Dioptase

  

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 4 x 4 x 3 cm, crystals to 3 mm

 

  

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 2.5 x 25 x 2 cm, crystals to 1 mm, possibly with minrecordite

 

  

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 4 x 2 x 1 cm, crystals 2-3 mm, possibly with minrecordite

 

  

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 1 cm, crystals to 1 mm, possibly with minrecordite

 

  

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 1.5 cm, crystals 2-3 mm, possibly with minor minrecordite

 

  

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm, crystals 3 mm

 

  

 

  

Lustrous deep green crystals of dioptase on large rhombic crystals of calcite to 1 cm.

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 3 x 3 x 2 cm, pocket with crystals 2-3 mm (top), 6 x 4 x 2 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Delirio mine, Inca de Oro, Chile

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm with bizarre, botryoidal like crystals of dioptase to 2 mm in large vug

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Dioptase on wulfenite

Origin: Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Owner: Milton Speckels

Microscopic image, 8.6 x

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Milton Speckels

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  

 

  

 

  

Dioptase on calcite

Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 7 x 6 x 4.5 cm (top), 5.5 x 5 x 3 cm (2nd row), 6.5 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm (3rd/bottom row)

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  

Origin: 4750NW Extension, Morenci Mine (Morenci pit; Phelps Dodge Morenci Mine), Morenci, Clifton-Morenci District, Shannon Mts, Greenlee Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: 8.3 x 4.8 x 3.9 cm

 

  

Dioptase on calcite matrix

Origin: Altyn-Tyube (Altyn-Tube) deposit, Kirghiz Steppes (Asiatic Steppes), Qaraghandy Oblysy (Karaganda Oblast'), Kazakhstan

Sample size: 5.4 x 7.3 x 2.5 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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