"E " Mineral Photos (101)
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Earlshannonite Image |
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Eastonite Image |
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Eckermannite Image |
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Eclarite Image |
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Edenharterite
Comments: Submetallic, deep brownish black crystalline aggregate of edenharterite crystals in white dolomite.
Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland.
Scale: Crystal size 2 mm.
© Walter Gabriel |
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Edenite Image |
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Edenite Pargasite
Comments: Blocky, dark green crystals of visually indistinguishable pargasite and edenite.
Location: Kolonne bei, Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka.
Scale: 4.5 x 1.7 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals |
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Edenite Image |
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Edgarbaileyite Image |
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Edgarite Image |
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Edgarite
Comments: Scanning electron micro-image edgarite (EDG, fibrous appearing) inclusion in pyrrhotite (PY) with marcasite (MRC, slightly lower reflectance) in silicate matrix (SIL, lowest reflectance).
Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia.
Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species |
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Edgarite
Comments: Silvery metallic edgarite crystal to about 0.3mm embedded between pegmatite grains.
Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region, Russia.
Scale: Picture size 2 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix |
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Edingtonite Image |
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Edingtonite Image |
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Edingtonite
Comments: White, stout prisms of calcite on pinkish analcime with small, cream-colored bladed edingtionite crystals.
Location: Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshite, Scotland.
Scale: Picture Size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy |
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Edoylerite Image |
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Edoylerite Cinnabar
Comments: Yellow prismatic crystals of edoylerite with red cinnabar.
Location: Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek Mine), New Idria district, San Benito Co., California, USA.
Scale: Picture size 1 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag |
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Effenbergerite Image |
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Effenbergerite Sugilite
Comments: Blue effenbergerite pods to across in massive purple sugilite.
Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
Scale: Crystal size 4 mm.
© John Veevaert |
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Efremovite
Comments: White, massive efremovite. The mineral is hygroscopic and must be stored in a closed box.
Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany.
Scale: Picture size 6 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag |
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Eggletonite Image |
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Eglestonite
Comments: Small yellow crystals and massive aggregates of eglestonite.
Location: Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Scale: Picture size 0.8 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag |
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Ehrleite Image |
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Ehrleite Parascholzite
Comments: White to clear, slender, 1-2mm, prismatic crystals of ehrleite associated with massive parascholzite. Type specimen courtesy of Museum of Geology, SD School of Mines.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA.
Scale: Crystal size 1-2 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix |
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Eifelite Image |
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Eitelite Image |
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Ekanite Image |
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Ekanite
Comments: Complex specimen of many minerals, most notable are four red ekanite crystals (rare!) scattered around the specimen.
Location: Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mt Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: 6x4x4 cm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals |
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Ekaterinite Image |
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Elbaite Image |
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Elbaite
Comments: Doubly terminated tri-color elbaite (tourmaline) with minor white clevelandite (albite).
Location: Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California, USA.
Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals |
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Elbaite Image |
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Elbaite
Comments: Gemmy-blue crystal of elbaite (Indicolite) tourmaline.
Location: Morro Redondo Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: Crystal size 8.5 cm.
© Kevin Ward |
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Ellenbergerite Image |
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Ellestadite Image |
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Ellestadite
Comments: Honey yellow hexagonal dipyramids of ellestadite in light blue marble matrix.
Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California, USA.
Scale: 6 x 7.7 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Elpasolite Image |
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Elpasolite
Comments: Colorless crystal of elpasolite in matrix.
Location: Cetine di Cotorniano mine (Cetine mine), Rosia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag |
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Elpidite Image |
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Elpidite
Comments: Blocky, intergrown crystals of elpidite.
Location: Narsasuk, Greenland.
Scale: Crystal size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Elyite Image |
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Embolite Image |
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Embolite
Comments: An exposed 3 x 2 cm vug in barite completely filled with a mass of embolite comprised of myriad crystals to 2 mm.
Location: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia.
Scale: Picture size 4 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Embolite Image |
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Embolite Iodargyrite
Comments: Cubo-octahedral crystals of iodaryrite (I) with smaller and darker octahedral crystals of embolite (E).
Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Scale: Specimen size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy |
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Embreyite Image |
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Emeleusite Image |
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Emmonsite
Comments: Quartz with small blebs of pea green emmonsite.
Location: Barrbolla Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.
Scale: Bleb size 2 mm.
© John Veevaert |
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Emmonsite Image |
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Emplectite Image |
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Empressite Image |
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Enargite
Comments: Lustrous, metallic gray columnar crystals of enargite with minor quartz.
Location: Quiruvilca, La Libertad Dept., Peru.
Scale: 4.2x2x2.3 cm.
© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals |
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Endellite Image |
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Englishite Image |
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Englishite Image |
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Englishite Image |
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Englishite Tiptopite Montgomeryite
Comments: Red montgomeryite lath-like crystals to 1mm in 2mm rosettes associated with clear, acicular sprays of tiptopite to 0.75mm and white cottonball-like crystals of englishite to 0.2mm.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA.
Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix |
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Enstatite
Comments: Single, terminated, brown, transparent to translucent enstatite crystal.
Location: Mpwa-Mpwa, Tanzania.
Scale: 17x17x27 mm.
© Dan Weinrich |
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Eosphorite Zanazziite
Comments: Minor crystals of equant, olive green zanazziite and brown, lath-like crystals of eosphorite on quartz.
Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Eosphorite Vivianite
Comments: Bottle-green translucent vivianite crystal (2cm) associated with reddish, micro eosphorite crystals.
Location: Lavra do ?nio pegmatite, Galil?ia, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Scale: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm..
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix |
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Ephesite Image |
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Ephesite Hausmannite
Comments: Flesh-colored ephesite associated with dark brownish black hausmannite.
Location: Gloucester mine. Postmasburg, Cape province. S. Africa.
Scale: 5.5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals |
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Epididymite Image |
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Epidote Image |
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Epidote
Comments: Dark green, blocky epidote with transparent quartz.
Location: Copper Mt., Prince of Wales, Alaska.
Scale: 7 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals |
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Epistilbite Image |
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Epistolite Image |
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Epistolite
Comments: Plate-like crystals of pearly white epistolite to 2.7 cm.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Kvanefjeld, Greenland.
Scale: 3.5 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Epsomite Image |
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Ercitite Image |
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Ercitite
Comments: Back-scattered electron images of ercitite (medium gray) showing lath-shaped habit and cleavages and splintering on mechanical disturbance. W: whitlockite, F: fairfieldite, C: unidentified. (CanMin, v 38, p 896).
Location: Tanco pegmatite, southeastern Manitoba, Canada.
Scale: Image size 150 µ-m.
© Canadian Mineralogist |
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Erdite Image |
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Ericaite Image |
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Ericssonite Image |
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Eriochalcite
Comments: Green grains of eriochalcite from the eruption of 1875, Vesuvius volcano.
Location: Vesuvius volcano. Vesuvius, Naples, Naples province, Campania, Italy.
Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag |
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Erlichmanite
Comments: Large gray fractured grain of erlichmanite. Polished section in reflected light.
Location: Konder Mine, Konder alkaline-ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Saha (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia.
Scale: Picture size 0.25 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag |
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Ernstite Image |
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Ernstite Schoonerite
Comments: 1 mm honey brown, acicular, radial sprays of ernstite with light green fibrous schoonerite and apatite in siderite.
Location: White Cap mine, Pennington County., South Dakota.
Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix |
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Ershovite Image |
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Erythrite Image |
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Erythrosiderite Image |
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Erythrosiderite Sal-ammoniac
Comments: Orange-brown aggregates of erythrosiderite with sal ammoniac. Material from the 1926 eruption of the Erythrosiderite is hygroscopic and must be stored in a closed vial. The photo was made through the vial.
Location: Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy.
Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag |
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Eskebornite Image |
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Eskebornite Jolliffeite
Comments: Back-scattered electron image of jolliffeite in sulfurian eskebornite. Note the cracked appearance and the different brightness of eskebornite, which is a reflection of variable ratio of selenium to sulfur. (CanMin v 42, p 844).
Location: Niederschlema-Alberoda uranium deposit, in the Erzgebirge region of Germany.
Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist |
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Eskimoite Image |
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Eskolaite Image |
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Esperanzaite Image |
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Esperite Image |
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Esseneite Image |
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Ettringite
Comments: Small glassy whitish micro crystals of ettringite on a white powdery matrix.
Location: Ettringen, Eifel, Allemagne, Germany.
Scale: 2.5 x 1 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Ettringite
Comments: Doubly-terminated crystals of glassy yellow ettringite on matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, near Kuruman, South Africa.
Scale: Crystal size 4 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky |
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Eucairite Schlemaite Clausthalite
Comments: Reflected-light digital-image of the intermixed schlemaite grain in type sample F2, from which the reflectance, crystallographic and crystal-structure data were obtained. (CanMin, v 41, p 1435).
Location: "Tiber" dike, -855-m level, block 5128, main shaft # 371, Niederschlema-Alberoda vein-type uranium depost at Hartensein, Erzgebirge, Germany.
Scale: See Picture.
© Canadian Mineralogist |
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Eucairite Crookesite
Comments: Polished section (PPL) showing zoned crystal of cream-colored eucairite and pale lavender crookesite along with steel blue umangite and white clausthalite in dark gray gangue..
Location: Mine dump (tailings) of Shaft 371 near Hartenstein/Saxony, Germany.
Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Thomas Schlothauer |
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Euchroite Image |
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Euchroite
Comments: Green, well developed, coarsely-crystalline euchroite on matrix.
Location: L'Ubietov? (Libethen) Slovak Republic.
Scale: 1.9 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals |
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Euclase
Comments: Euclase with sharp edges and great color. This specimen is from one of the famous and finest world finds of euclase, in the Colombian Emeralds area.
Location: Chivor, Columbia.
Scale: 1.2 x 0.6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals |
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Eucryptite
Comments: Fine grained, massive eucryptite. Fluorescent Red under SW.
Location: Midnight Owl mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA.
Scale: 6x4x4cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix |
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Eudialyte Image |
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Eudialyte Natrolite
Comments: Druse of gemmy, red eudialyte crystals to 1 mm on white natrolite.
Location: Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.
Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Eudialyte Vlasovite
Comments: Transparent yellow-gray vlasovite crystal frozen in pink eudialyte matrix.
Location: Kipawa alkaline complex, near Sheffield Lake, Villedieu Township, T?miscamingue Co., Qu?bec, Canada.
Scale: 2x2x1 cm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals |
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Eugenite
Comments: Brassy, silvery eugenite alteration of leaf silver to 4mm.
Location: Elisa de Bordos mine, Copiap?, Atacama Province, Chile.
Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix |
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Euxenite-(Y)
Comments: Crystal of euxenite-(Y) in matrix.
Location: Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA.
Scale: Crystal size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Evansite
Comments: Cream-colored, amorphous evansite coating an unknown striated, prismatic mineral, now missing (see hollow shells)..
Location: Cobalt, Idaho.
Scale: Picture size 3 cm.
© John Veevaert |
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Eveite Akrochordite
Comments: Micro crystals (to about 0.75mm) of very pale grayish green eveite in tiny vug with light pink akrochordite. Co-Type specimen & type locality.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden.
Scale: 13x10x4 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix |
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Evenkite
Comments: Colorless flake of evenkite on an orange background.
Location: Khavokiperskiye Rocks polymetallic occurrence, Evenkia, Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, Nizhnyaya Tunguska River Basin, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia.
Scale: Size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag |
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Eyselite
Comments: Pale yellowish brown crystalline aggregate of eyselite in a vug on sulfide ore. (CanMin 42:1773).
Location: Ge-bearing ore samples from Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.
Scale: See Scale Bar.
© Canadian Mineralogist |
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Eyselite
Comments: SEM photomicrograph of platy/tabular crystals of eyselite. (CanMin 42:1773).
Location: Ge-bearing ore samples from Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.
Scale: See Scale Bar.
© Canadian Mineralogist |
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