Ste Barbe vein, Montmins mining district, Échassières, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Iodargyrite crystal Field is 0,75mm large JML20x on bellows + Nikon D5100. Zerene stacker self collected 2010 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 3242)
© Chollet Pascal
Beauvoir quarry, Échassières, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
photo&collection: Frank de Wit (width=10mm)
© Frank de Wit
Grand Etang alluvial deposits, Andelot River watershed, Saint-Didier-la-Forêt, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
© François Périnet
White Wavellite crystals in Quartz. Collection & Photo: Pascale & Daniel Journet.
© Collection & Photo: Pascale & Daniel Journet
group of green balls of kidwellite (coating dufrenite?) up to 2.08 mm Photo Matteo Chinellato Collection Domenico Preite
© Matteo Chinellato
MICROMOUNT Gift from Ch.Revel, april 2004. FOV: 8mm Collection et photo : Jean-Marie LAURENT
© Jean-Marie LAURENT
Yellow pyromorphite crystals SEM-EDS analysed at Laboratoire "Magmas et Volcans - Université de Clermont-Ferrand" by Pascal Chollet & Yannick Vessely obtained with Nico Nilis Photo & collection Vessely
© y.vessely
width : 3mm photo and collection :P Le Roch
© Pierre Le Roch
Red carminite on quartz and yellow crystals of an undeterminated member of the alunite group. Sample swapped with Pierre Monniot, March 2013.
© Jean-Marc Johannet
Blue-green reichenbachite platelets (SXRD- and PXRD-analysed), intergrown to form rounded and perimorphous aggregates (diameter ca. 1 mm). Coll. U. Weilbacher. This photo was originally published in U. Kolitsch, J. Gröbner and F. Brandstätter (2009): Neufunde von Les Montmins, Allier, Frankreich. Lapis 34 (11), 24-32; 54.
© Stephan Wolfsried
Field of view: 4mm, Photo: JM.Johannet, Collection: Patrice Queneau.
Leucophosphite xls on dufrenite Macronikkor 19 mm on bellows + Eos50d. CombineZP self collected 2014 Photo & collection Vessely
Leucophosphite crystals with Dufrenite (or natrodufrenite - not analysed) Field is 1,3mm large Zeiss luminar 16mm on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected 2014 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5314)
green chalcosiderite crystal Photo & collection Vessely
Le Mazet vein, Le Mazet, Montmins mining district, Échassières, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Field of view: 2mm, Photo & Collection: JM. Johannet. Self collected with Pierre Le Roch, May 2008.
FOV 0,8mm Self collected 2011 Leica Macrozoom,Mitutoyo x10,Canon S5,50 STACKS ZS Photo & Collection IOB Sylvano
© IOB Sylvano
Spheres of plumbogummite on quartz - Dionne collection, ex Simkev specimen.
© Dick Dionne
Very beautiful white wavellite crystals with red-brown carminite. Analyzed by Dr. Uwe Kolitsch Field of view: 1,41 mm Collection: Heinz Förch Photo: Gerhard Niceus
© Gerhard Niceus
A rich specimen with many black cassiterite crystals (mainly twinned crystals) on yellow muscovite spheres. FOV: 5 x 4 cm Collection & photo: Alain TUEL
© Alain TUEL
© Toph Debord
Cassiterite crystal with muscovite in a quartz vug Field is 12mm large Zeiss luminar 63mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected may 25, 2014 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# Apr)
Field of view: 3mm, Photo & Collection: JM.Johannet.
A very nice stolzite crystal. Field of view: 2,65 mm Collection: Heinz Förch Photo: Gerhard Niceus
Scorodite xls in a vug FOV : 2,05 mm Photo & collection Vessely
Variscite cristals Field is 5,15mm large Zeiss luminar 40mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z self collected apr 02, 2010 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# Acf)
Lepidocrocite crystals Field is 0,6mm large JML20x on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5761)
Field of view: 2 mm Photo & collection: JM Johannet
Lepidocrocite crystals Field is 0,50mm large JML20x on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5759)
© jean-paul.fayard
Stunning and very large (for the species!) gartrellite crystals on quartz. SEM-EDS analysed (sample on carbon ribbon in low-vac mode) by Chollet Pascal at "Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans [ Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, UJM]" EDS showed a S and Zn free gartrellite, with a large amount of P. Field is 0.65mm large. JML20x on ...
splendid balls of kidwellite dimension area mm. 3,9 x 3,9 photo Germano Fretti collection Luigi Chiappino
Pink leucophosphite crystals with kidwellite marbles Field is 2,55mm large Zeiss luminar 25mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected 2015 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5350)
MICROMOUNT Gift from Ch. Revel, april 2004. FOV :8mm Collection et photo : Jean-Marie LAURENT
Sharp beudantite-segnitite series crystals Gift from Pascal Chollet Macronikkor 35 mm on bellows + Eos7d. CombineZP Photo & collection Vessely
Stolzite crystal with an unknown orange yellow color Mineral. Field of view: 2,68 mm Collection: Heinz Förch Photo: Gerhard Niceus
green-yellow gartrellite xls, white mimetite-pyromorphite serie xls SEM-EDS analysed (sample on carbon ribbon in low-vac mode) by Chollet Pascal at "Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans [ Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, UJM]" EDS showed a S and Zn free gartrellite, with a large amount of P. gift from Pascal Chollet Photo & collection ...
© y vessely
Hentschelite crystals groups - SEM-EDS analysed by Jean Marc Henot at "laboratoire magmas et volcans", Clermont-Ferrand Field is 0,50mm large JML20x on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected 2016 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5334)
Chalcosiderite-Turquoise Series FOV : 1,80 mm self collected 2013 Photo & collection Vessely
Green-yellow gartrellite xls on quartz SEM-EDS analysed (sample on carbon ribbon in low-vac mode) by Chollet Pascal at "Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans [ Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, UJM]" EDS showed a S and Zn free gartrellite, with a large amount of P. Gift from Pascal Chollet Photo & collection Vessely
Cyrilovite pseuco-cubes modified by (110) and (111) on scorodite (or strengite ? ) crystals sprays Field is 0,6mm large JML20x on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5708)
Yellow plumbogummite on quartz EDS analysed at Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans P. Chollet – Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, UJM Photo & collection Vessely
Meta-torbernite crystals Field is 2,8mm large Zeiss luminar 40mm on bellows + nikon D5100 - Combine Z Self collected nov 30, 2009 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# Abg)
Aggregate of cacoxenite crystals on white crystals of the alunite supergroup Photo & collection Vessely
Very nice tabular stolzite crystal. Field of view: 2,53 mm Collection: Heinz Förch Photo: Gerhard Niceus
Wolframite, Chalcosiderite-Turquoise Series Self collected 2013 FOV : :1,38 mm Photo & collection Vessely
Wavellite from the kaolin quarry of Beauvoir, echassières Field is 11,95 x 7,85 mm Luminar 63mm on bellows + Nikon D1x Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# Qg) Self collected march 12, 2003
Super transparent - and almost impossible to seen with nude eye - 3.8 mm group of Variscite crystals. Collection & Photo M.Chinellato
© Chinellato Matteo
Jarosite crystals (from material EDS- and SXRD-analysed by Uwe Kolitsch) Field is 2,45 x 1,6mm Luminar 25mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected july 14, 2008 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 1866)
Turquoise cristals on Quartz Field is 3,4 x 2,25mm Zeiss luminar 40 mm on bellows + nikon D1x. Combine ZP Self collected oct 6, 2008 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 1926)
Picture width 2 mm. Collection and photograph Stephan Wolfsried
© Stephan Wolfsried 2006
Bariopharmacosiderite in green Colour. (Visual Identification) Field of view: 2,68 mm Collection: Anneliese Schwarz Photo: Gerhard Niceus
Field of view: 2.5 mm, Photo & Collection: JM Johannet. Self collected with Pierre Le Roch, May 2008.
Scorodite crystals with Bariopharmacosiderite encrusted with a yellow unnamed mineral (a broken "dead box" can be seen on top of the bariopharmacosiderite Field is 1,2mm large Zeiss luminar 16mm on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z self collected may 21, 2009 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 2542)
Gartrellite crystals Field is 0,34mm large B&L50x on bellows + Nikon D5100. Zerene stacker Self collected 2008 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 1820)
Yellowish-brown Raspite crystals with darkly red-brown Carminite. Field of view: 1,88mm Collection: Anneliese Schwarz Photo: Gerhard Niceus
Black-green (natro-?)dufrenite crystals in a vug Macronikkor 35 mm on bellows + Eos7d. CombineZP Photo & collection Vessely
Kidwellite balls in a vug Field is 5,5mm large Zeiss luminar 40mm on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected 2009 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 3093)
Dufrénite (or natrodufrénite - not analysed) Field of view: 2,9 mm Photo&Collection: Gerhard Niceus
© geni
Fluorite mine, Nizerolles, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Outstanding specimen of smoky quartz from a fluorite mine at Nizerolles, Allier, France. I found this specimen along many others (including beautiful red specimens) in the broad trench at the top of the hill in 1988. Size: 70 x 60 mm Collection & photo: Alain TUEL
Large, white, dipyramidal fluellite crystal (SXRD-analysed). Found by Dieter Kalfus in August 2014. Such crystals may be confused with dipyramidal stolzite. Photo Harald Schillhammer.
© Harald Schillhammer
© jean-paul Fayard
jarosite with Strengite (visual id.) FOV : 2,20 mm Photo & collection Vessely
Apatite crystals encrusted with cacoxenite sprays, and pale purple strengite crystalline balls Field is 2,15mm large Zeiss luminar 25mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected 2015 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5391)
Field of view: 1mm, Photo & Collection: JM. Johannet. Self collected with Pierre Le Roch, May 2008.
Jarosite, Strengite (visual id.) xls FOV : 1,65 mm Photo & collection Vessely
Green bariopharmacosiderite in a vug Canon MPE + Eos50d. CombineZP self collected 2014 Photo & collection Vessely
Jaligny-sur-Besbre, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Width 40cm Stunning zoned multicoloured concretion with some amethyst and with some chalcedony Collection & photo Yves Masson
© Yves Masson
Turquoise cristals on Quartz Field is 2,4 x 1,6mm Luminar 25mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected oct 6, 2008 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 1924)
fov : 3mm
Gartrellite balls on quartz Macronikkor 35 mm on bellows + Eos50d. CombineZP self collected 2013 Photo & collection Vessely
Dufrenite crystals (or natrodufrenite - not analysed) on alunite supergroup Field is 0,95mm large Zeiss Luminar 16mm on bellows + Nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 5710)
Variscite Field is 7,6 x 5,0 mm Zeiss luminar 63 mm on bellows + nikon D1x. CZM Self collected apr 12, 2003 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 1546)
Another screen window from the gold picture. Field of view: 0,79mm Collection: Anneliese Schwarz Photo: Gerhard Niceus
Stolzite crystals on a member of the plumbogummite group Field is 5,7mm large Zeiss luminar 40mm on bellows + nikon D5100. Combine Z Self collected may 25, 2014 Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# App)
Scorodite FOV : 1,15 mm self collected : 5 août 2012 Photo & collection Vessely