Timothy Greenland's Photo Gallery
7JW-67RChalcosiderite CuFe3+6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O
Wheal Phoenix, Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UKDimensions: 65 mm x 45 mm x 45 mm
Typical Wheal Phoenix chalcosiderite bought from Gregory Bottley's in 1962. No record of price kept.
0DM-4RLAntimony Sb
Tom Moore Mine, Erskine Creek deposits, Lake Isabella, Erskine Creek Mining District, Kern County, California, USADimensions: 90 mm x 60 mm x 10 mm
Broken surface of pancake-shaped mass of native antimony.
L07-GF0Cinnabar HgS , Pecoraite Ni3(Si2O5)(OH)4 , Quartz SiO2
Culver-Baer Mine, North Fork Little Sulphur Creek, Cloverdale, West Mayacmas Mining District, Sonoma County, California, USAField of View: 2 mm
Modified by CombineZP
Red cinnabar in and on clear quartz crystals, some of which are coated with green pecoraite (all identifications visual).
0M6-JPGMillerite NiS , Galena PbS , Dolomite CaMg(CO3)2
Deep Navigation Colliery, Treharris, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UKDimensions: 4.5 cm x 3 cm x 1.5 cm
Field of View: 6 mm
Millerite
Washed
Galena crystal pierced by a millerite spray on dolomite.
RK8-PDCPyrrhotite Fe1-xS , Calcite CaCO3 , Sphalerite ZnS
Naica Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, MexicoDimensions: 4 cm x 3.5 cm x 2.5 cm
Pyrrhotite
Washed
Elongated pseudohexagonal crystals on sphalerite matrix with calcite
R8Y-R5DBerndtite SnS2
Forestville Coal Dump Fires, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USAField of View: 2.5 mm
Modified by CombineZP from 15 images with z stage under Amscope loupe. Yellow waxy blebs of visually identified berndtite on probable K-Alum or perhaps tschermigite in a small vug. No analyses. Ex Coll Dr. Hartel. Overall specimen size ca 10 x 10 x7 mm.
C38-3JMQuartz SiO2
Le Bourg-d'Oisans, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceDimensions: 9 cm x 5.3 cm x 3 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 32 mm
Clear quartz crystal with phantom composed of white needles of unknown composition and a pale 'ghost' of the quartz terminal faces. Other areas, less well crystallized, show inclusions of "chlorite". The major crystal is 33 mm high.
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