Ben Kirchner's Photo Gallery
TR2-17UHydrocerussite Pb3(CO3)2(OH)2 , Diaboleite Pb2CuCl2(OH)4
Collins Mine, Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USAField of View: 2 mm
Tiny, colorless, red and yellow stained trigonal and pyramidal Hydrocerussite crystals (main crystals in photo). On blue Diaboleite. FOV ~2mm wide. Obtained from Shelter Rock Minerals, 2016.
3YV-8QKParalaurionite PbCl(OH) , Diaboleite Pb2CuCl2(OH)4
Collins Mine, Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USAField of View: 2 mm
Paralaurionite and Diaboleite from Tiger. Ex-Trimingham Collection. Purchased from Les and Paula Presmyk, TGMS, 2016.
Cool little thumbnail with a number of old labels - one of which says Gila Co., which isn't so bad - and another that says Collins Shaft, Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Oklahoma. Oops!
HFP-PTNParalaurionite PbCl(OH)
Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USADimensions: 53 mm x 49 mm x 36 mm
Field of View: 2 mm
DD5-D7ELinarite PbCu(SO4)(OH)2 , Cerussite PbCO3 , Antlerite Cu3(SO4)(OH)4
Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USAField of View: 3 mm
Linarite with Antlerite and Cerussite. Ex-David New and Trimingham Collections. Purchased from Les and Paula Presmyk at TGMS 2016.
0QF-VETLeadhillite Pb4(CO3)2(SO4)(OH)2 , Atacamite Cu2(OH)3Cl
Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USAField of View: 6 mm
Atacamite and Leadhillite crystals with Diaboleite inclusions. Ex-A.L. Flagg Collection. Purchased from Les and Paula Presmyk at TGMS 2016.
G48-A3APiemontite (CaCa)(AlAlMn3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Ash Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USAField of View: 9 mm
Largest Crystal Size: 4 mm
QR6-MT3Smithsonite ZnCO3 , Rosasite (Cu,Zn)2(CO3)(OH)2 , Cerussite PbCO3
Silver Hill Mine group, Silver Hill, Silver Hill Mining District, Waterman Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USAField of View: 2 mm
P15-UHQMolybdenite MoS2
Line Boy Mine, Line property, Duquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USAField of View: 15 mm
Largest Crystal Size: 18 mm
Very cool ~18mm x 12mm Molybednite crystal. Ben Kirchner specimen and photography.
35C-GN4Dioptase CuSiO3·H2O , Malachite Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Ray Mine, Scott Mountain, Pinal County, Arizona, USAField of View: 9 mm
~9mm Dioptase crystal
MF8-62NParalaurionite PbCl(OH) , Leadhillite Pb4(CO3)2(SO4)(OH)2 , Diaboleite Pb2CuCl2(OH)4
Collins Mine, Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USAField of View: 4 mm
From Tucson Show, 2016. From David Shannon collection with a label that says "ID visually by R. Bideaux. From the AMMMF Collection 5/95."