New Arrivals Page 4
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JC13736. Cerussite. Schwarzleo mining district, Schwarzleograben, Hütten, Leogang, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria. 4 x 4 x 2 cm 124g. $125.00 A main crystal visible here, with satellite crystals around it. Very rare from this district in this size of crystals. Several views from all angles of the piece. Nice glassy luster. Some damage on the edges where it was removed from its residing place in the mine. An older piece. Ex Kay Robertson collection. RESERVED |
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JC13737. Fluorite. Hilton Mine, Scordale, Murton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK. 10.5 x 5.1 x 3.5 cm 196g $155.00. Nice large piece with fluorite crystals completely coating the front and back. RESERVED |
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JC13737. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13737. Another view. |
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JC13737. Back side. |
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JC13738. Hemimorphite on mimetite.
Mfouati Mine, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the
Congo. 5.2 x 4.1 x 1.3 cm 35g $50.00. This
is the write up that accompanied this piece. "A beautifully contrasting
example of white hemimorphite with pastel yellow mimetite, from recent finds
at Mfouati. Most of what was found was just white hemimorphite, combinations
like this were somewhat fewer and far between. This location sits atop
a hill that was worked for ore from the 60's to 80's by French and Soviet
mining enterprises. Today the mine is long abandoned and only concrete ruins
remain, but local entrepreneurs continue to work the site for specimens.
Sadly, given the delicate nature of this species and the somewhat rough
extraction methods, few pieces survive in as good condition."RESERVED |
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JC13738. Vertical view. |
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JC13738. Close up of the hemimorphite. |
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JC13739. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 2 x 3.5 cm 17g $40.00. Cute little hemispheres in vug. |
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JC13739. Another view. |
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JC13740. Smithsonite (cuprian). Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 6.7 x 3.7 x 3 cm 66g $125.00. Mint green crystals, front and back. Ex William (Bill) Hiss collection #1639. |
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JC13740. Back side. |
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JC13740. Close up. |
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JC13741. Hubnerite. Ruby Mine, Galena Mountain, Howardsville, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado. 6.3 x 4.7 x 1.3 cm 32g $125.00 Ex. Neil A. Levett Coll. #1492 Purchased by him, October 1998. Numerous blades on matrix as seen, nice red internal color when back lit. RESERVED |
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JC13741. Vertical view. |
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JC13741. Another vertical view. |
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JC13741. Closer view. The red internal color can be seen a bit here. |
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JC13742. Stibnite. Deep Post orebody, Goldstrike mine, Lynn district, Eureka county, Nevada. 4.2 x 3.2 x 1.8 cm 26g $60.00 Brilliant silvery blue matt of crystals from this older find at the Goldstrike mine. Specimens from this location have become fairly rare. Ex: Neil Levett collection. RESERVED |
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JC13742. Close up. |
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JC13742. Oblique view. |
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JC13743. Wulfenite, mimetite? Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona. 7.2 x 3.1 x 2.9 cm 64g $78.00. Several red orange crystals on the front and back. The matrix is mostly micro crystals of wulfenite throughout, with some hematite. Mimetite may be present...kind of hard to tell. RESERVED |
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JC13743. Closer view. |
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JC13743. Back side with a few red orange crystals. |
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JC13743. Back side with a few red orange crystals. |
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JC13743. Closer view of back side crystals. |
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JC13744. Wulfenite, mimetite, cerussite?. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 6.7 x 4.9 x 4.3 cm 309g $30.00. Small vug lined with green mimetite and wulfenite. There is a vein of white material going through the piece that appears to be cerussite. The specimen is abnormally heavy for its size. Ex Neil Levett collection #0653. RESERVED |
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JC13744. Close up view of the pocket. |
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JC13751. Azurite. Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco . 4 x 3.5 x 3 cm 55g $40.00 From the great finds of the 1990's. Brilliant blue, gemmy crystals in a small vug. Tough to get a good photo into the vug at depth. Several photos. A bit of dust on some of the crystals I didn't notice until I took the photos...a minute in the ultra sonic cleaner took care of that. |
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JC13751. Another view. |
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JC13751. Another view. |
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JC13751. Another view. |
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JC13751. Another closer view. |
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JC13751. Another closer view. |
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JC13752. Mimetite. Mfouati Mine, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo. 8 x 5 x 2.5 cm 255g $15.00. A couple of shallow pockets lined with bright yellow rather gemmy crystals. RESERVED |
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JC13752. Closer view of the pocket on the lower right. |
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JC13752. Closer view of the pocket on the lower left. |
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JC13754. Neptunite. Dallas Gem (Benitoite) mine, Serpentine dome, New Idria district, San Benito county, California. 2.5 x 2.5 cm 12g. $3.00. A tiny group of doubly terminated crystals in natrolite. Would make a great micro specimen. RESERVED |
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JC13754. Close up. |
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JC13754. Close up. |
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JC13755. Neptunite. Dallas Gem (Benitoite) mine, Serpentine dome, New Idria district, San Benito county, California. A 2 cm doubly terminated single crystal. $5.00 Bright luster, and the red internal reflections shows how gemmy this little guy is. RESERVED |
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JC13755. Another view. |
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JC13756. Benitoite. Dallas Gem (Benitoite) mine, Serpentine dome, New Idria district, San Benito county, California. A 1 cm half crystal. $10.00. RESERVED |
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JC6230. Grossular, clinozoisite. Guzzler prospect, Paymaster canyon area, south central Gillis range, Mineral county, Nevada. 3 x 5 cm 28g $5.00. A small prospect in skarn just up canyon from a Guzzler yielded this little fellow. There is a broken clinozoisite crystal on the right side of the grossular crystals. Collected in 2001. RESERVED |
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JC6230. Close up view. |
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JC6883. Andradite. Cowboy mine (near)., Wellington Hills, Lyon county, Nevada. 5 x 6 cm 218g $20.00. A flat plate mostly covered by glassy, gemmy, transparent crystals. Although they have internal fractures, you can see into the crystals, which makes it hard to photo them unless a crystal face has a reflection. Collected in May 2010. |
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JC6883. Closer view of upper right. |
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JC6883. Closer view of above photo. A bit of dust on the crystal faces I didn't notice until the camera picked them up. You can see into some of these crystals where the light catches them right. |
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JC9318. Cobaltoan calcite. Katanga Copper Crescent, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo. 5 x 8 cm 213g $160.00 This one really stands out. The color is more of a bright hot pink...slightly pinker than the photos show. A really pretty piece. Here is how the previous owner described this one: "The color on this ridiculously sparkly specimen is simply insane, the absolute brightest and purest hot pink color you can get from this locality in the former Zaire, or really for cobaltian calcite from anywhere." |
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JC9318. Another view, this is pretty close to the actual color, better in person. |
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JC9318. Another view. |
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JC9318. Closer view. |
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JC9420. Pyromorphite on smoky quartz crystals. Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. 7 x 9 cm 377g $185.00 This one is unusual from the Les Farges mine, as the pyromorphite is growing on/covering stubby quartz crystals. Usually they are on hematitic or barite matrix. Ex Paul Zerfoss collection. |
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JC9420. Another view. |
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JC9420. Close up. |
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JC10185. Malachite, azurite, malachite pseudo after azurite. Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz municipality, Sonora, Mexico. 6 x 8 x 9.3 cm 569g $298.00 Crystals to 5 cm. Relatively large azurite crystals being altered to malachite. The large crystal in the upper right in this photo is 5 cm across. Bits of azurite show through where they have not been altered to the bright green, lustrous malachite. A nice 3 dimensional specimen that is rather hard to photo. One of the central azurite crystals has some rubbing on the termination. Collected in 2019. Pretty piece that displays well. |
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JC10185. Close up of the 5 cm crystal. |
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JC10185. Close up of the central crystal referred to in the description that has some rubbing of the termination. |
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JC10185. Another view. |
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JC10185. Another view. |
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JC10185. Another view. |
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JC9269. Quartz. Marshal canyon, Nr Adam peak, Osgood mountains, Potosi district, Humboldt county, Nevada. 3.5 x 6 x 7.5 cm Tall 143g $15.00 From a pocket uncovered in 2000. Smoky quartz crystals with a bit of micro chlorite like mica on the sides, with glassy terminations, and bright luster, totally transparent and gemmy. This is the last of the good ones. Very minor ding on the top of the main crystal. |
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JC9269. Another view. |
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JC9269. Back side. |
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JC9371. Azurite, malachite. Sidi Ayed (Sidi Ayad), Boulemane Caïdat, Boulemane Cercle, Boulemane Province, Fès-Meknès Region, Morocco. 7.5 x 13cm 548g $50.00 Matrix covered with bright blue drusy crystals, some altered to malachite as seen in the lower part of the piece. |
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JC9371. Closer view upper right. |
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JC9371. Closer view lower left area. |
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JC9371. Back side. |
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JC9535. Barite. Willow Creek, Freighter Spring, Mount Borah, Lost River range, Custer Co., Idaho. 12 x 16 cm 1,182g $50.00 Approximate 3.5 cm crystals; there is a broken crystal in back. A large and impressive piece I collected in August 2018. There is a very large partial crystal on the lower left side. There are a few very minor dings not at all obvious and some breakage on the far left...trying to get this thing out of the pocket without damage was rather difficult. RESERVED |
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JC9535. View of the upper left area. |
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JC9535. View of the lower left. |
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JC9535. Another view. |
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BR602. Azurite, cerussite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 4.5 x 2.5 cm 32g $975.00 2.5 cm azurites, stout, dark blue, w/ small cerussites on back. Ex Claude Yoder coll.#758 Purchased by him in June 1999. Ex Mineralogical Research. Bright luster, glassy, nicely terminated crystals. |
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BR602. Slightly different angle. |
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BR602. Slightly different angle. |
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BR602. Slightly different angle. |
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BR602. Back side. |
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BR604. Azurite, cerussite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 6 x 4 x 2 cm 67g 6 x 4 x 2 cm 67g $750.00 Brilliant blue, up to 8 mm crystals with tiny clear cerussite crystals perched on the azurites. A shallow vug filled with brilliant, glassy, dark blue azurite crystals, which was hard to photograph showing the back of the opening. Sawn back. Ex: Claude Yoder coll.#1790 Purchased by him in January 2006. Ex Mineralogical Research. |
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BR604. Another view. |
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BR604. Another view. |
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BR604. Another view, close up. |
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JC13591. Fluorite. Revenue group. (Cox Canyon mine), IXL district, Churchill county, Nevada 8 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm 431g $15.00. Of interest mainly as an obscure locality piece. Cubic crystals, not lustrous, and somewhat frosted. Color varies from pale greenish to near colorless. Collected in 2021. The locality is heavily picked over/collected. Not much chance of anything coming out in the future. This one is a little heavy on the matrix, but I was afraid to cut it down, fearing it might fall apart |
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JC13591. Another view. |
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JC13591. Another view. |
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JC13591. Close up of some of the cubes. |
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JC13663. Amethyst. Kakamunurle Mine, Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India. 11.2 x 10.3 x 4.3 cm $325.00 A pretty and relatively large, three-dimensional rosette of Amethyst from India. This unusual find is very distinctive for the shape and composition, unlike other Indian finds . The piece is composed of a multitude of very lustrous, deep saturated purple Amethyst crystals that start out as translucent milky to pale purple in color at the point of divergence and radiate upward becoming a beautifully saturated purple color and forming a crown of crystals with excellent transparency and luster, frequently with a scepter look. Daylight shot. Much prettier in person. RESERVED |
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JC13663. Another view...Daylight. |
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JC13663. Under LED light. |
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JC13663. Back lit. You can see the scepter look on the crystals upper left. |
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JC13663. Closer view. |
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JC13677. Hemimorphite. Santa Eulalia district, Aquiles Serdán municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 10.5 x 7 x 4.5 cm 407g $85.00. Nice sized piece with typical white to near transparent crystals. |
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JC13677. Another view. |
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JC13677. Another view. |
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JC9152. Pyromorphite. Moulay
Bouazza, Khenifra province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra region, Morocco.
5 x 5.5 cm. 67g. $35.00. Pretty little piece from this
limited find in Morocco; the locality is now cleaned out.
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JC9152. Close up view. |
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JC9488. Azurite, malachite. Liufengshan mine, Chichi county, Chizhou prefecture, Anhui province, China. 7 x 13 cm 489g. $175.00. Not often seen are specimens from here with larger crystals. Most specimens are small druses of crystals. This nice piece has 1 cm crystals in a shallow vug with botryoidal malachite. Crystals have bright luster and display nicely. There are a few broken crystals, mostly on the left side of the specimen in this photo. |
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JC9488. Another view. |
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JC9488. Another view. |
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JC9339. Azurite, malachite. Liufengshan mine, Guichi district, Chizhou prefecture, Anhui province, China. 11 x 18 cm >1000g (2.6 Lbs). $625.00 A large cabinet specimen from the Liufengshan mine, with larger crystals. Rarely does this mine produce crystals over a few mm in size; these are up to 7mm or so, and average about 5mm. There is very little damage to the main crystal exposures. There is one area on the very top of the specimen where it probably contacted the side of the vug/pocket it resided in that has damage This can be seen on the very top, slightly right of center. There a few areas of botryoidal malachite, some of it slightly iron stained, as can be seen. A very nice piece with good sized crystals for the location. A large cabinet specimen from my collection. A really pretty piece, with brilliant luster crystals, that would stand out in any cabinet display. |
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JC9339. Close up of left side in the above photo. |
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JC9339. Closer view of the left side, with a botryoidal malachite sphere tinted yellowish by iron oxide stain. |
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JC9339. Another view. |
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JC9339. Close up of the left end of the above photo. Shows the malachite spheres nicely. |
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JC9339. Close up of the right side in the 2nd photo above. |
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JC10484. Calcite (cobaltoan). Agoudal Mines, Agoudal, Bou Azer District (Bou Azzer District), Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco. 8 x 12.5 cm 688g. $350.00. The specimen features a solid coating of bright pink cobaltoan calcite with a solid matrix, so it is not fragile and displays very well. The mine is currently flooded I have been told, so the chances of more of these from this particular mine is slim. Really pretty, cotton candy pink sparkly botryoids making up the specimen. Very eye catching. |
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JC10484. Another view. |
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JC10484. Another view. |
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JC10484. Another view. |
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JC10484. Close up view of the bottom right in the above photo. |
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JC9108. Pyromorphite. Moulay Bouzza, Khenifra province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra, Morocco. 5 x 7.5 cm 133g. $60.00 Bright, lime/yellow green crystals from this find of several years ago. Location is now worked out. RESERVED |
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JC9108. Close up view. |
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JC9466. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 6 x 6.5 cm 166g. $70.00. Bright red crystals on buff colored matrix. Sawn base. Nice. There is one broken crystal, near the top center more easily seen in the close up below. |
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JC9466. Close up. |
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JC8438. Wulfenite. Erupcion mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. 9 x 11 cm 936g. $1,600.00. An excellent old specimen of Wulfenite from the classic Mexican location of the Erupcion Mine, Chihuahua. The Wulfenite crystals display the quintessential tabular-blocky butterscotch crystals, so characteristic of the location. The Wulfenite crystals measuring to 1.2cm are highly lustrous. A fine, older specimen of Wulfenite from the mine. There is some damage on the top back side, not visible from the front (display side), which does not detract from the specimen. CABINET specimen |
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JC8438. Another view. |
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JC8438. Another view. |
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JC9146. Azurite. Khanong open pit, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhet Province, Laos? or Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui, China . 9 x 15 cm 1,206g $425.00 Brilliant blue crystals filling a shallow vug. Crystals to about 5mm in size. A very pretty specimen that really stands out. On one end, not at all visible in the photos, is a hole that goes down into the piece, and it is completely lined with brilliant crystal also, and there is a bit of malachite in rounded balls, down in there too. There has been a bit of controversy over Sepon mine specimens. The mine quit producing azurite in 2015 supposedly. Most of the specimens originally from the mine went to China, and were then sold. The Liufengshan mine in China has produced beautiful azurite very similar to these. So, the question remains, is the Sepon mine location for this piece accurate? I bought it at the Tucson show from a Chinese dealer in 2017, who was insistent that it is from the Sepon mine. The crystals in this piece are brilliant and gemmy...a bit more so than I am used to seeing from the Liufengshan mine. So, hopefully the label is accurate, but there is a question. From my personal collection, #JAC1768 |
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JC9146. Back side. |
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JC9146. Another view. |
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JC9146. Closer view. |
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JC9333. Azurite. Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui, China. 6 x 6.5 cm 143g $40.00. Bright blue drusy crystals typical for the Liufengshan mine. Purchased in 2017. |
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JC9333. Another view. |
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JC9333. Back side. |
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JC9293. Azurite. Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico. 6 x 10 cm 329g $300.00. Brilliant blue crystals on matrix. Has a sawn base...when I got this one, it had a lot of excess matrix that needed to be removed. Pretty piece with nice contrast with the matrix. Some crystals are flat lying, and some are blades standing vertical on the matrix. Only damage is the very top back side, where a couple of crystals are cleaved off, I'm guessing where they were in contact with the pocket wall and this can be seen in this photo, and the one below, at the very top of the piece. I think nicely priced for its size and beauty. |
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JC9293. Slightly different angle. |
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JC9293. Close view of the top...the damaged crystal on the very top is visible in this photo. Does not really detract from the piece. |
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JC9293. Close up of the lower portion of the specimen. |
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JC9758. Azurite, malachite. Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Municipio de Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. 4 x 6.5 cm 60g. $295.00. A two centimeter main crystal with satellite crystals attached. The back of the main crystals, not visible in this photo, were in contact with the pocket walls, so parts of the crystals are a bit flat. These are the brilliant crystals with an almost Schiller like luster, where the original crystals were partly replaced by malachite and then a thin layer of azurite crystallized on the malachite, giving this incredible luster the Milpillas azurites are famous for. The visible malachite is for the most part the thin layer of malachite that in the top half of the specimen is now azurite. |
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JC9758. Another view. |
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JC9758. Another view. |
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JC9758. Closer view. |
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JC13484. Arsenopyrite, magnetite, quartz, scheelite. Huanggang mine, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia A.R., China. 8.5 x 7 x 6 cm 532g $125.00 Brilliant silvery arsenopyrite crystals coating loellingite. The arsenopyrite crystals are resting on a matrix of magnetite. Nestled down in the middle left in this view is a white scheelite crystal. Small quartz crystals are draped across the lower front. As the camera "sees" things somewhat differently than the human eye, I photographed some of these specimens with both black back grounds, and lighter colored backgrounds. SOLD |
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JC10459. Hematite, quartz. Jinlong hill, Longchuan Co. (Lungchuan Co.), Heyuan, Guangdong, China. 8 x 10 cm 444g. $175.00. Nicely shaped hematite blades/roses with a secondary growth of microscopic, sparkly crystals, of unidentified mineral. There are broken quartz crystals along the edges, otherwise in good shape. |
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JC10459. Another view. |
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JC10459. Another view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |