Rice grain smithsonite crystal group. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny smithsonite crystals on interpenetrant fluorite and bladed barite crystals, on quartz. Acquired from Philip Grounds, Bay Minerals, in 2012. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a...
Rounded honey-coloured jellybean smithsonite crystals with bladed barite. Acquired from Philip Grounds, Bay Minerals, in 2012. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Smithsonite epimorphs after calcite. Acquired from Richard Bell. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
There appears to be a couple of generations of smithsonite. The first larger crystals, and the second much smaller crystals, visible around the edges of some of the larger ones. Acquired from Richard Bell. Width...
Acquired from Mark Ascher 9/2007. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for monteponite. Tan smithsonite with yellow and brown monteponite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green bromargyrite and bromian chlorargyrite crystals on chalcophanite with minor grey smithsonite. Acquired from David Vince in 1992. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Green smithsonite. Ex John Lewis Collection. Ex Bernie Day.
Sky blue thin crystals of aurichalcite. Also present but not in photo – colourless hemimorphite and pale green smithsonite. Multiple fluorescent colours under longwave – orange-red (appears to be the smithsonite), orange (tiny patch of...
Grey rhombohedral smithsonite crystals with yellow mimetite. Specimen measures 49x28x20mm.
One of my favourite Broken Hill smithsonite specimens. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 100 images.
White smithsonite, green malachite.
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.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Rhombohedral crystals of smithsonite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images.
Light brown translucent crystals on matrix. Ex American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Collection, numbered 49272. Jamie Newman of the museum has advised that the number should read 94272.
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Richard Bell 9/2005
Epimorph after calcite
