New Gallery #195

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Photos recently added to NH species galleries, set #195.
GOYAZITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 0.25 mm pseudo-cubic crystal	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 0.25 mm pseudo-cubic crystal Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: u1413 Notes: This is a re-do of a 2010 photo. A 2013 Kerry Day EDS analyses plot (no chemistry or light elements) suggested [kd] "An impure Goyazite. Lots of Ca, Ba and Fe substitution." Although almost a dozen goyazite specimens were collected at the Chickering Mine (most by Bob Wilken), this is the only analysis as of 1/25. It would be interesting to see if others had similar "substitutions", or is this something else?
GOYAZITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 0.5 mm pseudo-cubic crystal cluster	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 0.5 mm pseudo-cubic crystal cluster Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: u1626 Notes: This is my previous UK-5 Chickering specimen. Now convinced that this is a cluster of Goyazite crystals. Substrate is highly oxidized siderite.
GOYAZITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 0.4 mm pseudo-cubic crystal cluster	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 0.4 mm pseudo-cubic crystal cluster Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: u1626 Notes: Another cluster of Goyazite crystals on this u1626 specimen.
GOYAZITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 0.3 mm pseudo-cubic crystal	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 0.3 mm pseudo-cubic crystal Field Collected: Bob Wilken Catalog No.: A Bob WIlken specimen and photo Notes: This is a redo of a 2015 photo.
GOYAZITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 2.9 mm pale-yellow pseudo-cubic goyazite crystal	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 2.9 mm pseudo-cubic crystal with pale-lavender apatite crystals Field Collected: Bob Wilken Catalog No.: A Bob WIlken specimen and photo Notes: This is a redo of a 2015 photo.
GOYAZITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 2.9 mm goyazite crystal with pale-lavender apatite crystals	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 2.9 mm goyazite crystal with pale-lavender apatite crystals Field Collected: Bob Wilken Catalog No.: A Bob WIlken specimen and photo Notes: This is a redo of a 2015 photo.
GOYAZITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH The broad middle xl is ~2.7 mm across	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: The broad middle xl is ~2.7 mm across Field Collected: Bob Wilken Catalog No.: A Bob WIlken specimen and photo Notes: This is a redo of a 2015 photo. A composite of three intergrown xls...a small one at the bottom and an intermediate sized xl mass at the top.
GOYAZITE Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH 0.15 mm goyazite crystals	Species: GOYAZITE Locality: Chickering Mine, Walpole, NH Specimen Size: 0.15 mm goyazite crystals Field Collected: Bob Wilken Catalog No.: A Bob WIlken specimen and photo Notes:
BASTNASITE-Ce Hurricane Mtn, Conway, NH 0.4 mm double terminated, prismatic, crystal	Species: BASTNASITE-Ce Locality: Hurricane Mtn, Conway, NH Specimen Size: 0.4 mm double terminated, prismatic, crystal Field Collected: Bob Wilken Catalog No.: u2745 Notes: An EDS on another Hurricane Mtn. bastnasite specimen confirmed the identification and showed a moderate Nd content, approaching the bastnasite-Nd composition.
BASTNASITE-Ce Hurricane Mtn, Conway, NH 1.1 mm field of view	Species: BASTNASITE-Ce Locality: Hurricane Mtn, Conway, NH Specimen Size: 1.1 mm field of view Field Collected: Bob Wilken Catalog No.: u2746 Notes: Bastnasite-Ce with arfvedsonite crystals in albite vug.
ILMENITE Hurricane Mtn, Conway, NH 0.9 mm field of view	Species: ILMENITE Locality: Hurricane Mtn, Conway, NH Specimen Size: 0.9 mm field of view Field Collected: Bob Wilken Catalog No.: u2747 Notes: Ilmenite ID by similarity to analyzed specimens.