Sunday 31 January 2016

Quartz Case 2

Front view of quartz case. 

 Quartz - Carrara, Toscana, Italy

 Quartz - Minas Gerais, Brazil

Rose Quartz - Minas Gerais, Brazil 

 Amethyst - Diamond Willow Mine, Pearl, Ontario, Canada

 Amethyst - Guerrero, Mexico

 Amethyst - Bahia, Brazil

Smoky Quartz - Selva, Switzerland

Amethyst - Siberia, Russia

 Quartz - Tauchik, Shevchenko, Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan

 Quartz with Hematite - Cumbria, England

 Quartz - Bourg d'Oisans, Dauphine, Isere, France

 Amethyst - North Carolina

Quartz -  Guanajuato, Mexico

 Quartz - Kimpozan, Yamanashi, Japan

 Quartz - Mountain Spring Mine, Rico, Colorado

 Quartz - Treasury Tunnel , Ouray, Colorado

 Quartz - Seriphos Island, Cyclades, Greece

Smoky Quartz with Magnesite - Bahia, Brazil

 Amethyst - Guerrero, Mexico

 Amethyst - Brazil

 Quartz - Ambositra, Tambolehibe, Madagascar

 Ametrine - Bolivia

 Amethyst - Pusan, South Korea

 Amethyst - Uruguay

Left - Citrine - Madagascar
Right - Citrine - Minas Gerais, Brazil

 Quartz with Hematite - Cumbria, England

 Quartz with Chrysocolla - Old Dominion Mine, Gila County, Arizona

 Quartz with Rutile - Itabiara, Bahia, Brazil

 Quartz with Rutile - Minas Gerais, Brazil

 Quartz - Holland Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona

 Quartz - Middleville, New York

 Amethyst - Vera Cruz, Mexico

 Smoky Quartz - Minas Gerais, Brazil

 Quartz with Elbaite - Cruzeiro Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil

 Quartz - Treasury Tunnel, Ouray, Colorado

 Quartz with Rhodochrosite - Cavnic, Crisana-Maramures, Romania

Amethyst -  Minas Gerais, Brazil

Amethyst -  Sweden, Maine

 Quartz - Mineral Park, Colorado

 Calcite - Iceberg Claim, Dixon, New Mexico

Opal - Australia

Saturday 30 January 2016

Mixed Cases 3

 
Front view of mixed case.

Serandite - Mont St. Hilaire, Canada

Fluorapophyllite with Stilbite - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 

Fluorapophyllite with Heulandite, Calcite and Quartz - Paterson, New Jersey

Gyrolite with Mesolite and Calcite - Bombay, Maharashtra, India 

 Datolite with Calcite - Great Notch, New Jersey

  Datolite with Quartz - Great Notch, New Jersey

Fluorapophyllite with Prehnite - Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia 

Fluorapophyllite with Analcime and Calcite - Bergen Hill, New Jersey

Datolite with Stilbite and Prehnite - Luck Company Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia 

 Okenite with Prehnite and Quartz - Poona, Maharashtra, India

 Fluorapophyllite with Stilbite and Quartz - Nasik, Maharashtra, India

 Datolite with Quartz - Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Datolite with Quartz - Lane Quarry, Westfield, Massachusetts 

 Fluorapophyllite with Pectolite and Laumontite - Prospect Park, New Jersey

Stilbite - Prospect Park, New Jersey

 Stilbite with Laumontite and Calcite - Prospect Park, New Jersey

Prehnite - Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada 

 Prehnite - Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada

 Fluorapophyllite - La Luz Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico

Prehnite with Fluorapophyllite - Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia

Prehnite with Calcite - Paterson, New Jersey 

 Prehnite - Paterson, New Jersey 

 Prehnite with Calcite - Prospect Park, New Jersey 

Cavansite - India

Front view of mixed case. 

 Uvite with Magnesite - Brumado, Bahia, Brazil

 Buergerite - Mexiquitic, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

 Uvite with Quartz - Pierrepont, New York

  Uvite - Gouverneur, New York

 Uvite - Landali Mine, Losa Ganoi, Tanzania

 Uvite with Dolomite - Brumado, Bahia, Brazil

 Benitoite - San Benito County, California

Benitoite - San Benito County, California

Joaquinite - San Benito County, California 

Neptunite - San Benito County, California 

 Neptunite - San Benito County, California

 Benitoite - San Benito County, California

 Peridot

 Peridot - Trachtyte Hill, Ross Island, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

 Forsterite with Apatite - Kovdor, Kola Peninsula, Russia

 Peridot - Norway

 Peridot - Zabargad Island, Egypt

 Peridot - Burma

 Peridot - Ethiopia

 Peridot - Northern Areas, Pakistan

 Peridot - San Carlos, Arizona

 Peridot - Shush-Shush Mine, San Carlos, Arizona

 Peridot - San Carlos, Arizona

 Epidote - Green Monster Mine, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska

Epidote with Actinolite and Fluorapatite - Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg, Austria

Epidote - Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg, Austria

 Epidote with Quartz - Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg, Austria

 Epidote - Julie Claim, Mineral County, Nevada

Epidote - Bagicha, Northern Areas, Pakistan

 Epidote - Tulare County, California

 Kyanite - Minas Gerais, Brazil

 Staurolite with Kyanite - Monte Campione, Uri, Switzerland

 Kyanite with Staurolite - Monte Campione, Uri, Switzerland

Kyanite - Spruce Pine, North Carolina

Andalusite - Minas Gerais, Brazil 

 Andalusite - Lusens Alp, Sellraintal, Austria

  Sillimanite - Burma

 Sillimanite - Sri Lanka

 Sillimanite - Orissa, India

 Andalusite - Harding Pegmatite, Dixon, New Mexico

 Marialite - Tanzania

 Marialite - Dodoma, Tanzania

 Marialite - Tanzania

Meionite with Diopside - La Panchita Mine, Ayoquezco, Oaxaca, Mexico 

 Scapolite - Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada

Scapolite - Burma

Meionite - Minas Gerais, Brazil 

Zircon - Sri Lanka 

Zircon - Burma

 Zircon - Thailand

 Zircon - Veshnovogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Urals, Russia

 Zircon - Northern Territory, Australia

 Zircon - Fine, New York

Left - Zircon - Sri Lanka 
Right - Zircon - Shantaboon, Thailand

Zircon

Ferro-axinite with Calcite - Puiva, Tyumen Oblast, Urals, Russia 

Ferro-axinite - Switzerland

 Ferro-axinite with Danburite - Toroku Mine, Miyazaki, Japan 

 Ferro-axinite - Obira Mine, Oita, Japan 

 Ferro-axinite with Prehnite - Riverside, California

Quartz - Arkansas