Cornwallite

 

 

Origin: Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Cornwallite with austinite (green balls)

Origin: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts., Tooele Co., Utah, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  

Botryoidal crust of cornwallite and cornubite

  

Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4 x 2 x 2.5 cm (top), 5 x 4 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

  

Bright green cornwallite spheroids with light grass green sprays of olivenite

Origin: Candelaria mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5 x 3 x 1.5 cm

 

  

 

  

Very resinous or highly lustrous spherules to 0.5 mm associated with azurite.

Origin: La Atalaya prospect, Mazarron-Aguilas mining district, Murcia, Spain

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 5 cm (top), 5 x 4 x 4 cm (bottom)

 

  

Cornwallite on quartz

Origin: Clara mine, Wolfach, Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Sample size: 6.5 x 5 x 3 cm, crystals to 0.5 mm

 

  

Cornwallite with light green mixite

Origin: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah, United States

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm

 

  

  

Globular or spheroidal, glassy green crystals of cornwallite to 0.2 mm associated with platy blue richelsdorfite crystals and possible strashimerite.

Origin: Burrus mine, Washoe Co., Nevada, United States

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm

 

  

Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, United States

Ex. Kidwell collection

Sample size: 7 x 5 x 3 cm

 

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Cornwallite (dark) and conichalcite

Origin: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts., Tooele Co., Utah, U.S.A.

Owner: Milton Speckels

Sample size: about 2 cm

 

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Photo-Atlas of Minerals

Origin: Grube Clara, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany

Sample size: Bright green spheres to 0.5 mm on matrix

 

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