Parnauite

 

Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Green parnauite pseudomorph after brochantite, associated with goudeyite

Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A. (type locality)

Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 3 cm, crystals to 0.25 mm (top),  3 x 3 x 2 cm, crystals to 0.25 mm (2nd row), 5 x 4 x 3 cm, crystals to 0.25 mm on malachite (3rd row), about 3 cm (bottom)

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

Thin platy, light green, almost silky looking micro crystals to about 0.2 mm on botryoidal malachite. Glassy prismatic malachite is also present along with glassy prismatic crystals of azurite. The photo shows the parnauite as tiny reflections (actually green) on malachite.

Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, United States (type locality)

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm (top), 3 x 2 x 2 cm (2nd row), 7 x 7 x 5 cm (3rd row), 6 x 5 x 4 cm (bottom)

 

  

Parnauite crystal groups as ball like clusters to 1 mm associated with azurite.

Origin: Tin Stope, Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, United States (type locality)
Ex. Eaton Collection

Sample size: 5.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Bright green crystalline crusts on quartz.

Origin: Cap Garonne Mine, Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Sample size: 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm

 

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Origin: Graul, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Picture size: 1 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

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Origin: Grube Alter Wilder Bär, Eisenzecher Zug, Eiserfeld, Siegerland, Germany

Sample size: 2 x 2 cm matrix

 

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Numerous coatings and some ~ 1mm crystals of blue-green to lime-green parnauite on volcanic matrix

Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co, Nevada, USA

Sample size: 2.1 x 2.9 cm

 

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