Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm field of view. Messelite crystal on siderite crystal.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2431
Notes: Distinct messelite crystals are quite uncommon in my experience.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.5 mm field of view. Clear, to slightly cloudy, tiny cubes
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: Also on this 1.5 cm sample: pale-tan scalehedral siderite, clear (late generation) quartz crystals, pyrite, chalcopyrite, tiny childrenite xls.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.3 mm field of view. Gormanite crystals on scorzalite base. 1.4 mm zoom view.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2420
Notes: Gormanite (Fe dominant) forms a series with souzalite (Mg dominant). The color zoning in these crystals suggests both members of this series may be present. These are very nice gormanite crystals for the Palermo Mine. In New Hampshire, the Charles Davis Mine, also in N. Groton, and the Chickering Mine in Walpole have also produced some very nice gormanite micro specimens.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2417
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Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 5.0 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2415
Notes: Green and blue mix of gormanite blades. Milky-cream colored mineral is quartz.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.2 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2416
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Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 4.5 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2418
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Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.2 mm field of view. Very dark blue scorzalite crystal cluster.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2429
Notes: If not scorzalite, another possibility is cornetite, a copper phosphate. Some mindat.org photos of cornetite are a fair visual fit for these crystals. The host rock sample for these micros had a fair amount of chalcopyrite, a possible source for the copper.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.6 mm field of view. Very dark blue scorzalite crystal cluster.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2430
Notes: These possible scorzalite crystals are more angular than most and very dark blue, appearing almost black in this photo. This small cluster sits in a "well" of massive light-blue scorzalite. The perimeter of the cluster is isolated from the massive scorzalite by thin void zone.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.0 mm field of view. Apatite balls on siderite crystal
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u1915
Notes: Similar white apatite balls have been found at the Chickering Mine in Walpole, NH. These were analyzed to be apatite-CaF, fluorapatite.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.3 mm field of view. Apatite balls in quartz vug
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2435
Notes: Similar white apatite balls have been found at the Chickering Mine in Walpole, NH.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.3 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2421
Notes: No idea what the yellow spiky balls are.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 1.0 mm field of view.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2421
Notes: Dark matrix in rear top is some weathered copper sulfide mineral.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 4.5 mm field of view. Dark-green kulanite crystal, partially obscured in vug.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2413
Notes: This is relatively large for a Palermo kulanite crystal.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.0 mm field of view. Dark-green kulanite crystal.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2414
Notes: This kulanite crystal compares favorably that illustrated in The Pegmatite Mines Known as Palermo.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm field of view. Matrix is honey-colored siderite crystals.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: TBC
Notes: My initial ID for these feathery crystal sprays was whiteite group, by similarite to Palermo 2 examples. Jim Nizamoff opined childrenite-eosphorite. He is usually correct!
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm field of view. Matrix is honey-colored siderite crystals.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2434
Notes: Another feathery childrenite spray.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm field of view. Matrix is honey-colored siderite crystals.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2423
Notes: Another feathery childrenite spray.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.25 mm kryzhanovskite octahedron
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2425
Notes: This phosphate chunk had a zone of mostly granular kryzhanovskite, but the granular area had some voids with tiny crystals like this one. Most crystals were almost invisible, unless they had reflecting light off a crystal face.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.20 mm kryzhanovskite crystals
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2425
Notes: This phosphate chunk had a zone of mostly granular kryzhanovskite, but the granular area had some voids with tiny crystals like this one. Most crystals were almost invisible, unless they had reflecting light off a crystal face.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.20 mm kryzhanovskite crystal with cacoxenite? ball.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2425
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Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.25 mm kryzhanovskite crystal.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2425
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Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3 cm (vertical) specimen with granular mass of kryzhanovskite in upper half.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2425
Notes: Sub mm kryzhanovskite crystals are present within this granular mass.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.8 mm ball diameter
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2437
Notes: I'm going with a visual foggite ID on this, based on the ball structure of foliated plates. However, the plate tops are not as square as on ideal foggite. Messelite is a second choice. Matrix is black, oxidized, siderite.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 0.9 mm (larger) field of view
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2436
Notes: I'm going with a visual covellite ID on this. Chalcopyrite is present on this specimen. EDS confirmation is needed.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 3.0 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2427
Notes: This ludlamite has a film coating obscuring its normal apple-green color and high luster. It is a nice sharp, isolated, crystal.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: 2.5 mm field of view
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2427
Notes: This ludlamite has a film coating obscuring its normal apple-green color and high luster.
Locality: Palermo Mine, N. Groton, NH
Specimen Size: Yellow crystals are about 0.15 mm across.
Field Collected: Bob Whitmore - from a tub of Palermo phosphate rocks gifted by Bob.
Catalog No.: u2433
Notes: Xanthoxenite is a tentative ID. These xanthoxenite crystals compare favorably those illustrated in The Pegmatite Mines Known as Palermo.