Kastningite

Origin: Silbergrube Quarry, Waidhaus, Vohenstrauß, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany
Picture size: 1 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
 
Colourless to white and beige small sprays of thin tabular crystals with strunzite and strengite on matrix
Origin: Silbergrube,Waidhaus, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany (type locality)
Sample size: 2 x 2.5 cm (top), 2 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Clear, thin platy crystals to about 0.75mm in vug. Other crystals occur within this vug. Photosensitive!
Origin: Foote mine, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, United States
Collected by Jason and Mandy Smith
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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