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Mixed Minerals

Sunday, 19 March 2023 06:00 PM

Introducing the "Mixed Minerals" gallery which is part of our New Additions galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including lithiophilite, pseudoboleite, and zincobriartite and more from places like Foote mine, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, United States, Sierra Gordo dist., Antofagasta, Chile, and Prince Leopold, Kipushi mine, Katanga, Dem. Rep. of Congo.

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Lithiophilite - BAC61189
Lithiophilite - BAC61189

Lithiophilite

#BAC61189
Locality
Foote mine, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, United States 
Formula
LiMn2+PO4 
Availability
Sold
Size
5.5 x 2.5 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet 

Glassy light brown crystals. There are two crystal groups, one is 3mm and the other is less than 1mm.


Lithiophilite

Formula
LiMn2+PO4 
Crystal System
Orthorhombic 
Crystal Habit
Prismatic 
Cleavage
Perfect, Very Good, Imperfect 
Luster
Vitreous - Resinous 
Color
brown, yellowish brown, salmon, brownish, blackish 
Streak
gray white 
Class
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal 
Fracture
Conchoidal - Uneven 
Hardness
4-5 
Collection
William & Anne Cook Collection
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Pseudoboleite - 61265
Pseudoboleite - 61265

Pseudoboleite

with Caracolite - #61265
Locality
Sierra Gordo dist., Antofagasta, Chile 
Formula
Pb31Cu24Cl62(OH)48 
Availability
Available
Price
$50.00
Size
3.5 x 2 x 2 cm - Miniature 
Tagged
copper  

Blue cubes of Pseudoboleite to about 0.5mm scattered on matrix with colorless, excellent hexagonal dipyramidal crystals of Caracolite to about 1mm.


Pseudoboleite

Formula
Pb31Cu24Cl62(OH)48 
Crystal System
Tetragonal 
Crystal Habit
Pseudo Cubic 
Cleavage
Perfect, None, None 
Luster
Vitreous - Pearly 
Color
indigo blue 
Streak
light green 
Class
Tetragonal - Ditetragonal Dipyramidal 
Fracture
Uneven 
Hardness
2.5 
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Zincobriartite - 61086
Zincobriartite - 61086

Zincobriartite

#61086
Locality
Prince Leopold, Kipushi mine, Katanga, Dem. Rep. of Congo 
Formula
Cu2(Zn,Fe)(Ge,Ga)S4 
Availability
Available
Price
$325.00
Size
0.8 x 0.4 x 0.1 cm - Thumbnail 
Special Info
Type Locality 
Special Info
EDS Confirmed 

A solid cyrstalline mass of this extremely rare Ge-Ga sulfide. It only occurs at this locality and Tsumeb. This is one of the larger pieces I've seen. It also occurs as inclusions in Renierite , germanite, sphalerite and Chalcopyrite, but his is no inclusion! Ex. Dr. Jaroslav Hyrsl specimen.


Special Info
Type Locality
Special Info
EDS Confirmed
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