Descloizite

  
Orange coloured descloizite crystals smaller than 0.5 mm (right top), on the back side barrel shaped vanadinite crystals to 1-1.5 mm (bottom)
Origin: Richmond - Sitting Bull mine, South Dakota, USA
Sample size: 8 x 5 x 1 cm
 
Origin: Otavi Mountain Land, near Grootfontein, Namibia
  Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm, bladed crystals to 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 5 cm
 
  
Bright orange crystals in tiny spherical aggregates with good three dimensional releif. Minor vanadinite.
Origin: Chalk Mountian mine, Churchill Co., Nevada, United States
Ex.Kidwell collection
Sample size: 5.5 x 5 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: Grey Horse mine, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Descloizite on vanadinite
Descloizite with vanadinite
 
Origin: Commercial mine, Georgetown, Grant Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Origin: San Jose mine, Zacatecas, Mexico
Sample size: 18 x 23 x 20 mm
 
  
Origin: Berg Aukas, Namibia
Sample size: 25 x 20 x 22 mm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Origin: Berg Aukus, Grootfontein, Namibia
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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