New Arrivals Page 3
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BR298. Azurite. Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. 6.5 x 4 x 4 cm $900.00 Vug= 3 x 5 cm. 170g Vug with dark blue brilliant crystals up to 1 cm. Ex: Jim Clark coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research Purchase:8-2001. An absolutely gorgeous specimen from the finds of the 1990's at Touissit. Brilliant, glassy, gemmy crystals in an approximately 5 cm wide opening. The piece is sort of geode like. The crystals extend all the way to the back side, where a small hole shows more crystals...this shown in a photo below. These are virtually unavailable these days. I took a lot of photos of this one, maybe a bit of overkill, but trying to show how beautiful this piece is. |
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BR298. Another view, showing the depth of the vug with crystals...they extend all the way down to the piece in this view. |
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BR298. Another view. |
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BR298. Looking into the vug. |
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BR298. Looking into the vug. |
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BR298. Looking into the vug. |
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BR298. Looking into the vug. |
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BR298. Looking into the vug. |
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BR298. Closer look into the opening. |
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BR298. Closer look into the opening. |
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BR298. Closer look into the opening. |
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BR298. Closer look into the opening. |
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BR298. Closer look into the opening. |
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BR298. Closer look into the opening. |
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BR298. Bottom side, where the vug opens up and goes clear through the piece. |
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BR1. Apatite, muscovite. Jose Pinto mine, “Aldeia do Eme” Ze Pinto Prospect, Conselheira Pena, Brazil. 10 x 8 x 6.5 cm 911g $300.00 A large single crystal; gray on the outside, light blue interior Purchased from Frazier's Minerals (Ex: Si & Ann Frazier) in March 1992. I don't know how large the apatites from here get, but this one must be up there for size. |
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BR1. Side view. |
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BR1. Side view. |
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BR206. Barite. Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores, nr. Llata, Huamlalies prov., Huanuco dept., Peru. 6.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm 69g. $125.00 Matrix less group of thick gray translucent crystals. Glassy luster. Floater specimen. Purchased from Mineralogical Research in November 2006. A tough one to photo and show how pretty it is. Photos do not do this one justice. Much better in person. |
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BR206. Photo has it a bit browner than it is...actually is a light, sort of soft gray color, as above. Showing how glassy the crystals are in this photo. |
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BR206. Another view. |
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BR206. Another view. |
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BR206. Another view. |
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BR206. Back side. |
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BR206. Back side. |
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BR206. Back side. |
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BR206. Back side. |
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BR234. Barite. Silius, Cagliari Province, South Sardinia, Italy. 5 x 5 x 3 cm 114g $380.00 Ex: Jean-Pierre Cand collection who purchased it in April 2003. Ex: California State Mineral Museum. Then to Barney Ritter. A classic group of crystals from this old location that shut down in the 1970's. Very nice, glassy golden highly translucent crystals. |
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BR234. Another view. |
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BR234. Another view. |
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BR234. Another view. |
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BR234. Another view. |
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BR285. Petrified wood. Unknown location. 15 x 12 x 8 cm. Approximately 2 Kg. What can you say about this hunk? $30.00 Figure shipping in the US another $20. |
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BR285. Bottom side.
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BR285. Side view. |
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BR69. Siderite, arsenopyrite, ferberite. Panasqueira mine, Castelo Branco, Portugal. A 3 x 4 cm siderite, with a ball of arsenopyrite on it 3 cm across. 5 x 5 cm 146g $200.00 A nice complete near floater specimen. Ex: Dave Bunk Minerals #2156. Purchased: 5-2002 . |
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BR69. Another view. |
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BR69. Another view. |
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BR69. Another view. |
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BR69. Another view. |
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BR93. Malachite (primary), chrysocolla. Mashamba mine, Kapata, Katanga, Republic of Congo. 6 x 5 x 3 cm 90g. $95.00 Blocky crystals on chrysocolla on matrix. Ex: Fraziers Minerals. Actual blocky, sort of cubic looking crystals instead of the usual acicular crystals from here. These are quite a bit rarer. |
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BR93. Another view. |
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BR93. Another view. |
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BR400. Calcite on dolomite (cadmium dolomite?). Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 6 x 3 x 4 cm 83g $225.00. Ex: Marion Stewart coll. CalDo-1-8080. Ex: Andy Seibel Minerals, Coll #265 Yellow dolomite with white calcite rhombs scattered around on it. RESERVED |
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BR400. Another view. |
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BR400. Another view. |
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BR400. Another view. |
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BR600. Silver in bornite/chalcopyrite. San Martín Mine, Sombrerete Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico Ex: Sagestone Minerals. 20 x 8 x 9 cm 1,558g. $400.00 A solid mass of bornite with a few thin veins of native silver going through it. A large and heavy mass of mostly bornite, with some golden chalcopyrite and a few veins of native silver going through the whole thing. The bornite in places has classic irridescence, giving its mining name of "peacock ore". |
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BR600. Another view, same side. |
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BR600. One of the veins of silver...its all along the top part from one side of the photo to the other. The silver is coated with what appears to be bornite, which masks the silver color. |
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BR600. One of the veins of silver...its all along the top part from one side of the photo to the other. The silver is coated with what appears to be bornite, which masks the silver color. |
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BR600. One of the veins of silver...its all along the right side of the photo, and is a bit more blackish than the bornite. The silver is coated with what appears to be bornite, which masks the silver color. Looking closely, you can see the color of the silver here and there along the extreme top edge of the silver. |
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BR600. One of the veins of silver...its all along the top part from one side of the photo to the other. The silver is coated with what appears to be bornite, which masks the silver color, although you can see a bit of the silver color along the very top of the vein as sort of white/pinkish color. |
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BR600. Reverse side. The silver vein is present all along the piece from one side to the other in the top 1/4 of the specimen. |
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BR600. Closer view of the above photo...the silver vein is fairly obvious in this shot. |
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BR600. An even closer shot showing the silver vein. |
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BR600. Close up of the left side of the above photo. |
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BR601. Skutterudite. Bou Azzer mining district, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 3 x 3 x 2.5cm 67g $125.00 Two crystals, largest is 3 cm across. Ex: Claude Yoder coll. #1232 Purchased March 2002. Ex: Mineralogical Research. A superb cluster of large, sharp, splendent, silver-bright skutterudite crystals with chrome-like luster from the Bou Azzer District of Morocco. This is a very fine, complete all-around specimen. RESERVED |
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BR601. Another view. |
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BR601. Another view. |
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JC12055. Cinnabar, quartz, dolomite. Tongren Mine, Tongren, Guizhou, China. 2.5 x 4 cm 9g $40.00 Nice little group with dolomite crystals scattered around. |
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JC12055. slightly different angle. |
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JC12055. Black background. |
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JC12055. Close up. Little bit of dust on them I didn't notice but the camera did. |
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JC12055. Close up of upper right. |
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JC12055. Close up of lower center. |
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JC12055. Close up of lower center |
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JC12055. Close up of left side. Note tiny, transparent quartz crystals lying rather flat on the matrix. |
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JC12055. Back side. The top most cinnabar crystal has had its back sheared off, although not noticeable from the front. |
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JC11802. Vivianite. Bolivia. 2.5 x 6 cm with stand, 30g with stand. $75.00. Single terminated crystal, highly translucent when back lit with typical green color. Wish I had a more exact location, but unfortunately all he had for location is Bolivia. |
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JC11802. Reverse. |
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JC11802. Back lit. |
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JC11802. Back lit. |
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JC11855. Siderite. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. Approximately 7 x 7 cm 549g $90.00. Some nice big siderite crystals...a classic from Panasqueira. Large rhombohedral crystals. Bit of quartz and ferberite on back side. |
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JC11855. Another view, same side. |
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JC11855. Another view, same side. |
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JC11856. Bertrandite, rhodochrosite, wolframite, pyrite. Kara-Oba W deposit, Betpakdala Desert , Karazhal, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. 6 x 8 cm 266g $150.00 Pink rhodochrosite crystals intermixed with white bertrandite crystals and a incomplete wolframite crystal in the center. Bertrandite is not often seen in good display quality specimens, but Kara-Oba had the distinction of producing some fine Bertrandites (a rare beryllium species) in the early 1990s. These pieces were short-lived and quickly disappeared from the market. These came out about 30 years ago. RESERVED |
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JC11856. Another view. |
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JC11856. Another closer view. |
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JC11856. close up view of center area. |
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JC11856. back side. Nice little pocket with well formed crystals is present. |
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JC11859A. Weloganite. Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. $20.00. two small crystals. 4.5 x 3.5 cm 18g. |
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JC11859B. Weloganite. Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. $20.00 Single well formed crystal, with another partial crystal. 2.5 x 2.5 cm 7g |
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JC12098. Quartz, arsenopyrite. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 4 x 7.5 cm 124g $30.00 A single quartz, as seen, pretty much undamaged, although the very tip of the quartz crystal has a small chip out of it. Attached to the quartz is this neat little arsenopyrite crystal. |
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JC12098. Another view. |
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JC12077. Smithsonite. San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 6 x 8 cm 268g. $75.00 Interesting finger of smithsonite sticking up from the central area. The color is a sort of a light gray with slight yellowish tints here and there. Fairly lustrous and sparkly...all the white specks are sparkles off crystal faces. |
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JC12077. Another view. |
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JC12077. Another view. |
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JC12077. Close up of the finger of smithsonite. |
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JC12084. Cassiterite. Piaotang mine, Xihuashan ore field, Dayu county, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China. 4 x 4.5 cm 246g $150.00. A very large, for the locality, cassiterite. The white spots are growth irregularities rather than damage. There is a tiny ding on the tip of the crystal facing out. |
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JC12084. Another view. |
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JC12084. Another view. |
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JC12084. Another view. |
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JC12084. Another view. |
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JC12084. Back side. There is a bit of purple fluorite fragments attached to the back. |
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JC12084. Back side. There is a bit of purple fluorite fragments attached to the back. |
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JC11801. Cassiterite. Minas Gerais, Brazil. 4.8 x 6.5 cm 114g $125.00 Although the label said Conselheiro Lafaiete, this location has never produced good cassiterite as near as I can tell. May be mislabeled and be from elsewhere in Minas Gerais. A single, somewhat complex crystal. The base, where it was detached from the matrix, is a sort of fine grained pinkish material, with what appears to be cleavelandite. |
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JC11801. Another view. |
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JC11801. Another view. |
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JC11801. Another view. |
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JC11801. Another view. |
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JC11851. Ferberite, fluorite. Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. 5 x 6 cm 240g $75.00 Nice single crystal with good termination with a clear fluorite crystal implanted on the front. |
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JC11851. Another view. |
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JC11851. Back side. |
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JC11780. Apatite, siderite. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 5 x 7 cm 108g $70.00 Group of 1 cm crystals on matrix. Nice contrast with the tan siderite crystals. |
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JC11780. Another view. |
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JC11780. Close up. |
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JC11765. Columbite? or tantalite? or tapiolite?, rhodonite?. 3 x 4 cm 47g $40.00 Another one from the collection with no label...and I am not a good enough crystallographer to figure this one out. Several photos to show the crystal shape. There is a massive pink mineral on the front. One of those times I wish I had an x-ray machine handy. This may be none of the ones I have listed here. |
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JC11765. Another view. |
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JC11765. Another view. |
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JC11765. Another view. |
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JC11765. Another view. |
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JC11760. Tantalite. Murrua, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique. 2.5 x 3 cm 50g $65.00. Nice crystallized group. This collection had a lot of black minerals of this series, and the labeling is questionable at times...this is what the label has, so I hope it is correct. |
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JC11760. View of the terminations. |
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JC11760. View of the terminations. |
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JC11760. View of the terminations. |
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JC11760. Back side. |
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JC11760. Another view. |
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JC11550. Hematite, andradite. N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa. 1.2 x 2.5 x 6.5 cm 132g $50.00 A brilliant luster, mirror bright crystal face...you can see your self in it like a mirror. Micro andradite on the back side. A neat hematite. |
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JC11550. A shot showing the glassy face. |
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JC11550. Back side. Tiny, orange/red orange andradite crystals scattered around. |
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JC11550. Back side. Tiny, orange/red orange andradite crystals scattered around. |
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JC11550. Back side. Tiny, orange/red orange andradite crystals scattered around. |
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JC13051. Calcite (cobaltoan). Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 10 x 14cm 968g $180.00. Not sure of the exact mine on this one. Label just has as listed here. Nice glassy luster, pretty pinkish purplish color. The close up below is closer to the actual color. There are two rub spots, hard to see in the photo, and don't detract from the piece. |
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JC13051. Another view. |
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JC13051. Close up. |
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JC13051. Another view. |
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JC13051. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Stibnite. Wuning mine (Wuling Mine; Qingjiang Mine), Qingjiang, Wuning Co., Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. 7 x 15 cm 118g. $75.00. Beautiful group of tall acicular crystals with great luster. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC13449. Barite, calcite. Mahoning mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-In-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois. 9 x 10 x 2.5 cm 267g $75.00 I purchased this one from Harvey Gordon Minerals, December 1988, who got it from the mineral dealer Harry Sering, Indianapolis. Collected in the 1960's. Nice clear bladed barite crystals that formed on a mass of scalenohedral calcite crystals, which entirely coat the back side. |
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JC13449. Close up. |
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JC13449. Back side, all scalenohedral calcite crystals. |
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JC13449. Closer view, back side. |
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JC10646. Stibnite. White Caps mine, Manhattan, Manhattan district, Nye county, Nevada. 6.5 x 8 cm 243g. $50.00. Acicular crystals with luster varying from satiny to brilliant. Nice piece these days, as virtually nothing has come from here in years. Fairly fragile but shippable. Collected in 2000. |
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JC10646. Another view. |
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JC10646. Close up. |
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JC10646. Close up. |
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JC10646. Close up. |
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JC11544. Another unknown, unlabeled small slice. bright, silvery; sparkly on the side of the slice. 2.8 x 3 cm 11g $5.00. Another one for the x-ray machine. The white material is a carbonate. |
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JC11852. Calcite? Speleothem. Wenshan Mine, Wenshan City, Wenshan, Yunnan, China. 19 cm long 43g $50.00. Not sure whether to call this a helictite or speleothem. Long skinny thing. Rare |
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JC11853. Calcite? Speleothem. Wenshan Mine, Wenshan City, Wenshan, Yunnan, China. 13.5 cm long. Not sure whether to call this a helictite or speleothem. Long skinny thing. Has a neat bulbous end on it. Rare $50.00 |