Mixite

  
Specimen loaded with fibrous light, mint green micro crystals to 1 mm throughout quartz and barite matrix
  
Origin: Carissa mine, Juab Co., Utah, United States
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 2 cm (top), 7 x 5 x 4 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Hilarion Mine (Hilarion adit; Kamareza Mine 48; "Akrobates" Mine), Kamareza Mines (Christiana; Hilarion; Jean Baptiste; Serpieri), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamareza; Kamariza), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Sample size: area 1.5 cm. Aggregated light blue-green acicular crystals lining a shallow cavity in gossan matrix
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Penberthy Croft Mine (Wheal Fancy), St Hilary, Mount's Bay District, Cornwall, England, UK
Sample size: 3 mm acicular crystal group (left), 0.8 mm divergent crystal group (right), area 5 mm (bottom)
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
  
Origin: Kamareza Mines, Laurium, Attica, Greece
Sample size: 9.7 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Origin: Dome Rock, South Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Sorrell

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