Prosopite

Origin: Goldie Carbonatite, Fremont Co., Colorado, U.S.A.
Sample size: .5 x 3 x 2 cm, bladed pink crystals to 3 mm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

 
Pale turqoise blue nodules, colour caused by Cu-mineral inclusions
Origin: Zacatecas, Mexico
Sample size: 1.5 x 4 cm (top), 2 x 3 cm (bottom)
 
  
Prosopite present as clear to bluish-grey crystals up to 1 mm and as spherical stalactitic aggregates with small radial thomsenolite aggregates
Origin: Ivigtut, Greenland, Denmark
Sample size: 3.9 x 4.9 x 4.3 cm
 

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Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

Origin: Altenberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (type locality)
Sample size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

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Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Prosopite (pseudomorph after topaz?). ex. Evan Jones Collection
Origin: Santa Rosa Mine, Mazapil, Zecatecas, Mexico
Sample size: 7.1 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm (top), 1.9 x 1.5 x 1.1 cm (bottom)
 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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