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Published: 2015-03-10 07:01:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 410; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 0
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Does anyone know the name of this mineral? what about the little green stones? Could them be little emmeralds?Related content
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Visually could be anything from calcite to aragonite to baryte to hemimorphite to tarnowitzite.
The association of the yellowish green mineral helps narrow things down slightly, but that still depends on my best guess. From what it looks like, the specimen is on a rusty brown limonite matrix, the yellowish green rounded aggregates may be mimetite, and so your main bluish white crystals might be hemimorphite, which forms that elegant, bladed habit. All of these minerals are commonly associated with each other particularly in the Ojuela Mine in Mexico.
Finally, just as a note, try not to call the minerals "stones", which is a really inaccurate and nebulous term. I'd just call them crystals.
Hope that helps! Some online searching might also help verify or disprove my guesses. The specimen looks pretty as well.
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Thanks Brenton, I think they do come from Durango, Mexico. The guy that sold me these said they were young emmeralds xDĀ they look more like Adamite to me, I got some other samples with similar crystals, I'll submit them so you can take a look, just a min
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Sure thing, I'll take a look!
And I think that dealer's credibility went down the drain as soon as he said "young emeralds" lmao. What does that even mean?!
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Large crystals could be baryte(BaSO4) for me, but no idea for th little ones (but not emerald, i think).
Where does it come from? How long is it? Maybe it could help for determination. It really looks like blue to white gemmy baryte samples from Nador, Morocco.
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Hi Haleryan, this one comes from Durango, Mexico; the largest crystals are maybe 1.4 cm long.
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