Greenockite

  

Origin: Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Greenockite on prehnite

Origin: Summit, Union Co., New Jersey, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Yellow orange powder coat on sphalerite

Origin: near Eureka, Nevada, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 3 cm (top), 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm (bottom)

 

  

Fine acicular micro crystals to less than 0.5mm

Origin: Radvanice, Czech Republic

Sample size: 3 x 3 x 1 cm

 

  

Bright yellow-orange crust on sphalerite matrix and included in tiny 1 mm hemimorphite crystals spread across the surface.

Origin: New Glencrieff mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshare, Scotland

Ex. Kaar collection

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 1 cm

  

Lemon yellow, powdery coating, earthy with sphalerite in crude crystals.

Origin: Codorus Quarry, York, Pennsylvania, United States

Sample size: 5.5 x 4 x 3 cm

 

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Greenockite on prehnite

Origin: Summit Quarry, Springfield, Union County, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5 x 3 x 1.5 cm

 

  

Greenockite crystal on matrix with calcite, prehnite, laumontite, and other minerals.

Origin: Kreimbach-Kaulbach, Wolfstein, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Ex. Gerald Herfurth collection

Sample size: 8.9 x 6 x 4 cm

 

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Greenockite with smithsonite and chalcopyrite on sphalerite

Origin: Duenweg, Jasper Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 12 cm across

 

  

Origin: Nevada, U.S.A.

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Sample size: 34 x 20 x 6 mm

 

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Origin: Broken Hill Mine,  New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Don Boydston collection

Sample size: 7.5 x 4.7 x 3.1 cm

 

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Greenockite with hawleyite

Origin: Magnet Mine, Tasmania, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

 

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