Mineral Favorites

Plumbogummite PbAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6 Detail, Doping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang, China

Azurite Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 with Malachite and Cyanotrichite, after Brochantite, Metcalf Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona Ex Robert J Waidler Collection

Datolite CaBSiO4(OH) Keweenaw Co., Michigan

Red Quartz with secondary Double Terminated Quartz,, SiO2 Vtoroi Sovietsky Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia

Grossularite Ca3Al2(SiO4)3, under UV shortwave, with Almandine (?), Willemite (green) and Feldspar (black) II, Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey

Rosasite (Cu,Zn)2(CO3)(OH)2 II, Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico

Hematite Fe2O3 with Rutile TiO2 Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil

Copper Cu with Calcite, White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagan Co., Michigan

Linarite PbCuSO4(OH)2, with Galena, Brochantite, Quartz, Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Soccoro Co., New Mexico Ex Renauld Vochten

Crocoite PbCrO4 with Gibbite I, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania

Brochantite Cu4(SO4)(OH)6 (green) with Fluorite I, Blanchard MIne, (Portales-Blanchard Mine), Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, Ex. Jack Crowley

Copper Cu crystals with Calcite, Keweenaw Co., Michigan

Celadonite K(Mg,Fe2+)Fe3+(Si4 O10 )(OH)2 with Heulandite, Campos Novos, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Bismuth Bi, Detail, Germany

Realgar As4S4 with Orpiment As2S3 (orange) with Pyrite, Quartz and Galena, La Paloma Mine, Huancavelica, Peru

Iridescent Hematite Fe2O3, Detail Rio Tinto Mine, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain

Charoite (K(Ca,Na)2 Si4 O10 (OH,F)·H2 O), detail, with Tinksite and Aegirine, Murunskii Massif, Aldan Shield, Saha Republic, Russia

Silver Ag White Pine Mine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan

Pectolite NaCa2Si3O8(OH) Millington Quarry, Somerset Co., New Jersey

Goethite (FeO(OH)) England

Shattuckite Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2 with Quartz, Kaokoveld, Kunene, Namibia, with Dioptase, Chrysocolla, and Calcite, Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Katanga CopperCrescent, Kantanga (Shaba) Congo-Kinshasa

Marcasite FeS2 with Calcite Wisconsin

Fluorapatite Ca5(PO4)3F Yellow under Shortwave UV, with Clevelandite and Quartz, Middletown, Connecticut

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