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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
- Formula
- AgI
- Size
- SmCabinet 7x5.5x5cm
- Tagged
- silver
An incredibly rich specimen with crystalline yellow, waxy masses of Iodargyrite in a large 5.5x4cm area. There is probably some Chlorargyrite here seen as grey crystals. One crystal is 9mm.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, United States
- Formula
- AgI
- Size
- SmCabinet 5x6.5x4cm
- Tagged
- halide
An unusually, incredibly rich specimen with a large 2cm open vug completely filled with superb waxy green-gray crystalline Iodargyrite with thin veinletts with more opaque crystals. Excellent piece!
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, United States
- Formula
- AgI
- Size
- SmCabinet 4x5.5x3cm
- Tagged
- halide
Absolutely superb crystals of waxy gray-green Iodargyrite with odd shaped crystal growths and some nearly gemmy well formed crystals to <1mm totally filling the large open vuggy areas to 2.5cm in matrix.
Also, there are some minor tiny prismatic crystals of an unidentified mineral.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
- Formula
- AgI
- Size
- Miniature 5x3.5x3.5cm
- Tagged
- silver
There is a lot of stuff going on in this specimen. The Iodargyrite occurs as waxy, yellow crystals grains to 3mm and the Chlorargyite occurs as waxy brown grains and crystals to 1mm and less. There is also Aurichalcite which occurs as tiny less than 1mm spheroidal sprays. The Smithsonite is a beautiful blue prismatic crystal to 2mm. You'll have fun scoping this one!
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Mount Keith mine, Mt. Keith, Western Austrialia, Australia
- Formula
- Mg6Fe3+2(OH)16Cl2·4H2O
- Size
- SmCabinet 9x5x4.5cm
The specimen is from Ben Grguric. As he describes on his label: Cross-fibre vein of iowaite lizardite altered dunite with blebs of pentlandite. You will note his specimen on Mindat also states the rock matrix is altered to Dunite and the Iowaite is altering to pyroaurite. Note also the Woodalite crystal grains to 1mm in the matrix. The Iowatie "vein" is 5mm across.