New Arrivals Page 1
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JC11595. Hubnerite, quartz. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 4.5 x 5 cm 66g. $15.00. Group of crystals with quartz sort of holding every thing together. RESERVED |
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JC11595. Back side. Hints of the red internal color on these can be seen here. |
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JC11595. With white background. |
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JC11589. Hubnerite. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 2.5 x 4 cm 53g. $10.00 Single crystal from this famous locality. Good bright luster with hints of the red internal color. |
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JC11589. View of the termination. |
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JC11589. Back side. |
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JC11589. White background, and view of the termination. |
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JC11590. Hubnerite, muscovite. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 3.5 x 4.5 cm 81g. $10.00. Group of parallel crystals forming essentially a single group. Bright luster with hints of the internal red color these are known for. RESERVED |
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JC11590. Back side. |
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JC11590. View of the flat terminations. |
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JC11591. Hubnerite, muscovite. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 2.7 x 5 cm 69g. $12.00. Couple of prismatic crystals with muscovite. Nice bright luster. |
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JC11591. Another view. |
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JC11591. Another view. |
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JC11593. Hubnerite. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 2.4 x 3.7 cm 26g. $10.00. Single crystal with minor muscovite. Bright luster. |
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JC11593. Another view. |
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JC11593. Back side. |
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JC11593. Back side, white background. |
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JC11594. Hubnerite, quartz. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 2 x 3.5 cm 20g. $5.00 |
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JC11594. Another view. |
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JC11594. Another view. |
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JC11560. Cerussite. Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. 3 x 6 cm 85g $38.00. Bright glassy, very slightly smoky crystals. |
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JC11560. Close up of left end in top photo. |
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JC11560. Another view. |
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JC11560. Close up of central area in above photo. |
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JC11758. Cinnabar, quartz. Tongren Mine, Bijiang District, Tongren, Guizhou, China. 3.5 x 1.8 x 2 cm $18.00 Group of dark red crystals with bright luster. |
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JC11758. Another view. |
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JC11758. Another view. |
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JC11758. Another view, close up. |
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JC11758. Close up. |
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JC11757. Clinozoisite. Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad, Peru. 2 x 3 cm 17g $10.00 Cute little group from this limited one time find. |
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JC11757. Another view. |
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JC11757. Another view. |
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JC11761. Ferberite, pyrite. Yaogangxian mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang county, Chenzhou, Hunan, China. 3 x 6 cm 33g. $40.00. A sharp, nicely terminated crystal with a neat pyrite ball attached to the side for additional interest. Bright luster. RESERVED |
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JC11761. View with white back ground |
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JC11761. Another view. |
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JC11729. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 4 x 5 x 3 cm 73g. $12.00 Clear, sparkly yellow crystals in a shallow vug. |
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JC11729. Closer view. |
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JC11732. Azurite. Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui, China. 6.5 x 4 x 1.5 cm 66g $15.00 RESERVED |
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JC8919. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 7.5 x 9 cm 112g. $5.00. brownish balls, almost bow ties in shape, of adamite on hematitic matrix. |
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JC8919. Closer view. |
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JC8819. Quartz. Hot Springs blowout, nr. Adam peak, east side Osgood mountains, Potosi district, Humboldt county, Nevada. 5 x 6 cm 91g with stand. $15.00. A doubly terminated crystal, a little crude in shape. Collected in 1990. This was an open throat spring deposit...at the time one could go head first into the hole, and work your way down, and there were quartz clusters, many of them smoky, all over the place; an odd thing was that on many of them, where the water was working its way to the surface, it picked up a lot of sand, which sand blasted one side of the quartz crystals. Unfortunately, now, mineral collectors working the surface area dumped a lot of debris down the hole, so getting to the good stuff is no longer possible. To all intents and purposes the deposit is now worked out because of this. These crystals are trying to be doubly terminated. A rare occurrence for quartz. |
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JC8819. Another view. |
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JC8819. Another view. |
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JC8819. Another view. |
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JC9098. Epidote. Djouga diggings, Benduko, Sandari district, Kayes region, Mali. 4.5 x 8 cm 116g. $40.00. There was one dealer from Mali I ran across at Tucson. He had a table full of specimens from the Djouga diggings, none of which had ever been cleaned...the original red dirt was all over them. I took a chance and bought several, and wish I had bought more, as they cleaned up beautifully. This is a pretty group of epidote crystals, dark green, with bright glassy luster, stacked up nicely in a pleasing arrangement. Pretty much un-damaged. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9104. Pyromorphite. Bou Iboulkhir Mine, Moulay Bouazza, Moulay Bouazza Caïdat, Aguelmous Cercle, Khénifra Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region, Morocco. 3.5 x 5.5 cm 106g $40.00. From the one time and limited find of several years ago. Far as I know, the only pyromorphite locality other than Touissit, known from Morocco. |
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JC9104. A bit of damage on the central, lower front, easily seen in this photo. |
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JC9104. Another view. |
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JC9104. Another view. |
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JC9104. Another view. |
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JC9063. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 6.5 x 10 cm 272g $150.00 Dark, bright, reddish brown crystals. Displays well. One crystal in the center has a small ding on it. Not obvious. |
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JC9063. Another view. |
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JC9063. The dinged crystal is in the center left, although ding is not obvious, wanted to mention it. |
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JC10529. Epidote. Tormiq valley, Haramosh mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 9 x 11 cm 492g. $98.00. These appear to be from the same find of several years ago, and also look like they are from the pocket wall, unlike the earlier specimens which occurred with albite? (some say adularia). Hard to be certain. These are green sprays, with bright luster. There are some broken sprays on all the specimens I saw. These are quite pretty, and display nicely. From what appears to be a single pocket discovery. Better in person...quite showy. |
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JC10529. Another view. |
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JC10529. Another view. |
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JC10529. Another view. |
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JC10529. Another view. |
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JC10529. Another view. |
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JC10529. Another view. |
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JC10529. Another view. |
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JC10528. Epidote. Tormiq valley, Haramosh mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 8 x 12 cm 273g. $98.00. These appear to be from the same find as several years ago, and also look like they are from the pocket wall, unlike the earlier specimens which occurred with albite? (some say adularia). Hard to be certain. These are green sprays, with bright luster. There are some broken sprays on all the specimens I saw. These are quite showy, and display nicely. From what appears to be a single pocket discovery. |
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JC10528. Another view. |
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JC10528. Vertical view. |
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JC10528. Close up |
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JC10528. Close up |
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JC10528. Oblique view. |
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JC10528. Close up view. |
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JC10528. Side view. |
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JC10528. Another side view shot, slightly different angle. |
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JC10528. Oblique view. |
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JC10528. Another close up shot. |
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JC11123. Scheelite. Pingwu beryl mine, Huya township, Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwu county, Mianyang, Sichuan, China. 6.5 x 11.5 cm 703g. $498.00 Three scheelite crystals, lined up in a row with a thin bit of matrix on the bottom of the specimen. Color is a honey yellow-orange. No damage. Bright luster as can be seen in the photos. Very nice specimen. |
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JC11123. Another view. |
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JC11123. Another view. |
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JC11123. Another view. |
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JC9124. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 3 x 3.5 cm 12g $5.00. Little miniature. |
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JC9195. Malachite, pyromorphite. Brown's Prospect, (Brown’s Open cut), Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia 5 x 8 cm 104g $65.00 Rounded dark green malachite partially coated with near microscopic little yellow green pyromorphite crystals. RESERVED |
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JC9195. Another view. |
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JC9195. Another view. |
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JC9195. Close up showing the little pyromorphite crystals. |
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JC9195. Close up showing the little pyromorphite crystals. |
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JC4616. Pyromorphite. Dao Ping lead-zinc mine, Goncheng Co., Guilin pref., Guangxi Zhuang Auto. Reg., China. 6 x 8 cm 253g $275.00. This unique style of pyromorphite dates to the early 2000s, and was one of the most rare of many styles produced in the first releases of material from this amazing lead mine, in Guangxi province of China. This piece came out prior to 2009 when I acquired it...a rather limited find of the pyromorphites on quartz and sometimes quartz crystals. |
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JC4616. Another view. |
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JC4616. Close up. |
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JC6589. Andradite. Cowboy mine, (nr), Wellington Hills, Lyon County, Nevada. 6 x 8 cm 206g. $25.00. Collected in October, 2011, this limited find produced cinnamon brown, transparent, crystals. Very difficult to photo, as the crystals are clear, so unless the crystal's face reflects the light, you are looking into the crystal. They do have fracture lines going through them, as you look into them. Glassy luster. Etched out of calcite, which filled the voids in the garnet seams. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC3859. Malachite, calcite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 4 x 7 cm 85g. $50.00 2 cm ball of crystalline malachite. |
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JC3859. Another view. |
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JC3859. Close up view. |
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JC11489. Austinite (cuprian). Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 6 x 6 cm 70g. $40.00 These came out a couple of years ago, and are now pretty much gone from the market. Great color. Very nice price for this relatively rare material. RESERVED |
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JC11489. Closer view |
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JC8897. Copper. Phoenix (Lake Superior) Mine, Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan 10 x 12 cm 658g $125.00 The old label lists this specimen as from the "Lake Superior mine". An acquaintance of mine was kind enough to give me a correction on this location.... the Lake Superior mine was renamed the Phoenix mine about 1849. A beautiful specimen, with small copper crystals festooned on all sides, with calcite cleaved rhombs stuck here and there, and partially hidden are a couple of small calcite crystals. An older specimen, with the original price listed as $750.00. Original label comes with the piece and lists minor silver in association, although I didn't see any when I examined it. I took photos of this nice piece from all angles and sides. |
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JC8897. Close up of right central area. |
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JC8897. Back side. |
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JC8897. Another view. |
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JC8897. Closer view of top left of above photo. |
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JC8897. Another view of back side. |
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JC8897. Another view. |
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JC8897. Close up of upper right in above photo. |
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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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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 $300.00 Brilliant green/blue green...typical dioptase color. Pretty. As the camera "sees" things somewhat differently than the human eye, I photographed the specimen with both black back ground, 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 $195.00 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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JC13496. Pyrite, galena. Huanzala mine, Huallanca district, Dos de Mayo province, Huanuco department, Peru. 12 x 8 x 4 cm 1,114g $65.00 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. |