Pyrosmalite-(Mn) Gallery

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Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀
	Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia These are superb, light maroon-colored crystals of this exceptionally rare pyrosmalite species. The size, to almost an inch, is incredible! These are the largest crystals BY FAR that i have seen for sale on the market - almost to an inch! It is a worldbeater for the species of competition aesthetics and quality, hands down, that might even be so ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 37785 View Count: 340
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀, Hedenbergite : CaFe²⁺[Si₂O₆]
	Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia Superb, maroon-colored crystals of this exceptionally rare pyrosmalite species perched on contrasting green crystals of hedenbergite. Formerly labeled johannsenite. However we recently were told that johannsenite from Broken Hill is rare at Broken Hill and requires confirmation. The crystals associated with the pyrosmalite here fall on the ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 27422 View Count: 384
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀
	Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia This is the best specimen of its species from Australia I have seen for sale, myself. It is from the personal colleciton of Aussie collector and dealer Rob Sielecki, with whom i traded at Tucson. It is a very atrtractive, sparkling, red specimen with large and fat crystals measuring to 5 x 5 x 5 mm concentrated at one end. It actually displays ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 64406 View Count: 262
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀
	Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia Pyrosmalite-(Mn) solid approx 6 x 4 cm platy crystalline section with small pocket of hexagonal crystals. See close-up child photo.
© Christopher O'Neill	Photo ID: 169471 View Count: 72
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀, Hedenbergite : CaFe²⁺[Si₂O₆]
	Consolidated Zinc Mine (New Broken Hill Consolidated Mine; NBHC Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia Not the prettiest photo, but it does show two of the rarer mineral species from the Broken Hill region. Small pinkish-red crystals of Pyrosmalite-(Mn) in a vug of Hedenbergite crystals. I will update this with a better photo as soon as possible. FOV approx 10mm across. Specimen and Photograph M.Willoughby.
© M. Willoughby 08	Photo ID: 154992 View Count: 83
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀
	Kyurasawa mine (Kyuurasawa; Kyurazawa), Ashio, Tochigi Prefecture, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan Manganpyrosmalite comprising most of the pink part of this specimen, with brownish yellow spessartine and minor brown tephroite or fayalite. S401-002 1 cm field of view. Excalibur Mineral Company specimen.
© 2008, JGW	Photo ID: 157971 View Count: 117
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀
	Takanosu mine, Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan Free-standing pyrosmalite-(Mn) (manganpyrosmalite) crystals up to 3mm. Some of the pyrosmalite-(Mn) crystals from this mine can be much larger.
© alfredo petrov	Photo ID: 250667 View Count: 21
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀
	Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA Brown granular aggregate of manganpyrosmalite. Harvard Mineralogical Museum specimen. Specimen is about 10 cm across. P. Cristofono photo.
© 2007 Peter Cristofono	Photo ID: 102067 View Count: 173
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀
	Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA Pyrosmalite (Mn) - close-up of a 2 mm brown hexagonal crystal within a 3 x 2 cm calcite matrix associated with a metallic grey mineral. See additional photos.
© Christopher O'Neill	Photo ID: 161694 View Count: 88
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) : (Mn,Fe)₈Si₆O₁₅(OH,Cl)₁₀
	Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA Modris Baum collection. FOV 1.4 x 1.1 mm. The child photos are another view and a stereo view.
	Photo ID: 165601 View Count: 88