Natanite

Origin: Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Origin: Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm, micro yellow crystals to less than 1 mm
 
  
Glassy, octahedral orange crystals to about 0.75 mm
Origin: 10th level, Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 7 x 3 x 3 cm
 
  
Brilliant micro glassy yellow, single crystal to about 0.4 mm with ilvaite.
Origin: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Small brownish-yellow octahedral crystals of natanite
Origin: Potosí Mine (El Potosí Mine), Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
Picture size: 1 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Origin: Tashkoro area, Inyl'shek Range, Kyrgyzstan
Sample size: micromount
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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