Calaverite, Cripple Creek Colorado, USA FOV: 16mm

Strunzite, Raritan, NJ FOV: 1.6 mm Mag: 45x

The process is:

 - Capture series of photos (8 to 15+ images) where the focal point is shifted just slightly with Amscope software.

 - Load images into Affinity Photo and perform a focus merged, color balance and export as JPEG or PNG image.

 - Load exported image into GIMP and tweak contract/brightness/colors to match physical specimen.

Chalcopyrite crystals on dolomite, Pitcher Oklahoma. FOV: 7 mm

Pyromorphite, Kellog, Idaho. FOV: 16 mm

Chrome Grossular Garnet, Jeffrey Mine, Quebec, Canada

Crystal Cave, South Bass Island, Ohio - world's largest celestite geode

 

On a recent family outing, I finally visited Crystal Cave on South Bass Island.

Crystal Cave website.

Atlas Obscura Crystal Cave - This article details the history of the cave.

Miller's ferry service to South Bass Island.

Robertsite on Laueite, Tip Tip Mine, Custer, South Dakota, USA FOV 6 mm

Jahnsite on whitlockite, Tip Top Mine, Custer South Dakota, FOV 1.5mm

Pyrite on Calcite FOV 1.5 mm, Eureka, Pennsylvania, USA

Pyromorphite and Wulfenite from Wheatley Mines, Pennsylvania.

https://www.mindat.org/loc-10500.html

Cuprite var chalcotrichite, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA

Anhydrite, Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada (From the money pit area)

Descloizite cluster on chalcophanite, self collected in 1986. FOV 6.2 mm

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

Iron Prince Mine, Iron Baron, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

Pyromorphite, Iron Hill Mine, Carbonate SD, USA

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