Chalcosiderite

  
Origin: Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall, England
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 5 cm, crystals to 1 mm
 
     
Origin: Stowes shaft, Phoenix mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 4 cm. This is a superb specimen with good quality chalcosiderite crystal aggregates to 2 mm
 
  
Origin: Hail Valley mine, Cornwall, England
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: Phoenix mine, Cornwall, England
Sample size: 6 x 6 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: San Salvador Hill, Tyrone mine, Grant Co., New Mexico, United States
Sample size: 7 x 4 x 3 cm
 
  
1 mm spheroidal aggregates of green crystals in vuggy quartz matrix.
Origin: Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Potosi Dept., Bolivia
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm
 
  
Light green micro crystals to about 0.25 mm as spheroids, probably compact crystal aggregates with a greasy luster in large vug.
Origin: Muhlleiten, Saxony, Germany
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 3 cm
 
  
  
Dark green drusy or crystal aggregates in a 7 x 7 mm vug with torbernite and also associated with dark brown leucophosphite, yellowish cyrilovite and lilac strengite and probably others.
Origin: Hagendorf-Süd, Oberpfälzer Wald, Bavaria, Germany
Sample size: 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Cornwall, England
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Green chalcosiderite
Origin: Field near the Hochstraße, Rengersdorf, Görlitz, Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Origin: Wheal Phoenix (Phoenix United Mine), Linkinhorne, Caradon & Phoenix Area (South-Eastern Bodmin Moor), Liskeard District, Cornwall, England, UK
Sample size: 5.1 x 4.1 x 2.1 cm
 
  
Chalcosiderite with strengite and turquoise
Origin: Tyrone Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains District, Grant Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8.2 x 5.5 x 5.1 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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