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Sewardite: CaFe+++2(AsO4)2(OH)2

Comments: Deep red, micaceous sewardite crystals mistakenly identified as carminite.
Location: Benjamin Hill, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Shabynite: Mg5(BO3)Cl2(OH)5·4(H2O)

Comments: Translucent shabynite grains.
Location: Korshunovskoye Deposit, Irkutsk District, Siberia, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Shadlunite: (Pb,Cd)(Fe,Cu)8S8

Comments: BSE polished section image of shadlunite inclusions (SHD) with galena (GN) in chalcopyrite (CP).
Location: Majak (Mayak) and Oktyaber mines, Talnakh area, Noril'sk, western Siberia, Russia. Scale: Picture Size 150 µm.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Shafranovskite: K2Na3(Mn++,Fe++,Na)4[Si9(O,OH)27](OH)2·n(H2O), n~2.33

Comments: Yellow-brown fine grained shafranovskite with red eudialyte and black aegirine.
Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsular, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Shandite: Pb2Ni3S2

Comments: Bright silver metallic shandite blebs in serpentinite, chonchoidal fracture.
Location: Nickel Reward mine, Tasmania, Australia. Scale: See Image.
© Rruff Database

Shattuckite: Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2  
Ajoite: (K,Na)3Cu20Al3Si29O76(OH)16·~8(H2O)

Comments: Dark blue, tabular crystals of shattuckite on light blue ajoite.
Location: New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Shattuckite: Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2

Comments: Blue micro acicular or fibrous crystals of shattuckite to 0.1mm free standing in vug.
Location: New Cornelia mine, Pima Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Shattuckite: Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2

Comments: Blue, globular aggregates of radial shattuckite crystals.
Location: Grand View Mine, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Image.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Shcherbakovite: KKNaTi2O(OH)[Si4O12]

Comments: Secondary electron image of a shcherbakovite crystal.
Location: Mount Rasvumchorr, Khibina massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Shcherbinaite: V2O5

Comments: Yellow-brown acicular crystals of shcherbinaite.
Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Sherwoodite: Ca9Al2V++++4V+++++24O80·56(H2O)

Comments: Dark blackish-violet sherwoodite, altering to translucent green, crystalline crust.
Location: San Juan County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Shibkovite: K(Ca,Mn,Na)2(K2-x,[ ]x)2ZnSi12O30 (x~0.8)  
Polylithionite: KLi2AlSi4O10(F,OH)2

Comments: Clear crystalline shibkovite aggregates with peach colored translucent polylithionite.
Location: Dara-Pioz, Tien-Shan, Tadzhikistan. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Shigaite: Mn++7Al4(SO4)2(OH)22·8(H2O)  
Pyrochroite: Mn(OH)2

Comments: Bronzy yellow crystals of shigaite set in a crystalline matrix of reddish black pychroite.
Location: N'Chwaning Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Scale: 2.8 x 2.3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Shigaite: Mn++7Al4(SO4)2(OH)22·8(H2O)

Comments: Cluster of sharp, transparent crystals of brown shigaite to 1.2 cm across.
Location: N'Chwaning mine. South Africa. Scale: Aggregate size 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Shigaite: Mn++7Al4(SO4)2(OH)22·8(H2O)

Comments: Hexagonal aggregate of orange platy shigaite crystals on a jpale pink rhodocrosite matrix.
Location: N'Chwaning mine. South Africa. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it

Shirokshinite: K(NaMg2)Si4O10F2

Comments: Dark-brown columnar shirokshinite crystals with pinkish-brown fine-grained phillosilicate masses on greenish nathrolite.
Location: Kirovskii apatite mine (Kirovsky Mine; Kirov Mine), Kukisvumchorr Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia. Scale: FOV is 12x10 mm.
© Pavel M. Kartashov

Shirozulite: KMn3(AlSi3)O10(OH,F)2

Comments: Back-scattered-electron image of shirozulite. Shr = shirozulite; Tp = tephroite; Ap = apatite; Rds = rhodochrosite; Bm = bementite. (AmMin, 89:233).
Location: Tauchi mine, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Scale: See Image.
© American Mineralogist

Shkatulkalite: {(Na,Mn,Ca,[ ])4[Nb2(O,H2O)4Si4O14](OH,F)2}·2(H2O,[ ])  
Manganoneptunite: KNa2Li(Mn,Fe++)2Ti2Si8O24

Comments: Pearly white shkatulkalite with brown mangan-neptunite grains.
Location: Shkatulka pegmatite, Umbozero mine, Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Shomiokite-(Y): Na3Y(CO3)3·3(H2O)

Comments: Rose-colored single crystal of shomiokite-(Y).
Location: Mt. Alluaiv, Lovozero, Kola, Russia. Scale: Specimen Size 6x9 mm.
© Diederik Visser

Shortite: Na2Ca2(CO3)3

Comments: Colorless crystal of shortite on matrix.
Location: Green River Formation, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag