Xonotlite

  

 

  

Xonotlite with inesite

  

Xonotlite on hydroxyapophyllite

Origin: Wessels Mine, near Kuruman, Kalahari, South Africa

Sample size: 7.5 x 7 x 5 cm (top), 5.7 x 5.1 x 3.9 cm (2nd/3rd row),

 

  

Xonotlite with bultfonteinite

Origin: Black Rock Mine, Hotazel, South Africa
ex. Ludi von Bezing Collection

Sample size: 14 x 10 x 10 cm

 

  

Origin: Black Rock Mine, Kuruman, South Africa

Ex. W. Israel collection

Sample size: 8.1 x 7.0 x 4.0 cm

 

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Origin: Cantenbury, New Zealand

Sample size: 6 x 6 x 4 cm with snow white fibrous crystals to 1 cm

 

  

White fibrous crystals of xonotlite to 1 mm in vugs associated with blue stringhamite.

Origin: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona, United States

Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1 cm

 

  

Snow white crystals to 6 mm embedded in matrix as radial groups in scarn matrix.

Origin: Commercial quarry, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, United States

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 6.5 x 4 x 3 cm

 

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Origin: Stremitelnaje, Kamchatka, Russia

Sample size: 2 x 2.3 cm

 

Origin: Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Republic of South Africa

Sample size: 2.5 x 4 cm

 

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Origin: Bin of Hently Quarry, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Great Britain

Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm

 

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