Pucherite

 
Origin: Pucher mine, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Brown crystals of pucherite with yellow schumacherite
Origin: Pucher Shaft, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

A single bismuth crystal altered to pucherite (with a brown coating over that)
Origin: near Harare, Zimbabwe
Sample size: 2.7 x 2 x 1 cm
 
  
 
  
Origin: Alexanderspatgang, Pucher Shaft, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany (type locality)
ex. BMNH, Barstow, Borland Collections
Sample size: 5.5 x 4 x 3 cm (top/2nd row), 5 x 3 x 3 cm (3rd row/bottom)
 
  
Pucherite on bismite
Origin: Pucher Mine, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany (type locality)
Sample size: 4.2 x 3.5 x 1.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Origin: Pucher mine, Schneeberg, Germany (type locality)
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 cm x 5 mm
 
  
Brown-black, minute grains of pucherite embedded in matrix. Associated with yellow fine platy schumacherite.
Origin: Londonderry, Western Australia, Australia
Ex.Polak collection
Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Origin: Pucher Shaft, Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (type locality)
Ex. Joachim Folch Girona and Sir Arthur Russell collections
Sample size: 6.3 x 2.8 x 2.7 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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