Images Dated 31st May 2013

Torbernite on Quartz, Wheal Basset, Illogan, Cornwall, England

An earthy, orange coated, quartz mass bearing fine towers and clusters of books of emerald to bottle green square plates of torbernite. The crystals of torbernite are perfect squares, up to 5mm across. Torbernite is a radioactive secondary mineral found in the oxidised zones of some uraniferous copper deposits

© RIC, photographer A.G. Tindle

Copper with Quartz, South Caradon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall, England

Copper with crystalline quartz. Most Cornish copper specimens are dull, but native copper (pure copper, uncombined with any other elements) from Caradon is invariably bright, as can be seen in this specimen. Copper lodes are widespread in Cornwall and, as a result, copper was one of the most significant metals mined in Cornwall

© RIC, photographer A.G. Tindle

Great Crested Grebe -Podiceps cristatus-, family, feeding chick in plumage, North Hesse, Hesse, Germany

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