Rosasite

  

 

  

Large 3 cm vug filled with good crystals of rosasite to 1 mm on a hemimorphite matrix

  

Nice specimen with solid coverage of rosasite spherules to about 1 mm with fine acicular sprays of aurichalcite outlining the rim.

  

Rosasite spherules to 2 mm on hemimorphite

  

Spheroidal crystals of rosasite on light green smithsonite

Origin: 79 mine, Gila Co., Arizona, United States

Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 1 cm (top), 4 x 3 x 2 cm (2nd row), 4 x 3 x 2 cm (3rd row), 6 x 4 x 4 cm (4th row), 4.5 x 5 x 2 cm (bottom)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  

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

Ex. Tom Dwyer coll.

Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 2 cm

 

  

Origin: Omega mine, Pima Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: 2.2 x 4 x 0.7 cm

 

  

Rosasite on calcite

  

Rosasite on tennantite

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm (top), 28 x 22 x 15 mm (bottom)

 

  

 

  

Bluish-green hemispheres of crystallized rosasite averaging 2 - 3 mm in diameter with minor calcite and aurichalcite in association.

Origin: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico

Sample size: 8 x 6 x 2.5 cm (top), 14 x 9.5 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

     

  

Rosasite, calcite and cuprian dolomite

Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Ex. Kevin Conroy collection

Sample size: 3.5 x 2.7 x 2 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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