New Arrivals Page 1
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JC7094. Azurite, Morenci mine, Morenci, Greenlee county, Arizona. 10 x 13 cm 658g. $125.00 Sparkly, bright blue small crystals heavily coating the front face. Pretty. Better in person. Purchased in 2013. |
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JC7094. Close up of upper portion. |
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JC7094. Another view. |
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JC8122. Quartz. Petersen Mountain, Hallelujah Junction area, Washoe County, Nevada. 6.5 x 6 cm Tall. 190g. $25.00. Pale amethyst with smoky base. I collected this one in 2012. Doubly terminated, although a bit ragged on the bottom...was attached to a scepter at one time, but came loose in the pocket. |
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JC8122. Slightly back lit. |
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JC8122. Slightly back lit, and a bit of different angle, showing the front faces a bit better. |
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JC8585. Cerussite. Tsumeb, Namibia. 3 x 3.5 cm 54g. $25.00. Minor dings on left edge and backside, can be seen in the photos. Photos done in daylight and LED light. Cute twin. RESERVED |
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JC8628. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 7 x 8 cm 287g. $28.00. Fans of very pale yellow adamite crystals. Fluorescent lime green. Been on the site for awhile, so I lowered the price quite a bit. |
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JC8628. Closer view. |
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JC8630. Muscovite pseudo microcline, schorl. Erongo mountain, Erongo region, Namibia. 5 x 7 cm 52g. $35.00. Sort of a combination of pseudo and epimorph after microcline. Some of these are hollow, while the muscovite shows the obvious microcline form. Scattered schorl crystals decorate the muscovite. |
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JC8630. View showing the hole where the microcline used to be. |
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JC8630. Back side showing the scattered schorl crystals. |
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JC8675. Meta-zeunerite and ?. Majuba Hill mine, Antelope district, Pershing county, Nevada. 6.5 x 7.5 cm 218g. $35.00. Platy green crystals scattered through a dark matrix of mixed minerals, none identified on the label. Appears to be some type of dark sulfide as the matrix, with the scattered meta-zeunerite platy crystals scattered around. One of the real rarities from Majuba Hill and nicely priced. |
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JC8675. Another view. |
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JC9070. Amethystine, grape agate/grape chalcedony? Manakarra beach?, West Sulawesi, Indonesia. 7 x 9 cm 137g. $70.00. The poorer material does not have any luster, whereas the better material has a nice shine of minute, microscopic, quartz/amethyst that makes up the chalcedony. The sort of whitish areas are reflections/sparkles from the slightly crystalline botryoids. Specimen is a bit lighter color than the photo. RESERVED |
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JC9134. Spessartine, quartz, mica. Wushan spessartine mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao county, Zhangzhou prefecture, Fujian prov., China. 7.5 x 8 cm 226g. $98.00. Single quartz crystal protruding from a mound of orange spessartine crystals. One blemish on the right side as seen in this photo. Bright glassy luster on the spessartine. |
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JC9134. Another view. |
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JC9439. Pyromorphite. Les Farges mine, Ussel, Correze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. 3.5 x 7 cm 100g. $75.00 Piled up grouping of olive green crystals on quartz. |
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JC9439. Closer view. |
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JC11014. Vesuvianite. Nr. Clio, Plumas county, California. 6 x 8 cm 175g. $25.00 5 cm crystal. Diopside that has rotted/leached away, has left small pits on the crystal. The large, main crystal is about 2/3 complete, the base of it never formed. The left side near the top is not completely formed. It is not broken, just never formed...may have been due to another crystal growing against it. Back side is also pitted, presumably from where diopside grew and has been leached or rotted away. Collected in 2020. |
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JC11014. Tilted slightly to show the glassy luster where no diopside pits are present. |
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JC11014. Tilted slightly to show the glassy luster where no diopside pits are present. |
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JC11014. Back side. |
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JC11014. Back side, slightly different angle to show the reflectivity of the face where its not pitted by the diopside. |
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JC8600. Stilbite, apophyllite. Pune district, Maharashtra, India. 6.5 x 6.5 cm 99g. $15.00. Pleasing group of blocky apophyllite crystals with a nice stilbite topping it off. |
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JC8600. Another view. |
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JC8600. Another view. Stilbite on the upper right. |
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JC8600. Back side showing all the little stilbites growing on it. |
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JC8602. Calcite, stilbite. Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, India. 6.5 x 7 cm 221g. $25.00. A 4.8 cm modified rhomb. Mostly transparent. Minor dings here and there as tiny white spots. |
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JC8602. Another view. |
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JC8602. Another view. |
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JC8602. Another view. |
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JC8325. Smithsonite. El Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. 5 x 7.5 cm 63g. $125.00. There is a fair amount of pink smithsonite from Choix, but I haven't seen many with this hot pink color, more intense than usual. The mine is now closed and buried...no more coming out from what I hear, and assume is accurate. RESERVED |
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JC8537. Fluorite, quartz. El Gaudro mine, Talampaya, La Rioja, Argentina. 6 x 9 cm 198g. $50.00. Nice group of rounded octahedrons, typical for this locality, on drusy quartz. Nice specimen from this seldom seen locality. RESERVED |
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JC8648. Scheelite. Xuebaoding mountain, Pingwu, Sichuan, China. 7.5 x 8 cm 301g. $40.00. Sawn back. Group of honey colored crystals. |
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JC8648. Another view. |
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JC8648. Another view. |
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JC8648. Closer view. |
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JC8896. Quartz epimorph after fluorite. Sidi Rahal, El Kelaa des Sraghna province, Morocco. 7 x 8 x 16 306g. $45.00 A shell of quartz showing the obvious shape of the fluorite. Unusual specimen from this locality. Sort of an elongated cube (rectangle) where the fluorite was removed. The shell is drusy quartz. I took several different angles trying to show how it looks. |
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JC8896. Another view. |
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JC8896. Another view. |
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JC8896. Another view. |
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JC8896. Another view. |
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JC8896. Another view. |
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JC9125. Amethyst, calcite. Kakamunurle Mine, Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India. 7.5 x 8 cm 144g $85.00 These came out several years ago, and made quite a hit. This one is slightly different in that the crystals are sort of short and squat, and try for double terminations even though attached to matrix. There is a double terminated dogtooth calcite hidden in with the amethyst. This view is with the specimen lying flat. It is basically a flat lying piece with a somewhat mounded appearance as seen here. |
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JC9125. A vertical view. A calcite, hard to see, is on the lower left, as a somewhat grayish crystal. |
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JC9125. Another vertical view, the calcite is on the lower right in this shot. |
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JC9125. Close up of the top of the specimen. |
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JC9125. Back side. |
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JC9269. Quartz. Marshal canyon, East side Adam Peak, Osgood mountains, Potosi district, Humboldt county, Nevada. 3.5 x 6 x 7.5 cm tall 143g. $13.00 From a find in early 2000. An alpine type vein in granite. Minor muscovite in association. A single pocket discovery. Most specimens have minor damage here and there due to earthquake activity over the eons. These are the last of decent cabinet specimens from this find. The largest crystal has a ding on the termination, typical of most specimens from here. One of the better pieces from this find. |
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JC9269. Another view, slightly different angle. |
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JC9302. Azurite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. A 3.5 cm tall crystal aggregate. 11g. $35.00. A single, flat topped termination crystal group. Dark blue, with good luster. A two centimeter azurite crystal tops this little group. Below it are half a dozen smaller azurite crystals. The termination on the main crystal is flat. There is a bit of malachite present, darker than the photo would indicate. I took photos of all sides. RESERVED |
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JC11436. Azurite, malachite. Morenci mine, Morenci, Greenlee county, Arizona. Approximately 5 x 6 x 8 cm 433g. $50.00. Brilliant blue, somewhat botryoidal azurite. Older piece. Pretty. |
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JC11436. Side view. |
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JC11436. Close up. |
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JC11439. Quartz (prase) with
actinolite inclusions, andradite. Serifos Island, Milos, South
Aegean, Greece. 4 x 10 cm 107g $75.00. A
deep green quartz crystal completely filled with actinolite inclusions
giving the intense color. It lies on a bed of tiny andradite
crystals. There is a spot near the base of the crystal where it looks
like another crystal has broken off. Well priced...these tend to be
rather expensive as a quick search of the internet shows. |
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JC11439. Another view. |
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JC11439. Another view. |
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JC11531. Calcite. Rucks pit, Fort Drum, Okeechobee county, Florida. 3 x 4.5 cm 27g. $20.00. A cluster of scalenohedral crystals that once rested in a fossilized clam. They came loose in shipping, so no clam comes with them. RESERVED |
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JC11533. Anglesite pseudo cerussite. Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna county, New South Wales, Australia. 3 x 4.5 cm 47g $35.00. Sparkly anglesite crystals replacing the cerussite. |
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JC11533. Another view. |
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JC11533. Another view. |
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JC13451. Pyrite. Bosque Draw, Chaves County, New Mexico. 4.8 x 3.7 x 2.7 cm 72g $10.00. From a somewhat obscure locality. Satiny luster pyrite as seen. The crack in the lower photo of the specimen does not go through, and it appears to be quite stable. Ex Chet Lemanski collection. |
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JC13451. Back side. |
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JC13455. Pyromorphite. Little Giant mine, nr. Mullan, Coeur d'Alene district, Shoshone county, Idaho. 7 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm 211g $25.00. Small, olive green crystals typical of this old mine. |
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JC13455. Close up view. |
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JC13456. Chalcopyrite with Pyrite var bravoite, barite. Maubacher Bleiberg, Untermaubach, Düren, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany 10 x 5.5 x 7 cm 744g $250.00 Ex Fabre Minerals collection. Ex Donny A. Michel collection. As Jordi Fabre describes the specimen "Groups of very shiny Chalcopyrite crystals with sharp crystal forms, interspersed with grayish Pyrite crystals (the bravoite variety, rich in nickel), on a Baryte matrix. The specimen is a German classic, of the best quality known from the locality, and it comes from an important European collection". These are quite rare, especially in this quality. RESERVED |
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JC9287. Azurite, malachite. Milpillas mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz municipality, Sonora, Mexico. 4 x 4.5 cm 40g $120. A really nice miniature with a brilliant almost neon blue main crystal, with some malachite associated. |
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JC9287. Another view. |
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JC9287. Another view. |
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JC9287. Another view. |
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JC9287. Another view. Termination of the main crystal. |
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JC9287. Another view. |
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JC6956. Vanadinite. Cock's orebody, Level 4, San Antonio mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. 3.5 x 6.5 cm 67g. $25.00 Sparkly, almost silvery to yellowish spindle shaped vanadinite crystals heavily coating the specimen. Much better in person. Camera has a hard time capturing the individual crystals and their appearance. There are some broken crystals. Collected in 2013. |
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JC6956. Another view. |
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JC6956. Another view. |
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JC6956. Closer view. |
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JC6956. Close up view. |
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JC3208. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 4.5 x 6.3 cm 265g $75.00 Crystals to 1.3 cm Dark red, brilliant crystals coating matrix. Displays very nicely, pretty. Ex Crowley collection #JAC1667. |
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JC3208. Closer view. |
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JC3208. Another view. |
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JC3208. Another view. |
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JC3208. Close up. |
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JC12694. Ludlamite. Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil. 11.4 x 8.8 x 2.2 cm 375g $300.00 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. |
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JC12694. Another view. |
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JC12694. Close up. |
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JC12694. Close up. |
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JC13422. Calcite, mottramite? Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 8 x 5.5 x 3 cm 142g $35.00 Purchased from John Metteer, Mineral Mailbox, in 1979. Ex Crowley Collection # 422 Bladed, nearly transparent crystals. bright luster. Mottramite? shows through as black on the transparent crystals. SOLD |
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JC13420. Epidote, quartz. Rosario Mabel claim (Flor de Peru II claim), Pampa Blanca District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru. 4 x 4.5 x 3 cm 32g $35.00 Purchased from Top Gem Minerals, Tucson, 2-96. Ex Crowley collection #1215 Picked this one because it has very bright luster. There is one broken crystal on the back side, one on the side as seen here, and a small one in the center, rather hard to see. |
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JC13420. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13420 Back side. |
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JC13420. Back side. |
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JC12361. Heulandite. Rat's Nest claim, Challis, Bay Horse district, Custer county, Idaho. 3 x 5.5 cm 37g $10.00. Most of these from the Rat's Nest claim are a pinkish to salmon color, this one is white, and quite bright in luster. Cute piece. |
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JC12361. Another view. |
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JC12361. Back side. |
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JC8688. Wulfenite, calcite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 4.5 x 6 cm 71g $20.00. Golden bladed transparent crystals with a slight amount of calcite growing on the wulfenite, giving them a sparkly appearance. A larger crystal stands out on the left end, and is much paler yellow than the other crystals. |
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JC8688. Vertical view. |
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JC8688. Vertical view. |
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JC7647. Augelite, quartz. Ortega prospect, Mundo, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion Province, La Libertad Department, Peru. 2.2 x 2.5 cm 6g $15.00. Mostly complete, greenish crystal. RESERVED |
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JC7643. Crocoite. Adelaide m., Zeehan dist., nr. Dundas Tasmania. 6.1 cm terminated crystal. 2g. $10.00. Single long crystal, terminated on one end. RESERVED |
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JC13442. Barite. Palos Verdes Hills, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los Angeles County, California. 11.5 x 7 x 3.5 cm 233g $80.00 A classic piece from this long exhausted locality. There is a broken blade on the front, and a chipped blade near the center. Nice luster. |
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JC13442. Side view. |
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JC7388. Wulfenite, mimetite. San Juan Poniente, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico. 8 x 9 cm 241g $50.00. From the San Juan Poniente vein occurrence of 2008. Blocky, somewhat elongated orange wulfenite crystals with a background matrix of greenish mimetite. A classic find from the Ojuela. |
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JC7388. Close up. |
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JC7571. Wulfenite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 7.5 x 11 cm 364g. $150.00. A solid covering of orange, dog tooth style crystals making for a very nice wulfenite specimen. Collected prior to 2015 when I acquired the piece. |
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JC7571. Closer view of top third of specimen. |
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JC7571. Another view. |
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JC9467. Azurite. Christiana Mine, Mercati mines, Agios Konstantinos (Kamariza), Lavrion mining district, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece. 6 x 8 cm 126g. $70.00 From the 2012 find a nearly solid mass of bright blue crystals. Pretty and nice. |
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JC9467. Side view. |
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JC9467. Close up. |
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JC9457. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 5 x 7.5 cm 107g $30.00. Well formed, prismatic crystals of colorless adamite, which is relatively uncommon for the Ojuela mine. Collected prior to 2018. Bright and sparkly. |
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JC9457. Close up of central area. |
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JC8023. Calcite. Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK. 4.5 x 4.5 cm 53g $25.00 Minor ding |
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JC8023. Slightly different angle. |
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JC8023. Reverse. |
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JC7742. Schorl. Minas Gerais, Brazil. 6.5 cm Tall. 53g $15.00. A single black crystal, minor ding on one edge of the termination as can be seen in this photo. |
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JC7742. Another view. |
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JC7742. Termination. |
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JC7842. Cerussite, smithsonite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 3 x 5 cm 64g. $20.00 Rhombohedral smithsonite crystals with a dusting of some type of secondary mineral, with a few smoky color cerussites sitting on top of the smithsonite, and a dab of malachite on one end. |
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JC7842. Another view. The rhombohedral smithsonite crystals are more visible at this angle. |
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JC7842. Another view. |
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JC7814. Vanadinite, quartz. Otjitheka, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia. 1.5 x 5 cm 48g $20.00 Very unusual for the species, this is a yellowish somewhat melted in appearance vanadinite crystal with a partial quartz crystal attached. Very unusual and quite neat, this has a waxy, slightly sparkly luster. Many of these are coated with mottramite, and this specimen may have been coated by mottramite which has subsequently been removed. |
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JC7814. Another view. |
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JC7814. Another view. |
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JC7989. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 2.3 x 2.6 cm 13g $15.00. Thumbnail. Nice red color. |
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JC7977. Cassiterite. Pingwu mine, Huya township, Mount Little Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan, China. 1.7 x 2.5 cm Thumbnail $15.00 Single, somewhat gemmy crystal when back lit. |
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JC7977. Another view. |
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JC7977. Another view. |
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JC8009. Tennantite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 3 x 4 cm 42g 23mm crystal. $35.00 A nice ugly blackish brown tennantite. |
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JC8009. Another view. |
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JC8009. Another view. |
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JC13444. Quartz. O'Neal Quarry, Plymouth, Hancock County, Illinois. 5 x 4.5 x 1.5 cm 35g $5.00. I collected this in 1980 with Gene Tribbey. Of interest as a locality piece...do not think you will find any of these for sale anywhere else. Mindat shows a few photos of these. Reserved |
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JC13447. Wulfenite. Los Lamentos Mts, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 10 x 7.5 x 5.5 cm 585g $175.00 Purchased this one from the Miller's, a mineral dealer in Yuma, Arizona, at the time, in May 1970. Ex Crowley collection # JAC282. RESERVED |
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JC13449. Barite, calcite. Mahoning mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-In-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois. 9 x 10 x 2.5 cm 267g $125.00 I purchased this one from Harvey Gordon Minerals, December 1988, who got it from the mineral dealer Harry Sering, Indianapolis. Collected in the 1960's. Nice clear bladed barite crystals that formed on a mass of scalenohedral calcite crystals, which entirely coat the back side. |
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JC13449. Close up of barite crystals. |
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JC13449. Calcite crystals on back side. |
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JC13449. Close up of calcite crystals on back side. |
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JC9907. Vanadinite, barite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 7.5 x 8 cm 231g. $80.00. Brilliant red crystals on white barite. The crystals are so bright a red they kind of overwhelmed the camera photo. The color is bright red with just the slightest bit of orange, more of a hint than anything, with brilliant luster. There is a little bit of white gypsum on some of the vanadinite crystals on the left side of the specimen. There is a minor rub spot near the very top of the piece only noticeable on close inspection. RESERVED |
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JC8010. Copper. Itauz mine, Zhilandy group, Satpayev, Ulytau region, Kazakhstan. 4.3 x 5 cm 6g. $35.00 |
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JC8010. Reverse. |