Origin: Cerro Gordo, Inyo Co., California, U.S.A.
Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Sample size: about 8 cm
Origin: Kelly mine, Kelly, Socorro Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.
Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Sample size: about 15 cm across
Photo courtesy of:
Anthony Kampf, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Light green smithsonite rosettes on light brown
dolomite
Origin: Creede, Colorado, U.S.A.
Picture height: 6.5 mm
Sample owner: W.R. Moorer
Photo courtesy of:
Pieter Stemvers, Leusden, Netherlands
email: stemvers@hetnet.nl
Smithsonite pseudomorph after
wulfenite
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
ex. Credo Schwab, Sussman Collections
ex. Credo Schwab, Sussman Collections
Sample size: 6 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Cobaltian smithsonite
Smithsonite with
cerussite,
ex. Smithsonian (1972), Stentz, Krueger, (thru Charlie Key) Sussman
Collections
Smithsonite phantom, ex. Sussman Collection
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 3.8 x 2.2 x 0.6 cm (top), 3 x 0.6 x 0.6 cm (2nd row), 8 x 8 x 4.5
cm (3rd row), 5 x 4 x 2 cm (4th/bottom row)
Smithsonite pseudomorph after
dolomite
Origin: Philadelphia Mine, near Rush, Marion Co., Arkansas, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.2 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm
Photo courtesy of:
Rob Lavinsky
Origin: near Granby, Newton Co., Missouri, United States
Ex. Eaton Collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm
Translucent grey rhombs to 1cm with an overgrowth of second generation micro
crystals of smithsonite.
Origin: 28-30 level, Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 2 cm
Origin: 79 mine, Gila Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Photo courtesy of:
Tom Loomis