Gail Spann's Photo Gallery
UVD-4L7Susannite Pb4(CO3)2(SO4)(OH)2
Susanna Mine, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UKDimensions: 4.1 cm x 3.1 cm x 1.9 cm
According to Lindsay Greenbank's label: "This Susannite specimen is 4cm x 3cm. A host Lanarkite specimen invested with micro susannite crystals, the largest at 3 mm. A yellow Macphersonite crystal is attached in the front. From Susannah mine, Leadhills, Scotland. Ex Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle No. 108.972"
We have it at 4.1cm x 3.1cm x1.9 cm.
G.28 JV.4 is the number on the back.
We are told that the old museum label is in the handwriting of Professor Alfred Lecroix. The specimen is from the collection of Charles Frossard~ collector from the French Pyrenees at the end of the 19th century.
Susannite from the type locality. with old label. This was in the Lindsay and Patricia Greenbank collection. Photo by Joe Budd.
Further info: Mindat photo 359325.
Spann Collection
VEX-T76Covellite CuS
Calabona Mine, Alghero, Sassari Province, Sardinia, ItalyEx Museo de Roma, now in our collection. Covellite with unusual pyrite ranging from pyramidal to tabular.
Photo by Joe Budd.
4.3 cm x 3.2 cm x 0.6 cm
833-V58Rhodochrosite MnCO3
Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, MexicoDimensions: 10.4 cm x 7.5 cm x 3.3 cm
This is a new addition to our collection. It was photographed and published in the Mineralogical Record of November 1980.
Rhodochrosite with Pyrite.
10.4 x 7.5 x 3.3 cm.
W5C-4A5Beryl (Var: Aquamarine) Be3Al2Si6O18
Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, PakistanDimensions: 7.9 cm x 3.8 cm x 4.6 cm
Haramosh Mtns., Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan
Beryl var. Aquamarine (deep blue DT) with Tourmaline var. Schorl, Albite (white), Adularia? (colorless) and fibrous radial inclusions of [??] and [Cassiterite?]
7.9cm x3.8cm x4.6cm
Jim and Gail Spann Collection
5T9-G1HTourmaline (Var: Rubellite) A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Jonas Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, BrazilTranslucent rich cranberry red doubly-terminated rubellite xls to 44mm jumbled together with purple lepidolite xls, with fine quartz prisms and hexagonal mica? plates
5.8 cm x5.9 cm x3.2 cm
Ex Mijer, John collection
Currently in the Jim and Gail Spann Collection
FF7-TQ9Cubanite CuFe2S3
Henderson No. 2 mine, Jamésie, Nord-du-Québec, Québec, CanadaA long (10mm) 9x8mm elongated brassy double sixling cubanite barrel xl dominates several other isolated elongated brassy cubanite barrel xls intermixed with colorless free-form calcite xls that rest on a metal-rich matrix.
3.8 cm x3.9 cm x2.2 cm
Ex Gauthier, G. collection.
In the collection of Jim and Gail Spann
Mindat.org Photo of the Day - 29th Sep 2010
0Q4-H5EAurichalcite (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Kelly Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USADimensions: 9.7 cm x 8.3 cm x 3.8 cm
Botryoidal blue green two-tone xl aggregates up to 35mm across and aquamarine radial aggregate xls visible on back side 9.7cm x8.3cm x3.8cm
Ex-Pellman, Norman & Roslyn
Currently in the Jim and Gail Spann collection
K11-6JYCalcite CaCO3
Berry Materials Corp. Quarry, North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana, USACalcite with Marcasite inclusions on a sphalerite rich matrix.
2.3 cm by 2.5 cm and 1.3cm
A gift to the Minettes from Gerry Blair in 1968.
Single pristine honey gold transparent rhombohedral phantomed doubly terminated calcite crystal, stands on a matrix pinnacle with brown crystalline inclusions on back.
Current Spann Collection
KL2-E9TSperrylite PtAs2
Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, RussiaA cluster of intergrown silvery mirror bright modified cubo-octahedral sperrylite xls to 13mm on edge stand tall above a brassy yellow massive cluster of chalcopyrite micro-xls; a secondary growth of [Cabriite? violet blue metallic tetragonal xls] are scattered across all of the sperrylite xls.
3.0 cm x3.4 cm x2.5cm
Ex Tom Gressman
In the Collection of Jim and Gail Spann
Mindat.org Photo of the Day - 26th Nov 2010
YTT-4U8Tourmaline AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Arusha Region, TanzaniaA bright gemmy chromium-green highly reflective lustrous translucent multi-faceted tourmaline xl with a complex termination and at least 10 side faces.
Landanai, Arusha Region
2.3cm x1.5 cm x1.4cm
In the Jim and Gail Spann collection