Milarite

  
Origin: Val Gaif, Canton Uri, Switzerland
Sample size: 1 x 0.7 x 0.5 cm
 

  

 
  
Ex. Carlton Davis collection
Origin: Rossing, Swakopmund Dist., Namibia
Sample size: 4.2 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm (top/2nd row), 12 x 10 x 8 mm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Strimthal, Graubunden, Switzerland
Ex. M. Dodge collection
Sample size: 1.7 x 1.4 x 1 cm
 
  
Origin: Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2.9 cm
 
  
  
Glassy, yellow prisms of milarite to 4 mm are richly scattered on adularia variety valencianite and nicely contrasted by goethite-covered bladed stilbite rosettes.
Origin: Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico
Sample size: 10.2 x 5.3 x 3.0 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Light-green radiating crystalline masses with phenakite and fluorite
Origin: Krasnojarsk, Siberia, Russia
Sample size: 2 x 3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Origin: Jaguarassu, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 2 x 1 cm
 
  
Light yellow-green stubby prismatic terminated crystals of milarite with quartz and adularia
Origin: Valencia Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico
Sample size: 9 x 7 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Milarite on orthoclase
Origin: Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Sample size: 4 x 2.8 x 1.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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