Pitscurrie Quarry, Pitcaple, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
A piece of pegamatite matrix contains greyish quartz and a number of black schorl tourmaline and pinkish feldspar crystals. Although most of the contained crystals are broken, there is one quite good exposed schorl crystal 3.5cm long, with a termination (dinked!)An interesting UK locality - Scottish!!
© 2003 Thames Valley Minerals
Bennachie, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Earthy macaulayite from the type (and only reported) locality. Diameter of capsule is 6 mm. Collection and photograph Norman King.
© Norman King
Massive blood red macaulayite on a weathered granite matrix from the type and only known terrestrial locality for it. Collecting is now prohibited at the locality.
Upper Middleton, Chapel of Garioch, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Quartz-molybdenite vein in greisen. Wall boulder near quarry in granite with similar greisen veins. Vein is about 10cm across. Photo taken in 1982.
Greisen in small granite stock (apophysis of Bennachie Granite) containing small sheaves of molybdenite. Scale in cm on photo. Collected in 1989 during mineral exploration in the area. Larger molybdenite samples can be found in quartz veins up to 1 metre across in the wall stones within 1 -2 km of this ocurrence.
© Tim Colman
Photo with Canon Eos 600 D + Bellows + Rodenstock Rodagon 35 mm 1:4,0 reversed Photo and collection Giovanni Scapin
© 2023 Giovanni Scapin
This is a micromount specimen of massive reddish macaulyite from Bennachie, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. I acquired the specimen from Robert Batic. This specimen was in the former collection of James "Jim" Rumrill: #05250 - 03. Jamison K. Brizendine specimen and photo.
© Jamison K. Brizendine
Pittodrie (MACAULAYITE) Quarry, accessed from the Rowan Tree Car Park, Bennachie, Inverurie, Buchan Grampian, Scotland, UK in June 2017.
Macaulayite in Pittodrie Quarry in June 2017.