Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Yellow-green bairdite and light blue fuettererite. These minerals are extremely rare. Photo Germano Fretti, collection Luigi Chiappino.
SW cut, Otto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Cluster of lite blue hexagonal plates of Fuettererite on quartz. Lite green Timroseite also is in the photo. Associate minerals are Khinite and Mimetite. Collected in 2010 and photographed in 2015
© john hagstrom
FOV 1mm. Blue fuettererite xls. EDS by Robert Housley. Child SEM photo of a fuettererite cluster by Robert Housley is from a chip a few mm from color photo xl group. Associated minerals not in photo are bairdite and laurionite. Collection Chuck Adan, SEM photo:Bob Housley.
© Chuck Adan 2013
Hexagonal plates of fuettererite on quartz. I personally collected this specimen. Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.
© Brent Thorne 2013
Large lite blue Fuettererite crystal sticking up out of a group of flat lying crystals. Collected in 2012 and photographed in 2015. From the S.W cut.
Blue green fuettererite with fluorescent green bairdite and olive green timroseite on quartz. These three minerals usually occur together and they are the last tellurium minerals to form on the specimen. I collected this specimen on 1-26-17. Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.
© Brent Thorne 2019
Aga Mine, Otto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Red backite balls with blue-green fuettererite on quartz crystals. This is the first confirmed find of these two extremely rare hexavalent tellurium oxysalts minerals from the Aga mine. They have been found at other Otto Mtn localities but not there. Associated with yellow-green bairdite platelets, tan backite balls, and green-blue paratacamite ...
Closeup on the red backite balls with blue-green fuettererite. The fuettererite crystal shape is becoming more noticeable in some areas. See the parent photo for more info. Identified with Raman spectroscopy at Caltech Geoplanetary lab in Pasadena, CA. Michael Cox took the picture on Keyence digital microscope at Pacific Micro Mineral ...
Deep closeup on the blue-green fuettererite crystals on quartz, taking the digital microscope close to its limits. The prominent tabular trigonal crystal shape can be observed now. A few crystals show a thicker form. See the parent photo for more info. Identified by Dr. Housley with Raman spectroscopy at Caltech Geoplanetary lab in Pasadena, CA. ...
FOV 1mm. Blue fuettereite xls. EDS by Robert Housley. Associated minerals not in photo are bairdite and laurionite. Collection and photo Chuck Adan.