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Improving Mindat.orgNo mitridatite in this image

20th Dec 2017 21:25 UTCJeff Weissman Expert

This image, https://www.mindat.org/photo-473561.html does not have any visible mitridatite or whitlockite - should be labeled as montgomeryite on feldspar, although the image quality is sufficiently poor that even this identification is tentative.


The child images purporting to better show the mitridatite (https://www.mindat.org/photo-473565.html , https://www.mindat.org/photo-473564.html and https://www.mindat.org/photo-473562.html) all look like typical yellow-green mica-group minerals in matrix.


Mitridatite from Tip Top is dark green.


None of the images, parent or child, clearly show the whitlockite either. All I see is some possible montgomeryite on feldspar/mica matrix

20th Dec 2017 22:20 UTCRobert Farrar

Is suspect that the fourth image might show both the whitlockite and mitridatite, if it were in focus. I was the one who made the original label. Whether it was for this specimen, or not, I cannot say.


Bob
 
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