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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
Comments: Pseudo-hexagonal crystalline aggregate of muscovite. Location: Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 2 cm. © Dave Barthelmy
Comments: Seams of green muscovite var. fuchsite in quartz matrix with minor pyrite crystals. Location: Wolfe's Neck locality, Freeport, Cumberland Co., Maine, USA. Scale: 7x5x4 cm. © John Betts - Fine Minerals
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
Mushistonite: (Cu,Zn,Fe)Sn++++(OH)6 Kesterite: Cu2(Zn,Fe)SnS4
Comments: Sharp, kesterite crystal, greenish in color due to a mushistonite coating with clear, prismatic beryl crystals. Location: Xue Bao Diang Mountains, north of Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm. © Dan Weinrich
Mushistonite: (Cu,Zn,Fe)Sn++++(OH)6
Comments: Green crystalline mushistonite coatings on quartz. Location: Etta Mine, Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Muthmannite: AgAuTe2
Comments: Backscattered scanning electron microphotograph of muthmannite (light gray) rimming a sylvanite (dark gray) grain. (AmMin 89:1506). Location: Museum specimen from a gold-telluride deposit of Sacarîmb, Metaliferi Mountains, western Romania.. Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist
Mutnovskite: Pb2AsS3(I,Cl,Br)
Comments: SEM of blocky crystals of mutnovskite. Needle-like crystals of unknown Pb-Bi-As halogensulfosalts, currently under study, appear on the left. AmMin, v91, p22. Location: Mutnovsky volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Federation. Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist