Noriko Kimura's Photo Gallery
1AL-R1PChalcedony (Var: Agate) SiO2
Dimensions: 5.7 cm
Unusual pattern in a polished agate, but not too atypical for this locality.
Purchased from a local dealer and field collector at the nearby Crystal Days show in Lwowek, Poland.
GC1-YP0Hematite Fe2O3
Field of View: 2 m
Hematite ore boulders dumped outside the entrance to the Grube Fortuna, July 2015.
DFA-CNPCalcite CaCO3
Dimensions: 10.1 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 10.1 cm
An unusually thin calcite crystal, 10.1cm wide, but only 3 to 7 mm thick, from skarn at the Kobushi mine.
JAN-62YQuartz SiO2 , Pyrite FeS2
Dimensions: 27 cm
Very old quartz specimen from Oppu mine. Small pyrites are sprinkled on the quartz.
27cm long. (Daughter photos show close-ups.)
Y9T-T01Pyroxmangite Mn2+SiO3
Dimensions: 3 cm
9AR-FTKCerasite (of Kikuchi)
Field of View: 4.5 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 8 mm
Technically these flower-like crystals are "Trapiche cordierite and indialite intergrowths, mostly altered to mica", but the japanese name "sakura-ishi" (cherry blossom stones) is simpler! Most of the ones seen in collections come from Kameoka city, but rarely a few like this one were found in Kyoto city too.
WV7-5L9Opal SiO2·nH2O
Dimensions: 71 mm
Vicarya callosa japonica, internal cast of opal.
K7W-03FHalite NaCl
Field of View: 25 mm
Mounted TN of halite from an obscure locality, obtained from Van King via Alfredo Petrov.
