Clinosafflorite

 
Grey-metallic in matrix
Origin: Nordgruvan, Nordmark, Värmland, Sweden
Sample size: 2 x 3.5 cm (top), 2 x 3.5 cm (bottom)
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Silvery, spongy masses, somewhat spherical, composed of fine grained formless crystals less than 0.1 mm intimately intergrown (like the books say) with skutterudite. The skutterudite crystals are excellent modified cubes with octahedral faces. XRD confirmed
Origin: Aghar, near Bou Azzer, Morocco
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 2.5 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
Clinosafflorite microcrystals coating native bismuth
Origin: Cerro de Pasco Province(?), Pasco Department, Peru
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 5.5 x 4.3 x 3.9 cm
 
  
Origin: Aghbar Mine (Arhbar Mine), Aghbar, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco
Sample size: 4.8 x 6.9 x 2.3 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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