Rosasite on
smithsonite
Origin: Morenci mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm
Origin: Granite Gap, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico, United States
Sample size: 7 x 3 x 5 cm, aggregates to 2 mm (top), 4.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm, spheres
to 3 mm (bottom)
Deep bluish green compact radial sprays and spherules to 1 mm with clear
hemimorphite, bladed crystals to 1 mm
Origin: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm
Shperoidal blue-green crystals to 0.75 mm sprinkled about clear
hemimorphite blades, fibrous
aurichalcite and grey
chlorargyrite.
Origin: Silver Coin mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada, United States
Ex. Eaton collection
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 3 cm (top), 8 x 4 x 4 cm (bottom)
Rosasite, dark bluish green crystals to 0.5 mm in clusters, with
hemimorphite
Origin: Chief mine, Pima Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 2 cm
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