Austinite

Origin: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

 

Austinite on olivenite

Origin: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts., Tooele Co., Utah, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

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Austinite on conichalcite, 11.2 x

Austinite on conichalcite, 8.2 x

Austinite on conichalcite, 9.2 x

  

Origin: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts., Tooele Co., Utah, U.S.A.

Owner: Milton Speckels

Microscopic image, both 17.8 x

 

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Cuprian austinite

  

Cuprian austinite. Ex. Kidwell collection

Origin: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico

Sample size: 5 x 5 x 2.5 cm (top), 7 x 4 x 2 cm (bottom)

 

  

 

  

White to transparent, long, thin, prismatic crystals of austinite with 1 mm covering light yellow adamite crystals to 1 mm. Ex. DeVito collection

  

White to clear, lonng, thin prismatic crystals in radial, flat aggregates to 3 mm across associated with yellow adamite. Ex. DeVito collection

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

Sample size: 9 x 5 x 3 cm (top), 8 x 5 x 4 cm (2nd row), 8 x 6 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

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Origin: Puttapa, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

 

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