Cyrilovite

Origin: Field near the Hochstraße, Rengersdorf, Görlitz, Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 1.5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Creamy yellow spheroidal crystals to about 0.75 mm on light green kidwellite with darker green kidwellite, white leucophosphite, brownish green lipscombite and glassy light blue cuprian morinite. All less than 0.2 mm.
  
Light yellow spheroidal crystals or grains to about 0.5 mm with dark green kidwellite, white leucophosphite, brownish green lipscombite and orange, glassy jarosite.
Origin: Silver Coin mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada, United States
Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm (top), 7.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Cyrilovite as sugary yellow replacements after strengite, a bit of strengite is visible in the upper right of the right photo.
Origin: Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 8 x 4 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Sorrell

Crocoite.com

 

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