Pinnoite

Origin: Stassfurt, Stassfurt Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Sample size: 55 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
White pinnoite crystals on ulexite
Origin: Inder Borate Deposit, Kazakhstan
Sample size: thumbnail (left), 7 x 8 cm (right)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
A chalky white matrix is hosting numerous colorless micro crystals of pinnoite
Origin: Inder B deposit and salt dome, Atyrau (Gur'yev), Atyrau Oblysy (Atyrau Oblast'), Kazakhstan
Sample size:  3.2 x 4.4 x 2.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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