New Arrivals Page 3
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JC13296. Epidote, quartz, axinite. Canta, Lima, Peru. 7.8 x 5 cm 106g $71.00. Sprigs of upstanding acicular epidote crystals, with clear quartz crystals throughout. A few tiny axinite crystals are scattered here and there. |
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JC13296. Another view. |
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JC13296. Another view. |
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JC13296. Another view. |
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JC13296. Another view, close up. |
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JC13312. Malachite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 6.9 x 5 cm 152g $175.00 An older piece of primary malachite as acicular crystals making a dense matt on the matrix. |
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JC13312. More of a side view. |
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JC13312. Another view. |
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JC13312. Another view. |
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JC13312. Close up, vertical view. |
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JC13317. Dioptase. Kapata mine?, Tantara mine? Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo. 10 x 9 x 4 cm 286g $135.00 Good size crystals coating a somewhat rusty matrix. What looks like very tiny malachite crystals scattered around the dioptase. Label did not specify which mine this came from, recently collected. Damage to crystals around the edges, as can be seen in the photos. Sawn back. |
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JC13317. Another view. |
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JC13318. Dioptase, duftite?/malachite?. Kapata mine?, Tantara mine? Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo. 6 x 5.5 cm 90g $40.00. Patch of crystals on matrix. Some somewhat yellow green mineral scattered around the crystals. Could be either duftite or malachite. Sawn back. |
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JC13318. Close up. |
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JC13319. Almandine. Cat Spur creek, Nr. Emerald creek, Latah county, Idaho. 2 x 2.3 cm 18g $5.00. Cat Spur creek is located a few miles East of the Garnet gulch/Emerald creek garnet locality. The crystals are differentiated by the odd wormy zones of limonite on the outside of the crystals. So far I haven't found anyone that has an explanation for this odd thing on the crystals. Collected in 1968...back then these things up to golf ball size were just laying around on the surface...today hard to find any. RESERVED |
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JC13319. Another view. |
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JC13319. Another view. |
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JC13299. Rhodochrosite. Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdan municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 10.2 x 7.8 x 5.2 cm 720g $600.00 An older piece that came out a number of years ago, early 2000's. Of interest is a spray of goethite on the right side in these photos. Light pink crystals filling a vug in massive ore. Sawn base. |
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JC13299. Another view. |
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JC13299. Another view. |
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JC13299. Another view. |
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JC13299. Close up. |
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JC13305. Sphalerite, calcite.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Rucheng Co., Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
7.5 x 7 x 2 cm 158g $35.00. Brilliant, dark amber
crystals, with a few calcite crystals on the side. Sawn back.
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JC13306. Sphalerite, calcite. Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Rucheng Co., Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China 6 x 7.5 x 3 cm 144g $25.00. Dark amber crystals on micro crystalline drusy quartz matrix. |
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JC13306. Another view. |
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JC13251. Rhodochrosite. Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Prov., Lima, Peru. 8.9 x 7.4 cm 513g $250.00. A shallow vug in ore is filled with small, light pink scalenohedra. Sawn back. |
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JC13251. Another view. |
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JC13251. Another view. |
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JC13251. Close up. |
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JC12772. Almandine in schist. Garnet Gulch, Emerald creek, Latah county, Idaho 4.5 x 4.2 x 1.5 cm 42g $6.00. Couple of crystals in schist. Not many matrix specimens have come from this locality. RESERVED |
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JC12778. Almandine. Cat Spur creek, Nr. Emerald creek, Latah county, Idaho. 3 x 3 x 2 cm 42g $8.00. Cat Spur creek is located a few miles East of the Garnet gulch/Emerald creek garnet locality. The crystals are differentiated by the odd zones of limonite on the outside of the crystals. So far I haven't found anyone that has an explanation for this odd thing on the crystals. Collected in 1968...back then these things up to golf ball size were just laying around on the surface...today hard to find any. |
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JC12778. Another view. |
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JC12784. Almandine in schist. Garnet Gulch, Emerald creek, Latah county, Idaho 2.5 x 2 cm 6g $5.00 A 1 cm crystal in schist. RESERVED |
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JC13166. Cinnabar. Almaden, Almaden District, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. 2 x 3.5 cm 12g $18.00 Massive to semi crystalline cinnabar, subhedral crystals. |
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JC13166. Another view. |
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JC13166. Another view. |
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JC13167. Anorpiment. Palomo mines, Castrovirreyna province, Huancavelica dept., Peru. 5 x 3 cm 16g $95.00 One of those really rare things, recognized as a new mineral in 2013 or thereabouts. Most specimens came out around 2011, and this one came from that time frame. Very soft mineral with a hardness of about 1. Some minor rubbing on this one, not surprising given its softness. |
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JC13168. Pyrite and sphalerite Huanzala mine, Huallanca district, Dos de Mayo province, Huanuco department, Peru. 2.5 x 3 cm 34g $10.00. |
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JC13169. Chalcocite. St. Just, Cornwall, England. 10mm x 5 mm, 10mm x 5 mm 2 pieces 1g $15.00 Was one piece and it fell in half. Drat. |
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JC13170. Arsenopyrite. Mina Noche Buena, Zacatecas, Mexico 2.5 x 1.5 cm 22g $10.00 Thumbnail of bright silvery crystals. |
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JC13171. Molybdenite on drill core. Henderson mine, Colorado. 3.7 x 4 cm 34g $5.00. One of those oddities from the collection I bought a couple of years ago. |
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JC13172. Pyrargyrite. Freiberg, Saxony, Germany 2.2 x 3 cm 22g $150.00 Subhedral crystalline mass, rare old specimen. Ex: Collectors Edge |
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JC13172. Another view. |
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JC13172. Another view. |
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JC13173. Enargite, pyrite. Leonard mine, Butte District, Silver Bow county, Montana 2.5 x 4.5 cm 42g $75.00 Several nice bright crystals nestled in with micro sized pyrite crystals. |
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JC13173. Another view. |
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JC13174. Pyrrhotite. Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia. 3 x 4 cm 30g $75.00 Nice bronze color crystals. |
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JC13174. Back side. |
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JC13175. Galena, fluorite. Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. 3 x 4.5 cm 82g $35.00. Colorless cubes of fluorite on bright galena crystals. RESERVED |
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JC13175. Another view. |
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JC13176. Galena. Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Hardin county, Illinois 3 x 5 cm 76g $40.00. Nice group of bright crystals. From North Star Minerals, Tucson, 1989. |
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JC13311. Gypsum (sand inclusions) Great Salt plains, Jet, Alfalfa county, Oklahoma. 7 x 8 x 3.5 cm 258g $25.00. Upstanding crystals on flat plate...minor rubbing on some of the crystals as can be seen as the whitish spots. |
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JC13311. Another view. |
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JC13300. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 8.8 x 7.2 cm 262g $250.00. Sharp group of red with hints of brownish orange, crystals. There is one broken crystal on the lower left portion visible in the photo as an orangish blemish. |
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JC13300. Another slightly different angle. |
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JC13300. Close up of left side. Broken crystal can be seen on the lower left. |
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JC13300. Close up of upper right. |
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JC13301. Elbaite on quartz. Chhappu, Braldu Valley, Shigar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 4.6 x 2 cm 23g $150.00. Cute miniature with several green transparent elbaite tourmaline crystals perched on the side of the quartz crystal. |
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JC13301. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13301. Slightly different angle. |