New Arrivals Page 1
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JC13582. Grossular (gem). Paymaster canyon, nr. Hawthorne, Mineral county, Nevada. 12mm diameter. $35.00 From a small find of 2001. Transparent, golden yellow crystal, with brilliant luster. Hard to see the crystal faces due to the transparency. Thought I had sold all of these, and ran across them in a mislabeled flat. SOLD |
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JC13583. Grossular (gem). Paymaster canyon, nr. Hawthorne, Mineral county, Nevada. 10 mm diameter. $30.00 From a small find of 2001. Transparent, golden yellow crystal, with brilliant luster. Hard to see the crystal faces due to the transparency. Thought I had sold all of these, and ran across them in a mislabeled flat. SOLD |
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JC13584. Grossular (gem). Paymaster canyon, nr. Hawthorne, Mineral county, Nevada. 8mm diameter. $25.00 From a small find of 2001. Transparent, golden yellow crystal, with brilliant luster. Hard to see the crystal faces due to the transparency. Thought I had sold all of these, and ran across them in a mislabeled flat. SOLD |
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JC13585. Grossular (gem). Paymaster canyon, nr. Hawthorne, Mineral county, Nevada. 12mm diameter $30.00 From a small find of 2001. Transparent, golden yellow crystal, with brilliant luster. Hard to see the crystal faces due to the transparency. Thought I had sold all of these, and ran across them in a mislabeled flat. This one is slightly incomplete, sort of flat on the back side. SOLD |
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JC13586. Crocoite. Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia. 2.5 x 3 cm $8.00 SOLD |
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JC13530. Malachite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm 106g $10.00 Sparkly micro crystals and somewhat botryoidal sparkly crystals. SOLD |
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JC13531. Malachite, cuprite? Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 7 x 5 x 3 cm 203g $8.00 Sparkly micro crystals. |
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JC13531. Close up. |
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JC13534.Malachite, cuprite?. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 10 x 7 x 2.5 cm 307g $20.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite on both sides. SOLD |
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JC13536. Cuprite, malachite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 5.5 x 4 cm 230g $5.00 More of an ore sample than anything. Dark red, massive cuprite with a bit of malachite. SOLD |
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JC13537. Malachite, cuprite? Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 5 x 4 cm 222g $10.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite. SOLD |
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JC13538. Malachite, cuprite? Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 9.5 x 3 x 2 cm 151g $10.00 Sparkly micro crystals on both sides. |
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JC13538. Close up, left end. |
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JC13538. Back side. |
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JC13539. Malachite, cuprite, calcite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. Cuprite is present as tiny, cubic crystals, replaced by malachite. 5.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm 109g $15.00 SOLD |
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JC13540. Malachite, cuprite? Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 3.5 x 3 cm 97g $8.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite. |
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JC13540. Close up. |
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JC13541. Malachite, cuprite? Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 5 x 5 x 2 cm 114g $10.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite. SOLD |
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JC13542. Malachite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm 127g $10.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite. |
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JC13542. Close up. |
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JC13543. Malachite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 3.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm 38g $5.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite. |
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JC13543. Close up. |
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JC13544. Calcite, malachite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 6.5 x 3 cm 196g $5.00. A few of the vugs had calcite over lying the malachite. Only a couple of these were recovered. |
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JC13544. Close up. |
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JC13545. Malachite, cuprite? Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6.5 x 6 x 2.5 cm 164g $5.00. |
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JC13545. Close up. |
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JC13546. Malachite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 5 x 3 cm 118g $8.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite. |
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JC13546. Close up. |
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JC13547. Malachite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm 107g $10.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite. |
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JC13547. Close up. |
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JC13548. Malachite. Unnamed mine, Buckley district, NE Walker Lake, Mineral county, Nevada. 5 x 4.5 x 4 cm 132g $8.00 Sparkly micro crystals of malachite. SOLD |
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JC13550. Cinnabar (partial replacement by metacinnabar?) Good Spot (Vulture) prospect, Antelope district, Pershing county, Nevada. 10 x 6 x 2 cm 242g $25.00. These incomplete crystals were etched out of calcite. They have a partial blackish coating on them that may be metacinnabar. Sawn base. Of interest as a location specimen. |
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JC13550. Close up of left side. A few micro quartz crystals are present. |
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JC13550. Close up of incomplete crystal on the lower right in the top photo. |
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JC13551. Cinnabar. Good Spot (Vulture) prospect, Antelope district, Pershing county, Nevada. 7 x 7 x 2 cm 166g $15.00 These incomplete crystals were partially exposed, so I etched some of the calcite away to show them more. Of interest as a location specimen. Sawn back. |
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JC13552. Cinnabar. Good Spot (Vulture) prospect, Antelope district, Pershing county, Nevada. 3 x 4 x 1 cm 20g $10.00. Massive cinnabar in calcite. Of interest as a location specimen. SOLD |
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JC13552. Another view. |
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JC13553. Chabazite. North Table Mountain, Golden, Golden Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado 7.5 x 2 x 2 cm 47g $8.00 Collected in the 1960's. Nearly transparent, glassy, cube like crystals. SOLD |
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JC13554. Pyromorphite on smoky quartz. Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. 8 x 4 x 3 cm 182g $10.00 Unusual in that the pyromorphite formed on smoky quartz crystals. |
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JC13554. Another view. |
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JC13555. Chalcopyrite. Gold Eagle mine, Lone mountain district, Esmeralda county, Nevada. 9 x 6 x 4 cm 371g $10.00 Flat lying crystals...formed in a tight seam, so the crystals are very thin and flat, and when turned in the light can see the faces reflecting the light. Interesting gangue mineral from the mine. SOLD |
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JC13556. Calcite, galena, pyrite. Gold Eagle mine, Lone mountain district, Esmeralda county, Nevada. 8 x 6 x 4.5 cm 403g $15.00. Face is covered with calcite crystals, with satiny luster. Specimen is from the dump. Galena and pyrite are in the matrix...which is mostly massive calcite. SOLD |
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JC13557. Galena, calcite, sphalerite. Gold Eagle mine, Lone mountain district, Esmeralda county, Nevada. 8 x 6 x 3 cm 370g $15.00. Calcite crystals on the front where the seam was open, galena cleavages are embedded in the calcite matrix. SOLD |
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JC13558. Sphalerite. Gold Eagle mine, Lone mountain district, Esmeralda county, Nevada. 8.5 x 5.5 x 3 cm 361g $10.00 Sphalerite cleavages embedded in calcite, with a bit of galena. SOLD |
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JC13559. Calcite, galena, sphalerite. Gold Eagle mine, Lone mountain district, Esmeralda county, Nevada. 7 x 8 x 3.5 cm 458g $12.00. Shallow vug with calcite crystals, with galena and sphalerite in the matrix, which is mostly massive calcite. SOLD |
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JC13587. Galena, tetrahedrite. Gold Eagle mine, Lone mountain district, Esmeralda county, Nevada. 10 x 5 x 3 cm 217g $10.00 Fine grained (steel) galena ore sample, with a bit of tetrahedrite present. |
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JC13587. Another view...the tetrahedrite is present about dead center in this view...slightly different luster and color from the galena. |
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JC13588. Galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite. Gold Eagle mine, Lone mountain district, Esmeralda county, Nevada. 9 x 5 x 4.5 cm 355g $15.00. Sparkly "steel" galena, with larger cleavages of sphalerite in the calcareous matrix. Tetrahedrite is present as poorly defined cleavages with slightly different luster than the galena. SOLD |
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JC13589. Galena, tetrahedrite. Gold Eagle mine, Lone mountain district, Esmeralda county, Nevada. 5 x 4 x 3 cm 112g $8.00 Sparkly "steel" galena, with patches of tetrahedrite. SOLD |
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JC13560. Tetrahedrite, pyrite, siderite. Galena mine, Placer Center (Coeur d’Alene) district, Shoshone County, Idaho. 11.5 x 8 x 2.5 cm 570g $20.00 A very rich ore specimen, with very fine grained silver bearing tetrahedrite, laced with golden, very fine grained pyrite, in a siderite matrix. A high grade ore sample from recent mining. 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. |
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JC11596. Fluorite, hubnerite. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 3.5 x 4 cm 52g. $30.00. Modified octahedron, sort of light green color, with hubnerite crystal on the back. |
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JC11596. Side view. |
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JC11596. Another view. |
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JC11596. View of back with hubnerite crystal. |
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JC13505. Arsenopyrite. Huanggang Mine, Hexigten, Inner Mongolia A.R., China. 7.5 x 7.5 x 6 cm 532g $65.00. Fairly bright, modified crystals from the finds of several years ago (around 2011). |
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JC13505. Another view. |
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JC13505. Another view. |
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JC13505. Another view. |
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JC13485. Dioptase, calcite. Mindouli, Mindouli Dist., Pool Dept., Republic of the Congo. 12 x 7 x 2 cm 247g $350.00 Brilliant green/blue green...typical dioptase color. Pretty. 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. |
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JC13485. With light back ground. |
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JC13485. Close up. |
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JC13491. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco 11 x 11 x 5 cm 1,758g $225.00 These sort of burnt orange crystals came out a few years ago. Lustrous crystals, fairly heavy piece. |
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JC13491. Another view. |
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JC13494. Chalcopyrite, siderite. Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang Co., Bijie, Guizhou, China. 8.5 x 6 x 4 cm 368g $140.00 Crystals to 2.5 cm, quite a bit larger than usually seen from here. Very minor chipping on the right edge of the top most crystal. SOLD |
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JC13496. Pyrite, galena. Huanzala mine, Huallanca district, Dos de Mayo province, Huanuco department, Peru. 12 x 8 x 4 cm 1,114g $90.00 Brilliant golden octahedrons of pyrite, with lots of sparkle, sitting on the pyrite is black/dark grey galena, with no luster. I suspect the piece was subjected to an acid dip to get rid of excess calcite, which killed the luster on the galena. Piece really stands out with the very sparkly pyrites. |
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JC13496. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13496. Another view. |
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JC13496. Close up. |
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JC13496. Close up. |
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JC11538. Apatite, siderite. Panasqueira mines, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 2.5 x 2.5 x 4.5 cm across. 49g. $25.00. Green, somewhat squat crystal, with the back coated with siderite. Probably doubly terminated, as the bottom is covered with siderite, it is hard to tell. |
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JC11538. Another view. |
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JC11538. Side view. |
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JC11538. Back side. |
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JC11541. Elbaite. Cruzeiro mine?, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 3 cm tall. 20g. $50.00. Not sure of the exact location on this one. Appears to be Cruzeiro mine, although the label says only Minas Gerais. SOLD |
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JC11543. Scheelite. Tae Hwa mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju city, North Chungcheong province, South Korea. 2.5 x 3.5 cm 36g. $30.00. A partial crystal. |
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JC11543. Back side. |
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JC11546. Elbaite. Karibib constituency, Erongo region, Namibia. 4 cm tall. 30g. $50.00 Deep green crystal. |
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JC11546. Another view. |
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JC11546. Another view. |
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JC11550. Hematite, andradite. N'Chwaning mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape province, South Africa. 1.2 x 2.5 x 6.5 cm 132g. $40.00. Nice, sort of doubly terminated, single crystal of lustrous hematite. The right side in the photo is broken off. |
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JC11550. A view of the side with tiny andradite garnet crystals adhering to the hematite. |
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JC11550. Another view. |
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JC11551. Smithsonite. El Refugio mine, Choix, Choix municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico. 4.5 x 5 cm 87g. $35.00. Pretty pink specimen from this now defunct locality. The specimen is a bit more pink than the photo would indicate. It is more of a light pink. |
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JC11489. Austinite (cuprian). Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 6 x 6 cm 70g. $45.00 These came out a couple of years ago, and are now pretty much gone from the market. Great color. |
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JC11489. Closer view |
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JC11481. Austinite (cuprian). Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 6 x 7 cm 92g. $55.00 These came out a couple of years ago, and are now pretty much gone from the market. Great color. SOLD |
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JC9950. Azurite. Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. 5 x 5.5 cm 51g $50.00. A group of small, brilliant luster dark blue crystals from the finds back in the 1990's. |
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JC9950. Another view. |
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JC9950. Another view. |
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JC9950. Another closer view. |
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JC9950. Another closer view. |
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JC9950. Another closer view. |
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JC9473. Barite. Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores district, Huamalíes province, Huánuco dept., Peru. 6 x 9 cm wide. 131g $30.00. Group of translucent, grayish crystals. |
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JC9473. Another view. |
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JC9473. Another view. |
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JC9234. Hemimorphite. Kimbanga prospect, Kimbedi, Mindouli district, Republic of Congo. 7 x 8.5 cm 264g. $38.00. Light blue crystals from this somewhat recent, apparently one time find. Minor ding in one spot. |
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JC9234. Another view. |
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JC4489. Almandine. Pee Wee Gulch, Nr. Emerald creek, Latah county, Idaho. 2.5 x 3 cm 23g. $8.00 . Although Garnet Gulch is the most often seen location for these, the mica schists that these occur in are scattered over a fairly large area. Pee Wee gulch is a nearby location. They look very similar to Garnet gulch specimens, but tend to be a bit more rounded and often have a bit of schist clinging to them. SOLD |