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Bleasdaleite: (Ca,Fe+++)2Cu5(Bi,Cu)(PO4 )4(H2O,OH,Cl)13

Comments: SEM image of a bleasdaleite rosette.
Location: Granite quarry, 10 km south-south-west of Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Scale: Scale Dots 20 µm.
© Museum Victoria

Blixite: Pb8O5(OH)2Cl4

Comments: Pale yellow crystalline blixite on dark matrix.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Blodite: Na2Mg(SO4)2·4(H2O)  
Tamarugite: NaAl(SO4)2·6(H2O)

Comments: Clear, yellow blödite with white tamarugite.
Location: Willi Agatz Mine, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Bobdownsite: Ca9Mg(PO3F)(PO4)6

Comments: Colorless hexagonal tabular bobdownsite crystals in the type sample.
Location: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: See Image.
© Rruff Database

Bobfergusonite: Na2Mn++5Fe+++Al(PO4)6

Comments: Opaque dark green to brown crystalline bobfergusonite in pegmatite.
Location: Cross Lake, Manitoba, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Bobierrite: Mg3(PO4)2·8(H2O)

Comments: Crystal group of bobierrite partially covered by yellow calcite.
Location: Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola Penisula, Russia. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Bobierrite: Mg3(PO4)2·8(H2O)  
Strontiowhitlockite: Sr7(Mg,Ca)3(PO4)6[PO3(OH)]

Comments: Pale white to pink fine grained strontiowhitlockite with bobierrite.
Location: Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Bobjonesite: VO(SO4)(H2O)3

Comments: The silicified log and its coalified margin that hosts bobjonesite and other sulfate minerals. (CanMin, 41:85).
Location: Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah, USA. Scale: Bob Jones is shown for scale.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Bobtraillite: (Na,Ca)13Sr11(Zr,Y,Nb)14Si42B6O132(OH)12·12H2O

Comments: Transparent, hexagonal bobtraillite prisms, co-type material.
Location: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Image.
© Rruff Database

Boehmite: AlO(OH)

Comments: Crystalline boehmite in bauxite rock.
Location: Bauxite, Saline County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Bogdanovite: (Au,Te,Pb)3(Cu,Fe)

Comments: Heavy mineral concentrate with ilmenite (ilm), pyroxene (pyr) and bogdanovite (bgd) grains.
Location: Skaergaard intrusion, Greenland. Scale: See Images.
© Diederik Visser

Boggsite: NaCa2(Al5Si19O48)·17(H2O)

Comments: White translucent botryoidal crystals of boggsite lining vug in basalt.
Location: Neer Road Pit, Goble, Columbia County, Oregon, uSA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Boggsite: NaCa2(Al5Si19O48)·17(H2O)

Comments: Pure white spheroidal boggsite crystal.
Location: Neer Road, Goble, Columbia Co., Oregon, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Bohdanowiczite: AgBiSe2

Comments: PPL polished section with Se-rich digenite (Se-dig) exsolved from massive bornite (Bn). Note the disseminated grains of bohdanowiczite (Bo) and naumannite surrounding the exsolved digenite.
Location: Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: Picture Size.
© National Resouces of Canada

Bokite: (Al,Fe+++)1.3(V++++,Fe)8O20·4.7(H2O)

Comments: Dark brown micro crystal rosettes of bokite in matrix.
Location: Monument #2 Mine, Apache County, Arizona. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Bokite: (Al,Fe+++)1.3(V++++,Fe)8O20·4.7(H2O)

Comments: Tannish "spots" as very micro acicular bokite crystals filling in between grains. Eaton Collection.
Location: Monument #2 mine, Apache Co.,, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Boleite: KPb26Ag9Cu24Cl62(OH)48

Comments: Floater crystal of deep, inky blue boleite with interpenetration twinning.
Location: Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico. Scale: 0.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Boleite: KPb26Ag9Cu24Cl62(OH)48  
Cumengite: Cu20Pb21Cl42(OH)40·6H2O

Comments: Inky blue cumengite "sixling" epitaxially overgrown on boleite.
Location: Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Bolivarite: Al2(PO4)(OH)3·4-5(H2O)

Comments: Yellow translucent mass of bolivarite.
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Boltwoodite: HK(UO2)(SiO4)·1.5(H2O)

Comments: Sprays of boltwoodite covering matrix.
Location: Rossing, Namibia. Scale: Size Not Given.
© John Veevaert