Alabandite

  
Origin: Nagyag, Romania
Sample size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm
 
  
Brown alabandite microcrystals preferentially coating brain-like, pink manganoan calcite.
Origin: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia
Ex. Ed Ruggiero collection
Sample size: 5.5 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Black massive crystalline alabandite
Origin: Onoras, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 3 x7 cm
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
  
Alabandite with sphalerite
Origin: Trench Mine, Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 8.5 x 5.5 x 5.3 cm
 
  
Origin: Onoras, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 8.5 x 6.2 x 4.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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