Stolzite

  
  
Light yellow prismatic, glassy, excellent crystals to 3 mm
Origin: Kagara Zinc mine, Balcooma o/c, Lynnd Junction, North Queensland, Australia
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Pale yellowish waxy blocky crystals of stolzite to 5 x 6 x 3 mm in size are scattered about a matrix of micro crystalline pyromorphite. Ex. Don Belsher collection
  
Tiny sparkling lustrous carmel coloured blocky micro crystals of stolzite are sparsely set upon matrix.
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 4.5 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm (top), 3 x 3.3 x 1.7 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 3.6 x 3.0 x 2.6 cm
 
  
Lustrous, cyclically-twinned cerussite crystal with a glassy, translucent, yellow stolzite crystal
Orin: Ste Lucie Mine, Lozčre, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Ex. Jean Behier and Eric Asselborn collections
Sample size: 2.8 x 2.6 x 1.3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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