Bismutite

Platy crystals to 0.5 mm
Origin: Wheal Basset, Redruth, Illogan, Cornwall, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Microphoto, 0.75 mm crystal
2 mm bismutite pseudomorph after unknown, with tourmaline
Crystal area 4 mm
Origin: Wheal Remfry, St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

Greenish bismutite pseudomorphous after bismuthinite
Origin: Vater Abraham Mine (Shaft 139), Lauta, Marienberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 4.5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 
Origin: Schlema, Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 1.4 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 
Origin: Weißer Hirsch Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Origin: Three Musketeers Mine, Ellsworth District, Granite Wash Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.4 x 3 x 2.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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