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Curved QUARTZ Altoona Area Quarries |
QUARTZ (Japan-law twin) with OXY-DRAVITE-1A Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Radial OXY-DRAVITE-1A clusters on QUARTZ Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
QUARTZ (Japan-law twin) with perched OXY-DRAVITE-1A Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Iridescent GOETHITE coating OXY-DRAVITE-1A Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
QUARTZ with delicate, green sprays of OXY-DRAVITE-1A Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Tabular QUARTZ crystal with OXY-DRAVITE-1A inclusions Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Lustrous bladed STIBNITE with radial OXY-DRAVITE-1A and minor QUARTZ Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Submetallic black FERBERITE with OXY-DRAVITE-1A on QUARTZ matrix Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
QUARTZ (Japan-law twin) with OXY-DRAVITE-1A Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Drusy QUARTZ spheres on ropey CLINOCHLORE Beaver Valley Quarry |
CALCITE Beaver Valley Quarry |
STILBITE amygdule in basalt Beaver Valley Quarry |
Drusy QUARTZ with light-green jasper Beaver Valley Quarry |
Flower of CALCITE on CLINOCHLORE Beaver Valley Quarry |
COPPER wire on CLINOCHLORE Beaver Valley Quarry |
UNIDENTIFIED mineral #1 on black CLINOCHLORE Beaver Valley Quarry |
CALCITE on CLINOCHLORE Beaver Valley Quarry |
CHABAZITE (phacolite-twinned) with minor COPPER Beaver Valley Quarry |
mineral #2 Beaver Valley Quarry |
LEVYNE amygdules in basalt Beaver Valley Quarry |
Complex COPPER wire on CLINOCHLORE Beaver Valley Quarry |
COPPER wire on light-green botryoidal clay matrix Beaver Valley Quarry |
HEULANDITE Beaver Valley Quarry |
CALCITE crystallized as a spherical aggregate of small crystals Beaver Valley Quarry |
Dogtooth CALCITE on STILBITE Beaver Valley Quarry |
Crystalline COPPER on CLINOCHLORE Beaver Valley Quarry |
Spherical crystalline aggregates of QUARTZ within a basaltic amygdule Beaver Valley Quarry |
ANDRADITE garnet Bessemer Ridge |
HEMATITE and QUARTZ pseudomporph after unidentified mineral EPIDOTE ? Bessemer Ridge |
QUARTZ and HEMATITE pseudomporph after unidentified mineral EPIDOTE ? Bessemer Ridge |
Spherical COWLESITE on CHLORITE Big Tree Creek |
Tabular EPISTILBITE Big Tree Creek |
SMITHSONITE Black Rock Mine |
Black AMPHIBOLE (HORNBLENDE) phenocryst in light gray volcanic matrix Black Tuesday Claim |
Black AMPHIBOLE (HORNBLENDE) phenocryst in light gray volcanic matrix Black Tuesday Claim |
Dogtooth CALCITE with partial opal coating (fluorescent under ultraviolet light) Black Tuesday Claim |
STILPNOMELANE in matrix QUARTZ Blanchard Hill |
STILPNOMELANE in matrix QUARTZ and green chert Blanchard Hill |
CALCITE flat rhombohedron Cadman High Rock Quarry |
PYRITE coating CALCITE and drusy QUARTZ Cadman High Rock Quarry |
CALCITE flat rhombohedra on CALCITE pseudomorphs after prismatic ARAGONITE Cadman High Rock Quarry |
CALCITE Cadman High Rock Quarry |
Banded blue-gray QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) Cadman High Rock Quarry |
CALCITE and QUARTZ with (CALCITE + QUARTZ) pseudomorphs aft ARAGONITE Cadman High Rock Quarry |
Blue-gray drusy QUARTZ with CALCITE Cadman High Rock Quarry |
CALCITE and QUARTZ pseudomorph after ARAGONITE Cadman High Rock Quarry |
GOETHITE (unconfirmed), radial needles in QUARTZ Cadman High Rock Quarry |
CALCITE with PYRITE Cadman High Rock Quarry |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - banded agate Cadman High Rock Quarry |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) pseudomorph after ARAGONITE with numerous perched CALCITE crystals Cadman High Rock Quarry |
CALCITE (twinned) Capitol Forest Quarries |
CHABAZITE (penetration-twinned) Capitol Forest Quarries |
CHABAZITE (multiple penetration-twinned) Capitol Forest Quarries |
MORDENITE Capitol Forest Quarries |
MORDENITE with Fe-silicate clay Capitol Forest Quarries |
Bluish-gray THOMSONITE-Ca spheres on ANALCIME druse Capitol Forest Quarries |
COWLESITE spheres within basalt amygdule Capitol Forest Quarries |
Globular PYRITE with white CALCITE Capitol Forest Quarries |
Stacked spheres of THOMSONITE-Ca Capitol Forest Quarries |
Blue-gray THOMSONITE-Ca surrounded by COWLESITE with white gypsum patches on the thomsonite Capitol Forest Quarries |
Two 11 mm twinned CHABAZITE crystals with a 5 mm gem CALCITE rhombohedron and surrounding druse in a basalt amygdule Capitol Forest Quarries |
Slightly amethystine QUARTZ crystal with hopper along prism face Cedar Ponds |
Slightly amethystine QUARTZ exhibiting Muzo habit Cedar Ponds |
A cluster of metallic black octahedral CHROMITE crystals associated with green mica (likely CLINOCHLORE ) Cle Elum Iron Mine |
Sceptered QUARTZ cluster Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ scepter with cubic PYRITE inclusion reflected in all six termination faces Clipper View Claim |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ Clipper View Claim |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ with fluorescent phantom under short-wave ultraviolet light Clipper View Claim |
GOETHITE pseudomorph after SIDERITE on QUARTZ Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ cluster with scepters Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ scepter on matrix Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ cluster with scepter and micro sulfide inclusions Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ cluster with fluorescent phantoms under short-wave ultraviolet light Clipper View Claim |
Double-terminated QUARTZ cluster (floater) with fluorescent inclusions Clipper View Claim |
Sceptered QUARTZ cluster with SIDERITE inclusions Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ cluster with balls of dark green CHLINOCHLORE and inclusions of BYSSOLITE Condor Claim |
Partially coated BOURNONITE with SPHALERITE and QUARTZ Coney Basin Mine |
Lustrous crude hexagonal MOLYBDENITE crystals in massive white QUARTZ Crown Point Mine |
Oxidized cubic GALENA on matrix Crown Point Mine |
Sharp euhedral MOLYBDENITE on QUARTZ Crown Point Mine |
GALENA (likely cleaved to expose lustrous faces) Crown Point Mine |
Complex MOLYBDENITE crystal Crown Point Mine |
QUARTZ crystal cluster, exhibiting parallel growth along the main crystal Crown Point Mine |
Sharp MOLYBDENITE crystal on quartz matrix Crown Point Mine |
Multiple MOLYBDENITE crystals on matrix Crown Point Mine |
CHALCOSTIBITE with QUARTZ Damon and Pythias Mine |
Cluster of AUTUNITE with META-AUTUNITE rims Daybreak Mine |
AUTUNITE cluster with META-AUTUNITE rims Daybreak Mine |
"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter containing inclusions of HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
K FELDSPAR (Var: Adularia) with GROSSULAR garnet and minor EPIDOTE Denny Mountain Skarn |
GROSSULAR garnet and naturally etched CALCITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
HEMATITE "rose" Denny Mountain Skarn |
Terminated radial EPIDOTE spray with perched QUARTZ Denny Mountain Skarn |
"Raspberry" QUARTZ scepter with HEMATITE inclusions and rosettes Denny Mountain Skarn |
"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter with HEMATITE inclusions Denny Mountain Skarn |
"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter cluster containing inclusions of HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ scepter with HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Double-terminated Japan-law twin QUARTZ on matrix Denny Mountain Skarn |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster Denny Mountain Skarn |
Fluorescent SCHEELITE on skarn matrix Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ with green CHLORITE inclusions and red GROSSULAR garnet Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ scepter cluster Denny Mountain Skarn |
HEDENBERGITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Botryoidal blue OPAL coating a broken QUARTZ crystal Denny Mountain Skarn |
High quality "raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter containing inclusions of HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Radiating MALACHITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Double-terminated QUARTZ Denny Mountain Skarn |
Dipyramidal SCHEELITE with QUARTZ on skarn matrix Denny Mountain Skarn |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster with PYRITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
SERICITE pseudomorph after EPIDOTE ? with small crystals of QUARTZ Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ scepter with HEMATITE inclusions Denny Mountain Skarn |
CHLORITE included QUARTZ with SIDERITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
CHRYSOCOLLA coating Japan-law twin QUARTZ Denny Mountain Skarn |
Sceptered QUARTZ cluster with HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Complex micro-sceptered QUARTZ cluster (slight amethyst) with minor CHLORITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Complex sceptered QUARTZ cluster with strange truncated terminations and overgrowth with CHLORITE inclusions and SERICITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ cluster with three-eared Japan-law twin Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) hoppered scepter with HEMATITE inclusions and bladed crystals at base Denny Mountain Skarn |
Raspberry QUARTZ scepter cluster with HEMATITE inclusions Denny Mountain Skarn |
Raspberry QUARTZ scepter cluster with HEMATITE inclusions Denny Mountain Skarn |
SCHEELITE with QUARTZ Devils Canyon Area |
AUGITE phenocryst in tuffaceous matrix Doty Hills |
AUGITE phenocrysts looking down the b-axis left: {100} twinned crystal right: monoclinic crystal Doty Hills |
AUGITE {100} twinned crystal with distinct overgrowth zoning Doty Hills |
NATROLITE cluster Doty Hills |
Red SPHALERITE on SIDERITE Dutch Miller Gap |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - "Ellensburg Blue" Ellensburg Area |
Polished QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - "Ellensburg Blue" Ellensburg Area |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - Botryoidal "Ellensburg Blue" Ellensburg Area |
Smoky QUARTZ with inclusions of ARFVEDSONITE Golden Horn Batholith |
ARFVEDSONITE Golden Horn Batholith |
BASTNAESITE-(Ce) Golden Horn Batholith |
GADOLINITE-(Ce) Golden Horn Batholith |
BASTNAESITE-(Ce) (not confirmed, visual identification) with MICROCLINE on ARFVEDSONITE Golden Horn Batholith |
GENTHELVITE Golden Horn Batholith |
MICROCLINE with ARFVEDSONITE Golden Horn Batholith |
OKANOGANITE and ZIRCON Golden Horn Batholith |
ZEKTZERITE Golden Horn Batholith |
ZEKTZERITE crystal in small miarolitic cavity with matrix ZEKTZERITE in alkali granite Golden Horn Batholith |
Gemmy QUARTZ (Var: Smoky) Golden Horn Batholith |
Gemmy QUARTZ (Var: Smoky) with fiery red ASTROPHYLLITE inclusion Golden Horn Batholith |
RIEBECKITE with asbestiform termination Golden Horn Batholith |
Rhombohedral SIDERITE with amorphous iron silicate (yellow) Golden Horn Batholith |
ZIRCON in miarolitic cavity Golden Horn Batholith |
OKANOGANITE (fourling twin) in miarolitic cavity Golden Horn Batholith |
Single etched ZEKTZERITE (top of specimen) and single OKANOGANITE crystal (near bottom left of specimen) with Golden Horn Batholith |
Gemmy faceted ZEKTZERITE crystals Golden Horn Batholith |
Salmon-colored ELPIDITE in alkali granite with massive ZEKTZERITE Golden Horn Batholith |
QUARTZ (Var: Smoky) with minor MICROCLINE Golden Horn Batholith |
Epitaxial AEGIRINE extending from ARFVEDSONITE termination on white MICROCLINE Golden Horn Batholith |
Golden ASTROPHYLLITE with MICROCLINE in a miarolytic cavity within alkali granit Golden Horn Batholith |
Pink ZEKTZERITE with MICROCLINE Golden Horn Batholith |
ZEKTZERITE on MICROCLINE matrix with minor ARFVEDSONITE Golden Horn Batholith |
ASTROPHYLLITE in miarolitic cavity within alkaline granite matrix Golden Horn Batholith |
ZEKTZERITE on MICROCLINE matrix with minor ARFVEDSONITE Golden Horn Batholith |
ZEKTZERITE on matrix with SIDERITE and MICROCLINE Golden Horn Batholith |
Double terminated RIEBECKITE with asbestiform terminations on MICROCLINE matrix with orange micro ZIRCON crystals Golden Horn Batholith |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst and Smokey) Golden Horn Batholith |
ZEKTZERITE on MICROCLINE Golden Horn Batholith |
Smoky QUARTZ with ARFVEDSONITE inclusions on MICROCLINE matrix Golden Horn Batholith |
Faceted ZEKTZERITE crystals Golden Horn Batholith |
Immaculate gemmy ZEKTZERITE crystal, showing complex, naturally etched termination faces Golden Horn Batholith |
PYROMORPHITE Grandview Mine |
Brilliant PYRITE intergrown with GOETHITE Green Ridge Breccia |
Rough and Cut QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ with pyritihedral PYRITE inclusion Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepters on matrix Green Ridge Breccia |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal Green Ridge Breccia |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal on QUARTZ cluster Green Ridge Breccia |
Sceptered QUARTZ cluster Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) with enhydro Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ (Var: [light] Smokey) Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ with fluorescent phanton (under short-wave ultraviolet light) Green Ridge Breccia |
Sceptered QUARTZ crystal with enhydro Green Ridge Breccia |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster Green Ridge Breccia |
Large Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal Green Ridge Breccia |
Sub-metallic GOETHITE partially coating QUARTZ Green Ridge Breccia |
Complex PYRITE Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ scepter (Var: Amethyst) with partial limonite coating Green Ridge Breccia |
Reichenstein-Grieserntal twin QUARTZ cluster Green Ridge Breccia |
ANDRADITE with MAGNETITE etched from CALCITE Guye Mine Skarn Deposit |
CLINOZOISITE (unconfirmed) with BYSSOLITE (unconfirmed) etched from CALCITE Guye Mine Skarn Deposit |
QUARTZ on massive MAGNETITE (photographed in the field) Guye Mine Skarn Deposit |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter Hansen Creek |
ANATASE Hansen Creek |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster Hansen Creek |
CHRYSOCOLLA Hansen Creek |
Amethystine QUARTZ scepters Hansen Creek |
GOETHITE partial pseudomorph after PYRITE Lower photo shows a close-up of the cube. Small octahedral modifications are visible. Hansen Creek |
Botryoidal CHRYSOCOLLA Hansen Creek |
PYRITE Hansen Creek |
RUTILE on dark green CLINOCHLORE Hansen Creek |
Amethyst QUARTZ scepter. Base of crystal appears dark in photo but is clear quartz (not smokey) Hansen Creek |
Sceptered QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) Hansen Creek |
"Dumbbell" sceptered QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) Hansen Creek |
QUARTZ with stacked shortwave fluorescent phantoms Hansen Creek |
QUARTZ with stacked shortwave fluorescent phantoms Hansen Creek |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ Hansen Creek |
FLUORAPATITE with dark green CLINOCHLORE and QUARTZ Hansen Creek |
QUARTZ with euhedral PYRITE inclusions Hansen Creek |
Gem sceptered QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) Hansen Creek |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) Hansen Creek |
Interpenetrating QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepters Hansen Creek |
Chlorite-included QUARTZ (up to 3.2 cm long) with ANKERITE/DOLOMITE? altered to clay Hansen Creek |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - Carnelian agate Kalama Area |
QUARTZ cluster on matrix with gemmy scepter Katie Belle Breccia |
ELECTRUM grains within dark gray bands of NAUMANNITE and white QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine) |
Slab of banded Au-Ag ore with NAUMANNITE and QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine) |
Rich ELECTRUM grains within dark gray bands of NAUMANNITE and white QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine) |
High-grade ore specimen with visible ELECTRUM and possible NAUMANNITE Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine) |
Banded gold and silver ore specimen with visible ELECTRUM and possible NAUMANNITE Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine) |
Peach-colored STILBITE Lewis River Area |
Light orange colored STILBITE cluster with porcelain-like luster Lewis River Area |
Opaque white/light green APOPHYLLITE "flower" Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
APOPHYLLITE Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
Yellow CALCITE and white STILBITE on basalt matrix Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
Lustrous light green HEULANDITE with STILBITE Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
HEULANDITE with CHLORITE inclusions, APOPHYLLITE Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
Translucent to gemmy HEULANDITE on black CHLORITE matrix Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
White STILBITE on light green APOPHYLLITE Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
Pink HEULANDITE on a bed of white STILBITE Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
STILBITE and a white spray of dehydrated LAUMONTITE (LEONHARDITE) on CHLORITE Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
APOPHYLLITE cluster Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
White STILBITE (sheaflike crystals with a dusting of basaltic matrix) Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
Pink HEULANDITE on STILBITE Lucky Strike Pit (Manke Pit) |
Zoned copper-bearing AUTUNITE cluster Midnite Mine |
Copper-bearing AUTUNITE cluster Midnite Mine |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ Mount Teneriffe |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ with phantoms Mount Teneriffe |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster Mount Teneriffe |
Complex Japan-law twin QUARTZ with "double" termination Mount Teneriffe |
Reichenstein-Grieserntal twin QUARTZ Mount Teneriffe |
CALCITE clay concretion North Fork of the Skykomish River |
Clay and CALCITE concretion North Fork of the Skykomish River |
CALCITE sand and clay concretions North Fork of the Skykomish River |
CHALCOPYRITE cluster with QUARTZ Pedro Claim |
Included QUARTZ cluster on diorite matrix Pedro Claim |
Japan-Law twinned QUARTZ cluster Pedro Claim |
1.5 cm group of twinned SPHALERITE crystals on QUARTZ Pedro Claim |
GALENA on sceptered QUARTZ Pedro Claim |
QUARTZ with SPHALERITE inclusion? Pend Oreille Mine |
BARITE druse on CALCITE Pend Oreille Mine |
Filiform PYRITE with PALYGORSKITE on CALCITE Pend Oreille Mine |
CALCITE on PLAYGORSKITE Pend Oreille Mine |
Floater CALCITE with PALYGORSKITE inclusion Pend Oreille Mine |
GALENA with CALCITE Pend Oreille Mine |
Golden BARITE on PALYGORSKITE Pend Oreille Mine |
CALCITE with PALYGORSKITE and minor PYRITE Pend Oreille Mine |
PYROBITUMEN in matrix Pend Oreille Mine |
Sheet-like PALYGORSKITE Pend Oreille Mine |
Cabinet-sized CALCITE with PALYGORSKITE Pend Oreille Mine |
CALCITE with PALYGORSKITE Pend Oreille Mine |
SCOLECITE Pioneer Quarry |
Rhombohedral CALCITE on dehydrated LAUMONTITE (LEONHARDITE) Port Ludlow Area Quarry |
STILBITE Port Ludlow Area Quarry |
STILBITE and dehydrated LAUMONTITE (LEONHARDITE) Port Ludlow Area Quarry |
CALCITE and THOMSONITE-Ca Port Ludlow Area Quarry |
Radial color-zoned THOMSONITE-Ca Port Ludlow Area Quarry |
THOMSONITE-Ca Radial color-zoned and terminated Port Ludlow Area Quarry |
Dehydrated LAUMONTITE (LEONHARDITE) on CALCITE Port Ludlow Area Quarry |
ARSENOPYRITE Quartz Creek Mine (Rainy Mine) |
TALC pseudomorph after ANTHOPHYLLITE ? with COVELLITE Quartz Creek Mine (Rainy Mine) |
Light bluish-gray TALC pseudomorph after ANTHOPHYLLITE ? with PYRITE and minor QUARTZ Quartz Creek Mine (Rainy Mine) |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper Rialto Beach |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, concentrically zoned Rialto Beach |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, cut and polished Rialto Beach |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, cut and polished detail Rialto Beach |
ALMANDINE garnet (gemmy pink to orange) and MAGNETITE (dark gray) sand. Clear sand grains are likely zircon crystals. Rialto Beach |
Dark-gray, metallic PYROLUSITE (likely combined with other manganese oxides) found interstitial to QUARTZ (Var: Jasper) - orbicular jasper, cut and polished Rialto Beach |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, tumble polished Rialto Beach |
Radiating NATROLITE Robertson Pit |
Twinned CALCITE perced on NATROLITE Robertson Pit |
ANALCIME Robertson Pit |
White APOPHYLLITE and NATROLITE Robertson Pit |
Radiating NATROLITE cluster Robertson Pit |
Twinned CALCITE Robertson Pit |
Radiating NATROLITE on dehydrated ANALCIME Robertson Pit |
NATROLITE and CALCITE Robertson Pit |
Radiating NATROLITE cluster on basalt matrix Robertson Pit |
Gemmy ANALCIME trapezohedron Robertson Pit |
NATROLITE flower Robertson Pit |
Golden-yellow CALCITE "speared" with NATROLITE Robertson Pit |
Radial NATROLITE cluster on a bed of white opaque ANALCIME druse on basalt matrix Robertson Pit |
Starburst cluster of NATROLITE with translucent blocky APOPHYLLITE crystals Robertson Pit |
Large NATROLITE cluster Robertson Pit |
Flourescent and phosphorescent CALCITE with NATROLITE Robertson Pit |
Pristine NATROLITE cluster Robertson Pit |
White ANALCIME on basalt matrix Robertson Pit |
Gemmy ANALCIME on basalt matrix Robertson Pit |
ANALCIME crystals on basalt matrix Robertson Pit |
CHABAZITE Rock Candy Mountain Road Cut |
LÉVYNE Rock Candy Mountain Road Cut |
Aesthetic white sprays of MORDENITE Rock Creek |
Dogtooth CALCITE on red HEULANDITE Rock Creek |
Aesthetic white sprays of MORDENITE on red HEULANDITE Rock Creek |
Honey-colored PAULINGITE-K with radial hemisphers of colorless PHILLIPSITE-K and ERIONITE-K needles Rock Island Dam |
CINNABAR Royal Reward Mine |
Lustrous, translucent REALGAR Royal Reward Mine |
REALGAR crystals, etched out of calcite larges crystal is 2.5 mm Royal Reward Mine |
REALGAR cluster Royal Reward Mine |
Gemmy REALGAR etched from calcite on QUARTZ Royal Reward Mine |
Gemmy acicular REALGAR etched from calcite on brecciated rock matrix Royal Reward Mine |
Pink HEULANDITE on white MORDENITE Skookumchuck Dam |
Pink HEULANDITE on MORDENITE Skookumchuck Dam |
Pink HEULANDITE Skookumchuck Dam |
Lustrous white STILBITE "bow tie" on micro pink HEULANDITE with basalt matrix Skookumchuck Dam |
Sharp white ANALCIME crystal Skookumchuck Dam |
"Rice" QUARTZ South Fork Toutle River |
STILBITE South Fork Toutle River |
BARITE with QUARTZ and PYRITE Spruce Ridge |
PYRITE and QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
CHALCOPYRITE epitactic on PYRITE Spruce Ridge |
PYRITE Spruce Ridge |
QUARTZ with ANKERITE Spruce Ridge |
BARITE perched on QUARTZ "flower" Spruce Ridge |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter on QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
QUARTZ cluster with QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepters Spruce Ridge |
Rehealed and sceptered QUARTZ splay Spruce Ridge |
ANKERITE "rose" perched on QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
Light amethystine QUARTZ scepter cluster Spruce Ridge |
Stacked ANKERITE crystals on QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
SPHALERITE crystal on ANKERITE Spruce Ridge |
Octahedral PYRITE Spruce Ridge |
CALCITE and QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter cluster Spruce Ridge |
Stacked BARITE with QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
"Dumbbell" sceptered QUARTZ cluster Spruce Ridge |
Immaculate gemmy QUARTZ scepter with ANKERITE perched on one of the scepter faces Spruce Ridge |
BORNITE with CHALCOPYRITE Sunset Mine |
MALACHITE with BORNITE Sunset Mine |
BORNITE (cut and polished) Sunset Mine |
Crystalline GOLD wire Swauk Creek Mine |
Crystalline wire GOLD Swauk Creek Mine |
Complex crystalline wire GOLD Swauk Creek Mine |
Crystalline wire GOLD (multiple wires) Swauk Creek Mine |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) pseudomorph after MELANOPHLOGITE Tower Hill Quarries |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) pseudomorph after MELANOPHLOGITE Tower Hill Quarries |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) banded agate with layer of pseudomorphs after MELANOPHLOGITE Tower Hill Quarries |
CALCITE (flattened rhombohedra) Tower Hill Quarries |
AUTUNITE and META-AUTUNITE cluster Triple H&J Mine |
ZOISITE (Var: THULITE ) Tunk Creek |
Pink ZOISITE (Var: THULITE ) with yellow-orange UNIDENTIFIED Tunk Creek |
Lilac-colored CLINOCHLORE (Var: Chomian Chlinochlore) with UVAROVITE and CHROMITE Twin Sisters Mountian |
Green CHROMIO-PARGASITE megacrysts in dunite Twin Sisters Mountian |
Black, banded cumulate CHROMITE crystals in dunite Twin Sisters Mountian |
Vibrant lilac-colored CLINOCHLORE (Var: Chomian Chlinochlore) with UVAROVITE and CHROMITE Twin Sisters Mountian |
Lilac-colored CLINOCHLORE (Var: Chomian Chlinochlore) Twin Sisters Mountian |
Radial white SCOLECITE on basalt matrix Venersborg |
HEDENBERGITE cluster Vesper Peak Skarn |
CLINOZOISITE Vesper Peak Skarn |
Gemmy GROSSULAR garnet Vesper Peak Skarn |
PREHNITE Vesper Peak Skarn |
AXINITE with GROSSULAR garnet Vesper Peak Skarn |
Greenish-brown GROSSULAR garnet crystals partially coating QUARTZ Vesper Peak Skarn |
Blocky PREHNITE crystals on black HEDENBERGITE Vesper Peak Skarn |
Gemmy GROSSULAR garnet cluster Vesper Peak Skarn |
Small QUARTZ cluster with small Japan-Law twin and associated GROSSULAR garnet Vesper Peak Skarn |
CLINOZOISITE with HEDENBERGITE and GROSSULAR garnet Vesper Peak Skarn |
QUARTZ epimorph after CALCITE (view from front, side and bottom) Vesper Peak Skarn |
Gemmy TITANITE Vesper Peak Skarn |
Gemmy pink AXINITE on QUARTZ Vesper Peak Skarn |
Gemmy GROSSULAR garnet cluster Vesper Peak Skarn |
Gemmy GROSSULAR garnet with green and black HEDENBERGITE Vesper Peak Skarn |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst), CALCITE rose Walker Valley |
Rods of SIDERITE intergrown within a basalt amygdule. Walker Valley |
QUARTZ coating "stalactitic" rods of SIDERITE? Walker Valley |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) geode in basalt Walker Valley |
ACTINOLITE in TALC matrix Wenatchee Ridge |
ACTINOLITE and TALC Wenatchee Ridge |
Massive cleaved CALCITE with zoning Wenatchee Ridge |
CHRYSOTILE Wenatchee Ridge |
FUCHSITE on quartz-rich matrix Wenatchee Ridge |
PYRITE cubes in matrix Wenatchee Ridge |
Gemmy ACTINOLITE and TALC Wenatchee Ridge |
Dark green ACTINOLITE and silvery TALC Wenatchee Ridge |
Columnar ACTINOLITE in white TALC with rhythmic stripes, likely from TALC Wenatchee Ridge |
Vibrant green ACTINOLITE in silvery TALC matrix Wenatchee Ridge |
Dark green ACTINOLITE and silvery TALC Wenatchee Ridge |