Talc

Talc pseudomorph after quartz

Origin: Johanneszeche, Bavaria, Germany

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Talc pseudomorph after quartz

Origin: Concordia mine, Thiersheim, Bavaria, Germany

Owner: Milton Speckels

Sample size: about 3 cm across

 

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Talc pseudomorph after enstatite in apatite-phlogopite-enstatite rocks

Origin: Odegaardens Verk, Feset, Bamble, Norway

Sample size: 1 x 4 to 2 x 5 cm

 

Good pseudomorph of microcrystalline talc after 1-5 mm-sized terminated quartz crystals

Origin: Johanneszeche, Göpfersgrünn, Fichtelgebirge, Germany

Sample size: micromount

 

 

Origin: Trimouns, Luzenac, France

Sample size: 3 x 5 cm (top), 9 x 11 cm (bottom)

 

Light-green crystals with calcite

Origin: Rozna, Czech Republic

Sample size: 5 x 5 cm

 

Yellow serpentine interlayered with white talc

Origin: Talcville, New York, U.S.A.

Sample size: ca. 6 x 7 cm

 

Pseudomorph of  finegrained talc after fanning serpentine aggregates

Origin: Ranfjell, Bjellånes, Nord-Råna, Norway

Sample size: 4.5 x 8 cm

 

Speckstein, pseudomorph after enstatite

Origin: Bamble, Bregiv, Norway

Sample size: 4.5 x 10 cm

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Talc pseudomorph after enstatite

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Origin: Lom, Norway

Sample size: 8 x 5.5 x 4 cm (top), 5 x 4.5 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

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