Blogs
27 Sep, 2023Thanks to your support, we have finally arrived at our new facility with our laboratory inventory. Many thanks to Christian Bracke for your organization and support in planning the move through the Friedrich Friedrich...
08 Sep, 2023Recently the silver arsenate mineral theuerdankite has been IMA approved (Copyright M. Groß, Lengede) It occurs in dark mm-sized crystals with native silver and iodargyrite and was found at the Theuerdank mine, St....
08 Sep, 2023For the relocation of our company, that has contributed to Mineralogy and Crystallography by the description of numerous new minerals in the past, we appreciate any donation that helps us to build up the new lab. http://...
03 Nov, 2020The unique mineralogy of Jachymov mining district in the Czech Republic is known for many years and many new - especially uranium bearing minerals - could be described with the help of modern analytical methods. Recent...
05 Jun, 2020Two unusual and colourful Uranium (U) minerals have been reported from Germany for the first time: Green to bluish paddlewheelite and yellow-green glassy albrechtschraufite. The locality is Uranus Mine, Kleinrückerswalde, in...
23 May, 2020Analytical investigations of the germanite and renierite associated secondary minerals have lead to the discoveries of many unique minerals eg. otjisumeite, bartelkeite, stottite from the Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands,...
30 Sep, 2019Several months ago we could confirm tavagnascoite from the famous Bastnäs mines, well known for rich pink cerite specimens partially covered by haleniusite-La (first recognized by the e-rocks dealer nothernminerals) and also...
14 Dec, 2017This project is all about new finds which were confirmed by XRD and other methods. It will be updated from time to time. The download of the file for December 2017 is available here: http://mineralanalytik.de/images/...
12 Mar, 2017Calamaite is the third natural Ti dominant sulfate mineral known yet. Russian scientists recognized this phase, occuring as filigrane colourless sprays, while doing some analytical investigations in a matrix of coquimbite...
19 Feb, 2017This weekend three of my friends visited me for some analytical work on their self collected and collection material. One of them had an old Tsumeb sample hosting filigrane silky masses on germanite renierite matrix. Not...
17 Feb, 2017Greenockite from Tsumeb forms beautiful hexagonal orange crystals in cavities of Cd rich galena. Often the specimens host brownish Cd rich smithsonite. Crystal size is usually around 50-100µm. Studies under the electron...
29 Nov, 2016Weishanite is a very rare gold-silver amalgam, which had two localities. Recent investigations of a unknown metallic hexagonal phase on an old sample hosting verified magnolite showed that this is Weishanite in beautiful...
