Horado mine, Seki City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Blue-white fluorescing zincsilite with another material creating a slightly pink cast to the fluorescence in shortwave ultraviolet light. Ex Joe Cilen.
© Van King
White fine-grained to waxy zincsilite showing shrinkage cracks due to some dehydration.
Platy crystalline, 0.5 cm field of view. S336-34 Excalibur Mineral Company specimen.
© 2008, JGW
Tan colored ferrobustamite, with green hedenbergite, and calcite. 5 cm sample. S091-06 Excalibur Mineral specimen.
Separated crystals of Diopside. Length of the most long crystal is approx. 1cm.
© Hiroaki TANO
Diopside (previously "Kirado Mine, Hirado-Mura, Nagasaki Prefecture, Hirado/Kyushu Island, Japan") Ex. Marshall Coll. Ex. John and Andy Sibel Coll. Ex. Mike Keim Coll.
Pale brown, prismatic ferrobustamite without matrix. Purchased in 2012.
© Andrew Hodgson