New Arrivals Page 2
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JC13872. Ilvaite. Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China. 8 x 7.5 x4.5 cm 463g $150.00 The multi-"chisel"-shaped termination is in superb shape, and has a "slick" vitreous luster. Some of the finest examples of Ilvaite ever seen have come from this mine. Here is a cabinet display specimen featuring a large, rather lustrous, very sharp, well-formed, jet-black Ilvaite crystal, free of matrix. SOLD |
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JC13873. Lollingite. Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China. 8 x 6.5 x 5 cm 296g $75.00. Bright, lustrous, silvery disk like crystals on what appears to be hedenbergite. The Chinese dealer I bought this from said these crystals are lollingite... so I am assuming he was right. Quite unusual. Classic disk shaped crystals. I have seen no other specimen from here like this, and nothing on the mindat photos quite like this. SOLD |
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JC13865. Mimetite. Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 8.5 x 8.5 x 3 cm 478g. $95.00. Brilliant yellow, tiny, acicular crystals making a near solid mass of mimetite. These first came out around 2009, and this year at Tucson there were a few more scattered around, apparently newly collected from the same area as the earlier ones like this. Pretty and sparkly. The back side is drusy calcite. |
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JC13865. Another view. |
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JC13865. Closer view. |
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JC13865. Back side. |
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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 $165.00 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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JC13876. Epidote, quartz. Imilchil, Imilchil Caïdat, Imilchil Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 5 x 7 x 2 cm 89g $40.00. Typical fan shaped/bow tie shaped like aggregates of epidote on and with quartz crystals. A lot of these around, rather poor quality...this is a nice one a well above average from what I saw at Tucson, 2026. |
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JC13876. Another view. |
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JC13876. Closer view. The epidote is a bit more green than the photo shows. |
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JC13877. Stibnite. Wuning Mine, Qingjiang, Wuning Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China. 11 x 5.5 x 5 cm 301g $90.00. Brilliant jackstraw group of crystals all around, no matrix. Flashy. SOLD |
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JC13878. Arsenopyrite on lollingite. Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China. 15 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm 2,170g/ 4Lbs12Oz $275.00. From the earlier finds at this deposit. Brilliant arsenopyrite crystals nearly completely coating the Lollingite. Specimens of this type are no longer coming from this deposit. SOLD |
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JC13884. Barite. Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 8 x 6.5 x 4 cm 336g $35.00. There is quite a bit of barite coming from this mine, most of it combined with pyrite, marcasite etc. This piece caught my eye because it is a 3 dimensional conglomerate of sharp, brilliant luster crystals, a bit different from everything else I saw at Tucson 26. Displays nicely, and is pretty. I took photos of all sides. RESERVED |
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JC13884. Side view. |
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JC13884. Another view. |
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JC13884. Another view. |
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JC13884. Another view. |
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JC13884. Another view. |
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JC13885. Quartz. Pena Blanca Mine, San Pablo de Borbur, Western Boyaca Prov., Boyacá Dept., Colombia. 8.5 x 4 x 5 cm 104g $30.00. There was quite a lot of Columbian quartz crystals around at various venues. I don't normally get quartz...seems like every body has some...but this was so darn cute, I went for it. Totally transparent on most crystals, brilliant glassy luster, with a set of parallel growth crystals on one side. Pretty. Better in person. SOLD |
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JC13886. Epidote. La Verde Mine, Cascas District, Gran Chimu Province, La Libertad dept.,Peru. 9 x 4 x 5 cm 120g $110.00 From a relatively new find in Peru; some dealers have also listed the locality as: San Felipe Mountain, Tablacucho etc. Gemmy epidotes with bright quartz crystals for contrast. What attracted me to this piece is the slightly crooked "cross" of epidotes top center. SOLD |
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JC13887. Skutterudite. Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer district, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 8.5 x 6 x 6 cm 763g $100.00 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. |
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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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JC13888. Fluorite. Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar. 8 x 7 x 2 cm 258g $50.00. Chinese dealers had a lot of these, 90%+ in large crystals...I picked this one because it is a nice representative piece with smaller crystals making a nice hand size specimen, Tucson 2026. SOLD |
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BR104. Azurite. Blue Crystal mine (Big Indian Mine, Blue Grotto mine, Blue Jay mine), La Sal, San Juan county, Utah. 2.7 x 3 cm 16g $75.00 Satin finish, dark blue crystals to 7mm in near floater. Ex: Ex: Ann & Si Frazier minerals. Purchased: 3-2003 |
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BR104. Another view. |
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BR104. Another view. |
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BR16. Sphalerite, calcite. Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. 6.5 x 6.5 x 6 cm 249g $150.00 A flower of sphalerite on chert matrix with tiny dolomites, and a colorless 3.8 cm double terminated calcite on top. Brilliant luster on the sphalerite, really stands out. I took photos from all angles to show the calcite perched on top. Back side of the calcite termination is chipped, not visible from the front/display side. SOLD |
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JC13783. Linarite, brochantite, anglesite? & ? Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 6 x 2.5 cm $150.00 Brilliant dark blue linarite with what appears to be anglesite in 3 little patches (windows) in the linarite, and a small anglesite? group just below and to the right of the 3 anglesite? patches. This piece was on the site before, but had a lot of excess matrix, which I have trimmed off to make this nice small cabinet piece. Pretty. |
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JC13783. Close up. |
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JC12676. Adamite (cuprian) Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 7.5 x 7 x 2 cm 112g $150.00 Plate of sparkly bluish to greenish blue crystals. This particular color is a more unusual color for the cupro adamites from Mapimi. These were very expensive at Tucson 2026...this one is well priced these days. |
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JC12676. Close up. |
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JC11448. Atacamite. Mount Gunson Copper mines, Pernatty Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia. 5 x 7.5 cm 174g. $150.00. Nifty piece of somewhat botryoidal atacamite with micro crystals coating the botryoids. Minor damage to some of the botryoids as seen in the close up. Displays well. |
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JC11448. Close up. |
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JC11448. Back side. |
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JC13773. Mimetite. Yanga Koubenza Quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo. 11.3 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm 213g $300.00. Sharp, well defined yellow crystals on hematitic matrix. This locality has produced some really fine mimetite, as well as several other minerals of note. |
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JC13773. Closer view. |
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JC13773. Closer view. |
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JC13667. Linarite, brochantite & ? Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 7 x 5.5 cm 188g $150.00 Collected: Fall 2024. Brilliant blue flat lying blades of linarite. The greenish/whitish material surrounding the linarite appears to be a mixture of anglesite and ? |
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JC13667. Close up of the linarite. |
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JC13667. Close up of the linarite. |
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JC13781. Linarite, anglesite? & ? Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 10 x 6 x 6.5 cm 732g $200.00. Dark blue and medium blue sparkly, glassy luster linarite. The light area on the left appears to be micro crystalline, sparkly anglesite...the white part there looks like where the vein was in slight contact with the opposite wall. These all occurred in thin veins in galena rich matrix and wall rock. There is linarite on two sides...see photo below. Sparkles nicely. |
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JC13781. Close up of right half in above photo. |
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JC13781. Close up of clear crystals area in top photo. |
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JC13781. End area...clear to light blue area is micro crystalline anglesite? & unknown. |
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JC13781. Close up of clear area in above photo. |
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JC13781. Back side, with galena and bit of linarite. |
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JC13785. Linarite, anglesite? & ? Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 5 x 3 cm 308g $125.00 All 4 sides of this piece have linarite crystals. Color is a bit darker than the photo shows. Nice sprays with glassy luster. Pretty. |
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JC13785. Another side. |
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JC13785. Another side. Some altered brochantite is present as light green. |
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JC13785. Another side. |
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JC13786. Linarite, anglesite? & ? Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 6 x 6 x 5 cm 356g $100.00 Brilliant dark blue sprays of linarite with light colored micro crystals of anglesite? and ? along the right side. The light areas in the lower center is where no linarite formed...maybe in contact with opposite side of the vein? |
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JC13786. Closer view. |