Emmonsite

     
Origin: Mina Candelaria, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: crystals to 1 mm
 
  
Origin: San Miguel mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: McGuinnity shaft, Goldfield, Esmeralde Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  
Origin: Goldfield, Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8 x 4 x 1 cm
 
  
Origin: Mina Candelaria, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm
 
  
Specimen with a large vug a the top covered with emmonsite crystals, some to 3 mm. Associated with the emmonsite are lustrous, glassy green mackayite crystals to 0.75 mm and barite.
  
Specimen with 1 mm long emmonsite crystals strung out in between the barite tabs. Associated are glassy green mackayite crystals to 0.75 mm and tellurium(?).
  
  
  
Rich specimen with good coverage of 0.5 to 0.75 mm emmonsite crystals in between barite blades. Of the emmonsite specimens with mackayite, this is indeed the best specimen with the best mackayite in size and abundance. The mackayite occurs as 1 mm clusters and probably up to 0.5 mm as singles. A lot of the mackayites show an overgrowth of emmonsite
Origin: San Miguel mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 8 x 6 x 6 cm (top), 8 x 4 x 3 cm (2nd row), 7 x 4.5 x 5 cm (3rd/4th/bottom row)
 
  
Green crystals of emmonsite to 0.5 mm occuring sparingly about the matrix with tiny, yellow, very micro schmitterite crystals.
Origin: Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
  
Green crystals in vugs to 0.5 mm, sparse and associated with good zemannite crystals on the backside.
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 8 x 4 x 4 cm (top), 8 x 5.5 x 4 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Four green clusters to 3 mm of emmonsite with a scattering of tan/yellow schmitterite
Origin: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 2.6 x 2.5 x 1.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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