Connellite

Origin: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
 
Origin: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts., Tooele Co., Utah, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Origin: Freiesleben Shaft, Klostermansfeld, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Picture size: 2 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 
Picture size: 1.5 mm
Picture size: 5 mm
Origin: Rohhütte smelter (slag locality), Helbra, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Blue connellite aggregates and spheres with aurichalcite in smelter-cavities
Origin: Baratti, Livorno, Italy
Sample size: 1 x 3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
A 2 mm area filled with acicular bright blue connelite crystals in cuprite associated with malachite.
Origin: New Cliffe Hill quarry, Markfield, Leicestershire, England
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm
 
  
Deep blue, acicular crystals of connellite as single crystals and bunches in a 5 x 4 mm area associated with olive green, transparent, platy juanitaite crystals to less than 0.5 mm and rich tyrolite.
Origin: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah, United States
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 4 cm
 
  
Dark blue crusts with brochantite(?).
Origin: West Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just District, Cornwall, England
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

   
  
Connellite on massive cuprite matrix
Origin: Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, U.S.A.
Ex. Keith Hayes collection
Sample size: 1.8 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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