Honessite

  
Greenish-yellow acicular crystals to over 1.5 mm occuring as pseudomorph replacements after violarite & bravoite(?), which are replacements after millerite in calcite/limestone matrix. Probably Co-type material. Ex. Erling Collection
  
Yellow green crystals totally pseudomorph replacing millerite crystals to 8 mm. Ex. Kidwell collection
Origin: Gilman mine, Linden,  Iowa Co., Wisconsin, United States
Sample size: small cabinet (top), 5 x 4 x 1 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Honnesite with pyrite in quartz geode
Origin: Hall's Gap Road Cut, Lincoln County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Ex. Martin Zinn collection
Sample size: 4.9 x 3.8 x 2.4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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