Nathan Martin's Photo Gallery
G4K-VNVMilarite K(◻H2O)Ca2(Be2Al)[Si12O30]
Nathan C. Martin photograph and specimen.
I collected this small (~3mm) spray of colorless milarite crystals in 2002 from one of the many boulders at the then deserted construction site. These colorless hexagonal prisms always intrigued me because they fluoresce a sky blue color under mid-wave UV light. Jim Nizamoff recently confirmed my suspicion that these were milarite crystals by performing an SEM-EDS analysis. To my knowledge these are the only identified milarite crystals from Connecticut.
Spectacular Mountain Views from Snowbird Mine
Photo taken 12 July 2009 from the edge of the horizontal cut at the Snowbird Mine
Collecting area along horizontal cut
The horizontal cut provides numerous collecting opportunities for parisite-(Ce), quartz, massive fluorite and calcite. Photo taken on 12 July 2008. White material at bottom of photo is a residual snow bank.
View looking down into pit showing 2 small adits
View of the excavation pit at the mine showing two small adits mined for fluorite. Photo taken in early August, 2008. Note small amount of residual snow remains in the pit.
View of Horizontal Cut, 12 July 2008
View of mine area taken from the road leading to the mine taken 12 July 2008. Note the residual snow in the area.
