Eosphorite

  

Origin: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Newry, Oxford Co., Maine, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Mount Mica mine, South Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Eosphorite with roscherite on quartz

Origin: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 9 x 7 x 5 cm, crystal aggregate 4 mm

 

  

Quartz with vuggy triphylite, brown to clear eosphorite, ludlamite and possibly whitmoreite

Origin: Big Chief mine, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm

 

Origin: Pirineus mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 2.3 mm crystal aggregate

 

  

  

Scepter quartz crystal with an overgrowth of rose quartz over clear quartz. On the rose quartz are hundreds of tan to light brown, long bladed crystals of eosphorite to 2 mm with green roscherite micro crystals.

  

  

Translucent root beer brown, long bladed, terminated crystals of eosphorite to 3 mm with green roscherite on rose quartz crystals.

Origin: Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ex. Kidwell collection

Sample size: 4.5 x 2 x 2 cm (top/2nd row), 4.5 x 4 x 2 cm (3rd/bottom row)

 

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This specimen is what can best be described as a portion of a clay filled pocket with scores of root beer coloured crystals of eosphorite to 2 cm in length, several complete quartz crystals to 2.9 cm in length and a bunch of shattered crystal shards of feldspar and held together with weakly silicified clay.

Origin: Black Mountain Quarry, Rumford, Oxford Co., Maine, U.S.A.

Sample size: 10.4 x 7.3 x 4.8 cm

 

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