Nevadaite

  
Nevadaite with hewettite
Origin: Gold Quarry Pit, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada (type locality)
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
  
Robin's egg blue spheroidal crystals and radial acicular sprays to about 0.5mm, mostly less than this associated with rusty red sprays of hewettite, glassy light yellow crystals of leucophosphite to 2mm and glassy micro crystals of fluellite to about 0.5mm
  
Nevadaite with hewettite
  
Nevadaite with fluellite and hewettite
  
 
  
Nevadaite with fluellite
  
Robin's egg blue micro crystals to about 0.1 mm in a 8 mm area with clear fluellite crystals to 0.75 mm.
Origin: Gold Quarry mine, Eureka Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.5 x 4 x 4 cm (top), 6 x 3 x 4 cm (2nd row), 5 x 3 x 1 cm (3rd row), 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm (4th row), 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm (5th row), 4 x 2.5 x 2 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
 
  
Nevadaite, hewettite and fluellite
Origin: Gold Quarry Mine, Eurka County, Nevada, USA
Sample size: 2.5 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm (top/2nd row), 1.8 x 1.7 x 0.6 cm (3rd/bottom row)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

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