Tsumebite

Tsumebite and duftite

 

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Analyzed and provided by Josef Vajdak.

Origin: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 2 cm
 

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Micro, green glassy crystals to about 0.25 mm in vuggy matrix with yellow, crusty corkite

  

 

  

A 3mm area of decayed galena totally replaced by tsumebite (pseudomorph) as minute less than 0.1 mm green crystals

  

A 3mm area filled with lustrous green micro crystals of tsumebite, less than 0.1mm in size filling cavity after galena (pseudomorph)

  

Micro green crystals replacing galena associated with minor libethenite

  

Green, lustrous micro crystals to 0.2 mm as a replacement of galena in vuggy matrix.

  

Origin: Mex-Tex mine, Socorro Co., New Mexico, United States

Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm (top), 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm (2nd row), 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm (3rd row), 4 x 4 x 4 cm (4th row), 3x2x2.5cm (5th row), 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (6th row), 4 x 3 x 3 cm (7th row), 3.5 x 2 x 2 cm (8th row), 7 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm (9th/bottom row)

 

  

 

  

Origin: Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States

Sample size: 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, crystals to 0.3 mm (top), 3 x 1 x 1 cm (bottom)

 

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Origin: Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, New Mexico

Sample size: 55 x 30 x 29 mm

 

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