Denningite

Vitreous colourless to very pale yellowish elongated crystals of denningite with yellow tellurite
Origin: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Milky white to pale yellow plates with tellurite on matrix
Origin: Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 3 x 3 cm
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Pale, opaque green, platy denningite crystals to 1 mm occuring with and perhaps altering to paratellurite (white).
Origin: Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Matrix hosting rich yellowish denningite throughout with very minor reddish crystalline spiroffite and white acicular mroseite
Origin: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Ex. Scott Williams collection
Sample size: 3.4 x 2.2 x 1.4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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