Boléite

     

Origin: Amelia mine, Boléo, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico

Sample size: 4 x 2 x 2 cm, pseudocubic crystals to 5 mm

 

    

Cubic blue crystals to 2 mm in gypsum matrix

Origin: Santa Rosalia, Boleo Dist., Baja California, Mexico

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 1.5 cm

 

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Origin: Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja CS, Mexico

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

Origin: Mammoth mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

 

Origin: Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

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Origin: Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona

Owner: Milton Speckels

Microscopic image, 14.3 x

 

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Photo-Atlas of Minerals

Small blue cubic crystals of boleite with white paralaurionite

Origin: Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece

Picture size: 1.5 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

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Origin: Santa Rosalia, Baia California, Mexico

Ex. Alessandro Genazzani collection

Sample size: 2 x 2 x 2.5 cm

 

  

A 3.5 mm boleite cube attached to 3 white anglesite crystals. Green paratacamite is included in the anglesites.

  

12 mm wide group of boleite crystals along the edge of a green paratacamite nodule.

Origin: Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja Sur, Mexico

Ex. Mike Keim collection

Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm (top/2nd row), 3.1 x 1.7 x 1.0 cm (bottom)

 

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