Jamesonite

 

Jamesonite on quartz

Origin: Baie Sprie (Felsobanya), Maramures, Romania

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Jamesonite needles on calcite

Origin: Zacatecas, Mexico

Sample size: 9 x 3 x 2 cm

 

Origin: Durango, Mexico

Sample size: 3-5 cm

 

 

  

Ex. Grenier Collection

Origin: Alexander Lode, Silver City district, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA

Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 2 cm (SEM and XRD confirmed) (top), 6 x 5 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

    

Long, prismatic silvery crystals to 3 cm piercing calcite crystals associated with chalcopyrite.

Origin: Sombrete, Mexico

Ex. O'Donnell collection

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 4 cm

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This speicmen of quartz has abundant matted, hair-like crystals of jamesonite. Also present are small crystals of lustrous sphalerite to 2 mm.

Origin: Felsobanya, Siebenburgen, Romania

Sample size: 7.8 x 6.5 x 4 cm

 

  

  

This specimen of rhodochrosite is almost completely covered in hair-like crystals of jamesonite.

Origin: Trepca, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Serbia

Sample size: 8 x 6 x 3.5 cm

 

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