Duftite

 

 

Duftite on smithsonite (type locality)

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

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Duftite on chrysocolla, 6.4 x

Duftite and hemimorphite, 10.6 x

Duftite on chrysocolla

Origin: 3 Metals mine, Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Owner: Milton Speckels

Microscopic image, 7.3 x

 

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Green crystals of duftite on fluorite

Origin: Straßburger Glück Mine, Niederschlag, Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Picture size: 1.4 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

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Duftite with smithsonite and wulfenite

Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 9 x 7 x 5 cm

Owner: John Schneider

Photo: John and Mark Schneider

 

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Duftite pseudomorph after mimetite

Origin: Mt. Bonnie Mine, Northern Territory, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 3 cm

 

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Yellow green duftite and dark green pseudomalachite on quartz crystal

Origin: Black Pine mine, Philipsburg, Montana, United States
Eaton Collection

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Bright or grass green rosettes to 1 mm associated with cerussite

  

Grass green botryoidal and spheroidal crystals to 2 mm with deep green thin prismatic crystals of malachite to 2 mm.

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia (type locality)

Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm (top), 10 x 8 x 5 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Mt. Bonnie, Northern Territories, Australia
Ex. DeVito Collection

Sample size: 7 x 6 x 4 cm

 

  

Light olive green spheroidal crystals to about 0.1 mm on fibrous yellow mimetite.

  

Spheroidal and bead - crystals to about 0.5 mm scattered amongst fine orannge crystals of mimetite.

Origin: Moon Anchor mine, Maricopa Co., Arizona, United States

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 3.5 cm (top), 5 x 4 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

  

Duftite on calcite

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Ex. Polak collection

Sample size: 7 x 4 x 2 cm

 

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