Beaverite

Area 8 mm with tiny crystals of green brochantite
Origin: Ystrad Einion Mine (Dolgoch), Furnace, Ysgubor-y-coed, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 

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Steve Rust

 

  
Yellow beaverite and corkite with dark green brochantite
Origin: Horn Silver mine, near Frisco, Beaver Co., Utah, United States
Type Locality & Ex. Jack Parnau Collection
Sample size: 7 x 7 x 2 cm
 
  
Bright yellow patches of powdery looking beaverite to 1 mm associated with minute wulfenite crystals
Origin: Whim Creek, Western Australia, Australia
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Yellow earthy coatings on matrix
Origin: Bristol Silver Mine, Lincoln Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5 x 6 cm
 
Green micro crystals on goethite pseudomorph after selenite
Origin: Pioche, Eureka Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 0.3 x 4.5 cm
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

A non-terminated prismatic crystal of gypsum completely replaced (pseudomorph) by earth brown siderite, and partly coated by earthy yellowish-green powdery beaverite. The "crystal" is hollow with a tiny tube running the length of itself.
Origin: Bristol Silver Mine, Pioche, Elko Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3 x 4 x 35 mm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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