Wavellite

  
 
  
Wavellite with cacoxenite
Origin: Willard mine, Pershing Co., Nevada
Sample size: top about 9 cm, bottom about 4 cm
 
  
  
Wavellite with cacoxenite
Origin: Willard mine, Pershing Co., Nevada
Sample size: left, about 5 cm, right 3.5 cm
 

     

Origin: Llallagua, Potosi Dept., Bolivia
Sample size: 8 x 5 x 5 cm, spheres to 1.2 cm
 
  
Origin: Willard mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 2 cm, acicular sprays to 6 mm
 
  
Origin: Willard mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 2 cm, acicular sprays to 5 mm across
 
  
Origin: Willard mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 2 cm, complete "ball" to 5 mm
 
  
Origin: Trenice near Cerhovice, Prague dist., Slovakia
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 1 cm with white radial sprays flat on matrix to 2 cm in diameter
 
  
Clear to pale green crystals as prismatic radial sprays to 2 mm with possible light green or yellow spheroidal crystals to 0.75 mm of possible planerite.
Origin: Bingham Mine, Salt Lake Co., Utah, United States
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: County pit, Mauldin Mtn., Mt. Ida,, Arkansas, United States
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Mt. Ida, Arkansas, United States
Sample size: 8 x 4.5 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: Avant, Arkansas, United States
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 3 cm
 
  
Origin: Mt. Ida, Arkansas, United States
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Aleshire Prospect, Big Fork, Arkansas, United States
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3.5 cm
 
  
White to light green radiating prismatic sprays to 1 cm in diameter.
Origin: de Linde lease, Avant, Garland Co., Arkansas, United States
Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Wavellite on pyrophyllite
Origin: Staley, Randolph Co., North Carolina, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Origin: County Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6 x 8.5 x 4.5 cm
 
  
Origin: County Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, U.S.A.
Sample size: 9.5 x 6 x 5.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

Sprays of white to colourless crystals or spherical aggregates ± oxyberaunite (not a valid mineral species), cacoxenite, variscite on matrix
Origin: Grube Rotläufchen, Walgirmes, Hessen, Germany
Sample size: micromount
 
5-8 mm large radiating aggregates of yellow-brown wavellite crystals on black matrix
Origin: Branstable, Devon, U.K.
Sample size: 3 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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