Gilalite Gallery

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Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O, Quartz : SiO₂
	Ceará, Northeast Region, Brazil This beautiful included quartz specimen is polished all around , to reveal the rich gilalite inside. This is an extremely rare mineral. It is not a natural crystal specimen, due to teh polishing, I admit, but it is nevertheless significant as heck. Also, there is enormous investment potential in that one could TRIM the specimen into numerous ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 41733 View Count: 466
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O, Apophyllite
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Picture width is 4mm. Nice green tuffs of Gilalite (TL) and one clear crystal of Apophyllite.
© Elmar Lackner	Photo ID: 74311 View Count: 482
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Acicular needles forming balls of gilalite. Associated with fluorapophyllite and kinoite. Field of view, 1mm x 1mm. Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.
© Brent Thorne	Photo ID: 16513 View Count: 578
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O, Kinoite : Ca₂Cu₂(H₂O)₂[Si₃O₁₀]
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Picture width 1,5 mm. Balls of green Gilalite associated with blue Kinoite. Photographer and collection O. Dziallas.
© O. Dziallas	Photo ID: 36526 View Count: 380
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O, Kinoite : Ca₂Cu₂(H₂O)₂[Si₃O₁₀], Apophyllite
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Field of view : 3 mm – Green balls, blue crystals of kinoite, and colourless prismatic crystals of apophyllite - Photo and collection François Périnet
© François Périnet	Photo ID: 49837 View Count: 320
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O, Apophyllite
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Field of view : 3 mm – Green balls on colourless prismatic crystal of apophyllite- Photo and collection François Périnet
© François Périnet	Photo ID: 49836 View Count: 306
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O, Apophyllite
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Picture width is 5mm. Nice green Gilalite (TL) with colorless Apophyllite crystals. Depth of field is achieved with CombineZM.
© Elmar Lackner	Photo ID: 93951 View Count: 290
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O, Kinoite : Ca₂Cu₂(H₂O)₂[Si₃O₁₀], Apophyllite
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Green gilalite with nice micro-xls. of blue kinoite, with colorless apophyllite. Overall size of stone: ca. 50 x 25 x 20 mm. Photo and collection Martin Patus
© Martin Patus	Photo ID: 139438 View Count: 145
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Gilalite 1 mm globules. photo & collection S.Broetto
	Photo ID: 144005 View Count: 145
Gilalite : Cu₅Si₆O₁₇·7H₂O
	Christmas Mine (Red Bird shafts; Inspiration Mine; Hackberry shafts), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA A rich 1cm vug of Gilalite crystals from the type locality. Under high magnification, it shows acicular crystals rising from the green balls. Michael Cline specimen and photograph. Self collected.
© Michael D. Cline	Photo ID: 165169 View Count: 102