Selections from Kreigh Tomaszewski's
Rock and Mineral Collection
in Numerical Order
0250 - 0499

Selections from Kreigh Tomaszewski's
Rock and Mineral Collection

Principal Mineral(s) Formula Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments Reference Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Shell Concretion Formula /Images/picture.jpg English Channel Shoreline 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Christmas Gift from Frank and Mary #0250 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Tepee Canyon Agate Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0251 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Serpentine Formula /Images/picture.jpg Ropes Gold Mine, Ishpeming, MI 1990s Matrix Dolomite Comments #0252 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
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Cascade Gravel Pit, Grand Rapids, MI collected 1960s Matrix Secondary Minerals This was the first specimen I collected on my first ever field trip. #0253 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Arsenopyrite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0254 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Gneiss Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0255 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Snowflake Obsidian Formula /Images/picture.jpg Oregon 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0256 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Dictyoclostus portlockianus fossil Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Pennsylvanian Brachiapod #0257 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Lava Formula /Images/picture.jpg Hawaii 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Collected by Kay Tomaszewski #0258 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Kyanite  Formula   /Images/kyanite1.jpg
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 Minas Gerais, Brazil  acquired 1999  Quartz  Citrine, rutile?  Comments #0259  Hardness  Streak  Specific Gravity  Crystal Form(s)
Stropheodonta demissa fossil Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Devonian Period #0260 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Apatite var. Oregonite Formula , Locality 1998 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0261 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Native Copper Formula /Images/picture.jpg Deleware Mine, Deleware, MI 1997 Matrix Chlorite, Calcite Comments #0262 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Agate Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Other half of 0264 #0263 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Agate Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Other half of 0263 #0264 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Pumice Formula /Images/picture.jpg Hilo, Hawaii 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Collected by Kay Tomaszewski #0265 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Pumice Formula /Images/picture.jpg Hilo, Hawaii 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Collected by Kay Tomaszewski #0266 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Pumice Formula /Images/picture.jpg Hilo, Hawaii 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Collected by Kay Tomaszewski #0267 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Cindery Basalt Formula /Images/picture.jpg Hilo, Hawaii 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Collected by Kay Tomaszewski #0268 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Apache Tear Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0269 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Apache Tear Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0270 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Apache Tear Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0271 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Citrine Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1999 Quartz Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0272 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Taconite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Fused, sintered pellets #0273 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Taconite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Loose pellets #0274 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Talc Schist Formula /Images/picture.jpg Belknap Hill, Grand Rapids, MI 1960s Matrix Deformed Garnets Dr. Mary Jane Dockeray conducted a field trip to this major excavation while a park was being constructed. We found a four foot glacial boulder and reduced it to specimens. #0275 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Septaria Formula /Images/picture.jpg Cascade Gravel Pit, Grand Rapids, MI 1960s Mudstone Concretion Calcite Comments #0276 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Slag Formula /Images/picture.jpg Jackson Mine 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Jackson Mine Slag was collected for the beautiful variety of blues it contains, and because it cut like obsidian #0277 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Slag Formula /Images/picture.jpg Jackson Mine 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Jackson Mine Slag was collected for the beautiful variety of blues it contains, and because it cut like obsidian #0278 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Jade Formula /Images/picture.jpg Siberia, USSR 1970s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0279 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Sandstone Formula /Images/picture.jpg Collected from broken curbstone outside Tiger Statium in downtown Detroit (the old one) 1991 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0280 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Jasper Formula /Images/picture.jpg Houghton, MI 2000 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Collected by Andy Tomaszewski #0281 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Quartz Druse Formula /Images/picture.jpg New York 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0282 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Copper Formula /Images/picture.jpg Lake Superior District, MI 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0283 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Gypsum Desert Rose Formula /Images/picture.jpg Mexico 1984 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0284 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Celestite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Clay Center, OH Nov 12, 1960 limestone Calcite Comments #0285 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Granite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Construction scrap from the Foremost Building 1999 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Collected by Heinz Biegman #0286 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Jaspellite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Jackson Mine, MI 1960s Hemetite Jasper Comments #0287 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Chalcopyrite   /Images/picture.jpg Iron Bridge Ontario, Canada 1981 unidentified Many unidentified Traded to Gary Brown, February 2000 #0288 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pencil, Mass, Selenite CaSO4 2H2O /Images/gypsum.jpg Alabastine mine
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Probably named for the Greek word gypsos meaning plaster. Gypsum mining in Grand Rapids started in the spring of 1843 when Richard E. Butterworth uncovered a layer of it while plowing. This turned into the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. in 1860 (and bought by Domtar Industries Inc. in 1981), which is the oldest continuously operating gypsum mine in in the world. The Alabastine mine was a competetor who's output was used to make sparkling/glittering alabastine paint.
Traded to Gary Brown February 2000
#0289 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pencil, Mass, Honey Selenite CaSO4 2H2O /Images/gypsum.jpg Alabastine mine
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Probably named for the Greek word gypsos meaning plaster. Gypsum mining in Grand Rapids started in the spring of 1843 when Richard E. Butterworth uncovered a layer of it while plowing. This turned into the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. in 1860 (and bought by Domtar Industries Inc. in 1981), which is the oldest continuously operating gypsum mine in in the world. The Alabastine mine was a competetor who's output was used to make sparkling/glittering alabastine paint.
Traded to Gary Brown February 2000
#0289 - and I know this is the wrong number because I sent two specimens and wrote the same number down twice Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0290 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Petoskey Stone Fossil Prismatophyllum or Hexagonaria (and pick a species), depending on which book or expert you prefer; officially Hexagonaria pericarinata according to the State of Michigan. /Images/0060a.jpg
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Lake MI shoreline, south of Traverse City 1970s none Secondary Mineral(s) gift from Mr. Gerald Morris, the Petoskey Stone Man, who was responsible for making the Petoskey Stone the State Stone of Michigan;
Traded to Gary Brown February 2000.
See #0464 for more details.
#0291 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Feldspar (variety orthoclase) KAlSi3O8 /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Probably named as a contraction of the common name of Fieldspar by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747. #0292 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Galena PbS /Images/picture.jpg Joplin, Missouri acquired 1997 Matrix Dolomite The Latin word galena means lead ore. #0293 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Galena PbS /Images/picture.jpg Joplin, Missouri acquired 1997 Matrix Dolomite The Latin word galena means lead ore. #0294 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Hedenbergite CaFeSi2O6 /Images/hedenbergite1.jpg
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Locality acquired 1980s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0295 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0296 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0297 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0298 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0299 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0300 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0301 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0302 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0303 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0304 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0305 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0306 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Geode Formula /Images/picture.jpg Sheffler mine
Illinois
When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0307 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Calcite CaCO3 /Images/picture.jpg Quincy mine
Houghton, Michigan
1996 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843. #0308 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Serpentine (var. Chrysotile) Mg3Si2O5(OH)4 /Images/picture.jpg Ropes Gold Mine
Ishpeming, Michigan
acquired 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0309 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Lazurite Na4-5Al3Si3O12S /Images/picture.jpg Afghanistan acquired 1978 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0310 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Graphite C /Images/picture.jpg Ticonderoga, New York acquired 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Greek verb graphein meaning to write by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789. #0311 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Quartz SiO2 /Images/picture.jpg Arkansas acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0312 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Quartz SiO2 /Images/picture.jpg Arkansas acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0313 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Gypsum CaSO4 2H2O /Images/gypsum.jpg Alabastine mine
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Probably named for the Greek word gypsos meaning plaster. Gypsum mining in Grand Rapids started in the spring of 1843 when Richard E. Butterworth uncovered a layer of it while plowing. This turned into the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. in 1860 (and bought by Domtar Industries Inc. in 1981), which is the oldest continuously operating gypsum mine in in the world. The Alabastine mine was a competetor who's output was used to make sparkling/glittering alabastine paint. #0314 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Tourmaline Green Na(Al,Fe,Li,Mg)3B3Al3(Al3Si6O27)(O,OH,F)4
White CaMg3B3Al3(Al3Si6O27)(O,OH,F)4
Black NaFe3B3Al3(Al3Si6O27)(O,OH,F)4
Brown NaMg3B3Al3(Al3Si6O27)(O,OH,F)4
/Images/picture.jpg Mt. Mica, Maine acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0315 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrite in Bornite FeS2 /Images/pyrite.jpg Iron Bridge, Ontario, Canada 1981 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0316 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Dunite (a variety of Olivine) (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 /Images/picture.jpg Quincy mine
Houghton, Michigan
1996 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0317 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Dunite (a variety of Olivine) (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 /Images/picture.jpg Quincy mine
Houghton, Michigan
1996 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0318 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Azurite Cu3(OH)2(CO3)2 /Images/picture.jpg Mexico When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named after the mineral's color by Robert Jameson in 1805; an earlier name was Blue Malachite. #0319 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0320 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0321 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0322 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Feldspar (Amazonestone, or Amazonite, variety microcline) KAlSi3O8 0323a, 0323b Colorado acquired 1979 Matrix Smoky Quartz Feldspar was probably named as a contraction of the common name of Fieldspar by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747. Amazonite was named after the Amazon River in Brasil by Friedrich A. Breithaupt in 1847. These specimens were marked as coming from Colorado, but it is more likely they are from "The Beryl Pit" in Quadville, Ontario, Canada, based on comparison with other specimens. #0323 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0324 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Geode Formula /Images/picture.jpg Dale Hollow, TN probably 1930s, acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0325 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Geode Formula /Images/picture.jpg Dale Hollow, TN probably 1930s, acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0326 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0327 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0328 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0329 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0330 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0331 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Opal SiO2 nH2O (H2O up to 10%) /Images/picture.jpg Australia When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0332 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Opal SiO2 nH2O (H2O up to 10%) /Images/picture.jpg Australia When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0333 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Opal SiO2 nH2O (H2O up to 10%) /Images/picture.jpg Australia When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0334 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0335 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Hematite Fe2O3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0336 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Hematite Fe2O3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0337 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Hematite Fe2O3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0338 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Hematite Fe2O3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0339 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrite FeS2 /Images/pyrite.jpg Sparta, IL acquired 1996 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Sunstone crystals of pyrite may be fossilized meteorite remains, chemically altered, and growth constrained to a plane surface by the coal layers they are found in. #0340 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrite FeS2 /Images/pyrite.jpg Sparta, IL acquired 1996 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Sunstone crystals of pyrite may be fossilized meteorite remains, chemically altered, and growth constrained to a plane surface by the coal layers they are found in. #0341 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0342 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0343 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0344 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0345 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Gypsum CaSO4 2H2O /Images/gypsum.jpg Alabastine mine
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Probably named for the Greek word gypsos meaning plaster. Gypsum mining in Grand Rapids started in the spring of 1843 when Richard E. Butterworth uncovered a layer of it while plowing. This turned into the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. in 1860 (and bought by Domtar Industries Inc. in 1981), which is the oldest continuously operating gypsum mine in in the world. The Alabastine mine was a competetor who's output was used to make sparkling/glittering alabastine paint. #0346 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0347 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0348 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0349 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0350 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0351 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Talc Mg2Si4O10(OH)2 /Images/picture.jpg Alaska When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0352 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Talc Mg2Si4O10(OH)2 /Images/picture.jpg Alaska When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0353 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Orpiment with Realgar As2S3 /Images/picture.jpg Getchel mine, Nevada When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0354 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0355 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0356 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Wavelite Al3(OH)3(PO4)2 5H2O /Images/picture.jpg Arkansas When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #00357, #0358 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0355 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Meteorite Fe /Images/picture.jpg Meteor Crater, AZ When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0359 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Chalk (a variety of limestone) CaCO3 /Images/chalk1.jpg Dover, England acquired 1970s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) From the well known White Cliffs of Dover; a Christmas Gift from a British pen-pal my Mother kept throughout her life. #0360 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
DogTooth Spar Calcite CaCO3 /Images/crystals.jpg Joplin, Missouri acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Calcite was named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843. #0361 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Zeolites: Heulandite (Ca,Na,K)6Al10(Al,Si)Si29O80 25H2O /Images/picture.jpg India acquired 1998 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0362 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Tourmaline White CaMg3B3Al3(Al3Si6O27)(O,OH,F)4
Black NaFe3B3Al3(Al3Si6O27)(O,OH,F)4
/Images/picture.jpg Locality acquired 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0363 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Ulexite NaCaB5O9 8H2O /Images/picture.jpg Death Valley, California acquired 1993   Cut and polished ends showing TV-Stone effect. Named this mineral in 1850 by James Dwight Dana after George Ludwig Ulex (1811-1833), the German chemist who discovered the mineral. #0364 2 1/2 white 1.9 Acicular
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Seathwaite mine
Borroudale, Cumbria, England
acquired 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) The Seathwaite mine supplied the first ever pencil factory in Keswick, England. It was named from the Greek verb graphein meaning to write by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
According to: http://www.pencils.com/history.html "Graphite came into widespread in the 16th century, following the discovery of a large graphite deposit in Borrowdale, England. As the story goes, a passerby found bits of shiny, black graphite clinging to the roots of a fallen tree. The whole countryside was abuzz with talk about this mysterious mineral, which soon came to be known as "plumbago" or, more commonly, "Blacklead."
The traditional name for Borrowdale graphite in the local nomenclature was "wadd". (Molly Lefebure, Cumberland Heritage, 1970)
Dana's 6th says that the name plumbago originated with Brommell in 1739 and that the earlier use of the name by Agricola was for galena. Dana's 1st has graphite meaning "I write" but Dana's 6th has it meaning "to write". Dana gives credit to Werner for the name graphite.

It has been claimed that graphite from the mine in Cumbria gave an interesting term to the English vocabulary. When it was discovered that you could make writing instruments from the processed graphite, the discovery was a major advance in communication and espionage. The Crown forbid the unauthorized mining and exportation of graphite. From the dumps of the graphite mine, intrepid souls secretly would try to collect and extract the graphite and bring the material to the big city, London, where they would surreptitiously try to sell their contraband. The authorities would easily be able to arrest the miscreants because of the graphite stains on their hands; from these soiled hands we get "black market".

#0365 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Vesuvanite Ca10Al4(Mg,Fe)2Si9O34(OH)4 /Images/crystals.jpg Mexico acquired 1996 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0366 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Hematite Fe2O3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0367 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0368 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0369 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0370 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0371 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Biotite Mica K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2 /Images/biotite.jpg
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Locality acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named in honor of French physicist Jean Baptiste Biot (who discovered different micas have different optical properties) by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847. #0372 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Biotite Mica K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2 /Images/biotite.jpg
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Locality acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named in honor of French physicist Jean Baptiste Biot (who discovered different micas have different optical properties) by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847. #0373 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Native Silver on Copper Ag, Cu /Images/picture.jpg Quincy mine
Houghton, Michigan
acquired 1998 none Calcite Comments #0374 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Tektite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Indonesia acquired 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0375 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Marcasite FeS2 0376a Locality acquired early 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0376 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Calcite (optical) CaCO3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality acquired 1994 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843. #0377 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Calcite (optical) CaCO3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality acquired 1994 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843. #0378 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Calcite (optical) CaCO3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality acquired 1994 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843. #0379 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Aragonite with CaCO3 /Images/picture.jpg Placeros de Guadalupe, Mexico acquired 1980s Matrix Novacekite Named after the region of Aragon, Spain by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1796. #0380 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Barite BaSO4 /Images/picture.jpg El Solar mine (level 4)
Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico
When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Greek word baros meaning weight or heavy by Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten in 1800. #0381 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Indian Pipestone (Hematite Sandstone/Siltstone) Fe2O3 /Images/picture.jpg Pipestone, MN acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) I received this specimen as an encouraging gift from a Native American friend of my parents when I was a young collector; see #1293. #0382 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Calcite CaCO3 /Images/picture.jpg Riverside, Calafornia When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843. #0383 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Obsidian 35% Quartz, 63% Feldspars, 2% ferromagnesian minerals /Images/picture.jpg Oregon When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) The name Obsidian is due to a printer's error; it comes from Latin, Obsidianus, but really should have been Obsianus (according to Pliny) - pertaining to Obsius, the discoverer of a similar mineral in Ethiopa. #0384 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0385 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0386 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Pyrophyllite Formula /Images/picture.jpg California 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0387 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0388 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Rose Quartz SiO2 /Images/0750a.jpg /Images/0750b.jpg /Images/0750c.jpg New York acquired 1970s Quartz micro fibers of dumortierite [Al3(BO3)(SiO4)3O3] give Rose Quartz its color and prevents the formation of crystals. Comments #0389 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Corundum Al2O3 /Images/crystals.jpg Locality acquired 1970s Matrix Calcite There are several unceretain candidates for this name, but it was first formally applied to this mineral by Anton Estner in 1795. #0390 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Fuchsite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Brazil 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0391 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Beryl (variety Aquamarine) Be3Al2Si6O18 /Images/picture.jpg Locality acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Greek word beryllos and is believed to refer to Belur, a town in Southern India near gem deposits. Historically it was applied to green gemstones in general; use is very limited now (by chemistry). #0392 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Serpentine Mg3Si2O5(OH)4 /Images/picture.jpg Lake Valhalla, Montville, NJ 1993 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0393 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Geode - Amethyst Formula /Images/am_geode1.jpg
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South Dakota acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0394 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0395 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Lepidolite K2Li3Al4Si7O21(OH,F)3 /Images/picture.jpg Brasil acquired 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0396 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Feldspar (Amazonestone, or Amazonite, variety microcline) KAlSi3O8 0323a, 0323b Colorado acquired 1979 Matrix Smoky Quartz Feldspar was probably named as a contraction of the common name of Fieldspar by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747. Amazonite was named after the Amazon River in Brasil by Friedrich A. Breithaupt in 1847. These specimens were marked as coming from Colorado, but it is more likely they are from "The Beryl Pit" in Quadville, Ontario, Canada, based on comparison with other specimens. #0397 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrolusite MnO2 /Images/picture.jpg Jackson mine, Michigan acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0398 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0399 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0400 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Fluorite Formula 0401a , 0401b , 0401c Cave-In-rock, IL acquired 1999 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) on back/base unidentified From the collection of Fossil's Inc. Main cube is 6 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches, and twin is 4 inches. #0401 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Barite Rose Formula /Images/bariterose1.jpg
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Arizona When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Barite was named from the Greek word baros meaning weight or heavy by Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten in 1800. Rose since the sand crystal takes a shape like that flower. #0402``` **- Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Magnetite  Formula /Images/picture.jpg Central African Republic acquired January 2000 from Fossils, Inc. none Unidentified crust on some crystal faces  Comments #0403  Hardness  Streak  Specific Gravity  Crystal Form(s)
Magnetite  Formula /Images/picture.jpg Central African Republic acquired January 2000 from Fossils, Inc. none Unidentified crust on some crystal faces  Comments #0404  Hardness  Streak  Specific Gravity  Crystal Form(s)
Magnetite  Formula /Images/picture.jpg Central African Republic acquired January 2000 from Fossils, Inc. none Unidentified crust on some crystal faces  Comments #0405  Hardness  Streak  Specific Gravity  Crystal Form(s)
Magnetite  Formula /Images/picture.jpg Central African Republic acquired January 2000 from Fossils, Inc. none Unidentified crust on some crystal faces  Comments #0406  Hardness  Streak  Specific Gravity  Crystal Form(s)
Lodestone (Magnetite) Fe3O4 /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0407 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Riebeikite Na2Fe32+Fe23+Si8O22(OH)2 /Images/picture.jpg Locality acquired 1950's Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0408 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Barite Rose Formula /Images/bariterose1.jpg
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Arizona When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Barite was named from the Greek word baros meaning weight or heavy by Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten in 1800. Rose since the sand crystal takes a shape like that flower. #0409 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Fluorite Crystals CaF2 /Images/crystals.jpg Lafarge quarry
Niagra Falls, New York
When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Name derived from the Latin verb fluere meaning to flow (it melts easily) by Georg Agricola in 1546. #0410 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Fluorite Crystals CaF2 /Images/crystals.jpg Lafarge quarry
Niagra Falls, New York
When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Name derived from the Latin verb fluere meaning to flow (it melts easily) by Georg Agricola in 1546. #0411 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Fluorite Crystals CaF2 /Images/crystals.jpg Lafarge quarry
Niagra Falls, New York
When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Name derived from the Latin verb fluere meaning to flow (it melts easily) by Georg Agricola in 1546. #0412 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0413 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0414 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Barite Formula /Images/bariteb.jpg Mibladen, Morocco acquired, January 2000 Sphalerite     #0415 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Uvarovite Ca3Cr2Si3O12 /Images/0416a.jpg Saranovskoye (type locality), Ural Mountians, Russia Acquired 1999 (from Fossils Inc) may be Chromite in Peridotite Quartz Named after Count S.S. Uvarov by G.H. Hess in 1832. The Count (1786-1855) was President of the Academy of St. Petersburg. #0416 6 1/2 - 7 1/2 Colorless 3.8 dodecahedron, trapezohedron
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0417 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Sulphur S /Images/picture.jpg Baja California, Mexico acquired 1998 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0418 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Copper cobble Formula /Images/coppercobble.jpg Probably Keweenaw Peninsula, MI Acquired January 2000 Calcite probably several This thing is almost solid copper from its weight #0419 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Quartz SiO2 /Images/crystals.jpg Brasil acquired 1978 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0420 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
White Celestite SrSO4 /Images/celestite1.jpg Clay Center, Ohio acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) The first specimens found were pale blue and were named after the Latin word coelestis meaning heaven or sky by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1798. #0421 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Muscovite Mica KAl3Si3O10(OH)2 /Images/picture.jpg Mount Mica, Maine acquired 1960s Matrix Green Tourmaline Comments #0422 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Muscovite Mica KAl3Si3O10(OH)2 /Images/picture.jpg Mount Mica, Maine acquired 1960s Matrix Green Tourmaline Comments #0423 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Muscovite Mica KAl3Si3O10(OH)2 /Images/picture.jpg Mount Mica, Maine acquired 1960s Matrix Green Tourmaline Comments #0424 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0425 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Realgar AsS /Images/picture.jpg Nevada acquired 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0426 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrite FeS2 /Images/pyrite.jpg Casapulca, Peru When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0427 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Lazurite Na4-5Al3Si3O12S /Images/picture.jpg Afghanistan acquired 1978 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0428 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Calcite CaCO3 /Images/picture.jpg Pugh Quarry, Ohio acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843. #0429 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Calcite CaCO3 /Images/picture.jpg Locality Lost 1960s Limestone Pyrargyrite, Pyrite This was one of my early specimens and I bought it at a silent auction at a Grand Rapids Rock and Mineral Society club meeting.
Named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843.
#0430 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Jasper (a variety of Quartz) SiO2 /Images/picture.jpg Drummond Island, Michigan 1967 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0431 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Cenezoic Limestone with fossils Formula /Images/picture.jpg Florida Gulf Coast 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0432 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Selenite Formula /Images/picture.jpg MI Natural Storage Company mine, Wyoming, MI 1987 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0433 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Alabaster Gypsum Formula /Images/picture.jpg Nevada 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0434 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Pyrite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Peru 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0435 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Galena Formula /Images/picture.jpg Mexico 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0436 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Aragonite Formula /Images/0437.0204a.jpg /Images/0437.0204b.jpg /Images/0437.0204c.jpg Mexico 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0437 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Opal Formula /Images/picture.jpg California 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0438 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Celestite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Clay Center, OH Nov 12, 1960 limestone Calcite Comments #0439 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Geode (half) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Mexico 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0440 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Barite Rose Formula /Images/picture.jpg Oklahoma 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0441 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Azurite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Arizona 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0442 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Halite Formula /Images/picture.jpg California 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0443 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0444 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Galena Formula /Images/galenab.jpg
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probably Joplin, Missouri acquired, January 2000 Dolamite Sphalerite and possibly others Comments #0445 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Calcite Formula /Images/calciteb.jpg
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probably Joplin, Missouri acquired, January 2000 Galena, Sphalerite Bornite and possibly others Comments #0446 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Uvarovite Ca3Cr2Si3O12 /Images/Uvarovite.jpg Saranovskoye (type locality), Ural Mountians, Russia Acquired 1999 (from Fossils Inc) may be Chromite in Peridotite Quartz Named after Count S.S. Uvarov by G.H. Hess in 1832. The Count (1786-1855) was President of the Academy of St. Petersburg. #0447 6 1/2 - 7 1/2 Colorless 3.8 dodecahedron, trapezohedron
Enargite Cu2AsS4 /Images/picture.jpg Hancock, Michigan 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Greek word enarge meaning distinct or apparent by Friedrich A. Breithaupt in 1850. #0448 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Enargite Cu2AsS4 /Images/picture.jpg Hancock, Michigan 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Greek word enarge meaning distinct or apparent by Friedrich A. Breithaupt in 1850. #0449 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Chalcopyrite and Hematite CuFeS2
and
Fe2O3
/Images/picture.jpg Iron Bridge, Ontario, Canada 1981 Calcite Secondary Mineral(s) Chalcopyrite was named from two Greek words, chalcos meaning copper or brass, and pyr meaning fire, by Johann Friedrich Henckel in 1725; it contained copper, but struck a spark with steel like pyrite. This large specimen sits next to my fireplace #0450 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Blue Celestite SrSO4 /Images/picture.jpg Clay Center, Ohio acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) The first specimens found were pale blue and were named after the Latin word coelestis meaning heaven or sky by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1798. #0451 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Agate
(a variety of quartz)
SiO2 /Images/picture.jpg Lake Superior Shoreline, Michigan When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) The earliest written record of this name id by the Greek scientist Theophrastus (376 - 287 BC); it was named because the stone was found near the river Achatesin in southern Sicily (called the Dirillo river today). #0452 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Agate
(a variety of quartz)
SiO2 /Images/picture.jpg Lake Superior Shoreline, Michigan When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) The earliest written record of this name id by the Greek scientist Theophrastus (376 - 287 BC); it was named because the stone was found near the river Achatesin in southern Sicily (called the Dirillo river today). #0453 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Agate
(a variety of quartz)
SiO2 /Images/picture.jpg Lake Superior Shoreline, Michigan When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) The earliest written record of this name id by the Greek scientist Theophrastus (376 - 287 BC); it was named because the stone was found near the river Achatesin in southern Sicily (called the Dirillo river today). #0454 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Azurite Cu3(OH)2(CO3)2 /Images/picture.jpg Morenci, Arizona When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named after the mineral's color by Robert Jameson in 1805; an earlier name was Blue Malachite. #0455 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Meandrina Fossil /Images/fossil1.jpg
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Cascade Gravel Pit, Grand Rapids, MI collected 1960s Matrix Secondary Minerals Comments #0456 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Franklinite Formula /Images/fnj10.jpg Franklin, New Jersey acquired 1996 (from Edmund Scientific) Calcite Many Secondary Minerals This picture shows the three specimens in normal light and includes a quarter to give scale #0457 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Franklinite Formula /Images/fnj10.jpg Franklin, New Jersey acquired 1996 (from Edmund Scientific) Calcite Many Secondary Minerals This picture shows the three specimens in normal light and includes a quarter to give scale #0458 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Franklinite Formula /Images/fnj10.jpg Franklin, New Jersey acquired 1996 (from Edmund Scientific) Calcite Many Secondary Minerals This picture shows the three specimens in normal light and includes a quarter to give scale #0459 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Wolfenite Formula /Images/wolfenite.jpg Toussit, Morocco acquired January 2000 unidentified at least three, one brown, one black, and one white, unidentified Comments #0460 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Pyrolusite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Jackson Mine, MI 1960s Quartz Manganite, Goethite Comments #0461 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Arizona Wonderstone Formula /Images/picture.jpg Arizona early 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Collected by Ray Tomaszewski #0462 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Cenezoic Limestone with fossils Formula /Images/picture.jpg Florida Gulf Coast 1990s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0463 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Petoskey Stone Fossil (unweathered full colony) Prismatophyllum or Hexagonaria (and pick a species), depending on which book or expert you prefer; officially Hexagonaria pericarinata according to the State of Michigan. /Images/0060a.jpg
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Petoskey, Michigan 1963 none Secondary Mineral(s) gift from Mr. Gerald Morris, The Petoskey Stone Man, who was responsible for making the Petoskey Stone the State Stone of Michigan. He said it came from a basement excavation for a new home within the city limits of Petoskey, and was personally collected (along with several others) with permission of the new home owners. I am proud to be able to say he taught me Lapidary. #0464 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrite FeS2 /Images/pyrite.jpg Arizona 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0465 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrite FeS2 /Images/pyrite.jpg Arizona 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0466 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrite FeS2 /Images/pyrite.jpg Arizona 1950s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0467 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Obsidian 35% Quartz, 63% Feldspars, 2% ferromagnesian minerals /Images/picture.jpg Hawaii When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) The name Obsidian is due to a printer's error; it comes from Latin, Obsidianus, but really should have been Obsianus (according to Pliny) - pertaining to Obsius, the discoverer of a similar mineral in Ethiopa. #0468 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Olivene (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0469 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Native Copper Cu /Images/picture.jpg Quincy mine
Houghton, Michigan
1997 Calcite vein Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0470 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Kona Dolamite CaMg(CO3)2 /Images/konadolamite.jpg Locality acquired 1960 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0471 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Kernite Na2B4O7 4H2O /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0472 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Halite NaCl /Images/picture.jpg Detroit, Michigan acquired 1980 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0473 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Gypsum CaSO4 2H2O /Images/gypsum.jpg Alabastine mine
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Probably named for the Greek word gypsos meaning plaster. Gypsum mining in Grand Rapids started in the spring of 1843 when Richard E. Butterworth uncovered a layer of it while plowing. This turned into the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. in 1860 (and bought by Domtar Industries Inc. in 1981), which is the oldest continuously operating gypsum mine in in the world. The Alabastine mine was a competetor who's output was used to make sparkling/glittering alabastine paint. #0474 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Feldspar (Amazonestone, or Amazonite, variety microcline) KAlSi3O8 0323a, 0323b Colorado acquired 1979 Matrix Smoky Quartz Feldspar was probably named as a contraction of the common name of Fieldspar by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747. Amazonite was named after the Amazon River in Brasil by Friedrich A. Breithaupt in 1847. These specimens were marked as coming from Colorado, but it is more likely they are from "The Beryl Pit" in Quadville, Ontario, Canada, based on comparison with other specimens. #0475 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Fluorite CaF2 /Images/picture.jpg Macomb, New York When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Name derived from the Latin verb fluere meaning to flow (it melts easily) by Georg Agricola in 1546. #0476 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Enargite Cu2AsS4 /Images/picture.jpg Hancock, Michigan 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Greek word enarge meaning distinct or apparent by Friedrich A. Breithaupt in 1850. #0477 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Enargite Cu2AsS4 /Images/picture.jpg Hancock, Michigan 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Greek word enarge meaning distinct or apparent by Friedrich A. Breithaupt in 1850. #0478 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Enargite Cu2AsS4 /Images/picture.jpg Hancock, Michigan 1997 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Named from the Greek word enarge meaning distinct or apparent by Friedrich A. Breithaupt in 1850. #0479 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pyrrhotite Formula 0480a Morro Velho Mine, Minas Germis, Brazil 2000 Matrix No Secondary Minerals 1 inch hexagonal crystal
old collection number M.V._1
acquired from Marin Mineral Company
#0480 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Gold Formula /Images/picture.jpg Morro Velho Mine, Minas Germis, Brazil 2000 Quartz arsenopyrite and dolomite crystals, pyrrhotite old collection number B-56
acquired from Marin Mineral Company
#0481 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Blue Celestite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Clay Center, OH Nov 12, 1960 limestone Calcite Comments #0482 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Celestite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Clay Center, OH Nov 12, 1960 limestone Calcite Comments #0483 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Celestite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Clay Center, OH Nov 12, 1960 limestone Calcite Comments #0484 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Blue Celestite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Clay Center, OH Nov 12, 1960 limestone Calcite Comments #0485 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Axinite Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality Unknown When Collected Quartz Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0486 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Serpentine Formula /Images/picture.jpg Iron Bridge, Ontario, Canada When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0487 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Selenite (a variety of gypsum) CaSO4 2H20 /Images/gypsum.jpg Michigan Natural Storage Co mine
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Gypsum was probably named for the Greek word gypsos meaning plaster. Gypsum mining in Grand Rapids started in the spring of 1843 when Richard E. Butterworth uncovered a layer of it while plowing. This turned into the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. in 1860 (and bought by Domtar Industries Inc. in 1981), which is the oldest continuously operating gypsum mine in in the world. The Alabastine mine was a competetor who's output was used to make sparkling/glittering alabastine paint. #0488 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Selenite (a variety of gypsum) CaSO4 2H20 /Images/gypsum.jpg Michigan Natural Storage Co mine
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Gypsum was probably named for the Greek word gypsos meaning plaster. Gypsum mining in Grand Rapids started in the spring of 1843 when Richard E. Butterworth uncovered a layer of it while plowing. This turned into the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. in 1860 (and bought by Domtar Industries Inc. in 1981), which is the oldest continuously operating gypsum mine in in the world. The Alabastine mine was a competetor who's output was used to make sparkling/glittering alabastine paint. #0489 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Selenite (a variety of gypsum) CaSO4 2H20 /Images/gypsum.jpg Michigan Natural Storage Co mine
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Gypsum was probably named for the Greek word gypsos meaning plaster. Gypsum mining in Grand Rapids started in the spring of 1843 when Richard E. Butterworth uncovered a layer of it while plowing. This turned into the Grand Rapids Gypsum Co. in 1860 (and bought by Domtar Industries Inc. in 1981), which is the oldest continuously operating gypsum mine in in the world. The Alabastine mine was a competetor who's output was used to make sparkling/glittering alabastine paint. #0490 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Calcite Sand Crystals Formula /Images/crystals.jpg Rattlesnake Butte, Jackson Co., South Dakota acquired 1960s Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Calcite was named from the Latin word calx which means burnt lime. First use of the name was probably by Johann Karl Freisleben on 1836, but first use as applied today was probably by E.J. Chapman in 1843. #0491 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Quartzite SiO2 /Images/picture.jpg Yankee Springs, Michigan 1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0492 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Quartzite SiO2 /Images/picture.jpg Yankee Springs, Michigan 1988 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0493 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Pentlandite (Fe,Ni)2 nS /Images/picture.jpg Iron Bridge, Ontario, Canada 1981 Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0494 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0#495 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0496 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Principal Mineral(s) Formula /Images/picture.jpg Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0497 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Gold Slag Formula /Images/picture.jpg California acquired early 1960s from Rozema's Rockpile Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0498 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)
Gold Slag Formula /Images/picture.jpg California acquired early 1960s from Rozema's Rockpile Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments #0499 Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form
Principal Mineral(s) Formula Locality When Collected Matrix Secondary Mineral(s) Comments Reference Hardness Streak Specific Gravity Crystal Form(s)



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Index by Mineral Name


Index by Mineral Type

Native Elements
Sulfides, Arsenides, Tellurides
Oxides
Halides
Carbonates
Nitrates and Borates
Sulfates
Phosphates, Arsenates, Vanadates, Chromates, and Uranates
Tungstates, Wolframates, and Molybdates
Silica Group (open network)
Tectosilicates (framework structures)
Phyllosilicates (sheet structures from sharing three oxygen)
Inosilicates (chain silicates)
Cyclosilicates (a ring structure)
Sorosilicates (two tetrahedra share one oxygen)
Nesosilicates (no direct sharing between tetrahedra)
Complex Silicates (share two or more of the other forms)
Organic and Odd/Exception Minerals


Numerical Index; 0000-0249
Numerical Index; 0250-0449
Numerical Index; 0500-0749
Numerical Index; 0750-0999
Numerical Index; 1000-1249
Numerical Index; 1250-1499
Numerical Index; 1500-1749
Numerical Index; 1750-1999
Numerical Index; 2000-2249
Numerical Index; 2250-2499
Numerical Index; 2500-2749
Numerical Index; 2750-2999
Numerical Index; 3000-3249
Numerical Index; 3250-3499
Numerical Index; 3500-3749
Numerical Index; 3750-3999
Numerical Index; 4000-4249
Numerical Index; 4250-4499
Numerical Index; 4500-4749
Numerical Index; 5000-5249
Numerical Index; 5250-5499
Numerical Index; 6250-6499
Numerical Index; 8750-8999
Numerical Index; 9750-9999
Numerical Index; 12250-12499
Numerical Index; 12500-12749
Numerical Index; 13000-13249
Numerical Index; 80750-80999



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