JC10723. Cinnabar. Almadén, Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. 3 x 6.5 cm 63g $8.00 Solid mass of cinnabar.
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BR106. Kunzite (Spodumene) Urucum m., Corrego do Urucum Pegmatite, Galileia, Rio Doce, Brazil. 8 x 3 x 2.5 cm 127g $250.00 Facet quality, clear, etched crystal with bright luster. Very pale pink on long axis. Camera picked up a bit of pink in this side exposure, more so than in reality. Ex: Arnold S. Goldstein coll. #433 . Ex Argentum Auctioneers #433, . Ex: Earth’s Treasures 3-2009. |
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BR106. Another view. |
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BR106. Another view. |
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BR106. Another view. |
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BR112. Cuprite. Onganja Mine, Helen Farm 235, Seeis, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia. 1.5 x 2.2 cm 9g $500.00 Ex: Francis & Jean Marshall coll. Ex: Lorraine Sofia coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research, Purchase: 3-2008 A very fine, dark red crystal. Competition quality thumbnail |
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BR112. Another view. |
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BR112. Back side. |
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BR174. Copper. Ray mine, Pinal county, Arizona. 6.8 x 5 cm 51g $95.00 Knobby crystals forming a matrix less Y shaped group. Ex: Galas Minerals, Purchased: 3-2002 . |
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BR174. Back side. |
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BR221. Sphalerite, quartz. Shuikoushan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning Co., Hengyang, Hunan, China. 7 x 6 x 2 cm 109g $375.00 Three crystals, largest 2 cm on drusy quartz. Fairly gemmy, and quite translucent. The sphalerites are a bit lighter in color. Reddish orange gemmy Sphalerite crystals with typical complex twinning are well exposed on contrasting matrix. Excellent luster, the Sphalerites with backlighting glow a bright reddish orange/amber, they can seem very dark without it. From the vintage finds at Shuikoushan; in excellent condition with no visible damage. The matrix is druzy quartz. Very esthetic, these were once found in large quantities but few were this choice, they are no longer coming out from this locality. When I tried to lighten up the photos to show the true color on the sphalerites, the quartz got so white that it lost crystal definition on the photos. Ex: Roberts Minerals Purchased: 4-1999 |
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BR221. Another view. |
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BR221. A little closer on the true color of the sphalerite. |
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BR221. Closer view. |
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BR222. Wolframite (Ferberite). Xi Kuang Shan, Hunan province., China on the label. No such location as this; although it is on the label. Probably Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. 5 x 5 x 2.5 cm 124g $135.00 Sharp, perfect and isolated Wolframite var. Ferberite with Quartz crystals covering its back. Its fine metallic luster really highlights the silvery-black color of this piece with complex well-formed terminations, outstanding. Ex: Mineralogical Research . |
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BR222. Another view |
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BR222. Another view |
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BR264. Topazolite var. andradite, clinachlore. Yellow Cat mine, Serpentine dome, New Idria district, San Benito county, California. 8 x 4 x 2 cm 95g $400.00 Golden crystals to about 6mm across, with nice bright luster. Ex: Steve Perry Minerals Purchased: 8-2007. Much better than most from here. Specimens of this quality have not come out from here in several years. RESERVED |
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BR264. Another view. |
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BR264. Closer view. |
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BR360. Mimetite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 3.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm 55g $275.00. Stout yellowish amber crystals from the "Gem Pocket". 1971 saw the discovery of the famous Mimetite “Gem Pocket", one of Tsumeb's great pockets. According to one dealer, he states "Indeed, according to most people who score such things, this find has not been surpassed since by any Mimetite from any location for size and quality of transparency" Ex: Donald K. Olson Minerals Purchased: 10-2001 |
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BR360. Another view. |
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BR360. Close up. |
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BR360. Back side. |
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BR362. Azurite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 5 x 4 x 4 cm 90g $850.00 A 4 cm tall x 3 cm wide blocky crystal, bright luster. Altering a bit to malachite. Top quality. Ex: Luis Leite Minerals. Ex: Earth’s Treasures Purchased: 3-2005 |
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BR362. Another view. |
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BR362. Another view. |
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BR362. Another view, termination. |
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BR362. Another view, back side. |
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BR362. Another view. |
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BR362. Another view. |
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BR466. Epidote, quartz. Capelinha, Jequitinhunha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 9.5 cm long x 2.8 cm wide. 37g. $90.00 Ex: Crystal Mine JC6041 . Ex: Jim McEwen coll.#2403 Purchased: 6-2011. The lighter green with a yellowish tint that is spotted around on the crystal is much more subdued in reality. Dark green lustrous crystal group. |
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BR466. Back side. |
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BR466. Vertical views. |
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BR466. Vertical view, back side. |
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BR619. Azurite, duftite, quartz. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 3 x 4 cm 21g $325.00 Two azurite crystals, blocky, 1.5 cm and 2 cm on quartz, with duftite on matrix. Ex: Claude H. Yoder coll.#1837 Purchased: 4-2006 Ex: Mineralogical Research. |
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BR619. Another view. |
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BR619. Another view. |
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BR619. Another view. |
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BR620. Hematite (Kidney ore). Egremont, West Cumberland Iron field, Cumbria, England. 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm 153g $125.00 Brilliant, black kidney type. Pretty. Ex: Dorothy Stripp coll. Ex: Claude H. Yoder coll.# 2300 Purchased: 8-09. Ex: Mineralogical Research |
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BR620. Another view. |
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BR620. Another view. |
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BR621. Galena, sphalerite. Mid Continent mine, Treece, Cherokee County, Kansas. 6.5 x 5 x 1.5 cm 117g $150.00 Two 2 cm cubes of dull luster galena, on chert with mm size rather dull sphalerites. Ex: Uncarved Block Minerals. |
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BR621. Another view. |
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BR621. Another view. |
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BR621. Another view, back side. |
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BR622. Sugilite. Wessels Mine, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa. 10.5 x 7 x 4 cm 280g $500.00 Massive block of purple sugilite, lapidary quality. Ex: Uncarved Block |
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BR622. Another view. |
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BR622. Another view. |
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BR622. Back side. |
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BR623. Bournonite. Quiruvilca Mine, (La Libertad m.), Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad, Peru. 3.5 x 5.5 cm 97g $165.00 Ex: Jack Parnau. Ex: Mineralogical Research Purchased: 1-1-2009 . These were a one time find from many years ago...I don't remember exactly when they came out....maybe late 1990's? The crystals are brilliant, and quite pretty. They are not as smooth as some bournonite, such as Yaogangxian, but have good shape. Neat specimens. I took photos from different angles getting all sides. |
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BR623. Another view. |
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BR623. Another view. |
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BR623. Another view. |
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BR623. Another view. |
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BR624. Malachite. Democratic Republic of Congo (formally Zaire). 4 x 7 cm tall. 87g $98.00 Four parallel stalagmites, not terminated. Sparkly. Ex: Geotrope Minerals On at least one of these the hole goes from top to bottom and you can blow air through it. RESERVED |
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BR624. Another view. |
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BR624. Closer view of the top. |
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BR625. Galena, pyrite. Sweetwater mine, nr. Ellington, Viburnum Trend district, Missouri. 3.5 x 2.7 216g $98.00 Ex: Claude H. Yoder coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research. Sharp slightly modified cubes, with a bit of pyrite and dolomite attached at the base. |
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BR625. Another view. |
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BR625. Another view. |
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JC13929. Vanadinite. Puzzler Mine, Adams Mine group (Adams claims), Castle Dome District, Castle Dome Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona. 11.5 x 6 x 6 cm 399g $110.00 There is one area near the center where the vanadinites were apparently knocked loose. Easily visible in the photos. |
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JC13929. Close up of lower part of specimen. |
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JC13929. Close up of upper part of specimen. |
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JC13930. Silver. Mass Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan. 4 x 3.5 x 2 cm $150.00. Nice miniature of silver from this rarely seen locality for silver. Sort of hackly silver etched out of calcite. Not sure when it was collected...the mine shut down in 1899. Rare to see one of these for sale. .EX: Keweenaw Minerals as old label with the specimen. Ex: James Smith collection. RESERVED |
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JC13930. Another view. |
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JC13930. Another view. |
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JC13930. Another view. |
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JC13930. Another view. |
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JC13930. Another view. |
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JC13935. Fluorite. Stoneco Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Paulding County, Ohio. 5.5 x 5 x 2 cm 110g $185.00 A choice miniature with the bright purple secondary fluorite cubes on the brown underlying smaller fluorite cubes. Collected by John Medici, Summer 1999. I purchased it from him at the Tucson show in January 2000. Ex Crowley collection #: JAC1463. A miniature of this quality from here is quite rare these days. RESERVED |
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JC13935. A closer view. |
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JC11805. Malachite (polished) L'Etoile du Congo Mine (Star of the Congo Mine; Kalukuluku Mine), Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo. 3.5 x 5 cm 153g $18.00 |
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JC11805. Another view. |
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JC11805. Another view. |
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JC11870. Hydroxlherderite? Minas Gerais, Brazil. 3 x 6 cm 31g $20.00 Terminated crystal. Another one from the collection I purchased a few years ago, with no label. Crystals are on a very sparkly matrix of an unknown mineral, to me at least. |
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JC11870. Another view. |
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JC11870. Another view. |
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JC11870. Another view. |
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JC11870. Another view. |
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JC11870. Another view. |
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JC11890. Witherite. Cave-in-Rock, Cave-In-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois. 3.5 x 4.5 cm 177g $125.00 Earl Calvert Coll. #2946. A superb older piece, doubly terminated on a bit of matrix. Several views of this nice representative specimen. RESERVED |
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JC11890. Another view. |
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JC11890. Another view. |
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JC11890. Another view. |
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JC11890. Another view, this of termination. |
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JC11890. Another view, this of the other termination. |
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JC11890. Another view, this of termination. |
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JC11890. Another view. |
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JC11890. Another view. |
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JC11892. Wulfenite. Erupcion/Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. 5 x 5.5 x 9 cm 382g $125.00 Leaning towards bipyramidal terminations, this is one of the older pieces that came out in the 1960's. A bit of descloizite & calcite here and there. I photographed it from all angles, and front and back. Not perfect, but a nice representative piece from the earlier finds. |
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JC11892. Another view. |
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JC11892. Another view. |
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JC11892. A view of one end. |
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JC11892. Another view. |
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JC11892. Another view. |
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JC11903. Topaz. Fazenda Concórdia pegmatite (Mimoso do Sul Mine), Mimoso do Sul, Espírito Santo, Brazil. 5 x 6.5 cm 172g $125.00 A rather modified topaz crystal, complete and doubly terminated. It has crevices and small holes that have clay down in them. I hit it with a water gun, and had minor results. The clay is really down in there. Interesting piece with all the modifications. Bright luster for the most part. I photographed it from all angles. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11903. Another view. |
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JC11906. Goethite after pyrite (iron cross twin). Gachala Municipality, Cundinamarca Dept., Colombia 3 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm 190g $50.00. Good miniature of these nice twins. I took photos of all sides. Pyrite "iron cross twin" specimen that was collected from the Guavió-Guatéque Mining District of Colombia. These twinned pyrite crystals are pentagonal dodecahedrons that underwent surface alteration to goethite, giving the exterior of the crystals their dark color. These came out around 2007 as I understand it. |
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JC11906. Another view. |
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JC11906. Another view. |
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JC11906. Another view. |
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JC11906. Another view. |
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JC11907. Azurite. Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui, China. 3 x 6.5 cm 64g $25.00. Bright luster crystals typical of this mine. |
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JC11907. Another view. |
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JC12041. Scheelite, albite.
Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.
5 cm crystal 254g $285.00 Orange crystal from
the earlier finds. Good shape, nice and sharp, displays nicely.
I took photos of it from all angles. |
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JC12041. Another view. |
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JC12041. Another view. |
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JC12041. Another view. |
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JC12041. Another view. |
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JC12041. Another view. |
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JC12041. Another view. |
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JC12041. Another view. |
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JC12041. Another view. |
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JC12042. Quartz. Kullu
District, Himachal Pradesh, India. 6 x 6 cm 87g
$20.00 Collected 2012. From northern India in the Himalaya
mountains. Totally clear, lustrous crystals.
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JC12042. Another view. |
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JC12042. Another view. |
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JC12042. Another view. |
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JC12043. Schorl, quartz. Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan . 5 x 5 cm 68g $35.00 A sharp, lustrous schorl crystal on quartz crystal. Mounted on a stand. Displays nicely. |
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JC12043. Another view. |
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JC12043. Another view. |
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JC12043. Another view. |
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JC12043. Another view. |
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JC12043. Another view. |
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JC12043. Another view. |
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JC10721. Cinnabar. Almadén, Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain 3.5 x 4.5 cm 59g $7.00 Solid mass of red cinnabar. |
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JC10721. Back side. |
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JC10723. Cinnabar. Almadén, Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. 3 x 6.5 cm 63g $8.00 Solid mass of cinnabar. |
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JC10723. Reverse. |
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JC10723. Reverse. |
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JC13887. Skutterudite. Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer district, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 8.5 x 6 x 6 cm 763g $80.00 A solid mass of Skutterudite with crystals along the top and front, brilliant luster, good definition of the crystals. Some have a near microscopic scattering of microscopic crystals of what appears to be pyrite or some other mineral. Nice example. |
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JC13887. Another view. |
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JC13887. Close up |
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JC13887. Close up |
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JC13889. Arsenopyrite, fluorite. Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China. 8 x 5.5 x 5 cm 201g $60.00. A somewhat flat plate of brilliant luster arsenopyrite resting on colorless fluorite cleavages. When looked at from the side, like in the lower photo, it is sort of lozenge shaped. Very bright luster, mirror like. Looks good in person. So brilliant, hard to photo. |
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JC13889. Side view. |
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JC13896. Pyrite, quartz. Beruang Tengah Prospect, Beruang Kanan orefield, Gunung Mas Regency, Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. 7 x 5 x 2.5 cm 121g $90.00 Bright pyrite with quartz...the two quartz crystals on the middle right look like Japanese twins, but they are not...just have that angle to fool folks. The pyrite has brilliant, mirror like luster. There were a few of these around at Tucson, and were surprisingly pricey. |
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JC13896. Another view. |
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JC13896. Another view. |
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JC13874. Azurite on smithsonite. Yanga Koubenza quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo. 8 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm 256g $155.00 Somewhat blocky to more disk like azurite crystals on beige smithsonite. |
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JC13874. Another view. |
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JC13874. Another view. |
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JC13874. Closer view. |
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JC13860. Cerussite, barite, galena. Mibladen mining district, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 9.1 x 5.5 x 2.6 cm 262g. $75.00. A better than average piece with nice sized cerussite scattered around on the galena matrix, with a small flower of pinkish barite for contrast. |
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JC13860. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13860. Another view. |
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JC13860. Another view. |