Conichalcite

  
Origin: Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 8 x 3 x 3 cm, bottryoidal crystals smaller than 1 mm
 
    
 
  
Bright green micro crystals totally covering quartz crystals in large vug.
Origin: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah, United States
Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm, crystals to 0.75 mm (top), 6 x 5 x 4 cm (bottom)
 
  
Conichalcite on calcite
Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 3 cm
 
  
 
  
 
  
Ex. DeVito collection
  
Bright green conichalcite crystals as micro beads to less than 0.25 mm filling a 2 cm vug and associated with prismatic olivenite crystals.
Origin: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah, United States
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 4 cm (top), 6 x 6 x 3 cm (2nd row), 5 x 5 x 4 cm (3rd row), 5 x 5 x 4 cm (bottom)
  

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts., Tooele Co., Utah, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah, U .S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Area 2 cm
Origin: Kamareza Mines (Christiana; Hilarion; Jean Baptiste; Serpieri), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamareza; Kamariza), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

Conichalcite on calcite
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 7 x 4 x 4 cm
Owner: John Schneider
Photo: John and Mark Schneider
 
  
 
  
Origin: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 6 x 6 x 3 cm (top),  8.5 x 5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Conichalcite on blue chrysocolla
Origin: Yerington, Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 23 x 35 x 16 mm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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