Scott Braley's Photo Gallery
HD9-LF5Columbite-(Mn)-Tantalite-(Mn) Series, Albite Na(AlSi3O8) , Beryl Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USAField of View: 4 mm
I love this piece - one of my top 10 specimens. A tiny (presumed) albite perched on a columbite, in turn on the side of an etched beryl crystal. There was a tiny vug with this and two other good specimens, this is by far the most photogenic.
T17-Y4XFluorapatite Ca5(PO4)3F , Columbite-(Mn)-Tantalite-(Mn) Series, Quartz SiO2
Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USAField of View: 10 mm
Largest Crystal Size: 10 mm
I tried to capture the surface detail of the unusually elongated apatite. I quite like the double-terminated quartz perched and the columbite tucked away at the end, in a little bed of muscovite.
RTQ-HV9Columbite-(Mn)-Tantalite-(Mn) Series, Albite Na(AlSi3O8)
Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USALargest Crystal Size: 2 mm
Pretty cluster of root-beer colored Columbites on Albite. Cluster is about 2mm across.
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C3M-79EColumbite-(Mn)-Tantalite-(Mn) Series, Albite Na(AlSi3O8)
Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USALargest Crystal Size: 2 mm
Reddish-brown cluster of columbite on an albite crystal. Collected by me from the dumps at the Bennett. Cluster is ~2 mm across.
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83W-26KFluorite CaF2 , Quartz SiO2
Desert Rose Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USAField of View: 3 cm
Tetrahexahedral Fluorites on a bed of Quartz crystals. Unknown, coppery metallic coating on most of the piece.
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HQU-DWCFluorite CaF2
Desert Rose Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USAField of View: 2 cm
Jumble of purple Fluorite cubes...or are they? An un-extraordinary specimen that is mainly interesting because of the cleaved crystal on the right - shows that the purple is skin deep, at least on some of the crystals.
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TDR-QL4Fluorite CaF2
Desert Rose Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USALargest Crystal Size: 7 mm
Lightly frosted Fluorite crystal, looks to be cube combined with hexoctahedron. The colors are accurate - it goes from clear on the left side, through blue to purple on the right.
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CNN-F18Fluorite CaF2
Desert Rose Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USALargest Crystal Size: 3 mm
Pale green Fluorite crystals, look to be cubes with hexoctohedral edges. Just one of the fun parts of the Desert Rose - the varieties of Fluorite.
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G8F-TUXFluorite CaF2
Desert Rose Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USALargest Crystal Size: 5 mm
Lilac colored, very complex Fluorite. The wild shapes Fluorite takes at the Desert Rose is one of the reasons I keep going back. I have another pic from a slightly different angle using the same minID.
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1JC-H92Fluorite CaF2 , Baryte BaSO4
Desert Rose Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USALargest Crystal Size: 4 mm
Flattened, lilac-colored Fluorite on a Barite blade. Looks to me like a tetrahexahedron.
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