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Aegirine : NaFe3+[Si2O6]
	Point of Rocks Quarry, Point of Rocks Mesa (Pecks Mesa), Springer, Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA Bicolored aegirine. Photo is about 2.2 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2006	Photo ID: 82573    View Count: 151
Aegirine : NaFe3+[Si2O6]
	Point of Rocks Quarry, Point of Rocks Mesa (Pecks Mesa), Springer, Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA Bicolored aegirine spear point. Photo is about 2.2 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2006	Photo ID: 82574    View Count: 182
Aegirine : NaFe3+[Si2O6], Eudialyte : Na15Ca6(Fe2+,Mn2+)3Zr3[Si25O73](O,OH,H2O)3(OH,Cl)2
	Point of Rocks Quarry, Point of Rocks Mesa (Pecks Mesa), Springer, Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA Aegirine with unusual termination; associated with pale salmon-colored eudialyte. Photo is about 2.2 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2007	Photo ID: 99108    View Count: 138
Aegirine : NaFe3+[Si2O6]
	Brushy Mountain, No Agua District, Taos Co., New Mexico, USA Needles of orange-brown aegirine. Associated minerals on the same specimen include pseudobrookite, amethystine quartz and hematite or ilmenite. Photo is about 2.1 mm in length. Specimen obtained at the 2008 Cleveland Micromounter's Symposium. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2008	Photo ID: 196258    View Count: 48
Aegirine : NaFe3+[Si2O6], Quartz (Var: Amethyst) : SiO2
	Brushy Mountain, No Agua District, Taos Co., New Mexico, USA Slender orange-brown aegirine associated with amethystine quartz. Photo is about 2.1 mm in length. Specimen obtained at the November 2006 Cleveland Micromounter's Symposium. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2008	Photo ID: 196265    View Count: 47
Albite : Na[AlSi3O8], Columbite-(Fe) : FeNb2O6, Apatite-(CaF) : Ca5[F|(PO4)3]
	Orchard Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford Co., Maine, USA Assemblage of clear, striated albite, black columbite-(Fe) and blue apatite-(CaF). Photo is about 4.3 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart. The albite fluoresces red under SW UV; the apatite-(CaF) fluoresces orange-yellow under the same wavelength.
© SMS 2007	Photo ID: 100981    View Count: 176
Almandine : Fe2+3Al2[SiO4]3
	Bluebird Kyanite Mine (Ogilby Kyanite Mine; Ogilby Kyanite Deposit Mine; Drifted Snow; Vitrefrax Mine), Vitrefrax Hill (Bluebird Hill), Cargo Muchacho Mts, Imperial Co., California, USA Etched and hollowed-out almandine crystal about 4 mm across. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart. It came from a micromount collection I recently purchased.
© SMS 2008	Photo ID: 149065    View Count: 106
Amesite : Mg2Al[(OH)4|AlSiO5]
	Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia Old-time specimen of amesite, collected by P. Krieger (XVII Int. Geol. Congress) in 1937. Former American Museum of Natural History specimen C85853. Photo is 8.6 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart
© SMS 2006	Photo ID: 65892    View Count: 452
Analcime : Na2[Al2Si4O12] · 2H2O, Natrolite : Na2[Al2Si3O10] · 2H2O
	Glenarm, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK Water-clear analcime crystal associated with natrolite and gmelinite. Photo is about 4.3 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2007	Photo ID: 129722    View Count: 115
Analcime : Na2[Al2Si4O12] · 2H2O
	Copper Falls Mine, Copper Falls, Keweenaw Co., Michigan, USA Analcime crystal with inclusions. Photo is about 3.0 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.
© SMS 2008	Photo ID: 151020    View Count: 114

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