Tennantite

Tennantite on calcite
Origin: Botes, Zlatna, Transylvania, Romania
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Tennantite with calcite
Origin: Dzeshkazgan, Kazakhstan
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 5.5 cm
 
  
Tennantite on quartz
Origin: Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico
Sample size: 7 x 7 x 4 cm
 
  
Quartz on tennantite
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 2.5 cm (top), 5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Tennantite after enargite
Origin: San Genaro mine, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
  
plates of drusy quartz littered with 3-7mm nice crystals of oriented overgrowths of tennantite and tetrahedrite on chalcopyrite and sphalerite associated with galena. A nice article by John White was written for MR V3, #3 in 1972. John White Jr. clearly shows how the powder x-ray diffraction patterns of the two end members (Tennantite & Tetrahedrite) are shown on the same film.
Origin: Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 12 x 7 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
Tennantite with dolomite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 6 x 4.2 x 1.7 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

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