Pellyite

  
massive yellowish veins in white sanbornite with red gillespite
Origin: Esquire #7 Claim, Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: thumbnail
 
  
Light brown crystalline grains to 3 mm with unknown, yet to be named blue mineral
  
Long, tabular crystals of brown crystals to 1 cm in white barite matrix.
Origin: Gunn Claim, near Wilson Lake, Itsi Range, Selwyn, Yukon, Canada (type locality)
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm (top), 7 x 6 x 2 cm (bottom)
 
  
 
  
Pellyite in white sanbornite with red gillespite
Origin: Esquire #1 Claim, Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, United States
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 3.5 cm (top), 5.5 x 5 x 2 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Brown crystalline massive grains of several mm in barite
Origin: Gun Claims, nr. Wilson Lake, Itsi Range, Selwyn, Yukon, Canada
Sample size: 3 x 3.5 cm
 
Light brown massive pellyite veins in association with gillespite, macdonaldite in sanbornite
Origin: Esquire #7 Claim, Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: thumbnail
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Matrix with red spots of gillespite to 2 mm with very pale yellow to colourless pellyite
Origin: squire No. 8 claim (Lander's Gillespite locality), Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.4 x 3.1 x 1.4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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