Surite

  
Pearly, thin or platy rossetes and laths to about 0.5 mm associated with wulfenite.
  
Pearly white balls and lath-like crystals to 0.5 mm in vuggy matrix with wulfenite and willemite.
  
Pearly, flaky white balls and lath-like crystals to less than 0.7 mm in vuggy matrix with wulfenite.
Origin: Tiger mine, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States
Ex. Joe Ruiz collection
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 3 cm (top), 3 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm (2nd row), 5 x 4 x 2 cm (bottom)
 
  
Pearly white, almost micaceous crystals to 0.5 mm throughout vuggy matrix with cerussite.
Origin: Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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