Paralaurionite

  

 

  

Origin: Laurium, Greece

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Pit #9, Toussit, Ouijda, Morocco

Sample size: 3 x 1.75 x 0.5 cm cm

 

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Origin: Lavrion District slag localities, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece

Sample size: 0.75 mm crystal (left), 1 mm crystal (right)

Owner: Steve Rust

 

Origin: Meadowfoot Smelter, Wanlockhead, Leadhills-Wanlockhead District, Dumfries-shire, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK

Sample size: 1 mm crystal in lead slag

Owner: Steve Rust

 

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Dark blue micro crystals of diaboleite in altered galena associated with several excellent crystals of paralaurionite to 2 mm. Possibly associated with atacamite (green).

Origin: 106 raise, Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States

Sample size: 6 x 5 x 3 cm

 

  

This piece is covered with (green arrow) colourless, thin bladed crystals to less than 0.75 mm of paralaurionite. There is also (red arrow) white, hexagonal columnar penfieldite crystals to 3 mm coated with blue "Percylite" which is a mixture of boleite and pseudoboleite.

Origin: Margarita Mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile

Sample size: 4 x 4 x 3.5 cm

 

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