GASPEITE
Specimen gas-1

Dims:2.4x1.4x1.4" (6.0x3.6x3.5 cm)

Wt: 2.2oz. (61g)

Carr Boyd Mine, Western Australia, Australia

The top of this specimen is scattered with minute clusters and crusts of gaspeite crystals. They are pale green in color, but they are so tiny that even with a loupe the hexagonal form cannot be verified. The matrix of this specimen appears to be a limonite/goethite mix. There is no damage to this specimen.

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Widgiemooltha, Western Australia

This gaspeite specimen is perfect for a lapidairist, as the gaspeite is a perfect yellow-green, and it is dense with few inclusions. The vein of gaspeite is generally about 10mm thick, tapering up to 13mm at one end, and down to 7mm at the other. One corner of the specimen (perhaps 25% of the volume) is lower quality material, and both faces of the specimen are coated with a brown host rock with unidentified colorless transparent crystals - they don't look like the usual quartz or calcite, but more like gypsum or barite.

Dims: 2.72x1.10x0.83" (6.9x2.8x2.1cm)

Wt: 1.48oz. (41.8g)

Widgiemooltha, Western Australia

Except for a few crusts and crystals of an unidentified brown mineral, and a small amount of a beige mineral, this specimen is all gaspeite. Its color is a unique pale green, and the gaspeite has no crystalline form at all. It is relatively pure, although there are two shades of green, a pure gaspeite green, and that green with a touch of brown mixed in.