Hemimorphite

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

  

 

  

 

  

This specimen has very heavy coverage of tightly packed crystals of hemimorphite stained glacier blue by copper oxides.

Origin: Wen Shan, Yunnan Province, China

Sample size: 19.8 x 10.5 x 7 cm (top/2nd row), 8 x 6 x 3.7 cm (3rd/4th row), 7.9 x 6.4 x 4.3 cm (5th/bottom row)

 

 

  

Origin: Mina El Potosi, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 8.8 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm

 

Origin: Wenshan Mine, Wenshan, Kaiyuan area, Yunnan, China

Ex. Ed Rosenzweig collection

Sample size: 22.2 x 13.6 x 6.7 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Trinityminerals.com

 

  

The pocket on this specimen contains lustrous crystals taupe-colored hemimorphite with balls (most of them partial) of velvety aurichalcite (consisting of thousands of needle-like crystals growing out radially to form balls).

Origin: Blanchard Mine, Socorro Co, New Mexico

Sample size: 8.9 x 5.5 x 4.0 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone