The Russell Society - Mineral Gallery

We all have that odd specimen that eludes identification or that you would like more information on - so why not use the considerable knowledge of the Russell Society membership to help you find out more. This new section to the Mineral Gallery was created in response to a request from a member for help to identify the unknown mineral (shown left) found at Wheal Busy near Redruth. This has now been identified and the details are on the Forum Page. There are now requests for further information on specimens. Can you help with any information?. Click here to go to the Mineral Forum

The Russell Society Mineral Gallery primarily features photographs of minerals that have been collected by members within the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Gallery has grown considerably with photographs from most areas of the UK being submitted. To reduce the overall size of the page the Gallery is now divided into Russell Society Branch areas, Scotland and Ireland allowing you discover some of the wide variety of minerals that occur within the UK and Ireland. Click here to go to the Mineral Gallery Index. Some areas have no photographs at present - can you help to rectify this?

Gavin Malcolm of the Southern Branch has updated the Fluorescent Minerals Gallery. This is now split into RS Branch areas and Scotland showing fluorescent minerals from each area in the UK. You can also learn a little about the wonderful phenomena of fluorescence in minerals and view a set of photographs of worldwide classic fluorescent minerals. Most of the minerals are from Gavin's collection and many of the British specimens have been collected on Russell Society field trips. Click here to go to the introduction.

Gavin has also compiled a comprehensive list of UK fluorescent mineral occurences giving full data on fluorescing colour, wavelength, associations and locations. Click here to go to the list. If you have any additions for the list you can e-mail them to Gavin.

The Gallery of Micro-minerals now has more superb photomicrographs of minerals. As well as the originals taken by Alan and Sue Edwards, Central Branch, there are now pictures of Cornish specimens submitted by new member Richard De Nul. The pictures by Alan and Sue include some slag minerals not strictly classed as minerals by the IMA but are beautiful all the same and are collected by many mineralogists. Click here to go to the micro-mineral gallery.

If you have any mineral pictures you would like to see published then please email them to who will include them on this page. Submission details are given below .

Click on an area of the map to go the Mineral Gallery for that area or alternatively select from the list of Branches given below.


	Central Branch Area	Northen Branch Area
	North-West Branch Area	Southern Branch Area
	South-East Branch Area	South-West Branch Area
	Wales & West Branch Area	Minerals from Scotland
	Minerals from Ireland	World-wide Minerals

More mineral photographs for the Gallery would be greatly appreciated so send us a picture of your specimens. To reduce download time on e-mail please submit your photographs in JPEG format and keep them to a maximum of 500 x 375 pixels at 72 pixels/inch resolution. No monster bitmaps please! Please include full specimen details and size with your photograph so that the information can be included in the Gallery. If you want want further details please contact Gary Morse at the