Los AngelesCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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:


Spencerite Image

Images: Spencerite

Comments: Pale green pearly translucentspencerite, with divergent structure.

Location: Salmo, Nelson Mining District,British Columbia, Canada. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Sperrylite Image


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Images: Sperrylite

Comments: Tin-white grain of sperrylite inchalcopyrite matrix.

Location: Vermillion mine, Sudbury, Ontario,Canada. Scale: Not Given.


Sperrylite Image

Images: Sperrylite

Comments: Brilliant, mirror-like modifiedoctahedral 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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Sperrylite Image

Images: Sperrylite Cabriite

Comments: Small crystal of dull graycabriite on a larger tin-white sperrylite

crystal.Location: Dzhezhazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:

Crystal size 1.5 mm.© John Veevaert

Spertiniite Image

Images: Spertiniite

Comments: Sparse blue spertiniite onserpentinite rock.

Location: Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos,Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Spessartine Image

Images: Spessartine

Comments: Dodecahedral crystal ofspessartine garnet on matrix.

Location: Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan,Northern Areas, Pakastan. Scale: Not


Sphaerobertrandite Image


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Images: Sphaerobertrandite

Comments: White to pale brownish, radial-concentric aggregates of

sphaerobertrandite.Location: Sengischorr Mt, Lovozero Massif,

Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4


Sphaerocobaltite Image

Images: Sphaerocobaltite

Comments: Calcite with numerous crystalsof red sphaerocobaltite to 3 mm across.

Location: Kamoto Mine, Mashamba,Katanga, Dem. Rep. of the Congo. Scale:

Picture size 1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Sphaerocobaltite Image

Images: Sphaerocobaltite Vladimirite

Comments: Translucent white prismaticvladimirite microcrystals with pink

sphaerocobaltite.Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou Azzer,

Ouarzazate, Morocco. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Sphalerite Image

Images: Sphalerite

Comments: Highly lustrous, black, complexsphalerite crystals to 15 mm in size

completely covering the top of a sulfidematrix.

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





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Sphalerite Image

Images: Sphalerite Baumhauerite-2a

Comments: Dark crystal of baumhauerite-2a(same shape as baumhauerite) with olive-greentransparent sphalerite crystal on white dolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais,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 granularspionkopite, intermixed with yarrowite

altering, with quartz.Location: Yarrow Creek, Alberta, Canada.


Mineral Species

Spionkopite Image

Images: Spionkopite Yarrowite

Comments: Blue-gray metallic yarrowitegrains in granular quartz rock with

spionkopite.Location: Yarrow Creek, Alberta, Canada.


Mineral Species

Spiroffite Image

Images: Spiroffite

Comments: Milky yellow crystallineaggregate of Spiroffite on matrix.

Location: Moctezuma mine, Sonora,Mexico. Scale: Not Given.



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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 microscopeimage 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 inmassive gray spurrite (slabbed specimen).

Location: Camphouse, Ardnamurchan,Argyll, Highland, Scotland. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Spurrite Image

Images: Spurrite

Comments: Dark to light purple massivespurrite (cut face).

Location: South Sister Peak, Tres HermanasMountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA.


Mineral Species

Srebrodolskite Image

Images: Srebrodolskite Periclase

Comments: Black grains of srebrodolskitewith white periclase.




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Srilankite Image

Images: Srilankite

Comments: Backscatter electron image ofsrilankite (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.© American Mineralogist

Stanleyite Image

Images: Stanleyite Patronite

Comments: Blue crystalline stanleyite ondark patronite.

Location: Minas Ragra, Junin, Peru. Scale:See Photo.


Stannite Image

Images: Stannite

Comments: Stannite crystal cluster at thebase 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 ona twinned, crystal of stannite.

Location: Mina San Jos?, Oruro, Boliv ia. Scale: 4 x 2.3x 1.7 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Stannomicrolite Image

Images: Stannomicrolite Stokesite

Comments: Stokesite "ball" composed oflath-like tan or clear crystals with severalmicro crystals of yellow stannomicrolite.Location: Urucum mine, Galileia, Minas

Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.2 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

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 staurolitecrystals without matrix.

Location: Marble, Cherokee Co., NorthCarolina, USA. Scale: 3x2.5x1.5 cm.


Steacyite Image

Images: Steacyite

Comments: Square prismatic crystal ofsteacyite 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.© Paul M. Schumacher

Steigerite Image

Images: Steigerite

Comments: Earthy yellow steigerite masseson sandstone.

Location: Yellow Cat District, GrandCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Stellerite Image


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Images: Stellerite

Comments: Hemispherical crystal cluster35 mm diameter of white stellerite crystals

in a pocket lined with drusy quartz.Location: Pune (Poonah), Maharashtra,


Stellerite Image

Images: Stellerite

Comments: Orange, blocky crystallinestellerite aggregate.

Location: Tambar Springs, New SouthWales, Australia. Scale: Picture size 6x4 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Stenonite Image

Images: Stenonite

Comments: White nearly opaque stenonitewith minor pyrite grains.



Stepanovite Image

Images: Stepanovite

Comments: Translucent yellow crystallinestepanovite fragment.

Location: Chai-Tumus, Republic of Sakha,Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Stephanite Image

Images: Stephanite

Comments: Group of steel gray lustrous stephanitecrystals 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, native silver wireswith blocky, well-crystallized stephanite on

white and tan calcite matrix.Location: Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony,

Alemania, Germay. Scale: Picture size 3cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Sterryite Image

Images: Sterryite

Comments: Back prismatic sterryitemicrocrystals and massive in white calcite.

Location: Taylor Pit, Madoc, Ontario,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Stetefeldtite Image

Images: Stetefeldtite

Comments: Light yellow, massive, earthystetefeldtite aggregates.

Location: Snyder Hill Mine, TucsonMountains, Pima Co., Arizona, USA. Scale:

2.5x2x1cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Stevensite Image

Images: Stevensite

Comments: Granular massive stevensite.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.


Mineral Species

Stewartite Image

Images: Stewartite Rockbridgeite

Comments: Pointed, brownish yellowstewartite crystals on massive, dark

rockbridgeite.Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany.


Stibarsen Image


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Images: Stibarsen

Comments: Massive Stibarsen.Location: Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Scale:

3 x 2 cm.© John Veevaert

Stibiconite Image

Images: Stibiconite

Comments: Yellowish druses of microscopicstibiconite 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: SeePhoto.


Stibiotantalite Image

Images: Stibiotantalite

Comments: Translucent stibiotantalitecrystal.

Location: Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande,San Diego County, California, USA. Scale:


Mineral Species

Stibivanite Image

Images: Stibivanite

Comments: Green crystals of stibivanite onmatrix.

Location: Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema(Ponte Stazzemese), Versilia, Apuan Alps,

Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:Picture size 1.5 mm.


Stibnite Image


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Images: Stibnite

Comments: Prismatic crystals of metallic-lustered stibnite.

Location: Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijang,Hunan Province, China. Scale: Crystal size

5-10 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Stichtite Image

Images: Stichtite

Comments: Massive, fibrous, lavender-purple stichtite.

Location: Kaapsche Hoop, BarbertonDistrict, Mpumalanga Province, South

Africa. Scale: 5x3x2 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Stilbite Image

Images: Stilbite ApophylliteHydroxyapophyllite




Stilbite Image

Images: Stilbite FluorapophylliteApophyllite



© 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 crystalsto 3.5 cm in size is hosting two finelycrystallized balls of powdery white

thomsonite.Location: Near Jalgaon, MaharashtraState, India. Scale: Picture size 15 cm.

© Dan Weinrich

Stilpnomelane Image

Images: Stilpnomelane

Comments: Golden metallic scalystilpnomelane on pink orthoclase.

Location: French Creek No. 2 Mine, nearSaint Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania,


Mineral Species

Stistaite Image

Images: Stistaite

Comments: Minute stistaite crystal.Location: Edjej River, Kyrgyzstan. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Stistaite Image

Images: Stistaite Sorosite Tin






Stokesite Image

Images: Stokesite

Comments: Colorless transparent stokesitemicrocrystal in albite.

Location: Corrego do Urucum, Galileia,Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.


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 Lavinsky

Stokesite Image

Images: Stokesite Stannomicrolite

Comments: Stokesite "ball" composed oflath-like tan or clear crystals with severalmicro crystals of yellow stannomicrolite.Location: Urucum mine, Galileia, Minas

Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.2 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Stolzite Image

Images: Stolzite

Comments: White stolzite crystals on matrix.Location: Tuena mine, New South Wales,

Australia. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Straczekite Image

Images: Straczekite

Comments: Greenish-black, prismatic-acicular crystals of straczekite.

Location: Union Carbide Mine, WilsonSprings (Potash Sulfur Springs), Garland Co.,Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.


Stranskiite Image

Images: Stranskiite

Comments: Blue fibrous Stranskiite veinletsin white quartz.



Strashimirite Image


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Images: Strashimirite

Comments: Green, radial sprays ofacicular strashimirite crystals on matrix.

Location: Majuba Hill mine, PershingCounty, Nevada. Scale: Not Given.


Stratlingite Image

Images: Stratlingite

Comments: Transparent blue-tinted platystratlingite crystal aggregate in vug.

Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pfalz,Germany. Scale: See Photo.


Strengite Image

Images: Strengite

Comments: Pink, bladed, stellate spray of strengitecrystals on matrix.

Location: Indian Mountain, Cherokee County,Alabama, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Strengite Image

Images: Strengite Cacoxenite

Comments: Lilac colored, spear-headshape 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.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Strengite Image

Images: Strengite Kidwellite

Comments: Spherical, crystalline aggregate ofpurple strengite on green kidwellite.

Location: Three Oak Gap, Polk Co., Arkansas,USA. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Stringhamite Image


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Images: Stringhamite Wollastonite-1A

Comments: Rounded aggregate of darkblue stringhamite crystals on bladed, white

wollastonite.Location: Christmas mine, Hayden, GilaCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Stromeyerite Image

Images: Stromeyerite

Comments: 1.5 cm spray of hair-likeStromeyerite 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 inmassive pale green jadeite.

Location: Ohasa, Okayama, Japan. Scale:See Photo.


Strontianite Image

Images: Strontianite

Comments: Lustrous, white strontianite crystalscovering all sides of matrix. The strontianite

fluoresces bright blue-white under UVillumination.

Location: Lime City Quarry, Lime City, WoodCo., Ohio, USA. Scale: 6x5x4 cm.


Strontiodresserite Image

Images: Strontiodresserite

Comments: Opaque white sphericalstrontiodresserite, with radial structure.Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal,Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Strontiojoaquinite Image


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Images: Strontiojoaquinite

Comments: Yellow, pointed crystals ofStrontiojoaquinite on matrix.

Location: Mina Numero Uno, San BenitoCounty, California, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Strontiowhitlockite Image

Images: Strontiowhitlockite Bobierrite

Comments: Pale white to pink fine grainedstrontiowhitlockite with bobierrite.

Location: Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula,Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Strunzite Image

Images: Strunzite

Comments: Acicular, stellate sprays ofstrunzite crystals on matrix.

Location: Palermo #1 mine, North Groton,Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA.


Struverite Image

Images: Struverite

Comments: Struverite crystal in whitefeldspar.

Location: Pisek, Jihocesky, Czech Republic.Scale: See Photo.


Struvite Image

Images: Struvite

Comments: Opaque, white crystal struviteaggregates in earthy matrix.



Studenitsite Image


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Images: Studenitsite

Comments: Pale pink crystallinestudenitsite micro fragment.

Location: Piskanja, Srbija, Yugoslavia. Scale:See Photo.


Studtite Image

Images: Studtite Billietite

Comments: Acicular, white sprays ofstudtite crystals on yellow, tabular billietite.



Sturmanite Image

Images: Sturmanite

Comments: Sharply terminated darkyellowish crystal of sturmanite with a few

lesser crystals attached to one side.Location: N'Chwaning mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: 17 x 10 x 16 mm.

© Dan Weinrich

Sturtite Image

Images: Sturtite

Comments: Dark red-brown resinousmassive sturtite.

Location: North Mine, Broken Hill, NewSouth Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Stutzite Image

Images: Stutzite

Comments: Dull black stutzite grains inwhite-green calcite.



Suanite Image


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Images: Suanite

Comments: Dark olive green nearlyopaque suanite cleavage.

Location: Houxianya, Yingkou, Liaoning,China. Scale: See Photo.


Sudoite Image

Images: Sudoite Manganite

Comments: Pinkish to nearly white earthysudoite with dark manganite.

Location: Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Erfurt district,Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture


Sugilite Image

Images: Sugilite Effenbergerite

Comments: Blue effenbergerite pods toacross in massive purple sugilite.Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 4 mm.

© John Veevaert

Sugilite Image

Images: Sugilite Pectolite

Comments: Sharp terminated purplecrystals of sugilite to 5mm on white,

acicular pectolite.Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari, South

Africa. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Sulfoborite Image

Images: Sulfoborite

Comments: Colorless transparentsulfoborite crystal.



Sulfur Image


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Images: Sulfur Coccinite

Comments: Orange-red coccinite on sulfur.Due to the volatility of the mineral at roomtemperature, the sample is preserved in aclosed vial. The photo was made through

the vial, therefore the sharpness isreduced.



Sulfur Image

Images: Sulfur

Comments: Single complex crystal of sulfur onwhite, sucrosic aragonite.

Location: Girgenti, Sicily, Italy. Scale: Crystal size4.5.

© John Veevaert

Sulfur Image

Images: Sulfur Metastibnite

Comments: Red coatings of metastibnitewith yellow sulfur.


Mineral Species

Sulphohalite Image

Images: Sulphohalite

Comments: Octahedral sulphohalitecrystal.

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,Mexico. Scale: See Photo.



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Sulvanite Image

Images: Sulvanite

Comments: Cubic grains of bronze-graysulvanite crystals in marble.

Location: Val Bona quarry, Carrara, Italy.Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Sundiusite Image

Images: Sundiusite

Comments: Clear to white platy crystals to1mm covering Hausmannite matrix.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: Picture size 1 cm.


Suolunite Image

Images: Suolunite

Comments: Translucent massive suolunite.Location: Oman. Scale: See Photo.


Suredaite Image

Images: Suredaite

Comments: Silvery metallic columnarsuredaite in matrix.

Location: Pirquitas Mine, Jujuy, Argentina.Scale: See Photo.


Suredaite Image

Images: Suredaite

Comments: BSE image of a large zonedcrystal of suredaite, chemically SU-3,

surrounded (replaced) by SU-2. White isskeletal galena. (AmMin 85:1068).

Location: Pirquitas Ag-Sn deposit (ProvinceJujuy, NW-Argentina). Scale: See Image.


Surite Image


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Images: Surite

Comments: Pearly white, almostmicaceous surite crystals on vuggy matrix

with yellow cerussite.Location: Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine,

Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picturesize 1 cm.


Sursassite Image

Images: Sursassite

Comments: Coppery-red colored silkyfibrous sursassite vein with white quartz in

rock.Location: Strategic Manganese Mine, near

Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada.Scale: See Photo.


Sussexite Image

Images: Sussexite

Comments: Red resinous sussexite in orematrix.



Mineral Species

Svabite Image

Images: Svabite

Comments: Prismatic white crystals ofsvabite on matrix.

Location: Harstig mine, Pajsberg, Varmland,Sweden. Scale: Not Given.


Svanbergite Image

Images: Svanbergite

Comments: Milky white dolomite withscattered cinnamon brown crystals of

svanbergite to 2 mm across.Location: Mt. Brussilof Mine, near Radium,British Columbia, Canada. Scale: Picture


Svyazhinite Image


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Images: Svyazhinite

Comments: Granular svyazhiniteaggregate.

Location: Chelyabinsk Coal Basin, Kopeisk,Chelyabinsk District, Southern Urals, Russia.


Mineral Species

Swamboite Image

Images: Swamboite

Comments: Yellow crystals of Swamboiteto 0.5 mm across.

Location: Swambo, Katanga, Dem. Rep. ofthe Congo. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Swartzite Image

Images: Swartzite

Comments: Pale yellow powderyswartzite, intermixed with gypsum on schist

rock.Location: Hillside Mine, Bagdad, YavapaiCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Swedenborgite Image

Images: Swedenborgite

Comments: Water clear, prismatic crystalof swedenborgite on matrix. Under UV light

it glows intense blue.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.

Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Sweetite Image

Images: Sweetite

Comments: A white, pseudocubic crystalof sweetite.

Location: Milltown Quarry, Ashover,Derbyshire, England, UK. Scale: Picture size

1.4 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Swinefordite Image


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Images: Swinefordite

Comments: Dark green leatheryswinefordite coating on pegmatite.

Location: Foote Mine, King's Mountain,Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA.


Mineral Species

Switzerite Image

Images: Switzerite

Comments: Pale brown sub-metallic thinplaty switzerite coatings.

Location: Foote Mine, King's Mountain,Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA.


Mineral Species

Sylvanite Image

Images: Sylvanite

Comments: Flat-lying, metallic crystallizedsylvanite on a quartz rich matrix. Caleb

Simkoff Collection.Location: Sacaramb (Nagyag),

Transylvania, Romania. Scale: 7.5 x 8.5 x 4cm.

© Dan Weinrich

Sylvite Image

Images: Sylvite

Comments: Translucent sylvite crystalcluster, somewhat deliquescent.

Location: F.O. Kailwerk, Sigmundshall, nearWunstorf, Niedersachsen, Germany. Scale:


Mineral Species

Symplesite Image

Images: Symplesite

Comments: Fan-shaped spray of acicularsymplesite on matrix.

Location: Saubachthal, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Not Given.


Synchysite-(Ce) Image


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

Comments: Yellow crystals ofcordylite-(Ce) on light brownish

synchysite-(Ce).Location: Narss?rssuk (Narsarsuk), Igaliko,

Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Synchysite-(Ce) Image

Images: Synchysite-(Ce)

Comments: Prismatic crystals ofsynchysite-(Ce) on matrix.

Location: Kaiserer quarry, Raurisertal,Salzburg, Austria. Scale: Not Given.


Synchysite-(Y) Image

Images: Synchysite-(Y)

Comments: Small thin tabular crystals ofsynchysite-(Y) in a vug.

Location: Cuasso da Monte, Vareseprovince, Lombardy, Italy. Scale: Picture


Syngenite Image

Images: Syngenite

Comments: Opaque platy crystalsyngenite rosette on massive white halite.

Location: Sigmundshall Mine, Bokelch,Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


Mineral Species

Szaibelyite Image

Images: Szaibelyite Borcarite

Comments: Pale aqua granular borcaritewith 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 kainiteintermixed with white ascharite

(szaibelyite).Location: Havesa, Empelde, Hannover,



Szaibelyite Image

Images: Szaibelyite

Comments: Bright white fibrous szaibelyitecoating on serpentinite rock.

Location: Stinson Beach, Marin County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Szenicsite Image

Images: Szenicsite

Comments: Deep green szenicsite crystalson 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.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Szomolnokite Image

Images: Szomolnokite Voltaite

Comments: Whitish crystalline crust of voltaiteon crystals of brown szomolnokite.

Location: Alcaparrosa Mine, Cerritos Bayos,Chile. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Szomolnokite Image


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Images: Szomolnokite Halotrichite

Comments: Tan powdery szomolnokitecrust on silky fibrous halotrichite with yellow

metavoltine.Location: Markey Mine, Red Canyon, San

Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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Taaffeite Image

Images: Taaffeite Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S

Comments: Faucetted purplemagnesiotaaffeite. These specimens are

very rare and un-cut samples ever rarer..Location: Ceylon gem gravels, Ratnapura,

Sri Lanka. Scale: See Image.© Dave Barthelmy

Tacharanite Image

Images: Tacharanite Phillipsite

Comments: Spherical tacharaniteaggregates on phillipsite crystals.

Location: Espalion, Aveyron, France. Scale:See Photo.


Tachyhydrite Image

Images: Tachyhydrite

Comments: Translucent pink tintedgranular tachyhydrite.



Taenite Image

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Images: Taenite Troilite CoheniteKamacite





Taenite Image

Images: Taenite Kamacite Troilite



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.


Taimyrite Image

Images: Taimyrite Atokite

Comments: Photomicrograph (oilimmersion) of atokite and taimyrite

intergrowth inside tetraauricupride reactionrim on Pt-Fe alloy. Outlined section shows

atokite relics within taimyrite. (CanMin, v 42,p 610).

Location: Kondyor PGE placer,Khabarovskiy Kray, eastern Siberia, Russia,.


Tainiolite Image


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Images: Tainiolite

Comments: Micaceous tainiolite aggregate.Location: Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County,

Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Takedaite Image

Images: Takedaite

Comments: Translucent granular takedaite.Location: Fuka, Okayama, Japan. Scale:


Mineral Species

Takeuchiite Image

Images: Takeuchiite

Comments: Aggregates of black prismatictakeuchiite crystals.



Takovite Image

Images: Takovite

Comments: Aqua-colored takovite onrock.



Talc Image

Images: Talc

Comments: White Talc pseudomorphousafter quartz.

Location: Johannezeche, Bavaria,Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Talmessite Image


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Images: Talmessite

Comments: Pale green, crystallineaggregates of talmessite on reddish,

hematite-stained calcite.Location: Ourlil, Bou Azzer, Anti Atlas Mts.,

Morocco. Scale: Crystal size 4 mm.© John Veevaert

Talmessite Image

Images: Talmessite

Comments: Translucent nearly colorlesstalmessite microcrystals.

Location: Old Gold Hill Mine, TooeleCounty, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Talmessite Image

Images: Talmessite

Comments: Vivid pink-colored talmessitecrystalline aggregates scattered on matrix.

Location: Bou Azzer, Morocco. Scale:Picture size 2 cm.


Talnakhite Image

Images: Talnakhite

Comments: Tarnished brown talnakhitewith brassy chalcopyrite.

Location: Talnakh Deposit, Norilsk,Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale:


Mineral Species

Tamarugite Image

Images: Tamarugite Blodite

Comments: Clear, yellow bl?dite withwhite tamarugite.


Tamarugite Image


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Images: Tamarugite Metasideronatrite

Comments: Orange metasideronatrite withwhite tamarugite.


Tamarugite Image

Images: Tamarugite

Comments: Small white flakes ofTamarugite.



Taneyamalite Image

Images: Taneyamalite

Comments: Dark brown silky fibroustaneyamalite vein in manganese ore.

Location: Taneyama Mine, Toyo,Kumamoto, Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Tangeite Image

Images: Tangeite

Comments: Green. rosette crystalline-aggregatesof tangeite on sandstone matrix.

Location: Thompson, Grand County, Utah, USA.Scale: Not Given.


Tantalcarbide Image

Images: Tantalcarbide

Comments: Dark gray metallictantalcarbide grains in sand.

Location: Nizhnii Tagil Massif, SverdlovskDistrict, Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Taramellite Image


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Images: Taramellite

Comments: Dark brown crystallinetaramellite.

Location: Candoglia, Domo d'Ossola, ValToce, Piedmonte, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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: SeePhoto.


Taranakite Image

Images: Taranakite

Comments: Bright white chalky powderytaranakite mass.

Location: South Farallon Island, near SanFrancicso, California, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Tarapacaite Image

Images: Tarapacaite

Comments: Pale brown translucenttarapacaite, deliquescent granular.

Location: Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: SeePhoto.


Tarbuttite Image

Images: Tarbuttite

Comments: Clear, prismatic crystal oftarbuttite on matrix.

Location: Broken Hill Mine, Kabwe, CentralZambia. Scale: Not Given.


Tarkianite Image


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Images: Tarkianite

Comments: A euhedral grain of tarkianiteassociated with sperrylite (Sp) in heavy-

mineral concentrate. Plane-polarized light,oil immersion, sample 2_72_6.

Location: Sulfide concentrate from HituraNi-Cu-PGE mine, Nivala, western central

Finland. Scale: See Scale Bar.© Canadian Mineralogist

Tatyanaite Image

Images: Tatyanaite Rustenburgite

Comments: Back-scattered electronimages showing inclusions of rustenburgite

intergrown with taimyrite-tatyanaiteaggregates. (AmMin, v 42, p 608).


Scale: See Image.© American Mineralogist

Tausonite Image

Images: Tausonite

Comments: Brown crystal of tausonite inmatrix.

Location: Murun massif, Chara River,Davan, Torgo River Basin, Aldan Shield,

Saha (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 3


Tavorite Image

Images: Tavorite

Comments: Tabular, prismatic crystals oftavorite on matrix.



Tavorite Image

Images: Tavorite Hureaulite

Comments: Lime green tavorite microcrystals with pink, gemmy hureaulite.

Location: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., SouthDakota, United States. Scale: Picture size


Tazheranite Image


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Images: Tazheranite

Comments: Brown grain of tazheranite inmatrix.

Location: Tazheran Massif, Lake Baikalarea, Irkutskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia(Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region,

Russia. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Teallite Image

Images: Teallite

Comments: Gray, metallic vein of coarselycrystalline teallite.

Location: Carguaycollo mine (typelocality), Potos? , Boliv ia. Scale: 4.5x4x2.5


Teepleite Image

Images: Teepleite

Comments: Tan bladed crystals teepleiteon massive halite.

Location: Borax Lake, Lake County,California, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Tegengrenite Image

Images: Tegengrenite

Comments: Red, pseudo-octahedralcrystal of tegengrenite in quartz.

Location: Jakobsberg, Nordmark, Filipstad,V?rmland, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 0.8


Telargpalite Image

Images: Telargpalite OulankaiteTulameenite Chalcopyrite








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Tellurantimony Image

Images: Tellurantimony MattagamiteAltaite




Mineral Species

Tellurite Image

Images: Tellurite Denningite

Comments: Vitreous colorless to very paleyellowish elongated crystals denningite

with yellow tellurite.Location: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma,Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.


Tellurite Image

Images: Tellurite

Comments: Scaly yellow tellurite on whitequartz.



Tellurium Image

Images: Tellurium

Comments: Crystalline native tellurium onquartz.



Tellurium Image

Images: Tellurium Empressite

Comments: Bronze-colored microcrystalsof empressite with bright native tellurium

crystals.Location: Rex mine, Boulder County,

Colorado, USA. Scale: 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Tellurobismuthite Image


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Images: Tellurobismuthite

Comments: Platy hexagonal metalliccrystals of tellurobismuthite to 3+ mm. in

matrix.Location: Boliden, Skellefte?, V?sterbotten,

Sweden. Scale: 2.7x1.6x0.7 cm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Tellurobismuthite Image

Images: Tellurobismuthite

Comments: Metallic tellurobismuthitecrystal fragment.

Location: Boliden, Vasterbotten, Sweden.Scale: See Photo.


Telluropalladinite Image

Images: Telluropalladinite KotulskiteKeithconnite






Natural Resources

Temagamite Image

Images: Temagamite BorovskiteMerenskyite






Tennantite Image


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Images: Tennantite Calcio-andyrobertsite-1M

Comments: Vein of bluecalcioandyrobertsite in massive dark gray

tennantite. The vein ofcalcioandyrobertsite extends for 0.8cm.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Specimen size 1.1 x 0.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Tennantite Image

Images: Tennantite

Comments: Crystals of dark gray tennantite onwhite quartz.

Location: Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas,Mexico. Scale: 6 x 5.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Tennantite Image

Images: Tennantite Schaurteite

Comments: Bright white silky fibrousschaurteite on dark tennantite.



Tennantite Image

Images: Tennantite

Comments: Micro-quartz coated, darkgray 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 Tenoritemostly 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 to1.2 cm across.


South Africa. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.© John Veevaert

Tephroite Image

Images: Tephroite EricssoniteOrthoericssonite





Tephroite Image

Images: Tephroite Johnbaumite

Comments: Violet crystalline massivejohnbaumite with brown tephroite.



Terlinguacreekite Image

Images: Terlinguacreekite

Comments: Reddish brown crystallineaggregates of eglestonite? or

montroydite? in calcite matrix coveredwith yellow crusts of terlinguacreekite.

Location: Mariposa Mine, Terlingua,Brewster County, Texas, USA. Scale: See

Image.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Terlinguaite Image

Images: Terlinguaite

Comments: Beige, massive granularcrystals 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 violet terskite fragment.Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, Khibiny



Tertschite Image

Images: Tertschite

Comments: Bright white fibrous powderytertschite.

Location: Kurtpinari Mine, Faras, Balikesir,Turkey. Scale: See Photo.


Teruggite Image

Images: Teruggite

Comments: Opaque rounded teruggiteaggregate.

Location: Loma Blanca, Jujuy, Argentina.Scale: See Photo.


Tetra-auricupride Image

Images: Tetra-auricupride

Comments: Golden brown crystals oftetra-auricupride on matrix.

Location: Karabash (Karabasch),Chelyabinsk Oblast', Urals Region, Russia.


Tetradymite Image


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Images: Tetradymite

Comments: Gray metallic foliatedtetradymite in quartz.

Location: Mangfallberg, Boliden,Vasterbotten, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Tetrahedrite Image

Images: Tetrahedrite

Comments: A very brilliant tetrahedritegroup 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 metallictetrahedrite crystals to 1 cm in size onpinkish 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 oftetranatrolite (gonnardite) on matrix.Location: Point of Rocks Mesa, ColfaxCounty, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Not


Tetrarooseveltite Image

Images: Tetrarooseveltite

Comments: Light-yellow, earthytetrarooseveltite.

Location: Moldava, Teplice (Teplitz), Krusn?Hory (Erzgebirge), Severocesk? Kraj,



Tetrawickmanite Image


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Images: Tetrawickmanite

Comments: Tan, pseudoctahedral crystalof tetrawickmanite on matrix.



Thalenite-(Y) Image

Images: Thalenite-(Y)

Comments: Subhedral, brownishthalenite-(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 ofthalfenisite in epoxy mount..

Location: Oktyabr'sky mine, Noril'sk, Siberia,Russia. Scale: 1.2cm across.


Thaumasite Image

Images: Thaumasite

Comments: Doubly-terminated Thaumasite.Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari

Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,South Africa. Scale: 1 cm across.

© John Veevaert

Thaumasite Image

Images: Thaumasite

Comments: Transparent crystal ofthaumasite.



Theisite Image


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Images: Theisite

Comments: Pale blue pearly theisitescattered on matrix.

Location: Grand Junction, Mesa County,Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Thenardite Image

Images: Thenardite

Comments: White thenardite on augite-nephelinite rock.

Location: B?renstein Quarry, Niederschlag,Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Theophrastite Image

Images: Theophrastite Chromite

Comments: Green pearly scalytheophrastite coatings on massive dark

chromite.Location: Vermion Region, near

Thessaloniki, Kedriki Makedhonia, Greece.Scale: See Photo.


Thermonatrite Image

Images: Thermonatrite Nacaphite

Comments: Sparse pale yellow-brownmicrocrystal and crystalline nacaphite with

white thermonatrite on a dark matrix.Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Thermonatrite Image

Images: Thermonatrite

Comments: Granular thermonatrite.Location: Eruption of 1859, Vesuvius,Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Thomasclarkite-(Y) Image


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Images: Thomasclarkite-(Y)

Comments: Transparent, yellowish crystalof thomasclarkite-(Y).

Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.Scale: 0.75 mm.

© John Veevaert

Thometzekite Image

Images: Thometzekite

Comments: Pale olive-green coloredthometzekite crusts on quartz.

Location: Moldovo. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Thomsenolite Image

Images: Thomsenolite Cryolite

Comments: Massive, white cryolite withsolution cavities lined with prismatic

Thomsenolite crystals.Location: Iv igtut, Greenland. Scale: .

© John Veevaert

Thomsonite-Ca Image

Images: Thomsonite-Ca Stilbite-Ca

Comments: Peach colored stilbite crystalsto 3.5 cm in size is hosting two finelycrystallized balls of powdery white

thomsonite.Location: Near Jalgaon, MaharashtraState, 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.


Thorikosite Image

Images: Thorikosite

Comments: Yellow, prismatic crystals ofThorikosite on matrix.

Location: Passa Limani Cove slag locality,Passa Limani area, Lavrion District, Attik?

(Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece. Scale:Picture size 1.6 mm.


Thorite Image

Images: Thorite

Comments: Brown crude crystal of thoritevar. uranothorite with still v isible termination

on both ends. Mildly radioactive.Location: Kemp Uranium Mine, Cheddar,Cardiff Township, Haliburton Co., Ontario,

Canada. Scale: 15x14x13 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Thorite Image

Images: Thorite

Comments: Several small, black cubiccrystals of thorite.

Location: Balangoda, Ratnapura,Sabaragamuwa province, Sri Lanka. Scale:


Thornasite Image

Images: Thornasite

Comments: Opaque thornasitemicrocrystals.

Location: DeMix-Varennes Quarry, SaintAmable Sill, Varennes, Quebec, Canada.


Mineral Species

Thorogummite Image


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Images: Thorogummite

Comments: Yellow-tan resinousthorogummite with calcite.

Location: Fort Dauphin, Toliara,Madagascar. Scale: See Photo.


Thorogummite Image

Images: Thorogummite

Comments: Pale tan to yellowishthorogummite pseudomorphous after

thorite in matrix.Location: Fort Dauphin (T?lanaro) area,Toliara (Tul?ar) Province, Madagascar.

Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Thortveitite Image

Images: Thortveitite

Comments: Small white prismatic crystalsof thortveitite on matrix.

Location: A4 highway tunnel, Thiemendorf,K?nigshain, Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany.


Threadgoldite Image

Images: Threadgoldite

Comments: Beige threadgoldite fillingcracks in, and coating, black uraninite.

Schumacher Collection.Location: Kobokobo Pegmatite, LusunguRiver District, Kivu, Congo (Za?re). Scale:


Tiemannite Image

Images: Tiemannite

Comments: Dull black tiemannite masseson limestone.

Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah.USA. Scale: See Photo.


Tiemannite Image


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Images: Tiemannite

Comments: Dull steel-gray, tetragonalcrystals of tiemannite to 0.5mm with

modifications and striations, slight purpletinge.

Location: Rio Blanco, Pinal De Arvole,Atriagu, Queretare, Mexico. Scale: Picture


Tienshanite Image

Images: Tienshanite Cesium-kupletskite

Comments: Dark olive-green coloredcrystalline tienshanite with cesium-

kupletskite in microcline.Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.


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.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Tilasite Image

Images: Tilasite

Comments: Brownish, prismatic crystals oftilasite.

Location: Cervandone, Val d'OssolaLombardy, Italy. Scale: Not Given.


Tilleyite Image

Images: Tilleyite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous tilleyitewith blue calcite.


Mineral Species

Tin Image


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Images: Tin

Comments: Stream rounded silverymetallic tin grains.

Location: Near Oban, New South Wales,Australia. Scale: See Photo.


Tin Image

Images: Tin Sorosite Stistaite






Tinaksite Image

Images: Tinaksite Charoite

Comments: Yellow-brown prismatictinaksite crystals in purple charoite with

black aegirine.Location: Murun, Aldan Uplift, Chara and

Olekma Rivers, near Olekminsk, Republic ofSakha, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Tinaksite Image

Images: Tinaksite Charoite

Comments: Polished slab of deep purplechariote 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 tincalconitepseudomorph after a single borax crystal.Location: Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co.,

California, USA. Scale: 30x14x5 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals


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Tinsleyite Image

Images: Tinsleyite PhosphosideriteRockbridgeite




Mineral Species

Tinticite Image

Images: Tinticite

Comments: Porcelaneous tinticite chip.Location: Near Tintic Standard Mine, Tintic

District, Juab County, Utah, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Tinzenite Image

Images: Tinzenite

Comments: Orange crystalline tinzenitewith quartz and black braunite.

Location: Cassagne mine, near Chiavari,Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Tinzenite Image

Images: Tinzenite

Comments: Orange bladed aggregate oftinzenite 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 oftiptopite with red montgomeryite.




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Tiptopite Image

Images: Tiptopite EnglishiteMontgomeryite





Tiragalloite Image

Images: Tiragalloite

Comments: Orange crystals of tiragalloitein matrix.

Location: Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia,Liguria, Italy. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.


Tisinalite Image

Images: Tisinalite

Comments: Yellow tisinalite in syenitepegmatite matrix.



Mineral Species

Titanite Image

Images: Titanite

Comments: Several twinned green crystalsof Titanite (sphene) on matrix.

Location: Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil.Scale: 5.5x5x3.5 cm.


Titanite Image

Images: Titanite Amesite

Comments: Green titanite (sphene) crystalson purple chromamesite (clinochlore?).Location: Saranovskaya Deposit, Middle

Ural Mountains, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7cm.

© Dave Barthelmy


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Titanowodginite Image

Images: Titanowodginite

Comments: Black crystals oftitanowodginite in matrix.

Location: Tanco Mine (Bernic Lake Mine),Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet area,

Manitoba, Canada. Scale: Picture size 4mm.


Titantaramellite Image

Images: Titantaramellite

Comments: Dark brownish blacktitantaramellite crystal in quartz.



Tlalocite Image

Images: Tlalocite

Comments: Green, spherulitic aggregatesof Tlalocite on matrix.



Tlapallite Image

Images: Tlapallite

Comments: Green, microcrystalline druseof tlapallite grains.

Location: Bambollita Mine (Oriental Mine),Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora,

Mexico. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Tobelite Image

Images: Tobelite

Comments: Fine grained massive tobelite.Location: Tobe, Ehime, Japan. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Tobermorite Image


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Images: Tobermorite

Comments: Bright white tobermorite withblue calcite, USA.

Location: Crestmore Quarry, RiversideCounty, California. Scale: See Photo.


Tochilinite Image

Images: Tochilinite

Comments: Grayish-black, metallic wires oftochilinite on matrix.

Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Piedmont,Italy. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Todorokite Image

Images: Todorokite Opal

Comments: Dendritic todorokite in whiteopal.

Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Torino,Piemonte, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Tokkoite Image

Images: Tokkoite Charoite

Comments: Yellow crystalline tokkoiteintermixed 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 crystalsof tokyoite (< 0.3 mm) on dark gray

braunite matrix.Location: Gambatesa mine, Graveglia

Valley,, Genova, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4mm.


Tolbachite Image


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Images: Tolbachite

Comments: Small orange-brownish crystalsof tolbachite.

Location: Tolbachik volcano, KamchatkaOblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale:


Tomichite Image

Images: Tomichite

Comments: Section of drill core with a veryrare 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 topazcrystal 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 oftorbernite on matrix.

Location: Musonoi Mine, Shaba, Zaire.Scale: 7x5x5 cm.


Torbernite Image

Images: Torbernite

Comments: Cluster of green torbernitecrystals. Radioactive.

Location: Margabal Mine, Entraygues-sur-Truy?re, Aveyron, Midi-Pyr?n?es, France.

Scale: 22x13x10 mm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Torreyite Image


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Images: Torreyite

Comments: Whitish translucent granulartorreyite.



Mineral Species

Tosudite Image

Images: Tosudite

Comments: Fine grained massive tosudite.Location: Takatama Mine, Fukushima,

Japan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Traskite Image

Images: Traskite Sanbornite

Comments: Orange translucent crystallinetraskite in white sanbornite.



Trechmannite Image

Images: Trechmannite

Comments: Dark red, trigonal pyramidcrystal of trechmannite on dolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Trechmannite Image


Comments: Red prismatic crystals oftrechmannite with minor gray glossysulfosalt (rathite?) on white dolomite.Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 0.3mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Trechmannite Image


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Comments: Colorfull assemblege oftechmannite (reddish black) with orpiment

(golden yellow) and realgar (reddishorange) in white dolomite.

Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,Wallis, Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.


Tremolite Image

Images: Tremolite

Comments: Dark green tremolite crystal cluster.Location: Selleck Road Locality, West Pierrepont, StLawrence Co., New York, USA. Scale: 4.5x2x1.5 cm.


Trevorite Image

Images: Trevorite Willemseite

Comments: Small trevorite crystal inmassive willemseite.

Location: Bon Accord, Barberton Mountain,Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Trevorite Image

Images: Trevorite Willemseite

Comments: Waxy translucent greenwillemseite with black trevorite in schistose

rock.Location: Near Scotia Talc Mine, BarbertonMountain, Transvaal, Mpumalanga, South

Africa. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Triangulite Image

Images: Triangulite

Comments: Bright yellow triangulite fillingvugs in rhyolite.

Location: Rhyolite Ridge, near Mina, MineralCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Tridymite Image


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Images: Tridymite

Comments: Clear, pseudohexagonalcrystals of tridymite on matrix.

Location: Bellerberg quarry, Laacher See,Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Not


Trilithionite Image

Images: Trilithionite

Comments: Pinkish trilithionite in matrix.Location: Neuland Quarry, D?bsch?tz,

K?nigshain, Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.


Trimerite Image

Images: Trimerite

Comments: Pinkish crystalline trimerite inore.



Trinitite Image

Images: Trinitite Lechatelierite

Comments: Fused silica sand (trinitite)generated by the first nuclear (fission)

bomb. Although man-made and not avalid 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 prismatictriphylite crystals in pegmatite rock.

Location: Newry, Oxford County, Maine,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Triplite Image


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Images: Triplite

Comments: Dark brown vitreous triplite.Location: Abravazes Pegmatite, Beira Alta,

Viseu, Portugal. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Triploidite Image

Images: Triploidite Lithiophilite

Comments: Salmon-colored prismaticcrystalline triploidite with brown lithiophilite.

Location: Capoeira Mine, near Parelhas,Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Tripuhyite Image

Images: Tripuhyite

Comments: Brown tripuhyite on matrix.Location: Clara Mine, Rankach valley,Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest,

Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale:Picture size 5 mm.


Tritomite-(Ce) Image

Images: Tritomite-(Ce)

Comments: Dark brown, vitreous grains oftritomite-(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 withgreen metazeunerite.

Location: Walpurgis Flats, Wei?er HirschMine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District,Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Troilite Image


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Images: Troilite Cohenite KamaciteTaenite





Troilite Image

Images: Troilite Kamacite Taenite



Mineral Species

Trolleite Image

Images: Trolleite Berlinite

Comments: Pinkish crystalline berlinite withblue trolleite.

Location: Ijzer Mine, Vestana, Christiansted,Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.


Trolleite Image

Images: Trolleite Lazulite

Comments: Pale blue trolleite with darkerblue lazulite.

Location: Champion Mine, White Mountains,Mono County, California. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Trolleite Image

Images: Trolleite Viseite

Comments: Chalky white massive viseitewith bluish trolleite.

Location: Champion Sillimanite Mine, nearLaws, Mono County, California, USA. Scale:


Mineral Species


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Trona Image

Images: Trona Nahcolite

Comments: Massive, coarse-grained Tronafrom a drill core of the upper mixed-layer

Saltbed. White areas are nahcolitealteration.

Location: Searles Lake, San BernardinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: 12 x 15 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Truscottite Image

Images: Truscottite

Comments: Whitish pearly scaly massivetruscottite.

Location: Lebong Donok Mine, Benkeelen,Sumatra Island, Indonesia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Tsaregorodtsevite Image

Images: Tsaregorodtsevite

Comments: Translucent tsaregorodtsevitecrystals, with small quartz crystals, on mica

schist.Location: Near Mount Yaruta,

Man-Khambo Range, Republic of Komi,Near-Polar Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Tschermakite Image

Images: Tschermakite

Comments: Dark green tschermakite withcompact divergent structure.

Location: Elba, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Tschermigite Image

Images: Tschermigite

Comments: Clear crystal of tschernichite ina vug.

Location: Goble, Colombia County,Oregon, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Tschermigite Image


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Images: Tschermigite Berndtite

Comments: Yellow crystalline berndtite ontschermigite.



Mineral Species

Tschernichite Image

Images: Tschernichite

Comments: Clear crystal of tschernichite ina vug.

Location: Goble, Colombia County,Oregon, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Tschortnerite Image

Images: Tschortnerite

Comments: Scanning electron micrographof tschortnerite. (AmMin 83:608).

Location: Ca-rich xenolith at the Bellbergvolcano near Mayen, Eifel, Germany.

Scale: Scale Bar 20 µm.© American Mineralogist

Tsepinite-Na Image

Images: Tsepinite-Na

Comments: Brown, needle-like crystals oftsepinite-Na in matrix.

Location: Lephke-Nelm, Lovozero, Kola,Russia. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Tsugaruite Image

Images: Tsugaruite

Comments: Brown-gray fibrous sphericaltsugaruite on matrix.

Location: Yunosawa Mine, Aomori, Japan.Scale: See Photo.


Tsugaruite Image


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Images: Tsugaruite

Comments: Dark gray veinlet of tsuraruitein matrix.

Location: Yunosawa mine, Tsugaru District,Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picure

size 3x2 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Tsumcorite Image

Images: Tsumcorite

Comments: Yellow tsumcorite crystallinerosettes on matrix.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Not Given.


Tsumebite Image

Images: Tsumebite

Comments: Green crystalline aggregatesof tsumebite on matrix.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.Scale: Not Given.


Tsumoite Image

Images: Tsumoite

Comments: Gray metallic tsumoite in milkyquartz.

Location: Biorkdalsgruvan, Sweden. Scale:See Photo.


Tugtupite Image

Images: Tugtupite

Comments: Albite hosting a 1.2 cm mass ofpartially gem quality tugtupite.

Location: Tugtup, Greenland. Scale: 2.1x1.3 cm.

© John Veevaert

Tuhualite Image

Images: Tuhualite

Comments: Black, tabular crystals oftuhualite on matrix.

Location: Opo Bay, Mayor Island, NewZealand. Scale: Not Given.



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Tulameenite Image

Images: Tulameenite OulankaiteTelargpalite Chalcopyrite







Tumchaite Image

Images: Tumchaite

Comments: SEM photomicrograph of typicaltumchaite crystals shaped by the prism {hkl},

and by two pinacoids {100} and {h0l}. Grains aretabular 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 oftunellite on matrix.

Location: Death Valley, Inyo County,California, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Tungstenite Image

Images: Tungstenite

Comments: Tungstenite, varietytungstenite-2H, gray metallic flakes in rock.Location: Rita, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Tungstibite Image


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Images: Tungstibite

Comments: Dark olive-green sphericalaggregate of tungstibite in matrix.


W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale: Picture size4 mm.


Tungstite Image

Images: Tungstite

Comments: Yellow tungstite.Location: San Antonio de Calacalani mine,Cercado, Oruro, Boliv ia. Scale: Picture size


Tungusite Image

Images: Tungusite

Comments: Green to white platy tungusiterosettes.

Location: Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, nearTura, Evenkia, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia,


Mineral Species

Tunisite Image

Images: Tunisite

Comments: Transparent pearly platytunisite microcrystal.

Location: Condorcet, Drome, France.Scale: See Photo.


Tuperssuatsiaite Image

Images: TuperssuatsiaiteAluminoferrotschermakite

Comments: Golden aciculartuperssuatsiaite crystal spray with clear

apophyllite and dark greenaluminoferrotschermigite.

Location: Aris Quarry, Khomas, Namibia.Scale: See Photo.




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Images: Tuperssuatsiaite

Comments: Rich, brown tufts up to 0,4 cmof acicular tuperssuatsiaite crystals on a

phonolite matrix.Location: Aris Phonolite, Namibia. Scale:

Picture size 4 cm.© Minernet


Images: Tuperssuatsiaite

Comments: Two mm golden acicularsprays of tuperssuatsiaite on matrix.

Location: Aris Quarry, Windhoek, Namibia.Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Turanite Image

Images: Turanite

Comments: The holotype specimen ofbotryodal, olive green turanite (#3578) in acavite in white barite from the collection of

the Fersman Mineralogical Museum(Moscow, Russia). (CanMin, v 42, p732).

Location: Tyuya-Muyun Ra-U deposit, theAlai Ridge foothills, Osh district, Kyrgyzstan.

Scale: Specimen size 4.5 x 7.5 cm.© N.A. Pekova

Turanite Image

Images: Turanite

Comments: SEM image of turanite crystals(a) parallel intergrown crystals.

Location: Tyuya-Muyun Ra-U deposit, theAlai Ridge foothills, Osh district, Kyrgyzstan.

Scale: See ImaGE.© Canadian Mineralogist

Turkestanite Image

Images: Turkestanite

Comments: Green, blocky, prismaticcrystal 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) ofturquoise on matrix.

Location: Lynch Station, Campbell County,Virginia, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Turtmannite Image

Images: Turtmannite

Comments: Orange-brownish grains ofturtmannite in matrix.

Location: Pipji Glacier, Turtmanntal(Turtmann Valley), Wallis (Valais),

Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Tuscanite Image

Images: Tuscanite Augite

Comments: Translucent tuscanitemicrocrystal in in vug in low-Fe augite (var.

fassaite).Location: Pitigliano Quarry, Grosseto,

Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Tuzlaite Image

Images: Tuzlaite

Comments: Prismatic colorless crystals oftuzlaite.

Location: Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen,Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture


Tweddillite Image

Images: Tweddillite

Comments: Thin-section of (100) twinnedtweddillite 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: PictureSize 1 mm.

© Mineralogical Magazine

Tychite Image


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Images: Tychite

Comments: Nearly transparent tychitecrystal.


Mineral Species

Tyretskite Image

Images: Tyretskite

Comments: Gray granular tyretskitecoating.

Location: Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Tyrolite Image

Images: Tyrolite

Comments: Blue, crystalline aggregates oftyrolite on matrix.

Location: Lake Serene mine, Index,Snohomish County, Washington, USA. Scale:


Tyrolite Image

Images: Tyrolite

Comments: Blue-green flattened, felted,platy crystals of tyrolite to 3mm on matrix.Location: Centennial Eureka mine, JuabCo., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Tyrrellite Image

Images: Tyrrellite Umangite

Comments: Bright metallic partial cubictyrrellite crystal in altering umangite.

Location: Eagle Claims, near Hal Lake,Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan, Canada.


Mineral Species

Tyuyamunite Image


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Images: Tyuyamunite

Comments: Yellow tyuyamunite crystals 1mm 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 waxycoatings of grantsite with greenish-yellow

tyuyamunite and sandstone.Location: F-33 Mine, near Grants, Valencia

County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: SeePhoto.


Tyuyamunite Image

Images: Tyuyamunite

Comments: Bright yellow rosette crystals oftyuyamunite on matrix.

Location: Marie mine, Carbon County,Montana, USA. Scale: Rosette size 0.5 mm.





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"U " Mineral Photos (51)

Uchucchacuaite Image

Images: Uchucchacuaite

Comments: Corroded grain ofuchucchacuaite in matrix.

Location: Bera Basin #4 mine, King Co.,Washington, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.


Uhligite Image

Images: Uhligite

Comments: Black granular uhligite insyenite rock.

Location: near Lake Magadi, Rift ValleyProvince, Kenya. Scale: See Photo.


Uklonskovite Image

Images: Uklonskovite

Comments: Minute crystals and crystallineuklonskovite.

Location: Pampa del Pique III,Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: See Photo.


Ulexite Image

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Images: Ulexite

Comments: Tray of fibrous Ulexitefragments which have been cut and

polished perpendicular to the fibers. Thisshows the fiber-optic "TV stone" effect

which transmit images through thefragments.

Location: U.S. Borax Mine, Boron, KramerDistrict, Kern County, California, USA. Scale:

Picture size 10 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Ulrichite Image

Images: Ulrichite

Comments: Green ulrichite microcrystal tufton quartz.

Location: Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia.Scale: See Photo.


Ulrichite Image

Images: Ulrichite

Comments: Green, acicular crystals ofulrichite on matrix. Co-type specimen (?)

collected by the discoverer, AnthonyFraser.

Location: Lake Boga granite quarry, LakeBoga, Victoria, Australia. Scale: Picture size

2 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Ulvospinel Image

Images: Ulvospinel

Comments: Black sub-metallic massiveulv?spinel.

Location: Otanmaki, Sout, Oulu, Finland.Scale: See Photo.


Umangite Image

Images: Umangite AthabascaiteBerzelianite





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Mineral Species

Umangite Image

Images: Umangite Bellidoite Berzelianite




Umangite Image

Images: Umangite Tyrrellite

Comments: Bright metallic partial cubictyrrellite crystal in altering umangite.

Location: Eagle Claims, near Hal Lake,Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan, Canada.


Mineral Species

Umangite Image

Images: Umangite Berzelianite

Comments: Black massive umangiteintergrown with dark blue metallic

berzelianite.Location: Borsov, Bohemia, Vychodocesky,


Mineral Species

Umbozerite Image

Images: Umbozerite

Comments: Dark brown prismaticumbozerite masses in pegmatite rock.

Location: Pegmatite #100, MountKarnasurt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,

Murmansk District,. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Umohoite Image

Images: Umohoite

Comments: Orange Umohoite aggregateson matrix.

Location: Rab?jac, Lod?ve, H?rault,Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Scale:



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Ungarettiite Image

Images: Ungarettiite

Comments: Dark red ungarettiite veinlets inrock.

Location: Hoskins Mine, near Grenfell, NewSouth Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Ungemachite Image

Images: Ungemachite Metasideronatrite

Comments: Translucent roundedungemachite microcrystal on yellow

metasideronatrite.Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,


Mineral Species

Uralolite Image

Images: Uralolite

Comments: Radiating aggregates ofuralolite.

Location: Brandr?cken, Weinebene pass,Koralpe Mts, Carinthia, Austria. Scale:


Uramphite Image

Images: Uramphite

Comments: Thin encrustions of urampite ona fracture surface in sub-bituminous coal.

Location: Tura-Kavak, Issyk-Kul'skayaOblast', Kyrgyzstan. Scale: See Image.


Urancalcarite Image

Images: Urancalcarite

Comments: Bright yellow earthy spotscomposed of micro acicular urancalcarite

crystals associated with rusty browmhuemulite.

Location: Huemul mine, Malargue,Mendoza, Argentina. Scale: Picture size 1.5



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Uraninite Image

Images: Uraninite Uranophane

Comments: Sharp, cubic crystals of blackuraninite on yellow uranophane.

Location: Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil.Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.


Uraninite Image

Images: Uraninite

Comments: Polished slab of black"gummite" ore with the uraninite altering to

various secondary uranium minerals in abrecciated matrix.

Location: Ruggles mine, Graton, NewHampshire, USA. Scale: Specimen size 11.4


Uraninite Image

Images: Uraninite

Comments: Black uraninite impregnatingcoaly wood fragments. You can see the

woody structure in detail preserved in theuraninite.

Location: Grants mineral district, WestwaterCanyon Member of the Morrison

Formation.. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Uranocircite Image

Images: Uranocircite Meta-uranocircite

Comments: Brilliant, fluorescent yellowgreen 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 phosphuranylitewith green uranocircite in matrix.




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Uranocircite Image

Images: Uranocircite Meta-uranocircite

Comments: Crystal fragment ofuranocircite fracturing due to dehydrationto meta-uranocircite. The most commonare 100 and 010 fractures, with 110 close

behind. But notice the 210 and 410fractures (breaks) as well.

Location: . Scale: Crystal size 2x3.5 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Uranocircite Image

Images: Uranocircite

Comments: Yellowish green square,foliated uranocircite crystal.

Location: Bergen, Falkenstein, Vogtland,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1.3


Uranophane Image

Images: Uranophane

Comments: Bright yellow crystals ofuranophane with black uraninite.



Uranophane Image

Images: Uranophane Uraninite

Comments: Sharp, cubic crystals of blackuraninite on yellow uranophane.



Uranophane Image

Images: Uranophane

Comments: Yellow uranophane acicularcrystal tufts.

Location: Faraday Mine, Bancroft, Ontario,Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Uranophane-beta Image


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Images: Uranophane-beta

Comments: Bright yellowuranophane-beta crystalline aggregates.Location: Rossing mine, Rossing, Namibia.


Uranopilite Image

Images: Uranopilite Zippeite

Comments: Bright yellow uranopilite andreddish brown zippeite encrustations on

uranium ore.Location: Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon,

Utah. Scale: 3 cm.© John Veevaert

Uranopilite Image

Images: Uranopilite

Comments: Bright yellow crystallineuranopilite aggregate of prismatic

microcrystals.Location: Jachymov, Northwestern

Bohemia, Zapadocesky, Czech Republic.Scale: See Photo.


Uranopilite Image

Images: Uranopilite Johannite

Comments: Bright yellow rosettes ofuranopilite with pale greenish yellow

johannite on matrix.Location: Apex Mine, Lander Co., Nevada,


Uranopilite Image

Images: Uranopilite Johannite

Comments: Green aggregates of minute,acicular johannite and yellow uranopiliteand clear, tabular aragonite crystals on

matrix.Location: Apex Mine, Lander Co., Nevada,


Uranopolycrase Image


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Images: Uranopolycrase

Comments: Brownish-blackuranopolycrase microcrystals on quartz.

Location: Fonte del Prete, near San Piero inCampo, Elba, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Uranopolycrase Image

Images: Uranopolycrase

Comments: Brown to black, paper thin,elongated uranopolycrase crystals to

1mm.Location: Cavetta Bassa, Elba Isle, LivornoProvince, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size

2 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Uranospathite Image

Images: Uranospathite

Comments: Minute, less than 0.1cm platyyellow crystals or uranospahtite on matrix.Location: Pedro Alvaro, Salamanca, Spain.

Scale: Picture size 1 cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Uranosphaerite Image

Images: Uranosphaerite

Comments: Yellow-orange earthyuranosphaerite crusts.

Location: Kersegalec en Lignol, Vendee,France. Scale: See Photo.


Uranospinite Image

Images: Uranospinite

Comments: Translucent platy uranospinitemicrocrystals on matrix.

Location: Grube Buhlskopf, near Ellweiler,Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Uranpyrochlore Image


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Images: Uranpyrochlore Samarskite-(Y)

Comments: Deep greenish-brown resinouscrystalline massive uranpyrochlore with

black samarskite-(Y).Location: Beryl Hill, near Yinnietharra

Station, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:See Photo.


Uricite Image

Images: Uricite

Comments: White powdery uriciteaggregate.

Location: Dingo Donga Cave, nearRawlinna, Western Australia, Australia.


Mineral Species

Urusovite Image

Images: Urusovite

Comments: Green urusovite grain.Location: Northern Breakthrough, Great

Fissure (Main Fracture) eruption, Tolbachikvolcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern

Region, Russia. Scale: Crystal length 0.7mm.


Ushkovite Image

Images: Ushkovite Roscherite

Comments: Translucent ushkovitemicrocrystals with orange roscherite on

feldspar.Location: Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.


Mineral Species

Ussingite Image

Images: Ussingite Cuprostibite

Comments: Massive ussingite hosting grains of thevery 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 coloredussingite with a single bladed partialcrystal of white vuonnemite 1.5 cm in

length.Location: Mt. Karnasurf, Lovozero, Russia.


Ussingite Image

Images: Ussingite Gerasimovskite

Comments: Pale tan gerasimovskitepseudomorphous after epistolite crystal, in

purple ussingite.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Utahite Image

Images: Utahite

Comments: Blue utahite grain in matrix.Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, TinticDistrict (East Tintic Mountains), Juab Co.,

Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Uvanite Image

Images: Uvanite

Comments: Yellowish brown uvanitecoating on sandstone.

Location: Temple Rock, Emery County,Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Uvarovite Image

Images: Uvarovite

Comments: Green uvarovite (garnet) crystalgroup.

Location: Mokkivaara mine, Outokumpu,Finland. Scale: 1.3x1.2x1 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Uvite Image


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Images: Uvite

Comments: Reddish brown, prismatic uvitecrystals.

Location: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: 4.5x 5.5 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Uytenbogaardtite Image

Images: Uytenbogaardtite

Comments: Gray crystal grains ofuytenbogaardtite to 1mm throughout matrix

with electrum.Location: Bullfrog mine, Nye County, Nevada,

USA. Scale: Slab 1cm thick 6x6cm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Uzonite Image

Images: Uzonite

Comments: Yellow powdery uzoniteencrustation.

Location: Uzon Volcano, KamchatkaDistrict, Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See


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"V " Mineral Photos (77)

Vaesite Image

Images: Vaesite

Comments: Metallic black vaesitemicrocrystals.

Location: Ca'de Ladri, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Scale: See Photo.


Vajdakite Image

Images: Vajdakite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopephotograph of aggregate of acicular

vajdakite crystals (AmMin, 87:984).Location: J?chymov, NW Bohemia, Czech

Republic. Scale: 300x magnification.© American Mineralogist

Valentinite Image

Images: Valentinite Cetineite

Comments: Orange-reddish acicularcrystals of cetineite with white valentinite.



Valentinite Image

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Images: Valentinite Rosiaite

Comments: Beige crystals of rosiaite with acolorless valentinite prism.

Location: Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto,Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Valentinite Image

Images: Valentinite

Comments: 6mm spray of bladedvalentinite crystals on siderite matrix.

Location: Potosi, Boliv ia. Scale: Picture size1.5 cm.

© John Attard

Valentinite Image

Images: Valentinite Antimony

Comments: Beige valentinite crystals withred kermesite in a matrix of gray, massive

antimony.Location: South-Ham Antimony mine, LakeNicolet, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture

Size 3 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Valleriite Image

Images: Valleriite

Comments: Bronze-brown colored metallicvalleriite, somewhat foliated.

Location: Pima Mine, near Tucson, PimaCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Vanadinite Image

Images: Vanadinite

Comments: Tabular, hexagonal crystals ofvanadinite.

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 ofvanadiocarpholite to 0.75mm.

Location: Molinello Mine, Graveglia Valley,Ne, Genova Province, Liguria, Italy. Scale:

Picture size 2 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Vandenbrandeite Image

Images: Vandenbrandeite

Comments: Cluster of deep greenish blackcrystals 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 vandenbrandeitecrystal showing termination details.

Location: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Westernarea, Shaba Cu belt, Shaba (Katanga),

Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 3.5 cm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Vandendriesscheite Image

Images: Vandendriesscheite

Comments: Sparse waxy yellowvandendriesscheite on rock.

Location: Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro,Tanzania. Scale: See Photo.


Vanoxite Image

Images: Vanoxite Corvusite

Comments: Blue-black, somewhat silkyvanoxite, with brown corvusite on

sandstone.Location: Club Mine, Uravan, Montrose


Mineral Species

Vantasselite Image


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Images: Vantasselite

Comments: Rosette of pearly platyvantasselite crystals.

Location: Bihain, Luxembourg, Belgium.Scale: See Photo.


Vanthoffite Image

Images: Vanthoffite

Comments: Colorless to white fragment ofvanthoffite.

Location: Berlepsch Mine, Stassfurt, StassfurtDeposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale:


Vanuralite Image

Images: Vanuralite

Comments: Massive, granular, yellowvanuralite.

Location: Mounana mine (Mouana),Franceville, Haut-Ogoou?, Gabon. Scale:


Varennesite Image

Images: Varennesite

Comments: Brown to tan varennesitecrystal embedded in nepheline-syenite

rock.Location: DeMix Quarry, Varennes,

Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Variscite Image

Images: Variscite

Comments: Polished slice of lime greenvariscite.

Location: Fairfield, Utah. USA. Scale: 5.5 x8.5 cm x 3 mm.© Dan Weinrich

Variscite Image


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Images: Variscite

Comments: Deep rasberry red drusy microcrystals of variscite in vuggy matrix.

Location: Iron Monarch quarry, Iron Knob,South Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture size


Variscite Image

Images: Variscite

Comments: Brilliant cherry redwell-defined, clusters of variscite crystals

forming tiny single spheroids on whitequartz.

Location: Boa Vista, Galileia, Minas Gerais,Brazil. Scale: Sphere size 0.3 mm.


Varlamoffite Image

Images: Varlamoffite

Comments: Yellowish earthy varlamoffitemasses with quartz.

Location: Saint Austell, Cornwall, England.Scale: See Photo.


Varulite Image

Images: Varulite

Comments: Dark brown to dark greenvarulite in white feldspar.

Location: Varutrask, Vasterbotten,Sweden. Scale: See Photo.


Vashegyite Image

Images: Vashegyite Volborthite

Comments: Small bluish-white crystals ofvashegyite with green volborthite.

Location: Jeremias Gl?ck Mine (FairyGrotto), Garnsdorf, Saalfeld, Thuringia,Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.8 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Vasilite Image


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Images: Vasilite Osmium CooperiteVysotskite






Vaterite Image

Images: Vaterite Defernite Manganite



Mineral Species

Vauquelinite Image

Images: Vauquelinite Crocoite

Comments: Olive-greenish vauqueliniteencrusting red crocoite.


Vauxite Image

Images: Vauxite Sigloite

Comments: Lime green, crystallineaggregate of sigloite on massive, blue

vauxite.Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department,

Boliv ia. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Vauxite Image


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Images: Vauxite

Comments: Crystals of vauxite to 1.4mm.Location: Siglo Mine, Llallagua, Boliv ia. Scale:


Vayrynenite Image

Images: Vayrynenite

Comments: Pink, massive v?yrynenite.Location: Viitaniemi pegmatite, Er?j?rvi

area, Orivesi, Etel?-Suomen L??ni, Finland.Scale: Picture size 5 mm.


Vermiculite Image

Images: Vermiculite

Comments: Micaceous vermiculite book.Location: Brinton's Quarry, near West

Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania,USA. Scale: See Photo.


Vernadite Image

Images: Vernadite

Comments: Black sub-metallic roundedvernadite crystals.

Location: Km3, Laurium, Attiki, Greece.Scale: See Photo.


Verplanckite Image

Images: Verplanckite

Comments: Orange translucentverplanckite in sanbornite.

Location: Esquire #7 Mine, Big Creek, FresnoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Versiliaite Image


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Images: Versiliaite

Comments: Black sub-metallic versiliaitemasses in marble.

Location: Bucca della Vena Mine, Val diCastello Carducci, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:


Mineral Species

Vesignieite Image

Images: Vesignieite

Comments: Green crystalline vesignieitecrust with crudely developed radiating

structure.Location: Newmont Gold Mine, Carlin, ElkoCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Vesuvianite Image

Images: Vesuvianite

Comments: Clear, purple vesuvianitecrystals.

Location: Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec,Canada. Scale: Crystal size 5x3.5x3 cm.

© Fabre Minerals

Vesuvianite Image

Images: Vesuvianite Grossular

Comments: Blocky, tan-colored vesuvianite withwhite 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 lustrouscrystals of blue-green veszelyite to 0.5 cm

in length.Location: Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg,Granite County, Montana, USA. Scale:


Vigezzite Image


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Images: Vigezzite

Comments: Translucent brown vigezzitemicrocrystal in marble.

Location: Alpe Rosso, Val Vigezzo,Orcesco, Novara, Piemonte, Italy. Scale:


Mineral Species

Vihorlatite Image

Images: Vihorlatite

Comments: Dark gray sub-metallic platyvihorlatite in fine grained matrix.

Location: Poruba, Vohorlat Mountains,Vychodoslovensky, Slovakia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Viitaniemiite Image

Images: Viitaniemiite Roscherite

Comments: Colorless to pink viitaniemiitewith brownish roscherite.

Location: Greifenstein Rocks,Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony,Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Vikingite Image

Images: Vikingite

Comments: Gray to bronze tarnished platyvikingite masses in quartz.

Location: Roche Balue, Vendee, France.Scale: See Photo.


Villamaninite Image

Images: Villamaninite

Comments: Dull black villamaninite massesin dolomitic rock.

Location: Villamanin, Carmenes District,Castilla y Leon, Spain. Scale: See Photo.


Villiaumite Image


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Images: Villiaumite Griceite

Comments: White aggregates of griceitewith pinkish v illiaumite.




Villiaumite Image

Images: Villiaumite Naujakasite

Comments: Greenish-gray crystals ofnaujakasite with red villiaumite.

Location: Narsaq river, Kvanefjeld Mt.,Il?maussaq massif, Greenland. Scale:


Villiaumite Image

Images: Villiaumite Aplowite

Comments: Pink aplowite laths intergrownwith lustrous, red, massive villiaumite.

Location: Mt Rasvumchorr, Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',

Northern Region, Russia. Scale: 20x19x18mm.


Villiaumite Image

Images: Villiaumite

Comments: Nearly opaque crystallinevilliaumite cleavage.



Mineral Species

Villyaellenite Image

Images: Villyaellenite

Comments: Bright rose red crystals ofv illyaellenite to 2.5 mm on gossan.

Location: Veta Negra Mine, Tierra Amarilla,Chile. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

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Images: Villyaellenite

Comments: Peach colored radial sprays ofvillyaellenite 2 to 3mm in size.

Location: Veta Negra mine, Pampa Larga,Copiapo, Atacama Province, Chile. Scale:


Vinogradovite Image

Images: Vinogradovite

Comments: Off-white scaly vinogradoviteon matrix.



Violarite Image

Images: Violarite

Comments: Bronze massive violarite,tarnished, with gray colored rock.

Location: Marbridge Mines ltd., AbitibiDistrict, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Viseite Image

Images: Viseite Trolleite

Comments: Chalky white massive viseitewith bluish trolleite.

Location: Champion Sillimanite Mine, nearLaws, Mono County, California, USA. Scale:


Mineral Species

Vishnevite Image

Images: Vishnevite

Comments: Pale blue massive vishnevite.Location: Loch Borrolan, Rosshire, Highland,

Scotland. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Vistepite Image


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Images: Vistepite

Comments: Translucent platy vistepitefragment.

Location: Inelchek, Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan,Tadzhikistan. Scale: See Photo.


Vivianite Image

Images: Vivianite

Comments: Transparent, bluish crystalaggregate of vivianite on matrix.

Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua,Mexico. Scale: Not Given.


Vivianite Image

Images: Vivianite Maricite

Comments: Brown maricite nodule withinternal radiating structure, with blue

vivianite.Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory,


Mineral Species

Vivianite Image

Images: Vivianite Eosphorite

Comments: Bottle-green translucentvivianite crystal (2cm) associated with

reddish, micro eosphorite crystals.Location: Lavra 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

Comments: Translucent white prismaticvladimirite microcrystals with pink

sphaerocobaltite.Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou Azzer,

Ouarzazate, Morocco. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Vladimirite Image


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Images: Vladimirite

Comments: Snow white radial, acicularsprays, thick on calcite matrix.

Location: Ait Ahmane, Bou Azzer district,,Morocco. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm.


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-grayvlasovite crystal frozen in pink eudialyte

matrix.Location: Kipawa alkaline complex, near

Sheffield Lake, Villedieu Township,T?miscamingue Co., Qu?bec, Canada.

Scale: 2x2x1 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Voggite Image

Images: Voggite

Comments: Scanning-electronphotomicrograph 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 yellowliebigite.




Voglite Image


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Images: Voglite Metazellerite

Comments: Pale yellow crystallinemetazellerite in matrix, with green voglite.

Location: White Canyon #1 Mine, Frey Point,San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Volborthite Image

Images: Volborthite Vashegyite

Comments: Small bluish-white crystals ofvashegyite with green volborthite.

Location: Jeremias Gl?ck Mine (FairyGrotto), Garnsdorf, Saalfeld, Thuringia,Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.8 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Volborthite Image

Images: Volborthite

Comments: Shale with a heavy coating ofbrilliant green, scaly crystals of volborthite.

Location: Monument #1 Mine, ApacheCounty, Arizona. Scale: 6.5 x 5.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Volkonskoite Image

Images: Volkonskoite

Comments: Specimen of massive, greenvolkonskoite.

Location: Efimyatskaja Perm, Ural Mts.,Russia. Scale: 1.1 x 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Volkovskite Image

Images: Volkovskite

Comments: Transparent colorless platyvolkovskite cleavage.

Location: Nepskoye Deposit, Irkutsk Distict,Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Voltaite Image


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Images: Voltaite Alunogen

Comments: Dark greenish-black crystals ofvoltaite on white alunogen.

Location: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden,Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.


Voltaite Image

Images: Voltaite Szomolnokite

Comments: Whitish crystalline crust of voltaiteon crystals of brown szomolnokite.

Location: Alcaparrosa Mine, Cerritos Bayos,Chile. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.

© John Veevaert

Vonbezingite Image

Images: Vonbezingite

Comments: Dark blue, blocky crystals ofvonbezingite on matirx.

Location: Kalahari Manganese District,Cape Province, South Africa. Scale: Crystal


Vonsenite Image

Images: Vonsenite

Comments: Opaque vonsenitemicrocrystal.

Location: Colle del Pero Quarry, Lagheltodi Montecompatri, Rome, Lazio, Italy.


Mineral Species

Vrbaite Image

Images: Vrbaite Realgar

Comments: Black grain of vrbaite in redrealgar matrix.



Vuagnatite Image


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Images: Vuagnatite Mcguinnessite

Comments: Translucent colorlessvuagnatite microcrystals with

mcguinnessite.Location: Near Red Mountain, MendocinoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Vulcanite Image

Images: Vulcanite

Comments: Pale yellow metallic massivevulcanite in rock.

Location: Iriki Mine, Kagoshima, Japan. Scale:See Photo.


Vuonnemite Image

Images: Vuonnemite Ussingite

Comments: Massive, violet coloredussingite with a single bladed partialcrystal of white vuonnemite 1.5 cm in

length.Location: Mt. Karnasurf, Lovozero, Russia.


Vuonnemite Image

Images: Vuonnemite Lorenzenite

Comments: Square vuonnemite crystalwith brown, lorenzenite crystals in syenite

rock.Location: Ilimaussaq, Greenland. Scale:


Mineral Species

Vysotskite Image

Images: Vysotskite Osmium CooperiteVasilite




Location: Pustaya River placer deposit,situated within the Koryak-Kamchatka


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"W " Mineral Photos (94)

Wadalite Image

Images: Wadalite

Comments: Gray wadalite masses inmatrix.

Location: Tadano, Koriyama, Fukushima,Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Wadeite Image

Images: Wadeite

Comments: Sharp hexagonal crystal ofwadeite with included dark green aegirine.Location: Mt. Kukisvumchurr, Khibiny Massif

(Russia). Scale: 12x10x6 mm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Wagnerite Image

Images: Wagnerite

Comments: Crudely formed opaquewagnerite crystal in pegmatite.

Location: Hollengraben, Salzberg, Austria.Scale: See Photo.


Wairakite Image

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Images: Wairakite Dmisteinbergite

Comments: Pearly platy crystallinedmisteinbergite with dull white wairakite on

matrix.Location: Kurumazawa, Katashina,Gumma, Japan. Scale: See Photo.


Wairakite Image

Images: Wairakite

Comments: White nearly opaquecrystalline massive wairakite, with a few

crystals faces present.Location: Tohi Mine, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:


Mineral Species

Wakabayashilite Image

Images: Wakabayashilite

Comments: Golden colored, acicularcrystals of wakabayashilite on matrix.

Location: White Cap mine, Nye County,Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.

© Dave Barthelmy

Wakefieldite-(Ce) Image

Images: Wakefieldite-(Ce)

Comments: Bluish black crystal ofwakefieldite-(Ce) on matrix.

Location: Yellow Lake, Olala, BritishColumbia, Canada. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

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: Picturesize 1.5 cm.


Walkerite Image


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Images: Walkerite

Comments: Scanning electron micrographof 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 crystallineaggregate of wallisite on striated sulfosalt

(dufr?noysite?).Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,

Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Aggregate 5mm.

© Walter Gabriel

Wallkilldellite-(Fe) Image

Images: Wallkilldellite-(Fe)

Comments: Brown wallkilldellite-(Fe) withreddish cuprite.

Location: Roua Mine, Alpes-Maritimes,Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France.


Walpurgite Image

Images: Walpurgite

Comments: Clear, yellow laths ofwalpurgite crystals.

Location: Schneesberg, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Not Given.


Walpurgite Image

Images: Walpurgite

Comments: Elongated, pale yellow, tricliniccrystalline 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 onmassive wardite.


Wardite Image

Images: Wardite

Comments: Cream-colored, blockywardite crystals. The largest wardite crystal

is 0.5 cm across.Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Wardite Image

Images: Wardite Crandallite

Comments: Sliced and polished slab ofyellow to white mixture of wardite and

crandallite.Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co.,

Utah, USA. Scale: 11x6x.6 cm.© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Warikahnite Image

Images: Warikahnite

Comments: Divergent, acicular aggregate ofyellowish, brownish orange warikahnite crystals

on a white quartz matrix. William Pinchcollection. Featured on the cover of the

Mineralogical Record, 36:4..Location: O stope, 31st level, Tsumeb mine,

Namibia.. Scale: 3 x 4.9 cm.© Jeff Scovil

Warwickite Image

Images: Warwickite Chondrodite

Comments: Black crystalline warwickitewith tan chondrodite in white marble.


Mineral Species

Watatsumiite Image


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Images: Watatsumiite Potassicleakeite

Comments: Yellow green prismatic crystalof watatsumiite terminated by pyramidal

faces associated with reddish brownpotassicleakeite and clear quartz (JMPS, v

98, p 149).Location: Tanohata mine, Iwate Prefecture,

Japan. Scale: See Image.© JMPS

Wattersite Image

Images: Wattersite

Comments: Deep red-black resinouswattersite on quartz.

Location: Clear Creek Mine, San BenitoCounty, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Wavellite Image

Images: Wavellite

Comments: Greenish yellow spray ofwavellite crystals.

Location: Slate Mountains, El DoradoCounty, California, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Wavellite Image

Images: Wavellite

Comments: Green prismatic crystals ofwavellite in complete radial stellar

aggregate.Location: Flinders Range, South Australia,

Australia. Scale: Sphere size 8 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Waylandite Image

Images: Waylandite Bismite

Comments: Gray massive stream roundedwaylandite with tan bismite crusts.

Location: Mumba, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:See Photo.


Weberite Image


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Images: Weberite Cryolite

Comments: Gray weberite masses in whitecryolite.



Weddellite Image

Images: Weddellite

Comments: Tan prismatic weddellitecrystal sprays in vug.

Location: Near Biggs, Wasco County,Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Weeksite Image

Images: Weeksite

Comments: Bright yellow weeksiteaggregates.

Location: Anderson mine, Yavapai County,Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Weeksite Image

Images: Weeksite

Comments: Globular masses of yellowweeksite crystals with white aragonite on a

sandstone matrix.Location: Jackpile Mine, Laguna District,Cibola County, New Mexico, USA. Scale:


Wegscheiderite Image

Images: Wegscheiderite

Comments: Greasy pale pink translucentplaty crystalline wegscheiderite in syenite

rock.Location: Mount Alluaiv, Lovozero Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Weilite Image


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Images: Weilite

Comments: White, radial aggregatesweilite on matrix.

Location: Schlema, Schlema-Hartensteinarea, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Weinebeneite Image

Images: Weinebeneite

Comments: Colorless Weinebeneite onbrown matrix.

Location: Koralpe Mts, Carinthia, Austria.Scale: Picture size 3 mm.


Weissbergite Image

Images: Weissbergite

Comments: A metallic grain of weissbergitein matrix.

Location: Lookout Pass, Tooele Co., Utah,USA. Scale: Grain size 0.75 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Weloganite Image

Images: Weloganite

Comments: Columnar aggregates ofWeloganite crystals.

Location: Francon quarry, Montreal,Quebec, Canada. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Weloganite Image

Images: Weloganite Hydrodresserite

Comments: White spherical aggregates ofhydrodresserite with radiating structure with

columnar weloganite.Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal,Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


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.Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.


Welshite Image

Images: Welshite

Comments: Deep red, prismatic crystal ofwelshite in matrix.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.


Wendwilsonite Image

Images: Wendwilsonite

Comments: Gemmy crystals ofwendwilsonite 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.Location: Tucson Convention Center, 50th TucsonGem and Mineral Show, February 14, 2004. Scale:


Wenkite Image

Images: Wenkite

Comments: Translucent nearly colorlesswenkite crystal in vug.

Location: Garpenberg Mine, Kopparberg,Sweden. Scale: See Photo.


Wermlandite Image


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Images: Wermlandite

Comments: Dark colored, hexagonalplatelet of wermlandite on matrix.

Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.Scale: Not Given.


Westerveldite Image

Images: Westerveldite

Comments: Silvery metallic westervelditegrains in syenite rock.

Location: Ilimaussaq, Greenland. Scale:See Photo.


Wherryite Image

Images: Wherryite

Comments: Green, acicular wherryitecrystals.

Location: Mammoth mine, Tiger, PinalCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Whewellite Image

Images: Whewellite

Comments: Colorless, twinned crystal ofWhewellite.

Location: Burgk, near Dresden, Saxony, Germany.Scale: Crystal size 7 mm.


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-pinkwhiteite-(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-coloredwhiteite-(CaMnMg) crystal perched on



Whitlockite Image

Images: Whitlockite

Comments: Clear, transparent whitlockitecrystal.

Location: Palermo #1 mine, North Groton,Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale:


Whitmoreite Image

Images: Whitmoreite

Comments: Two stellate crystal clusters ofwhitmoreite.

Location: Big Chief mine, Keystone,Penninton County, South Dakota, USA.


Wickenburgite Image

Images: Wickenburgite

Comments: Transparent colorlesswickenburgite microcrystals.

Location: Wickenburg, Maricopa County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Wickmanite Image


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Images: Wickmanite

Comments: Colorless wickmanite crystals.Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.


Wicksite Image

Images: Wicksite Wolfeite

Comments: Cleaved nodule offine-grained aggregate of wicksite and

wolfeite.Location: Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada.

Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Widgiemoolthalite Image

Images: Widgiemoolthalite

Comments: Green crystals ofwidgiemoolthalite.

Location: 132 North Mine, Widgiemooltha,Western Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture


Wightmanite Image

Images: Wightmanite

Comments: Tan silky prismatic wightmanitein pale blue calcite.


Mineral Species

Wilcoxite Image

Images: Wilcoxite

Comments: Small, transparent crystals ofwilcoxite.



Wilhelmvierlingite Image


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Images: Wilhelmvierlingite Rockbridgeite

Comments: Yellow brown crystalswilhelmvierlingite with black rockbridgeite.




Wilkinsonite Image

Images: Wilkinsonite

Comments: Black wilkinsonite grains withanorthoclase.

Location: Warrumbungle Volcano, NewSouth Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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 willemitewith dark to white dolomite.

Location: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Scale: 6 x3 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




Mineral Species

Willemseite Image

Images: Willemseite Trevorite

Comments: Small trevorite crystal inmassive willemseite.

Location: Bon Accord, Barberton Mountain,Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Willemseite Image

Images: Willemseite Trevorite

Comments: Waxy translucent greenwillemseite with black trevorite in schistose

rock.Location: Near Scotia Talc Mine, BarbertonMountain, Transvaal, Mpumalanga, South

Africa. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Willyamite Image

Images: Willyamite

Comments: Gray granular massivewillyamite.

Location: Consols Lode, Broken Hill,Willyama Township, New South Wales,

Australia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Wiluite Image

Images: Wiluite

Comments: Dark green, blocky wiluitecrystal.

Location: Wilui River Region, Russia. Scale:1-1/8" x 1"..



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Winchite Image

Images: Winchite

Comments: Magenta crystalline winchite inmanganese ore.

Location: Tirodi Mines, Madhya Pradesh,India. Scale: See Photo.


Winchite Image

Images: Winchite Sodalite

Comments: Purple sodalite with somecrystal faces, supporting a very sharp,

transparent winchite crystal, terminated onone end.

Location: Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley,Badakshan Province, Afghanistan. Scale:

11x10x8 mm.© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Winstanleyite Image

Images: Winstanleyite Jarosite

Comments: Small, yellow octahedralcrystal of winstanleyite on brownish red

jarosite.Location: Tombstone, Tombstone District,Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture


Wiserite Image

Images: Wiserite

Comments: Pale pink granular wiserite.Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat,

Otjozondjupa, Namibia. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Witherite Image


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Images: Witherite

Comments: Specimen of witherite with a rounded(stellate) habit. The lower picture was taken underSW UV light and shows the crystalline aggregates.Location: Minerva #1 Mine, Hardin County, Illinois,

USA. Scale: 5.2 x 4.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Wittichenite Image

Images: Wittichenite

Comments: Black metallic wittichenite inwhite barite.

Location: Schmiedestollen, Wittichen, BlackForest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.


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 ofwodginite.

Location: Sapucaia do Norte, Galileia, MinasGerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.3 x 0.7 cm.

© John Veevaert

Wohlerite Image

Images: Wohlerite Biotite

Comments: Prismatic wohlerite crystalswith lepidomelane (Fe-rich biotite).Location: Langevannet, Tvedalen,

Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Wolfeite Image


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Images: Wolfeite

Comments: Opaque massive wolfeite.Location: Wilson's Pegmatite, Broken Hill,New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Wolfeite Image

Images: Wolfeite Wicksite

Comments: Cleaved nodule offine-grained aggregate of wicksite and

wolfeite.Location: Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada.

Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Wolframite Image

Images: Wolframite

Comments: Dark gray, tabular crystals ofwolframite 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 inquartz.

Location: Zinnwald, Severocesky, CzechRepublic. Scale: See Photo.


Wollastonite-1A Image

Images: Wollastonite-1A Stringhamite

Comments: Rounded aggregate of darkblue stringhamite crystals on bladed, white

wollastonite.Location: Christmas mine, Hayden, GilaCounty, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wollastonite-1A Image


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Images: Wollastonite-1A MinehilliteMargarosanite





Mineral Species

Wollastonite-2M Image

Images: Wollastonite-2M

Comments: Wollastonite-2M crystals.Location: Monte Somma (Vesuvius),Campania, Italy. Scale: Not Given.


Wolsendorfite Image

Images: Wolsendorfite

Comments: Red orange druse of tabularwolsendorfite crystals.



Wonesite Image

Images: Wonesite

Comments: Dark greenish blackmicaceous wonesite flake.

Location: Post Pond Volcanics, WilmountMountain, Mount Cube Quadrangle,Orange County, Vermont. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Woodhouseite Image

Images: Woodhouseite

Comments: Crystals of woodhouseite to 0.5cm 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 massivewoodruffite with limonite.



Mineral Species

Woodwardite Image

Images: Woodwardite

Comments: Greenish-blue botryoidal crustof woodwardite.

Location: Green River Formation, UintahCo., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.8 mm.


Wroewolfeite Image

Images: Wroewolfeite

Comments: Blue, lath-shaped crystals ofwroewolfeite on matrix.



Wulfenite Image

Images: Wulfenite

Comments: Tabular crystal druse ofbrownish 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 mimetitecrystal with brownish-orange wulfenite. Former

James and Dawn Minette Collection.Location: Gem Pocket 1971, Tsumeb, Namibia.


Wulfingite Image


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Images: Wulfingite

Comments: Colorless equant crystal ofw?lfingite.

Location: Richelsdorf Smelter, S?ss,Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany. Scale:


Wupatkiite Image

Images: Wupatkiite

Comments: Pinkish yellow opaquewupatkiite microcrystal in sandstone.

Location: Cameroon, Coconino County,Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.


Wurtzite Image

Images: Wurtzite Barite

Comments: Compact, dark, metalliccrystals of wurtzite intermixed with galena

crystals and white barite blades.Location: Huanzala, Huanuco Dept., Peru.

Scale: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm.© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Wustite Image

Images: Wustite

Comments: Orange botryoidal wustite ongreen calcite.

Location: Zacatecas, Mexico. Scale: SeePhoto.


Wyartite Image

Images: Wyartite Rutherfordine

Comments: Brown, acicular wyartitecrystals next to bright yellow rutherfordine

tufts.Location: Shinokolbwe mine, Tantara,Shaba, Democratic Republic of the


Wycheproofite Image


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Images: Wycheproofite

Comments: Pearly, orange-white crystalgroup of wycheproofite. This is the type

specimen for the species by thediscoverer, Bill Birch..

Location: A granite quarry nearWycheproof, northwestern Victoria,

Australia.. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm tall.© Bill Birch

Wyllieite Image

Images: Wyllieite

Comments: Dark bluish-black massivewyllieite in pegmatite.

Location: Victory Mine, Custer, CusterCounty, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See


Mineral Species




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"X " Mineral Photos (8)

Xanthoconite Image

Images: Xanthoconite

Comments: Wine-colored, tabular crystalof xanthoconite on matrix.

Location: Schlema, Schlema-Hartensteinarea, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:


Xanthoxenite Image

Images: Xanthoxenite

Comments: Xanthoxenite crystallinecoating.



Mineral Species

Xenotime-(Y) Image

Images: Xenotime-(Y)

Comments: Dark brown colored Xenotime-(Y)crystal.

Location: Hurricane Mountain, Conway, CarrollCounty, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: Not Given.


Xilingolite Image

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Images: Xilingolite

Comments: Elongate and striated crystalof 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 Mittaland Hohtenn in Valais, Switzerland. Scale:

Picture Size 4 mm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Xocomecatlite Image

Images: Xocomecatlite

Comments: Green botryoidalxocomecatlite coatings.



Xocomecatlite Image

Images: Xocomecatlite

Comments: Green spheroidal crystals to0.5 mm of very rare xocometcatlite.

Location: Centennial-Eureka mine, Tinticdistrict, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.


Xonotlite Image

Images: Xonotlite

Comments: Tufts of hair-like Xonotlitecrystals on datolite rich matrix.

Location: Kalahari Manganese Field,Kuruman Hills, Cape Province, South Africa.


Xonotlite Image

Images: Xonotlite

Comments: White fibrous crystals ofxonotlite to 1mm in a vug.

Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,United States. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.





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"Y " Mineral Photos (17)

Yanomamite Image

Images: Yanomamite

Comments: Gray-blue waxy yanomamitecoatings on quartz.

Location: Mangabeira Tin Deposit, Goias,Brazil. Scale: See Photo.


Yarrowite Image

Images: Yarrowite Spionkopite

Comments: Blue-black metallic granularspionkopite, intermixed with yarrowite

altering, with quartz.Location: Yarrow Creek, Alberta, Canada.


Mineral Species

Yarrowite Image

Images: Yarrowite Spionkopite

Comments: Blue-gray metallic yarrowitegrains in granular quartz rock with

spionkopite.Location: Yarrow Creek, Alberta, Canada.


Mineral Species

Yecoraite Image

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Images: Yecoraite

Comments: Tan to reddish brown resinousyecoraite coatings on quartz.

Location: Marie Elena Mine, Yecora,Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.


Yedlinite Image

Images: Yedlinite Diaboleite

Comments: Minute cranberry-coloredrounded yedlinite crystal with blue

diaboleite on yellow-brown wulfenite.Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Pinal

County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Yeelimite Image

Images: Yeelimite Hydroxylellestadite

Comments: Ye'elimite andhydroxylellestadite intimately intergrown as

a brownish aggregate in massiveanhydrite.



Yingjiangite Image

Images: Yingjiangite

Comments: Thin coating of yellowyingjiangite on matrix.

Location: Kladaske Mine, Erzgeborge,Czech Republi. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Yoderite Image

Images: Yoderite

Comments: Dark bluish-black prismaticyoderite in quartz.

Location: Mautia Hill, Dodoma, Tanzania.Scale: See Photo.


Yofortierite Image


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Images: Yofortierite

Comments: Radial spray of yofortierite inmatrix.


© John Veevaert

Yoshimuraite Image

Images: Yoshimuraite

Comments: Translucent, brownyoshimuraite microcrystal.

Location: Toguchi Mine, Shidara,Kitashidara-Gun, Aichi, Japan. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Yttrotantalite-(Y) Image

Images: Yttrotantalite-(Y)

Comments: Dark greenish-black crystal ofYttrotantalite-(Y).

Location: Ytterby, Resar?, Vaxholm,Stockholm, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 8


Yttrotungstite-(Y) Image

Images: Yttrotungstite-(Y)

Comments: Orange crystals ofYttrotungstite-(Y).

Location: Kramat Pulai mine, Kinta, Perak,Malaysia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Yugawaralite Image

Images: Yugawaralite

Comments: Pearly translucent colorlessyugawaralite microcrystals.

Location: Klif Hvalfjordur, Iceland. Scale:See Photo.


Yugawaralite Image


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Images: Yugawaralite

Comments: Yugawaralite, in welldeveloped 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 resinousYukonite on limonite.

Location: Venus Gold-Silver mine, YukonTerritory, Canada. Scale: See Photo.


Yuksporite Image

Images: Yuksporite

Comments: Opaque fibrous yuksporiteaggregate.

Location: Mount Yukspor, Khibiny Massif,Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.


Mineral Species

Yvonite Image

Images: Yvonite

Comments: Bluish green or turquoise-colored microcrystals of yvonite on

metallic matrix of arsenopyrite & nativebismuth.

Location: Salsigne mine, Carcassone,Aude, France. Scale: 2 cm.

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"Z " Mineral Photos (52)

Zaccagnaite Image

Images: Zaccagnaite Zincowoodwardite

Comments: White to pale bluishzaccagnaite intimately intergrown with

zincowoodwardite.Location: Hilarion Mine, Agios Konstantinos,Lavrion District, Attik? Prefecture, Greece.


Zaccagnaite Image

Images: Zaccagnaite Fraipontite

Comments: Scanning electron microscopeimage of hexagonal, tapering, prismaticzaccagnaite crystals, covered by a thin

crust of fraipontite. (AmMin 86:1294).Location: Marble quarries of the Carrara



Zaherite Image

Images: Zaherite

Comments: Gray to white translucentprismatic to massive zaherite comprising

portion of rock.Location: Pella, Namaqualand, NorthernCape Province, South Africa. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Zajacite-(Ce) Image

Images: Zajacite-(Ce)

Comments: Specimen of granodiorite hostingcream colored phenocrysts of zajacite-Ce. This is

one of the few minerals (less than 20) thatcontain 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 onmatrix.

Location: Z?les? deposit, Javorn?k,Moravia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture

size 6 mm.


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Zalesiite Image

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Zalesiite

Comments: Light blue acicular sprays ofzalesiite to 0.75mm.

Location: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah,USA. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Zanazziite Image

Images: Zanazziite Eosphorite

Comments: Minor crystals of equant, olivegreen zanazziite and brown, lath-like

crystals of eosphorite on quartz.Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil.


Zanazziite Image

Images: Zanazziite

Comments: Olive-green prismatictranslucent zanazziite microcrystals on

quartz.Location: Taquarel, Minas Gerais, Brazil.


Mineral Species

Zanazziite Image

Images: Zanazziite Kosnarite

Comments: Beige crystals of kosnarite withpinkish, 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 coatingon rock.

Location: near Battle Mountain, LanderCounty, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Zaratite Image


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Images: Zaratite

Comments: Specimen exceptionally rich inapple green zaratite - a carbonate of nickel.

Location: Lord Brassy Mine Tasmania, Australia.Scale: 6.5 x 3.5 cm.© John Veevaert

Zavaritskite Image

Images: Zavaritskite

Comments: Green to greenish blackzavaritskite in purplish fluorite.

Location: Josef Fluorite Mine, Moldava,Severocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Zdenekite Image

Images: Zdenekite

Comments: Blue crystals of zdenekite onmatrix.

Location: Cap Garonne Mine, Pradet, Var,Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France.


Zektzerite Image

Images: Zektzerite

Comments: Pale peach-colored crystal ofzektzerite on white feldspar.

Location: Golden Horn batholith,Okanogan County, Oregon, USA. Scale:

Crystal size 1 cm.© Dave Barthelmy

Zellerite Image

Images: Zellerite

Comments: Yellowish zellerite aggregateson 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 zemannitehexagonal prisms.

Location: Moctezuma mine, Sonora,Mexico. Scale: Not Given.


Zeophyllite Image

Images: Zeophyllite

Comments: Numerous white zeophyllitespheroids on a tan matrix.

Location: Brenk, Eifel, Germany. Scale: 2.5 x1.5 cm.

© John Veevaert

Zeunerite Image

Images: Zeunerite

Comments: Thin, tabular crystals ofZeunerite on matrix.

Location: Cinovec, Erzgebirge, the CzechRepublic. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.


Zinc Image

Images: Zinc

Comments: Dull light gray zinc grain.Location: Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Zincaluminite Image

Images: Zincaluminite

Comments: Bright white to pastel bluebotryoidal zincaluminite with cuprian-

adamite.Location: Kamariza Mine, Laurium, Attiki,

Greece. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

Mineral Species

Zincite Image


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Images: Zincite

Comments: Orange Zincite hexagonalpyramid.



Zincite Image

Images: Zincite Glaucochroite Willemite




Mineral Species

Zincobotryogen Image

Images: Zincobotryogen

Comments: Translucent bright yellowcrystalline zincobotryogen.



Zincocopiapite Image

Images: Zincocopiapite

Comments: Pale yellow zincocopiapitecoating on quartz.

Location: Les Valettes, Valais, Switzerland.Scale: See Photo.


Zincohogbomite-2N2S Image

Images: Zincohogbomite-2N2S Corundum

Comments: Thin-Section (Plane PolarizedLight) of a brown, twinned

zincoh?gbomite-2N2S crystal with bluecorundum.

Location: Mikro-Lakka Emery deposit,Kerketeas Mt, S?mos Island, Aegean

Islands Department, Greece. Scale: Picturesize 1.1 mm.


Zincospiroffite Image


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Images: Zincospiroffite

Comments: Polished section showingzincospiroffite (x) intergrown with nativegold (Ng) as the oxidation products of

calaverite (Cv) + sphalerite (Sph) ? pyrite.(CanMin, v 42, p 765).

Location: Quartz ore of the Zhongshangougold deposit, Chongli County, Hebei

Province, China. Scale: Field of v iew 2 mm.© Canadian Mineralogist

Zincowoodwardite Image

Images: Zincowoodwardite Zaccagnaite

Comments: White to pale bluishzaccagnaite intimately intergrown with

zincowoodwardite.Location: Hilarion Mine, Agios Konstantinos,Lavrion District, Attik? Prefecture, Greece.


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


Zincrosasite Image

Images: Zincrosasite

Comments: Spherical zincrosasiteaggregates on limonite.

Location: Kali Kafi Mine, Anarak District,Great Salt Desert, Esfahan, Iran. Scale: See


Mineral Species

Zincsilite Image

Images: Zincsilite

Comments: Chalky massive zincsilite.Location: Horado Mine, Horado Cho, Mugi

Gun, Gifu, Japan. Scale: See Photo.© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to

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, Boliv ia. Scale: 4.5 x 3.2 cm.© John Veevaert

Zinkenite Image

Images: Zinkenite Stannite

Comments: Acicular crystals of zinkenite perched ona twinned, crystal of stannite.

Location: Mina San Jos?, Oruro, Boliv ia. Scale: 4 x 2.3x 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 veinof black uraninite bisected with a 2mm

vein of bright yellow zippeite.Location: Jackpot Mine, Laguna Mining

District, Cibole City, New Mexico. Scale: 4.8cm high.


Zippeite Image

Images: Zippeite Uranopilite

Comments: Bright yellow uranopilite andreddish 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 withpyramidal termination.

Location: Laacher See, Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. Scale: Not Given.


Zircon Image

Images: Zircon Perrierite-(Ce) PyrochloreLoparite-(Ce)





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 imageof earth's oldest-known mineral (zircon

grain - W74/2-36) with inset concordia plotshowing the 4,404 billion year old region.

Note the oscillatory zoning in the outer rim.Image by John W. Valley.

Location: Interlayered red quartzites andmetaconglomerates, Jack Hills, Western

Australia. Scale: See Image.© University of Wisconsin

Zircosulfate Image


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Images: Zircosulfate

Comments: Powdery zircosulfateaggregate.

Location: Korgeredaba Massif, Republic ofTuva, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.


Zirkelite Image

Images: Zirkelite

Comments: Sub-metallic zirkelite crystalaggregate.

Location: Jacupiranga Mine, Sao Paulo,Brazil. Scale: See Photo.


Zirkelite Image

Images: Zirkelite

Comments: Black, massive aggregate ofzirkelite with minor brown biotite and a thin

vein 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.Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,


Mineral Species

Znucalite Image

Images: Znucalite

Comments: Cream-yellow botryoidalznucalite.



Znucalite Image


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Images: Znucalite

Comments: Very pale bluish white,porcelaneous crust of znucalite on matrix.

Location: Mine dump near: Pribam,Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture

size 5 mm.© Paul M. Schumacher

Zoisite Image

Images: Zoisite

Comments: Gem quality crystal of zoisitewith 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 ofblue-violet zoisite (var. 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 sphericalzorite crystal aggregate on dark green

aegirine.Location: Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,


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Zunyite Image

Images: Zunyite

Comments: Octahedral crystals of zunyiteto 5 mm on matrix.

Location: Quartzsite, Arizona. Scale: 5+ cm.© John Veevaert

Zwieselite Image


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Images: Zwieselite

Comments: Brown zwieselite in granitepegmatite.



Zykaite Image

Images: Zykaite Bukovskyite

Comments: Pale beige acicular crystals ofbukovsk?ite with white zykaite.

Location: Christbescherung Mine,Gro?voigtsberg, Freiberg District,

Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:Picture size 1.3 mm.


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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