Atelestite

  

Micro glassy yellow crystals to less than 0.75 mm throughout vuggy matrixassociated with aurichalcite

Origin: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah, United States

Sample size: 7 x 4 x 8 cm

 

  

Green, flaky, radial crystals to 1 mm with yellow, flat-elongated micro crystals of walpurgite to about 0.75 mm

Origin: Schmiedestollenhalde mine, Wittichen, Schwarzwald, Germany

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 1 cm

 

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Light green spheres on matrix

Origin: Schmiedestollen, Wittichen, Schwarzwald, Germany

Sample size: 2 x 3 cm (top), 2 x 3 cm

 

Yellow-brown resinous on matrix

Origin: Grube Adam Heber, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 4 x 7 cm

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A double-terminated crystal of atelestite

Origin: Junge Kalbe Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (type locality)

Picture size: 1.5 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

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