Alunogen

Origin: Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 5.5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 
Origin: Willi Agatz Mine, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 2 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 
Colourless to white tabular crystals of alunogen on jarosite
Origin: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Aggregates of fine white to yellowish-white crystals with halotrichite or pickeringite
Origin: Cervenice (Dubnic), Southern Slovakia
Sample size: 3 x 3.5 cm
 
  
Keramohalite or Haarsalz are old names for alunogen, Yellowish thick botryoidal crust of aggregates of hair-like crystals
Origin: Mugrau im Böhmerwald, Czech Republic
Sample size: 8 x 8 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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