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	BR186.  Azurite.  Metcalf mine., Morenci, Greenlee county., Arizona.   4.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm 85g   $350.00  Round ball of bladed crystals, similar to Big Indian mine in appearance.   Ex: Lorraine Sofia coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research.   Rare specimen
	BR186.  Back side.
	BR244.  Demantoid (andradite).  Ghazni area, Afghanistan. 4.5 x 7.5 cm 66g  $175.00   Half dozen 6mm light greenish crystals on top half of matrix.  Ex: Steve Perry Minerals.  Purchased: 8-2006  Very rare location.
	BR244.  Close up.
	BR85.  Arsenopyrite, quartz, jamesonite, chalcopyrite?   Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China.. 5.5 x 3 x 3 cm 82g   $120.00   Ex: Jean-Pierre Cand . Purchased: 5-2001.   Silvery arsenopyrite to 2 cm, a tiny patch of jamesonite near the base of the quartz crystals, possible chalcopyrite as micro crystals on the arsenopyrite.  Label says: "Chang Zhou, Hunan province., China"  So undoubtedly Yaogangxian mine.
	BR85.  Another view.
	BR85.  Another view.
	BR85.  Another view.
	BR85.  Another view.
	BR85.  Another view.
	BR23.   Pseudomalachite, malachite.   Mashamba West, Shaba province, Zaire.  9 x 6 x 4 cm 309g   $300.00    Green, botryoidal Pseudomalachite on malachite.    As one dealer described a very similar piece "A great and attractive, old-time specimen of Pseudomalachite from the Mashamba West Mine in the DRC: Good Pseudomalachite specimens with large botryoids like this are almost impossible to find today and are thought to have come out in the 1970s and a pocket in the early 1980s."  Ex: Roberts Minerals
	BR23.   Another view.
	BR23.   Another view.
	BR23.   Another view.
	BR23.   Another view.
	BR17.  Quartz pseudo barite.  Ourika Valley, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco.   9 x 12 x 5 cm 372g  $150.00  Ex: Roberts Minerals Purchased: 4-97. As one dealer described a very similar piece: "This is a fascinating pseudomorph specimen from a small batch that was  from a find in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. What you have is poker-chip crystals of baryte that have been pseudomorphed by super-sparkly quartz".
	BR17.   Another view.
	BR17.   Another view.
	BR17.   Another view.
	BR17.   A closer view.
	BR17.   A closer view.
	BR17.   A closer view.
	BR4.  Quartz on chrysocolla .  Mina La Farola, Copiapo, Chile.   8.5 x 4.5 x 5.5 cm 209g. $50.00   Micro-drusy quartz on light blue chrysocolla. Heavy hematitic matrix...cuprite? Collected:1999?
	BR4.   Closer view.
	BR4.  Back side.
	BR398.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 10.5 x 7 x 3 cm 185g   $375.00     Very pale green drusy micro crystals, sparkly.  Ex: Donald K. Olson Minerals  Purchased: 10-2001
	BR398.   Another view.
	BR398.  Close up bottom third.
8	BR398.   Close up, top third.
	BR398.   Back side.
	BR296.  Azurite.  Copper Queen mine., Bisbee, Cochise county, Arizona. 8 x 4.5 cm 91g    $500.00   Double sided, no matrix, brilliant drusy crystals. Also, medium blue nr. micro crystals in zones.  Ex: California State Mining Museum;  Ex: Jean-Pierre Cand.   Purchased: 4-2003   Three zones of different crystals.  Small botryoids on back, light blue sort of small botryoids on the front.
	BR296.   Close up top third.
	BR296.  Back side.
	BR344.  Azurite.  Copper Queen mine., Bisbee, Cochise county, Arizona.  8 x 5.5 cm 104g   $700.00   Double sided, no matrix, brilliant drusy crystals.   Ex: Jean-Pierre Cand.  Purchased :4-2003 .  Brilliant, small bladed crystals, classic Bisbee.
	BR344.  Close up top half.
	BR344.   Back side.
	BR107.  Hematite, magnesite. Brumado, Bahia, Brazil.   5.2 x 3.5 x 2 cm 100g  $475.00  A brilliant, near floater complex crystal. Very nice.   Ex: Lorraine Sofia coll.; Ex: Roberts Minerals; Ex: Mineralogical Research.    Another major dealer has one nearly identical for $1,200.
	BR107.  Another view.
	BR107.  Back side with magnesite.
	BR107.  Back side with magnesite.
	BR107.  Another view.
	BR107.  Another view.
	BR91.  Malachite.   Kambove, Katanga, DRC.   7.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm 193g  $75.00   A rounded sparkly on one side, more acicular on the back.   Ex: Claude Huber Minerals.   A bit different from most from here.
	BR91.  Another view.
	BR91.   Back side.
	BR626.  Chrysoprase (polished).  No location given.  12 x 8 x 3.2 cm 500g  $200.00  A polished somewhat rectangular massive specimen
	BR626.  Back side.
	BR193.  Brazilianite, albite.   Telirio mine, Mendes Pimental, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 4 x 4 cm 22g  $325.00     A 4 cm brilliant, nicely terminated glassy and transparent crystal with a smaller satellite crystal, and small white albite crystals attached.    Collected: 6-2001. Ex: Steve Perry Minerals. Purchased : 5-2006 .   I took photos from all sides of this pretty crystal group.
	BR193.  Another view.
	BR193.  Another view.
	BR193.  Another view.
	BR193.  Another view.
	BR193.  Another view.
	BR473. Cuprite.  Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi mining district., Lualaba, DR Congo.1.5 x 2 cm 14g   $550.00    Octahedral crystal. Sharp! TN. no matrix. Very minor dings as seen in the photos..    Ex: Lorraine Sofia coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research.  I took photos from all sides of this thumbnail cuprite.
	BR473.  Another view.
	BR473.  Back side.
	BR473.  Another view.
	BR473.  Another view.
	JC13938.  Cerussite, malachite.  Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia.  12 x 4 x 2.5 cm 159g $135.00   Ex: Harry Critchley coll. Numerous small cerussite crystals all over the front of this nice cabinet specimen.   Many of the cerussite exhibit various types of twinning.
	JC13938.   Closer view.
	JC13938.   Closer view.
	JC13938.  Back side.
	JC13939.  Wulfenite.   Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.  7 x 6 x 2 cm 102g  $195.00.   Ex: Walter Boyd coll.   Bright yellow, with a caramel tint, crystals all over the front of the piece.   Bright luster.   A bit different than most from here.
	JC13939.   Closer view.
	JC13940.  Cyanotrichite, azurite.   Maid of Sunshine mine, Courtland, Turquoise district, Cochise county, Arizona.   5 x 3 x 2 cm 46g $110.00.  Ex Richard Helsel coll.     Cyanotrichite from the Maid of Sunshine mine have become quite rare to find for sale these days.
	JC13940.  Closer view.
	JC13941. Pyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, calcite.   Trepca Stari Trg Mine, Mitrovica, Kosovo.   15.5 x 11.0 x 3.0 cm  779g  $150.00.   A flattish plate, with pyrite dominant on the reverse side, and arsenopyrite dominant on the front side.   This view is of the arsenopyrite rich side (which I am calling the display side), with most of it coated with brilliant, small silvery arsenopyrite crystals.  Some of them form little stacks, which appear to be pseudos after another mineral....maybe pyrrhotite?   Scattered here and there are cubic, bright, golden pyrite crystals, and a bit of sphalerite.  Very pretty and sparkly.
	JC13941.   Closer view of the left side, dominated by sparkly groups of arsenopyrite.
	JC13941.  Closer view of the top left.
	JC13941.  Closer view of the bottom center right.
	JC13941.  View of the reverse side, which is dominated by golden bright luster pyrite cubes;  a bit of white calcite is covering a small area in the lower center.  Some black sphalerite is visible.
	JC13941.  Close up of the right side.
	JC13941.  Close up of the upper area.
	JC13941.  Close up of the left side.
	JC13942.   Wulfenite.   Mezica, Slovenia.  9.5 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm  194g  $250.00   Orange to yellow orange crystals coating the front and one end of the specimen.   Nice coverage of crystals.    A bit better than most from here.
	JC13942.  Closer view of center area.
	JC13942.  View of the right end, where the crystals partially wrap around the piece.
	JC13942.  Back side.
	JC12484.  Quartz.  La Belleza, Santander, Colombia.  5.5 x 11 cm 116g  $38.00.   A near floater of brilliant, mostly transparent crystals on this two sided specimne.  Photos of both the front and back side, with close ups.  Pretty.
	JC12484.  Close up of the top central area.
	JC12484.  Another view.
	JC12484.  Reverse side.
	JC12484.  Close up of the lower left.
	JC12484.  Side view.
	JC12485. Heterogenite, chrysocolla.    Star of the Congo, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Southern area, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) .  7.2 x 10 cm 191g  $185.00    So lustrous it looks WET - a rich and very pretty specimen of heterogenite (cobalt hydroxide - it is the dark botryoidal mineral on this specimen) with accents of chrysocolla. very high quality for this material!
	JC12485.   Close up view.
	JC12515.  Fluorite.  Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China.  4.5 x 4.5 cm 125g $30.00.   A 3 cm crystal, pale lavender to near colorless, satiny luster.    Flattened cube.
	JC12515.   Another view.
	JC12515.   Another view.
	JC12518. Fluorite.   Xianghualing Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China.  4 x 7 cm 99g  $35.00    transparent, light green crystals with glassy luster.
	JC12518.  Another view.
	JC12518.  Another view.
	JC12074.  Calcite.  Wenshan Mine, Wenshan City, Wenshan, Yunnan, China.  10 cm Long 129g   $50.00   A wormy like group of off pinkish calcite forming an interesting mass.   Unusual specimen from this prolific calcite producing mine.
	JC12074.  Another view.
	JC12074.   Close up.
	JC12074.  Back side.
	JC12092. Barite.    Frizington, West Cumberland Iron Field, Cumbria, England, UK.  4.5 x 6 cm 85g  $75.00.   An old time barite from Frizington.   Several barite blades with a grayish color with a hint of blueness.   Minor hematite internal coloring near the terminations.   Some dolomite crystals are seen resting on the matrix plate.  There are minor dings on the main crystal termination, so I reduced the price because of this defect.  Not surprising since these have been around for a long time.  Several views are shown.
	JC12092.   Another view.
	JC12092.   Another view.
	JC12092.   Another view.
	JC12092.   Another view.
	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     RESERVED
	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.
	JC13783.  Close up.
	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.
	JC12676.  Close up.
	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.
	JC11448.  Close up.
	JC11448.  Back side.
	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.
	JC13773.  Closer view.
	JC13773.  Closer view.
	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 ?
	JC13667.  Close up of the linarite.
	JC13667.  Close up of the linarite.
	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.
	JC13781.  Close up of right half in above photo.
	JC13781.  Close up of clear crystals area in top photo.
	JC13781.  End area...clear to light blue area is micro crystalline anglesite? & unknown.
	JC13781.  Close up of clear area in above photo.
	JC13781.  Back side, with galena and bit of linarite.
	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.
	JC13785.  Another side.
	JC13785.  Another side.   Some altered brochantite is present as light green.
	JC13785.  Another side.
	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?
	JC13786.  Closer view.

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