Johannsenite
Origin: Franklin, Sussex Co, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
Origin: Iron Cap mine, Aravaipa Dist., Graham Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
Photo-Atlas
of Minerals
Origin: Broken Hill, Australia
Sample size: 2 x 2 x 1.4 cm (top), 4.9 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm (bottom)
Cream colored fanning aggregates, no matrix
Origin: Campiglia, Tuscany, Italy
Sample size: 4 x 6 cm
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 1 x 1.4 cm
Blocky black crystals of johannsenite to 7 mm on edge frozen in a massive
chalcopyrite matrix.
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 3 x 3.5 x 5 cm
Matrix hosting an open vug lined by brownish johannsenite crystals.
Scattered richly about this are colourless hemispheres of
calcite
to 3 mm in size. Minor
sphalerite in association.
Origin: Iron Cap mine, Landsman Camp, Aravaipa district, Pinaleno Mts., Graham
Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.5 x 3.2 x 3.5 cm
