Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla pseudomorph after hemimorphite
Origin: 79 mine, Hayden, Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Chrysocolla after cyanotrichite
Origin: Portrerillos, Atacama, Chile
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Area 8 mm, chrysocolla pseudomorph after malachite
Origin: Hilarion Mine (Hilarion adit; Kamareza Mine 48; "Akrobates" Mine), Kamareza Mines (Christiana; Hilarion; Jean Baptiste; Serpieri), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamareza; Kamariza), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Chrysocolla epimorphs after bismutite crystals to 1 mm
Origin: Wheal Basset, Redruth, Illogan, Cornwall, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Platy crystal rossets of vesignieite to 1.5 mm coated and replaced by chrysocolla (pseudomorph)
Origin: New Cliff Hill Quarry, Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire, England, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 
1 mm mass on prehnite
Origin: Salen, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
1.5 mm chrysocolla pseudomorph after a veszelyite crystal, on hemimorphite (left), Microphoto, balls to 0.75 mm (right)
Origin: Waygate Shaft (Straitstep Vein), Wanlockhead, Leadhills-Wanlockhead District, Dumfries-shire, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Area 6 mm, chrysocolla pseudomorph after langite
Origin: Lodge Park Trial, Tre'r-ddol, Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Area 8 mm
Origin: Bontddu trial level, Bontddu, Gwynedd (Merionethshire), Wales, UK
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
 
  
 
  
Origin: Ray mine, Mineral Creek district, Ray, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3.5 cm (top), 5.4 cm in height (middle), 5.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Light blue balls of chrysocolla to 3 mm coated with quartz and on a quartz crystal.
Origin: Black Pine mine, Granite Co., Montana, United States
Sample size: 3.5 x 1.5 x 2 cm
 
  
Deep green, botryoidal structures approximately 3 mm in diameter.
Origin: Santa Rita Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
Bright blue chrysocolla bands with quartz
Origin: 1450 bench, Hercules area, Ray mine, Ray, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm (top), 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm (2nd row), 4.5 x 4 x 4 cm (3rd row), 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm (4th row), 3.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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