Spangolite

 
Spangolite with malachite on quartz
Spangolite and malachite
Origin: Blanchard mine, Bingham, Socorro Co, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Spangolite with brochantite
Origin: Blanchard Claims, Bingham, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6 x 3.7 x 4 cm
 
  
Bluish green sparkling micro crystals of spangolite coating an open vug lined by quartz.
Origin: Blanchard Mine (Portalas-Blanchard Mine), Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4.5 x 3.1 x 2.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Glassy bluish green spangolite crystals to 1.5 cm throughout vuggy barite matrix associated with acicular brochantite crystals to 4 mm. The spangolite forms short prismatic crystals with striations across the prism faces and have hexagonal outlines. The crystals look like stack hexagonal plates.
Origin: Mex-Tex mine, Socorro Co., New Mexico, United States
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm
 
  
Origin: Sunshine No. 4 adit, Blanchard mine, Socorro Co., New Mexico, United States
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

     
     
Blue green crystals of spangolite up to 0.1 cm on matrix with pale needles of brochanite up to 0.2 cm.
Ex. Keith Hayes collection
Origin: Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, New Mexico
Sample size: 3.6 x 2.5 x 1.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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