Nyberget ore field, Nyberget, Lindesberg, Örebro County, Sweden

Helvine crystal. Polished section, refl. light. x-nic. Size 0.3 mm. Collection and photo Kjell Gatedal.

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Cordierite, tourmaline and garnet in a metavolcanite boulder. See also detail in child photo

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Pale green scaly, in quartz matrix. S168-27 5 cm sample. Excalibur Mineral Company specimen.

© 2008, JGW

This is the holotype of the Barian magnetoplumbite showing euhedral habit, surrounded by jacobsite and calcite. Polished section, refl. light, open nicols. Field 1mm. Collection Bergsskolan, Filipstad. Photo Kjell Gatedal

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

This is the first sample containing långbanite (third locality for the species) discovered by K. Gatedal in 1984. Långbanite (black), rhodonite(pink) and svabite (white). Size 8x6 cm. Now in collection of Bergsskolan, Filipstad. Photo Kjell Gatedal.

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Cassiterite. Thin section, transmitted light. Collection and photo Kjell Gatedal.

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Crystals of kentrolite. Polished section. Refl. light, x-nic. Size 0.15 mm. Photo Kjell Gatedal

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Bismuthinite in quartz with spessartine. Size 12 cm. Photo Kjell Gatedal. Collection Bergsskolan Filipstad.

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Crystal of hausmannite in a calcite filled vug. Polished section, refl. light, open nicols. Collection Bergsskolan, Filipstad. Photo Kjell Gatedal.

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Replacement of hubnerite after scheelite. Size 10 cm. Photo Kjell Gatedal. Collection Bergsskolan Filipstad.

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Hübnerite. Polished section. Refl. light, nearly crossed nicols, size of picture 1.2 mm. Photo Kjell Gatedal

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Kentrolite crystals. Field 0.3mm. Polished section, refl. light, x-nicols. Photo Kjell Gatedal

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Hubnerite with inclusions of fluorite. Polished section, refl. light, x-nic. Size 0.5mm. Photo Kjell Gatedal

© Kjell Gatedal Filipstad Sweden

Urbanite, dark brown (variety of aegirine). Acquired from the late Ingemar Johansson.

© Heyninck A

Greenish(ortho)chamosite,acquired from Ingemar Johansson.

© Heyninck A

Senaite - lustrous black associated with orange richterite.

© Christopher O'Neill

Senaite - lustrous black associated with orange richterite.

© Christopher O'Neill

Yellowish-brown richterite, quartz with some minor black senaite. Mineral obtainede from the late from Ingemar Johansson.

© Heyninck A

A 1,2 cm, metallic crystal of senaite with a cubic outline embedded in yellow richteritte from Mangruvan, Nyberget, Örebro, Sweden.

© Knut Eldjarn

Close-up of orange richterite crystals.

© Christopher O'Neill