Micro-mineral images
 

Digital images by Evan Chugg
Aenigmatite 
Mayor Is. 
Realgar (orange/red)
Getchel Mine
Nevada, USA
Chabazite 
(v. herschelite) 
Tokatoka
Heulandite
Maunganui Bluff
Northland
 Pretzel
Cavansite
Aranga Q. 
Northland 
 titanite on ferro-edenite 
Hendersons Q.
Rotorua 
aragonite
"floss ferri"
Mt Yasur, Vanuatu
 Heulandite "pretzel"
Waitakere
(X=10mm)

 

Scanned images from photographs (Minolta X700)
and digital (d) images (Nikon CP995)
by Rod Martin
(NZ unless otherwise noted)
Base of photo is X



Halotrichite


Calcite


Heulandite


Pyrite

Halotrichite
Te Kopia
(X=5mm) 
Calcite
Aranga Q.
(X=5mm) 
Heulandite
Whitianga Hill
(X=5mm)
 
Pyrite (sceptre) 
Todd's Q. 
(X=1.5mm)
 
Lanakite


pyrite


Thomsonite


sceptre quartz
Lanarkite
Bottle glass furnace (syn.)
(X=5mm)
 
Pyrite (bladed)
Coromandel Q.
(X=1.5mm)
 
Thomsonite
Aranga Q.
(X=1.5mm)
 
 Sceptre quartz
Whitianga Hill
(X=1.5mm)











Pyromorphite
Yangshao Mine,
Guangxi, China (D)
(X=10mm)
 Pyromorphite
Yangshao Mine, Guangxi, China (D)
(X=10mm)

 Pyromorphite
Yangshao Mine,
Guangxi, China (D)
(X=10mm)
 Wulfenite
Xichang, Sichuan Prov., China (D)
(X=10mm)
  




chabazite

ferroan calcite

mordenite
Wulfenite
Xichang, Sichuan Prov.,
 China (D)
(X=10mm) 
 Chabazite
Waiake Beach
(Parnell Grit Form.) (D)
(X=5mm)

 Ferroan calcite
Stanmore Bay
(Parnell Grit Form.) (D)
(X=5mm)
 Mordenite
Puketui Rd
Coromandel
(X=1.5mm)

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