Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, Pod #3, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 4 mm field of view
Field Collected: Forrest Fogg
Catalog No.: u1572
Notes: This is the only Palermo example I have seen like these.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.8 mm field of view
Field Collected: A gift from Bob Whitmore
Catalog No.: u1406
Notes: There are a few small blebs of sphalerite (another zinc mineral) on this specimen. The matrix is siderite.
Locality: Palermo #2 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2 mm field of view
Field Collected: Jim Nizamoff
Catalog No.: u2127 - cataloged for whiteite
Notes: There is a nice whiteite cluster on this specimen. Photo is a stack of 87 images with T3i & B&L objective lens.
Locality: Palermo #2 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Jim Nizamoff
Catalog No.: u2127 - cataloged for whiteite
Notes: There is a nice whiteite cluster on this specimen. Photo is a stack of 20 images with T3i & Nikon Plan 10 objective lens.
This has replaced the fairfieldite front page photo.
Locality: Palermo #2 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Jim Nizamoff
Catalog No.: u2127
Notes: Whiteite was one of the phosphates Jim analyzed for his UNO thesis on the Palermo #2 Mine.
Jim's 2006 thesis stated on page 105: "Whiteite-(MnFeMg), whiteite-(CaFeMg) and whiteite-(CaMnMg) form brown to light tan to nearly colorless radiating sprays and aggregates of prismatic monoclinic crystals to 1.5 mm in size. Whiteite crystallizes in non-oxidizing to slightly oxidizing conditions and is often associated with paravauxite-gordonite, scorzalite-lazulite, fairfieldite-messelite and gormanite-souzalite."
Zones of micro fairfieldite crystals are present on this specimen.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm field of view
Field Collected: Walter Lane - ex. Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: u1244
Notes: This is the specimen in my New Hampshire mineral species display. My original photo taken in 2011 was a bit blurry, but the best I could do at the time. The specimen has several small sprays of falsterite. The specimen is firmly glued to the bottom of a 3/4 inch micro box, limiting the lighting and photo angles available. The randomly otiented, lustrous, blades make it impossible to avoid some reflections.
These February 2019 photos were taken with a Canon T3i camera, EFS 55 -250 mm lens with a Nikon Plan 10 objective on the end. Image stacks of 15 to 20 were processed with Helicon Focus, Method B. Walter Lane had these green-blue sprays identified as beraunite, a good guess at the time (1975). Falsterite was not defined until 2011.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm field of view
Field Collected: Walter Lane - ex. Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: u1244
Notes:
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm field of view
Field Collected: Walter Lane - ex. Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: u1244
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Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.7 mm field of view
Field Collected: Walter Lane - ex. Gene Bearss
Catalog No.: u1244
Notes: The tiny milky diamond shaped crystals are likely messelite-fairfieldite.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm cluster of Whitmoreite crystals
Field Collected: Janet & Steve Cares, 1979
Catalog No.: u594
Notes: This is a new photo of my New Hampshire species display specimen. A small, blocky, jahnsite group crystal is present near the center.
This whitmoreite habit is "type 5" as illustrated on page 173 of Whitmore and Lawrence's book The Pegmatite Mines Known as Palermo.
Locality: Palermo #1 Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1 mm field of view
Field Collected: Janet & Steve Cares, 1979
Catalog No.: u594
Notes: This whitmoreite cluster is also on my New Hampshire species display specimen.
This whitmoreite habit is likely "type 2" as illustrated on page 172 of Whitmore and Lawrence's book The Pegmatite Mines Known as Palermo. Note the chisel terminations.