New Arrivals Page 3
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JC11427A. Almandine. Koktokay pegmatite field, Fuyun Co., Aletai Prefecture, Yili Hasake Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. $20 for 4 crystals. |
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JC11427B. Almandine. Koktokay pegmatite field, Fuyun Co., Aletai Prefecture, Yili Hasake Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. $20 for 4 crystals. They all look similar, so the same photo as above. |
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JC11427C. Almandine. Koktokay pegmatite field, Fuyun Co., Aletai Prefecture, Yili Hasake Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. $20 for 4 crystals. They all look similar, so the same photo as the top photo. |
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JC11987A. Bastnasite. Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. 1.5 x 1.5 cm 6 g. Back side is sheared off. $18.00 RESERVED |
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JC11987B. Bastnasite. Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. 1.5 x 1.7 cm $5.00 Massive, broken fragment. RESERVED |
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JC11987C. Bastnasite. Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan 1.5 x 1.5 cm $7.00. Blocky partial crystal. RESERVED |
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JC11544. Another unknown, unlabeled small slice. bright, silvery; sparkly on the side of the slice. 2.8 x 3 cm 11g $5.00. Another one for the x-ray machine. The white material is a carbonate. |
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JC11974. Astrophyllite. Kola peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. 2.2 x 3 cm 36g $10.00. |
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JC11994. Arsenopyrite, stannite. Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. 3.5 x 4.5 cm 38g $25.00 Silvery arsenopyrite with bronze colored stannite. RESERVED |
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JC11997. Scheelite, fluorite. Piaotang Mine??, Xihuashan ore field, Dayu Co., Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China or Dongshan mine? or Xianghualing ? 3 x 3.6 cm 42g $35.00 Colorless cubic fluorite crystals with colorless scheelite, which the camera caught a very faint pink color to the scheelite. The label says it is from "Daoyu mine, Jiaxin". I could find no such place, so its either badly spelled or totally erroneous. Since the Piaotang mine is from Dayu county, Jiangxi...this is my best guess as it comes closest to the label. |
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JC11997. Another view. |
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JC11997. Another view. |
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JC11997. Another view. |
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JC11768. Stellerite. Sarbai Deposit, Rudny, Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan. 2 x 3.5 cm 16g $20.00. Nice ball like group tops the piece. Nice luster, with the yellowish color typical of this deposit. |
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JC11768. Another view. |
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JC11768. Another view. |
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JC11776. Tarbutite. Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe (Broken Hill), Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia. 9 x 5 x 4.5 cm 145g $40.00 small crystals scattered pretty much over the entire piece. |
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JC11776. Area of crystals on one edge. |
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JC11776. Close up of above area. |
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JC11776. Part of back side. |
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JC11779. Ferberite, apatite, siderite. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 3 x 4 cm 88g $30.00. Apatite crystals coated with beige material capping a ferberite crystal. |
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JC11779. Slightly different angle. |
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JC11780. Apatite, siderite. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 5 x 7 cm 108g $90.00 Group of 1 cm crystals on matrix. Nice contrast with the tan siderite crystals. |
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JC11780. Another view. |
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JC11780. Close up. |
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JC11782. Pyromorphite. Daoping mine, Gongcheng county, Guilin, Guangxi, China. 4 x 5 cm 93g. $125.00 Dark green crystals from one area in the mine that produced these. Cluster of lustrous translucent grass-green pyromorphite crystals on brown gossan. The pyromorphite crystals are elongated hexagonal form, with flat basal pinacoid terminations, and are in tapered aggregates of sort of subparallel crystals. This particular style was a limited find, and are pretty much un-available these days. A classic |
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JC11782. Another view, slightly different angle. |
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JC11782. Another view. |
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JC11783. Pyromorphite. Daoping mine, Gongcheng county, Guilin, Guangxi, China. 5 x 5 cm 71g. $125.00 Hoppered crystals with the typical light green color. Nice piece, no damage except on the edges where it was removed from the pocket. From the earlier finds at this mine. Nice miniature. |
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JC11783. Another view. |
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JC11784. Pyromorphite. Daoping mine, Gongcheng county, Guilin, Guangxi, China. 4 x 4.5 cm $90.00 Bright lime green crystals. Pretty. RESERVED |
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JC11784. Another view. |
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JC11784. Back side. |
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JC11786. Beryllonite. Dara-e-Pech pegmatite field, Dara-e-Pech District, Kunar, Afghanistan. 3.5 x 5.5 cm $125.00 Well defined, flat termination crystal aggregate. The finest examples of Beryllonite are those from Afghanistan. This rare sodium beryllium phosphate is often found in smaller, nondescript specimens from various other pegmatite localities around the world, but the specimens from Afghanistan are incredibly well-formed, large and beautiful. This piece is a good-sized, sharp, well-formed, euhedral, pseudo-hexagonal (monoclinic) crystal group of Beryllonite showing the typical heavily striated prism edges, free of matrix. The piece is actually a complete "floater" with no damage or point of attachment anywhere. This piece dates back to the mid to late 1990s, when some of the best examples of the material came out of Afghanistan RESERVED |
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JC11786. Another view. |
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JC11786. View of flat termination. |
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JC11765. Columbite? or tantalite? or tapiolite?, rhodonite?. 3 x 4 cm 47g $50.00 Another one from the collection with no label...and I am not a good enough crystallographer to figure this one out. Several photos to show the crystal shape. There is a massive pink mineral on the front. One of those times I wish I had an x-ray machine handy. This may be none of the ones I have listed here. |
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JC11765. Another view. |
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JC11765. Another view. |
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JC11765. Another view. |
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JC11765. Another view. |
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JC11760. Tantalite. Murrua, Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique. 2.5 x 3 cm 50g $95.00. Nice crystallized group. This collection had a lot of black minerals of this series, and the labeling is questionable at times...this is what the label has, so I hope it is correct. |
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JC11760. View of the terminations. |
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JC11760. View of the terminations. |
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JC11760. View of the terminations. |
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JC11760. Back side. |
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JC11760. Another view. |
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JC11550. Hematite, andradite. N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa. 1.2 x 2.5 x 6.5 cm 132g $70.00 A brilliant luster, mirror bright crystal face...you can see your self in it like a mirror. Micro andradite on the back side. A neat hematite. |
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JC11550. A shot showing the glassy face. |
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JC11550. Back side. Tiny, orange/red orange andradite crystals scattered around. |
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JC11550. Back side. Tiny, orange/red orange andradite crystals scattered around. |
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JC11550. Back side. Tiny, orange/red orange andradite crystals scattered around. |
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JC13044. Calcite (Cobaltoan) Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic Congo. 6.5 x 9 cm 300g $35.00 Slightly purplish pink crystals, photo is fairly accurate. Bright luster. Sawn back. |
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JC13044. Close up. |
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JC13045. Calcite (Cobaltoan) Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic Congo. 5 x 7 cm 134g $30.00 Purplish pink crystals. Bright luster. Color is fairly accurate. Sawn back. |
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JC13045. Closer view. |
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JC13046. Calcite (Cobaltoan) Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic Congo. 5 x 6 cm 88g $28.00 Pink crystals. bright luster. Sawn back |
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JC13046. Closer view. |
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JC13051. Calcite (cobaltoan). Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 10 x 14cm 968g $195.00. Not sure of the exact mine on this one. Label just has as listed here. Nice glassy luster, pretty pinkish purplish color. The close up below is closer to the actual color. There are two rub spots, hard to see in the photo, and don't detract from the piece. |
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JC13051. Another view. |
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JC13051. Close up. |
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JC13051. Another view. |
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JC13051. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Stibnite. Wuning mine (Wuling Mine; Qingjiang Mine), Qingjiang, Wuning Co., Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. 7 x 15 cm 118g. $100.00. Beautiful group of tall acicular crystals with great luster. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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JC11899A. Another view. |
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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. |
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JC13449. Back side, all scalenohedral calcite crystals. |
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JC13449. Closer view, back side. |
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JC10646. Stibnite. White Caps mine, Manhattan, Manhattan district, Nye county, Nevada. 6.5 x 8 cm 243g. $125.00. Acicular crystals with luster varying from satiny to brilliant. Nice piece these days, as virtually nothing has come from here in years. Fairly fragile but shippable. Collected in 2000. |
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JC10646. Another view. |
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JC10646. Close up. |
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JC10646. Close up. |
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JC10646. Close up. |