Stolzite

 

 

 

 

 

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Ste-Lucie mine, Lozere, France

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Honey yellow brown slender prismatic crystals with steep pyramidal terminations. Crystals to 0.75 mm in vuggy quartz matrix.

Origin: Cinovec, Dubi, Erzgebirge, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 4 cm (op), 6 x 3 x 5 cm (bottom)

 

  

Tabular, almost clear stolzite crystal to 2 mm in vug associated with very micro, orange prismatic or platy crystals to 0.1 mm with silvery prismatic pyromorphite to 0.2 mm and chlorargyrite.

Origin: Silver Coin mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada, United States

Sample size: 6 x 6.5 x 2 cm

 

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Origin: Zinnwald, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Ex. Ken Hollmann collection

Sample size: 7.3 x 4 x 1.2 cm

 

  

Origin: Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia

Sample size: 7.6 x 6 x 5 cm

 

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