Phoenicochroite

Deep red phoenicochroite with crocoite
Origin: Callenberg North (no. 1) open cut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 6.5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Origin: Hopeful vein, Leadhills, Leadhills-Wanlockhead District, Lanarkshire, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Sample size: 2 mm crystal aggregate with yellow pyromorphite on grey quartz (left), 2 mm crystal group with yellow pyromorphite and quartz (right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
 
  
Deep red crystalline plates in matrix.
Origin: Evening Star mine, Maricopa Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 3 cm (top), 5.5 x 2 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Reddish patches of massive phoenicochroite with yellowish powdery mimetite
Origin: Moon Anchor Mine, Maricopa Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.8 x 4.9 x 3 cm
 
  
Origin: Rat Tail claim (Pack Rat claim), Wickenburg area, Belmont Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 29 x 27 x 22 mm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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