Bayldonite
Bayldonite is a copper-lead arsenate occurring in the oxidation zone of copper-bearing deposits and is named after English physician John Bayldon. It forms green, yellow-green, dark green to green-black, subtranslucent crystals with a resinous luster. More commonly, it occurs as massive, fine granular to powdery and also as crusts and minute mammillary aggregates with a radial fibrous structure. At Tsumeb, bayldonite forms a beautifully contrasting rich green background for other colorful secondary minerals such as azurite. It is found abundantly associated with azurite, mimetite, cerussite, anglesite, malachite, olivenite, duftite, schultenite, and beudantite at the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia; Dioulasso, Allier, France; and at the Frijole prospect, Santa Rita Co., Arizona, USA; and Penberthy Croft mine, St Hilary, Mount's Bay district, Cornwall, England, UK, the type locality.
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- TUC17A-12
- Malachite ps. Azurite, on Bayldonite ps. Mimetite
- 1st oxide zone circa 1900, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 6.3 x 4.6 x 3.5 cm
- $2,750.00
- PMRARE15-048
- Cornwallite with Bayldonite
- Wheal Carpenter, Fraddam, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
- Miniature
- 3.5 x 3.0 x 1.5 cm
- J11T-155
- Bayldonite Pseudo. After Mimetite
- Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
- Miniature
- 3.4 x 2.1 x 2.1 cm
- LTH-33
- Azurite on Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
- Miniature
- 3.3 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm
- MD-122945
- Cerussite, Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 7.3 x 3.5 x 3.0 cm
- MD-255021
- Bayldonite, Galena, Quartz
- Brandy Gill Mine, Carrock Fell, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK
- Miniature
- 5.0 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm
- MD-150451
- Bayldonite, Quartz
- Wheal Carpenter, Fraddam, Gwinear, St Erth - Gwithian Area, Cornwall, England, UK
- Small Cabinet
- 7.5 x 4.8 x 4.1 cm
- MD-174143
- Bayldonite, Mimetite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Miniature
- 4.4 x 2.8 x 1.7 cm
- MD-173845
- Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Miniature
- 5.0 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm
- MD-173844
- Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Cabinet
- 13.0 x 8.0 x 6.0 cm
- MD-173815
- Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 5.2 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm
- MD-119974
- Bayldonite, Mimetite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 5.8 x 5.5 x 5.0 cm
- MD-55563
- Bayldonite, Calcite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Thumbnail
- 6.2 x 5.1 x 4.0 cm
- MD-54294
- Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 7.8 x 5.7 x 4.1 cm
- MD-36986
- Bayldonite
- Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Miniature
- 4.1 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm
- MD-256798
- Azurite, Malachite, Bayldonite, Olivenite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Cabinet
- 12.0 x 10.0 x 4.8 cm
- MD-247635
- Azurite, Cerussite, Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Miniature
- 5.0 x 3.6 x 2.7 cm
- MD-238891
- Azurite, Malachite, Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 8.5 x 7.5 x 5.4 cm
- MD-216433
- Azurite, Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 6.9 x 6.0 x 4.5 cm
- MD-207323
- Azurite, Bayldonite, Malachite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Miniature
- 4.1 x 3.1 x 2.2 cm
- MD-147006
- Azurite, Malachite, Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Small Cabinet
- 5.6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
- MD-37835
- Azurite, Bayldonite
- Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Thumbnail
- 2.7 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm
- MD-234878
- Arsentsumebite, Azurite, Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
- Miniature
- 4.2 x 3.1 x 1.5 cm
- T08-69
- Bayldonite
- Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
- Cabinet
- 9.6 x 6.2 x 5.5 cm