Phyllosilicate Specimens Gallery M&W Minerals

Phyllosilicates Gallery

Phyllosilicate are composed of rings of SiO₄ tetrahedrons joined together by the Oxygen ions with other tetrahedrons in a two dimensional plane. Because of the shared Oxygen, the ratio of O to Si is less than 4 to 1. There are a large number of members in this class of Silicates.

This includes the Mica group (Muscovite, Lepidolite, Biotite, Phlogopite and others) the Clay group (Talc, Kaolinite, Montmorillonite, Pyrophyllite, Vermiculite, Glauconite and others) the Chlorite sub-group of clays (Clinochlore, Cookeite, indeterminant Chlorite and others), Apophyllite, Gyrolite, Prehnite, Chrysocolla, Cavansite, Ajoite, Papagoite, Carletonite, the Serpentine group (inderminate Serpentine, Antigorite, Lizardite and others) and still others

minerals in alphabetical order by first letter only

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3931 Ajoite Crystals on Rhyolite

New Cornelai Mine, Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona
Type Location
(K,Na)Cu₇AlSi₉O₂₄(OH)₆·3H₂O
9.8 x 7.5 x 3.9 cm
$25

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5460 Chrysocolla Pseudomoprh after Selenite

Ray Mine, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek Dist., Dripping Spring Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona
from 1976 find, Ex. Flying Pan Minerals, Ex. Storm Mountain Minerals, Ex. Paul Cowan
2.9 x 2.7 x 1.5 cm
$75

3371 Chamosite Pseudomorph after Almandine

Spurr Mountain Mine, Imperial Heights, Baraga Co., Michigan
5.2 x 4.7 x 4.8 cm
$35

2883 Cavansite

Owyhee Dam, Lake Owyhee State Park, Malheur Co., Oregon
Type Location
Ex. Steve Pullman
7.2 x 6.4 x 1.2 cm
$25

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5392 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Pyrite on Double Terminated Quartz

Bor Pit (Boron Pit), Dal'negorsk B deposit, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
5 x 2.8 x 3.2 cm
$50

5127 Fluorapophyllite, Stilbite

Nasik, Maharastra, India
12.5 x 7.8 x 6 cm
$75

5125 Fluorapophyllite, Stilbite

Nasik, Maharastra, India
9.5 x 8.4 x 6.5 cm
$35

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4110 Hendricksite

Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey
Type Location
UV Fluorescent
K(Zn,Mg,Mn²⁺)₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂
Ex. Steve Pullman
11.1 x 6.8 x 4.4 cm
$75

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6152 Latiumite

Cava di Campagnano, Campagnano di Roma, Sacrofano Caldera, Rome Prov., Latium, Italy
(Ca,K)₄(Si,Al)₅O₁₁(SO₄,CO₃
Ex. Steve Pullman, Purchased 1990
3.5 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm
$35

5839 Triangular Bicolor Lepidolite in Quartz and Albite Matrix

Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8.8 x 7.3 x 9.7 cm
$25

3440 Bicolor Lepidolite

Aracuai, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
10.2 x 6.6 x 0.7 cm
$75

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6374 Chrysocolla Pseudomoprh after Malachite, Micro Crystals of Dioptase Bonanza Mine (Harquahala Mine), Martin Peak, Salome, Little Harquahala Dist., Little Harquahala Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona Ex. Steve Pullman, Ex. Fraziers 9.9 x 7 x 5.6 cm labeled as Bisbeeite $45	6306 3 Specimen Suite of Mariposite from 3 California locations - 1) Mariposite in Sericite, 2) Mariposite, 3) Mariposite, Quartz 1) San Francisquito Canyon, San Gabriel Mts, Los Angeles Co., California; 2) Harvard Mine, Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., California; 3) Mariposa Co., California 1) Ex. University of Michigan Geology Department; 2) Ex. University of Michigan Geology Department, 1946; 3) Collected by John Siebel, c. 2000 6.4 x 3.5 x 0.5 cm Size is for specimen from LA county $45	6241 Star Muscovite Jenipapo District, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.8 cm $30
5984 Yellow Muscovite, Quartz Minas Gerais, Brazil Mined 2005. 10.5 x 6.7 x 3.5 cm $90	5983 Muscovite, Titanite, Albite, Chlorite, Hematite Cavagnoli glacier area, Bavona Valley, Maggia Valley, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland Ex. Wolfgang Henkel 5.2 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm $30	5359 Macdonaldite, Sanbornite, likely Traskite Rush Creek, Fresno Co., California Type Location BaCa₄Si₁₆O₃₆(OH)₂·10H₂O, BaSi₂O₅ Ex. Robert Walstrom, Ex. David Garske, Ex. Steve Pullman 5 x 4 x 3 cm $25
5009 Star Muscovite, Quartz Rodinha Mine, Jenipapo Dist., Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil 6 x 5.6 x 5.7 cm $75	4779 Star Muscovite Rodinha Mine, Jenipapo Dist., Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil 5.4 x 4.9 x 3.6 cm $35	642 Picture Mica Espera Feliz, Minas Gerais, Brazil 14.5 x 7.8 x 0.1 cm $20

N

4711 Neotocite variety: Penwithite

Noda-Tamagawa mine, Noda-mura, Kunohe-gun, Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan
(Mn,Fe,Mg)SiO₃·H₂O
Ex. Steve Pullman, purchased from Fraziers, Feb. 1990
5.3 x 1.6 x 1.6 cm
measurement is for the bottle
$30

O

2751 Okenite on Prehnite

Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India
17.3 x 13.8 x 3.5 cm
$85

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6239 Prehnite with minor Epidote Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg Area, Erongo Region, Namibia 6 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm $200	5997 Palygorskite, Calcite with Included Hematite Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway Ex. Steve Pullman 7.1 x 3.4 x 1.5 cm $50	5917 Prehnite Crystals Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada 4.7 x 3.4 x 2.6 cm $50
5086 Prehnite Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg Area, Erongo Region, Namibia 6.4 x 4.3 x 2.7 cm $50	4451 White Prehnite Crystal Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada Ex. Steve Pullman 2.7 x 3.1 x 2.6 cm $25	4423 Pipestone (Catlinite - a mix of Pyrophyllite and Muscovite) Barron County Pipestone Quarry near Rice Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin 19.7 x 7.2 x 3.4 cm $50
4171 Prehnite Clifton, Passaic Co., New Jersey Ex. A. E. Seaman Museum 10.7 x 5.7 x 4.8 cm $90	863 Ball Prehnite Lower New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic Co., New Jersey, USA 4.8 x 3.4 x 3.2 cm $50	369 Prehnite Merelani Hills (Mererani), Lelatema Mts, Arusha Region, Tanzania 2.9 x 2.2 x 1.3 cm $50

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4496 Double Terminated Quartz on Prehnite on White Banded Agate

Fairfax Co., Virginia
Ex. Kirk Valuet
6.6 x 3.2 x 2.4 cm
$35

R

4606 Petalite

Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ex. Steve Pullman, Ex. California Academy of Sciences, Donated in 1975 by M. S. Gensberg
7.2 x 5.2 x 3 cm
SOLD

S

4926 Sanbornite, Quartz

Big Creek, Rush Creek deposit, Fresno Co., California
Ba₂(Si₄O₁₀)
Ex. Steve Pullman
7 x 6.2 x 1.9 cm
$50

Specimens which have this class of minerals as an associated mineral

6242 Stalactitic Amethyst, Clear/White Quartz, Celadonite Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 7.1 x 4.4 x 4.3 cm $45	5412 Aquamarine, Goethite Pseudomorph after Siderite, Biotite Erongo Mountain, Erongo Region, Namibia 4.6 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm $85	5215 Azurite and likely Tenorite, Chrysocolla and Chalcoalumite (TL) Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona 5.3 x 4.3 x 3 cm $85
3840 Adularia with Included Chlorite Wana, South Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan 5.7 x 3.8 x 2.6 cm $50	3219 Adularia with Hematite Roses, Mica and Chlorite St. Gotthard, Switzerland 6.1 x 6.7 x 5.9 cm $60	5998 Corundum variety: Sapphire, Biotite , Quartz Elk Creek corundum deposit (Montana Mine; Gallatin deposit; Flying D), Gallatin Co., Montana Ex. California Academy of Sciences, Ex. Steve Pullman, Collected by C. Chesterman, 1944 8.6 x 7.2 x 4.1 cm $40
6074 Djuerlite, Muscovite, Quartz, possible Langite and/or Malachite Naesmark Mine, Amdals Verk, Tokke, Telemark, Norway Cu₃₁S₁₆ Ex. Wolfgang Henkel 6.4 x 4.6 x 4.1 cm $40	6051 Yellow with Purple Edging Datolite with Greenstone (Pumpellyite-Mg) and Chlorite Keweenaw Point, High Rock Bay area, Keweenaw Co., Michigan 2.3 x 1.5 x 1.7 cm $450	5063 Ferberite, Double Terminated Quartz, Muscovite, Hematite, minor Scheelite Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China 8.8 x 4.4 x 2.2 cm $150
6263 Galena with Twinned Crystals, Pyrite, Chlorite, Quartz Gyudyurska Mine, Zlatograd, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria 7.4 x 4.5 x 4.8 cm $50	6211 Curved Galena Crystals with Growth Lines, Quartz with Included Galena, Sphalerite, Chlorite, Pyrite Madan, Bulgaria 8 x 5 x 5.1 cm $35	5357 Goshenite with Included Albite on Micrcline with Muscovite and Tourmaline Erongo Mountain, Erongo Region, Namibia 4.3 x 3.8 x 3.7 cm Largest Goshen crystal measures 1.3 x 1.0 x 0.9 cm $150
4837 Garnet, Biotite with possible Cordierite and Cummingtonite Minas Gerais, Brazil 12 x 8 x 7.8 cm $50	3636 Grossular Garnet, Clinchlore Testa Ciarva, Mussa Alp, Balme, Ala Valley, Lanzo Valleys, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy 6.6 x 5.1 x 2.1 cm $50	6261 Green Muscovite on Hematite Roses Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil 7.9 x 6.1 x 5 cm $100
5844 Kinoite Included in Calcite, Orange Prehnite Knife River, St. Luois Co., Minnesota Ca₂Cu₂Si₃O₁₀·2H₂O 8.1 x 6.6 x 4.7 cm $75	4912 Kyanite, Quartz, Muscovite Sao Jose da Safira, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil 18.7 x 6.2 x 5.8 cm $75	5221 " Lodolite " Quartz - Unidentified Inclusions Minas Gerais, Brazil 6.8 x 6 x 4.7 cm $50
6387 Molybdenite and Muscovite on Albite on Quartz Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex Co., Connecticut Ex. University of Michigan Geology Department from J. H. Hatton 10.7 x 6.4 x 5.7 cm SOLD	4360 Microcline, Smoky Quartz, Albite, Chamosite Moat Mountain, Carroll Co., New Hampshire 10.6 x 9.7 x 6.2 cm $50	5390 Natrolite, Analcime, Prehnite, Pumpellyite, Datolite?, Calcite, Hematite? Rauschermuhle Quarry, Niederkirchen, Otterberg, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Ex. Wolfgang Henkel 6.3 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm $35
6380 Panasquieraite, Quartz, Chalcopyrite, Muscovite Panasquiera Mines, Panasquiera, Portugal Type Location CaMg(PO₄)(OH,F) 10.7 x 7.3 x 4.3 cm SOLD	5847 Lodolite (Included) Quartz - Partially Oxidized Chlorite Minas Gerais, Brazil 6.7 x 3.2 x 2.9 cm $30	5846 Quartz with Included Chlorite Vara Superiori, Liguria, Italy Ex. Renaud Vochten, purchased in 1979 10.6 x 3.6 x 4.9 cm The longest crystal is 2 cm long. $50
5471 Quartz, Albite variety: Pericline, Muscovite, minor Hematite and Chlorite Tyrol, Austria 7.6 x 4.8 x 5.7 cm $30	4503 Quartz with Included Hematite, Muscovite Fundao, Espirito Santo, Brazil 4.8 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm SOLD	4061 Quartz with Included Chlorite and 'Sand' Minas Gerais, Brazil 9.5 x 4.7 x 4.7 cm $75
3543 Quartz with Chlorite Phantoms Minas Gerais, Brazil 9 x 2.7 x 2.1 cm $30	6290 Rubellite Tourmaline in Lepidolite Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain, Pala, San Diego Co., California 12.8 x 9.7 x 8.5 cm $50	6145 Rose Quartz Crystals and Muscovite on Quartz Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil 2.9 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm $30
6038 Rhodochrosite, Elpidite, Leifite, Calcite, Albite Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada Elpidite - Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O, Leifite - Na₇Be₂(Si₁₅Al₃)O₃₉(F,OH)₂ 5.1 x 4.4 x 4.4 cm $150	4888 Rutialted Quartz with Hematite and Kaolinite Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil 5 x 3 x 2.4 cm $100	4767 Rutile on Siderite with Muscovite Cleveland Co., North Carolina 5.6 x 4.9 x 3.8 cm $75
4264 Ruby Corundum, Biotite Mysore District, Karnataka, India Ex. Hoisinger collection 4.6 x 2.6 x 2.3 cm 77 g $75	3825 Rose Quartz Crystals on Albite with Minor Muscovite Rose Quartz crystal locality (Pegmatite 24), Newry, Oxford Co., Maine 8.3 x 12.9 x 7.2 cm $1000	6288 Fluorapophyllite Crystals on Scolecite Crystals Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India 8.9 x 1.6 x 2.6 cm The 3rd dimension includes the side crystal. The width of the specimen without the side crystal is 1 cm and the main crystal is 0.5 cm in thickness. $35
6161 Shattuckite, Malachite Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia 5.4 x 3.7 x 2.9 cm $85	6083 Green and Brown Siderite Crystals, Muscovite, Albite, Quartz Nello Teer Crabtree Creek Quarry, Raleigh, Wake Co., North Carolina Ex. A. Neely, 1960s 4.5 x 3.8 x 1.9 cm $25	5972 Shigaite, Caryopilite, Rhodochrosite, Barite N'Chwaning I Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa Shigaite: Mn₆Al₃(OH)₁₈[Na(H₂O)₆](SO₄)₂·6H₂O , Caryopilite: Mn²⁺₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄ 6.8 x 5.7 x 4.2 cm The largest Shigaite crystal is 4 mm across. $200
5894 Spessartine Garnet and Chlorite Coated Muscovite on Microcline Tongbei, Fujian, China 6.8 x 3.8 x 2.1 cm $50	5145 Smoky Quartz, Orhoclase Coated with Hematite and Chlorite with Minor Pyrite Sheahan Brothers Granite Quarry, Graniteville, Iron Co., Misssouri 8.1 x 5.4 x 3.9 cm $85	5107 Scheelite on Muscovite Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang Pref., Sichuan Prov., China 8.8 x 4.7 x 2.7 cm The edges of the largest crystals measures 13 mm in length. $75
4668 Spessartine Garnet, Quartz, Muscovite Darrah Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan 6.8 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm $275	4447 Spessartine Garnet, Albite and Muscovite Shengus, Gilgit-Skardu Road, Northern Area, Pakistan 9.4 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm The spessartine crystal is 1.8 cm. $150	6071 Tourmaline, Quartz, Lepidolite Minas Gerais, Brazil Ex. Robert Gannon, 1960s 7.5 x 6.8 x 6.4 cm $50
5945 Zoisite variety: Thulite, Fluorite, Mica, minor Beryl Westgard Pass, Inyo Co., California Ex. Steve Pullman 6.1 x 5.2 x 4.9 cm $35	4385 Tourmaline, Lepidolite, Goshenite, Albite Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil 5.1 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm longest XL is 3.5 cm long $150	4118 Traskite, Sanbornite, Gillespite, Pyrite, Quartz Esquire No. 7 claim, Big Creek, Rush Creek deposit, Fresno Co., California Ba₂₁Ca(Fe²⁺,Mn,Ti)₄(Ti,Fe,Mg)₁₂(Si₁₂O₃₆)(Si₂O₇)₆(O,OH)₃₀Cl₆�14H₂O, Ba₂(Si₄O₁₀) Ex. Steve Pullman 7.1 x 5.2 x 3.9 cm $50
2035 Zirconolite, Fluorapatite, Richterite, Augite, Phlogopite, Perovskite Jacupiranga Mine, Cajati, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Ca,Fe,Y,Th)(Nb,Ti,Ta,Zr)O₄ 6.8 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm $100

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