I’ve added new specimens in this new Worldwide Update (click here), including specimens from the Pete Richards collection and the Steve Szilard collection. I hope you enjoy them!

Topaz, Mungo High Mines, Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan – 3.7 cm

Beryl var. Aquamarine, Mungo High Mines, Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan – 4.4 cm

Closer view of the complex termination of the crystal above
Crystal width 1.2 cm

Pyromorphite, Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guangxi Zhuang A.R., China – 4.0 cm

Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Field of view 2.3 cm

Spinel, Gon Phlogopite Deposit, Aldan, Sakha, Russia – 5.0 cm

Columbite-(Fe), Giles Columbite-Beryl Pegmatite, Spargoville,
Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia – 4.0 cm

Anatase, Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Field of view 2.1 cm

Topaz, Klein Spitzkopje, Spitzkopje, Karibib, Erongo Region, Namibia – 4.9 cm

Sturmanite, N’Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Field of view 2.0 cm

Sturmanite, N’Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Field of view 1.3 cm

Topaz, Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan – 3.7 cm

Skutterudite, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Field of view 2.0 cm

Lorenzenite, Selsurt Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Crystal 2.5 cm
Smithsonite, Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia – 5.2 cm

Cerussite (twinned) from the Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto, Namibia

Spodumene var. kunzite, Kunar Province, Afghanistan – 4.0 cm

Sphalerite, Pyrrhotite, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Orpiment, Jiepayu Mine (Shimen Mine), Shimen Co., Hunan Province, China
Field of view 1.8 cm

Arsenopyrite, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Chihuahua, Mexico – 6.5 cm

Galena, Borieva Mine, Madan District, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria – 3.0 cm

Hematite pseudomorph after magnetite, Payún Volcano,
Altiplano de Payún Matru, Mendoza, Argentina – 3.4 cm

Wulfenite, Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos Mtns., Chihuahua, Mexico
Field of view 2.0 cm; main crystal 0.8 cm