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Muirite: Ba10Ca2Mn++TiSi10O30(OH,Cl,F)10 Sanbornite: BaSi2O5
Comments: Translucent orange crystalline muirite in sanbornite. Location: Big Creek, Fresno County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Mullite: Al(4+2x)Si(2-2x)O(10-x) where x =0.17 to 0.59
Comments: Surface of a kaolinite stratum altered to white mullite by a prehistoric coal-seam-fire.. Location: Mt. Wingen (Burning Mountain), NSW, Australia. Scale: Picture size 6x4 cm. © Dave Barthelmy
Comments: Opaque white mullite masses with mica. Location: Nijar, Almeria, Andalucia, Spain. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Munakataite: Pb2Cu2(Se++++O3)(SO4)(OH)4
Comments: Light blue fiberous crystals of munakataite with green malachite. (Journal Mineralogical and Petrological Sci., v103:327). Location: Kato mine, Munakata City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Scale: Picture size 1.8 mm. © Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences
Mundite: Al(UO2)3(PO4)2(OH)3·5(H2O)
Comments: Bright yellow crystalline mundite grains. Location: Kobokobo, Sud-Kivu, Zaire. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Munirite: NaVO3·(2-x)(H2O)
Comments: Bright yellow-orange crystalline munirite on matrix. Location: Brushy Creek, Uravan, Montrose County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Murataite: (Y,Na)6(Zn,Fe+++)5(Ti,Nb)12O29(O,F)14
Comments: Murataite (M) crystal in polished section showing cubic, form against quartz (Q). Other minerals are astrophyllite (A) and mineral Y (Y). (AmMin, v59:172). Location: Small pegmatite in the St. Peters Dome area, El Paso County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist
Murdochite: PbCu6O8-x(Cl,Br)2x Smithsonite: ZnCO3
Comments: Dark metallic micro crystals of murdochite on pale blue-gray smithsonite crystal covered matrix. Location: Silver Hill Mine group, Silver Hill, Waterman District, Waterman Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: 5x4x2 cm. © John Betts - Fine Minerals
Murmanite: (Na,[ ])2{(Na,Ti)4[Ti2(O,H2O)4Si4O14](OH,F)2}·2H2O
Comments: Metavolcanic matrix hosting several bright pink lath shaped crystals of murmanite. Location: Ilimaussaq, Illua, Greenland. Scale: Crystal size 1.6 cm. © John Veevaert
Muscovite: KAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH,F)2 Apatite-(CaF): Ca5(PO4)3F Beryl: Be3Al2Si6O18 Apatite: Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl)
Comments: Pink crystals of fluorapatite with pale blue beryl (aquamarine) on books of muscovite crystals. Location: Nagar area, Gilgit district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Scale: 3 x 3 cm. © Dan Weinrich
Muscovite: KAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH,F)2 Aluminoceladonite: KAl(Mg,Fe++)[ ]Si4O10(OH)2
Comments: Large, 1cm, purple crystals of muscovite/leucophyllite, (var. alurgite which is an intermediate composition to muscovite and leucophyllite (aluminoceladonite). Location: Ultevis, Sweden. Scale: 5x3.5x3cm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix