Fluorapatite, Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, South Dakota, USA

Goethite ps after Siderite, Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, SD FOV: 10mm

Trying something new (for me) mixing social media. I like blogger for actual blog posts but the UI has stagnated so I am attempting to use Pinterest to host my images for this blog.

More new mineral images

More microscope images....

Scorodite and parmacosiderite

parmacosiderite

 Smithsonite

 pyrite on stilbite

 Strengite

 Pharmacosiderite

 Strengite

 Anatase

Turquoise + other copper salts 

 Scorodite and parmacosiderite

 Scorodite 

 Scorodite and parmacosiderite

 Scorodite 

 Strunzite + rockbridgeite

 parmacosiderite

More mineral photos

More mineral photos.  I adjusted the position of my digital camera which greatly improved the quality of the photos.

Pharmacosiderite, Richmond Sitting Bull mine, Galena SD. FOV: 0.5mm

Pharmacosiderite, Richmond Sitting Bull mine, Galena SD. FOV: 0.5mm

Pharmacosiderite, Richmond Sitting Bull mine, Galena SD. FOV: 0.5mm 

Cornetite, Nevada

Wurtzite, western Pennsylvania.

My new microscope and digial camera rig.

I bought myself nice starter AMScope stereo microscope with continuous zoom 20x to 90x.

The digital camera is Celestron 5MP  USB camera.  I added a adjustable level LED light ring to complete my digital microscope rig.

This is first 'real' microscope I've purchased capable of capturing digital images.  I own about small Celestron handheld digital microscopes which were cheap and fun to play with.  

Here is the first batch of images I've taken with my AMScope microscope.  Field of View (FOV) various between 0.25 mm to 0.5 mm in these images.  Here is nice article on how to calculate field of view from from Sciencing.com

Mixite Gold Hill Mine, Toole, UT,USA

 Wurtzite, Germany

 Cuprite var chalcotrichite Ajo. AZ, USA

Cornetite, Nevada, USA