Rosasite

Origin: Kamareza Mines (Christiana; Hilarion; Jean Baptiste; Serpieri), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamareza; Kamariza), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Sample size: rosasite balls to 1.5 mm
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
  
Origin: Hilarion Mine (Hilarion adit; Kamareza Mine 48; "Akrobates" Mine), Kamareza Mines (Christiana; Hilarion; Jean Baptiste; Serpieri), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamareza; Kamariza), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Sample size: area 1 cm (top left), botryoidal blue-green rosasite on deep blue azurite. Area 8mm (top right), divergent acicular crystal aggregates of rosasite to 1.5 mm diameter (bottom left), area 2 x 2.2 cm (bottom right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Km-3 Mine, Lavrion Mines, Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Sample size: area 8 mm (left), area 10 x 7 mm nickeloan rosasite (right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Origin: Sigia Mine, Megala Pefka Mines, Megala Pefka area, Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Sample size: area 1 cm
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: crystalline balls of blue-green rosasite on green malachite. Area 1.5 cm (left), 2.5 x 2.5 cm crystalline botryoidal rosasite on typical gossan matrix (right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
Rosasite on calcite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
Sample size: 4.5 x 4.0 x 2.7 cm (left), 4 x 3.0 x 2.0 cm (right)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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