Rosasite

  
 
  
Rosasite pseudomorph after azurite with cerussite
Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 28 x 16 x 27 mm (top), 7.2 x 4 x 3.6 cm (bottom)
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Rosasite clusters to 0.4 cm combined with cuprian smithsonite clusters to 1.0 cm.
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Keith Hayes coll.
Sample size: 5.3 x 3.5 x 3.1 cm
 
  
Origin: Kelly Mine, Magdalena District, Socorro Co, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Ex. Giovanni Signorelli collection
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
  
  
Flat piece of limonite gossan matrix is generously covered with both botroidal and velvety crystalline malachite with a fine secondary coverage of blue rosasite.
Origin: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 5 x 3.2 x 1.4 cm
 

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John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

Nickeloan rosasite
Origin: Km-3 Mine, Lavrion Mines, Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Sample size: area 10 x 7 mm
Owner: Steve Rust
 

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Steve Rust

 

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