Woodruffite
Black botryoidal and slightly stalactitc woodruffite intermixed with
colourless to grayish colored crystalline
smithsonite
Matrix with the top covered by gray botryoidal crystallized
smithsonite
associated with woodruffite.
Matrix coated with
smithsonite
and scattered brownish woodruffite
Origin: Willet mine, near Lardeau, British Columbia Canada
Sample size: ?? (top), 10.5 x 10 x 5 cm (2nd row), 11.5 x 9.1 x 6.4 cm (bottom)
Chocolate-brown balls of acicular crystals on limonite
Origin: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 3 x 3 cm
Complete radial sprays of jet black needles. The sprays are about 4mm across.
Ex. DeVito collection
Black micro acicular crystals (less than 0.5 mm) in radial sprays to 4 mm. The
photo depicts the crystals to be somewhat blue. In actuality they are more
black!
Origin: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm (top), 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm (2nd row), 9 x 6 x 4 cm
(3rd/bottom row)
