E archived mineral specimens

Elpidite

#BM40905

Availability: Sold

Locality: Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Formula: Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
Size: SmCabinet 8x4.5x4cm

A great, large crystal group of greenish, prismatic Elpidite with crystals to 3cm. Associated with Leifite and unknown pink rhombic crystals probably Rhodochrosite.

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Elyite

#JD64795

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Locality: Neue Hoffnung mine, Bleialf, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Formula: CuPb₄O₂SO₄(OH)₄·H₂O
Size: Miniature 3.8x2.3x2cm
Tagged: copper

Purple fibrous crystals in a small 5mm vug.

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Elyite

#64150

Availability: Sold

Locality: Silberbach mine, Stolberg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Formula: CuPb₄O₂SO₄(OH)₄·H₂O
Size: Miniature 4x3x1cm
Tagged: copper

Gorgeous purple acicular crystals. Nice piece.

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Embreyite

#BN48210

Availability: Sold

Locality: Callenberg North, Open Cut, Saxony, Germany
Formula: Pb₅(CrO₄)₂(PO₄)₂·H₂O
Size: SmCabinet 6.5x3x2.5cm
Tagged: phosphate

Dark orange coating on matrix.

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Emeleusite

#41339

Availability: Sold

Locality: Igdlutalik Island, South Greenland
Formula: Na₂LiFe³⁺Si₆O₁₅
Size: Miniature 3.5x2.5x1cm
Tagged: pegmatite mineral
Special Info: XRD Confirmed
Special Info: EDS Confirmed

Emeleusite is thus far a one-locality mineral. It is an orthorhombic sodium-lithium-iron inosilicate. The deposit is distal from the the Ilímaussaq complex.

The specimen is rather nondescript. It is a granular pinkish tan mass. Identified by Dr. Igor Pekov.

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