Caledonite

 
Origin: Mammoth mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
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Origin: Leadhills, Lanark, Scotland
Owner: Lou Perloff
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Origin: Chehalis, Lewis Co., Washington, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
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Origin: Last Change mine, Mono Co., California, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
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Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Origin: Tonapah Belmont mine, Maricopa Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Tiny micro lustrous, well formed crystals to about 0.5 mm in vuggy matrix with linarite
Origin: Grand Reef mine, Graham Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Rowley mine, Maricopa Co., Arizona, United States
Erling Collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 1.5 x 1cm
 
  
Piece with several, sky blue and lustrous crystals to about 0.75 mm associated with good, bladed linarite
  
Glassy typical caledonite blue superb, striated micro crystals to 0.2 mm in clusters and single in vuggy sugary quartz matrix associated with  yellow micro mimetite crystals. Ex. Eaton collection
Origin: Red Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England
Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm (top), 3 x 2 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Transparent sky blue micro caledonite crystals with much darker linarite micro crystals.
Origin: Baker, California, United States
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 1 cm
 
  
Glassy blue, striated crystals of caledonite to 5 mm in vug in quartz associated with linarite and minor brochantite.
Origin: Reward mine, Inyo Co., California, United States
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm
 
  
 
  
Flat-lying deep aqua blue crystals to 1 mm across the face with associated linarite.
  
Light aqua blue, platy and flat-lying crystals to 1 mm in a 4.5 to 1.5cm on one side and deep blue platy crystals of linarite with fine dioptase crystals on the otherside. Clear cubo-octahedral to about 0.75 mm crystals of fluorite are also present.
Long prismatic, glassy, blue-green crystals of caledonite to 3 mm lying flat on dark blue linarite matrix.
Origin: Blue Bell mine, San Bernardino Co., California, United States
Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 2 cm (top), 6 x 4.5 x 4 cm (2nd row), 7 x 4 x 5 cm (3rd row), 7 x 4 x 4 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

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