Mineral Specimen Images (E)

Embreyite: Pb5(CrO4)2(PO4)2·(H2O)

Comments: Orange embreyite crystals on matrix.
Location: Cumbria, England. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Emeleusite: Na4Li2Fe+++2Si12O30

Comments: Clear to pale tan glassy crystalline emeleusite with white albite and dark green aegirine.
Location: Igdlutalik, Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Emilite: Cu2.68Pb2.68Bi5.32S12

Comments: Polished section epoxy grain mount PPL image of emilite.
Location: Westfeld, Felbertal, Mittersill, Salzburg, Austria. Scale: Picture Size 0.7 mm.
© Bernhard Pracejus

Emmonsite: Fe+++2Te++++3O9·2(H2O)

Comments: Quartz with small blebs of pea green emmonsite.
Location: Barrbolla Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Bleb size 2 mm.
© John Veevaert

Emmonsite: Fe+++2Te++++3O9·2(H2O)  
Schmitterite: (UO2)TeO3

Comments: Yellow schmitterite with green emmonsite.
Location: Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Emmonsite: Fe+++2Te++++3O9·2(H2O)

Comments: Green, mossy emmonsite on matrix..
Location: Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Emplectite: CuBiS2

Comments: Metallic emplectite wire in quartz.
Location: Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Empressite: AgTe  
Tellurium: Te

Comments: Bronze-colored microcrystals of empressite with bright native tellurium crystals.
Location: Rex mine, Boulder County, Colorado, USA. Scale: 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm.
© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Enargite: Cu3AsS4

Comments: Lustrous, metallic gray columnar crystals of enargite with minor quartz.
Location: Quiruvilca, La Libertad Dept., Peru. Scale: 4.2x2x2.3 cm.
© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Enargite: Cu3AsS4  
Famatinite: Cu3SbS4

Comments: Violet metallic crystalline famatinite with black massive enargite.
Location: Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, Peru. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Endellite: Al2Si2O5(OH)4·2(H2O)

Comments: Gray to white massive endellite.
Location: Buck Reef Deposit, Ravenswood, Queensland, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Englishite: K3Na2Ca10Al15(PO4)21(OH)7·26(H2O)

Comments: Bluish colliform englishite crystals.
Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah County, Utah. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Englishite: K3Na2Ca10Al15(PO4)21(OH)7·26(H2O)  
Roscherite: Ca(Mn++,Fe++)5Be4(PO4)6(OH)4·6(H2O)

Comments: Black crystalline aggregate of roscherite on white englishite.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Englishite: K3Na2Ca10Al15(PO4)21(OH)7·26(H2O)  
Tiptopite: K2(Na,Ca)2Li3Be6(PO4)6(OH)2·(H2O)  
Montgomeryite: Ca4MgAl4(PO4)6(OH)4·12(H2O)

Comments: Red montgomeryite lath-like crystals to 1mm in 2mm rosettes associated with clear, acicular sprays of tiptopite to 0.75mm and white cottonball-like crystals of englishite to 0.2mm.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Enstatite: Mg2Si2O6

Comments: Single, terminated, brown, transparent to translucent enstatite crystal.
Location: Mpwa-Mpwa, Tanzania. Scale: 17x17x27 mm.
© Dan Weinrich

Eosphorite: MnAl(PO4)(OH)2·(H2O)  
Zanazziite: Ca2(Mg,Fe++)(Mg,Fe++,Al,Mn,Fe+++)4Be4(PO4)6(OH)4·6(H2O)

Comments: Minor crystals of equant, olive green zanazziite and brown, lath-like crystals of eosphorite on quartz.
Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Eosphorite: MnAl(PO4)(OH)2·(H2O)  
Vivianite: Fe++3(PO4)2·8(H2O)

Comments: Bottle-green translucent vivianite crystal (2cm) associated with reddish, micro eosphorite crystals.
Location: Lavra do Énio pegmatite, Galiléia, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm..
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Ephesite: NaLiAl2(Al2Si2)O10(OH)2  
Hausmannite: Mn++Mn+++2O4

Comments: Flesh-colored ephesite associated with dark brownish black hausmannite.
Location: Gloucester mine. Postmasburg, Cape province. S. Africa. Scale: 5.5 x 5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Epididymite: NaBeSi3O7(OH)

Comments: Trilling twinned crystal of epididymite on matrix.
Location: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Epididymite: NaBeSi3O7(OH)  
Eudidymite: NaBeSi3O7(OH)

Comments: Translucent prismatic crystals of eudidymite on white opaque epididymite.
Location: Narsaarsuk, Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species