Rimpfischwäng range, Findel glacier (Findeln glacier; Findelen glacier) area, Zermatt, Visp, Valais, Switzerland

Greenish-black cluster of clinochlore crystals.

© Van King

Picture size 15 mm. Collection M. Kampf No 68-121

"Schweizerite" just found at the Rimpfischwang, with the Matterhorn in the background. Specimen ca.7cm wide

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Magnetite octahedron of 2.3 cm tip-to-tip. Christian Bracke Collection.

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This "fishtail" is chrysotile, which the locals call var. "Schweizerit". Picture width ~ 7 cm. See second image for backside. Christian Bracke Collection.

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This specimen is an unusual knob of aggregated grossular garnet crystals, sort of in the form and size of a large egg, perched on a bit of matrix. It is possible, actually, that this is demantoid in fact. 7.5 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm

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Green morenosite crusts on pennine. FOV ~ 1.5 x 1.2 cm. Christian Bracke Collection.

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Magnetite octahedrons of 1.4 cm tip-to-tip. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

Pennine crystal of 3.1 cm length, with typical greenish luster. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

Gemmy little andradite crystals "Topazolith". FOV ~ 3.8 x 3 cm. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

Green morenosite and almost white nickelhexahydrite on pennine. Specimen size 3.2 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm. Christian Bracke Collection.

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Pennine aggregate of 3.7 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

Pennine crystal of 1.9 cm length, associated with green morenosite. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

Translucent pennine crystal of 6 mm length. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

Andradite crystals with a waxy luster. FOV ~ 4 x 3 cm. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

Lustrous vesuvianite crystals up to 5 mm in diameter. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

Specimen size 5.4 x 4.1 x 3 cm. Christian Bracke Collection.

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Brownish-green grossular crystals associated with clinochlore. Specimen size 13.5 x 12 x 4.2 cm. Christian Bracke Collection.

© Christian Bracke

One of the classic localities for the species. A group of deep brown flattened crystals, with short prism faces and pyramid faces which are intersected by the predominant pinacoidal faces.Rimpfischwange, Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland.Found in 09/1951Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.8 × 1.1 cmMain crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cmWith handwritten note from the ...

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Picture width ~ 7 cm. Christian Bracke Collection.

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Equant (pseudocubic) Perovskite crystal. Bright and with a dark brown color, it is on a chlorite matrix, with small black Magnetite crystals. The sample, not included in Calcite, has not been acid treated so it maintains a very good luster.Rimpfischwange, Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland.Found in 1951Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.2 × 2.9 cm = 3.5” × ...

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Typically coloured grossular crystals up to 4 mm in diameter. Christian Bracke Collection.

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Pennine. Specimen is from the collection of the British Museum of Natural History #1909,35 (1975). Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.

© Rock Currier

13.5 x 6.4 x 3.5 cm. Penninite is an old-time synonym for pennine, a rare pseudo-trigonal variety of clinochlore. Clinochore is a chlorite group species. "Books" of sharp, platy, pseudohexagonal crystals are attractively clustered on the elongate, cabinet-sized, banded gneiss matrix. The clusters are iron oxide-coated. A few broken or bruised ...

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Grossular crystal of 4 mm in diameter. Christian Bracke Collection.

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Grossular crystals up to 5 mm in diameter, with the typical colour for this location. Christian Bracke Collection.

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Well shaped grossular crystal of 5 mm in diameter. Christian Bracke Collection.

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Aggregate of short prismatic crystals with dipyramidal terminations cutted by the pinacoid. To know more: - Arem, J.E. 1983. Idocrase (vesubianite)- a 250 - years puzzle. The Mineralogical Record. 14(4): 164-174 - Weibel, M., et alt.. 1990. Die mineralien der Schweiz. Birkhäuser. 227 p. ...

© Carles Curto Milà 2013

© Brent Lockhart

13.5 x 6.4 x 3.5 cm. Penninite is an old-time synonym for pennine, a rare pseudo-trigonal variety of clinochlore. Clinochore is a chlorite group species. "Books" of sharp, platy, pseudohexagonal crystals are attractively clustered on the elongate, cabinet-sized, banded gneiss matrix. The clusters are iron oxide-coated. A few broken or bruised ...

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5.4 x 3.4 x 3.4 cm. Pennine is a rare pseudo-trigonal variety of clinochlore. This is a showy and excellent cluster of two intergrown crystals. One face and the base are cleaved, showing the typical pearlescent lustre and green to black color. The termination face and one side are covered with tiny sparkly, brownish-green grossular garnet ...

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5.4 x 3.4 x 3.4 cm. Pennine is a rare pseudo-trigonal variety of clinochlore. This is a showy and excellent cluster of two intergrown crystals. One face and the base are cleaved, showing the typical pearlescent lustre and green to black color. The termination face and one side are covered with tiny sparkly, brownish-green grossular garnet ...

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2.4 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm. Clinochlore (variety pennine) is uncommon from this well-known Swiss area. Penninite is an old-time synonym for pennine, a rare pseudo-trigonal variety of clinochlore. This sharply formed layered, tapered crystal is mostly black with hints of typical green clinochlore color. Complete all-around. The cleaved termination shows ...

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Reference: TLM91AP7 Clinochlore crystal with very sharp crystal forms, pyramidal shape and satiny luster, dark green with reddish tones (pennine variety), on a Chrisotile matrix with octahedral crystals of Magnetite. The specimen, of high quality and from a very classic Swiss locality, comes from the old Robert-Auguste Touchon collection and ...

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Light green chrysotile, variety 'schweizerite'. NHMB collection, Peter Lof photo (Bern, August 2016). Uploaded with permission from the Natural History Museum Bern, Switzerland.

© Peter Lof

An amazing locality garnet specimen, this piece features wine-red crystals of hessonite garnet from the Swiss Alps, all lined up on a beautiful matrix. The color is rich and beautiful with strong lighting, although dark in normal light. Seldom seen, this appears to have been from a small discovery in 2015-2016, and was sold to Brent in 2017. For a ...

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Globular clusters of green demantoid crystals. NHMB collection, Peter Lof photo (Bern, August 2016). Uploaded with permission from the Natural History Museum Bern, Switzerland.

© Peter Lof

Characteristic blocky greenyellow crystal of vesuvianite, just one detail of a specimen of several centimeters. Collection and photo Henk Smeets.

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Reference: TLM91AP7 Clinochlore crystal with very sharp crystal forms, pyramidal shape and satiny luster, dark green with reddish tones (pennine variety), on a Chrisotile matrix with octahedral crystals of Magnetite. The specimen, of high quality and from a very classic Swiss locality, comes from the old Robert-Auguste Touchon collection and ...

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An amazing locality garnet specimen, this piece features wine-red crystals of hessonite garnet from the Swiss Alps, all lined up on a beautiful matrix. The color is rich and beautiful with strong lighting, although dark in normal light. Seldom seen, this appears to have been from a small discovery in 2015-2016, and was sold to Brent in 2017. For a ...

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An amazing locality garnet specimen, this piece features wine-red crystals of hessonite garnet from the Swiss Alps, all lined up on a beautiful matrix. The color is rich and beautiful with strong lighting, although dark in normal light. Seldom seen, this appears to have been from a small discovery in 2015-2016, and was sold to Brent in 2017. For a ...

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Excellent example of pennine from the Rimpfischwäng. NHMB collection, Peter Lof photo (Bern, August 2016). Uploaded with permission from the Natural History Museum Bern, Switzerland.

© Peter Lof

Light green andradite, locally named jelletite. Collection Natural History Museum London. Picture taken in the Earth's Treasury section – a selection from the Ashcroft collection. Frederick Noel Ashcroft (1878–1949) was a British mineral collector and scientific photographer whose extensive collections, a.o. 6,625 mineral specimens ...

© Peter Lof

Swiss Alpine minerals are among the most desirable and high quality examples of their respective species. The famed old-time vesuvianites from the Rimpfischwäng Mountain Range north of the Findel Glacier near Zermatt, Switzerland are highly sought after by collectors for their impressive size, quality and color. This showy miniature hosts a ...

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Swiss Alpine minerals are among the most desirable and high quality examples of their respective species. The famed old-time vesuvianites from the Rimpfischwäng Mountain Range north of the Findel Glacier near Zermatt, Switzerland are highly sought after by collectors for their impressive size, quality and color. This showy miniature hosts a ...

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Swiss Alpine minerals are among the most desirable and high quality examples of their respective species. The famed old-time vesuvianites from the Rimpfischwäng Mountain Range north of the Findel Glacier near Zermatt, Switzerland are highly sought after by collectors for their impressive size, quality and color. This showy miniature hosts a ...

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Swiss Alpine minerals are among the most desirable and high quality examples of their respective species. The famed old-time vesuvianites from the Rimpfischwäng Mountain Range north of the Findel Glacier near Zermatt, Switzerland are highly sought after by collectors for their impressive size, quality and color. This showy miniature hosts a ...

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The dark ridge of the Rimpfischwäng in front of the Alphubel Mt. (left peak, 4206m) and the Feechopf ridge. Photo taken in October 2007.

© Christian Bracke

The peak to the right is the 4199m high Rimpfischhorn Mt. The ridge down to the left are the Rimpfischwäng, the peak in the background ist the Allalin Mt. (4027m). Photo taken in October 2007.

© Christian Bracke

The peak in the left is the Alphubel Mt. (4206m), followed to the right by the Feechopf ridge and the Allalin Mt. (4027m). The dark ridge in the center are the Rimpfischwäng. Photo taken in October 2007.

© Christian Bracke

Swiss Alpine minerals are among the most desirable and high quality examples of their respective species. The famed old-time vesuvianites from the Rimpfischwäng Mountain Range north of the Findel Glacier near Zermatt, Switzerland are highly sought after by collectors for their impressive size, quality and color. This showy miniature hosts a ...

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Swiss Alpine minerals are among the most desirable and high quality examples of their respective species. The famed old-time vesuvianites from the Rimpfischwäng Mountain Range north of the Findel Glacier near Zermatt, Switzerland are highly sought after by collectors for their impressive size, quality and color. This showy miniature hosts a ...

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