FMF Minerals Gallery

Al Cherepon and Gordan May at the entrance to the Kelly Mine. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Al Cherepon and Gordan May at the

Another chunk that came from the same huge log. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Another chunk that came from the s

Barite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Detail. Largest crystal: 1.0 x .2 x 1.0 cm. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Barite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes

Barite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Detail. Largest crystal: 1.0 x .2 x 1.0 cm. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Barite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes

Barite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Specimen: 9.2 x 9.5 cm. Largest crystal: 1.0 x .2 x 1.0 cm. A cluster of three lustrous baryte crystals on drusy calcite, nestled inside a cavity in a chunk of a concretion. The largest crystal is 1.0 x .2 x 1.0 cm., while the specimen is 9.2 x 9.5 cm. Self collected during Wright-McCrady mine reclamation in 2000. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Barite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes

Calcite Butler-Weddington mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA 70mm height. Crystal 11mm on edge Champagne colored rhombs on matrix, from a concretion. You can see where the edge of the rhomb grew against the concretion. 70mm in height, with the crystal 11mm on edge. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Butler-Weddington mine, Ka

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Calcite crystal 45 x 37mm (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Ura

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Calcite crystal 45 x 37mm 45 x 37mm in concretion as is was broken open. One of the largest calcites found in the district. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Ura

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Up to 3mm. Vug with water clear calcite scalenohedrons up to 3mm. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Ura

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Calcite crystal 45 x 37mm You can see many tiny faces where the crystal grew against the matrix. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Ura

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Calcite crystal 45 x 37mm The previous crystal detached from the vug. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Sickenius mine, Karnes Ura

Calcite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA 120 x 150mm. Chunk of a concretion 120 x 150mm. Scalenohedral calcite fluoresces light pink. Rhombohedral calcite is red, chalcedony is green, and the blue is the micrite matrix, although this is more a reflection than fluorescence. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karne

Calcite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA 8mm on edge. Calcite rhomb (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karne

Calcite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA 8mm on edge. Calcite rhomb (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Calcite Wright-McGrady Mine, Karne

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Gypsum Kellner mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Large crystal: 2.0 X .6 X 1.1 cm. Water clear gypsum (selenite) crystals on micrite matrix. Large crystal is 2.0 X .6 X 1.1 cm. Found inside concretions, self collected in 2003 during Kellner mine reclamation. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Gypsum Kellner mine, Karnes Uraniu

Gypsum Pfeil mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA 50 mm. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Gypsum Pfeil mine, Karnes Uranium

Gypsum with Calcite Pfeil mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Specimen size: 7.0 cm X 7.4 cm. Crystal size: 3.6 cm. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Gypsum with Calcite Pfeil mine, Ka

Gypsum with Calcite Pfeil mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA Specimen size: 7.0 cm X 7.4 cm. Crystal size: 3.6 cm. Ramshorn gypsum (selenite) crystal 3.6 cm on bed of calcite rhombohedrons. Specimen is 7.0 cm X 7.4 cm. Crystals are formed inside concretions. Calcite fluoresces pink under short wave UV light. Self collected. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Gypsum with Calcite Pfeil mine, Ka

Head frame of the Kelly Mine. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Head frame of the Kelly Mine.

Karnes County, South Texas. 2009 (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Karnes County, South Texas. 2009

Odin contemplates a large chunk of opalized wood from Sickenius mine. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Odin contemplates a large chunk of

Opalized wood Sickenius mine, Karnes Uranium District, Karnes Co., Texas, USA (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

Opalized wood Sickenius mine, Karn

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The prickly pear cactus was blooming at the edge of the Sickenius mine. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

The prickly pear cactus was bloomi

The prickly pear cactus was blooming at the edge of the Sickenius mine. (Author: Paul Bordovsky)

The prickly pear cactus was bloomi