Spangolite

  
 
  
Origin: Lovelock mine, Churchill Co., Nevada, United States
Eaton Collection
Sample size: 5 x 4x  2.5 cm (top), 7.5 x 4 x 4 cm (bottom)
 
  
 
  
 
  
Spangolite with brochantite
  
Spangolite with minor creedite
Origin: Mex-Tex mine, Socorro Co., New Mexico, United States
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 4 cm (top), 7 x 6 x 4 cm (2nd row), 6 x 4 x 3 cm (3rd row), 3 x 3 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
Bright emerald green crystals of spangolite to about 0.1 cm scattered on drusy quartz
Origin: Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 2.7 x 4.1 x 3.0 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

 

  
Dark green spangolite with blue-green brochantite needles and powder-blue, botryoidal chrysocolla
Origin: Sunshine #6 Adit, Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 1.2 x 1.0 x 0.7 cm
 
  
Spangolite with green spheres of malachite
Origin: Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Ex. Martin Zinn collection
Sample size: 5.7 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

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