Gageite

Gageite with pyrochroite on zincite

Origin: Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

Photo courtesy of:

Lou Perloff

Gageite with rhodochrosite

Origin: N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari, South Africa

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 5.5 x 3.5 x 2.25 cm (2nd/bottom row)

Photo courtesy of:

Rob Lavinsky

There are 0.5 mm balls of smithsonite on one side and sprays of lustrous gageite crystals on the other.

Origin: Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, U.S.A.

Ex. Frank Edwards collection

Sample size: 3.3 x 3.2 x 1.1 cm

Photo courtesy of:

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Pink fibrous radial aggregates with phosphosiderite on rhodochrosite.

Origin: N'chwaning Mine, Kalahari, Kuruman, RSA

Sample size: 3 x 3.5 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Diederik Visser

Brownish crystalline gageite with minor rhodochrosite

Origin: N'Chwaning II mine, N'Chwaning mines, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.1 x 1.9 cm

A 5 x 15 mm area of colorless massive gageite with minor white crystalline barite

Origin: Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Sample size: 6.8 x 3.2 x 6 cm matrix

Photo courtesy of:

Dan Weinrich

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