Zanazziite

  

Zanazziite with eosphorite

  

Zanazziite with albite

Origin: Telirio Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 1.5 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm (top), 3 x 2.5 x 2.25 cm (bottom)

 

  

  

This piece has several large, sharp, lustrous, well-formed, translucent, yellowish-green crystal groups of the rare phosphate zanazziite which are sitting on a matrix of crystallized quartz and associated with several golden-brown crystals of eosphorite.

  

  

This piece has several large, sharp, lustrous, well-formed, translucent, yellowish-green crystal groups of zanazziite which are sitting on a matrix of crystallized quartz and associated with several golden-brown crystals of eosphorite.

Origin: Lavra da Ilha (an island in the middle of the Jequitinhonha River), Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil (type locality)

Sample size: 5.5 x 4.4 x 3.7 cm (top/2nd row), 4.2 x 1.8 x 1.8 cm (3rd/bottom row)

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Pale olive-green to black spherical aggregates of zanazziite partly pseudomorph after eosphorite; covered with small pale yellow calcite spheres

Origin: Lavra da Ilha, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 3 x 4 cm

 

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This specimen is literally covered with lustrous, root beer coloured crystals of eosphorite to 1 cm in length. Found among the eosphorite are scattered crystals of the rare mineral zanazziite and there is also abundant sprays of creamy white montgomeryite.

Origin: Lavra da Ilha Pegmatite, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil (type locality)

Sample size: 5.1 x 3.7 x 1.9 cm

 

  

Zanazziite with root beer coloured eosphorite

Origin: Telfrio Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 2.7 x 2.x 1.7 cm

 

  

This specimen of quartz is coated with a second phase of crystalline rose quartz. Upon it are numerous bladed crystals of eosphorite and abundant blocky crystals of olive green zanazziite.

Origin: Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 6 x 5.5 x 4.7 cm

 

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