Thursday, January 5, 2012

A NEW TOY

QUARTZ CRYSTALS FROM LAGARITA, COLORADO.  LENGTH OF LARGEST CRYSTAL (TERMINATED ON RIGHT) IS ~1.2 MM.

Well the holiday season, at least for me, has come and sort of disappeared; and, it certainly was a pleasant experience.  A request to Santa involved "rocks and minerals"--no surprise here.  My subscription to Rock and Gem was renewed and a Celestron Handheld Digital Microscope appeared under the tree!  The latter has finally been unboxed and plugged in and experiments have started.  I am still learning and trying to understand the mechanics (for example, can the photos include a mm bar?); however, preliminary results look promising.  More information will be forthcoming.

mike
TINY WULFENITE (~.25 MM) CRYSTALS EMBEDDED IN CALCITE FROM BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH.

AZURITE CRYSTALS FROM MORENCI, ARIZONA.  LARGEST CRYSTAL IS ~.6 MM.