White Rock No. 2 pegmatite, White Rock Feldspar Mine, Old Boolcoomata Station, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
White to pale yellow fibrous sprays of sillimanite.
© Vandall King
Tiny .5 mm crystals of the T/L species, in a quartz feldspar vugh. Specimen is part of the sample used for determining the new species, by Dr Peter Elliott at the SA Museum. Photo is somewhat soft but very much at the limits of my photographic gear. Canon D70, bellows with LOMO microscope objective 10x mounted on an Olympus microscope focus rack ...
© John Toma
White to light gray sillimanite fibers.