Jeff Weissman's Photo Gallery
88J-CF7Wattersite [Hg2]2+2Hg2+[CrO4]O2 , Montroydite HgO , Quartz SiO2 , Eglestonite [Hg2]2+3OCl3(OH) , Mercury Hg
Field of View: 4 mm
Black lustrous wattersite crystal clusters associated with deep red montroydite crystals, olive-green eglestonite, some mercury droplets, on quartz.
S420-918 N6664N
88J-CF7Montroydite HgO , Mercury Hg , Quartz SiO2 , Eglestonite [Hg2]2+3OCl3(OH) , Edgarbaileyite [Hg2]2+3[Si2O7] , Cinnabar HgS , Wattersite [Hg2]2+2Hg2+[CrO4]O2
Field of View: 1 mm
Deep red montroydite crystals spears and platy crystals, associated with black wattersite crystals, olive-green eglestonite, with quartz. Also present, out of view, are cinnabar, yellow crystalline edgarbaileyite and mercury. The white maybe calomel coatings.
S420-916 N6664N
PG4-TC9Montroydite HgO , Cinnabar HgS , Quartz SiO2 , Mercury Hg , Edgarbaileyite [Hg2]2+3[Si2O7] , Opal SiO2·nH2O
Dimensions: 2 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm
Book-matched halves of an opalized rock containing a vug lined with quartz crystals, mercury droplets and greenish edgarbaileyite, with red cinnabar on the outer surfaces. Of note, seen better in the child images, are extremely prismatic crystal sections of red-brown montroydite.
S420-915 N6644N
WVU-FRGFivegite K4Ca2[AlSi7O17(O2-xOHx)][(H2O)2-xOHx]Cl , Aegirine NaFe3+Si2O6 , Eudialyte Na15Ca6Fe3Zr3Si(Si25O73)(O,OH,H2O)3(Cl,OH)2 , Lovozerite Na2Ca(Zr,Ti)(Si6O12)[(OH)4O2]·H2O , Nepheline Na3K(Al4Si4O16) , Sodalite Na4(Si3Al3)O12Cl
Dimensions: 2.5 cm x 2 cm x 1.5 cm
Field of View: 8 mm
Mineralogically complex specimen containing transparent fivegite replacements of delhayelite (here the fivegite appears slightly colored due to transmission of underlying mineral colors), with coarse to fine nearly black to medium green aegirine, reddish to brownish eudialyte altering to cream-brown lovozerite, with greyish massive nepheline and white sodalite - some are more readily seen in the child image.
S420-910 N7576N
0KG-0LDCalkinsite-(Ce) (Ce,La)2(CO3)3·4H2O , Sanidine K(AlSi3O8) , Pyrrhotite Fe1-xS
Field of View: 8 mm
Pale yellow porous to platy calkinsite, probably intermixed with lanthanite, with translucent colorless to white sanidine and minor pyrrhotite; this was labeled as burbankite, but has been weathered into calkinsite as per the published type locality description of the two minerals.
S420-908 N7586N
NQ8-P44Braunerite K2Ca(UO2)(CO3)3·6H2O , Línekite K2Ca3[(UO2)(CO3)3]2·8H2O , Gypsum CaSO4·2H2O
Field of View: 8 mm
Yellowish-green spherical braunerite with more greenish linekite tabular crystals, both fl. green LW, on country rock fragment with tannish gypsum coatings.
S420-903 N7583N
NQ8-P44Línekite K2Ca3[(UO2)(CO3)3]2·8H2O , Braunerite K2Ca(UO2)(CO3)3·6H2O , Gypsum CaSO4·2H2O
Field of View: 8 mm
Yellowish-green spherical braunerite with more greenish linekite tabular crystals, both fl. green LW, on country rock fragment with tannish gypsum coatings.
S420-906 N7583N
YD7-1TWCanutite NaMn3[AsO4][AsO3(OH)]2 , Magnesiokoritnigite Mg(AsO3OH)·H2O , Halite NaCl
Dimensions: 2 cm x 2 cm x 1.5 cm
Field of View: 8 mm
Brown translucent canutite associated with nearly opaque pink-tinted white magnesiokoritnigite and nearly transparent colorless halite.
S420-901 N7582N
RQP-NFACCUK-8 (Hg, CrO4, S, H2O)? , Cinnabar HgS , Quartz SiO2
Field of View: 8 mm
Yellow fine grained coatings of CCUK-8 on quartz with red cinnabar.
S420-898 N1999N
6W8-R57Quartz SiO2 , Cinnabar HgS
Field of View: 8 mm
Quartz var. chalcedony, in part overlying red cinnabar; mercury is also present on this specimen.
S420-896 N3964N
