New Arrivals Page 3
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JC13889. Arsenopyrite, fluorite. Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China. 8 x 5.5 x 5 cm 201g $65.00. A somewhat flat plate of brilliant luster arsenopyrite resting on colorless fluorite cleavages. When looked at from the side, like in the lower photo, it is sort of lozenge shaped. Very bright luster, mirror like. |
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JC13889. Side view. |
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JC13890. Arsenopyrite. Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. 6 x 7 x 4 cm 434g $185.00 Crystals to 3cm. Well-crystallized, this excellent cluster of Arsenopyrite crystals features a fabulous and splendent Arsenopyrite that is 3 cm on edge. The metallic luster on these silvery crystals is excellent, and the forms are sharp and distinctive. In very good condition. I photographed this excellent piece from all sides. |
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JC13890. Another view. |
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JC13890. Another view. |
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JC13890. Another view. |
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JC13890. Another view. |
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JC13891. Chalcopyrite, siderite, tetrahedrite, quartz . Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang County, Bijie, Guizhou, China 11.5 x 6.5 x 3 cm 386g $250.00 Four tetrahedrite. Bright and attractive, this is one of the more interesting combo's from China in recent years. Bright luster and a brassy-gold color highlight the tetragonal Chalcopyrites, and they range up to about 2 cm in size. The Siderites are bladed and sharp, and to top it off, it has one nice bright little tetrahedrite crystal, and a few smaller tetrahedrites; these are highly regarded by the Chinese dealers, and the combo with tetrahedrite are rather rare. The distinctly different habits of the chalcopyrite and siderite provide a nice visual complement to each other. Really a choice cabinet specimen, it is even better in person. Collected around 2011. |
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JC13891. Another view. |
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JC13891. Another view. |
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JC13891. Another view. |
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JC13891. Another view, with the main tetrahedrite about in the center. |
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JC13891. Close up of one of the tetrahedrite crystals. |
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JC13891. Close up of the smaller tetrahedrite crystals. |
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JC13892. Wulfenite, descloizite. Sidi Amer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Prov. Oriental Region, Morocco. 6.5 x 5 x 3 cm 147g $40.00. Thin yellow crystals of wulfenite on sparkly near black descloizite. Wulfenite has been partly covered in white calcite crystals in spots. |
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JC13892. Another view. |
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JC13892. Another view. |
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JC13892. Another view. |
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JC13892. Closer view. |
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JC13893. Wulfenite, descloizite. Sidi Amer, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Prov. Oriental Region, Morocco. 8 x 5.5 x 5 cm 201g $30.00 Scattered thin yellow crystals of wulfenite on near black, sparkly, descloizite. |
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JC13893. Another view. |
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JC13893. Back side. |
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JC13893. Back side. |
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JC13894. Pyrite, quartz, tetrahedrite. Beruang Tengah Prospect, Beruang Kanan orefield, Gunung Mas Regency, Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. 4 x 5.5 cm 43g $60.00 Cute little specimen from the recent find in Indonesia. Bright pyrite with clear quartz and a couple of tetrahedrite crystals. The pyrite has brilliant, mirror like luster. There were a few of these around at Tucson, and were surprisingly pricey. |
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JC13894. Another view. |
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JC13894. Closer view showing the tetrahedrite. |
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JC13894. Closer view showing the tetrahedrite. |
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JC13894. Another view. |
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JC13895. Pyrite, quartz. Beruang Tengah Prospect, Beruang Kanan orefield, Gunung Mas Regency, Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. 5 x 4 x 3 cm 79g $25.00 Pretty miniature. The pyrite has brilliant, mirror like luster. There were a few of these around at Tucson, and were surprisingly pricey. |
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JC13895. Another view. |
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JC13895. Another view. |
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JC13895. Another view. |
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JC13896. Pyrite, quartz. Beruang Tengah Prospect, Beruang Kanan orefield, Gunung Mas Regency, Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. 7 x 5 x 2.5 cm 121g $90.00 Bright pyrite with quartz...the two quartz crystals on the middle right look like Japanese twins, but they are not...just have that angle to fool folks. The pyrite has brilliant, mirror like luster. There were a few of these around at Tucson, and were surprisingly pricey. |
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JC13896. Another view. |
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JC13896. Another view. |
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JC13897. Arsenopyrite, muscovite, siderite. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 7 x 6 x 5 cm 317g Crystals to 3.5 cm. $250.00 An old classic from the mining heyday of Portugal; a beautiful and large, tabular, parallel grouping of Arsenopyrite from Panasqueira. It is a composite of silvery metallic Arsenopyrite crystals with excellent, chisel-like terminations and abundant, yet subtle, striations parallel to their length. This results in cascading, scintillating reflectivity off the piece that can only be appreciated in person. The sides of the piece have mounded, fine-grained, spherical aggregates of Muscovite crystals that mostly cover a sidecar grouping of Arsenopyrite crystals in that area as well as a portion of the right side Arsenopyrite group. A beautiful and well-composed combination piece. I photographed it from all sides. |
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JC13897. Another view, this showing the siderite crystal nestled in amongst the arsenopyrite crystals. |
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JC13897. Another view. |
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JC13897. Another view. |
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JC13897. Another view. |
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JC13898. Sphalerite. Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. 5.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm 323g $30.00. Typical group of resinous, bright luster crystals. There are some small dings here and there. |
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JC13898. Another view. |
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JC13898. Another view. |
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JC13898. Another view. |
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JC13899. Chalcopyrite, sphalerite,
siderite? Animón Mine, Huarón mining district, Huayllay district,
Pasco province, Pasco, Peru. 6 x 4 x 4.5 cm 278g $150.00
Chalcopyrite crystals to 2.5 cm This is just a really
aesthetic and pretty example of a very classic combination of species that
came out of this mine in the 1990s. Ones of this quality are
rarely seen for sale these days. There are what appears to be, here
and there on the crystals, microscopic crystals of the
tetrahedrite/tennantite series. I photographed this near floater from
all sides.
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JC13899. Another view. |
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JC13899. Another view. |
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JC13899. Another view. |
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JC13899. Another view. |
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JC13899. Another view. |
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JC13900. Chalcopyrite. Füsseberg Mine, Biersdorf, Daaden, Daaden-Herdorf, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. 9 x 7 x 5 cm 529g $325.00. A fine somewhat old German classic. The mine closed in 1965, and this was, therefore, collected prior to that. Lustrous stacks of chalcopyrite that look much better in person...they are quite 3 dimensional and it displays very well. Quality specimens like this are very rarely seen for sale these days. |
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JC13900. Another view. |
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JC13900. Another view. |
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JC13900. Another view. |
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JC13900. Another view. |
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JC13900. Another view. |
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JC13900. Closer view. |
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JC13901. Chalcopyrite, sphalerite, siderite. Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia. 5.5 x 4 x 2 cm 143g $150.00 Nice group of golden crystals. A group very similar to this is shown on mindat for this location. Specimens of this size and quality are rarely seen for sale these days...this is a classic. |
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JC13901. Another view. |
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JC13901. Another view. |
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JC13901. Another view. |
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JC13901. Another view. |
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JC13902. Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia. 7 x 5 x 4 cm 457g $395.00. An outstanding, highly brilliant rose like crystals on sphalerite. This piece is a beautiful and showy group featuring pseudo-hexagonal (monoclinic) brassy-bronze colored crystals which have formed in a semi-"rose"-shaped, layered/stacked group, with individual crystals measuring up to 4 cm across. A very eye-catching and aesthetic example of this beautiful material from one of the great contemporary Russian localities. This is a superb specimen. |
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JC13902. Another view. |
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JC13902. Another view. |
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JC13902. Another view. |
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JC13902. Another view. |
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JC13903. Descloizite after wulfenite. Erupcion mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. 10 x 7.5 x 4.5 cm 362g $85.00 Tabular crystals of what were once wulfenite measuring to 1.4 cm in size, these now replaced by crystallized descloizite. Classic pseudomorph specimen for this famous Mexican locality. This is in good condition, a couple of the pseudomorphs have been broken in the lower front showing the shrunken wulfenites within. These came out many years ago, and are rarely seen for sale these days. The descloizite is quite sparkly. |
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JC13903. Another view. |
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JC13903. Another view. |
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JC13903. Another closer view. |
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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. $20.00 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 $10.00. 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 $185.00 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 $60.00. 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. |