Minerals And Geological Samples

Photographs of unique minerals and geological samples, showcasing different rock types and mineral formations from various locations.

Obsidian with Cristobalite Sphenoids Malheur County, Oregon, USA Date:

Tetrahedrite from Germany

Obsidian with Cristobalite Sphenoids Malheur County, Oregon, USA Date:

Carbonatite, igneous rock.

Humite, silicate, from Mount Vesuvius, Campania, Italy.

Uraninite radioactive mineral from Canada

Gmelinite, silicate.

Serpentine. minerals. North America; USA; New York; Putnam County; Brewster; Tilly Foster Mine

Wittichenite, sulphide.

Vesuvianite or Idocrase, silicate.

Garnet, found in the Ziller Valley, North Tyrol, Austria, Europe

Porphyroblastic Gneiss Wood County, Wisconsin Date:

Augite native from Val di Fassa Tyrol Italy

Galena (PbS - lead sulfide) . Madan - Bulgaria. The primary ore of lead - Spinel twins.

Pharmacosiderite, phosphate.

Tuff, pyroclastic sedimentary rock.

Apophyllite, silicate, on Basalt, extrusive volcanic rock.

Coarse Diorite from Lochnagar, Aberdeenshire. Diorite is an intrusive igneous rock that contains a mixture of feldspar, pyroxene, hornblende and sometimes quartz.

Atacamite, halide.

A sample of Eudialyte, a rare nine member ring cyclosilicate mineral, which forms in alkaline igneous rocks, such as nepheline syenites. Dated 21st Century

Clinochlore. minerals. North America; USA; New York; Putnam County; Brewster; Tilly Foster Mine

Essexite, Plutonic, Grenville, Quebec Essexite, also called nepheline monzogabbro, is a dark gray or black holocrystalline plutonic igneous rock

Tennantite, copper arsenic sulfosalt mineral, found in Zacatecas, Mexico against white background

Ardennite, silicate.

Molybdenite, Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA, North America

Hydrozincite on Calcite seen under White Light

Pyrrhotite, sulphide.

These images are of HED (howardite, eucrite and diogenite) meteorites are a large group of meteorites believed to originate from asteroid Vesta, a hypothesis that is consistent with current Dawn observations.

Conglomerate, sedimentary rock.

Anhydrite originally from Berchtesgaden in Bavaria Germany

Pegmatite. Igneous rock, formed underground, with interlocking crystals usually larger than 2.5 cm in size. Most pegmatites are found in sheets of rock near large masses of igneous rocks called batholiths. From Germany. Natural History Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Needle-like crystals of Rosenbuschite, silicate.

BASALTO-MOST COMMON VARIETY OF THE VOLCANIC ROCK (JOINTLY WITH LAVA IN Nº 34523).

Minerals: Rough Diamond (Carbon)

Sarcolite, silicate.

Bismuthinite crystals in quartz rock isolated closeup of sample of natural mineral from geological collection - Bismuthinite crystals in quartz rock isolated on white background Copyright: xZoonar.com/ValeryxVoennyyx 14990635

Hydrozincite, in White Light, Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, NJ, USA, North America

Bismuthinite vein in raw quartz stone on dark macro shooting of natural mineral rock specimen - Bismuthinite vein in raw quartz stone on dark granite background from Malkhanskoye mine Malkhan from Transbaikal region of Russia Copyright: xZoonar.com/ValeryxVoennyyx 11383816

Argyrodite, sulphide.

A sample of Phosphosiderite, an iron phosphate mineral. Dated 20th Century

Crystals of Zaratite, carbonate.

A sample of Phosphosiderite, an iron phosphate mineral. Dated 20th Century

Minerals: Diaboleite (Lead Copper Chloride Hydroxide)

Ijolite, igneous intrusive rock.

Hematite. minerals. Europe; France; Bas-Rhin Department; Grandfontaine, Grandfontaine; Framont - Grandfontaine

Metamorphic rock with quartz vein

Olivine originated from the Saint John's Island Egypt

Crystals of the mineral garnet, from Norway.

Francevillite, oxide, radioactive mineral, with Chervetite, vanadate.

Andorite, sulphide.

Pirosmallite, silicate.

Muscovite originally from Mursinsk in the Urals Russia

Oligoclase. minerals. North America; Canada; Quebec; Pontiac County; Otter Lake; Sandy Creek, Yates Uranium Mine

Tremolite from Governors Island in the United States

Minerals: Blue Celestine (Strontium Sulfate)

Hornblendite, igneous rock, from the southern slopes of Mount Adamello, Italy.

1.8 million years old, from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Chopping tools, the first to be made by humans. This chopping tool is 1.8million years old. It is made of a volcanic rock.

Axinite, silicate.

Smoky quartz, a variety of the mineral quartz colored by natural or artificial gamma rays, Germany

AGUAMARINA GRUPO DE ESTRIAS CRISTAL PRISMATICO. Location: MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Octahedral Magnetite, oxide.

Bituminous Coal Raleigh, West Virginia, USA Date:

Blende, a crystal structured mineral. Black crystals with scalenohedra of calcite.

Chromite bearing plagioclase (Anothosite) Date:

Phyllite, Estrie, Quebec Phyllite, fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the reconstitution of fine-grained, parent sedimentary rocks, such as mudstones or shales

Eclogite, metamorphic rock.

Fossil bivalves in limestone, Liassic.

Bermanite, phosphate.

Wollastonite. minerals. North America; USA; California; San Bernardino County; Desert view

Syenite Steffin Complex, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA Date:

Ventrifact, a wind eroded piece of dolomite with bands of calcite from north end of Death Valley prior to the establishment of the national park, California.

Cerussite, carbonate.

Limestone dated 350 million years old, showing deposits of calcite and other minerals.

Natural remedy: Elemi resin, Canarium luzonicum, antiseptic, against ulcers, lacquer raw material, medicinal herbal use without guarantee

Xenophora deshayesi fossil, Gastropoda.

Tonalite, holocrystalline magmatic rock.

Euhedral quartz crystals and cryolite (sodium hexafluoroaluminate) filling cavity in gneiss, south Greenland.

Olivine dunite on black bacground Canaries island Olivine

Prismatic crystals of Danburite, silicate.

Peridotite, igneous rock.

Minerals - Gehlenite

Acanthite, sulphide.

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a table of reciprocals ca. late 1st millennium B.C.. Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a table of reciprocals 322024

Elemental Silicon

Gneiss

Forsterite, Igneous Mineral, Ottawa Forsterite is the magnesium-rich end-member of the olivine solid solution series. Forsterite is associated with igneous and metamorphic rocks and has also been found in meteorites

Phlogopite originated from Russia

Axinite in UV Light, Parker Shaft, Franklin, NJ

Pumice, some of the molten rock that spews out of volcanoes contains lots of bubbles of gas. This piece of pumice contains so many bubbles that it is light enough to float on water

Porphyritic Dacite, an igneous, volcanic rock. St. Lucia, West Indies.

Gypsum crystals in a H

Olivenite, phosphate.

Fuchsite, silicate.

Gismondine, silicate.

Petedunnite. minerals. North America; USA; New Jersey; Sussex County; Franklin District

mineral specimen stone rock geology gem crystal

Liebigite, carbonate, radioactive mineral.

Microcline. minerals

Garnetiferous Prasinit, metamorphic rock, section.

Gypsum in bacillary crystals, sulphate.

Barite. minerals. Europe; Slovakia; Banska Bystrica Region; Banska Stiavnica Co; Banska Stiavnica; Schemnitz; Selmeczbanya;

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