Beth Schaefer's Photo Gallery
NTW-TY0Fluorapatite Ca5(PO4)3F
Tollgate Quarry, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USAField of View: 0.8 cm
Dark Green crystal of fluoroapatite in matrix (looks like calcite) from Toll Gate Mine, Maine. FOV 0.8 cm. #3709, acquired in 1960.
YFV-5MRFluorapatite Ca5(PO4)3F , Muscovite KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USAField of View: 1 cm
Fluoroapatite crystals perched on top of mica sheets. Specimen 2906 from Mt Mica. I liked the contrast between the two minerals.
83T-HD4Fluorapatite Ca5(PO4)3F
Noyes Mountain Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USAField of View: 1 cm
I just love the color in this crystal. It is listed as apatite, but is fluoroapatite from Harvard, Maine. Speciment #2946, FOV 1 cm. Record states specimen from Helen Louders.
31M-JH1Jamesonite Pb4FeSb6S14
Noche Buena Mine, Mineral de Noche Buena, Melchor Ocampo Municipality, Zacatecas, MexicoField of View: 0.5 cm
Jamesonite crystals on matrix. Specimen #5777, bought at Baltimore m/m symposium in 1966 (for $1.00). I like this one due to the colored tints in the crystals.
8GQ-PVRQuartz SiO2
Copper Bar Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USADimensions: 10 mm x 5 mm x 4 mm
old thumbnail: Label says: "210 Quartz, Copper Bar M., Organ, N.M, collected 10/8/36"
It's in orginal cardboard box with professionally printed name: "Charleton A. Siemer, Staten island, NY"
Siemer was associated with the Staten island Institute of Arts and Sciences (called Staten Island Museum), I found out from an pdf'd document from the Mineralogical Association listing every member, and he is listed as a member in a 1938 publication.
#552
T6R-VETQuartz (Var: "Herkimer-style" Quartz) SiO2
Herkimer County, New York, USAField of View: .8 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 3 mm
Herkimer quartz crystals, looks like from a vug. Some are lying horizontally, some are vertically straight up. I can't tell if the vertical ones are doubly terminated. I thought this specimen was interesting since most of the pictures on mindat are of single crystals not in matrix, or single crystals in matrix. This specimen has many tiny crystals crowded together on top of each other. FOV about .8 cm. Whole specimen is about 3 cm long, 1.3 cm wide.
#5733 Knoll collection
1QE-DE9Harmotome Ba2(Si12Al4)O32·12H2O
Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USAOld Neil Yedlin-boxed micromount. Crystals clear to slightly yellowish.
FOV 1 cm.
#6375
K5T-T8CTyuyamunite Ca(UO2)2(VO4)2·5-8H2O
Grants Mining District, New Mexico, USASpecimen around 1 cm in length, 0.7 cm shown in image. Bright yellow crust. USed Helicon focus.
#1739 Knoll collection
E3M-UD8Diamond C
South AfricaSpecimen listed from Paul Seel, interesting etched surface on this macle diamond. I used Helicon focus to get better view of surface.
Very small, 2-3 mm on each side.
#4876
J61-6G9Laumontite CaAl2Si4O12·4H2O , Prehnite Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Lower New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USACrystals of laumontite on prehnite with some unknown reddish brown staining or crystals. FOV 1 cm.
#255 Knoll collection