Roméite

  

Origin: Saint Marcel, Piedmont, Italy

Sample size: 3 x 3 x 2 cm, 1 mm crude orange brown crystals

 

  

Deep red euhedral micro crystals to 0.5 mm in matrix

Origin: Praborna mine, Aosta Valley, St. Marcel, Italy (type locality)

Ex. DeVito Collection

Sample size: 4 x 2.5 cm x 5 mm

 

  

Earthy yellowish brown pseudomorph replacements of stibnite.

Origin: Marciano, Tuscany, Italy
Ex. Kidwell collection

Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm

 

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Origin: Starlera, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland

Sample size: 3 x 4 cm matrix, micromount

 

Yellow-brown to brown crusts with agardite

Origin: Grube Clara, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany

Sample size: micromount

 

Orangebrown grains in matrix

Origin: Jacobsberg, Nordmark, Värmland, Sweden

Sample size: micromount

 

Orangebrown grains in matrix

Origin: Långban, Värmland, Sweden

Sample size: micromount

 

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This specimen has numerous lustrous, honey golden colored crystals of romeite to 2 mm across in calcite and magnetite.

  

This specimen is comprised of hausmannite with crystals of romeite and richterite. It has old labels referring to it as weslienite which was a varietal name used to describe it until a more complete analysis proved it to be romeite.

Origin: Långban, Sweden

Harry von Eckermann Collection

Sample size: 8 x 6 x 5 cm (top/2nd row), 5 x 3 x 2.3 cm (3rd/bottom row)

 

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