Wurtzite

Wurtzite on quartz

Wurtzite on quartz

Origin: Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Negley, Columbiana Co., Ohio, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Origin: Etna, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Wurtzite with white bladed barite crystals to 1.3 cm

Origin: Huanzala, Peru

Sample size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm

 

  

Clay-ironstone concretion with shiny, reddish brown crystals to 1 mm near the center

Origin: RR cut, Donohoe, Pennsylvania, United States

Sample size: 2.6 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm

 

  

Hemimorphic pyramidal crystals, much like stacked cones which are striated horizontally to 1 mm, each is a translucent yellow to orange brown or even bronzy - iridescent.

Origin: Agios Philippos Pb-Zn deposit, Kirka, Xánthi Prefecture, Thrace Dept., Greece

Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm

 

  

  

Large 1cm plus crystals of wurtzite (upper left in photo) covered over by chalcopyrite with micro galena crystals on top of the chalcopyrite. Also associated are very nice, well formed galena crystals to 6 mm.

Origin: Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Prov., Huanuco Dept., Peru

Sample size: 5.5 x 4 x 2 cm

 

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Wurtzite (yellow) and sphalerite (nonfluorescent) under SW-UV light

Origin: Wiesloch, Germany

Owner: Axel Emmermann

 

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Origin: Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Bolivia

Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.75 cm
 

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Small red-brown hexagonal tabular crystals with jordanite and other sulphosalts

Origin: Grube Lengenbach, Binntal, Wallis, Switzerland

Sample size: micromount

 

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Wurtzite and calcite

  

Wurtzite with wolframite on quartz

Origin: Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China, Asia

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1.1 cm (top), 2.7 x 2 x 1.4 cm (2nd row), 2.1 x 2 x 1.4 cm (3rd/bottom row)
 

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