Hinsdalite

Hinsdalite with quartz

Origin: Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Dermbach, Thuringia, Germany

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Sylvester mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Hinsdalite (creamy coloured) with pyromorphite (greenish) (replacement of pyromorphite by hinsdalite?)

  

Partial and total pseudomorph replacement of creamy yellow hinsdalite after green pyromorphite crystals to 2mm

Origin: Sylvester mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm, crystals less than 1 mm  (top/2nd row), 1.5 x 1.5 x 1 cm (3rd row), 5 x 4 x 2 cm (bottom)

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This specimen is covered with pseudomorphs of hinsdalite after mimetite. The largest is 0.8 cm in length. Hinsdalite occurs as minute crystals oriented in the shape of the former mimetite crystals.

Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 3.1 x 2.6 x 1.7 cm

 

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Hinsdalite pseudomorph after pyromorphite

  

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Crystals are up to 3mm long, replacing pyromorphite

Origin: Sylvester/Queen mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia

Sample size: crystals up to 3 mm

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

 

 

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