Inesite

  
Inesite on calcite
Origin: Wessels mine, Kalahari, South Africa
Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: NChwaning I Mine, near Kuruman, Kalahari fields, South Africa
Sample size: 28 x 19 x 5 cm

  

Origin: Wessels Mine, Kalahari, South Africa
Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm (top left), 4 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm (top right), 3.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm (bottom)
 
Origin: NChwaning Mine, Kalahari, South Africa
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2.25 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Origin: Daye mine, near Huangshi, Hubei Province, China
Sample size: cluster 3 x 4 cm in size, set atop a 5 x 2.5 x 7.5 cm matrix
 
  
Origin: Hale Creek mine, Trinity Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 17 x 22 x 25 mm
 
  
Grouping of pink inesite crystal sprays with minor brown crystallized hubeite in association. The back of the cluster is covered by sparkling colourless micro crystals of apophyllite.
Inesite with apophyllite
Origin: Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei, China
Sample size: 20 x 15 x 13 mm (top), 18 mm tall (botto)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Origin: N'Chwaning Mine, South Africa
Sample size: 7.5 x 3.5 cm
 
     
This specimen of galena and other minor sulfides is host to a top vein layer of calcite which has sprays and radial masses of inesite. The largest inesite crystal is 1.7 cm in length
Origin: Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 8.9 x 7.5 x 5.5 cm
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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