Coromoto Minerals
Specimens from the '99 Season
at the Orchard Mine
![]() Terminated Golden Beryl on Feldpspar with Quartz crystals and Bertrandite 6cm 99-01 |
![]() 4cm Etched Beryl 10gms 99-02 |
Golden Beryl 7cm/55 gms 99-09 |
Heavily Etched Aquamarine 7cm/40gms 99-12 |
![]() Tantalite-columbite crystal with Bertrandite and Quartz Crystals 3 cm 99-11 |
Etched Beryl 5cm/15 gms 99-08 |
![]() Golden Beryl 10cm/30gm 99-14 |
Acicular Blue Fluorapatite on Feldspar with Bertrandite and Quartz Crystals 99-17 |
Pocket Beryl on Microcline with Quartz Crystals and Albite 8cm 99-13 |
Pocket Beryl with Quartz Crystals 6cm/50gm 99-21 |
Etched Beryl 3cm/10gm 99-16 |
Pocket Beryl with Quartz Crystals 10cm/150gm 99-20 |
![]() Terminated Golden Beryl with gem basal termination. 3 gm 99-04 |
![]() Quartz Crystal on Golden
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![]() Golden Beryl 9cm 70 gm 99-25 |
![]() Bertrandite Cluster 3cm (2 views) 99-24 |
![]() Scepter Quartz Crystal On Golden Beryl 8cm 99-27 |
![]() Beryl with Albite Overgrowth 6 cm 99-18 |
![]() Golden Beryl with inclusion (schorl?) 2cm/4 gms 99-10 |
![]() Blue Fluorapatite on Albite with Bertrandite. 5 cm 99-07 |
All photographs by Gary Freeman copyright 1999-2000. All rights reserved.
Photographer's note:
The colors depicted in these photographs are
as close as possible to the natural color of the specimens. Lighting only
was chosen to enhance their appearance. No color manipulation was used.
All photographs were taken using a Sony Mavica digital camera. Lighting
was either natural sunlight, flash or tungsten halogen. The images were
then processed with ArcSoftPhotoStudio 2000 and ACDSee.