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Mawsonite: Cu+6Fe+++2Sn++++S8
Comments: Mawsonite inclusions in brassy yellow chalcopyrite. Location: Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Comments: Polished Secton (PPL) showing traces of digenite (dig) throughout massive bornite (bn). A large grain of mawsonite (mw) is present at the bottom right. Location: Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: Picture Size 0.5 mm. © National Resouces of Canada
Maxwellite: NaFe+++(AsO4)F
Comments: Minute red translucent maxwellite crystal in rhyolite. Location: Squaw Creek Tin Mine, Black Range, Catron County, New Mexico, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Mayenite: Ca12Al14O33
Comments: Gray mayenite grains in matrix. Location: Bellerberg, Eifel, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm. © Diederik Visser
Mazzettiite: Ag3HgPbSbTe5
Comments: Back-scattered electron photograph (SEM) of mazzettiite (M), associated with altaite (A), galena (G) and quartz (Q). Location: Museum specimen in the Mineralogical Collection of the Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles (Belgium). Findlay Gulch, Saguache Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: See Image. © Canadian Mineralogist
Mazzite-Mg: K2CaMg2(Al,Si)36O72·28(H2O)
Comments: Clear colorless microcrystals and crystalline mazzite in vug. Location: Mont Simiol, Loire, France. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Mazzite-Na: Na8Al8Si28O72·30H2O
Comments: Silky mazzite-Na fibers filling a cavity in basalt. Location: Open pit of the U.S. Borax mine at Boron, California. Scale: Specimen size 5 mm. © American Mineralogist
Mbobomkulite: (Ni,Cu)Al4(NO3,SO4)2(OH)12·3(H2O)
Comments: White earthy mbobomkulite. Location: Jomac Uranium mine, White Canyon, San Juan Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Mcallisterite: Mg2B12O14(OH)12·9(H2O)
Comments: Tan to white opaque porous aggregate of mcallisterite. Location: Qinghai, China. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Mcalpineite: Cu++3Te++++++O6·(H2O)
Comments: Dark green crystals of mcalpineite in matrix. Location: Centennial Eureka Mine, Tintic District, Juab Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.7 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag