Specimen #2142

Name: Gilalite

Type: Micromount

Locality: Christmas Mine, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA

Favorite? N

Fluorescent? N

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Acquired: 2010-11-11

Source: Simkev Micromounts

Label: N

Comment: An Arizona rarity! Type locality! Very fine pieces with bright apple green spherical and/or botryoidal crystals on matrix +/- Linarite.

Minerals: Gilalite (Cu5Si6O17 7(H2O)) Linarite (PbCu(SO4)(OH)2)

There are 2 pictures on file

M02142-01.jpg:

Gilalite, Christmas Mine, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona - FOV: 1.7 x 2.6 mm (12 stacked images)

M02142-02.jpg:

Gilalite, Christmas Mine, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona - FOV: 1.3 x 1.9 mm (12 stacked images)