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Meurigite-Na: [Na(H2O)2.5][Fe+++8(PO4)6(OH)7(H2O)4]
Comments: SEM image of meurigite-Na crystals. (AmMin, v94:720). Location: Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist
Comments: Pale pearly yellow platy Meurigite-Na crystals all over vuggy matrix. Location: Tom's Phosphate quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Meyerhofferite: Ca2B6O6(OH)10·2(H2O)
Comments: Transparent, tabular crystals of meyerhofferite on matrix. Location: 20-Mule Team Canyon, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 cm. © John Veevaert
Meymacite: WO3·2(H2O)
Comments: Orange-brownish to yellow massive Meymacite. Location: Meymac, Corrèze, Limousin, France. Scale: Picture size 4 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Miargyrite: AgSbS2
Comments: Metallic miargyrite crystal on quartz. Location: Braunsdorf, Saxony, Germay. Scale: Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Miargyrite: AgSbS2 Aramayoite: Ag3Sb2(Sb,Bi)S6
Comments: Aramayoite is present as large thin plates (blue iridescence) to 1mm in massive gray miargyrite matrix. Location: Julcani Silver mine, Huancavelica Dept., Peru. Scale: Picture size 5 mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Miassite: Rh17S15
Comments: Composite image of dark gray metallic polished grains and pale yellow vanadinite embedded in epoxy. Miassite occurs as a small inclusion in the larger isoferrplatinum grain on the inset BSE image. Location: Yukhtochka placer, Tributary of Aldan River, Yakutia, Russia. Scale: See Image. © Rruff Database
Micheelsenite: (Ca,Y)3Al[PO3OH,CO3](CO3)(OH)6·12(H2O)
Comments: Cotton ball bundles of white, fibrous michellsenite crystals on albite. Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Quebec, Canada. Scale: Sample size 4 x 3 x 1.5 cm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Michenerite: (Pd,Pt)BiTe
Comments: BSE image of pentlandite with inclusions of nickeliferous pyrite. Pentlandite hosts discrete grains of cobaltite/gersdorffite with michenerite (PdBiTe) crystals as overgrowths and replacement of the arsenide. Location: Worthington mine, Worthington offset, Supergiant Ni-Cu-PGE Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See Image. © National Resouces of Canada
Microcline: KAlSi3O8
Comments: Opaque blocky tan crystal of microcline. Location: Moat Mountain, near Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Microcline: KAlSi3O8 Columbite-(Fe): Fe++Nb2O6
Comments: Blocky, dark brown ferrocolumbite on pale greenish blue amazonite (microcline). Location: Crystal Park, El Paso Co., Colorado, USA. Scale: 2.5 x 1.5 cm. © Fabre Minerals