Stibnite as small veins frozen in quartz with a couple of small pyrite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A plate of pyromorphite with the larger crystals zoned and barrel-shaped. Specimen measures 60x50x20mm. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Otome Mine, a name applied generically to material from many different mines in the Kinpuzan mining district. Scheelite specimens in Mindat appear to be from hydrothermal veins, whereas this specimen is clearly from a skarn. There appears to be a small area of ferberite adjacent to the scheelite...
Type Locality. Yellow-fluorescent hokkaidoite in opal that fluoresces in a range of colours. Close up is under longwave and 9mm across. The other two are iPhone photos. The one that is more pink bottom right is LW. The more blue is SW.
Drusy colourless quartz crystals after barite (epimorphs). Width of view 9mm. Stack of 175 images.
Three pieces in a round container. Ex Ueno Scientific Co.
Acquired by Jake Slago from Alfredo Petrov at the 2013 Tucson Show. Rocks and Minerals magazine Jul-Aug 2006: The third sentence in this nine page article reads: As with the real blossoms, these stones, known as sakura ishi (cherry blossom stones) are also revered by mineralogists and mineral collectors in...
Highly fluoresent yellow inclusions of hokkaidoite in opal that fluoresces pink and and purplish blue. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki Collection. Type Locality. Specimen measures 17mm. Photo under longwave UV.
Sliced, polished sample, showing pale blue vein of itoigawaite in jadeite matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Width of specimen 40mm.
Pale crystalline mass in matrix. Ex Chet Lemanski Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
Small, crude, subhedral crystal aggregate of hydrobiotite without matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Older material, purchased by Andrew from Excalibur Mineral Company in 1986. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Wairakite is one of the rarer zeolite species. It’s typically found around hot springs and forms white dodecahedral crystals similar to analcime. In this case, the white wairakite is completely replacing the elongated, stick-like crystals of another zeolite, laumontite. 35x28x12mm. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images.
White silky “Cat’s Eye” terminations on vesuvianite crystals that are zoned yellowish-greenish, root-beer brown, and even a purplish-black. Specimen measures 28x15x14mm. Ex Brian Kosnar. Ex Rob Lavinski. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark brown crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Location in Japanese 長野県南佐久郡川上村甲武信鈜山 Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal crystals, as well as yellow iron-stained ones. White fibrous thomsonite, and tiny analcime crystals. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki. Colourless width of view 6mm, and stack of 30 images. Yellow width of view 6mm, and stack of 85 images. Click on the images below for a higher...
Blocky colourless crystals with rounded aggregates of thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Richard Bell. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
A single well-formed arsenopyrite crystal on matrix. Specimen measures 55x30x25mm.
Blue fibrous nakauriite. This species forms as vivid fibrous blue crystals on/in brucite-bearing serpentine. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hexagonal olive green crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled: Mt Hokidoke, Nagono Volcano, Japan. Colourless prismatic crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria. Stack of 24 images.. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small, white crystalline mass of slawsonite with very minor matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. The dealer gave Andrew the locality as Kagami-mura, Kochi in 1987. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Almost pure pale beige fine-grained mass of tobelite. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Sliced specimen showing micro black inclusions of rock-forming potassic-sadanagaite from the type locality. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Soenke Stolze in 2014. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Glassy white finely-crystalline sibirskite without matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Soenke Stolze in 2008. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Greenish-brown, massive bunnoite on black hausmannite. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Marzio Mamberti in 2017. Type Locality for bunnoite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Pure, white, fine-grained piece of sudoite. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Older material, purchased by Andrew from David Garske in 1984. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Grey, fine-grained rectorite without matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Roger’s Minerals, Canada, in 2007. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Small dark olive-green grains and prismatic cleavages of barroisite in schist. Material originally from Yosuke Ito in 1982 and purchased from Minerals Unlimited the same year. This may in fact be a different amphibole species, following recent revision of the amphibole group. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Click on the image...
Rich dark-green-black, radiating crystalline hastingsite with hedenbergite. Old material (ex-John Patrick, January 1963), purchased from Ralph Merrill (Minerals Unlimited) in 1984. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Pinkish massive to crystalline pyroxmangite with lustrous/metallic black to deep red neotocite with conchoidal fracture. Click on image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Orange wulfenite crystals with spherical green mimetite and red minium. Ex Diederik Visser 6/2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pseudo-octahedral orange crystals with white barite. Ex David Vince. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 63 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink rhodochrosite rosettes on quartz with minor sulphides. 38mm wide.
Blue lazurite with grey sodalite (hackmanite) that fluoresces orange. Width 48mm. Check out the Fluorescent Mineral Reveal on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbe_9ddRFj4
Tan roweite with colourless olshanskyite. Also present, tiny green andradite crystals. Width of view 38mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of pentagonite crystals with tiny fibres of mordenite and a few little white calcite crystals. Ex Ed Richards. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rosette of colourless hexagonal imayoshiite crystals. Width of specimen 15mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A specimen from this locality was used in Miyawaki, R., Nakai, I. & Nagashima, K. (1984) A refinement of the structure of gadolinite. American Mineralogist, 69. Dark green to black gadolinite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to white massive material, partially fluorescent pink under longwave UV (likely calcite as it bubbles readily in vinegar – see last photo). 23x17x8mm. Stack of 45 images (white light) and 21 (UV). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Long thin prismatic metallic crystals with quartz crystals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fragments of meteorite in a capsule, magnetic. Width of view 5.75mm.
Superb blue cavansite with tiny colourless stilbite crystals. In some light, the cavansite is more green. My camera really struggles to capture the colour correctly too. Width of cavansite spray is 15mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Andrew Hodgson. Ex Minerals Unlimited.
A pale brown crystalline mass of this fairly rare silicate without matrix. Obtained by Andrew Hodgson from Richard Tayler Minerals in July 1987.
Obvious pinkish massive and small veins in 1.5cm. Type Locality.
Silvery-grey inclusions of frohbergite in fine-grained matrix, with attractive glassy yellow crystals of tellurite.
Location in Japanese 大分県 南海部郡 藤河内
Location in Japanese 栃木県塩谷郡塩谷町天上沢鉱山
Blue crystals and crusts. There are some nice small crystals towards the top right of the photo. Width of specimen 12mm. Stack of 85 images. Location in Japanese 滋賀県湖南市石部町灰山 Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sakura in bloom,A fleeting moment of joy,A petal’s gentle kiss. Sakura Ishi – Cherry Blossom Stone. Muscovite mica pseudomorphs of complex cordierite-indialite intergrowths. Width 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One tiny micro in rhodonite. Type Locality.
Tiny thin beige veins in matrix. Type Locality.
Two small grains in matrix.
Fragments in a small glass vial. Width of view 2.88mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One of a dozen rounded garnets. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 16 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless – white lanthanite with purple fluorite.
Type locality. Yellow crusts with probable strands of colourless gypsum. Ex Gunnar Färber. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 39 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hashemite as yellow crystals, ettringite colourless prisms. Ex Gunnar Färber. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tan roweite and colourless/white fibrous to prismatic olshanskyite. Much of the white material could be something else but has not been analysed. Width of specimen 70mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Purplish crystal of henmilite on white olshanskyite. Type Locality for henmilite. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown triangular shaped crystal embedded in matrix. 30x25x25mm. Ex Richard Tayler. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rough & Cut. Crystal shows the characteristic drill-bit termination. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two heliodor crystals without matrix. The one photod is 15mm long. Width of view 19mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cluster of zoned beryl crystals ranging from pale pink (morganite) through shades of blue (aquamarine) to colourless/white. Specimen measures 45x40x35mm. Photo width of view 33mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Half a dozen beryl crystals on a matrix of muscovite and albite. The largest beryl measures 22mm across. Width of crystal in photo 16mm. Stack of 60 images. Whole specimen measures 54x32x30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single thin pencil of aquamarine. Labelled as Thuong Xuan (near to Xuan Le). Crystal is 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A pale pink kunzite crystal. Specimen is 29mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny silver graphite crystal with green pargasite crystals in white marble. Width of view 11.5. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A number of green pargasite crystals in white marble. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two green pargasite crystals in a marble matrix, one of which (pictured) overgrows a barely visible red spinel, really only visible under UV. Width of view 8.6mm. Stack of 25 images (white light), 20 images (longwave UV). Use the slider to see specimen under white light and longwave UV. Click...
Yellow platy crystals. Ex Marco Poli.
Sceptred amethyst. Sceptre is 11mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin white pearly cleavages on matrix, fairly sparse. 3.5×2.5cm. OW109.
Type Locality. Microscopic green spots on pink rhodonite.
Type Locality. Yellowish-green spots in aegirine syenite.
Yellow patches in matrix. Ōmi is noted as the Type Locality but it is not clear exactly where. Probably Ōmi River rather than this locality.
Yellow calcite with bluish-white fluorescence (Convoy) and a green afterglow that takes a few seconds to fade. Colours are not exact in photo (iPhone). Also, compared to the many many calcite specimens from Chenzhou in Mindat, this is atypical. There is a large variety of forms, but not like this...
Type Locality for parasibirskite. C. Loranth photo.
Type Locality C. Loranth photo.
Type Locality for both species. C. Loranth photo.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002. Ex Ralph Segnit Collection.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Highly fluorescent. Sold as pink sapphires. [private role=”administrator”]US$10.50 from eBay[/private]
A group of cassiterite crystals on a striated single ferberite crystal. Width 11mm. Stack of 130 images.
Zoned orange-capped yellow hexagonal prisms with small prism faces. Some twinning visible. Width 11mm. Stack of 130 images.
Single loose brown flattened dodecahedron diamond crystal weighing 0.35ct. Pale blue fluorescence. Crystal width 5mm. Stack of 90 images.
Pale pink morganite beryl, labelled as Pakistan but identified as Pech by Rocksaholics. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $290.
Superb cluster of azurite crystals. Very solid piece. Video best viewed full screen.
