Fairfieldite

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

  

Pearly white, bladed crystals to 4 mm with beautiful amber to brown jahnsite micro crystals to 0.5 mm in vuggy matrix.

  

White, bladed fairfieldite crystals to 3 mm on white whitlockite with jahnsite on a quartz matrix.

Origin: Tip Top mine, Pennington Co., South Dakota, United States

Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm (top), 11 x 4 x 4 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Foote mine, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, United States

Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm

 

  

Fairfieldite on albite with muscovite
Origin: Cigana mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm

 

  

Fairfieldite with whitlockite

Origin: Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, United States

Ex. Grenier collection

Sample size: 6.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  

 

  

 

  

Fairfieldite on albite

  
Fairfieldite on muscovite on albite

  

Fairfieldite on albite

Origin: Cigana Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America

Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 5.3 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm (2nd/3rd row), 4 x 2.6 x 2 cm (4th/5th row), 4.2 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm (6th row), 2.5 x 2 x 1.7 cm (bottom)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

  

Origin: Gaston Co., North Carolina, U.S.A.

Ex. Don Belsher collection

 

  

Fairfieldite with apatite and feldspar

Origin: Foote Mine, Kings Mt, Gaston Co., North Carolina, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.6 x 4 x 1.4 cm

Sample size: 22 x 28 x 5 mm

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Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens