New Arrivals Page 3
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JC13798. Smithsonite. Palabanda quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo. 7.5 x 4 x 2 cm 89g $125.00 Light blue, sparkly smithsonite grading to white sparkly smithsonite on the left. Pretty piece. |
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JC13799. Mimetite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 8 x 4.5 x 2 cm 141g. $30.00 Several fat, pale yellow mimetite crystals. |
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JC13799. Another view. |
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JC13803. Linarite, Galena. Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 5 x 5 x 1.5 cm 98g $15.00. Had some excess matrix from the linarites from here.. |
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JC13803. Another view. |
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JC13803. Back side. |
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JC13807. Azurite. Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui, China. 8 x 5.5 x 2 cm $190.00 A flattish plate with the face covered with brilliant blue highly lustrous azurite. Larger crystals than usual from the Liufengshan mine. Pretty. Minor malachite is also present. |
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JC13807. More of an oblique shot. |
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JC13807. Another view. |
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JC13807. Another view. |
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JC13807. Close up. |
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JC13808. Austinite (cuprian), calcite. Hilarion Mine, Kamariza Mines , Agios Konstantinos , Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece. 7 x 4.5 x 4 cm 98g $75.00. Scalenohedral calcite crystals and matrix coated with little spherules of cuprian austinite. Relatively rare in this quality from here. |
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JC13808. Another view. |
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JC13808. Another view. |
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JC13809. Cerussite, galena. Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. 6 x 6 x 5 cm 373g $40.00 Small vug filled with brilliant cerussite crystals, and galena also present and seen here on the top of the piece. |
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JC13809. Another view. |
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JC13809. Close up of the vug lined with brilliant crystals. |
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JC13809. Another view. |
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JC13806. Hematite, epidote, quartz. Peacock mine, Cuprum, Adams county, Idaho. 3.5 x 2.2 cm 8g $10.00 A hematite crystal, bright luster, with a bit of epidote and quartz on the back side. Collected: July 2009 |
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JC13806. Slightly different angle. The blue color is a reflection. |
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JC13806. Back side, with a bit of epidote and quartz. |
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JC13817. Paravauxite Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí, Bolivia 1.5 cm crystal $3.00 Purchased: 1976 |
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JC13818. Orthoclase. West Maroon Pass Area, Pitkin County, Colorado. 2.5 cm doubly terminated crystal. $20.00. When I was a whole lot younger and more ambitious, in 1968 I took the trail into this area to see about collecting some of these. The hike was a bit strenuous, but not that bad for a young man, and gorgeous scenery....I found these things laying around where they had weathered out of this granitic (granodiorite?) rock, and thinking they were not worth a lot, brought out several dozen. This is one of two I kept, long since selling and or giving away the rest. |
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JC13818. A view of the other termination. |
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JC13822. Pyromorphite. Little Giant mine, nr. Mullan, Shoshone county, Idaho. 1.6 x 2.2 cm $25.00 In 1967 I visited the Little Giant mine, as having been told by Art Cooper, the gent that had worked the Sherman mine about this same time, that there was pyromorphite to be had. At that time, one could take a two wheel drive vehicle up the road, right to the entrance to the adit. I was truly amazed at the abundance of pyromorphite present...it was everywhere, floors, walls, ceiling...all the way to the end of the adit. Then, the best collecting was a short distance in from the entrance, and I happily spent a few days collecting hundreds of these things in sizes up to about 10 inches across...larger ones I broke into smaller pieces...I finally ran out of storage space in my old dodge dart and had to quit collecting. This is the typical color, although there was a small area on the right side of the entrance where they occurred as glassy, lime green to yellow green crystals similar to the Bunker Hill. Further in the adit, there were silvery ones in the ceiling, and near the end of the adit, were yellow green crystals, quite different from the ones like this. This is one of the thumbnails I kept, I solid rounded ball of crystals. Sold several hundred specimens after that for $1 to $5 each...sure wish I had a hundred or so of them now. |
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JC13822. Back side. |
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JC13829. Wulfenite. Tecoma mine, Tecoma hill, Lucin district on the Nevada Utah border. 1.5 x 2.5 cm $1.00 Collected 1972. A few mostly broken crystals...unfortunately came unglued in the Perky box, and bounced around a bit. |
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JC13830. Vesuvianite. Bill Waley Mine (Bill Waley Indian Allotment Mine); Washapie Mountain, Tulare County, California. 2 x 2 cm crystal. $20.00 Vesuvianite occurred in this mine in several crystal habits and colors. Dark green, black, brown, and olive. This is one of the black crystals that occurred there. Some of these, like this one, I found loose, while others had to be etched out of the blue calcite, which was endemic in the mine, and is the host to all the contact metamorphic minerals that were present in there at the time. Although these look black, in high intensity light, they are actually a very dark green. Collected in 1971. I wrote this location up in California Geology, October 1974, Pages 224-226, A publication of the California Division of Mines and Geology. A very rare one time occurrence. |
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JC13830. Another view. |
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JC13830. Another view. |
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JC13830. Another view. |
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JC13832. Pyrite. Eagle Mine, Gilman, Gilman Mining District, Eagle County, Colorado. 2.5 x 3 cm $10.00 Cute group. Purchased 1977 |
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JC13840. Albite. New Melones Dam spillway, West Belt, Calaveras County, California. 2 x 2 cm $20.00 Little group of albite crystals. Collected: 1982 . At the time, these were fairly common in shrinkage voids in the country rock. Went back in the 1990's and the voids, which were commonly leaking water, were filled with trees and brush growing out of them, making collecting in them nearly impossible. |
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JC13840. Another view. |
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JC13841. Pyromorphite. Little Giant mine, nr. Mullan, Shoshone county, Idaho. 2 x 2.5 cm $25.00 In 1967 I visited the Little Giant mine, as having been told by Art Cooper, the gent that had worked the Sherman mine about this same time, that there was pyromorphite to be had. At that time, one could take a two wheel drive vehicle up the road, right to the entrance to the adit. I was truly amazed at the abundance of pyromorphite present...it was everywhere, floors, walls, ceiling...all the way to the end of the adit. Then, the best collecting was a short distance in from the entrance, and I happily spent a few days collecting hundreds of these things in sizes up to about 10 inches across...larger ones I broke into smaller pieces...I finally ran out of storage space in my old dodge dart and had to quit collecting. This is the typical color, although there was a small area on the right side of the entrance where they occurred as glassy, lime green to yellow green crystals similar to the Bunker Hill. Further in the adit, there were silvery ones in the ceiling, and near the end of the adit, were yellow green crystals, quite different from the ones like this. This is one of the thumbnails I kept, I solid rounded ball of crystals. Sold several hundred specimens after that for $1 to $5 each...sure wish I had a hundred or so of them now. |
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JC13847. Calcite. Greys Quarry, Hamilton, Hancock county, Illinois. 1.5 x 3.5 cm $15.00 Collected by William (Bill) Sanborn in 1978 with his label. The Greys Quarry is a limestone producer in far western Illinois (near the Missouri/Iowa border). Specimens are not common from this locality. |
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JC13847. Another view. |
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JC13847. Another view. |
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JC13848. Orthoclase. West Maroon Pass Area, Pitkin County, Colorado. 2.5 cm doubly terminated crystal. $20.00. When I was a whole lot younger and more ambitious, in 1968 I took the trail into this area to see about collecting some of these. The hike was a bit strenuous, but not that bad for a young man, and gorgeous scenery....I found these things laying around where they had weathered out of this granitic rock, and thinking they were not worth a lot, brought out several dozen. This is one of two I kept, long since selling and or giving away the rest. |
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JC13848. View of the termination. |
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JC13850. Maxwellite. Squaw Creek tin mine, Catron county, New Mexico. 3.5 x 3.5 cm $10.00 Tiny microscopic red crystals in altered rhyolite. Need a microscope to see these little guys |
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JC13850. Close up. Little red specs are maxwelllite. Vug with tiny clear crystals of ? |
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JC13852. Tripuhyite var. Squawcreekite. Squaw Creek tin mine, Catron county, New Mexico 2 x 3 cm $10.00 Tiny, microscopic brown crystals. Label is Patrick Haynes. |
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JC13852 Closer view. Arrow label is Pat Haynes...so hopefully is correct.... |
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JC13857. Quartz. Zaca mine, Monitor-Mogul district, Alpine county, California. 4.5 cm tall x 2.5 cm wide. $5.00. Tapered crystals on altered rhyolite. Collected 2010. Once abundant around the mine, good pieces are getting pretty hard to find. |
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JC13857. Back side. |