Xocomecatlite

  
Ball-like green crystals to about 0.75 mm
Green spherical crystals to 1 mm throughout this matrix
  
Several spheroidal crystals to 0.05 - 0.9 mm
  
specimen with about 15 green spheroidal crystals to 0.5 mm of very rare xocometcatlite with a 2 mm vug filled with micro crystals of possible quetzalcoatlite. Ex. DeVito Collection
  
  
Green spheroidal crystals to about 0.5 mm in several places in vugs.
  
Origin: Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic dist., Utah, United States
Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (2nd row), 3 x 1.5 x 2 cm (3rd row), 3.5 x 2 x 2 cm (4th row), 3 x 3 cm x 5 mm (5th/6th row), 5 x 4 x 3 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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