Pavel Kartashov's Photo Gallery
HJ3-8RTGold Au , Quartz SiO2 , Clinochlore Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Lake Catcha gold district, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, CanadaField of View: 2.7 cm
Native gold within quartz veinlet croscutting chlorite shist. Note cavities after dissolved carbonate grains.
Pavel M. Kartashov collection and scan.
DC3-4X2Sylvite KCl , Halite NaCl
Luna 24 landing site, Mare Crisium, The MoonField of View: 50 ÎĽm
SEM image of saline crust over particle of orange impact glass. Flattened cubic crystal of Sylvite within Halite matrix. The left image is in reflected electrons, the right one in back-scattered electrons.
Collection of Lunar regolith belonging to IGEM RAS.
Andrei V. Mokhov photo.
J9A-U6YMarcasite FeS2 , Galena PbS , Quartz SiO2 , Chalcopyrite CuFeS2
Borovichi quarry, Borovichi, Borovichsky District, Novgorod Oblast, RussiaDimensions: 8 cm x 3 cm
The break of the unique Galena-Sand concretion with the inclusion of a centimeter-long fine-grained crystalline mass of greenish Marcasite (approximately in the center of the photo). On the same break, tiny inclusions of golden yellow Chalcopyrite are visible under the binocular microscope (they are not visible at the photo from the camera).
Selfcollected in May of 1987.
Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.
F9K-N44Galena PbS , Quartz SiO2
Borovichi quarry, Borovichi, Borovichsky District, Novgorod Oblast, RussiaDimensions: 8 cm x 8 cm x 3 cm
A fragment of the unique slab-like concretion of Galena from a thin sandy lens covering a bed of brown coal enclosed in clays. Galena cements white Quartz sand here and contains a small admixture of Marcasite and Chalcopyrite (not visible at the photo due to the insignificance of their grains). This is bottom side of the concretion.
Selfcollected in May of 1987.
Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.
Y9E-HDDFluorstrophite SrCaSr3(PO4)3F , Orthoclase K(AlSi3O8) , Magnesio-arfvedsonite {Na}{Na2}{Mg4Fe3+}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Inagli chrome diopside deposit, Inagli Massif, Aldan, Sakha, RussiaField of View: 12.5 mm
Four hexagonal sections of very pale-olive Fluorstrophite crystals within alkaline syenite pegmatite composed by white Orthoclase and dark bluish-green Magnesioarfvedsonite. Fssociated minerals are closely unidentified microcrystalline pinkish zeolites.
Collected by S.M. Kravchenko in early 60th. The sample labeled yet as Strontio-apatite.
Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.
7XC-V3QFluorstrophite SrCaSr3(PO4)3F , Thomsonite-Ca (Var: Strontium-bearing Thomsonite) Na(Ca,Sr)2[Al5Si5O20]·6H2O , Orthoclase K(AlSi3O8) , Magnesio-arfvedsonite {Na}{Na2}{Mg4Fe3+}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Inagli chrome diopside deposit, Inagli Massif, Aldan, Sakha, RussiaField of View: 10 mm
Hexagonal prism of very pale-olive Fluorstrophite crystal intergrown with beige planket-like xls of Sr-bearing Thomsonite in cavity of alkaline syenite pegmatite composed by white Orthoclase and dark bluish-green Magnesioarfvedsonite.
Collected by S.M. Kravchenko in early 60th. The sample labeled yet as Strontio-apatite.
Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.
HKA-6THFluorstrophite SrCaSr3(PO4)3F , Titanite CaTi(SiO4)O , Magnesio-arfvedsonite {Na}{Na2}{Mg4Fe3+}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Inagli chrome diopside deposit, Inagli Massif, Aldan, Sakha, RussiaField of View: 12.5 mm
Terminated crystal of very pale-olive Fluorstrophite with typical apatite morphology overgrow prismatic crystal of yellow Titanite covered by thin film of Kerolite in cavity of alkaline syenit-pegmatite. On the photo two more crystals of Fluorstrophite are visible. Associating mineral is very dark (almost black) bluish-green prismatic Magnesioarfvedsonite.
Selfcollected in August of 2012.
Pavel M. Kartashov collection and photo.
VYC-GD6Euclase BeAl(SiO4)(OH) , Fluorite CaF2 , Muscovite KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 , Quartz SiO2
Raduga Be deposit, Kuragin District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, RussiaDimensions: 2 cm x 1.8 cm x 1 cm
Prysmatic crystals of colourless Euclase in association with purple Fluorite, grey Quartz terminated crystal and golden spherulites of Muscovite.
Pavel Kartashov collection and photo.
View from slope of Cheget-Dzhora Mt.
Cheget-Dzhora W-As deposit, Kabardino-Balkaria, RussiaView from slope of Cheget-Dzhora Mt. close to outcrops of Arsenopyrite-Quartz veins.
Ekaterina Kaigorodova photo (2021)
Outcrops of arsenopyrite-quartz veins.
Cheget-Dzhora W-As deposit, Kabardino-Balkaria, RussiaOutcrops of Arsenopyrite-Quartz veins (marked out by white crusts of bothryoidal scorodite) crosscutting mica shists at slope of Cheget-Dzhora Mt.
Ekaterina Kaigorodova photo (2021)