Minerals are best viewed under a
stereo zoom microscope. A customer of
Microscope World's, Mr. Arnie Lambert captured these mineral images using a stereo microscope and a Nikon SLR camera. The Nikon SLR camera was connected to the microscope through the eyetube on his microscope using the
Nikon SLR camera microscope adapter.
![Garnets in Rhyolite under the microscope Garnets in Rhyolite under the microscope, from New Mexico](//1.bp.blogspot.com/-gV3rBOlP6R4/VBtVNugMe2I/AAAAAAAAC5o/2WZ94tdme6Q/s280/Garnets-Rhyolite.jpg) |
Garnets in Rhyolite from New Mexico. |
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used for many years as gemstones and abrasives. Garnet can be a variety of colors including red, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown, blue, pink, colorless and even black. The rarest color is blue. Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock.
![Stengite under the microscope stengite under microscope from Indian Mountain](//4.bp.blogspot.com/-jl2HN9-DrYY/VBtWSrb7JFI/AAAAAAAAC50/50uipRdSQow/s280/Strengite1.jpg) |
Strengite from Indian Mountain in Cherokee Co., Alabama |
Stengite is a relatively rare iron phosphate mineral that is lavender, pink, colorless, or red. This mineral was named after Johann August Streng (1830-1897), a professor of Mineralogy at the University of Giessen, Germany.
![Strengite under the microscope Strengite from Alabama under the microscope](//2.bp.blogspot.com/-8nHn3ApKw7Q/VBtXMcLM23I/AAAAAAAAC58/p2xz0Euvi_M/s280/Strengite2.jpg) |
Strengite from Indian Mountain in Cherokee Co., Alabama. |
![Strengite mineral under the microscope Strengite minerals as seen under the microscope.](//3.bp.blogspot.com/-2uQw-WUTNQA/VBtXcJi9GII/AAAAAAAAC6E/Zqon4vA45x0/s280/Strengite3.jpg) |
Strengite from Indian Mountain in Cherokee Co., Alabama. |
Thank you Arnie for sharing your images with Microscope World!