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Abelsonite Image
Images: Abelsonite
Comments: Purplish red crystal fragment of

abelsonite.
Location: Green River formation, Uintah
County, Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1.8
mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Abernathyite Image
Images: Abernathyite
Comments: Clear, yellow, crystalline abernathyite

crystal group.
Location: Temple Mountain, Ev ery County, Utah,
USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Abhurite Image
Images: Abhurite
Comments: Pearly translucent pale yellow

crystalline abhurite.
Location: Shipwreck off Hidra, Vest-Agder,
Norway. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to
Mineral Species
Acanthite Image
Images: Acanthite
Comments: Pseudo cubic acanthite

crystals on matrix.
Location: Rayas mine, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Scale: Size Not Given.
Acanthite Image
Images: Acanthite Argentite
Comments: Dark metallic acanthite crystals

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

acetamide on black shale.
Location: Shamokin, Northumberland
County, Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Actinolite Image
Images: Actinolite
Comments: Sharp, floater actinolite crystal with a

slight green tint.
Location: Namibian dessert, more or less due West
of Uis, Namibia. Scale: 8.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Adamite Image
Images: Adamite
Comments: Sprays of adamite with intense

color and well defined crystals which
stand out from the matrix.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: 5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Adamite Image
Images: Adamite Cryptomelane
Comments: Black, rounded balls of

cryptomelane and purple, transparent
adamite.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Druango,
Mexico. Scale: Not Given.
Adamsite-(Y) Image
Images: Adamsite-(Y)
Comments: Sprays of adamsite-(Y) crystals

on matrix.
Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Aegirine Image
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Images: Aegirine
Comments: Fully-terminated, prismatic crystal

of aegirine.
Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Scale: Crystal size 2.8 cm.
© John Veevaert
Aegirine Image
Images: Aegirine Catapleiite
Comments: Clear crystals of catapleiite

with an attached 1.8 cm prismatic crystal
of dark aegirine.
Scale: 3.5 x 2.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Aegirine Image
Images: Aegirine Henrymeyerite
Comments: A nearly black crystal of

henrymeyerite with dark green prismatic
crystals of aegirine in quartz.
County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.
Aegirine Image
Images: Aegirine Lourenswalsite
Comments: Light brownish rosettes of

lourenswalsite with dark green crystals of
aegirine and white feldspar.
Location: Diamond Jo quarry, Magnet
Cove, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas, USA.
Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
Aegirine Image
Images: Aegirine Pectolite
Comments: White, cottony pectolite tufts

with acicular aegirine.
Location: 3M quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.
Aegirine Image
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Images: Aegirine Calcioburbankite
Comments: Tan crystal spray of

calcioburbankite on dark green aegirine.
Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Aegirine Image
Images: Aegirine Manganotychite
Comments: Pale rose-tan granular

manganotychite with black aegirine prism.
Location: Lov ozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Aegirine-augite Image
Images: Aegirine-augite Dellaventuraite
Comments: View in plane-polarized light of

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

aenigmatite in white albite with
astrophyllite.
Location: Mount Eveslogchorr, Khibiny
Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,
Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Aerinite Image
Images: Aerinite
Comments: Pale blue massive aerinite.

Location: Cripple Creek, Teller County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Aerugite Image
Images: Aerugite
Comments: Small dark green crystals of

aerugite.
Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.
Aeschynite-(Y) Image
Images: Aeschynite-(Y)
Comments: Square crystal of

aeschynite-(Y) on a matrix of albite, quartz
and muscovite.
Location: Val. Pellice, Piedmont, Italy.
Scale: Crystal Size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert
Afghanite Image
Images: Afghanite
Comments: Parallel grouping of three,

terminated, blue, opaque afghanite crystals set
in matrix.
Location: Sar-eSang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.
Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Afwillite Image
Images: Afwillite
Comments: Crystallized afwillite prisms.

Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari
Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province,
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Agardite-(Ca) Image
Images: Agardite-(Ca)
Comments: Green, acicular sprays of

agardite (agardite-Ca?) on matrix.
Location: Big Three mine, Silver Peak,
Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA. Scale:
Size Not Given.
Agardite-(Y) Image
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Images: Agardite-(Y)
Comments: Fibrous to fine acicular green

micro crystals of agardite-(Y) (chlorotile) to
1mm.
Location: Clara mine, Wolfach,
Schwarzwald, Baden-W?rttemberg,
Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Agrellite Image
Images: Agrellite Eudialyte
Comments: Tan agrellite grain, with red

eudialyte.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Agrinierite Image
Images: Agrinierite
Comments: Golden yellow, transparent

agrinierite crystals.
Location: Margnac mine, Compreignac,
Haute-Vienne, France. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Aheylite Image
Images: Aheylite
Comments: Colorless radiating spray of

aheylite crystals.
Location: Huanuni, Bolivia. Scale: Picture
size 3 mm.
Ahlfeldite Image
Images: Ahlfeldite
Comments: Green encrustations of

ahlfeldite on matrix.
Location: Mina El Dragon, Potosi, Bolivia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Aikinite Image
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Images: Aikinite
Comments: Gray metallic prismatic crystals

of aikinite and crystalline quartz.
Location: Mike Mine, San Juan County,
Mineral Species
Aikinite Image
Images: Aikinite Berryite
Comments: Fine-grained, gray, metallic

granular berryite with silvery, metallic,
prismatic aikinite.
Colorado. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ajoite Image
Images: Ajoite
Comments: Bluish, bladed ajoite crystals.

Location: New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Ajoite Image
Images: Ajoite Shattuckite
Comments: Dark blue, tabular crystals of

shattuckite on light blue ajoite.
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Ajoite Image
Images: Ajoite
Comments: Aqua blue, long bladed

crystals or ajoite on matrix.
Location: New Cornelia mine, Pima Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.75 mm.
Akaganeite Image
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Images: Akaganeite
Comments: Rusty brown coating of

akaganeite on rock.
Location: Wells, Elko County, Nevada, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Akatoreite Image
Images: Akatoreite Rhodonite
Comments: Brown akatoreite in pink

rhodonite.
Location: Akatore Creek, Eastern Otago
Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Akdalaite Image
Images: Akdalaite
Comments: Crystalline white akdalaite.

Location: Bulla Island, Caspian Sea,
Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Akermanite Image
Images: Akermanite
Comments: White translucent crystals

akermanite.
Location: Lago de Vico, Viterbo, Lazio,
Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Akhtenskite Image
Images: Akhtenskite
Comments: Dark gray grains of akhtenskite

with brown superficial coating.
Location: Akhtenskoye Deposit,
Chelyabinsk District, Urals, Russia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Akimotoite Image
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Images: Akimotoite
Comments: Electron micrograph of

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

0.75mm) of very pale grayish green eveite
in tiny vug with light pink akrochordite.
Co-Type specimen & type locality.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: 13x10x4 mm.
Aktashite Image
Images: Aktashite
Comments: Metallic gray grain of aktashite

in quartz gangue.
Location: Moctezuma, Mun. de
Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Alabandite Image
Images: Alabandite
Comments: Dark gray stalactitic

alabandite.
Location: Broken Hill Proprietary Mine,
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Alabandite Image
Images: Alabandite Daubreelite
Comments: Daubreelite (D), bright metallic

white, with alabandite (A) (dull yellow) as
inclusions in a polished section of an
achondrite meteorite.
Location: Norton County, Kansas. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Alacranite Image
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Images: Alacranite
Comments: Red crystals of alacranite.

Location: Mine Wilmsdorfer Schacht,
Possendorf near Dresden, Sachsen,
Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Alamosite Image
Images: Alamosite
Comments: White alamosite crystal group.

John Schneider Collection.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 3.5x3x2
cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Albite Image
Images: Albite Plagioclase
Comments: Colorless, lustrous blocky albite

crystals to 3 cm in size with a thick dusting
of micaceous green micro chlorite.
Location: Acushnet Quarry, Bristol Co.,
Massachussetts, USA. Scale: 17 x 15 x 7.5
cm matrix.
© Dan Weinrich
Albite Image
Images: Albite Plagioclase
Comments: Crystal group of bladed albite

(variety cleav elandite) crystals.
Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 7.4 x 5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Albite Image
Images: Albite Schorl
Comments: Several jet-black lustrous

crystals of schorl perched on a white albite
matrix.
Location: Shengus, Gilgit, Pakistan. Scale: 4
x 3 x 2 cm.
© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals
Algodonite Image
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Images: Algodonite
Comments: Massive specimen of dark

algodonite with vuggy areas filled with
minute crystals.
Location: Algodones Mines, Coqu?mbo
Province, Chile. Scale: 4x3x3 cm.
Algodonite Image
Images: Algodonite Koutekite
Comments: Silv ery metallic koutekite with

darker gray algodonite.
Location: Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw
County, Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Aliettite Image
Images: Aliettite
Comments: Tan to brownish pseudomorph

of aliettite after wollastonite.
Location: Ingichka, Uzbekistan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Allabogdanite Image
Images: Allabogdanite Schreibersite
Comments: Relict grain of allabogdanite

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

Location: Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex
County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Allanite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Allanite-(Ce)
Comments: Dual views of the same 0.8 cm Jet

black allanite-(Ce) on quartz.
Location: Tiro Estrella Mine, El Capitan Mts., Lincoln
Co., New Mexico, USA. Scale: Crystal Size 0.8 cm.
© John Veevaert
Allanite-(La) Image
Images: Allanite-(La)
Comments: A single prismatic allanite-(La) crystal

with small, lustrous black magnetite crystals, all on
a matrix of hedenbergite.
Location: Mina Nueva Vizcaya, Sierra Gorda,
Burguillos del Cerro, Badajoz, Spain. Scale: Crystal
size 0.9 x 0.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Allanite-(Y) Image
Images: Allanite-(Y)
Comments: Dark brown allanite-(Y) in

matrix.
Location: Boden, Marienberg District,
Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 10 mm.
Allargentum Image
Images: Allargentum
Comments: Irregular crystalline aggregate

grain of allargentum.
Location: Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein
area, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Specimen size 43 mm.
Alleghanyite Image
Images: Alleghanyite
Comments: Massiv e, brown alleghanyite

with white calcite.
Location: Parker Shaft, Franklin, Sussex
County, New Jersey. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Alleghanyite Image
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Images: Alleghanyite Galaxite
Comments: Black granular galaxite with

reddish alleghanyite and white kutnohorite.
Location: Bald Knob, Alleghany County,
North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Allophane Image
Images: Allophane
Comments: Blue, cuprian, botryoidal

allophane on matrix.
Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Himmelfahrt
Mine, Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,
Alluaudite Image
Images: Alluaudite
Comments: Nearly pure crystalline dark

green brown mass of alluaudite.
Location: Warusenge Pegmatite, Buranga,
Rwanda. Scale: Size Not Given.
© John Veevaert
Alluaudite Image
Images: Alluaudite Heterosite
Comments: Purple crystalline heterosite

with yellow coatings of alluaudite.
Location: Palermo Mine, North Groton,
Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Almandine Image
Images: Almandine
Comments: Two reddish brown crystals of

almandine on matrix.
Location: Fanny Gorge mine, Spruce Pine,
Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA.
Almandine Image
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Images: Almandine Hypersthene
Comments: Dark green blocky crystals

hypersthene with reddish almandine.
Location: Barton Garnet Mine, North Creek,
Warren County, Adirondacks, New York,
USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Alsakharovite-Zn Image
Images: Alsakharovite-Zn
Comments: Light brown crystal fragment of

alsakharovite-Zn.
Location: Lepkhe Nelm Mountain,
Lov ozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:
Crystal size 2 mm.
Alstonite Image
Images: Alstonite
Comments: Transparent alstonite crystals.

Location: Hexham, Northumberland,
England. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Altaite Image
Images: Altaite
Comments: Bronze yellow metallic altaite

crystals.
Location: Sonora, Tuolumne County,
California, USA. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Altaite Image
Images: Altaite Mattagamite

Tellurantimony
Comments: Silvery metallic intergrowths of

mattagamite with tellurantimony and
altaite.
Location: Mattagami Lake Mine, Quebec,
Mineral Species
Altaite Image
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Images: Altaite Maslovite Froodite
Comments: Reflected light

photomicrograph of maslovite (M), froodite
(F), and altaite (A), in chalcopyrite matrix.
Location: Oktyabr'skoye Mine, Norilsk,
Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Althausite Image
Images: Althausite
Comments: Grayish to maroon colored

and opaque crystals of althausite on
matrix.
Location: Overntjern, Buskerud, Norway.
Scale: 3.2 x 5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Aluminite Image
Images: Aluminite
Comments: Snow-white, very pure nodules

of aluminite.
Location: Newhaven, Sussex, Great Britain.
Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Aluminoceladonite Image
Images: Aluminoceladonite Muscovite
Comments: Large, 1cm, purple crystals of

muscovite/leucophyllite, (var. alurgite
which is an intermediate composition to
muscovite and leucophyllite
(aluminoceladonite).
Location: Ultevis, Sweden. Scale:
5x3.5x3cm.
Aluminocopiapite Image
Images: Aluminocopiapite
Comments: Small yellow crystals of

aluminocopiapite.
Location: Willi Agatz Mine, Dresden, Saxony,
Aluminoferrotschermakite Image
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Images: Aluminoferrotschermakite
Tuperssuatsiaite
Comments: Golden acicular

tuperssuatsiaite crystal spray with clear
apophyllite and dark green
aluminoferrotschermigite.
Location: Aris Quarry, Khomas, Namibia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Aluminum Image
Images: Aluminum
Comments: Native aluminum in a polished

section.
Location: From a mud volcano in the
Caspian Sea near Baku, Azerbaidzhan.
Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
Alumohydrocalcite Image
Images: Alumohydrocalcite
Comments: Pinkish-white globular

aggregates of alumohydrocalcite.
Location: Carriere de Richelle, Vise,
Belgium. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Alumoklyuchevskite Image
Images: Alumoklyuchevskite
Comments: Very small olive-greenish

prismatic crystals of alumoklyuchev skite.
Location: Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka,
Russia. Scale: Sample size 1.8 x 1.5 mm.
Alunite Image
Images: Alunite
Comments: Octahedral clear to tan tinted

crystals of alunite.
Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah,
Mineral Species
Alunogen Image
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Images: Alunogen Jarosite
Comments: Colorless to white, tabular

crystals alunogen on reddish jarosite.
Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera
district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Alunogen Image
Images: Alunogen Metavoltine
Comments: Yellow metavoltine with white

alunogen.
Location: Carola Mine, Freital, near
Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Alunogen Image
Images: Alunogen Voltaite
Comments: Dark greenish-black crystals of

voltaite on white alunogen.
Location: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden,
Amarantite Image
Images: Amarantite
Comments: Amber-like, long, prismatic,

bright red amarantite crystals.
Location: Chuquicamata, Antofagasta,
Chile. Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.
Amber Image
Images: Amber
Comments: Rectangular specimen of dark,

transparent amber with a large spider
entombed inside.
Location: Bitterfeld, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
14x10x10 mm.
Amblygonite Image
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Images: Amblygonite
Comments: Grayish, massiv e amblygonite

from the type locality.
Location: Chursdorf, Penig, Chemnitz,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 35
mm.
Amesite Image
Images: Amesite
Comments: White, massive amesite

between quartz.
Location: Missoula, Missoula County,
Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Amesite Image
Images: Amesite Titanite
Comments: Green titanite (sphene) crystals

on purple chromamesite (clinochlore?).
Location: Saranovskaya Deposit, Middle
Ural Mountains, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Amicite Image
Images: Amicite
Comments: White amicite crystals in

massive amicite.
Location: Howenegg, Hegau, Baden-
Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Aminoffite Image
Images: Aminoffite
Comments: Clear, pyramidal aminoffite

crystal.
Ammonioalunite Image
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Images: Ammonioalunite Kaolinite
Comments: White chalky ammonioalunite

on darker kaolinite.
Location: Schoeller Mine, Kladno,
Stredocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Analcime Image
Images: Analcime
Comments: Brownish yellow transparent

analcime crystals.
Location: Guam. Scale: Size Not Given.
Analcime Image
Images: Analcime Serandite Natrolite
Comments: Orange-red, blocky serandite with

white, blocky natrolite and white, equant grains
of analcime.
Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Canada. Scale: 4 x 3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Analcime Image
Images: Analcime Behoite
Comments: Gray-white microcline crystals

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

with dark red gillespite.
Location: Esquire No. 7 Claim, Big Creek,
Fresno County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Anapaite Image
Images: Anapaite
Comments: Specimen of anapaite on

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

Location: Hardangervidda, Norway, (1999). Scale:
1.5 x 3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Ancylite-(Ce) Image
Images: Ancylite-(Ce)
Comments: Pinkish brown ancylite-(Ce)

blades.
Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: Size Not Given.
Andalusite Image
Images: Andalusite
Comments: Wine colored andalusite

associated with mica.
Location: Sierra Albarrana, Cordoba,
Spain. Scale: 4.5 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Andersonite Image
Images: Andersonite
Comments: Yellow crusts of andersonite in

sandstone.
Location: Atomic King mine, San Juan
County, Utah, USA. Scale: 4x3x2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Andersonite Image
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Images: Andersonite
Comments: Veins of bright yellowish green,

andersonite in sandstone. The fluorescence
of this mineral is noticeable under ambient
office lighting plus a UV lamp.
Location: Atomic King Mine, Cane Creek
Canyon, Grand County, Utah, USA. Scale:
Specimen size 6 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher
Andesine Image
Images: Andesine Plagioclase
Comments: Translucent andesine crystal

twin.
Location: Maeyama Ueda shi, Nagano,
Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Andorite Image
Images: Andorite
Comments: Metallic, prismatic andorite

crystal.
Location: Baie Sprie (Felsobanya),
Maramures, Romania. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Andorite Image
Images: Andorite Ferrokesterite
Comments: Small, tetragonal crystal of

gray ferrokesterite (circled in thumbnail)
attached on the surface of a larger
striated andorite specimen.
Location: San Jose mine, Oruro, Bolivia.
Scale: Crystal size 0.2 mm.
© John Veevaert
Andradite Image
Images: Andradite Clinochlore
Comments: Transparent topazolite, the

yellow variety of andradite on clinochlore.
Location: Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria
District, San Benito County. California, USA.
© Fabre Minerals
Andradite Image
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Images: Andradite
Comments: Andradite (var. Demantoid)

Garnet.
Location: Namgar mine, Erongo Mts.
Namibia. Scale: 3.5 x 3.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Anduoite Image
Images: Anduoite
Comments: Backscattered electron Image

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

angelellite on matrix.
Location: Cerro Pululus Tin Mine, Jujuy,
Argentina. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Anglesite Image
Images: Anglesite
Comments: Crystalline anglesite with minor

duftite. The crystal at the top of the
specimen is partially doubly terminated.
Location: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.
© John Veevaert
Anglesite Image
Images: Anglesite
Comments: White anglesite crystals with

dark gray posnjackite.
Location: (1st Oxidation Zone), Tsumeb,
Namibia. Scale: 8.5 x 5 x 4 cm.
© John Schneider
Anhydrite Image
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Images: Anhydrite
Comments: Several terminated groups of

light blue anhydrite crystals in parallel
growth.
Location: Naica. Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale:
9.5 x 8 x 6 cm.
Ankerite Image
Images: Ankerite Sphalerite Dickite
Comments: White, rhombohedral crystals of

ankerite and dark gray, metallic sphalerite
on beige dickite.
Location: Prego mine, Kladno, Czech
Rebublic. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Annabergite Image
Images: Annabergite
Comments: Green spray of annabergite

crystals.
Location: Laurium, Greece. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Annite Image
Images: Annite
Comments: Bottle-green manganoan

annite fragment.
Location: Thiemendorf, K?nigshain,
Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 2.5 mm.
Anorthite Image
Images: Anorthite Plagioclase
Comments: Opaque white crystal of anorthite

with dark brown solidified lava coating.
Location: Miyake-jima, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Anorthoclase Image
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Images: Anorthoclase
Comments: Two white crystals of

anorthoclase (possibly mislabeled and
actually anorthite.
Location: Kusukidani, Wakayama
Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu island,
Japan. Scale: 15x14x6 mm.
Ansermetite Image
Images: Ansermetite
Comments: Environmental scanning

electron microscope image of the
ansermetite crystals. (CanMin, v 41, p
1425).
Location: Fianel, Val Ferrera, Eastern Swiss
Alps. Scale: Scale bar 20 µ-m.
Anthoinite Image
Images: Anthoinite Cerotungstite-(Ce)

Ferberite
Comments: Yellow cerotungstite-(Ce), with

black ferberite veins and whitish anthoinite.
Location: Bugarama, Rwanda. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Anthoinite Image
Images: Anthoinite Mpororoite
Comments: White chalky massive

mpororoite with brown anthoinite.
Location: Kara Mine, Tasmania, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Anthophyllite Image
Images: Anthophyllite Biotite
Comments: Fibrous mass of anthophyllite

as a shell around biotite.
Location: Hermanov, Sev erocesky, Czech
Republic. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Antigorite Image
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Images: Antigorite
Comments: Yellowish green, fibrous

antigorite.
Location: East Broughon, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: 22x10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Antigorite Image
Images: Antigorite Chromite
Comments: Chromite veins in yellow to

green antigorite with picrolite, chromian
antigorite and dolomite (polished section).
Location: Wood's Mine, near 'Texas', Little
Britain Township, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Antimony Image
Images: Antimony
Comments: Massive pure native antimony.

Location: Arechuybo, Chihuahua, Mexico.
© John Veevaert
Antimony Image
Images: Antimony Valentinite
Comments: Beige v alentinite crystals with

red kermesite in a matrix of gray, massiv e
antimony.
Location: South-Ham Antimony mine, Lake
Nicolet, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture
Size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Antlerite Image
Images: Antlerite
Comments: Dark green crystals of antlerite

on sandstone.
Location: Ray mine, Ray, Pinal County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
Antlerite Image
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Images: Antlerite Metaschoepite
Comments: Yellow crystals of

metaschoepite with green antlerite.
Location: P?hla-Tellerh?user Gallery, P?hla,
Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.
Apachite Image
Images: Apachite
Comments: Blue crusts of apachite on

skarn rock.
Location: Christmas Mine, near Hayden,
Gila County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Apachite Image
Images: Apachite
Comments: Spherical crystals 0.2mm of

blue apachite as grape-like botryodal
aggregates.
Location: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona,
USA. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.
Apatite Image
Images: Apatite Carbonate-fluorapatite
Comments: Pink, colliform carbonate-

fluorapatite on matrix.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer
County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Apatite Image
Images: Apatite Fluorapatite Beryl

Muscovite
Comments: Pink crystals of fluorapatite

with pale blue beryl (aquamarine) on
books of muscovite crystals.
Location: Nagar area, Gilgit district,
Northern Areas, Pakistan. Scale: 3 x 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Apatite Image
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Images: Apatite Robertsite Carbonate-

hydroxylapatite
Comments: Black crystals of Robertsite on

pink carbonate-hydroxylapatite.
County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Aphthitalite Image
Images: Aphthitalite
Comments: Aphthitalite crystals.

Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino
County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Apjohnite Image
Images: Apjohnite
Comments: White crystalline mass of

apjohnite.
Location: Terlano, Bolzano, Italy. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Aplowite Image
Images: Aplowite Villiaumite
Comments: Pink aplowite laths intergrown

with lustrous, red, massive villiaumite.
Location: Mt Rasvumchorr, Khibiny Massif,
Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast',
Northern Region, Russia. Scale: 20x19x18
mm.
Apophyllite Image
Images: Apophyllite Hydroxyapophyllite

Stilbite
Comments: 3 cm. pink-colored rosette of

stilbite and clear "apophyllite" (probably
hydroxyapophyllite) in an amygdaloidal
cav ity.
Location: Aurangabad District, Jalgaon,
India. Scale: Specimen size 6 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Apophyllite Image
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Images: Apophyllite Fluorapophyllite

Stilbite
Comments: Doubly terminated, very clear

and perfect fluorapophyllite with white
stilbite.
Location: Jalgaon, India. Scale: 4 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Apophyllite Image
Images: Apophyllite Hydroxyapophyllite
Comments: Crystal cluster of tabular

hydroxyapophyllite.
South Africa. Scale: 2.5 x 2.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Apophyllite Image
Images: Apophyllite Kinoite
Comments: Crystals of dark blue kinoite

and clear apophyllite.
Location: Christmas Mine, Gila County,
© John Veevaert
Apophyllite Image
Images: Apophyllite
Comments: Mint green to clear apophyllite

flat top crystals in a circular stellate cluster
on pink stilbite.
Location: Rahuri, Maharashtra State, India.
Scale: Specimen size 10 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Apuanite Image
Images: Apuanite
Comments: Black tabular crystal of

apuanite on matrix.
Location: Buca della Vena Mine,
Stazzema, Versilia Valley, Apuan Alps,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.
Aragonite Image
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Images: Aragonite
Comments: Clear, crystalline aragonite prism.

Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale:
Size Not Given.
Aramayoite Image
Images: Aramayoite Miargyrite
Comments: Aramayoite is present as large

thin plates (blue iridescence) to 1mm in
massive gray miargyrite matrix.
Location: Julcani Silver mine,
Huancav elica Dept., Peru. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Aravaipaite Image
Images: Aravaipaite
Comments: Colorless thin tabular crystals

of aravaipaite.
Location: Grand Reef Mine, Aravaipa
District, Graham County, Arizona, USA.
Arcanite Image
Images: Arcanite
Comments: Opaque oliv e-green mottled-

colored arcanite.
Location: Tunnel #1, Santa Ana Tin Mine,
Orange County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Archerite Image
Images: Archerite Biphosphammite
Comments: Buff-colored biphosphammite

with white archerite crusts.
Location: Cockelbiddy Cav e, Western
Australia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Arctite Image
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Images: Arctite
Comments: Clear glassy crystalline arctite

with magenta villiaumite in pegmatite.
Location: Vuonnemiok River, Khibiny Massif,
Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ardealite Image
Images: Ardealite
Comments: Ardealite powder.

Location: Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay,
Western Australia, Australia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Ardennite Image
Images: Ardennite
Comments: Yellow ardennite crystals in

white quartz matrix.
Location: Salmch?teau, Vielsalm, Stavelot
Massif, Ardennes, Luxembourg Province,
Belgium. Scale: 30x20x17 mm.
Arfvedsonite Image
Images: Arfvedsonite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of black

arfvedsonite in white feldspar matrix.
Location: Kangerdluarsuk, Il?maussaq
Massif, Greenland. Scale: 8x3x3 cm.
Arfvedsonite Image
Images: Arfvedsonite Seidozerite
Comments: Dark red translucent

seidozerite with v itreous, black
arfvedsonite.
Location: Seidozero Lake, Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Argentite Image
Images: Argentite Acanthite
Comments: Dark metallic acanthite crystals

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

argentojarosite.
Location: Eagle Mine, Juab County, Utah,
Mineral Species
Argentopyrite Image
Images: Argentopyrite
Comments: Metallic, twinned

argentopyrite grain on matrix.
Location: St. Andreasberg, Harz, Lower
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.
Argyrodite Image
Images: Argyrodite
Comments: Lead gray metallic aggregate

of argyrodite crystals.
Location: Veta Galufa, Colquechaca,
Potosi Dept., Bolivia. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Argyrodite Image
Images: Argyrodite
Comments: Gray, metallic, massiv e,

crystalline argyrodite ore.
Location: Himmelsf?rst mine, Brand-
Erbisdorf bei Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen.
Arhbarite Image
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Images: Arhbarite
Comments: Deep blue, smooth, botryoidal

aggregate of arhbarite in a 2mm vug
associated with atacamite.
Location: El Guanaco mine, Atacama, Tal
Tal(?), Chile. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Armenite Image
Images: Armenite
Comments: Translucent, white armenite

crystals.
Location: Simplon Pass, Brig, Valais,
Switzerland. Scale: Size Not Given.
Armstrongite Image
Images: Armstrongite
Comments: Tan massive armstrongite

aggregate in granite.
Location: Khan-Bogdo Massif, Gobi,
Mongolia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Arrojadite Image
Images: Arrojadite
Comments: Brownish to clear crystals of

arrojadite on matrix.
Location: Big Fish river area, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Arrojadite Image
Images: Arrojadite
Comments: Tabular, diamond shaped

golden yellow crystal of arrojadite.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.
Scale: Crystal to 5mm..
Arsendescloizite Image
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Images: Arsendescloizite
Comments: Spherical aggregates of

arsendescloizite crystals.
Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.
Arsenic Image
Images: Arsenic
Comments: Bright, metallic, gray,

crystalline aggregate or arsenic.
Location: Niederschlema, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Arsenic Image
Images: Arsenic
Comments: Botryoidal-concentric
aggregate of arsenic with white calcite
crystals.
Location: Schneeberg, Erzgebirge,
Sachsen, Germany. Scale: 7 x 4 cm.
Arsenic Image
Images: Arsenic Claudetite
Comments: Colorless prismatic crystal of

claudetite on native arsenic.
Location: J?chymov (St Joachimsthal),
Krusn? Hory (Erzgebirge), Z?padocesk? Kraj,
Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture
size 2 mm.
Arseniopleite Image
Images: Arseniopleite
Comments: Massive, orange arseniopleite.

Location: Sj?gruvan, Grythyttan, ?rebro,
Sweden. Scale: Not Given.
Arseniosiderite Image
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Images: Arseniosiderite
Comments: Yellowish brown, roughly

spherical aggregates of arseniosiderite
crystals on matrix.
Arseniosiderite Image
Images: Arseniosiderite Cobaltarthurite
Comments: Oliv e-greenish crystalline druse

of cobaltarthurite with spherical
arseniosiderite.
Location: Pastrana, Mazarr?n, Murcia,
Spain. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.
Arsenocrandallite Image
Images: Arsenocrandallite
Comments: Micro, pale blue botryoids of

arsenocrandallite on dark green olivenite
and quartz.
Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, Juab
County, Utah. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Arsenogorceixite Image
Images: Arsenogorceixite
Comments: Lime colored crystalline

arsenogorceixite on dark green oliv enite.
Location: Bali Lo, Ashburton Downs,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Arsenogorceixite Image
Images: Arsenogorceixite
Comments: White arsenogorceixite

spherules to less than 0.25mm in vuggy
matrix.
Location: Clara mine, Schwarzwald,
Arsenogoyazite Image
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Images: Arsenogoyazite Olivenite
Comments: White micro-botryoids of

arsenogoyazite with light green acicular
crystal sprays of olivenite and dark green
malachite on brown limonite.
Mineral Species
Arsenogoyazite Image
Images: Arsenogoyazite
Comments: Clear, white micro (<0.25mm)

rhombohedral arsenogoyazite crystals.
Location: Clara mine, Schwarzwald,
Arsenolamprite Image
Images: Arsenolamprite
Comments: Needle like gray crystals of

arsenolamprite in calcite matrix.
Location: Mackenheim,, Odenwald,
Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
Comments: REM (Raster Electron

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

matrix.
Location: Mine dump near shaft 371,
Hartenstein, Germany. Scale: See Image.
Arsenolite Image
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Images: Arsenolite
Comments: Brownish yellow octahedrons

of arsenolite on matrix.
Location: White Caps mine, Manhattan,
Nye County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Arsenopalladinite Image
Images: Arsenopalladinite Isomertieite

Gold Bornite
Comments: Light grayish grain of intimately

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

crystal.
Location: Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
Not Given.
Mineral Species
Arsenopyrite Image
Images: Arsenopyrite Siderite
Comments: White, metallic arsenopyrite

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

arsenpolybasite in quartz.
Location: Medenec, Severocesky, Moravia,
Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Arsentsumebite Image
Images: Arsentsumebite
Comments: Crystallized arsentsumebite in

a vuggy rock matrix.
Scale: Crystals to 0.25mm.
© John Veevaert
Arsenuranylite Image
Images: Arsenuranylite
Comments: Yellow crystalline

arsenuranylite.
Location: Rudnoje, Bukhara District,
Uzbekistan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Arthurite Image
Images: Arthurite Pharmacosiderite
Comments: Altered rhyolite vug lined with

brilliant apple green arthurite and cubic
green crystals of pharmacosiderite.
Location: Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing
County, Nevada. USA. Scale: 2.7 x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Arthurite Image
Images: Arthurite
Comments: Radiating sprays of acicular

arthurite.
Location: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Spray size 2.5
mm.
Artinite Image
Images: Artinite
Comments: Bright, white acicular sprays of

artinite crystals on matrix.
Location: New Idria district, San Benito
County, California, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Artinite Image
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Images: Artinite
Comments: White, acicular clusters of

artinite on matrix.
Location: San Benito County, California,
USA. Scale: Cluster size 1.3 cm.
© Minernet
Artsmithite Image
Images: Artsmithite
Comments: White to tan, radial, acicular

crystals of artsmithite on matrix.
Location: Funderburk Prospect, Pike
County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size
0.7 cm.
Mineral Species
Artsmithite Image
Images: Artsmithite
Comments: White or faint green platy

micro crystals of artsmithite on matrix.
Location: Funderburk prospect, Pike
County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Crystal size
0.5 mm.
Asbecasite Image
Images: Asbecasite
Comments: Brownish yellow asbecasite

prismatic crystal.
Location: Cervandone, Val d'Ossola,
Lombardy, Italy. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Asbolane Image
Images: Asbolane
Comments: Brownish red dull grains of

asbolane to 2mm in matrix.
Location: Lipovka, Middla Urals, Russia.
Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Ashburtonite Image
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Images: Ashburtonite
Comments: Blue-green crystalline crust of

ashburtonite on matrix.
Location: Anticline Deposit, Ashburton
Downs, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Asisite Image
Images: Asisite
Comments: Orange brownish asisite on

matrix.
Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat, Namibia.
Asselbornite Image
Images: Asselbornite
Comments: Small orange cubes of

asselbornite on yellow uranophane.
Location: Wei?er Hirsch Mine, Schneeberg,
Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.
Astrocyanite-(Ce) Image
Images: Astrocyanite-(Ce)
Comments: Blue-green bladed

astrocyanite-(Ce) crystals on black
uraninite ore. Schumacher Collection.
Location: Kamoto East Open cut, Kamoto,
Kolwezi, Western area, Shaba Cu belt,
Shaba (Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale:
Picture size 2 cm.
Astrophyllite Image
Images: Astrophyllite
Comments: Dark brown acicular masses of

astrophyllite in calcite matrix.
Location: Khibini, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Scale: 11 x 9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Atacamite Image
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Images: Atacamite
Comments: Atacamite in a well

crystallized pocket.
Location: Mina Lily, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept.
Peru. Scale: 5 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Athabascaite Image
Images: Athabascaite Umangite

Berzelianite

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

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

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

black hematite.
Location: Vestana Iron Mine, near Nasum,
Skane, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Aubertite Image
Images: Aubertite
Comments: Aqua to white massive

aubertite.
Chile. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Augelite Image
Images: Augelite
Comments: Apple green augelite with

semi-transparent, well developed, brilliant
crystals.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. Scale:
3.5 x 2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Augelite Image
Images: Augelite
Comments: Green to white, striated,

blocky augelite crystal on matrix.
Location: Ortega mine, Ancash dept., Peru.
Scale: Crystal length 2.3 cm.
Augite Image
Images: Augite
Comments: Clear, dark gray augite prisms

in matrix.
Location: Isle of Ischia, near Naples,
Compania, Italy. Scale: Size Not Given.
Augite Image
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Images: Augite Calzirtite Richterite
Comments: Gray irregular grain of calzirtite

(see arrow) in fibrous augite with dark red
richterite.
Location: Jacupiranga Mine, Cajati, Sao
Paulo, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Augite Image
Images: Augite Tuscanite
Comments: Translucent tuscanite

microcrystal in in v ug in low-Fe augite (var.
fassaite).
Location: Pitigliano Quarry, Grosseto,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Aurichalcite Image
Images: Aurichalcite
Comments: Sky-blue radiating acicular

crystals of aurichalcite cov ering matrix.
Location: Lucin, Utah, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x 2
cm with 5 mm crystals.
© Dan Weinrich
Auricupride Image
Images: Auricupride
Comments: Golden metallic veins of

auricupride in quartz.
Location: Vacos Hielados, Chile. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Aurorite Image
Images: Aurorite
Comments: Brown, dendritic aurorite in

white calcite.
Location: Aurora Mine, Hamilton, White Pine
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Austinite Image
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Images: Austinite
Comments: Green, spherulitic clusters of

austinite crystals.
Location: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts.,
Tooele County, Utah, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Autunite Image
Images: Autunite
Comments: Fluorescent, tabular to platy,

yellow green autunite crystals on matrix.
Location: Margnac, Haute Vienne, France.
Scale: 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Autunite Image
Images: Autunite Meta-autunite
Comments: Corner of a meta-autunite

crystal showing the dehydration of autunite
(dark green) to meta-autunite (lighter
yellowish green)..
Location: Daybreak Mine, Spokane County,
Washington, U.S.A.. Scale: See Image.
Avogadrite Image
Images: Avogadrite Ferruccite
Comments: Very small, white crystals of

ferrite on massive, yellowish avogadrite.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples, Naples
province, Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Avogadrite Image
Images: Avogadrite Malladrite
Comments: Botryoidal pinkish-white

avogadrite with yellow malladrite.
Location: Eruption of 1926, Vesuvius,
Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Avogadrite Image
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Images: Avogadrite Malladrite
Comments: Yellow-orange crystalline

malladrite with pinkish white av ogadrite.
Mineral Species
Awaruite Image
Images: Awaruite
Comments: Massive awaruite.

Location: Heazlewood River, Tasmania,
Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Azoproite Image
Images: Azoproite
Comments: Black, acicular azoproite in

matrix.
Location: Tazheran Massif, Transbaikalia,
Irkutsk District, Siberia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Azurite Image
Images: Azurite Malachite
Comments: Dark blue stubby pyramidal

azurite crystals and green botryoidal-
shaped radial aggregates of malachite.
Location: Nevada Lode Mine, San Juan
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: 4 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Azurite Image
Images: Azurite Clinotyrolite
Comments: Light blue acicular crystals of

clinotyrolite on dark blue azurite.
Location: Lov elock mine, Churchill County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Azurite Image
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Images: Azurite
Comments: Sharp, dark blue, crystalline azurite

group.
Location: Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda. Scale: 5 x 3.3 x 1.3
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Azurite Image
Images: Azurite Cyanotrichite
Comments: Blue, hairy crystals of

cyanotrichite with dark-blue, blocky azurite
on a green, malachite matrix.
Location: Maid of Sunshine Mine, Cochise
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
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Babingtonite Image
Images: Babingtonite
Comments: Small, single crystal of babingtonite

on matrix.
Location: Blueberry Mountain, Woburn.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Scale:
Size Not Given.
Baddeleyite Image
Images: Baddeleyite
Comments: Single crystal specimen of very

rare baddeleyite pseudomorphing
kimzeyite (garnet).
Location: Perovskite Hill, Magnet Cove,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: 0.9 X 1.0 cm.
© John Veevaert
Bafertisite Image
Images: Bafertisite
Comments: Tan crystal spray of bafertisite

in pegmatite.
Location: Fountain Quarry, Pitt County,
Mineral Species
Bahianite Image
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Images: Bahianite
Comments: Rounded grain of bahianite.

Location: Garimpo de Morro, Paramirim
Region, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bakerite Image
Images: Bakerite
Comments: Porcelain-like, massive

bakerite.
Location: Twenty Mule Canyon, Death
Valley, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bakhchisaraitsevite Image
Images: Bakhchisaraitsevite
Comments: Yellow-brown, platy or thin

tabular crystals of bakhchisaraitsevite from
an Iron mine. Red arrow indicates the
mineral.
Location: Kovdor massif, Kola peninsula,
Russia. Scale: 5mm.
Bakhchisaraitsevite Image
Images: Bakhchisaraitsevite
Comments: Crystals of beige-colored

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

baksanite surrounded by white calcite.
Location: Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria
Republic, North Caucasus, Russia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Balangeroite Image
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Images: Balangeroite
Comments: Brown fiberous crystals of

balangeroite in metamorphic shist.
Location: Mt. S,Vittore, Balangero,
Piedmont, Italy. Scale: 5 1/2" x 2 1/4".
© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop
Bamfordite Image
Images: Bamfordite
Comments: Scanning electron micrograph

showing the typical morphology of bamfordite
crystals. (AmMin, 83:173).
Location: Abandoned W-Mo-Bi mines at
Bamford, Queensland, Australia. Scale: Scale
Bar 20 µm.
Bandylite Image
Images: Bandylite
Comments: Blue crystals of bandylite on

quartz.
Location: Quet?na mine, Calama,
Antofag?sta Province, Chile. Scale: 8x5x3
cm.
Bannisterite Image
Images: Bannisterite
Comments: Deep red micaceous

bannisterite.
Location: Zinc Mine, Broken Hill, New South
Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Baotite Image
Images: Baotite Ferrocolumbite
Comments: Minute brown crystalline grains

of baotite in dark ferrocolumbite.
Location: Sheep Creek, Ravalli County,
Montana. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Baotite Image
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Images: Baotite
Comments: Brown masses of crystalline

baotite in white quartz matrix.
Location: Inner Mongolia, Autonomous
Region, China. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
Bararite Image
Images: Bararite Cryptohalite
Comments: White crystalline bararite

intermixed with cryptohalite colored
yellow by selenium.
County, Pennsylvani, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Baratovite Image
Images: Baratovite
Comments: Pale pink, pearly, micaceous

baratovite in syenite rock.
Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien Shan, Tadzhikistan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Barberiite Image
Images: Barberiite
Comments: Thin, colorless, tabular blades

of barberiite crystals.
Location: Vulcano, Italy. Scale: 1 mm.
Barbertonite Image
Images: Barbertonite
Comments: Crystalline, red barbertonite in

white and green serpentinite rock.
Location: Nevada Creek, Tasmania,
Mineral Species
Barbosalite Image
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Images: Barbosalite
Comments: Black, cruciform quadrilling

twins of barbosalite crystals.
Location: Sapucaia, Mina Gerais, Brazil.
Barbosalite Image
Images: Barbosalite Phosphosiderite
Comments: Transparent, brown crystal of

phosphosiderite on black barbosalite.
Location: Bull Moose mine, Custer, Custer
Giv en.
Barentsite Image
Images: Barentsite
Comments: White, powdery barentsite.

Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species
Baricite Image
Images: Baricite
Comments: Blue, micaceous baricite with

some yellow iron staining.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species
Bario-orthojoaquinite Image
Images: Bario-orthojoaquinite
Comments: Several 0.75mm brownish red

micro-crystals of bario-orthojoaquinite in
matrix.
Location: Dallas Gem mine, San Benito Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
Bariopyrochlore Image
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Images: Bariopyrochlore
Comments: Yellow crystalline massive

bariopyrochlore.
Location: Catalao #2 Mine, Goias, Brazil.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bariosincosite Image
Images: Bariosincosite Fluellite
Comments: Viv id green crystals of

bariosincosite well placed on a matrix
covered by colorless, tabular fluellite with
some minor metavariscite.
Location: Eugui Quarry, Cantera Azkarate,
Eugui, Navarra, Spain. Scale: Rosette size:
0.3 x 0.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Barite Image
Images: Barite
Comments: Honey-colored very transparent

barite crystal group.
Location: (1998) Meikle mine, Elko Co. Nevada,
USA. Scale: 5 x 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Barite Image
Images: Barite Jacobsite
Comments: Sharp, octahedral crystals of

Jacobsite on a bladed barite matrix.
Location: N' Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman,
South Africa. Scale: 3x2.5x1.9 cm.
Barite Image
Images: Barite Wurtzite
Comments: Compact, dark, metallic

crystals of wurtzite intermixed with galena
crystals and white barite blades.
Location: Huanzala, Huanuco Dept., Peru.
Scale: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm.
Barite Image
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Images: Barite
Comments: Tabular, clear crystal of barite

on a small matrix of pinkish dolomite.
Fluorescence under UV light.
Location: Cerro Warihuyn, 2850 m,
Miraflores, Huamalias, Huanuco Peru.
Scale: 3.4 x 2.8 x 0.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Barium-pharmacosiderite Image
Images: Barium-pharmacosiderite
Comments: Reddish brown, crystal of

barium-pharmacosiderite on matrix.
Location: Clara Mine, Wolfach, Baden-
Wurt., Germany. Scale: Size Not Given.
Barnesite Image
Images: Barnesite
Comments: Bright red, acicular crystals of

barnesite on matrix.
Location: Cactus Rat claim, Thompson,
Grand County, Utah, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Barrerite Image
Images: Barrerite
Comments: Barrerite, an extremely rare

zeolite was found in large cavities on a tidal
flat.
Location: Rocky Pass, Kuiu Island, Alaska.
Scale: 5.5 x 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Barringerite Image
Images: Barringerite
Comments: Dark barringerite inclusions in

nickel-iron meteorite (polished section.
Location: Canon Diablo Meteorite, Meteor
Crater, Canon Diablo, Coconino County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Barringtonite Image
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Images: Barringtonite Lansfordite
Comments: Optical images of clusters of

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

massiv e barroisite.
Location: Monte Beigua, Savona, Liguria,
Mineral Species
Barylite Image
Images: Barylite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of barylite

exposed in a vug.
Location: Eveslogchorr Mt , Khibiny Massif,
Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.
Barylite Image
Images: Barylite
Comments: Blocky prisimatic clear crystals

of barylite with black aegirine.
Location: Mt. Malosa, Zomba plateau
Malawi. Scale: 2 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Barysilite Image
Images: Barysilite
Comments: Clear, round plates of barysilite

on a manganiferous matrix.
Barytocalcite Image
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Images: Barytocalcite
Comments: Pale pink crystalline

barytocalcite in dark matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Barytocalcite Image
Images: Barytocalcite
Comments: White prismatic barytocalcite

crystals to 6mm. Former Eaton Collection.
Location: Alston Moor, Cumberland,
England. Scale: 3x2x2cm.
Barytolamprophyllite Image
Images: Barytolamprophyllite
Lamprophyllite
Comments: Brownish-yellow
barytolamprophyllite on dark green
lamprophyllite.
Mineral Species
Basaluminite Image
Images: Basaluminite
Comments: Clear, radial sprays of

basaluminite crystals.
Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cochise
Giv en.
Bassanite Image
Images: Bassanite
Comments: White, blocky bassanite

crystals on matrix.
Location: Taft, Kern County, California, USA.
Bassetite Image
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Images: Bassetite
Comments: Bright yellow, bladed crystals

of bassetite.
Location: Capoterra, near Cagliari,
Sardinia, Italy. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Bastnasite-(Ce) Image
Images: Bastnasite-(Ce)
Comments: Platy crystal of bastn?site-(Ce).

Location: Trimouns, Luzenac, Ari?ge,
France. Scale: 0.8 cm.
© John Veevaert
Bastnasite-(La) Image
Images: Bastnasite-(La)
Comments: Orange, hexagonal crystal of

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

batiferrite on matrix.
Location: Graulai (Grauley), near
Hillesheim, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Batisite Image
Images: Batisite
Comments: Vitreous, translucent, brownish

orange crystals of batisite.
Location: Malyi Murun, Siberia, Russia.
Scale: crystals up to 4 to 7 mm.
© John Veevaert
Baumhauerite Image
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Images: Baumhauerite
Comments: Opaque, lustrous, parallel

crystalline baumhauerite aggregates.
Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal,
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Baumhauerite Image
Images: Baumhauerite
Comments: Black, rounded, specular

baumhauerite crystal on white dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture width 1
cm.
© Walter Gabriel
Baumhauerite-2a Image
Images: Baumhauerite-2a Sphalerite
Comments: Dark crystal of baumhauerite-2a

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

with zoning of darker lamellae with higher
As content. (AmMin 87:755).
Location: San Genaro mine, Huancavelica
Department, Peru.. Scale: See Image.
Bauranoite Image
Images: Bauranoite
Comments: Massive, orange-brown

crystalline aggregate of bauranoite.
Location: Strel'tsovskoye ore field,
Krasnokamensk, Chitinskaya Oblast',
Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 6
mm.
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Bavenite Image
Images: Bavenite
Comments: Clear, acicular bavenite

crystals.
Location: Foote mine, Kings Mountain,
Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA.
Bayldonite Image
Images: Bayldonite
Comments: Green, rounded, crystalline

bayldonite aggregates.
Bayleyite Image
Images: Bayleyite
Comments: Stellate aggregates of pale

greenish white, acicular bayleyite crystals
on a gossanous matrix with white, snowy
aragonite.
Location: Hideout #1 mine, White Canyon
district, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale:
Bayleyite Image
Images: Bayleyite
Comments: Bright yellow coatings of

bayleyite.
Location: Near Moab, Grand County, Utah,
Mineral Species
Bayleyite Image
Images: Bayleyite
Comments: Stellate aggregates of

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

bazhenovite on matrix.
size 2 mm.
Bazirite Image
Images: Bazirite Sanbornite
Comments: Clear glassy minute grains of

bazinite to 1mm through out matrix of
milky-white sanbornite. The bazirite
fluoresces light blue.
Location: Snow Cap mine, Rush Creek,
Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x
2.5cm.
Bazzite Image
Images: Bazzite
Comments: Blue crystals of bazzite.

Location: Thiemendorf near K?nigshain,
Lausitz, Sachsen, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 1.3 mm.
Beaverite Image
Images: Beaverite Mottramite
Comments: Specimen of quartz with a

thick druse of green mottramite
(cuprodescloizite) crystals and a scattered
grouping of micro beav erite crystals
(lemon yellow in color).
© John Veevaert
Beaverite Image
Images: Beaverite
Comments: Yellow earthy coating of

beaverite.
Location: Hornsilv er Mine, Frisco, Beaver
County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Becquerelite Image
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Images: Becquerelite
Comments: Yellow becquerelite crystals.

Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara,
Shaba, Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: Size
Not Given.
Becquerelite Image
Images: Becquerelite Schoepite
Comments: Bright yellow crystals of

schoepite on transparent yellow
becquerelite.
Shaba, Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Scale: .
Bederite Image
Images: Bederite
Comments: Dark brown massive bederite.

Location: El Penon Pegmatite, Nevados de
Palermo, Salta, Argentina. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Behierite Image
Images: Behierite
Comments: A light brownish crystal of

behierite in matrix.
Location: Manjaka, Sahatany Valley,
Antsirabe Region, Madagascar. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Behoite Image
Images: Behoite Analcime
Comments: Gray-white microcline crystals

up to 4 cm coated with overgrowth of
analcime 18 mm diameter, black aegirine
up to 25 mm and most notable, a pale
pink behoite.
Scale: 5x4x3 cm.
Beidellite Image
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Images: Beidellite
Comments: Pure white chalky massive

beidellite.
Location: From near Charlestown, Nevis,
Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Belendorffite Image
Images: Belendorffite
Comments: Small grains of belendorffite

from concentrates.
Location: Moschellandsberg, Pfalz,
Bellbergite Image
Images: Bellbergite
Comments: Small colorless to white

hexagonal crystals of bellbergite on matrix.
Location: Ettringer Bellerberg, Ettringen,
near Mayen, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-
Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1
mm.
Bellidoite Image
Images: Bellidoite Berzelianite Umangite
Comments: Dark bellidoite inclusions in

black berzelianite with white umangite.
Location: Habri, near Tisnov, Jihomoravsky,
Czech Republi. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bellingerite Image
Images: Bellingerite
Comments: Green crystal of bellingerite on

matrix.
Chile. Scale: Picture size 8 mm.
Belovite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Belovite-(Ce)
Comments: Light yellow vitreous crystals of

belovite-Ce up to 2 mm.
Location: Malyi Punkaruaiv Mt, Lovozero
Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja
Oblast', Northern Region, Russia. Scale:
2.5x3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Belovite-(La) Image
Images: Belovite-(La)
Comments: Yellow, pseudo-hexagonal

crystal of belovite-(La) in calcite.
Location: Khibina massif, Kola Peninsula,
Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.
Belyankinite Image
Images: Belyankinite
Comments: Thin beige coating of

belyankinite.
Mineral Species
Bementite Image
Images: Bementite
Comments: Brown massive bementite.

Location: Olympic Mountains, Washington,
Mineral Species
Benitoite Image
Images: Benitoite
Comments: Benitoite crystals in a natrolite

and crossite matrix.
Location: Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito
Co., California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1.5
cm.
© John Veevaert
Benjaminite Image
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Images: Benjaminite Krupkaite Friedrichite
Comments: Crystals of a mixture of

friedrichite, krupkaite, and benjaminite, with
quartz crystals.
Location: Estela Mine, Julcani District, Junin,
Peru. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Benstonite Image
Images: Benstonite
Comments: Light pink benstonite crystals

epitaxially formed on calcite needles.
Location: Minerva #1 Mine, Hardin County,
Illinois, USA. Scale: 13 x 11 mm.
© John Veevaert
Bentorite Image
Images: Bentorite
Comments: Violet crystalline bentorite.

Location: Hatrurim Area, West of Dead Sea,
Israel. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Beraunite Image
Images: Beraunite
Comments: Green and reddish brown,

beraunite aggregates.
Location: Arean Claim, Three Oak Gap,
Mena, Polk County, Arkansas, USA. Scale:
Size Not Given.
Berborite Image
Images: Berborite
Comments: Colorless, nearly transparent

crystalline berborite in matrix.
Location: Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Vestfold,
Mineral Species
Bergenite Image
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Images: Bergenite
Comments: Yellow bladed bergenite

crystals.
Location: Mechelserrun, Saxony, Germany.
Bergenite Image
Images: Bergenite
Comments: Bladed, radial aggregates of

yellow bergenite crystals on matrix.
Location: Bergen, Falkenstein, Vogtland,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 2.5
mm.
Bergslagite Image
Images: Bergslagite
Comments: White (fluorescent) veinlet of

bergslagite cutting through metallic, gray
hematite.
Location: Langban Mine Dump, Langban,
Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Berlinite Image
Images: Berlinite Trolleite
Comments: Pinkish crystalline berlinite with

blue trolleite.
Location: Ijzer Mine, Vestana, Christiansted,
Mineral Species
Berlinite Image
Images: Berlinite Lacroixite
Comments: Pale olive green crystalline

lacroixite with white crystalline berlinite.
Location: Rusororo Pegmatite, Gatumba,
Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bermanite Image
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Images: Bermanite
Comments: Brown bermanite crystal.

Giv en.
Berndtite Image
Images: Berndtite Tschermigite
Comments: Yellow crystalline berndtite on

tschermigite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Berryite Image
Images: Berryite Aikinite
Comments: Fine-grained, gray, metallic

granular berryite with silvery, metallic,
prismatic aikinite.
Colorado. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Berthierine Image
Images: Berthierine
Comments: Berthierine-1M, black

pseudomorphs after cordylite-(Ce) crystals.
Mineral Species
Berthierite Image
Images: Berthierite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of berthierite,

tarnished bronze metallic, with stibnite and
quartz crystals.
Location: San Martin Mine, Zacatecas,
Mexico. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bertossaite Image
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Images: Bertossaite
Comments: Pale pinkish crystalline

bertossaite with yellowish apatite and blue
lazulite.
Location: Buranga Pegmatite, near
Gatumba, Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Bertrandite Image
Images: Bertrandite
Comments: Colorless prismatic crystals of

bertrandite on matrix with pale pink
rhombohedral crystals of rhodochrosite.
Location: Yiaoguanshen mine, Hunan
Province, China. Scale: 3.5 x 4 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Bertrandite Image
Images: Bertrandite
Comments: Fan-like clusters of bertrandite

crystals with brown rhodochrosite and
quartz.
Location: Kara Oba, Kazakhstan. Scale:
Crystal size 1.1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Beryl Image
Images: Beryl
Comments: Transparent Goshenite, the

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

variety of beryl.
Location: Nagar, Pakistan. Scale: 3 x 4 x 8.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Beryl Image
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Images: Beryl Calcite
Comments: Transparent emerald, the green

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

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

yellow variety of beryl.
Location: Wolodarsk, Wolynsky, Ukraine.
© John Veevaert
Beryl Image
Images: Beryl
Comments: Red beryl prism on rhyolite matrix.

Location: Violet claims, Wah Wah Mountains,
Beaver County, Utah, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
Beryl Image
Images: Beryl Fluorapatite Muscovite

Apatite

© Dan Weinrich
Beryllite Image
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Images: Beryllite
Comments: Dirty white, soft, chalky filling of

beryllite (Green Arrow) in a vuggy matrix.
Location: Lovozero, Mt. Karnasurt, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Size Not Given.
Beryllonite Image
Images: Beryllonite
Comments: Clear twinned crystal of

beryllonite.
Location: Telecio mine, Linopolis, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Berzelianite Image
Images: Berzelianite Athabascaite

Umangite

Mineral Species
Berzelianite Image
Images: Berzelianite Bellidoite Umangite

Mineral Species
Berzelianite Image
Images: Berzelianite
Comments: Blue-black metallic massive

berzelianite.
Location: Bukov, Western Moravia,
Severocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Berzelianite Image
Images: Berzelianite Novakite
Comments: Gray metallic dendritic

novakite in white calcite with tarnished
black berzelianite.
Location: Cerny Dul, Bohemia,
Vychodocesky, Czech Republic. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Berzelianite Image
Images: Berzelianite Umangite
Comments: Black massive umangite

intergrown with dark blue metallic
berzelianite.
Location: Borsov, Bohemia, Vychodocesky,
Mineral Species
Berzeliite Image
Images: Berzeliite
Comments: White calcite with included

grains of yellowish-orange berzeliite in
matrix.
Location: Langban, Filipstad, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: 3 x 2.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Betafite Image
Images: Betafite
Comments: Brown hexoctahedral crystal of

betafite on greenish apatite crystals.
Location: Silv er Crater Mine, Bancroft,
Ontario, Canada. Scale: 2-1/4 cm across.
Betekhtinite Image
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Images: Betekhtinite
Comments: Black crystalline aggregate of

betekhtinite with white calcite.
Location: Twin Pocket, Mine #57, Dzhezkazgan,
Kazakhstan. Scale: 9.5 x 7.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Betpakdalite Image
Images: Betpakdalite
Comments: Yellow crust of betpakdalite

on quartzite.
Location: Sadisdorf, Erzgebirge, Sachsen,
Germany. Scale: 10 x 6 cm.
Beudantite Image
Images: Beudantite
Comments: Sharp and lustrous crystals of

beudantite to 4 mm across on quartz.
© John Veevaert
Beudantite Image
Images: Beudantite Scorodite
Comments: Blue, 2 cm in length scorodite

crystals on a sparkling matrix of brilliant
brown-black beudantite.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 8 x 5 x 3
cm.
© John Schneider
Beusite Image
Images: Beusite
Comments: Massive pale pinkish-beige

beusite with blue vivianite.
Location: Remmelberg, Oberpfalz, Bav aria,
Beyerite Image
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Images: Beyerite
Comments: Greenish yellow crusts of

beyerite on pegmatite.
Location: Harding Mine, Taos County, New
Mexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bianchite Image
Images: Bianchite
Comments: White powdery crust of

bianchite on clear to white gypsum.
Location: Glomsrudhollen, Amot, Modum,
Buskerud, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bideauxite Image
Images: Bideauxite
Comments: Brownish cubic crystals of

bideauxite with blue boleite in tan limonitic
matrix.
Location: Mammoth-St Anthony mine, Pinal
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Specimen size
2 x 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Bideauxite Image
Images: Bideauxite
Comments: Richard Bideaux, American

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

blue chalcanthite.
Location: Katanga, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Biehlite Image
Images: Biehlite
Comments: White fibrous crystals of biehlite.

Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: Picture
size 8 mm.
Bigcreekite Image
Images: Bigcreekite Gillespite Sanbornite
Comments: Tiny white, spherical patterns,

halo-like crystals of bigcreekite to about
0.5mm and reddish gillespite in a matrix of
pale yellowish sanbornite.
Location: Trumbull Peak, Mariposa Co.,
California, United States. Scale: 2.5 x 2 x
2cm.
Bikitaite Image
Images: Bikitaite
Comments: Clear, crystalline bikitaite laths

on matrix.
Bilinite Image
Images: Bilinite
Comments: Powdery crust of white bilinite

on pyrite.
Location: Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona,
Mineral Species
Billietite Image
Images: Billietite
Comments: Clear, yellow crystal of billietite.

Shaba, Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: Size Not
Given.
Billietite Image
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Images: Billietite Studtite
Comments: Acicular, white sprays of

studtite crystals on yellow, tabular billietite.
Congo. Scale: Not Given.
Bindheimite Image
Images: Bindheimite
Comments: Yellow earthy bindheimite

covering red, massive crocoite.
Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) open
cut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony,
Biotite Image
Images: Biotite
Comments: Brown book of

pseudohexagonal biotite crystals in matrix.
Location: Sattleberg, Laacher See,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Size
Not Given.
Biotite Image
Images: Biotite
Comments: Sharp hexagonal plates of

dark brown biotite to 2.5 cm. across, with
white albite.
Location: Brazil. Scale: 6.9x5.5x3 cm.
© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals
Biotite Image
Images: Biotite Anthophyllite
Comments: Fibrous mass of anthophyllite

as a shell around biotite.
Location: Hermanov, Sev erocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Biotite Image
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Images: Biotite Wohlerite
Comments: Prismatic wohlerite crystals

with lepidomelane (Fe-rich biotite).
Location: Langevannet, Tvedalen,
Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Biphosphammite Image
Images: Biphosphammite
Comments: Vuggy, dark green-brown

biphosphammite.
Location: Mason Bat Cave, Mason County,
Texas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Biphosphammite Image
Images: Biphosphammite Archerite
Comments: Buff-colored biphosphammite

with white archerite crusts.
Location: Cockelbiddy Cav e, Western
Mineral Species
Birnessite Image
Images: Birnessite
Comments: Gray birnessite. Very small

crystals on massive material.
Location: Das Aufgekl?rte Gl?ck Mine,
Hasserode, Wernigerode, Harz Mts, Saxony-
Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
Birnessite Image
Images: Birnessite Buserite
Comments: Round, "rabbit pellets" of

buserite which dehydrates to birnessite
when dry. Image photographed through
water which is needed to preserve this
species.
Location: Aomori Springs, Oppu, Japan.
Scale: Sphere size 7 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Bischofite Image
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Images: Bischofite
Comments: Colorless grains of bischofite.

The mineral is v ery hygroscopic and must
be stored in a closed vial.
Location: Stassfurt, Stassfurt Deposit,
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Bismite Image
Images: Bismite
Comments: Tan, massive bismite with

quartz.
Location: Schneeberg, Sachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bismite Image
Images: Bismite Waylandite
Comments: Gray massiv e stream rounded

waylandite with tan bismite crusts.
Location: Mumba, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bismoclite Image
Images: Bismoclite
Comments: Opaque white pearly

crystalline bismoclite on matrix.
Location: Falcacci Mine, Rio Marina, Elba,
Mineral Species
Bismuth Image
Images: Bismuth
Comments: Skeletal trigonal crystal of

native bismuth.
Location: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany.
Bismuth Image
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Images: Bismuth
Comments: Coarsely crystalline bismuth.

Location: Biggenden, Queensland, Australia.
Scale: 2.9 x 1.8 x 2.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Bismuthinite Image
Images: Bismuthinite
Comments: Metallic, prismatic bismuthinite crystal

topped with botryoidal marcasite.
Location: Veta Farell?n viejo, Tazna, Potos?, Boliv ia.
Scale: 4.4x1.3x0.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Bismuthinite Image
Images: Bismuthinite Cannonite
Comments: Opaque white crystal tufts of

cannonite on quartz crystals with dark,
metallic bismuthinite.
Mineral Species
Bismutite Image
Images: Bismutite
Comments: White to green earthy crust of

bismutite.
Location: La Higuera, Coquimbo, Chile.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bismutoferrite Image
Images: Bismutoferrite
Comments: Yellow-greenish, earthy

bismutoferrite.
Location: Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 8.5
cm.
Bismutomicrolite Image
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Images: Bismutomicrolite
Comments: A dark crystal of

bismutomicrolite in pearly muscovite.
Location: Malkhan Range, Krasny Chikoy,
Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia, Eastern-
mm.
Bismutotantalite Image
Images: Bismutotantalite
Comments: Tan coatings of

bismutotantalite on white feldspar with
pink lepidolite.
Mineral Species
Bityite Image
Images: Bityite
Comments: White crystalline bityite in

silvery mica matrix.
Mineral Species
Bixbyite Image
Images: Bixbyite
Comments: Cubic crystals of bixbyite

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

bjarebyite.
Location: Palermo No. 1 mine, North
Groton, Grafton County, New Hamphshire,
Blakeite Image
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Images: Blakeite
Comments: Brown crusts of blakeite on

quartz.
Location: Goldfield, Esmeralda County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Blatonite Image
Images: Blatonite
Comments: Bright yellow granular masses

of blatonite and white crystalline gypsum.
Location: . Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Blatonite Image
Images: Blatonite
Comments: Acicular, yellow blatonite

crystals with white aragonite on matrix.
Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon,White
Canyon District (White Canyon), San Juan
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.
Blixite Image
Images: Blixite
Comments: Pale yellow crystalline blixite

on dark matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Blodite Image
Images: Blodite Tamarugite
Comments: Clear, yellow bl?dite with

white tamarugite.
Bobfergusonite Image
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Images: Bobfergusonite
Comments: Opaque dark green to brown

crystalline bobfergusonite in pegmatite.
Location: Cross Lake, Manitoba, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bobierrite Image
Images: Bobierrite
Comments: Crystal group of bobierrite

partially covered by yellow calcite.
Location: Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola
Penisula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Bobierrite Image
Images: Bobierrite Strontiowhitlockite
Comments: Pale white to pink fine grained

strontiowhitlockite with bobierrite.
Location: Kov dor Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species
Bobjonesite Image
Images: Bobjonesite
Comments: The silicified log and its

coalified margin that hosts bobjonesite and
other sulfate minerals. (CanMin, 41:85).
Location: Temple Mountain, Emery County,
Utah, USA. Scale: Bob Jones is shown for
scale.
Boehmite Image
Images: Boehmite
Comments: Crystalline boehmite in bauxite

rock.
Location: Bauxite, Saline County, Arkansas,
Mineral Species
Boggsite Image
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Images: Boggsite
Comments: White translucent botryoidal

crystals of boggsite lining vug in basalt.
Location: Neer Road Pit, Goble, Columbia
County, Oregon, uSA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Boggsite Image
Images: Boggsite
Comments: Pure white spheroidal boggsite

crystal.
Location: Neer Road, Goble, Columbia
Co., Oregon, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5
mm.
Bokite Image
Images: Bokite
Comments: Dark brown micro crystal

rosettes of bokite in matrix.
Location: Monument #2 Mine, Apache
County, Arizona. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bokite Image
Images: Bokite
Comments: Tannish "spots" as very micro

acicular bokite crystals filling in between
grains. Eaton Collection.
Location: Monument #2 mine, Apache
Co.,, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5
cm.
Boleite Image
Images: Boleite
Comments: Floater crystal of deep, inky

blue boleite with interpenetration twinning.
Location: Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja
California, Mexico. Scale: 0.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Boleite Image
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Images: Boleite Cumengite
Comments: Inky blue cumengite "sixling"

epitaxially overgrown on boleite.
Location: Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja
California Sur, Mexico. Scale: Not Giv en.
Bolivarite Image
Images: Bolivarite
Comments: Yellow translucent mass of

bolivarite.
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Boltwoodite Image
Images: Boltwoodite
Comments: Sprays of boltwoodite

covering matrix.
Location: Rossing, Namibia. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
© John Veevaert
Boltwoodite Image
Images: Boltwoodite
Comments: Bright yellow, prismatic crystals

of boltwoodite.
Location: R?ssing mine, Swakopmund
District, Namibia. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.
Boltwoodite Image
Images: Boltwoodite
Comments: Yellow, globular aggregates

of boltwoodite on a ferruginous matrix.
Location: Repete Mine, San Juan County,
Utah, USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Bonattite Image
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Images: Bonattite
Comments: Blue bonattite on siliceous

sinter.
Location: Steamboat Springs, Washoe
Mineral Species
Bonshtedtite Image
Images: Bonshtedtite
Comments: Oriented gray bands of

bonshtedtite in calcite.
Location: Kov dor Massif, Kola Peninsula.
Boothite Image
Images: Boothite Halotrichite
Comments: Pale blue earthy boothite with

white halotrichite.
Location: Copiapo, Atacama, Chile. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Boracite Image
Images: Boracite
Comments: Clear, pale green

pseudo-cubic boracite crystal.
Location: Sonderhausen, Thuringia,
Boracite Image
Images: Boracite
Comments: A greenish crystal of boracite,

a tetrahedron modified by cube and
dodecahedral faces.
Location: Bernburg, Sachsen-Anhalt,
Boracite Image
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Images: Boracite Hilgardite
Comments: Sub-mm reddish orange

crystals of hilgardite on white boracite.
Location: Boulby Mine, Loftus, Cleveland,
Great Britain. Scale: 1.5 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Borax Image
Images: Borax
Comments: Translucent crystal of borax

preserved in oil to prevent dehydration to
tincalconite.
Mineral Species
Borcarite Image
Images: Borcarite Szaibelyite
Comments: Pale aqua granular borcarite

with white fibrous to granular szaibelyite.
Location: Nalednoya, Republic of Sakha,
Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Bornemanite Image
Images: Bornemanite Lomonosovite
Comments: Yellow crystalline bornemanite

in dark brown lomonosovite.
Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Lovozero
Mineral Species
Bornemanite Image
Images: Bornemanite
Comments: Pale yellow or peach colored,

massive bornemanite.
Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region,
Russia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Bornite Image
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Images: Bornite
Comments: Metallic, crystalline bornite

crystal with bluish tarnish.
Location: Kamoto mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,
Dem. Repub. Congo. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Bornite Image
Images: Bornite Isomertieite

Arsenopalladinite Gold

light.
Borocookeite Image
Images: Borocookeite
Comments: Black and white image of

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

boromuscovite on lav ender lepidolite
crystals.
Location: Little Three Mine, Ramona, San
Diego County, Californi, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Borovskite Image
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Images: Borovskite Temagamite

Merenskyite
Comments: Borovskite (Bvk) - temagamite

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

crystals are small) botallackite on matrix.
Location: A European classic from the type
locality, Botallack mine, St Just, England.
Scale: 5 x 4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Botryogen Image
Images: Botryogen
Comments: Bright orange botryogen on

white calcite showing it's characteristic
botryoidal "grape-like" morphology.
Location: Cerro Pintados, Poza Almonte,
Pampa del Tamarugal, Chile. Scale:
Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Botryogen Image
Images: Botryogen
Comments: Reddish to yellowish crystalline

botryogen.
Location: Redington Mercury Mine,
Knoxville, Napa County, California, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Botryogen Image
Images: Botryogen Redingtonite
Comments: Pale pink granular redingtonite

on yellow-brown botryogen.
Location: Redington Mine, Knoxville, Napa
Mineral Species
Bottinoite Image
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Images: Bottinoite
Comments: Pale blue botryoidal bottinoite

on calcite.
Location: Dornberg, Ramsbeck, Sauerland,
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Boulangerite Image
Images: Boulangerite
Comments: Specimen of sulfide rich matrix

with a surface coated with hair-like crystals
of boulangerite.
Location: Noche Buena Mine, Zacatecas,
Mexico. Scale: 9 x 6.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Bournonite Image
Images: Bournonite
Comments: Lustrous, silvery crystals of

bournonite on massive bournonite.
Location: Mercedes Mine, Huanuco Dept.,
Peru. Scale: 3x3x2.7 cm.
Bournonite Image
Images: Bournonite
Comments: Bright, blocky crystalline

aggregate of steel gray bournonite
crystals.
Location: Yao-gan-xian mine, Hunan
China. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Boussingaultite Image
Images: Boussingaultite
Comments: White, crystalline aggregates

boussingaultite.
Location: Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Aachen,
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Boyleite Image
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Images: Boyleite
Comments: Powdery white crust of

boyleite on pyrite.
Location: Kotzebue, Alaska, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Brabantite Image
Images: Brabantite
Comments: Altering micro grain of

brabantite.
Location: Kuttakuzhi, near Trivandrum,
Travancore, Kerala, India. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Brackebuschite Image
Images: Brackebuschite Krettnichite
Comments: Scanning electron microscope

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

of bradaczekite crystals. (CanMin, v39 , p
1116).
Location: North Breach of the Great fissure
Tolbachik eruption (GFTE) in 1975-1976,
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Scale:
Magnification: ~ 600x.
Bradleyite Image
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Images: Bradleyite Loughlinite
Comments: Silky fibrous v einlets of

loughlinite with bradleyite.
Location: Green River area, Sweetwater
County, Wyoming, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Braggite Image
Images: Braggite
Comments: Silv ery grain of braggite in

brassy-iridescent pentlandite matrix.
Location: Stillwater Complex, Sweetwater
Co., Montana, USA. Scale: 3 mm grain.
Brammallite Image
Images: Brammallite
Comments: Dark gray-brown fine grained

massive brammallite.
Location: Near Ione, Amador County,
California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Brandtite Image
Images: Brandtite
Comments: Clear, crystalline brandtite

aggregates.
Location: Harstig mine, Pajsberg, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: Size Not Giv en.
Brannerite Image
Images: Brannerite
Comments: Black grains of brannerite with

gold and other minerals.
Location: Witwatersrand field, South Africa.
Brannockite Image
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Images: Brannockite
Comments: Clear, hexagonal plates of

brannockite crystals.
Brass Image
Images: Brass
Comments: Small brassy metallic grain of

brass.
Location: Nurek Ore District, Uzbekistan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Brassite Image
Images: Brassite
Comments: Opaque white botryoidal

masses of brassite on matrix.
Location: Mine de Salsigne, Aude, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Braunite-I Image
Images: Braunite-I Braunite-II
Comments: Crystals of braunite.

Location: Black Rock Mine, Kalahari
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Braunite-I Image
Images: Braunite-I Donpeacorite
Comments: Brown crystalline massive

donpeacorite with dark brown black
braunite.
Location: Zinc Corporation of America Mine
#4, Balmat, Saint Lawrence County, New
York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Braunite-I Image
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Images: Braunite-I Macfallite

Johnsenite-(Ce)
Comments: Tiny - less than 1mm - maroon

crystals of mcfallite suspended as
inclusions in massiv e quartz along with
larger spots of brown johnsenite-(Ce) and
braunite.
Location: Artur mine, Jaguaracu, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Overall 3 x 2.5 slab.
Braunite-II Image
Images: Braunite-II Braunite-I
Comments: Crystals of braunite.

Location: Black Rock Mine, Kalahari
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Bravoite Image
Images: Bravoite
Comments: Steel gray, metallic crystal of

bravoite on brassy yellow chalcopyrite.
Location: Gey, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Brazilianite Image
Images: Brazilianite
Comments: Gemmy brazilianite crystal.

Location: Marcel Telirio mine, Divino das
Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
© Fabre Minerals
Bredigite Image
Images: Bredigite Spurrite
Comments: White veins of bredigite in

massive gray spurrite (slabbed specimen).
Location: Camphouse, Ardnamurchan,
Argyll, Highland, Scotland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Breithauptite Image
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Images: Breithauptite
Comments: Three brownish, metallic

hexagonal prisms of breithauptite in
calcite.
Location: Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:
Size Not Given.
Brendelite Image
Images: Brendelite
Comments: Small brown tabular crystals of

brendelite on matrix.
Location: G?ldener Falk Mine, Schneeberg,
Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.
Brenkite Image
Images: Brenkite
Comments: Spherical aggregate of

colorless crystals of brenkite.
Location: Schellkopf, Brenk, Eifel Mts,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:
Brewsterite-Sr Image
Images: Brewsterite-Sr
Comments: Translucent brewsterite crystals

on matrix.
Location: Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos
Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada.
Scale: 35x30x20 mm.
Brianyoungite Image
Images: Brianyoungite
Comments: Silky white aggregates of

brianyoungite with small yellow crystals of
sulfur on sphalerite.
Location: St Johannes Mine, Wolkenstein,
Picture size 3 mm.
Brindleyite Image
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Images: Brindleyite
Comments: Greenish waxy crust of

brindleyite.
Location: Hachita, Grant County, New
Mineral Species
Britholite-(Ce) Image
Images: Britholite-(Ce)
Comments: Dark gray, parallel aggregates

of britholite-(Ce) crystals in matix..
Location: Rusty Gold Mine, Jamestown
District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Image.
Brochantite Image
Images: Brochantite
Comments: Blue green spray of acicular

brochantite crystals on matrix.
Location: Douglas Hill, Lidwig, Lyon County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
Brochantite Image
Images: Brochantite Linarite
Comments: Deep blue, acicular, linarite

with light blue, globular brochantite on
white quartz.
Location: Goulmina, Er Rachidia, Morroco.
© Fabre Minerals
Brochantite Image
Images: Brochantite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of blue green

brochantite.
Location: Grand View Mine, Grand
Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Brockite Image
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Images: Brockite
Comments: Red-brown opaque massive

brockite.
Location: Anna Lee Mine, Custer County,
Mineral Species
Bromargyrite Image
Images: Bromargyrite
Comments: Butterscotch colored

bromargyrite cube.
Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales,
Australia. Scale: Size Not Given.
Bromellite Image
Images: Bromellite
Comments: Nearly colorless translucent

crystalline bromellite in chloritic schistose
rock.
Location: Pitkyaranta, Republic of Karelia,
Mineral Species
Bromellite Image
Images: Bromellite Magnesioferrite
Comments: A micro, water color,

hexagonal or barrel shaped crystal of
white bromellite to about 0.3 mm on
yellowish calcite with associated black
magnesioferrite.
Scale: 18x9x10mm.
Brookite Image
Images: Brookite
Comments: Brookite crystal group on matrix.

During the 19th century this site produced
some of the best brookite ever seen.
Location: Classic Welsh locality of Prenteg,
Gwynedd, Wales, UK. Scale: 4 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Brownmillerite Image
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Images: Brownmillerite
Comments: Brownish-orange masses of

brownmillerite in skarn.
Location: Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel
Mountains, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Brownmillerite Image
Images: Brownmillerite Reinhardbraunsite
Comments: Pink crystalline

reinhardbraunsite in brownmillerite.
Location: Near Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-
Pflaz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Brucite Image
Images: Brucite
Comments: Crystal cluster of brucite.

Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari
South Africa. Scale: 7 x 5 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Brucite Image
Images: Brucite
Comments: Pearly white,

pseudohexagonal crystals of brucite on
matrix.
Location: Pilcante, Trentino, Italy. Scale:
© Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it
Brugnatellite Image
Images: Brugnatellite
Comments: Botryoidal brugnatellite.

Location: Monte Ramazzo, Liguria, Italy.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Brushite Image
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Images: Brushite
Comments: Tan coatings of brushite on

calcite.
Location: Oberschleme, Erzgebirge
Mountains, Sachsen, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Buddingtonite Image
Images: Buddingtonite
Comments: Chalky massive buddingtonite.

Location: Sharon Heights, Menlo Park, San
Mateo County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Buergerite Image
Images: Buergerite
Comments: Doubly-terminated brownish

buergerite tourmaline crystals on matrix.
Location: Mexquitic, San Luis Potos?, Mexico.
Scale: 26x15x13 mm.
Bukovite Image
Images: Bukovite
Comments: Silvery metallic minute

aggregates of bukovite in white calcite
(polished mount).
Location: Predborice, Stredocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Bukovskyite Image
Images: Bukovskyite Zykaite
Comments: Pale beige acicular crystals of

bukovsk?ite with white zykaite.
Location: Christbescherung Mine,
Gro?voigtsberg, Freiberg District,
Bultfonteinite Image
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Images: Bultfonteinite
Comments: Rounded, spherical aggregation

of acicular bultfonteinite crystals.
© John Veevaert
Images: Bultfonteinite Oyelite
Comments: White encrustation of oyelite

covering brownish botryoidal bultfonteinite.
South Africa. Scale: 2 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Images: Bultfonteinite Poldervaartite
Comments: Bow-tie clusters of white,

acicular bultfonteinite and blocky, beige-
colored poldervaartite on matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning mine, South Africa.
Scale: picture size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Bunsenite Image
Images: Bunsenite
Comments: Greenish earthy bunsenite.

Burbankite Image
Images: Burbankite
Comments: White crystal of burbankite

(see arrow) and bluish green fluorite on
matrix.
Location: Pocos de Caldes, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.
© John Veevaert
Burbankite Image
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Images: Burbankite
Comments: Yellow massive burbankite.

Location: Big Sandy Creek, near Rocky Boy,
Big Bear Paw Mountains, Hill County,
Mineral Species
Burckhardtite Image
Images: Burckhardtite Moctezumite
Comments: Pink crusts of burckhardtite

with yellow crystalline moctezumite on
quartz.
Location: Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma,
Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Burkeite Image
Images: Burkeite
Comments: Translucent to opaque vuggy

mass of burkeite.
Mineral Species
Burnsite Image
Images: Burnsite Cotunnite
Comments: Images of burnsite grains (dark)

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

burpalite.
Location: Burpala, Transbaikal, Republic of
Buryatia, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Buryatite Image
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Images: Buryatite
Comments: Vitreous colorless buryatite on

matrix.
Location: Solongo B deposit, Buriatia
(Buryatia) Republic, Transbaikalia
(Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region,
Buserite Image
Images: Buserite Birnessite
Comments: Round, "rabbit pellets" of

buserite which dehydrates to birnessite
when dry. Image photographed through
water which is needed to preserve this
species.
Location: Aomori Springs, Oppu, Japan.
Scale: Sphere size 7 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Bustamite Image
Images: Bustamite
Comments: Very course crystals of

brownish red bustamite to 3cm in pink
calcite.
Location: Zinc Corp mine, Broken Hill, NSW,
Australia. Scale: 7 cm.
© John Attard
Butlerite Image
Images: Butlerite
Comments: Orange butlerite crystals.

Location: United Verde mine, Jerome,
Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size
Not Given.
Butschliite Image
Images: Butschliite
Comments: Slightly fibrous to granular

massive butschliite.
Location: Near Shavings Lake, Renfrew
County, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Buttgenbachite Image
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Images: Buttgenbachite
Comments: A blue crystal of

buttgenbachite.
Location: Likasi Mine, Likasi, Shaba
(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Crystal
length 3.1 mm.
Bystrite Image
Images: Bystrite Lazulite
Comments: Brownish-yellow bystrite grains

with blue lazulite in an igneous rock.
Location: Malo-Bystrinskoye lazurite deposit,
Tunka Valley, Sludyanka, Lake Baikal
Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
Bystromite Image
Images: Bystromite
Comments: Dark brown bystromite in

quartz.
Location: La Fortuna Mine, El Antimonio,
Aqua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Bytownite Image
Images: Bytownite Plagioclase
Comments: Translucent crystalline

bytownite.
Location: Crystal Bay, Hennepin County,
Minnesota, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Cabalzarite Image
Images: Cabalzarite
Comments: Brownish crystals of cabalzarite

on matrix.
Location: Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Sursass
(Oberhalbstein), Grischun (Grisons;
Graub?nden), Switzerland. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Cabriite Image
Images: Cabriite Sperrylite
Comments: Small crystal of dull gray

cabriite on a larger tin-white sperrylite
crystal.
Location: Dzhezhazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:
Crystal size 1.5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Cacoxenite Image
Images: Cacoxenite
Comments: Radial, spherical individual

crystal sprays of brownish yellow
cacoxenite.
Location: El Horcajo (Ciudad Real), Spain.
Scale: 0.5 mm diameter.
Cacoxenite Image
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Images: Cacoxenite Strengite
Comments: Lilac colored, spear-head

shape crystals of strengite to 5mm in large,
open vug associated with golden fibrous
cacoxenite.
Location: Coon Creek, Polk Co., Arkansas,
USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
Cadmoselite Image
Images: Cadmoselite
Comments: Black cadmoselite grains in

quartz.
Location: Republic of Tuva, Siberia, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cadwaladerite Image
Images: Cadwaladerite
Comments: Yellow crystalline grain of

cadwaladerite, somewhat deliquescent.
Location: Cerro Pintados, south east of
Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cafarsite Image
Images: Cafarsite
Comments: Octahedron of cafarsite with a

green coloration (?) on a gneiss matrix.
Location: Vasl D' Aosta, Italy. Scale:
4.6x4.5x3.2 cm.
Cafarsite Image
Images: Cafarsite
Comments: Small, cubic crystal of cafarsite

on matrix.
Location: Wannigletscher, Binntal,
Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Cafetite Image
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Images: Cafetite
Comments: Ocher-colored aggregates of

cafetite in pegmatite, intimately mixed with
iron hydroxides.
Location: Mount Rasv umchorr, Khibiny
Mineral Species
Cahnite Image
Images: Cahnite
Comments: White, translucent cahnite

crystal on hodgkinsonite.
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New
Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
Calaverite Image
Images: Calaverite
Comments: Quartz matrix with abundant

calaverite crystals.
Location: Cripple Creek, Teller County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
Calciborite Image
Images: Calciborite
Comments: Translucent colorless crystalline

calciborite.
Location: Novofrolovskoye, Sverdlovsk
District, Northern Urals, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Calcio-ancylite-(Ce) Image
Images: Calcio-ancylite-(Ce)
Comments: Gray calcio-ancylite

pseudomorphs after remondite crystals up
to 4 cm long.
Scale: 5x4x4 cm.
Calcio-andyrobertsite-1M Image
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Images: Calcio-andyrobertsite-1M
Tennantite
Comments: Vein of blue

calcioandyrobertsite in massive dark gray
tennantite. The v ein of
calcioandyrobertsite extends for 0.8cm.
Scale: Specimen size 1.1 x 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Calcioburbankite Image
Images: Calcioburbankite Aegirine
Comments: Tan crystal spray of

calcioburbankite on dark green aegirine.
Mineral Species
Calciocopiapite Image
Images: Calciocopiapite
Comments: Greenish yellow crystalline

crust of calciocopiapite.
Location: Borate, San Bernardino County,
Mineral Species
Calcioferrite Image
Images: Calcioferrite
Comments: Whitish green botryoidal crust

of calcioferrite on matrix.
Location: Brugues, Barcelona, Catalunya,
Spain. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Calcite Image
Images: Calcite Quartz
Comments: Purple-colored druse of

amethystine quartz and white calcite.
Location: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Scale:
Sample size 20 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Calcite Image
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Images: Calcite Beryl
Comments: Transparent emerald, the green

v ariety of beryl on calcite (marble) matrix.
Location: Coscuez, Boyac?, Colombia. Scale:
2.5 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Calcite Image
Images: Calcite
Comments: White, divergent calcite

scalenohedral crystals.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, S.A., Mexico.
Scale: 8 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Calcite Image
Images: Calcite
Comments: Cream-colored crystalline

aggregate of calcite crystals.
20 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Calcurmolite Image
Images: Calcurmolite
Comments: Calcurmolite in yellow

globular aggregates of radiating fibers.
Location: Rabejac, Lodeve, Herault,
France. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
Calderite Image
Images: Calderite
Comments: Dark red brown translucent

crystalline calderite.
Location: Hazaribag, Bihar, India. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Calderonite Image
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Images: Calderonite
Comments: Secondary electron image

showing a cluster of prismatic calderonite
crystals. (AmMin, 88:1704).
Location: Santa Marta, Badajoz province,
Spain. Scale: See Image.
Caledonite Image
Images: Caledonite
Comments: Transparent, blue caledonite

crystals.
Location: Mammoth mine, Tiger, Pinal
Giv en.
Callaghanite Image
Images: Callaghanite
Comments: Blue crystals of callaghanite

on matrix.
Location: Gabbs, Nevada, USA. Scale:
Picture size 4 mm.
Calomel Image
Images: Calomel
Comments: A grayish aggregate of

calomel on a rufous matrix.
Location: Landsberg (Moschellandsberg),
Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-
mm.
Calumetite Image
Images: Calumetite
Comments: Light blue botryoidal coatings

of calumetite on tarnished copper with
green paratacamite.
Location: Centennial Mine, Houghton
Mineral Species
Calzirtite Image
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Images: Calzirtite Augite Richterite

richterite.
Mineral Species
Camerolaite Image
Images: Camerolaite
Comments: Blue spherical aggregates of

camerolaite on matrix.
Location: Lubietov? (Libethen), Bansk?
Bystrica (Neusohl), Banskobystricky Kraj,
Slovak Republic. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
Caminite Image
Images: Caminite
Comments: White crystalline massive

caminite.
Location: Nepian Deposit, East Siberian Salt
Basin, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Campigliaite Image
Images: Campigliaite
Comments: Sparse pale blue coatings of

campigliaite on matrix.
Location: Richfield, Sev ier County, Utah,
Mineral Species
Canasite Image
Images: Canasite
Comments: Yellow translucent canasite

grain with nepheline.
Location: Kirovskii Mine, Khibiny Massif, Kola
Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Canavesite Image
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Images: Canavesite
Comments: White acicular crystals of

canavesite on matrix.
Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Piedmont,
Italy. Scale: Picture size 9 mm.
Cancrinite Image
Images: Cancrinite
Comments: Milky white, translucent

fan-shaped sprays of cancrinite crystals.
Location: Point of Rocks Mesa, Colfax
County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Cancrisilite Image
Images: Cancrisilite
Comments: Light pink crystalline cancrisilite.

Mineral Species
Canfieldite Image
Images: Canfieldite
Comments: Dull, black pseudo-octahedral

crystals of canfieldite.
Location: Gallofa vein, Colquechaca,
Chayanta, Potosi, Bolivia. Scale: Crystal size
2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Cannizzarite Image
Images: Cannizzarite
Comments: Very delicate 2 mm. crystals of

dark gray cannizzarite on matrix.
Location: Kudryaviy Volcano, Iturup Island,
Kurilian Island Chain, Russia. Scale:
3.8x3x2.4 cm.
Cannonite Image
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Images: Cannonite Bismuthinite
Comments: Opaque white crystal tufts of

cannonite on quartz crystals with dark,
metallic bismuthinite.
Mineral Species
Caoxite Image
Images: Caoxite
Comments: Colorless to white crystals of

caoxite on matrix.
Location: Cerchiara Mine, Faggiona, Vara
valley, La Spezia province, Liguria, Italy.
Capgaronnite Image
Images: Capgaronnite
Comments: Very small black prismatic

crystals of capgaronnite in matrix.
Location: Cap Garonne, Var, France.
Caracolite Image
Images: Caracolite
Comments: Nearly transparent colorless

thin crystalline crust of caracolite.
Location: Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Caracolite Image
Images: Caracolite
Comments: Flat lying hexagonal prismatic

crystals of caracolite on matrix.
Location: Challacollo Mine near Oficina
Victoria, Chile. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Carboborite Image
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Images: Carboborite
Comments: Pure crystalline cleavage

fragment of carboborite.
Location: Inlamartit, Turkey. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Carbocernaite Image
Images: Carbocernaite
Comments: Light brownish massive

carbocernaite.
Location: Olenii (Oleny) Ruchei Stream
apatite deposit, Khibiny Massif, Kola
Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern
Carbonate-cyanotrichite Image
Images: Carbonate-cyanotrichite
Comments: Bright blue micro crystals of

carbonate-cyanotrichite on matrix.
Location: Widowmaker mine, Fry Canyon,
San Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size
0.1 mm.
Carbonate-fluorapatite Image
Images: Carbonate-fluorapatite Apatite
Comments: Pink, colliform carbonate-

fluorapatite on matrix.
Giv en.
Carbonate-hydroxylapatite Image
Images: Carbonate-hydroxylapatite
Robertsite Apatite

Giv en.
Caresite Image
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Images: Caresite
Comments: Tabular brownish-yellow

crystals of caresite in matrix.
Location: Poudrette quarry, Mt Saint-Hilaire,
Rouv ille Co., Qu?bec, Canada. Scale:
Carletonite Image
Images: Carletonite
Comments: Sev eral crystals of blue and

white carletonite.
© John Veevaert
Carlfriesite Image
Images: Carlfriesite
Comments: Pale bright yellow crystalline

carlfriesite botryoids on white calcite.
Location: Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Carlhintzeite Image
Images: Carlhintzeite
Comments: Colorless tabular crystals of

carlhintzeite on matrix.
Location: Hagendorf, Bayern, Germany.
Carlosturanite Image
Images: Carlosturanite
Comments: White to tan fibrous coatings of

carlosturanite on matrix.
Location: Val Varaita, Cuneo, Piemonte,
Mineral Species
Carlsbergite Image
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Images: Carlsbergite Kamacite
Comments: Polished section showing a

small light gray elongated inclusion of
carlsbergite in massive kamacite.
Location: Kenton County meteorite, Kenton
Co., Kentucky, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.08
mm.
Carmichaelite Image
Images: Carmichaelite
Comments: Backscattered electron (BSE)

image of a grain of carmichaelite included
in pyrope in GRPy-40. (AmMin 85:794).
Location: Garnet Ridge, an ultramafic
diatreme on the Colorado Plateau in
Arizona.. Scale: See Image.
Carminite Image
Images: Carminite
Comments: Brownish red carminite crystals

in matrix.
Location: San Rafael mine, Gabbs, Nye
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not
Giv en.
Carnallite Image
Images: Carnallite Rinneite
Comments: Orange to light brown rinneite

with colorless carnallite.
Location: Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Rh?n,
Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.
Carnallite Image
Images: Carnallite
Comments: Clear crystalline massive

carnallite.
Location: Stassfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt,
Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Carnallite Image
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Images: Carnallite Rokuhnite
Comments: Reddish brown rokuhnite, with

carnallite (deliquescent).
Location: Salzdetfurth Mine, Hildesheim,
near Hanov er, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Carnotite Image
Images: Carnotite
Comments: Bright yellow, fluorescent

crystals of carnotite on sandstone.
Location: Anderson Mine, Yavapai County,
Carpholite Image
Images: Carpholite
Comments: Golden yellow compact

radiating massive carpholite.
Location: Schlaggenwald, Bohemia,
Zapadocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Carraraite Image
Images: Carraraite

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

carrboydite.
Location: Carr-Boyd Nickel Mine, Western
Mineral Species
Carrollite Image
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Images: Carrollite
Comments: Carrollite crystal with minor

attached matrix.
Location: Komoto-Frond in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Scale: 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Caryinite Image
Images: Caryinite Rhodonite
Comments: Yellow crystalline caryinite with

pink rhodonite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Caryopilite Image
Images: Caryopilite
Comments: Small white balls of caryopilite

next to larger barite crystals.
Cassedanneite Image
Images: Cassedanneite
Comments: Crystalline mass of

cassedanneite, colored green by included
descloizite.
Location: Berezovskoye Mine, near
Yekaterinburg, Sv erdlovsk District, Middle
Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cassiterite Image
Images: Cassiterite
Comments: Very brilliant black crystals of

cassiterite on white mica.
Location: Xue Bao Diang, Sichuan, China.
© Fabre Minerals
Cassiterite Image
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Images: Cassiterite
Comments: Gemmy, doubly terminated

cassiterite on quartz-mica matrix.
Location: Langcangjiang riv er area, Yunnan,
China. Scale: 2.7 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Catamarcaite Image
Images: Catamarcaite Putzite
Comments: Polished section of putzite (pu) grain

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

with an attached 1.8 cm prismatic crystal
of dark aegirine.
© John Veevaert
Cattierite Image
Images: Cattierite Siegenite
Comments: Pinkish metallic cattierite,

intergrown with gray siegenite.
Location: Shinkolobwe, Katanga, Shaba,
Zaire. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cattiite Image
Images: Cattiite
Comments: Colorless cattiite grain

fragment.
Location: Zheleznyi Fe Mine, Kovdor Massif,
Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Grain size 2
mm.
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Cavansite Image
Images: Cavansite
Comments: Brilliant blue balls of acicular

crystals of cavansite to 1 cm in size richly
scattered about a matrix of colorless
stilbite crystals.
Location: Wagholi, Poona district,
Maharashtra, India. Scale: 7.5 x 9 x 8 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Cebollite Image
Images: Cebollite
Comments: Green to white fibrous coating

of cebollite on granular iron stained quartz.
Location: Cebola Creek, Gunnison County,
Mineral Species
Cechite Image
Images: Cechite
Comments: Black tabular crystal of

cechite on matrix.
Location: Alexander Gallery, Vrancice,
Pr?bram, Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia,
Czech Republic. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.
Celadonite Image
Images: Celadonite
Comments: Greenish masses of celadonite

filling vesicles in basaltic rock.
Location: Socorro County, New Mexico,
Mineral Species
Celestine Image
Images: Celestine
Comments: Transparent blue orthorhombic

crystals of celestine, some doubly
terminated to 15 mm in size, on a limestone
matrix.
Location: Clay Center, Ohio, USA. Scale: 5
x 9 x 2.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Celsian Image
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Images: Celsian Hendricksite
Comments: Gray massive celsian with dark

red hendricksite.
Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cerianite-(Ce) Image
Images: Cerianite-(Ce)
Comments: Black crystal of cerianite-(Ce)

on matrix.
Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.2
mm.
Cerite-(La) Image
Images: Cerite-(La)
Comments: Orange aggregates of

cerite-(La) in matrix, (CanMin, 40:1179).
Location: Mt. Yuksporr, Khibina massif, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Specimen size 3.5
cm.
Cerite-(La) Image
Images: Cerite-(La)
Comments: SEM photomicrograph of a

rhombohedral crystal of cerite-(La).
Location: Mt. Yuksporr, Khibina massif, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.
Cerotungstite-(Ce) Image
Images: Cerotungstite-(Ce) Anthoinite

Ferberite

Photo.
Mineral Species
Ceruleite Image
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Images: Ceruleite
Comments: Blue globular clusters of

ceruleite.
Location: Wheal Gorland, Gwennap,
Cornwall, England. Scale: Size Not Given.
Cerussite Image
Images: Cerussite
Comments: Transparent reticulated crystal

of cerussite.
Location: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Scale: 5
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Cerussite Image
Images: Cerussite Hydrocerussite
Comments: Platy crystals of milky white

hydrocerussite covering cerussite.
Scale: 6 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Cerussite Image
Images: Cerussite Mimetite
Comments: Creamy white crystal of cerussite

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

reticulated, white cerussite. Former John
Innes collection.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 9.75 x 5
x 2.5.
© John Schneider
Cervantite Image
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Images: Cervantite
Comments: Brownish-yellow, rounded

crystalline aggregate of cervantite on
quartz.
Location: Clara Mine, Oberwolfach,
Wolfach Valley, Black Forest, Baden-
W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale: Picture size
1.6 mm.
Cesarolite Image
Images: Cesarolite
Comments: Black to dark brown botryoidal

masses of cesarolite in white calcite.
Location: Sidi-amor-ben-Salem, Tunisia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cesbronite Image
Images: Cesbronite
Comments: Minute green spherical

cesbronite on calcite.
Location: Mina La Oriental, Moctezuma,
Mineral Species
Cesium-kupletskite Image
Images: Cesium-kupletskite Tienshanite
Comments: Dark olive-green colored

crystalline tienshanite with cesium-
kupletskite in microcline.
Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cetineite Image
Images: Cetineite Valentinite
Comments: Orange-reddish acicular

crystals of cetineite with white valentinite.
Location: Cetine di Cotorniano mine
(Cetine mine), Rosia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
Chabazite-Ca Image
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Images: Chabazite-Ca
Comments: Colorless hexagonal plates of

chabazite.
Location: Boral quarry, Bundoora, Victoria,
Australia. Scale: Size Not Given.
Chabazite-Ca Image
Comments: Twinned, white, blocky crystals

of chabazite on basalt matrix.
Location: Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia. Scale: 7x6x2 cm.
Chabazite-Ca Image
Comments: Pinkish orange colored

chabazite-Ca displaying a blocky,
near-cubic form of triclinic crystals.
Location: Imilchil, Anti-Atlas Morocco.
Scale: 4.2 x 3.7 x 1.6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Chabazite-Na Image
Images: Chabazite-Na Herschelite
Comments: Rounded transparent crystals

of chabazite-Na (herschelite).
Location: Horseshoe Dam, Maricopa
Chaidamuite Image
Images: Chaidamuite
Comments: Pale yellow earthy coatings of

chaidamuite with brown limonite on friable
matrix.
Location: Getchell Mine, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species
Chalcanthite Image
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Images: Chalcanthite Chalcocyanite
Comments: White to pale bluish

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

Fedotovite
Comments: Brown crystals of

dolerophanite with blue chalcanthite and
green fedotovite.
Location: Great Fissure (Main Fracture)
eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka
Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale:
Picture size 3 mm.
Chalcanthite Image
Images: Chalcanthite Fedotovite
Comments: Green fedotovite with pale

blue chalcanthite.
Picture size 4 mm.
Chalcanthite Image
Images: Chalcanthite
Comments: Fibrous columnar crystalline

chalcanthite.
Location: Planet Mine, La Paz County,
Mineral Species
Chalcoalumite Image
Images: Chalcoalumite
Comments: Pale bluish stellate twins of

chalcoalumite on matrix.
Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cohchise
Giv en.
Chalcocite Image
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Images: Chalcocite
Comments: Chalcocite crystals in this

specimen vary in size up to 1.2 cm across.
Location: Bristol nr. Hartford, Connecticut,
USA. Scale: 7.6 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Chalcocite Image
Images: Chalcocite Eskolaite
Comments: Green crystalline eskolaite on

massive chalcocite.
Location: Lubelin, Poland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Chalcocyanite Image
Images: Chalcocyanite Chalcanthite

chalcocyanite with darker bluish
chalcanthite. The mineral is hygroscopic
and must be stored in a closed box.
size 4 mm.
Chalcomenite Image
Images: Chalcomenite
Comments: Blue crystals of chalcomenite

on matrix.
Location: El Drag?n mine, Quijarro
province, Potos?, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size
4 mm.
Chalconatronite Image
Images: Chalconatronite
Comments: Crystalline crusts of blue

chalconatronite on sandstone.
Location: Slick Rock, Egnar Area, San
Miguel County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Chalconatronite Image
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Images: Chalconatronite IMA2006-009

Sanromanite Juangodoyite
Comments: Yellowish, long balded

sanromanite crystals in vug with platy, blue
juangodoyite replacing green
chalconatronite.
Location: Santa Rosa mine, Iquique
Province, Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: Picture
size 3 mm.
Chalcophanite Image
Images: Chalcophanite
Comments: Large mass of rounded

gray-black chalcophanite.
Location: Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill,
Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex
Co., New Jersey, USA. Scale: 14x11x7 cm.
Chalcophyllite Image
Images: Chalcophyllite

chalcophyllite crystals. The largest crystal is
0.5 cm across and several have the
perfect "stop sign" hexagon form.
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 2
cm.
© John Veevaert
Chalcopyrite Image
Images: Chalcopyrite Quartz
Comments: Well-formed crystals of

chalcopyrite and quartz.
Location: Boldut mine, 61 level (350 meters
deep), Cavnic, Maramures, Rumania.
© Fabre Minerals
Chalcopyrite Image
Images: Chalcopyrite Moncheite
Comments: White moncheite with

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

Telargpalite Tulameenite
Comments: Gray long-prismatic crystal of

oulankaite with light grayish telargpalite
and pale yellowish-white rims of
tulameenite in massive yellowish
chalcopyrite. Polished section (from
microprobe analysis) in reflected light.
Chalcosiderite Image
Images: Chalcosiderite
Comments: Pale bluish transparent crystal

of chalcosiderite on matrix.
Location: Cornwall, England. Scale: Size
Not Given.
Chalcostibite Image
Images: Chalcostibite
Comments: Partial crystal of chalcostibite.

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

on white quartz matrix.
Location: Boldut mine, Cav nic Maramures,
Rumania. Scale: 7 x 7 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Challacolloite Image
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Images: Challacolloite
Comments: White to transparent

challacolloite crystals on matrix.
Location: Eruption of 1855, Mount Vesuvius,
Campania, Italy. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Chambersite Image
Images: Chambersite
Comments: Tetragonal crystals of

chambersite extracted from salt dome
deposits.
Location: Barkers Hill, Mont Belvieu,
Chambers County, Texas, USA. Scale: Size
Not Given.
Chamosite Image
Images: Chamosite
Comments: Dark green sectile massive

chamosite.
Location: Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Chaoite Image
Images: Chaoite
Comments: Dark masses of chaoite

intermixed with graphite on rock shocked
by meteorite impact.
Location: Ries Crater, Bopfingen, Bav aria,
Baden-Wurttemberg. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Chapmanite Image
Images: Chapmanite
Comments: Green, earthy chapmanite on

quartz-sulfide matrix.
Location: Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine,
Br?unsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,
Charlesite Image
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Images: Charlesite
Comments: 1 cm white crystal of charlesite

on calcite with small (2 mm) octahedral
crystals of galena.
South Africa. Scale: Picture size 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Charoite Image
Images: Charoite
Comments: Polished slab of purple

charoite.
Location: Murun Massif, Chara River,
Davan, Torgo Riv er Basin, Aldan Shield,
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size
6.5 cm.
Charoite Image
Images: Charoite Fedorite
Comments: Tan crystalline platy fedorite in

pale violet charoite.
Location: Murun, Republic of Sakha, Siberia,
Mineral Species
Charoite Image
Images: Charoite Tinaksite
Comments: Yellow-brown prismatic

tinaksite crystals in purple charoite with
black aegirine.
Location: Murun, Aldan Uplift, Chara and
Olekma Rivers, near Olekminsk, Republic of
Sakha, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Charoite Image
Images: Charoite Tokkoite
Comments: Yellow crystalline tokkoite

intermixed with purple charoite (viewed
cross-sectional to fiber direction).
Location: Murun, Aldan, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species
Charoite Image
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Images: Charoite Tinaksite
Comments: Polished slab of deep purple

chariote with inclusions of black augite,
white feldspar and orange tinaksite.
Location: Murun, Siberia, Russia. Scale:
Picture size 10 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Chayesite Image
Images: Chayesite
Comments: Crystalline aggregate of rusty

red, thin tabular hexagonal plates of
chayesite stacked along the c-axis on
matrix.
Location: Pauliberg Mt., Kobersdorf,
Oberpullendorf, Burgenland, Austria. Scale:
Chelkarite Image
Images: Chelkarite
Comments: Minute transparent nearly

colorless microcrystals of chelkarite.
Location: Chelkar, Zapadno-Kazahstan,
Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Chenevixite Image
Images: Chenevixite
Comments: Green micro crystals of

chenevixite on matrix.
Location: Majuba Hill, Pershing County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© John Veevaert
Chenite Image
Images: Chenite
Comments: Sky blue crystalline coating of

chenite on matrix.
Location: Silberhutte, Altenau, Harz
Mountains, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cheralite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Cheralite-(Ce)
Comments: Brown to tan, massive

cheralite-(Ce) showing cleavage traces.
Location: Uranium King Mine, Trent Creek,
Encampment Copper District, Sierra Madre
Mts., Carbon Co., Wyoming, USA. Scale:
Picture size 1.4 cm.
Cherepanovite Image
Images: Cherepanovite Cooperite

Platinum
Comments: Creamy-grayish fractured

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

and veinlets of chernovite-(Y) in pale
creamy tan-colored matrix.
Location: Montaldo Mine, Piedmont, Italy.
Scale: 2 1/4" x 2".
Chernykhite Image
Images: Chernykhite
Comments: Dark green flake of

chernykhite.
Location: Balasauskandyk, Juzno-
Kazahstan, Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Chervetite Image
Images: Chervetite Francevillite
Comments: Bottle brown tabular crystals

of chervetite on yellow francevilleite.
Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.
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Chesterite Image
Images: Chesterite Magnetite
Comments: Green platy chesterite in

black, metallic magnetite.
Location: Near Missoula, Missoula County,
Mineral Species
Chestermanite Image
Images: Chestermanite Ludwigite
Comments: Black capillary crystals of

ludwigite with green inclusions of
chestermanite in impure marble.
Location: Near Potter Pass, Fresno County,
Mineral Species
Chevkinite-(Ce) Image
Images: Chevkinite-(Ce)
Comments: Dark brown crystal of

chevkinite-(Ce).
Location: Miass, Central Ural Mountains,
Russia. Scale: 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Chiavennite Image
Images: Chiavennite
Comments: Prismatic micro crystals of

chiavennite less than 1mm.
Location: Ute, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.
Childrenite Image
Images: Childrenite
Comments: Single, terminated crystal of

childrenite.
Location: Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
2.6 cm.
© John Veev aert
Childrenite Image
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Images: Childrenite
Comments: Light-brown, acicular,

div ergent sprays of childrenite.
Childrenite Image
Images: Childrenite
Comments: Columnar, brown, prismatic,

crystalline aggregate of childrenite with
dark blue lazulite.
Canada. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Chiolite Image
Images: Chiolite
Comments: White translucent crystalline

massive chiolite.
Location: Ivigtut, Arksukjiord, Greenland.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Chkalovite Image
Images: Chkalovite
Comments: Massive, white chkalovite

associated with dark aegerine.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland.
Scale: 4.5 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Chlorapatite Image
Images: Chlorapatite
Comments: Blocky crystals of chlorapatite.

Location: Oyna, Froland, Norway. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Chlorargyrite Image
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Images: Chlorargyrite
Comments: Butterscotch colored cubic

crystals of chlorargyrite on malachite.
Chlorargyrite Image
Images: Chlorargyrite
Comments: Dark (by exposure to light)

octahedral crystals of chlorargyrite with
brownish goethite in a vug.
Location: Broken Hill, NWS, Australia. Scale:
Crystal size 3 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Chlorartinite Image
Images: Chlorartinite
Comments: Opaque white crystalline

chlorartinite on volcanic glass.
Location: Vulcan Tolbachik, Kamchatka
District, Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Chlorbartonite Image
Images: Chlorbartonite
Comments: Black grains of chlorbartonite in

sodalite-natrolite aggregates.
Location: Mount Koashva, Khibina massif,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.
Chloritoid Image
Images: Chloritoid Paragonite
Comments: Grayish crystalline inclusion of

chloritoid in white, massive paragonite.
Location: Drandorf Fundgrube Mine,
Bockau, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge,
Chloromenite Image
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Images: Chloromenite Melanothallite
Comments: Oliv e green crystalline

chloromenite on blue-green
melanothallite.
Location: North Break, Second Cone of
main fracture eruption, Tolbachik Volcano,
Kamchatka District, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Chlorophoenicite Image
Images: Chlorophoenicite
Comments: Clear tabular crystals of

chlorophoenicite.
Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
Chlorothionite Image
Images: Chlorothionite
Comments: Pale blue granular crystalline

chlorothionite.
Location: Vesuvius, Napoli, Campania,
Mineral Species
Chloroxiphite Image
Images: Chloroxiphite Mendipite

Crednerite
Comments: Green, opaque granular

chloroxiphite with mendipite and black
crednerite.
Location: Higher Pitts Farm, Priddy, Mendip
Hills, Somerset, England. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Chloroxiphite Image
Images: Chloroxiphite Mendipite

Crednerite
Comments: Radiating compact with clear

to white crystalline mendipite with black
crednerite and green chloroxiphite.
Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Choloalite Image
Images: Choloalite Hessite
Comments: Sparse green crusts of

choloalite with metallic hessite.
Location: McAlpine Mine, Tuolumne
Mineral Species
Chondrodite Image
Images: Chondrodite
Comments: Lustrous and semi-transparent

crystal of reddish brown chondrodite 1 cm
in size with magnetite and muscovite.
Location: Palabora mine, Loolekop,
Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South
Africa. Scale: 4 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm.
Chondrodite Image
Images: Chondrodite Warwickite
Comments: Black crystalline warwickite

with tan chondrodite in white marble.
Location: Amity, near Warwick, Orange
County, New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Christelite Image
Images: Christelite Paratacamite
Comments: Robins-egg blue christelite with dark

green paratacamite on matrix.
Location: San Francisco mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile.
Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Chromite Image
Images: Chromite Antigorite
Comments: Chromite veins in yellow to

green antigorite with picrolite, chromian
antigorite and dolomite (polished section).
Location: Wood's Mine, near 'Texas', Little
Britain Township, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Chromite Image
Images: Chromite Theophrastite
Comments: Green pearly scaly

theophrastite coatings on massive dark
chromite.
Location: Vermion Region, near
Thessaloniki, Kedriki Makedhonia, Greece.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Chromium Image
Images: Chromium
Comments: Small silvery-gray metallic

grain of native chromium.
Location: Sichuan, China. Scale: Grain size
0.7 mm.
Chrysoberyl Image
Images: Chrysoberyl
Comments: Chrysoberyl (alexandrite)

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

crystal on matrix with excellent color
change (Daylight, Tungsten Bulb).
Location: Malyshevo, Yekaterina Oblast',
Urals, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1.2 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Chrysocolla Image
Images: Chrysocolla
Comments: Botryoidal chrysocolla lining a vug.

Location: Inca del Oro, Copiap?, Chile. Scale: 7.5
x 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
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Chrysocolla Image
Images: Chrysocolla Cuprite
Comments: Semi-metallic, dark reddish gray,

cuprite crystals on blue chrysocolla.
Location: Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Congo.
Scale: 7.5 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Chrysocolla Image
Images: Chrysocolla Tenorite
Comments: Lustrous black botryoidal Tenorite

mostly covering a sky-blue massive
chrysocolla matrix.
Location: 79 mine, Banner district, Pinal Co.,
Arizona. Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Chrysotile Image
Images: Chrysotile
Comments: Polished slab of chrysotile

asbestos minerals showing the fibrous,
chatoyant crystal patterns.
Location: Globe, Globe-Miami District, Gila
Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: 8x7x1 cm.
Churchite-(Y) Image
Images: Churchite-(Y)
Comments: Acicular, radiating crystals of

churchite-(Y).
Location: Leoni mine, Auerbach, Bavaria,
Chvaleticeite Image
Images: Chvaleticeite
Comments: Powdery mass of

chv aleticeite.
Location: Chvaletice, Bohemia,
See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Cinnabar Image
Images: Cinnabar
Comments: Red single hexagonal

(Trigonal) crystal of cinnabar on dolomite.
Location: Fenghuang, Hunan Province,
Peoples Republic of China. Scale: Crystal
size 1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Cinnabar Image
Images: Cinnabar Edoylerite
Comments: Yellow prismatic crystals of

edoylerite with red cinnabar.
Location: Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek
Mine), New Idria district, San Benito Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.
Ciprianiite Image
Images: Ciprianiite
Comments: Black crystal of ciprianiite in

quartz.
Location: Monte Cav alluccio, Capagnano,
Roma, Lazio, Italy. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.
Clairite Image
Images: Clairite Rostite
Comments: Brownish crystals of clairite on

white massive rostite.
Picture size 5 mm.
Claraite Image
Images: Claraite
Comments: Green, round spherical grain of

claraite on fluorite.
1.5 mm.
Claringbullite Image
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Images: Claringbullite
Comments: Velv ety micro botryoids of

claringbullite lining vug in slag.
Location: Val Varenna, Pegli, Genov a,
Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clarkeite Image
Images: Clarkeite
Comments: Massive orange clarkeite.

Location: Bjertnes,Kr?deren, Buskerud,
Norway. Scale: Picture size 8 mm.
Claudetite Image
Images: Claudetite Arsenic
Comments: Colorless prismatic crystal of

claudetite on native arsenic.
size 2 mm.
Clausthalite Image
Images: Clausthalite
Comments: black massive and botryoidal

clausthalite on matrix.
Location: Lasovice, Mittelbuhmen,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Clausthalite Image
Images: Clausthalite Schlemaite Eucairite
Comments: Reflected-light digital-image of

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

cliffordite encrusting matrix.
Location: Candelaria Mine, Moctezuma,
Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Clinoatacamite Image
Images: Clinoatacamite
Comments: Green clinoatacamite on

halite and anhydrite.
Location: Bernburg, Stassfurt Deposit,
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 4 mm.
Clinobisvanite Image
Images: Clinobisvanite
Comments: Numerous yellow to yellowish-

orange sub-mm crystals of clinobisvanite
on matrix.
Location: Linka Mine, Lander County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: 2.2 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Clinobisvanite Image
Images: Clinobisvanite
Comments: Deep yellow platy crystals of

clinobisvanite to less than 0.2mm.
Location: Linka mine, Lander Co., Nevada,
USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
Clinocervantite Image
Images: Clinocervantite
Comments: White crystals of

Clinocervantite.
Clinochalcomenite Image
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Images: Clinochalcomenite
Comments: Blue-green crystalline coating

of clinochalcomenite on sulfide ore.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clinochalcomenite Image
Images: Clinochalcomenite Kerstenite

Krutaite
Comments: Tan opaque fibrous kerstenite

with possible blue clinochalcomenite on
dark krutaite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clinochlore Image
Images: Clinochlore Andradite
Comments: Transparent topazolite, the

yellow variety of andradite on clinochlore.
Location: Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria
District, San Benito County. California, USA.
© Fabre Minerals
Clinochlore Image
Images: Clinochlore
Comments: Purple clinochlore

(Kammererite) crystal cluster.
Location: Kop Daglari, Turkey. Scale: 1.4
cm across.
© John Veevaert
Clinochlore Image
Images: Clinochlore Perovskite
Comments: Square, opaque perovskite on

green clinochlore. Very brilliant and with
large crystals (2 x 1.5 cm.).
Location: Ilmen Mountains. Chelyabinsk,
Urals, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Clinochrysotile Image
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Images: Clinochrysotile
Comments: Asbestiform crystals of brown

Clinochrysotile.
Clinoclase Image
Images: Clinoclase
Comments: Acicular, radiating crystals of

clinoclase.
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Clinoclase Image
Images: Clinoclase
Comments: Divergent, elongated, bladed blue

crystals of clinoclase to 1mm on matrix.
Location: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada,
USA. Scale: Picture size 5x7 mm.
Clinoenstatite Image
Images: Clinoenstatite
Comments: Crystalline massive

clinoenstatite.
Location: Cape Vogel, Papua New
Guinea. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clinoferrosilite Image
Images: Clinoferrosilite
Comments: Light green crystalline

clinoferrosilite with dark green diopside.
Location: Bushveld Complex, Merensky
Reef, Rustenberg, Northern Province, South
Africa. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clinohedrite Image
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Images: Clinohedrite Hancockite
Comments: Clear crystals of clinohedrite

on hancockite.
Jersey, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.
Clinoholmquistite Image
Images: Clinoholmquistite
Magnesioclinoholmquistite Fluoro-
sodic-pedrizite
Comments: Dark blue fibrous

clinoholmquistite with radiating structure,
v ariety magnesioclinoholmquistite.
Clinoholmsquitite may be a new aphibole,
fluoro-sodic-pedrizite..
Location: Near Murun, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species
Clinohumite Image
Images: Clinohumite
Comments: Orange-brown glassy

crystalline clinohumite.
Location: Kuhi-Lal, Pamir, Gorno-Badahsan,
Tadzhikistan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clinojimthompsonite Image
Images: Clinojimthompsonite
Jimthompsonite
Comments: Pale green to white glassy

crystalline fibrous clinojimthompsonite
intergrown with jimthompsonite.
Location: Chester, Windsor County,
Vermont, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clinomimetite Image
Images: Clinomimetite

clinomimetite.
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Size of the largest
crystal 12 mm.
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Clinoptilolite-K Image
Images: Clinoptilolite-K
Comments: Thin, bladed aggregates of

authigenic clinoptilolite covering an
altered rock fragment. SEM image of a
core sample.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 50
µ-m.
© OMNI Laboratories, Inc
Clinosafflorite Image
Images: Clinosafflorite
Comments: Silvery metallic granular

clinosafflorite in rock.
Location: Nordmark, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clinotobermorite Image
Images: Clinotobermorite
Comments: Opaque white pure massive

clinotobermorite.
Location: Bazhenovskoe, Asbest,
Sverdlov sk District, Middle Urals, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Clinotyrolite Image
Images: Clinotyrolite Azurite
Comments: Light blue acicular crystals of

clinotyrolite on dark blue azurite.
Location: Lov elock mine, Churchill County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Clinozoisite Image
Images: Clinozoisite
Comments: Light pink stellate crystal

cluster of clinozoisite.
Location: Sunnyside mine, Silverton District,
San Juan County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Clinozoisite Image
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Images: Clinozoisite
Comments: Brown, prismatic crystal of clinozoisite.

Location: Alchuri, Shigar Skardu district, Pakistan.
Scale: Crystal size 7x2.3x1.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Clintonite Image
Images: Clintonite
Comments: Several interconnected platy

crystals of black clintonite v ariety
xanthophyllite on vuggy matrix.
Location: Green Monster Mountain, Prince
of Wales Island, Prince of Wales-Outer
Ketchikan Co., Alaska, USA. Scale: 4x3x2
cm.
Coalingite Image
Images: Coalingite
Comments: Brown micaceous sub-metallic

coatings of coalingite on serpentinite rock.
Location: Near Gem Mine, San Benito
Mineral Species
Cobaltarthurite Image
Images: Cobaltarthurite Arseniosiderite
Comments: Oliv e-greenish crystalline druse

of cobaltarthurite with spherical
arseniosiderite.
Location: Pastrana, Mazarr?n, Murcia,
Spain. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.
Cobaltaustinite Image
Images: Cobaltaustinite
Comments: Green, tabular crystal of

cobaltaustinite.
Location: Rappold Mine, Neust?dtel,
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Cobaltite Image
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Images: Cobaltite
Comments: Cobaltite embedded in

greenish gray dolomite.
Location: Espanola, Ontario, Canada.
Scale: 1.3 cm across.
© John Veevaert
Cobaltkoritnigite Image
Images: Cobaltkoritnigite Erythrite
Comments: Dark purplish cobaltkoritnigite

with pink erythrite.
Cobaltlotharmeyerite Image
Images: Cobaltlotharmeyerite
Comments: Brown crystalline aggregates

of cobaltlotharmeyerite on matrix.
Location: Sauschwart Mine, Neust?dtel,
Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm..
Cobaltomenite Image
Images: Cobaltomenite
Comments: Purple micro crystals of

cobaltomenite on matrix.
Location: Paris #25 mine, Thompson district,
Utah, USA. Scale: 2.5 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Cobalttsumcorite Image
Images: Cobalttsumcorite

cobalttsumcorite.
Location: Rappold Mine, Neust?dtel,
Coccinite Image
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Images: Coccinite Sulfur
Comments: Orange-red coccinite on sulfur.

Due to the volatility of the mineral at room
temperature, the sample is preserved in a
closed vial. The photo was made through
the vial, therefore the sharpness is
reduced.
Location: Lichtenberg Mine, Ronneburg U
Deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany.
Coconinoite Image
Images: Coconinoite
Comments: Dull, putty-colored clay-like

mass of coconinoite on a sandstone matrix.
Location: Jomas mine, White Canyon, San
Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size
1.2 cm.
Coconinoite Image
Images: Coconinoite
Comments: Pale yellow coatings of

coconinoite on sandstone.
Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon, San
Juan County, Utah. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Coeruleolactite Image
Images: Coeruleolactite
Comments: Hexagonal green crystal of

coeruleolactite with brownish surface coating.
Location: Turquoise Mine, Cripple Creek,
Cripple Creek District, Teller Co., Colorado,
USA. Scale: 12x5x4 mm.
Coesite Image
Images: Coesite
Comments: Fine-grained, massive coesite.

Location: Meteor Crater, Canyon Diablo,
Coconino County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Coesite Image
Images: Coesite
Comments: Coesite inclusion in garnet of

eclogite sample (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:567).
Location: Ultra high-pressure metamorphic
area of the Saidenbach reservoir,
Erzgebirge, Germany, where micro-
diamond-bearing gneiss occurs. Scale:
Scale Bar 50 µm.
© Eur. J. Mineral
Coffinite Image
Images: Coffinite
Comments: Black, interstitial coffinite

cementing a sub-angular quartzose
sandstone. Schumacher Collection.
Location: Temple Mountain, San Rafael
District (San Rafael Swell), Emery Co., Utah,
USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Cohenite Image
Images: Cohenite
Comments: Bluish gray, metallic iridescent

crystals of cohenite on matrix.
Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk Oblast',
Urals Region, Russia. Scale: 2.3 mm.
Cohenite Image
Images: Cohenite Troilite Kamacite

Taenite
Comments: Brown masses of troilite, with

white cohenite, in kamacite/taenite matrix,
in meteorite (polished section).
Photo.
Mineral Species
Colemanite Image
Images: Colemanite
Comments: Coarsely crystalline

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

with second generation of absolutely clear and
gemmy (colorless) colemanite. Intensely
fluorescent in long and short UV..
Location: Mustafakemalpascha Mine,
West-Anatolia Turkey. Scale: Crystal size: 1.3 x 1
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Collinsite Image
Images: Collinsite
Comments: Half nodule of nearly pure

collinsite. The center of the specimen is a
small piece of volcanic rock surrounded
by collinsite.
Location: Francois Lake, British Columbia,
Canada. Scale: 7 x 5.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Coloradoite Image
Images: Coloradoite
Comments: Massiv e, metallic coloradoite.

Location: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia,
Australia. Scale: 5x2.5x1.5 cm.
Colquiriite Image
Images: Colquiriite
Comments: Colorless tabular crystals of

colquiriite on matrix.
Location: Serra Branca pegmatite, Pedra
Lavrada, Picu?, Para?ba, Northeast
Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 0.8 mm.
Colusite Image
Images: Colusite
Comments: Bronzy, metallic tetragonal

crystals of colusite in white marble.
Location: Val Bona quarry, Carrara, Italy.
© Dave Barthelmy
Comancheite Image
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Images: Comancheite
Comments: Small orange crystals of

comancheite on matrix.
Location: Mariposa mine, Terlingua,
Terlingua district, Brewster County, Texas,
USA. Scale: Picture size 1.4 mm.
Combeite Image
Images: Combeite
Comments: Crystalline cleav age fragment

of combeite.
Mineral Species
Compreignacite Image
Images: Compreignacite

compreignacite on matrix.
size 1.5 mm.
Congolite Image
Images: Congolite
Comments: Pearly crystalline grains of

congolite.
Location: Brazzav ille, Pool, Congo. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Conichalcite Image
Images: Conichalcite Willemite
Comments: Conichalcite with willemite.

Location: Collected from the 30 level of
the Tsumeb mine. Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale:
2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Conichalcite Image
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Images: Conichalcite Cornubite
Comments: Blue green crystalline

cornubite alteration of enargite with green
conichalcite in white calcite.
Location: Lime Bluff Quarry, Lycoming
Photo.
Mineral Species
Connellite Image
Images: Connellite
Comments: Blue acicular crystals of

connellite.
Location: Deep Creek Mountains, Tooele
County, Utah, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Cookeite Image
Images: Cookeite
Comments: Large tan-colored cookeite

epimorph after a large 12 cm quartz
crystal. The outer faces of the epimorph
are ov ergrown with milky quartz crystals
up to 15 mm long.
Location: Bennett & Orchard Pit mines,
Buckfield, Oxford Co., Maine, USA. Scale:
17x17x11 cm.
Coombsite Image
Images: Coombsite
Comments: Sawed slab with brownish

veining in pink (?) matrix.
Location: Watson's Beach, Otago, South
Island,, New Zealand. Scale: 3x2cm x
5mm.
Cooperite Image
Images: Cooperite Cherepanovite

Platinum

in reflected light.
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size 0.12 mm.

Cooperite Image
Images: Cooperite Osmium Vasilite

Vysotskite
Comments: BSE image taken with a SEM of

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

crystals of copiapite.
Location: Saghand, near Yazd, Yadz
Prov ince, Iran. Scale: Not Giv en.
Copiapite Image
Images: Copiapite Rozenite Ferrinatrite
Comments: White powdery rozenite

coating with yellow ferrinatrite on purple
copiapite.
Location: Le Cetine Mine, Siena, Tuscany,
Mineral Species
Copper Image
Images: Copper
Comments: Native copper forming a

branching cluster of crystals with some
massive calcite.
Location: Houghton County, Michigan, USA.
© Dan Weinrich
Coquandite Image
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Images: Coquandite
Comments: Silky coquandite with stibnite.

Location: Pereta mine, Grosseto, Tuscany,
Coquimbite Image
Images: Coquimbite
Comments: Brownish yellow tabular

crystals of coquimbite.
Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cochise
Coquimbite Image
Images: Coquimbite Goldichite

Ferricopiapite
Comments: Prismatic to fibrous crystals of

goldichite on white massive coquimbite
with yellow ferricopiapite.
Location: Dexter No. 7 Mine, Calf Mesa,
San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Corderoite Image
Images: Corderoite
Comments: Small dark brown

dodecahedral crystal of corderoite.
Location: Hohe Buche, K?nigsberg,
Wolfstein, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Cordierite Image
Images: Cordierite
Comments: Brown rectangular cordierite

crystals in matrix. These crystals are not
gemmy enough to be called iolite.
Location: Richmond Soapstone Quarry,
Richmond, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire,
Cordylite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Cordylite-(Ce) Synchysite-(Ce)

cordylite-(Ce) on light brownish
synchysite-(Ce).
Location: Narss?rssuk (Narsarsuk), Igaliko,
Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
Corkite Image
Images: Corkite Hinsdalite
Comments: Small brown rounded

translucent crystals of corkite on darker
brown botryoidal hinsdalite.
Location: Grube Schone Aussicht, near
Dernbach, Montabaur, Rheinland-Pflaz,
Mineral Species
Cornetite Image
Images: Cornetite
Comments: Crystals of cornetite on matrix.

Location: Etoile Mine, Katanga Province,
Dem. Rep. of Congo. Scale: Crystal size 0.5
cm.
© John Veevaert
Cornetite Image
Images: Cornetite
Comments: Radial groups of intense blue

cornetite crystals in green malachite.
Location: Mine de l'Etoile, Shaba,
Lubumbashi Zaire. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Cornubite Image
Images: Cornubite Conichalcite
Comments: Blue green crystalline

cornubite alteration of enargite with green
conichalcite in white calcite.
Location: Lime Bluff Quarry, Lycoming
Photo.
Mineral Species
Cornwallite Image
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Images: Cornwallite
Comments: Emerald green botryoidal

crystals of cornwallite.
Location: Tintic District, Juab County, Utah,
USA. Scale: Not Giv en.
Coronadite Image
Images: Coronadite Crocoite
Comments: Black coronadite with red

crocoite on matrix.
Germany. Scale: Specimen size 7 cm.
Coronadite Image
Images: Coronadite Iodargyrite
Comments: Dark, fine-grained massive

coronadite with yellowish octahedral
iodargyrite crystals.
Australia. Scale: Picture size 3x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Corrensite Image
Images: Corrensite
Comments: Platy, authigenic chloritic

mixed-layer clays (Corrensite?), lining the
pore spaces of a sandstone. SEM image
from a core sample.
µ-m.
Corrensite Image
Images: Corrensite
Comments: White earthy crust of corrensite

on matrix.
Location: Bolet, Varmland, Sweden. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Corundum Image
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Images: Corundum
Comments: corundum (variety Sapphire).

Location: Miass, Urals, Russia. Scale: 10 x 8
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Corundum Image
Images: Corundum Zincohogbomite-2N2S
Comments: Thin-Section (Plane Polarized

Light) of a brown, twinned
zincoh?gbomite-2N2S crystal with blue
corundum.
Location: Mikro-Lakka Emery deposit,
Kerketeas Mt, S?mos Island, Aegean
Islands Department, Greece. Scale: Picture
size 1.1 mm.
Corundum Image
Images: Corundum
Comments: Bright red ruby corundum

crystals in white marble matrix.
Location: Jagdalak (Jagdalek; Jagdalik)
Ruby Mine, Sorobi District, Konar (Kunar;
Konarh; Konarha; Nuristan) Province,
Afghanistan. Scale: 4x3.5x3 cm.
Corvusite Image
Images: Corvusite
Comments: Silky to dull brown corv usite

in/on sandstone.
Location: Fire Fly Mine, near Delta, Emery
Mineral Species
Corvusite Image
Images: Corvusite Vanoxite
Comments: Blue-black, somewhat silky

vanoxite, with brown corv usite on
sandstone.
Location: Club Mine, Uravan, Montrose
County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cosalite Image
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Images: Cosalite
Comments: Metallic-lustered cosalite on

matrix.
Location: Limestone Quarry,
Hammerunterwiesenthal, Oberwiesenthal,
Picture size 8 mm.
Cotunnite Image
Images: Cotunnite
Comments: White to tan translucent

crystalline cotunnite on volcanic slag.
Location: Vesuvius, Campania, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cotunnite Image
Images: Cotunnite Burnsite
Comments: Images of burnsite grains (dark)

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

black platy crystals of Cousinite.
Mineral Species
Coutinhoite Image
Images: Coutinhoite
Comments: New mineral, IMA 2003-025,

from this pegmatite. This is a co-type
specimen. Flaky crystals of choutinhoite to
less than 0.25mm in gelatin capsule.
Location: Lavra do Urucum, Serra do
Urucum, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
Crystal size 0.25mm.
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Coutinhoite Image
Images: Coutinhoite
Comments: Irregular aggregate of yellow

coutinhoite. (AmMin, v 89, p 721).
Location: Urucum mine, Galil?ia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Image.
Covellite Image
Images: Covellite
Comments: Covellite crystal group.

Location: Butte, Montana, USA. Scale: 8 x 4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Covellite Image
Images: Covellite Nukundamite
Comments: Metallic brownish rim of

nukundamite with dark purplish-blue
cov ellite on fine-grained pyrite.
size 7 mm.
Cowlesite Image
Images: Cowlesite
Comments: Milky bluish translucent

botryoidal cowlesite in vug.
Location: Goble, Columbia County,
Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Coyoteite Image
Images: Coyoteite
Comments: Black and white image of a

polished section showing coyoteite crystals
showing chevron pattern developed by
opposing cleavage sets. Continuous
parallel lines are polishing scratches.
(AmMin 68:252).
Location: Coyote Peak mafic alkalic
diatreme near Orick, Humboldt County,
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California. USA. Scale: Image size 0.26 mm.

Crandallite Image
Images: Crandallite Wardite
Comments: Sliced and polished slab of

yellow to white mixture of wardite and
crandallite.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co.,
Utah, USA. Scale: 11x6x.6 cm.
Crandallite Image
Images: Crandallite Phosphofibrite
Comments: Olive-green colored fibrous

phosphofibrite aggregates with white
crandallite.
Location: Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species
Creaseyite Image
Images: Creaseyite
Comments: Sparse light green micro

crystalline creaseyite on crystalline quartz.
Location: Navajoa, Sonora, Mexico. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Creaseyite Image
Images: Creaseyite
Comments: Green acicular sprays of creaseyite

to 0.5mm on matrix.
Location: Rawhide mine, Mohave County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Crednerite Image
Images: Crednerite Mendipite
Comments: Sooty, deep-black, granular to

platy crednerite with mendipite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Crednerite Image
Images: Crednerite Chloroxiphite

Mendipite

crednerite.
Mineral Species
Crednerite Image
Images: Crednerite Mendipite

Chloroxiphite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Creedite Image
Images: Creedite
Comments: Colorless, bladed creedite

crystals.
Location: Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico.
© John Veevaert
Creedite Image
Images: Creedite Fluorite
Comments: Well-developed, prismatic,

reddish creedite crystals on green fluorite.
Location: Mina Navidad, Rodeo, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: 9 x 5 x 5.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Creedite Image
Images: Creedite Smithsonite
Comments: Purple transparent crystals of

creedite to 6 mm on matrix of creamy
botryoidal crystalline smithsonite.
Location: Level 8 San Antonio mine, Santa
Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: 7 x 3.5 x
2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
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Crichtonite Image
Images: Crichtonite
Comments: Black crichtonite crystal in

quartz.
Location: Kriegalptal, Binntal, Wallis
(Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 1.5
mm.
Cristobalite Image
Images: Cristobalite
Comments: White crystals of cristobalite

frozen in obsidian glass.
Location: Cerro San Cristobal, Pachuca,
Hidalgo, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.
Crocoite Image
Images: Crocoite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of red-orange

crocoite.
Location: Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania.
© Dave Barthelmy
Crocoite Image
Images: Crocoite Vauquelinite
Comments: Oliv e-greenish vauquelinite

encrusting red crocoite.
Crocoite Image
Images: Crocoite Coronadite
Comments: Black coronadite with red

crocoite on matrix.
Cronstedtite Image
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Images: Cronstedtite
Comments: Pyramidal crystals of

cronstedtite.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua,
Cronusite Image
Images: Cronusite
Comments: Light gray grain of cronusite.

Polished section (from microprobe analysis)
in reflected light.
Location: Enstatite meteorite, Norton Co.,
Kansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.18 mm.
Crookesite Image
Images: Crookesite Eucairite
Comments: Polished section (PPL) showing

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

of crossite.
Location: near Valley Ford, Sonoma
Mineral Species
Crossite Image
Images: Crossite
Comments: Long metallic, black, prismatic

crystals or crossite on matrix.
Location: Webbing, Lammertal, Salzburg,
Austria. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.
Cryolite Image
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Images: Cryolite Ralstonite
Comments: Massiv e cryolite with solution

cavities lined with octahedral ralstonite
crystals.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: Picture
size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Cryolite Image
Images: Cryolite Thomsenolite
Comments: Massive, white cryolite with

solution cavities lined with prismatic
Thomsenolite crystals.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: .
© John Veevaert
Cryolite Image
Images: Cryolite
Comments: Massiv e cryolite with one

section of lustrous crystal faces.
size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Cryolite Image
Images: Cryolite Cryolithionite

cryolithionite in brown cryolite.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Cryolite Image
Images: Cryolite
Comments: Red-brown crystalline massive

cryolite.
Location: Katugin River, Siberia, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cryolite Image
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Images: Cryolite Weberite
Comments: Gray weberite masses in white

cryolite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Cryolithionite Image
Images: Cryolithionite Cryolite

cryolithionite in brown cryolite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Cryptohalite Image
Images: Cryptohalite
Comments: White to colorless crystals of

cryptohalite. The red color is due to
admixtured (amorphous ?) selenium.
Location: Kladno, Stredocesk? Kraj,
size 5 mm.
Cryptohalite Image
Images: Cryptohalite Bararite
Comments: White crystalline bararite

intermixed with cryptohalite colored
yellow by selenium.
County, Pennsylvani, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Cryptomelane Image
Images: Cryptomelane Adamite
Comments: Black, rounded balls of

cryptomelane and purple, transparent
adamite.
Cubanite Image
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Images: Cubanite
Comments: Brassy, lustrous, cyclic-twinned

cubanite on matrix.
Location: Henderson # 2 Mine,
Chibougamau, Quebec, Canada. Scale:
10x6 mm.
Cumengite Image
Images: Cumengite Boleite
Comments: Inky blue cumengite "sixling"

epitaxially overgrown on boleite.
Location: Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja
California Sur, Mexico. Scale: Not Giv en.
Cummingtonite Image
Images: Cummingtonite
Comments: Light brown prismatic

crystalline aggregate of cummingtonite
with radiating structure.
Location: West Chesterfield, Hampshire
County, Massachusetts, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Cuprite Image
Images: Cuprite
Comments: Dark red ball or sphere of

cuprite crystals set on a pearly white
dolomite crystal matrix.
Scale: 5 x 2.5 x 4 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Cuprite Image
Images: Cuprite Chrysocolla
Comments: Semi-metallic, dark reddish gray,

cuprite crystals on blue chrysocolla.
Location: Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Congo.
Scale: 7.5 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Cuprite Image
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Images: Cuprite
Comments: Red, acicular chalcotrichite

crystals as a fine, fibrous red mass on
matrix.
Cuprobismutite Image
Images: Cuprobismutite Kupcikite
Comments: Backscattered electron image

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

cuprocopiapite on gypsum.
Location: Copper Queen Mine, Double
Mountain Fork of Brazois River, Stonewall
County, Texas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cuproiridsite Image
Images: Cuproiridsite Isoferroplatinum
Comments: Gray equant crystal of

cuproiridsite in light gray isoferroplatinum.
in reflected light.
Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-
ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Saha
(Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian
Cupromakovickyite Image
Images: Cupromakovickyite Hodrushite
Comments: Kup?c?kite (ku) and hodrushite

(ho) partly replaced by bismuthinite
derivative (bd56) with relict lamellae of
low-Cu (4P) and cupromakovickyite
[4P(Cu,Pb)]. (CanMin, 41:1165).
Location: Scheelite deposit of Felbertal,
Austria. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µm.
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Cuprorivaite Image
Images: Cuprorivaite
Comments: Pale blue grains of

cuproriv aite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cuprosklodowskite Image
Images: Cuprosklodowskite
Comments: Very-fine, acicular crystals of

apple green cuprosklodowskite on matrix.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Katanga,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale:
Not Given.
© John Veevaert
Cuprosklodowskite Image
Images: Cuprosklodowskite
Comments: Green, acicular

cuprosklodowskite crystals.
Location: Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi,
Picture size 3 mm.
Cuprospinel Image
Images: Cuprospinel
Comments: 2mm piece of from the type

specimen matrix with disseminated, black
cuprospinel.
Location: Consolidated Rambler mine, Baie
Verte, Newfoundland, Canada. Scale:
Specimen size 2 mm.
Cuprostibite Image
Images: Cuprostibite Ussingite
Comments: Massive ussingite hosting grains of the

very rare copper antimony-thallium bearing
cuprostibite.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland. Scale:
4.8 x3.4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Cuprotungstite Image
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Images: Cuprotungstite
Comments: Tan coatings of cuprotungstite

on quartz.
Location: Lida, Esmeralda County,
Mineral Species
Cuprotungstite Image
Images: Cuprotungstite Jixianite
Comments: Reddish brown crystal druse of

jixianite with minor tan cuprotungstite.
Location: Apache Mine, Hidalgo County,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Curetonite Image
Images: Curetonite
Comments: Translucent tabular crystal of

curetonite in crystalline barite.
Location: Near Golconda, Humboldt
Mineral Species
Curienite Image
Images: Curienite Francevillite
Comments: Intense yellow curienite and

orange francevillite.
Location: Mouonana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Curite Image
Images: Curite
Comments: Orangish red curite crystals.

Cuspidine Image
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Images: Cuspidine
Comments: Tan spear-shaped micro

crystals of cuspidine in diopside.
Location: San Vito Quarry, Vesuvius, Napoli,
Mineral Species
Cuzticite Image
Images: Cuzticite
Comments: Thin scaly yellow-brown crust

of cuzticite on quartz.
Location: Mina Bambollita, Moctezuma,
Mineral Species
Cyanochroite Image
Images: Cyanochroite
Comments: Pale blue crystal cluster of

cyanochroite.
Location: Eruption of 1870, Mount Vesuvius,
Napoli, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cyanotrichite Image
Images: Cyanotrichite

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

cyanotrichite with dark-blue, blocky azurite
on a green, malachite matrix.
Mineral Species
Cyanotrichite Image
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Images: Cyanotrichite
Comments: Blue, acicular sprays of

cyanotrichite on a gray matrix.
Mineral Species
Cylindrite Image
Images: Cylindrite
Comments: Cylindrical crystals of cylindrite

in granular tin sulfide ore.
Location: Montserrat Mine, Poopo, Oruro,
Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Cymrite Image
Images: Cymrite
Comments: Pearly white cymrite with

jadeite in greywacke rock.
Location: Pacheco Pass, Santa Clara
Mineral Species
Cyrilovite Image
Images: Cyrilovite
Comments: Greenish-yellow crystals of

cyrilovite in matrix.
Location: Rengersdorf, G?rlitz, Oberlausitz,
mm.
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Dachiardite-Na Image
Images: Dachiardite-Na
Comments: Orange flat radial crystals of

dachiardite-Na to 2cm across on matrix.
Location: Alpe di Siusi, Bolanzo,
Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Scale: Specimen
size: 6x4x3cm.
Dadsonite Image
Images: Dadsonite
Comments: Gay metallic massive

dadsonite.
Location: Wolfsberg, Harzgerode, Sachsen-
Anhalt, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dalyite Image
Images: Dalyite Janhaugite
Comments: Tan crystalline dalyite (arrow)

with reddish brown janhaugite.
Location: Gjerdingen, Nordmark, north of
Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Danburite Image
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Images: Danburite
Comments: Very-fine, large, single transparent

crystal of danburite with minor crystals of colorless
calcite all around the base.
Location: Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Scale: 4
x 2.5 x 9.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Darapskite Image
Images: Darapskite
Comments: White crystalline granular

darapskite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dashkovaite Image
Images: Dashkovaite
Comments: White fibrous dashkovaite.

Location: Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic,
Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size
2.3 mm.
Datolite Image
Images: Datolite
Comments: Cluster of doubly-terminated

datolite crystals to 3.3 cm across with a
scattering of brown inclusions.
Location: Boron Pit, Dal'Negorsk, Russia.
Scale: 5x3.9x3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Daubreeite Image
Images: Daubreeite
Comments: Massiv e yellow daubreeite.

Location: Cerro Tazna, Atocha-Quechisla
district, Nor Chichas Prov ince, Potos?
Department, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Daubreelite Image
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Images: Daubreelite Alabandite
Comments: Daubreelite (D), bright metallic

white, with alabandite (A) (dull yellow) as
inclusions in a polished section of an
achondrite meteorite.
Location: Norton County, Kansas. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Davidite-(La) Image
Images: Davidite-(La)
Comments: Prismatic crystals of davidite in

carbonatite.
Location: Thackering, South West Australia,
Australia. Scale: Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Davreuxite Image
Images: Davreuxite
Comments: Pale yellow fibrous davreuxite

on quartz.
Location: Ottre, Luxembourg, Belgium.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Davyne Image
Images: Davyne
Comments: Yellow translucent micro

crystal of davyne in sanidine.
Location: Laacher See, Rheinland-Pfalz,
Mineral Species
Dawsonite Image
Images: Dawsonite
Comments: White, radial crystalline

aggregates of dawsonite crystals.
Canada. Scale: Not Given.
Decrespignyite-(Y) Image
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Images: Decrespignyite-(Y)
Comments: Blue, rounded aggregates of

decrespignyite-(Y) on matrix.
Location: Paratoo copper mine, Yunta,
Olary Province, South Australia, Australia.
Defernite Image
Images: Defernite Hematite
Comments: Specular hematite rich with

crystalline grains of reddish brown
defernite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat,
Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region,
© John Veevaert
Defernite Image
Images: Defernite Vaterite Manganite
Comments: Opaque white fibrous vaterite

with red defernite and black manganite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi,
Otjozondjupa, Namibia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Delafossite Image
Images: Delafossite
Comments: Black crystals of delafossite on

matrix.
Location: Clara Mine, Rankach v alley,
Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest,
Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Deliensite Image
Images: Deliensite
Comments: Specimen is covered with

abundant micro crystals of deliensite.
Location: Mas d'Alary Village, Le Bosc
Lodeve, Herault, France. Scale: Not Given.
© John Veevaert
Delindeite Image
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Images: Delindeite
Comments: pale pink acicular crystal

sprays of delindeite on matrix.
Location: Diamond Jo Quarry, Hot Spring
County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dellaite Image
Images: Dellaite Rustumite
Comments: White grains of dellaite,

intermixed with rustumite.
Location: Queretaro, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dellaventuraite Image
Images: Dellaventuraite Aegirine-augite
Comments: View in plane-polarized light of

reddish brown dellaventuraite (OPTK) as
an overgrowth on purple-gray aegirine-
augite (AE-AG) in a matrix of rounded
quartz (QZ) with minor rounded (high relief)
apatite grains. (AmMin 90:306).
Location: Kajlidongri manganese mine,
Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Delrioite Image
Images: Delrioite Metadelrioite
Comments: Yellow metadelrioite and delrioite,

with orange rossite/metarossite on a sandstone
matrix. See inset image.
Location: Jo Dandy Mine, Montrose CO., USA.
Scale: 6 1/4" x 5 1/2".
Delvauxite Image
Images: Delvauxite
Comments: Pure botryoidal massiv e

delvauxite.
Location: Kutna Hora, Stredocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Demesmaekerite Image
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Images: Demesmaekerite Malachite
Comments: Pale green crystals of

demesmaekerite on dark green malachite.
Crystal Size 3mm.
© John Veevaert
Demesmaekerite Image
Images: Demesmaekerite
Comments: Tabular, light green and spear-

shaped dark greenish brown demesmaekerite
crystals.
Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba
(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 3
mm.
Denisovite Image
Images: Denisovite
Comments: Grayish-white fibrous

denisovite.
Location: Eveslogchorr Mt , Khibiny Massif,
mm.
Denningite Image
Images: Denningite Tellurite
Comments: Vitreous colorless to very pale

yellowish elongated crystals denningite
with yellow tellurite.
Location: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma,
Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.
Derbylite Image
Images: Derbylite
Comments: Small black crystals of

derbylite in matrix.
Location: Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema
(Ponte Stazzemese), Versilia, Apuan Alps,
Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
Derriksite Image
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Images: Derriksite
Comments: Light blue crystalline

aggregates of derriksite.
Location: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,
Not Given.
Desautelsite Image
Images: Desautelsite
Comments: Serpentinite with scaly reddish-

orange crystals of desautelsite.
Location: Artinite Pit, San Benito County,
California, USA. Scale: 3 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Descloizite Image
Images: Descloizite
Comments: Dark reddish brown, crystalline

aggregate of descloizite.
Location: Grootfontein. Namibia. Scale: 3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Devilline Image
Images: Devilline Malachite
Comments: Blue crystals of devilline on

green, botryoidal malachite.
Location: Spania Dolina (Herrengrund),
Slovakia. Scale: Not Given.
Devilline Image
Images: Devilline
Comments: Laminar crystals of blue

devilline on matrix..
Location: Spania Dolina (ex-Herrengrund)
Bansk? Bystrica Slovak Republic. Scale:
Specimen size: 6.9 x 3.3 x 5.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Dewindtite Image
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Images: Dewindtite
Comments: Yellow dewindtite exposed on

fracture surface. Schumacher Collection.
Location: Les Bois-Noirs Mine, Loire, Rh?ne-
Alpes, France. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Dewindtite Image
Images: Dewindtite Kivuite
Comments: Pale yellow coatings of kivuite

with yellowier dewindtite on pegmatite.
Location: Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Diaboleite Image
Images: Diaboleite
Comments: Coarsely crystalline, blue

diaboleite.
Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Arizona.
© John Veevaert
Diaboleite Image
Images: Diaboleite Yedlinite
Comments: Minute cranberry-colored

rounded yedlinite crystal with blue
diaboleite on yellow-brown wulfenite.
Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Pinal
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Diadochite Image
Images: Diadochite
Comments: Brown balls of diadochite on

matrix.
Location: Union Carbide mine, Garland
Diamond Image
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Images: Diamond
Comments: Single octahedral crystal of

diamond.
Location: Ghana, Africa. Scale: Not Given.
Diamond Image
Images: Diamond
Comments: Translucent diamond penetration

twin crystals.
Location: Mbuji-Mayi (Miba), Democratic
Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Scale: 3.70
carats, 7x7x7 mm.
Diamond Image
Images: Diamond
Comments: Photomicrographs (PPL) of

numerous microdiamonds in Kumdy-Kol
caboniferous dolomite marble (Elements
v1, no 2).
Location: Kokchetav Massif, Kumdy-Kol
ultra high pressure facies area, northern
Kazakhstan. Scale: See Image.
© Elements Magazine
Diaoyudaoite Image
Images: Diaoyudaoite
Comments: Dark green crystalline

diaoyudaoite.
Location: Novosibirsk District, Siberia, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Diaphorite Image
Images: Diaphorite
Comments: Prismatic, striated, metallic

diaphorite crystal on quartz.
Location: Morey, Nye County, Nevada,
Diaspore Image
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Images: Diaspore
Comments: Crystals of deep violet-colored

diaspore exposed from numerous vugs.
Location: Saga Quarry, Oslo Region
Norway. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Dickinsonite Image
Images: Dickinsonite
Comments: Salmon-colored, crystalline

dickinsonite.
Location: Branchville, Fairfield County,
Connecticut, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dickite Image
Images: Dickite Ankerite Sphalerite

on beige dickite.
© Dave Barthelmy
Dickite Image
Images: Dickite
Comments: Porcelaneous pure white

massive dickite.
Location: Beaver County, Utah, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dickthomssenite Image
Images: Dickthomssenite
Comments: Yellowish white, prismatic

crystals of dickthomssenite on matrix.
Location: Firefly-Pigmay Mine, La Sal
Quadrangle, San Juan Co., Utah, USA.
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Comments: Yellowish prismatic-looking,

radial aggregates of dickthomssenite
forming "balls" to 2mm on matrix.
Location: Firefly-Pigmy mine, San Juan Co.,
Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Comments: White, translucent balls of fiberous

aggregates of dickthomssenite on matrix.
Location: Vanadium Queen Mine, Paradox
District, La Sal Area, San Juan County, Utah,
USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Dietrichite Image
Images: Dietrichite
Comments: Pale beige fibrous dietrichite.

Location: Baia Sprie, Transylv ania,
Maramures, Romania. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dietzeite Image
Images: Dietzeite
Comments: Yellow crystalline coating of

dietzeite on matrix.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Digenite Image
Images: Digenite
Comments: Bluish trigonal crystal of

Digenite.
Location: Butte, Silv er Bow County,
Montana, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Dilithium Image
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Images: Dilithium
Comments: Reaction chamber image at

warp-factor-2 showng synthetic dilithium
(Di) crystal converting matter-antimatter
streams to high energy plasma.
Location: Engine room, U.S.S. Enterprise
NCC-1701-D, classified location in the
gamma quadrant. Scale: Cyastal size 5 x 2
x 6 cm.
© LeVar Burton
Dimorphite Image
Images: Dimorphite
Comments: Orange to yellow-orange

crystals of dimorphite on matrix.
Location: Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Vesuvius,
Naples, Naples province, Campania, Italy.
Diopside Image
Images: Diopside Grossular
Comments: Pale blue prismatic crystal of

diopside with orange-brown grossular.
Location: Val d'Aosta, Italy. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Diopside Image
Images: Diopside Magnesioferrite
Comments: Very dark brown Magnesioferrite

Pleonaste (Iron-Magnesium spinel) with cream
colored Calcite and gray green diopside.
Location: Aldan, Gon River, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Dioptase Image
Images: Dioptase
Comments: Dark-blue-green crystals of

dioptase on matrix. The color of dioptase
does not photograph well and must be
seen in person to appreciate.
Location: Altyn-tyube, Kasakhstan. Scale:
Crystal size 5 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Dioptase Image
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Images: Dioptase
Comments: Emerald green lustrous crystals

of dioptase to 14 mm in size and doubly
terminated, set upon a limestone and
massive calcite matrix.
Location: Altyn-Tyube, South Kazakhstan
Oblast', Kazakhstan. Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Dioptase Image
Images: Dioptase Minrecordite
Comments: Blue-green dioptase cov ered

with minute, rhombic crystals of
transparent minrecordite one mm or less in
size.
© John Veevaert
Dioptase Image
Images: Dioptase Kinoite
Comments: Fibrous crystals of blue-green

dioptase to 0.75mm on clear apophyllite
associated with dark blue kinoite.
USA. Scale: Pictures size 6 mm.
Dissakisite-(Ce) Image
Images: Dissakisite-(Ce) Dolomite
Comments: Small, prisimatic, acicular

crystals of tan-colored dissakisite-(Ce)
scatterd on white crystalline dolomite.
Location: Trimouns mine, Luzenac, Ari?ge
France. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Dittmarite Image
Images: Dittmarite Newberyite

dittmaritewith more opaque newberyite.
Location: Skipton Caves, Victoria, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dixenite Image
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Images: Dixenite
Comments: Deep red translucent

crystalline grains of dixenite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Djerfisherite Image
Images: Djerfisherite
Comments: Bronze metallic grains of

djerfisherite in white feldspar.
Mineral Species
Djurleite Image
Images: Djurleite
Comments: Dark, metallic djurleite with

transparent quartz and white calcite.
Location: Dzhezkazgan. Kazakhstan. Scale:
4.5 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Dmisteinbergite Image
Images: Dmisteinbergite Wairakite
Comments: Pearly platy crystalline

dmisteinbergite with dull white wairakite on
matrix.
Location: Kurumazawa, Katashina,
Gumma, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dolerophanite Image
Images: Dolerophanite Chalcanthite

Fedotovite

green fedotovite.
Picture size 3 mm.
Dollaseite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Dollaseite-(Ce)
Comments: Glassy brown crystalline grains

of dollaseite-(Ce) in matrix.
Location: Ostanmossagruvan, Norberg,
Sweden. Scale: Grain size 1 mm.
Dolomite Image
Images: Dolomite
Comments: Pink rhombohedral crystals of

dolomite on matrix.
Location: Eugui, Navarra Province,
Navarra, Spain. Scale: Not Giv en.
Dolomite Image
Images: Dolomite Dissakisite-(Ce)
Comments: Small, prisimatic, acicular

crystals of tan-colored dissakisite-(Ce)
scatterd on white crystalline dolomite.
Location: Trimouns mine, Luzenac, Ari?ge
France. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Doloresite Image
Images: Doloresite
Comments: black radiating doloresite and

crystalline doloresite with white calcite.
Location: Grants, Valencia County, New
Mineral Species
Domeykite Image
Images: Domeykite
Comments: Metallic nugget of domeykite.

Location: Cashin Mine, Montrose County,
Mineral Species
Donathite Image
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Images: Donathite
Comments: Black granular donathite on

iron.
Location: Hestmondo Island, Nordland,
Mineral Species
Donbassite Image
Images: Donbassite
Comments: Translucent white crystalline

donbassite.
Location: Donetz Basin, Ukraine. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Donnayite-(Y) Image
Images: Donnayite-(Y)
Comments: Brown micro-crystals of

donnayite-(Y) covering matrix.
Location: Mont. St. Hilaire, Rouville Co.,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture size 1.5
cm.
Donpeacorite Image
Images: Donpeacorite Braunite-I
Comments: Brown crystalline massive

donpeacorite with dark brown black
braunite.
Location: Zinc Corporation of America Mine
#4, Balmat, Saint Lawrence County, New
York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Dorfmanite Image
Images: Dorfmanite
Comments: White cottony coatings of

dorfmanite on matrix.
Mineral Species
Dorrite Image
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Images: Dorrite
Comments: Dark brown micaceous dorrite

(arrow) on matrix.
Location: Eicher, Sattel, Baden-
Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Douglasite Image
Images: Douglasite
Comments: Small red-brown translucent grain of

douglasite with white halite.
Location: Koningshutte, Silesia, Poland. Scale: See
Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral
Species
Doyleite Image
Images: Doyleite Gibbsite
Comments: Botryoidal spheres of doyleite

growing along with its dimorph gibbsite.
Analysis shows that doyleite dominates the
mix. There are also minor canary yellow
phlogopite crystals.
Location: Baoshan, Yunnan, China. Scale: 8
x 6.5 x 1.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Dravite Image
Images: Dravite
Comments: Doubly terminated dravite

crystal on white mica shist matrix.
Location: Yinnietharra Station, Gascoyne,
Western Australia. Scale: 4 x 4 x 2.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Dravite Image
Images: Dravite
Comments: Greenish-brown chrome-rich

dravite tourmaline crystals up to 13 mm long
with complex terminations. Fluoresces mildly
under UV illumination.
Location: Shako Ranch, Mwatate Kabanga,
Voi, Taita-Taveta district, Coast Province, Kenya.
Scale: 14x13x10 mm.
Dresserite Image
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Images: Dresserite
Comments: Radiating spheres of dresserite

on matrix.
Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal,
Mineral Species
Dresserite Image
Images: Dresserite
Comments: White divergent sprays of fibrous

crystals dresserite crystals.
Location: Francon quarry, Montr?al,
Jacques Cartier Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: Crystal size 5mm.
Dufrenite Image
Images: Dufrenite
Comments: Dark olive-greenish crystal of

dufrenite on matrix.
Dufrenoysite Image
Images: Dufrenoysite
Comments: Black prismatic crystal of

Dufrenoysite with brassy yellow pyrite on
succroidal dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Not Giv en.
Dufrenoysite Image
Images: Dufrenoysite
Comments: Single, black dufr?noysite crystal in a

vug in white dolomite.
Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 2.5 mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Duftite-alpha Image
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Images: Duftite-alpha Mimetite
Comments: Mimetite crystals are replaced

by Duftite-alpha on a gossanous matrix.
Location: Mt. Bonnie Mine, Northern
Territory, Australia. Scale: Crystal size to
3mm.
© John Veevaert
Duftite-beta Image
Images: Duftite-beta
Comments: Intensely green Duftite-beta on

fluorescent calcite.
Scale: .
© Fabre Minerals
Dugganite Image
Images: Dugganite
Comments: Green crystalline aggregate of

dugganite.
Location: Tombstone, Cochise County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.
Dukeite Image
Images: Dukeite
Comments: SEM photomicrograph showing

part of a dukeite sheave (AmMin, 85:1823).
Location: Found on a museum specimen
labeled as originating from the S?o Jos?
Mine, Breja?ba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
See Image.
Dumontite Image
Images: Dumontite
Comments: Bright yellow acicular crystals

of dumontite on matrix.
Dumortierite Image
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Images: Dumortierite
Comments: Blue dumortierite in matrix.

Location: Hartmannsdorf, Chemnitz,
Dumortierite Image
Comments: Divergent fans of acicular

purple to lilac colored dumortierite crystals
in white andalusite matrix.
Location: Dehesa, San Diego Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 2.3cm.
Dumortierite Image
Comments: Low-magnification, bright-field

image showing dispersed dumortierite fibers
extracted from rose quartz on a carbon film.
(AmMin 87:270).
Location: Madagascar. Scale: See Image.
Dundasite Image
Images: Dundasite
Comments: Bluish crystalline spray of

Dundasite on azurite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Duranusite Image
Images: Duranusite Realgar
Comments: Small black Duranusite in

orange-red realgar matrix.
Location: Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes,
Prov ence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France.
Dwornikite Image
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Images: Dwornikite
Comments: Green earthy, powdery

dwornikite on or replacing millerite as
acicular crystals in 1cm vug.
Location: Lipovka Ni deposit, Rezh District,
Central Urals, Urals Region, Russia. Scale:
Dypingite Image
Images: Dypingite
Comments: White spherical aggregates of

dypingite on matrix.
Location: Jeremias Gl?ck Mine (Fairy
Grotto), Garnsdorf, Saalfeld, Thuringia,
Dyscrasite Image
Images: Dyscrasite
Comments: Metallic-silv er, prismatic,

crystallized dyscrasite. Individual crystal
spears to 8 mm in size.
Location: Mine #21, Pribram, Bohemia,
Czech Republic. Scale: 6 x 10 x 6.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
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Eakerite Image
Images: Eakerite
Comments: Transparent, prismatic crystal

of eakerite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Earlshannonite Image
Images: Earlshannonite
Comments: Brownish earlshonnonite

aggregate surrounded by white,
pegmatitic matrix.
Location: Foote Mine, Kings Mtn, North
Carolina, USA. Scale: 2 1/2" x 2".
Eastonite Image
Images: Eastonite
Comments: Small micaceous area of

eastonite in quartz.
Location: C.K. Williams Quarry, Easton,
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Eckermannite Image
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Images: Eckermannite
Comments: Dark blue-green prismatic

crystalline eckermannite in matrix.
Location: Norra Karr, Granna, Jonkoping,
Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Eclarite Image
Images: Eclarite
Comments: Black crystalline masses and

prismatic crystals of eclarite in fine grained
quartz.
Location: Barenbad Mine, Hollersbachtal,
Salzburg, Oberosterrich, Austria. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Edenharterite Image
Images: Edenharterite
Comments: Submetallic, deep brownish

black crystalline aggregate of
edenharterite crystals in white dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 2
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Edenite Image
Images: Edenite Pargasite
Comments: Blocky, dark green crystals of

visually indistinguishable pargasite and
edenite.
Location: Kolonne bei, Embilipitiya, Sri
Lanka. Scale: 4.5 x 1.7 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Edenite Image
Images: Edenite
Comments: Green granular edenite in

fine-grained phlogopite.
Mineral Species
Edgarbaileyite Image
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Images: Edgarbaileyite
Comments: Resinous yellow masses of

edgarbaileyite in quartz.
Location: Clear Creek Mine, San Benito
Mineral Species
Edgarite Image
Images: Edgarite
Comments: Scanning electron

micro-image edgarite (EDG, fibrous
appearing) inclusion in pyrrhotite (PY) with
marcasite (MRC, slightly lower reflectance)
in silicate matrix (SIL, lowest reflectance).
Mineral Species
Edgarite Image
Images: Edgarite
Comments: Silvery metallic edgarite

crystal to about 0.3mm embedded
between pegmatite grains.
Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region,
Edingtonite Image
Images: Edingtonite
Comments: Lath-shaped crystalline

aggregates of edingtonite.
Location: Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paolo,
Brazil. Scale: Not Given.
Edingtonite Image
Images: Edingtonite
Comments: White, stout prisms of calcite on

pinkish analcime with small, cream-
colored bladed edingtionite crystals.
Location: Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshite,
Scotland. Scale: Picture Size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Edoylerite Image
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Images: Edoylerite Cinnabar
Comments: Yellow prismatic crystals of

edoylerite with red cinnabar.
Location: Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek
Mine), New Idria district, San Benito Co.,
Effenbergerite Image
Images: Effenbergerite Sugilite
Comments: Blue effenbergerite pods to

across in massive purple sugilite.
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert
Efremovite Image
Images: Efremovite
Comments: White, massive efremovite. The

mineral is hygroscopic and must be stored
in a closed box.
size 6 mm.
Eggletonite Image
Images: Eggletonite
Comments: Brown micro crystals of

eggletonite in syenite.
Location: 3M Quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski
Mineral Species
Eglestonite Image
Images: Eglestonite
Comments: Small yellow crystals and

massive aggregates of eglestonite.
Location: Landsberg (Moschellandsberg),
Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-
Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.8
mm.
Ehrleite Image
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Images: Ehrleite Parascholzite
Comments: White to clear, slender, 1-2mm,

prismatic crystals of ehrleite associated
with massive parascholzite. Type specimen
courtesy of Museum of Geology, SD School
of Mines.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County,
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2
mm.
Eifelite Image
Images: Eifelite
Comments: Clear glassy microcrystal of

eifelite.
Location: Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Eitelite Image
Images: Eitelite
Comments: Pale yellow crystalline eitelite.

Location: Mapco Shrine Hospital Well #1
drill core, Green River Formation, Duchesne
Mineral Species
Ekanite Image
Images: Ekanite
Comments: Complex specimen of many

minerals, most notable are four red ekanite
crystals (rare!) scattered around the
specimen.
Scale: 6x4x4 cm.
Ekaterinite Image
Images: Ekaterinite
Comments: Pale pink crystalline cleavage

fragment of ekaterinite.
Photo.
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Mineral Species
Elbaite Image
Images: Elbaite
Comments: Doubly terminated tri-color

elbaite (tourmaline) with minor white
clev elandite (albite).
Location: Himalaya mine, San Diego
County, California, USA. Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Elbaite Image
Images: Elbaite
Comments: Gemmy-blue crystal of elbaite (Indicolite)

tourmaline.
Location: Morro Redondo Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
© Kevin Ward
Ellenbergerite Image
Images: Ellenbergerite
Comments: Pale pink glassy nearly pure

mass of ellenbergerite.
Location: Dora-Meira Massif, Parigi,
Piemonte, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ellestadite Image
Images: Ellestadite
Comments: Honey yellow hexagonal

dipyramids of ellestadite in light blue
marble matrix.
Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside
County, California, USA. Scale: 6 x 7.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Elpasolite Image
Images: Elpasolite
Comments: Colorless crystal of elpasolite in

matrix.
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Elpidite Image
Images: Elpidite
Comments: Blocky, intergrown crystals of

elpidite.
Location: Narsasuk, Greenland. Scale:
Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Elyite Image
Images: Elyite
Comments: Purple acicular crystals of

elyite.
Location: Kurfurst-Ernst, Bonkhausen,
Sauerland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Embolite Image
Images: Embolite
Comments: An exposed 3 x 2 cm vug in

barite completely filled with a mass of
embolite comprised of myriad crystals to 2
mm.
Location: Broken Hill Mine, New South
Wales, Australia. Scale: Picture size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Embolite Image
Images: Embolite Iodargyrite
Comments: Cubo-octahedral crystals of

iodaryrite (I) with smaller and darker
octahedral crystals of embolite (E).
Australia. Scale: Specimen size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Embreyite Image
Images: Embreyite
Comments: Orange embreyite crystals on

matrix.
Location: Cumbria, England. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Emeleusite Image
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Images: Emeleusite
Comments: Clear to pale tan glassy

crystalline emeleusite with white albite and
dark green aegirine.
Location: Igdlutalik, Greenland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Emmonsite Image
Images: Emmonsite
Comments: Quartz with small blebs of pea

green emmonsite.
Location: Barrbolla Mine, Moctezuma,
Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Bleb size 2 mm.
© John Veevaert
Emmonsite Image
Images: Emmonsite Schmitterite
Comments: Yellow schmitterite with green

emmonsite.
size 4 mm.
Emmonsite Image
Images: Emmonsite
Comments: Green, mossy emmonsite on

matrix..
Location: Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.
Emplectite Image
Images: Emplectite
Comments: Metallic emplectite wire in

quartz.
Location: Schwarzenberg, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Not Given.
Empressite Image
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Images: Empressite Tellurium
Comments: Bronze-colored microcrystals

of empressite with bright native tellurium
crystals.
Location: Rex mine, Boulder County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm.
Enargite Image
Images: Enargite
Comments: Lustrous, metallic gray

columnar crystals of enargite with minor
quartz.
Location: Quiruvilca, La Libertad Dept.,
Peru. Scale: 4.2x2x2.3 cm.
Enargite Image
Images: Enargite Famatinite
Comments: Violet metallic crystalline

famatinite with black massive enargite.
Location: Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Endellite Image
Images: Endellite
Comments: Gray to white massive

endellite.
Location: Buck Reef Deposit, Ravenswood,
Queensland, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Englishite Image
Images: Englishite
Comments: Bluish colliform englishite

crystals.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah
County, Utah. Scale: Not Given.
Englishite Image
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Images: Englishite Roscherite

roscherite on white englishite.
Giv en.
Englishite Image
Images: Englishite Tiptopite

Montgomeryite
Comments: Red montgomeryite lath-like

crystals to 1mm in 2mm rosettes associated
with clear, acicular sprays of tiptopite to
0.75mm and white cottonball-like crystals
of englishite to 0.2mm.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South
Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Enstatite Image
Images: Enstatite
Comments: Single, terminated, brown, transparent

to translucent enstatite crystal.
Location: Mpwa-Mpwa, Tanzania. Scale: 17x17x27
mm.
© Dan Weinrich
Eosphorite Image
Images: Eosphorite Zanazziite
Comments: Minor crystals of equant, olive

green zanazziite and brown, lath-like
crystals of eosphorite on quartz.
© John Veevaert
Eosphorite Image
Images: Eosphorite Vivianite
Comments: Bottle-green translucent

vivianite crystal (2cm) associated with
reddish, micro eosphorite crystals.
Location: Lav ra do ?nio pegmatite,
Galil?ia, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm..
Ephesite Image
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Images: Ephesite Hausmannite
Comments: Flesh-colored ephesite associated

with dark brownish black hausmannite.
Location: Gloucester mine. Postmasburg, Cape
prov ince. S. Africa. Scale: 5.5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Epididymite Image
Images: Epididymite
Comments: Trilling twinned crystal of

epididymite on matrix.
Epididymite Image
Images: Epididymite Eudidymite
Comments: Translucent prismatic crystals

of eudidymite on white opaque
epididymite.
Location: Narsaarsuk, Greenland. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Epidote Image
Images: Epidote
Comments: Dark green, blocky epidote

with transparent quartz.
Location: Copper Mt., Prince of Wales,
Alaska. Scale: 7 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Epistilbite Image
Images: Epistilbite Quartz
Comments: White epistilbite cluster 25 mm

across on amethyst quartz crystal matrix.
Location: Sawda, Jalgaon, Maharashtra,
India. Scale: 10x8x5 cm.
Epistolite Image
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Images: Epistolite
Comments: Plate-like crystals of pearly

white epistolite to 2.7 cm.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Kvanefjeld,
Greenland. Scale: 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Epsomite Image
Images: Epsomite
Comments: Pure white compact fibrous

mass of epsomite.
Location: Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon,
Spain. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ercitite Image
Images: Ercitite
Comments: Back-scattered electron images of

ercitite (medium gray) showing lath-shaped
habit and cleavages and splintering on
mechanical disturbance. W: whitlockite, F:
fairfieldite, C: unidentified. (CanMin, v 38, p 896).
Location: Tanco pegmatite, southeastern
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: Image size 150 µ-m.
Erdite Image
Images: Erdite
Comments: Red-brown columnar

crystalline erdite in matrix.
Location: Coyote Peak, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species
Ericaite Image
Images: Ericaite
Comments: Cubic crystal ericaite.

Location: Bischofferode, Nordhausen, Erfurt
district, Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:
Ericssonite Image
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Images: Ericssonite Orthoericssonite

Tephroite
Comments: Dark brown ericssonite,

intergrown with orthoericssonite, with pink
rhodonite, light brown diopside (v ar.
schefferite) and gray tephroite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Eriochalcite Image
Images: Eriochalcite
Comments: Green grains of eriochalcite

from the eruption of 1875, Vesuvius
volcano.
Location: Vesuvius volcano. Vesuvius,
Naples, Naples province, Campania, Italy.
Erionite-Na Image
Images: Erionite-Na
Comments: White to pale green radiating

erionite.
Location: Shurdo, Caucasus Mountains,
Georgia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Erlichmanite Image
Images: Erlichmanite
Comments: Large gray fractured grain of

erlichmanite. Polished section in reflected
light.
Ernienickelite Image
Images: Ernienickelite
Comments: Very small reddish-black

tabular crystals of ernienickelite on quartz.
Location: Siberia complex, Western
Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture size 0.7
mm.
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Ernstite Image
Images: Ernstite Schoonerite
Comments: 1 mm honey brown, acicular,

radial sprays of ernstite with light green
fibrous schoonerite and apatite in siderite.
Location: White Cap mine, Pennington
County., South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.
Ershovite Image
Images: Ershovite
Comments: Oliv e green coatings of

ershovite on green aegirine.
Location: Mount Koashva, Khibiny Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Erythrite Image
Images: Erythrite Cobaltkoritnigite
Comments: Dark purplish cobaltkoritnigite

with pink erythrite.
Erythrite Image
Images: Erythrite Skutterudite
Comments: Erythrite crystal on massive

skutterudite.
Location: Bou Azzer, Morocco. Scale:
© John Veevaert
Erythrosiderite Image
Images: Erythrosiderite Sal-ammoniac
Comments: Orange-brown aggregates of

erythrosiderite with sal ammoniac. Material
from the 1926 eruption of the Erythrosiderite
is hygroscopic and must be stored in a
the vial.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples Province,
Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
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Eskebornite Image
Images: Eskebornite Jolliffeite

image of jolliffeite in sulfurian eskebornite.
Note the cracked appearance and the
different brightness of eskebornite, which is
a reflection of v ariable ratio of selenium to
sulfur. (CanMin v 42, p 844).
Location: Niederschlema-Alberoda
uranium deposit, in the Erzgebirge region of
Germany. Scale: See Image.
Eskimoite Image
Images: Eskimoite
Comments: Gray metallic eskimoite in

quartz.
Location: Manhattan, Nye County,
Mineral Species
Eskolaite Image
Images: Eskolaite Chalcocite
Comments: Green crystalline eskolaite on

massive chalcocite.
Location: Lubelin, Poland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Esperanzaite Image
Images: Esperanzaite
Comments: Pale blue-green botryoidal

esperanzaite in rhyolite.
Location: Mina La Esperanza, Durango,
Mineral Species
Esperite Image
Images: Esperite Hardystonite Franklinite
Comments: Pale brown porcelaneous

esperite with pinkish gray hardystonite and
black franklinite.
Jersey. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Esseneite Image
Images: Esseneite
Comments: Orange-brown crystalline

coating of esseneite on anorthite.
Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk District,
Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ettringite Image
Images: Ettringite
Comments: Small glassy whitish micro

crystals of ettringite on a white powdery
matrix.
Location: Ettringen, Eifel, Allemagne,
Germany. Scale: 2.5 x 1 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Ettringite Image
Images: Ettringite
Comments: Doubly-terminated crystals of

glassy yellow ettringite on matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, near Kuruman,
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 4 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Eucairite Image
Images: Eucairite
Comments: Black dendritic eucairite in

white calcite crystal.
Location: Skrikerum Copper Mine, near
Tyrsarum, Kalmar, Sweden. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Eucairite Image
Images: Eucairite Schlemaite Clausthalite

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See Picture.
Eucairite Image
Images: Eucairite Crookesite
Comments: Polished section (PPL) showing

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

euchlorine on v olcanic rock.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Euchroite Image
Images: Euchroite
Comments: Dark green, blocky crystals of

euchroite on matrix.
Location: Missoula County, Montana, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Euchroite Image
Images: Euchroite
Comments: Green, well developed,

coarsely-crystalline euchroite on matrix.
Location: L'Ubietov? (Libethen) Slovak
Republic. Scale: 1.9 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Euclase Image
Images: Euclase
Comments: Euclase with sharp edges and great

color. This specimen is from one of the famous
and finest world finds of euclase, in the
Colombian Emeralds area.
Location: Chiv or, Columbia. Scale: 1.2 x 0.6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
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Eucryptite Image
Images: Eucryptite
Comments: Gray massive eucryptite.

Location: Parker Mountain, Center
Strafford, Strafford County, New Hampshire,
Mineral Species
Eucryptite Image
Images: Eucryptite
Comments: Fine grained, massive

eucryptite. Fluorescent Red under SW.
Location: Midnight Owl mine, Yavapai Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: 6x4x4cm.
Eudialyte Image
Images: Eudialyte Natrolite
Comments: Druse of gemmy, red eudialyte

crystals to 1 mm on white natrolite.
© John Veevaert
Eudialyte Image
Images: Eudialyte Vlasovite
Comments: Transparent yellow-gray

v lasovite crystal frozen in pink eudialyte
matrix.
Location: Kipawa alkaline complex, near
Sheffield Lake, Villedieu Township,
T?miscamingue Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: 2x2x1 cm.
Eudialyte Image
Images: Eudialyte Agrellite
Comments: Tan agrellite grain, with red

eudialyte.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu,
Mineral Species
Eudialyte Image
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Images: Eudialyte Gittinsite
Comments: White crystalline gittinsite with

red eudialyte.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu
Township, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Eudidymite Image
Images: Eudidymite Epididymite
Comments: Translucent prismatic crystals

of eudidymite on white opaque
epididymite.
Location: Narsaarsuk, Greenland. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Eugenite Image
Images: Eugenite
Comments: Metallic, silvery eugenite.

Location: Copiap?, Atacama, Chile. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Eugenite Image
Images: Eugenite
Comments: Brassy, silvery eugenite

alteration of leaf silver to 4mm.
Location: Elisa de Bordos mine, Copiap?,
Atacama Province, Chile. Scale: Picture
size 1 cm.
Eulytite Image
Images: Eulytite
Comments: Brown, isometric crystals of

eulytite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Euxenite-(Y) Image
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Images: Euxenite-(Y)
Comments: Crystal of euxenite-(Y) in

matrix.
Location: Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee
County, Colorado, USA. Scale: Crystal size
1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Evansite Image
Images: Evansite
Comments: Cream-colored, amorphous

ev ansite coating an unknown striated,
prismatic mineral, now missing (see hollow
shells)..
Location: Cobalt, Idaho. Scale: Picture size
3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Eveite Image
Images: Eveite Akrochordite
Comments: Micro crystals (to about

0.75mm) of very pale grayish green eveite
in tiny vug with light pink akrochordite.
Co-Type specimen & type locality.
Scale: 13x10x4 mm.
Evenkite Image
Images: Evenkite
Comments: Colorless flake of evenkite on

an orange background.
Location: Khavokiperskiye Rocks
polymetallic occurrence, Evenkia,
Nizhnyaya Tunguska Riv er, Nizhnyaya
Tunguska River Basin, Krasnoyarskiy Kray,
Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Size 4
mm.
Eyselite Image
Images: Eyselite
Comments: Pale yellowish brown crystalline

aggregate of eyselite in a vug on sulfide ore.
(CanMin 42:1773).
Location: Ge-bearing ore samples from Tsumeb
mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: See Scale Bar.
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Eyselite Image
Images: Eyselite
Comments: SEM photomicrograph of

platy/tabular crystals of eyselite. (CanMin
42:1773).
Location: Ge-bearing ore samples from
Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: See
Scale Bar.
Ezcurrite Image
Images: Ezcurrite
Comments: Translucent white crystalline

massive ezcurrite.
Location: Tincalaya, Salta, Argentina.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Eztlite Image
Images: Eztlite
Comments: Reddish-brown crystalline

eztlite on matrix.
size 4 mm.
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Fahleite Image
Images: Fahleite
Comments: Crystalline cleav age fragment

of fahleite.
Location: Tsumeb, Oshikoto, Namibia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fairbankite Image
Images: Fairbankite Jarosite

fairbankite with orangish brown jarosite.
Location: Tombstone, Tombstone District,
Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 mm.
Fairfieldite Image
Images: Fairfieldite
Comments: Transparent, cockscomb druse

of fairfieldite crystals.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Falcondoite Image
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Images: Falcondoite
Comments: Solid mass of lime green

falcondoite.
Location: Riddle, Douglas County, Oregon.
USA. Scale: 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Falkmanite Image
Images: Falkmanite
Comments: Metallic black platy striated

falkmanite, with bronze luster in spots.
Location: Grube Bayerland, Waldsassen,
Bavaria, Bayern, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Famatinite Image
Images: Famatinite Enargite
Comments: Violet metallic crystalline

famatinite with black massive enargite.
Location: Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Famatinite Image
Images: Famatinite
Comments: Dark, purplish black, massiv e

famatinite.
Location: Tertiary v olcanic massif, the
Serrania de Laurani, Bolivia. Scale: Picture
size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Fangite Image
Images: Fangite Lorandite
Comments: Brown crystals of fangite with

red lorandite.
Location: Allchar, Roszdan, FYR
Macedonia. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.
Faujasite-Na Image
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Images: Faujasite-Na
Comments: Intergrown crystals of faujasite

coated with opal.
Location: Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Wurttemburg,
Faustite Image
Images: Faustite
Comments: White botryoidal faustite on

matrix.
Location: Rain Mine, Eureka County,
Mineral Species
Fayalite Image
Images: Fayalite
Comments: Flattened crystals of fayalite

on cristobalite.
Location: Coso Hot Springs, Inyo County,
California. Scale: Not Given.
Fedorite Image
Images: Fedorite Charoite
Comments: Tan crystalline platy fedorite in

pale violet charoite.
Location: Murun, Republic of Sakha, Siberia,
Mineral Species
Fedorovskite Image
Images: Fedorovskite
Comments: Brown crystalline fedorovskite.

Location: Solongo, Republic of Buryatia,
Mineral Species
Fedotovite Image
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Images: Fedotovite Dolerophanite

Chalcanthite

green fedotovite.
Picture size 3 mm.
Fedotovite Image
Images: Fedotovite Chalcanthite
Comments: Green fedotovite with pale

blue chalcanthite.
Picture size 4 mm.
Feitknechtite Image
Images: Feitknechtite
Comments: Brown feitknechtite with pink

rhodonite.
Location: Ioi Mine, Ritto Cho, Shiga, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Feklichevite Image
Images: Feklichevite
Comments: Brownish to purplish-brownish

crystal of feklichevite.
Location: Kovdor Mine, Kovdor massif, Kola
Felsobanyaite Image
Images: Felsobanyaite
Comments: Gray white crystalline micro

grains of fels?banyaite on brown to yellow
opal.
Location: Cavnik, Felsobanya, Maramures,
Romania. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fenaksite Image
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Images: Fenaksite
Comments: Tan to rose colored crystalline

fenaksite with dark green-black crystalline
pyroxene.
Mineral Species
Fencooperite Image
Images: Fencooperite
Comments: Micro black needles of

fencooperite in white sanbornite and
pinkish gillespite matrix.
Location: Trumbull Peak, Sierra Nevada,
Mariposa Co., California, USA. Scale:
2x2x2cm.
Ferberite Image
Images: Ferberite
Comments: Ferberite with minor siderite

selvage.
Location: Panasqueira (2nd level), in the
region of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale: 6 x 5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Ferberite Image
Images: Ferberite Anthoinite

Cerotungstite-(Ce)

Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferchromide Image
Images: Ferchromide
Comments: Metallic microcrystal of

ferchromide.
Location: Verkhneivinsk, Sverdlovsk District,
Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fergusonite-(Y) Image
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Images: Fergusonite-(Y)
Comments: Heavy mass of fergusonite-(Y)

with one face polished flat to show the
solid interior. Radioactive.
Location: Ambatofotsy, Betafo - Antsirab?
region, Antananarivo Province,
Madagascar. Scale: 6x2.5x1.5 cm.
Fermorite Image
Images: Fermorite
Comments: Pinkish crystalline massive

fermorite.
Location: Sitipar, Chindwara District, India.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fernandinite Image
Images: Fernandinite
Comments: Greenish-yellow fernandinite

coatings on sandstone.
Location: Deremo-Snyder Mine, Egnar, San
Miguel County, Colorado. USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Feroxyhyte Image
Images: Feroxyhyte
Comments: Brown botryoidal feroxyhyte.

Location: Pachi Limani, Laurium, Attiki,
Greece. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferrarisite Image
Images: Ferrarisite
Comments: Translucent crystal spray of

ferrarisite on matrix.
Location: Gift Grube, Sainte-Marie-
aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferricopiapite Image
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Images: Ferricopiapite
Comments: Earthy, yellow ferricopiapite,

v ariety chalcanthite.
Mineral Species
Ferricopiapite Image
Images: Ferricopiapite Goldichite

Coquimbite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferrierite-Na Image
Images: Ferrierite-Na
Comments: Rounded crystalline

aggregate of yellow to brown ferrierite.
Location: Monte Lake, British Columbia,
Ferrilotharmeyerite Image
Images: Ferrilotharmeyerite
Comments: Brown crystalline aggregates

of ferrilotharmeyerite on quartz.
Location: Pucher Shaft, Schneeberg District,
Picture size 6 mm.
Ferrimolybdite Image
Images: Ferrimolybdite
Comments: Greenish-yellow crystalline

aggregates of ferrimolybdite on a
gossanous matrix.
Location: Quarry No 2, K?nigshain,
Ferrinatrite Image
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Images: Ferrinatrite

ferrinatrite with gypsum needles.
Ferrinatrite Image
Images: Ferrinatrite Rozenite Copiapite

copiapite.
Mineral Species
Ferripyrophyllite Image
Images: Ferripyrophyllite
Comments: Brown crystal prism of

ferripyrophyllite in earthy matrix.
Location: Talagai, Kazakhstan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferrisicklerite Image
Images: Ferrisicklerite
Comments: Dark brown massiv e

ferrisicklerite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferristrunzite Image
Images: Ferristrunzite
Comments: Radiating yellow crystals of

ferristrunzite on black matrix.
Location: Blaton, Hainaut (Henegouwen;
Hennegau) Province, Belgium. Scale:
35x25x15 mm.
Ferrisurite Image
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Images: Ferrisurite
Comments: Olive-green crystalline

ferrisurite, with radiating structure.
Location: Shirley Ann Claim, near Darwin,
Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferritaramite Image
Images: Ferritaramite Potassic-ferritaramite
Comments: Lightly to moderately etched, blocky, jet

black ferritaramite (potassic-ferritaramite is a not
approved mineral name).
Location: Niaslo, Basha Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan.
Scale: 5 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Ferritungstite Image
Images: Ferritungstite
Comments: Small, yellow crystals of

ferritungstite on matrix.
5 mm.
Ferro-actinolite Image
Images: Ferro-actinolite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of ferro-actinolite

showing terminal crystal faces..
Location: Astor, Shigar Valley Pakistan. Scale: 4.5
x 3.3 x 4.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Ferroalluaudite Image
Images: Ferroalluaudite
Comments: Dark green crystalline ferro

alluaudite in pegmatite.
Location: Chandler Mills Mine, Newport,
Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Ferroaxinite Image
Images: Ferroaxinite
Comments: Doubly terminated ferroaxinite

crystal with good luster and form.
Location: Puyva, Polar Ural, Russia. Scale:
3x5x2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Ferrobustamite Image
Images: Ferrobustamite
Comments: Grayish crystalline

ferrobustamite with white calcite, golden
colored phlogopite and green actinolite.
Mineral Species
Ferrocarpholite Image
Images: Ferrocarpholite
Comments: Pale yellow radiating

ferrocarpholite crystals.
Location: Krasno, Zapadocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Ferroceladonite Image
Images: Ferroceladonite
Comments: Micaceous ferro celadonite,

comprising schistose rock.
Location: Mikhailovsky Mine, Malkhan
Range, Central Transbaikalia, Chita District,
Mineral Species
Ferrocolumbite Image
Images: Ferrocolumbite Microcline
Comments: Blocky, dark brown ferrocolumbite on

pale greenish blue amazonite (microcline).
Location: Crystal Park, El Paso Co., Colorado,
© Fabre Minerals
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Images: Ferrocolumbite Baotite
Comments: Minute brown crystalline grains

of baotite in dark ferrocolumbite.
Location: Sheep Creek, Ravalli County,
Montana. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Images: Ferrocolumbite Plumbopyrochlore
Comments: Brown plumbopyrochlore

crystal with dark brown ferrocolumbite.
Location: Holdazan, Buregteg, Mongolia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferrohexahydrite Image
Images: Ferrohexahydrite
Comments: White to light brownish crust of

ferrohexahydrite on matrix.
Location: Sohland, Bautzen, Oberlausitz,
Ferrohogbomite-2N2S Image
Images: Ferrohogbomite-2N2S
Comments: Photomicrograph of euhedral

ferrohogbomite-2N2S grains (Hog) in
magnetite (Mgt). (MinMag, v 67, p 1084).
Location: Eastern Ghats belt, Andhra
Pradesh, India. Scale: See Image.
© Mineralogical Magazine
Ferroholmquistite Image
Images: Ferroholmquistite
Comments: Dark green ferroholmquistite,

with silv ery luster, prismatic crystalline
ferroholmquistite in cesium rich reddish
brown biotite.
Location: Goltsy, Eastern Sayan Mountains,
See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Ferrohornblende Image
Images: Ferrohornblende Hornblende
Comments: Dark gray prismatic crystal of

ferrohornblende in a white feldspar matrix.
Location: Monte Somma (Vesuv ius),
Campania, Italy. Scale: Not Given.
Ferrokentbrooksite Image
Images: Ferrokentbrooksite
Comments: A crystal of red

ferrokentbrooksite in matrix.
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.
© L?szl? Horv?th
Ferrokesterite Image
Images: Ferrokesterite Andorite
Comments: Small, tetragonal crystal of

gray ferrokesterite (circled in thumbnail)
attached on the surface of a larger
striated andorite specimen.
Location: San Jose mine, Oruro, Bolivia.
© John Veevaert
Ferrolaueite Image
Images: Ferrolaueite
Comments: Pale tan microcrystal

aggregates of ferro laueite on quartz.
Location: My Creek, Burlington County,
New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferropargasite Image
Images: Ferropargasite
Comments: Dark to medium green

crystalline granular ferropargasite.
Location: Ginevro Mine, Elba, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferropyrosmalite Image
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Images: Ferropyrosmalite
Comments: Crystal of ferropyrosmalite on

clinochlore schist.
Location: Normark, Wermland, Sweden.
© John Veevaert
Ferrorichterite Image
Images: Ferrorichterite
Comments: Brownish-yellow fibrous

ferrorichterite on matrix.
Location: Brunsheon, Gruvan, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferrosilite Image
Images: Ferrosilite
Comments: Transparent, brown prismatic

blades of ferrosilite crystals on matrix.
Location: Summit Rock, Diamond Lake,
Douglas County, Oregon, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Ferrostrunzite Image
Images: Ferrostrunzite
Comments: Yellowish acicular crystals of

ferrostrunzite.
Location: Grav el Hill mine, Perranzabuloe,
Cornwall, England, UK. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Ferrotantalite Image
Images: Ferrotantalite
Comments: Rounded black crystal of

ferrotantalite.
Location: Mount Surprise, Queensland,
Mineral Species
Ferrotantalite Image
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Images: Ferrotantalite
Comments: Blocky, crystalline aggregate

of ferrotantalite crystals weighing ov er one
kilogram.
Location: Ecuador, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 10 x 6 x 5 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Ferrotapiolite Image
Images: Ferrotapiolite
Comments: Twinned, brown, dipyramid crystal of

ferrotapiolite.
Location: Sapucaia district, Galileia, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: 4.2x3.1x3.1 cm.
Ferrotapiolite Image
Images: Ferrotapiolite
Comments: Ferrotapiolite crystal in white

quartz and mica matrix.
Location: Quixab? Mine, Frei Martinho,
Para?ba Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 1 x 0.8
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Ferrotschermakite Image
Images: Ferrotschermakite
Comments: Medium green crystalline

massive ferrotschermakite with
yellow-brown massive andradite.
Location: Old Tip Quarry, Dookie
Mineralogical Reserve, Dookie, Victoria,
Mineral Species
Ferrotychite Image
Images: Ferrotychite
Comments: Yellow crystalline granular

ferrotychite in white analcime (drill core).
Location: Olenii Ruchei, Khibiny Massif, Kola
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferrowinchite Image
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Images: Ferrowinchite
Comments: Dark green divergent fibrous

ferrowinchite.
Location: Harstigen, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferrowodginite Image
Images: Ferrowodginite
Comments: Dark brown massiv e

ferrowodginite.
Location: Nyanga Number 2 Pegmatite,
Ankole, Uganda. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferrowyllieite Image
Images: Ferrowyllieite
Comments: Deep greenish black massive

ferrowyllieite with brown to white quartz.
Location: Victory Mine, near Custer, Custer
County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Ferruccite Image
Images: Ferruccite Avogadrite
Comments: Very small, white crystals of

ferrite on massive, yellowish avogadrite.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples, Naples
province, Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Fersmanite Image
Images: Fersmanite
Comments: Large single crystal of brown

fersmanite in quartz matrix.
Russia. Scale: 4x3x2 cm.
Fersmite Image
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Images: Fersmite
Comments: Brown prismatic crystal of

fersmite in matrix.
Location: Alpe Rosso, Vigezzo v alley,
Novara, Piedmont, Italy. Scale: Picture size
1.7 mm.
Fervanite Image
Images: Fervanite Hewettite

acicular microcrystals of fervanite with
blocky hewettite.
Location: Gold Quarry Mine, Carlin Trend,
Eureka County, Nev ada, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Fetiasite Image
Images: Fetiasite
Comments: Sub metallic grayish black

crystals of fetiasite on matrix.
Location: Gorb, Binntal, Wallis (Valais),
Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.
Fettelite Image
Images: Fettelite
Comments: Deep scarlet red crystals of

fettelite.
Location: Glasberg Quarry, Nieder-
Beerbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany.
Fianelite Image
Images: Fianelite
Comments: Small reddish-brown inclusions

of fianelite in matrix.
Location: Fianel Mine, Val Ferrera, Grischun
(Grisons; Graub?nden), Switzerland. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.
Fibroferrite Image
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Images: Fibroferrite
Comments: Tan-white, acicular crystals of

fibroferrite on matrix.
Fichtelite Image
Images: Fichtelite
Comments: Colorless crystals of fichtelite

on fossil wood.
Location: Marktredwitz, Fichtelgebirge,
Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Picture size 6
mm.
Fiedlerite Image
Images: Fiedlerite

fiedlerite on matrix.
Giv en.
Filipstadite Image
Images: Filipstadite Hausmannite
Comments: Dark minute grains of

filipstadtite in hausmannite (slabbed
specimen).
Location: Jacobsberg Mine, near
Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Finnemanite Image
Images: Finnemanite
Comments: Black, prismatic, twinned

crystal of finnemanite.
Location: L?ngban, Filipstad, V?rmland,
Sweden. Scale: Crystal length 4.5 mm.
Fizelyite Image
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Images: Fizelyite
Comments: Galena and sphalerite with

minor chalcopyrite and a heavy druse of
acicular fizelyite crystals.
Location: Herja, Kisbanya, Transylvania,
Romania. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© John Veevaert
Flagstaffite Image
Images: Flagstaffite
Comments: Colorless transparent

microcrystal fragment of flagstaffite.
Location: San Francisco Mountains, near
Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fleischerite Image
Images: Fleischerite
Comments: Pale pink transparent acicular

crystals of fleischerite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Florencite-(Ce) Image
Images: Florencite-(Ce)
Comments: Butterscotch colored

florencite-(Ce) on a quartz crystal.
Location: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Scale:
Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert
Florencite-(La) Image
Images: Florencite-(La)
Comments: Green, acicular crystalline

aggregates of florencite-(La).
Location: Igarap? Bahia Mine, Caraj?s
ridge, Par?, North Region, Brazil. Scale:
Florenskyite Image
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Images: Florenskyite

of the serpentine mass containing bright
florenskyite grains (arrow). (AmMin,
85:1083).
Location: Kaidun chondritic meteorite,
which fell in South Yemen in 1980. Scale:
See Image.
Fluckite Image
Images: Fluckite
Comments: White to pale pink crystalline

translucent botryoids of fluckite.
Location: Giftgrube, Sainte-Marie-
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fluellite Image
Images: Fluellite
Comments: Tabular, transparent,

pseudohexagonal crystals of fluellite.
Location: Tom's quarry, Kapunda, South
Australia. Scale: Not Given.
Fluellite Image
Images: Fluellite Bariosincosite
Comments: Viv id green crystals of

bariosincosite well placed on a matrix
covered by colorless, tabular fluellite with
some minor metavariscite.
Location: Eugui Quarry, Cantera Azkarate,
Eugui, Navarra, Spain. Scale: Rosette size:
0.3 x 0.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Fluoborite Image
Images: Fluoborite
Comments: Silky fibrous fluoborite with

purple fluorite.
Location: Ludlaw, San Bernardino County,
Mineral Species
Fluorapatite Image
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Images: Fluorapatite Beryl Muscovite

Apatite

© Dan Weinrich
Fluorapatite Image
Images: Fluorapatite Quartz
Comments: Purple crystal of fluorapatite on

slightly smoky quartz crystals. Former Dr. E.E.
Dav id and Houston Museum collections.
Location: Pech, Kunar Province, Nuristan,
Afghanistan. Scale: Crystal size 3.0 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm.
© Ed Rosenzweig
Fluorapatite Image
Images: Fluorapatite Gatumbaite
Comments: White crystalline gatumbaite

with yellow brazilianite in massive blue
fluorapatite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Fluorapophyllite Image
Images: Fluorapophyllite Stilbite

Apophyllite

stilbite.
© Fabre Minerals
Fluorbritholite-(Ce) Image
Images: Fluorbritholite-(Ce)
Comments: Amorphous (metamict) grain

of fluorbritholite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Norra Karr, Grena, Jonkoping,
Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Fluorcaphite Image
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Images: Fluorcaphite
Comments: Massiv e, coarsely crystalline,

pale yellowish fluorcaphite.
Location: Koashva Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola
Fluorellestadite Image
Images: Fluorellestadite
Comments: Blue-green granular

fluorellestadite in calcium rich rock matrix.
Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk District,
Mineral Species
Fluorite Image
Images: Fluorite
Comments: Cubic fluorite crystals with

octahedral galena crystals. The largest
crystal is 2.1 cm across. Note the
exceptional fluorescence of these crystals.
Location: Rogerley Mine, in Weardale,
England. Scale: 7.8 x 5.5.
© John Veevaert
Fluorite Image
Images: Fluorite Creedite
Comments: Well-developed, prismatic,

reddish creedite crystals on green fluorite.
Location: Mina Navidad, Rodeo, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: 9 x 5 x 5.3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Fluorite Image
Images: Fluorite
Comments: Red-orange octahedral

fluorite crystals on an albite matrix with
well defined edges and faces.
Location: Pointe Kurz (3600 m altitude),
Mont Blanc Massif, Haute-Savoie, France.
Scale: Crystal size is 2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Fluoro-edenite Image
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Images: Fluoro-edenite
Comments: Two, tabular crystals of fluoro-

edenite on matrix.
Location: Mt. Calv ario, (Mt. Etna Volcano),
Biancavilla, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy.
Fluoro-sodic-pedrizite Image
Images: Fluoro-sodic-pedrizite
Clinoholmquistite
Magnesioclinoholmquistite

Mineral Species
Fluorocannilloite Image
Images: Fluorocannilloite
Comments: Greenish, prismatic crystals of

fluorocannilloite in matrix.
Location: Yuang Yang Province, Yunnan,
China. Scale: Picture size 6 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Fluororichterite Image
Images: Fluororichterite
Comments: Doubly-terminated, stubby,

black fluororichterite crystal.
Location: Wilberforce, Monmouth Township,
Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada. Scale:
22x21x15 mm.
Fluorvesuvianite Image
Images: Fluorvesuvianite
Comments: Acicular crystals of fluorv esuvianite in

a clear, calcite matrix. (CanMin, v 41, p 1375).
Location: Lupikko iron mine, Pitkaranta, Karelia,
Russia. Scale: Picture size 1.2 cm.
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Foggite Image
Images: Foggite
Comments: Bright yellow, rounded

crystalline aggregates of foggite on matrix.
Location: Palermo #1 mine, North Groton,
Crafton County, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Foitite Image
Images: Foitite
Comments: Dark greenish-black

termination of foitite on pinkish elbaite.
Location: Dobra Voda, Moravia,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Foordite Image
Images: Foordite
Comments: Brownish massive foordite.

Location: Manono, Shaba (Katanga),
Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
Fornacite Image
Images: Fornacite
Comments: Dark, prismatic crystals of

fornacite on matrix.
Location: El Khun mine, Anarak, Iran. Scale:
Not Given.
Fornacite Image
Images: Fornacite
Comments: Emerald green platy crystals

to 0.75mm on a pink to white, siliceous
matrix.
Location: Lone Star mine, Copperopolis,
Yavapai County, Arizona. Scale: Picture
size 1.4 cm.
Forsterite Image
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Images: Forsterite Olivine
Comments: Peridot (Forsterite)

recrystallized at the base.
Location: Skardu, Nooristan, Pakistan.
© Fabre Minerals
Foshagite Image
Images: Foshagite
Comments: Tan to gray fibrous to columnar

aggregate of foshagite.
Mineral Species
Foshallasite Image
Images: Foshallasite
Comments: Pearly translucent white

somewhat fibrous aggregate of
foshallasite.
Location: Mount Yukspor, Khibiny Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fourmarierite Image
Images: Fourmarierite
Comments: Thick tabular orange crystals of

fourmarierite.
Fraipontite Image
Images: Fraipontite Zaccagnaite

image of hexagonal, tapering, prismatic
zaccagnaite crystals, covered by a thin
crust of fraipontite. (AmMin 86:1294).
Image.
Francevillite Image
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Images: Francevillite Chervetite
Comments: Bottle brown tabular crystals

of chervetite on yellow francevilleite.
Francevillite Image
Images: Francevillite Curienite
Comments: Intense yellow curienite and

orange francevillite.
Location: Mouonana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Francevillite Image
Images: Francevillite
Comments: Specimen of orange

francevillite with minor yellow curienite.
Location: Mouana Mine, Gabon. Scale:
Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert
Francevillite Image
Images: Francevillite Mounanaite
Comments: Stout, yellow, transparent,

prismatic, striated crystals of francevillite on
brownish red mounanaite matrix.
Location: Mounana mine, Franceville,
Haut-Ogoou?, Gabon. Scale: Picture size
1.5 cm.
Franciscanite-III Image
Images: Franciscanite-III
Comments: Dark reddish brown large

franciscanite grains to 1.5cm in tan-colored
gageite matrix.
Location: Pennsylvania mine, Santa Clara
Co., California, USA. Scale: 5.5 x 4 x 3cm.
Francisite Image
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Images: Francisite
Comments: Greenish crusts of francisite on

matrix.
Location: Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu,
Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:
Francisite Image
Images: Francisite
Comments: Fine acicular crystals of green

francisite to 0.1mm on matrix.
Location: Iron Monarch iron mine, Iron
Knob, South Australia, Australia. Scale:
Franckeite Image
Images: Franckeite
Comments: Massive franckeite with pockets

of small .5 mm crystals.
Location: Animas Mine, Atocha-Quechisla
district, Sud Chichas Prov ince, Potos?
Department, Bolivia. Scale: 25x20x15 mm.
Franckeite Image
Images: Franckeite Potosiite
Comments: Visually indistinguishable metallic

potosiite/franckeite crystals to 6 mm..
Location: San Jose mine, Oruro City, Oruro
Department, Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size 6
mm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Francoanellite Image
Images: Francoanellite
Comments: Chalky massiv e francoanellite.

Location: Giottodi Castellana Cave,
Puglia, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Frankhawthorneite Image
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Images: Frankhawthorneite
Comments: Very small green crystals of

frankhawthorneite on a light green
unknown mineral.
Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, Tintic
District, Juab Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1 mm.
Franklinite Image
Images: Franklinite
Comments: Black, octahedral franklinite

crystals to 1.4 cm across on white calcite.
Jersey, USA. Scale: 2.9 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Franklinite Image
Images: Franklinite Esperite Hardystonite

black franklinite.
Mineral Species
Fransoletite Image
Images: Fransoletite
Comments: Light blue crystals of

fransoletite.
Giv en.
Franzinite Image
Images: Franzinite
Comments: Opaque white platy crystals of

franzinite on brown vesuvianite crystals.
Location: Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany,
Mineral Species
Fredrikssonite Image
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Images: Fredrikssonite Hausmannite
Comments: Red-brown elongated

crystalline fredrikssonite in calcite with
granular hausmannite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Freibergite Image
Images: Freibergite
Comments: Dark metallic freibergite in white

quartz.
Location: Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: 35x20x10 mm.
Freieslebenite Image
Images: Freieslebenite

freieslebenite on quartz.
mm.
Fresnoite Image
Images: Fresnoite
Comments: Yellow to peach colored

crystals of fresnoite.
Location: Junnila Mine, San Benito County,
California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Freudenbergite Image
Images: Freudenbergite
Comments: BSE image of a sector-zoned

crystal of freudenbergite. The bright
pyramids correspond to sector (001), and
the darker ones belong to sector (100).
Location: Peralkaline alkali syenite dikes at
Katzenbuckel, southwestern Germany.
Scale: See Image.
Friedelite Image
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Images: Friedelite
Comments: Rose red crystals of friedelite

on matrix.
County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Friedrichite Image
Images: Friedrichite Krupkaite Benjaminite

quartz crystals.
Mineral Species
Frolovite Image
Images: Frolovite
Comments: Clear to white crystalline

frolovite in rock.
Mineral Species
Frondelite Image
Images: Frondelite Kidwellite
Comments: Root beer colored crystals of

frondelite and white kidwellite sticks on
matrix.
Location: Sapucaia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Froodite Image
Images: Froodite
Comments: Froodite grain (see arrow) in

mostly chalcopyrite matrix.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Froodite Image
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Images: Froodite Maslovite Altaite

See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fukuchilite Image
Images: Fukuchilite
Comments: Dark brown fine-grained

fukuchilite in white gypsum.
Location: Hanawa Mine, Kazuno City,
Akita, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Fuloppite Image
Images: Fuloppite
Comments: Gray crystals of f?l?ppite on

quartz.
Furongite Image
Images: Furongite
Comments: Pale yellow crystalline

furongite.
Location: Furong Lin, Ling Wu, Western
Hunan Province, China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Gabrielsonite Image
Images: Gabrielsonite
Comments: Jet black, lustrous crystal grain,

showing no faces, fractured to about
0.75mm with white pectolite-hematite
matrix.
Scale: 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5cm.
Gadolinite-(Ce) Image
Images: Gadolinite-(Ce)
Comments: Sharp, well crystallized single

crystal of brown gadolinite.
Location: Buer, Bj?rkedalen, Porsgrunn,
Telemark, Norway. Scale: 18x14x8 mm.
Gagarinite-(Y) Image
Images: Gagarinite-(Y)
Comments: Brownish to gray crystals of

gagarinite-(Y) in matrix.
Location: Gjerdingen, Jevnaker, Oppland,
Gageite Image
Images: Gageite
Comments: Preserved sprays of inesite

completely replaced by tan-colored
gageite crystals.
South Africa. Scale: 5 x 4.6 cm.
© John Veevaert
Gahnite Image
Images: Gahnite
Comments: Deep blue octahedral crystals

of gahnite in quartz.
Mineral Species
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Gahnite Image
Images: Gahnite
Comments: Optical micrograph of gahnite

(blue) + Na-Ca-Li mica pseudomorph after
staurolite in calcite matrix pigmented with
brownish Fe-(hydr)oxide. (AmMin, 88:794).
Location: Diaspore-bearing metabauxite
from East Samos (Greece). Scale: See
Image.
Gaidonnayite Image
Images: Gaidonnayite
Comments: Translucent tan spherical

gaidonnayite crystal aggregates.
Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Rouville
County, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Gaitite Image
Images: Gaitite
Comments: Opaque white spherical gaitite

with transparent crystalline calcite.
Location: Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species
Galaxite Image
Images: Galaxite Alleghanyite
Comments: Black granular galaxite with

reddish alleghanyite and white kutnohorite.
Location: Bald Knob, Alleghany County,
Mineral Species
Galeite Image
Images: Galeite
Comments: White translucent spherical

crystalline aggregates of galeite in clay.
Mineral Species
Galena Image
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Images: Galena
Comments: Galena on pyrrhotite. The

crystals of galena reach to 1.5 cm across.
All are cubic with octahedral
modifications.
Location: Dal'Negorsk, Russia. Scale: 8x10
cm.
© John Veevaert
Galena Image
Images: Galena Plumbojarosite
Comments: Yellow, earthy plumbojarosite

on massive, gray galena.
Picture size 4 mm.
Galenobismutite Image
Images: Galenobismutite
Comments: Black metallic massiv e

galenobismutite in translucent quartz.
Location: Vastervik, Smaland, Kalmar,
Mineral Species
Galkhaite Image
Images: Galkhaite
Comments: Cherry red crystals of galkhaite on

matrix.
Location: Getchell mine, Humboldt County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert
Gallite Image
Images: Gallite
Comments: A mixture of massive high

grade ore with grains of gallite (gray)
occuring with germanite and renierite. Most
of what can be seen is the renierite, which
has reddish and purple iridescence.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: Picture
size 1 cm.
Gamagarite Image
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Images: Gamagarite
Comments: Dark red-brown crystalline

gamagarite in white calcite.
Location: Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia,
Genova, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ganomalite Image
Images: Ganomalite Jacobsite
Comments: White crystalline ganomalite

with dark granular jacobsite.
Location: Jacobsberg, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ganophyllite Image
Images: Ganophyllite
Comments: Light brown micaceous

ganophyllite with milky quartz.
Location: Gambatesa Mine, Genov a,
Mineral Species
Ganophyllite Image
Images: Ganophyllite
Comments: SEM image of a ganophyllite

crystal. (AmMin, 88:1325).
Italy. Scale: Scale bar 100 µ-m.
Ganterite Image
Images: Ganterite
Comments: Black and white thin-section

micrograph of ganterite in white mica
schist (sample SS9787) (S.Gt: synkinematic
ganterite; P.Gt: postkinematic ganterite.
(CanMin 41:1284).
Location: Metamorphosed basement rocks
from the Berisal Complex, Simplon Region,
Switzerland. Scale: See Image.
Garronite Image
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Images: Garronite Siderite
Comments: Translucent white micro

crystals of garronite on brown siderite
crystals.
Mineral Species
Gartrellite Image
Images: Gartrellite
Comments: Lime green gartrellite on matrix

associated with mimetite. Former Mart?n
Oliete Fontela collection.
Scale: 6x4x3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Garyansellite Image
Images: Garyansellite
Comments: Brown crystalline garyansellite

with quartz.
Mineral Species
Gaspeite Image
Images: Gaspeite
Comments: Green, crystalline massive

gaspeite in matrix.
Location: Lemieux Township, Gaspe
Peninsula, Gaspe Nord County, Quebec,
Mineral Species
Gatumbaite Image
Images: Gatumbaite Fluorapatite
Comments: White crystalline gatumbaite

with yellow brazilianite in massive blue
fluorapatite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Gaudefroyite Image
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Images: Gaudefroyite
Comments: Dark gray, prismatic

gaudefroyite with crystals to 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Gaylussite Image
Images: Gaylussite
Comments: Clear, nearly colorless crystals

of gaylussite.
Location: Trona, Searles Lake, San
Bernardino County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gearksutite Image
Images: Gearksutite
Comments: White gearksutite crust on

quartz.
Location: Saint Peter's Dome, El Paso
Mineral Species
Gedrite Image
Images: Gedrite
Comments: Back prismatic crystalline

gedrite in rock.
Location: Schissgruv an, near Ludvika,
Dalarna, Kopparberg, Sweden. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Gehlenite Image
Images: Gehlenite
Comments: Crystalline massive gehlenite.

Mineral Species
Gehlenite Image
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Images: Gehlenite
Comments: Contact area between

v esuvianite (right) and gehlenite (left).
Note the lamellae of clintonite included
mainly in the gehlenite crystals (CanMin v .
41. p 1259).
Location: Skarns along the contact of a
diorite intrusion at Oravit?a, Banat, in
Romania. Scale: Image size 2.7 mm.
Geigerite Image
Images: Geigerite
Comments: Small, brownish grains of

transparent geigerite (see lower image) in a
silicous breccia.
Location: Mt. Nero Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La
Spieza, Italy. Scale: 3.5 x 1.5 cm.
© Rich Geiger
Geikielite Image
Images: Geikielite
Comments: Black, lustrous crystals of

geikielite in matrix.
Location: Monte dei tre Abati, Coli,
Piacenza Prov ince, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Geminite Image
Images: Geminite
Comments: Pale greenish crystals of

geminite with a light blue, lavendulane-
related mineral.
Picture size 4 mm.
Genthelvite Image
Images: Genthelvite
Comments: Pyramidal crystals of

genthelvite.
Geocronite Image
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Images: Geocronite
Comments: Many black geocronite

crystals intergrown in milky quartz(?) matrix.
Location: Sala Silver Mine, Sala,
V?stmanland, Sweden. Scale: 17x17x12
mm.
Georgeericksenite Image
Images: Georgeericksenite

(SEM) photomicrograph of part of a
georgeericksenite aggregate: note the
cracking of the crystals due to H2O loss
under the SEM vacuum. (AmMin 83:391).
Location: Museum specimen labeled as
originating from Oficina Chacabuco, Chile..
Scale: See Image.
Georgeite Image
Images: Georgeite
Comments: Pale blue crusts of georgeite

with dark green atacamite.
Mineral Species
Georgiadesite Image
Images: Georgiadesite
Comments: Light blue, pseudo-cubic

crystal of georgiadesite.
Giv en.
Gerasimovskite Image
Images: Gerasimovskite Ussingite
Comments: Pale tan gerasimovskite

pseudomorphous after epistolite crystal, in
purple ussingite.
Mineral Species
Gerhardtite Image
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Images: Gerhardtite
Comments: Emerald green crystalline crust

of gerhardtite on copper.
Location: Greenland, Ontonagon County,
Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Germanite Image
Images: Germanite
Comments: Red metallic germanite,

tarnishing black.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gersdorffite Image
Images: Gersdorffite
Comments: Massive to coarse-grained

lead-gray gersdorffite crystals.
Location: Ait Ahmane Mine, Bou Azzer, Anti
Atlas Mts., Morocco. Scale: Not Given.
© John Veevaert
Gerstleyite Image
Images: Gerstleyite
Comments: Small prismatic crystals and

massive cinnabar-red gerstleyite on matrix.
Location: Baker mine, U.S. Borax Mine,
Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co., California,
Getchellite Image
Images: Getchellite
Comments: Bright red getchellite on matrix.

Location: Khaidarkan (Chaidarkan) Sb-Hg
deposit, Fergana Valley, Osh District,
Kyrgyzstan. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
Gianellaite Image
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Images: Gianellaite
Comments: Yellow crystalline coatings of

gianellaite on calcite.
Location: Mariposa Mine, Terlingua,
Brewster County, Texas, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Gibbsite Image
Images: Gibbsite
Comments: Transparent to white, tabular-

prismatic gibbsite crystals.
Location: Saga Quarry, Langesundfjord,
Oslo Region, Norway. Scale: Crystal size 1
mm.
© John Veevaert
Gibbsite Image
Images: Gibbsite Doyleite
Comments: Botryoidal spheres of doyleite

growing along with its dimorph gibbsite.
Analysis shows that doyleite dominates the
mix. There are also minor canary yellow
phlogopite crystals.
Location: Baoshan, Yunnan, China. Scale: 8
x 6.5 x 1.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Giessenite Image
Images: Giessenite
Comments: Small clumps of acicular

crystal mats of giessenite with rounded
cosalite grains (as photographed on pure
white fibrous backing material).
Location: Otome Mine, near Kofu,
Yamanashi, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gilalite Image
Images: Gilalite
Comments: Striated, prismatic pale

greenish yellow crystal of gilalite.
Location: Christmas mine, Hayden, Gila
Gilalite Image
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Images: Gilalite
Comments: Green spherical crystals of

gilalite to 0.3mm in grape-like bunches.
Gillespite Image
Images: Gillespite Anandite
Comments: Black micaceous anandite

with dark red gillespite.
Location: Esquire No. 7 Claim, Big Creek,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Gillespite Image
Images: Gillespite Pellyite
Comments: Red crystalline gillespite with

yellow pellyite rock matrix.
Location: GUN claims, Itsi Mountains,
MacMillan Pass Area, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species
Gillespite Image
Images: Gillespite Bigcreekite Sanbornite

2cm.
Gillulyite Image
Images: Gillulyite
Comments: Dark red crystalline gillulyite in

white calcite.
Location: South Mercur Pit, Barrick Gold
Mine, Mercur, Tooele County, Utah, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gilmarite Image
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Images: Gilmarite
Comments: Scanning electron image of

prismatic gilmarite crystals (Eur. J. Mineral,
11:549).
Location: Roua deposit, Guillaumes
municipality, about 50 km from Nice,
France. Scale: Picture size 80 µm.
© Eur. J. Mineral
Giniite Image
Images: Giniite
Comments: Dark greenish black crystals of

giniite on matrix.
Location: Sandamab, Usakos, Namibia.
Ginorite Image
Images: Ginorite Priceite
Comments: Clear platy crystalline coatings

of ginorite on rock with white priceite.
Location: Corkscrew Canyon, Death
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Giorgiosite Image
Images: Giorgiosite
Comments: Opaque white nodular

giorgiosite.
Location: Alphroessa, Santorini (Thira)
Island, Notion Aiyalon, Greece. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Girdite Image
Images: Girdite
Comments: White chalky crystalline

spherical massive girdite in rock.
Location: Grand Central Mine, Tombstone,
Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Girvasite Image
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Images: Girvasite
Comments: Translucent aggregate of

girvasite.
Location: Kovdor Mine, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species
Gismondine Image
Images: Gismondine
Comments: Clear crystal of gismondine on

matrix.
Location: Alban Hills, near Rome, Latium,
Italy. Scale: Not Given.
Gittinsite Image
Images: Gittinsite Eudialyte
Comments: White crystalline gittinsite with

red eudialyte.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Villedieu
Township, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Giuseppettite Image
Images: Giuseppettite
Comments: Pale bluish-violet giuseppettite

crystals.
Location: Sacrofano, Campagnano, Lazio,
Gjerdingenite-Fe Image
Images: Gjerdingenite-Fe

gjerdingenite-Fe on matrix.
Location: Gjerdingen, Vestbygda,
Nordmarka, Jevnaker, Oppland, Norway.
Gjerdingenite-Fe Image
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Images: Gjerdingenite-Fe Ralstonite

gjerdingenite-Fe. The mineral is dusted with tiny
crystals of two phases. At high magnification,
one of them is seen to form cubes and is
probably ralstonite.
Location: Gjerdingselva, Lunner, Oppland, Oslo
Region, Norway. Scale: Crystal length 0.5 mm.
Gladite Image
Images: Gladite
Comments: Bluish-gray prismatic crystal of

gladite on calcite.
Location: Holzm?hlental quarry,
Flechtingen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Gladiusite Image
Images: Gladiusite
Comments: Radiating group of dark olive-

greenish acicular crystals of gladiusite on
matrix.
Gladiusite Image
Images: Gladiusite
Comments: SEM photomicrograph showing the

morphology of the free-standing crystals of
gladiusite. (CanMin v. 38, p 1480).
Location: Kovdor alkaline-ultramafic complex,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image.
Glauberite Image
Images: Glauberite
Comments: Translucent crystals of

glauberite.
Location: Superior, Pinal County, Arizona,
Mineral Species
Glauberite Image
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Images: Glauberite Hydroglauberite
Comments: Putty-colored chalky

hydroglauberite on glauberite crystals.
Location: Camp Verde, Yavapai County,
Mineral Species
Glaucocerinite Image
Images: Glaucocerinite
Comments: Botryoidal crust of blue

glaucocerinite.
Location: Mina Serpieri, Laurium, Attiki,
Mineral Species
Glaucochroite Image
Images: Glaucochroite Zincite Willemite
Comments: Pinkish gray crystalline

glaucochroite intermixed with pale green
willemite, with dark red zincite and white
calcite.
Mineral Species
Glaucodot Image
Images: Glaucodot
Comments: Metallic lustered crystal of

glaucodot on matrix.
Location: Hakansboda, Vastmanland,
Glauconite Image
Images: Glauconite
Comments: Green glauconite intermixed

with quartz.
Location: Ightham, Kent, England. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Glaucophane Image
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Images: Glaucophane
Comments: Pale violet to gray fibrous

massiv e glaucophane.
Location: Lac Malartic, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Glaukosphaerite Image
Images: Glaukosphaerite
Comments: Green botryoidal crust of

glaukosphaerite.
Mineral Species
Glucine Image
Images: Glucine Moraesite
Comments: Light brown glucine with white

moraesite.
Location: Boevskoye Mine, Sverdlovsk
District, Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Glushinskite Image
Images: Glushinskite
Comments: White coatings of glushinskite

on dirty, tan gypsum.
Location: San Simon, Cochise County,
Mineral Species
Glushinskite Image
Images: Glushinskite
Comments: SEM photo of two large

euhedral glushinskite crystals partially
embedded in the dried, rotten saguaro
matrix. (AmMin, 88:1883).
Gmelinite-Na Image
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Images: Gmelinite-Na
Comments: White crystalline aggregate of

gmelinite.
Location: Antrim, Northern Ireland. Scale:
Not Given.
Gobbinsite Image
Images: Gobbinsite
Comments: White opaque crystalline

gobbinsite in v ug.
Location: Island Magee, County, Antrim,
Northern Ireland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Godovikovite Image
Images: Godovikovite
Comments: A porous aggregate of

massive yellow godovikovite.
cm.
Goedkenite Image
Images: Goedkenite
Comments: Clear, pointed goedkenite

crystals epitaxially overgrown on
palermoite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Goethite Image
Images: Goethite
Comments: Stellate crystalline aggregates

of acicular goethite crystals.
Location: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech
Republic. Scale: Not Giv en.
Goethite Image
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Images: Goethite Laubmannite
Comments: Reddish brown goethite

hosting radiating sprays of olive green
laubmannite to 3 cm across.
Location: Buckeye Mountain, Polk County,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: 10.5 x 7.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Gold Image
Images: Gold Silver
Comments: Very well crystallized Electrum

(Silver rich gold) on quartz. The analysis
gave 31.47% silv er.
Location: Verespatak (now Rosia
Montana), Transylvania, Romania. Scale:
2.8 x 3.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Gold Image
Images: Gold
Comments: Well crystallized bright metallic gold

specimen.
Location: Red Ledge mine, Nevada Co., California.
Scale: 3.5 x 6 cm in size.
© Dan Weinrich
Gold Image
Images: Gold Isomertieite

Arsenopalladinite Bornite

light.
Gold Image
Images: Gold Petzite
Comments: Dark, stubby petzite crystals

with native gold on quartz.
Location: Rosia Montana (Verespatak),
Transylvania, Romania. Scale: Not Giv en.
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Gold Image
Images: Gold
Comments: Two skeletal octahedral

crystals of gold. Stereo pair images..
Location: Berezov sk Mine, Russia. Scale:
© John Veevaert
Goldfieldite Image
Images: Goldfieldite
Comments: Back granular goldfieldite in

white quartz.
Location: Mohawk Mine, Goldfield,
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Goldichite Image
Images: Goldichite Coquimbite

Ferricopiapite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Goldmanite Image
Images: Goldmanite
Comments: Dark gray granular goldmanite

grains in sandstone.
Location: Sandy Mine, Laguna, Cibola
County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Goldquarryite Image
Images: Goldquarryite
Comments: Single crystal of goldquarryite.

Location: Gold Quarry mine, Eureka
County, Nev ada, USA.. Scale: Crystal
length 0.5 mm.
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Gonnardite Image
Images: Gonnardite

gonnardite on matrix.
Location: White spherical aggregates of
Gonnardite on matrix. Scale: Not Given.
Gonnardite Image
Images: Gonnardite Tetranatrolite
Comments: White, pseudocubic crystals of

tetranatrolite (gonnardite) on matrix.
County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Gonyerite Image
Images: Gonyerite
Comments: Brown massive gonyerite in

manganese ore.
Location: Harstigen, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Goosecreekite Image
Images: Goosecreekite
Comments: Large cluster of many rosettes

of white goosecreekite.
Scale: 15x14x7 cm.
Gorceixite Image
Images: Gorceixite
Comments: Translucent platy crystals of

gorceixite on tan siderite with white
aragonite coatings.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gorceixite Image
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Images: Gorceixite
Click Here for Comments: Translucent, pseudohexagonal

crystal of groceixite in matrix.
Larger Image Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada.
Scale: Crystal Size 3 mm.
Gordaite Image
Images: Gordaite
Comments: Colorless to white tabular

crystals of gordaite on matrix.
Location: Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt,
Gordonite Image
Images: Gordonite Wardite
Comments: Prismatic gordonite crystals on

massiv e wardite.
Gorgeyite Image
Images: Gorgeyite
Comments: g?rgeyite crystal prism.

Location: Lake Inder, Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gormanite Image
Images: Gormanite
Comments: Elongated, dark bluish green, fibrous

crystals of gormanite and quartz on a matrix of
quartz and water clear apatite crystals.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada.
© John Veevaert
Gormanite Image
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Images: Gormanite
Comments: Dark green, velvety mass of

gormanite crystals on matrix.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada.
Scale: 3 x 4.5 cm.
© Dav e Barthelmy
Goslarite Image
Images: Goslarite
Comments: Pale yellow to egg-shell white

fibrous goslarite with radiating structure.
Location: Rammelsberg, near Goslar, Harz
Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gottlobite Image
Images: Gottlobite
Comments: Orange-brownish tabular

crystals of gottlobite with black
hausmannite and colorless barite.
Location: Gl?cksstern Mine, Gottlob Hill,
Friedrichroda, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia,
Gotzenite Image
Images: Gotzenite
Comments: Yellow-brown, thin crystals of

g?tzenite in white feldspar matrix.
Location: Barkevik, Langesundsfjorden,
Vestfold, Norway. Scale: 3.5x3x3 cm.
Goudeyite Image
Images: Goudeyite
Comments: Green crusts and micro

crystals of goudeyite on matrix.
Location: Majuba Hill, Pershing County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Specimen size 1x3
cm.
© John Veevaert
Gowerite Image
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Images: Gowerite
Comments: Coatings of acicular radiating

crystal clusters of gowerite.
Location: Furnace Creek, Death Valley,
Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Goyazite Image
Images: Goyazite
Comments: Flat, tabular crystals of

goyazite on dolomite.
Location: Langenbach quarry, Binntal,
Graemite Image
Images: Graemite
Comments: Blue, massiv e graemite on

quartz.
size 5.5 mm.
Graftonite Image
Images: Graftonite Heterosite
Comments: Whitish graftonite intergrown

with dark purple to brown heterosite.
Location: Grafton, Grafton County, New
Hampshire, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Grandidierite Image
Images: Grandidierite
Comments: Translucent blue-green

crystalline grandidierite in pegmatite.
Location: Vohibola, Madagascar. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Grantsite Image
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Images: Grantsite Tyuyamunite
Comments: Dark olive green waxy

coatings of grantsite with greenish-yellow
tyuyamunite and sandstone.
Location: F-33 Mine, near Grants, Valencia
Photo.
Mineral Species
Graphite Image
Images: Graphite
Comments: A crystal of graphite in gneiss.

Location: Forchheim, Pockau, Erzgebirge,
Graphite Image
Images: Graphite
Comments: Black, sub-hexagonal crystal

of graphite in calcite.
Location: Lead Hill Mine, (near
Ticonderoga), Essex Co., New York, USA.
Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
Gratonite Image
Images: Gratonite
Comments: Crystal cluster of gratonite. The

largest crystal is 2.5 mm across.
Location: Excelsior mine, Cerro de Pasco,
Pasco dept., Peru. Scale: 1.5 x 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Grattarolaite Image
Images: Grattarolaite Rodolicoite
Comments: Brown grattarolaite, intimately

intergrown with brown rodolicoite.
Location: Castelnuovo Mine, Santa
Barbara lignite district, San Giov anni
Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno), Arezzo
Prov ince, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size
4 mm.
Graulichite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Graulichite-(Ce)

image of rhombohedral graulichite-(Ce)
crystals on goethite.
Location: Hourt quarry, Stavelot Massif,
Belgian Ardennes. Scale: See Image.
© University de Liege
Greenalite Image
Images: Greenalite
Comments: Dark olive-green massiv e

greenalite with metallic galena.
Location: La Union Mine, Murcia, Spain.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Greenockite Image
Images: Greenockite
Comments: Brown, equant crystal of

greenockite on prehnite.
Location: Summit, Union County, New
Gregoryite Image
Images: Gregoryite Nyerereite
Comments: Sodium (nyereteite) and

potassium (gregoryite) carbonates, not
stable in normal atmosphere, collected
molten from the v olcano and maintained
in inert argon atmosphere.
Location: Ol Doinyo Lengai Vulkan, Maasai
Steppe, East Africa Rift Valley, Tanzania.
See Link. Scale: Rock size 2 cm.
Greifensteinite Image
Images: Greifensteinite
Comments: Tabular crystal of

greifensteinite impaled on acicular
tourmaline.
Location: Greifenstein Rocks,
Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Griceite Image
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Images: Griceite Villiaumite
Comments: White aggregates of griceite

with pinkish v illiaumite.
Grimaldiite Image
Images: Grimaldiite
Comments: Grimaldiite, variety merumite,

stream rounded crystalline grains.
Location: Merume River, Mazaruni-Potaro
District, Guyana. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Grimselite Image
Images: Grimselite
Comments: Small yellow crystals of

grimselite in matrix.
Location: Gerstenegg/Sommerloch tunnel,
Grimsel Region, Hasli Valley, Bern,
Grimselite Image
Images: Grimselite
Comments: Bright yellow coatings and

minor, small crystals of grimselite on a
white quartz matrix..
Location: Gerstenegg - Sommerloch
Tunnel, Grimsel, Hasli Tal, Bern, Schweiz
(Switzerland).. Scale: See Image.
Griphite Image
Images: Griphite
Comments: Dark red-brown v itreous

crystalline massive griphite.
Location: Sitting Bull Mine, Pennington
Photo.
Mineral Species
Grossular Image
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Images: Grossular Diopside
Comments: Pale blue prismatic crystal of

diopside with orange-brown grossular.
Location: Val d'Aosta, Italy. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Grossular Image
Images: Grossular
Comments: Gemmy, transparent,

cinnamon-colored grossular crystals
averaging 7 mm in size.
Location: Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: 3.5 x 4 x 1.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Grossular Image
Images: Grossular Vesuvianite
Comments: Blocky, tan-colored vesuvianite with

white grossular (garnet).
Location: Sierra de la Cruz, Lago Jaco, Coahuila,
Mexico. Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Groutite Image
Images: Groutite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of groutite in

white marble.
Location: Talcville, Saint Lawrence County,
New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Grumiplucite Image
Images: Grumiplucite
Comments: Gray crystals of grumiplucite

on quartz.
Location: Levigliani, Apuan Alps, Lucca
1.2 mm.
Grunerite Image
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Images: Grunerite
Comments: Oliv e green fibrous crystal

aggregates of grunerite in rock matrix.
Location: Michigamme, Iron County,
Mineral Species
Guanacoite Image
Images: Guanacoite
Comments: Deep blue, bladed, glassy

crystals of guanacoite to 0.75mm lining
vugs of Arhbarite..
Location: El Guanaco Mine, Guanaco,
Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Scale:
Picture Size 5mm.
Guanajuatite Image
Images: Guanajuatite
Comments: Prismatic crystalline

guanajuatite, altering to a blue crust, in
white calcite.
Location: Falun, Kopparberg, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gudmundite Image
Images: Gudmundite
Comments: Steel gray metallic crystalline

gudmundite, tarnishing, massive in rock.
Location: Pezinock, Zapadoslovensky,
Slovakia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Guerinite Image
Images: Guerinite
Comments: White blebs of guerinite on

erythrite.
Location: Wechsel Schacht, Richelsdorf,
Hesse, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
Guildite Image
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Images: Guildite Magnesiocopiapite
Comments: Brown granular guildite with

greenish yellow magnesiocopiapite.
Location: United Verde Mine, Jerome,
Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Guilleminite Image
Images: Guilleminite
Comments: Radial, yellow aggregates of

acicular crystals of guilleminite on green
malachite.
Not Given.
Gunningite Image
Images: Gunningite
Comments: White crust of gunningite on

massiv e sulfide ore.
Location: Brunswick 12 Open Pit, Bathurst,
New Brunswick, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gustavite Image
Images: Gustavite
Comments: Gray metallic gustavite in

matrix.
Location: South Mountain, Owyhee County,
Idaho, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Gutsevichite Image
Images: Gutsevichite
Comments: White efflorescence of

gutsevichite on sandstone.
Location: Long Park, Urav an, Montrose
Mineral Species
Gypsum Image
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Images: Gypsum
Comments: Bladed rosettes of gypsum.

Location: unknown. Scale: Specimen size 6
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Gypsum Image
Images: Gypsum
Comments: Pencil-sized acicular crystals of

gypsum.
Location: Naica, Chihuahua, S.A., Mexico.
© Dave Barthelmy
Gyrolite Image
Images: Gyrolite
Comments: Two round beige gyrolite

aggregates each about 5cm diameter.
Location: Bombay, India. Scale: Specimen
size 10cm.
© John Attard
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Hagendorfite Image
Images: Hagendorfite
Comments: Greenish-black massive

hagendorfite.
Location: Hagendorf South Pegmatite
(Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open
Cut), Waidhaus, Vohenstrau?, Oberpfalz,
mm.
Haggertyite Image
Images: Haggertyite
Comments: Backscattered electron

photomicrograph showing a hexagonal
haggertyite crystal (white) in contact with
richterite (light gray) and serpentized
olivine (dark gray). (AmMin, v 83, p 1324).
Location: Prairie Creek lamproite, Arkansas,
USA. Scale: See Image.
Haggite Image
Images: Haggite
Comments: Black botryoidal to massiv e

haggite in beige calcite with yellowish
tyuyamunite.
Location: Section 33 Mine, near Grants,
Valencia County, New Mexico, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Haidingerite Image
Images: Haidingerite Pharmacolite

spherical aggregate of haidingerite with
white pharmacolite.
Location: Jachymov, Zapadocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Haineaultite Image
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Images: Haineaultite
Comments: Transparent, yellow crystals to

5 mm of haineaultite on matrix.
Canada. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Hainite Image
Images: Hainite
Comments: Brownish-yellow crystal of

hainite in pegmatite matrix.
Location: Bortolan Quarry, Pocos de
Caldos, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Haiweeite Image
Images: Haiweeite
Comments: Minute divergent acicular

crystals of white haiweeite on matrix.
Location: Coso Uranium Mine, Inyo County,
Mineral Species
Haiweeite Image
Images: Haiweeite Metahaiweeite
Comments: Pale yellow scaly

metahaiweeite coating on quartz with
minute haiweeite acicular crystals.
Mineral Species
Haiweeite Image
Images: Haiweeite
Comments: Yellow, spherical, aggregates

of acicular haiweeite with clear calcite
scalenohedrons.
Location: Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil..
Haleniusite-(La) Image
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Images: Haleniusite-(La)
Comments: Secondary electron

microscope (SEM) image showing tabular
brochantite crystals growing on a
featureless h?leniusite-(La) substrate.
(CanMin 42:1099).
Location: Mine dumps of Bastn?s deposit,
Skinnskatteberg District, V?stmanland
County, Sweden. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µ-m.
Haleniusite-(La) Image
Images: Haleniusite-(La)
Comments: Back-scattered electron (BSE)

micrograph of a section of bastn?site-(La)
showing partial alteration to
h?leniusite-(La), which is white on the
image. Black areas are voids. (CanMin
42:1099).
Location: Mine dumps of Bastn?s deposit,
Skinnskatteberg District, V?stmanland
County, Sweden. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µ-m.
Halite Image
Images: Halite
Comments: Hoppered pink halite crystals

from the evaporation ponds. The pink color
is due to the organism Halo bacterium that
liv es in the concentrated brine.
Location: Searles Lake, Trona, San
Bernadino County, California, USA. Scale:
Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Hallimondite Image
Images: Hallimondite
Comments: Yellow scaly crusts of

hallimondite.
Location: Ellweiler, near Richenbach,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Halloysite Image
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Images: Halloysite Pseudomalachite
Comments: Deep green pseudomalachite

crystals on cuprous halloysite.
Location: Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg,
Granite Co., Montana, USA. Scale: Crystal
size 1-2 mm.
© John Veevaert
Halloysite Image
Images: Halloysite
Comments: Pale tan sectile porcelaneous

massive halloysite.
Location: Monroe County, Indiana, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Halotrichite Image
Images: Halotrichite
Comments: White, fibrous halotrichite on

rock.
Halotrichite Image
Images: Halotrichite Boothite
Comments: Pale blue earthy boothite with

white halotrichite.
Location: Copiapo, Atacama, Chile. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Halotrichite Image
Images: Halotrichite Szomolnokite
Comments: Tan powdery szomolnokite

crust on silky fibrous halotrichite with yellow
metavoltine.
Location: Markey Mine, Red Canyon, San
Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Halurgite Image
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Images: Halurgite
Comments: Nearly opaque granular halurgite.

Location: Chelkar Salt Dome, Zapadno-
Mineral Species
Hambergite Image
Images: Hambergite
Comments: Clear colorless prismatic

crystal of hambergite.
Location: Imalo, near Mania, Madagascar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hammarite Image
Images: Hammarite
Comments: Metallic, white to gray

hammarite with native bismuth in fluorite
and quartz.
Location: Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg,
Picture size 5 mm.
Hancockite Image
Images: Hancockite Clinohedrite
Comments: Clear crystals of clinohedrite

on hancockite.
Hancockite Image
Images: Hancockite
Comments: Reddish brown prisms of

hancockite on matrix.
Hancockite Image
Images: Hancockite Nasonite
Comments: Colorless, transparent

hexagonal prism of Nasonite on reddish
brown hancockite.
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Hanksite Image
Images: Hanksite
Comments: Translucent, hexagonal crystal

of hanksite.
Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Hannayite Image
Images: Hannayite Newberyite
Comments: Translucent white prismatic

crystals of hannayite on brown newberyite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hannebachite Image
Images: Hannebachite
Comments: Small .5 mm crystals of

colorless hannebachite on matrix.
Location: Hannebach, Niederzissen, Eifel
Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:
35x35x24 mm.
Hapkeite Image
Images: Hapkeite
Comments: Reflected-light image of an

area in the regolith clast showing
distribution of FeNi metal and hapkeite
(Fe2Si) metal grains in a feldspathic matrix,
Msk, Maskelynite.. (Proc. Nat. Acad.
Sci.,101:6848).
Location: Dhofar 280 (Dh-280) is a lunar
fragmental breccia meteorite found in the
Dhofar region of Oman, in April, 2001.
Scale: See Image.
© PNAS
Haradaite Image
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Images: Haradaite
Comments: Translucent green crystal prism

fragments of haradaite.
Location: Gambatesa Mine, Val Grav eglia,
Mineral Species
Hardystonite Image
Images: Hardystonite Esperite Franklinite

black franklinite.
Mineral Species
Harmotome Image
Images: Harmotome
Comments: Root beer colored calcite

covered with harmotome crystals from 1
mm to 1 cm.
Location: Strontian Hills, Strontian, Argyll,
Scotland. Scale: 5.5 x 4.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Harrisonite Image
Images: Harrisonite
Comments: Glassy brown crystalline

harrisonite grains in matrix.
Location: Arcedeckne Island, District of
Franklin, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hartite Image
Images: Hartite
Comments: White, translucent waxy

crystalline hartite in wood.
Location: Santa Barbara Mine, San
Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hastingsite Image
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Images: Hastingsite
Comments: Greenish-white fibrous mass of

hastingsite.
Location: Calamite Mine, Elba, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hatchite Image
Images: Hatchite
Comments: Platy microcrystal aggregate

of hatchite.
Location: Lengenbach Quarry, Binnental,
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hatchite Image
Images: Hatchite
Comments: Specular, black aggregate of

hatchite crystals with red realgar on white
dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Big crystal 1.5
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Hauckite Image
Images: Hauckite
Comments: Orange-yellow crystalline

hauckite with pink calcite and black
franklinite.
Location: Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex
County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Hauerite Image
Images: Hauerite Rambergite
Comments: Small black octahedral

crystals of hauerite with small brown
crystals of rambergite.
size 0.8 mm.
Hausmannite Image
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Images: Hausmannite Ephesite
Comments: Flesh-colored ephesite associated

with dark brownish black hausmannite.
Location: Gloucester mine. Postmasburg, Cape
prov ince. S. Africa. Scale: 5.5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Hausmannite Image
Images: Hausmannite
Comments: Black hausmannite crystals

with minor brucite.
Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari, South
Africa. Scale: 6.5 x 6 cm.
© John Veevaert
Hausmannite Image
Images: Hausmannite Kombatite
Comments: Yellow kombatite crystals in

black hausmannite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi, Namibia.
Hausmannite Image
Images: Hausmannite Fredrikssonite
Comments: Red-brown elongated

crystalline fredrikssonite in calcite with
granular hausmannite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hausmannite Image
Images: Hausmannite Filipstadite
Comments: Dark minute grains of

filipstadtite in hausmannite (slabbed
specimen).
Location: Jacobsberg Mine, near
Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hauyne Image
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Images: Hauyne
Comments: Grains of deep blue hauyne

crystals in matrix.
Location: Niedermendig, Eifel, Germany.
© John Veevaert
Hawleyite Image
Images: Hawleyite
Comments: Shale coated with brilliant

yellow hawleyite.
Location: Mco. la Plane de Bosc, France.
Scale: 4 x 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Haynesite Image
Images: Haynesite
Comments: Yellow tufts of haynesite.

Location: Repete mine, San Juan County,
Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 mm.
Haynesite Image
Images: Haynesite
Comments: Bright yellow sunburst clusters

of haynesite on a fracture surface..
Location: Repete Mine, San Juan Co., Utah,
Heazlewoodite Image
Images: Heazlewoodite
Comments: Small crystal aggregate of

heazlewoodite.
Location: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec,
Mineral Species
Hechtsbergite Image
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Images: Hechtsbergite
Comments: Light brownish crystals of

hechtsbergite in matrix.
Location: Hechtsberg Quarry, Hausach,
Kinzig Valley, Black Forest, Baden-
1.3 mm.
Hectorfloresite Image
Images: Hectorfloresite
Comments: Prismatic twinned crystal of

hectorfloresite.
Location: Pampa Rica, Antofagasta, Chile.
Hectorite Image
Images: Hectorite
Comments: Pure white paper-like matted

masses of hectorite.
Location: near Hector, San Bernardino
Mineral Species
Hedenbergite Image
Images: Hedenbergite
Comments: Thick, bluish gray blocky prisms

of hedenbergite on matrix.
Hedenbergite Image
Images: Hedenbergite Ilvaite
Comments: Doubly terminated, black

ilv aite on crystals of greenish gray
hedenbergite with minor galena.
Location: First Sovietsky mine, Dalnjegorsk,
Russia. Scale: 4 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Hedyphane Image
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Images: Hedyphane
Comments: Phlogopite with yellowish

orange hedyphane.
© John Veevaert
Heidornite Image
Images: Heidornite
Comments: Colorless crystals of heidornite.

Location: Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen,
Erfurt district, Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany.
Heinrichite Image
Images: Heinrichite
Comments: Pale greenish-yellow

crystalline heinrichite crusts on clay.
Location: Lakeview, Lake County, Oregon,
Mineral Species
Hejtmanite Image
Images: Hejtmanite
Comments: Bronze sub-metallic micaceous

crystalline hejtmanite with dark green
aegirine on white feldspar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hellyerite Image
Images: Hellyerite
Comments: Green botryoidal hellyerite on

matrix.
Location: Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood,
Tasmania, Australia. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Helvite Image
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Images: Helvite Rhodochrosite
Comments: Yellow crystals of helvite on

quartz and pink rhodochrosite.
Location: Galerie Elisabeth, Cavnic,
Maramures, Romaina. Scale: Not Given.
Helvite Image
Images: Helvite
Comments: Large (for the species),

triangular yellowish creamy colored
crystals of helvite on white, albite matrix.
Location: Navegador mine, Conselheiro
Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal
size 0.7 x 0.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Hematite Image
Images: Hematite
Comments: Black, platy hematite and

minor white magnesite.
Location: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: 9 x
4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Hematite Image
Images: Hematite Defernite
Comments: Specular hematite rich with

crystalline grains of reddish brown
defernite.
Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region,
© John Veevaert
Hematite Image
Images: Hematite Rutile
Comments: Acicular, golden yellow

crystals of rutile epitaxially overgrown on
black crystals of hematite. The
overgrowths are perpendicular to the
trigonal crystallography of the hematite.
Location: Novo Horizonte, Bahia Brazil.
© Fabre Minerals
Hematolite Image
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Images: Hematolite
Comments: Reddish-orange granular

hematolite in white quartz.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hematophanite Image
Images: Hematophanite
Comments: Deep red earthy

hematophanite in manganese ore matrix.
Mineral Species
Hemihedrite Image
Images: Hemihedrite
Comments: Reddish brown crystals of

hemihedrite on matrix.
Location: Florence Pb-Ag mine,
Whckenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona,
Hemihedrite Image
Images: Hemihedrite Phoenicochroite
Comments: Yellow hemihedrite crystals to

1 mm within pockets of dark red
phoenicochroite crystalline aggregates on
matrix.
Location: Pack Rat claim, Maricopa Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
Hemimorphite Image
Images: Hemimorphite
Comments: Lustrous, mostly colorless to

slightly reddish-brown hemimorphite crystals,
the largest 13 x 20 x 2 mm in size.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Scale: 25 x 10 x 25 mm.
© Dan Weinrich
Hendricksite Image
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Images: Hendricksite Celsian
Comments: Gray massive celsian with dark

red hendricksite.
Mineral Species
Hendricksite Image
Images: Hendricksite
Comments: Reddish black hendricksite

crystal in cream-colored willemite.
Location: 'Mill Site', Franklin, Sussex County,
New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Heneuite Image
Images: Heneuite Raadeite
Comments: Translucent aqua colored

greasy heneuite grain, surrounded by
beige rim of raadeite, with dark blue
phosphoellenbergerite inclusion (near top
of heneuite), in quartz apatite rock.
Location: Tingelstadt Iron Mine, Modum,
Mineral Species
Henmilite Image
Images: Henmilite
Comments: Blue crystals of henmilite in

matrix.
Location: Fuka Mine, Bitchu-Cho, Okayama
Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island,
Japan. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© John Veevaert
Henmilite Image
Images: Henmilite Olshanskyite
Comments: Milky white olshanskyite hosting

crystals of deep blue henmilite to 6 mm
across.
Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town,
Kawakama Co., Okayama Pref., Japan.
© John Veevaert
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Hennomartinite Image
Images: Hennomartinite
Comments: Reddish brown hennomartinite

included in purple sugilite.
South Africa. Scale: 0.5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Henrymeyerite Image
Images: Henrymeyerite Aegirine
Comments: A nearly black crystal of

henrymeyerite with dark green prismatic
crystals of aegirine in quartz.
County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.
Henrymeyerite Image
Images: Henrymeyerite
Comments: Slender prismatic crystals of

henrymeyerite intergrown with stubby
hexagonal prisms of fluorapatite and
dolomite rhombohedra. (CanMin v 38. p
620).
Location: Kovdor alkaline ultramafic
complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:
Image size 0.2 mm.
Hentschelite Image
Images: Hentschelite
Comments: Dark green botryoidal

hentschelite in transparent quartz.
Location: Spring Creek Mine, near
Wilmington, South Australia, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Herbertsmithite Image
Images: Herbertsmithite
Comments: Black and white image of dark

green herbertsmithite crystals on pale buff
matrix. (Mineralogical Magazine, 68:5310.
Location: Mina Los Tres Presidentes, Sierra
Gorda, Chile.. Scale: See Image.
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Hercynite Image
Images: Hercynite
Comments: Brownish black granular

hercynite.
Location: Nacetin, Severocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Herderite Image
Images: Herderite
Comments: Partially transparent herderite

crystal with minor white albite.
Location: Alto do Corrego Frio, Linopolis, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.1x2.7x2.9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Herschelite Image
Images: Herschelite Chabazite-Na
Comments: Rounded transparent crystals

of chabazite-Na (herschelite).
Location: Horseshoe Dam, Maricopa
Hessite Image
Images: Hessite
Comments: Metallic crystal of hessite on

matrix.
Location: Botes, Zlatna, Transylvania,
Romania. Scale: Not Given.
Hessite Image
Images: Hessite Choloalite
Comments: Sparse green crusts of

choloalite with metallic hessite.
Location: McAlpine Mine, Tuolumne
Mineral Species
Hessite Image
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Images: Hessite
Comments: Complex latticework of hessite

with minor white quartz.
Location: Bot?s Mountains, Bot?s,
Transilvania Rumania. Scale: Crystal size: 1
x 0.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Hetaerolite Image
Images: Hetaerolite Hodgkinsonite
Comments: Dark crystal of hetaerolite on

hodgkinsonite.
Giv en.
Heterogenite-2H Image
Images: Heterogenite-2H
Comments: Shiny black botryoidal

heterogenite-2H.
Location: Star of the Congo mine,
Katanga, Congo. Scale: 6 cm.
© John Attard
Heteromorphite Image
Images: Heteromorphite
Comments: Steel gray metallic acicular

crystal mat of heteromorphite on clear
calcite crystals.
Location: Wolfsberg, Harz Mountains,
Niedersachsen, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Heterosite Image
Images: Heterosite Alluaudite
Comments: Purple crystalline heterosite

with yellow coatings of alluaudite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Heterosite Image
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Images: Heterosite Graftonite
Comments: Whitish graftonite intergrown

with dark purple to brown heterosite.
Location: Grafton, Grafton County, New
Hampshire, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Heulandite Image
Images: Heulandite Mordenite
Comments: White, acicular crystals of

mordenite in heulandite geode.
Location: Rock Creek, Stevenson,
Skamania County, Washington, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Heulandite-Ca Image
Images: Heulandite-Ca
Comments: Crystals of heulandite with a

green color due to chlorite inclusions.
Location: Malagaon, India. Scale: 5 x 4.5 x
3 cm.
Heulandite-Ca Image
Images: Heulandite-Ca Mordenite
Comments: Pink heulandite crystals up to

15 mm in fibrous white mordenite matrix.
Location: Rats Nest Claim, Challis, Custer
Co., Idaho, USA. Scale: 6x6x4 cm.
Heulandite-Sr Image
Images: Heulandite-Sr
Comments: Colorless prismatic-pinacoidal

crystal of heulandite-Sr.
Location: Campegli mine, Sestri Levante,
Genova province, Liguria, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Hewettite Image
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Images: Hewettite Fervanite

acicular microcrystals of fervanite with
blocky hewettite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Hewettite Image
Images: Hewettite
Comments: Red sub-metallic fibrous mats

of hewettite on matrix.
Location: Cactus Rat Mine, Thompson's
District, Grand Count, Utah, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Hexahydrite Image
Images: Hexahydrite
Comments: White fibrous mats and

powdery encrustation of hexahydrite on
matrix.
Location: near Basque, Bonaparte River,
British Columbia, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Hexahydroborite Image
Images: Hexahydroborite
Comments: White to translucent

hexahydroborite.
Location: Solongo B deposit, Vitim Plateau,
Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic, Transbaikalia
Heyite Image
Images: Heyite
Comments: Mustard yellow colored

microcrystalline aggregates of heyite on
quartz.
Location: Betty Joe Claim, near Ely, White
Pine County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Heyrovskyite Image
Images: Heyrovskyite
Comments: Metallic, gray heyrovskyite in

quartz.
Location: H?rky u Cist?, Velk? Chmelistn?
(Gro?meleschen), Rakovnik, Stredocesk?
Kraj, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale:
Picture size 4 mm.
Hiarneite Image
Images: Hiarneite
Comments: A bright red single grain of

hiarneite about 0.25mm in matrix with
magnetoplumbite.
Hibbingite Image
Images: Hibbingite
Comments: Orange crystalline hibbingite

grains in rock matrix.
Location: 900' level drill core, Duluth
Complex, near Hibbing, Saint Louis County,
Mineral Species
Hibonite Image
Images: Hibonite
Comments: Crystalline spire-like specimen

of hibonite.
Location: Ambindandrakemba,
Madagascar. Scale: 2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Hibschite Image
Images: Hibschite
Comments: Deep red translucent

dodecahedral crystals of hibschite.
Location: Monte Faiello, Liguria, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hidalgoite Image
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Images: Hidalgoite
Comments: White to light gray crystalline

druze of hidalgoite.
Location: Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf,
Picture size 3 mm.
Hieratite Image
Images: Hieratite

stalactic aggregate of hieratite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Hilgardite Image
Images: Hilgardite Boracite
Comments: Sub-mm reddish orange

crystals of hilgardite on white boracite.
Location: Boulby Mine, Loftus, Cleveland,
Great Britain. Scale: 1.5 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Hillebrandite Image
Images: Hillebrandite
Comments: Opaque white fibrous

hillebrandite on marble.
Mineral Species
Hillite Image
Images: Hillite Scholzite
Comments: Morphology of a
homogeneous larger cluster of hillite
growing on an acicular crystal of scholzite.
SEM back-scattered electron image.
Location: Lower Cambrian Parachilna
Formation, Reaphook Hill, South Australia,
Australia. Scale: See Image.
Hinsdalite Image
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Images: Hinsdalite
Comments: Transparent crystal of

hinsdalite on quartz.
Location: Butte, Silv er Bow County,
Montana, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Hinsdalite Image
Images: Hinsdalite Corkite
Comments: Small brown rounded

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

hiortdahlite in syenite matrix.
Location: Norra Karr, Granna, Jonkoping,
Mineral Species
Hisingerite Image
Images: Hisingerite
Comments: Resinous reddish brown

coatings of hisingerite on rock.
Location: Agnew Nickel Deposit, near
Leinster, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hochelagaite Image
Images: Hochelagaite
Comments: White aggregate of small

fibrous crystals of hochelagaite in matrix.
Hodgkinsonite Image
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Images: Hodgkinsonite Hetaerolite
Comments: Dark crystal of hetaerolite on

hodgkinsonite.
Giv en.
Hodgkinsonite Image
Images: Hodgkinsonite
Comments: Pink, transparent crystal of

hodgkinsonite with franklinite.
Hodrushite Image
Images: Hodrushite Cupromakovickyite
Comments: Kup?c?kite (ku) and hodrushite

(ho) partly replaced by bismuthinite
derivative (bd56) with relict lamellae of
low-Cu (4P) and cupromakovickyite
[4P(Cu,Pb)]. (CanMin, 41:1165).
Location: Scheelite deposit of Felbertal,
Austria. Scale: Scale Bar 100 µm.
Hoelite Image
Images: Hoelite
Comments: Yellow acicular crystals of

hoelite with blocky yellow crystals of sulfur.
size 10 mm.
Hogtuvaite Image
Images: Hogtuvaite
Comments: Dark platy crystals of

hogtuv aite in matrix.
Location: Hogtuva, Mo i Rana, Nordland,
Mineral Species
Hohmannite Image
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Images: Hohmannite Metahohmannite
Comments: Orange opaque prismatic

microcrystals of hohmannite mixed with
yellow metahohmanite.
Mineral Species
Holdenite Image
Images: Holdenite
Comments: Pink translucent holdenite vein

with red willemite and black franlinite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Holfertite Image
Images: Holfertite
Comments: Yellow prismatic micro crystal

of holfertite on clear topaz.
Location: Starv ation Canyon, Topaz Valley,
Juab Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5
mm.
Hollandite Image
Images: Hollandite
Comments: Gray, feathery aggregates of

hollandite.
Location: Sieben Br?der Mine, Langenberg,
Hollingworthite Image
Images: Hollingworthite Laurite
Comments: Gray grain of hollingworthite (in

the center of the picture) with very slightly
darker gray laurite (at the right margin).
Polished section (from microprobe
analysis).
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Hollingworthite Image
Images: Hollingworthite Laurite
Comments: Gray laurite with two smaller

grains of hollingworthite (left and right from
the laurite, v ery slightly lighter gray).
in reflected light.
Holmquistite Image
Images: Holmquistite
Comments: Greenish-black prismatic

crystals of holmquistite in matrix.
Location: Uto, Sodermanland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Holtedahlite Image
Images: Holtedahlite
Comments: Colorless glassy crystalline

granular holtedahlite (appears gray in
image) with yellow serpentinite rock and
white apatite.
Location: Tingelstadtjern, Modum, Buskerud,
Mineral Species
Holtite Image
Images: Holtite
Comments: Pale violet crystalline granular

holtite in pegmatite.
Location: Vasin-Myl'k Mountain, Voron'i
Tundry, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District,
Mineral Species
Homilite Image
Images: Homilite
Comments: Brown crystalline masses of

homilite in white feldspar.
Location: Aroy, Langesundfjord, Telemark,
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Mineral Species
Honessite Image
Images: Honessite
Comments: Medium green honessite

pseudomorphous after acicular millerite
crystals, in white calcite.
Location: Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri,
Mineral Species
Hongshiite Image
Images: Hongshiite Palladodymite

Ruthenium
Comments: Palladodymite (light gray, in

two small grains), hongshiite (pale creamy
grayish, tarnished brownish) in massive
ruthenium. Polished section (from
Location: Miass Riv er, Zlatoust, Ilmen Mts,
Chelyabinsk Oblast', Urals Region, Russia.
Hopeite Image
Images: Hopeite
Comments: Brownish pink, transparent

crystalline aggregate of hopeite crystals.
Location: Broken Hill mine, Kabwe, Central,
Zambia. Scale: Not Giv en.
Hornblende Image
Images: Hornblende Ferrohornblende

ferrohornblende in a white feldspar matrix.
Hornblende Image
Images: Hornblende Magnesiohornblende
Comments: Dark greenish-black massive

magnesiohornblende.
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Hornesite Image
Images: Hornesite
Comments: Aggregate of white pearly

platy crystals of hornesite on matrix.
Location: Bauhaus, Richelsdorf, Hessen,
Mineral Species
Horvathite-(Y) Image
Images: Horvathite-(Y)
Comments: Blocky crystals of

horvathite-(Y) in matrix.
Howieite Image
Images: Howieite
Comments: Black vitreous radiating

crystalline howieite.
Location: Longv ale Quarry, Mendocino
Mineral Species
Howlite Image
Images: Howlite
Comments: Silky nodule of howlite.

Location: Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hsianghualite Image
Images: Hsianghualite
Comments: White crystalline areas of

hsianghualite in dark green chloritic
schist(?).
Location: Xianghualing Mine, Hunan,
Central South Region, China. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Hubeite Image
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Images: Hubeite Inesite
Comments: Brown hubeite aggregates

accompanied by prismatic pinkish inesite
crystals.
Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei
© Fabre Minerals
Hubeite Image
Images: Hubeite Inesite
Comments: Translucent, deep root beer

brown, platy hueite crystals in fan-like
groups to 1mm with delicate pink laths of
inesite.
Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co.,
Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Prov ince,
China. Scale: Picture Size 5 mm.
Hubnerite Image
Images: Hubnerite
Comments: Sharp, dark tabular crystals of

h?bnerite with pyrite.
Location: Cavnic, Romania. Scale: Crystal
size 2 cm.
© John Attard
Huemulite Image
Images: Huemulite
Comments: Brownish orange aggregate of

huemulite crystals.
Location: Walker mine, Thompson, Grand
County, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Hulsite Image
Images: Hulsite
Comments: Black crystalline granular

massive hulsite.
Location: Brooks Range, Seward Peninsula,
Alaska, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Humberstonite Image
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Images: Humberstonite
Comments: White powdery aggregate of

humberstonite.
Location: Oficina Alemanin, Antofagasta,
Mineral Species
Humboldtine Image
Images: Humboldtine

humboldtine.
Location: Lomnice, Sokolov , Z?padocesk?
Kraj, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale:
Humite Image
Images: Humite
Comments: Striated, brown, tabular

crystals of humite.
Hummerite Image
Images: Hummerite
Comments: Orange-yellow hummerite on

fossil wood.
district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:
Specimen size 65 mm.
Hunchunite Image
Images: Hunchunite
Comments: Bluish-gray hunchunite in a

polished section in reflected light.
Location: Nizhne-Tagil'skoye
(Mednorudyanskoye) Cu Deposit, Nizhnii
Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Urals Region,
Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.2 mm.
Huntite Image
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Images: Huntite
Comments: pure white chalky massive

huntite.
Location: Near Austin, Lander County,
Mineral Species
Hureaulite Image
Images: Hureaulite
Comments: Pink crystals of hureaulite on

matrix.
Giv en.
Hureaulite Image
Images: Hureaulite Tavorite
Comments: Lime green tavorite micro

crystals with pink, gemmy hureaulite.
Dakota, United States. Scale: Picture size
1.0 cm.
Hurlbutite Image
Images: Hurlbutite Roscherite
Comments: White, round crystal clusters of

hurlbutite on reddish brown roscherite.
Giv en.
Hutchinsonite Image
Images: Hutchinsonite
Comments: Dark, striated, prismatic crystal

of hutchinsonite on matrix.
Location: Quiruvica, La Libertad Dept.,
Peru. Scale: Not Given.
Hutchinsonite Image
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Comments: Aggregate of red colored

needles of hutchinsonite on white
dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Hutchinsonite Image
Comments: Transparent, striated,

cherry-red crystal of hutchinsonite on white
dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Hyalophane Image
Images: Hyalophane
Comments: Twinned crystal of hyalophane

slightly yellow from iron stains.
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia.
Scale: 4 x 3 cm.
Hydrobiotite Image
Images: Hydrobiotite
Comments: Silvery brown micaceous

hydrobiotite.
Location: Oaxaca, Mexico. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Hydroboracite Image
Images: Hydroboracite
Comments: White, acicular crystal clusters

of hydroboracite.
Location: U. S. Borax Open Pit, Boron, Kern
County, California, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Hydrocalumite Image
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Images: Hydrocalumite
Comments: Bright white platy crystal

aggregate of hydrocalumite.
Location: Boissejour, Puy-de-Dome, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hydrocerussite Image
Images: Hydrocerussite Cerussite
Comments: Platy crystals of milky white

hydrocerussite covering cerussite.
Scale: 6 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Hydrochlorborite Image
Images: Hydrochlorborite
Comments: White botryoidal crust of

hydrochlorborite on massive white
anhydrite.
Location: Takuko, Tibet. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hydrodelhayelite Image
Images: Hydrodelhayelite
Comments: Tan platy crystalline

hydrodelhayelite in white syenite matrix.
Mineral Species
Hydrodresserite Image
Images: Hydrodresserite Weloganite

hydrodresserite with radiating structure with
columnar weloganite.
Mineral Species
Hydroglauberite Image
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Images: Hydroglauberite Glauberite
Comments: Putty-colored chalky

hydroglauberite on glauberite crystals.
Location: Camp Verde, Yavapai County,
Mineral Species
Hydrohetaerolite Image
Images: Hydrohetaerolite
Comments: Dull brown patches of

hydrohetaerolite in franklinite.
Mineral Species
Hydrohonessite Image
Images: Hydrohonessite
Comments: Yellow to brown crusts of

hydrohonessite on matrix.
Location: Otter Shoot, Kambalda, Western
Mineral Species
Hydromagnesite Image
Images: Hydromagnesite
Comments: White, blocky crystals of

hydromagnesite.
Location: Lobming, Styria, Austria. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Hydromagnesite Image
Images: Hydromagnesite Pokrovskite
Comments: Tan spherical pokrovskite on

serpentinite rock with white
hydromagnesite sprays.
Location: KCA Quarry, San Benito County,
Mineral Species
Hydronium-jarosite Image
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Images: Hydronium-jarosite
Comments: Yellow, earthy hydronium-

jarosite.
Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Himmelfahrt
Mine, Freiberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge,
cm.
Hydroscarbroite Image
Images: Hydroscarbroite Scarbroite
Comments: White to tan nodular

hydroscarbroite intermixed with scarbroite
in sandstone.
Location: Weston Favell, Northamptonshire,
England. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hydrotalcite Image
Images: Hydrotalcite
Comments: Pearly white foliated masses of

hydrotalcite on serpentinite rock.
Location: Snarum, Vikersund, Buskerud,
Mineral Species
Hydrotungstite Image
Images: Hydrotungstite
Comments: Bright yellow crystalline crusts

of hydrotungstite on matrix.
Location: Colquiri Mine, Colquiri, La Paz,
Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hydrowoodwardite Image
Images: Hydrowoodwardite
Comments: Massive blue to greenish-blue

hydrowoodwardite.
Location: St Christoph Mine, B?renhecke,
Glash?tte, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
Scale: Specimen size 3.4 cm.
Hydroxyapophyllite Image
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Images: Hydroxyapophyllite Apophyllite

Stilbite

cav ity.
© Dave Barthelmy
Hydroxyapophyllite Image
Images: Hydroxyapophyllite Apophyllite
Comments: Crystal cluster of tabular

hydroxyapophyllite.
© John Veevaert
Hydroxycancrinite Image
Images: Hydroxycancrinite
Comments: Pale grayish-blue, massiv e

hydroxycancrinite.
Location: Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola
Hydroxylapatite Image
Images: Hydroxylapatite
Comments: Opaque white blocky crystal

of hydroxylapatite.
Location: Snarum, Buskerud, Norway.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Hydroxylellestadite Image
Images: Hydroxylellestadite Yeelimite
Comments: Ye'elimite and

hydroxylellestadite intimately intergrown as
a brownish aggregate in massive
anhydrite.
size 6 mm.
Hydroxylellestadite Image
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Images: Hydroxylellestadite
Comments: Pale v iolet crystalline massive

hydroxylellestadite.
Mineral Species
Hydroxylherderite Image
Images: Hydroxylherderite
Comments: Transparent crystals of

hydroxylherderite.
Location: Lord Hill quarry, Stonehame,
Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Hydrozincite Image
Images: Hydrozincite
Comments: Well crystallized, colorless

hydrozincite crystals encrusting a limonitic
gossan matrix. Fluoresces bright blue-white
under UV illumination.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapim?, Mun. de
Mapim?, Durango, Mexico. Scale: 3x3x2
cm.
Hypersthene Image
Images: Hypersthene Almandine
Comments: Dark green blocky crystals

hypersthene with reddish almandine.
Location: Barton Garnet Mine, North Creek,
Warren County, Adirondacks, New York,
Mineral Species
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Ianthinite Image
Images: Ianthinite Schoepite
Comments: Purple to brown resinous

ianthinite with yellow schoepite and
orange becquerelite.
Location: Colorado Plateau area,
Saguache County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ice Image
Images: Ice
Comments: White to clear crystals of ice

formed on a window at -15 Deg. C.
Location: Minot, North Dakota, USA. Scale:
Picture Size 30 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Ice Image
Images: Ice
Comments: Classic snowflake (stellar

dendrite ice crystal) formed from v apor-rich
air between -10 to -22 deg C. Low
Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope
(LT-SEM) image with inset light microscope
image.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 0.25
mm.
© Eric Erbe / Beltsville Agricultural Research
Center
Ice Image
Images: Ice
Comments: Rimed ice crystal. Composite

column and plate crystal covered with
tubercle deposits from contact with liquid
water (supercooled fog). Low Temperature
Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM)
image.
mm.
© Eric Erbe / Beltsv ille Agricultural Research
Center
Ice Image
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Images: Ice
Comments: Hexagonal ice plate formed

from vapor deposition in air at 0 to -3 or -10
to -35 deg. C. Low Temperature Scanning
Electron Microscope (LT-SEM) image with inset
light microscope image.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 0.6
mm.
Center
Ice Image
Images: Ice
Comments: Acicular ice crystals formed from

vapor deposition in air at -3 to -10 deg. C.
Low Temperature Scanning Electron
Microscope (LT-SEM) image with inset light
microscope image.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.
Center
Idaite Image
Images: Idaite
Comments: Deep blue metallic idaite in

milky quartz.
Location: Winston, Sierra County, New
Mineral Species
Idrialite Image
Images: Idrialite
Comments: Yellow platy crystalline idrialite

on matrix.
Location: Skaggs Springs, Sonoma County,
Mineral Species
Iimoriite-(Y) Image
Images: Iimoriite-(Y)
Comments: Nearly colorless prismatic

crystal of immolate-(Y) on dolomite.
Location: Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac,
Ari?ge, Midi-Pyr?n?es, France. Scale:
Ikranite Image
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Images: Ikranite
Comments: Top and bottom images of

brownish yellow ikranite aggregate in a
green matrix.
Russia. Scale: 1 3/4" x 1".
Ilesite Image
Images: Ilesite
Comments: Botryoidal to earthy, cream-

colored ilesite.
Location: Chvaletice, Kutn? Hora,
Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, Czech
Republic. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Ilinskite Image
Images: Ilinskite
Comments: Dark green crystals of ilinskite

on matrix.
Picture size 1 mm.
Illite Image
Images: Illite
Comments: Wispy, authigenic illite crystals

lining a pore space in sandstone. SEM
image from a core sample.
µ-m.
Ilmajokite Image
Images: Ilmajokite
Comments: Opaque dull yellow ilmajokite

in syenite matrix.
Location: valley of Ilmajok River, Lov ozero
Mineral Species
Ilmenite Image
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Images: Ilmenite
Comments: Sharp, opaque crystal of Ilmenite.

Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Ilmenorutile Image
Images: Ilmenorutile
Comments: Dark brown ilmenorutile crystal

in matrix.
Location: Iveland, Aust-Agder, Norway.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ilsemannite Image
Images: Ilsemannite
Comments: Dark blue ilsemannite.

Location: Gl?ckauf Shaft, Himmelsf?rst
Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District,
Picture size 5 mm.
Ilvaite Image
Images: Ilvaite Quartz
Comments: Black, prismatic ilvaite with quartz.

Location: First Sovietskij mine, Dalnjegorsk, Russia.
© Fabre Minerals
Ilvaite Image
Images: Ilvaite Hedenbergite
Comments: Doubly terminated, black

ilv aite on crystals of greenish gray
hedenbergite with minor galena.
Location: First Sovietsky mine, Dalnjegorsk,
Russia. Scale: 4 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
IMA1999-004a Image
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Images: IMA1999-004a Rheniite
Comments: Specimen covered with rheniite as

micro crystals to .25 mm across.
Location: Kudryav iy Volcano, Iturup Island,
Kurilian Chain, Russia. Scale: 4.7 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
IMA2002-016 Image
Images: IMA2002-016 Manganilvaite
Comments: Small, black, very bright crystals

of manganilvaite on a matrix of clear quartz,
white calcite, and tiny brassy pyrite crystals.
Location: Daye mining area, Hubei, China.
Scale: 6 x 5.6 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
IMA2005-023 Image
Images: IMA2005-023 Menezesite
Comments: Orange rhombododecahedral

crystals of menezesite to 0.75mm on matrix.
Location: Jacupiranga mine, Cajati county,
Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
IMA2005-026 Image
Images: IMA2005-026 Phosphohedyphane
Comments: Clear, prismatic

phosphohedyphane crystal on matrix.
Location: Argentena mine, Goodsprings,
Clark Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size
0.5mm.
IMA2006-009 Image
Images: IMA2006-009 Sanromanite

Juangodoyite Chalconatronite

chalconatronite.
size 3 mm.
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IMA2007-005 Image
Images: IMA2007-005 Lasalite
Comments: Bright orange efflorescent

lasalite crust on sandstone.
Location: Vanadium Queen mine, San
Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture Size 2 x
2 cm.
Imhofite Image
Images: Imhofite
Comments: Dark red crystals and

aggregates of imhofite in matrix.
Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture
size 1.2 mm.
Imhofite Image
Images: Imhofite
Comments: Spherical, spikey-radial

brownish black aggregate of imhofite with
blocky gray sulfosalt on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Imiterite Image
Images: Imiterite
Comments: Back metallic prismatic

microcrystals of imiterite in white calcite.
Location: Imiter Mine, Jbel Sarho, Anti-Atlas
Region, Morocco. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Imiterite Image
Images: Imiterite
Comments: Silv ery needle-like wire crystals

of imiterite with rounded tips to 0.5 to
.75mm in vuggy calcite.
Location: Imiter mine, Anti-Atlas Mts.,
Dades Region, Morocco. Scale: Picture size
0.5 cm.
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Imogolite Image
Images: Imogolite
Comments: Tan powdery massive

imogolite.
Location: Fukaiwa, Nanuma-shi, Tochigi,
Mineral Species
Incaite Image
Images: Incaite
Comments: Formless gray lump of incaite,

sawn on 2 sides. Former Franz Bauer
(Munich) collection.
Location: The label says "Mejillones, Chile"
which is certainly wrong, but Mejillones is a
railhead and port which served exports
from Pirquitas Ag-Sn Deposit, Rinconada
Department, Jujuy, Argentina. Scale: Lump
size 2 mm.
Inderborite Image
Images: Inderborite
Comments: Translucent glassy crystalline

inderborite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Inderite Image
Images: Inderite
Comments: Prismatic colorless crystal of

inderite.
Location: Boron, Kern County, California,
Mineral Species
Inderite Image
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Images: Inderite Pinnoite
Comments: Pale green translucent

crystalline pinnoite on chalky white inderite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Indialite Image
Images: Indialite
Comments: Gray glassy crystalline indialite

in rock.
Location: Daimonji yama, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto,
Mineral Species
Indialite Image
Images: Indialite
Comments: SEM images of indialite clusters.

(AmMin, 89:3).
Location: Somma-Vesuvius volcano in
unusual pyrometamorphic ejecta. Scale:
Scale bar 100 µ-m.
Indium Image
Images: Indium
Comments: A grain of native indium.

Location: Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye),
Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale:
Inesite Image
Images: Inesite
Comments: Bladed crystals of orangish

pink Inesite.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari, South
Africa. Scale: 14 x 7.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Inesite Image
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Images: Inesite Ruizite
Comments: 1- 3 mm crystal spray of red

orange ruizite in an exposed vug in pink
inesite.
South Africa. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Inesite Image
Images: Inesite Hubeite
Comments: Brown hubeite aggregates

accompanied by prismatic pinkish inesite
crystals.
Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei
© Fabre Minerals
Inesite Image
Images: Inesite Hubeite
Comments: Translucent, deep root beer

brown, platy hueite crystals in fan-like
groups to 1mm with delicate pink laths of
inesite.
Location: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co.,
Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Prov ince,
China. Scale: Picture Size 5 mm.
Ingersonite Image
Images: Ingersonite
Comments: Yellowish green crystals of

ingersonite to about 0.7mm embedded in
matrix rich in dark grains of flipstadite.
Scale: 14x10x6mm.
Innelite Image
Images: Innelite
Comments: Yellow crystalline granular

innelite.
Location: Inagli, Aldan, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species
Insizwaite Image
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Images: Insizwaite Moncheite

image showing b) intergrowth of taimyrite-
tatyanaite with moncheitei-insizwaite
(CanMin, v 42, p 611).
Scale: See Image.
Inyoite Image
Images: Inyoite
Comments: Glassy gray translucent crystals

of inyoite 1.5 cm.+, with minor alteration to
white meyerhofferite.
Location: Loma Blanca Mine, Jujuy Province,
Argentina. Scale: 5.2x4.1x3.1 cm.
Iodargyrite Image
Images: Iodargyrite
Comments: Aggregate crystal of

Iodargyrite on matrix.
Iodargyrite Image
Images: Iodargyrite Embolite
Comments: Cubo-octahedral crystals of

iodaryrite (I) with smaller and darker
octahedral crystals of embolite (E).
Australia. Scale: Specimen size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Iodargyrite Image
Images: Iodargyrite Coronadite
Comments: Dark, fine-grained massive

coronadite with yellowish octahedral
iodargyrite crystals.
Australia. Scale: Picture size 3x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Iowaite Image
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Images: Iowaite
Comments: Floater crystal of iowaite.

Location: Palabora Mine, Transvaal, South
Africa. Scale: Crystal size 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Iquiqueite Image
Images: Iquiqueite Nitratine
Comments: Yellow iquiqueiite in clear,

massive nitration.
Location: Salar de Miraje, Antofagasta,
Iranite Image
Images: Iranite
Comments: Crystals of iranite to 3mm on

brecciated, siliceous matrix.
Location: Sebarz mine, Anarak, Iran. Scale:
3.7 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Irhtemite Image
Images: Irhtemite
Comments: Pink acicular divergent

microcrystals of irhtemite on matrix.
Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou-Azzer,
Ouarzazate, Morocco. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Iridium Image
Images: Iridium
Comments: Silvery metallic crystalline

iridium micrograin and irregular nuggets.
Location: Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay,
Mineral Species
Iriginite Image
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Images: Iriginite
Comments: Yellow aggregates of iriginite

on matrix.
Location: Cameron area, Coconino
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 2.5
mm.
Iriginite Image
Images: Iriginite Mourite
Comments: Purple to violet sub-metallic

mourite coatings with yellow iriginite.
Location: 'North Caucasus', probably
Kyzylsai Deposit, Chu-Ili Mountains,
Balkhash, Zezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Iron Image
Images: Iron
Comments: Specimen of volcanic rock

containing dark gray grains of native Iron.
This locality is one of the very few known
localities for terrestrial nativ e iron.
Location: Disko Island, Greenland. Scale:
Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Ishikawaite Image
Images: Ishikawaite
Comments: Blocky, metamict crystals of

ishikawaite.
Location: Spinelli Quarry (Spinelli prospect),
South Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut,
Isoferroplatinum Image
Images: Isoferroplatinum Cuproiridsite
Comments: Gray equant crystal of

cuproiridsite in light gray isoferroplatinum.
in reflected light.
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Images: Isoferroplatinum
Comments: Irregularly shaped silver

metallic nugget of isoferroplatinum with
minor chromite.
Location: Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay.
Mineral Species
Images: Isoferroplatinum Ruthenium

of polished section of ruthenium nugget
with isoferroplatinum inclusions.
Location: Miass River, Chelyabinsk District,
Mineral Species
Isokite Image
Images: Isokite
Comments: Pale brownish to brown isokite

in quartz.
Picture size 7 mm.
Isomertieite Image
Images: Isomertieite Arsenopalladinite

Gold Bornite

light.
Isovite Image
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Images: Isovite
Comments: Dark gray metallic grain of

isovite.
Location: Verkhneivinsk, Sverdlov skaya
Oblast', Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Grain
size 0.7 mm.
Iwakiite Image
Images: Iwakiite
Comments: Back fine-grained granular

iwakiite in pink rhodonite.
Location: Gazaisho Mine, Iwaki, Fukushima,
Mineral Species
Ixiolite Image
Images: Ixiolite
Comments: Hemispherical crystalline

aggregate of ixiolite.
Location: Muiane mine, Zambesia,
Mozambique. Scale: Specimen size 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Izoklakeite Image
Images: Izoklakeite
Comments: Prismatic metallic gray

microcrystal of izoklakeite (mounted on
paper).
Location: Vena Mine, Bergslagen, Orebro,
Mineral Species
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Jachymovite Image
Images: Jachymovite
Comments: Yellow crystals of j?chymov ite.

size 3 mm.
Jacobsite Image
Images: Jacobsite Barite
Comments: Sharp, octahedral crystals of

Jacobsite on a bladed barite matrix.
Location: N' Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman,
South Africa. Scale: 3x2.5x1.9 cm.
Jacobsite Image
Images: Jacobsite Ganomalite
Comments: White crystalline ganomalite

with dark granular jacobsite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jadeite Image
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Images: Jadeite
Comments: Fibrous crystals of Jadeite.

Location: Russian River, near Cloverdale,
Mendocino County, California, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Jadeite Image
Images: Jadeite Stronalsite
Comments: White stronalsite veinlets in

massiv e pale green jadeite.
Location: Ohasa, Okayama, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jagoite Image
Images: Jagoite
Comments: Yellow crystalline fragment of

jagoite in hausmannite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jagowerite Image
Images: Jagowerite
Comments: Pale green to white massive

jagowerite.
Location: Hess River, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species
Jagowerite Image
Images: Jagowerite Penikisite
Comments: Light green crystal of

jagowerite intergrown with darker green
penikisite in a tetrahedrite (black) and
Location: From quartz veins cutting clays
26 km N of Hess River, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Scale: Sample size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Jagueite Image
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Images: Jagueite
Comments: Polished section (oil-immersion,

plain polarized on left, cross-polarized on
right) showing lobate grains of
chrisstanleyite (Chr), replaced by jagu?ite
(Jag), with tiemannite (Tie). The jagu?ite
twinning is evident by banding in both
images.
Location: El Chire prospect, Los Llantenes
District of La Rioja Province, Argentina..
Scale: Picture size 150 µm.
Jahnsite-(CaMnMg) Image
Images: Jahnsite-(CaMnMg)
Comments: Brown, striated, transparent

crystals of jahnsite-(CaMnMg) on matrix.
Giv en.
Jalpaite Image
Images: Jalpaite
Comments: Tarnished black lustrous

masses of jalpaite in rock with blue
chrysocolla.
Location: La Mesa, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jamborite Image
Images: Jamborite
Comments: Green coatings of jamborite on

millerite filaments, in v ug.
Location: Halls Gap, Lincoln County,
Kentucky, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jamesonite Image
Images: Jamesonite
Comments: Metallic, hair-like, crystals of

jamesonite on matrix.
Location: Baie Sprie (Felsobanya),
Maraures, Romania. Scale: Not Given.
Janhaugite Image
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Images: Janhaugite Dalyite
Comments: Tan crystalline dalyite (arrow)

with reddish brown janhaugite.
Mineral Species
Janhaugite Image
Images: Janhaugite
Comments: Reddish-brown columnar

crystalline janhaugite in white matrix.
Mineral Species
Jarlite Image
Images: Jarlite
Comments: Tan radial botryoidal waxy

masses of jarlite in matrix.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Jarosite Image
Images: Jarosite Alunogen
Comments: Colorless to white, tabular

crystals alunogen on reddish jarosite.
size 5 mm.
Jarosite Image
Images: Jarosite Fairbankite

fairbankite with orangish brown jarosite.
size 1.5 mm.
Jarosite Image
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Images: Jarosite
Comments: Deep brown lustrous crystals of

Jarosite to 2 mm.
Location: Soureza, Attika, Greece. Scale:
2.8 x 1.6 cm.
© John Veevaert
Jarosite Image
Images: Jarosite Winstanleyite
Comments: Small, yellow octahedral

crystal of winstanleyite on brownish red
jarosite.
size 0.9 mm.
Jaskolskiite Image
Images: Jaskolskiite
Comments: Silvery gray metallic granular

jaskolskiite (mounted on paper).
Location: Vena, Bergslagen, Orebro,
Mineral Species
Jeanbandyite Image
Images: Jeanbandyite
Comments: Yellowish brown translucent

microcrystal of jeanbandyite on mineral
encrusted fluorite.
Location: Mount Pleasant Tin Mine, New
Brunswick, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jennite Image
Images: Jennite
Comments: Bright white fibrous jennite

veinlet in rock.
Mineral Species
Jensenite Image
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Images: Jensenite
Comments: Small green crystals of

jensenite in matrix.
size 1.2 mm.
Jentschite Image
Images: Jentschite
Comments: Black and dark red translucent

needles of jentschite on white dolomite.
cm.
© Walter Gabriel
Jeppeite Image
Images: Jeppeite
Comments: Dark brown crystalline

granular jeppeite.
Location: Walgidee Hills, Western Australia,
Mineral Species
Jeremejevite Image
Images: Jeremejevite
Comments: Partial crystal fragment of

jeremejevite.
Location: Mile 72, Swakopmund, Namibia.
© John Veevaert
Jeremejevite Image
Images: Jeremejevite
Comments: Two-toned hexagonal crystal of

jeremejevite with blue bases and white terminations.
Location: Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Scale: Crystal
size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Jeromite Image
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Images: Jeromite
Comments: Orange, powdery jeromite on

matrix.
Location: Salar de Surire, Tarapaca, Chile.
Jimboite Image
Images: Jimboite
Comments: Dark red-brown crystalline

jimboite veinlet in massive rhodochrosite.
Location: Rito Mine, Azuma Mura, Seta-gun,
Mineral Species
Jimthompsonite Image
Images: Jimthompsonite
Clinojimthompsonite
Comments: Pale green to white glassy

crystalline fibrous clinojimthompsonite
intergrown with jimthompsonite.
Location: Chester, Windsor County,
Vermont, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jinshajiangite Image
Images: Jinshajiangite
Comments: Reddish elongated

junshajiangite grain to 0.3mm in matrix.
Location: Norra Karr, Sweden. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Jixianite Image
Images: Jixianite Cuprotungstite
Comments: Reddish brown crystal druse of

jixianite with minor tan cuprotungstite.
Location: Apache Mine, Hidalgo County,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Joaquinite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Joaquinite-(Ce)
Comments: Brown crystal of

joaquinite-(Ce).
Location: Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito
Johannite Image
Images: Johannite
Comments: Green colored johannite

crystals.
Location: Happy Jack mine, White Canyon,
San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Johannite Image
Images: Johannite Uranopilite
Comments: Bright yellow rosettes of

uranopilite with pale greenish yellow
johannite on matrix.
Location: Apex Mine, Lander Co., Nevada,
Johannite Image
Images: Johannite Uranopilite
Comments: Green aggregates of minute,

acicular johannite and yellow uranopilite
and clear, tabular aragonite crystals on
matrix.
Johannsenite Image
Images: Johannsenite
Comments: Mass of prismatic bluish green

colored johannsenite crystals.
South Africa. Scale: 7.2 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Johannsenite Image
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Images: Johannsenite
Comments: Rounded glassy prismatic

crystals of dark violet brown johannsenite
to 1.4 cm. Long.
Location: Consols Mine, Broken Hill, NSW,
Australia. Scale: 1.5x1.5x1 cm.
Johnbaumite Image
Images: Johnbaumite Tephroite
Comments: Violet crystalline massive

johnbaumite with brown tephroite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Johninnesite Image
Images: Johninnesite
Comments: Orange crystalline vein of

johninnesite in manganese oxide matrix.
Location: Ausserferrera, Val Ferrera,
Graubundun, Switzerland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Johnsenite-(Ce) Image
Images: Johnsenite-(Ce) Macfallite

Braunite-I

braunite.
Johnsomervilleite Image
Images: Johnsomervilleite
Comments: Dark brownish

johnsomervilleite.
Location: Sapucaia Mine, Conselheiro Pena
district, Galil?ia, Governador Valadares,
Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region,
Brazil. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Jokokuite Image
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Images: Jokokuite
Comments: Pale pink stalactic mass of

jokokuite.
Location: Jokoku Mine, Haminokuni,
Hokkaido, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jolliffeite Image
Images: Jolliffeite Eskebornite

image of jolliffeite in sulfurian eskebornite.
Note the cracked appearance and the
different brightness of eskebornite, which is
a reflection of v ariable ratio of selenium to
sulfur. (CanMin v 42, p 844).
Location: Niederschlema-Alberoda
uranium deposit, in the Erzgebirge region of
Jonesite Image
Images: Jonesite
Comments: Transparent, bladed crystal of

jonesite on matrix.
Location: Dallas Gem Mine (Gem Mine;
Benitoite Mine), New Idria District, San
Benito Co., California, USA. Scale: Crystal
size 3.5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Jordanite Image
Images: Jordanite
Comments: Gray metallic crystalline

jordanite in fine-grained marble.
Mineral Species
Jordanite Image
Images: Jordanite
Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal, metallic

gray crystal of jordanite with purple tarnish
on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Jordanite Image
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Images: Jordanite Marrite
Comments: Aggregate of gray prismatic crystals of

marrite on fine-grained jordanite.
Switzerland. Scale: Picture high 5 mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Jordisite Image
Images: Jordisite
Comments: Black earthy jordisite on matrix.

Location: Gl?ckauf Shaft, Himmelsf?rst
Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District,
Picture size 6 mm.
Joseite Image
Images: Joseite
Comments: Milky quartz matrix with a 15

mm long group of metallic joseite crystals.
Location: Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria,
England, UK. Scale: 5x3.5x2.5 cm.
Jouravskite Image
Images: Jouravskite
Comments: Lemon yellow granular

jourav skite.
© John Veevaert
Juangodoyite Image
Images: Juangodoyite
Comments: Rich blue veinlets of

juangodoyite in matrix..
Location: Mina Santa Rosa, Iquique, Chile.
Juangodoyite Image
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Images: Juangodoyite IMA2006-009

Sanromanite Chalconatronite

chalconatronite.
size 3 mm.
Juanitaite Image
Images: Juanitaite
Comments: Microplates of juanitaite on

matrix. Scanning Electron Microscope
Image.
Location: Gold Hill, Utah. Scale: Field of
View 125 ?m.
© William Wise
Juanitaite Image
Images: Juanitaite
Comments: Green juanitaite in quartz

matrix, with conichalcite and sulfides.
Location: Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County,
Utah, USA. Scale: 5.4 x 4 x 2.6 cm.
Julgoldite-(Fe++) Image
Images: Julgoldite-(Fe++)
Comments: Black julgodite-(Fe) and

doubly-terminated, brilliant, water clear
fluorapophyllite crystals on basalt.
© Fabre Minerals
Julgoldite-(Fe+++) Image
Images: Julgoldite-(Fe+++)
Comments: Black, prismatic micro-crystals

of julgoldite-(Fe+++) in white apophyllite.
Location: Langban mine, Filipstad ,
V?rmland, Sweden. Scale: 5x3mm.
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Julienite Image
Images: Julienite
Comments: Bright blue nearly opaque

prismatic micro crystal of julienite.
Location: Chamibumba, near Kambov e,
Katanga, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Jungite Image
Images: Jungite
Comments: Translucent cleavage

fragment of jungite.
Location: Hagendorf, Bayern, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Junitoite Image
Images: Junitoite
Comments: Platy transparent junitoite

crystal cluster lying flat on white limestone
matrix.
Location: Christmas Mine, near Hayden,
Gila County, Arizona. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Junitoite Image
Images: Junitoite
Comments: Clear, platy, flat lying crystals

of junitoite (red marker) to 2mm associated
with lavender smectite.
Junoite Image
Images: Junoite
Comments: Solid crystalline mass of dark

gray, metallic junoite. Partially sawed
indicating analytical verification.
Location: 700 level, Juno Mine, Tennant
Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Scale:
3x2x2cm.
Juonniite Image
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Images: Juonniite
Comments: Brownish grain of juonniite on

matrix.
Jurbanite Image
Images: Jurbanite
Comments: White spherical crusts of

jurbanite on matrix.
Mineral Species
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Kaatialaite Image
Images: Kaatialaite
Comments: White kaatialaite with

arsenolite on nativ e arsenic.
Picture size 5 mm.
Kaersutite Image
Images: Kaersutite
Comments: Dark greenish-brown prismatic

kaersutite crystals in matrix.
Location: Nugssuaq, Umanak, Greenland.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kafehydrocyanite Image
Images: Kafehydrocyanite
Comments: Micro platy crystal of

kafehydrocyanite.
Location: Medvezhii Log, East Sayan Mountains,
Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kainite Image
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Images: Kainite Szaibelyite
Comments: pale violet granular kainite

intermixed with white ascharite
(szaibelyite).
Location: Havesa, Empelde, Hannover,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kaliborite Image
Images: Kaliborite
Comments: Translucent colorless crystal of

kaliborite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kalifersite Image
Images: Kalifersite
Comments: Brownish-red crystalline

granular aggregates of kalifersite in rock
matrix composed of fibers to 5mm.
Location: Mt. Rasvumchorr, Khibiny massif,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Specimen size
3.5 x 2 x 1.5cm.
Kaliophilite Image
Images: Kaliophilite Meionite
Comments: Tan to white fibrous kaliophilite

crystal bundle with white translucent
meionite on matrix.
Location: Mont Somma, Naples,
Mineral Species
Kalipyrochlore Image
Images: Kalipyrochlore
Comments: Opaque yellowish green to

tan octahedral crystal of kalipyrochlore.
Location: Lueshe, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kalsilite Image
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Images: Kalsilite
Comments: Small, hair-like crystals of

kalsilite on crystals of phlogopite and
smaller crystals of analcime and
fluorapatite.
Location: San Venanzo, Tern, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Kamacite Image
Images: Kamacite Carlsbergite
Comments: Polished section showing a

small light gray elongated inclusion of
carlsbergite in massive kamacite.
mm.
Kamacite Image
Images: Kamacite Nickelphosphide
Comments: Small inclusion of

nickelphosphide in massiv e kamacite.
mm.
Kamacite Image
Images: Kamacite Troilite Cohenite

Taenite

Photo.
Mineral Species
Kamacite Image
Images: Kamacite Taenite Troilite
Comments: Polished and acid etched

slice, with crust, illustrating Widmanstaaten
lines, with taenite darker areas between
kamacite crystals, with tarnished troilite
inclusions, in fine octahedrite meteorite.
Location: Gibeon Meteorite, found 1836,
Great Namaqualand, Hardap, Namibia.
Scale: See Photo.
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Mineral Species
Kambaldaite Image
Images: Kambaldaite
Comments: Light green kambaldaite blebs

and crusts.
Location: Kambalda Nickel deposit,
Kambalda, WA, Australia. Scale: Picture
size 3 mm.
Kamiokite Image
Images: Kamiokite
Comments: Dull dark gray-black sectile

massive kamiokite.
Location: Krupka, Sev erocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Kamotoite-(Y) Image
Images: Kamotoite-(Y)
Comments: Bright greenish yellow

kamotoite-(Y) crystals.
Not Given.
Kamotoite-(Y) Image
Images: Kamotoite-(Y)
Comments: Bright yellow, feather-like

kamotoite-(Y) crystal habits.
Picture size 2 cm.
Kampfite Image
Images: Kampfite
Comments: Light, bluish-gray crystalline

kampfite.
Location: Esquire #1 Claim, Rush Creek,
Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: Picture
size 4 mm.
Kampfite Image
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Images: Kampfite
Comments: Anthony Kampf, Curator and Section

Head of the Mineral Sciences Section at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Natural History and
the person whom kampfite was named for, kindly
provided the pronunciation of the mineral
kampfite.
Location: Tucson Convention Center, 50th Tucson
Gem and Mineral Show, February 12, 2004. Scale:
NA.
© Dav e Barthelmy
Kamphaugite-(Y) Image
Images: Kamphaugite-(Y)
Comments: Small white crystals of

kamphaugite-(Y).
Location: T?rdal (Hj?ndalen), Telemark,
Kanemite Image
Images: Kanemite
Comments: Yellowish white translucent

micro spherical aggregate of kanemite.
Location: Kanem, Chad. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kankite Image
Images: Kankite
Comments: Greenish botryoidal

aggregates of kankite.
Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Freiberg,
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Kanoite Image
Images: Kanoite
Comments: Brown, prismatic crystals of

kanoite in matrix.
Location: Tatehira, Oshima Peninsula,
Hokkaido, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kanonaite Image
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Images: Kanonaite
Comments: Dark greenish black

microcrystal of kanonaite in matrix.
Location: Le Coreaux, near Salmchateau,
Luxembourg, Belgium. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kaolinite Image
Images: Kaolinite
Comments: Authigenic kaolinite plates

cov ering a quartz grain overgrown with
authigenic quartz. SEM image of a core
sample.
µ-m.
Kaolinite Image
Images: Kaolinite Ammonioalunite
Comments: White chalky ammonioalunite

on darker kaolinite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kaolinite Image
Images: Kaolinite Pianlinite
Comments: Off-white colored minute

pianlinite (kaolinite) fragment.
Location: Pianling, China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Karelianite Image
Images: Karelianite
Comments: Dark bluish-black granular

karelianite.
Location: Outokumpu, Pohjois-Karjala,
Finland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Karibibite Image
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Images: Karibibite
Comments: Orange yellow, radial sprays

of karibibite on l?llingite to 0.75mm.
Location: Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: picture size 5 mm.
Karlite Image
Images: Karlite
Comments: Pale lemon yellow colored translucent

crystalline fragment of karlite.
Location: Schlegeistal, Zillertaler Alpen, Tirol,
Austria. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral
Species
Karpatite Image
Images: Karpatite
Comments: Pale greenish karpatite with

minor red cinnabar.
Location: 4th of July mine, New Idria
district, San Benito Co., California, USA.
Karpatite Image
Images: Karpatite
Comments: Flat lying sprays of fibrous crystals of

yellow karpatite to 2.8 cm in length on siliceous
jasperoid with drusy quartz. Lower image taken
using SW UV light.
Location: Los Picachos, near Picacho Peak, San
Benito County, California, USA. Scale: 9.3 x 4.5 x 3.5
cm.
© John Veevaert
Kashinite Image
Images: Kashinite Laurite
Comments: Gray kashinite with darker gray

laurite. Polished section (from microprobe
analysis) in reflected light.
Kasolite Image
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Images: Kasolite
Comments: Golden yellow crystals of

kasolite.
Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tatara,
Kasolite Image
Images: Kasolite
Comments: Bright yellow kasolite crystal

"flowers" on matrix.
Location: Kambove, (Kakanda) Mine,
Katanga District, Shaba (Katanga),
Republic of the Congo, (Za?re). Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Kasolite Image
Images: Kasolite Sklodowskite
Comments: Greenish yellow, acicular

sklodowskite crystals and yellow, bladed
kasolite crystals.
Picture size 1 cm.
Kastningite Image
Images: Kastningite
Comments: Colorless crystals of kastningite.

Location: Silbergrube Quarry, Waidhaus,
Vohenstrau?, Oberpfalz, Bavaria,
Kazakhstanite Image
Images: Kazakhstanite
Comments: Deep black sooty coatings of

kazakhstanite on silicified rock.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Keckite Image
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Images: Keckite
Comments: Brown crystals of keckite on

matrix.
Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany.
Scale: .
Keithconnite Image
Images: Keithconnite Kotulskite

Telluropalladinite
Comments: Polyphase grain of (1) ferroan

platinum corroded by (2) Pt(Fe,Cu) and
overgrown by (5) telluropalladinite, an
unknown (6) Pd-Te-Fe-Si-O phase, (7)
Fe-hydroxide and (8) a Ca-Mn-Fe silicate
with inclusions of (3) kotulskite and (4)
keithconnite. (BGR).
Location: Stream sediments of rivers in the
vicinity of the original discovery of the
Merensky Reef on the farm Maandagshoek
close to Burgersfort in the Eastern Bushveld,
South Africa.. Scale: See Image.
© Federal Institute for Geosciences and
Natural Resources
Kemmlitzite Image
Images: Kemmlitzite
Comments: Tan granular kemmlitzite in

sand.
Location: Kemmlitz Deposit, Oschatz,
Sachsen, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kenhsuite Image
Images: Kenhsuite
Comments: Yellow crystalline kenhsuite on

montmorillonite matrix (light sensitive).
Location: McDermitt Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species
Kentbrooksite Image
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Images: Kentbrooksite
Comments: Orange translucent crystals of

kentbrooksite frozen in syenite rock.
Location: Mount Alluiav , Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kentrolite Image
Images: Kentrolite
Comments: Brownish red grains of kentrolite

in matrix.
Location: Langban mine, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Kenyaite Image
Images: Kenyaite
Comments: Compact granular massive

kenyaite possibly with other phases.
Location: Lake Magadi, Rift Valley Province,
Kenya. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kermesite Image
Images: Kermesite
Comments: Reddish brown radiating spray

of kermesite crystals on matrix.
Location: Pezinok (Pernek), near Bratislava,
Solvakia. Scale: Not Given.
Kermesite Image
Images: Kermesite Paakkonenite
Comments: Much of the matrix is the gray

metallic paakkonenite with red crystals of
kermesite and minute yellow crystals of
v alentinite.
Location: Cai' ao mine, Danfong Co.,
Shaanxi Prov., China. Scale: 3x2x2cm.
Kernite Image
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Images: Kernite
Comments: Translucent kernite cleavage

prism with white superficial dehydration
coating.
Location: Pacific Coast Boron Mine, Boron,
Kern County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kerstenite Image
Images: Kerstenite Clinochalcomenite

Krutaite

dark krutaite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kesterite Image
Images: Kesterite Mushistonite
Comments: Sharp, kesterite crystal,

greenish in color due to a mushistonite
coating with clear, prismatic beryl crystals.
Location: Xue Bao Diang Mountains, north
of Pingwu, Sichuan Prov ince, China. Scale:
Crystal size 1 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Kettnerite Image
Images: Kettnerite
Comments: Brown crystals of kettnerite.

Picture size 4 mm.
Keyite Image
Images: Keyite
Comments: Brilliant blue keyite crystals on

a matrix of white, metallic suflide-arsenide
ore.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 0.9 x 0.7
x 0.7 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Keystoneite Image
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Images: Keystoneite
Comments: Yellow, feathery keystoneite

on quartz.
Location: Mcalpine Mine, Moccasin,
Tuolumne Co., California, USA. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.
Khademite Image
Images: Khademite
Comments: Pale blue botryoidal

khademite on matrix.
Location: Bergmann Liegendes,
Rammelsberg, Harz Mountains,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Khaidarkanite Image
Images: Khaidarkanite
Comments: Sky blue acicular radial sprays

of khaidarkanite.
Location: Khaidarkan, Kyrgizia. Scale:
Crystal size 1 mm.
Kidwellite Image
Images: Kidwellite Frondelite
Comments: Root beer colored crystals of

frondelite and white kidwellite sticks on
matrix.
Location: Sapucaia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Kidwellite Image
Images: Kidwellite
Comments: Yellowish green columnar

aggregates of kidwellite crystals.
Location: Indian Mountain, Cherokee
County, Alabama, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Kidwellite Image
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Images: Kidwellite Strengite
Comments: Spherical, crystalline aggregate of

purple strengite on green kidwellite.
Location: Three Oak Gap, Polk Co., Arkansas,
USA. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.
Kieserite Image
Images: Kieserite
Comments: Translucent crystalline mass of

kieserite with white alteration products.
Mineral Species
Kimzeyite Image
Images: Kimzeyite
Comments: Black isometric crystal of

kimzeyite garnet.
Location: Kimzey pit, Magnet Cove, Hot
Spring County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Kingite Image
Images: Kingite
Comments: White flakes of kingite in matrix.

size 1.3 mm.
Kingsmountite Image
Images: Kingsmountite
Comments: White, radial spray of

kingsmountite crystals.
Location: Kings Mountain, Cleveland
County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Kinoite Image
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Images: Kinoite Apophyllite
Comments: Crystals of dark blue kinoite

and clear apophyllite.
Location: Christmas Mine, Gila County,
© John Veevaert
Kinoite Image
Images: Kinoite Dioptase
Comments: Fibrous crystals of blue-green

dioptase to 0.75mm on clear apophyllite
associated with dark blue kinoite.
USA. Scale: Pictures size 6 mm.
Kinoite Image
Images: Kinoite
Comments: Kinoite crystals as single

tabular or platy blue crystals to about
0.3mm and as fan-like sprays. The crystals
exhibit striations, a key to distinguishing it
from stringhamite.
Kintoreite Image
Images: Kintoreite
Comments: Yellow rounded crystal grains

of kintoreite on limonite.
Location: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill,
New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kipushite Image
Images: Kipushite
Comments: Green microcrystals of

kipushite on matrix.
Location: Kipushi, Shaba, Zaire. Scale:
10x8x5 mm.
Kipushite Image
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Images: Kipushite
Comments: Prismatic emerald green

microcrystals of kipushite on quartz.
Location: Snowshoe Claim, near Battle
Mountain, Lander County, Nevada, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kirschsteinite Image
Images: Kirschsteinite
Comments: Grayish green crystalline

massiv e kirschsteinite.
Location: Mazarron, Murcia, Spain. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kivuite Image
Images: Kivuite Dewindtite
Comments: Pale yellow coatings of kivuite

with yellowier dewindtite on pegmatite.
Location: Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kladnoite Image
Images: Kladnoite
Comments: Glassy prismatic colorless

kladnoite crystals on matrix.
Location: Kladno, Stredocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Klebelsbergite Image
Images: Klebelsbergite
Comments: Small, acicular sprays of

klebelsbergite with yellow crystals of sulfur
on stibnite.
Location: Pereta Mine, Grosseto Province,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Kleinite Image
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Images: Kleinite
Comments: Crystalline druse of bright

canary yellow kleinite on matrix.
Location: McDermmitt, Humboldt County,
Nevada. USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2 mm.
© John Veevaert
Klockmannite Image
Images: Klockmannite
Comments: Klockmannite intergrown with

covellite on quartz.
Koashvite Image
Images: Koashvite
Comments: Brown translucent crystalline

fragment of koashvite.
Location: Mount Koashva, Khibiny Massive,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kobeite-(Y) Image
Images: Kobeite-(Y)
Comments: Subparallel aggregate of black,

tabular, euhedral kobeite-(Y) crystals in matrix.
Location: Ohro, Kobe, Kyoto, Japan. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Kobellite Image
Images: Kobellite
Comments: Dark gray metallic crystalline

kobellite with quartz.
Location: Crabtree Quarry, Raleigh, Wake
County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kochsandorite Image
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Images: Kochsandorite
Comments: Pearly circles of radiating white

microcrystals of kochsandorite on coal.
Location: Many coal deposit, Bicske-
Zsambeki Basin, Tatabanya. Scale:
2.5x1.7x1.1 cm.
Kochsandorite Image
Images: Kochsandorite
Comments: White fibers of kochandorite on

coal-marl matrix.
Location: M?ny coal field, Tatab?nya,
Hungary. Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Koechlinite Image
Images: Koechlinite
Comments: Greenish yellow crystal of

koechlinite on quartz.
Location: Adam Heber Mine, Neust?dtel,
Schneeberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Koenenite Image
Images: Koenenite
Comments: Koenenite with cleavage

planes.
Location: Bergmannssegen-Hugo Mine,
Lehrte, near Hanover, Lower Saxony,
Kogarkoite Image
Images: Kogarkoite
Comments: Pale green granular mass of

kogarkoite with yellow native sulfur.
Location: Vulcano, Sicily, Italy. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Koktaite Image
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Images: Koktaite
Comments: Tan to white scaly coating of

koktaite.
Location: Zastavka, near Brna,
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kolbeckite Image
Images: Kolbeckite
Comments: Spherical ball of acicular

kolbeckite on matrix.
Location: Gleichenberger Klause, Bad
Gleichenberg, Steiermark, Austria. Scale:
Specimen size 1.5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Kolicite Image
Images: Kolicite
Comments: Minute orange crystal of

kolicite in franklinite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kolovratite Image
Images: Kolovratite
Comments: Aqua-colored botryoidal crust

of kolovratite.
Location: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango,
Mineral Species
Kolwezite Image
Images: Kolwezite
Comments: Green kolwezite cotton balls

on pink cobaltian calcite.
Location: Musononi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba,
Not Given.
Komarovite Image
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Images: Komarovite

komarov ite v ein in syenite rock.
Location: Mount Karnasurt, Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kombatite Image
Images: Kombatite Hausmannite
Comments: Yellow kombatite crystals in

black hausmannite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Otavi, Namibia.
Koninckite Image
Images: Koninckite
Comments: Pale pink botryoidal crust of

koninckite on rock.
Location: Richelle, Liege, Belgium. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Konyaite Image
Images: Konyaite
Comments: white powdery konyaite.

Location: Great Konya Basin, Konya,
Turkey. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Koragoite Image
Images: Koragoite
Comments: Black tabular crystals of

koragoite in matrix.
Location: Vez-Dara River Valley,
Shakhdara Range, Khorog Region, Gorno-
Badakhshan District, Pamir Mts, Tajikistan.
Koritnigite Image
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Images: Koritnigite
Comments: Translucent nearly colorless

fragment of koritnigite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kornelite Image
Images: Kornelite
Comments: Sulfate matrix with several 1

cm sprays of kornelite. This specimen has to
be protected from air as it is readily soluble
in water.
Location: Rio Tinto Mine, Huelva, Spain.
© John Veevaert
Kornerupine Image
Images: Kornerupine
Comments: Greenish gray mottled crystal

prism of kornerupine.
Location: Western Hart's Range, Northern
Territory, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Korobitsynite Image
Images: Korobitsynite

korobitsynite.
Location: Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola
Korshunovskite Image
Images: Korshunovskite
Comments: White fibrous korshunov skite

crystals.
Location: Korshunovskoye skarn Fe Deposit,
Irkutsk, Irkutskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia
Korzhinskite Image
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Images: Korzhinskite
Comments: Translucent fragment of

korzhinskite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kosmochlor Image
Images: Kosmochlor
Comments: Green resinous massive

kosmochlor, variety ureyite, in serpentinite.
Location: Myanmar. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kosnarite Image
Images: Kosnarite
Comments: Pale bluish crystals of kosnarite

in matrix.
Location: Mt Mica mine, Paris, Oxford Co.,
Maine, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
Kosnarite Image
Images: Kosnarite
Comments: Transparent crystals of

kosnarite on matrix.
Location: Itinga Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
© John Veevaert
Kosnarite Image
Images: Kosnarite Zanazziite
Comments: Beige crystals of kosnarite with

pinkish, radial aggregates of zanazziite on
whte albite matrix.
Location: Jenipapo, Itinga, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Picture size 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Kotoite Image
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Images: Kotoite
Comments: White massiv e kotoite crystals.

Location: Baita Mine (R?zb?nya), Nucet,
Bihor Co., Romania. Scale: Picture size 8
mm.
Kottigite Image
Images: Kottigite
Comments: K?ttigite crystals on gossanous

matrix up to 0.5 cm in length.
Location: Oujela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Kotulskite Image
Images: Kotulskite Telluropalladinite

Keithconnite

Natural Resources
Koutekite Image
Images: Koutekite Algodonite
Comments: Silv ery metallic koutekite with

darker gray algodonite.
Location: Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw
Mineral Species
Kovdorskite Image
Images: Kovdorskite
Comments: Gemmy crystal of icy blue

kovdorskite.
Location: Kheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola
Penisula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
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Kozoite-(La) Image
Images: Kozoite-(La) Kozoite-(Nd)
Comments: Backscatter electron image of

polished section through a sperical
aggregate showing the zonation form
kosoite-(La) to kosolite-(Nd). (JMPS, v 98, p
138).
Location: Cavity in alkaline basalt near
Mitsukoshi, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Scale:
See Image.
© JMPS
Kozoite-(Nd) Image
Images: Kozoite-(Nd)
Comments: White grain of kozoite-(Nd) in

matrix.
Location: Niikoba, Hizen-cho, Higashi-
Matsuura-gun, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu
Island, Japan. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.
Kozoite-(Nd) Image
Images: Kozoite-(Nd)
Comments: Photomicrograph of the

spherical aggregate composed of
kosoite-(Nd). (JMPS, v 98, p 138).
See Image.
© JMPS
Kozoite-(Nd) Image
Images: Kozoite-(Nd) Kozoite-(La)

polished section through a sperical
aggregate showing the zonation form
kosoite-(La) to kosolite-(Nd). (JMPS, v 98, p
138).
See Image.
© JMPS
Kozulite Image
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Images: Kozulite
Comments: Dark reddish-black granular

kozulite in pale pink rhodonite with dark
brown braunite.
Location: Tanohata Mine, Tanohata Muro,
Shimoheii gun, Iwate, Japan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kraisslite Image
Images: Kraisslite
Comments: Yellow crystalline kraisslite in

calcite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kratochvilite Image
Images: Kratochvilite
Comments: Pale yellow to brown

crystalline crust of kratochvilite on shale.
Location: Zastavka, near Brna,
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Krausite Image
Images: Krausite
Comments: Pale yellowish crystals of

krausite on black matrix.
Krauskopfite Image
Images: Krauskopfite
Comments: White pearly crystalline

krauskopfite on quartz.
Location: Rush Creek, Fresno County,
Mineral Species
Krautite Image
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Images: Krautite
Comments: Pale pink aggregates of

krautite on greenish colored matrix.
Location: Jachymov, Bohemia,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Kremersite Image
Images: Kremersite
Comments: Orange crystals of kremersite.

Krennerite Image
Images: Krennerite
Comments: Metallic krennerite crystals on

quartz.
Location: Emperor mine, Vatukoula, Viti
Levu, Fiji. Scale: Not Given.
Krettnichite Image
Images: Krettnichite
Comments: Dark brown to nearly black

crystals of krettnichite.
Location: Johann Shaft; Jakob Tunnel
(Dump), Krettnich, Wadern, Saarland,
Krettnichite Image
Images: Krettnichite Brackebuschite

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

intergrown crystals of kristiansenite in pinkish
matrix.
Location: Heftetjern pegmatite, T?rdal,
Drangedal, Telemark, Norway. Scale:
Crystal size 1 mm.
Krohnkite Image
Images: Krohnkite Natrochalcite
Comments: Royal blue kr?hnkite and

green natrochalcite.
Location: Chiquicamata, Chile. Scale: 3.5 x
2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Krupkaite Image
Images: Krupkaite Friedrichite Benjaminite

quartz crystals.
Mineral Species
Krupkaite Image
Images: Krupkaite
Comments: Acicular, fine metallic crystal

sprays of krupkaite to 4mm with pale
yellow manganoan siderite.
Location: Julcani district, Peru. Scale:
Picture size 1 cm.
Krutaite Image
Images: Krutaite
Comments: Dark gray, metallic,

octahedral crystals of krutaite on matrix.
Location: El Drag?n mine, Quijarro
province, Potos?, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size
4 mm.
Krutaite Image
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Images: Krutaite Kerstenite

Clinochalcomenite

dark krutaite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Kryzhanovskite Image
Images: Kryzhanovskite

kryzhanovskite.
mm.
Ktenasite Image
Images: Ktenasite
Comments: Turquoise blue ktenasite on

matrix.
Location: Gelbe Birke Mine, Schwarzenberg
District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
Kukharenkoite-(Ce) Image
Images: Kukharenkoite-(Ce)
Comments: White-tan crystals of

kukharenkoite-(Ce).
Location: Kirovskii (Kirovsky) apatite mine,
Mt Kukisvumchorr, Khibiny Massif, Kola
Kulanite Image
Images: Kulanite
Comments: White apatite crystals to 0.5 cm in

length and abundant, bladed, deep olive
green crystals (see inset image) of kulanite.
Canada. Scale: 4.3 x 3.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
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Kupcikite Image
Images: Kupcikite Cuprobismutite

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

crystalline spray of kupletskite on white
orthoclase.
Kupletskite Image
Images: Kupletskite Niobokupletskite

image of Niobokupletskite (Nkpt) rimming
kupletskite (Kpt). The zoning in the
kupletskite is from Nb-poor to Nb-rich in the
direction of the arrow (dark to medium
gray). (CanMin v 38, p 628).
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: Scale bar 100 µ-m.
Kuranakhite Image
Images: Kuranakhite
Comments: Reddish-brown kuranakhite on

matrix.
size 5 mm.
Kurchatovite Image
Images: Kurchatovite
Comments: Gray crystalline kurchatovite

(arrow) in matrix (distinguishable by violet
fluorescence).
Mineral Species
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Kurnakovite Image
Images: Kurnakovite
Comments: Very pale lilac-colored crystal

of kurnakov ite.
Location: Boron, Kramer District, Kern
County, California, USA. Scale: 7.2x4x2.5
cm.
Kurnakovite Image
Images: Kurnakovite
Comments: Chalky white outer alteration,

else gray, translucent, coarsely-crystalline
kurnakov ite.
Location: The Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co.,
California, USA. Scale: 5x4x3cm.
Kutnohorite Image
Images: Kutnohorite
Comments: Light-pinkish, parallel bundles

of kutnohorite crystals on matrix.
Location: Wessels mine, Hotazel, Kuruman
District, South Africa. Scale: 5 x 4.7 x 3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Kyanite Image
Images: Kyanite
Comments: Two terminated, bright blue

crystals of kyanite in a white quartz matrix.
Location: Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 9.5 x 4 x 4 cm.
Kyanite Image
Images: Kyanite
Comments: Cluster of 4, green, gemmy, fluorescent

blades of kyanite.
Location: Pech, Afghanistan. Scale: 1.7 x 1.0 x 0.3
cm.
© Kieth Hayes
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Kyzylkumite Image
Images: Kyzylkumite
Comments: A small crystal of kyzylkumite

with a triangular face.
Location: Koscheka U Deposit, Auminzatau
Mtns., Central Kyzylkum Region, Kyzylkum
Desert, Uzbekistan. Scale: Picture size 1
mm.
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Labradorite Image
Images: Labradorite Plagioclase
Comments: Dual view of a cleavage

fragment of labradorite showing the multi-
colored labradorescence (schiller effect)
and the same area viewed without the
color. The color is due to optical
interference on the 010 polysynthetic
twinning planes (Albite Law).
Location: Ihosy, Betroka district, Toliara
Province, Madagascar. Scale: Picture size
3x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Labuntsovite-Mn Image
Images: Labuntsovite-Mn
Comments: Cinnamon colored crystals of

labuntsovite-Mn to 3 mm on dolomite
matrix.
Location: Kovdor Mine, Kola Peninsula,
Russia. Scale: Picture size 1.5x2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Lacroixite Image
Images: Lacroixite Berlinite
Comments: Pale olive green crystalline

lacroixite with white crystalline berlinite.
Location: Rusororo Pegmatite, Gatumba,
Gisenyi, Rwanda. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Laffittite Image
Images: Laffittite
Comments: A short-prismatic, dark brown

crystal of laffittite with red realgar and
yellow orpiment.
Location: Getchell Mine, Adam Peak,
Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA. Scale:
Lammerite Image
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Images: Lammerite
Comments: Emerald green crystalline

lammerite in matrix.
Location: Laurani Mine, South Yeronime,
Laurani, La Paz, Boliv ia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lammerite Image
Images: Lammerite
Comments: Deep, lustrous green

lammerite crystals to about 1mm
throughout vuggy matrix.
Location: Guanaco mine, Taltal,
Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.
Lamprophyllite Image
Images: Lamprophyllite
Comments: Deep-red, acicular spray of

lamprophyllite in matrix.
Location: Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale:
Lamprophyllite Image
Images: Lamprophyllite
Barytolamprophyllite
Comments: Brownish-yellow
barytolamprophyllite on dark green
lamprophyllite.
Mineral Species
Lanarkite Image
Images: Lanarkite
Comments: White, acicular spray of

lanarkite on matrix.
Location: Meadowfoot smelter,
Wanlockhead, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Lanarkite Image
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Images: Lanarkite
Comments: Cleaved crystals of greenish

beige lanakite on matrix.
Location: Leadhills, Scotland. Scale: Picture
size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Landauite Image
Images: Landauite
Comments: Black granular landauite in

matrix.
Location: Northwest Territories, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Landesite Image
Images: Landesite
Comments: Brown translucent crystalline

crust of landesite.
Location: Hagendorf-Sud, Bayern,
Mineral Species
Langbanite Image
Images: Langbanite
Comments: Stout black langbanite crystal

in white matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Langbeinite Image
Images: Langbeinite
Comments: Pale brownish pink crystalline

aggregate of langbeinite.
Location: Carlsbad, Eddy County, New
Mineral Species
Langisite Image
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Images: Langisite
Comments: Gray metallic massive

langisite, altering, in white quartzite.
Location: Uncompaghre Mountains,
Montrose County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Langite Image
Images: Langite
Comments: Bluish, tabular blades of

twinned langite crystals on matrix.
Location: Mollau, France. Scale: Not Giv en.
Langite Image
Images: Langite
Comments: Encrustation of small (less than

one mm.) sky blue langite crystals, on
matrix.
Location: Lubietov a, Slov akia. Scale:
Lannonite Image
Images: Lannonite
Comments: White crusts of lannonite on

matrix.
Location: Silver City, Grant County, New
Mineral Species
Lansfordite Image
Images: Lansfordite Barringtonite
Comments: Optical images of clusters of

glassy lansfordite crystals and one white
dehydrated barringtonite ? crystal.
(AmMin, 88:1883).
Lanthanite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Lanthanite-(Ce)
Comments: Brownish, square crystals of

lanthanite-(Ce) ?.
Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.
Lanthanite-(Nd) Image
Images: Lanthanite-(Nd)
Comments: Beige aggregate of scaly,

platy lanthanite-(Nd) crystals.
Location: Curitiba, Paran?, Brazil. Scale: 2.5
x 2 cm.
Laphamite Image
Images: Laphamite
Comments: Brown grain of laphamite.

Location: Northumberland County,
Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: Grain size 1.5
mm.
Larderellite Image
Images: Larderellite
Comments: Colorless larderellite crystals.

Location: Larderello, Cecina Valley, Pisa
province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size
4 mm.
Larisaite Image
Images: Larisaite
Comments: Yellow, acicular, radial sprays

of greenish yellow larisaite on matrix.
Location: Repete Mine, San Juan County,
Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
Larnite Image
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Images: Larnite
Comments: Gray larnite masses in rock.

Location: Scawt Hills, Larne, County Antrim,
Northern Ireland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Larnite Image
Images: Larnite Paraspurrite
Comments: Violet-tinted gray crystalline

pure paraspurrite mass with larnite veinlets.
Location: Near Darwin, Inyo County,
Mineral Species
Larsenite Image
Images: Larsenite
Comments: Aggregate of acicular

microcrystals and crystalline larsenite.
Mineral Species
Lasalite Image
Images: Lasalite IMA2007-005
Comments: Bright orange efflorescent

lasalite crust on sandstone.
Location: Vanadium Queen mine, San
Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture Size 2 x
2 cm.
Latiumite Image
Images: Latiumite
Comments: Tan opaque prismatic crystals

of latiumite.
Location: Capagnano, Lazio, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Latrappite Image
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Images: Latrappite
Comments: Black, sub-metallic crystals of

latrappite on matrix.
Location: La Trappe Quarry, Oka, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: Crystal size 4 X 4 mm.
© John Veevaert
Laubmannite Image
Images: Laubmannite Goethite
Comments: Reddish brown goethite

hosting radiating sprays of olive green
laubmannite to 3 cm across.
Location: Buckeye Mountain, Polk County,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: 10.5 x 7.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Laueite Image
Images: Laueite
Comments: Purple crystal of laueite on

matrix.
Location: Tip Top Mine, Custer County,
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.4
cm.
© John Veevaert
Laumontite Image
Images: Laumontite
Comments: Diamond-shaped prism of

laumontite with chrysocolla.
Location: Azurite mine, Pinal County,
Laumontite Image
Images: Laumontite
Comments: White, well developed

laumontite crystals up to 1 cm. on matrix.
Location: Osilo, Sardegna, Italy. Scale:
Specimen size 6 x 4.5 cm.
© Minernet
Laurelite Image
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Images: Laurelite
Comments: Snow white acicular crystals of

laurelite.
Location: Grand Reef mine, Graham Co.,
Arizona, United States. Scale: Crystal size 7
mm.
Laurionite Image
Images: Laurionite
Comments: Colorless, stellate spray of

acicular Laurionite crystals on matrix.
Giv en.
Laurite Image
Images: Laurite Hollingworthite
Comments: Gray grain of hollingworthite (in

the center of the picture) with very slightly
darker gray laurite (at the right margin).
Polished section (from microprobe
analysis).
Laurite Image
Images: Laurite Kashinite
Comments: Gray kashinite with darker gray

laurite. Polished section (from microprobe
analysis) in reflected light.
Laurite Image
Images: Laurite Hollingworthite
Comments: Gray laurite with two smaller

grains of hollingworthite (left and right from
the laurite, v ery slightly lighter gray).
in reflected light.
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Lausenite Image
Images: Lausenite
Comments: Pale tan crystalline powdery

aggregate of lausenite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Lautite Image
Images: Lautite
Comments: Metallic dark gray Lautite

aggregate.
Location: Rudolph Shaft, Lauta, Marienberg
Lavendulan Image
Images: Lavendulan
Comments: Bright blue crystals of

Lav endulan crystals.
Location: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek
Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Lavenite Image
Images: Lavenite
Comments: Orange crystalline lavenite

grains in pegmatite.
Location: Mount Takhtarvumchorr, Khibiny
Mineral Species
Lawsonite Image
Images: Lawsonite
Comments: Glaucophane schist with a

heav y druse of lawsonite crystals.
Location: Reed Station, Tiburon, Marin
County, California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 7
mm.
© John Veevaert
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Lazarenkoite Image
Images: Lazarenkoite
Comments: Orange, fibrous lazarenkoite in

a v ug.
Location: Khovu-Asky Ni-Co Deposit, Tuva
Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia.
Lazulite Image
Images: Lazulite Bystrite
Comments: Brownish-yellow bystrite grains

with blue lazulite in an igneous rock.
Location: Malo-Bystrinskoye lazurite deposit,
Tunka Valley, Sludyanka, Lake Baikal
Lazulite Image
Images: Lazulite
Comments: Lustrous dark blackish-blue

crystals of lazulite to 5 mm in size.
Location: Crosscut Creek, Rapid Creek,
Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: 3 x 4.2 x 1.5
cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Lazulite Image
Images: Lazulite Whiteite-(CaMnMg)
Comments: Light beige-colored

whiteite-(CaMnMg) crystal perched on
dark blue lazulite.
Lazulite Image
Images: Lazulite Trolleite
Comments: Pale blue trolleite with darker

blue lazulite.
Location: Champion Mine, White Mountains,
Mono County, California. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lazurite Image
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Images: Lazurite
Comments: A single, deep blue,

dodecahedron of Lazurite measuring 1 cm on
a white marble matrix.
Location: Firgamu, Badakhashan Province,
Afghanistan. Scale: 1.2 x 1 x 0.9 cm.
Lazurite Image
Images: Lazurite Phlogopite
Comments: Gemmy brownish phlogopite

crystals on blue lazurite (lapis) matrix with
minor pyrite.
Location: Koksha Valley, Badakhshan
Province, Afghanistan. Scale: 10 x 11.5 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Lead Image
Images: Lead
Comments: Native lead sheet partially

covering an actinolite schist.
Location: Garpenberg Norra, Hedemorra,
Sweden. Scale: 7.5 x 4.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Lead Image
Images: Lead
Comments: Irregular mass of native lead

from a lead-zinc-silver ore deposit.
Location: Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. Scale:
8 cm across.
© Dave Barthelmy
Leadamalgam Image
Images: Leadamalgam
Comments: Dark gray coatings of

leadamalgam on weathered ore rock.
Mineral Species
Leadhillite Image
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Images: Leadhillite
Comments: Clear crystal of leadhillite on

matrix.
Location: Leadhills, Lanark, Scotland.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Lechatelierite Image
Images: Lechatelierite Trinitite
Comments: Fused silica sand (trinitite)

generated by the first nuclear (fission)
bomb. Although man-made and not a
valid mineral, the specimen has historic
value.
Location: Trinity Flats, White Sands, New
Mexico. It came into existance at 5:29 a.m.,
July 16, 1945. Scale: Specimen size 4.1 cm.
Legrandite Image
Images: Legrandite
Comments: Prismatic crystal of yellow legrandite

on a gossanous matrix.
Location: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.
Scale: 2.5 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Legrandite Image
Images: Legrandite
Comments: Yellow crystals of legrandite

partially covering an iron-oxide gossan.
Location: Oujela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,
Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 6 mm.
© John Veevaert
Leifite Image
Images: Leifite
Comments: Tan translucent crystal spray of

leifite in syenite rock.
Mineral Species
Leifite Image
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Images: Leifite
Comments: Snow white, prismatic, crystal

aggregate of leifite.
Location: Poudrette Quarry, Mont St. Hilaire,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: 3x1cm.
Leightonite Image
Images: Leightonite
Comments: Pale Leightonite with dark

green atacamite.
Chile. Scale: Not Giv en.
Leisingite Image
Images: Leisingite
Comments: Very small yellow crystal of

Leisingite on quartz.
size 0.8 mm.
Leiteite Image
Images: Leiteite
Comments: Specimen of leiteite with

inclusions of ludlockite. This Leiteite
specimen varies from 1 to 3.5 mm in
thickness.
© John Veevaert
Lemanskiite Image
Images: Lemanskiite
Comments: Electric blue lemanskiite sprays

on matrix.
Location: Abundancia Mine, Guanaco,
Chile. Scale: Picture size 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Lemmleinite-Ba Image
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Images: Lemmleinite-Ba
Comments: Orange-brown pyramidal

crystals of lemmleinite-Ba with greenish
aegirine crystals.
Location: Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif,
mm.
Lemmleinite-K Image
Images: Lemmleinite-K
Comments: Transparent, pyramidal crystals

of lemmleinite-K on matrix.
Lemoynite Image
Images: Lemoynite
Comments: Yellowish white, radial,

spherical spray of prismatic Lemoynite
crystals to 5mm in diameter on matrix.
Canada. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Lengenbachite Image
Images: Lengenbachite
Comments: Shiny, opaque crystalline spray

of lengenbachite on white dolomite?.
Lengenbachite Image
Images: Lengenbachite
Comments: Metallic gray, thin plates and

sheets of lengenbachite in a vug in white
dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture width 1.2
cm.
© Walter Gabriel
Lennilenapeite Image
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Images: Lennilenapeite
Comments: Dark greenish brown

sub-metallic micaceous lennilenapeite in
white calcite.
Mineral Species
Lenoblite Image
Images: Lenoblite
Comments: Yellow coating of lenoblite on

uraninite.
Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Leogangite Image
Images: Leogangite
Comments: Cotype sample of leogangite

(A. Strasser) showing the thin tabular habit
parallel to (100). (Mineralogy and
Petrology, 81:190).
Location: Mine dumps of the Danielstollen
and Inschlagalm in the Schwarzleo valley,
both part of the polymetallic ore district of
Leogang, Salzburg province, Austria. Scale:
See Image.
© Mineralogy and Petrology
Leonite Image
Images: Leonite
Comments: Translucent pale yellow

crystalline massive leonite, with white
alteration coating.
Location: Near Carlsbad, Eddy County,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lepidocrocite Image
Images: Lepidocrocite
Comments: Translucent, red-brown crystals of

lepidocrocite lining cavities in gossan matrix.
Location: Eisenzecher Zug Mine, Eiserfeld, Siegen
District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Scale:
7x5x3 cm.
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Lepidolite Image
Images: Lepidolite
Comments: Pale lavender micaceous

plates of lepidolite on matrix.
Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Lesukite Image
Images: Lesukite
Comments: Yellow to orange-yellow

lesukite.
Location: Deutschlandschacht Mine,
Oelsnitz, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Letovicite Image
Images: Letovicite
Comments: Pearly opaque white

crystalline letov icite on matrix.
Location: Kladno, Stredocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Leucite Image
Images: Leucite
Comments: Large single crystal of dark gray

leucite.
Location: Roccamonfina, Caserta Province,
Campania, Italy. Scale: 20x20x20 mm.
Leucophanite Image
Images: Leucophanite
Comments: Pseudo-cubic crystals of

leucophanite.
Leucophoenicite Image
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Images: Leucophoenicite
Comments: Cinnamon brown crystals of

leucophoenicite ov er deep reddish pink
crystals of rhodochrosite.
© John Veevaert
Leucophosphite Image
Images: Leucophosphite Messelite
Comments: White messelite crystals with

greenish leucophosphite.
Giv en.
Images: Leucophosphite
Comments: Transparent greenish brown

microcrystal of leucophosphite.
Location: Lone Tree Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species
Images: Leucophosphite
Comments: Crude or etched purple

crystals of leucophospiite to 1mm in vuggy
triphylite matrix.
Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Leucosphenite Image
Images: Leucosphenite
Comments: Glassy crystal of leucosphenite

in mudstone.
Location: Uintah Basin, Uintah County, Utah,
Mineral Species
Levinsonite-(Y) Image
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Images: Levinsonite-(Y)
Comments: Colorless thick tabular crystal

of levinsonite-(Y).
Location: Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky
Mts, Tennessee, USA. Scale: Picture size 1
mm.
Levyne-Ca Image
Images: Levyne-Ca
Comments: Vesicle in basalt matrix lined

with white levyne crystals.
Location: Beech Creek Quarry, Mount
Vernon, Grant Co., Oregon, USA. Scale:
32x22x20 mm.
Liandratite Image
Images: Liandratite
Comments: Yellow crystalline liandratite

crust on pegmatite.
Location: Antsakoa I Pegmatite, near
Berere, Mahajanga, Madagascar. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Libethenite Image
Images: Libethenite
Comments: Rich pine green crystals of

libethenite on matrix.
Location: Tyrone, Grant Co., New Mexico.
USA. Scale: Crystal size to 2mm.
© John Veevaert
Libethenite Image
Images: Libethenite
Comments: Dark to light green pseudo-

octahedral crystals of libethenite to 1.5mm
on matrix.
Location: KOV pit, Kolwezi, Katanga,
Congo. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Liddicoatite Image
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Images: Liddicoatite
Comments: Dark green translucent

liddicoatite crystal prism.
Location: Antandrokomby, Madagascar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Liddicoatite Image
Images: Liddicoatite
Comments: Complexly colored red zone, and the

skin which varies from green to yellow terminated
crystals of liddicoatite.
Location: Anjanabonoina, Betafo, Antsirab?
Madagascar. Scale: Specimen size: 3.3 x 1.8 x 1.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Liebigite Image
Images: Liebigite
Comments: Yellow liebigite crystals on

Quartz.
Location: Le Bosc, Lodev e, Herault, France.
Scale: 1.5 x 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Liebigite Image
Images: Liebigite Voglite
Comments: Green voglite with yellow

liebigite.
size 3.2 mm.
Likasite Image
Images: Likasite
Comments: Blue likasite encrustation.

Location: Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan) Mine,
Jezkazgan Oblast', Kazakhstan. Scale:
Picture size 6 mm.
Lillianite Image
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Images: Lillianite
Comments: Gray metallic massive lillianite

in clear quartz.
Location: Gladhammar, Kalmar, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Linarite Image
Images: Linarite
Comments: Deep blue prismatic crystals of

linarite on matrix.
Linarite Image
Images: Linarite Macphersonite
Comments: Colorless macphersonite with

blue linarite.
Location: Leadhills, Strathclyde, Scotland,
UK. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
Linarite Image
Images: Linarite Schulenbergite
Comments: Light greenish rosettes of

schulenbergite with small green crystals of
ramsbeckite and blue crystals of linarite.
Linarite Image
Images: Linarite Brochantite
Comments: Deep blue, acicular, linarite

with light blue, globular brochantite on
white quartz.
Location: Goulmina, Er Rachidia, Morroco.
© Fabre Minerals
Linarite Image
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Images: Linarite
Comments: Deep blue, blocky, linarite crystal

blades in quartz vug and breccia matrix.
Location: Grand Reef Mine in Graham County,
Arizona, USA. Scale: 8 cm by 7 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Lindackerite Image
Images: Lindackerite
Comments: Greenish crystals of

lindackerite.
size 2.2 mm.
Lindbergite Image
Images: Lindbergite Rockbridgeite
Comments: Rare organic mineral -

lindbergite (Mn dihydrate oxalate) in white
patches on rockbridgeite matrix.
Location: Boca Rica mine, Sapucaia do
Norte, Gilileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
Spot size 1 mm.
Lindbergite Image
Images: Lindbergite
Comments: Secondary electron image of

interlocked irregularly contoured platelets
of lindbergite. (AmMin v 89, p 1088).
See Image.
Lindgrenite Image
Images: Lindgrenite
Comments: Transparent green plates of

lindgrenite on matrix.
Lindstromite Image
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Images: Lindstromite
Comments: Silvery metallic lindstromite on

matrix.
Location: Silv er Miller Mine, Cobalt, Ontario,
Mineral Species
Linnaeite Image
Images: Linnaeite
Comments: Brassy metallic octahedral

crystal of linnaeite on matrix.
Location: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. Scale:
Not Given.
Lintisite Image
Images: Lintisite Serandite
Comments: Yellowish-white fibrous veinlets

of lintisite in brown serandite.
Location: Mount Alluaiv , Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Liottite Image
Images: Liottite
Comments: Transparent colorless liottite

crystal on vesuvianite.
Location: Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany,
Mineral Species
Lipscombite Image
Images: Lipscombite
Comments: Light to dark green botryoidal

lipscombite crust on rock.
Location: Valmy, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species
Liroconite Image
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Images: Liroconite
Comments: Large crystals of liroconite up

to 1.3 cm.
Location: Gwennap, Cornwall, England.
Scale: 6 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Liskeardite Image
Images: Liskeardite
Comments: Botryoidal liskeardite crusts.

Location: Saint Hillary, Cornwall, England.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Litharge Image
Images: Litharge Massicot
Comments: Dark red litharge with

brownish-yellow scaly massicot and white
cerussite.
Location: Patagonia, Santa Cruz County,
Mineral Species
Lithiomarsturite Image
Images: Lithiomarsturite Lithiophosphate
Comments: Tan-brown lithiomarsturite with

cream-colored lithiophosphate in matrix.
Carolina, USA. Scale: 2" x 3".
Lithiophilite Image
Images: Lithiophilite
Comments: Twinned crystals of yellowish

brown lithiophilite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Lithiophilite Image
Images: Lithiophilite Sicklerite
Comments: Mottled tan-green-pink

massive sicklerite with dark brown
lithiophilite on quartz.
Location: Custer Mountain Lode, Custer
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Mineral Species
Lithiophilite Image
Images: Lithiophilite Triploidite
Comments: Salmon-colored prismatic

crystalline triploidite with brown lithiophilite.
Location: Capoeira Mine, near Parelhas,
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Lithiophorite Image
Images: Lithiophorite
Comments: Black Lithiophorite cementing

gravel.
Location: P?hlberg, Annaberg - Buchholz,
Specimen size 6 cm.
Lithiophosphate Image
Images: Lithiophosphate Lithiomarsturite
Comments: Tan-brown lithiomarsturite with

cream-colored lithiophosphate in matrix.
Carolina, USA. Scale: 2" x 3".
Lithiowodginite Image
Images: Lithiowodginite
Comments: Black crystalline grains of

lithiowodginite in pegmatite.
Location: Tanco Mine, Bernic Lake,
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lithosite Image
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Images: Lithosite
Comments: Transparent nearly colorless

lithosite in syenite rock.
Location: Vuonnemiok River, Khibiny Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Litidionite Image
Images: Litidionite
Comments: Bright blue crystalline litidionite

fragment.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Litvinskite Image
Images: Litvinskite
Comments: Dark cherry-red litvinskite in

matrix.
Location: Shkatulka pegmatite, Umbozero
mine, Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola
Liveingite Image
Images: Liveingite
Comments: Deep blue striated prismatic crystal of

liveingite on a white dolomite matrix.
Location: Lengenbach quarry Binntal, Valais,
Switzerland. Scale: Not Given.
Liveingite Image
Images: Liveingite Seligmannite
Comments: Black prismatic seligmannite

crystals with crystalline black liveingite.
Mineral Species
Liveingite Image
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Images: Liveingite
Comments: Strongly striated, metallic gray

liveingite crystal on white dolomite.
Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Livingstonite Image
Images: Livingstonite
Comments: Dark brown, acicular-

columnar crystals of livingstonite in
anhydrite.
Location: Guerrero, Mexico. Scale: 2x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Lizardite Image
Images: Lizardite
Comments: Lizardite pseudomorphously

replacing olivine.
Location: Snarum, Norway. Scale: 2x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Lollingite Image
Images: Lollingite
Comments: Sharp, twinned crystals

L?llingite on matrix.
Location: Oruro, Oruro Department, Boliv ia.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Lomonosovite Image
Images: Lomonosovite
Comments: Aegerine schist with reddish

crystalline grains of lomonosovite.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Kvanefjeld,
Greenland. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Lomonosovite Image
Images: Lomonosovite Bornemanite
Comments: Yellow crystalline bornemanite

in dark brown lomonosovite.
Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Lovozero
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Mineral Species
Londonite Image
Images: Londonite
Comments: A dodecahedral crystal of

londonite.
Location: Antandrokomby pegmatite,
Manandona valley, Sahatany Valley,
Betafo - Antsirab? region, Antananarivo
Province, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 7
mm.
Londonite Image
Images: Londonite
Comments: A yellow , lustrous, well

developed londonite crystal 1.2 cm. on
matrix.
Location: Antandrokomby, Sahatany
valley, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 1.2
cm.
Lonsdaleite Image
Images: Lonsdaleite
Comments: a) A Reflected light

photograph of lonsdaleite and unidentified
polymorph (New Phase) with lead
comtamination. b) synchrotron X-ray
diffraction, imaging and X-ray fluorescence
fine-scale mapping of the different phases.
(ESRF 2003 highlights).
Location: Shocked gneisses from the
Popigai Crater, Russia. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. Sync. Rad. Fac.
Loparite-(Ce) Image
Images: Loparite-(Ce)
Comments: Sharp penetration twin of cubic

loparite-(Ce) about 7 mm. across on
phoenite matrix.
Location: Flora Mt., Lovosero massif, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: 3.8x3.3x2.6 cm.
Loparite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Loparite-(Ce) Perrierite-(Ce)

Pyrochlore Zircon
Comments: Reddish black perrierite crystal,

with orange-brown pyrochlore crystal,
yellow-brown zircon, and grayish-black
loparite.
Location: Buer, Bjorkedalen,
Langesundfjord, Telemark, Norway. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lopezite Image
Images: Lopezite
Comments: yellowish granular lopezite.

Location: Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Lorandite Image
Images: Lorandite Fangite
Comments: Brown crystals of fangite with

red lorandite.
Lorandite Image
Images: Lorandite
Comments: Gemmy, transparent reddish

brown crystals of lorandite on matrix.
Location: Allchar, near Majdan,
Macedonia. Scale: Not Given.
Lorenzenite Image
Images: Lorenzenite Orthoclase
Comments: Striated, dark violet crystal of

lorenzenite in cream-colored orthoclase.
Russia. Scale: 1.3 x 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Lorenzenite Image
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Images: Lorenzenite Vuonnemite
Comments: Square vuonnemite crystal

with brown, lorenzenite crystals in syenite
rock.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Greenland. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lorettoite Image
Images: Lorettoite
Comments: Orange crystalline lorettoite in

matrix.
Otjozondjuba, Namibia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lotharmeyerite Image
Images: Lotharmeyerite
Comments: Brown, prismatic crystals

lotharmeyerite on matrix.
Loughlinite Image
Images: Loughlinite Bradleyite
Comments: Silky fibrous v einlets of

loughlinite with bradleyite.
Location: Green River area, Sweetwater
County, Wyoming, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lourenswalsite Image
Images: Lourenswalsite Aegirine
Comments: Light brownish rosettes of

lourenswalsite with dark green crystals of
aegirine and white feldspar.
Location: Diamond Jo quarry, Magnet
Cove, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas, USA.
Lovdarite Image
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Images: Lovdarite
Comments: Bright white crystal sprays of

lovdarite on fine-grained white natrolite.
Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Mount
Karnasurt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Murmansk, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lovozerite Image
Images: Lovozerite
Comments: Pinkish lovozerite with red

crystalline eudialyte.
Mineral Species
Loweite Image
Images: Loweite

l?weite with clear colorless halite.
Location: Wilhelmshall, near Stassfurt,
Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Luanheite Image
Images: Luanheite
Comments: Inclusions of luanheite, in

tellurium, in quartz.
Location: Mina Bambolla, Moctezuma,
Mineral Species
Ludjibaite Image
Images: Ludjibaite
Comments: Coating of intense blue-green

microcrystals and crystalline ludjibaite.
Location: Shituru, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Ludlamite Image
Images: Ludlamite
Comments: crystal group of Ludlamite.

Location: Huanuni Mine, Oruro Department,
Bolivia. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 x 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Ludlockite Image
Images: Ludlockite
Comments: Acicular crystals of red-orange

ludlockite on quartz and chalcocite.
© John Veevaert
Ludwigite Image
Images: Ludwigite
Comments: Limonitic matrix with blue

crystals of ludwigite.
Location: Simms Pass, Lemhi County, Idaho,
© John Veevaert
Ludwigite Image
Images: Ludwigite Chestermanite
Comments: Black capillary crystals of

ludwigite with green inclusions of
chestermanite in impure marble.
Location: Near Potter Pass, Fresno County,
Mineral Species
Ludwigite Image
Images: Ludwigite
Comments: Bright black, radial fibrous

aggregates of ludwigite.
Location: Brosso mine, Piemonte, Italy.
Scale: Sample size 4x3 cm.
© Minernet
Lueshite Image
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Images: Lueshite
Comments: Opaque, brownish,

pseudo-cubic crystals of lueshite.
Location: Republic of Congo. Scale:
Crystal size 8 mm.
© John Attard
Luetheite Image
Images: Luetheite
Comments: Blue to greenish crystalline

luetheite crust on altering rock matrix.
Mineral Species
Lulzacite Image
Images: Lulzacite
Comments: Dark gray siderite with grayish

green lulzacite.
Location: St. Aubindes Chateaux, Loire,
France. Scale: 1.7 x 1.4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Luzonite Image
Images: Luzonite
Comments: Pinkish-brown metallic luzonite,

tarnishing gray, crystalline.
Location: Chin Kuashih, Kagoshima, Taiwan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Lyonsite Image
Images: Lyonsite
Comments: Black, prismatic crystals of

lyonsite in matrix.
size 0.8 mm.
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Macdonaldite Image
Images: Macdonaldite
Comments: Bright white flattened radial

macdonaldite aggregate on quartz.
Mineral Species
Macfallite Image
Images: Macfallite Johnsenite-(Ce)

Braunite-I

braunite.
Mackayite Image
Images: Mackayite
Comments: Greenish brown crystals of

mackayite on matrix.
Location: McGuinnity shaft, Goldfield,
Not Given.
Mackinawite Image
Images: Mackinawite
Comments: Mackinawite inclusions in

sulfide ore (polished specimen).
Location: Mackinaw Mine, Snohomish
County, Washington, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Macphersonite Image
Images: Macphersonite Linarite
Comments: Colorless macphersonite with

blue linarite.
Location: Leadhills, Strathclyde, Scotland,
UK. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
Macquartite Image
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Images: Macquartite
Comments: Straw-like prismatic yellow

micro crystals of macquartite to about
0.5mm on matrix.
Location: Mammoth - St. Anthony mine,
Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Macquartite Image
Images: Macquartite
Comments: Bright yellow, prismatic crystals

of macquartite in radial sprays to 0.75mm.
Location: Tiger, Mammoth district, Pinal
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Madocite Image
Images: Madocite
Comments: Gray metallic massive

madocite fragment.
Location: Madoc, Ontario, Canada. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Magadiite Image
Images: Magadiite Rhodesite
Comments: Earth pale tan massive

magadiite with dark yellow crystalline
rhodesite.
Location: East Fork, Trinity River, Trinity
Mineral Species
Maghemite Image
Images: Maghemite
Comments: Fine-grained massive

maghemite intermixed with hematite.
Location: Gara Djebilet, Algeria. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Magnesio-axinite Image
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Images: Magnesio-axinite
Comments: Cinnamon brown crystal of

"axinite" (probably magnesio-axinite).
Location: El Fenomino Tungsten Mine,
Northern Baja Californa, Mexico. Scale:
Crystal size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Magnesioaubertite Image
Images: Magnesioaubertite Pickeringite
Comments: Aqua crystalline

magnesioaubertite with white pickeringite.
Location: Grotto di Faraglione, Vulcano,
Sicily, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Magnesiochromite Image
Images: Magnesiochromite
Comments: Black crystalline

magnesiochromite grains in serpentinite.
Location: Red Pit, Fulton Township,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Magnesioclinoholmquistite Image
Images: Magnesioclinoholmquistite
Clinoholmquistite Fluoro-sodic-
pedrizite

Mineral Species
Magnesiocopiapite Image
Images: Magnesiocopiapite Guildite
Comments: Brown granular guildite with

greenish yellow magnesiocopiapite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Magnesiocopiapite Image
Images: Magnesiocopiapite
Comments: Pale yellow opaque

aggregate of magnesiocopiapite.
Location: Denver Mine, Santa Cruz County,
Mineral Species
Magnesioferrite Image
Images: Magnesioferrite Diopside
Comments: Very dark brown Magnesioferrite

Pleonaste (Iron-Magnesium spinel) with cream
colored Calcite and gray green diopside.
Location: Aldan, Gon River, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Magnesioferrite Image
Images: Magnesioferrite Bromellite
Comments: A micro, water color,

hexagonal or barrel shaped crystal of
white bromellite to about 0.3 mm on
yellowish calcite with associated black
magnesioferrite.
Scale: 18x9x10mm.
Magnesiofoitite Image
Images: Magnesiofoitite
Comments: Aggregate of greenish-brown

acicular crystals of magnesiofoitite.
Location: Kyonosawa, Mitomi-mura,
Yamanashi prefecture, Chubu region,
Honshu island, Japan. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Magnesiohastingsite Image
Images: Magnesiohastingsite
Comments: Dark black-brown crystalline

massiv e magnesiohastingsite.
Location: Afrikanda Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species
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Magnesiohornblende Image
Images: Magnesiohornblende Hornblende
Comments: Dark greenish-black massive

magnesiohornblende.
Magnesiohulsite Image
Images: Magnesiohulsite
Comments: Green fibrous massive

magnesiohulsite.
Location: Itenyurgin, Chukot Peninsula,
Magadan District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Magnesiokatophorite Image
Images: Magnesiokatophorite
Comments: Black crystalline

magnesiokatophorite in syenite.
Location: Kipiwa Complex, Quebec,
Mineral Species
Magnesioriebeckite Image
Images: Magnesioriebeckite
Comments: Crystal of magnesioriebeckite

showing massive and asbestosform habits.
Location: Cochabamba Dept, Bolivia.
Scale: 2.5 cm.
© John Attard
Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S Image
Images: Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S Taaffeite
Comments: Faucetted purple

magnesiotaaffeite. These specimens are
very rare and un-cut samples ev er rarer..
Location: Ceylon gem grav els, Ratnapura,
Sri Lanka. Scale: See Image.
© Dave Barthelmy
Magnesiotaramite Image
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Images: Magnesiotaramite
Comments: Dark blue granular massive

magnesiotaramite.
Location: Liset, Selje, Sogn og Fjordane,
Mineral Species
Magnesite Image
Images: Magnesite
Comments: Magnesite crystal group. The

crystals have rhombic habit. The largest on
this specimen is 3.7 cm across.
Location: Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil.
Scale: Photo by John Veevaert.
© John Veevaert
Magnetite Image
Images: Magnetite
Comments: Black, opaque octahedral

crystals of magnetite on matrix.
Location: Isle of Ischia, near Naples,
Compania, Italy. Scale: Not Giv en.
Magnetite Image
Images: Magnetite Nordenskioldine
Comments: Colorless to white bladed

crystals of nordenski?ldine with black
magnetite.
Magnetite Image
Images: Magnetite Chesterite
Comments: Green platy chesterite in

black, metallic magnetite.
Location: Near Missoula, Missoula County,
Mineral Species
Magnetoplumbite Image
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Images: Magnetoplumbite
Comments: Black magnetoplumbite

masses in calcite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Magniotriplite Image
Images: Magniotriplite
Comments: Red-brown crystalline

magniotriplite masses in pegmatite.
Location: Kyrk-Bulak pegmatite,
Turkestanskij Range, Os, Kyrgyzstan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Magnussonite Image
Images: Magnussonite
Comments: Bright green crystalline

magnussonite grains with willemite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Mahnertite Image
Images: Mahnertite
Comments: Blue mahnertite in quartz.

Location: Cap Garonne Mine, Pradet, Var,
Makatite Image
Images: Makatite
Comments: Thin white bladed crystals of

makatite.
Location: Aris Phonolite, S. of Windhoek,
Namibia. Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Makatite Image
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Images: Makatite
Comments: White acicular sprays of

makatite crystals in a vug with pink
villiaumite.
Location: Aris Phonolite, Namibia. Scale:
Picture size 2 cm.
© Minernet
Malachite Image
Images: Malachite Azurite
Comments: Dark blue stubby pyramidal

azurite crystals and green botryoidal-
shaped radial aggregates of malachite.
Location: Nevada Lode Mine, San Juan
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: 4 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Malachite Image
Images: Malachite Demesmaekerite
Comments: Pale green crystals of

demesmaekerite on dark green malachite.
Crystal Size 3mm.
© John Veevaert
Malachite Image
Images: Malachite Devilline
Comments: Blue crystals of devilline on

green, botryoidal malachite.
Location: Spania Dolina (Herrengrund),
Slovakia. Scale: Not Given.
Malachite Image
Images: Malachite
Comments: Botryoidal malachite.

Location: Mindigi, Shaba, Congo. Scale: 7.5 x 5.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Malayaite Image
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Images: Malayaite
Comments: Pale bluish colored malayaite under

visible and SWUV light.
Location: Red-a-Ven Mine, Meldon, Okehampton,
Dev on, Great Britain. Scale: 3.7 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Maleevite Image
Images: Maleevite
Comments: Backscatter elecron images of

(a) an intergrowth of maleev ite (Mal) and
quartz (Qtz) and unknown Y-silicate (Y-Si);
(b) maleevite (Mal) in arfvedsonite and
astrophyllite (Astr) (CanMin, v 42, p 109).
Location: Moraine of the Dara-i-Pioz
glacier, Alai range, Tien Shan, northern
Tajikistan. Scale: See Image.
Malhmoodite Image
Images: Malhmoodite
Comments: Small white aggregate of

malhmoodite on matrix.
Location: Union Carbide Mine, Wilson
Springs (Potash Sulfur Springs), Garland Co.,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.
Malinkoite Image
Images: Malinkoite
Comments: White to clear glassy mico

crystals of malinkoite to less than 0.75mm
deep in a vug.
Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Rouville Co.,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm.
Malladrite Image
Images: Malladrite Avogadrite
Comments: Botryoidal pinkish-white

avogadrite with yellow malladrite.
Mineral Species
Malladrite Image
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Images: Malladrite Avogadrite
Comments: Yellow-orange crystalline

malladrite with pinkish white av ogadrite.
Mineral Species
Mallestigite Image
Images: Mallestigite

mallestigite.
Location: Mallestiger Mittagskogel,
Finkenstein, Villach, Carinthia, Austria.
Mammothite Image
Images: Mammothite
Comments: Sparse blue crystalline

mammothite in slag.
Location: Laurium, Attiki, Greece. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Manandonite Image
Images: Manandonite
Comments: Massive manandonite with

crystals to 2 mm.
Location: Manandona River, Sahatany
Valley, Madagascar. Scale: 2.2 x 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Manasseite Image
Images: Manasseite
Comments: Brownish yellow crystal of

manasseite on dolomite matrix.
Location: Jacupiranga mine, Jacupiranga,
Sao Paolo, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.
Mandarinoite Image
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Images: Mandarinoite
Comments: Specimen of solid

manandonite with crystals to 2 mm.
Location: Manandona River, Sahatany
Valley, Madagascar. Scale: 2.2 x 1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Mangan-neptunite Image
Images: Mangan-neptunite

mangan-neptunite on matrix.
Location: Kibblehouse quarry,
Perkiomenville, Pennsylv ania, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Mangan-neptunite Image
Images: Mangan-neptunite Shkatulkalite
Comments: Pearly white shkatulkalite with

brown mangan-neptunite grains.
Manganaxinite Image
Images: Manganaxinite

manganaxinite on matrix.
Location: Kibblehouse quarry,
Perkiomenville, Pennsylv ania, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Manganbabingtonite Image
Images: Manganbabingtonite
Comments: Brownish black

manganbabingtonite associated with pink
Inesite blades.
Location: Hubei, China. Scale: 8 x 5.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Manganbelyankinite Image
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Images: Manganbelyankinite
Comments: Brownish to blackish

manganbelyankinite coatings on syenite
rock.
Location: Punkurvaiv, Lovozero Massif, Kola
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Manganberzeliite Image
Images: Manganberzeliite
Comments: Orange translucent crystalline

manganberzeliite in clear calcite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Manganese-hornesite Image
Images: Manganese-hornesite
Comments: Micro, white, needles of

manganese-hornesite to about 0.75mm on
hausmannite-rich matrix.
Scale: 5.5 x 4 x 2.5cm.
Mangangordonite Image
Images: Mangangordonite
Comments: White, blocky crystal of

mangangordonite to 0.5mm on matrix.
Location: Foote mine, Cleveland Co.,
North Carolina, USA. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Manganilvaite Image
Images: Manganilvaite IMA2002-016
Comments: Small, black, very bright crystals

of manganilvaite on a matrix of clear quartz,
white calcite, and tiny brassy pyrite crystals.
Location: Daye mining area, Hubei, China.
Scale: 6 x 5.6 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Manganite Image
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Images: Manganite
Comments: Lustrous feathery crystals of

manganite to 0.75 cm.
© John Veevaert
Manganite Image
Images: Manganite Sudoite
Comments: Pinkish to nearly white earthy

sudoite with dark manganite.
Location: Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Erfurt district,
Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 4 mm.
Manganite Image
Images: Manganite Vaterite Defernite

Mineral Species
Manganlotharmeyerite Image
Images: Manganlotharmeyerite

of subparallel crystals of
manganlotharmeyerite.
Location: Massive braunite ores at the
Starlera Mn deposit in the Eastern Alps of
Switzerland. Scale: See Picture.
Manganocolumbite Image
Images: Manganocolumbite
Comments: Small brown tabular crystals of

manganocolumbite in a pegmatite.
Location: Neuland Quarry, D?bsch?tz,
K?nigshain, Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany.
Manganocummingtonite Image
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Images: Manganocummingtonite
Comments: Dark green fibrous

manganocummingtonite.
Mineral Species
Manganogrunerite Image
Images: Manganogrunerite
Comments: Brown fibrous massive, iron

stained manganogrunerite.
Location: Hallefors, Orebro, Sweden. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Manganokukisvumite Image
Images: Manganokukisvumite

photomicrograph of manganokukisvumite.
(CanMin, v 42 , p 782).
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.
Scale: See Image.
Manganosite Image
Images: Manganosite
Comments: Dark green manganosite in

matrix.
Location: Nordmark, Filipstad, V?rmland,
Sweden. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.
Manganotantalite Image
Images: Manganotantalite
Comments: Floater crystal of doubly

terminated, brilliant, with a little red tint
manganotantalite.
Location: Pech, Kunar, Afganistan. Scale: 5.5 x 7
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Manganotapiolite Image
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Images: Manganotapiolite
Comments: Black opaque resinous massive

manganotapiolite.
Location: Skogbole Mine, Kimito, Turku ja
Pori, Finland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Manganotychite Image
Images: Manganotychite Aegirine
Comments: Pale rose-tan granular

manganotychite with black aegirine prism.
Mineral Species
Manganpyrosmalite Image
Images: Manganpyrosmalite
Comments: Greenish brown, blocky

crystals of manganpyrosmalite in matrix.
Individual crystals are up to 7 mm long.
Location: Nordmark, Varmland, Sweden.
© John Veevaert
Manganpyrosmalite Image
Images: Manganpyrosmalite
Comments: Hexagonal, light brown

crystals of manganpyrosmalite.
Location: Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.
Manganvesuvianite Image
Images: Manganvesuvianite
Comments: Dark cherry red prismatic,

crystals or manganvisuvianite to 2mm on
matrix.
Location: N'Chwanning mine, Kalahari Mn
Field, North Cape Province, South Africa.
Manjiroite Image
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Images: Manjiroite
Comments: Dark brownish black massive

sample of manjiroite.
Location: Arizona, USA. Scale: 3.8 X 5.6 cm.
© John Veevaert
Mannardite Image
Images: Mannardite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of black,

metallic lustered mannardite crystals in
matrix.
Location: Kechica River, British Columbia,
Canada. Scale: 3.4 X 4.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Mansfieldite Image
Images: Mansfieldite
Comments: White, spherical aggregates of

mansfieldite.
Marcasite Image
Images: Marcasite
Comments: Metallic, brassy-colored

marcasite with minor translucent quartz
and white dolomite.
Location: Panasqueira (3rd level), in the
region of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale: 8 x
5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Marecottite Image
Images: Marecottite
Comments: SEM image of a typical

marecottite aggregate. Note the perfect
cleavage along (011) and the trace of the
twin composition plane (arrow). (AmMin, v
88, p 678).
Location: La Creusaz, Swiss Alps. Scale: See
Image.
Margaritasite Image
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Images: Margaritasite
Comments: Bright yellow earthy

margaritasite crust on rhyolite.
Location: Margaritas Open Pit Mine, Sierra
Pena Blanca, Chihuahua,. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Margarite Image
Images: Margarite
Comments: Beige, massive, fibrous/foliated

aggregate of margarite crystals.
Location: Long Hill/Old Tungsten Mine in
Trumbull, Connecticut, USA. Scale: 10 x 5
cm.
© Walter Mroch / Gem and Mineral
Exploration Company
Margarosanite Image
Images: Margarosanite Minehillite

Wollastonite-1A

minehillite with white margarosanite and
dark gray lead, in pale pink opaque
wollastonite (distinguished by blue-white
fluorescence).
Mineral Species
Margarosanite Image
Images: Margarosanite
Comments: Clear or white, long, thin

bladed crystals of margarosanite on
matrix.
Scale: Crystal size 1cm.
Marialite Image
Images: Marialite
Comments: Fully terminated 4.3 cm crystal of

marialite. Weakly fluorescent red under SW UV
light.
Location: Gooderham, Haliburton Co., Ontario,
Canada. Scale: 6 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
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Maricite Image
Images: Maricite Vivianite
Comments: Brown maricite nodule with

internal radiating structure, with blue
vivianite.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species
Maricopaite Image
Images: Maricopaite
Comments: Opaque white prismatic

maricopaite microcrystals and yellow
crystalline mimetite.
Location: Moon Anchor Mine, near
Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Marokite Image
Images: Marokite
Comments: Dark brown crystalline massive

marokite.
Location: vein #2, Tachgagalt, Ouarzazet,
Morocco. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Marrite Image
Images: Marrite
Comments: A prismatic crystal of marrite

with small rounded crystals of galena in
quartz.
size 1.3 mm.
Marrite Image
Images: Marrite Jordanite
Comments: Aggregate of gray prismatic crystals of

marrite on fine-grained jordanite.
© Walter Gabriel
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Marshite Image
Images: Marshite
Comments: Translucent tetragonal crystal

of marshite on matrix.
Marsturite Image
Images: Marsturite
Comments: Orange scaly marsturite on

matrix.
Genoa, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Marthozite Image
Images: Marthozite
Comments: Yellowish green coating of

marthozite on matrix.
Not Given.
© John Veevaert
Marthozite Image
Images: Marthozite
Comments: Olive green crystal of

marthozite showing multiple face
development on main crystal.
Schumacher Collection.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Western
area, Shaba Cu belt, Shaba (Katanga),
Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Mascagnite Image
Images: Mascagnite
Comments: White, botryoidal mascagnite.

Maslovite Image
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Images: Maslovite Froodite Altaite

See Photo.
Mineral Species
Massicot Image
Images: Massicot
Comments: Small nugget of reddish-yellow

massicot.
Location: Wytheville, Wythe Co., Virginia,
Massicot Image
Images: Massicot Litharge
Comments: Dark red litharge with

brownish-yellow scaly massicot and white
cerussite.
Mineral Species
Masutomilite Image
Images: Masutomilite
Comments: Transparent to translucent

micaceous pale violet masutomilite with
yellow iron stains.
Location: Hisu Kawa Mine, Gifu, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Masuyite Image
Images: Masuyite
Comments: Bright reddish orange crystals

of masuyite.
Masuyite Image
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Images: Masuyite
Comments: Dark reddish brown aggregate of

masuyite with green metatorbernite on matrix.
(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 2
mm.
Matildite Image
Images: Matildite
Comments: Gray platy metallic crystalline

matildite in white quartz.
Location: Sulliv an Mountain, Montezuma
District, Summit County, Colorado, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Matlockite Image
Images: Matlockite
Comments: Pale cream colored rosettes of

matlockite crystals on matrix.
Giv en.
Matsubaraite Image
Images: Matsubaraite
Comments: Minute, dark grains of

matsubaraite in a very pale green jadeite
matrix.
Location: Itoigawa-Ohmi, Niigata
Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Mattagamite Image
Images: Mattagamite Altaite

Tellurantimony

altaite.
Mineral Species
Matulaite Image
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Images: Matulaite
Comments: Opaque white pearly

crystalline matulaite coating on quartz and
brown limonite.
Location: Bachman Iron Mine, Hellertown,
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Maucherite Image
Images: Maucherite
Comments: Massive, fine-grained, dark

maucherite with cream-colored barite.
Location: Eisleben, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-
Anhalt, Germany. Scale: Specimen size 8
cm.
Maucherite Image
Images: Maucherite
Comments: Reddish, semi-metallic

aggregate of feathery maucherite crystals
on matrix.
Location: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.
© Reiner Mielke
Mawbyite Image
Images: Mawbyite
Comments: Brown crystalline mawbyite in

quartz.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Mawsonite Image
Images: Mawsonite
Comments: Mawsonite inclusions in brassy

yellow chalcopyrite.
Location: Mount Lyell, Queenstown,
Tasmania, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Maxwellite Image
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Images: Maxwellite
Comments: Minute red translucent

maxwellite crystal in rhyolite.
Location: Squaw Creek Tin Mine, Black
Range, Catron County, New Mexico, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mazzettiite Image
Images: Mazzettiite

photograph (SEM) of mazzettiite (M),
associated with altaite (A), galena (G) and
quartz (Q).
Location: Museum specimen in the
Mineralogical Collection of the Institut royal
des Sciences naturelles de Belgique,
Bruxelles (Belgium). Findlay Gulch,
Saguache Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Image.
Mazzite Image
Images: Mazzite
Comments: Clear colorless microcrystals

and crystalline mazzite in vug.
Location: Mont Simiol, Loire, France. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mbobomkulite Image
Images: Mbobomkulite
Comments: White earthy mbobomkulite.

Location: Jomac Uranium mine, White
Canyon, San Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale:
Mcallisterite Image
Images: Mcallisterite
Comments: Tan to white opaque porous

aggregate of mcallisterite.
Location: Qinghai, China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Mcalpineite Image
Images: Mcalpineite
Comments: Dark green crystals of

mcalpineite in matrix.
size 1.7 mm.
Mcgillite Image
Images: Mcgillite
Comments: Pink crystalline mcgillite with

galena.
Location: Near Kimberley, Kootenay
District, British Columbia, Canada. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mcgovernite Image
Images: Mcgovernite
Comments: Golden sub-metallic

micaceous mcgovernite with black
franklinite, red willemite, and white calcite.
Mineral Species
Mcguinnessite Image
Images: Mcguinnessite
Comments: Cotton ball clusters of vivid

blue mcguinnessite crystals on matrix.
Location: Miners Ridge, Red Mountain,
Mendocino County, California, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Mcguinnessite Image
Images: Mcguinnessite Vuagnatite
Comments: Translucent colorless

vuagnatite microcrystals with
mcguinnessite.
Location: Near Red Mountain, Mendocino
Mineral Species
Mckinstryite Image
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Images: Mckinstryite Silver

mckinstryite with wire silver.
Location: Peregrina Mine, Guanajuato,
Mineral Species
Mcnearite Image
Images: Mcnearite
Comments: Crystalline mcnearite micro

botryoids on matrix.
Location: Gabbe Gottes, Sainte-Marie-
aux-Mines, Haute-Rhin, France. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Medaite Image
Images: Medaite
Comments: Orange crystalline medaite

crust.
Location: Molinello Mine, near Chiavari,
Mineral Species
Meionite Image
Images: Meionite
Comments: Clear meionite crystal on

matrix.
Meionite Image
Images: Meionite Kaliophilite
Comments: Tan to white fibrous kaliophilite

crystal bundle with white translucent
meionite on matrix.
Location: Mont Somma, Naples,
Mineral Species
Meixnerite Image
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Images: Meixnerite
Comments: Colorless crystals of meixnerite.

Location: Zeilberg Quarry, Maroldsweisach,
mm.
Melanocerite-(Ce) Image
Images: Melanocerite-(Ce)
Comments: Black, v itreous, crystalline

aggregates of melanocerite-(Ce) in matrix.
Location: Cardiff Uranium mine,
Wilberforce, Monmouth Township,
Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada. Scale:
See Image.
Melanophlogite Image
Images: Melanophlogite
Comments: Yellow, transparent

Melanophlogite crystals.
Location: Racalmuto, Sicily, Italy. Scale:
Not Given.
Melanotekite Image
Images: Melanotekite
Comments: Black metallic granular

melanotekite with reddish brown
andradite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Melanothallite Image
Images: Melanothallite Chloromenite
Comments: Oliv e green crystalline

chloromenite on blue-green
melanothallite.
Location: North Break, Second Cone of
main fracture eruption, Tolbachik Volcano,
Kamchatka District, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Melanothallite Image
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Images: Melanothallite
Comments: Bluish green melanothallite grain.

Location: North Break, Second Cone, Main
Eruption Site, Tolbachik, Kamchatka District,
Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Melanovanadite Image
Images: Melanovanadite
Comments: Dark greenish-black

fine-grained massive melanovanadite.
Location: Minas Ragra, near Cerro de
Pasco, Junin, Peru. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Melanterite Image
Images: Melanterite
Comments: Deep greenish blue

encrustation of melanterite. The pistanite
v ariety is copper-bearing where Cu
replaces some of the Fe in the crystal
structure.
Location: Patagonia District, Arizona, USA.
Scale: 5 x 9.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Melilite Image
Images: Melilite
Comments: Barrel-shaped root-beer

colored melilite crystal with clear
nepheline.
Location: Udersdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Melilite Image
Images: Melilite Monticellite
Comments: Thin-section image of

monticellite interstitial between unaltered
melilite crystals (CanMin v. 41. p 1259).
Romania. Scale: Field of View 2.7 mm.
Meliphanite Image
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Images: Meliphanite
Comments: Honey yellow, translucent

sample of Meliphanite.
Location: Aroy, Langesundsfjorden,
Norway. Scale: 3.6 X 5.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Mellite Image
Images: Mellite
Comments: Specimen of crystalline mellite.

Mellite is a naturally occurring organic
mineral species.
Location: Csordakhut, Tatabanya,
Hungary. Scale: 4 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Melonite Image
Images: Melonite
Comments: Metallic foil of melonite.

Location: Cresson Mine, Cripple Creek,
Teller County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Mendipite Image
Images: Mendipite Crednerite
Comments: Sooty, deep-black, granular to

platy crednerite with mendipite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mendipite Image
Images: Mendipite Chloroxiphite

Crednerite

crednerite.
Mineral Species
Mendipite Image
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Images: Mendipite Crednerite

Chloroxiphite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mendozavilite Image
Images: Mendozavilite
Comments: Vuggy matrix covered with

yellow micro crystals of mendozavilite.
Location: Rustler mine, Tooele County,
Utah, USA. Scale: Specimen size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Mendozavilite Image
Images: Mendozavilite
Comments: Light yellow micro crystals of

mendozavilite and earthy alterations in
v uggy quartz matrix with black schorl.
Location: Rustler mine, Tooele Co., Utah,
Mendozite Image
Images: Mendozite

mendozite.
Location: Gold Bottom Mine, Inyo County,
Mineral Species
Meneghinite Image
Images: Meneghinite
Comments: Black, acicular crystals of

meneghinite on matrix.
Location: Bottino Mine, Tuscany, Italy.
Scale: 1x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Menezesite Image
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Images: Menezesite IMA2005-023
Comments: Orange rhombododecahedral

crystals of menezesite to 0.75mm on matrix.
Location: Jacupiranga mine, Cajati county,
Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Mercallite Image
Images: Mercallite
Comments: Pale blue to white powdery

aggregate of mercallite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mercury Image
Images: Mercury
Comments: Silvery metallic mercury

coatings on quartz.
Location: Socrates Mine, Sonoma County,
Mineral Species
Mercury Image
Images: Mercury
Comments: Small silvery droplets of

mercury on tan-colored rock matrix.
Location: Sonoma Co., California, USA.
© Kevin Ward
Mereheadite Image
Images: Mereheadite
Comments: Yellowish crystals of

mereheadite to 1mm embedded in matrix.
Location: Merehead quarry, Shepton
Mallet, Somerset, England. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Merenskyite Image
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Images: Merenskyite Borovskite

Temagamite

42, p 674).
Merlinoite Image
Images: Merlinoite
Comments: Colorless transparent prismatic

merlinoite microcrystals in vug.
Location: Lagno Ahendo Lare, Vesuvius,
Naples, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mertieite-II Image
Images: Mertieite-II
Comments: Oil immersion hotomicrograph

of inclusions of mertieite-II in matrix of Pt-Fe
alloy (CanMin, v 42, p 614).
Scale: See Image.
Merwinite Image
Images: Merwinite

merwinite in light green crystalline massive
marble.
Mineral Species
Mesolite Image
Images: Mesolite
Comments: Cotton-ball cluster of acicular

white mesolite crystals on celestine.
Location: Cheyenne, Laramie County,
Wyoming. Scale: Not Given.
Messelite Image
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Images: Messelite Leucophosphite
Comments: White messelite crystals with

greenish leucophosphite.
Giv en.
Meta-autunite Image
Images: Meta-autunite
Comments: Platy meta-autunite crystals

fluorescing greenish yellow.
Location: Carretona, Spain. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Meta-autunite Image
Images: Meta-autunite Autunite
Comments: Corner of a meta-autunite

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

meta-uranocircite.
Location: Krunkelbachtal, Baden-
Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: Not Giv en.
Images: Meta-uranocircite Uranocircite
Comments: Brilliant, fluorescent yellow

green crystals of uranocircite altered to
meta-uranocircite.
Location: Bergen, Vogtland, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: 2.3 x 2.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
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Images: Meta-uranocircite Uranocircite
Comments: Crystal fragment of

uranocircite fracturing due to dehydration
to meta-uranocircite. The most common
are 100 and 010 fractures, with 110 close
behind. But notice the 210 and 410
fractures (breaks) as well.
Location: . Scale: Crystal size 2x3.5 cm.
Images: Meta-uranocircite
Comments: Lemon yellow platy

meta-uranocircite crystals on matrix.
Metacinnabar Image
Images: Metacinnabar
Comments: Spherical metacinnabar

crystals on quartz.
Location: Mt. Diablo mine, Contra Costa
Metadelrioite Image
Images: Metadelrioite Delrioite
Comments: Yellow metadelrioite and delrioite,

with orange rossite/metarossite on a sandstone
matrix. See inset image.
Location: Jo Dandy Mine, Montrose CO., USA.
Scale: 6 1/4" x 5 1/2".
Metahaiweeite Image
Images: Metahaiweeite Haiweeite
Comments: Pale yellow scaly

metahaiweeite coating on quartz with
minute haiweeite acicular crystals.
Mineral Species
Metaheinrichite Image
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Images: Metaheinrichite
Comments: Siliceous jasperoid with a black

crust of uraninite (?) and bright canary
yellow crystals of metaheinrichite crystals
to 2.5mm across.
Location: White King Mine, Lakeview,
Oregon, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Metaheinrichite Image
Images: Metaheinrichite
Comments: Very pale greenish crystals of

metaheinrichite on matrix.
Location: Schmiedestollenhalde mine,
Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Schwartzwald
(Black Forest), Baden-W?rttemberg,
Metahewettite Image
Images: Metahewettite
Comments: Deep red, vibrant, radial micro

crystals of metahewettite to 3mm in
diameter on matrix.
Location: Cactus Rat mine, Grand County,
Utah. Scale: 4 x 4 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Metahohmannite Image
Images: Metahohmannite Hohmannite
Comments: Orange opaque prismatic

microcrystals of hohmannite mixed with
yellow metahohmanite.
Mineral Species
Metahohmannite Image
Images: Metahohmannite
Comments: Orange-yellow earthy massive

metahohmannite with orange hohmannite.
Location: Quetena, Antofagasta, Chile.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Metakottigite Image
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Images: Metakottigite
Comments: Bladed crystalline sprays of

metakottigite crystals on matrix.
Metamunirite Image
Images: Metamunirite
Comments: Colorless, acicular crystals of

metamunirite.
Location: Burro Mine, Slick Rock District, San
Miguel Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1.6 mm.
Metanovacekite Image
Images: Metanovacekite Novacekite
Comments: Yellow, translucent platy

novacekite/metanovacekite crystal
aggregate.
Location: Rabejac Mine, Olmet, Herault,
France. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Metanovacekite Image
Images: Metanovacekite
Comments: Bright yellow crystalline

metanovacekite coatings on white
crystalline gypsum.
Location: Las Animas Mine, Municipio do
Heuiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Metarossite Image
Images: Metarossite
Comments: Light yellow metarossite on

sandstone.
Location: Burro Mine, Slick Rock District, San
Miguel Co., Colorado. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Metarossite Image
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Images: Metarossite
Comments: Bright yellow platy crystals to

about 0.5mm covering sandstone matrix.
Location: Arrowhead Claim, San Miguel
Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.
Metaschoderite Image
Images: Metaschoderite
Comments: Orange crystalline

metaschoderite crust on shale.
Location: 25 miles east of Eureka, Fish
Creek Range, Eureka County, Nevada,
Mineral Species
Metaschoepite Image
Images: Metaschoepite Antlerite

metaschoepite with green antlerite.
Metasideronatrite Image
Images: Metasideronatrite Tamarugite
Comments: Orange metasideronatrite with

white tamarugite.
Metasideronatrite Image
Images: Metasideronatrite Ungemachite
Comments: Translucent rounded

ungemachite microcrystal on yellow
metasideronatrite.
Mineral Species
Metastibnite Image
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Images: Metastibnite Sulfur
Comments: Red coatings of metastibnite

with yellow sulfur.
Mineral Species
Metastudtite Image
Images: Metastudtite
Comments: White acicular microcrystal

metastudtite clusters on dark yellow to
brown sklodowskite grains.
Location: Musonoi, Katanga, Shaba, Zaire.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Metaswitzerite Image
Images: Metaswitzerite
Comments: Bladed crystalline sprays of

milk chocolate-colored metaswitzerite
crystals.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Metatorbernite Image
Images: Metatorbernite
Comments: Green, square, tabular crystals

of metatorbernite on matrix.
Location: Wheal Basset, Illogan, Cornwall,
England, UK. Scale: Not Given.
Images: Metatorbernite Schoepite
Comments: Green, tabular crystals of

metatorbernite and acicular, yellow
schoepite on matrix.
(Katanga), Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture
size 2.5 mm.
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Images: Metatorbernite Metatyuyamunite
Comments: Yellow, platy

metatyuyamunite and transparent, tabular
green metatorbernite crystals with a minor
amount of white, snowy-looking saleeite.
Metatyuyamunite Image
Images: Metatyuyamunite
Comments: Bright yellow bladed crystals

of metatyuyamunite.
Location: Mashamba mine, Kolwezi,
Metatyuyamunite Image
Images: Metatyuyamunite Metatorbernite
Comments: Yellow, platy

metatyuyamunite and transparent, tabular
green metatorbernite crystals with a minor
amount of white, snowy-looking saleeite.
Metavariscite Image
Images: Metavariscite

metavariscite.
Location: Utahlite claim, Lucin, Box Elder
Metavauxite Image
Images: Metavauxite
Comments: Clear acicular crystals of

metavauxite.
Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department, Bolivia.
Scale: Not Given.
Metavauxite Image
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Images: Metavauxite
Comments: Creamy colored prismatic

metavauxite crystals to 3mm.
Location: Siglo XX, Llallagua, Bolivia. Scale:
Picture size 3 mm.
Metavivianite Image
Images: Metavivianite
Comments: Rust-brown, metavivianite var.

kertschenite crystals to 1.5 cm in length.
Location: Kertsch Crimea, Ukraine. Scale:
5.5 x 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Metavoltine Image
Images: Metavoltine Alunogen
Comments: Yellow metavoltine with white

alunogen.
size 5 mm.
Metazellerite Image
Images: Metazellerite Voglite

metazellerite in matrix, with green voglite.
Location: White Canyon #1 Mine, Frey Point,
San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Metazeunerite Image
Images: Metazeunerite
Comments: Lime green crystals of

metazeunerite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Metazeunerite Image
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Images: Metazeunerite Trogerite
Comments: Yellow crystals of tr?gerite with

green metazeunerite.
Location: Walpurgis Flats, Wei?er Hirsch
Mine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District,
Picture size 5 mm.
Methane hydrate-I Image
Images: Methane hydrate-I
Comments: Yellow to white outcropping of

massive methane hydrate infested with 2
to 5 cm polychaete worms (Hesiocoeca
sp), AKA "ice worms".
Location: 540 meters deep in the Gulf of
Mexico. Scale: Picture size 30 cm.
© Charles Fisher / Penn State
Meurigite Image
Images: Meurigite
Comments: Brown muirite oolite showing

the concentric-fibrous internal structure.
Meurigite Image
Images: Meurigite
Comments: Yellow, radial acicular sprays

of meurigite to about 0.75 mm.
Location: Teskov quarry, near Prague,
size 1.5 cm.
Meurigite Image
Images: Meurigite
Comments: Yellow-green spheroidal

crystals of meurigite to 0.1mm, in a 5mm
vug in black rockbridgeite(?) matrix.
Location: Hagendorf Sud Pegmatite,
Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Scale:
Meyerhofferite Image
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Images: Meyerhofferite
Comments: Transparent, tabular crystals of

meyerhofferite on matrix.
Location: 20-Mule Team Canyon, Death
© John Veevaert
Meymacite Image
Images: Meymacite
Comments: Orange-brownish to yellow

massiv e Meymacite.
Location: Meymac, Corr?ze, Limousin,
France. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Miargyrite Image
Images: Miargyrite
Comments: Metallic miargyrite crystal on

quartz.
Location: Braunsdorf, Saxony, Germay.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Miargyrite Image
Images: Miargyrite Aramayoite
Comments: Aramayoite is present as large

thin plates (blue iridescence) to 1mm in
massive gray miargyrite matrix.
Location: Julcani Silver mine,
Huancav elica Dept., Peru. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Microcline Image
Images: Microcline Ferrocolumbite
Comments: Blocky, dark brown ferrocolumbite on

pale greenish blue amazonite (microcline).
Location: Crystal Park, El Paso Co., Colorado,
© Fabre Minerals
Microcline Image
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Images: Microcline
Comments: Opaque blocky tan crystal of

microcline.
Location: Moat Mountain, near Conway,
Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Microlite Image
Images: Microlite
Comments: Brown crystal of microlite 10 mm in

an albite matrix.
Location: Morefield Mine, Winterham, Amelia
Co., Virginia, USA. Scale: 5x4x3 cm.
Microlite Image
Images: Microlite
Comments: Golden-colored microlite

octahedrons on white albite.
Location: Maxixe Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Crystal size .5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Microsommite Image
Images: Microsommite
Comments: Colorless prismatic

microsommite microcrystals in v ug.
Location: Novella Quarry, Vesuv ius,
Naples, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Microsommite Image
Images: Microsommite
Comments: White acycular microsommite

crystals (one mm. long) in small vugs in
matrix.
Location: Monte Somma - Vesuvio - NA,
Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Miersite Image
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Images: Miersite
Comments: Translucent miersite crystals on

matrix.
Mikasaite Image
Images: Mikasaite
Comments: Pale yellow to white platy

crystalline mikasaite cluster.
Location: Ikushunbetsu, Mikassa, Hokkaido,
Mineral Species
Milarite Image
Images: Milarite
Comments: Single transparent crystal of

yellow Milarite.
Location: Near Rossing, Namibia. Scale:
Not Given.
Milarite Image
Images: Milarite
Comments: Blocky, barrel-shaped crystal

of milarite on muscovite..
Location: Jagauaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: Crystal size 2.5 x 1 x 1 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Millerite Image
Images: Millerite
Comments: Fragile, acicular crystals of

metallic yellow millerite in a vug.
Location: Hall's Gap, Lincoln County,
Kentucky, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Millerite Image
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Images: Millerite
Comments: Dense tuft of hair-like millerite crystals.

Location: Kerr-Addison mine, Timmons, Ontario,
Canada. Scale: Tuft height 5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Millisite Image
Images: Millisite
Comments: Milky cream-colored crystals of

millisite.
Millosevichite Image
Images: Millosevichite
Comments: Porous crust of Millosevichite.

Stredocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, Czech
Mimetite Image
Images: Mimetite Duftite-alpha
Comments: Mimetite crystals are replaced

by Duftite-alpha on a gossanous matrix.
Location: Mt. Bonnie Mine, Northern
Territory, Australia. Scale: Crystal size to
3mm.
© John Veevaert
Mimetite Image
Images: Mimetite Cerussite
Comments: Creamy white crystal of cerussite

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

Mimetite. The largest crystal is 1 cm across.
Location: Mt. Bonnie Mine, Northen Territory,
Austalia. Scale: 2.9 x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Mimetite Image
Images: Mimetite Plumbogummite
Comments: White, fuzzy aggregates of

plumbogummite covering lime green
mimetite (campylite) crystals.
England. Scale: Not Given.
Mimetite Image
Images: Mimetite Wulfenite
Comments: Gemmy, pale yellow mimetite

crystal with brownish-orange wulfenite. Former
James and Dawn Minette Collection.
Location: Gem Pocket 1971, Tsumeb, Namibia.
© Rob Lav insky
Minamiite Image
Images: Minamiite
Comments: White granular powdery

minamiite aggregate.
Location: Okumanza, Gumma, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Minasragrite Image
Images: Minasragrite Patronite
Comments: Blue coatings of minasragrite

on patronite.
Mineral Species
Minehillite Image
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Images: Minehillite Margarosanite

Wollastonite-1A

fluorescence).
Mineral Species
Minium Image
Images: Minium
Comments: Bright orange minium with

curved, conchoidal surfaces.
Location: Santa F? Mine, Bola?os, Mun. de
Bola?os, Jalisco, Mexico. Scale: 33x22x14
mm.
Minnesotaite Image
Images: Minnesotaite
Comments: Greenish-gray dull

minnesotaite masses in iron ore matrix.
Location: Virginia, Saint Louis County,
Mineral Species
Minrecordite Image
Images: Minrecordite Dioptase
Comments: Blue-green dioptase cov ered

with minute, rhombic crystals of
transparent minrecordite one mm or less in
size.
© John Veevaert
Minrecordite Image
Images: Minrecordite Wendwilsonite
Comments: Wendell Wilson, publisher, editor-

in-chief of the Mineralogical Record, and the
person whom wendwilsonite was named after,
kindly provided the mineral name pronunciations
for minrecordite and wendwilsonite.
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© Dav e Barthelmy
Minyulite Image
Images: Minyulite
Comments: Crystals of minyulite on matrix.

Location: St. John's Quarry, Kapunda, South
Australia. Scale: Crystal size 4-5 mm to 5
mm.
© John Veevaert
Minyulite Image
Images: Minyulite Sincosite
Comments: Pale greenish white acicular

radial sprays of minyulite to 8mm with
small, green, tabular sincosite.
Location: Ross Hannibal mine, Lawrence
County, South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 2
cm.
Mirabilite Image
Images: Mirabilite
Comments: Colorless grains and indistinct

crystals of mirabilite. The mineral
dehydrates quickly in dry air and must be
preserved in a closed box.
Miserite Image
Images: Miserite
Comments: Silky crystalline inclusions of

maroon-colored miserite with a dark
amphibole and white feldspar.
Location: Hodza, Achkan, Kyrgyzstan.
© John Veevaert
Mitridatite Image
Images: Mitridatite
Comments: Dark brown crystals of

mitridatite on whitlockite.
Giv en.
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Mixite Image
Images: Mixite
Comments: Vuggy quartz matrix with

green radial sprays of mixite crystals.
Location: Northern Star mine, Tintic district,
Utah, USA. Scale: 6 x 5 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Moctezumite Image
Images: Moctezumite
Comments: Orange crystals of

moctezumite on matrix.
size 4 mm.
Moctezumite Image
Images: Moctezumite Burckhardtite
Comments: Pink crusts of burckhardtite

with yellow crystalline moctezumite on
quartz.
Location: Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma,
Mineral Species
Modderite Image
Images: Modderite
Comments: Synthetic crystal of modderite

grown for study of this extremely rare
mineral.
Location: None, grown in a laboratory.
Scale: Grain size 100 µ-m.
© Katie Phillips / Vassar College
Moeloite Image
Images: Moeloite
Comments: Dark gray, metallic grains of

moelite on white dolomite.
Location: Cava Ceragiola, Seravezza,
Lucca, Italy. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Mohrite Image
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Images: Mohrite
Comments: Opaque botryoidal mohrite

aggregate.
Location: Saint Etienne, Layonnais,
Languedoc, Loire, France. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Moissanite Image
Images: Moissanite
Comments: Gemmy, platy crystal of

moissanite shown with largest (001) face.
The arrow indicates a drop-shaped, black
metallic inclusion. (AmMin, 88:1818).
Location: Found in a cobble at a beach
along the Turkish coast of the
Mediterranean Sea, around 150 km NW
from Izmir, and is most likely derived from
Tertiary volcanic rocks outcropping in the
area. Scale: Scale bar 300 µ-m.
Moissanite Image
Images: Moissanite Silicon

of metallic inclusion in moissanite (SiC). The
gray shading in the BSE mage consists
mainly of pure silicon (Si metal). The
brighter areas are composed of Fe-silicide.
(AmMin, 88:1818).
area. Scale: Scalebar 200 µ-m.
Moluranite Image
Images: Moluranite
Comments: Dark gray-black moluranite

coatings on sandstone.
Location: La Sal, San Juan County, Utah,
Mineral Species
Molybdenite Image
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Images: Molybdenite
Comments: Sharp metallic molybdenite

crystal on matrix.
Location: Crown Point Mine, Washington.
Scale: 4x4x2.3 cm.
Molybdite Image
Images: Molybdite
Comments: Greenish yellow molybdite

crust on quartz.
Location: Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Molybdofornacite Image
Images: Molybdofornacite
Comments: Lime green, tabular crystals of

molybdofornacite on matrix.
Location: Mahoney district, Tres Hermanas
Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Molysite Image
Images: Molysite
Comments: Yellow earthy molysite

coatings.
Location: Sasso Pisano, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Monazite-(Ce) Image
Images: Monazite-(Ce)

monazite-(Ce) on lepidolite.
Location: Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Not Given.
Monazite-(Sm) Image
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Images: Monazite-(Sm)

image of the main aggregate of
monazite-(Sm) and manganocolumbite
(C) embedded in quartz (black). Variations
in brightness of the monazite-(Sm) are
controlled by the Th content, whereas the
ratio Nb/Ta affects manganotantalite.
Location: Annie Claim #3 pod, Greer Lake
intrusion, Archean Bird River Subprovince of
the Superior Province, Southeastern
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: Grain size 0.8
mm.
Moncheite Image
Images: Moncheite Chalcopyrite
Comments: White moncheite with

chalcopyrite (orange, blue and violet
tarnishing colors) in silicate matrix. Polished
section (from microprobe analysis) in
reflected light.
Moncheite Image
Images: Moncheite Insizwaite

image showing b) intergrowth of taimyrite-
tatyanaite with moncheitei-insizwaite
(CanMin, v 42, p 611).
Scale: See Image.
Monetite Image
Images: Monetite Newberyite
Comments: Tan coatings of monetite on

white newberyite pseudomorphous after
struvite crystal.
Location: Mono Lake, Mono County,
Mineral Species
Mongolite Image
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Images: Mongolite
Comments: White to pinkish massive

mongolite.
Location: Khan-Bogdinskii massif, Gobi
Desert, Mongolia. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.
Monimolite Image
Images: Monimolite
Comments: Pale green monimolite crusts

on matrix.
Location: Altar, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Monohydrocalcite Image
Images: Monohydrocalcite
Comments: Gray to pale blue, due to

copper staining, botryoidal
monohydrocalcite crust.
Location: 40' level, Saint Pierre Mine, Sainte-
Marie-aux-Mines, Vosges Mountains,
Haute-Rhin, France. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Montanite Image
Images: Montanite
Comments: Grayish-green montanite grain

in matrix.
Location: Zupkov (Zsubko; Schubkau),
Stredoslovensk? Kraj, Slovak Republic.
Montdorite Image
Images: Montdorite
Comments: Pale green fine granular

montdorite in iron-stained matrix.
Location: Charlunnes, Mont Dore,
Puy-de-Dome, France. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Montebrasite Image
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Images: Montebrasite
Comments: Transparent, pale yellow,

tabular crystals of Montebrasite on matrix.
Location: Newry, Oxford County, Maine,
Montesommaite Image
Images: Montesommaite
Comments: Translucent prismatic

montesommaite crystals in vugs.
Location: Pollena Quarry, Vesuv ius, Naples,
Mineral Species
Montgomeryite Image
Images: Montgomeryite
Comments: Matrix specimen covered with

sprays to 0.5 cm of salmon colored
montgomeryite crystals.
Location: Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South
Dakota, USA. Scale: 13 x 8 cm.
© John Veevaert
Montgomeryite Image
Images: Montgomeryite Tiptopite
Comments: Clear, acicular crystals of

tiptopite with red montgomeryite.
Giv en.
Montgomeryite Image
Images: Montgomeryite Tiptopite

Englishite

Monticellite Image
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Images: Monticellite
Comments: Pale brown crystalline massive

monticellite.
Mineral Species
Monticellite Image
Images: Monticellite Melilite
Comments: Thin-section image of

monticellite interstitial between unaltered
melilite crystals (CanMin v. 41. p 1259).
Romania. Scale: Field of View 2.7 mm.
Montmorillonite Image
Images: Montmorillonite
Comments: Authigenic smectite

(montmorillonite) overgrown on pore
spaces and authigenicly-overgrown quartz
grains in a sandstone. SEM image of a core
sample.
µ-m.
Montmorillonite Image
Images: Montmorillonite
Comments: Bright pink chalky massive

montmorillonite.
Location: Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood,
Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Montroseite Image
Images: Montroseite
Comments: Black silky fibrous montroseite

on sandstone with tyuyamunite.
Location: Monument No. 2 Mine, Kayenta,
Apache County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Montroyalite Image
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Images: Montroyalite
Comments: Translucent micro spherical

montroyalite on matrix.
Mineral Species
Montroydite Image
Images: Montroydite
Comments: Red to orange radial and

crystalline montroydite aggregates on
black calcite.
Location: Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas,
Mineral Species
Montroydite Image
Images: Montroydite Pinchite
Comments: Minute lustrous black pinchite

crystals on white montroydite.
Mineral Species
Mooihoekite Image
Images: Mooihoekite
Comments: Lighter toned brassy metallic

mooihoekite masses in chalcopyrite with
magnetite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Moolooite Image
Images: Moolooite
Comments: Light bluish moolooite

encrustation.
Location: Ibergstausee, Stempeda,
S?dharz, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 0.9 mm.
Mooreite Image
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Images: Mooreite
Comments: Translucent, wedge-shaped crystals of

mooreite on matrix.
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA.
Scale: Not Given.
Moorhouseite Image
Images: Moorhouseite
Comments: Pink crystalline moorhouseite in

sandstone.
Location: Cameron, Coconino County,
Mineral Species
Mopungite Image
Images: Mopungite
Comments: White mopungite encrustations.

Location: Cetine di Cotorniano Mine
(Cetine Mine), Rosia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
Moraesite Image
Images: Moraesite
Comments: Silky, tufted crystals of white

moraesite on matrix.
Location: Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Not Given.
Moraesite Image
Images: Moraesite Glucine
Comments: Light brown glucine with white

moraesite.
Location: Boevskoye Mine, Sverdlovsk
Photo.
Mineral Species
Mordenite Image
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Images: Mordenite Heulandite

mordenite in heulandite geode.
Location: Rock Creek, Stevenson,
Skamania County, Washington, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Mordenite Image
Images: Mordenite Heulandite-Ca
Comments: Pink heulandite crystals up to

15 mm in fibrous white mordenite matrix.
Location: Rats Nest Claim, Challis, Custer
Co., Idaho, USA. Scale: 6x6x4 cm.
Morenosite Image
Images: Morenosite
Comments: Pale greenish blue crust of

morenosite.
Location: Gorner Glacier, Furi, Zermatt,
size 5 mm.
Morinite Image
Images: Morinite
Comments: Pale violet crystalline morinite

in white crystalline fluorapatite.
Location: Hugo Mine, Keystone, Pennington
Photo.
Mineral Species
Mosandrite Image
Images: Mosandrite
Comments: Yellow to brown resinous

crystalline mosandrite with black aegirine.
Mineral Species
Moschellandsbergite Image
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Images: Moschellandsbergite

moschellandsbergite aggregate.
Location: Moschellandsberg, Rheinland-
Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mosesite Image
Images: Mosesite
Comments: Yellow, hoppered crystal of

mosesite on matrix.
Location: Terllingua, Brewster County,
Texas, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Mottanaite-(Ce) Image
Images: Mottanaite-(Ce)

mottanaite-(Ce) in matrix.
Location: Monte Cavallucio, Sacrofano,
Campagnano, Latium (Lazio), Italy. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Mottramite Image
Images: Mottramite Beaverite
Comments: Specimen of quartz with a

thick druse of green mottramite
(cuprodescloizite) crystals and a scattered
grouping of micro beav erite crystals
(lemon yellow in color).
© John Veevaert
Mottramite Image
Images: Mottramite
Comments: Botryoidal green mottramite

on white calcite.
Location: Tsumeb Mine,Tsumeb, Namibia.
Scale: 7.5 cm by 8 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Motukoreaite Image
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Images: Motukoreaite
Comments: Colorless, tabular crystals of

motukoreaite.
Location: Stradnerkogel Quarry,
Wilhelmsdorf, Styria, Austria. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 mm.
Mounanaite Image
Images: Mounanaite
Comments: Yellow crystal of mounanaite

on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Mounanaite Image
Images: Mounanaite Francevillite
Comments: Stout, yellow, transparent,

prismatic, striated crystals of francevillite on
brownish red mounanaite matrix.
Location: Mounana mine, Franceville,
Haut-Ogoou?, Gabon. Scale: Picture size
1.5 cm.
Mountainite Image
Images: Mountainite Raite
Comments: Bright white fibrous acicular

mountainite crystal aggregate with pale
golden raite.
Mineral Species
Mountkeithite Image
Images: Mountkeithite
Comments: Pinkish mountkeithite grain in

matrix.
Location: Mount Keith nickel deposit,
Western Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture
size 2 mm.
Mourite Image
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Images: Mourite Iriginite
Comments: Purple to violet sub-metallic

mourite coatings with yellow iriginite.
Location: 'North Caucasus', probably
Kyzylsai Deposit, Chu-Ili Mountains,
Balkhash, Zezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mozartite Image
Images: Mozartite
Comments: Massive, crystalline mozartite.

© John Veevaert
Mpororoite Image
Images: Mpororoite Anthoinite

mpororoite with brown anthoinite.
Location: Kara Mine, Tasmania, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mrazekite Image
Images: Mrazekite
Comments: Blue, prismatic crystal of

mr?zekite on matrix.
Location: Arme Hilfe Mine, Ullersreuth,
Hirschberg, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany.
Muckeite Image
Images: Muckeite
Comments: Dark gray tabular crystals of

M?ckeite.
Location: Gr?neau Mine (Gr?ne Au Mine;
Gr?nau Mine), Schutzbach, Betzdorf, Siegen
District (W), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Muirite Image
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Images: Muirite Sanbornite
Comments: Translucent orange crystalline

muirite in sanbornite.
Location: Big Creek, Fresno County,
Mineral Species
Mullite Image
Images: Mullite
Comments: Opaque white mullite masses

with mica.
Location: Nijar, Almeria, Andalucia, Spain.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Mullite Image
Images: Mullite
Comments: Surface of a kaolinite stratum

altered to white mullite by a prehistoric
coal-seam-fire..
Location: Mt. Wingen (Burning Mountain),
NSW, Australia. Scale: Picture size 6x4 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Mundite Image
Images: Mundite

mundite grains.
Location: Kobokobo, Sud-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Munirite Image
Images: Munirite
Comments: Bright yellow-orange crystalline

munirite on matrix.
Location: Brushy Creek, Uravan, Montrose
Mineral Species
Murdochite Image
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Images: Murdochite Smithsonite
Comments: Dark metallic micro crystals of

murdochite on pale blue-gray smithsonite
crystal covered matrix.
Location: Silver Hill Mine group, Silv er Hill,
Waterman District, Waterman Mts, Pima
Murmanite Image
Images: Murmanite
Comments: Metavolcanic matrix hosting

several bright pink lath shaped crystals of
murmanite.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Illua, Greenland.
© John Veevaert
Muscovite Image
Images: Muscovite Fluorapatite Beryl

Apatite

© Dan Weinrich
Muscovite Image
Images: Muscovite
Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal crystalline

aggregate of muscovite.
Location: Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Muscovite Image
Images: Muscovite
Comments: Seams of green muscovite var.

fuchsite in quartz matrix with minor pyrite
crystals.
Location: Wolfe's Neck locality, Freeport,
Cumberland Co., Maine, USA. Scale: 7x5x4
cm.
Muscovite Image
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Images: Muscovite Aluminoceladonite
Comments: Large, 1cm, purple crystals of

muscovite/leucophyllite, (var. alurgite
which is an intermediate composition to
muscovite and leucophyllite
(aluminoceladonite).
Location: Ultevis, Sweden. Scale:
5x3.5x3cm.
Mushistonite Image
Images: Mushistonite Kesterite
Comments: Sharp, kesterite crystal,

greenish in color due to a mushistonite
coating with clear, prismatic beryl crystals.
Location: Xue Bao Diang Mountains, north
of Pingwu, Sichuan Prov ince, China. Scale:
Crystal size 1 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Mushistonite Image
Images: Mushistonite
Comments: Green crystalline mushistonite

coatings on quartz.
Location: Etta Mine, Keystone, Pennington
Photo.
Mineral Species
Muthmannite Image
Images: Muthmannite
Comments: Backscattered scanning

electron microphotograph of muthmannite
(light gray) rimming a sylvanite (dark gray)
grain. (AmMin 89:1506).
Location: Museum specimen from a
gold-telluride deposit of Sacar?mb,
Metaliferi Mountains, western Romania..
Scale: See Image.
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Nabaphite Image
Images: Nabaphite
Comments: Translucent tetrahedral

nabaphite microcrystal.
Location: Mount Kukisv umchorr, Khibiny
Mineral Species
Nabesite Image
Images: Nabesite
Comments: White, tabular crystals of

nabesite.
Location: Kv anefjeld plateau, Il?maussaq
massif, Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.7
mm.
Nacaphite Image
Images: Nacaphite Thermonatrite
Comments: Sparse pale yellow-brown

microcrystal and crystalline nacaphite with
white thermonatrite on a dark matrix.
Mineral Species
Nacareniobsite-(Ce) Image
Images: Nacareniobsite-(Ce)
Comments: White to light brownish

nacareniobsite-(Ce) in an igneous rock
matrix.
Location: Kvanefjeld Tunnel, Il?maussaq
massif, Greenland. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Nacrite Image
Images: Nacrite
Comments: Colorless, transparent crystal

of macrite on matrix.
Location: Hunersedge mine, Baden-
Wurttemburg, Germany. Scale: Not Giv en.
Nadorite Image
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Images: Nadorite
Comments: Blocky, yellowish brown

crystals of nadorite on matrix.
Location: Langban mine, Filipstad ,
V?rmland, Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1
mm.
Nafertisite Image
Images: Nafertisite
Comments: Dark green fibrous nafertisite

masses in pegmatite rock.
Mineral Species
Nagyagite Image
Images: Nagyagite
Comments: Nagyagite partially covered

with calcite.
Location: Sacaramb (Nagyag), Romania.
© John Veevaert
Nahcolite Image
Images: Nahcolite
Comments: Massive, translucent nahcolite.

Location: Anvil Point, Rifle, Garfield County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: 2.1 x 1.4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Nahcolite Image
Images: Nahcolite Trona
Comments: Massive, coarse-grained Trona

from a drill core of the upper mixed-layer
Saltbed. White areas are nahcolite
alteration.
County, California, USA. Scale: 12 x 15 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Nahpoite Image
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Images: Nahpoite
Comments: Nearly opaque white powdery

nahpoite.
Mineral Species
Nakauriite Image
Images: Nakauriite
Comments: Blue crystals of nakauriite on

green serpentinite.
Location: Lobming, Styria, Austria. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Namansilite Image
Images: Namansilite
Comments: Dark red namansilite veinlets in

rock (slabbed specimen).
Location: Woods mine, near Tamworth,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Nambulite Image
Images: Nambulite
Comments: Brown crystalline nambulite

with pinkish rhodonite.
Location: Gozaisho Mine, Iwaki, Fukushima,
Mineral Species
Namibite Image
Images: Namibite
Comments: Dark green crystals of namibite

on matrix.
Namuwite Image
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Images: Namuwite
Comments: Sky-blue, platy crystals of

namuwite on matrix.
Narsarsukite Image
Images: Narsarsukite
Comments: Narsarsukite crystal in matrix.

Nasonite Image
Images: Nasonite Hancockite
Comments: Colorless, transparent

hexagonal prism of Nasonite on reddish
brown hancockite.
Nastrophite Image
Images: Nastrophite
Comments: Glassy to chalky crystalline

nastrophite fragment.
Mineral Species
Natanite Image
Images: Natanite
Comments: Reddish brown crystal of

natanite on matrix.
Location: Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia,
Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.
Natrite Image
Images: Natrite
Comments: White opaque massiv e natrite.

Mineral Species
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Natroalunite Image
Images: Natroalunite
Comments: Pure white porcelaneous

massive natroalunite.
Location: Sugarloaf Butte, Quartzite, La Paz
Mineral Species
Natroapophyllite Image
Images: Natroapophyllite
Comments: Pale pink opaque blocky

crystal natroapophyllite aggregate.
Location: Boghil Quarry, Glengormley,
Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern
Ireland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Natrochalcite Image
Images: Natrochalcite Krohnkite
Comments: Royal blue kr?hnkite and

green natrochalcite.
Location: Chiquicamata, Chile. Scale: 3.5 x
2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Natrochalcite Image
Images: Natrochalcite
Comments: Green, transparent crystals of

natrochalcite on dark green atacamite.
Natrodufrenite Image
Images: Natrodufrenite
Comments: Greenish gray, botryoidal

aggregates natrodufrenite on hematite-
stained quartz.
Natrojarosite Image
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Images: Natrojarosite
Comments: Yellow brown natrojarosite

crystals.
Location: Kamareza Mine, Laurium, Attiki,
Mineral Species
Natrolemoynite Image
Images: Natrolemoynite
Comments: Radiating spray of tan

natrolemoynite crystals, with brown
coating, with white albite.
Mineral Species
Natrolite Image
Images: Natrolite Eudialyte
Comments: Druse of gemmy, red eudialyte

crystals to 1 mm on white natrolite.
© John Veevaert
Natrolite Image
Images: Natrolite
Comments: Transparent prismatic crystals

of natrolite.
Location: Usti (Aussig), Bohemia, Czech
Republic. Scale: Not Giv en.
Natrolite Image
Images: Natrolite Neptunite
Comments: Jet-black square prisms of

neptunite etched out of the enclosing white
natrolite with minor benitoite.
Location: Benitoite Gem Mine. San Benito Co.
California, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Natrolite Image
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Images: Natrolite Serandite Analcime

of analcime.
© Fabre Minerals
Natromontebrasite Image
Images: Natromontebrasite
Comments: Pale tan to orange

natromontebrasite cleavages in quartz.
Location: Mica Load, Canon City, Fremont
Mineral Species
Natron Image
Images: Natron
Comments: Opaque white powdery

massive natron.
Location: Atlin, British Columbia, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Natroniobite Image
Images: Natroniobite
Comments: Olive-green colored

translucent crystalline natroniobite
fragments.
Location: Lesnaya Varaka Massif, Kola
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Natrosilite Image
Images: Natrosilite
Comments: Colorless, clear to translucent

crystalline natrosilite fragment, found in
pale pink ussingite.
Mineral Species
Natroxalate Image
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Images: Natroxalate

crystalline natroxalate fragment.
Mineral Species
Naujakasite Image
Images: Naujakasite Villiaumite
Comments: Greenish-gray crystals of

naujakasite with red villiaumite.
Location: Narsaq river, Kvanefjeld Mt.,
Il?maussaq massif, Greenland. Scale:
Picture size 4 mm.
Naumannite Image
Images: Naumannite
Comments: Black crystal of Naumannite in

a quartz-lined vug.
Location: DeLamar mine, DeLamar,
Owyhee County, Idaho. Scale: Not Giv en.
Navajoite Image
Images: Navajoite
Comments: Purple-brown adamantine

nav ajoite coatings on conglomerate.
Location: Monument #2 Mine, Monument
Valley, Apache County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Nealite Image
Images: Nealite
Comments: Orange-yellow prismatic

crystals of Nealite on matrix.
Location: Lavrion District slag localities,
Attik? (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece.
Nealite-(H2O) Image
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Images: Nealite-(H2O)

nealite-(H2O) on matrix.
Giv en.
Nekoite Image
Images: Nekoite
Comments: Sprays of translucent acicular

nekoite crystals.
Location: Iron Cap Mine, Graham County,
Mineral Species
Neltnerite Image
Images: Neltnerite
Comments: Black neltnerite microcrystals

lining vugs.
Location: Manganese Creek, Keeweenaw
Mineral Species
Nenadkevichite Image
Images: Nenadkevichite
Comments: Pinkish crystal of

nenadkevichite on matrix.
Location: Monte St. Hilaire, Quebec,
Neotocite Image
Images: Neotocite
Comments: Dark brown resinous massive

neotocite.
Location: Buzzarla Mine, San Luis Obispo
Mineral Species
Nepheline Image
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Images: Nepheline
Comments: Stubby, hexagonal prism of

Nepheline in matrix.
County, New Mexico. Scale: Not Given.
Nepouite Image
Images: Nepouite
Comments: Massive, green n?pouite.

Neptunite Image
Images: Neptunite Natrolite
Comments: Jet-black square prisms of

neptunite etched out of the enclosing white
natrolite with minor benitoite.
Location: Benitoite Gem Mine. San Benito Co.
© Fabre Minerals
Nesquehonite Image
Images: Nesquehonite
Comments: Scanning electron micrographs

of nesquehonite clusters showing the
typical elongated habit. (AmMin, 88:1882).
Scale: Scale Bar 50 µ-m (lower left).
Neustadtelite Image
Images: Neustadtelite

micrograph of neust?dtelite. (AmMin
87:728).
Location: Mine dumps of the G?ldener Falk
mine near Schneeberg-Neust?dtel, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Scale Bar 15 µm.
Nevadaite Image
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Images: Nevadaite
Comments: Robin's egg blue radiating

acicular sprays of nev adaite to about 0.3
mm.
Location: Gold Quarry mine, Eureka Co.,
Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
Newberyite Image
Images: Newberyite Dittmarite

dittmaritewith more opaque newberyite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Newberyite Image
Images: Newberyite Hannayite

crystals of hannayite on brown newberyite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Newberyite Image
Images: Newberyite Monetite
Comments: Tan coatings of monetite on

white newberyite pseudomorphous after
struvite crystal.
Location: Mono Lake, Mono County,
Mineral Species
Newberyite Image
Images: Newberyite
Comments: Crudely formed crystal

newberyite aggregate.
Location: Skipton Caves, near Balarat,
Victoria, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Neyite Image
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Images: Neyite
Comments: Black foliated metallic neyite

on quartz.
Location: near Hope, British Columbia,
Mineral Species
Nezilovite Image
Images: Nezilovite
Comments: Small black grains of nezilovite

in matrix.
Location: Nezilov o, FYR Macedonia. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.
Nickel Image
Images: Nickel
Comments: Very small cubic crystal of

nativ e Nickel, isolated from an ore
concentrate.
Location: Noum?a, New Caledonia. Scale:
Nickel-skutterudite Image
Images: Nickel-skutterudite
Comments: Gray, blocky crystals of nickel-

skutterudite (chloanthite) with minor yellow
pyrite.
Location: Gowganda, Ontario, Canada.
Nickel-zippeite Image
Images: Nickel-zippeite
Comments: Yellow crust of nickel-zippeite

on matrix.
size 4 mm.
Nickelhexahydrite Image
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Images: Nickelhexahydrite
Comments: Pale greenish crust of ferroan

nickelhexahydrite.
Location: Sohland, Bautzen, Oberlausitz,
Nickeline Image
Images: Nickeline
Comments: Stubby, crude blocky crystals

of nickeline.
Location: Gowaganda, Ontario, Canada.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Nickellotharmeyerite Image
Images: Nickellotharmeyerite
Comments: Brown, microcrystalline

nickellotharmeyerite.
Nickelphosphide Image
Images: Nickelphosphide Kamacite
Comments: Small inclusion of

nickelphosphide in massiv e kamacite.
mm.
Nickelschneebergite Image
Images: Nickelschneebergite
Comments: Small crystals of

nickelschneebergite.
Location: Roter Berg, Neust?dtel,
Nickenichite Image
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Images: Nickenichite
Comments: Blue crystals of nickenichite on

matrix.
Location: Nickenich, near Kruft, Eifel Mts,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.
Nifontovite Image
Images: Nifontovite
Comments: Transparent spray of nifontovite

crystals.
Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town, Kawakama
Co., Okayama Pref., Japan. Scale: Crystal size
2.3x0.7x0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Niigataite Image
Images: Niigataite
Comments: Boulder consisting of prehenite,

diaspore, chlorite and niigataite. The pale
lavender is prehenite/diaspore and the
very pale green is chlorite/niigataite..
Location: Itoigawa, riv er Kazuo, Niigata
prefecture, Japan. Scale: Specimen size
19cm x 16 cm.
Niigataite Image
Images: Niigataite
Comments: Backscatter electronic image

of niigataite (bright) which is partially
replacing a chlorite (med gray) grain in a
diaspore (dark gray, rod-shaped) and
prehenite (light gray) matrix.
Location: Itoigawa, riv er Kazuo, Niigata
prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Nikischerite Image
Images: Nikischerite
Comments: Yellowish green nikischerite on

matrix.
Location: Huanuni Mine, Dalence Prov ince,
Bolivia. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm.
Nikischerite Image
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Images: Nikischerite
Comments: Tony Nikischer, Chairman of the

Board of The Hudson Institute of Mineralogy,
president of Excalibur Mineral Corporation, and
the person whom nikischerite is named for, kindly
provided the pronunciation of the mineral
nikischerite.
Location: Executive Inn hotel, Room 128, Tucson,
Feburary 9, 2004. Scale: NA.
© Dave Barthelmy
Nimite Image
Images: Nimite
Comments: Dark green nimite aggregates

on white calcite.
Location: Planalto, Rio Grande do Sol,
Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ningyoite Image
Images: Ningyoite
Comments: Greenish-black fine grained

ningyoite masses with minor rock.
Location: Ningyo-Toge Mine, Okayama,
Mineral Species
Niobocarbide Image
Images: Niobocarbide
Comments: Small metallic grain of

niobocarbide.
Russia. Scale: Grain size 0.3 mm.
Niobokupletskite Image
Images: Niobokupletskite Kupletskite

image of Niobokupletskite (Nkpt) rimming
kupletskite (Kpt). The zoning in the
kupletskite is from Nb-poor to Nb-rich in the
direction of the arrow (dark to medium
gray). (CanMin v 38, p 628).
Canada. Scale: Scale bar 100 µ-m.
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Niobophyllite Image
Images: Niobophyllite
Comments: Blackish-brown resinous to silky

fibrous niobophyllite coatings on quartz.
Location: Seal Lake area, Labrador,
Newfoundland, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Nissonite Image
Images: Nissonite
Comments: Pale blue nissonite crusts on

rock.
Location: Panoche Valley, San Benito
Mineral Species
Niter Image
Images: Niter
Comments: Tan to white crystalline

granular niter.
Location: Buffalo River Valley, Searcy
Mineral Species
Nitratine Image
Images: Nitratine Iquiqueite
Comments: Yellow iquiqueiite in clear,

massive nitration.
Location: Salar de Miraje, Antofagasta,
Nitratine Image
Images: Nitratine
Comments: Euhedral crystalline aggregate

of nitratine.
Location: Taltal, Antofagasta, Chile. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Nitromagnesite Image
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Images: Nitromagnesite
Comments: Tan crystalline nitromagnesite

grain, deliquescent.
Location: Baume, Jura, France. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Nobleite Image
Images: Nobleite
Comments: Platy nobleite microcrystals on

colemanite.
Location: Corkscrew Mine, Corkscrew
Canyon, Death Valley, Inyo County,
Mineral Species
Noelbensonite Image
Images: Noelbensonite
Comments: Brownish, massive

no?lbensonite.
Location: Woods Mine (Wood's Rhodonite
Mine), Tamworth, New South Wales,
Australia. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.
Nolanite Image
Images: Nolanite
Comments: Dark gray to black massive

nolanite.
Location: Fishhook Bay, Saskatchewan,
Mineral Species
Nontronite Image
Images: Nontronite
Comments: Green massive nontronite in

quartz.
Location: Horni Slavkov, Zapadocesky,
Mineral Species
Norbergite Image
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Images: Norbergite
Comments: Numerous orange to

orange-brown dipyramidal crystals of
norbergite in white matrix.
Location: Piukkala, Near Pargas, Finland.
Scale: 2.1 X 2.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Norbergite Image
Images: Norbergite
Comments: Yellow orange norbergite

inclustions in white marble (calcite)..
Location: Oakssaung Hill, Mogok,
Mandalay Myanmar. Scale: Crystal size 5
mm.
© Fabre Minerals
Nordenskioldine Image
Images: Nordenskioldine Magnetite
Comments: Colorless to white bladed

crystals of nordenski?ldine with black
magnetite.
Nordstrandite Image
Images: Nordstrandite
Comments: Large pale brownish crystals of

nordstrandite.
Location: B?renstein Quarry, Niederschlag,
Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Normandite Image
Images: Normandite
Comments: Divergent acicular normandite

crystals in pegmatite.
Location: Mount Partomchorr, Khibiny
Mineral Species
Norrishite Image
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Images: Norrishite
Comments: Thin section photomicrograph

showing norrishite (Nrs) associated with
kornite (Krn), sugilite (Sgl), and Mn-rich
pectolite (Pct) (AmMin 88:190).
Location: Silicate-rich sample from the
Wessels mine, Kalahari manganese field,
South Africa. Scale: Picture Size 2.4 mm.
Northupite Image
Images: Northupite
Comments: Single octahedron of

Northupite.
County, California, USA. Scale: Grain size 8
mm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Nosean Image
Images: Nosean
Comments: Stubby crystal of nosean on

matrix.
Location: Mendig, Laacher See,
Rhineland-Pal., Germany. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Novacekite Image
Images: Novacekite Metanovacekite
Comments: Yellow, translucent platy

novacekite/metanovacekite crystal
aggregate.
Location: Rabejac Mine, Olmet, Herault,
Mineral Species
Novacekite Image
Images: Novacekite
Comments: Scanner image of massive,

yellow novacekite cov ering matrix.
Location: Serra das ?guas,Bahia, Northeast
Region, Brazil. Scale: Specimen size 4.1 cm.
Novakite Image
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Images: Novakite Berzelianite

novakite in white calcite with tarnished
black berzelianite.
Location: Cerny Dul, Bohemia,
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Novgorodovaite Image
Images: Novgorodovaite
Comments: A small fragment of the

oxalate mineral novgorodovaite.
Location: Chelkar salt dome, Aksai Valley,
Aqt?be Oblysy (Aktubinsk [Aktyubinsk;
Aktubinskaya] Oblast'), Kazakhstan. Scale:
Grain size 0.8 mm.
Nsutite Image
Images: Nsutite
Comments: Dark gray to black

sub-metallic to dull massive nsutite.
Location: Nsuta, Western Province, Ghana.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Nukundamite Image
Images: Nukundamite Covellite
Comments: Metallic brownish rim of

nukundamite with dark purplish-blue
cov ellite on fine-grained pyrite.
size 7 mm.
Nyerereite Image
Images: Nyerereite Gregoryite
Comments: Sodium (nyereteite) and

potassium (gregoryite) carbonates, not
stable in normal atmosphere, collected
molten from the v olcano and maintained
in inert argon atmosphere.
Location: Ol Doinyo Lengai Vulkan, Maasai
Steppe, East Africa Rift Valley, Tanzania.
See Link. Scale: Rock size 2 cm.
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Obradovicite Image
Images: Obradovicite
Comments: Brownish yellow obradov icite

coatings on quartz.
Mineral Species
Offretite Image
Images: Offretite
Comments: Clear crystal of offretite on

matrix.
Location: Mont Simiouse, near Montbrison,
Loire, France. Scale: Not Given.
Ogdensburgite Image
Images: Ogdensburgite
Comments: Reddish-brown, massive

ogdensburgite.
Location: Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining
District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA. Scale:
Picture size 6 mm.
Ohmilite Image
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Images: Ohmilite
Comments: Pale yellow translucent

acicular ohmilite crystal cluster in matrix.
Location: Hashidate, Ohmi cho, Niigata,
Mineral Species
Ojuelaite Image
Images: Ojuelaite
Comments: Yellow-green ojuelaite masses

on limonite and quartz.
Location: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango,
Mineral Species
Okanoganite-(Y) Image
Images: Okanoganite-(Y)
Comments: Cream-colored twinned

crystal of okanoganite-(Y) on matrix.
Location: Washington Pass, Okanogan
County, Washington, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.
Okenite Image
Images: Okenite
Comments: Cotton-ball cluster of white

okenite crystals.
Location: Khandivali quarry, Maharashtra,
Oldhamite Image
Images: Oldhamite
Comments: Brown crystalline oldhamite

grains in anhydrite.
Location: Ronneburg, Thuringen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Olenite Image
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Images: Olenite
Comments: Colorless, boron-rich crystal of

Olenite in quartz.
Location: Koralpe, Styria, Austria. Scale:
Crystal size 3 cm.
© Andreas Ertl / Institut f?r Mineralogie und
Kristallographie
Oligoclase Image
Images: Oligoclase Plagioclase
Comments: Rectangular cleavage

fragment of salmon-orange oligoclase
(sunstone) feldspar.
Location: Norway. Scale: 47x30x7 mm.
Oligoclase Image
Images: Oligoclase Plagioclase
Comments: Clear glassy crystalline

oligoclase with milky quartz and
muscov ite.
Location: Bakersville, Mitchell County,
Mineral Species
Olivenite Image
Images: Olivenite
Comments: Dark green crystals of olivenite

on matrix.
County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Olivenite Image
Images: Olivenite Arsenogoyazite
Comments: White micro-botryoids of

arsenogoyazite with light green acicular
crystal sprays of olivenite and dark green
malachite on brown limonite.
Mineral Species
Olivine Image
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Images: Olivine Forsterite
Comments: Peridot (Forsterite)

recrystallized at the base.
Location: Skardu, Nooristan, Pakistan.
© Fabre Minerals
Olmsteadite Image
Images: Olmsteadite
Comments: Dark brown crystals of

olmsteadite with jahnsite on siderite.
Location: Big Chief mine, Keystone,
Penningtion County, South Dakota, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Olsacherite Image
Images: Olsacherite
Comments: Light yellow crystals of

olsacherite up to 2 mm in matrix.
Location: Colquechaca, Potos?, Bolivia.
© John Veevaert
Olshanskyite Image
Images: Olshanskyite Henmilite
Comments: Milky white olshanskyite hosting

crystals of deep blue henmilite to 6 mm
across.
© John Veevaert
Ominelite Image
Images: Ominelite
Comments: Photomicrograph of
thin-section (plain light) of zoned ominelite
(omn) with quartz (qtz) and plagioclase
(pl) in alkali feldspar. (AmMin 87:163).
Location: Misen River in Tenkawa, Yoshino,
Nara Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Grain size
0.6 mm.
Omphacite Image
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Images: Omphacite
Comments: Dark green crystalline

omphacite with glaucophane.
Location: Healdsburg, Sonoma County,
Mineral Species
Onoratoite Image
Images: Onoratoite
Comments: White crystals of onoratoite

with a yellow crystal of sulphur.
(Cetine Mine; Tafone Mine), Rosia, Siena,
Opal Image
Images: Opal
Comments: Colorful white opal on a

sandstone matrix.
Location: Queensland, Australia. Scale: 9 x
6 x 3 cm.
Opal Image
Images: Opal
Comments: Section of fossilized tree limb

that is now completely replaced by black
opal.
Location: Virgin Valley District, Humboldt
Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: 20x13x11 mm.
Opal Image
Images: Opal Todorokite
Comments: Dendritic todorokite in white

opal.
Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Torino,
Mineral Species
Orcelite Image
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Images: Orcelite
Comments: Bronze micro spherical orcelite

coated with greenish zaratite.
Location: Tiebaghi Massif, New Caledonia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ordonezite Image
Images: Ordonezite
Comments: Greenish, glassy crystals of

ordonezite.
Location: Santin mine, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Oregonite Image
Images: Oregonite
Comments: Steel gray, altering to brown,

rounded oregonite pebble with
serpentinite rock.
Location: Josephine Creek, Josephine
County, Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Orickite Image
Images: Orickite

polished section showing intergrown
crystals of orickite in sodalite (dark). (AmMin
68:246).
Location: Mafic alkalic diatreme at Coyote
Peak near Orick, Humboldt County,
California, USA. Scale: Image size 0.44 mm.
Orientite Image
Images: Orientite
Comments: Reddish brown massive

orientite with pyrolusite.
Location: Oriente Prov ince, Cuba. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Orlandiite Image
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Images: Orlandiite

orlandiite.
Location: Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu,
Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.
Orlymanite Image
Images: Orlymanite
Comments: Brown crystalline orlymanite

with radiating structure, on inesite.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kuruman,
Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Orpheite Image
Images: Orpheite
Comments: Opaque botryoidal orpheite

crust.
Location: Near Valmy, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species
Orpiment Image
Images: Orpiment
Comments: Deep orange-colored

orpiment crystal aggregate.
Location: Twin Creeks mine, 62 bench,
north of Winnemucca, Humboldt County,
Nevada. USA. Scale: 6.5 x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Orthochamosite Image
Images: Orthochamosite
Comments: Pale green micaceous

orthochamosite in quartz.
Location: Near Manggruvan, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Orthochrysotile Image
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Images: Orthochrysotile
Comments: Pale tan asbestos fiber

(orthochrysotile) vein in rock.
Location: El Dorado Mine, Salt River
Canyon, Gila County, Arizona, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Orthoclase Image
Images: Orthoclase Lorenzenite
Comments: Striated, dark violet crystal of

lorenzenite in cream-colored orthoclase.
© John Veevaert
Orthoclase Image
Images: Orthoclase
Comments: Carlsbad twinned crystal of

orthoclase. Former Mart?n Oliete Fontela
collection.
Location: Zarzalejo, Madrid. Scale:
5.2x4.6x2.2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Orthoclase Image
Images: Orthoclase
Comments: Gemmy, twinned adularia

(orthoclase) specimen on matrix. Former Bally
Museum collection.
Location: Rhonegletscher, Switzerland. Scale:
Crystal size 3 x 2 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Orthoericssonite Image
Images: Orthoericssonite Ericssonite

Tephroite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Orthominasragrite Image
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Images: Orthominasragrite
Comments: Dark blue, spherical

aggregate of orthominasragrite.
Location: Temple Mountain, Emery Co.,
Orthoserpierite Image
Images: Orthoserpierite
Comments: Vivid blue green sheets and

coatings of orthoserpierite on matrix.
Location: Galiuro Mt. Copper Creek, Pinal
County, Arizona, USA. Scale: 3.0 X 4.4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Osarizawaite Image
Images: Osarizawaite
Comments: Light blue micro crystals of

osarizawaite and minor azurite filling vugs.
Location: Silver Hill Mine, near Marana,
Pinal Co. Arizona, USA. Scale: 3 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Osmium Image
Images: Osmium Cooperite Vasilite

Vysotskite

38:1258).
Image.
Osumilite-(Fe) Image
Images: Osumilite-(Fe)
Comments: Dark blue crystals of

osumilite-(Fe) in matrix.
Location: Cava Fontana, Monte Arci,
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Scale: Not Given.
Oswaldpeetersite Image
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Images: Oswaldpeetersite
Comments: Yellow oswaldpeetersite in

matrix.
Location: Jomac Mine, White Canyon,White
Canyon District (White Canyon), San Juan
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.2 mm.
Oswaldpeetersite Image
Images: Oswaldpeetersite
Comments: Greenish-yellow, acicular,

radial-spherical blebs of oswaldpeetersite
on matrix.
Location: Jomac Mine, San Juan County,
Ottrelite Image
Images: Ottrelite
Comments: Dark green crystalline ottrelite

in quartz.
Location: Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Belgium.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Otwayite Image
Images: Otwayite
Comments: Pale green botryoidal

otwayite on serpentinite rock.
Location: Otway Prospect, Nullagin Plain,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Oulankaite Image
Images: Oulankaite Telargpalite

Tulameenite Chalcopyrite

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Owyheeite Image
Images: Owyheeite
Comments: Acicular owyheeite

microcrystals in quartz.
Location: Lower Magnolia Mine, Morey
District, Nye County, Nevada, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Oxammite Image
Images: Oxammite
Comments: Pale yellow translucent

crystalline granular oxammite.
Location: Petrogale Cave, Western
Mineral Species
Oxiberaunite Image
Images: Oxiberaunite
Comments: Red-brown ball of radiating

acicular oxiberaunite (eleonorite)
microcrystals, on pegmatitic matrix.
Location: LCA Mine, Bessemer City, Gaston
County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: Box size
3.18 cm x 3.18 cm.
Oyelite Image
Images: Oyelite Bultfonteinite
Comments: White encrustation of oyelite

covering brownish botryoidal bultfonteinite.
South Africa. Scale: 2 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Oyelite Image
Images: Oyelite
Comments: Tufts of white acicular

millimetric oyelite crystals on matrix.
© Minernet
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Paakkonenite Image
Images: Paakkonenite Kermesite
Comments: Much of the matrix is the gray

metallic paakkonenite with red crystals of
kermesite and minute yellow crystals of
v alentinite.
Location: Cai' ao mine, Danfong Co.,
Shaanxi Prov., China. Scale: 3x2x2cm.
Pabstite Image
Images: Pabstite
Comments: Pabstite grains in matrix. It is essentially

the tin analog of benitoite with tin replacing
titanium in the formula 3:1. Pabstite fluoresces
under SW UV light as seen in the photo.
Location: Kalkar Quarry, Santa Cruz County,
© John Veevaert
Pachnolite Image
Images: Pachnolite
Comments: Color-zoned (darker core)

prismatic translucent pachnolite crystals,
with secondary white prismatic
microcrystals.
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Paganoite Image
Images: Paganoite

photomicrograph of blocky subhedral to
euhedral crystals of paganoite and more
fine-grained mottled material that is
aerugite. (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:169).
Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony,
Germany, mined in the mid-1800?s, nothing
was preserved of its previous history until it
was located in 1981 by the American
mineral dealer David New in the back of a
drawer in an old mineral shop in Germany..
Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral
Pahasapaite Image
Images: Pahasapaite
Comments: Lilac colored pahasapaite in

matrix.
Location: Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer
District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA.
Painite Image
Images: Painite
Comments: Painite #12, is an orange-brown,

0.156 gram, transparent, uniaxial, gemmy
crystal with one perfect termination.
Location: Ongaing village, Mogok region,
Myanmar. Scale: Not Given.
© S Naung II
Painite Image
Images: Painite
Comments: Four brown, prismatic painite

crystals wth red rubys and violet sapphires
(corundum) in a matrix composed of
painite, pink and white corundum.
Location: Ongaing, near Mogok Stone
Tract, Burma. Scale: 3.0 x 2.0 x 3.6 inches.
© Lyn Tynan / T G Fine Minerals
Palenzonaite Image
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Images: Palenzonaite
Comments: Dark reddish-brown

palenzonaite.
Liguria, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.
Palermoite Image
Images: Palermoite
Comments: Less than 1cm, vug with micro

crystals of palermoite.
Location: Palermo mine, New Hampshire,
© John Veevaert
Palladium Image
Images: Palladium
Comments: Platinum-rich palladium

nugget, mounted in epoxy, with one side
polished.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Palladodymite Image
Images: Palladodymite Hongshiite

Ruthenium

Palladseite Image
Images: Palladseite
Comments: Irregular metallic palladseite

grain.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Palygorskite Image
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Images: Palygorskite
Comments: Compact massive

palygorskite.
Location: Senton, Dev on, England. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Panunzite Image
Images: Panunzite
Comments: Opaque white fibrous

panunzite coatings.
Location: Pilcante, Trentino, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Papagoite Image
Images: Papagoite
Comments: Electric blue crystals of

papagoite in matrix.
County, Arizona. USA. Scale: Not Given.
Parabutlerite Image
Images: Parabutlerite
Comments: Yellow to brownish yellow

parabutlerite crystals.
Location: Shagand Yazd, Iran. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Paracelsian Image
Images: Paracelsian
Comments: Translucent paracelsian

crystals on matrix.
Location: Benalt Mine, Rhiw,
Carnarvonshire, Gwynedd, Wales. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Parachrysotile Image
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Images: Parachrysotile
Comments: Asbestos fibers of greenish

parachrysotile.
Location: Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale:
8x10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Paradamite Image
Images: Paradamite
Comments: Yellow paradamite crystals on

a gossanous matrix.
Paradocrasite Image
Images: Paradocrasite
Comments: Metallic white columnar

aggregates of paradocrasite.
Moctezuma, Sonora. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Parafransoletite Image
Images: Parafransoletite Roscherite
Comments: White, crystalline aggregate

sprays of parafransoletite on dark reddish
brown roscherite with massive, white,
sucrosic whitlockite.
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Paragonite Image
Images: Paragonite Chloritoid
Comments: Grayish crystalline inclusion of

chloritoid in white, massive paragonite.
Location: Drandorf Fundgrube Mine,
Bockau, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge,
Paragonite Image
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Images: Paragonite
Comments: Silvery micaceous paragonite

comprising schist rock, with garnet crystals.
Location: Gassettts, New Hampshire, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Paraguanajuatite Image
Images: Paraguanajuatite Platynite
Comments: Bright metallic gray platy

crystalline platynite, with dull black
paraguanajuatite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Parahopeite Image
Images: Parahopeite
Comments: Transparent, prismatic

parahopeite crystals with keckite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Parakeldyshite Image
Images: Parakeldyshite

parakeldyshite in rock.
Location: Lagendalen, Larv ik, Vestfold,
Mineral Species
Paralaurionite Image
Images: Paralaurionite
Comments: Transparent, prismatic

Paralaurionite crystal.
Giv en.
Paralstonite Image
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Images: Paralstonite
Comments: Translucent bright white steep

pyramidal paralstonite microcrystals on
fluorite.
Location: Bethel Level, Minerva #1 Mine,
Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Paramelaconite Image
Images: Paramelaconite
Comments: black paramelaconite masses

with blue chrysocolla.
Location: Algoma Mine, Otonagon County,
Mineral Species
Paramendozavilite Image
Images: Paramendozavilite
Comments: Bright yellow

paramendozavilite coatings on matrix.
Location: Cumobabi, Sonora, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Paranatrolite Image
Images: Paranatrolite
Comments: Translucent prismatic

paranatrolite crystal aggregate.
Mineral Species
Paraotwayite Image
Images: Paraotwayite
Comments: Pale green, fibrous, silky, free

standing paraotwayite crystals to about
0.25mm.
Location: Vaca Murta meteorite, Taltal,
Atacama, Chile. Scale: Crystal size .25 mm.
Parapierrotite Image
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Images: Parapierrotite
Comments: Silv ery metallic prismatic

parapierrotite grains in translucent quartz
rock.
Location: Lookout Pass, Tooele County,
Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pararammelsbergite Image
Images: Pararammelsbergite
Comments: Columnar crystals of metallic gray

pararammelsbergite on massive arsenide ore.
Location: Lawson Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada.
© Reiner Mielke
Pararealgar Image
Images: Pararealgar
Comments: Orange pararealgar on matrix.

Location: H?nichen, Dresden, Saxony,
Parascholzite Image
Images: Parascholzite Ehrleite
Comments: White to clear, slender, 1-2mm,

prismatic crystals of ehrleite associated
with massive parascholzite. Type specimen
courtesy of Museum of Geology, SD School
of Mines.
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2
mm.
Parascholzite Image
Images: Parascholzite
Comments: Bluish, transparent, prismatic

parascholzite crystals on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Parascorodite Image
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Images: Parascorodite
Comments: Powdery parascorodite mass.

Location: Kank, near Kutna Hora,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Paraspurrite Image
Images: Paraspurrite Larnite
Comments: Violet-tinted gray crystalline

pure paraspurrite mass with larnite veinlets.
Location: Near Darwin, Inyo County,
Mineral Species
Parasymplesite Image
Images: Parasymplesite
Comments: Opaque, prismatic

parasymplesite crystals.
Paratacamite Image
Images: Paratacamite Christelite
Comments: Robins-egg blue christelite with dark

green paratacamite on matrix.
Location: San Francisco mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile.
Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Paratacamite Image
Images: Paratacamite
Comments: Deep green crystal

paratacamite rosettes on rusty quartz.
Location: Churchill Butte, Lyon County,
Mineral Species
Paratellurite Image
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Images: Paratellurite
Comments: Light yellow crystals of

paratellurite in quartz.
Paravauxite Image
Images: Paravauxite
Comments: Radiating group of pastel

blue/green paravauxite crystals to 1cm.
Location: Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Bolivia.
Scale: 1.8 x 1.5 x 1 cm.
Paravauxite Image
Images: Paravauxite
Comments: Light-green, elongated

parav auxite crystals.
Location: Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bolivia.
© Minernet
Pargasite Image
Images: Pargasite
Comments: Lime green, prismatic crystals

of pargasite in matrix.
Location: Luc Yen, Vietnam. Scale: 12x10
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Pargasite Image
Images: Pargasite Edenite
Comments: Blocky, dark green crystals of

visually indistinguishable pargasite and
edenite.
Location: Kolonne bei, Embilipitiya, Sri
Lanka. Scale: 4.5 x 1.7 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Parisite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Parisite-(Ce)
Comments: Brown crystals of parisite-(Ce)

in matrix.
Location: Narssarssuk, Igaliko, Greenland.
Parisite-(Ce) Image
Images: Parisite-(Ce)
Comments: Columnar, hexagonal crystal

of orangy brown parisite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Somewhere near Boyaca,
Colombia. Scale: Scale not given.
© Diego Rodriguez Acosta
Parnauite Image
Images: Parnauite
Comments: Green tabular crystals of

parnauite.
Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District,
Picture size 1 mm.
Parsettensite Image
Images: Parsettensite
Comments: Yellowish brown microcrystals

of parsettensite on a crystalline matrix with
pyrite and apatite.
Location: Foote mine, Clev eland County,
North Carolina, USA. Scale: Picture size 1
cm.
© John Veevaert
Parsonsite Image
Images: Parsonsite
Comments: Bright yellow parsonsite

crystals on matrix.
Location: La Chaux, France. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Partheite Image
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Images: Partheite
Comments: 3 mm thick white band of

partheite in matrix.
Location: Denezhkin, Kamen, Nord Urals,
© John Veevaert
Partzite Image
Images: Partzite
Comments: Light to dark green partzite

encrustations with sky-blue chrysocolla
and limonite gossan matrix.
Location: Comanche mine, Blind Spring Hill,
Benton, Mono Co., California, USA. Scale:
5.5 x 3.5 x 4cm.
Pascoite Image
Images: Pascoite
Comments: Deep reddish-orange coatings of

pascoite. Individual crystals up to about 0.25
mm.
Location: Slick Rock, Enar Area, San Miguel
County, Utah, USA. Scale: 3 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Pascoite Image
Images: Pascoite
Comments: Bright orange sugary crusts of

pascoite across sandstone matrix.
Location: Black Stone Incline, Thompson
dist., Grand Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture
size 2 cm.
Patronite Image
Images: Patronite Minasragrite
Comments: Blue coatings of minasragrite

on patronite.
Mineral Species
Patronite Image
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Images: Patronite
Comments: Dark brownish black fine

grained massive patronite.
Mineral Species
Patronite Image
Images: Patronite Stanleyite
Comments: Blue crystalline stanleyite on

dark patronite.
Location: Minas Ragra, Junin, Peru. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Paulingite-K Image
Images: Paulingite-K
Comments: Glassy clear micro crystals of

paulingite line a vug in the basalt matrix.
Location: Ritter, Grant County, Oregon, USA.
Scale: 2.5 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Paulkerrite Image
Images: Paulkerrite
Comments: Transparent yellow tabular

paulkerrite microcrystal.
Location: Folgosinho, Guarda, Portugal.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pavonite Image
Images: Pavonite
Comments: Silvery metallic pavonite

masses with brassy pyrite.
Location: Alaska Mine, San Juan County,
Mineral Species
Pearceite Image
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Images: Pearceite
Comments: Crystals of metallic pearceite to

0.75 mm scattered in vug.
Location: Sarbaiskoe, Kazakhstan. Scale: 4x3x3
cm.
Pectolite Image
Images: Pectolite Aegirine
Comments: White, cottony pectolite tufts

with acicular aegirine.
Pectolite Image
Images: Pectolite Sugilite
Comments: Sharp terminated purple

crystals of sugilite to 5mm on white,
acicular pectolite.
Africa. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Peisleyite Image
Images: Peisleyite
Comments: Off-white opaque

porcelaneous peisleyite mass.
Location: Tom's Phosphate Quarry, near
Kapunda, South Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pekovite Image
Images: Pekovite
Comments: Backscatter elecron image of

(a) an intergrowth of pekov ite (Pkv) and
pectolite (Pct) and (b), an enlarged area
of (a) showing details. (CanMin, v 42, p
110).
Location: Moraine of the Dara-i-Pioz
glacier, Alai range, Tien Shan, northern
Tajikistan. Scale: See Image.
Pellyite Image
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Images: Pellyite Gillespite
Comments: Red crystalline gillespite with

yellow pellyite rock matrix.
Location: GUN claims, Itsi Mountains,
MacMillan Pass Area, Yukon Territory,
Mineral Species
Pellyite Image
Images: Pellyite
Comments: Brown massive pellyite in

barite.
Mineral Species
Penfieldite Image
Images: Penfieldite
Comments: Greenish, acicular penfieldite

crystals.
Giv en.
Penfieldite Image
Images: Penfieldite
Comments: White to clear or light blue,

doubly terminated, striated penfieldite
crystals from 0.5 to 2mm associated with
boleite as micro coatings.
Location: Margarita mine, Sierra Gorda,
Penikisite Image
Images: Penikisite Jagowerite
Comments: Light green crystal of

jagowerite intergrown with darker green
penikisite in a tetrahedrite (black) and
Location: From quartz veins cutting clays
26 km N of Hess River, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Scale: Sample size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Penkvilksite Image
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Images: Penkvilksite
Comments: Massiv e white cluster of

Penkvilksite.
Location: Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Scale: .5 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Pennantite Image
Images: Pennantite
Comments: Dark brown micaceous

pennantite.
Location: Gambatesa Mine, Val Grav eglia,
Genova, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Penroseite Image
Images: Penroseite
Comments: Silvery metallic penroseite

masses in matrix.
Location: Unnamed prospect in Pacajake
Canyon, near Culquechaca, Potosi, Bolivia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pentagonite Image
Images: Pentagonite
Comments: Blue, crystalline aggregate of

pentagonite on zeolite.
Location: Wagholi quarries, Poona, India.
Scale: Grain size 1.2 cm.
Pentahydrite Image
Images: Pentahydrite
Comments: White, powdery pentahydrite.

Picture size 4 mm.
Pentahydroborite Image
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Images: Pentahydroborite
Comments: Transparent, tabular crystal of

pentahydroborite on massive material.
© John Veevaert
Pentlandite Image
Images: Pentlandite
Comments: Ore sample of a mixture of

several sulfide minerals: pentlandite,
chalcopyrite, and pyrrhotite.
Location: Frood-Stobie Mine, Sudbury
District, Ontario, Canada. Scale: 20x15x7
mm.
Peretaite Image
Images: Peretaite
Comments: Clear, tabular, bladed,

stellate spray of transparent peretaite
crystals.
Location: Pereta mine, Scansano, Tuscany,
Italy. Scale: Not Given.
Perhamite Image
Images: Perhamite
Comments: Squat, columnar perhamite

crystals on matrix.
Location: Emmons quarry, Greenwood,
Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Periclase Image
Images: Periclase
Comments: Green nickel-rich periclase on

matrix.
size 1.5 mm.
Periclase Image
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Images: Periclase Srebrodolskite
Comments: Black grains of srebrodolskite

with white periclase.
size 2 mm.
Perite Image
Images: Perite
Comments: Pale yellow scaly crystalline

perite on quartz.
Location: Benson, Cochise County, Arizona,
Mineral Species
Perlialite Image
Images: Perlialite
Comments: Opaque white fibrous perlialite

coating on syenite rock.
Mineral Species
Perloffite Image
Images: Perloffite
Comments: Black, prismatic perloffite

crystals on matrix.
Pennington County, South Dakota, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Perovskite Image
Images: Perovskite Clinochlore
Comments: Square, opaque perovskite on

green clinochlore. Very brilliant and with
large crystals (2 x 1.5 cm.).
Location: Ilmen Mountains. Chelyabinsk,
Urals, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Perovskite Image
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Images: Perovskite Sodalite
Comments: Clear crystals of sodalite with

hoppered perovskite on matrix.
Perraultite Image
Images: Perraultite
Comments: Dark red prismatic crystal of

perraultite to 1mm in matrix.
Location: Mariupol massif, Azov Sea
Region, Ukraine. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
Perrierite-(Ce) Image
Images: Perrierite-(Ce) Pyrochlore Zircon

Loparite-(Ce)

loparite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Perrierite-(Ce) Image
Images: Perrierite-(Ce)
Comments: Black, granular perrierite in

white calcite.
Location: Buer, Bj?rkedalen, Porsgrunn,
Telemark, Norway. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.
Perroudite Image
Images: Perroudite
Comments: Cluster of needle-like crystals

of red perroudite in quartz matrix.
Location: Gap Garonne Mine, Le Pradet,
Var, France. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert
Pertsevite Image
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Images: Pertsevite
Comments: Backscattered electron (BSE)

picture of pertsevite (P, darker grey)
partially replacing clinohumite (C, lighter
grey). The still lighter grey mineral with
cleavage at the top contacting only
pertsevite is calcite. (Eur. J. Mineral,
15:1008).
Location: Contact-metasomatic kotoite
marble from the region east of
Verkhoyansk, Sakha-Yakutia, northeastern
Siberia.. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral
Petalite Image
Images: Petalite
Comments: Translucent, gemmy , equant

petalite crystal with an etched surface texture
resulting in irregular faces.
Location: Paprok, Konar (Kunar; Konarh;
Konarha; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan.
Scale: 5x3.5x3 cm.
Petarasite Image
Images: Petarasite
Comments: Mottled tan prismatic

petarasite crystal in syenite rock.
Location: De Mix Quarry, Mont Saint Hilaire,
Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Petersite-(Y) Image
Images: Petersite-(Y)
Comments: Fine, light green, acicular

crystals of petersite-(Y) to less than 0.2mm
occupying an area of about 1mm on dark
green malachite.
Location: Laurel Hill, Hudson Co., New
Jersey, USA. Scale: Picture size .5 cm.
Petewilliamsite Image
Images: Petewilliamsite
Comments: SEM image of a portion of a

petewilliamsite aggregate. Note the
rounded nature of the crystal faces. (Min.
Mag. 68:235).
Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony,
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Petterdite Image
Images: Petterdite
Comments: Pinkish-violet crystalline

aggregate of petterdite on matrix.
Petterdite Image
Images: Petterdite
Comments: Petterdite (Pe) forming a thin

pink layer in grey-yellow anglesite (At) and
cerussite, replacing galena (Gn),
overgrown by red-yellow crocoite (Cr)
and brown goethite (Gt). (CanMin,
38:1469).
Location: Red Lead mine, on the
Zeehan?Dundas mining field in
northwestern Tasmania, Australia.. Scale:
Field of view: 15 9 mm.
Petzite Image
Images: Petzite Gold
Comments: Dark, stubby petzite crystals

with native gold on quartz.
Pezzottaite Image
Images: Pezzottaite
Comments: Hot-pink, hexagonal, floater

crystal of pezzottaite.
Location: Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro,
Antsirabe, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size
1.6x1.2x0.6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Pharmacolite Image
Images: Pharmacolite
Comments: Pink, fuzzy ball of pharmacolite

crystals on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
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Pharmacolite Image
Images: Pharmacolite Haidingerite

spherical aggregate of haidingerite with
white pharmacolite.
Location: Jachymov, Zapadocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Pharmacosiderite Image
Images: Pharmacosiderite Arthurite

brilliant apple green arthurite and cubic
green crystals of pharmacosiderite.
County, Nevada. USA. Scale: 2.7 x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Pharmacosiderite Image
Images: Pharmacosiderite
Comments: Translucent yellow-brown

cubic Pharmacosiderite crystals.
Location: Wheal Gorland, Saint Day,
Cornwall, England. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Phaunouxite Image
Images: Phaunouxite
Comments: Aggregate of transparent

colorless acicular phaunouxite
microcrystals.
Location: Grube Gabe Gottes, Sainte-
Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin,
Mineral Species
Phenakite Image
Images: Phenakite
Comments: Prismatic, terminated crystal of

phenakite on matrix.
Location: Mt Antero, Chaffee County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Philipsbornite Image
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Images: Philipsbornite
Comments: Greenish-yellow philipsbornite

botryoidal crust.
Location: Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Philipsburgite Image
Images: Philipsburgite
Comments: Green botryoidal micro

crystals of philipsburgite.
Location: Gold Hill mine, Tooele County,
© John Veevaert
Phillipsite Image
Images: Phillipsite Tacharanite
Comments: Spherical tacharanite

aggregates on phillipsite crystals.
Location: Espalion, Aveyron, France. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Phillipsite-K Image
Images: Phillipsite-K
Comments: Clear crystalline ball of

phillipsite-K crystals.
Location: Bova, Calabria, Italy. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Phillipsite-Na Image
Images: Phillipsite-Na
Comments: Phillipsite, variety wellsite,

crystals on matrix.
Location: Near Ronca, Verona, Veneto,
Mineral Species
Phlogopite Image
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Images: Phlogopite
Comments: Exceptionally well-crystallized

wine-colored pseudo-hexagonal crystal of
phlogopite on white calcite.
Location: Kalu Khan, Badakhshan,
Afghanistan. Scale: 6 x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Phlogopite Image
Images: Phlogopite Serendibite
Comments: Blue serendibite, with golden

colored phlogopite, in white marble.
Location: Near Johnsberg, Warren County,
Mineral Species
Phlogopite Image
Images: Phlogopite Lazurite
Comments: Gemmy brownish phlogopite

crystals on blue lazurite (lapis) matrix with
minor pyrite.
Location: Koksha Valley, Badakhshan
Province, Afghanistan. Scale: 10 x 11.5 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Phoenicochroite Image
Images: Phoenicochroite
Comments: Deep red phoenicochroite

with crocoite in matrix.
Phoenicochroite Image
Images: Phoenicochroite Hemihedrite
Comments: Yellow hemihedrite crystals to

1 mm within pockets of dark red
phoenicochroite crystalline aggregates on
matrix.
Location: Pack Rat claim, Maricopa Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
Phosgenite Image
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Images: Phosgenite
Comments: Clear pseudo-cubic crystals of

phosgenite on matrix.
Giv en.
Phosgenite Image
Images: Phosgenite
Comments: Terminated, very large crystal

of partly transparent, deep brown
phosgenite.
Location: Touissit, Morocco. Scale:
7.1x5.5x2.4 cm.
Phosphammite Image
Images: Phosphammite
Comments: Tan opaque granular

phosphammite.
Location: Guanape Islands, La Libertad,
Mineral Species
Phosphoferrite Image
Images: Phosphoferrite
Comments: Translucent, brown crystal of

phosphoferrite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Phosphofibrite Image
Images: Phosphofibrite Crandallite
Comments: Olive-green colored fibrous

phosphofibrite aggregates with white
crandallite.
Location: Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt
Mineral Species
Phosphohedyphane Image
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Images: Phosphohedyphane IMA2005-026
Comments: Clear, prismatic

phosphohedyphane crystal on matrix.
Location: Argentena mine, Goodsprings,
Clark Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size
0.5mm.
Phosphophyllite Image
Images: Phosphophyllite
Comments: Transparent, blue crystal of

phosphophyllite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Phosphosiderite Image
Images: Phosphosiderite Barbosalite
Comments: Transparent, brown crystal of

phosphosiderite on black barbosalite.
Location: Bull Moose mine, Custer, Custer
Giv en.
Phosphosiderite Image
Images: Phosphosiderite Tinsleyite

Rockbridgeite
Comments: Violet botryoidal tinsleyite on

bluish-purple botryoidal phosphosiderite on
dark, massive rockbridgeite.
Location: Bendada, Guarda, Portugal.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Phosphovanadylite Image
Images: Phosphovanadylite

micrographs showing the cubic habit of
phosphovanadylite. (AmMin 83:890).
Location: Phosphoria Formation at
Monsanto?s Enoch Valley Mine, Soda
Springs, Idaho. Scale: Crystal size 40 µm.
Phosphowalpurgite Image
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Images: Phosphowalpurgite

photomicrograph of tabular crystals (up to
330 micro m) of phosphowalpurgite,
(CanMin, 42:966)..
Location: Old mine dumps of an
abandoned small ore deposit near
Smrkovec, located 10 km NNE of Mari?nsk?
L?zne, Slavkovsk? Les Mountains, western
Size 515 µ-m.
Phosphuranylite Image
Images: Phosphuranylite
Comments: Bright yellow orange crystals of

phosphuranylite on matrix.
Location: Wagontown, Chester County,
Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Phosphuranylite Image
Images: Phosphuranylite Uranocircite
Comments: Yellow, waxy phosphuranylite

with green uranocircite in matrix.
cm.
Phuralumite Image
Images: Phuralumite
Comments: Yellow crystals of phuralumite

scattered on white matrix.
Location: Kobokobo Pegmatite, Lusungu
Riv er District, Kiv u, Congo (Za?re). Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Phurcalite Image
Images: Phurcalite
Comments: Yellow phurcalite crystals on

white aragonite.
Location: Posey Mine, White Canyon
District, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale:
Picture site 0.5 cm.
Phurcalite Image
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Images: Phurcalite
Comments: Coatings of minute acicular

phurcalite crystals on sandstone.
Location: Posey Mine, Red Canyon, White
Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah,
Mineral Species
Phurcalite Image
Images: Phurcalite
Comments: Bright canary yellow acicular

phurcalite crystals to about 0.25mm.
Seems to have overgrown perhaps
torbernite and individual groups are to
1mm.
Location: El Azul mine, Los Azules district,
Copiapo Prov ince, Atacama, Chile. Scale:
Picture Size 5 mm.
Pianlinite Image
Images: Pianlinite Kaolinite
Comments: Off-white colored minute

pianlinite (kaolinite) fragment.
Location: Pianling, China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pickeringite Image
Images: Pickeringite Magnesioaubertite
Comments: Aqua crystalline

magnesioaubertite with white pickeringite.
Location: Grotto di Faraglione, Vulcano,
Sicily, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pickeringite Image
Images: Pickeringite
Comments: Radiating fibrous pickeringite.

Mineral Species
Picropharmacolite Image
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Images: Picropharmacolite
Comments: White, acicular crystalline

sprays of picropharmacolite on matrix.
Picropharmacolite Image
Images: Picropharmacolite
Comments: Snow white acicular, radial

spray of picropharmacolite with pink
sainfeldite.
Location: Wilhelm Mine, Richelsdorf District,
Hesse, Germany. Scale: Cluster size 6 mm.
Piemontite Image
Images: Piemontite
Comments: Red, acicular crystalline

aggregates of piemontite.
Location: N'Chwaning mine, Kuruman,
Nothern Cape, South Africa. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Pigeonite Image
Images: Pigeonite
Comments: Dark green prismatic pigeonite

crystals in matrix.
Location: Belmont Quarry, Louden County,
Virginia, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pillaite Image
Images: Pillaite

image of acicular pillaite fibers. (Eur. J.
Mineral, 13:606).
Location: Buca della Vena mine in the
Apuan Alps, northern Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral
Pilsenite Image
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Images: Pilsenite
Comments: Silvery metallic pilsenite

v einlets in quartz.
Location: Near Hope, British Columbia,
Mineral Species
Pinakiolite Image
Images: Pinakiolite
Comments: Black submetallic platy

pinakiolite crystals in white calcite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pinalite Image
Images: Pinalite
Comments: Yellow needles of pinalite from

0.2 to 0.5mm in rose quartz and blue
caledonite.
Location: Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona, USA.
Pinchite Image
Images: Pinchite Montroydite
Comments: Minute lustrous black pinchite

crystals on white montroydite.
Mineral Species
Pinnoite Image
Images: Pinnoite Inderite
Comments: Pale green translucent

crystalline pinnoite on chalky white inderite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pintadoite Image
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Images: Pintadoite
Comments: Dark green to lighter green

pintadoite coatings on sandstone.
Location: Deremo-Snyder Mine, San Miguel
Mineral Species
Pirssonite Image
Images: Pirssonite
Comments: Almost transparent platy

pirssonite crystal.
Mineral Species
Pitiglianoite Image
Images: Pitiglianoite
Comments: Colorless, prismatic crystals of

pitiglianoite.
Location: Monte Cavallucio, Sacrofano,
Campagnano, Lazio, Italy. Scale: Picture
size 2.5 mm.
Pitticite Image
Images: Pitticite
Comments: Dark brown to orange-brown

massive Pitticite.
Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District,
Picture size 6 mm.
Plagioclase Image
Images: Plagioclase Albite
Comments: Colorless, lustrous blocky albite

crystals to 3 cm in size with a thick dusting
of micaceous green micro chlorite.
Location: Acushnet Quarry, Bristol Co.,
Massachussetts, USA. Scale: 17 x 15 x 7.5
cm matrix.
© Dan Weinrich
Plagioclase Image
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Images: Plagioclase Albite
Comments: Crystal group of bladed albite

(variety cleav elandite) crystals.
Scale: 7.4 x 5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Plagioclase Image
Images: Plagioclase Labradorite
Comments: Dual view of a cleavage

fragment of labradorite showing the multi-
colored labradorescence (schiller effect)
and the same area viewed without the
color. The color is due to optical
interference on the 010 polysynthetic
twinning planes (Albite Law).
Location: Ihosy, Betroka district, Toliara
Province, Madagascar. Scale: Picture size
3x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Plagioclase Image
Images: Plagioclase Oligoclase
Comments: Rectangular cleavage

fragment of salmon-orange oligoclase
(sunstone) feldspar.
Location: Norway. Scale: 47x30x7 mm.
Plagioclase Image
Images: Plagioclase Anorthite
Comments: Opaque white crystal of anorthite

with dark brown solidified lava coating.
Location: Miyake-jima, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Plagioclase Image
Images: Plagioclase Andesine
Comments: Translucent andesine crystal

twin.
Location: Maeyama Ueda shi, Nagano,
Mineral Species
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Plagioclase Image
Images: Plagioclase Bytownite

bytownite.
Location: Crystal Bay, Hennepin County,
Mineral Species
Plagioclase Image
Images: Plagioclase Oligoclase
Comments: Clear glassy crystalline

oligoclase with milky quartz and
muscov ite.
Location: Bakersville, Mitchell County,
Mineral Species
Plagioclase Image
Images: Plagioclase
Comments: Plagioclase, v ariety kenyite,

crystals in volcanic rock.
Location: Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), Central
Province, Kenya. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Plagionite Image
Images: Plagionite
Comments: Silvery metallic crystalline

plagionite with brassy chalcopyrite.
Location: Rocker Creek, Jefferson County,
Mineral Species
Plagionite Image
Images: Plagionite
Comments: Lead-gray crystals (to 2mm) of

plagionite with a bluish tarnish on vuggy
white calcite matrix.
Location: Wolfsberg, Harz, Germany. Scale:
3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5cm.
Plancheite Image
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Images: Plancheite
Comments: Open vug lined with indiv idual

plancheite crystals to 3mm.
Location: Mashamba West Mine, Shaba,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: 2.5
x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Planerite Image
Images: Planerite
Comments: Light green, oolitic coatings of

planerite on matrix.
Location: Mauldin Mountain Quarry, Mt.
Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA.
© John Veevaert
Platinum Image
Images: Platinum Cherepanovite

Cooperite

in reflected light.
size 0.12 mm.
Platinum Image
Images: Platinum
Comments: Crystallized platinum nugget.

Location: Russia. Scale: 0.5 x 0.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Platinum Image
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Images: Platinum
Comments: Stream-worn, platinum nugget

with chromite? Inclusions.
Location: Rio Tinto, San Juan Riv er Basin,
Papayan, Cauca, Columbia. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 cm.
Plattnerite Image
Images: Plattnerite
Comments: Rhombic calcite crystals with

overgrowth of sparkling black plattnerite
crystals.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapim?, Mun. de
Mapim?, Durango, Mexico. Scale: 5x3x2
cm..
Platynite Image
Images: Platynite Paraguanajuatite
Comments: Bright metallic gray platy

crystalline platynite, with dull black
paraguanajuatite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Plombierite Image
Images: Plombierite
Comments: Whitish chalky massive,

somewhat fibrous plombierite, in
vesuv ianite.
Mineral Species
Plumbobetafite Image
Images: Plumbobetafite Plumbopyrochlore
Comments: Brown resinous plumbobetafite

with yellowish plumbopyrochlore.
Location: Ploskaya Mountain, Keiv y Region,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Plumbogummite Image
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Images: Plumbogummite Mimetite
Comments: White, fuzzy aggregates of

plumbogummite covering lime green
mimetite (campylite) crystals.
England. Scale: Not Given.
Plumbojarosite Image
Images: Plumbojarosite Galena
Comments: Yellow, earthy plumbojarosite

on massive, gray galena.
Picture size 4 mm.
Plumbomicrolite Image
Images: Plumbomicrolite
Comments: Gray, octahedral crystal of

plumbomicrolite.
Location: Ploskaya Mt, Keivy Massif, Kola
Region, Russia. Scale: 20x17x13 mm.
Plumbomicrolite Image
Images: Plumbomicrolite
Comments: Large octahedral crystal of

brownish black plumbomicrolite on matrix.
Location: Berg Ploskaya, West Keivy Massif,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image.
Plumbopyrochlore Image
Images: Plumbopyrochlore Ferrocolumbite
Comments: Brown plumbopyrochlore

crystal with dark brown ferrocolumbite.
Location: Holdazan, Buregteg, Mongolia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Plumbopyrochlore Image
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Images: Plumbopyrochlore Plumbobetafite
Comments: Brown resinous plumbobetafite

with yellowish plumbopyrochlore.
Location: Ploskaya Mountain, Keiv y Region,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Plumbotsumite Image
Images: Plumbotsumite
Comments: Translucent plumbotsumite

microcrystals.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Poitevinite Image
Images: Poitevinite
Comments: Pale brown powdery

poitev inite mass with pale blue
chalcanthite.
Location: Bonaparte River, Kamloops
District, British Columbia, Canada. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pokrovskite Image
Images: Pokrovskite Hydromagnesite
Comments: Tan spherical pokrovskite on

serpentinite rock with white
hydromagnesite sprays.
Location: KCA Quarry, San Benito County,
Mineral Species
Poldervaartite Image
Images: Poldervaartite
Comments: Moderate reddish tint to

yellowish poldervaartite crystalline druze
on matrix.
Location: N'chwaning II mine, section 5
south, stope 46-47 roof, Kuruman, Kalahari
desert, South Africa. Scale: 6 x 3.5 x 4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Poldervaartite Image
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Images: Poldervaartite Bultfonteinite
Comments: Bow-tie clusters of white,

acicular bultfonteinite and blocky, beige-
colored poldervaartite on matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning mine, South Africa.
Scale: picture size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Pollucite Image
Images: Pollucite
Comments: Isometric crystal of pollucite

with clear quartz and sucrosic albite
matrix.
Location: Shigar mine, Dossu, Skardu,
Pakistan. Scale: 14.6x10x11.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Polybasite Image
Images: Polybasite
Comments: Lustrous, metallic steel-gray

rosette of polybasite crystals.
Location: Guanajuato, Mexico. Scale: 18 x
16 x 8 mm.
© Dan Weinrich
Polycrase-(Y) Image
Images: Polycrase-(Y)
Comments: Large, black, blocky

polycrase-(Y) crystal.
Location: Hidra, Vest-Agder, Norway.
Scale: Crystal size 0.8 X 2.0 cm.
© John Veevaert
Polydymite Image
Images: Polydymite
Comments: Octahedral crystals of

polydymite on matrix.
Location: Gr?neau Mine (Gr?ne Au Mine;
Gr?nau Mine), Schutzbach, Betzdorf, Siegen
District (W), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Polyhalite Image
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Images: Polyhalite
Comments: White crystals of polyhalite in

matrix.
size 1.5 mm.
Polylithionite Image
Images: Polylithionite
Comments: Rosette of polylithionite

crystals.
© John Veevaert
Polylithionite Image
Images: Polylithionite Shibkovite
Comments: Clear crystalline shibkovite

aggregates with peach colored
translucent polylithionite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ponomarevite Image
Images: Ponomarevite
Comments: Orange ponomarevite. The

sample stored in a closed vial. The photo
was made through the vial.
Location: Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka
Picture size 3 mm.
Portlandite Image
Images: Portlandite
Comments: Cleav ed mass of white

portlandite.
© John Veevaert
Posnjakite Image
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Images: Posnjakite
Comments: Waxy blue aggregates of

posnjakite.
Location: Ecton mine, Audubon,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Potassic-carpholite Image
Images: Potassic-carpholite
Comments: Tan prismatic crystal sprays of

potassic-carpholite to about 2mm in
matrix.
Location: Sawtooth Batholith, near
Centerville, Boise Co., Idaho, USA. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Potassic-ferritaramite Image
Images: Potassic-ferritaramite Ferritaramite
Comments: Lightly to moderately etched, blocky, jet

black ferritaramite (potassic-ferritaramite is a not
approved mineral name).
Location: Niaslo, Basha Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan.
Scale: 5 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Potassicleakeite Image
Images: Potassicleakeite Watatsumiite
Comments: Yellow green prismatic crystal

of watatsumiite terminated by pyramidal
faces associated with reddish brown
potassicleakeite and clear quartz (JMPS, v
98, p 149).
Location: Tanohata mine, Iwate Prefecture,
Japan. Scale: See Image.
© JMPS
Potassicpargasite Image
Images: Potassicpargasite
Comments: Brownish-black
potassicpargasite crystal in calcite
(repaired).
Location: Simonby, Pargas, Turku ja Pori,
Finland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Potassicsadanagaite Image
Images: Potassicsadanagaite
Comments: Dark greenish black crystalline

potassicsadanagaite fragments.
Location: Ilmeny Mountains, Chelyabinsk
District, Southern Urals, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Potosiite Image
Images: Potosiite Franckeite
Comments: Visually indistinguishable metallic

potosiite/franckeite crystals to 6 mm..
Location: San Jose mine, Oruro City, Oruro
Department, Boliv ia. Scale: Crystal size 6
mm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Pottsite Image
Images: Pottsite
Comments: Sub-mm, bright yellow to orange

pottsite crystals form coating on one side of
specimen.
Location: Linka Mine, Potts, Lander County,
Nevada, USA. Scale: 3.5 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Poubaite Image
Images: Poubaite
Comments: Gray granular crystalline

poubaite in white calcite.
Location: Oldrichov, near Tachov, western
Bohemia, Zapadocesky, Czech Republic.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Poughite Image
Images: Poughite
Comments: Yellow coatings of poughite

on matrix.
Location: Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora,
Mexico. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
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Povondraite Image
Images: Povondraite
Comments: Deep greenish black

povondraite crystals.
Location: Malacacheta, Minas Gerais,
Mineral Species
Powellite Image
Images: Powellite
Comments: Sharp, thumbnail-sized crystal

group of yellowish brown lustrous powellite
crystals, the largest measuring 15 x 18 mm
in size.
Location: Pandulane quarry, Nasik district,
Maharashtra, India. Scale: 20 x 25 x 16 mm.
© Dan Weinrich
Poyarkovite Image
Images: Poyarkovite
Comments: Dark greenish black thin

poyarkovite film on white chert.
Location: Elena, Durango, Mexico. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Prehnite Image
Images: Prehnite
Comments: Very lustrous and brilliant

prehnite.
Location: Deep Sahara, Morocco: Djbel
Melh, Bou-Arfa. Scale: 9 x 6.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Preisingerite Image
Images: Preisingerite
Comments: Oliv e-greenish crystals of

preisingerite on quartz.
Picture size 5 mm.
Preiswerkite Image
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Images: Preiswerkite
Comments: Pale green fine grained

preiswerkite masses in dark amphibolite
rock.
Location: Geisspfad, Binnental, Valias,
Switzerland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Preobrazhenskite Image
Images: Preobrazhenskite
Comments: Crudely formed white to tan

translucent preobrazhenskite crystal on
yellow crystalline massiv e material.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pretulite Image
Images: Pretulite
Comments: SEM-BSE image of a euhedral

crystal of pretulite (left), and proposed
crystal forms (right).
Location: Apatite-rich oolitic Ordovician
ironstone at Saint-Aubin-des-Ch?teaux,
Armorican Massif, France. Scale: See
Picture.
Priceite Image
Images: Priceite Ginorite
Comments: Clear platy crystalline coatings

of ginorite on rock with white priceite.
Location: Corkscrew Canyon, Death
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Priceite Image
Images: Priceite
Comments: Botryoidal priceite aggregate.

Location: Lone Randi Quarry, Curry County,
Mineral Species
Priderite Image
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Images: Priderite
Comments: Clusters of sub-mm black,

opaque crystals of priderite.
Location: Eveslogchorr Mt., Khibiny, Kola,
© John Veevaert
Prismatine Image
Images: Prismatine
Comments: Prismatic crystals of prismatine

in matrix.
Location: Waldheim, Saxony, Germany.
Probertite Image
Images: Probertite
Comments: Large colorless prismatic crystal of

probertite.
Location: Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Erfurt
district, Harz Mts, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:
Crystal length 4.7 cm.
Prosopite Image
Images: Prosopite
Comments: Pale violet prosopite

microcrystals.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Protasite Image
Images: Protasite
Comments: Orange crystals of protasite on

matrix.
Location: Shinkolobwe mine (Kasolo mine),
Picture size 5 mm.
Protoanthophyllite Image
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Images: Protoanthophyllite
Comments: Drill core showing white

acicular crystalline aggregates of
protoanthophyllite in matrix with a close up
image on the right..
Location: Drill-core sample from the waste
dump of the abandoned Takase chromite
mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Scale:
Core size 3 cm.
Proustite Image
Images: Proustite
Comments: Crystal group of gemmy, red

proustite. Smithsonian collection.
Location: Dolores I Mine, Cha?arcillo,
Atac?ma Province, Chile. Scale: Specimen
Size 6x8 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Pseudoboleite Image
Images: Pseudoboleite
Comments: Blue crystal of pseudoboleite.

Location: Curuglu Mine, Santa Rosal?a (El
Bole?), Bole? District, Mun. de Muleg?, Baja
California Sur, Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 4.5
mm.
Pseudobrookite Image
Images: Pseudobrookite
Comments: Black, prismatic crystals of

pseudobrookite on matrix.
Location: Sierra County, New Mexico, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Pseudocotunnite Image
Images: Pseudocotunnite
Comments: Bright white botryoidal

pseudocotunnite coatings.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pseudolaueite Image
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Images: Pseudolaueite
Comments: Brownish yellow crystals of

pseudolaueite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Pseudomalachite Image
Images: Pseudomalachite Halloysite
Comments: Deep green pseudomalachite

crystals on cuprous halloysite.
Granite Co., Montana, USA. Scale: Crystal
size 1-2 mm.
© John Veevaert
Pseudorutile Image
Images: Pseudorutile
Comments: Dark brown grain of

hydroxyian pseudorutile (Kleberite), from a
heavy mineral concentrate.
Location: K?nigshain, Mittweida, Saxony,
Psilomelane Image
Images: Psilomelane
Comments: Banded massive psilomelane.

Location: Compton, Virginia, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pucherite Image
Images: Pucherite Schumacherite
Comments: Brown crystals of pucherite

with yellow schumacherite on matrix.
Picture size 5 mm.
Pumpellyite-(Fe++) Image
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Images: Pumpellyite-(Fe++)
Comments: Gas cavities in basalt matrix

lined with sprays of 1 mm green
pumpellyite-(Fe) crystals.
Location: Braen's Quarry, Haledon, Passaic
Co., New Jersey, USA. Scale: 25x15x15 mm.
Pumpellyite-(Mg) Image
Images: Pumpellyite-(Mg)
Comments: Greenish, flattened, prismatic

crystals of pumpellyite-(Mg) ? to 3mm.
Location: Deere Island, Novato, Marin Co.,
Purpurite Image
Images: Purpurite
Comments: Massive purpurite, which never

forms crystals but is only found in masses.
Location: Newry, Maine, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 4
cm.
© John Veevaert
Pushcharovskite Image
Images: Pushcharovskite
Comments: Light bluish, acicular crystals of

pushcharovskite.
Location: Salsigne Mine, Montagne Noire,
Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
Putzite Image
Images: Putzite Catamarcaite
Comments: Polished section of putzite (pu) grain

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

Location: Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Scale: 3 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Pyrite Image
Images: Pyrite
Comments: Lustrous 1 - 2 cm cubes of

pyrite encased in a very fine-grained
sedimentary marlstone (clay and calcite).
Location: Nav ajun-(La Rioja)-Spain. Scale:
6x5x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Pyroaurite Image
Images: Pyroaurite
Comments: Green, hexagonal plates of

pyroaurite in quartz.
Location: Varmland, Sweden. Scale:
Crystal size 1 mm.
Pyroaurite Image
Images: Pyroaurite
Comments: Golden yellow platy crystals

of pyroaurite to 1mm on matrix.
Location: Langban mine, Varmland,
Sweden. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Pyrobelonite Image
Images: Pyrobelonite

picture, showing idiomorphic pyrobelonite
crystals (pb) growing on, and intergrown
with brackebuschite (bk). (Eur. J. Mineral,
13:147).
Location: Mullock dumps lining the outcrop
of the manganite vein south of Krettnich,
Saarland, Germany. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral
Pyrochlore Image
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Images: Pyrochlore
Comments: Deep brownish black crystals of

pyrochlore to 0.9 cm across.
Location: Lauzon Farm, Oka, Quebec, Canada.
© John Veev aert
Pyrochlore Image
Images: Pyrochlore Perrierite-(Ce) Zircon

Loparite-(Ce)

loparite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pyrochroite Image
Images: Pyrochroite
Comments: Pseudo-cubic crystal of

pyrochroite on matrix.
Pyrochroite Image
Images: Pyrochroite Shigaite
Comments: Bronzy yellow crystals of

shigaite set in a crystalline matrix of reddish
black pychroite.
© John Veevaert
Pyrolusite Image
Images: Pyrolusite
Comments: Steel-gray metallic prismatic

pyrolusite crystals.
Location: Hori Blatna, Czech Republic.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Pyromorphite Image
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Images: Pyromorphite
Comments: Apple green pyromorphite.

Location: San Andres Mine, Villaviciosa,
Cordoba, Spain. Scale: 6.5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Pyrope Image
Images: Pyrope
Comments: Transparent, dark-red pyrope

garnet.
Location: Governador Valadares, Rio Doce,
Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale:
6x6x6 mm.
Pyrophyllite Image
Images: Pyrophyllite Rutile
Comments: Rutile on fine-grained pyrophyllite.

Location: Graves Mt. Georgia, USA. Scale: 4.5
x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Pyrostilpnite Image
Images: Pyrostilpnite
Comments: Reddish brown, crystalline

aggregate of pyrostilpnite on matrix.
Location: St. Audreasberg, Hartz, Lower
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
Pyrostilpnite Image
Images: Pyrostilpnite
Comments: Deep bright-red, acicular

crystals of pyrostilpnite to 1mm in v uggy
sulfide matrix.
Location: Cerro Rico, Potosi City, Potosi
Dept., Bolivia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Pyroxferroite Image
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Images: Pyroxferroite
Comments: Brown crystalline pyroxferroite

cleavage.
Location: Ohnari Mine, Mineyama-cho,
Naka-Gun, Kyoto, Japan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Pyroxmangite Image
Images: Pyroxmangite
Comments: Pinkish red nearly opaque

crystalline pyroxmangite.
Location: Shidara, Kitashidara-Gun, Aichi,
Mineral Species
Pyrrhotite Image
Images: Pyrrhotite
Comments: Lustrous sharp crystals of

pyrrhotite to 3.5 cm in size with minor
sphalerite and chalcopyrite.
Location: Nikolaev skiy mine, Dal'negors,
Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Scale: 4 x 5 x 5.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
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Quadratite Image
Images: Quadratite
Comments: Tabular crystals of quadratite

with small silvery gray, rounded crystals of
galena.
size 0.8 mm.
Quadratite Image
Images: Quadratite
Comments: Aggregate of 3 black tabular

crystals of quadratite (reflecting light) on
jordanite/lengenbachite and white
dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 0.2
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Quadridavyne Image
Images: Quadridavyne
Comments: Colorless hexagonal crystals of

quadridav yne.
mm.
Quartz Image
Images: Quartz Calcite
Comments: Purple-colored druse of

amethystine quartz and white calcite.
Sample size 20 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Quartz Image
Images: Quartz Chalcopyrite
Comments: Well-formed crystals of

chalcopyrite and quartz.
Location: Boldut mine, 61 level (350 meters
deep), Cavnic, Maramures, Rumania.
© Fabre Minerals
Quartz Image
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Images: Quartz Ilvaite
Comments: Black, prismatic ilvaite with quartz.

Location: First Sovietskij mine, Dalnjegorsk, Russia.
© Fabre Minerals
Quartz Image
Images: Quartz
Comments: Crystal druse of transparent

quartz crystals.
Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. Scale:
Specimen size 6 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Quartz Image
Images: Quartz Fluorapatite
Comments: Purple crystal of fluorapatite on

slightly smoky quartz crystals. Former Dr. E.E.
Dav id and Houston Museum collections.
Location: Pech, Kunar Province, Nuristan,
Afghanistan. Scale: Crystal size 3.0 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm.
© Ed Rosenzweig
Quartz Image
Images: Quartz Epistilbite
Comments: White epistilbite cluster 25 mm

across on amethyst quartz crystal matrix.
Location: Sawda, Jalgaon, Maharashtra,
Quartz Image
Images: Quartz
Comments: Slightly smokey quartz overgrown

with rose quartz. Note the exceptional
transparency of the rose quartz.
Location: Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: 10 cm by 5.2 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Queitite Image
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Images: Queitite
Comments: White earthy queitite masses

on quartz.
Location: Tombstone, Cochise County,
Mineral Species
Quenselite Image
Images: Quenselite
Comments: Square crystal of quenselite on

matrix.
Location: Langban, Sweden. Scale: Crystal
size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert
Quenselite Image
Images: Quenselite
Comments: Jet black tabular crystals of

quenselite, some striated on matrix.
Scale: Crystal size 1.75mm.
Quenstedtite Image
Images: Quenstedtite
Comments: White crystalline quenstedtite

crust.
Location: Richelsdorf, Hessen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Quetzalcoatlite Image
Images: Quetzalcoatlite
Comments: Green encrustation of

quetzalcoatlite.
size 3.5 mm.
Quintinite-2H Image
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Images: Quintinite-2H Quintinite-3T
Comments: Pale brownish crystals of

quintinite, 2H or 2T polytype unknown.
Location: Jacupiranga Mine, S?o Paulo,
Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size
7 mm.
Quintinite-3T Image
Images: Quintinite-3T Quintinite-2H
Comments: Pale brownish crystals of

quintinite, 2H or 2T polytype unknown.
Location: Jacupiranga Mine, S?o Paulo,
Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size
7 mm.
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Raadeite Image
Images: Raadeite Heneuite
Comments: Translucent aqua colored

greasy heneuite grain, surrounded by
beige rim of raadeite, with dark blue
phosphoellenbergerite inclusion (near top
of heneuite), in quartz apatite rock.
Location: Tingelstadt Iron Mine, Modum,
Mineral Species
Raadeite Image
Images: Raadeite

petrographic thin section showing two crystals of
raadeite (arrows) included in holtedahlite. (Eur. J.
Mineral, 13:320).
Location: Nodules of apatite + Mg-phosphates
within the Tingelstadtjern serpentinite body,
Modum district, Norway. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral
Rabbittite Image
Images: Rabbittite
Comments: Fine, yellow, acicular sprays of

rabbittite to about 1mm on matrix.
Location: Hideout mine, San Juan Co.,
Utah, USA. Scale: 20x10x4mm.
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Rabejacite Image
Images: Rabejacite
Comments: Yellow rabejacite grains on

matrix.
Location: Mas d'Alary, Lod?v e, H?rault,
Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Scale:
Raguinite Image
Images: Raguinite
Comments: Murky gray-brown fine grained

raguinite mass, intermixed with pyrite.
Location: Allchar, Macedonia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Raite Image
Images: Raite
Comments: Golden raite crystals up to 2

mm long filling cav ities in white microcline
with minor lomonosovite and natrolite.
Russia. Scale: 7x4x3 cm.
Raite Image
Images: Raite Mountainite
Comments: Bright white fibrous acicular

mountainite crystal aggregate with pale
golden raite.
Mineral Species
Rajite Image
Images: Rajite
Comments: Bluish green coating of rajite on

matrix.
Location: Lone Pine mine, Catron Co., New
Mexico, USA. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.
Ralstonite Image
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Images: Ralstonite Cryolite
Comments: Massiv e cryolite with solution

cavities lined with octahedral ralstonite
crystals.
size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Ralstonite Image
Images: Ralstonite Gjerdingenite-Fe

gjerdingenite-Fe. The mineral is dusted with tiny
crystals of two phases. At high magnification,
one of them is seen to form cubes and is
probably ralstonite.
Location: Gjerdingselva, Lunner, Oppland, Oslo
Region, Norway. Scale: Crystal length 0.5 mm.
Rambergite Image
Images: Rambergite Hauerite
Comments: Small black octahedral

crystals of hauerite with small brown
crystals of rambergite.
size 0.8 mm.
Rambergite Image
Images: Rambergite
Comments: Dark reddish-brown

rambergite mass in matrix.
Location: Ronneberg, Thuringen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rammelsbergite Image
Images: Rammelsbergite
Comments: Dull gray metallic botryoidal

rammelsbergite aggregate with crystalline
surface.
Location: Hudson Bay Mine, Rusty Lake,
Gowganda, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Ramsbeckite Image
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Images: Ramsbeckite
Comments: Green crystals of ramsbeckite

on matrix.
Ramsdellite Image
Images: Ramsdellite
Comments: Large mass of radiating

ramsdellite crystals with terminated
crystals.
Location: Lake Valley District, Sierra Co.,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: 11x10x8 cm.
Rancieite Image
Images: Rancieite
Comments: Brown resinous rancieite

veinlets in limonite / wad rock.
Location: Montmirat, Lozere, France. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rankamaite Image
Images: Rankamaite
Comments: White, massive-fibrous

rankamaite.
Location: Mumba, Kivu, Congo (Za?re).
Ransomite Image
Images: Ransomite
Comments: Pale bluish-green powdery

ransomite.
Black Hills, Verde District, Yav apai Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.
Rapidcreekite Image
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Images: Rapidcreekite
Comments: Colorless, radial-acicular

crystals of rapidcreekite on matrix.
Raspite Image
Images: Raspite
Comments: Brown, tabular crystal of

raspite on matrix.
Rasvumite Image
Images: Rasvumite
Comments: Opaque dull orange fibrous

rasv umite masses.
Location: Coyote Peak, Humboldt County,
Mineral Species
Rasvumite Image
Images: Rasvumite
Comments: Reddish brown micro crystals

of rasvumite in vugs to about 0.75mm.
Location: Kirovskiy mine, Khibina massif,
Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: 3.5 x 2.5 x
2.5cm.
Rathite Image
Images: Rathite
Comments: Gray metallic foliated rathite,

with pyrite in sugary dolomite.
Mineral Species
Rathite Image
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Images: Rathite
Comments: Black prismatic crystal of

rathite with glossy surface and red realgar
on white dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal length 5
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Rauenthalite Image
Images: Rauenthalite
Comments: Bright white botryoidal to

transparent colorless prismatic rauenthalite
microcrystals.
Location: Gabe Gottes, Sainte-Marie-
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rauvite Image
Images: Rauvite
Comments: Irregular grains of dark-colored

rauv ite in matrix.
Location: Monument No. 2 Mine,
Monument Valley, Apache County,
Rauvite Image
Images: Rauvite
Comments: Brownish-yellow scaly rauvite

on sandstone.
Location: Monument Valley, Apache
Mineral Species
Ravatite Image
Images: Ravatite
Comments: Small crystals of ravatite.

size 5 mm.
Realgar Image
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Images: Realgar Duranusite
Comments: Small black Duranusite in

orange-red realgar matrix.
Location: Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes,
Realgar Image
Images: Realgar
Comments: Sharp, dark red crystals of

realgar to 2 cm on calcite.
Location: Hunan Province, Chin. Scale:
Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Attard
Realgar Image
Images: Realgar Rebulite
Comments: Dark gray rebulite grain in red,

massive realgar.
Macedonia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Realgar Image
Images: Realgar Vrbaite
Comments: Black grain of vrbaite in red

realgar matrix.
Rebulite Image
Images: Rebulite Realgar
Comments: Dark gray rebulite grain in red,

massive realgar.
Macedonia. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Rectorite Image
Images: Rectorite
Comments: Blue Mountain District, Marble

Township, Garland Co., Arkansas, USA.
Location: Five pieces of leather-like
fragments of rectorite in twisted, irregular
shapes. Scale: Specimen size 1-4 cm.
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Reddingite Image
Images: Reddingite
Comments: Opaque brown crystalline

reddingite.
Location: Tip Top Quarry, Custer County,
South Dakota, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Reddingite Image
Images: Reddingite
Comments: Brown crystals of reddingite on

matrix.
Location: Boa Vista creek, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
© Minernet
Reddingite Image
Images: Reddingite
Comments: Golden brown to brown,

highly lustrous, pseudo-octahedral crystals
of reddinite.
Location: Cigana mine, Galileia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 mm.
Redingtonite Image
Images: Redingtonite Botryogen
Comments: Pale pink granular redingtonite

on yellow-brown botryogen.
Location: Redington Mine, Knoxville, Napa
Mineral Species
Redledgeite Image
Images: Redledgeite
Comments: Red Ledge Mine, Washington,

Washington District, Nevada Co., California,
USA.
Location: Green, massive redledgeite.
Reedmergnerite Image
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Images: Reedmergnerite
Comments: Peach colored crystalline

reedmergnerite in quartz.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Reevesite Image
Images: Reevesite
Comments: Green reevesite coatings on

serpentinite rock.
Location: Pacific Asbestos Corporation
Mine, near Copperopolis, Tuolumne
Mineral Species
Reichenbachite Image
Images: Reichenbachite
Comments: Green crystals of

reichenbachite on quartz.
Location: Bergen, near Falkenstein,
Vogtland, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture
size 4 mm.
Reidite Image
Images: Reidite

photomicrograph of the surface of an
etched shocked zircon with a skeletal
crystalline phase that may be reidite. X-ray
diffraction data indicate that this zircon
contains minor amounts of reidite. (AmMin
87:563).
Location: Found in an upper Eocene
impact ejecta layer in marine sediments on
the upper continental slope off New Jersey
and on Barbados. Scale: See Image.
Reinhardbraunsite Image
Images: Reinhardbraunsite Brownmillerite
Comments: Pink crystalline

reinhardbraunsite in brownmillerite.
Location: Near Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-
Pflaz, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Renardite Image
Images: Renardite
Comments: Bright yellow, tabular crystals

of renardite on matrix.
Location: Grury, Saone-et-Loire, France.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Renierite Image
Images: Renierite
Comments: Dull dark orange tarnished

renierite with brassy chalcopyrite.
Location: Prince Leopold Mine, Kipushi,
Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Reppiaite Image
Images: Reppiaite
Comments: Vitreous orange crystals of

reppiaite embedded in matrix.
Location: Gambatesa mine, Genova,
Ligurai, Italy. Scale: Crystal size 0.5mm.
Retgersite Image
Images: Retgersite
Comments: Pale blue powdery retgersite

on rock.
Location: Mina La Motte, near
Frederocktown, Madison County, Missouri,
Mineral Species
Rhabdophane-(Ce) Image
Images: Rhabdophane-(Ce)
Comments: White acicular crystals

rhabdophane-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Reinersreuth Quarry (K?hlerloch),
Gro?er Waldstein, Wei?enstadt,
Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany. Scale:
Rheniite Image
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Images: Rheniite IMA1999-004a
Comments: Specimen covered with rheniite as

micro crystals to .25 mm across.
Location: Kudryav iy Volcano, Iturup Island,
Kurilian Chain, Russia. Scale: 4.7 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Rhenium Image
Images: Rhenium
Comments: Dark gray metallic rhenium

flakes.
Location: Transbaikalia Region, Chita
District, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rhodesite Image
Images: Rhodesite Magadiite
Comments: Earth pale tan massive

magadiite with dark yellow crystalline
rhodesite.
Location: East Fork, Trinity River, Trinity
Mineral Species
Rhodesite Image
Images: Rhodesite
Comments: Pearly white to tan rhodesite

crusts.
Location: Quarter-mile east of Trinity River,
Trinity County, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Rhodizite Image
Images: Rhodizite
Comments: Two large, blocky, greenish

crystals of rhodizite on matrix.
Location: Antsogombato, Antsirabe,
Madagascar. Scale: 2.6 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Rhodizite Image
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Images: Rhodizite
Comments: Several yellow, gemmy

crystals of rhodizite frozen in a feldspar
matrix.
Location: Sahanivotry, Sahatany Valley,
Madagascar. Scale: 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm.
Rhodochrosite Image
Images: Rhodochrosite Helvite
Comments: Yellow crystals of helvite on

quartz and pink rhodochrosite.
Location: Galerie Elisabeth, Cavnic,
Maramures, Romaina. Scale: Not Given.
Rhodochrosite Image
Images: Rhodochrosite
Comments: Cherry red rhodochrosite with

quartz, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite and
fluorite matrix.
Location: Rivas Pocket, Fluorite Raise,
Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado, USA.
Scale: 8 x 8cm..
© Fabre Minerals
Rhodonite Image
Images: Rhodonite
Comments: Light red rhodonite and minor

quartz.
Location: Chiurucu mine, Dos de Mayo,
Peru. Scale: 3 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Rhodonite Image
Images: Rhodonite Akatoreite
Comments: Brown akatoreite in pink

rhodonite.
Location: Akatore Creek, Eastern Otago
Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rhodonite Image
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Images: Rhodonite Caryinite
Comments: Yellow crystalline caryinite with

pink rhodonite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rhodonite Image
Images: Rhodonite
Comments: Deep red blocky prismatic

crystals of rhodonite to 3cm.
Location: Broken Hill mine, New South
Wales, Australia. Scale: 6.5 x 5 x 4cm.
Rhomboclase Image
Images: Rhomboclase
Comments: Platy crystal rhomboclase

spray.
Location: Rio Tinto, Andalucia, Spain. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rhonite Image
Images: Rhonite
Comments: Brown, striated, tabular crystal

of rhonite on matrix.
Location: Sattleberg, Laacher See,
Rhineland-Pal., Germany. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Richellite Image
Images: Richellite
Comments: Khaki-colored earthy richellite

masses.
Location: Richelle, near Vise, Liege,
Belgium. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Richelsdorfite Image
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Images: Richelsdorfite
Comments: Greenish rounded aggregates

of richelsdorfite on matrix.
Location: Wilhelm Mine; Wechselschacht,
near Bauhaus, Richelsdorf District, Hesse,
Richterite Image
Images: Richterite Calzirtite Augite

richterite.
Mineral Species
Richterite Image
Images: Richterite
Comments: Richterite crystal in tan calcite.

Location: Bancroft, Ontario, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Riebeckite Image
Images: Riebeckite
Comments: Grayish black, coniform,

massive crystals of riebeckite.
Location: Cape Province, South Africa.
Scale: 8x6 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Rilandite Image
Images: Rilandite
Comments: Dark brown opaque resinous

rilandite cleavage fragment.
Location: J. L. Riland Claim, near Meeker, Rio
Blanco County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Rinneite Image
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Images: Rinneite Carnallite
Comments: Orange to light brown rinneite

with colorless carnallite.
Location: Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Rh?n,
Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.
Rivadavite Image
Images: Rivadavite
Comments: Translucent white rivadavite

nodule with some adhering earthy
material.
Location: Tincalayu, Salta Province,
Mineral Species
Riversideite Image
Images: Riversideite
Comments: Opaque off-white finely fibrous

riv ersideite veins in vesuvianite / grossular
matrix.
Mineral Species
Robertsite Image
Images: Robertsite Carbonate-

hydroxylapatite Apatite

Giv en.
Robinsonite Image
Images: Robinsonite
Comments: Dark gray, prismatic-acicular

crystals of robinsonite on white marble.
Location: Pitone Quarry, Seravezza, Lucca,
Italy. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Rockbridgeite Image
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Images: Rockbridgeite
Comments: Black cruciform twins of

rockbridgeite on siderite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Rockbridgeite Image
Images: Rockbridgeite Stewartite
Comments: Pointed, brownish yellow

stewartite crystals on massive, dark
rockbridgeite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Rockbridgeite Image
Images: Rockbridgeite Wilhelmvierlingite
Comments: Yellow brown crystals

wilhelmv ierlingite with black rockbridgeite.
mm.
Rockbridgeite Image
Images: Rockbridgeite Tinsleyite

Phosphosiderite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rockbridgeite Image
Images: Rockbridgeite Lindbergite
Comments: Rare organic mineral -

lindbergite (Mn dihydrate oxalate) in white
patches on rockbridgeite matrix.
Spot size 1 mm.
Rodalquilarite Image
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Images: Rodalquilarite
Comments: Green crystals of rodalquilarite

on matrix.
size 4 m.
Rodalquilarite Image
Images: Rodalquilarite Schieffelinite
Comments: Creamy white Schieffelinite

with minor green rodalquilarite.
size 6 mm.
Rodolicoite Image
Images: Rodolicoite Grattarolaite
Comments: Brown grattarolaite, intimately

intergrown with brown rodolicoite.
Location: Castelnuovo Mine, Santa
Barbara lignite district, San Giov anni
Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno), Arezzo
4 mm.
Roeblingite Image
Images: Roeblingite
Comments: Pure white opaque

porcelaneous roeblingite mass.
Mineral Species
Roedderite Image
Images: Roedderite
Comments: Deep green transparent

roedderite microcrystal.
Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pflaz,
Mineral Species
Roggianite Image
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Images: Roggianite
Comments: Glassy white fibrous roggianite

aggregate.
Location: Murzinka, Sverdlovsk District,
Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rokuhnite Image
Images: Rokuhnite Carnallite
Comments: Reddish brown rokuhnite, with

carnallite (deliquescent).
Location: Salzdetfurth Mine, Hildesheim,
near Hanov er, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Romanechite Image
Images: Romanechite
Comments: Black botryoidal roman?chite.

Germany. Scale: Specimen size 9 mm.
Romarchite Image
Images: Romarchite
Comments: SEM photograph of romarchite

precipitating on quartz sand grains on the
surface of a pewter artifact.
(Geoarchaeology, 19:538).
Location: Wreck of the Queen Anne?s
Revenge (A.D. 1718). Scale: Scale Bar 30
µm.
© Geoarchaeology
Romeite Image
Images: Romeite
Comments: Tan fibrous romeite on quartz.

Location: Sant Marcel, Piemonte, Italy.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Romerite Image
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Images: Romerite
Comments: Massiv e, pale reddish-brown

R?merite.
Germany. Scale: Specimen size 5.8 cm.
Ronneburgite Image
Images: Ronneburgite
Comments: Reddish-brown crystals of

ronneburgite on matrix.
size 2 mm.
Rontgenite-(Ce) Image
Images: Rontgenite-(Ce)
Comments: Gemmy and lustrous rontgenite-(Ce)

crystals to 1.5 mm on an albite matrix.
Location: Narsarsuk, Igaliko, Greenland. Scale: 3.7
x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Rooseveltite Image
Images: Rooseveltite
Comments: Gray glassy crystalline

rooseveltite with purple fluorite.
Location: Josef Fluorite Mine, Krune Hora
Mountains, near Teplice, Seversocesky,
Mineral Species
Rorisite Image
Images: Rorisite
Comments: Colorless to white tabular

crystals of Rorisite. Rorisite is extremely
hygroscopic and must be stored in closed
vials. The picture was made through the
vial.
Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk Oblast',
Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 2
mm.
Rosasite Image
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Images: Rosasite
Comments: Rosasite on malachite after azurite.

Blocky crystals of azurite to 2.5 cm in size,
completely altered to malachite, then coated
by pale sky-blue rosasite.
Location: Silver Bill mine, Gleeson, Cochise Co.,
Arizona, USA. Scale: 4 x 7.5 x 2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Roscherite Image
Images: Roscherite Hurlbutite
Comments: White, round crystal clusters of

hurlbutite on reddish brown roscherite.
Giv en.
Roscherite Image
Images: Roscherite Parafransoletite
Comments: White, crystalline aggregate

sprays of parafransoletite on dark reddish
brown roscherite with massive, white,
sucrosic whitlockite.
South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Roscherite Image
Images: Roscherite Englishite

roscherite on white englishite.
Giv en.
Roscherite Image
Images: Roscherite Viitaniemiite
Comments: Colorless to pink viitaniemiite

with brownish roscherite.
Roscherite Image
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Images: Roscherite Ushkovite
Comments: Translucent ushkovite

microcrystals with orange roscherite on
feldspar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Roscoelite Image
Images: Roscoelite
Comments: Dull olive green fine grained

roscoelite cementing sandstone.
Location: Rifle Mine, Garfield County,
Mineral Species
Roselite Image
Images: Roselite
Comments: Gemmy crystals of roselite.

Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mts.,
Morocco. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© John Veevaert
Roselite-beta Image
Images: Roselite-beta
Comments: Clear, rose-colored

roselite-beta crystalline grains.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mountains,
Morocco. Scale: Not Given.
Roselite-beta Image
Images: Roselite-beta
Comments: Deep red, well crystallized

roselite-beta covering a small pocket in
white calcite.
Location: Ahrbar, Bou-Azzer area. Scale: 7
x 4 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Rosenbergite Image
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Images: Rosenbergite

rosenbergite on a dark matrix.
(Cetine Mine; Tafone Mine), Rosia, Siena,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 1.3 mm.
Rosenbuschite Image
Images: Rosenbuschite
Comments: Tan prismatic crystalline

rosenbuschite in schist.
Location: Norra Karr, Jonkoping, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rosenhahnite Image
Images: Rosenhahnite
Comments: Crystalline massive

rosenhahnite.
Location: Near Healdsburg, Mendocino
Mineral Species
Rosiaite Image
Images: Rosiaite Valentinite
Comments: Beige crystals of rosiaite with a

colorless valentinite prism.
Location: Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto,
Rosickyite Image
Images: Rosickyite
Comments: Orange selenian rosickyite

(containing 48.9 wt-% Se).
Rossite Image
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Images: Rossite
Comments: Scaly crystalline rossite on silty

sandstone.
Location: Buckhorn Mine, San Miguel
Mineral Species
Rosslerite Image
Images: Rosslerite
Comments: Colorless crystals of r?sslerite.

size 3.5 mm.
Rossmanite Image
Images: Rossmanite
Comments: Pale pink to tan translucent

prismatic rossmanite crystals.
Location: Near Rozna, Western Moravia,
Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Rostite Image
Images: Rostite Clairite
Comments: Brownish crystals of clairite on

white massive rostite.
Picture size 5 mm.
Rostite Image
Images: Rostite
Comments: White crystals of rostite on a

dark matrix.
Location: Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-
Westphalia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5
mm.
Roweite Image
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Images: Roweite
Comments: Pinkish nodular massive

roweite.
Mineral Species
Rozenite Image
Images: Rozenite Ferrinatrite Copiapite

copiapite.
Mineral Species
Rubicline Image
Images: Rubicline
Comments: Rubicline (white) including

grains of quartz (black) in microcline (gray)
associated with albite (black) and
muscovite (mottled dark gray). BSE image
(AmMin, 83:1336).
Location: Pollucite-bearing rare-element
pegmatite at San Piero in Campo, Elba,
Italy. Scale: Grain size 20 µm.
Ruizite Image
Images: Ruizite Inesite
Comments: 1- 3 mm crystal spray of red

orange ruizite in an exposed vug in pink
inesite.
© John Veevaert
Ruizite Image
Images: Ruizite
Comments: Deep reddish brown crystals of

ruizite as radial, acicular sprays to 0.1mm.
Rusakovite Image
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Images: Rusakovite
Comments: Orange-brown rusakovite

coatings on dark brown sandstone.
Location: Long Park, Montrose County,
Mineral Species
Russellite Image
Images: Russellite
Comments: Pale yellowish beige veinlet

and thin crusts of russellite.
Location: Himmelfahrt Mine, Steinbach,
Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Rustenburgite Image
Images: Rustenburgite Tatyanaite

images showing inclusions of rustenburgite
intergrown with taimyrite-tatyanaite
aggregates. (AmMin, v 42, p 608).
Scale: See Image.
Rustumite Image
Images: Rustumite Dellaite
Comments: White grains of dellaite,

intermixed with rustumite.
Location: Queretaro, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rutheniridosmine Image
Images: Rutheniridosmine
Comments: Grain of rutheniridosmine.

Location: Nev jansk, Ural Mts., Russia. Scale:
Grain size 2.5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Ruthenium Image
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Images: Ruthenium Palladodymite

Hongshiite

Ruthenium Image
Images: Ruthenium Isoferroplatinum

of polished section of ruthenium nugget
with isoferroplatinum inclusions.
Location: Miass River, Chelyabinsk District,
Mineral Species
Rutherfordine Image
Images: Rutherfordine
Comments: Yellow, bladed crystals of

rutherfordine.
Location: Shinkolobwe Mine, Tantara,
Rutherfordine Image
Images: Rutherfordine Wyartite
Comments: Brown, acicular wyartite

crystals next to bright yellow rutherfordine
tufts.
Location: Shinokolbwe mine, Tantara,
Rutile Image
Images: Rutile Pyrophyllite
Comments: Rutile on fine-grained pyrophyllite.

Location: Graves Mt. Georgia, USA. Scale: 4.5
x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
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Rutile Image
Images: Rutile Hematite
Comments: Acicular, golden yellow

crystals of rutile epitaxially overgrown on
black crystals of hematite. The
overgrowths are perpendicular to the
trigonal crystallography of the hematite.
Location: Novo Horizonte, Bahia Brazil.
© Fabre Minerals
Rynersonite Image
Images: Rynersonite
Comments: Off-white fibrous rynersonite.

Location: Brown Derby No. 1 Mine,
Gunnison County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Rynersonite Image
Images: Rynersonite Schiavinatoite
Comments: Brown, columnar

schiavinatoite with minor white rynersonite
sticks on quartz.
Location: Ampanodiana Sud, Tetezantsio,
Mahaiza, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
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Sabelliite Image
Images: Sabelliite
Comments: Green crystalline sabelliite on

matrix.
Location: West Schrofen, Brixlegg, Tirol,
Austria. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sabieite Image
Images: Sabieite
Comments: Massiv e, porous aggregate of

sabieite.
cm.
Sabinaite Image
Images: Sabinaite
Comments: White, prismatic crystals of

sabinaite on matrix.
Location: Poudrette quarry, Mont St Hilaire,
Rouville county, Quebec. Scale: 4.5 x 3.8 x
3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Sabugalite Image
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Images: Sabugalite
Comments: Platy sabugalite crystals.

Location: Margnac, Haute-Vienne, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sabugalite Image
Images: Sabugalite
Comments: Squarish, platy, pale yellowish

green sabugalite crystals.
Location: Sabugal County, Beira Alta
Province, Portugal. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.
Sacrofanite Image
Images: Sacrofanite

sacrofanite on diopside.
Location: Sacrofano Quarry, Rome, Lazio,
Mineral Species
Safflorite Image
Images: Safflorite
Comments: Safflorite covering three faces

of the specimen, with silver.
Location: Castle Mine (Castle-Tretheway
Mine), Gowganda, Haultain Township,
Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada.
Scale: 7x 3x 3.5 cm.
© Ibrahim Jameel / Khyber Mineral
Company
Sahlinite Image
Images: Sahlinite
Comments: Light lemon yellow sahlinite on

dark hausmannite and white dolomite
matrix.
Location: Langban mine, Filipstad,
V?rmland , Sweden. Scale: Crystal size
1.5cm.
Sainfeldite Image
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Images: Sainfeldite
Comments: Rose-colored crystalline

aggregate of Sainfeldite.
Sal-ammoniac Image
Images: Sal-ammoniac
Comments: Network of white or slightly grayish

sal-ammoniac crystals with some sulfur.
Location: Rav at, Tien Shan Mtns, Central
Tajikistan. Scale: 6 x 4 x 3 cm.
© John Attard
Sal-ammoniac Image
Images: Sal-ammoniac Erythrosiderite
Comments: Orange-brown aggregates of

erythrosiderite with sal ammoniac. Material
from the 1926 eruption of the Erythrosiderite
is hygroscopic and must be stored in a
the vial.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples Province,
Campania, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
Saleeite Image
Images: Saleeite
Comments: Gossanous matrix hosting

abundant crystals of bright canary yellow
sal?eite to 1.2 cm across.
Location: Ranger Mine, Northern Territories,
Australia. Scale: 9 x 5.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Saleeite Image
Images: Saleeite
Comments: Square, tabular crystalline

aggregates of greenish yellow sal?eite on
matrix.
Location: Ranger Uranium Mine, Jabiru,
Northern Territory, Australia. Scale: Picture
size 1cm.
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Salesite Image
Images: Salesite
Comments: Blue, prismatic crystal of

Salesite in matrix.
Samarskite-(Y) Image
Images: Samarskite-(Y)
Comments: A black crystal of samarskite.

Ex collection Gustav Rose 1832, found on
his trav el together with Alexander von
Humboldt through the Ural Mts.
Location: Miass, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk
Oblast', Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Crystal
size 8 mm.
Images: Samarskite-(Y) Uranpyrochlore
Comments: Deep greenish-brown resinous

crystalline massive uranpyrochlore with
black samarskite-(Y).
Location: Beryl Hill, near Yinnietharra
Station, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Images: Samarskite-(Y)
Comments: Dark, coaly black, weathered

granular samarskite-(Y).
Location: Spinelli Samarskite Prospect,
Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut,
Sampleite Image
Images: Sampleite
Comments: Sampleite crystal groups 3 to 8

mm wide on a dark matrix.
Location: Santa Catalina Mine, Sierra
Gorda, Chile. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Sampleite Image
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Images: Sampleite
Comments: Sky blue lamellar crystals of

sampleite up to 2 mm. scattered on matrix.
Chile. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Minernet
Sampleite Image
Images: Sampleite
Comments: Blue, spherical, radial

crystalling aggregates of sampleite on a
fracture surface.
Location: North Parkes Mine, Parkes, New
South Wales, Australia. Scale: Picture size
6x5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Samsonite Image
Images: Samsonite
Comments: Black, prismatic crystal of samsonite in

matrix.
Location: St. Andreasberg, Harz, Lower Saxony,
Samuelsonite Image
Images: Samuelsonite

samuelsonite.
Location: Palermo #1 mine, Groton,
Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA. Scale:
Sanbornite Image
Images: Sanbornite Muirite
Comments: Translucent orange crystalline

muirite in sanbornite.
Location: Big Creek, Fresno County,
Mineral Species
Sanbornite Image
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Images: Sanbornite
Comments: Micaceous sanbornite.

Location: Esquire No. 1 Mine, Big Creek,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Sanbornite Image
Images: Sanbornite Traskite

traskite in white sanbornite.
Mineral Species
Sanbornite Image
Images: Sanbornite Bazirite
Comments: Clear glassy minute grains of

bazinite to 1mm through out matrix of
milky-white sanbornite. The bazirite
fluoresces light blue.
Location: Snow Cap mine, Rush Creek,
Fresno Co., California, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 3 x
2.5cm.
Sanbornite Image
Images: Sanbornite Bigcreekite Gillespite

2cm.
Saneroite Image
Images: Saneroite
Comments: Reddish orange crystals of

saneroite to 3 mm.
Location: Vrancice near Pribram, Czech
Republic. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Sanidine Image
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Images: Sanidine
Comments: Blocky, opalescent crystal of

sanidine.
Location: Mina La Pili, Carmago, Chihuahua,
Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 3x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Sanjuanite Image
Images: Sanjuanite
Comments: Silky sanjuanite mass.

Location: Chica del Zonda, San Juan,
Mineral Species
Sanromanite Image
Images: Sanromanite IMA2006-009

Juangodoyite Chalconatronite

chalconatronite.
size 3 mm.
Santabarbaraite Image
Images: Santabarbaraite
Comments: Orange santabarbaraite

pseudomorphous after vivianite.
Location: Santa Barbara lignite district, San
Giovanni Valdarno, Valdarno (Val d'Arno),
Arezzo Province, Tuscany. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 mm.
Santaclaraite Image
Images: Santaclaraite
Comments: Flesh-colored crystalline

aggregates of Santaclaraite.
Location: Corral Hollow, Alemada County,
California, USA. Scale: Not Given.
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Santafeite Image
Images: Santafeite
Comments: Brownish-black silky santafeite

in rusty quartz.
Location: Monument Valley, Navajo
Mineral Species
Saponite Image
Images: Saponite
Comments: Light brown saponite

pseudomorphs after stilbite crystals up to 6
mm.
Location: Thetford Mines, M?gantic Co.,
Qu?bec, Canada. Scale: 25x25x12 mm.
Sapphirine Image
Images: Sapphirine
Comments: Large complex crystalline cluster

of dark blue to black sapphirine.
Location: Betroka district, Toliara (Tul?ar)
Province, Madagascar. Scale: 15x14x10 mm.
Sarabauite Image
Images: Sarabauite
Comments: Deep red crystalline sarabauite in

matrix.
Location: Sarabau Mine, Sarawak Province,
Borneo. Scale: 2.2x1.2x1 cm.
Sarcopside Image
Images: Sarcopside
Comments: Brown massive sarcopside.

Location: Bull Moose Mine, Custer County,
South Dakota, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Sarkinite Image
Images: Sarkinite
Comments: Reddish brown crystalline

aggregates of sarkinite on matrix.
Giv en.
Sarmientite Image
Images: Sarmientite
Comments: Pale olive-green chalky

massive sarmientite.
Location: Kotzebue, Alaska, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sartorite Image
Images: Sartorite
Comments: Black, striated crystal of

Sartorite on dolomite.
Sartorite Image
Images: Sartorite
Comments: Excellent prismatic sartorite

crystal on white dolomite.
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal length 1
cm.
© Walter Gabriel
Sasaite Image
Images: Sasaite
Comments: Whitish sasaite coatings on

altering serpentinite rock.
Location: Breitenau, Steiermark, Austria.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sassolite Image
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Images: Sassolite
Comments: Colorless, pseudohexagonal

crystals of sassolite.
Satimolite Image
Images: Satimolite
Comments: Porcelaneous massive

satimolite.
Location: Satimola-Sahstock, Zapadno-
Mineral Species
Satterlyite Image
Images: Satterlyite
Comments: Cleaved nodule of brown

crystalline satterlyite aggregate.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada.
Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Sauconite Image
Images: Sauconite
Comments: Pale brown earthy sauconite

on hemimorphite microcrystals.
Location: Doughty Mine, near Sunbury,
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania,
Mineral Species
Sazykinaite-(Y) Image
Images: Sazykinaite-(Y)
Comments: Light brown crystals of

sazykinaite-(Y).
Sborgite Image
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Images: Sborgite
Comments: Pale grayish-green massive

sborgite.
Location: Furnace Creek borate area,
Death Valley, Inyo County, California, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Scacchite Image
Images: Scacchite
Comments: Deliquescent reddish

scacchite crust on volcanic rock.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Scainiite Image
Images: Scainiite
Comments: Black metallic prismatic

scainite crystals and crystalline masses on
limestone.
Location: Tafone Mine, near Manciano,
Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Scandiobabingtonite Image
Images: Scandiobabingtonite
Comments: Green micro crystals of

scandiobabingtonite to about 0.75mm with
several grayish brown ball-like micro
crystals of titanite to 0.75mm scattered in a
large vug.
Location: Heftetjern pegmatite, T?rdal,
Drangedal, Telemark, Norway. Scale:
Scapolite Image
Images: Scapolite
Comments: Violet colored, gemmy crystal of

Scapolite, with upper terminations.
Location: Dodoma, Tanzania. Scale: 1 x 0.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
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Scarbroite Image
Images: Scarbroite
Comments: White earthy scarbroite.

Location: South Bay, Scarborough, North
Yorkshire, England, UK. Scale: Picture size 8
mm.
Scarbroite Image
Images: Scarbroite Hydroscarbroite
Comments: White to tan nodular

hydroscarbroite intermixed with scarbroite
in sandstone.
Location: Weston Favell, Northamptonshire,
England. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Scawtite Image
Images: Scawtite
Comments: 1 to 2 mm transparent crystals

of Scawtite on dark matrix (see pink arrows
in photo).
Location: Scawt Hill, Antrim, Ireland. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Schachnerite Image
Images: Schachnerite
Comments: Schachnerite tarnishing silvery

metallic.
Location: Sala, Vastmanland, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Schafarzikite Image
Images: Schafarzikite
Comments: Dull black irregular

schafarzikite masses in white marble.
Location: Bucca della Vena Mine, Valdi
Castello, Carducci, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Schaurteite Image
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Images: Schaurteite Tennantite
Comments: Bright white silky fibrous

schaurteite on dark tennantite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Scheelite Image
Images: Scheelite
Comments: Orange scheelite with white

mica.
Location: Pingwu, Sichuan, China. Scale:
9.5 x 9 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Schertelite Image
Images: Schertelite
Comments: Transparent glassy crystalline

schertelite grains.
Location: Skipton Caves, Ballarat, Victoria,
Mineral Species
Schiavinatoite Image
Images: Schiavinatoite
Comments: Black, 3mm euhedral crystal of

schiavinatoite in matrix.
Mahaiza, Madagascar. Scale: 3x2x2cm.
Schiavinatoite Image
Images: Schiavinatoite Rynersonite
Comments: Brown, columnar

schiavinatoite with minor white rynersonite
sticks on quartz.
Mahaiza, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Schieffelinite Image
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Images: Schieffelinite Rodalquilarite
Comments: Creamy white Schieffelinite

with minor green rodalquilarite.
size 6 mm.
Schirmerite Image
Images: Schirmerite
Comments: Gray metallic granular

schirmerite in quartz.
Location: Grand Trunk, Geneva District,
Park County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Schlemaite Image
Images: Schlemaite Clausthalite Eucairite

See Picture.
Schlossmacherite Image
Images: Schlossmacherite
Comments: Small (up to 3 mm) clusters of

pale yellow green Schlossmacherite
crystals on a siliceous matrix.
Location: Guanaco, Chile. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Schmiederite Image
Images: Schmiederite
Comments: Acicular schmiederite micro

crystals in quartz.
Location: Condor Mine, La Rioja, Argentina.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Schmitterite Image
Images: Schmitterite Emmonsite
Comments: Yellow schmitterite with green

emmonsite.
size 4 mm.
Schneebergite Image
Images: Schneebergite
Comments: Prismatic, acicular crystals of

schneebergite.
Location: Roter Berg, Neust?dtel,
Schneiderhohnite Image
Images: Schneiderhohnite
Comments: Quartz with a 0.8 cm partial

crystal of schneiderh?hnite and several
smaller complete crystals of
schneiderh?hnite to 3 mm.
© John Veevaert
Schoderite Image
Images: Schoderite
Comments: Sub-mm coatings of yellow to

deep orange Schoderite on matrix.
Location: Fish Creek Range, Eureka County,
© John Veevaert
Schoenfliesite Image
Images: Schoenfliesite
Comments: Yellow-brown schoenfliesite on

matrix.
Location: Zlaty Kopec, J?chymov (St
Joachimsthal), Krusn? Hory (Erzgebirge),
Z?padocesk? Kraj, Bohemia, Czech
Schoepite Image
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Images: Schoepite Becquerelite

schoepite on transparent yellow
becquerelite.
Congo. Scale: .
Schoepite Image
Images: Schoepite Metatorbernite
Comments: Green, tabular crystals of

metatorbernite and acicular, yellow
schoepite on matrix.
size 2.5 mm.
Schoepite Image
Images: Schoepite Ianthinite
Comments: Purple to brown resinous

ianthinite with yellow schoepite and
orange becquerelite.
Location: Colorado Plateau area,
Saguache County, Colorado, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Scholzite Image
Images: Scholzite
Comments: Sprays of Scholzite crystals to 1

cm line exposed vugs.
Location: Reaphook Hill, Blinman, South
Australia. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Scholzite Image
Images: Scholzite Hillite
Comments: Morphology of a
homogeneous larger cluster of hillite
growing on an acicular crystal of scholzite.
SEM back-scattered electron image.
Location: Lower Cambrian Parachilna
Formation, Reaphook Hill, South Australia,
Schoonerite Image
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Images: Schoonerite Ernstite
Comments: 1 mm honey brown, acicular,

radial sprays of ernstite with light green
fibrous schoonerite and apatite in siderite.
Location: White Cap mine, Pennington
County., South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 3
mm.
Schoonerite Image
Images: Schoonerite
Comments: Dark crystals of schoonerite on

matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Schorl Image
Images: Schorl Albite
Comments: Several jet-black lustrous

crystals of schorl perched on a white albite
matrix.
Location: Shengus, Gilgit, Pakistan. Scale: 4
x 3 x 2 cm.
Schorl Image
Images: Schorl
Comments: Parallel grouping of sharp,

black schorl crystals showing terminations.
Location: Davib Ost, Erongo Mountains
Namibia. Scale: Crystal size: 1.7 x 1.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Schorlomite Image
Images: Schorlomite
Comments: Lustrous massive black

schorlomite.
Location: Magnet Cov e, Hot Spring
Mineral Species
Schreibersite Image
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Images: Schreibersite
Comments: Golden metallic schreibersite

cleavage fragment from type IIB
octahedrite meteorite.
Location: Sau Luiao de Moreira Meteorite,
Ponte de Lima, Minho, Viana do Castelo,
Portugal. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Schreibersite Image
Images: Schreibersite Allabogdanite
Comments: Relict grain of allabogdanite

crystal (ABG) surrounded by schreibersite
rim (SCHR) in plessite matrix (PL). Black
phase is a secondary Fe-Ni-hydroxide.
Backscattered electron image. (AmMin,
87:1249).
Location: Onello iron meteorite (high-Ni
ataxite) Onello Riv er basin, Aldan shield,
Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Scale bar 10
µ-m.
Schrockingerite Image
Images: Schrockingerite
Comments: Pale greenish-yellow

schr?ckingerite aggregates on matrix.
Schrockingerite Image
Images: Schrockingerite
Comments: Pale greenish-yellow, platy

schr?ckingerite on matrix.
Location: Jack Daniels No. 1 Mine,
Cameron District, Coconino County,
Schuetteite Image
Images: Schuetteite
Comments: Yellow earthy schuetteite

coatings.
Location: Oceanic Mine, San Luis Obispo
County, California. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Schuilingite-(Nd) Image
Images: Schuilingite-(Nd)
Comments: Blue crystals of

Schuilingite-(Nd).
Location: Kasompi Mine, Kambove, Shaba
size 1.8 mm.
Schulenbergite Image
Images: Schulenbergite Linarite
Comments: Light greenish rosettes of

schulenbergite with small green crystals of
ramsbeckite and blue crystals of linarite.
Schultenite Image
Images: Schultenite
Comments: Arrow-shaped crystals of

schultenite on matrix.
Location: Gifford Lakes, King County,
Washington, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Schumacherite Image
Images: Schumacherite Pucherite
Comments: Brown crystals of pucherite

with yellow schumacherite on matrix.
Picture size 5 mm.
Scolecite Image
Images: Scolecite
Comments: Delicate cluster spray of

colorless transparent acicular crystals of
scolecite. The scolecites measure to 3 mm
in thickness.
Location: Nasik district, Maharashtra, India.
Scale: 5 x 3.5 x 9.5 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Scorodite Image
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Images: Scorodite
Comments: Quartz with an exposed vug

lined with lustrous bluish colored crystals of
scorodite to 4 mm across.
Location: Hemerdon Mine, Sparkwell,
Devon, England. Scale: 5 x 3.6 cm.
© John Veev aert
Scorodite Image
Images: Scorodite Beudantite
Comments: Blue, 2 cm in length scorodite

crystals on a sparkling matrix of brilliant
brown-black beudantite.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 8 x 5 x 3
cm.
© John Schneider
Scorodite Image
Images: Scorodite
Comments: Color changing scorodite,

green (left image) in daylight, red (right
image) under indoor lighting.
Location: Ahgbar, Morocco. Scale: NA.
© John Veevaert
Scorzalite Image
Images: Scorzalite
Comments: Deep blue scorzalite with

muscovite, quartz, and feldspar in matrix.
Location: Polermo Mine, North Groten, New
Hampshire, USA. Scale: 5 x 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Scrutinyite Image
Images: Scrutinyite
Comments: Acicular crystals of scrutinyite.

Location: Hilarion Mine, Agios Konstantinos,
Lavrion District, Attik? Prefecture, Greece.
Searlesite Image
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Images: Searlesite
Comments: Clear, prismatic crystal of Searlesite.

Location: Point of Rocks Mesa. Colfax County,
New Mexico, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.
Seeligerite Image
Images: Seeligerite
Comments: Orange crystalline seeligerite in

matrix.
Location: Casucha Mine, Sierra Gorda,
Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Segelerite Image
Images: Segelerite
Comments: Yellow, prismatic, striated

crystal of Segelerite.
Giv en.
Segnitite Image
Images: Segnitite
Comments: Translucent yellow crystalline

segnitite crust.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Seidite-(Ce) Image
Images: Seidite-(Ce)
Comments: Scanning Electron image of

seidite-(Ce) with the axial components of a
and c superimposed on crystal.
Location: Yubileynaya pegmatite at Mount
Karnasurt, Lov ozero alkaline massif, Kola
Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Image size 0.5 mm.
Seidozerite Image
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Images: Seidozerite Arfvedsonite
Comments: Dark red translucent

seidozerite with v itreous, black
arfvedsonite.
Location: Seidozero Lake, Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sekaninaite Image
Images: Sekaninaite
Comments: Black-green crystalline

sekaninaite cleavage with dark purple
colored fracture surface.
Location: Rozna, Morav ia, Jihomoravsky,
Mineral Species
Selenium Image
Images: Selenium
Comments: Acicular crystals of native

Selenium (up to 1 cm in length).
district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale:
Specimen size 3 cm.
Seligmannite Image
Images: Seligmannite Liveingite
Comments: Black prismatic seligmannite

crystals with crystalline black liveingite.
Mineral Species
Seligmannite Image
Images: Seligmannite
Comments: Lead gray, prismatic

seligmannite crystal with brassy yellow
pyrite on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Sellaite Image
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Images: Sellaite
Comments: Compact, white acicular sellaite

crystals.
Location: Clara Mine, Rankach valley,
Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-
W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale: 21x16x10 mm.
Semenovite Image
Images: Semenovite
Comments: Tan crystals of semenovite to 1

mm across on matrix.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland.
© John Veevaert
Semseyite Image
Images: Semseyite
Comments: Crystal clusters of semseyite

crystals to 1 cm on sphalerite.
Location: Herja, Romania. Scale: Picture
size 5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Semseyite Image
Images: Semseyite
Comments: Tabular crystals forming groups

and rosettes of gray semseyite with
creamy greenish yellow siderite.
Location: Herja mine, Maramures Rumania.
Scale: 6.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Senaite Image
Images: Senaite
Comments: Brownish-black senaite

cleavage.
Location: Dattas, near Diamantina, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Senaite Image
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Images: Senaite
Comments: Black crystal of senaite.

Location: Presidente Kibitschek, Minas
Gerias, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Senarmontite Image
Images: Senarmontite
Comments: Perfect octahedral,

transparent, light to dark gray senarmontite
crystals to 3mm.
Location: Djebel Haminate mine, Ain Beida,
Constantine, Algeria. Scale: Pictrure size 1.5
cm.
Senegalite Image
Images: Senegalite
Comments: Yellowish green, prismatic,

crystals of senegalite.
Location: Faleme River, Senegal. Scale:
Not Given.
Sengierite Image
Images: Sengierite
Comments: Green, tabular, crystals of

sengierite on matrix.
Location: Lubumbashi, Shaba, Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Scale: Not Given.
Sepiolite Image
Images: Sepiolite
Comments: Sectile to chalky massiv e

sepiolite.
Location: Pinos Altos, Grant County, New
Mineral Species
Serandite Image
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Images: Serandite Analcime Natrolite

of analcime.
© Fabre Minerals
Serandite Image
Images: Serandite Lintisite
Comments: Yellowish-white fibrous veinlets

of lintisite in brown serandite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Serendibite Image
Images: Serendibite Phlogopite
Comments: Blue serendibite, with golden

colored phlogopite, in white marble.
Location: Near Johnsberg, Warren County,
Mineral Species
Serpierite Image
Images: Serpierite
Comments: Blue, acicular crystals of

serpierite.
Location: Serpieri mine, Laurium, Greece.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Serrabrancaite Image
Images: Serrabrancaite
Comments: SEM micrograph of dark brown

to dark greenish black isometric crystals of
serrabrancaite up to 0.3 mm size. (AmMin,
85:848).
Location: Alto Serra Branca pegmatite
near Pedra Lavrada, Paraiba, Brazil. Scale:
See Image.
Sewardite Image
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Images: Sewardite
Comments: Photomicrograph of an
isolated fragment of red sewardite as well
as a fragment in green to black botryoidal
matrix.
Location: Single specimen of gangue
collected from the 31st lev el of the
Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: See
Image.
Sewardite Image
Images: Sewardite
Comments: Deep red, micaceous

sewardite crystals mistakenly identified as
carminite.
Location: Benjamin Hill, Sonora, Mexico.
Shabynite Image
Images: Shabynite
Comments: Translucent shabynite grains.

Location: Korshunovskoye Deposit, Irkutsk
District, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Shafranovskite Image
Images: Shafranovskite
Comments: Yellow-brown fine grained

shafranovskite with red eudialyte and
black aegirine.
Massif, Kola Peninsular, Murmansk District,
Mineral Species
Shattuckite Image
Images: Shattuckite Ajoite
Comments: Dark blue, tabular crystals of

shattuckite on light blue ajoite.
Shattuckite Image
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Images: Shattuckite
Comments: Blue micro acicular or fibrous

crystals of shattuckite to 0.1mm free
standing in vug.
Location: New Cornelia mine, Pima Co.,
Shattuckite Image
Images: Shattuckite
Comments: Blue, globular aggregates of

radial shattuckite crystals.
Location: Grand View Mine, Grand
Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Image.
Mineral Species
Shcherbakovite Image
Images: Shcherbakovite
Comments: Secondary electron image of

a shcherbakov ite crystal.
Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, Khibina
massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See
Image.
Shcherbinaite Image
Images: Shcherbinaite
Comments: Yellow-brown acicular crystals

of shcherbinaite.
size 1.4 mm.
Sherwoodite Image
Images: Sherwoodite
Comments: Dark blackish-violet

sherwoodite, altering to translucent green,
crystalline crust.
Location: San Juan County, Colorado, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Shibkovite Image
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Images: Shibkovite Polylithionite
Comments: Clear crystalline shibkovite

aggregates with peach colored
translucent polylithionite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Shigaite Image
Images: Shigaite Pyrochroite
Comments: Bronzy yellow crystals of

shigaite set in a crystalline matrix of reddish
black pychroite.
© John Veevaert
Shigaite Image
Images: Shigaite
Comments: Cluster of sharp, transparent

crystals of brown shigaite to 1.2 cm across.
Location: N'Chwaning mine. South Africa.
Scale: Aggregate size 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Shigaite Image
Images: Shigaite
Comments: Hexagonal aggregate of

orange platy shigaite crystals on a jpale
pink rhodocrosite matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning mine. South Africa.
© Minernet
Shirozulite Image
Images: Shirozulite
Comments: Back-scattered-electron
image of shirozulite. Shr = shirozulite; Tp =
tephroite; Ap = apatite; Rds =
rhodochrosite; Bm = bementite. (AmMin,
89:233).
Location: Tauchi mine, Aichi Prefecture,
Shkatulkalite Image
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Images: Shkatulkalite Mangan-neptunite
Comments: Pearly white shkatulkalite with

brown mangan-neptunite grains.
Shortite Image
Images: Shortite
Comments: Colorless crystal of shortite on

matrix.
Location: Green River Formation,
Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. Scale:
Picture size 6 mm.
Shortite Image
Images: Shortite
Click Here Comments: Triangular shortite crystal in

kerogenaceous dolomitic marlstone from the
for Larger saline zone in the Green River Formation.
Image Location: Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming,
USA. Scale: Crystal Size 2 mm.
Shuiskite Image
Images: Shuiskite
Comments: Acicular shuiskite microcrystal

sprays with epidote and prehnite.
Location: Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton
Mineral Species
Sibirskite Image
Images: Sibirskite
Comments: Translucent granular sibirskite.

Photo.
Mineral Species
Sicklerite Image
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Images: Sicklerite Lithiophilite
Comments: Mottled tan-green-pink

massive sicklerite with dark brown
lithiophilite on quartz.
Location: Custer Mountain Lode, Custer
Photo.
Mineral Species
Siderazot Image
Images: Siderazot
Comments: Bluish siderazot coatings on

scoria lava rock.
Mineral Species
Siderite Image
Images: Siderite Arsenopyrite
Comments: White, metallic arsenopyrite

and tan siderite crystals.
Location: Panasqueira (2000, 3rd lev el), in
the region of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale:
11 x 7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Siderite Image
Images: Siderite
Comments: Blocky siderite crystals on quartz.

Location: Panasqueira (2nd level), in the region
of Beira Baixa, Portugal. Scale: 7 x 8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Siderite Image
Images: Siderite
Comments: Bladed siderite crystal groups

on crystallized quartz matrix.
Location: Peyrebrune, Tarn, France. Scale:
8.7 x 6.5 x 4.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Siderite Image
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Images: Siderite Garronite
Comments: Translucent white micro

crystals of garronite on brown siderite
crystals.
Mineral Species
Sideronatrite Image
Images: Sideronatrite
Comments: Golden yellow acicular sprays

of sideronatrite crystals on matrix.
Location: Sulfur pit, Crescent Valley,
Nevada, USA. Scale: 6 x 5 x 4 cm.
© John Veevaert
Siderophyllite Image
Images: Siderophyllite
Comments: Micaceous siderophyllite with

quartz.
Location: Karaoba, Aktjubinsk, Kazakhstan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Siderotil Image
Images: Siderotil
Comments: Siderotil pseudomorphs after

melanterite.
Location: 2700' level, Campbell Shaft,
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sidorenkite Image
Images: Sidorenkite
Comments: Dark brown sidorenkite masses

in syenite rock.
Mineral Species
Sidwillite Image
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Images: Sidwillite
Comments: Thin olive-green sidwillite

coatings on quartz crystals.
Location: Lake Como, Summit County,
Mineral Species
Siegenite Image
Images: Siegenite
Comments: Equant, dark gray, metallic

crystals of siegenite on matrix.
Location: LaMotte mine, Fredericktown,
Madison County, Missouri, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Siegenite Image
Images: Siegenite Cattierite
Comments: Pinkish metallic cattierite,

intergrown with gray siegenite.
Mineral Species
Sigloite Image
Images: Sigloite Vauxite
Comments: Lime green, crystalline

aggregate of sigloite on massive, blue
vauxite.
Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department,
Boliv ia. Scale: Not Giv en.
Silhydrite Image
Images: Silhydrite
Comments: Fine grained massive silhydrite.

Location: Near Rome, Oregon, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Silicon Image
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Images: Silicon Moissanite

of metallic inclusion in moissanite (SiC). The
gray shading in the BSE mage consists
mainly of pure silicon (Si metal). The
brighter areas are composed of Fe-silicide.
(AmMin, 88:1818).
area. Scale: Scalebar 200 µ-m.
Sillenite Image
Images: Sillenite
Comments: Greenish to yellowish grains of

sill?nite in matrix.
Sillimanite Image
Images: Sillimanite
Comments: Silky massive sillimanite.

Location: Khasia Hills, Assum, India. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Silver Image
Images: Silver Gold
Comments: Very well crystallized Electrum

(Silver rich gold) on quartz. The analysis
gave 31.47% silv er.
Location: Verespatak (now Rosia
Montana), Transylvania, Romania. Scale:
2.8 x 3.4 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Silver Image
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Images: Silver
Comments: Numerous fine, silver wires to 4 mm

in diameter attached to a matrix of massiv e
white calcite and minor sulfides.
Location: Himmelsfahrt mine, near Freiberg,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: 4 x 4.5 x 6 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Silver Image
Images: Silver Stephanite
Comments: Thick, ropy, nativ e silv er wires

with blocky, well-crystallized stephanite on
white and tan calcite matrix.
Location: Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Alemania, Germay. Scale: Picture size 3
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Silver Image
Images: Silver Mckinstryite

mckinstryite with wire silver.
Location: Peregrina Mine, Guanajuato,
Mineral Species
Simmonsite Image
Images: Simmonsite
Comments: Backscattered electron

images of primary assemblage of cryolite-
cryolithionite (cl) simmonsite (sm) and trace
elpasolite (ep). (AmMin, v 84, p 770).
Location: Zapot amazonite-topaz-
zinnwaldite pegmatite located in the Gillis
Range, Mineral Co., Nev ada, USA. Scale:
See Image.
Simonellite Image
Images: Simonellite
Comments: Colorless to white Simonellite

on fossil wood.
Location: Fognano, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 6 mm.
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Simonkolleite Image
Images: Simonkolleite
Comments: Very small colorless crystals

with hexagonal shape of simonkolleite.
Location: Richelsdorf Smelter, S?ss,
Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany. Scale:
Simpsonite Image
Images: Simpsonite
Comments: Translucent pale pink

simpsonite crystal fragment.
Location: Alto do Giz, Equidor, Rio Grande
do Sol, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sincosite Image
Images: Sincosite Minyulite
Comments: Pale greenish white acicular

radial sprays of minyulite to 8mm with
small, green, tabular sincosite.
Location: Ross Hannibal mine, Lawrence
County, South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 2
cm.
Sincosite Image
Images: Sincosite
Comments: Tabular single crystals of

sincosite to 2 mm on drusy quartz.
Location: Ross Hannibal Mine, Lawrence
Co., South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size
1.5 cm.
Sinhalite Image
Images: Sinhalite
Comments: Crystalline sinhalite in white

marble.
Mineral Species
Sinkankasite Image
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Images: Sinkankasite
Comments: White crystalline spray of

acicular sinkankasite to 1mm on matrix.
Location: Barker mine, Keystone,
Sinnerite Image
Images: Sinnerite
Comments: Blackish-grey aggregate of sinnerite

crystals with red realgar on white dolomite.
© Walter Gabriel
Sitinakite Image
Images: Sitinakite
Comments: Beige translucent crudely

formed sitinakite (arrow) crystal with white
natrolite and dark, acicular aegirine.
Mineral Species
Sjogrenite Image
Images: Sjogrenite
Comments: Red-brown sjogrenite crust on

serpentinite rock.
Location: Fort Point, San Francisco County,
Mineral Species
Skaergaardite Image
Images: Skaergaardite
Comments: (e) A euhedral crystal of

skaergaardite exhibiting the form cube
{100} (possibly distorted) included in a
bornite-chalcocite i(BN+CC) grain. (f)
bornite (BN)+ chalcopyrite (CP)
microglobule with a skaergaardite cube
with rounded edges. (MinMag 68:615).
Location: Drill core taken from the
Skaergaard intrusion, Kangerdlugssuaq
area, East Greenland. Scale: See Image.
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Skinnerite Image
Images: Skinnerite
Comments: Dark gray skinnerite on matrix.

Location: Bankove, Kosice,
Vychodoslov ensky, Slovakia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Sklodowskite Image
Images: Sklodowskite
Comments: Yellow cotton-ball spray of

acicular sklodowskite.
Sklodowskite Image
Images: Sklodowskite Kasolite
Comments: Greenish yellow, acicular

sklodowskite crystals and yellow, bladed
kasolite crystals.
Picture size 1 cm.
Skutterudite Image
Images: Skutterudite Erythrite
Comments: Erythrite crystal on massive

skutterudite.
© John Veevaert
Skutterudite Image
Images: Skutterudite
Comments: Cubic crystals of Skutterudite

on matrix.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mountains,
Morrocco. Scale: Not Given.
Skutterudite Image
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Images: Skutterudite
Comments: Bright, untarnished, metallic

crystals of skutterudite up to 1 cm.
Picture size 3 cm.
© Minernet
Slavikite Image
Images: Slavikite
Comments: Bubbly slavikite crust.

Location: Smolnicka Huta,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Slawsonite Image
Images: Slawsonite
Comments: White crystalline slawsonite in

rock.
Location: Sarisaka, Kagami, Kochi, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Smithite Image
Images: Smithite
Comments: Spheric, pseudo-hexagonal,

reddish crystal of smithite with a gray
sulfosalt on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Smithsonite Image
Images: Smithsonite Creedite
Comments: Purple transparent crystals of

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

on matrix.
Smithsonite Image
Images: Smithsonite Murdochite
Comments: Dark metallic micro crystals of

murdochite on pale blue-gray smithsonite
crystal covered matrix.
Location: Silver Hill Mine group, Silv er Hill,
Waterman District, Waterman Mts, Pima
Smithsonite Image
Images: Smithsonite
Comments: Yellow, cadmian-bearing

smithsonite crystalline aggregate.
Location: Rush Mine in Marion County,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: 6.5 x 11 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Smolianinovite Image
Images: Smolianinovite
Comments: Tan to brown smolianinovite

pseudomorphs after cobaltite crystals, with
erythrite and tarnished cobaltite.
Location: Mount Cobalt, Cloncurry,
Queensland, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Smrkovecite Image
Images: Smrkovecite
Comments: Waxy smrkovecite botryoids in

vuggy quartz.
Location: Smrkovec, Zapadocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Sobolevite Image
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Images: Sobolevite

sobolevite cleavage.
Location: Mount Alluaiv, Lovozero Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sobolevskite Image
Images: Sobolevskite Atokite

image showing a) intergrowth of atokite,
mertieite-II [Pd8Sb3] and telluroan
sobolevskite [(Pd,Pt)(Bi,Te)] within tetra-
auricupride rim. (CanMin, v 42, p 611).
Scale: See Image.
Sodalite Image
Images: Sodalite Perovskite
Comments: Clear crystals of sodalite with

hoppered perovskite on matrix.
Sodalite Image
Images: Sodalite Winchite
Comments: Purple sodalite with some

crystal faces, supporting a very sharp,
transparent winchite crystal, terminated on
one end.
Location: Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley,
Badakshan Province, Afghanistan. Scale:
11x10x8 mm.
Soddyite Image
Images: Soddyite
Comments: Yellow crystals of soddyite.

Location: Swambo mine, Mindingi, Shaba,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: Not
Given.
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Soddyite Image
Images: Soddyite
Comments: Blocky, tabular crystals of

yellow soddyite.
Location: Swambo (Kambove), Shaba
size 2 mm.
Sodium-zippeite Image
Images: Sodium-zippeite
Comments: Yellow encrustations of

sodium-zippeite on matrix.
Location: Kovagoszolos, Mecsek Mts., Pecs
Co., Hungary. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
Sogdianite Image
Images: Sogdianite
Comments: Somewhat greasy to v itreous

massive sogdianite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sohngeite Image
Images: Sohngeite
Comments: Minute, pale yellow sohngeite

crystals to less than 0.2mm on matrix.
Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb , Namibia.
Sonolite Image
Images: Sonolite
Comments: Dark red anhedral grains of

sonolite in matrix.
Location: Crouse mine, Bald Knob,
Alleghany Co., North Carolina, USA. Scale:
Sonoraite Image
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Images: Sonoraite
Comments: Lime green crystalline

aggregate of sonoraite.
Location: Joe Shaft, Tombstone, Cochise
Sophiite Image
Images: Sophiite
Comments: White, tabular crystal of

sophiite in matrix.
Picture size 1 mm.
Sorbyite Image
Images: Sorbyite
Comments: Gray metallic sorbyite stringers

in white quartz.
Location: Candelaria, Mineral County,
Mineral Species
Sorensenite Image
Images: Sorensenite

sorensenite crystals and crystalline in dark
aegirine.
Location: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq,
Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sorensenite Image
Images: Sorensenite
Comments: Lght pink, prismatic crystals of

sorensite to 5mm in dark green aegerine
matrix.
Location: Kvanefjeld, Ilimaussaq,
Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
Sorosite Image
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Images: Sorosite Tin Stistaite

image of large sorosite crystal (So=partly
skeletal) adjacent to stistaite (St). Tn=native
tin. Note abundant microcrystals of sorosite
isolated within nativ e tin. (AmMin 83:903).
Location: Baimka gold-platinum group
mineral placer deposit, Chukotka, Russian
Far East. Scale: Image Size 1.5 cm.
Souzalite Image
Images: Souzalite
Comments: Blue-gray radial sprays of

souzalite in brown siderite.
Mineral Species
Spadaite Image
Images: Spadaite
Comments: Tan mottled silky fibrous

spadaite, slightly flexible coatings.
Location: Palos Verdes Hills, Los Angeles
Mineral Species
Spangolite Image
Images: Spangolite
Comments: Blue, hexagonal (trigonal)

crystals of spangolite on matrix.
Location: Blanchard mine, Bingham,
Socorro County, New Mexico, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Spencerite Image
Images: Spencerite
Comments: Pale green pearly translucent

spencerite, with divergent structure.
Location: Salmo, Nelson Mining District,
British Columbia, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Sperrylite Image
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Images: Sperrylite
Comments: Tin-white grain of sperrylite in

chalcopyrite matrix.
Location: Vermillion mine, Sudbury, Ontario,
Sperrylite Image
Images: Sperrylite
Comments: Brilliant, mirror-like modified

octahedral crystals of sperrylite to 1.3 cm
on chalcopyrite matrix..
Location: Talnak deposit, near Noril'sk,
Russia. Scale: 4.4 x 2.3 x 2cm.
Sperrylite Image
Images: Sperrylite Cabriite
Comments: Small crystal of dull gray

cabriite on a larger tin-white sperrylite
crystal.
Location: Dzhezhazgan, Kazakhstan. Scale:
© John Veevaert
Spertiniite Image
Images: Spertiniite
Comments: Sparse blue spertiniite on

serpentinite rock.
Location: Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos,
Mineral Species
Spessartine Image
Images: Spessartine
Comments: Dodecahedral crystal of

spessartine garnet on matrix.
Location: Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan,
Northern Areas, Pakastan. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Sphaerobertrandite Image
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Images: Sphaerobertrandite
Comments: White to pale brownish, radial-

concentric aggregates of
sphaerobertrandite.
Location: Sengischorr Mt, Lovozero Massif,
mm.
Sphaerocobaltite Image
Images: Sphaerocobaltite
Comments: Calcite with numerous crystals

of red sphaerocobaltite to 3 mm across.
Location: Kamoto Mine, Mashamba,
Katanga, Dem. Rep. of the Congo. Scale:
© John Veevaert
Sphaerocobaltite Image
Images: Sphaerocobaltite Vladimirite

v ladimirite microcrystals with pink
sphaerocobaltite.
Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou Azzer,
Mineral Species
Sphalerite Image
Images: Sphalerite
Comments: Highly lustrous, black, complex

sphalerite crystals to 15 mm in size
completely covering the top of a sulfide
matrix.
Location: Nanisiv ik mine, Baffin Island,
Northwest Territories, Canada. Scale: 6.5 x
7.5 x 1.8 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Sphalerite Image
Images: Sphalerite Ankerite Dickite

on beige dickite.
© Dave Barthelmy
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Sphalerite Image
Images: Sphalerite Baumhauerite-2a
Comments: Dark crystal of baumhauerite-2a

(same shape as baumhauerite) with oliv e-green
transparent sphalerite crystal on white dolomite.
Switzerland. Scale: Picture 2 cm tall.
© Walter Gabriel
Spinel Image
Images: Spinel
Comments: Spinel on white marble.

Location: Mogok, Myanmar. Scale: 2.2 x 1.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Spionkopite Image
Images: Spionkopite Yarrowite
Comments: Blue-black metallic granular

spionkopite, intermixed with yarrowite
altering, with quartz.
Location: Yarrow Creek, Alberta, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Spionkopite Image
Images: Spionkopite Yarrowite
Comments: Blue-gray metallic yarrowite

grains in granular quartz rock with
spionkopite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Spiroffite Image
Images: Spiroffite
Comments: Milky yellow crystalline

aggregate of Spiroffite on matrix.
Location: Moctezuma mine, Sonora,
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Spodumene Image
Images: Spodumene
Comments: Stacked crystals of Spodumene (Var.

Kunzite).
Location: Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale:
Crystal size 7 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Spriggite Image
Images: Spriggite
Comments: Secondary electron microscope

image of spriggite crystals and twins.
(AmMin, 89:341).
Location: Number 2 workings, Radium Ridge,
Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Scale: See Image.
Spurrite Image
Images: Spurrite Bredigite
Comments: White veins of bredigite in

massive gray spurrite (slabbed specimen).
Location: Camphouse, Ardnamurchan,
Argyll, Highland, Scotland. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Spurrite Image
Images: Spurrite
Comments: Dark to light purple massive

spurrite (cut face).
Location: South Sister Peak, Tres Hermanas
Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Srebrodolskite Image
Images: Srebrodolskite Periclase
Comments: Black grains of srebrodolskite

with white periclase.
size 2 mm.
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Srilankite Image
Images: Srilankite

srilankite (Sri) - rutile (Rt) - ilmenite (Ilm)
composite grain (AmMin, v 89, p 761).
Location: Atlantis II Fracture Zone,
Southwest Indian Ridge, Southern Indian
Ocean. Scale: See Image.
Stanleyite Image
Images: Stanleyite Patronite
Comments: Blue crystalline stanleyite on

dark patronite.
Location: Minas Ragra, Junin, Peru. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Stannite Image
Images: Stannite
Comments: Stannite crystal cluster at the

base of a quartz crystal.
Location: Yaogangxian mine, Hunan,
China. Scale: Crystal size 3 cm.
© John Attard
Stannite Image
Images: Stannite Zinkenite
Comments: Acicular crystals of zinkenite perched on

a twinned, crystal of stannite.
Location: Mina San Jos?, Oruro, Boliv ia. Scale: 4 x 2.3
x 1.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Stannomicrolite Image
Images: Stannomicrolite Stokesite
Comments: Stokesite "ball" composed of

lath-like tan or clear crystals with several
micro crystals of yellow stannomicrolite.
Location: Urucum mine, Galileia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.2 cm.
Starkeyite Image
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Images: Starkeyite
Comments: Translucent starkeyite on rock.

Location: Barvue Mine, Barv ille, Quebec,
Mineral Species
Staurolite Image
Images: Staurolite
Comments: Cruciform twinned staurolite

crystals without matrix.
Location: Marble, Cherokee Co., North
Carolina, USA. Scale: 3x2.5x1.5 cm.
Steacyite Image
Images: Steacyite
Comments: Square prismatic crystal of

steacyite on acicular aegirine.
Steenstrupine-(Ce) Image
Images: Steenstrupine-(Ce)
Comments: Dark gray, coarse grained,

elongated crystals of steenstrupine-(Ce) in
matrix.
Location: Kvanefield, Ilimanssaq,
Greenland. Scale: Specimen Size 5.6 cm.
Steigerite Image
Images: Steigerite
Comments: Earthy yellow steigerite masses

on sandstone.
Location: Yellow Cat District, Grand
Mineral Species
Stellerite Image
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Images: Stellerite
Comments: Hemispherical crystal cluster

35 mm diameter of white stellerite crystals
in a pocket lined with drusy quartz.
Location: Pune (Poonah), Maharashtra,
Stellerite Image
Images: Stellerite
Comments: Orange, blocky crystalline

stellerite aggregate.
Location: Tambar Springs, New South
Wales, Australia. Scale: Picture size 6x4 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Stenonite Image
Images: Stenonite
Comments: White nearly opaque stenonite

with minor pyrite grains.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Stepanovite Image
Images: Stepanovite
Comments: Translucent yellow crystalline

stepanovite fragment.
Location: Chai-Tumus, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species
Stephanite Image
Images: Stephanite
Comments: Group of steel gray lustrous stephanite

crystals to 8 mm in diameter. Caleb Simkoff
Collection.
Location: Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Scale: 10 x
12 x 23 mm.
© Dan Weinrich
Stephanite Image
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Images: Stephanite Silver
Comments: Thick, ropy, nativ e silv er wires

with blocky, well-crystallized stephanite on
white and tan calcite matrix.
Location: Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Alemania, Germay. Scale: Picture size 3
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Sterryite Image
Images: Sterryite
Comments: Back prismatic sterryite

microcrystals and massive in white calcite.
Location: Taylor Pit, Madoc, Ontario,
Mineral Species
Stetefeldtite Image
Images: Stetefeldtite
Comments: Light yellow, massive, earthy

stetefeldtite aggregates.
Location: Snyder Hill Mine, Tucson
Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona, USA. Scale:
2.5x2x1cm.
Stevensite Image
Images: Stevensite
Comments: Granular massive stevensite.

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Stewartite Image
Images: Stewartite Rockbridgeite
Comments: Pointed, brownish yellow

stewartite crystals on massive, dark
rockbridgeite.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Stibarsen Image
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Images: Stibarsen
Comments: Massive Stibarsen.

Location: Bohemia, Czechoslov akia. Scale:
3 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Stibiconite Image
Images: Stibiconite
Comments: Yellowish druses of microscopic

stibiconite pseudomorphic after sharply
terminated stibnite crystals.
Location: Xi Kuang Shang mine, Len Shui Jiang,
Hunan Province, China. Scale: 31x11x8 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Stibiopalladinite Image
Images: Stibiopalladinite
Comments: Gray metallic stibiopalladinite,

with bronze tarnish, flattened crystal grains.
Location: Choco, Columbia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Stibiotantalite Image
Images: Stibiotantalite
Comments: Translucent stibiotantalite

crystal.
Location: Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande,
San Diego County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Stibivanite Image
Images: Stibivanite
Comments: Green crystals of stibivanite on

matrix.
Location: Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema
(Ponte Stazzemese), Versilia, Apuan Alps,
Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
Stibnite Image
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Images: Stibnite
Comments: Prismatic crystals of metallic-

lustered stibnite.
Location: Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijang,
Hunan Prov ince, China. Scale: Crystal size
5-10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Stichtite Image
Images: Stichtite
Comments: Massive, fibrous, lavender-

purple stichtite.
Location: Kaapsche Hoop, Barberton
District, Mpumalanga Province, South
Africa. Scale: 5x3x2 cm.
Stilbite Image
Images: Stilbite Apophyllite

Hydroxyapophyllite

cav ity.
© Dave Barthelmy
Stilbite Image
Images: Stilbite Fluorapophyllite

Apophyllite

stilbite.
© Fabre Minerals
Stilbite-Ca Image
Images: Stilbite-Ca
Comments: Tabular, honey-colored stilbite

(stilbite-Ca?) crystals on matrix.
Location: Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia.
Scale: Not Given.
Stilbite-Ca Image
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Images: Stilbite-Ca Thomsonite-Ca
Comments: Peach colored stilbite crystals

to 3.5 cm in size is hosting two finely
crystallized balls of powdery white
thomsonite.
Location: Near Jalgaon, Maharashtra
State, India. Scale: Picture size 15 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Stilpnomelane Image
Images: Stilpnomelane
Comments: Golden metallic scaly

stilpnomelane on pink orthoclase.
Location: French Creek No. 2 Mine, near
Saint Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania,
Mineral Species
Stistaite Image
Images: Stistaite
Comments: Minute stistaite crystal.

Location: Edjej River, Kyrgyzstan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Stistaite Image
Images: Stistaite Sorosite Tin

Stokesite Image
Images: Stokesite
Comments: Colorless transparent stokesite

microcrystal in albite.
Location: Corrego do Urucum, Galileia,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Stokesite Image
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Images: Stokesite
Comments: Thick, tabular crystals of stokesite,

perched atop a 2 cm sphere of feldspar
crystals.
Location: Corrego do Urucum, near Galilea,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.3 x 2.5 x 2 cm.
© Rob Lav insky
Stokesite Image
Images: Stokesite Stannomicrolite
Comments: Stokesite "ball" composed of

lath-like tan or clear crystals with several
micro crystals of yellow stannomicrolite.
Location: Urucum mine, Galileia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.2 cm.
Stolzite Image
Images: Stolzite
Comments: White stolzite crystals on matrix.

Location: Tuena mine, New South Wales,
Straczekite Image
Images: Straczekite
Comments: Greenish-black, prismatic-

acicular crystals of straczekite.
Location: Union Carbide Mine, Wilson
Springs (Potash Sulfur Springs), Garland Co.,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
Stranskiite Image
Images: Stranskiite
Comments: Blue fibrous Stranskiite veinlets

in white quartz.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Strashimirite Image
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Images: Strashimirite
Comments: Green, radial sprays of

acicular strashimirite crystals on matrix.
County, Nevada. Scale: Not Given.
Stratlingite Image
Images: Stratlingite
Comments: Transparent blue-tinted platy

stratlingite crystal aggregate in v ug.
Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pfalz,
Mineral Species
Strengite Image
Images: Strengite
Comments: Pink, bladed, stellate spray of strengite

crystals on matrix.
Location: Indian Mountain, Cherokee County,
Alabama, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Strengite Image
Images: Strengite Cacoxenite
Comments: Lilac colored, spear-head

shape crystals of strengite to 5mm in large,
open vug associated with golden fibrous
cacoxenite.
Location: Coon Creek, Polk Co., Arkansas,
Strengite Image
Images: Strengite Kidwellite
Comments: Spherical, crystalline aggregate of

purple strengite on green kidwellite.
Location: Three Oak Gap, Polk Co., Arkansas,
Stringhamite Image
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Images: Stringhamite Wollastonite-1A
Comments: Rounded aggregate of dark

blue stringhamite crystals on bladed, white
wollastonite.
Stromeyerite Image
Images: Stromeyerite
Comments: 1.5 cm spray of hair-like

Stromeyerite crystals on quartz and calcite
matrix.
Location: Vrancice near Pribram, Czech
Republic. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Stronalsite Image
Images: Stronalsite Jadeite
Comments: White stronalsite veinlets in

massiv e pale green jadeite.
Location: Ohasa, Okayama, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Strontianite Image
Images: Strontianite
Comments: Lustrous, white strontianite crystals

covering all sides of matrix. The strontianite
fluoresces bright blue-white under UV
illumination.
Location: Lime City Quarry, Lime City, Wood
Co., Ohio, USA. Scale: 6x5x4 cm.
Strontiodresserite Image
Images: Strontiodresserite
Comments: Opaque white spherical

strontiodresserite, with radial structure.
Mineral Species
Strontiojoaquinite Image
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Images: Strontiojoaquinite
Comments: Yellow, pointed crystals of

Strontiojoaquinite on matrix.
Location: Mina Numero Uno, San Benito
Strontiowhitlockite Image
Images: Strontiowhitlockite Bobierrite
Comments: Pale white to pink fine grained

strontiowhitlockite with bobierrite.
Location: Kov dor Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Mineral Species
Strunzite Image
Images: Strunzite
Comments: Acicular, stellate sprays of

strunzite crystals on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Struverite Image
Images: Struverite
Comments: Struverite crystal in white

feldspar.
Location: Pisek, Jihocesky, Czech Republic.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Struvite Image
Images: Struvite
Comments: Opaque, white crystal struvite

aggregates in earthy matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Studenitsite Image
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Images: Studenitsite

studenitsite micro fragment.
Location: Piskanja, Srbija, Yugoslavia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Studtite Image
Images: Studtite Billietite
Comments: Acicular, white sprays of

studtite crystals on yellow, tabular billietite.
Sturmanite Image
Images: Sturmanite
Comments: Sharply terminated dark

yellowish crystal of sturmanite with a few
lesser crystals attached to one side.
Location: N'Chwaning mine, Kalahari
South Africa. Scale: 17 x 10 x 16 mm.
© Dan Weinrich
Sturtite Image
Images: Sturtite
Comments: Dark red-brown resinous

massiv e sturtite.
Location: North Mine, Broken Hill, New
South Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Stutzite Image
Images: Stutzite
Comments: Dull black stutzite grains in

white-green calcite.
Mineral Species
Suanite Image
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Images: Suanite
Comments: Dark olive green nearly

opaque suanite cleavage.
Location: Houxianya, Yingkou, Liaoning,
China. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sudoite Image
Images: Sudoite Manganite
Comments: Pinkish to nearly white earthy

sudoite with dark manganite.
Location: Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Erfurt district,
size 4 mm.
Sugilite Image
Images: Sugilite Effenbergerite
Comments: Blue effenbergerite pods to

across in massive purple sugilite.
South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert
Sugilite Image
Images: Sugilite Pectolite
Comments: Sharp terminated purple

crystals of sugilite to 5mm on white,
acicular pectolite.
Africa. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Sulfoborite Image
Images: Sulfoborite

sulfoborite crystal.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sulfur Image
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Images: Sulfur Coccinite
Comments: Orange-red coccinite on sulfur.

Due to the volatility of the mineral at room
temperature, the sample is preserved in a
the vial, therefore the sharpness is
reduced.
Sulfur Image
Images: Sulfur
Comments: Single complex crystal of sulfur on

white, sucrosic aragonite.
Location: Girgenti, Sicily, Italy. Scale: Crystal size
4.5.
© John Veevaert
Sulfur Image
Images: Sulfur Metastibnite
Comments: Red coatings of metastibnite

with yellow sulfur.
Mineral Species
Sulphohalite Image
Images: Sulphohalite
Comments: Octahedral sulphohalite

crystal.
Location: Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co.,
California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert
Sulphotsumoite Image
Images: Sulphotsumoite
Comments: Dark gray sulphotsumoite,

tarnishing, foliated in milky quartz.
Location: Mina de la Carcel, Zacatecas,
Mineral Species
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Sulvanite Image
Images: Sulvanite
Comments: Cubic grains of bronze-gray

sulvanite crystals in marble.
Location: Val Bona quarry, Carrara, Italy.
© Dave Barthelmy
Sundiusite Image
Images: Sundiusite
Comments: Clear to white platy crystals to

1mm covering Hausmannite matrix.
Suolunite Image
Images: Suolunite
Comments: Translucent massive suolunite.

Location: Oman. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Suredaite Image
Images: Suredaite
Comments: Silvery metallic columnar

suredaite in matrix.
Location: Pirquitas Mine, Jujuy, Argentina.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Suredaite Image
Images: Suredaite
Comments: BSE image of a large zoned

crystal of suredaite, chemically SU-3,
surrounded (replaced) by SU-2. White is
skeletal galena. (AmMin 85:1068).
Location: Pirquitas Ag-Sn deposit (Province
Jujuy, NW-Argentina). Scale: See Image.
Surite Image
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Images: Surite
Comments: Pearly white, almost

micaceous surite crystals on vuggy matrix
with yellow cerussite.
Location: Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine,
Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1 cm.
Sursassite Image
Images: Sursassite
Comments: Coppery-red colored silky

fibrous sursassite vein with white quartz in
rock.
Location: Strategic Manganese Mine, near
Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sussexite Image
Images: Sussexite
Comments: Red resinous sussexite in ore

matrix.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Svabite Image
Images: Svabite
Comments: Prismatic white crystals of

svabite on matrix.
Svanbergite Image
Images: Svanbergite
Comments: Milky white dolomite with

scattered cinnamon brown crystals of
svanbergite to 2 mm across.
Location: Mt. Brussilof Mine, near Radium,
British Columbia, Canada. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Svyazhinite Image
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Images: Svyazhinite
Comments: Granular svyazhinite

aggregate.
Location: Chelyabinsk Coal Basin, Kopeisk,
Chelyabinsk District, Southern Urals, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Swamboite Image
Images: Swamboite
Comments: Yellow crystals of Swamboite

to 0.5 mm across.
Location: Swambo, Katanga, Dem. Rep. of
the Congo. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Swartzite Image
Images: Swartzite
Comments: Pale yellow powdery

swartzite, intermixed with gypsum on schist
rock.
Location: Hillside Mine, Bagdad, Yavapai
Mineral Species
Swedenborgite Image
Images: Swedenborgite
Comments: Water clear, prismatic crystal

of swedenborgite on matrix. Under UV light
it glows intense blue.
Sweetite Image
Images: Sweetite
Comments: A white, pseudocubic crystal

of sweetite.
Location: Milltown Quarry, Ashover,
Derbyshire, England, UK. Scale: Picture size
1.4 mm.
Swinefordite Image
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Images: Swinefordite
Comments: Dark green leathery

swinefordite coating on pegmatite.
Location: Foote Mine, King's Mountain,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Switzerite Image
Images: Switzerite
Comments: Pale brown sub-metallic thin

platy switzerite coatings.
Location: Foote Mine, King's Mountain,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Sylvanite Image
Images: Sylvanite
Comments: Flat-lying, metallic crystallized

sylv anite on a quartz rich matrix. Caleb
Simkoff Collection.
Location: Sacaramb (Nagyag),
Transylv ania, Romania. Scale: 7.5 x 8.5 x 4
cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Sylvite Image
Images: Sylvite
Comments: Translucent sylvite crystal

cluster, somewhat deliquescent.
Location: F.O. Kailwerk, Sigmundshall, near
Wunstorf, Niedersachsen, Germany. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Symplesite Image
Images: Symplesite
Comments: Fan-shaped spray of acicular

symplesite on matrix.
Location: Saubachthal, Saxony, Germany.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Synchysite-(Ce) Image
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Images: Synchysite-(Ce) Cordylite-(Ce)

cordylite-(Ce) on light brownish
synchysite-(Ce).
Location: Narss?rssuk (Narsarsuk), Igaliko,
Greenland. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
Synchysite-(Ce) Image
Images: Synchysite-(Ce)
Comments: Prismatic crystals of

synchysite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Kaiserer quarry, Raurisertal,
Salzburg, Austria. Scale: Not Given.
Synchysite-(Y) Image
Images: Synchysite-(Y)
Comments: Small thin tabular crystals of

synchysite-(Y) in a vug.
Location: Cuasso da Monte, Varese
province, Lombardy, Italy. Scale: Picture
size 3 mm.
Syngenite Image
Images: Syngenite
Comments: Opaque platy crystal

syngenite rosette on massive white halite.
Location: Sigmundshall Mine, Bokelch,
Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Szaibelyite Image
Images: Szaibelyite Borcarite
Comments: Pale aqua granular borcarite

with white fibrous to granular szaibelyite.
Location: Nalednoya, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species
Szaibelyite Image
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Images: Szaibelyite Kainite
Comments: pale violet granular kainite

intermixed with white ascharite
(szaibelyite).
Location: Havesa, Empelde, Hannover,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Szaibelyite Image
Images: Szaibelyite
Comments: Bright white fibrous szaibelyite

coating on serpentinite rock.
Location: Stinson Beach, Marin County,
Mineral Species
Szenicsite Image
Images: Szenicsite
Comments: Deep green szenicsite crystals

on siliceous green to brown jasperoid.
Location: Jardinera #1 Mine, Atacama
Province, Chile. Scale: 6.2 x 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Szmikite Image
Images: Szmikite
Comments: Tan translucent szmikite.

Location: Calumet Mine, Galena Hill, Yukon
Territory, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Szomolnokite Image
Images: Szomolnokite Voltaite
Comments: Whitish crystalline crust of voltaite

on crystals of brown szomolnokite.
Location: Alcaparrosa Mine, Cerritos Bayos,
© John Veevaert
Szomolnokite Image
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Images: Szomolnokite Halotrichite
Comments: Tan powdery szomolnokite

crust on silky fibrous halotrichite with yellow
metavoltine.
Location: Markey Mine, Red Canyon, San
Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Taaffeite Image
Images: Taaffeite Magnesiotaaffeite-2N2S
Comments: Faucetted purple

magnesiotaaffeite. These specimens are
very rare and un-cut samples ev er rarer..
Location: Ceylon gem grav els, Ratnapura,
Sri Lanka. Scale: See Image.
© Dave Barthelmy
Tacharanite Image
Images: Tacharanite Phillipsite
Comments: Spherical tacharanite

aggregates on phillipsite crystals.
Location: Espalion, Aveyron, France. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tachyhydrite Image
Images: Tachyhydrite
Comments: Translucent pink tinted

granular tachyhydrite.
Mineral Species
Taenite Image
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Images: Taenite Troilite Cohenite

Kamacite

Photo.
Mineral Species
Taenite Image
Images: Taenite Kamacite Troilite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Taenite Image
Images: Taenite
Comments: Massive taenite, altering,

intermixed with kamacite, in meteorite.
Location: Agtalilik Meteorite, Melv ille Bay,
Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Taimyrite Image
Images: Taimyrite Atokite
Comments: Photomicrograph (oil

immersion) of atokite and taimyrite
intergrowth inside tetraauricupride reaction
rim on Pt-Fe alloy. Outlined section shows
atokite relics within taimyrite. (CanMin, v 42,
p 610).
Khabarov skiy Kray, eastern Siberia, Russia,.
Scale: See Image.
Tainiolite Image
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Images: Tainiolite
Comments: Micaceous tainiolite aggregate.

Location: Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County,
Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Takedaite Image
Images: Takedaite
Comments: Translucent granular takedaite.

Location: Fuka, Okayama, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Takeuchiite Image
Images: Takeuchiite
Comments: Aggregates of black prismatic

takeuchiite crystals.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Takovite Image
Images: Takovite
Comments: Aqua-colored takov ite on

rock.
Mineral Species
Talc Image
Images: Talc
Comments: White Talc pseudomorphous

after quartz.
Location: Johannezeche, Bavaria,
Talmessite Image
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Images: Talmessite
Comments: Pale green, crystalline

aggregates of talmessite on reddish,
hematite-stained calcite.
Location: Ourlil, Bou Azzer, Anti Atlas Mts.,
© John Veevaert
Talmessite Image
Images: Talmessite

talmessite microcrystals.
Location: Old Gold Hill Mine, Tooele
Mineral Species
Talmessite Image
Images: Talmessite
Comments: Vivid pink-colored talmessite

crystalline aggregates scattered on matrix.
Picture size 2 cm.
Talnakhite Image
Images: Talnakhite
Comments: Tarnished brown talnakhite

with brassy chalcopyrite.
Location: Talnakh Deposit, Norilsk,
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tamarugite Image
Images: Tamarugite Blodite
Comments: Clear, yellow bl?dite with

white tamarugite.
Tamarugite Image
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Images: Tamarugite Metasideronatrite
Comments: Orange metasideronatrite with

white tamarugite.
Tamarugite Image
Images: Tamarugite
Comments: Small white flakes of

Tamarugite.
size 5 mm.
Taneyamalite Image
Images: Taneyamalite
Comments: Dark brown silky fibrous

taneyamalite vein in manganese ore.
Location: Taneyama Mine, Toyo,
Kumamoto, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tangeite Image
Images: Tangeite
Comments: Green. rosette crystalline-aggregates

of tangeite on sandstone matrix.
Location: Thompson, Grand County, Utah, USA.
Scale: Not Given.
Tantalcarbide Image
Images: Tantalcarbide
Comments: Dark gray metallic

tantalcarbide grains in sand.
Location: Nizhnii Tagil Massif, Sverdlovsk
Photo.
Mineral Species
Taramellite Image
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Images: Taramellite

taramellite.
Location: Candoglia, Domo d'Ossola, Val
Toce, Piedmonte, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Taramite Image
Images: Taramite
Comments: Taramite, variety mboziite,

black microcrystal prisms in quartz.
Location: Foyaite Dike, Mbozi Syenite-
Gabbro Complex, 50 miles south of
Mbeya, Mbeya, Tanzania. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Taranakite Image
Images: Taranakite
Comments: Bright white chalky powdery

taranakite mass.
Location: South Farallon Island, near San
Francicso, California, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tarapacaite Image
Images: Tarapacaite
Comments: Pale brown translucent

tarapacaite, deliquescent granular.
Location: Tarapaca, Chile. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tarbuttite Image
Images: Tarbuttite
Comments: Clear, prismatic crystal of

tarbuttite on matrix.
Location: Broken Hill Mine, Kabwe, Central
Zambia. Scale: Not Giv en.
Tarkianite Image
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Images: Tarkianite
Comments: A euhedral grain of tarkianite

associated with sperrylite (Sp) in heav y-
mineral concentrate. Plane-polarized light,
oil immersion, sample 2_72_6.
Location: Sulfide concentrate from Hitura
Ni-Cu-PGE mine, Nivala, western central
Finland. Scale: See Scale Bar.
Tatyanaite Image
Images: Tatyanaite Rustenburgite

images showing inclusions of rustenburgite
intergrown with taimyrite-tatyanaite
aggregates. (AmMin, v 42, p 608).
Scale: See Image.
Tausonite Image
Images: Tausonite
Comments: Brown crystal of tausonite in

matrix.
Location: Murun massif, Chara Riv er,
Davan, Torgo Riv er Basin, Aldan Shield,
mm.
Tavorite Image
Images: Tavorite
Comments: Tabular, prismatic crystals of

tavorite on matrix.
Giv en.
Tavorite Image
Images: Tavorite Hureaulite
Comments: Lime green tavorite micro

crystals with pink, gemmy hureaulite.
Dakota, United States. Scale: Picture size
1.0 cm.
Tazheranite Image
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Images: Tazheranite
Comments: Brown grain of tazheranite in

matrix.
Location: Tazheran Massif, Lake Baikal
area, Irkutskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia
Teallite Image
Images: Teallite
Comments: Gray, metallic v ein of coarsely

crystalline teallite.
Location: Carguaycollo mine (type
locality), Potos? , Bolivia. Scale: 4.5x4x2.5
cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Teepleite Image
Images: Teepleite
Comments: Tan bladed crystals teepleite

on massive halite.
Location: Borax Lake, Lake County,
Mineral Species
Tegengrenite Image
Images: Tegengrenite
Comments: Red, pseudo-octahedral

crystal of tegengrenite in quartz.
Location: Jakobsberg, Nordmark, Filipstad,
V?rmland, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 0.8
mm.
Telargpalite Image
Images: Telargpalite Oulankaite

Tulameenite Chalcopyrite

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Tellurantimony Image
Images: Tellurantimony Mattagamite

Altaite

altaite.
Mineral Species
Tellurite Image
Images: Tellurite Denningite
Comments: Vitreous colorless to very pale

yellowish elongated crystals denningite
with yellow tellurite.
Tellurite Image
Images: Tellurite
Comments: Scaly yellow tellurite on white

quartz.
Mineral Species
Tellurium Image
Images: Tellurium
Comments: Crystalline native tellurium on

quartz.
Tellurium Image
Images: Tellurium Empressite
Comments: Bronze-colored microcrystals

of empressite with bright native tellurium
crystals.
Location: Rex mine, Boulder County,
Colorado, USA. Scale: 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm.
Tellurobismuthite Image
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Images: Tellurobismuthite
Comments: Platy hexagonal metallic

crystals of tellurobismuthite to 3+ mm. in
matrix.
Location: Boliden, Skellefte?, V?sterbotten,
Sweden. Scale: 2.7x1.6x0.7 cm.
Tellurobismuthite Image
Images: Tellurobismuthite
Comments: Metallic tellurobismuthite

crystal fragment.
Location: Boliden, Vasterbotten, Sweden.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Telluropalladinite Image
Images: Telluropalladinite Kotulskite

Keithconnite

Natural Resources
Temagamite Image
Images: Temagamite Borovskite

Merenskyite

42, p 674).
Tennantite Image
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Images: Tennantite Calcio-

andyrobertsite-1M
Comments: Vein of blue

calcioandyrobertsite in massive dark gray
tennantite. The v ein of
calcioandyrobertsite extends for 0.8cm.
© John Veevaert
Tennantite Image
Images: Tennantite
Comments: Crystals of dark gray tennantite on

white quartz.
Location: Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas,
Mexico. Scale: 6 x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Tennantite Image
Images: Tennantite Schaurteite
Comments: Bright white silky fibrous

schaurteite on dark tennantite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tennantite Image
Images: Tennantite
Comments: Micro-quartz coated, dark

gray tennantite on quartz. Former Sussman
Tsumeb specimen.
Location: Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: Crystal
size 5 cm.
© John Schneider
Tenorite Image
Images: Tenorite Chrysocolla
Comments: Lustrous black botryoidal Tenorite

mostly covering a sky-blue massive
chrysocolla matrix.
Location: 79 mine, Banner district, Pinal Co.,
Arizona. Scale: 5.5 x 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Tephroite Image
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Images: Tephroite
Comments: Sharp crystals of tephroite to

1.2 cm across.
© John Veevaert
Tephroite Image
Images: Tephroite Ericssonite

Orthoericssonite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tephroite Image
Images: Tephroite Johnbaumite
Comments: Violet crystalline massive

johnbaumite with brown tephroite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Terlinguacreekite Image
Images: Terlinguacreekite
Comments: Reddish brown crystalline

aggregates of eglestonite? or
montroydite? in calcite matrix covered
with yellow crusts of terlinguacreekite.
Location: Mariposa Mine, Terlingua,
Brewster County, Texas, USA. Scale: See
Image.
Mineral Species
Terlinguaite Image
Images: Terlinguaite
Comments: Beige, massiv e granular

crystals of terlinguaite on pink calcite.
Location: Mariposa mine, Terlingua,
Terlingua district, Brewster Co., Texas, USA.
Ternesite Image
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Images: Ternesite
Comments: Pale blue crystalline ternesite.

Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Rheinland-Pflaz,
Mineral Species
Terskite Image
Images: Terskite
Comments: Pale v iolet terskite fragment.

Mineral Species
Tertschite Image
Images: Tertschite
Comments: Bright white fibrous powdery

tertschite.
Location: Kurtpinari Mine, Faras, Balikesir,
Turkey. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Teruggite Image
Images: Teruggite
Comments: Opaque rounded teruggite

aggregate.
Location: Loma Blanca, Jujuy, Argentina.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tetra-auricupride Image
Images: Tetra-auricupride
Comments: Golden brown crystals of

tetra-auricupride on matrix.
Location: Karabash (Karabasch),
Tetradymite Image
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Images: Tetradymite
Comments: Gray metallic foliated

tetradymite in quartz.
Location: Mangfallberg, Boliden,
Vasterbotten, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tetrahedrite Image
Images: Tetrahedrite
Comments: A very brilliant tetrahedrite

group with the tops of the crystals covered
in chalcopyrite.
Location: Casapalca, Lima, Peru. Scale: 8 x
6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Tetrahedrite Image
Images: Tetrahedrite
Comments: Bright sharp metallic

tetrahedrite crystals to 1 cm in size on
pinkish to colorless crystalline calcite
matrix.
Location: Cavnic (Kapnik), Maramures,
Romania. Scale: 14 x 11 x 3 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Tetranatrolite Image
Images: Tetranatrolite Gonnardite
Comments: White, pseudocubic crystals of

tetranatrolite (gonnardite) on matrix.
County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Tetrarooseveltite Image
Images: Tetrarooseveltite
Comments: Light-yellow, earthy

tetrarooseveltite.
Location: Moldava, Teplice (Teplitz), Krusn?
Hory (Erzgebirge), Severocesk? Kraj,
size 4.5 mm.
Tetrawickmanite Image
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Images: Tetrawickmanite
Comments: Tan, pseudoctahedral crystal

of tetrawickmanite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Thalenite-(Y) Image
Images: Thalenite-(Y)
Comments: Subhedral, brownish

thalenite-(Y) crystal embedded in a
sucrosic matrix of yttrian fluorite.
Location: Hundholmen, Tysfjord, Norway.
Scale: 0.5 cm.
© Sigurd Stordal / University of Tromsoe
Thalfenisite Image
Images: Thalfenisite
Comments: Polished 2mm fragment of

thalfenisite in epoxy mount..
Location: Oktyabr'sky mine, Noril'sk, Siberia,
Russia. Scale: 1.2cm across.
Thaumasite Image
Images: Thaumasite
Comments: Doubly-terminated Thaumasite.

South Africa. Scale: 1 cm across.
© John Veevaert
Thaumasite Image
Images: Thaumasite

thaumasite.
© John Veevaert
Theisite Image
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Images: Theisite
Comments: Pale blue pearly theisite

scattered on matrix.
Location: Grand Junction, Mesa County,
Mineral Species
Thenardite Image
Images: Thenardite
Comments: White thenardite on augite-

nephelinite rock.
Location: B?renstein Quarry, Niederschlag,
Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Theophrastite Image
Images: Theophrastite Chromite
Comments: Green pearly scaly

theophrastite coatings on massive dark
chromite.
Location: Vermion Region, near
Thessaloniki, Kedriki Makedhonia, Greece.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Thermonatrite Image
Images: Thermonatrite Nacaphite
Comments: Sparse pale yellow-brown

microcrystal and crystalline nacaphite with
white thermonatrite on a dark matrix.
Mineral Species
Thermonatrite Image
Images: Thermonatrite
Comments: Granular thermonatrite.

Mineral Species
Thomasclarkite-(Y) Image
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Images: Thomasclarkite-(Y)
Comments: Transparent, yellowish crystal

of thomasclarkite-(Y).
Scale: 0.75 mm.
© John Veevaert
Thometzekite Image
Images: Thometzekite
Comments: Pale olive-green colored

thometzekite crusts on quartz.
Location: Moldovo. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Thomsenolite Image
Images: Thomsenolite Cryolite
Comments: Massive, white cryolite with

solution cavities lined with prismatic
Thomsenolite crystals.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: .
© John Veevaert
Thomsonite-Ca Image
Images: Thomsonite-Ca Stilbite-Ca
Comments: Peach colored stilbite crystals

to 3.5 cm in size is hosting two finely
crystallized balls of powdery white
thomsonite.
Location: Near Jalgaon, Maharashtra
State, India. Scale: Picture size 15 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Thoreaulite Image
Images: Thoreaulite
Comments: Yellow thoreaulite grain.

Location: Ognevka Ta Deposit, Kalba
Range, Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy
(Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya [Eastern-
Kazakhstan] Oblast'), Kazakhstan. Scale:
Grain size 1 mm.
Thorianite Image
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Images: Thorianite
Comments: Thorianite penetration twin.

Location: Huddersfield, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Thorikosite Image
Images: Thorikosite
Comments: Yellow, prismatic crystals of

Thorikosite on matrix.
Location: Passa Limani Cove slag locality,
Passa Limani area, Lavrion District, Attik?
(Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece. Scale:
Thorite Image
Images: Thorite
Comments: Brown crude crystal of thorite

var. uranothorite with still visible termination
on both ends. Mildly radioactiv e.
Location: Kemp Uranium Mine, Cheddar,
Cardiff Township, Haliburton Co., Ontario,
Canada. Scale: 15x14x13 mm.
Thorite Image
Images: Thorite
Comments: Several small, black cubic

crystals of thorite.
Location: Balangoda, Ratnapura,
Sabaragamuwa province, Sri Lanka. Scale:
Thornasite Image
Images: Thornasite
Comments: Opaque thornasite

microcrystals.
Location: DeMix-Varennes Quarry, Saint
Amable Sill, Varennes, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Thorogummite Image
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Images: Thorogummite
Comments: Yellow-tan resinous

thorogummite with calcite.
Location: Fort Dauphin, Toliara,
Madagascar. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Thorogummite Image
Images: Thorogummite
Comments: Pale tan to yellowish

thorogummite pseudomorphous after
thorite in matrix.
Location: Fort Dauphin (T?lanaro) area,
Toliara (Tul?ar) Province, Madagascar.
Thortveitite Image
Images: Thortveitite
Comments: Small white prismatic crystals

of thortveitite on matrix.
Location: A4 highway tunnel, Thiemendorf,
Threadgoldite Image
Images: Threadgoldite
Comments: Beige threadgoldite filling

cracks in, and coating, black uraninite.
Schumacher Collection.
Location: Kobokobo Pegmatite, Lusungu
Riv er District, Kiv u, Congo (Za?re). Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Tiemannite Image
Images: Tiemannite
Comments: Dull black tiemannite masses

on limestone.
Location: Marysvale, Piute County, Utah.
Mineral Species
Tiemannite Image
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Images: Tiemannite
Comments: Dull steel-gray, tetragonal

crystals of tiemannite to 0.5mm with
modifications and striations, slight purple
tinge.
Location: Rio Blanco, Pinal De Arvole,
Atriagu, Queretare, Mexico. Scale: Picture
size 2 mm.
Tienshanite Image
Images: Tienshanite Cesium-kupletskite
Comments: Dark olive-green colored

crystalline tienshanite with cesium-
kupletskite in microcline.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tikhonenkovite Image
Images: Tikhonenkovite
Comments: Colorless tikhonenkovite grain.

Location: Karasug Fe-REE-barite-fluorite
Deposit, Tannu-Ola Range, Tuva Republic,
Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. Scale: Grain
length 1.8 mm.
Tilasite Image
Images: Tilasite
Comments: Brownish, prismatic crystals of

tilasite.
Location: Cervandone, Val d'Ossola
Lombardy, Italy. Scale: Not Given.
Tilleyite Image
Images: Tilleyite
Comments: Opaque white fibrous tilleyite

with blue calcite.
Mineral Species
Tin Image
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Images: Tin
Comments: Stream rounded silvery

metallic tin grains.
Location: Near Oban, New South Wales,
Mineral Species
Tin Image
Images: Tin Sorosite Stistaite

Tinaksite Image
Images: Tinaksite Charoite
Comments: Yellow-brown prismatic

tinaksite crystals in purple charoite with
black aegirine.
Location: Murun, Aldan Uplift, Chara and
Olekma Rivers, near Olekminsk, Republic of
Sakha, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tinaksite Image
Images: Tinaksite Charoite
Comments: Polished slab of deep purple

chariote with inclusions of black augite,
white feldspar and orange tinaksite.
Location: Murun, Siberia, Russia. Scale:
Picture size 10 cm.
© Kevin Ward
Tincalconite Image
Images: Tincalconite
Comments: Pristine white tincalconite

pseudomorph after a single borax crystal.
Location: Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co.,
California, USA. Scale: 30x14x5 mm.
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Tinsleyite Image
Images: Tinsleyite Phosphosiderite

Rockbridgeite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tinticite Image
Images: Tinticite
Comments: Porcelaneous tinticite chip.

Location: Near Tintic Standard Mine, Tintic
District, Juab County, Utah, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tinzenite Image
Images: Tinzenite
Comments: Orange crystalline tinzenite

with quartz and black braunite.
Location: Cassagne mine, near Chiav ari,
Mineral Species
Tinzenite Image
Images: Tinzenite
Comments: Orange bladed aggregate of

tinzenite crystals and clear quartz.
Location: Molinello mine, Val Graveglia,
Italy. Scale: 5.8x3.6x3.3 cm.
Tiptopite Image
Images: Tiptopite Montgomeryite
Comments: Clear, acicular crystals of

tiptopite with red montgomeryite.
Giv en.
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Tiptopite Image
Images: Tiptopite Englishite

Montgomeryite

Tiragalloite Image
Images: Tiragalloite
Comments: Orange crystals of tiragalloite

in matrix.
Liguria, Italy. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
Tisinalite Image
Images: Tisinalite
Comments: Yellow tisinalite in syenite

pegmatite matrix.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Titanite Image
Images: Titanite
Comments: Several twinned green crystals

of Titanite (sphene) on matrix.
Location: Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 5.5x5x3.5 cm.
Titanite Image
Images: Titanite Amesite
Comments: Green titanite (sphene) crystals

on purple chromamesite (clinochlore?).
Location: Saranovskaya Deposit, Middle
Ural Mountains, Russia. Scale: Picture size 7
cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
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Titanowodginite Image
Images: Titanowodginite
Comments: Black crystals of

titanowodginite in matrix.
Location: Tanco Mine (Bernic Lake Mine),
Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet area,
Manitoba, Canada. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.
Titantaramellite Image
Images: Titantaramellite
Comments: Dark brownish black

titantaramellite crystal in quartz.
Mineral Species
Tlalocite Image
Images: Tlalocite
Comments: Green, spherulitic aggregates

of Tlalocite on matrix.
size 1 mm.
Tlapallite Image
Images: Tlapallite
Comments: Green, microcrystalline druse

of tlapallite grains.
Location: Bambollita Mine (Oriental Mine),
Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora,
Mexico. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Tobelite Image
Images: Tobelite
Comments: Fine grained massive tobelite.

Location: Tobe, Ehime, Japan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tobermorite Image
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Images: Tobermorite
Comments: Bright white tobermorite with

blue calcite, USA.
County, California. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tochilinite Image
Images: Tochilinite
Comments: Grayish-black, metallic wires of

tochilinite on matrix.
Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Piedmont,
Todorokite Image
Images: Todorokite Opal
Comments: Dendritic todorokite in white

opal.
Location: Brosso Mine, Ivrea, Torino,
Mineral Species
Tokkoite Image
Images: Tokkoite Charoite
Comments: Yellow crystalline tokkoite

intermixed with purple charoite (viewed
cross-sectional to fiber direction).
Location: Murun, Aldan, Republic of Sakha,
Mineral Species
Tokyoite Image
Images: Tokyoite
Comments: Metallic reddish brown crystals

of tokyoite (< 0.3 mm) on dark gray
braunite matrix.
Location: Gambatesa mine, Graveglia
Valley,, Genova, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4
mm.
Tolbachite Image
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Images: Tolbachite
Comments: Small orange-brownish crystals

of tolbachite.
Location: Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka
Tomichite Image
Images: Tomichite
Comments: Section of drill core with a very

rare crystal of tomichite to 1mm.
Location: Hemlo Gold mine, Ontario,
Canada. Scale: Core size 2.5 cm.
Topaz Image
Images: Topaz
Comments: Transparent sharp gem topaz

crystal set upon a matrix of crystallized
white albite and silvery muscovite.
Location: Yunu Village, Shigar, Gilgit
div ision, Pakistan. Scale: 1.6 x 1.8 x 4.2 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Torbernite Image
Images: Torbernite
Comments: Bright green platy crystals of

torbernite on matrix.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Shaba, Zaire.
Scale: 7x5x5 cm.
Torbernite Image
Images: Torbernite
Comments: Cluster of green torbernite

crystals. Radioactiv e.
Location: Margabal Mine, Entraygues-
sur-Truy?re, Aveyron, Midi-Pyr?n?es, France.
Scale: 22x13x10 mm.
Torreyite Image
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Images: Torreyite
Comments: Whitish translucent granular

torreyite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tosudite Image
Images: Tosudite
Comments: Fine grained massive tosudite.

Location: Takatama Mine, Fukushima,
Mineral Species
Traskite Image
Images: Traskite Sanbornite

traskite in white sanbornite.
Mineral Species
Trechmannite Image
Images: Trechmannite
Comments: Dark red, trigonal pyramid

crystal of trechmannite on dolomite.
Trechmannite Image
Comments: Red prismatic crystals of

trechmannite with minor gray glossy
sulfosalt (rathite?) on white dolomite.
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Trechmannite Image
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Comments: Colorfull assemblege of

techmannite (reddish black) with orpiment
(golden yellow) and realgar (reddish
orange) in white dolomite.
Wallis, Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
Tremolite Image
Images: Tremolite
Comments: Dark green tremolite crystal cluster.

Location: Selleck Road Locality, West Pierrepont, St
Lawrence Co., New York, USA. Scale: 4.5x2x1.5 cm.
Trevorite Image
Images: Trevorite Willemseite
Comments: Small trevorite crystal in

massive willemseite.
Location: Bon Accord, Barberton Mountain,
Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Trevorite Image
Images: Trevorite Willemseite
Comments: Waxy translucent green

willemseite with black trevorite in schistose
rock.
Location: Near Scotia Talc Mine, Barberton
Mountain, Transv aal, Mpumalanga, South
Mineral Species
Triangulite Image
Images: Triangulite
Comments: Bright yellow triangulite filling

vugs in rhyolite.
Location: Rhyolite Ridge, near Mina, Mineral
Mineral Species
Tridymite Image
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Images: Tridymite
Comments: Clear, pseudohexagonal

crystals of tridymite on matrix.
Location: Bellerberg quarry, Laacher See,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Not
Giv en.
Trilithionite Image
Images: Trilithionite
Comments: Pinkish trilithionite in matrix.

Location: Neuland Quarry, D?bsch?tz,
Trimerite Image
Images: Trimerite
Comments: Pinkish crystalline trimerite in

ore.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Trinitite Image
Images: Trinitite Lechatelierite
Comments: Fused silica sand (trinitite)

generated by the first nuclear (fission)
bomb. Although man-made and not a
valid mineral, the specimen has historic
value.
Location: Trinity Flats, White Sands, New
Mexico. It came into existance at 5:29 a.m.,
July 16, 1945. Scale: Specimen size 4.1 cm.
Triphylite Image
Images: Triphylite
Comments: Dark gray-blue prismatic

triphylite crystals in pegmatite rock.
Location: Newry, Oxford County, Maine,
Mineral Species
Triplite Image
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Images: Triplite
Comments: Dark brown vitreous triplite.

Location: Abravazes Pegmatite, Beira Alta,
Viseu, Portugal. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Triploidite Image
Images: Triploidite Lithiophilite
Comments: Salmon-colored prismatic

crystalline triploidite with brown lithiophilite.
Location: Capoeira Mine, near Parelhas,
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tripuhyite Image
Images: Tripuhyite
Comments: Brown tripuhyite on matrix.

Location: Clara Mine, Rankach v alley,
Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest,
Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Tritomite-(Ce) Image
Images: Tritomite-(Ce)
Comments: Dark brown, vitreous grains of

tritomite-(Ce) in pegmatite matrix.
Location: Langesundsfjorden, Larvik,
Vestfold, Norway. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
Trogerite Image
Images: Trogerite Metazeunerite
Comments: Yellow crystals of tr?gerite with

green metazeunerite.
Location: Walpurgis Flats, Wei?er Hirsch
Mine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District,
Picture size 5 mm.
Troilite Image
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Images: Troilite Cohenite Kamacite

Taenite

Photo.
Mineral Species
Troilite Image
Images: Troilite Kamacite Taenite

Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Trolleite Image
Images: Trolleite Berlinite
Comments: Pinkish crystalline berlinite with

blue trolleite.
Location: Ijzer Mine, Vestana, Christiansted,
Mineral Species
Trolleite Image
Images: Trolleite Lazulite
Comments: Pale blue trolleite with darker

blue lazulite.
Location: Champion Mine, White Mountains,
Mono County, California. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Trolleite Image
Images: Trolleite Viseite
Comments: Chalky white massive v iseite

with bluish trolleite.
Location: Champion Sillimanite Mine, near
Laws, Mono County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Trona Image
Images: Trona Nahcolite
Comments: Massive, coarse-grained Trona

from a drill core of the upper mixed-layer
Saltbed. White areas are nahcolite
alteration.
County, California, USA. Scale: 12 x 15 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Truscottite Image
Images: Truscottite
Comments: Whitish pearly scaly massive

truscottite.
Location: Lebong Donok Mine, Benkeelen,
Sumatra Island, Indonesia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tsaregorodtsevite Image
Images: Tsaregorodtsevite
Comments: Translucent tsaregorodtsevite

crystals, with small quartz crystals, on mica
schist.
Location: Near Mount Yaruta,
Man-Khambo Range, Republic of Komi,
Near-Polar Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tschermakite Image
Images: Tschermakite
Comments: Dark green tschermakite with

compact divergent structure.
Location: Elba, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tschermigite Image
Images: Tschermigite
Comments: Clear crystal of tschernichite in

a v ug.
Location: Goble, Colombia County,
Oregon, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Tschermigite Image
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Images: Tschermigite Berndtite
Comments: Yellow crystalline berndtite on

tschermigite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tschernichite Image
Images: Tschernichite
Comments: Clear crystal of tschernichite in

a v ug.
Location: Goble, Colombia County,
Oregon, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Tschortnerite Image
Images: Tschortnerite

of tschortnerite. (AmMin 83:608).
Location: Ca-rich xenolith at the Bellberg
volcano near Mayen, Eifel, Germany.
Scale: Scale Bar 20 µm.
Tsepinite-Na Image
Images: Tsepinite-Na
Comments: Brown, needle-like crystals of

tsepinite-Na in matrix.
Location: Lephke-Nelm, Lov ozero, Kola,
Russia. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
Tsugaruite Image
Images: Tsugaruite
Comments: Brown-gray fibrous spherical

tsugaruite on matrix.
Location: Yunosawa Mine, Aomori, Japan.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tsugaruite Image
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Images: Tsugaruite
Comments: Dark gray veinlet of tsuraruite

in matrix.
Location: Yunosawa mine, Tsugaru District,
Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picure
size 3x2 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Tsumcorite Image
Images: Tsumcorite
Comments: Yellow tsumcorite crystalline

rosettes on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Tsumebite Image
Images: Tsumebite
Comments: Green crystalline aggregates

of tsumebite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Tsumoite Image
Images: Tsumoite
Comments: Gray metallic tsumoite in milky

quartz.
Location: Biorkdalsgruvan, Sweden. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tugtupite Image
Images: Tugtupite
Comments: Albite hosting a 1.2 cm mass of

partially gem quality tugtupite.
Location: Tugtup, Greenland. Scale: 2.1
x1.3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Tuhualite Image
Images: Tuhualite
Comments: Black, tabular crystals of

tuhualite on matrix.
Location: Opo Bay, Mayor Island, New
Zealand. Scale: Not Given.
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Tulameenite Image
Images: Tulameenite Oulankaite

Telargpalite Chalcopyrite

Tumchaite Image
Images: Tumchaite
Comments: SEM photomicrograph of typical

tumchaite crystals shaped by the prism {hkl},
and by two pinacoids {100} and {h0l}. Grains are
tabular on (100), elongated along [001].
(AmMin 85:1517).
Location: Vuoriyarvi alkali-ultrabasic massif,
Murmansk Region, Russia. Scale: See Image.
Tunellite Image
Images: Tunellite
Comments: Clear, prismatic crystals of

tunellite on matrix.
Location: Death Valley, Inyo County,
California, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Tungstenite Image
Images: Tungstenite
Comments: Tungstenite, variety

tungstenite-2H, gray metallic flakes in rock.
Location: Rita, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tungstibite Image
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Images: Tungstibite
Comments: Dark olive-green spherical

aggregate of tungstibite in matrix.
4 mm.
Tungstite Image
Images: Tungstite
Comments: Yellow tungstite.

Location: San Antonio de Calacalani mine,
Cercado, Oruro, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size
5 mm.
Tungusite Image
Images: Tungusite
Comments: Green to white platy tungusite

rosettes.
Location: Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, near
Tura, Evenkia, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia,
Mineral Species
Tunisite Image
Images: Tunisite
Comments: Transparent pearly platy

tunisite microcrystal.
Location: Condorcet, Drome, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tuperssuatsiaite Image
Images: Tuperssuatsiaite
Aluminoferrotschermakite
Comments: Golden acicular

tuperssuatsiaite crystal spray with clear
apophyllite and dark green
aluminoferrotschermigite.
Location: Aris Quarry, Khomas, Namibia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Comments: Rich, brown tufts up to 0,4 cm

of acicular tuperssuatsiaite crystals on a
phonolite matrix.
Location: Aris Phonolite, Namibia. Scale:
Picture size 4 cm.
© Minernet
Comments: Two mm golden acicular

sprays of tuperssuatsiaite on matrix.
Location: Aris Quarry, Windhoek, Namibia.
Turanite Image
Images: Turanite
Comments: The holotype specimen of

botryodal, olive green turanite (#3578) in a
cavite in white barite from the collection of
the Fersman Mineralogical Museum
(Moscow, Russia). (CanMin, v 42, p732).
Location: Tyuya-Muyun Ra-U deposit, the
Alai Ridge foothills, Osh district, Kyrgyzstan.
© N.A. Pekova
Turanite Image
Images: Turanite
Comments: SEM image of turanite crystals

(a) parallel intergrown crystals.
Location: Tyuya-Muyun Ra-U deposit, the
Alai Ridge foothills, Osh district, Kyrgyzstan.
Scale: See ImaGE.
Turkestanite Image
Images: Turkestanite
Comments: Green, blocky, prismatic

crystal of turkestanite in matrix.
Location: Dara-i-Pioz Glacier, Alayskiy (Alai)
Range, Tien Shan Mts, Districts of the
Republican Subordination, Tajikistan. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Turquoise Image
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Images: Turquoise
Comments: Blue, triclinic crystals (rare) of

turquoise on matrix.
Location: Lynch Station, Campbell County,
Virginia, USA. Scale: Not Given.
Turtmannite Image
Images: Turtmannite
Comments: Orange-brownish grains of

turtmannite in matrix.
Location: Pipji Glacier, Turtmanntal
(Turtmann Valley), Wallis (Valais),
Tuscanite Image
Images: Tuscanite Augite
Comments: Translucent tuscanite

microcrystal in in v ug in low-Fe augite (var.
fassaite).
Location: Pitigliano Quarry, Grosseto,
Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tuzlaite Image
Images: Tuzlaite
Comments: Prismatic colorless crystals of

tuzlaite.
Location: Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen,
size 5 mm.
Tweddillite Image
Images: Tweddillite
Comments: Thin-section of (100) twinned

tweddillite blades (red-orange-magenta )
in a matrix of serandite-pectolite (white-
grey-yellow). Crossed polarizers. (MinMag
66:144).
Location: Kalahari manganese fields
(Republic of South Africa). Scale: Picture
Size 1 mm.
Tychite Image
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Images: Tychite
Comments: Nearly transparent tychite

crystal.
Mineral Species
Tyretskite Image
Images: Tyretskite
Comments: Gray granular tyretskite

coating.
Location: Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tyrolite Image
Images: Tyrolite
Comments: Blue, crystalline aggregates of

tyrolite on matrix.
Location: Lake Serene mine, Index,
Snohomish County, Washington, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Tyrolite Image
Images: Tyrolite
Comments: Blue-green flattened, felted,

platy crystals of tyrolite to 3mm on matrix.
Location: Centennial Eureka mine, Juab
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Tyrrellite Image
Images: Tyrrellite Umangite
Comments: Bright metallic partial cubic

tyrrellite crystal in altering umangite.
Location: Eagle Claims, near Hal Lake,
Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Tyuyamunite Image
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Images: Tyuyamunite
Comments: Yellow tyuyamunite crystals 1

mm in size.
Location: Marie Mine, Carbon Co.,
Montana. USA. Scale: picture size 2 cm..
© John Veevaert
Tyuyamunite Image
Images: Tyuyamunite Grantsite
Comments: Dark olive green waxy

coatings of grantsite with greenish-yellow
tyuyamunite and sandstone.
Location: F-33 Mine, near Grants, Valencia
Photo.
Mineral Species
Tyuyamunite Image
Images: Tyuyamunite
Comments: Bright yellow rosette crystals of

tyuyamunite on matrix.
Location: Marie mine, Carbon County,
Montana, USA. Scale: Rosette size 0.5 mm.
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Uchucchacuaite Image
Images: Uchucchacuaite
Comments: Corroded grain of

uchucchacuaite in matrix.
Location: Bera Basin #4 mine, King Co.,
Washington, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
Uhligite Image
Images: Uhligite
Comments: Black granular uhligite in

syenite rock.
Location: near Lake Magadi, Rift Valley
Province, Kenya. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Uklonskovite Image
Images: Uklonskovite
Comments: Minute crystals and crystalline

uklonskovite.
Location: Pampa del Pique III,
Antofagasta, Chile. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ulexite Image
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Images: Ulexite
Comments: Tray of fibrous Ulexite

fragments which have been cut and
polished perpendicular to the fibers. This
shows the fiber-optic "TV stone" effect
which transmit images through the
fragments.
Location: U.S. Borax Mine, Boron, Kramer
District, Kern County, California, USA. Scale:
Picture size 10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Ulrichite Image
Images: Ulrichite
Comments: Green ulrichite microcrystal tuft

on quartz.
Location: Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ulrichite Image
Images: Ulrichite
Comments: Green, acicular crystals of

ulrichite on matrix. Co-type specimen (?)
collected by the discoverer, Anthony
Fraser.
Location: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake
Boga, Victoria, Australia. Scale: Picture size
2 mm.
Ulvospinel Image
Images: Ulvospinel
Comments: Black sub-metallic massive

ulv?spinel.
Location: Otanmaki, Sout, Oulu, Finland.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Umangite Image
Images: Umangite Athabascaite

Berzelianite

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Mineral Species
Umangite Image
Images: Umangite Bellidoite Berzelianite

Mineral Species
Umangite Image
Images: Umangite Tyrrellite
Comments: Bright metallic partial cubic

tyrrellite crystal in altering umangite.
Location: Eagle Claims, near Hal Lake,
Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Umangite Image
Images: Umangite Berzelianite
Comments: Black massive umangite

intergrown with dark blue metallic
berzelianite.
Location: Borsov, Bohemia, Vychodocesky,
Mineral Species
Umbozerite Image
Images: Umbozerite
Comments: Dark brown prismatic

umbozerite masses in pegmatite rock.
Location: Pegmatite #100, Mount
Karnasurt, Lov ozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Murmansk District,. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Umohoite Image
Images: Umohoite
Comments: Orange Umohoite aggregates

on matrix.
Location: Rab?jac, Lod?ve, H?rault,
Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Scale:
Picture size 1 mm.
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Ungarettiite Image
Images: Ungarettiite
Comments: Dark red ungarettiite veinlets in

rock.
Location: Hoskins Mine, near Grenfell, New
Mineral Species
Ungemachite Image
Images: Ungemachite Metasideronatrite
Comments: Translucent rounded

ungemachite microcrystal on yellow
metasideronatrite.
Mineral Species
Uralolite Image
Images: Uralolite
Comments: Radiating aggregates of

uralolite.
Location: Brandr?cken, Weinebene pass,
Koralpe Mts, Carinthia, Austria. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Uramphite Image
Images: Uramphite
Comments: Thin encrustions of urampite on

a fracture surface in sub-bituminous coal.
Location: Tura-Kavak, Issyk-Kul'skaya
Oblast', Kyrgyzstan. Scale: See Image.
Urancalcarite Image
Images: Urancalcarite
Comments: Bright yellow earthy spots

composed of micro acicular urancalcarite
crystals associated with rusty browm
huemulite.
Location: Huemul mine, Malargue,
Mendoza, Argentina. Scale: Picture size 1.5
cm.
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Uraninite Image
Images: Uraninite Uranophane
Comments: Sharp, cubic crystals of black

uraninite on yellow uranophane.
Location: Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Uraninite Image
Images: Uraninite
Comments: Polished slab of black

"gummite" ore with the uraninite altering to
various secondary uranium minerals in a
brecciated matrix.
Location: Ruggles mine, Graton, New
Hampshire, USA. Scale: Specimen size 11.4
cm.
Uraninite Image
Images: Uraninite
Comments: Black uraninite impregnating

coaly wood fragments. You can see the
woody structure in detail preserved in the
uraninite.
Location: Grants mineral district, Westwater
Canyon Member of the Morrison
Formation.. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Uranocircite Image
Images: Uranocircite Meta-uranocircite
Comments: Brilliant, fluorescent yellow

green crystals of uranocircite altered to
meta-uranocircite.
Location: Bergen, Vogtland, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: 2.3 x 2.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Uranocircite Image
Images: Uranocircite Phosphuranylite
Comments: Yellow, waxy phosphuranylite

with green uranocircite in matrix.
cm.
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Uranocircite Image
Images: Uranocircite Meta-uranocircite
Comments: Crystal fragment of

uranocircite fracturing due to dehydration
to meta-uranocircite. The most common
are 100 and 010 fractures, with 110 close
behind. But notice the 210 and 410
fractures (breaks) as well.
Location: . Scale: Crystal size 2x3.5 cm.
Uranocircite Image
Images: Uranocircite
Comments: Yellowish green square,

foliated uranocircite crystal.
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1.3
cm.
Uranophane Image
Images: Uranophane

uranophane with black uraninite.
Uranophane Image
Images: Uranophane Uraninite
Comments: Sharp, cubic crystals of black

uraninite on yellow uranophane.
Uranophane Image
Images: Uranophane
Comments: Yellow uranophane acicular

crystal tufts.
Location: Faraday Mine, Bancroft, Ontario,
Mineral Species
Uranophane-beta Image
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Images: Uranophane-beta
Comments: Bright yellow

uranophane-beta crystalline aggregates.
Location: Rossing mine, Rossing, Namibia.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Uranopilite Image
Images: Uranopilite Zippeite
Comments: Bright yellow uranopilite and

reddish brown zippeite encrustations on
uranium ore.
Location: Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon,
Utah. Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Uranopilite Image
Images: Uranopilite

uranopilite aggregate of prismatic
microcrystals.
Location: Jachymov, Northwestern
Bohemia, Zapadocesky, Czech Republic.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Uranopilite Image
Images: Uranopilite Johannite
Comments: Bright yellow rosettes of

uranopilite with pale greenish yellow
johannite on matrix.
Uranopilite Image
Images: Uranopilite Johannite
Comments: Green aggregates of minute,

acicular johannite and yellow uranopilite
and clear, tabular aragonite crystals on
matrix.
Uranopolycrase Image
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Images: Uranopolycrase
Comments: Brownish-black
uranopolycrase microcrystals on quartz.
Location: Fonte del Prete, near San Piero in
Campo, Elba, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Uranopolycrase Image
Images: Uranopolycrase
Comments: Brown to black, paper thin,

elongated uranopolycrase crystals to
1mm.
Location: Cavetta Bassa, Elba Isle, Livorno
2 mm.
Uranospathite Image
Images: Uranospathite
Comments: Minute, less than 0.1cm platy

yellow crystals or uranospahtite on matrix.
Location: Pedro Alvaro, Salamanca, Spain.
Uranosphaerite Image
Images: Uranosphaerite
Comments: Yellow-orange earthy

uranosphaerite crusts.
Location: Kersegalec en Lignol, Vendee,
Mineral Species
Uranospinite Image
Images: Uranospinite
Comments: Translucent platy uranospinite

microcrystals on matrix.
Location: Grube Buhlskopf, near Ellweiler,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Uranpyrochlore Image
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Images: Uranpyrochlore Samarskite-(Y)
Comments: Deep greenish-brown resinous

crystalline massive uranpyrochlore with
black samarskite-(Y).
Location: Beryl Hill, near Yinnietharra
Station, Western Australia, Australia. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Uricite Image
Images: Uricite
Comments: White powdery uricite

aggregate.
Location: Dingo Donga Cave, near
Rawlinna, Western Australia, Australia.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Urusovite Image
Images: Urusovite
Comments: Green urusovite grain.

Location: Northern Breakthrough, Great
Fissure (Main Fracture) eruption, Tolbachik
volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern
Region, Russia. Scale: Crystal length 0.7
mm.
Ushkovite Image
Images: Ushkovite Roscherite
Comments: Translucent ushkovite

microcrystals with orange roscherite on
feldspar.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Ussingite Image
Images: Ussingite Cuprostibite
Comments: Massive ussingite hosting grains of the

very rare copper antimony-thallium bearing
cuprostibite.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland. Scale:
4.8 x3.4 cm.
© John Veevaert
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Ussingite Image
Images: Ussingite Vuonnemite
Comments: Massive, violet colored

ussingite with a single bladed partial
crystal of white vuonnemite 1.5 cm in
length.
Location: Mt. Karnasurf, Lovozero, Russia.
Scale: 4.2 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Ussingite Image
Images: Ussingite Gerasimovskite
Comments: Pale tan gerasimovskite

pseudomorphous after epistolite crystal, in
purple ussingite.
Mineral Species
Utahite Image
Images: Utahite
Comments: Blue utahite grain in matrix.

District (East Tintic Mountains), Juab Co.,
Uvanite Image
Images: Uvanite
Comments: Yellowish brown uvanite

coating on sandstone.
Location: Temple Rock, Emery County,
Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Uvarovite Image
Images: Uvarovite
Comments: Green uvarovite (garnet) crystal

group.
Location: Mokkivaara mine, Outokumpu,
Finland. Scale: 1.3x1.2x1 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Uvite Image
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Images: Uvite
Comments: Reddish brown, prismatic uvite

crystals.
Location: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Scale: 4.5
x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Uytenbogaardtite Image
Images: Uytenbogaardtite
Comments: Gray crystal grains of

uytenbogaardtite to 1mm throughout matrix
with electrum.
Location: Bullfrog mine, Nye County, Nevada,
USA. Scale: Slab 1cm thick 6x6cm.
Uzonite Image
Images: Uzonite
Comments: Yellow powdery uzonite

encrustation.
Location: Uzon Volcano, Kamchatka
District, Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Vaesite Image
Images: Vaesite
Comments: Metallic black v aesite

microcrystals.
Location: Ca'de Ladri, Bologna, Emilia-
Romagna, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vajdakite Image
Images: Vajdakite

photograph of aggregate of acicular
vajdakite crystals (AmMin, 87:984).
Location: J?chymov , NW Bohemia, Czech
Republic. Scale: 300x magnification.
Valentinite Image
Images: Valentinite Cetineite
Comments: Orange-reddish acicular

crystals of cetineite with white valentinite.
Valentinite Image
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Images: Valentinite Rosiaite
Comments: Beige crystals of rosiaite with a

colorless valentinite prism.
Location: Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto,
Valentinite Image
Images: Valentinite
Comments: 6mm spray of bladed

valentinite crystals on siderite matrix.
Location: Potosi, Bolivia. Scale: Picture size
1.5 cm.
© John Attard
Valentinite Image
Images: Valentinite Antimony
Comments: Beige v alentinite crystals with

red kermesite in a matrix of gray, massiv e
antimony.
Location: South-Ham Antimony mine, Lake
Nicolet, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Picture
Size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Valleriite Image
Images: Valleriite
Comments: Bronze-brown colored metallic

valleriite, somewhat foliated.
Location: Pima Mine, near Tucson, Pima
Mineral Species
Vanadinite Image
Images: Vanadinite
Comments: Tabular, hexagonal crystals of

vanadinite.
Location: Mibladen, Midelt, Morocco.
Scale: 3 x 2.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Vanadiocarpholite Image
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Images: Vanadiocarpholite
Comments: Micro-fibrous tan crystals of

vanadiocarpholite to 0.75mm.
Location: Molinello Mine, Graveglia Valley,
Ne, Genova Province, Liguria, Italy. Scale:
Picture size 2 mm.
Vandenbrandeite Image
Images: Vandenbrandeite
Comments: Cluster of deep greenish black

crystals of vandenbrandeite to 2 mm.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Katanga, Dem.
Rep. of the Congo. Scale: Picture size 1.5
cm.
© John Veevaert
Vandenbrandeite Image
Images: Vandenbrandeite
Comments: Dark green vandenbrandeite

crystal showing termination details.
Location: Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Western
area, Shaba Cu belt, Shaba (Katanga),
Congo (Za?re). Scale: Picture size 3.5 cm.
Vandendriesscheite Image
Images: Vandendriesscheite
Comments: Sparse waxy yellow

v andendriesscheite on rock.
Location: Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro,
Tanzania. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vanoxite Image
Images: Vanoxite Corvusite
Comments: Blue-black, somewhat silky

vanoxite, with brown corv usite on
sandstone.
Location: Club Mine, Uravan, Montrose
Mineral Species
Vantasselite Image
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Images: Vantasselite
Comments: Rosette of pearly platy

vantasselite crystals.
Location: Bihain, Luxembourg, Belgium.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vanthoffite Image
Images: Vanthoffite
Comments: Colorless to white fragment of

vanthoffite.
Location: Berlepsch Mine, Stassfurt, Stassfurt
Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Scale:
Picture size 7 mm.
Vanuralite Image
Images: Vanuralite
Comments: Massive, granular, yellow

vanuralite.
Location: Mounana mine (Mouana),
Franceville, Haut-Ogoou?, Gabon. Scale:
Picture size 5 mm.
Varennesite Image
Images: Varennesite
Comments: Brown to tan varennesite

crystal embedded in nepheline-syenite
rock.
Location: DeMix Quarry, Varennes,
Mineral Species
Variscite Image
Images: Variscite
Comments: Polished slice of lime green

variscite.
Location: Fairfield, Utah. USA. Scale: 5.5 x
8.5 cm x 3 mm.
© Dan Weinrich
Variscite Image
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Images: Variscite
Comments: Deep rasberry red drusy micro

crystals of variscite in vuggy matrix.
Location: Iron Monarch quarry, Iron Knob,
South Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture size
1 cm.
Variscite Image
Images: Variscite
Comments: Brilliant cherry red

well-defined, clusters of variscite crystals
forming tiny single spheroids on white
quartz.
Location: Boa Vista, Galileia, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Sphere size 0.3 mm.
Varlamoffite Image
Images: Varlamoffite
Comments: Yellowish earthy varlamoffite

masses with quartz.
Location: Saint Austell, Cornwall, England.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Varulite Image
Images: Varulite
Comments: Dark brown to dark green

varulite in white feldspar.
Location: Varutrask, Vasterbotten,
Mineral Species
Vashegyite Image
Images: Vashegyite Volborthite
Comments: Small bluish-white crystals of

vashegyite with green volborthite.
Vasilite Image
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Images: Vasilite Osmium Cooperite

Vysotskite

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Vaterite Image
Images: Vaterite Defernite Manganite

Mineral Species
Vauquelinite Image
Images: Vauquelinite Crocoite
Comments: Oliv e-greenish vauquelinite

encrusting red crocoite.
Vauxite Image
Images: Vauxite Sigloite
Comments: Lime green, crystalline

aggregate of sigloite on massive, blue
vauxite.
Location: Llallagua, Potosi Department,
Boliv ia. Scale: Not Giv en.
Vauxite Image
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Images: Vauxite
Comments: Crystals of v auxite to 1.4mm.

Location: Siglo Mine, Llallagua, Bolivia. Scale:
Picture size 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Vayrynenite Image
Images: Vayrynenite
Comments: Pink, massive v ?yrynenite.

Location: Viitaniemi pegmatite, Er?j?rvi
area, Orivesi, Etel?-Suomen L??ni, Finland.
Vermiculite Image
Images: Vermiculite
Comments: Micaceous vermiculite book.

Location: Brinton's Quarry, near West
Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania,
Mineral Species
Vernadite Image
Images: Vernadite
Comments: Black sub-metallic rounded

vernadite crystals.
Location: Km3, Laurium, Attiki, Greece.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Verplanckite Image
Images: Verplanckite
Comments: Orange translucent

verplanckite in sanbornite.
Location: Esquire #7 Mine, Big Creek, Fresno
Mineral Species
Versiliaite Image
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Images: Versiliaite
Comments: Black sub-metallic v ersiliaite

masses in marble.
Location: Bucca della Vena Mine, Val di
Castello Carducci, Tuscany, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vesignieite Image
Images: Vesignieite
Comments: Green crystalline vesignieite

crust with crudely developed radiating
structure.
Location: Newmont Gold Mine, Carlin, Elko
Mineral Species
Vesuvianite Image
Images: Vesuvianite
Comments: Clear, purple vesuvianite

crystals.
Location: Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: Crystal size 5x3.5x3 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Vesuvianite Image
Images: Vesuvianite Grossular
Comments: Blocky, tan-colored vesuvianite with

white grossular (garnet).
Location: Sierra de la Cruz, Lago Jaco, Coahuila,
Mexico. Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Veszelyite Image
Images: Veszelyite
Comments: Terminated and lustrous

crystals of blue-green v eszelyite to 0.5 cm
in length.
Granite County, Montana, USA. Scale:
Picture size 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Vigezzite Image
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Images: Vigezzite
Comments: Translucent brown vigezzite

microcrystal in marble.
Location: Alpe Rosso, Val Vigezzo,
Orcesco, Novara, Piemonte, Italy. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vihorlatite Image
Images: Vihorlatite
Comments: Dark gray sub-metallic platy

vihorlatite in fine grained matrix.
Location: Poruba, Vohorlat Mountains,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Viitaniemiite Image
Images: Viitaniemiite Roscherite
Comments: Colorless to pink viitaniemiite

with brownish roscherite.
Vikingite Image
Images: Vikingite
Comments: Gray to bronze tarnished platy

vikingite masses in quartz.
Location: Roche Balue, Vendee, France.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Villamaninite Image
Images: Villamaninite
Comments: Dull black v illamaninite masses

in dolomitic rock.
Location: Villamanin, Carmenes District,
Castilla y Leon, Spain. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Villiaumite Image
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Images: Villiaumite Griceite
Comments: White aggregates of griceite

with pinkish v illiaumite.
Villiaumite Image
Images: Villiaumite Naujakasite
Comments: Greenish-gray crystals of

naujakasite with red villiaumite.
Location: Narsaq river, Kvanefjeld Mt.,
Il?maussaq massif, Greenland. Scale:
Picture size 4 mm.
Villiaumite Image
Images: Villiaumite Aplowite
Comments: Pink aplowite laths intergrown

with lustrous, red, massive villiaumite.
Location: Mt Rasvumchorr, Khibiny Massif,
Northern Region, Russia. Scale: 20x19x18
mm.
Villiaumite Image
Images: Villiaumite
Comments: Nearly opaque crystalline

villiaumite cleavage.
Mineral Species
Villyaellenite Image
Images: Villyaellenite
Comments: Bright rose red crystals of

v illyaellenite to 2.5 mm on gossan.
Location: Veta Negra Mine, Tierra Amarilla,
Chile. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Villyaellenite Image
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Images: Villyaellenite
Comments: Peach colored radial sprays of

villyaellenite 2 to 3mm in size.
Location: Veta Negra mine, Pampa Larga,
Copiapo, Atacama Province, Chile. Scale:
Vinogradovite Image
Images: Vinogradovite
Comments: Off-white scaly vinogradov ite

on matrix.
Mineral Species
Violarite Image
Images: Violarite
Comments: Bronze massive violarite,

tarnished, with gray colored rock.
Location: Marbridge Mines ltd., Abitibi
District, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Viseite Image
Images: Viseite Trolleite
Comments: Chalky white massive v iseite

with bluish trolleite.
Location: Champion Sillimanite Mine, near
Laws, Mono County, California, USA. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vishnevite Image
Images: Vishnevite
Comments: Pale blue massive vishnevite.

Location: Loch Borrolan, Rosshire, Highland,
Scotland. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vistepite Image
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Images: Vistepite
Comments: Translucent platy vistepite

fragment.
Location: Inelchek, Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan,
Tadzhikistan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vivianite Image
Images: Vivianite
Comments: Transparent, bluish crystal

aggregate of vivianite on matrix.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua,
Vivianite Image
Images: Vivianite Maricite
Comments: Brown maricite nodule with

internal radiating structure, with blue
vivianite.
Mineral Species
Vivianite Image
Images: Vivianite Eosphorite
Comments: Bottle-green translucent

vivianite crystal (2cm) associated with
reddish, micro eosphorite crystals.
Location: Lav ra do ?nio pegmatite,
Galil?ia, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm..
Vladimirite Image
Images: Vladimirite Sphaerocobaltite

v ladimirite microcrystals with pink
sphaerocobaltite.
Location: Irhtem Mine, near Bou Azzer,
Mineral Species
Vladimirite Image
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Images: Vladimirite
Comments: Snow white radial, acicular

sprays, thick on calcite matrix.
Location: Ait Ahmane, Bou Azzer district,,
Vladimirite Image
Images: Vladimirite
Comments: Sprays of platy, elongated,

white tiny crystals of vladimirite, associated
with minor aragonite.
Location: Irhtem, Morocco. Scale: Picture
size 3 cm.
© Minernet
Vlasovite Image
Images: Vlasovite Eudialyte
Comments: Transparent yellow-gray

v lasovite crystal frozen in pink eudialyte
matrix.
Location: Kipawa alkaline complex, near
Sheffield Lake, Villedieu Township,
T?miscamingue Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: 2x2x1 cm.
Voggite Image
Images: Voggite
Comments: Scanning-electron
photomicrograph of voggite showing
typical habit of crystals.
Location: Silicocarbonatite sills exposed at
the Francon limestone quarry, Montreal,
Quebec. Scale: Image size 360 µm.
Voglite Image
Images: Voglite Liebigite
Comments: Green voglite with yellow

liebigite.
size 3.2 mm.
Voglite Image
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Images: Voglite Metazellerite

metazellerite in matrix, with green voglite.
Location: White Canyon #1 Mine, Frey Point,
San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Volborthite Image
Images: Volborthite Vashegyite
Comments: Small bluish-white crystals of

vashegyite with green volborthite.
Volborthite Image
Images: Volborthite
Comments: Shale with a heavy coating of

brilliant green, scaly crystals of v olborthite.
Location: Monument #1 Mine, Apache
County, Arizona. Scale: 6.5 x 5.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Volkonskoite Image
Images: Volkonskoite
Comments: Specimen of massiv e, green

volkonskoite.
Location: Efimyatskaja Perm, Ural Mts.,
Russia. Scale: 1.1 x 1 cm.
© John Veevaert
Volkovskite Image
Images: Volkovskite
Comments: Transparent colorless platy

volkovskite cleavage.
Location: Nepskoye Deposit, Irkutsk Distict,
Mineral Species
Voltaite Image
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Images: Voltaite Alunogen
Comments: Dark greenish-black crystals of

voltaite on white alunogen.
Voltaite Image
Images: Voltaite Szomolnokite
Comments: Whitish crystalline crust of voltaite

on crystals of brown szomolnokite.
Location: Alcaparrosa Mine, Cerritos Bayos,
© John Veevaert
Vonbezingite Image
Images: Vonbezingite
Comments: Dark blue, blocky crystals of

vonbezingite on matirx.
Location: Kalahari Manganese District,
Cape Province, South Africa. Scale: Crystal
size 0.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Vonsenite Image
Images: Vonsenite
Comments: Opaque vonsenite

microcrystal.
Location: Colle del Pero Quarry, Laghelto
di Montecompatri, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vrbaite Image
Images: Vrbaite Realgar
Comments: Black grain of vrbaite in red

realgar matrix.
Vuagnatite Image
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Images: Vuagnatite Mcguinnessite
Comments: Translucent colorless

vuagnatite microcrystals with
mcguinnessite.
Location: Near Red Mountain, Mendocino
Mineral Species
Vulcanite Image
Images: Vulcanite
Comments: Pale yellow metallic massive

vulcanite in rock.
Location: Iriki Mine, Kagoshima, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vuonnemite Image
Images: Vuonnemite Ussingite
Comments: Massive, violet colored

ussingite with a single bladed partial
crystal of white vuonnemite 1.5 cm in
length.
Location: Mt. Karnasurf, Lovozero, Russia.
Scale: 4.2 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Vuonnemite Image
Images: Vuonnemite Lorenzenite
Comments: Square vuonnemite crystal

with brown, lorenzenite crystals in syenite
rock.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Vysotskite Image
Images: Vysotskite Osmium Cooperite

Vasilite

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Wadalite Image
Images: Wadalite
Comments: Gray wadalite masses in

matrix.
Location: Tadano, Koriyama, Fukushima,
Mineral Species
Wadeite Image
Images: Wadeite
Comments: Sharp hexagonal crystal of

wadeite with included dark green aegirine.
Location: Mt. Kukisvumchurr, Khibiny Massif
(Russia). Scale: 12x10x6 mm.
Wagnerite Image
Images: Wagnerite
Comments: Crudely formed opaque

wagnerite crystal in pegmatite.
Location: Hollengraben, Salzberg, Austria.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Wairakite Image
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Images: Wairakite Dmisteinbergite
Comments: Pearly platy crystalline

dmisteinbergite with dull white wairakite on
matrix.
Location: Kurumazawa, Katashina,
Mineral Species
Wairakite Image
Images: Wairakite
Comments: White nearly opaque

crystalline massive wairakite, with a few
crystals faces present.
Location: Tohi Mine, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Wakabayashilite Image
Images: Wakabayashilite
Comments: Golden colored, acicular

crystals of wakabayashilite on matrix.
Location: White Cap mine, Nye County,
© Dave Barthelmy
Wakefieldite-(Ce) Image
Images: Wakefieldite-(Ce)
Comments: Bluish black crystal of

wakefieldite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Yellow Lake, Olala, British
Columbia, Canada. Scale: Not Given.
Walentaite Image
Images: Walentaite
Comments: Greenish yellow, flattened,

radial, crystalline aggregates of walentaite
on quartz.
Location: White Elephant mine, Custer
County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture
size 1.5 cm.
Walkerite Image
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Images: Walkerite

of an acicular walkerite crystal.
Location: Potash Corporation of
Saskatchewan (New Brunswick Division)
mine at Penobsquis, near Sussex, Kings
County, New Brunswick, Canada. Scale:
See Picture.
Wallisite Image
Images: Wallisite
Comments: Gray black, blocky crystalline

aggregate of wallisite on striated sulfosalt
(dufr?noysite?).
Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Aggregate 5
mm.
© Walter Gabriel
Wallkilldellite-(Fe) Image
Images: Wallkilldellite-(Fe)
Comments: Brown wallkilldellite-(Fe) with

reddish cuprite.
Location: Roua Mine, Alpes-Maritimes,
Walpurgite Image
Images: Walpurgite
Comments: Clear, yellow laths of

walpurgite crystals.
Location: Schneesberg, Saxony, Germany.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Walpurgite Image
Images: Walpurgite
Comments: Elongated, pale yellow, triclinic

crystalline aggregate of walpurgite on calcite.
Location: Walpurgis Flacher vein, Wei?er Hirsch
Mine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge,
Saxony, Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
Wardite Image
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Images: Wardite Gordonite
Comments: Prismatic gordonite crystals on

massiv e wardite.
Wardite Image
Images: Wardite
Comments: Cream-colored, blocky

wardite crystals. The largest wardite crystal
is 0.5 cm across.
© John Veevaert
Wardite Image
Images: Wardite Crandallite
Comments: Sliced and polished slab of

yellow to white mixture of wardite and
crandallite.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co.,
Utah, USA. Scale: 11x6x.6 cm.
Warikahnite Image
Images: Warikahnite
Comments: Div ergent, acicular aggregate of

yellowish, brownish orange warikahnite crystals
on a white quartz matrix. William Pinch
collection. Featured on the cover of the
Mineralogical Record, 36:4..
Location: O stope, 31st lev el, Tsumeb mine,
Namibia.. Scale: 3 x 4.9 cm.
© Jeff Scovil
Warwickite Image
Images: Warwickite Chondrodite
Comments: Black crystalline warwickite

with tan chondrodite in white marble.
Mineral Species
Watatsumiite Image
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Images: Watatsumiite Potassicleakeite
Comments: Yellow green prismatic crystal

of watatsumiite terminated by pyramidal
faces associated with reddish brown
potassicleakeite and clear quartz (JMPS, v
98, p 149).
Location: Tanohata mine, Iwate Prefecture,
© JMPS
Wattersite Image
Images: Wattersite
Comments: Deep red-black resinous

wattersite on quartz.
Location: Clear Creek Mine, San Benito
Mineral Species
Wavellite Image
Images: Wavellite
Comments: Greenish yellow spray of

wavellite crystals.
Location: Slate Mountains, El Dorado
Wavellite Image
Images: Wavellite
Comments: Green prismatic crystals of

wavellite in complete radial stellar
aggregate.
Location: Flinders Range, South Australia,
Australia. Scale: Sphere size 8 mm.
Waylandite Image
Images: Waylandite Bismite
Comments: Gray massiv e stream rounded

waylandite with tan bismite crusts.
Location: Mumba, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Weberite Image
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Images: Weberite Cryolite
Comments: Gray weberite masses in white

cryolite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Weddellite Image
Images: Weddellite
Comments: Tan prismatic weddellite

crystal sprays in vug.
Location: Near Biggs, Wasco County,
Mineral Species
Weeksite Image
Images: Weeksite
Comments: Bright yellow weeksite

aggregates.
Location: Anderson mine, Yavapai County,
Weeksite Image
Images: Weeksite
Comments: Globular masses of yellow

weeksite crystals with white aragonite on a
sandstone matrix.
Location: Jackpile Mine, Laguna District,
Cibola County, New Mexico, USA. Scale:
Picture size 1 cm.
Wegscheiderite Image
Images: Wegscheiderite
Comments: Greasy pale pink translucent

platy crystalline wegscheiderite in syenite
rock.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Weilite Image
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Images: Weilite
Comments: White, radial aggregates

weilite on matrix.
Location: Schlema, Schlema-Hartenstein
Picture size 4 mm.
Weinebeneite Image
Images: Weinebeneite
Comments: Colorless Weinebeneite on

brown matrix.
Location: Koralpe Mts, Carinthia, Austria.
Weissbergite Image
Images: Weissbergite
Comments: A metallic grain of weissbergite

in matrix.
Location: Lookout Pass, Tooele Co., Utah,
USA. Scale: Grain size 0.75 mm.
Weloganite Image
Images: Weloganite
Comments: Columnar aggregates of

Weloganite crystals.
Location: Francon quarry, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. Scale: Not Given.
Weloganite Image
Images: Weloganite Hydrodresserite

hydrodresserite with radiating structure with
columnar weloganite.
Mineral Species
Weloganite Image
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Images: Weloganite
Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal "stacked"

plates of white weloganite with flat pedion
termination.
Location: Francon quarry, Montr?al,
Jacques Cartier Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Welshite Image
Images: Welshite
Comments: Deep red, prismatic crystal of

welshite in matrix.
Wendwilsonite Image
Images: Wendwilsonite
Comments: Gemmy crystals of

wendwilsonite to 4 mm.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mts.,
Morocco. Scale: Picture size .5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Wendwilsonite Image
Images: Wendwilsonite Minrecordite
Comments: Wendell Wilson, publisher, editor-

in-chief of the Mineralogical Record, and the
person whom wendwilsonite was named after,
kindly provided the mineral name pronunciations
for minrecordite and wendwilsonite.
NA.
© Dav e Barthelmy
Wenkite Image
Images: Wenkite

wenkite crystal in vug.
Location: Garpenberg Mine, Kopparberg,
Mineral Species
Wermlandite Image
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Images: Wermlandite
Comments: Dark colored, hexagonal

platelet of wermlandite on matrix.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Westerveldite Image
Images: Westerveldite
Comments: Silvery metallic westerveldite

grains in syenite rock.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Wherryite Image
Images: Wherryite
Comments: Green, acicular wherryite

crystals.
Whewellite Image
Images: Whewellite
Comments: Colorless, twinned crystal of

Whewellite.
Location: Burgk, near Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
Whewellite Image
Images: Whewellite
Comments: White crystal of whewellite,

perched on a spray of brown calcite
crystals.
Location: Shaft 21, Schlema, Hartenstein,
Germany. Scale: 7 x 6 x 4 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Whiteite-(CaFeMg) Image
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Images: Whiteite-(CaFeMg)
Comments: Blocky, beige-pink

whiteite-(CaFeMg) crystals on matrix.
Location: Cross-cut Creek, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Scale: Crystal size 2x3x3.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Whiteite-(CaMnMg) Image
Images: Whiteite-(CaMnMg) Lazulite
Comments: Light beige-colored

whiteite-(CaMnMg) crystal perched on
dark blue lazulite.
Whitlockite Image
Images: Whitlockite
Comments: Clear, transparent whitlockite

crystal.
Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale:
Not Given.
Whitmoreite Image
Images: Whitmoreite
Comments: Two stellate crystal clusters of

whitmoreite.
Penninton County, South Dakota, USA.
Scale: Not Giv en.
Wickenburgite Image
Images: Wickenburgite
Comments: Transparent colorless

wickenburgite microcrystals.
Location: Wickenburg, Maricopa County,
Mineral Species
Wickmanite Image
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Images: Wickmanite
Comments: Colorless wickmanite crystals.

Scale: Not Giv en.
Wicksite Image
Images: Wicksite Wolfeite
Comments: Cleaved nodule of

fine-grained aggregate of wicksite and
wolfeite.
Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Widgiemoolthalite Image
Images: Widgiemoolthalite
Comments: Green crystals of

widgiemoolthalite.
Location: 132 North Mine, Widgiemooltha,
Western Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture
size 5 mm.
Wightmanite Image
Images: Wightmanite
Comments: Tan silky prismatic wightmanite

in pale blue calcite.
Mineral Species
Wilcoxite Image
Images: Wilcoxite
Comments: Small, transparent crystals of

wilcoxite.
Wilhelmvierlingite Image
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Images: Wilhelmvierlingite Rockbridgeite
Comments: Yellow brown crystals

wilhelmv ierlingite with black rockbridgeite.
mm.
Wilkinsonite Image
Images: Wilkinsonite
Comments: Black wilkinsonite grains with

anorthoclase.
Location: Warrumbungle Volcano, New
Mineral Species
Willemite Image
Images: Willemite Conichalcite
Comments: Conichalcite with willemite.

Location: Collected from the 30 level of
the Tsumeb mine. Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale:
2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Willemite Image
Images: Willemite
Comments: Sky blue botryoidal willemite

with dark to white dolomite.
Location: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Scale: 6 x
3 cm.
© John Veevaert
Willemite Image
Images: Willemite
Comments: Specimen of blocky willemite crystals.

The lower picture shows willemite under SW UV
light.
Location: Franklin, New Jersey, USA. Scale: 2.8 x 2.3
cm..
© John Veevaert
Willemite Image
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Images: Willemite Glaucochroite Zincite

calcite.
Mineral Species
Willemseite Image
Images: Willemseite Trevorite
Comments: Small trevorite crystal in

massive willemseite.
Location: Bon Accord, Barberton Mountain,
Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Willemseite Image
Images: Willemseite Trevorite
Comments: Waxy translucent green

willemseite with black trevorite in schistose
rock.
Location: Near Scotia Talc Mine, Barberton
Mountain, Transv aal, Mpumalanga, South
Mineral Species
Willyamite Image
Images: Willyamite
Comments: Gray granular massive

willyamite.
Location: Consols Lode, Broken Hill,
Willyama Township, New South Wales,
Mineral Species
Wiluite Image
Images: Wiluite
Comments: Dark green, blocky wiluite

crystal.
Location: Wilui River Region, Russia. Scale:
1-1/8" x 1"..
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Winchite Image
Images: Winchite
Comments: Magenta crystalline winchite in

manganese ore.
Location: Tirodi Mines, Madhya Pradesh,
India. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Winchite Image
Images: Winchite Sodalite
Comments: Purple sodalite with some

crystal faces, supporting a very sharp,
transparent winchite crystal, terminated on
one end.
Location: Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley,
Badakshan Province, Afghanistan. Scale:
11x10x8 mm.
Winstanleyite Image
Images: Winstanleyite Jarosite
Comments: Small, yellow octahedral

crystal of winstanleyite on brownish red
jarosite.
size 0.9 mm.
Wiserite Image
Images: Wiserite
Comments: Pale pink granular wiserite.

Mineral Species
Witherite Image
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Images: Witherite
Comments: Specimen of witherite with a rounded

(stellate) habit. The lower picture was taken under
SW UV light and shows the crystalline aggregates.
Location: Minerva #1 Mine, Hardin County, Illinois,
© John Veevaert
Wittichenite Image
Images: Wittichenite
Comments: Black metallic wittichenite in

white barite.
Location: Schmiedestollen, Wittichen, Black
Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Wittite Image
Images: Wittite
Comments: Gray metallic wittite in quartz.

Location: Falu Mine, Falun, Kopparberg,
Mineral Species
Wodginite Image
Images: Wodginite
Comments: Dark, lustrous crystal of

wodginite.
Location: Sapucaia do Norte, Galileia, Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.3 x 0.7 cm.
© John Veevaert
Wohlerite Image
Images: Wohlerite Biotite
Comments: Prismatic wohlerite crystals

with lepidomelane (Fe-rich biotite).
Location: Langevannet, Tvedalen,
Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Wolfeite Image
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Images: Wolfeite
Comments: Opaque massive wolfeite.

Location: Wilson's Pegmatite, Broken Hill,
Photo.
Mineral Species
Wolfeite Image
Images: Wolfeite Wicksite
Comments: Cleaved nodule of

fine-grained aggregate of wicksite and
wolfeite.
Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Wolframite Image
Images: Wolframite
Comments: Dark gray, tabular crystals of

wolframite to 2 cm. Carsten Sukatsch
collection.
Location: Kara-Oba, Republic of
Kazakstan. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.
© Willibald B?del
Wolframoixiolite Image
Images: Wolframoixiolite
Comments: Wolframoixiolite crystals in

quartz.
Location: Zinnwald, Severocesky, Czech
Mineral Species
Wollastonite-1A Image
Images: Wollastonite-1A Stringhamite
Comments: Rounded aggregate of dark

blue stringhamite crystals on bladed, white
wollastonite.
Wollastonite-1A Image
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Images: Wollastonite-1A Minehillite

Margarosanite

fluorescence).
Mineral Species
Wollastonite-2M Image
Images: Wollastonite-2M
Comments: Wollastonite-2M crystals.

Wolsendorfite Image
Images: Wolsendorfite
Comments: Red orange druse of tabular

wolsendorfite crystals.
Wonesite Image
Images: Wonesite
Comments: Dark greenish black

micaceous wonesite flake.
Location: Post Pond Volcanics, Wilmount
Mountain, Mount Cube Quadrangle,
Orange County, Vermont. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Woodhouseite Image
Images: Woodhouseite
Comments: Crystals of woodhouseite to 0.5

cm across on an exposed quartz vein.
Location: Champion Mine, Inyo County,
California, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Woodruffite Image
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Images: Woodruffite
Comments: Dull brown massive

woodruffite with limonite.
Photo.
Mineral Species
Woodwardite Image
Images: Woodwardite
Comments: Greenish-blue botryoidal crust

of woodwardite.
Location: Green River Formation, Uintah
Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.8 mm.
Wroewolfeite Image
Images: Wroewolfeite
Comments: Blue, lath-shaped crystals of

wroewolfeite on matrix.
Wulfenite Image
Images: Wulfenite
Comments: Tabular crystal druse of

brownish orange wulfenite on matrix.
Location: Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos,
Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 5-10
mm.
© Dave Barthelmy
Wulfenite Image
Images: Wulfenite Mimetite
Comments: Gemmy, pale yellow mimetite

crystal with brownish-orange wulfenite. Former
James and Dawn Minette Collection.
Location: Gem Pocket 1971, Tsumeb, Namibia.
© Rob Lav insky
Wulfingite Image
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Images: Wulfingite
Comments: Colorless equant crystal of

w?lfingite.
Location: Richelsdorf Smelter, S?ss,
Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany. Scale:
Wupatkiite Image
Images: Wupatkiite
Comments: Pinkish yellow opaque

wupatkiite microcrystal in sandstone.
Location: Cameroon, Coconino County,
Mineral Species
Wurtzite Image
Images: Wurtzite Barite
Comments: Compact, dark, metallic

crystals of wurtzite intermixed with galena
crystals and white barite blades.
Location: Huanzala, Huanuco Dept., Peru.
Scale: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm.
Wustite Image
Images: Wustite
Comments: Orange botryoidal wustite on

green calcite.
Location: Zacatecas, Mexico. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Wyartite Image
Images: Wyartite Rutherfordine
Comments: Brown, acicular wyartite

crystals next to bright yellow rutherfordine
tufts.
Location: Shinokolbwe mine, Tantara,
Wycheproofite Image
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Images: Wycheproofite
Comments: Pearly, orange-white crystal

group of wycheproofite. This is the type
specimen for the species by the
discov erer, Bill Birch..
Location: A granite quarry near
Wycheproof, northwestern Victoria,
Australia.. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm tall.
© Bill Birch
Wyllieite Image
Images: Wyllieite
Comments: Dark bluish-black massive

wyllieite in pegmatite.
Location: Victory Mine, Custer, Custer
Photo.
Mineral Species
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Xanthoconite Image
Images: Xanthoconite
Comments: Wine-colored, tabular crystal

of xanthoconite on matrix.
Location: Schlema, Schlema-Hartenstein
Xanthoxenite Image
Images: Xanthoxenite
Comments: Xanthoxenite crystalline

coating.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Xenotime-(Y) Image
Images: Xenotime-(Y)
Comments: Dark brown colored Xenotime-(Y)

crystal.
Location: Hurricane Mountain, Conway, Carroll
County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: Not Giv en.
Xilingolite Image
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Images: Xilingolite
Comments: Elongate and striated crystal

of xilingolite, roughly 2 mm long, on galena
showing an octahedral cleavage,
together with quartz. (CanMin, v 39, p
1665).
Location: Found on dumps excavated
during tunnel construction between Mittal
and Hohtenn in Valais, Switzerland. Scale:
Picture Size 4 mm.
Xocomecatlite Image
Images: Xocomecatlite
Comments: Green botryoidal

xocomecatlite coatings.
Mineral Species
Xocomecatlite Image
Images: Xocomecatlite
Comments: Green spheroidal crystals to

0.5 mm of very rare xocometcatlite.
Location: Centennial-Eureka mine, Tintic
district, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.
Xonotlite Image
Images: Xonotlite
Comments: Tufts of hair-like Xonotlite

crystals on datolite rich matrix.
Location: Kalahari Manganese Field,
Kuruman Hills, Cape Province, South Africa.
© John Veevaert
Xonotlite Image
Images: Xonotlite
Comments: White fibrous crystals of

xonotlite to 1mm in a v ug.
United States. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
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Yanomamite Image
Images: Yanomamite
Comments: Gray-blue waxy yanomamite

coatings on quartz.
Location: Mangabeira Tin Deposit, Goias,
Mineral Species
Yarrowite Image
Images: Yarrowite Spionkopite
Comments: Blue-black metallic granular

spionkopite, intermixed with yarrowite
altering, with quartz.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Yarrowite Image
Images: Yarrowite Spionkopite
Comments: Blue-gray metallic yarrowite

grains in granular quartz rock with
spionkopite.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Yecoraite Image
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Images: Yecoraite
Comments: Tan to reddish brown resinous

yecoraite coatings on quartz.
Location: Marie Elena Mine, Yecora,
Mineral Species
Yedlinite Image
Images: Yedlinite Diaboleite
Comments: Minute cranberry-colored

rounded yedlinite crystal with blue
diaboleite on yellow-brown wulfenite.
Location: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Pinal
Mineral Species
Yeelimite Image
Images: Yeelimite Hydroxylellestadite
Comments: Ye'elimite and

hydroxylellestadite intimately intergrown as
a brownish aggregate in massive
anhydrite.
size 6 mm.
Yingjiangite Image
Images: Yingjiangite
Comments: Thin coating of yellow

yingjiangite on matrix.
Location: Kladaske Mine, Erzgeborge,
Czech Republi. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Yoderite Image
Images: Yoderite
Comments: Dark bluish-black prismatic

yoderite in quartz.
Location: Mautia Hill, Dodoma, Tanzania.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Yofortierite Image
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Images: Yofortierite
Comments: Radial spray of yofortierite in

matrix.
© John Veevaert
Yoshimuraite Image
Images: Yoshimuraite
Comments: Translucent, brown

yoshimuraite microcrystal.
Location: Toguchi Mine, Shidara,
Kitashidara-Gun, Aichi, Japan. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Yttrotantalite-(Y) Image
Images: Yttrotantalite-(Y)
Comments: Dark greenish-black crystal of

Yttrotantalite-(Y).
Location: Ytterby, Resar?, Vaxholm,
Stockholm, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 8
mm.
Yttrotungstite-(Y) Image
Images: Yttrotungstite-(Y)

Yttrotungstite-(Y).
Location: Kramat Pulai mine, Kinta, Perak,
Malaysia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Yugawaralite Image
Images: Yugawaralite
Comments: Pearly translucent colorless

yugawaralite microcrystals.
Location: Klif Hv alfjordur, Iceland. Scale:
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Yugawaralite Image
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Images: Yugawaralite
Comments: Yugawaralite, in well

developed vitreous crystals up to 1 cm. in
a large vug on matix.
Location: Khandivaly Quarry, Maharastra,
India. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Minernet
Yukonite Image
Images: Yukonite
Comments: dark red brown resinous

Yukonite on limonite.
Location: Venus Gold-Silver mine, Yukon
Territory, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Yuksporite Image
Images: Yuksporite
Comments: Opaque fibrous yuksporite

aggregate.
Location: Mount Yukspor, Khibiny Massif,
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Yvonite Image
Images: Yvonite
Comments: Bluish green or turquoise-

colored microcrystals of yvonite on
metallic matrix of arsenopyrite & native
bismuth.
Location: Salsigne mine, Carcassone,
Aude, France. Scale: 2 cm.
© John Attard
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Zaccagnaite Image
Images: Zaccagnaite Zincowoodwardite

zaccagnaite intimately intergrown with
zincowoodwardite.
Zaccagnaite Image
Images: Zaccagnaite Fraipontite

image of hexagonal, tapering, prismatic
zaccagnaite crystals, covered by a thin
crust of fraipontite. (AmMin 86:1294).
Image.
Zaherite Image
Images: Zaherite
Comments: Gray to white translucent

prismatic to massiv e zaherite comprising
portion of rock.
Location: Pella, Namaqualand, Northern
Cape Province, South Africa. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Zajacite-(Ce) Image
Images: Zajacite-(Ce)
Comments: Specimen of granodiorite hosting

cream colored phenocrysts of zajacite-Ce. This is
one of the few minerals (less than 20) that
contain Praseodymium.
Location: Strange Lake, Lac Brasson, Quebec,
Canada. Scale: 4.3 x 2.9 cm.
© John Veevaert
Zalesiite Image
Images: Zalesiite
Comments: Green crusts of z?les?ite on

matrix.
Location: Z?les? deposit, Javorn?k,
Moravia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture
size 6 mm.
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Zalesiite Image
Images: Zalesiite
Click Here for Comments: Light blue acicular sprays of

zalesiite to 0.75mm.
Larger Image Location: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah,
Zanazziite Image
Images: Zanazziite Eosphorite
Comments: Minor crystals of equant, olive

green zanazziite and brown, lath-like
crystals of eosphorite on quartz.
© John Veevaert
Zanazziite Image
Images: Zanazziite
Comments: Olive-green prismatic

translucent zanazziite microcrystals on
quartz.
Location: Taquarel, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Zanazziite Image
Images: Zanazziite Kosnarite
Comments: Beige crystals of kosnarite with

pinkish, radial aggregates of zanazziite on
whte albite matrix.
Location: Jenipapo, Itinga, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. Scale: Picture size 6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Zapatalite Image
Images: Zapatalite
Comments: Bright blue zapatalite coating

on rock.
Location: near Battle Mountain, Lander
Mineral Species
Zaratite Image
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Images: Zaratite
Comments: Specimen exceptionally rich in

apple green zaratite - a carbonate of nickel.
Location: Lord Brassy Mine Tasmania, Australia.
© John Veevaert
Zavaritskite Image
Images: Zavaritskite
Comments: Green to greenish black

zavaritskite in purplish fluorite.
Location: Josef Fluorite Mine, Moldava,
Severocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Zdenekite Image
Images: Zdenekite
Comments: Blue crystals of zdenekite on

matrix.
Zektzerite Image
Images: Zektzerite
Comments: Pale peach-colored crystal of

zektzerite on white feldspar.
Location: Golden Horn batholith,
Okanogan County, Oregon, USA. Scale:
Crystal size 1 cm.
© Dav e Barthelmy
Zellerite Image
Images: Zellerite
Comments: Yellowish zellerite aggregates

on matrix.
Location: J?chymov, Krusn? Hory
(Erzgebirge), Z?padocesk? Kraj, Bohemia,
Czech Republic. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
Zemannite Image
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Images: Zemannite
Comments: Root beer-colored zemannite

hexagonal prisms.
Location: Moctezuma mine, Sonora,
Zeophyllite Image
Images: Zeophyllite
Comments: Numerous white zeophyllite

spheroids on a tan matrix.
Location: Brenk, Eifel, Germany. Scale: 2.5 x
1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert
Zeunerite Image
Images: Zeunerite
Comments: Thin, tabular crystals of

Zeunerite on matrix.
Location: Cinovec, Erzgebirge, the Czech
Republic. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
Zinc Image
Images: Zinc
Comments: Dull light gray zinc grain.

Location: Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Zincaluminite Image
Images: Zincaluminite
Comments: Bright white to pastel blue

botryoidal zincaluminite with cuprian-
adamite.
Location: Kamariza Mine, Laurium, Attiki,
Mineral Species
Zincite Image
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Images: Zincite
Comments: Orange Zincite hexagonal

pyramid.
Zincite Image
Images: Zincite Glaucochroite Willemite

calcite.
Mineral Species
Zincobotryogen Image
Images: Zincobotryogen
Comments: Translucent bright yellow

crystalline zincobotryogen.
Mineral Species
Zincocopiapite Image
Images: Zincocopiapite
Comments: Pale yellow zincocopiapite

coating on quartz.
Location: Les Valettes, Valais, Switzerland.
Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Zincohogbomite-2N2S Image
Images: Zincohogbomite-2N2S Corundum
Comments: Thin-Section (Plane Polarized

Light) of a brown, twinned
zincoh?gbomite-2N2S crystal with blue
corundum.
Location: Mikro-Lakka Emery deposit,
Kerketeas Mt, S?mos Island, Aegean
Islands Department, Greece. Scale: Picture
size 1.1 mm.
Zincospiroffite Image
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Images: Zincospiroffite
Comments: Polished section showing

zincospiroffite (x) intergrown with native
gold (Ng) as the oxidation products of
calaverite (Cv) + sphalerite (Sph) ? pyrite.
(CanMin, v 42, p 765).
Location: Quartz ore of the Zhongshangou
gold deposit, Chongli County, Hebei
Province, China. Scale: Field of v iew 2 mm.
Zincowoodwardite Image
Images: Zincowoodwardite Zaccagnaite

zaccagnaite intimately intergrown with
zincowoodwardite.
Zincowoodwardite Image
Images: Zincowoodwardite
Comments: Botryoidal zincowoodwardite.

The bluish-green color is due to a copper
content.
Location: Christiana Mine, Agios
Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attik?
Prefecture, Greece. Scale: Picture size 10
mm.
Zincrosasite Image
Images: Zincrosasite
Comments: Spherical zincrosasite

aggregates on limonite.
Location: Kali Kafi Mine, Anarak District,
Great Salt Desert, Esfahan, Iran. Scale: See
Photo.
Mineral Species
Zincsilite Image
Images: Zincsilite
Comments: Chalky massiv e zincsilite.

Location: Horado Mine, Horado Cho, Mugi
Gun, Gifu, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
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Zinkenite Image
Images: Zinkenite
Comments: Jackstraw zinkenite crystals.

Individual crystals reach up to 2 cm in
length.
Location: Monserrat Mine, Antequera,
Oruro, Bolivia. Scale: 4.5 x 3.2 cm.
© John Veevaert
Zinkenite Image
Images: Zinkenite Stannite
Comments: Acicular crystals of zinkenite perched on

a twinned, crystal of stannite.
Location: Mina San Jos?, Oruro, Boliv ia. Scale: 4 x 2.3
x 1.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals
Zinnwaldite Image
Images: Zinnwaldite
Comments: Zinnwaldite crystal section.

Location: Wig-Wam Creek, Jefferson
Mineral Species
Zippeite Image
Images: Zippeite
Comments: Sandstone with a 1.5 cm v ein

of black uraninite bisected with a 2mm
vein of bright yellow zippeite.
Location: Jackpot Mine, Laguna Mining
District, Cibole City, New Mexico. Scale: 4.8
cm high.
Zippeite Image
Images: Zippeite Uranopilite
Comments: Bright yellow uranopilite and

reddish brown zippeite encrustations on
uranium ore.
Location: Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon,
Utah. Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert
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Zircon Image
Images: Zircon
Comments: Clear, crystalline zircon prism with

pyramidal termination.
Location: Laacher See, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Germany. Scale: Not Giv en.
Zircon Image
Images: Zircon Perrierite-(Ce) Pyrochlore

Loparite-(Ce)

loparite.
See Photo.
Mineral Species
Zircon Image
Images: Zircon
Comments: Deep red-wine colored,

lustrous, internally bright zircon crystals in
matrix.
Location: Thorfjord, Seiland, Alta, Norway.
Scale: 13 x 10.5 x 9 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky
Zircon Image
Images: Zircon
Comments: Cathodoluminescence image

of earth's oldest-known mineral (zircon
grain - W74/2-36) with inset concordia plot
showing the 4,404 billion year old region.
Note the oscillatory zoning in the outer rim.
Image by John W. Valley.
Location: Interlayered red quartzites and
metaconglomerates, Jack Hills, Western
© Univ ersity of Wisconsin
Zircosulfate Image
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Images: Zircosulfate
Comments: Powdery zircosulfate

aggregate.
Location: Korgeredaba Massif, Republic of
Tuva, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
Mineral Species
Zirkelite Image
Images: Zirkelite
Comments: Sub-metallic zirkelite crystal

aggregate.
Location: Jacupiranga Mine, Sao Paulo,
Mineral Species
Zirkelite Image
Images: Zirkelite
Comments: Black, massiv e aggregate of

zirkelite with minor brown biotite and a thin
v ein of white calcite.
Location: Palabora Open Pit mine,
Loolekop, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province,
Transvaal, Republic of South Africa. Scale:
Zirsinalite Image
Images: Zirsinalite
Comments: Translucent pale olive-green-

colored zirsinalite replacing reddish
eudialyte.
Mineral Species
Znucalite Image
Images: Znucalite
Comments: Cream-yellow botryoidal

znucalite.
Znucalite Image
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Images: Znucalite
Comments: Very pale bluish white,

porcelaneous crust of znucalite on matrix.
Location: Mine dump near: Pribam,
size 5 mm.
Zoisite Image
Images: Zoisite
Comments: Gem quality crystal of zoisite

with the striking pleochroism displayed in
three different views.
Location: Alchuri Village, Shigar Valley,
north of Skardu, Baltistan, Pakistan. Scale:
1x1x3.8 cm.
© Dan Weinrich
Zoisite Image
Images: Zoisite
Comments: Dual views of a large crystal of

blue-violet zoisite (v ar. tanzanite) showing
the pleochroism.
Location: Merelani Hills, Umba Valley,
Lelatema Mts., Arusha Region, Tanzania.
Scale: 35 mm 42.32 ct.
Zorite Image
Images: Zorite
Comments: Pale pink translucent spherical

zorite crystal aggregate on dark green
aegirine.
Mineral Species
Zunyite Image
Images: Zunyite
Comments: Octahedral crystals of zunyite

to 5 mm on matrix.
Location: Quartzsite, Arizona. Scale: 5+ cm.
© John Veevaert
Zwieselite Image
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Images: Zwieselite
Comments: Brown zwieselite in granite

pegmatite.
Specimen size 9 mm.
Zykaite Image
Images: Zykaite Bukovskyite
Comments: Pale beige acicular crystals of

bukovsk?ite with white zykaite.
Location: Christbescherung Mine,
Gro?voigtsberg, Freiberg District,
Zykaite Image
Images: Zykaite
Comments: Round aggregates of Zykaite.

Location: Reiche Zeche Mine, Freiberg,
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony,
Germany. Scale: Specimen size 37 mm.
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Comments: Purplish red crystal fragment of

Comments: Clear, yellow, crystalline abernathyite

Comments: Pearly translucent pale yellow

Comments: Pseudo cubic acanthite

Images: Acanthite Argentite

Comments: Dark metallic acanthite crystals

Comments: White crystalline crust of

Comments: Sharp, floater actinolite crystal with a

Comments: Sprays of adamite with intense

Images: Adamite Cryptomelane

Comments: Black, rounded balls of

Comments: Sprays of adamsite-(Y) crystals

Comments: Fully-terminated, prismatic crystal

Images: Aegirine Catapleiite

Comments: Clear crystals of catapleiite

Images: Aegirine Henrymeyerite

Comments: A nearly black crystal of

Images: Aegirine Lourenswalsite

Comments: Light brownish rosettes of

Images: Aegirine Pectolite

Comments: White, cottony pectolite tufts

Images: Aegirine Calcioburbankite

Comments: Tan crystal spray of

Images: Aegirine Manganotychite

Comments: Pale rose-tan granular

Images: Aegirine-augite Dellaventuraite

Comments: View in plane-polarized light of

Comments: Dark, crystal prism of

Comments: Pale blue massive aerinite.

Comments: Small dark green crystals of

Comments: Square crystal of

Comments: Parallel grouping of three,

Comments: Crystallized afwillite prisms.

Comments: Green, acicular sprays of

Comments: Fibrous to fine acicular green

Images: Agrellite Eudialyte

Comments: Tan agrellite grain, with red

Comments: Golden yellow, transparent

Comments: Colorless radiating spray of

Comments: Green encrustations of

Comments: Gray metallic prismatic crystals

Images: Aikinite Berryite

Comments: Fine-grained, gray, metallic

Comments: Bluish, bladed ajoite crystals.

Images: Ajoite Shattuckite

Comments: Dark blue, tabular crystals of

Comments: Aqua blue, long bladed

Comments: Rusty brown coating of

Images: Akatoreite Rhodonite

Comments: Brown akatoreite in pink

Comments: Crystalline white akdalaite.

Comments: White translucent crystals

Comments: Dark gray grains of akhtenskite

Comments: Electron micrograph of

Images: Akrochordite Eveite

Comments: Micro crystals (to about

Comments: Metallic gray grain of aktashite

Comments: Dark gray stalactitic

Images: Alabandite Daubreelite

Comments: Daubreelite (D), bright metallic