New Arrivals Page 1
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JC8123. Quartz (Smoky and amethystine) Petersen Mountain, Hallelujah Junction area, Washoe County, Nevada . 6 x 7 cm Tall. 155g $30.00. I collected this in 2012...it is one of those that used to be perched on the end of a quartz crystal as a scepter, but has come loose and is now a partially doubly terminated smoky crystal with about half amethystine as can be seen in the photos. Has a decent glassy luster. RESERVED |
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JC8123. Back lit showing the amethyst color. The white spots are where small colorless quartz crystals were attached as satellite crystals |
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JC8123. Not back lit. |
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JC8123. Another view. |
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JC8984. Aragonite. Diamond mine?, Berryman tunnel, Prospect ridge, Eureka district, Eureka county, Nevada. 7 x 8 cm 344g $20.00 Bright white aragonite which looks nice all around. I photographed it from front, back, and sides. Not sure exactly which mine the Berryman tunnel is in. It has been suggested that they came from new work in the Diamond mine on Prospect ridge, however Prospect ridge has several mines on it, and they have been undergoing active exploration up until 2024. There have been several cave type areas in these mines that produced aragonite. This is a fine example. Collected prior to 2016 when I acquired it. |
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JC8984. Another view. Has an odd 2ndary growth sticking out of the top. Interesting. |
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JC8984. Another view. |
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JC8984. Another view. |
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JC9229. Vesuvianite. Near Clio, Plumas county, California. 4 x 4.5 cm 83g. $25.00. A main crystal that measures 2.5 cm across, slightly translucent and pretty much damage free except for a little bit of growth interference. Color is a root beer brown as shown. Classic shape and form of a flattened di-pyramid. The flat face in the center of the crystal does not show well in the photos. A bit of pale green diopside and corroded siliceous material is also present. Mined in 2012. |
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JC9229. Another view. |
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JC9229. Another view. |
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JC9229. Another view. |
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JC9908. Vanadinite. Mibladen, Morocco mines. Morocco. 6 x 7 cm 77g $110.00 Dark red crystals with brilliant luster on whitish matrix. Collected in 2019. Pretty piece. |
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JC9908. Closer view. |
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JC9908. Closer view. |
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JC9909. Vanadinite. Mibladen, Morocco mines. 6 x 8 cm 113g $135.00 Dark red rather gemmy crystals. Only damage is at the very top where one crystal looks like it has been partially cleaved, visible in this photo. Collected in 2019. Pretty piece. |
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JC9909. Another view. |
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JC9909. Close up of the top most crystals in the above photo. |
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JC9921. Azurite. Christiana mine, Kamariza mines, Agio Konstantinos, Lavrion district mines, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece.5 x 7 cm 79g. $35.00. Most of the azurite from the Christiana mine are small groups of brilliant blue crystals. this is the 1st one I have run across with larger, coarse crystals. Unusual for the locality. |
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JC9921. Another view. |
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JC9921. Another view. |
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JC9924. Pyromorphite. Barbara vein, Hofsgrund, Schauinsland district, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. 5 x 9.5 cm 169g. $35.00. Bright green, small crystals encrusting the matrix. This was once an important silver mine with lead also. Long closed, mostly reclaimed land. Mineral specimens attributable to this historic old mine are rare. Tiny, gemmy, rich green, textbook hexagonal pyromorphite prisms are richly invested in the vuggy front of the sculptural gossan matrix. The prisms reach about 4 mm, but most are smaller. Rich silver mining started in the area in 1372, where the Lord of Freiburg declared the first mining law in all of the southern German mining fields (MINDAT)! Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 2630 and acquired in Germany in September,1962. RESERVED |
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JC9991. Quartz. Petersen Mountain, Hallelujah Junction area, Washoe County, Nevada. 2.5 x 7 cm 74g $10.00. I collected this one in 2012. Hoping to find a vug of scepters, instead found a small vug with nice clean transparent non-sceptered crystals. Two of them are represented here. This photo shows the crystal partially back lit. |
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JC9991. Another view. |
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JC9991. Another view, not back lit. |
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JC9991. Another view, not back lit. |
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JC9992. Quartz. Petersen Mountain, Hallelujah Junction area, Washoe County, Nevada. 4 x 6 cm 77g $10.00. I collected this one in 2012. Hoping to find a vug of scepters, instead found a small vug with nice clean transparent non-sceptered crystals. Two of them are represented here. |
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JC9992. Another view. |
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JC9992. Another view. Partially back lit. Crystal is totally transparent, so you are seeing the back side through the prism face. |
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JC9996. Pyromorphite, Bwlch Glas mine, Talybont, Ceulanymaesmawr, Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom. 4.9 x 7.1 cm 54g. $65.00. Covering of green crystals on quartz matrix. Lustrous translucent yellow-green pyromorphite crystals lining the surfaces of milky quartz. The pyromorphite crystals are elongated, slightly tapered, hexagonal prisms with flat basal pinacoid terminations. Probably collected in the 1970's. Paul Nicholson Coll#1782. |
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JC9996. Close up. |
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JC10021. Azurite. Kamariza, Laurion District Mines, Attika Prefecture, Greece 3 x 3 cm 13g. $20.00. Pretty little small miniature from the relatively recent finds in the Lavrion district. |
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JC10021. Back side. |
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JC10031. Epidote. Khorwin Mt., Kuhandan, Saveh Town, Tafresh City, Markazi Prov., Iran 4.5 x 5 cm 92g. $35.00. Flat face of matrix is covered with prismatic green epidote crystals from a find reportedly made in /about/ 2002. Apparently a single pocket find, now exhausted, according to 2006 information on Mindat. |
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JC10031. Close up. |
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JC10044. Fluorite. Fluorspar King mine, Buena Vista district, Montgomery Pass, Mineral county, Nevada. 3.5 x 4 cm 65g $10.00 From an obscure locality. I collected this one in May 2000. Colorless, fairly glassy small crystals typical of this old mine. RESERVED |
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JC10078. Calcite, dolomite. Calcite quarry, Holzen, Arnsberg, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. 6 x 6.5 cm 102g. $8.00. Brown crystal on one end of the dolomite matrix. Calcite is a twin, and the twin plane can be sort of seen in the close up photo. Not sure when this was collected. From the Bill Wall collection. I acquired it in 2018. |
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JC10078. Close up. |
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JC10083. Hubnerite, quartz. Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion province, La Libertad, Peru. 8 x 8 cm 188g. $75.00. Nice, sharp, black, lustrous crystals nestled in quartz crystals. Collected in 2018. Under bright light you can see small flashes of red from the interior of the crystals, typical for hubnerite. Nice piece with great luster. Looks better in person, where the 3 dimensional aspects are more obvious. |
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JC10083. Close up view. |
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JC10083. Another view. |
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JC10083. Another view. |
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JC10083. Another view. |
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JC10083. Another view. |
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JC10105. Pyromorphite. Driggith Open cut, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England. 7 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm 73g. $35.00 Rounded crystals covering most of the quartz matrix. From the open cut and collected in the 1970's. I acquired this specimen in 2019 from Stefan Koch. |
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JC10105. Closer view. |
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JC10124. Mimetite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 8.5 x 4 x 2 cm $150.00. Fat, lustrous, light yellow crystals. A bit of contact on the far right...probably where the piece was up against the pocket wall. Largest crystals are near 1 cm in size. |
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JC10124. Closer view. |
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JC10153. Stibnite. White Caps mine, Manhattan district, Nye county, Nevada. 5 x 6.5 cm 168g. $20.00. A group of crystals that were covered with calcite. When I etched the calcite away, the crystals are exposed as seen. Most of them sticking above the calcite that was there are broken off. A couple of the smaller crystals that were buried in the calcite are terminated. Interesting as a locality piece. |
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JC10153. Another view. |
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JC10153. Another view. |
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JC10193. Cerussite, wulfenite. Nakhlak mine, Anarak district, Nain county, Isfahan province, Iran. 4 x 5.5 cm 70g. $145.00. A reticulated group typical from this location, although a bit unusual as it has druses of small yellow wulfenites scattered and partially covering some of the cerussite. Collected in 2001. Supposedly the locality is collected out now |
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JC10193. Slightly different angle. |
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JC10193. Close up. |
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JC10193. Back side. |
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JC10193. Back side, slightly different angle. |
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JC10870. Creedite, fluorite. Qinglong Mine (Dachang Mine), Dachang Sb ore field, Qinglong County, Qianxinan, Guizhou, China 4.5 x 7 cm 171g. $125.00 From recent finds in China (2020?). Lilac clusters in the form of rounded groups of crystals with small clear, cubic fluorite crystals as part of the matrix covering. Somewhat similar in looks to the old specimens from the Hall mine in Nevada. Colorless cubes of fluorite are present on the front and back sides where no creedite is present. RESERVED |
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JC10880. Creedite. Qinglong Mine (Dachang Mine), Dachang Sb ore field, Qinglong County, Qianxinan, Guizhou, China 3.5 x 7 cm 52g. $85.00. A ball of creedite on the back side, with white to lavender creedite on the front. From recent finds in China (2020?). |
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JC10880. Close up. |
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JC10880. Back side. |
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JC12269. Fluorite. Dixie mine, Mountain Wells district, Churchill county, Nevada. 5.5 x 9 cm 257g $25.00 Pale amber to yellowish crystals. Totally transparent with glassy luster. An obscure locality, with one mention on Mindat. Collected in May 2022. |
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JC12269. Back side. |
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JC12269. Close up...the transparency of the crystals is obvious in this view, as well as the glassy luster. |
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JC13246. Azurite, malachite. M'Ssici, Alnif Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 6 x 4.5 x 5 cm 128g $65.00 A typical piece from here, these came out a number of years ago. Blue, sort of botryoidal azurite rosettes with scattered malachite alteration. No more of this quality have been coming out for several years. This piece was collected about 2010 . |
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JC13246. Another view. |
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JC13246. Another view. |
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JC13246. Another view. |
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JC13246. Another view. |
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JC13252. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 16 x 4.5 x 3.8 cm 160g $85.00 Very bright and sparkly golden color adamite, with a partial coating of calcite on one end. |
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JC13252. Closer view. |
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JC13252. Another view. |
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JC13469. Azurite. El Cobre mine, Concepción del Oro, Concepción del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico. 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm 110g $110.00 Sparkling translucent blue crystals of azurite scattered throughout the front of this goethite matrix. Classic material for this old locality. These were collected back in the 1960's. Brilliant blue, gemmy crystals scattered around in small vug like openings. From an old collection. |
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JC13469. Close up. |
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JC13469. Another view. |
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JC13469. Another view. |
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JC13796. Hematite, quartz. Jinlong Hill, Longchuan Co, Heyuan, Guangdong, China. 7.5 x 7.5 cm tall x 5.5 cm front to back. 243g $50.00. Quartz crystals make a nice back drop to the hematite blades in the foreground. |
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JC13796. Another view. Odd line across the quartz crystals...not sure what caused that. |
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JC13796. Another view. Odd line across the quartz crystals...not sure what caused that. |
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JC13800. Mimetite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 4 x 3 cm 23g $90.00 Nice miniature of fat, light yellow, lustrous mimetites. The crystal on the top left is sceptered to add interest. |
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JC13800. Another view. |
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JC13800. The Scepter crystal is seen on the middle right. |
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JC13777. Hematite, quartz. Jinlong Hill, Longchuan Co, Heyuan, Guangdong, China 10 x 6 x 4.5 cm 351g $150.00. Numerous blades of hematite on this flat lying matrix. A couple of broken quartz crystals. Sawn base. |
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JC13777. Side view. |
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JC13777. Vertical view. |
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JC13777. Vertical view. |
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JC13777. Close up. |
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JC11927. Barite. Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru. 2.5 x 2.5 cm 17g $5.00. Thumbnail specimen. |
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JC11927. Another view. |
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JC11927. Another view. |
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JC11927. Another view. |
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JC11927. Another view. |
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JC11831. Manganocalcite, quartz. Pachapaqui mining district, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru. 2 x 3 cm 8g $5.00. Bladed crystals, not lustrous. Fluorescent sort of reddish pink. |
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JC11831. Another view. |
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JC11928. Malachite. Sir Dominick Mine, Yudnamutana District, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia. 2.5 x 3.5 cm 18g. $10.00. Felted mass of malachite crystals. |
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JC11872. Prehnite, epidote. Kayes Region, Mali. 4 cm Tall 29g. $10.00 RESERVED |
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JC9949. Stibnite. Old Herja mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Mare, Maramures, Romania. 4.5 x 5 x 6 cm 127g. $50.00. Group of crystals... Crystals are bright and lustrous. Some damage to some of the terminations. |
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JC9949. This view is looking vertically down on the specimen |
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JC9949. Another view. |
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JC9949. Another view. |
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JC11921. Sulfur. El Desierto mine, San Pablo de Napa, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí, Bolivia. 6.5 cm Tall single crystal 11g. $20.00 |
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JC11921. Another view. |
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JC11921. Side view. |
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JC11922. Sulfur. El Desierto mine, San Pablo de Napa, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí, Bolivia. 6 cm tall. 8g Single crystal. $20.00. |
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JC11922. Other views. |
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JC11922. On its side. J |
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JC11923. Sulfur. El Desierto mine, San Pablo de Napa, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí, Bolivia. 5.8 cm tall. 11g Single crystal. $20.00. |
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JC11923. Another view. |
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JC11923. On its side. |
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JC11923. On its other side. |
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JC9904. Vanadinite on barite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 10 x 14 cm >1000g. $185.00. A CABINET specimen with white blades of barite partially coated with bright red, highly lustrous and gemmy, vanadinite crystals. This one had a large chunk of matrix on the back which I sawed off to lighten the weight. Pretty. |
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JC9904. Close up, left side. |
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JC9904. Close up, right side. |
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JC9864. Vanadinite, barite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 7.5 x 7.5 cm 290g. $135.00. Dark red crystals on black coated barite blades. One vanadinite on the upper left edge has two small dings on it...visible in the photo as two white spots on the crystal. There are two barite blades with rub marks on them, and one broken small barite blade...they show up as white spots on the black matrix. |
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JC9864. Another view. |
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JC9864. Another view. |
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JC9957. Amazonite. Crystal creek, Teller county, Colorado. 7 x 10 cm 360 g. $40.00. Light blue crystals. The crack is a shrinkage crack, the specimen is quite sturdy. Collected in 2002. |
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JC9957. Another view. |
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JC9957. Another view. |
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JC9901. Epidote, quartz. Rosario Mabel claim (Flor de Peru II claim), Pampa Blanca, Castrovirreyna district, Castrovirreyna province, Huancavelica department, Peru. 5 x 9 cm 138g. $30.00. A couple of sprays on quartz. From the finds of several years ago. Some of the terminations on the epidote are gone...typical of so many of these. Has nice luster. Looks better in person. |
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JC9901. Another view. |
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JC9901. Another view. |
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JC9901. Another view. |
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JC9834. Epidote, prehnite. Bendougou village, Arrondissement Diakon, Commune Diakon, Cercle de Bafoulabe, Kayes region, Mali. 4 x 5.5 cm 106g. $20.00. Although a bit hard to tell from the photos, this is a nice miniature of nice lustrous epidote crystals, brighter than most from here, with a ball of prehnite on the back side. There are no damaged or broken crystals on this one. The dealer brought these over from Mali in barrels with no padding, and the specimens were still covered with their original dirt. There are minor dings here and there because of the way they were shipped over to the U.S |
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JC9834. Another view. |
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JC9834. Another view. |
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JC9834. Another view. |
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JC9834. Another view. |
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JC9834. Another view. |
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JC11876. Hydroxylherderite, quartz. Brazil? 2 x 2.5 cm 6g. $25.00 Thumbnail. Unfortunately in this collection I acquired there are a few pieces with no labels. This being one. Looks similar to pieces from Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil. |
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JC11876. Another view. |
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JC11876. Another view. |
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JC11876. Another view. |
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JC11876. Another view. |
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JC9770. Smithsonite. Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. 5 x 10 cm 189g. $275.00. Pink to slightly lilac pink specimen from this now exhausted locality. Specimen is not back lit. Nice color, sort of waxy luster. |
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JC9770. Another view. |
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JC9770. Back side. |
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BR74. Apatite, arsenopyrite, mica. Boca Grande mine, Covilhă, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 4.5 x 4 x 1.5 cm 24g $275.00 Group of flat, green crystals to 2cm in size. Tiny, brilliant silver micro crystals of arsenopyrite here and there. |
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BR74. Another view. |
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BR74. Another view. |
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BR366. Mimetite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 3.2 x 3.5 cm 17g $90.00 Somewhat acicular light yellow crystals to 8mm. Ex Claude Yoder coll.#1145 Purchased: September-2001. Ex: Mineralogical Research. SOLD |
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BR505. Azurite. Burra Burra mine, North Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. 7 x 6 x 4.5 cm 265g $250.00 Bright blue globular ball of micro crystalline azurite...solid azurite. Specimens of azurite were discovered in a clay zone in the early 70s when this old mine was open cut. Ex: CK Minerals. Ex Mineralogical Research; purchased April 2013 I photographed it from all sides. |
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BR505. Another view. |
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BR505. Another view. |
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BR505. Another view. |
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BR505. Another view. |
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JC9478. Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite mine, Mineral claim 24456, Mt. Shoobridge, Northern Territory, Australia. 5 x 6.8 cm 223g. $115.00. A nearly solid mass of yellow green/lime green crystals. These are from a little mining venture to procure pyromorphite specimens from this prospect. The find is quite limited, and very few specimens were produced. A rather different locality and not related to the Rum Jungle locality. Rarely seen material from a remote and little known location, the location was a small prospect long abandoned that was worked for specimens for a short time in the early 1990s. Both side are literally and liberally coated with hexagonal crystals, interspersed with a druze of pyromorphite crystals. The crystals are not lustrous, as is typical for this location. SOLD |
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JC9762. Vanadinite. Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. 6.5 x 10 cm 281g. $55.00. Typical specimen on a somewhat porous matrix, with tan/olive crystals. Damage to some of the crystals on the extreme right center, a small knob that sticks out slightly. Main body is damage free to naked eye. Many of these tend to be rather dull in luster, this piece has nice bright crystals. |
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JC9762. Another view. |
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JC9762. Closer view. |
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JC11361. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 1.8 x 3.5 x 5.3 cm 38g. $150.00. A choice cluster of pinwheel adamite. Older piece. A rather nice miniature. |
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JC11361. Another view...sort of vertical |
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JC11361. Side view showing the left pinwheel. |
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JC11361. Another view. |