Origin: Hidden Treasure mine, Tuolumne Co., California., USA
Sample size: 2 x 2 x 2 cm
Origin: Hollinger mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 1.5 x 1 cm x 6 mm
Origin: West Mayflower mine, Madison Co., Montana, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm, with rich coverage of slender, silvery crystals
in sulfide matrix (top), 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm (bottom left), 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm
(bottom right)
Old label from A. F. Eadie states: "Metallic bright silver-gray to blackish
tarnish aggregates intergrown w/purplish
rickardite, minor
chalcopyrite, all in and on
quartz-mariposite
(green) matrix. Some secondary gold precipitate on petzite." Mariposite has
been discredited and is now described as a chromium phengite or muscovite.
Origin: McAlpine mine, Tuolumne Co., California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm, the petzite forms dull silver gray crystals to 0.75
mm (top), 5 x 3 x 2 cm (bottom)
Large grains to 1 cm of silvery petzite in
quartz
matrix.
Origin: Cash mine, Gold Hill, Boulder Co., Colorado, United States
Ex. Kaar collection
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm
Silvery areas to 5mm as veins and veinlets in
quartz.
Origin: Hollister mine, Timmons, Ontario, Canada
Ex. Kaar Collection, Ex. Royal Ontario Museum specimen
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 1.5 cm
Massive piece, rich in silvery grains throughout dark purple
fluorite
and
quartz
matrix.
Origin: Stanislaus mine, Calaveras Co., California, United States
Ex. Kaar collection
Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 2 cm
Silvery petzite with minor
gold
Origin: Cash mine, Boulder Co., Colorado, United States
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm
