Kintoreite

  
 
  
Origin: Clara mine, Wolfach, Schwarzwald, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm piece with micro, less than 0.3 mm crystals (top), 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm (bottom)
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Greenish-yellow xls on limonite and or goethite; very good specimen; The specimen was originally labelled lusungite (or better lusungite group) in the early 1990's according to the alunite nomenclature of Scott (1987). In 1995 Lusungite was discredited and reinvestigation of the specimen showed it to be Kintoreite
Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Sample size: 3 x 6 cm
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
 

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Steve Sorrell

Crocoite.com

 

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