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Lizardite: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
Comments: Lizardite pseudomorphously replacing olivine. Location: Snarum, Norway. Scale: 2x2 cm. © Dave Barthelmy
Lokkaite-(Y): CaY4(CO3)7·9(H2O)
Comments: White coating of lokkaite-(Y) on matrix with hellandite and possible kainosite. Location: Evans-Lou Quarry, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Specimen Size 3 x 5 cm. © Diederik Visser
Lollingite: FeAs2
Comments: Sharp, twinned crystals Löllingite on matrix. Location: Oruro, Oruro Department, Bolivia. Scale: Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Lomonosovite: Na5Ti2O2(Si2O7)(PO4)
Comments: Aegerine schist with reddish crystalline grains of lomonosovite. Location: Ilimaussaq, Kvanefjeld, Greenland. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm. © John Veevaert
Lomonosovite: Na5Ti2O2(Si2O7)(PO4) Bornemanite: BaNa3{(Na,Ti)4[(Ti,Nb)2O2Si4O14](F,OH)2}·PO4
Comments: Yellow crystalline bornemanite in dark brown lomonosovite. Location: Yubileinaya Pegmatite, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Londonite: CsAl4Be4(B,Be)12O28
Comments: A dodecahedral crystal of londonite. Location: Antandrokomby pegmatite, Manandona valley, Sahatany Valley, Betafo - Antsirabé region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 7 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Comments: A yellow , lustrous, well developed londonite crystal 1.2 cm. on matrix. Location: Antandrokomby, Sahatany valley, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 1.2 cm. © Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it
Lonsdaleite: C
Comments: a) A Reflected light photograph of lonsdaleite and unidentified polymorph (New Phase) with lead comtamination. b) synchrotron X-ray diffraction, imaging and X-ray fluorescence fine-scale mapping of the different phases. (ESRF 2003 highlights). Location: Shocked gneisses from the Popigai Crater, Russia. Scale: See Image. © Eur. Sync. Rad. Fac.
Loparite-(Ce): (Ce,Na,Ca)2(Ti,Nb)2O6
Comments: Sharp penetration twin of cubic loparite-(Ce) about 7 mm. across on phoenite matrix. Location: Flora Mt., Lovosero massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: 3.8x3.3x2.6 cm. © Richard Dale / Dale Minerals
Loparite-(Ce): (Ce,Na,Ca)2(Ti,Nb)2O6 Perrierite-(Ce): (Ce,La,Ca)4(Fe++,Mg)2(Ti,Fe+++)3Si4O22 Pyrochlore: (Na,Ca)2Nb2O6(OH,F) Zircon: ZrSiO4
Comments: Reddish black perrierite crystal, with orange-brown pyrochlore crystal, yellow-brown zircon, and grayish-black loparite. Location: Buer, Bjorkedalen, Langesundfjord, Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species