Rosasite

  

  

Origin: Silver Bill Mine, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Ex. Ernie Schlichter Collection

Sample size: 5.2 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm

 

  

Rosasite on malachite pseudomorph after azurite

Origin: Silver Bill Mine, Cochise Co, Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.8 x 2.6 x 1.7 cm

 

  

 Limonite matrix hosts blue-green spheres of rosasite, to around 0.5 cm, nestled in a vug. Colourless and lustrous crystals of hemimorphite, to 0.5 cm, are coated with a rosasite veneer.

Origin: Mapimi, Durango Mexico

Ex. Ernie Schlichter collection

Sample size: 11.5 x 7.3 x 4.1 cm

 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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This specimen has a layer of yellow willemite crystals upon which are deposited a couple of smoky cerussite crystals and a carpet of acicular rosasite.

  

This specimen has abundant acicular rosasite with a few small crystals of cerussite and a small area of yellowish willemite crystals.

Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Ex. Bill Bernie collection

Sample size: 5 x 3 x 1.8 cm (top), 5.7 x 4 x 2.5 cm (bottom)

 

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