The larger the stone, the more spectacular it looks... But if it suddenly shrinks to the size of a bug, you can find yourself in a fantastic microworld! In this post, I invite you to look at microscopic minerals. The world of these little ones is diverse and infinitely beautiful; not everyone can see these little ones.
Photographer Christian Revitzer took microphotos and allowed people to see the wonders of mineralogy invisible to the world!
So, 15 of the brightest, most unusual crystals ranging in size from 1 millimeter to 3 are waiting for you.
Spangolite - turquoise drop
Spangolite is a secondary mineral found in the oxidized portion of hydrothermal copper deposits.
Talmessite - pink cubes
Talmessite is a hydrated calcium and magnesium arsenate, often with significant cobalt or nickel content. It was named in 1960 from its type locality, Talmessi Mine, Anarak District, Iran.
Wulfenite - a perfect octahedron
A secondary mineral usually found as thin, tabular crystals of bright orange-red, yellow-orange, yellow, or yellowish-gray.
Annabergite
Annabergite is a mineral of the arsenate class, a hydrous nickel arsenate with a layered structure. Consists of nickel(II) arsenate with impurities; formula: Ni₃[AsO₄]₂•8H₂O. Opened in 1852; At the same time it received its name from one of the typical localities.
Cacoxenite
It was first described in 1825 when it was found in the Grbek mine, Bohemia, Czech Republic. It occurs as a secondary phase in oxidized magnetite and limonite deposits.
This is an aluminum and iron phosphate mineral that creates a beautiful effect in amethyst:
Hemimorphite
Named in 1853 by Adolf Kenngott due to the hemimorphic morphology of the crystals. This species has previously been given many names, including calamine.
Conichalcite
Named by August Breithaupt and Karl Julius Fritsche in 1849 from the Greek κουία meaning "conis" (powder) and χαλκος meaning "chalkos" (copper), sometimes alluding to its composition and appearance as a mineral.
Eulytite
Guanacoite
A very rare mineral, hydrous basic arsenate of copper and magnesium. The crystals are prismatic to needle-shaped, size from 0,2 to 0,7 mm.
Anatakamite
Rare new mineral (IMA2009-042) mineral, copper hydroxychloride.
Azurite magnified
Excellent gartrellite crystals on carminite
Carminite is a scarlet flower!
Langitis
A rare mineral of hydrated copper sulfate with hydroxyl, which occurs almost exclusively in drusen of small crystals.
Natropharmacoalumite
New mineral (IMA2010-009). Pharmacoalumite group of the pharmacosiderite supergroup.
Proust
Ore mineral of silver, a subclass of complex sulfides.
Proustite cut.
