| Class/Group/Family | Topics |
|---|
| The "Rock of the Month" | with select "Museum Moments" (MM) |
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| Agalmatolite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Agrellite - Na Ca F | --- #94 --- Agrellite and eudialyte, Kipawa, Quebec |
| Amazonite feldspar | --- ---- --- See "tectosilicates - feldspars" |
| Amethyst - Si | --- ---- --- See "tectosilicates - silica" |
| Amethyst - Si | --- #206 --- Quartz as semi-precious stone, with amethyst |
| Amphiboles | --- #147 --- Andesite lava from Poas volcano, at Bosque de Paz, Costa Rica |
| Amphiboles | --- #70 --- Nephrite jade from northern British Columbia |
| Amphiboles | --- #166 --- Unusual amphibole from the Grenville province, Ontario |
| Andalusite | --- #128 --- Chiastolite-muscovite schist pebble, Newfoundland |
| Andesite | --- #147 --- Andesite lava from Poas volcano, at Bosque de Paz, Costa Rica |
| Andesite | --- ---- --- See "volcanics" |
| Anorthosites | --- #50 --- Calcic anorthosite, northern Ontario |
| Anorthosites | --- #191 --- Keweenawan Mellen gabbro / gabbroic anorthosite, northern Wisconsin, U.S.A. |
| Anthraxolite | --- #64 --- Anthraxolite hydrocarbon, Sudbury, Ontario |
| Antimonides - Ni Sb | --- #184--- Breithauptite, nickel antimonide, from Cobalt, Ontario |
| Apatite | --- #1 ---- Apatite & orange calcite from Renfrew County, Grenville province, Ontario |
| Apatite | --- #2 ---- Apatite & biotite from the Bancroft area, Grenville province, Ontario |
| Apatite | --- #107 --- Apatite and phlogopite, Palabora, South Africa |
| Aplite | --- #202 --- Tourmaline and lepidolite in aplite from southern California, U.S.A. |
| Apophyllite | --- #134 --- Apophyllite from northern San Luis Potosi, Mexico (MM01) |
| Apophyllite | --- #142 --- Zeolites and apophyllite from Pune (Poona), Maharashtra, India |
| Appinite | --- #32 --- Appinite, Strontian area, Scotland |
| Arsenates - Co As | --- #133 --- Erythrite from Bou Azzer, Morocco |
| Arsenates - Pb As | --- #132 --- Mimetite, cerussite, sphaerocobaltite, Morocco |
| Arsenates - Pb As | --- #195 --- Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Arsenides - Co Ni As | --- #40 --- Cobalt-nickel arsenide ore, Cobalt district, Ontario |
| Arsenides - Pt As | --- #81 --- Sperrylite, Sudbury, Ontario |
| Arsenides - Pt As | --- #81b -- Sperrylite, Sudbury, Ontario (.pdf, 138 kb) |
| Arsenopyrite - Fe As | --- #153 --- Gold skarn with arsenopyrite, Osoyoos, southern Okanagan, British Columbia |
| Azurite - Cu | --- #87 --- Azurite from Spain |
| Basalt | --- ---- --- See "volcanics" |
| Berthierite - Fe Sb | --- #8 ---- Berthierite, Iron-antimony sulphide from Borneo |
| Beryl - Be | --- #186--- Prismatic beryl from China |
| Borosilicates - B | --- #69 --- Dumortierite from Chile |
| Borosilicates - B | --- #120 --- Tourmalinite from Botallack, Cornwall, England |
| Borosilicates - B | --- #100 --- Pegmatitic granite, Tregonning-Godolphin stock, Cornwall, England |
| Borosilicates - B | --- #101 --- Tourmaline-rich granitic breccia, Wheal Remfry, Cornwall, England |
| Borosilicates - B | --- #202 --- Tourmaline and lepidolite from southern California, U.S.A. |
| Bournonite - Cu Pb Sb | --- #96 --- Bournonite from Pulacayo, Bolivia |
| Breithauptite - Ni Sb | --- #184--- Breithauptite, nickel antimonide, from Cobalt, Ontario |
| Cabriite - Cu Sn Pd | --- #15 --- Cabriite (a palladium mineral) from Noril'sk, Russia |
| Calaverite - Au Ag Te | --- #161 --- Gold-silver tellurides, Colorado, U.S.A., II |
| Calcite | --- ---- --- See "carbonates" |
| Carbonado - C | --- #26 --- Diamond and carbonado, Siberia & Africa |
| Carbonates - Ca | --- #85 --- Calcite from Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Carbonates - Ca | --- #122 --- Calcite, Grenville province, Ontario |
| Carbonates - Ca | --- #1 ---- Apatite & orange calcite from Renfrew County, Grenville province, Ontario |
| Carbonates - Ca | --- #198 --- Calcite in fluorescent zinc ore, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| Carbonates - Co | --- #132 --- Mimetite, cerussite,sphaerocobaltite, Morocco |
| Carbonates - Cu | --- #87 --- Azurite from Spain |
| Carbonates - Zn | --- #195 --- Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Carbonates - Pb | --- #132 --- Mimetite, cerussite, sphaerocobaltite, Morocco |
| Carbonates - Mn | --- #157 --- Manganese ores, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa |
| Cassiterite - Sn | --- #209 --- Rich cassiterite tin ore, Cornwall, England |
| Cerussite - Pb | --- #132 --- Mimetite, cerussite,sphaerocobaltite, Morocco |
| Chabazite | --- #142 --- Zeolites and apophyllite from Pune (Poona), Maharashtra, India |
| Chalcopyrite - Cu | --- #115 --- Chalcopyrite ore, McCreedy West mine, Sudbury, Ontario |
| Chalcopyrite - Cu | --- #190 --- Sudbury copper-PGE ore, Broken Hammer deposit |
| Chalcopyrite - Cu | --- #171 --- Germanite in Cu Ge (Zn) ore, Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Chalcopyrite - Cu | --- #148 --- Silica-flooded sulphidic ore, Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| Charnockite | --- #68 --- Sulphidic charnockite, Kodaikanal, south India |
| Charnockite | --- #9 ---- Charnockite, a deep and meaningful granitoid rock, Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Chert - Si | --- ---- --- See also "tectosilicates - silica" for other forms |
| Chert - Si | --- #16 --- Chert & chalcedony (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) |
| Chert - Si | --- #23 --- Chert & microfossils (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) |
| Chert - Si | --- #24 --- Chert provenance (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) |
| Chert - Si | --- #76 --- Chert from the Crowe valley, S.E. Ontario |
| Chert (flint) - Si | --- #34 --- Flint walls, Essex, England |
| Chert (flint) - Si | --- #79 --- Fractured flint from Essex, England |
| Chert in iron formation - Si | --- #89 --- Brecciated chert, Western Australia |
| Chiastolite (andalusite) | --- #128 --- Chiastolite-muscovite schist pebble, Newfoundland |
| Chromates - Pb Cr | --- #109 --- Crocoite from Tasmania, Australia |
| Chromite (Cr spinel) | --- #60 --- UG-2 chromitite, Bushveld complex, South Africa |
| Chromite - Cr | --- #205 --- Chromitite, Luobusa ophiolite, southern Tibet |
| Chrysanthemum stone | --- #178 --- Glomeroporphyritic amphibolitic diorite porphyry from China |
| Cinnabar - Hg | --- #4 ---- Cinnabar, mercury ore from Almaden, Spain |
| Citrine - Si | --- #206 --- Quartz as semi-precious stone: nine faceted examples |
| Concretions - weathered out | --- #74 --- Siltstone cobble, Slate Islands, N.W. Ontario |
| Concretions - unusual sandstone | --- #84 --- Concretion, northwest Ontario |
| Copper - Cu | --- #143 --- Native "float copper" from Houghton county, Michigan, U.S.A. (MM05) |
| Coquina - limestone | --- #208 --- Shelly Ordovician limestone, Campbellford, southeast Ontario |
| Corundum | --- ---- --- See "oxides - Al" |
| Crocoite - Pb Cr | --- #109 --- Crocoite from Tasmania, Australia |
| Cyclosilicates - B | --- #120 --- Tourmalinite from Botallack, Cornwall, England |
| Cyclosilicates - B | --- #100 --- Pegmatitic granite from Cornwall, England |
| Cyclosilicates - B | --- #101 --- Tourmaline-rich granitic breccia from Cornwall, England |
| Cyclosilicates - B | --- #69 --- Dumortierite from Chile |
| Cyclosilicates - Zr | --- #138 --- Eudialyte syenite from Kipawa, Quebec (MM02) |
| Cyclosilicates - Be | --- #186--- Prismatic beryl from China |
| Cylindrite - Pb Sn Sb | --- #33 --- Cylindrite from Bolivia |
| Diabase | --- #17-18 Double take: igneous rocks from Earth & space |
| Diamond - C | --- #25 --- Diamonds from Africa |
| Diamond - C | --- #26 --- Diamond and carbonado, Siberia & Africa |
| Dickite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Diorites | --- #32 --- Appinite, Strontian area, Scotland |
| Diorites | --- #39 --- A Young plutonic rock from Borneo |
| Diorites | --- #178 --- Glomeroporphyritic amphibolitic diorite porphyry from China |
| Dumortierite - B | --- #69 --- Dumortierite from Chile |
| Dunite | --- #155 --- Dunitic mantle xenolith from Mount Leura, western Victoria, Australia |
| Elbaite - B | --- #202 --- Tourmaline and lepidolite from southern California, U.S.A. |
| Epidote | --- #50 --- Calcic anorthosite, northern Ontario |
| Erythrite - Co As | --- #133 --- Erythrite from Bou Azzer, Morocco |
| Eudialyte - Zr | --- #138 --- Eudialyte syenite from Kipawa, Quebec (MM02) |
| Eudialyte - Zr | --- #94 --- Agrellite and eudialyte, Kipawa, Quebec |
| Feldspars | --- ---- --- See "tectosilicates - feldspars", "anorthosites", etc |
| Ferrosilicon - Fe Si | --- #44 --- Silicides in fulgurite and ferrosilicon |
| Flint - Si | --- ---- --- See "chert" |
| Fluorite - Ca F | --- #140 --- Blue John fluorite, Derbyshire, England (MM03) |
| Fluorescence - scapolite | --- #90 --- Scapolite from Quebec |
| Fluororichterite | --- #166 --- Unusual amphibole from the Grenville province, Ontario |
| Fossils - bryozoans | --- #11 --- Fossil bryozoan from southern Ontario |
| Fossils - graptolites | --- #111 --- Graptolite fossils from Dyfed, Wales |
| Fossils - trilobites | --- #185 --- The trilobite Phacops from the Devonian of Morocco |
| Fossils - gastropods | --- #189 --- Gastropods old and new |
| Fossils - cephalopods | --- #139 --- Fossil "surprise" cephalopods from Nepal |
| Fossils - ammonites | --- #163 --- Mesozoic ammonite fossil, Madagascar |
| Fossils - bivalves | --- #141 --- Bivalve fossils from Iceland |
| Fossils - bivalves | --- #183 --- The bivalve Glycimeris in the Pliocene Red Crag of Essex, England |
| Fossils - crinoids | --- #181 --- Traumatocrinus from the Triassic of Guizhou, China |
| Fossils - echinoderms | --- #168 --- Echinodermata and the lithographic stone of Solnhofen, Germany |
| Fossils - trace fossils | --- #187 --- Thalassinoides, burrow, trace fossil from lower Chalk of Norfolk, England |
| Fossils - vertebrate | --- #201 --- Mesosaurus, fossil reptile and mascot for Gondwanaland |
| Fossils - thanatocoenosis | --- #208 --- Shelly Ordovician limestone, Campbellford, southeast Ontario |
| Franklinite - Zn Fe Mn | --- #198 --- Franklinite in fluorescent zinc ore, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| Fulgurites | --- #37 --- Fulgurite from Ontario |
| Fulgurites | --- #44 --- Silicides in fulgurite and ferrosilicon |
| Fulgurites | --- #123 --- Fulgurite, Grant county, Nebraska, U.S.A. |
| Fulgurites | --- #124 --- Fulgurite, Florence, Arizona, U.S.A. |
| Gabbro | --- --- --- see also "metagabbro", "troctolite" |
| Gabbro | --- #191 --- Keweenawan Mellen gabbro / gabbroic anorthosite, northern Wisconsin, U.S.A. |
| Galena - Pb | --- #48 --- Zinc-lead vein from the Grenville province of S.E. Ontario |
| Galena - Pb | --- #148 --- Silica-flooded sulphidic ore, Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| Galena - Pb | --- #175 --- "Zebra rock", a lead-zinc-silver ore from Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Galena - Pb | --- #196 --- Unusual galena habit from Madan, Bulgaria |
| Galena - Pb | --- #200 --- Galena crystal habits, Viburnum Trend, Missouri and Keno Hill, Yukon |
| Gallite - Ga | --- #171 --- Germanite in Cu Ge ore, Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Germanium minerals - Ge | --- #171 --- Germanite in Cu Ge ore, Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Glass (various) | --- ---- --- See also "tektites", "volcanics", "slags", chondrules in meteorites, etc |
| Glass in slag | --- #176 --- Slag from the Durango mining district, Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Glomeroporhyritic texture | --- #178 --- Glomeroporphyritic metabasite (amphibolite) from China |
| Gold - Au | --- ---- --- See "native elements - Au", "tellurides", & "ores - Au" |
| Granitoids | --- #9 ---- Charnockite, a deep and meaningful granitoid rock, Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Granitoids | --- #29 --- Shap granite, Lake District, England |
| Granitoids | --- #30 --- Ross of Mull granite, Scotland |
| Granitoids | --- #47 --- Granitic pegmatite from the Grenville province of S.E. Ontario |
| Granitoids | --- #54 --- Granite boulders of southeastern Wyoming, U.S.A. |
| Granitoids | --- #68 --- Sulphidic charnockite, Kodaikanal, south India |
| Granitoids | --- #92 --- Orbicular granite, coast of northern Chile |
| Granitoids | --- #100 --- Pegmatitic granite from Cornwall, England |
| Granitoids | --- #101 --- Tourmaline-rich granitic breccia from Cornwall, England |
| Granitoids | --- #102 --- Perthitic granite pegmatite, Grenville province, Ontario |
| Granitoids | --- #179 --- Textures in a rapakivi granite from Beijing, China |
| Graphite - C | --- #46 --- Graphite from the Bushveld of South Africa |
| Gypsum - Ca S | --- #165 --- Sand-infused gypsum "rose", Aransas Pass, Texas, U.S.A. |
| Halides - Ca F | --- #140 --- Blue John fluorite, Derbyshire, England (MM03) |
| Halides - Na Cl | --- #110 --- Sea salt (in essence, "synthetic halite") from Essex, England |
| Halleflinta | --- #53 --- Halleflinta from southwest Wales |
| Hausmannite - Mn | --- #157 --- Manganese ores, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa |
| Hematite | --- #164 --- Botryoidal hematite, iron oxide from Bou Azzer, Morocco |
| Hemimorphite - Zn | --- #195 --- Hemimorphite from Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico |
| Hydrocarbons | --- #64 --- Anthraxolite hydrocarbon, Sudbury, Ontario |
| Hydrothermal alteration | --- #35 --- Green mica in gold ore, Western Australia |
| Hydrothermal alteration | --- #45 --- Chrysocolla from Wyoming, U.S.A. |
| Hydrothermal alteration | --- #63 --- Jasperoid, Jerritt Canyon, Nevada, U.S.A. |
| Hydroxides - Mg | --- #112 --- Brucite ophicalcite (marble) from Skye, Scotland |
| Ice | --- #38 --- Ice - a mineral! |
| Illite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Impact events | --- #75 --- Shatter cone, Slate Islands, N.W. Ontario |
| Impact events | --- #159 --- Lapilli tuff / cherty sediment of Sudbury impact event, central Ontario |
| Impact events - tektites | --- ---- --- See "tektites" |
| Impact events - meteorites | --- #146 --- Chelyabinsk LL5 brecciated ordinary chondrite meteorite, Russia |
| Impact events - meteorites | --- #154 --- Classification of an NWA (Northwest Africa) "black chondrite" meteorite |
| Inosilicates - agrellite | --- #94 --- Agrellite and eudialyte, Kipawa, Quebec |
| Inosilicates - amphiboles | --- #147 --- Andesite lava from Poas volcano, at Bosque de Paz, Costa Rica |
| Inosilicates - amphiboles | --- #70 --- Nephrite jade from northern British Columbia |
| Inosilicates - amphiboles | --- #166 --- Unusual amphibole from the Grenville province, Ontario |
| Inosilicates - pyroxenes | --- #125 --- Chrome diopside, Russia |
| Inosilicates - pyroxenes | --- #197 --- Chrome diopside in lodranite meteorite NWA 11129, Morocco |
| Inosilicates - pyroxenoids | --- #22 --- Pyroxmangite (`rhodonite') from Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Intermetallics - Cu Sn Pd | --- #15 --- Cabriite (a palladium mineral) from Noril'sk, Russia |
| Iron - Fe | --- #121 --- Putorana metal-rich basalt / pseudometeorite, Siberia |
| Jade | --- #70 --- Jade from northern British Columbia |
| Jade | --- #207 --- Massive jade as decorative piece, from China |
| Kamacite - Ni Fe | --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia |
| Kaolinite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Khondalite | --- #43 --- Khondalite from Kerala, south India |
| Kutnohorite - Mn | --- #157 --- Manganese ores, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa |
| Lamprophyres | --- #56 --- Lamprophyre (intermediate porphyry) from British Columbia |
| Lapilli tuff | --- #159 --- Lapilli tuff / cherty sediment of Sudbury impact event, central Ontario |
| Larderite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Lepidolite | --- ---- --- See "phyllosilicates" |
| Leucogranite | --- #169 --- Leucogranite textures and mineralogy |
| Lithographic stone | --- #168 --- Echinodermata and the lithographic stone of Solnhofen, Germany |
| Magnetite | --- #71 --- Oxide-rich pegmatite, Grenville province, S.E. Ontario |
| Marble | --- ---- --- See "metasediments" |
| Metadiorite | --- #178 --- Glomeroporphyritic metadiorite (amphibolite) from China |
| Metagabbros | --- #149 --- Grenville metagabbro from Cordova (gold) Mines, Ontario |
| Metagabbros | --- #150 --- Coronitic Grenville metagabbro, Muskoka district, Ontario |
| Metagabbros | --- #13 --- Gabbro boulder, southern Ontario |
| Metagabbros | --- #28 --- Gabbro boulder, Marmora, Ontario |
| Metagabbros | --- #52 --- Titaniferous metagabbro, Norway |
| Metagabbros | --- #65 --- Odegaardite, metagabbro from Norway |
| Metagabbros | --- #71 --- Oxide-rich pegmatite, Grenville province, S.E. Ontario |
| Metasediments - silicate | --- #43 --- Khondalite from Kerala, south India |
| Metasediments - marble | --- #51 --- Forsterite marble, Scotland |
| Metasediments - marble | --- #58 --- Marbles of the Grenville province, S.E. Ontario |
| Metasediments - marble | --- #204 --- Marble, York River zone, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada |
| Metasediments - marble | --- #112 --- Brucite ophicalcite (marble) from Skye, Scotland |
| Metasediments | --- #128 --- Chiastolite-muscovite schist pebble, Newfoundland |
| Metavolcanics | --- #53 --- Halleflinta from southwest Wales |
| Meteorites - achondrites - brachinites | --- #188 --- NWA 10637, NWA 6292 and NWA 5363 brachinite(-like) achondrite meteorites |
| Meteorites - achondrites - HED | --- #17-18 Double take: igneous rocks from Earth & space |
| Meteorites - achondrites - HED | --- #104 --- Dhofar 485 howardite meteorite, Oman |
| Meteorites - achondrites - LOD | --- #197 --- Lodranite NWA 11129, an achondrite meteorite, Morocco |
| Meteorites - achondrites - WIN | --- #41 --- NWA 1463 Winonaite (rare achondrite meteorite), Northwest Africa) |
| Meteorites - chondrites - CBa | --- #117 --- Bencubbin CBa bencubbinite meteorite, Western Australia |
| Meteorites - chondrites - CBa | --- #118 --- Gujba CBa bencubbinite meteorite, Nigeria |
| Meteorites - chondrites - CO3 | --- #170 --- NWA 6136 CO3 carbonaceous chondrite, Morocco |
| Meteorites - chondrites - CV3 | --- #136 --- Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, Mexico |
| Meteorites - chondrites - H4 | --- #119 --- NWA 5425 H4 chondrite meteorite, Morocco |
| Meteorites - chondrites - H5 | --- #135 --- Covert H5 ordinary chondrite meteorite, Kansas, U.S.A. |
| Meteorites - chondrites - L3 | --- #49 --- Moorabie L3.8 chondrite, a meteorite from N.S.W., Australia |
| Meteorites - chondrites - L3-6 | --- #83 --- NWA 869 chondrite meteorite, Morocco |
| Meteorites - chondrites - L4 | --- #154 --- Classification of an NWA (Northwest Africa) "black chondrite" meteorite |
| Meteorites - chondrites - L6 | --- #7 ---- Holbrook meteorite (Arizona, U.S.A.) |
| Meteorites - chondrites - L6 | --- #3 ---- Meteorite recognition - Kitchener |
| Meteorites - chondrites - LL3 | --- #162 --- NWA 5731, LL3.2 chondrite meteorite, Morocco |
| Meteorites - chondrites - LL5 | --- #146 --- Chelyabinsk LL5 brecciated ordinary chondrite meteorite, Russia |
| Meteorites - general | --- #3 ---- Meteorite recognition |
| Meteorites - irons - IAB | --- #3 ---- Meteorite recognition - Toronto |
| Meteorites - irons - IAB | --- #173 --- Maslyanino iron meteorite with silicate inclusions, Russia |
| Meteorites - irons - IAB-MG | --- #93 --- Campo del Cielo iron meteorite, Argentina |
| Meteorites - irons - IAB-sLL | --- #129 --- Toluca iron meteorite, Mexico |
| Meteorites - irons - IC | --- #194 --- Mount Dooling IC iron meteorite, W.Australia |
| Meteorites - irons - IIAB | --- #193 --- Agoudal IIAB iron meteorite, Morocco |
| Meteorites - irons - IVA | --- #86 --- Gibeon iron meteorite, Namibia |
| Meteorites - irons - UNGR | --- #151 --- Gebel Kamil nickel-rich iron meteorite, Egypt |
| Meteorites - stony-irons - MES | --- #145 --- NWA 1242 mesosiderite, a stony-iron meteorite, Libya |
| Meteorites - stony-irons - PAL | --- #116 --- Springwater pallasite meteorite, Saskatchewan |
| Meteorites - stony-irons - PAL | --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia |
| Micas | --- ---- --- See "phyllosilicates" |
| Mimetite - Pb As | --- #132 --- Mimetite, cerussite, sphaerocobaltite, Morocco |
| Minium - Pb | --- #113 --- Minium from Colorado and Arizona, U.S.A. |
| Mudan stone | --- #178 --- Glomeroporphyritic amphibolitic diorite porphyry from China |
| Nacrite (kaolinite polymorph) | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Native elements - Ag | --- #126 --- Native silver in vein, Silver Islet, Thunder Bay area, Ontario |
| Native elements - Au | --- #21 --- Native gold from California, U.S.A. |
| Native elements - Au | --- #77 --- Native gold from Guyana |
| Native elements - Au | --- #78 --- Native gold from Timmins, Ontario |
| Native elements - C | --- #25 --- Diamonds from Africa |
| Native elements - C | --- #26 --- Diamond and carbonado, Siberia & Africa |
| Native elements - C | --- #46 --- Graphite from the Bushveld of South Africa |
| Native elements - Cu | --- #106 --- Native copper and datolite, northern Michigan, U.S.A |
| Native elements - Cu | --- #143 --- Native "float copper" from Houghton county, Michigan, U.S.A. (MM05) |
| Native elements - Fe | --- #121 --- Putorana metal-rich basalt / pseudometeorite, Siberia |
| Native elements - Os | --- #177 --- Native osmium from the Urals of Russia |
| Nephrite jade | --- #70 --- Jade from northern British Columbia |
| Nephrite jade | --- #207 --- Massive jade as decorative piece, from China |
| Nesosilicates - hemimorphite | --- #195 --- Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Nesosilicates - olivine | --- #155 --- Dunitic mantle xenolith from Mount Leura, western Victoria, Australia |
| Nesosilicates - olivine | --- #31 --- Allivalite, Rhum, Scotland |
| Nesosilicates - olivine | --- #49 --- Moorabie L3.8 chondrite, a meteorite from N.S.W., Australia |
| Nesosilicates - olivine | --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia |
| Nesosilicates - titanite | --- #167 --- Titanite (sphene) from the Grenville province, Ontario |
| Niccolite - Ni As | --- #40 --- Cobalt-nickel arsenide ore, Cobalt district, Ontario |
| Olivine | --- ---- --- See "nesosilicates - olivine" |
| Omars - distinctive erratics | --- #74 --- Siltstone cobble, Slate Islands, N.W. Ontario |
| Ophicalcite | --- #112 --- Brucite ophicalcite (marble) from Skye, Scotland |
| Ophiolites - chromitite - Cr | --- #205 --- Chromitite, Luobusa ophiolite, southern Tibet |
| Ores - Au | --- #80 --- Pyritic gold ore, Hemlo, Ontario |
| Ores - Au | --- #95 --- Green micaceous gold ore, Hemlo, Ontario |
| Orpiment - As | --- #180 --- Arsenic sulphides realgar and orpiment from China |
| Orpiment - As | --- #99 --- Galena, quartz and orpiment, Peru |
| Oxides - Al | --- #14 --- Corundum (ruby & sapphire) from India |
| Oxides - Al | --- #91 --- Grenville corundum, east of Bancroft, Ontario |
| Oxides - Cr Fe | --- #60 --- UG-2 chromitite, Bushveld complex, South Africa |
| Oxides - Fe | --- #71 --- Magnetite-rich pegmatite, Grenville province, S.E. Ontario |
| Oxides - Fe | --- #164 --- Botryoidal hematite, iron oxide from Bou Azzer, Morocco |
| Oxides - water ice | --- #38 --- Ice - a mineral! |
| Oxides - Mn | --- #157 --- Manganese ores, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa |
| Oxides - Mn | --- #182 --- Manganese oxide (pyrolusite) dendrites, Atacama desert, Chile |
| Oxides - Pb | --- #113 --- Minium from Colorado and Arizona, U.S.A. |
| Oxides - Sn | --- #209 --- Rich cassiterite tin ore, Cornwall, England |
| Oxides- Zn Fe Mn | --- #198 --- Franklinite in fluorescent zinc ore, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| Peony stone | --- #178 --- Glomeroporphyritic amphibolitic diorite porphyry from China |
| Peperite | --- #114 --- Peperite identified in outcrop in Tigrai, Ethiopia |
| Peridotite | --- #82 --- Slickensides, northwest Ontario |
| Phlogopite | --- ---- --- See "phyllosilicates" |
| Phonolite | --- #161 --- Gold-silver tellurides, Colorado, U.S.A., II |
| Phosphates | --- #1 ---- Apatite & orange calcite from Renfrew County, Grenville province, Ontario |
| Phosphates | --- #2 ---- Apatite & biotite from the Bancroft area, Grenville province, Ontario |
| Phosphates | --- #107 --- Apatite and phlogopite, Palabora, South Africa |
| Phosphates | --- #199 --- Wavellite from north Devon, England |
| Phosphides - schreibersite | --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia |
| Phyllosilicates - apophyllite | --- #134 --- Apophyllite from northern San Luis Potosi, Mexico (MM01) |
| Phyllosilicates - apophyllite | --- #142 --- Zeolites and apophyllite from Pune (Poona), Maharashtra, India |
| Phyllosilicates - dickite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Phyllosilicates - green mica - Cr | --- #35 --- Green mica in gold ore, Western Australia |
| Phyllosilicates - green mica - V | --- #95 --- Green micaceous gold ore, Hemlo, Ontario |
| Phyllosilicates - illite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Phyllosilicates - kaolinite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Phyllosilicates - micas | --- #107 --- Apatite and phlogopite, Palabora, South Africa |
| Phyllosilicates - micas - Li | --- #66 --- Lepidolite, Harding pegmatite, New Mexico |
| Phyllosilicates - micas - Li | --- #202 --- Tourmaline and lepidolite from southern California, U.S.A. |
| Phyllosilicates - nacrite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Phyllosilicates - pyrophyllite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Plagioclase feldspars | --- ---- --- See, e.g., "tectosilicates - feldspars", "anorthosites" |
| Platinum Group Mineral - Cu Sn Pd | --- #15 --- Cabriite (a palladium mineral) from Noril'sk, Russia |
| Platinum Group Mineral - Os | --- #177 --- Native osmium from the Urals of Russia |
| Platinum Group Mineral - Pt As | --- #81 --- Sperrylite, Sudbury, Ontario |
| Platinum Group Mineral - Pt As | --- #81b -- Sperrylite, Sudbury, Ontario (.pdf, 138 kb) |
| Pyrite - Fe | --- #36 --- Pyrite from Navajun, Spain |
| Pyrite - Fe | --- #42 --- Pyrite from Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Pyrite - Fe | --- #68 --- Pyrite in charnockite, Kodaikanal, south India |
| Pyrite - Fe | --- #172 --- Pyrite sun (concretion), Illinois, U.S.A. |
| Pyrolusite - Mn | --- #182 --- Manganese oxide (pyrolusite) dendrites, Atacama desert, Chile |
| Pyrophyllite | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Pyroxenes | --- ---- --- See "inosilicates - pyroxenes" |
| Pyroxmangite | --- #22 --- Pyroxmangite (`rhodonite') from Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Pyrrhotite - Fe | --- #68 --- Sulphidic charnockite, Kodaikanal, south India |
| Qingtian stone | --- #203 --- Qingtian stone, superb lapidary material from China |
| Quartz - Si | --- ---- --- See "tectosilicates - silica" |
| Quartz (amethyst, etc) - Si | --- #206 --- Quartz as semi-precious stone: nine faceted examples (smoky quartz, rose quartz, etc) |
| Quartzite | --- #174 --- Quartzite from Quandary Peak, Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Rapakivi granite texture | --- #179 --- Textures in a rapakivi granite from Beijing, China |
| Realgar - As | --- #180 --- Arsenic sulphides realgar and orpiment from China |
| Richterite | --- #166 --- Unusual amphibole from the Grenville province, Ontario |
| Rucklidgeite - Pb Bi Ag Te | --- #67 --- Rucklidgeite, rare telluride, N.E. Ontario |
| Safflorite - Co As | --- #40 --- Cobalt-nickel arsenide ore, Cobalt district, Ontario |
| Scapolite | --- #90 --- Scapolite from Quebec |
| Schreibersite - Fe Ni P | --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia |
| Sediments - BIF | --- #88 --- Banded iron formation, Western Australia |
| Sediments - BIF | --- #98 --- Banded iron formation, south India |
| Sediments - limestone | --- #168 --- Echinodermata and the lithographic stone of Solnhofen, Germany |
| Sediments - shelly limestone | --- #208 --- Shelly Ordovician limestone, Campbellford, southeast Ontario |
| Sediments - siltstone | --- #74 --- Siltstone cobble, Slate Islands, N.W. Ontario |
| Sediments - sandstone | --- #84 --- Concretion, northwest Ontario |
| Sediments - quartzite | --- #174 --- Quartzite from Quandary Peak, Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Sediments - conglomerate | --- #72 --- Palaeobeach with igneous pebbles, Cuba |
| Selenides - Cu Se | --- #61 --- Umangite: selenides from Moravia and Saskatchewan |
| Sheet silicates | --- ---- --- See "phyllosilicates" |
| Silicides - Fe Si | --- #44 --- Silicides in fulgurite and ferrosilicon |
| Silver - Ag | --- ---- --- See "native elements - Ag", "tellurides" & "sulphosalts - Ag" |
| Skutterudite - Ni Co As | --- #40 --- Cobalt-nickel arsenide ore, Cobalt district, Ontario |
| Slags - Sudbury, ON | --- #3 ---- Meteorite recognition - slags |
| Slags - Sudbury, ON | --- #192 --- Nickel smelter slag, Sudbury, Ontario |
| Slags - southern Ontario | --- #27 --- Copper-rich slag, Belleville, Ontario |
| Slags - Durango, CO | --- #176 --- Slag from the Durango mining district, Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Smithsonite - Zn | --- #195 --- Smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Sorosilicates - epidote | --- #50 --- Calcic anorthosite, northern Ontario |
| Sorosilicates - hemimorphite | --- #195 --- Hemimorphite from Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico |
| Sperrylite - Pt As | --- #81 --- Sperrylite, Sudbury, Ontario |
| Sperrylite - Pt As | --- #81b -- Sperrylite, Sudbury, Ontario (.pdf, 138 kb) |
| Sphaerocobaltite | --- #132 --- Mimetite, cerussite, sphaerocobaltite, Morocco |
| Sphalerite - Zn | --- #12 --- Banded sphalerite from Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Sphalerite - Zn | --- #59 --- Sphalerite-rich ore, Lake District, N.W. England |
| Sphalerite - Zn | --- #48 --- Zinc-lead vein from the Grenville province of S.E. Ontario |
| Sphalerite - Zn | --- #148 --- Silica-flooded sulphidic ore, Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| Sphalerite - Zn | --- #175 --- "Zebra rock", a lead-zinc-silver ore from Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Sphalerite - Zn | --- #198 --- Sphalerite in fluorescent zinc ore, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| Sphene | --- #167 --- Titanite (sphene) from the Grenville province, Ontario |
| Stibnite - Sb | --- #10 --- Stibnite from South Africa |
| Stilbite | --- #142 --- Zeolites and apophyllite from Pune (Poona), Maharashtra, India |
| Structures | --- #75 --- Shatter cone, Slate Islands, N.W. Ontario |
| Structures | --- #82 --- Slickensides, northwest Ontario |
| Structures | --- #89 --- Brecciated chert, Western Australia |
| Sulphates - Ca | --- #165 --- Sand-infused gypsum "rose", Aransas Pass, Texas, U.S.A. |
| Sulphides - Cu | --- #115 --- Chalcopyrite ore, McCreedy West mine, Sudbury, Ontario |
| Sulphides - Cu | --- #190 --- Sudbury copper-PGE ore, Broken Hammer deposit |
| Sulphides - iss "matte" | --- #176 --- Slag from the Durango mining district, Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Sulphides - iss "matte" | --- #27 --- Copper-rich slag, Belleville, Ontario |
| Sulphides - pyrite - Fe | --- #36 --- Pyrite from Navajun, Spain |
| Sulphides - pyrite - Fe | --- #42 --- Pyrite from Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Sulphides - pyrite - Fe | --- #68 --- Sulphidic charnockite, Kodaikanal, south India |
| Sulphides - pyrite - Fe | --- #172 --- Pyrite sun (concretion), Illinois, U.S.A. |
| Sulphides - pyrrhotite - Fe | --- #68 --- Sulphidic charnockite, Kodaikanal, south India |
| Sulphides - troilite - Fe | --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia |
| Sulphides - Fe As | --- #153 --- Gold skarn with arsenopyrite, Osoyoos, southern Okanagan, British Columbia |
| Sulphides - Fe Ni Cu | --- #97 --- Massive sulphide bear as folk-art carving (Sudbury, Ontario) |
| Sulphides - Hg | --- #4 ---- Cinnabar, mercury ore from Almaden, Spain |
| Sulphides - Ni | --- #5 ---- Violarite, nickel ore from Sudbury, Ontario |
| Sulphides - Pb As | --- #99 --- Galena, quartz and orpiment, Peru |
| Sulphides - As | --- #180 --- Arsenic sulphides realgar and orpiment from China |
| Sulphides - Pb Zn | --- #48 --- Zinc-lead vein from the Grenville province of S.E. Ontario |
| Sulphides - Pb Zn Ag | --- #175 --- "Zebra rock", a lead-zinc-silver ore from Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Sulphides - Pb Zn | --- #196 --- Unusual galena habit from Madan, Bulgaria |
| Sulphides - Pb Ag | --- #200 --- Galena crystal habits, Viburnum Trend, Missouri and Keno Hill, Yukon |
| Sulphides - Sb | --- #10 --- Stibnite from South Africa |
| Sulphides - Sb | --- #137 --- Stibnite, antimony ore from Romania (MM04) |
| Sulphides - Zn | --- #12 --- Banded sphalerite from Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Sulphides - Zn | --- #59 --- Sphalerite-rich ore, Lake District, N.W. England |
| Sulphides - Zn Cu Ge Ga | --- #171 --- Germanite in Cu Ge (Zn) ore, Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Sulphides - Zn Cu Pb Ag | --- #148 --- Silica-flooded sulphidic ore, Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| Sulphides - Zn Pb Cu | --- #175 --- "Zebra rock", a lead-zinc-silver ore from Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Sulphosalts - Ag | --- #20 --- Silver ore, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Sulphosalts - Cu Pb Sb | --- #96 --- Bournonite from Pulacayo, Bolivia |
| Sulphosalts - Fe Sb | --- #8 ---- Berthierite, Iron-antimony sulphide from Borneo |
| Sulphosalts - Pb Sn Sb | --- #33 --- Cylindrite from Bolivia |
| Sulphosalts - Tl | --- #19 --- Thallium in nature (Utah, U.S.A.) |
| Sulphosalts - Cu Fe As S Ge | --- #171 --- Tennantite in Cu Ge ore, Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Syenites | --- #57 --- Pulaskite (syenite) from British Columbia |
| Syenites | --- #138 --- Eudialyte syenite from Kipawa, Quebec (MM02) |
| Sylvanite - Au Ag Te | --- #161 --- Gold-silver tellurides, Colorado, U.S.A., II |
| Taenite - Ni Fe | --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia |
| Tectosilicates - feldspars | --- #103 --- Amazonite feldspar from Quebec |
| Tectosilicates - feldspars | --- #105 --- Amazonite feldspar from Sidamo, southern Ethiopia |
| Tectosilicates - scapolite | --- #90 --- Scapolite from Quebec |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #6 ---- Opal in Volcanic rock from Honduras |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #16 --- Chert & chalcedony (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #23 --- Chert & microfossils (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #24 --- Chert provenance (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #34 --- Flint walls, Essex, England |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #89 --- Brecciated chert, Western Australia |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #73 --- Amethyst, Thunder Bay, N.W. Ontario |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #76 --- Chert from the Crowe valley, S.E. Ontario |
| Tectosilicates - silica | --- #79 --- Fractured flint from Essex, England |
| Tectosilicates - quartz - pressure shadows | --- #153 --- Gold skarn with arsenopyrite, Osoyoos, southern Okanagan, British Columbia |
| Tectosilicates - quartz - Si | --- #206 --- Quartz as semi-precious stone: nine faceted examples |
| Tektites | --- #55 --- Tektites from China |
| Tektites | --- #156 --- Historic "soccer ball" tektite from the Philippines |
| Tellurides - Au Ag Te | --- #158 --- Gold-silver tellurides, Colorado, U.S.A., I |
| Tellurides - Au Ag Te | --- #161 --- Gold-silver tellurides, Colorado, U.S.A., II |
| Tellurides - Pb Bi Ag Te | --- #67 --- Rucklidgeite, rare telluride, N.E. Ontario |
| Tennantite - Cu Fe As S | --- #171 --- Germanite in Cu Ge ore, Tsumeb, Namibia |
| Thallium minerals - Tl | --- #19 --- Thallium in nature (Utah, U.S.A.) |
| Thanatocoenosis - paleoecology | --- #208 --- Shelly Ordovician limestone, Campbellford, southeast Ontario |
| Titanite | --- #167 --- Titanite (sphene) from the Grenville province, Ontario |
| Todorokite - Mn | --- #157 --- Manganese ores, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa |
| Tourmaline | --- ---- --- See "borosilicates" |
| Trace fossils | --- #187 --- Thalassinoides, burrow, trace fossil from the lower Chalk of Norfolk, England |
| Troctolite | --- #31 --- Allivalite, Rhum, Scotland |
| Troilite - Fe S | --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia |
| Tungstates - Fe Mn W | --- #152 --- Quartz-wolframite vein (tin-tungsten ore) in greisen, Cligga Head, Cornwall, England |
| Ultramafic rocks | --- #144 --- Keweenawan peridotite, Midcontinent Rift, Eagle project, Michigan, U.S.A. |
| Ultramafic rocks | --- #155 --- Dunitic mantle xenolith from Mount Leura, western Victoria, Australia |
| Umangite - Cu Se | --- #61 --- Umangite: selenides from Moravia and Saskatchewan |
| Vanadates - Pb V | --- #131 --- Vanadinite from Morocco |
| Violarite - Ni | --- #5 ---- Violarite, nickel ore from Sudbury, Ontario |
| Volcanics | --- #62 --- Mineralized andesite, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| Volcanics | --- #108 --- Basaltic volcanic bomb, Mount Fuji, Japan |
| Volcanics | --- #114 --- Peperite identified in outcrop in Tigrai, Ethiopia |
| Volcanics | --- #130 --- Basalt, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia |
| Volcanics | --- #141 --- Fossiliferous basalt (no, really!) from Iceland |
| Volcanics | --- #147 --- Andesite lava from Poas volcano, at Bosque de Paz, Costa Rica |
| Volcanics | --- #160 --- Porphyry (volcanic tuff), ornamental stone, Dyfed, Wales |
| Volcanic-like impact ejecta | --- #159 --- Lapilli tuff / cherty sediment of Sudbury impact event, central Ontario |
| Wavellite | --- #199 --- Wavellite from north Devon, England |
| Weissbergite - Tl | --- #19 --- Thallium in nature (Utah, U.S.A.) |
| Willemite - Zn | --- #198 --- Zn silicate in fluorescent zinc ore, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| Wolframite - Fe Mn W | --- #152 --- Quartz-wolframite vein (tin-tungsten ore) in greisen, Cligga Head, Cornwall, England |
| Xenolith | --- #155 --- Dunitic mantle xenolith from Mount Leura, western Victoria, Australia |
| Yakutite - C | --- #26 --- Diamond and carbonado, Siberia & Africa |
| Zebra ore / zebra rock | --- #175 --- "Zebra rock", a lead-zinc-silver ore from Colorado, U.S.A. |
| Zeolites | --- #142 --- Zeolites and apophyllite from Pune (Poona), Maharashtra, India |
| ZZZ - COMING SOON | --- #210 --- Serpentinized mantle peridotite, Gros Morne, western Newfoundland |
| ZZZ - COMING SOON | --- #211 --- Tyndall stone, trace fossils, Ordovician limestone, Manitoba |
| ZZZ - COMING SOON | --- #212 --- Acasta gneiss, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| ZZZ - COMING SOON | --- #213 --- Giant lapilli from Sudbury impact event, Thunder Bay, Ontario |
| ZZZ - COMING SOON | --- #214 --- Galena crystal habits, Peru and Bulgaria |
| ZZZ - COMING SOON | --- #215 --- May 2019 |
| ZZZ - COMING SOON | --- #216 --- June 2019, 18 years completed |
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