Yushkinite gorge, Middle Silova-Yakha River, Pai-Khoi Range, Yugorskii Peninsula, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

A 3 mm aggregate of platy, purplish, metallic, hexagonal crystals of Yushkinite in Calcite from the Silova-Yaka river, Komi Rep., Russia. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

© Knut Eldjarn

A veinlet of purple metallic yushkinite, an unusual vanadium sulfide mineral, in calcite. S374-18 0.3 cm field of view. Excalibur Mineral Company specimen.

© 2008, JGW

Specimen measures 1cm x .68cm x .53cm

© Jasun McAvoy & mineralman.com

Sulvanite on Quartz. Collection and photo: Arliguie M.

© Arliguie M

Yushkinite in calcite. Sample from the collection of Geological Museum in Geological Institute Ural's Branch Russian Academy of Science in Syktyvkar. From the own collection of N.P.Yushkin

© Dmitry Tonkacheev

Grains of Mn-bearing sphalerite from Pay Khoy. Collected by Dr A. B. Makeev in 1970s.

© Dmitry Tonkacheev

Deep lilac-red scaly yushkinite aggregates in white matrix. Purchased in 1992.

© Andrew Hodgson