Strunzite

Origin: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Palermo #1 mine, No. Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Origin: Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Waidhaus, Vohenstrauß, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany
Picture size: 10 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Origin: Gravel Hill Mine, Perranzabuloe Parish, Cornwall, Great Britain
Sample size: 3.5 x 4.5 cm, very fine 1 to 2 mm long golden yellow needles of strunzite in vugs
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

  
 
  
Strunzite with laueite
  
Golden colored, straw-like crystals to 1 mm in vuggy matrix with yellow micro crystals of laueite and stewartite
  
Golden yellow fibrous crystals throughout matrix with yellow platy laueite crystals.
  
Origin: Hagendorf Sud, Oberfalz, Bavaria, Germany (type locality)
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm (top), 9 x 6 x 6 cm (2nd row), 6 x 3.5 x 3 cm (3rd row), 6.5 x 4 x 4 cm (4th/5th row), 5 x 2.5 x 2 cm (bottom)
 
  
Straw-like, yellow crystals to 2 mm of strunzite in vuggy matrix with micro yellow crystals of laueite
Origin: Big Chief mine, Pennington Co., South Dakota, United States
Ex. - Jack Parnau Collection
Sample size: 6 x 3 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: Palermo mine, Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, United States
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm
 
  
Tan to silvery, straw-like crystals to 2 mm, rich coverage in vuggy matrix.
Origin: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Sample size: 4 x 2 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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