Mineralogy Database The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Home The 'Images of Clay' Archive is an ongoing project of the Society's Clay Minerals Group and The Clay Minerals Society (USA). The idea behind this project is to build a collection of high quality images that are freely available to all to download for non-profit purposes, such as the teaching of clay mineralogy (see the copyright statement below). Suitable images include electron micrographs of clay minerals, or indeed any image associated with the study of clay mineralogy. Kaolinite Kaolinite, platy Kaolinite, Pugu Kaolinite, stacked Kaolinite, vermiform Mordenite and clinoptilolite/heulandite Mordenite, clinoptilolite-heulandite and smectite Nacrite Nontronite Opal Palygorskite These images are free to all to download for non-profit purposes. To download a copy of an image, click on the photograph of interest to enlarge it, then right click (pc) and select "save picture as" to make a local copy."
Minéraux Nouveautés du mois de mai 2016 Mai 2016 Février 2016 - Mars 2016 - Mai 2016 nodule de turquoise Loc: Kingman, Arizona, USA Dim: 5x2,8x2,7 cm Prix: (Réservé)145€ Superbe couleur ! orpiment et réalgar Loc: Quirivilca, Pérou Dim: 5x3x2,3 cm Prix: (Réservé) 75€ Jolie petite pièce de vitrine. cristal de péridot Loc: Gilgit, Pakistan Dim: 3,3x2,1x1 cm Prix: 180€ Magnifique cristal, la couleur est top ! halite ou sel gemme Loc: Allemagne Dim: 6x3,9x3,5 cm Prix: (Réservé)90€ Très belle transparence et cristallisation ! sphère en pyrite Loc: Huanzala, Pérou Dim: diamètre 5,9 cm Prix: 160€ Bel objet de décoration. azurite Loc: Zacatecas, Mexique Dim: 4x4x1,6 cm Prix: (Réservé) 85€ Joli spécimen de collection. améthyste "cactus" Loc: Namibie Dim: 4x2,4x2 cm Prix: (Réservé) 35€ grenat Loc: Kaynes, Mali Dim: 4,8x4,4x4 cm Prix: (Réservé)150€ Très belle cristallisation. œuf en jaspe orbiculaire Loc: Madagascar Dim: 5x3,7x3,7 cm Prix: Désolé Vendu ! calcédoine bleue et quartz Loc: Mexique Dim: 6x5,7x4 cm Prix: 50€
Organize Your Family History - Stay focused and happy while exploring your roots Nepal Disaster and Hydropower: How Global Banks Downplayed the Risks they Knew – SANDRP On the 28th August 2026, Nepali officials roughly doubled their tally of missing people to over 1,900, saying hydropower producers had only recently shared a count of unaccounted-for workers at projects in the devastated river valleys. It is feared that over 900 people are missing from hydropower projects. This might be a watershed moment for the disaster-torn hydropower boom in South Asia, funded many times by International Financial Corporations and Multilateral Banks like ADB and World Bank, and also Chinese Exim bank. Hundreds of hydropower labourers, engineers and locals are currently trapped inside tunnels of projects like Upper Trishuli 1 and Trishuli 3A, later one is funded by a loan from China’s Exim bank in the flood ravaged Nepal. 214 MW Upper Trishuli I is one of Nepal’s largest hydropower project, nearly complete, which now lies nearly destroyed by the sheer force and fury of the Himalayan Floods. Asian Development Bank: Warnings from its own report ignored It points out:
The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Kaolinite M. Roe, Macaulay Institute Well crystallized kaolinite from the Keokuk geode, USA From: Keokuk geode, USADimensions: Field of view approx. 18 microns wide These images are free to all to download for non-profit purposes. All published uses of images from this gallery should acknowledge the source using the following term "Image reproduced from the 'Images of Clay Archive' of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland and The Clay Minerals Society (www.minersoc.org/gallery.php? View other images in the 'General' galleryView other images in the ''Images of Clay'' galleryView other images in the 'Images by David Green ' gallery
Minéraux Lithothérapie Sperm: 15 Crazy Things You Should Know - Sperm: 15 crazy things you should know - Pictures When it comes to sperm, people always seem to have an agenda. Some want to kill sperm cells. Some want to buy or sell them. Some fret over their failure to get the job done. Why can't we just appreciate sperm for the amazing little wrigglers that they are? After all, without sperm, the world would be a very lonely place.So here are 15 fascinating facts about sperm, from Dr. What the ‘natural’ disasters of 2026 reveal about climate change Last updated: 28 August 2026 The first half of 2026 has seen record-breaking heatwaves in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, as climate change – supercharged by the burning of fossil fuels – increasingly exposes countries to extreme weather events. Devastating flash floods in Nepal are a human tragedy and a dire warning of the heightened risks of rapidly melting ice and glacier collapse in an overheated world. The heatwaves triggered exceptional wildfires across western Europe and led to smoke haze from Canadian blazes blanketing large swathes of the US northeast and midwest. The Nepal flash-flood is being attributed to a collapsed glacier in the Himalayas, amid ongoing concerns in the region over the impacts of climate change due to indications that floods, landslides, avalanches and droughts are “increasing in frequency and ferocity” across the region. So why has 2026 seen so many wildfires and heatwaves? How can these extreme weather events and heatwaves be linked to fossil fuels?