Wadalite

Comments: Gray wadalite masses in matrix.
Location: Tadano, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wadeite

Comments: Sharp hexagonal crystal of wadeite with included dark green aegirine.
Location: Mt. Kukisvumchurr, Khibiny Massif (Russia). Scale: 12x10x6 mm.
© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Wagnerite

Comments: Crudely formed opaque wagnerite crystal in pegmatite.
Location: Hollengraben, Salzberg, Austria. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wairakite   Dmisteinbergite

Comments: Pearly platy crystalline dmisteinbergite with dull white wairakite on matrix.
Location: Kurumazawa, Katashina, Gumma, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wairakite

Comments: White nearly opaque crystalline massive wairakite, with a few crystals faces present.
Location: Tohi Mine, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wakabayashilite

Comments: Golden colored, acicular crystals of wakabayashilite on matrix.
Location: White Cap mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Wakefieldite-(Ce)

Comments: Bluish black crystal of wakefieldite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Yellow Lake, Olala, British Columbia, Canada. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Walentaite

Comments: Greenish yellow, flattened, radial, crystalline aggregates of walentaite on quartz.
Location: White Elephant mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Walkerite

Comments: Scanning electron micrograph of an acicular walkerite crystal.
Location: Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (New Brunswick Division) mine at Penobsquis, near Sussex, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. Scale: See Picture.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Wallisite

Comments: Gray black, blocky crystalline aggregate of wallisite on striated sulfosalt (dufr?noysite?).
Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Aggregate 5 mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Wallkilldellite-(Fe)

Comments: Brown wallkilldellite-(Fe) with reddish cuprite.
Location: Roua Mine, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, France. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Walpurgite

Comments: Clear, yellow laths of walpurgite crystals.
Location: Schneesberg, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Walpurgite

Comments: Elongated, pale yellow, triclinic crystalline aggregate of walpurgite on calcite.
Location: Walpurgis Flacher vein, Wei?er Hirsch Mine, Neust?dtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Wardite   Gordonite

Comments: Prismatic gordonite crystals on massive wardite.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah County, Utah, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wardite

Comments: Cream-colored, blocky wardite crystals. The largest wardite crystal is 0.5 cm across.
Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Wardite   Crandallite

Comments: Sliced and polished slab of yellow to white mixture of wardite and crandallite.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co., Utah, USA. Scale: 11x6x.6 cm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Warikahnite

Comments: Divergent, acicular aggregate of yellowish, brownish orange warikahnite crystals on a white quartz matrix. William Pinch collection. Featured on the cover of the Mineralogical Record, 36:4..
Location: O stope, 31st level, Tsumeb mine, Namibia.. Scale: 3 x 4.9 cm.
© Jeff Scovil

Warwickite   Chondrodite

Comments: Black crystalline warwickite with tan chondrodite in white marble.
Location: Amity, near Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Watatsumiite   Potassicleakeite

Comments: Yellow green prismatic crystal of watatsumiite terminated by pyramidal faces associated with reddish brown potassicleakeite and clear quartz (JMPS, v 98, p 149).
Location: Tanohata mine, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Scale: See Image.
© JMPS

Wattersite

Comments: Deep red-black resinous wattersite on quartz.
Location: Clear Creek Mine, San Benito County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wavellite

Comments: Greenish yellow spray of wavellite crystals.
Location: Slate Mountains, El Dorado County, California, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wavellite

Comments: Green prismatic crystals of wavellite in complete radial stellar aggregate.
Location: Flinders Range, South Australia, Australia. Scale: Sphere size 8 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Waylandite   Bismite

Comments: Gray massive stream rounded waylandite with tan bismite crusts.
Location: Mumba, Nord-Kivu, Zaire. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Weberite   Cryolite

Comments: Gray weberite masses in white cryolite.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Weddellite

Comments: Tan prismatic weddellite crystal sprays in vug.
Location: Near Biggs, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Weeksite

Comments: Bright yellow weeksite aggregates.
Location: Anderson mine, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Weeksite

Comments: Globular masses of yellow weeksite crystals with white aragonite on a sandstone matrix.
Location: Jackpile Mine, Laguna District, Cibola County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Wegscheiderite

Comments: Greasy pale pink translucent platy crystalline wegscheiderite in syenite rock.
Location: Mount Alluaiv, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Weilite

Comments: White, radial aggregates weilite on matrix.
Location: Schlema, Schlema-Hartenstein area, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Weinebeneite

Comments: Colorless Weinebeneite on brown matrix.
Location: Koralpe Mts, Carinthia, Austria. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Weissbergite

Comments: A metallic grain of weissbergite in matrix.
Location: Lookout Pass, Tooele Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Grain size 0.75 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Weloganite

Comments: Columnar aggregates of Weloganite crystals.
Location: Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Weloganite   Hydrodresserite

Comments: White spherical aggregates of hydrodresserite with radiating structure with columnar weloganite.
Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Weloganite

Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal "stacked" plates of white weloganite with flat pedion termination.
Location: Francon quarry, Montr?al, Jacques Cartier Co., Qu?bec, Canada. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Welshite

Comments: Deep red, prismatic crystal of welshite in matrix.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Wendwilsonite

Comments: Gemmy crystals of wendwilsonite to 4 mm.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mts., Morocco. Scale: Picture size .5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Wendwilsonite   Minrecordite

Comments: Wendell Wilson, publisher, editor-in-chief of the Mineralogical Record, and the person whom wendwilsonite was named after, kindly provided the mineral name pronunciations for minrecordite and wendwilsonite.
Location: Tucson Convention Center, 50th Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, February 14, 2004. Scale: NA.
© Dave Barthelmy

Wenkite

Comments: Translucent nearly colorless wenkite crystal in vug.
Location: Garpenberg Mine, Kopparberg, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wermlandite

Comments: Dark colored, hexagonal platelet of wermlandite on matrix.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Westerveldite

Comments: Silvery metallic westerveldite grains in syenite rock.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wherryite

Comments: Green, acicular wherryite crystals.
Location: Mammoth mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Whewellite

Comments: Colorless, twinned crystal of Whewellite.
Location: Burgk, near Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Crystal size 7 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Whewellite

Comments: White crystal of whewellite, perched on a spray of brown calcite crystals.
Location: Shaft 21, Schlema, Hartenstein, Germany. Scale: 7 x 6 x 4 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Whiteite-(CaFeMg)

Comments: Blocky, beige-pink whiteite-(CaFeMg) crystals on matrix.
Location: Cross-cut Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: Crystal size 2x3x3.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Whiteite-(CaMnMg)   Lazulite

Comments: Light beige-colored whiteite-(CaMnMg) crystal perched on dark blue lazulite.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Whitlockite

Comments: Clear, transparent whitlockite crystal.
Location: Palermo #1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Whitmoreite

Comments: Two stellate crystal clusters of whitmoreite.
Location: Big Chief mine, Keystone, Penninton County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wickenburgite

Comments: Transparent colorless wickenburgite microcrystals.
Location: Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wickmanite

Comments: Colorless wickmanite crystals.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wicksite   Wolfeite

Comments: Cleaved nodule of fine-grained aggregate of wicksite and wolfeite.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada. Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Widgiemoolthalite

Comments: Green crystals of widgiemoolthalite.
Location: 132 North Mine, Widgiemooltha, Western Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Wightmanite

Comments: Tan silky prismatic wightmanite in pale blue calcite.
Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wilcoxite

Comments: Small, transparent crystals of wilcoxite.
Location: Lichtenberg Mine, Ronneburg U Deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.8 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Wilhelmvierlingite   Rockbridgeite

Comments: Yellow brown crystals wilhelmvierlingite with black rockbridgeite.
Location: Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Waidhaus, Vohenstrau?, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Wilkinsonite

Comments: Black wilkinsonite grains with anorthoclase.
Location: Warrumbungle Volcano, New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Willemite   Conichalcite

Comments: Conichalcite with willemite.
Location: Collected from the 30 level of the Tsumeb mine. Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 2.1 x 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Willemite

Comments: Sky blue botryoidal willemite with dark to white dolomite.
Location: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Scale: 6 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Willemite

Comments: Specimen of blocky willemite crystals. The lower picture shows willemite under SW UV light.
Location: Franklin, New Jersey, USA. Scale: 2.8 x 2.3 cm..
© John Veevaert

Willemite   Glaucochroite   Zincite

Comments: Pinkish gray crystalline glaucochroite intermixed with pale green willemite, with dark red zincite and white calcite.
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Willemseite   Trevorite

Comments: Small trevorite crystal in massive willemseite.
Location: Bon Accord, Barberton Mountain, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Willemseite   Trevorite

Comments: Waxy translucent green willemseite with black trevorite in schistose rock.
Location: Near Scotia Talc Mine, Barberton Mountain, Transvaal, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Willyamite

Comments: Gray granular massive willyamite.
Location: Consols Lode, Broken Hill, Willyama Township, New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wiluite

Comments: Dark green, blocky wiluite crystal.
Location: Wilui River Region, Russia. Scale: 1-1/8" x 1"..
© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Winchite

Comments: Magenta crystalline winchite in manganese ore.
Location: Tirodi Mines, Madhya Pradesh, India. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Winchite   Sodalite

Comments: Purple sodalite with some crystal faces, supporting a very sharp, transparent winchite crystal, terminated on one end.
Location: Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley, Badakshan Province, Afghanistan. Scale: 11x10x8 mm.
© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Winstanleyite   Jarosite

Comments: Small, yellow octahedral crystal of winstanleyite on brownish red jarosite.
Location: Tombstone, Tombstone District, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.9 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Wiserite

Comments: Pale pink granular wiserite.
Location: Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otjozondjupa, Namibia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Witherite

Comments: Specimen of witherite with a rounded (stellate) habit. The lower picture was taken under SW UV light and shows the crystalline aggregates.
Location: Minerva #1 Mine, Hardin County, Illinois, USA. Scale: 5.2 x 4.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Wittichenite

Comments: Black metallic wittichenite in white barite.
Location: Schmiedestollen, Wittichen, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wittite

Comments: Gray metallic wittite in quartz.
Location: Falu Mine, Falun, Kopparberg, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wodginite

Comments: Dark, lustrous crystal of wodginite.
Location: Sapucaia do Norte, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 1.3 x 0.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Wohlerite   Biotite

Comments: Prismatic wohlerite crystals with lepidomelane (Fe-rich biotite).
Location: Langevannet, Tvedalen, Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wolfeite

Comments: Opaque massive wolfeite.
Location: Wilson's Pegmatite, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wolfeite   Wicksite

Comments: Cleaved nodule of fine-grained aggregate of wicksite and wolfeite.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada. Scale: 3 x 1.5 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Wolframite

Comments: Dark gray, tabular crystals of wolframite to 2 cm. Carsten Sukatsch collection.
Location: Kara-Oba, Republic of Kazakstan. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.
© Willibald B?del

Wolframoixiolite

Comments: Wolframoixiolite crystals in quartz.
Location: Zinnwald, Severocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wollastonite-1A   Stringhamite

Comments: Rounded aggregate of dark blue stringhamite crystals on bladed, white wollastonite.
Location: Christmas mine, Hayden, Gila County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wollastonite-1A   Minehillite   Margarosanite

Comments: White pearly crystalline minehillite with white margarosanite and dark gray lead, in pale pink opaque wollastonite (distinguished by blue-white fluorescence).
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wollastonite-2M

Comments: Wollastonite-2M crystals.
Location: Monte Somma (Vesuvius), Campania, Italy. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wolsendorfite

Comments: Red orange druse of tabular wolsendorfite crystals.
Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara, Shaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wonesite

Comments: Dark greenish black micaceous wonesite flake.
Location: Post Pond Volcanics, Wilmount Mountain, Mount Cube Quadrangle, Orange County, Vermont. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Woodhouseite

Comments: Crystals of woodhouseite to 0.5 cm across on an exposed quartz vein.
Location: Champion Mine, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Woodruffite

Comments: Dull brown massive woodruffite with limonite.
Location: Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Woodwardite

Comments: Greenish-blue botryoidal crust of woodwardite.
Location: Green River Formation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.8 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Wroewolfeite

Comments: Blue, lath-shaped crystals of wroewolfeite on matrix.
Location: Lichtenberg Mine, Ronneburg U Deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Wulfenite

Comments: Tabular crystal druse of brownish orange wulfenite on matrix.
Location: Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 5-10 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Wulfenite   Mimetite

Comments: Gemmy, pale yellow mimetite crystal with brownish-orange wulfenite. Former James and Dawn Minette Collection.
Location: Gem Pocket 1971, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 2 x 1 x 1 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky

Wulfingite

Comments: Colorless equant crystal of w?lfingite.
Location: Richelsdorf Smelter, S?ss, Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.8 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Wupatkiite

Comments: Pinkish yellow opaque wupatkiite microcrystal in sandstone.
Location: Cameroon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wurtzite   Barite

Comments: Compact, dark, metallic crystals of wurtzite intermixed with galena crystals and white barite blades.
Location: Huanzala, Huanuco Dept., Peru. Scale: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm.
© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Wustite

Comments: Orange botryoidal wustite on green calcite.
Location: Zacatecas, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Wyartite   Rutherfordine

Comments: Brown, acicular wyartite crystals next to bright yellow rutherfordine tufts.
Location: Shinokolbwe mine, Tantara, Shaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Wycheproofite

Comments: Pearly, orange-white crystal group of wycheproofite. This is the type specimen for the species by the discoverer, Bill Birch..
Location: A granite quarry near Wycheproof, northwestern Victoria, Australia.. Scale: Crystal size 5 mm tall.
© Bill Birch

Wyllieite

Comments: Dark bluish-black massive wyllieite in pegmatite.
Location: Victory Mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species