Walpurgite

 
 
Walpurgite with uranosphaerite
Walpurgite on quartz
Origin: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Origin: Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 6 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

  
Faint yellow walpurgite crystals to 1-2 mm with 2 mm  green torbernite crystals
Origin: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
 
  
Glassy, bladed, bright yellow crystals to 0.8 mm with lighter yellow, coatings of atelestite amongst acicular, radial sprays of mixite.
  
Light yellow platy crystals to about 0.5 mm, sparse. Associated with light bluish green mixite(?).
Origin: Schmiedestollenhalde mine, Wittichen,, Schwarzwald, Germany
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm (top), 3 x 1.5 x 1 cm (2nd row), 5 x 4 x 3 cm (bottom)
 
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Origin: Weisser Hirsch Mine, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm, crystal 7 mm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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