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 Minerals Beginning with "R"

 

JC11912.  Realgar, calcite.  Shimen Mine, Jiepaiyu, Hunan Province, China.  4 x 6.5 cm 84g.  $300.00.   Beautiful complete crystal on a calcite crystal. 
JC11912.  Another view.   
JC11912.  Another view. 
JC12751.   Rhodonite.  Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil.   6 x 6 x 2.5 cm 164g   $35.00.  Bright hot pink/magenta/sort of reddish.  Best described as a mass of cleavages, although there are no discrete crystals.  Bright luster on the cleavage faces.   Pretty.  
JC12751.  Another view.  
JC12751.  Another view.  
JC12751.  Another view.  
JC12751.  Another view.  
JC12753.   Rhodonite.  Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil.  4.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm 128g  $30.00   Bright hot pink/magenta/sort of reddish.  Best described as a mass of cleavages, although there are no discrete crystals.  Bright luster on the cleavage faces.   Pretty.   Saw marks on base.  
JC12753.  Another view. 
JC12753.  Another view.
JC12753.  Another view.
JC12755.   Rhodonite.  Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil.  6 x 5 x 1.5 cm 92g  $40.00  Bright hot pink/magenta/sort of reddish.  Best described as a mass of cleavages, although there are no discrete crystals.  Bright luster on the cleavage faces.   Pretty.
JC12755.  Another view. 
JC12755.  Another view. 
JC12755.  Another view. 
JC12215.  Rhodonite.  Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia.  10 x 13 x 16 cm   3,186g. Approx. 7 Lbs   $200.00  A large mass of solid rhodonite.  Partial crystal faces are present in a few places.  An old piece, from a small collection of Broken Hill specimens.   
JC12215.  Another view. 
JC12215.  Another view.
JC11571.  Rhodonite.  San Martin mine, Chiurucu, Huallanca district, Bolognesi province, Ancash department, Peru.  2.5 x 5.5 cm tall.  71g.  $80.00    Partially complete bladed crystals.   Color is bright pink, not quite as pink as the photo would indicate. 
JC11571.   Another view.  
JC11571.   Another view.  
JC11856.   Rhodochrosite, wolframite, bertrandite, pyrite Kara-Oba W deposit, Betpakdala Desert , Karazhal, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.   6 x 8 cm 266g   $300.00   Pink rhodochrosite crystals intermixed with white bertrandite crystals and a incomplete wolframite crystal in the center.  

 
JC11856.   Another view.  
JC11856.   Another view. back side.  
JC11856.   A closer view.  
JC11823.  Rhodochrosite.   Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima, Peru.   2 x 3 cm 20g   $35.00.   A couple of crystals in shallow vug.  
JC11824Rhodochrosite.   Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima, Peru.   2 x 3 cm 14g   $100.00.   Light pink scalenohedrons.  
JC11775.   Rhodochrosite.   Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima, Peru.  5 x 5 cm 137g.   $275.00    Several scalenohedral crystals on black coated matrix for contrast.   
JC11775.   Closer view.   
JC12488.  Rhodonite.  Brazil.   2.5 x 6.2 x 8 cm 480g Semi polished rectangle/square   $30.00
JC12488.  Back side.  
JC10963.  Rosasite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, smithsonite.     Zinc Hill mine, Zinc Hill subdistrict, Darwin district, Inyo county, California.  8 x 10 cm   622g.  $50.00    Near the same place as the malachite/rosasite/hemimorphite area was a zone of smithsonite/rosasite/hemimorphite/willemite.    On this piece, a somewhat oxidized smithsonite bearing matrix has hydrozincite with hemimorphite, some coated black.  Rosasite covers about 1/4 of the area with little specs of later hydrozincite? sitting on it and the hemimorphite.   Implanted on this is hemimorphite, some coated with the unknown black mineral, and lastly hydrozincite.     I wrote the Zinc Hill mine up in the Mineralogical Record.  I kept a dozen or so pieces of the best quality from this find, and decided to de-access some of them here.  These were collected in 1970.     As a side note, at that time you could drive up to Darwin Falls, a year round waterfall in a canyon not too far from the mine.  I would get up at 4 a.m., dig minerals until noon (this was in July), then retire to the falls and stand under the water off and on until dark...more fun.    See  Min. Rec. Vol. 16, P.110-113 1975
JC10963.  A closer view
JC10963.  Close up view of the hemimorphite/ rosasite area.  The white specks are probably hydrozincite
JC10963.  Close up of the hemimorphite. 
JC10490. Elbaite/Rubellite.   Malkhan Pegmatite Field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast, Transbaikal, Eastern Siberia, Russia.  5 cm tall crystal.  39g.   $290.00    Pinkish red termination, with the sides partially coated with microscopic quartz crystals which add sparkle to the sides.     Discovered in 1980 by Russian geologists, this area has been a prolific source of beautiful (and expensive) tourmaline specimens.   
JC10490.  Back side.  
JC12492.  Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.  2 x 2.5 cm 23g   $30.00   
JC12493Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   2.5 x 3.2 cm 20g  $35.00
JC12494.  Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   2.2 x 2.5 cm 16g   $30.00   
JC12495.   Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   2.5 x 3 cm 28g    $30.00   
JC12496.   Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   3 x 4 cm 29g    $30.00   
JC12497Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   3.2 x 3.5 cm 49g   $35.00
JC12498Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   3.5 x 5 cm 71g   $40.00
JC12499Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   2 x 4 cm 34g   $35.00  
JC12500.  Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.  3 x 4 cm 50g  $30.00  
JC12501.   Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   3 x 4 cm 67g   $35.00  
JC12501.  Another view. 
JC12502.   Ruby, fuchsite.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   3.5 x 4.3 cm 33g   $35.00
JC11924.   Ruby.   Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   2 x 2.5 cm across the face.   32g. Single crystal.   $30.00  
JC11924.  Back side.  
JC11716.  Ruby.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   3 x 4.3 cm 25g.   $50.00   Slice about 1 cm thick.  
JC11716.  Back side.  
JC11715.  Ruby.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.   2.3 x 4 cm 66g.   $50.00    Two eyes surrounded by green chlorite?   
JC11711.  Ruby.  Mysore District, Karnataka, India.  3.5 x 3.5 cm 28g.   $65.00.   Ruby slice about 1 cm thick, with green chlorite? on the back.
JC11711.  Opposite end.