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 Amblygonite
A thumbnail of gemmy light-yellow amblygonite (lithium sodium aluminum fluorohydroxyphosphate) - this cuttable piece comes from Galiléia, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It forms two series; one with montebrasite, its hydroxyfluorophosphate analog, and one with natramblygonite where sodium predominates over lithium. Thanks to Robert Stoufer's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Anapaite
This miniature of anapaite (a calcium iron phosphate tetrahydrate) on ironstone from Kertch (1988) on the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine is a typical green iron mineral - what looks like needles are actually the top surfaces of vertically-oriented blades. It's named after Anapa, also in Russia and often occurs on fossil shells, which probably supplied the calcium. Thanks to Dave Hayward at Lucky Strike Minerals for the specimen and the image! |
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 Annabergite,
var. Caberiite
Annabergite (nickel (II) arsenate octahydrate) forms a complete series with erythrite. When there's more nickel than cobalt, green annabergite is formed - this thumbnail's from Laurion, Greece. Usually annabergite occurs as a dusty coating or fine tabular crystals; spheric aggregates like this are called "caberiite". Annabergite, or "nickel bloom", is used as a marker for nickel deposits. It's the arsenate analog of arupite. Thanks to Adam Larson at Adam's Mineralsfor the specimen! | |
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 Annabergite,
var. Cabrerite
Bright green oriented tabular gemmy crystals of cabrerite (the crystalline variety of annabergite) comprise this thumbnail, also from Laurion. The larger image (center, right) also shows a beautiful white rosette with cabrerite "leaves"! Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Apatite
Beautiful green apatites, calcium (fluoro, chloro, hydroxyl) phosphate, on a cluster of green muscovite from Lavra Aldeia do Eme, Brazil. The mineral is more correctly called flurorapatite, chloroapatite, or hydroxyapatite depending on which of the three cations predominate - because a precise chemical analysis is needed, the mineral is usually just named apatite. Thanks to Greg Holland at the Stone Haven Mineral Shoppe for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Apatite on
Galena
This is a beautiful specimen of fluorapatite on galena from the Julcani Mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru. The bright fluorescence is also very interesting - zonal with light orange mid-crystal and light blue on the terminations! Thanks to IC Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Apatite
Apatite can be used as jewelry although its softness precludes any use other than earrings or necklaces. These are heavily fractured so they wouldn't be cut anyway (except for the one on the right - there's probably one or two carat's worth in that one). Because of its high phosphorus content, apatite is often ground up for fertilizer. These are from Mexico - I have a bunch of them; these are the best two. |
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 Apatite
A very pale violet apatite from the MacKenzie Mountains, near Tungsten, Northwest Territory, Canada. Thanks to Doug Miller at Northern Lights Minerals for the specimen! |
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 Apatite
A beautiful one-inch long doubly-terminated blue apatite, probably from Brazil - the closeup shows one of the many blue internal reflections. Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen! |
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 Apatite
Another green apatite (twinned) on orange calcite from Monmouth Township, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada. Thanks to Rory Howell's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Apatite
A beautiful green apatite on orange calcite with black hornblende from the Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada. Thanks to Veronica Matthews's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Apatite
This is a deep blue apatite from Ipira, Bahia, Brazil. Thanks to Greg Meyers' (Greg's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Apatite
A section of a dark green apatite crystal from Lake Clear - Kuehl Lake area, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. Thanks to Allan Vesely's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Apatite
A beautiful big teal apatite with two different habits (and colors) of calcite from Sludyanka, Baikal Lake, Russia. Thanks to Rick & Deana Seng's auction on eBay for the specimen and images! |
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 Apatite
Deep blue granular apatite like this only occurs in two locations - Otter Creek, Quebec, Canada, and Fine, St. Lawrence County, New York. The white phosphorescence tells me it's the New York variety. The closeups show the brilliant blue translucence of this gorgeous specimen! Thanks to Douglas Davis' auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Apatite
Massive, partially worked apatite from Brazil. The closeup shows one of the gemmy portions. |
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 Apatite
This nicely-terminated large miniature of red apatite is from the Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Huddersfield Township, Pontiac County, Québec, Canada. Thanks to Eric & Susan Youngman's Soul2Shine auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Apatite
Sometimes apatite has fibrous inclusions, like this cabinet catseye apatite from Bahia, Brazil. Thanks to Rob Kulakofsky at the Arizona Mineral Company for the specimen! | |
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 Apatite
A gorgeous pink apatite thumbnail from the 2002 find at the La Marina emerald mine, Borbur, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Apatite
A pretty miniature of translucent blue-green apatite from Sludyanka, Baikal Lake, Russia. |
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 Apatite on
Hydroxylherderite
Dozens of tiny double-terminated pale green apatites on a hydroxylherderite matrix comprise this beautiful miniature from Linópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thanks to Joanne Dionne's (The Mineral Mall) auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Apatite
A gemmy light-yellow apatite thumbnail from the Cerro Mercado Mine, Durango, Mexico. Thanks to the North Star Minerals' table at the 2002 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen! |
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 Apatite
An old Canadian 9cm classic apatite from the John Byland collection. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Apatite
The Harvard Mine located on Noyes Mountain in Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine is famous for its purple apatites. This thumbnail, collected in February 2004, is as deep a purple as apatites get! Thanks to James K. Andersen's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Apatite
A large cabinet specimen of deep-blue apatite on matrix from Bahia, Brazil - the main crystal is 4.7 x 2.4 cm. Thanks to Lourenço Santos' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Apatite
Rare colorless apatite crystal with gemmy epidote (larger image, top, right) on byssolite (miniature) from Knappenwand, Austria. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Apatite
This beautiful, tiny, gemmy light-blue apatite crystal is from the Fall 2004 find near Le U Village, Mogok, Myanmar. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Apatite
Beautiful rare tiny red (fluoro)apatite crystals in a miniature quartz and spodumene matrix from the Foote Mine in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Thanks to David Notaro's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Apatite
A beautiful 24mm pale green (fluoro)apatite crystal from the Sceptre Claims, Emerald
Lake, Mayo Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada. Thanks to Rick Kennedy's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Apatite
A beautiful 15mm x 3mm deep-green apatite crystal with a transparent rim on matrix from the 2007 find at the Sapo Mine, Goiabeira, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It fluoresces a light-orange under shortwave UV (due to a trace amount of manganese). Thanks to Michael Shannon's Shannon & Sons Minerals auction on eBay for the specimen and images! | |
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 Apatite, var.
Asparagus Stone
This is the yellow-green variety of apatite known as asparagus stone - this beautiful miniature's from Durango, Mexico. As is often the case with photos, the real color is in between my pictures and Bill's. The apatite has the full complement of second-order prisms as well! Thanks to Bill Awald's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Apatite, var.
Manganian Apatite
At the other end of the purple intensity scale lies these beautiful pale lavender tabular apatites from Pakistan. This is the variety called manganian apatite - a tiny amount of Mn+3 creates the color and makes them highly fluorescent (golden yellow) under longwave UV (larger image, bottom right). There are also tiny colorless (non-fluorescing) prismatic apatites (larger image, bottom left) scattered on the albite (miniature) matrix. Thanks to Tony Laurano's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Arrojadite-(KFe)
A high-contrast miniature of dark brownish-green arrojadite (a complex iron aluminum sodium calcium potassium hydroxyphosphate) and pale beige collinsite crystals on matrix from the Big Fish River area, Yukon Territory,
Canada. Arrojadite is now a group name comprising a dozen or so minerals - the (KFe) arrojadite is the one found at Big Fish. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Arseniosiderite
This arseniosiderite (iron calcium oxyarsenate trihydrate) thumbnail comes from Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah. It forms an incomplete series with mitridatite (calcium iron oxyphosphate) and robertsite (calcium manganese oxyphosphate). Thanks to Adam Larson's (Adam's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Arsenogorceixite, var. Cuprian
An excellent miniature of sphericular greenish-blue arsenogorceixite (a barium aluminum hydroxyarsenate) on matrix from the type locality of the Clara Mine, Rankach valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This may be the cuprian variety - arsenogorceixite is more typically white to yellow. It may form a series with weilerite where sulfate replaces part of the arsenate cation though some references consider weilerite to be merely a synonym. Also, the formula for arsenogorceixite varies among references - I count at least three. Thanks to Sönke Stolze's Systematic-Minerals.com>/a> auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Augelite
A thumbnail of pale green augelite (an aluminum hydroxyphosphate) from Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. It's named from the Greek auge, brightness. Thanks to Doug Miller at Northern Lights Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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Augelite
Another augelite from Rapid Creek - this large miniature has the typical association of lazulite and siderite. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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Bakhchisaraitsevite
Yellow-brown crystals of bakhchisaraitsevite (magnesium sodium phosphate heptahydrate) on matrix from the type locality of the Kovdor Iron Mine, Kovdor massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the images! | |
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Barnesite
A miniature of deep-red barnesite (a sodium calcium metavanadate trihydate) with red-brown metahewettite (with which it forms an incomplete series) and dark-brown hewettite on matrix from the type locality of the Cactus Rat Mine, Yellow Cat District, Grand County, Utah. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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Bermanite
Bermanite's a fairly rare manganosomanganic hydroxyphosphate tetrahydrate that occurs here as a transparent deep orange to deep red coating on matrix - one closeup (bottom left) shows a druse of tiny brownish-red crystals while another (bottom right) shows the intense color of the more massive deposit (just below center there's a bright orangey-brown internal flash). This high-quality (for the specie) specimen is from the El Criollo Mine, Cerro Blanco Pegmatites, Tanti, Córdoba, Argentina. Thanks to Eduardo Jawerbaum's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Beryllonite with
Apatite
These twinned frosty crystals of rare beryllonite (sodium beryllium phosphate) have green apatites riding on them in this thumbnail from the Telírio Mine, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen! |
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 Berzeliite
This small thumbnail of yellow berzeliite (a calcium magnesium manganese sodium arsenate) on bright orange-red phosphorescing calcite is from the type locality of the famous Långban Mine, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. The calcites from here are noted for their brilliance. Berzeliite forms a series with manganberzeliite. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the image! |
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 Bjarebyite
Bluish-green bjarebyite (a barium iron manganese aluminum strontium magnesium hydroxyphosphate) and other phosphates from the type locality of the Palermo #1 pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire. Some references drop the iron, strontium, and magnesium from the formula. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Bokite
Tiny black specks of bokite (a hydrated iron aluminum vanadate) on a thumbnail matrix from the Union Carbide Christy vanadium mine, Potash Sulfur Springs, Garland County, Arkansas and is Ex: J. M. Howard Collection (1994). You'll see different formulas for this mineral too - it's technically a mixed oxide of V (IV), V (V), (a typical vanadium bronze) and Fe (III). Thanks to Ben Clardy's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Brandtite
on
Caryopilite
A busy miniature of white fibrous brandite (a calcium manganese magnesium arsenate dihydrate) on a pinkish-tan caryopilite (a complex manganese zinc phyllosilicate) crystal fragment on an iron-manganese matrix from the famous Långban,Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. There may also be some brownish-black caryinite (a complex manganese lead arsenate), (larger image, bottom right) for which Långban is the type locality. Brandtite is dimorphic with parabrandtite. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Bukovskyite
A large thumbnail of beige microclusters of bukovskyite (an iron hydroxysulfatoarsenate heptahydrate) from the type locality of Kank, Kutná Hora, Bohemia, Czech Republic. It's typically an oxidation product of arsenopyrite. Thanks to Ingo Drescher's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Cabalzarite
An excellent miniature of tan cabalzarite (a hydrated calcium aluminum magnesium manganese hydroxyarsenate) on matrix from the type locality of the abandoned Falotta Mine, Tinizong, Oberhalbstein, Albula Valley, Grischun, Switzerland. Thanks to Helmut Braith's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Cacoxenite
Beautiful tufts and stars of cacoxenite line the vugs and valleys of this miniature - unfortunately I don't have any location info for this one. Thanks to Bill Awald's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Cacoxenite
An excellent miniature of bright yellow cacoxenite on matrix from Hot Springs, Arkansas. Thanks to Jonathan Levinger's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Cacoxenite
Two miniatures (and an unpictured micro) of bright yellow cacoxenite, probably from Arkansas and part of a 30-year-old collection. Thanks to Dale Stillman's auction on eBay for the specimens and the images! |
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 Cafarsite
A sharp and shiny 7mm crystal of cafarsite (a hydrated calcium ferrosoferric titanium manganese metarsenite) from the type locality of Wannigletscher, Wallis, Switzerland. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Carbonate-fluoroapatite
var. Staffelite
The botryoidal habit of carbonate-fluoroapatite is often called staffelite after its type locality in Germany. This small cabinet piece comes from the Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Russia. Carbonate-fluoroapatite is now (2008) considered a varietal - carbonate-rich apatite-(CaF). Thanks to Mirek Dorejko's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Carbonate-hydroxylapatite,
var. Dahllite
Carbonate-hydroxylapatite occuring in radiating clusters from the Lovell area in Big Horn County, Wyoming (and elsewhere) is called dahllite. Some references state that it contains varying amounts of water. Thanks to Dale Stillman's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Caryinite
A miniature of reddish-brown caryinite (a manganese lead calcium sodium magnesium phosphatoarsenate) in matrix from the type locality of Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. Thanks to Sönke Stolze's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Ceruléite
Massive ceruléite in matrix from the type locality of the Emma Luisa Mine, Guanaco, Taltal, Chile, can be cabbed for jewelry - this copper aluminum hydroarsenate miniature is a beautiful distinctive blue. The larger image shows an unidentified bluish-green mineral in a small vug and a smaller ceruléite-filled "sandwich". Thanks to the House of Onyx for the specimens! | |
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 Chalcosiderite
Another member of the turquoise family, chalcosiderite (a hydrated iron copper hydroxyphosphate) occurs (as in this large thumbnail from the Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall, England) when iron replaces the aluminum. The color can vary from midnight blue (as here) to dark green. Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen! |
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 Churchite
A nice miniature of white churchite (yttrium phosphate dihydrate) tufts lining vugs in a limonitic gossan matrix from Auerbach, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Clinobisvanite
Clinobisvanite's a rare monoclinic bismuth vanadate (hence the name) that occurs in yellow crusts - it's also a trimorph with (tetragonal) dreyerite and (orthorhombic) pucherite (which also have different colors). The dark orange material here may be pucherite - there's also what appears to be barite (larger picture, bottom left) and a couple of dark brown cubes (larger picture, bottom right) with a red streak that I can't identify on the mica pegmatite. This cabinet specimen comes from La Juana Mine, between Yacanto and la Poblacion, San Javier Department, Cordoba Province, Argentina. Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen! |
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 Coeruleolactite
When calcium starts to replace the copper in turquoise, the color shifts to pure (light) blue and becomes coeruleolactite. This miniature's from Peru. Some references consider coeruleolactite to be a mixture of crandallite and cuprian planerite. Thanks to Wright's Rock Shop's table at the 2000 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen! |
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 Collinsite
A rich coating of pale green collinsite (a calcium magnesium iron phosphate dihydrate) on a small cabinet matrix from the Rapid Creek area, Yukon, Canada. Collinsite is the magnesium-rich analog of manganese-rich fairfieldite. Thanks to Darrel Merke's (Proton Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Collinsite
Decades before the crystalline collinsite was found at Rapid Creek, collinsite occured here (at the type locality, Francois Lake, British Columbia, Canada) as dark brown bands of massive material along with probable tan apatite, light-brown quercyite (a poorly-known calcium phosphate, for which this is also the type locality), and black asphaltum. This small cabinet piece is Ex: A. L. Kidwell Collection and Ward's Scientific 1957. Thanks to Richard Dale at Dale Minerals International for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Crandallite
Crandallite (calcium aluminum hydroxyphosphate) and othe related phosphates comprise the interior of this nodule from Clay Canyon, near Fairfield, Utah County, Utah. Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen! |
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 Cyrilovite
Yellow-brown cyrilovite (an iron (III) sodium hydroxyphosphate dihydrate) encrusts the iron ore matrix of this thumbnail from Hagendorf-Süd pegmatite, Waidhaus, Vohenstrauß, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. It's forms an incomplete series with wardite, where aluminum replaces the iron. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Delvauxite
Chalky tan delvauxite (a hydrated iron calcium hydroxysulfatophosphate) on a small cabinet matrix from the type locality of Berneau, Visé, Liege, Belgium. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Diadochite
A small cabinet specimen of beige diadochite (a hydrated iron hydroxysulfatophosphate) on matrix from the co-type locality of Richelle, Visé, Liege, Belgium. It's the phosphate analog of sarmientite. This specimen has a destinezite label - destinezite should only apply to the crystalline (triclinic) habit of diadochite. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Durangite
A durangite (sodium aluminum fluoarsenate) druse on a thumbnail matrix from the Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah. It forms two complete series; one with maxwellite, where iron replaces the aluminum, and one with tilasite, where calcium and magnesium replace the sodium and aluminum respectively. It also forms an incomplete series with lacroixite, its phosphate analog. Thanks to Walter Mroch's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Dussertite
Dussertite's a barium iron hydroxyarsenate member of the crandallite group - this thumbnail is from the type locality of Djebel Debar, Hamman, Meskhootine, Constantine, Algeria via the French School of Mines. Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen! | |
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 Eosphorite
Very sharp crystals of orange eosphorite on a matrix of bladed muscovite from Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Eosphorite is the manganese-rich end of the eosphorite - childrenite (iron-rich) series. Thanks to IC Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Eosphorite
A single crystal of eosphorite from Linópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the image! |
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 Ernstite
Dark-brown radial sprays of ernstite (an iron manganese aluminum hydroxyoxophosphate) frozen in a matrix from the La Viquita Mine, Chacabuco Department, San Luis Province, Argentina. Ernstite is an oxidation product of eosphorite so the matrix here may be a weathered chunk of eosphorite. Thanks to George Stevens' auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!
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 Erythrite
Very nice flat radiating clusters of erythrite (hydrated cobalt arsenate) from the Sara Alicia Mine, Mun. de Alamos, San Bernardo, Sonora, Mexico. Erythrite forms two complete series, one with annabergite and the other with hörnesite. Thanks to Dan Wienrich at Dan & Jill Weinrich for the specimen and the image! |
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 Erythrite
A nice thumbnail of erythrite on matrix from Bou Azzer, Morocco. The Moroccan erythrite crystals a much more prismatic (and gemmy) than the Mexican. Thanks to Graeber & Himes' table at the 2001 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen! |
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 Erythrite
A small cabinet piece of erythrite on cobaltite from Bou Azzer, Morocco. Thanks to Treasures of the Earth's table at the 2001 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen! |
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 Erythrite
One more miniature erythrite from Morocco. Thanks to Ken DeMary's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Erythrite,
Conichalcite,
and Smolianinovite
An unusual combination of arsenates (and colors) - rose erythrite, green conichalcite, and brown smolianinovite (a complex iron cobalt nickel arsenate) - on matrix from Mina Encontrada, Molvizar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Thanks to Jon Gladwell's (Myrddin Emrys Limited) auction on eBay for the specimen and images! | |
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 Fairfieldite
A cluster and a half of fairfieldite (a calcium manganese iron phosphate dihydrate) on holmquistite from Gaston County, North Carolina. I decreased the gamma on both pictures to improve the contrast. Fairfieldite's the manganese-rich analog of iron-rich messelite and of magnesium-rich collinsite. Thanks to Ken DeMary's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Fairfieldite
on
Carbonate-fluorapatite
An excellent miniature of white radial fairfieldite on a botryoidal layer of carbonate-fluorapatite from the LCA Mine, Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina. Thanks to Dmitry Efremov's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Fermorite
Fermorite is a strontium calcium hydroxyphosphatoarsenate (a member of the apatite group) - this pink thumbnail comes from the type locality of Sitapur, Chindwara, India. It's named after L.L. Fermor of the Geological Survey of India. Thanks to Thomas Bee's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Fernandinite
on
Corvusite
The dark-green fernandinite (a hydrated calcium sodium potassium vanadate) fibers are almost impossible to see (in my poor photo) against the black corvusite (a hydrated sodium calcium potassium vanadate) matrix in this thumbnail from the type locality for corvusite, the Uravan District, Montrose County, Colorado. The larger image shows a second thumbnail. Ex: David Shannon collection (Aug 1990). Corvusite and fernandinite form an incomplete series with sodium or calcium predominating. Also, because vanadium has two valences in these two minerals, V (III) and V (V), they should rightly be called mixed oxides instead of vanadates. There are many formulas for these two minerals - some of them include a small amount of ferrous iron. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Ferrisicklerite
A cleavage fragment of ferrisicklerite from the Buzzos Mine, Center Strafford, Stafford County, New Hampshire. It forms a series with sicklerite (manganese-rich lithium phosphate; ferrisicklerite being the other, iron-rich member). Thanks to Chris Wong's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Ferrostrunzite
An excellent miniature of ferrostrunzite on matrix from Blaton, Hainaut Province, Belgium. The specimen label says ferrostrunzite - according to the MinDat database, ferrostrunzite doesn't occur there. Ferristrunzite does, in fact, this is the type locality for ferristrunzite. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Fluellite
Here's an excellent thumbnail of bright white druse of fluellite, a hydrated aluminum hydroxyfluorophosphate, on matrix from the famous Willard Mine, Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada. Thanks to Rick Kennedy's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Forbesite
Considered by most authorities today to be a mixture of cobaltoan annabergite and arsenolite (or a variety of erythrite), this old Mexican (probably from Batopilas, Sonora) small cabinet specimen consists of fibrous-looking tabular off-white forbesite crystals (larger image, bottom right) on matrix. Dana describes forbesite as being derived from chloanthite (nickel arsenide) with a formula of (Co,Ni)2H(2AsO4)2·8H2O. Thanks to Bob Devine's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Gormanite
This is an excellent midnight-green drusy gormanite (a hydrated iron aluminum hydroxide phosphate) miniature from the type locality of the Rapid Creek area, Yukon, Canada. It forms a series with souzalite, where magnesium replaces most of the ferrous iron and ferric iron replaces most of the aluminum - gormanite is often shown with magnesium in its formula. Thanks to Vince Olsovsky's (KBV Fossils & Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Gormanite
A beautiful cluster of five gormanite needle clusters from Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil! Thanks to Ricky Houck's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Gormanite
Another besutiful miniature cluster of gormanite, again from Linópolis. Thanks to Antonio Carlos Chagas at Brazilian Minerals for the specimen and the image!
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 Graftonite
A piece of massive graftonite (a manganese iron calcium phosphate, hence the color) - named for its type locality, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It's the calcium end member of a series with sarcopside (magnesium replacing the calcium) at the other end with beusite in the middle. |
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 Greifensteinite
on
Gormanite
Very rare light tan greifensteinite (a hydrated iron calcium manganese beryllium hydroxyphosphate) crystals on dark-green radiating gormanite comprise this miniature from Linópolis, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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Tiny brownish-red crystals of grischunite (a hydrated manganese calcium eron sodium orthoarsenate) in matrix from the type (and only) locality of the manganese deposit at Falotta, Tinzen, Oberhalbstein, Albula Valley, Grischun, Switzerland. It's named after canton Grischun. |
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 Herderite
A thumbnail herderite (a calcium beryllium hydroxyfluophosphate) cluster with muscovite from Fazenda Jaime Pacheco, Linópolis, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thanks to Sharon Burnett's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Hummerite
This is a small thumbnail of bright orange hummerite, a hydrated potassium magnesium decavanadate, on sandstone from the type locality of the Hummer Mine, Montrose County, Colorado. Unfortunately, the hummerite is so loosely attached to the matrix that some of it's falling off. Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen! | |
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 Hummerite
A somewhat more stable miniature of hummerite on Morrison formation greenish-gray shale, again from the type locality of the Hummer Mine. This piece was probably collected in the 1950s - it has a Frazier's Minerals tag. Thanks to Robert Stoufer's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Huréaulite
and
Jahnsite
This beautiful rosy pink huréaulite (a manganese hydroxyphosphate) comes from the Tip Top Mine near Custer, Custer County, South Dakota - there's also some brownish-yellow jahnsite (for which the Tiptop Mine is the type locality) on the predominately dark triphylite matrix. I didn't link jahnsite to the Mineralogy Database - there are 6 jahnsites, all variations on a calcium iron manganese magnesium hydroxyphosphate octahydrate. Thanks to Adam Larson's (Adam's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Huréaulite,
var. Bastinite
Bastinite's the common name given to huréaulite in which part of the manganese is replaced by lithium - this bastinite thumbnail comes from the type locality of Custer Mountain, Custer, South Dakota. Thanks to Don Goodell's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Johnbaumite
An excellent miniature of johmbaumite (calcium hydroxylarsenate - the arsenate analog of hydroxylapatite) from Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. The larger image (upper right) shows a tiny unidentified crystal. It has a Richard Tayler Minerals (Surrey) tag. Thanks to Bob Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Kankite
Kankite (iron arsenite) occurs as yellow-green crystal masses on this miniature from the type locality, Kank, Kutná Hora, Stredocesky Kraj, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen! | |
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 Karibibite
Collected from the 2003 occurence in Larva de Urucum, Galilea Rio Dore, Minas Gerais, Brazil, this is a thumbnail of tiny orange karibibite (an iron hydroxyarsenite) radiating clusters on silvery massive lollingite. Some references omit the hydroxy cation. Karibibite forms an incomplete series with both ludlockite, where lead replaces part of the iron, and angelellite, its oxyarsenite analog. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Karibibite
A gorgeous micro of bright orange matted karibibite fibers on a massive scorodite matrix from the Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco. Thanks to Jasun McAvoy's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Kertschenite
Depending on which reference you believe, kertschenite is either 1) a mineral resulting from the weathering of vivianite, 2) metavivianite, or 3) an intergrowth of vivianite or metavivianite with varying amounts of amorphous ferric iron phosphate (santabarbaraite) and bobierrite. Regardless, this miniature of dark-green kertschenite on matrix is from the type locality of the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine. Thanks to Mirek Dorejko's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Kidwellite
A pale yellow-green crust of kidwellite (a hydrated iron sodium hydroxyphosphate) on matrix from the classic location of Polk County, Arkansas - as is typical, there are other phosphates here, namely rockbridgeite (closeups) and strunzite. Thanks to Anne & Charles Steuart's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Kidwellite
A large miniature of flat radiating deep-green kidwellite clusters on matrix from Mena, Polk County, Arkansas. Thanks to Thomas Moon's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!
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 Kingsmountite
An excellent miniature of white and tan kingsmountite (a hydrated calcium aluminum manganese iron magnesium hydroxyphosphate) on matrix from Huhnerkobel Mountain, Rabenstein, Zwiesel, Bavaria, Germany. There are many other phosphates present (larger image, bottom row) as these phosphates are caused by oxidizing ground water surface reactions. Thanks to Martin Gale's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Kosnarite
A thumbnail of kosnarite (zirconium potassium phosphate) crystals on an albite matrix from the recent find in the Jenipapo district, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Kovdorskite
A thumbnail pair of kovdorskite (a hydrated magnesium carbonatohydroxyphosphate - some references omit the carbonate cation) crystals from the mid-90s find at the type locality of the Kovdor iron-ore deposit, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Kovdorskite
An old small-cabinet specimen of kovdorskite crystals - two generations, pink and bluish-green - from the type locality of the Kovdor Mine. Thanks to Krzysztof Dembicz' auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Kulanite
Nice crystals of kulanite (a rare barium iron aluminum hydroxyphosphate) with siderite from the type locality of Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. It forms a series with penikisite where magnesium replaces the iron. Thanks to Doug Miller at Northern Lights Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Laubmannite
Laubmannite's a mineral that no longer exists! When discovered in 1949 by Clifford Frondel, it was thought to be a ferrosoferric hydroxyphosphate. After more modern analyses were done in 1990, it was found to be a variable mixture of other iron-containing phosphates, primarily beraunite, dufrenite, and kidwellite. This specimen comes from the type locality of the Coon Creek Mine (York Mine) Shady, Polk County, Arkansas. Thanks to Robert Stoufer's auction on eBay for the specimen and images! | |
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 Lazulite
Very nice deep blue lazulite (a magnesium aluminum phosphate) crystals with quartz needles and siderite crystals from the famous Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen! | |
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 Lazulite
More lazulite - this one, along with blue kyanite blades and tiny pyrite cubes in quartzite, is from the classic locale of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Thanks to Drexel Pitts's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Lazulite
Lazulite in translucent quartzite, again, from the rapidly depleting site at Graves Mountain, Georgia. Thanks to Joe Vincent's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Lazulite
A beautiful big (4 cm) sky-blue crystal of lazulite from Graves Mountain, Georgia. The silvery coating is crandallite (here an alteration product) and the attached quartzite matrix has tiny rutile and kyanite in it. Thanks to Greg Padget's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Lazulite
I just couldn't resist getting another one of these beautiful midnight blue lazulite clusters from the Rapid Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada! This miniature's almost entirely lazulite. This specimen. like many of the Rapid Creek lazulites, has internally fractured crystal tips that are amber and green - it's thought that the color change may be due to slight compositional differences. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Lazulite
A big (for the locale) 20mm lazulaite crystal from Rapid Creek. Thanks to Jasun McAvoy's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Lazulite
An excellent miniature of lazulite, messelite, siderite, and quartz from the Rapid Creek area. This specimen may be from the original find; it has a tag (larger image, upper right) from the University of Saskatchewan, Mineralogy Department stating that this piece was collected by B. T. Robertson. Thanks to Gerry Koshman's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Leucophosphite
and Robertsite
Mixed crystals of tan leucophosphite (a potassium iron hydroxyphosphate) and dark brown robertsite (calcium manganese oxophosphate) in vugs comprise this specimen from the famous Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South Dakota. This is the type locality for robertsite. Leucophosphate forms an incomplete series with tinsleyite (a potassium aluminum hydroxyphosphate). Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen! |
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 Lipscombite
Tiny green fuzzy balls of lipscombite (a ferrosoferric manganese hydroxyphosphate) on matrix from (probably the) Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Nevada. Older references considered it dimorphous with barbosalite, a manganese-free ferrosoferric hydroxyphosphate. |
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 Lithiophilite
A thumbnail of lithiophilite, lithium manganese phosphate, from the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine. It forms a series with triphylite where iron replaces the manganese. Thanks to Graeber & Himes' table at the 2003 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen! |
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 Lithiophilite
A small cabinet peach-colored lithiophilite in quartz from the Tanco Mine (Bernic Lake Mine), Lac-du-Bonnet area, Manitoba, Canada. Thanks to Thomas Bee's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Ludlamite
A pretty little thumbnail of ludlamite, an iron magnesium manganese phosphate, from the Blackbird Mine (Blackbird Metals, Inc. cobalt mine), Lemhi County, Idaho. There's a sprinkling of micro pyrite on one side. Thanks to Walter Mroch's (The Gem and Mineral Exploration Company) auction for the specimen! 
This gorgeous 2.3x1.7 cm ludlamite crystal array from the El Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico is for sale from:
Bob Patak
Shadyside Mining Company
738 Copeland Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
(412) 688 8088
patak@attglobal.net
Ex: James F. Carryer Collection. |
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 Ludlamite
A gorgeous large thumbnail of ludlamite on pyrite with a little siderite from the Huanuni Mine, Huanuni, Providence Dalence, Department Oruro, Bolivia. Thanks to Brian Kosnar's (Mineral Classics) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Ludlockite
A good reference thumbnail of orange ludlockite (an iron lead arsenite) on a chalcocite-germanire matrix from the type locality of the Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. It forms an imcomplete series with karibibite where iron replaces all of the lead. Typically, ludlockite has around 3% lead content. There is a fully "plumbified" endmember also found at the Tsumeb Mine - ludlockite-(Pb) where the lead content rises to over 13%. Thanks to Micah Cline's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Malhmoodite
Microspherules of malhmoodite (a zirconium iron phosphate tetrahydrate, often misspelled as mahlmoodite) on matrix (micro) from the type locality of the North Wilson Pit, Union Carbide, Garland County, Arkansas. Thanks to Ingo Drescher's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Mansfieldite
Microscopic clusters of gray-green mansfieldite (an aluminum arsenate) occur in vugs in this weathered rhyolite thumbnail from the type locality of Hobart Butte, Lane County, Oregon. Mansfieldite forms a series with scorodite and is the arsenic analog of variscite. Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen! | |
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 Mansfieldite
A roughly one-inch cube of pale blue-green mansfieldite in matrix from Djebel, Debagh, Hamman, Meskhootine, Constantine Province, Algeria. Thanks to Kyle Smith's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Maricite
Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada is the type (and only) locality for this micromount of maricite (iron sodium phosphate). Thanks to Chris Auer's (Eureka Micromounts) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Matulaite
A thumbnail of limonite coated with matulaite (a hydrated aluminum calcium hydroxyphosphate) from the type locality of the Bachman Mine, Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Matulaite was discovered in 1978 by Marge Matula - this is one of the specimens she collected and has her handwritten label! Thanks to Ron Sloto's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Maxwellite
Tiny red needles of maxwellite (iron sodium fluoarsenate) on a rhyolitic matrix from the type locality of Squaw Creek, Sierra County, New Mexico. This thumbnail was collected in 1991, the year of its discovery! Maxwellite forms two complete series; one with durangite, where aluminum replaces the iron, and one with tilasite, where calcium and magnesium replace the sodium and iron respectively. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Messelite
This miniature of white messelite (a calcium iron manganese phosphate dihydrate) on matrix with brown siderite and several other phosphates is from the famous Palermo No. 1 Mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Messelite is the iron-rich analog of manganese-rich fairfieldite. It was collected by Dr. Paul B. Moore decades ago. Thanks to David H. Garske's (MINERALS and MORE) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Metahewettite
Beautiful (but fragile) scarlet radiating clusters of metahewettite (or hewettite - the only difference is that metahewettite's drier, the color and crystal form and habit are identical), a simple calcium triple-chain metavanadate on matrix from the Cactus Rat Mine, Thompson, Yellow Cat District, Grand County, Utah. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Metamunirite
An excellent thumbnail of fuzzy white metamunirite (beta-sodium metavanadate) on sandstone from the type locality of the Burro Mine, San Miguel County, Colorado. It forms an incomplete series with munirite, its hydrated "cousin" and it also fluoresces a bright pink under longwave UV. Thanks to Adam Larson's (Adam's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | | |
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 Metarossite
A very good miniature of bright yellow metarossite (calcium metavanadate dihydrate) on matrix from the Arrowhead Claim, Slick Rock District, San Miguel County, Colorado. This specimen started out as rossite, the tetrahydrate, but over the years has dehydrated to metarossite. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Metaswitzerite
Tiny radial sprays of rusty-red metaswitzerite (a manganese phosphate tetrahydrate) on a quartz matriz from the type locality of the Foote Lithium Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina. This was originally sold as and thought to be switzerite, the heptahydrate. Studies have shown that switzerite irreversibly dehydrates (sometimes violently) in a few minutes of exposure to air to metaswitzerite. It can safely be said that all switzerite in collections is metaswitzerite. Also, even though most formulas don't show it, metaswitzerite contains a few percent of ferric and ferrous iron. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and image! | |
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 Metavauxite & Vauxite
on Paravauxite
From the 2006 find at the Siglo Viente Mine at Llallagua, Bustillos Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia comes this excellent small cabinet specimen of all three vauxite family minerals; tabular colorless metavauxite (iron aluminum hydroxyphosphate octahydrate) crystals and a blue vauxite flower on a white paravauxite-coated matrix. Even though this is the type locality for all three minerals, this is a very rare occurence! Metavauxite is dimorphic with paravauxite. Thanks to Benjamin Rivera Conlledo's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Meurigite
Botryoidal and crusts (larger image, closeups) of rare meurigite (hydrated iron potassium hydroxyphosphate) line a pocket of stubby quartz crystals in this small cabinet matrix specimen from Teskov, Bohemia (Posikla), Czech Republic. Meurigite is now called meurigite-(K) - presumably there's a meurigite-(Fe) somewhere. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Minyulite
A beautiful (for the species) small cabinet specimen of radiating minyulite (a hydrated aluminum potassium hydroxyfluorophosphate) clusters on matrix from Utahlite Hill near Lucin, Box Elder County, Utah. Thanks to David Lewis' auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Mitridatite
This thumbnail of bright orange mitridatite (a calcium iron oxyphosphate) on matrix is from the Swanson Quarry, East Hampton, Connecticut. It forms an incomplete series with arseniosiderite, its arsenate analog, and with robertsite, where manganese replaces the iron. Thanks to Gloria's Minerals' table at the 2001 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen! |
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 Montebrasite
A beautiful miniature of lemon yellow montebrasite (lithium sodium aluminum hydroxyfluorophosphate) from the Telirio Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It forms a series with amblygonite, its fluorohydroxyphosphate analog and a series with natromontebrasite where sodium replaces most of the lithium (some references consider natromontebrasite to be a mixture of OH-rich amblygonite with lacroixite and subordinate wardite. It has a Luiz Menezes Minerals tag. Thanks to Eric Greene's (Treasure Mountain Mining) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Montgomeryite
Beautiful vermilion montgomeryite (a calcium magnesium aluminum hydroxyphosphate) with black robertsite (a calcium manganese phosphate) and white whitlockite (a calcium manganese iron hydroxyphosphate) on matrix from the famous Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South Dakota. This location is the type locality for robertsite. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Moraesite
A cottony mass of moraesite (hydrated beryllium hydroxyphosphate) comprises this thumbnail from (probably the Boevskoye phenakite-beryl deposit in) the Ural Mountains, Russia - it forms an incomplete series with its hydroxyarsenate analog, bearsite. Thanks to David H. Garske's (MINERALS and MORE) auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Morinite, var.
Cuprian Morinite
Two thumbnails of cuprian morinite (a hydrated calcium aluminum sodium hydroxyfluorophosphate) from the Silver Coin Mine near Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada. One specimen has hemimorphite, lipscombite, and mimetite in association; the other has chrysocolla, fluorite, and turquoise. Morinite is often called jezekite in older texts, though one study has shown jezekite to be sodian morinite. Thanks to Adam Larson's (Adam's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Nevadaite
Nevadaite (a hydrated aluminum copper vanadium fluorophosphate) wasn't officially named until early 2003 - this miniature of micro turquoise-blue balls and crusts lightly scattered on matrix is from the type locality (and only occurence) of the Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen! | |
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 Newberyite
Newberyite's hydrated magnesium hydrophosphate - this small thumbnail is from the type locality of the Skipton lava caves, Ballarat Victoria, Australia. Newberyite has been found in kidney stones that are due to certain bacterial infections and thus could be used as a diagnostic and treatment aid. It's named after Australian J. C. Newbery. Thanks to Bill Awald's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Nickellotharmeyerite
A very nice miniature of tan nickellotharmeyerite (a complex nickel iron bismuth calcium arsenate) on matrix from the type locality of the Roten Berg Mine, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Thanks to Jan Bürgel's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Olmsteadite
A micro of millimeter-sized dark-gray grains of extremely rare olmsteadite (a hydrated iron niobium tantalum potassium oxyphosphate) in matrix from the type locality of the Big Chief Mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Ex: Tom Campbell collection. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Parasymplesite
An old fascinating miniature of intergrown dark-bluish-green radiating parasymplesite (ferrous arsenate octahydrate) and kottigite, its zinc analog, on a limonitic matrix from the 1970 discovery at the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Paravauxite
Paravauxite's the more hydrated cousin of vauxite - this thumbnail is from the type locality of Llallagua, Bustillo, Potosí, Bolivia and was part of the Mark Bandy Collection. It's dimorphic with metavauxite. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Pharmacolite
White botryoidal pharmacolite (calcium acid arsenate) on a sulfide matrix from the Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. This is an old miniature (note the white ink on phenolic mount and the penciled note "1975" and "Erd", larger image, bottom). Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Phosphosiderite
Occasionally there's an iron mineral that's purple - this phosphosiderite (or metastrengite, ferric phosphate dihydrate) on black triplite (another phosphate) comes from the Lord Hill Quarry in Stoneham, Oxford County, Maine. It's dimorphic with strengite. Thanks to Veronica Matthew's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Phosphosiderite
A thumbnail of light purple phosphosiderite and shimmery brown rockbridgeite from the Williams Pegmatite, Coosa County, Alabama. Thanks to Jennings "Beau" Gordon's (Jendon Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Phosphosiderite
An impressive miniature of deep-purple phosphosiderite on matrix from the Stewart Gem Mine, Pala, San Diego County, California. The actual (to my eyes) color is halfway between my and Justin's photos. Thanks to Justin Zzyzx's (ZzyzxMinerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Picropharmacolite
An excellent miniature of white picropharmacolite (a hydrated mixed arsenate of calcium and magnesium) tufts on matrix from Richelsdorf, North Hesse, Germany. It may be from the type locality of the ore dumps at the Richelsdorf Smelter, but the tag just says Richelsdorf. Picropharmacolite can be (somewhat) dehydrated to form irhtemite. Thanks to Martin Gale's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Planerite
Planerite is turquoise without the copper - this aluminum phosphate specimen comes from the Montgomery County Quarry, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Colorless needles of (probable) austinite are on top of the lime-green planerite and in small vugs elsewhere. Thanks to Anne & Charles Steuart's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Planerite
More planerite from the Montgomery County Quarry in Arkansas. These two (larger image) miniatures show its wide color range. Thanks to Rick & Angelina Davis' auction on eBay for the specimens! |
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 Planerite
A beautiful miniature of bright kelly-green planerite in matrix from somewhere near Mt. Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas. This 2005 find was a small pocket and is now depleted. Thanks to Kathy Stevens' auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Purpurite
Purpurite, a manganese iron phosphate, is always massive - this one's (probably) from the Dunton Mine, Newry, Oxford County, Maine. It forms a series with heterosite where the iron has predominance. Thanks to John Veevaert at Trinity Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Rauenthalite
A nice miniature of rare white rauenthalite (calcium orthoarsenate decahydrate) on bright pink botryoidal erythrite from the Richelsdorf District, North Hesse, Hesse, Germany. Thanks to Martin Gale's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Reddingite
An esthetic miniature of pink reddingite (manganese orthophosphate trihydrate), light-yellowhuréaulite, and dark-green barbosalite on matrix from Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil (probably the Jocão Mine. It forms a series with phosphoferrite, where iron replaces some of the manganese. Thanks to Michael Flaherty's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Reddingite
A second reddingite - this one a micromount cluster also from the Jocão Mine. Thanks to David H. Garske's (MINERALS and MORE) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Rockbridgeite
This specimen's the reverse of my kidwellite one - the rockbridgeite (a ferrosoferric hydroxyphosphate) predominates here while the kidwellite is relegated to the back of this specimen from the 2001 find at Helena, Shelby County, Alabama. There's usually a small amount of manganese with the ferrous iron of rockbridgeite - when the manganese replaces the ferrous iron completely, it becomes frondelite. Also, there's some millimeter-sized spherules of (probably) cacoxenite on a back corner. Thanks to Adam Barwood's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Roselite
Roselite is a calcium cobalt magnesium arsenate and this thumbnail is from Bou Azzer, Morocco. The Moroccan roselites often have associated dimorphous beta-roselite (triclinic instead of monoclinic). Roselite forms a complete series with wendwilsonite. Thanks to John Veevaert at Trinity Minerals for the specimen! | |
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 Roselite
A very nice miniature of roselite on matrix, also from Bou Azzer. Thanks to Elena Van Scriver's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Roselite
This second miniature from Bou Azzer has red roselite on bright pink cobaltocalcite. Thanks to Elena Van Scriver's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Sarcopside
Reddish-brown grains of sarcopside (an iron manganese magnesium phosphate) on a dark-brown matrix from the Bull Moose Mine, Custer County, South Dakota. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Schlossmacherite
A pretty miniature of lime-green schlossmacherite (an aluminum calcium hydroxyarsenate) and sky-blue ceruléite on matrix from the type locality for both minerals, the Emma Luisa Mine, Guanaco, Taltal, Chile. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Schneiderhohnite
An excellent thumbnail of rare schneiderhohnite (a ferrosoferric mixed arsenate, now considered a mixed oxide) on lollingite from the Corrego do Urucum pegmatite, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thanks to Don Smoley's Minerals & Gems' table at the 2004 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen! | |
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 Schoderite
Schoderite's an aluminum phosphatovanadate - this one's from the type locality, the VanNavSan Claim, Fish Creek, Eureka County, Nevada. Due to changes in the hydration state of the surrounding rock, there's no current schoderite available. There's probably also some metaschoderite, a less hydrated schoderite, and vashegyite present as well. Thanks to Richard Dale's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Scorodite
Beautiful color-change (blue-green to violet) crystals of scorodite, a rare iron phosphate, from Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the image! 
This beautiful 1.5x1 cm scorodite dichroic crystal from Tsumeb, Namibia is for sale from:
Bob Patak
Shadyside Mining Company
738 Copeland Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
(412) 688 8088
patak@attglobal.net
Ex: Jerry Van Velthuizen & James F. Carryer Collections. |
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 Scorzalite
As the magnesium in lazulite is replaced by iron, it becomes the more opaque (and rarer) scorzalite - this small cabinet specimen of denim-blue scorzalite in mica pegmatite is from the Palermo #1 Mine in Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Thanks to John & Liz Clevesy's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Scorzalite
Another scorzalite from the Palermo Mine - this small cabinet piece has scorzalite crystals all through it. Thanks to Lynricia Beavers' auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Scorzalite
in Kyanite
A miniature of massive dark-blue scorzalite in massive sky-blue kyanite-quartzite from the facing-stone quarry at Hålsjöberg (Horrsjöberg), Torsby, Värmland, Sweden. The larger image (bottom, center) shows what may be svanbergite, for which this is the type locality. Thanks to Jan Garland's (Fine Rocks) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Senegalite
A very nice thumbnail of micro yellowish-green senegalite (hydrated aluminum hydroxyphosphate) crystals on turquoise from the type locality of Kouroudiako, Falémé, Senegal. Thanks to Val Collins' auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Sherwoodite
Sherwoodite's a rare calcium aluminum double vanadate usually occuring as a dark blue stain - this one's from the Sunday #2 Mine, San Miguel County, Colorado. Thanks to Eduardo Jawerbaum's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Sigloite
Rusty-brown crystals of sigloite (an iron aluminum hydroxyphosphate) on matrix (along with some tiny colorless paravauxite crystals) from the type locality of the Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Bustillo, Potosi, Bolivia. Thanks to Richard Dale's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Sincosite
There are clusters of greenish sincosite, a rare calcium vanadyl (IV) hydroxyphosphate, scattered on the matrix of this small cabinet piece from the 1996 find at the Ross Hannibal Mine, Lead, Lawrence County, South Dakota. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen! |
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 Souzalite
A miniature of light-brown souzalite (a hydrated magnesium iron aluminum hydroxyphosphate) fibers with dark-green gormanite (with which it forms a series) from the famous Rapid Creek area, Yukon, Canada. Ex: Jacques Chabot Collection. Thanks to Chris Auer's (Eureka Micromounts) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Steigerite
The Cactus Rat Mine, Yellow Cat District, Grand County, Utah is the home of this miniature of yellow steigerite (aluminum orthovanadate trihydrate) microcrystals on a sandstone matrix. There's a nice (probable) barnesite cluster on the back (larger image, bottom). Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen! |
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 Straczekite
Tiny black specks of straczekite (a calcium barium potassium vanadate) on a thumbnail matrix from the type locality of the North Wilson pit at the Union Carbide Mine, Potash Sulfur Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. Straczekite is the namesake of one of the two fibrous "vanadium bronze" mineral groups, which also includes bariandite, bokite, corvusite, and fernandinite. Vanadium bronzes are used as pigments and are being studied for catalysts, electrochromic displays, and electrochemical analytical electrodes. Thanks to Ben Clardy's auction on eBay for the specimen! Thanks also to Paul D. Thompson, the discoverer of straczekite, for the location correction! | |
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 Strengite
Strengite's one of the few purple iron minerals - this excellent thumbnail of strengite (ferric phosphate dihydrate) sphericules on iron ore is from Norrbotten, Sweden. It forms a series with variscite, its aluminum analog and is dimorphic with phosphosiderite. Thanks to Jennings "Beau" Gordon's (Jendon Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Svabite
Svabite's the arsenate analog of (fluoro)apatite. This miniature is from the Raktenvare Mountains, Seitevare, Ultevis, Lappland, Sweden. Thanks to Jan Garland's (Fine Rocks) auction on eBay for the specimen! Thanks also to Leif Engman for the location update! |
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 Talmessite
Very nice miniclusters of talmessite (a hydrated calcium magnesium arsenate) on a miniature matrix from the Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah - it also fluoresces yellow green under longwave UV. Talmessite forms a series with Gaitite, its zinc analog. Thanks to Chris Auer's (Eureka Micromounts) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Taranakite
Taranakite (a hydrated aluminum potassium double phosphate) is a secondary phosphate found in caves and along seashores - it's the most common cave mineral. This vial of white taranakite grains is from Super Cave, Cervantes, Western Australia, Australia. Thanks to David H. Garske's (MINERALS and MORE) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Triphylite
A large cabinet specimen of triphylite (lithium iron manganese phosphate) from the famous Palermo #1 pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire. It forms a complete series with lithiophilite, the manganese-rich end member, and like lithiophite, is a primary phosphate mineral - it alters into many beautiful secondary phosphates. Because of the color, this specimen may be nearer in composition to lithiophite. There's also minor muscovite and pyrite present. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Triploidite
This miniature of red triploidite (a manganese iron hydroxyphosphate) and beige quartz comes from the Capoeira Mine, near Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It forms a series with wolfeite where the iron predominates. Thanks to Thomas Bee's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Trolleite
Trolleite's another aluminum hydroxyphosphate - here, it occurs as glassy light greenish blue masses with specular hematite and quartz. It's from Hålsjöberg, Torsby, Värmland, Sweden. I increased the color gamma a bit on these pictures - it really is beautful shades of green and blue. Thanks to Emilie & Ron Kendig's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Turneaureite
Turneaureite's another apatite group mineral (calcium phosphatoarsenate) - this small cabinet piece has orange patches of turneaureite and probable tiny dark-brown donpeacorite crystals. It's from the type locality (for both minerals) of the ZCA Mine #4, Balmat, St Lawrence County, New York. Thanks to Val Collins' auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Ushkovite on
Roscherite
A couple of rare ones here - ushkovite is a hydrated magnesiun iron hydroxyphosphate - the small orange "cubes" (larger image, right, top center) on tan roscherite, a hydrated calcium manganese iron beryllium hydroxyphosphate on a quartz matrix from Galiléia, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen! |
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 Ushkovite on
Dufrénite
A deep-orange ushkovite crust on green dufrénite (a hydrated iron calcium hydroxyphosphate) thumbnail also from Galiléia. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Vantasselite
Vantasselite's a hydrated aluminum hydroxyphosphate - this rare small cabinet specimen is from the type locality of Bihain, Stavelot massif, Ardennes, Belgium. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Variscite
The prettiest massive variscite (aluminum phosphate) comes from Fairfield County, Utah, where it occurs in (sometimes up to 24") nodules that are often cabbed for jewelry or used as ornamental stone. Only the minty green part is variscite - the other colors are other phosphates (like yellow crandallite). Thanks to Walter Mroch's (The Gem and Mineral Exploration Company) auction for the specimen and the image! |
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 Variscite
Back in 1999 a new locale was found (Itumbiara, Goias, Brazil) with beautiful, bright green crystalline variscite! It's dimorphic with metavariscite and forms a series with strengite (iron phosphate). Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Variscite
This is an end slab of a big variscite nodule from the Utahlite Claim, Lucin, Box Elder County, Utah. Thanks to Lenora Salandi's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Variscite
This cabinet specimen of gem-grade cabochon variscite comes from Nevada. Thanks to Charley William's AZPERIDOT auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Variscite
A miniature of beautiful red variscite crystals on a magnetite matrix from the Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, Middleback Ranges, South Australia,
Australia. That's essentially the only locale for it, according to this article, though there are references to an occurence in Cocke County, Tennessee. The color may be due to the 10% iron content. Thanks to Thomas Bee's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Variscite
Another (large) miniature of green variscite from the find at Itumbiara, Goias, Brazil. Thanks to Lourenço Santos' auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Variscite
Here's a beautiful polished variscite "clover leaf" from the Lucin District, Box Elder County, Utah. Thanks to David Wonderly's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Variscite, var.
Variquoise
Variscite from Snowville, Box Elder County, Utah occurs with spiderwebbing and is often called "variquoise" or "green turquoise" - these two miniatures have been tumbled. Thanks to Susan & Jimmy Lambert's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Vauxite
Vauxite (iron aluminum hydroxyphosphate hexahydrate) is fairly rare and one of the very few blue iron-containing minerals - this one's from the type locality of the Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Bustillo, Potosi, Bolivia, one of the classic locations. The white mineral is probably paravauxite - vauxite with a little more hydration. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen! | | |
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 Väyrynenite
An excellent miniature of pink väyrynenite (a manganese beryllium fluorohydroxyphosphate) in matrix from the type locality of the Viitaniemi pegmatite, Eräjärvi area, Orivesi, Etelä-Suomen Lääni, Finland. Thanks to Paolo Bracci's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Vivianite
This vivianite (ferrous phosphate octahydrate) specimen is from somewhere in Nevada. Vivianite's photosensitive - the crystals darken and split after long-term exposure to light. Thanks to Gary Lozonne at Lozonne's Minerals for the specimen and the image! |
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 Vivianite
A single crystal of reasonably gemmy vivianite from the Chicote Grande Mine, La Paz, Bolivia. The recent (2003+) vivianites from this and other Bolivian locales may not be as sensitive to light and humidity. Thanks to SoCal Nevada's auction on eBay for the specimen and images! |
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 Vladimirite
A small miniature of white radial tufts of vladimirite (a hydrated mixed arsenate of calcium) on matrix from the Ightem Mine, Ightem, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region of Morocco. Thanks to Dieter Obrecht's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Wardite
An excellent thumbnail of wardite (hydrated aluminum sodium hydroxyphosphate) crystals on matrix from Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. It forms an incomplete series with cyrilovite, where iron replaces the aluminum. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Wardite
A large (for the species) wardite crystal thumbnail, also from the Rapid Creek area. There's an unidentified golden-brown druse on the back (larger image, middle). Thanks to Mike Shell's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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 Wavellite
Wavellite's an aluminum hydroxyfluorophosphate and this one's from the classic site (Dug Hill, near Avant) in Garland County, Arkansas. It's also called fischerite. The green color is due to vanadium - pure wavellite is white. |
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 Wavellite
Another wavellite from Arkansas - the spherules on this one are all intact so the radial patterns aren't visible. |
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 Wavellite
A beautiful wavellite thumbnail. |
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 Wavellite
An interesting thumbnail of white wavellite on (probable) fluellite (an aluminum hydroxyfluorophosphate) on a dark matrix from the Willard Mine (one of the best U. S. locales for fluellite) in Pershing County, Nevada. |
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 Wavellite
The vast majority of wavellite is green - here's a beautiful yellow miniature from (probably the) Crystal Baron Mine, Crows, Saline County, Arkansas. It also fluoresces a beautiful apple green thanks to a microscopic coating of pure (iron-free and colorless) wavellite. (A trace of iron quenches the fluorescence in almost all wavellite.) Thanks to Anne & Charles Steuart's auction on eBay for the specimen!
Thanks also to J. Michael (Mike) Howard, Rockhounding Arkansas, for the fluorescence info! |
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 Wavellite
A beautiful, bright, and sparkly wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Thanks to Angela Fisher's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Wavellite
This is a beautiful and rare small cabinet specimen of white wavellite (there's also some yellow and rusty red wavellite - see the larger image) from Cerhovice, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Some of the white wavellite tips are fluorescent. The Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Tech University) label dates the specimen to sometime between 1897 and 1927. Thanks to Thomas Bee's auction on eBay for the specimen! | |
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 Wavellite
A pretty miniature of yellow wavellite from Arkansas. One of the spheroids has broken open to reveal a hollow center (larger image, bottom row, center). |
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 Wavellite
A large cabinet piece of wavellite and cacoxenite-coated hematite-included quartz (and possible pyrolusite and minyulite) again from the Willard Mine, Lovelock, Nevada. There's a lot to study here. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Wavellite
A cute miniature of gray wavellite from Montgomery County, Arkansas. Thanks to H M & D Minerals' table at the 2002 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen! |
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 Wavellite
A deep-green wavellite miniature from an unknown location. Thanks to Dieter Obrecht's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! |
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 Wavellite
A miniature of wavellite on matrix from the type locality of the High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England. These wavellite spherules grew in seams - when the seams were split, so did they. Thanks to Helen Wilkinson's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Wavellite
A beautiful small cabinet specimen of deep-green wavellite spherules (up to 12mm) on matrix from Mauldin Mtn near Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Thanks to Matthew Price's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Wavellite
A beautiful translucent miniature slab of radial wavellite crystals from somewhere in Garland County, Arkansas. Thanks to Don Pattillo's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Wavellite
Beautiful lime-green wavellite spherules on matrix comprise this cabinet piece from the 2007 and already depleted find at the National Limestone Company Quarry, Lime Ridge, Mount Pleasant Mills, Perry Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. Thanks to Rob Lavinsky at The Arkenstone for the specimen and the images! | |
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 Wendwilsonite
Wendwilsonite is a calcium magnesium cobalt arsenate and forms a complete series with roselite - this miniature of deep red wendwilsonite crystals in a vug in a skutterudite-containing matrix is from the Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer, Morocco. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Whiteite
Beautiful tan crystals of whiteite (an aluminum magnesium hydroxyphosphate with traces of calcium, iron, and manganese) - there's actually three whiteites; this one's probably whiteite-(CaMnMg), judging by its color. There's also tiny quartz, lazulite, and augelite crystals. This miniature is from Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. Thanks to Dave Hayward at Lucky Strike Minerals for the specimen and the image! |
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 Whitlockite
An interesting miniature of whitlockite (a calcium iron magnesium hydroxyphosphate) crystals on matrix from Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. The larger image shows gormanite inclusions (bottom right) and a kulanite rosette (bottom left). Thanks to Jonathan Levinger's auction on eBay for the specimen and identifications! |
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Wolfeite
A miniature chunk of wolfeite, a rare iron manganese hydroxyphosphate, from the Big Fish River area, Yukon, Canada. It forms a series with triploidite. Thanks to Tom Klinepeter's auction on eBay for the specimen! |
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 Xenotime-(Y)
This is a beautiful thumbnail crystal of color-change (larger image) xenotime-(Y) from Zagee (Zagai) Mountain, near Kafoor Dheri, Mulla Gori district, NW of Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan. It forms a complete series with chernovite-(Y), its arsenate analog and an incomplete series with xenotime-(Yb), its ytterbium analog. These came from a (now-depleted) single-pocket find of only a few dozen specimens in Spring 2003. Thanks to Rob Lavinsky at The Arkenstone for the specimen and the image! | |
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 Yukonite
A miniature of rare and amorphous black yukonite (a hydrated iron calcium hydroxyarsenate) on matrix collected in 1984 from the Venus Mine (near the type locality), Carcross, Near Lake Tagish, Yukon Territories, Canada. Thanks to Marty Lewadny at CrystalEnthusia (formerly Crystal Variations) for the specimen and the image! |
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 Zanazziite
An interesting miniature of an equant light-olive-green zanazziite (a hydrated iron calcium magnesium beryllium hydroxyphosphate) crystal partially covered with gormanite needles from Minas Gerais, Brazil - it may be from the type locality of the Lavra da Ilha pegmatite. Zanazziite may form an incomplete series with roscherite - they only occur together at the Palermo #1 Mine in New Hampshire so there's not much data available. Thanks to Adam Larson's (Adam's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image! |
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