Nacrite

Origin: Hunersedge mine, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
 

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Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

White to rosa coloured 2-3 mm-sized patches consisting of small nacrite crystals with hexahydrite on a quartz-siderite-marcasite matrix; Mine closed in 1974
Origin: Zeche Julia, Herne, Ruhr coal Mine area, Germany
Sample size: micromount
 
  
Clear colourless to white radiating crystals on calcite
Origin: Glück auf Schacht, Grube Himmelsfürst, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 6 x 10 cm
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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