Vanackerite (w. anglesite and thometzekite)

TSNB1005
Specimen
Innes, J.Pinch, W.W.Schultz, D.
Exhibit 1. Vanackerite (w. anglesite and thometzekite); 19 mm.
Exhibit 1. Vanackerite (w. anglesite and thometzekite); 19 mm.
Image Credit: Eugene & Sharon Cisneros
Exhibit 2. 6 mm field of view.
Exhibit 2. 6 mm field of view.
Image Credit: Eugene & Sharon Cisneros
Exhibit 3. 6 mm field of view.
Exhibit 3. 6 mm field of view.
Image Credit: Eugene & Sharon Cisneros
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Specimen Title

Vanackerite (w. anglesite and thometzekite)

Associated Minerals

anglesite; thometzekite

Principal Mineral

Vanackerite

Size

Thumbnail; 19mm

Location in the Mine

Second oxidation zone; 35 Level; North East Stope

Provenance

Innes, J.; Schultz; Pinch, W.W.

Collection

Cisneros, S. & E.

Collected by

John Innes; 1980

Entry Number

Specimen; TSNB1005

Description

A spearmint-green crust of earthy thometzekite, associated with translucent but turbid prismatic crystals of colourless-white anglesite on a shard of massive sulphide ore.  Towards the base of the specimen (as photographed in Exhibit 1) is a "book" of sub-parallel, tabular hexagonal plates of pale yellow vanackerite (Exhibit 2) and a single, sharp hexagonal crystal of vanackerite (Exhibit 3), the latter measuring approximately 3 mm in maximum dimension.

The specimen is from the collection of Sharon and Eugene Cisneros. It belonged originally to TCL mineralogist John Innes and later to collectors Don Schultz and Bill Pinch. Innes's handwritten label with a similar specimen from the same occurrence (compare TSNB532) indicates that it was collected (by Innes) in 1980 from the North East Stope on 35 Level in the second oxidation zone.