FMF Minerals Gallery

"black comet" schorl photographed with flash, showing the purple needle-like terminations (Author: Tracy)

"black comet" schorl pho

"black comet" schorl photographed in sunlight (Author: Tracy)

"black comet" schorl pho

A close-up of the large crystal at the end of the specimen, 0.9 cm across. (Author: Tracy)

A close-up of the large crystal at

Amethyst arch (Author: Tracy)

Amethyst arch

Annabel fluorite.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Annabel fluorite.jpg

aquamarine.jpg (Author: Tracy)

aquamarine.jpg

Back of the fluorite specimen showing the depression (and all the labels that were put there). The "spiky" shapes are colorless, could be small quartz crystals maybe? (Author: Tracy)

Back of the fluorite specimen show

Back side of crystal. Not sure about the mineral attached to its edge, quartz maybe? (Author: Tracy)

Back side of crystal. Not sure ab

Bisbee calcite, front view (Author: Tracy)

Bisbee calcite, front view

Bisbee calcite, rear view showing "tattoo" label (Author: Tracy)

Bisbee calcite, rear view showing

Black and grey apophyllite (2 generations) from Murdockville, Quebec, Canada. 13 x 12 x 6 cm. Has a very satiny luster and "soft texture" not evident from the photo. Individual crystals to about 1.5 cm and are on a translcent, pale yellow calcite matrix. (Author: Tracy)

Black and grey apophyllite (2 gene

Calcite on fluorite shards.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Calcite on fluorite shards.jpg

chalcedony danburite zinn.jpg (Author: Tracy)

chalcedony danburite zinn.jpg

Cinnabar on dolomite matrix with scattered small quartz crystals, from Fenghuang, Hunan Province, China. 4.7 x 3.3 x 1.0 cm (Author: Tracy)

Cinnabar on dolomite matrix with s

Close up of karibibite crystals (Author: Tracy)

Close up of karibibite crystals

Close-up of "wheat-sheaf-like" pyromorphite crystals (Author: Tracy)

Close-up of "wheat-sheaf-like

Close-up of erythrite crystals. (Author: Tracy)

Close-up of erythrite crystals.

Close-up of hexagonal pyromorphite crystals (Author: Tracy)

Close-up of hexagonal pyromorphite

Cluster of stilbites near the point where the two large fluorapophyllite crystals intersect (Author: Tracy)

Cluster of stilbites near the poin

Curved faden quartz with smectite and montmarillonite (Author: Tracy)

Curved faden quartz with smectite

Curved fluorite crystals CO.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Curved fluorite crystals CO.jpg

Denton fluorite.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Denton fluorite.jpg

Dioptase.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Dioptase.jpg

DT quartz crystal with attached quartz points, Honghe, yunnan Province, China. 10.5 x 5 x 5 cm (Author: Tracy)

DT quartz crystal with attached qu

dyscrasite on arsenic, first view (Author: Tracy)

dyscrasite on arsenic, first view

dyscrasite on arsenic, second view (Author: Tracy)

dyscrasite on arsenic, second view

Erythrite crystals on matrix from Bou Azzer area, near Ouarzazate, Morocco. 5.7 x 4.7 x 4.4 cm. From the 2009 Munich show. (Author: Tracy)

Erythrite crystals on matrix from

faden.jpg (Author: Tracy)

faden.jpg

faden_s.jpg (Author: Tracy)

faden_s.jpg

faden_s1.jpg (Author: Tracy)

faden_s1.jpg

Flanders, NJ, 16 Dec 09 (Author: Tracy)

Flanders, NJ, 16 Dec 09

Fluorapophyllite on (?) breccia, Zacatecas, Mexico (Author: Tracy)

Fluorapophyllite on (?) breccia, Z

fluorite included.jpg (Author: Tracy)

fluorite included.jpg

Fluorite on schorl.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Fluorite on schorl.jpg

golden calcite, first view (Author: Tracy)

golden calcite, first view

Golden calcite, second view (Author: Tracy)

Golden calcite, second view

Golden calcite, third view (Author: Tracy)

Golden calcite, third view

Gypsum Road Cut North of US 16, Pierre Shale, Chamberlain, South Dakota, USA 6.2 x 6.1 x 0.6 cm Gypsum, spiral (discoid) concretion (Author: Tracy)

Gypsum Road Cut North of US 16, Pi

Hematite Nador Morocco front.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Hematite Nador Morocco front.jpg

Hematite Nador Morocco rear.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Hematite Nador Morocco rear.jpg

Iridescent pyrite on calcite.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Iridescent pyrite on calcite.jpg

Karibibite on Lollingite matrix from Oumlil Est Quarry, Bou Azzer area, Morocco. Approx 50 x 42 x 30 mm, colected in 2006 (Author: Tracy)

Karibibite on Lollingite matrix fr

lfstal.jpg (Author: Tracy)

lfstal.jpg

Manganoan calcite.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Manganoan calcite.jpg

Naica fluorite.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Naica fluorite.jpg

pstal1.jpg (Author: Tracy)

pstal1.jpg

Pyromorphite, Huari-Huari Mine, Potosi Department, Bolivia. 4.2 x 2.5 x 2 cm (Author: Tracy)

Pyromorphite, Huari-Huari Mine, Po

Pyromorphite, Huari-Huari Mine, Potosi Department, Bolivia. 5.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm (Author: Tracy)

Pyromorphite, Huari-Huari Mine, Po

Quartz "half-scepter" with smoky and amethyst phantoms, from Goboboseb, Namibia, 6.2 x 2.3 x 1.9 cm. Ex. C. Key Collection. I’m following John’s "scepters" thread trying to figure out what conditions would exist to create a crystal like this... (Author: Tracy)

Quartz "half-scepter" wi

Quartz "thunderegg" Richardson Ranch, Madras, Oregon, USA About 10.5 cm in diameter (Author: Tracy)

Quartz "thunderegg" Rich

Quartz over fluorite.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Quartz over fluorite.jpg

Quartz Rosia Montana Romania.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Quartz Rosia Montana Romania.jpg

Quartz var amethyst (very faint)scepters with hematite inclusions, Mahaiza, Madagascar. 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.7 cm (Author: Tracy)

Quartz var amethyst (very faint)sc

Quartz var. Petrified wood Medora, North Dakota, USA 16 x 9 cm Conifer from the Taxodiaceae family, Fort Union formation. From a ranch in the badlands. It doesn’t look like it, but this is a cross-sectional slice through a tree limb. (Author: Tracy)

Quartz var. Petrified wood Medora,

Quartz var. petrified wood Stinking Water Mountain, Oregon, USA 18 x 13 cm This silicified slab was once an oak tree. (Author: Tracy)

Quartz var. petrified wood Stinkin

Quartz with Chlorite inclusions from Ganesh Himal, Central Nepal, Nepal. Aprrox. 32 x 27 x 22 mm. (Author: Tracy)

Quartz with Chlorite inclusions fr

Quartz with red hematite inclusions, Goboboseb, Namibia. 2.5 x 1.3 x 1.0 cm. Ex. C. Key Collection. (Author: Tracy)

Quartz with red hematite inclusion

qzstal.jpg (Author: Tracy)

qzstal.jpg

Red (rose) muscovite from North Bay, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. 8 x 5.5 x 3 cm. Wonderful color! (Author: Tracy)

Red (rose) muscovite from North Ba

Rose quartz muscovite.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Rose quartz muscovite.jpg

Roselite on pink calcite from Bou Azzer area, near Ouarzazate, Morrocco. 6.1 x 4.3 x 3.6 specimen. From the 2009 Munich show. (Author: Tracy)

Roselite on pink calcite from Bou

Same "half-scepter" from the other side. (Author: Tracy)

Same "half-scepter" from

sand calcite.jpg (Author: Tracy)

sand calcite.jpg

SEDEX (SEDimentary EXhalative) pyrite nodule from Picadilly Beach, Newfoundland, Canada. 5 x 4 x 3 cm. A treasure formed from the hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. The pyrite is crystallized at one end and dome-shaped at the other. (Author: Tracy)

SEDEX (SEDimentary EXhalative) pyr

SEDEX pyrite nodule , rear view. (Author: Tracy)

SEDEX pyrite nodule , rear view.

Smaller, sharp and water-clear crystal fluorapophyllites where the smaller crystal meets one of the two main ones. A little stilbite bowtie is hiding among the points (just above the center of the photo and fuzzy-looking). (Author: Tracy)

Smaller, sharp and water-clear cry

Specimen on is side so that the "depression" is visible (Author: Tracy)

Specimen on is side so that the &q

Strange rose quartz1.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Strange rose quartz1.jpg

Strange rose quartz2.jpg (Author: Tracy)

Strange rose quartz2.jpg

T52c.jpg (Author: Tracy)

T52c.jpg

Two large, opaque fluorapophyllite crystals (and a third, smaller one) stuck together at a strange angle with smalller crystals attached and covered by scattered stilbite bowties about 2 mm long. From Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. Approx. 92 x 36 x 30 mm. (Author: Tracy)

Two large, opaque fluorapophyllite

Veins of pyrite in nodule of apatite var. phosphorite, from Clay Pits, Friedland, Neubrandenburg, Germany. 8.7 x 7.7 x 3.5 cm. The pyrite is iridescent and forms wonderful patterns in the nodule. (Author: Tracy)

Veins of pyrite in nodule of apati

View from a different angle, with the two main crystals "switching places" and the whole piece rotated to the other side (Author: Tracy)

View from a different angle, with

White skeletal calcite rhombs, Wenshan, Yunnan Province, China. 11 x 6 x 5 cm (Author: Tracy)

White skeletal calcite rhombs, Wen