Namuwite

Origin: Gelbe Birke Mine, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 1.5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Seagreen crystals with gypsum and brianyoungite on matrix
Origin: Grube Alexander, Ramsbeck, Sauerland, Germany
Sample size: 1 x 2 cm
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

Origin: Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, Cumbria, England, UK
Sample size: aggregated triangular platy namuwite crystals to 0.6 mm, with gypsum
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Waterbank mine, Ecton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Sample size: area 8 mm (left), pale green crystalline areas to 2 mm of namuwite on hydrozincite, and smithsonite (right), very unusual aggregated acicular crystals of namuwite (namuwite is almost exclusively platy in habit), area 2.5 mm (bottom)
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

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