Kolbeckite

 
Origin: Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany, type locality
Picture size: 5 mm (top), 1.4 mm (bottom)
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Origin: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co., Utah, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Origin: Bad Gleichenberg, Klause, Austria
Sample size: thumbnail
 
  
Origin: Christy pit, Magnet Cove, Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Two micro crystals as rosettes or nearly as a ball, bright yellow to 0.5 mm.
  
Creamy yellow rosette like crystal to 0.75 mm
Origin: Gleichenberger Klause, Steiermark, Austria
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm (top), 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Grube Pius, Schutzbach, Siegerland, Germany
Sample size: micromount
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
A 1.0 mm, pastel-green spheroid of the ultra-rare scandium phosphate kolbeckite nicely perched on the side of the matrix. Fragments of blue kolbeckite crystals are scattered on the front and back of the matrix.
Origin: Schlarbaum Quarry, Bad Gleichenberg, Styria, Austria
Sample size: 3.2 x 2.4 x 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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