“Transparent variscite crystals approximately 2.5 mm wide. The small red inclusions are rutile. The variscite is in a cavitiy of a leached lazulite crystal. Matrix is quartz sericite with finely dissiminated rutile and pyrite.
Specimen collected by Ed and Martha Cunnignham. Photographed using a Canon T3i SLR mounted on a bellows and a 4 x microscope objective. The image is a composite of 15 stacked images taken with 50 micron separation between each stack. Final image processed using Combine ZP.”
Julian Gray - 20th August 2012