Wardite

  

 

  

 

  

Origin: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada

Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 1 cm, crystals to 8 mm (top), 9 x 6 x 2 cm, crystals to 8 mm (2nd row), 10 x 7 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

  

Wardite on tourmaline and lepidolite

Origin: Pirineus mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, three large wardite crystals 5 mm

 

  

Wardite on tourmaline

Origin: Pirineus mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 2 x 2 x 1 cm, largest wardite crystal 1cm, smaller crystals to 5 mm

 

    

Crude white equant crystals to less than 0.1 mm on goethite.

Origin: Silver Coin mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada, United States

Ex. Eaton collection

Sample size: 2 x 1.5 cm x 4 mm

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Wardite with eosphorite

Origin: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Wardite on eosphorite

Origin: Bell Pit, Newry, Oxford Co., Maine, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Wardite and jahnsite (yellow) on messelite

Origin: Tip Top mine, Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Wardite on rose quartz

Origin: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm, white wardite crystals to 1.2 cm

 

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Origin: "area B" locality, Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada

Sample size:  5.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm

 

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Origin: Yukon, Canada

Sample size: 1.5 x 2.1 cm specimen. 1 x 1.2 cm cluster of light green, beautifully faceted crystals. Largest crystal is about 8 x 9 mm (top), 0.6 x 0.8 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada

Ex. Rick Green collection

Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm

 

 

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