Beudantite

Crystals to 0.5 mm
0.6 mm crystal
Acute rhombic crystals to 0.4 mm on goethite
Reddish brown crystals of beudantite to 0.7 mm, with translucent scorodite on a druse of corroded pharmacosiderite
0.7 mm group of twinned beudantite crystals on corroded pharmacosiderite, encrusting a barrel like mimetite crystal
Twinned beudantite crystal groups to 0.6 mm, on corroded pharmacosiderite
Tiny crystalline balls (<0.3mm)of beudantite on red goethite gossan
Prismatic mimetite crystals to 0.7 mm, encrusted by green bayldonite, and yellow beudantite
Origin: Penberthy Croft mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: close up of larger specimen (left), 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm (right)
Owner: John Schneider
Photo: John and Mark Schneider
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

Small olive-green crystals on matrix
Origin: Hohenstein, Reichenbach, Odenwald, Germany
Sample size: 2 x 2.5 cm matrix
 
Dark green crystals, several with manganeseoxide coating
Origin: Grube Schöne Aussicht, Dernbach, Westerwald, Germany
Sample size: micromount
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Origin: Mohawk mine, San Bernardino Co., California, United States
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
Reddish orange crystals to 1mm rich on matrix with red carminite in large druse associated with, on the backside deep green gartrellite.
Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Origin: Mohawk Mine, San Bernardino Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.2 x 4.0 x 2.4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Beudantite crystals to 2 mm with a number of deep pine green olivenite crystals as feathery groups and scatterd amber coloured siderite crystals to just under 1 mm across
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 4.4 x 2.7 x 1.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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