Mixite

Mixite bluegreen radial aggregates with olivegreen prismatic olivenite

Origin: Cap Garonne, Southern France

Picture height: 5 x 7 mm

Sample owner: W.R. van den Berg

 

 

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Origin: Gold Hill mine, Deep Creek Mts., Tooele Co., Utah, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Mixite in a matrix of white fluorite

Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm, crystals to 1 mm

 

  

Origin: Carissa mine, near Mammoth, Juab Co., Utah, United States

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm

 

  

Bluish green acicular sprays to 1-1.5 cm associated with conichalcite. Ex. DeVito collection

  

Ex. DeVito collection

  

Aqua blue acicular sprays to 1 mm with conichalcite. Ex. DeVito collection

  

Acicular green sprays to about 1 mm across associated with minor but good philipsburgite.

Origin: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah, United States

Sample size: 3.5 x 2 x 4 cm (top), 2.5 x 2.5 cm (2nd row), 3.5 x 2 x 2 cm (3rd row), 5.5 x 4 x 2 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Himmelfahrts shaft, Schwartzwald, Germany

Ex. Kidwell collection

Sample size: 5.5 x 4 x 2 cm

 

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Origin: Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Picture size: 4 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

Origin: Sauschwart Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Picture size: 5 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

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Origin: Grube Josefsang, Wiltichen, Schwarzwald, Germany

Sample size: 4.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm specimen of sandstone with flat lying sparys of mixite to 1 cm across

 

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