Mineral Specimen Images (S)

Simpsonite: Al4(Ta,Nb)3O13(OH)

Comments: Translucent pale pink simpsonite crystal fragment.
Location: Alto do Giz, Equidor, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Sincosite: Ca(V++++O)2(PO4)2·5(H2O)  
Minyulite: KAl2(PO4)2(OH,F)·4(H2O)

Comments: Pale greenish white acicular radial sprays of minyulite to 8mm with small, green, tabular sincosite.
Location: Ross Hannibal mine, Lawrence County, South Dakota. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Sincosite: Ca(V++++O)2(PO4)2·5(H2O)

Comments: Tabular single crystals of sincosite to 2 mm on drusy quartz.
Location: Ross Hannibal Mine, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Sinhalite: MgAlBO4

Comments: Crystalline sinhalite in white marble.
Location: Amity, near Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Sinjarite: CaCl2·2(H2O)

Comments: Sinjarite specimen sealed in a glass capsule.
Location: Cheleken, Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan. Scale: Grid Size 1 mm.
© Sergey Vasiliev / Systematic Mineralogy

Sinkankasite: H2MnAl(PO4)2(OH)·6(H2O)

Comments: White crystalline spray of acicular sinkankasite to 1mm on matrix.
Location: Barker mine, Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Sinnerite: Cu6As4S9

Comments: Blackish-grey aggregate of sinnerite crystals with red realgar on white dolomite.
Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Picture high 6 mm.
© Walter Gabriel

Sitinakite: Na2K(Ti,Nb)4O4(SiO4)2(O,OH)·4(H2O)

Comments: Beige translucent crudely formed sitinakite (arrow) crystal with white natrolite and dark, acicular aegirine.
Location: Mount Kukisvumchorr, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Sjogrenite: Mg6Fe+++2(CO3)(OH)16·4(H2O)

Comments: Red-brown sjogrenite crust on serpentinite rock.
Location: Fort Point, San Francisco County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Skaergaardite: CuPd

Comments: (e) A euhedral crystal of skaergaardite exhibiting the form cube {100} (possibly distorted) included in a bornite-chalcocite i(BN+CC) grain. (f) bornite (BN)+ chalcopyrite (CP) microglobule with a skaergaardite cube with rounded edges. (MinMag 68:615).
Location: Drill core taken from the Skaergaard intrusion, Kangerdlugssuaq area, East Greenland. Scale: See Image.
© Mineralogical Magazine

Skinnerite: Cu3SbS3

Comments: Dark gray skinnerite on matrix.
Location: Bankove, Kosice, Vychodoslovensky, Slovakia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Skippenite: Bi2Se2(Te,S)

Comments: SEM image of skippenite (s) crystal containing an inclusion of Bi2(Se,Te,S)2 (a) Bi 2(Se,S)2 (b) associated with clausthalite and chalcopyrite penetrates along watkinsonite (w) grain boundaries.
Location: U vein-typed eposits locatedi n the Otish Mountains basin (Quebec), Canada. (CanMin, v25:625). Scale: Scale Bar 40 µm.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Sklodowskite: (H3O)2Mg(UO2)2(SiO4)2·4(H2O)

Comments: Yellow cotton-ball spray of acicular sklodowskite.
Location: Shinkolobwe mine, Tantara, Shaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Sklodowskite: (H3O)2Mg(UO2)2(SiO4)2·4(H2O)  
Kasolite: Pb(UO2)SiO4·(H2O)

Comments: Greenish yellow, acicular sklodowskite crystals and yellow, bladed kasolite crystals.
Location: Kambove, (Kakanda) Mine, Katanga District, Shaba (Katanga), Republic of the Congo, (Zaïre). Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Skutterudite: (Co,Ni)As3-x  
Erythrite: Co3(AsO4)2·8(H2O)

Comments: Erythrite crystal on massive skutterudite.
Location: Bou Azzer, Morocco. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Skutterudite: (Co,Ni)As3-x

Comments: Cubic crystals of Skutterudite on matrix.
Location: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morrocco. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Skutterudite: (Co,Ni)As3-x

Comments: Bright, untarnished, metallic crystals of skutterudite up to 1 cm.
Location: Bou Azzer, Morocco. Scale: Picture size 3 cm.
© Sandro Maggia/Minernet.it

Slavikite: NaMg2Fe+++5(SO4)7(OH)6·33(H2O)

Comments: Bubbly slavikite crust.
Location: Smolnicka Huta, Vychodoslovensky, Slovakia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Slawsonite: (Sr,Ca)Al2Si2O8

Comments: White crystalline slawsonite in rock.
Location: Sarisaka, Kagami, Kochi, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Smirnite: Bi2Te++++O5  
Tsumoite: BiTe

Comments: Grayish to olive-green crusts of smirnite over quartz and metallic-grey tsumoite. Smirnite composition is (Bi1.98Pb.02)2.00Te1.00O4.99.
Location: Shilovo-Isetskii mine, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Ekaterinburgskaya (Sverdlovskaya) Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia. Ex Fedor V. Chukhrov specimen collected before WWII. Scale: Picture Size 12x10 mm.
© Pavel M. Kartashov