#phlogopite

[oldearthminerals]

Diopside with Calcite & Phlogopite, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

[theoldbone]

Part 3 UV, last one! You'll have to check out Mindat's massive gallery to see many, many more https://www.mindat.org/photoscroll.php?frm_id=pscroll&cform_is_valid=1&searchbox=uv&submit_pscroll=Search

Gmelinite-Na, Microcline, Poudrette Quarry, Canada, photo by Modris Baum

Clinohumite, Calcite, Pein-Pyit, Myanmar, photo by Rob Lavinsky

Diopsite, Calcite, Pitwak Mine, Afghanistan, photo by Christopher Clemens

Hackmanite, Scapolite, Apatite Group, Feldspar Group, Phlogopite, johachidolite, Pyant Gyi Mine, Myanmar, photo by Nicolas Hebert

Hardystonite, Calcite, Franklinite, Franklin Mine, NJ, USA, photo by Don Windeler

Chrondrodite, Diopside, Calcite, Long Lake Zinc Mine, Canada, photo by Simone Conti

Quartz, Calcite, San Rafael Department, Argentine, photo by Christopher Clemens

[segapop115]

I think doing quick doodles is good for the soul

[sw-artss]

I’ve been wanting to make some mica variants for a while, so here’s the first one! Phlogopite

She has arm blades she can use to cut stuff and I like to think she has paralyzing vision like Medusa :) but without the actual turning to stone bit

[mineralsandsomerocks]

Phlogopite on Limestone with Apatite

Locality: Wilberforce, Ontario

[relatetorocks]

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/9/8/461/htm

[arockmaniac]

Mixed fluorescent minerals including afghanite, calcite, albite, scapolite, phlogopite, and others yet to be identified from Badakhshan, Afghanistan.  Pictured under white light, long wave ultraviolet, mid-wave ultraviolet, and short wave ultraviolet.  You can see the other side of this amazingly cool rock here:  https://arockmaniac.tumblr.com/post/183099375015/mixed-fluorescent-minerals-including-afghanite   

[minerali-list]

Phlogopite KMg3(Si3Al)O10(OH)2

Russia, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk region, Kovdor

Photo: Ekaterina  Pakhneva