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Secondary crystallization of halite caused by mining activity, Salt mine Wieliczka. Specimen 19 cm wide. |
Sphaerosiderite with fossils. Łuków. Specimen 9cm high.
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Zinc and lead ore mine - "Pomorzany" near Olkusz. Specimen - 18cm |
Morion - type of quartz with black or almost black colour. Strzegom. Specimen 20cm high.
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Agat - Rudno near Cracow. Top -
chalcedony pseudostalactite, bottom -
uruguay type agate, bottom - agate
mossy. Specimen - 6cm.)
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Agate - Rudno. Specimen - 4cm.
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Mossy agate - Rudno. Specimen - 6cm. |
Agate - Rudno. Top - the so called "infiltration channel ". Specimen - 5,5cm.
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Agate - Zabierzów near Cracow. Found in after glacier material, clear signs of coating are evidence of long transportation. Specimen - 7cm. |
Agate - Rudno. Separated zones unlikely shaped. Specimen - 8cm.
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Ammonite - Parawedekindia arduennensis. Jurassic - Lower Oxford, ca. 160mln years. Zalas near Cracow. |
On the right: snail - Pleurotomaria. On the left: mollusc - Pecten, Brown Jurassic - Callovian. Zalas near Cracow.
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Sulphur crystals, calcite - Machów. |
Thermal smite in slates - porphyry quarry in Miękinia.
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Gypsum coloured with iron oxides. Copper ores mine - "Rudna" near Lubin. |
Two generations of calcite, first with foliate profile, second scalenohedrons covered with fine quartz crystals. Alwernia.
Specimen - 7cm.
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Piece of dripstone coating - Jaskinia Piętrowa Szczelina near Mirów. Layers of a fine-crystalline calcite undergone recrystallisation. Primary lamination partially preserved.
Specimen - 25cm. |
Stalagmite - Jaskinia Ciemna, Prądnik Valley. Bottom - limestone boulder, above alternate layers of a light fine-crystalline calcite and carbonaceous laminas (traces of fire used by a prehistoric man in a cave). Specimen - 22cm. |
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