From the mine best known for its crocoite comes a rarer occurrence, zoned mimetite crystals. There are interesting rounded surface features too. Probably where the mimetite was attached to ferro-manganese oxides. Hexagonal prisms of zoned...
Orange wulfenite crystals with spherical green mimetite and red minium. Ex Diederik Visser 6/2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic wulfenite with smaller acicular mimetite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
A single blocky orange crystal of wulfenite with pale yellow mimetite and colourless fluorite crystals on a bed of quartz. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a...
Wulfenite with two different habits on either side of the specimen. On one side, thin tabular crystals and on the other, blocky tapering prismatic double-terminated crystals. Collected by Jack and Marty Crawford in 2005. Width...
Yellow hexagonal mimetite roses on green duftite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 142 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic colourless cerussite with tiny yellow mimetite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Merv and Lil Legg at the 1999 Gemkana for $2. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Barry Porter at the Horsham Gemkhana for $2.50.
Greenish-grey beaverite with tiny yellowish hexagonal prisms of mimetite. Acquired from David Vince in 1992. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny platy orange crystals of bastnäsite-(Ce) with yellow hexagonal mimetite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green crystals of bayldonite with lighter green olivenite, and yellow hidalgoite crusts on colourless mimetite. You can see the tips of the mimetite peeking through on a few crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack...
Green prismatic crystals of olivenite. Interestingly, when you zoom in, particularly towards the top of the image, you can also see tiny white hexagonal crystals (likely mimetite) and rounded green crystals (likely copper-bearing adamite or...
Grey rhombohedral smithsonite crystals with yellow mimetite. Specimen measures 49x28x20mm.
Tiny triangular orange bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals on black coronadite. There are three vughs with at least a dozen bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals in each. Mimetite is mostly yellow prismatic crystals with one grey crystal. Width 3mm. Stack of...
Lovely little thumbnail (in micro box) of a group of zoned golden mimetite crystals. Ex American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Collection number 45287. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection. AMNH received it as a gift from...
Yellow prismatic crystals that fluoresce orange-pink under longwave ultraviolet. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Ex Ambros Kissling.
Zoned white to brown barite with tiny colourless mimetite crystals and white “smithsonite”. The latter is not listed in Mindat. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Ex Ted Johnson.
Zoned orange-capped yellow hexagonal prisms with small prism faces. Some twinning visible. Width 11mm. Stack of 130 images.
Yellow butterfly of mimetite with goethite casts after cerussite. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals with yellow mimetite on pale pinkish crystalline barite. Video best viewed full screen.
Yellow bypyramidal crystals of wulfenite with green mimetite balls. Video best viewed full screen.
Typical “Campylite” from this famous occurrence. Video best viewed full screen.
Bright orange mimetite surrounds glassy orange wulfenite crystals.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee.
Campylite habit, Barry Schubert
Specimen measuring 5.8×4.1×3.5cm weighs just under 5 ounces. Ex Martin L. Ehrmann (d. 1972) on Fifth Avenue, who according to the Mineralogical Record Archive became America’s premier dealer in high-quality mineral specimens. While the label...
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Ex Mike Knew Collection. Mike Knew is the owner of Top Gem Minerals in Tucson, Arizona.
Orange prismatic bellite, blue diaboleite, yellow schwartzembergite
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Don McColl.
Old mount with label of Yuma Co which predatesthe split of Yuma into the La Paz and Yuma counties.
Zoned hegagonal prisms. Ex Joan Lamond specimen #3972.
Classic Red Cloud wulfenite crystal group with tiny mimetite crystals.
