Uvite, Magnesite - Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
(#12749_MAGN_DANI)
Nice red uvite crystals sits on lear nice magnesite crystals. Very cute.
Superb magnesite crystals cluster with uvite and tiny globular goethite? crystals.
Specimen weight:314 gr.
Crystal size:19 mm (m), 2 mm (u)
 Overall size:100mm x 75 mm x 60 mm
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Corkite on goethite - Serra da Mina mine - Cercal - Santiago do Cacém - Setúbal distr. - Portugal
(#GM25021)
Several yellow-brown minicrystals of corkite are spread over the matrix of black goethite.
The pictures are overligthened to show the details.
Ex Bruno Cerato collection with original label.
Specimen weight:44 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 1
Overall size:65mm x 40 mm x 32 mm
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Rhodochrosite and goethite in fossil shell - Kamysh-Burun Trough - Kerchenskoe deposit - Kerchenskyi (Fe) ore basin - Kerch Peninsula - Crimea - Russia
(#GM25019)
This specimen consists of a fossil shell that has partially transformed into rhodochrosite through pseudomorphosis.
There are large dark gray areas of goethite.
Specimen weight:76 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:48mm x 42 mm x 47 mm
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Crocoite - Red Lead Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
(#MINS9070)
Fire orange-red color crystals up to 7 mm in alterated Goethite matrix. A classic
Specimen weight:5 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:42mm x 23 mm x 8 mm
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Baryte - Mibladen mining distr. - Midelt Prov. - Drâa-Tafilalet Region - Morocco
(#GM24100)
Excellent druse completely covered by lamellar barite crystals.
The color is rather dark orange, with some black dots here and there, probably made up by goethite.
Very aesthetic !
Specimen weight:535 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 20
Overall size:130mm x 80 mm x 50 mm
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Plancheite and Unknown - Tantara mine, Shinkolobwe, Haut Katanga, Democratic Rep. of Congo
(#12417_PLAN_DANI)
Superb plancheite in spherical xx with dark unknown xx (possibily goethite or heterogenite)
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:82mm x 39 mm x 20 mm
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Goethite - Traveresella mine, Traversella, Piedmont, Italy
(#11803a_GOET_DANI)
Stunning acicular goethite xls on matrix.
Specimen weight:35 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm
Overall size:51mm x 40 mm x 23 mm
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Amethyst quartz and goethite - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
(#GM24022)
A large druse completely covered by quartz crystals with a beautiful amethyst color.
Most crystal tips are darker.
The black traces that can be seen are of goethite and ...
Specimen weight:550 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 10
Overall size:125mm x 110 mm x 43 mm
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Lepidocrocite on Goethite - Eisenzecher Zug mine, Eiserfeld, Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
(#MINS8843)
Translucent, red-brown crystals of lepidocrocite lining cavities in gossan matrix. Looks beautiful under magnification.
Specimen weight:107 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1.5 mm
Overall size:48mm x 47 mm x 25 mm
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Uvite, Magnesite - Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
(#12658_UVIT_DANI)
This is a no ordinary uvite for crystal size and xx shape. Associated to minor magnesite as normal for this classic locality.
Superb magnesite crystals cluster with uvite and tiny globular goethite? crystals.
Specimen weight:1680 gr.
Crystal size:42 mm
Overall size:80mm x 170 mm x 120 mm
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Vanadinite - Vein 12, Jbel Tadaout, Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#MINS8541)
A very aesthetic and classy Moroccan specimen of red-orange vanadinite barrels to 10 x 9 mm wide set on contrasting, matte-black, botryoidal crust of either goethite or manganese oxides.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 x 9 mm
Overall size:40mm x 37 mm x 18 mm
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Strengite on goethite - Leveäniemi mine - Svappavaara - Kiruna - Norrbotten County - Sweden
(#GM21039)
Excellent cluster that has several little, lillac colored spheres of strengite.
They are sedded over a carpet of dark brown colored gothite.
Some of them are broken to show the typical spoking.
Specimen weight:430 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 5
Overall size:65mm x 54 mm x 52 mm
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Corkite - Serra da Mina Mine, Cercal do Alentejo, Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal, Portugal
(#FERR1573)
This is a small specimen of a considerable batch of extremely bright and lustrous corkite cristals coated by yellow plumbojarosite on a goethite matrix.
Specimen weight:130 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:66mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Baryte over rhodochrosite - Felsobanya mine - Maramures - Romania
(#GM18055)
The cluster is covered by pink rhodochrosite: some blades, pale grey-blue colored barytes are grown over it.
Some of them are encrusted by yellow-brown carbonate ...
Specimen weight:1330 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 25
Overall size:143mm x 87 mm x 68 mm
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Roselite on Quartz with Goethite - Aghbar Mine (Arhbar Mine), Aghbar, Bou Azzer District (Bou Azer District), Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#BALD0579)
Group of isolated Roselite's crystals, very nice, with good color, translucent, in very well conditions. The biggest crystal, twinned and biterminated has really remarkable dimensions (10 mm).
Specimen weight:122 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:65mm x 45 mm x 46 mm
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Owner : Rolando Minerals (Torino - Italy) 