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Monticellite: CaMgSiO4
Comments: Pale brown crystalline massive monticellite. Location: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Montmorillonite: (Na,Ca)0,3(Al,Mg)2Si4O10(OH)2·n(H2O)
Comments: Bright pink chalky massive montmorillonite. Location: Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Comments: Authigenic smectite (montmorillonite) overgrown on pore spaces and authigenicly-overgrown quartz grains in a sandstone. SEM image of a core sample. Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 67 µ-m. © OMNI Laboratories, Inc
Montroseite: (V+++,Fe+++,V++++)O(OH)
Comments: Black silky fibrous montroseite on sandstone with tyuyamunite. Location: Monument No. 2 Mine, Kayenta, Apache County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Montroyalite: Sr4Al8(CO3)3(OH,F)26·10-11(H2O)
Comments: Translucent micro spherical montroyalite on matrix. Location: Francon Quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Montroydite: HgO Pinchite: Hg++5O4Cl2
Comments: Minute lustrous black pinchite crystals on white montroydite. Location: Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Montroydite: HgO
Comments: Red to orange radial and crystalline montroydite aggregates on black calcite. Location: Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Mooihoekite: Cu9Fe9S16 Haycockite: Cu4Fe5S8
Comments: B&W polished section image of mooihoekite-haycockite intergrowth showing tarnished mooihoekite (mh) and haycockite (hc). The small whitest lamellar grains are mackinawite. Location: Hortonolite dunite (replacement,) pegmatite, Mooihoek Farm, Lydenburg District, Transvaal, South Africa. (AmMin, v57:689). Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist
Mooihoekite: Cu9Fe9S16
Comments: Lighter toned brassy metallic mooihoekite masses in chalcopyrite with magnetite. Location: Oktyabr'skoye Mine, Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Moolooite: Cu++(C2O4)·n(H2O) (n < 1)
Comments: Light bluish moolooite encrustation. Location: Ibergstausee, Stempeda, Südharz, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.9 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag