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    Minerals Beginning with "L" and "M"

	JC11215.   Libethenite  M'sesa mine, Kambove district, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo.   7 x 10 cm  267g.  $150.00.  Bright crystals scattered across the front as can be seen.   Not a lot of these on the market.    There are some broken crystals on that lower front area, other than that, its in pretty good shape.
	JC11215.  Close up top right area.
	JC11215.  Close up left side.
	JC12795.   Linarite, caledonite.  Blue Bell mine, Zzyzx, Soda mountains, Silver Lake district, San Bernardino county, California.  8.5 x 7 x 2.5 cm 222g  $120.00   Pretty much as seen here.  There are a few contact marks, where the matrix shows through.   Fairly rare to find these for sale these days.  Sawn back.
	JC12795.  Close up of the linarite.
	JC12795.  Close up of the caledonite.
	JC12795.  Close up of the caledonite.
	JC12795.  Close up of the linarite.
	JC12795.  Close up of the linarite.
	JC12795.  Close up of the caledonite.
	JC12795.  Close up of the caledonite.
	JC12795.  Close up of the linarite.
	JC12795.  Close up oblique view.
	JC12690.  Linarite, galena, anglesite.  Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico.  15.0 x 8.0 x 3.5 cm  665g   $160.00   Ex Patty Gaspari-Bridges collection.  Bladed, flat lying linarite on the front and back.  Of some added interest are a few galena cubes that are coated/being replaced by anglesite.
	JC12690.  Closer view.
	JC12690.  Close up of one of the galena cubes being coated/replaced by anglesite.
	JC12690.   Close up of some of the small galena cubes being coated/replaced by anglesite.
	JC12347.  Linarite.    Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico. 6.5 x 8.5 cm 270g.   $275.00.   This is one of the older pieces from the Blanchard.  Probably dates back 30 or 40 years when these, with the heavy coating of brilliant, lathlike crystals lying generally flat on the matrix, were found.    From a narrow seam, and it has a few contact points scattered across the piece.   Ex Scott Maylen collection.
	JC12347.  Closer view of the top half.
	JC12347.  Closer view of the bottom half.
	JC11375.   Linarite.  Grand Reef mine, Laurel canyon, Grand Reef mountain, Klondyke, Aravaipa district, Graham county, Arizona.   2.3 x 3.5 cm   21g. with stand.  $ 95.00   Solid coating of linarite, partially wrapping around the side.   Nice coating, not often seen in this amount on one face.
	JC11375.   Closer view.
	JC6964.  Lollingite, arsenopyrite, fluorite, quartz.   Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R., China.   5.5 x 7.5 x 6 cm T. 394g.   $125.00.  Brilliant, silvery arsenopyrite crystals coating lollingite crystals.  The flourites are octahedral, although hard to tell in the photos.   They are colorless.   There is a bit of massive quartz on top of the fluorites in the center of the piece.
	JC6964.   Another view.  The white area next to the fluorite appears to be gypsum.
	JC6964.   Another view
	JC12694.  Ludlamite.  Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil.    11.4 x 8.8 x 2.2 cm 375g   $450.00   First saw these 3 years ago at Tucson.  Since then there has been a lot of material available, and has so often happened with mineral finds, they will quickly disappear from the market place.   Beautiful green glassy lustrous translucent crystals of ludlamite measuring to 1.0 cm in size mostly covering the top of this matrix.  Fine example for the species.
	JC12694.  Another view.
	JC12694.  Close up.
	JC12694.  Close up.
	JC10827.   Ludwigite.   Spring Gulch/Valley View mine area, Quartzite (White Rock) canyon, Spring Mountain district, nr. Big Windy Peak, Lemhi county, Idaho.  3 x 5 cm  39g.  $30.00  Group of crystals, with minor oxidation staining on them.
	JC10840.   Ludwigite, calcite, forsterite?.   Spring Gulch/Valley View mine area, Quartzite (White Rock) canyon, Spring Mountain district, nr. Big Windy Peak, Lemhi county, Idaho.  7 x 8.5 cm  221g.  $125.00.   One of the few matrix pieces.  This one was in a narrow vein, so the crystals sticking vertically up from the matrix contacted the opposite wall, which left a beige residue on there ends.   The beige material is supposedly forsterite, but I have not had it verified.
	JC10840.  Another view.
	JC10840.   Close up view.
	JC10842.   Ludwigite.   Spring Gulch/Valley View mine area, Quartzite (White Rock) canyon, Spring Mountain district, nr. Big Windy Peak, Lemhi county, Idaho.    8 x 12 cm  778g.  $175.00.   Mass of short black prisms.  RESERVED
	JC10842.   Closer view.
	JC13203.  Magnesio-riebeckite.   Alto Chapare district, Chapare province, Cochabamba, Bolivia.   longest 5.5 cm.   3 pieces. $10.00
	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.
	JC13312.  More of a side view.
	JC13312.  Another view.
	JC13312.  Another view.
	JC13312.   Close up, vertical view.
	JC12168.  Malachite.  Kolwezi mining district, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo    3 x 4.7 cm 39g  $8.00
	JC12168.  Another side.
	JC12168.  Reverse.
	JC12163.  Malachite.  Kolwezi mining district, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo. 4 x 4 cm 35g   $12.00
	JC12163.  Reverse.
	JC12162.  Malachite.  Kolwezi mining district, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo.   4 x 5.5 cm 57g   $13.00
	JC12162.  Reverse.
	JC12161.  Malachite.  Kolwezi mining district, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo.  5.5 x 5.5 cm 45g   $13.00
	JC12161.  Reverse.
	JC12149.  Malachite.  Polished knob.  Congo.  6 x 7 cm 363g  $35.00.
	JC12140.  Malachite.  Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo.  2 x 4 cm   $5.00
	JC12139.  Malachite.  Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo.  1.5 x 4 cm   $5.00
	JC11928.  Malachite.   Sir Dominick Mine, Yudnamutana District, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia.   2.5 x 3.5 cm 18g.   $25.00.   Felted mass of malachite crystals.
	JC11612.  Malachite.  Shilu mine, Yangchun county, Yangjiang, Guandong, China.  7.5 x 9 cm 207g  $50.00  Nice botryoidal piece.
	JC11611.  Malachite.   Shilu mine, Yangchun county, Yangjiang, Guangdong, China.   9 x 9 cm   595g.  $175.00.   Botryoidal malachite from the recent finds at this mine.
	JC11611.   Another view.
	JC11611.   Another view.
	JC11611.   Another view.
	JC11610.  Malachite.  Shilu mine, Yangchun county, Yangjiang, Guangdong, China.  6 x 13 cm   509g.  $200.00.   From the recent finds at the Shilu mine, sharp botryoids of malachite making up a solid mass of malachite.
	JC11610.  Closer view.
	JC11495.  Malachite, cerussite.  Brown's prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shirte, Northern territory, Australia.   8.5 x 10 cm   499g.  $195.00.   Nice older example from this well known find.   Cream white, with some slight staining, cerussite crystals on botryoidal malachite.  Nicer specimen than usually seen for sale.
	JC11495.  Closer look.
	JC11495. Close up.
	JC10670.  Malachite pseudo azurite, minor azurite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto region, Namibia.  6.5 x 9 cm  210g.  $95.00    Front face of piece is covered with fairly sharp pseudos of malachite after azurite.
	JC10670.   Another view.
	JC10670.  Oblique view.
	JC10670.  Vertical view.
	JC10670.  Closer view.
	JC10670.  Closer view.
	JC10474.   Malachite.   Mindingi mine?, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire).   9.5 x 10 cm  782g.  $150.00.  The botryoidal malachite in this piece has intense green color, with what appears to be a thin, secondary coat of bright sparkly malachite crystals.  The piece has lots of sparkle and great eye appeal.
	JC10474.   Another view.
	JC7654.  Malachite pseudo azurite, duftite?  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.    4 x 6 cm 84g  $30.00.  At one time, very flat lying azurite crystals ended up pseudomorphing to malachite. Nice luster on the malachite.    RESERVED
	JC7654.   Closer view.
	JC11937B.   Manganotantalite.   Alto do Giz pegmatite??, Equador, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.   1.7 cm crystal fragment.  $18.00
	JC11937C.   Manganotantalite.   Alto do Giz pegmatite??, Equador, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.   2 cm crystal fragment.  $20.00
	JC12561.   Melanite.  Serpentine Dome, New Idria district, San Benito county, California.   10.0 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm 164g.  $60.00.    Plate, with crystals on both sides.   From a very tight vein in the typical schistose rock these came in.   Areas where the specimens sides contacted the vein walls, have a rubbed look.
	JC12561.  Another view.
	JC12561.  Back side.
	JC12561.  Closer view.
	JC12561.  Closer view.
	JC12561.  Closer view.
	JC12561.  Closer view.
	JC12116.  Melanite garnet.  Nr. Benitoite mine, Serpentine dome, New Idria district, San Benito county, California.   2.5 x 4.5 cm 17g  $10.00
	JC10921.  Melanite, diopside.   Serpentine dome, New Idria district, San Benito county, California.   3.5 x 8.5 cm  65g.  $5.00.   Collected from an outcrop that has been completely removed about 3/4 mile west of the Benitoite mine.   Small acicular diopside crystals with scattered melanite crystals.   Collected in 1978.
	JC10921.  Close up view of the melanite.
	JC10875.  Melanite.  Serpentine dome, New Idria district, San Benito county, California.  7 x 8 cm  220g.  $38.00.    Druze of crystals across the face, with some micro crystals of clinochlore.  Sawn back.
	JC10875.   Closer view.
	JC12704.   Mica.  India.   6.5 x 7.5 x 1 cm 57g  $5.00
	JC12190.  Mica sheet.  India.  Transparent.  The silica putty holding it up is easily seen through the mica sheet. 9 x 12 cm 31g.  $10.00  A thin sheet of muscovite? mica.
	JC12190.   View without the silica putty behind it.
	JC13329.  Mimetite.  Potosi mine. West Camp, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. 9.4 x 5.1 x 4 cm  $265.00.   Ex Ikon Mining, Ex Bob Reynolds collection.   Old IKONS mining label (Jim and Mary Walker, from the 1960s!) and not a whole lot of these mimetites were produced.    Rather prismatic crystals with nice luster.   One minor area of damage, visible as a white spot near the center of the specimen.
	JC13329.  Another view.
	JC13329.  Back side.
	JC13329.  Close up of the center area.
	JC13198. Mimetite.   Santa Eulalia  district, Aquiles Serdán municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico.  2.5 x 3 cm 35g   $15.00   Pretty little small miniature.
	JC13198.  Another view.
	JC12798.  Mimetite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.   4.5 x 7 x 2.5 cm 160g  $50.00.   Pale yellow acicular crystals.
	JC12798.  Close up.
	JC12796.  Mimetite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.  10 x 6 x 2.5 338g  $90.00.  Pale yellow acicular crystals.
	JC12796.  Close up
	JC12762.  Mimetite.  Mfouati Mine, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo.  10 x 8 x 4.5 cm 534g  $100.00  From the recent finds in the Congo.  Form is hexagonal dipyramid, some doubly terminated.  Yellow to yellowish orange crystals coat the top, with lighter color micro crystals across the lower front.
	JC12762.  Another view.
	JC12762.  Closer view of the top.
	JC12510.  Mimetite.  San Pedro Corralitos Mine, San Pedro Corralitos, Casas Grandes Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico.  3.5 x 5 cm   91g   $250.00   There is a small chip out of one of the botryoids, as can be seen in the photo...it is slightly right of center about half way between the top and bottom of the piece in this view.
	JC12510.  Another view.
	JC12510.  Another view.
	JC11368.   Mimetite.  Velardeña, Velardeña District, Cuencamé Municipality, Durango, Mexico.  9 x 11.5 cm   362g.  $250.00.   Olive-green spherical clusters of nubby to euhedral mimetite crystals totally cover the undulating surface of this  large plate from this much less well-known extensive mining district in Durango.   Mineral specimens are in fact, rare from Velardena.  Cuprian green mimetite is a rare varietal from this locality, as mimetites shown in mindat are yellow. The bit of scattered bruising is certainly only a modest detraction to this rare, very rich, and showy large piece. Ex Bob Reynolds Collection
	JC11368.  Closer view.
	JC11368.  Closer view.
	JC11471.      Mimetite & ?.  Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.   9 x 9 cm  272g.  $10.00.   Tiny, white mimetite crystals associated with a greenish mineral that I'm not sure what it is.   Would have been nice if it had had a label with it.
	JC11471.  Close up.
	JC11471.  Closer view of the bottom center.
	JC11471.  Close up of the bottom center.
	JC11466.     Mimetite.  Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.   7 x 11 cm  283g.  $12.00.   Flattish plate of tiny, acicular, pale yellow to pale yellowish orange mimetite crystals across the face and back.
	JC11466.   Close up.
	JC11466.   Back side.
	JC10557.   Mimetite, mottramite?  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.   7 x 9.5 cm  334g.  $365.00.   A very odd (weird?)  mimetite from Tsumeb.  Looks like coral.  Sort of cauliflower like, cream colored crystal aggregates completely cover the front of the piece.  A greenish tint is caused by a very thin layer of what looks like sparkly mottramite or duftite at the base and sides of the crystals.   Arkenstone had priced this one at $1,800.
	JC10557.  Closer view.
	JC10557.  Close up.
	JC10124.  Mimetite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto region, Namibia.    8 x 8 cm   349g.   $150.00.    Fat, yellow crystals on gray matrix.
	JC10124.  Close up view.
	JC7932.  Mimetite.  Tsumeb, Namibia.  6 x 7 cm 175g  $50.00.   Splendent amber color mimetites, heavily coating matrix.   Older piece.     RESERVED
	JC7932.  Another view.
	JC7932.  Another view.
	JC7932.  Closer view.
	JC7932.  Even closer view.
	JC3787.  Mimetite, calcite.  Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.   5 x 7 cm   169g.  $35.00.   I purchased this one in 2007, so it was collected on or before that date.
	JC3787.  Close up.
	JC3735.  Mimetite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia.  1 1/4 x 2 78g.   $150.00  Stalactite like group. Light yellow.  I acquired this one in September 2006.
	JC3735.  Closer view, central area.
	JC3735.  Closer view, top area.
	JC11986.  Molybdite.   Glen Eden Mines, Dundee, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia.   3.5 x 4 cm 27g.   $30.00.  Yellow is paler than the camera shows...more of a light yellow.
	JC11986.  Side.
	JC11986.  Back.
	JC13192.  Molybdenite.  Moly Hill mine, La Motte, Abitibi RCM, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada.   5 small pieces of crystals.  $5.00
	JC13180.  Molybdenite.   Moly Hill mine, La Motte, Abitibi RCM, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada. 2.3 x 3.7 cm 8g  $5.00.  Loose cluster of somewhat bent crystals.
	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.
	JC13078.  Molybdenite.  Pine Creek mine, Scheelite, Bishop district, Inyo county, California.  5.5 x 5 x 1.5 cm 74g  $18.00.  Not much powellite or scheelite in this one, mostly molybdenite.
	JC13078.  Back side.
	JC13078.  Short wave, front.
	JC13078.  Short wave, back side.
	JC12998.  Molybdenite.   Pine Creek mine, Annex claims?, Bishop district, Scheelite, nr. Bishop, Inyo county, California. 11 x 11 x 2.5 cm 608g   $100.00  A conglomeration of crystals, with none really distinctive on the front.  One group, a sort of complex group, measures 5.5 cm across.   Specimen is about 50% molybdenite.    I collected these in 2012, from underground in the upper workings of the mine.  Not sure of the exact level.  These came from the ceiling in a drift in these upper workings...I think where the old Annex claims were first filed many years ago.  These are some of the finest molybdenite specimens to come from the Pine Creek mine.    The specimen is nearly solid molybdenite, with crystals on the front and back.   Quite rare...virtually none of these are seen for sale.
	JC12998.  Another view of front.
	JC12998.  Back side.
	JC12998.  Close up of the crystal group on the back corner.
	JC13002.  Molybdenite.   Pine Creek mine, Annex claims?, Bishop district, Scheelite, nr. Bishop, Inyo county, California.  10 x 6 x 3.5 cm 334g  $75.00.   Specimen is about 80% molybdenite.   A complex mass of crystals.  The largest, on the side, is 3 x 4 cm.   I collected these in 2012, from underground in the upper workings of the mine.  Not sure of the exact level.  These came from the ceiling in a drift in these upper workings...I think where the old Annex claims were first filed many years ago.  These are some of the finest molybdenite specimens to come from the Pine Creek mine.    The specimen is nearly solid molybdenite, with crystals on the front and back.
	JC13002.  Slightly different angle.
	JC13002.  View of larger crystal on the side.
	JC13002.  Back side.