Quetzalcoatlite

Green quetzalcoatlite
Origin: Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Picture size: 3.5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Quetzalcoatlite with khinite (red arrow) and parakhinite (yellow arrow)
Origin: Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Ex. Dr. M. N. Feinglos Collection & Sid Williams Collection
Sample size: 4.3 x 3 x 2 cm, the quetzalcoatlite occurs as a 0.5 mm, light blue radial crystals
 
  
This sample has a small vug, that I could not photograph well, with free standing, blue acicular sprays of the quetzalcoatlite with a few other areas of the same (arrow in photo). Also there are numerous light green unidentified minerals forming spheroids and light blue, radiating flattened sprays throughout.
  
Very rich specimen with acicular to radiating in cross section blue crystals to 1 mm of quetzalcoatlite associated with an unknown greenish blue tellurite (very rich) and also, possibly a dark green sphere to 1 mm of xocomecatlite.
Origin: Centennial Eureka dump, Eureka, Juab Co., Utah, United States
Sample size: 5.5 x 4 x 4 cm (top), 6 x 3 x 3 cm (bottom)
 
  
 
  
  
Origin: Blue Bell mine, San Bernardino Co., California, United States
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm (top), 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm (2nd/bottom row)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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