Several small, but sharply formed, clusters of pseudomorphs of birnessite/ranciéite after sérandite with numerous tufts and needles of greenish aegirine and a bit of scraggly "yofortierite". The little white plates are microcline and there a few orange/pink crystals of eudialyte – mostly broken.

Despite its size, this specimen is a micro. You will need 15-30X to view the “crystals”. The largest terminated “crystals” are less than 2 mm, most are smaller. Some broken crystals are larger.

FOV in the first micro photo is 1.9 x 2.2 mm; 6.4 x 4.2 mm in the second. The aegirine “fuzz ball” in the center of that photo is about 1.9 x 2.2 mm.

The third micro photo (FOV 4.7 x 5.1 mm) shows what, a few years ago, would have been “slam-dunk” yofortierite. But several recent analyses have show that many of the lighter colored “yofortierites” of yore are actually tuperssuatsiaite.

In the absence of an anlysis for this particular find, “palygorgskite group” is the only safe ID. (There are subtle hints that this is actually yofortierite, but visual clues are unreliable.)

In the “mid-range: macro photo, many of the glossy black areas are birnessite/ranciéite, but some of the crystals are fragments and the dark pointy stuff is aegirine.

Weight 1.6 oz (no case). Single item shipping weight 4.3 oz. Up to 8 oz, this can be combined with other items for the same postage.