New Arrivals Page 3
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JC13797. Andradite....grading from topazolite to melanite. Serpentine dome, nr. the Dallas Gem (Benitoite) mine, New Idria district, San Benito county. California. 11.2 x 7.4 x 3.1 cm 240g. $25.00. Both sides of the matrix encrusted with micro sized crystals of andradite...grading from melanite on the upper left to dark topazolite on the right. Micro sized diopside crystals are also present. The reverse side, shown below, is similar. RESERVED |
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JC13797. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13797. Closer view. |
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JC13797. Close up. |
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JC13797. Back side. |
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JC13797. 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. $30.00 Several fat, pale yellow mimetite crystals. |
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JC13799. Another view. |
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JC13801. Galena. Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 5.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm 100g. $5.00. Sawn base. Had some excess matrix from the linarites from here...very bright and sparkly "steel" galena. RESERVED |
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JC13801. Back side. |
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JC13802. Galena. Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 4.5 x 2.5 x 1.4 cm 69g $5.00. Sawn base. Had some excess matrix from the linarites from here...very bright and sparkly "steel" galena. RESERVED |
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JC13802. Back side. |
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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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JC13804. Linarite, Galena. Dispozitch mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada. 5 x 3 x 1.4 cm 101g $15.00. Had some excess matrix from the linarites from here.. Sawn base. RESERVED |
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JC13804. Close up. |
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JC13805. Galena, tetrahedrite? Gold Eagle mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. 6 x 5 x 4 cm 351g $8.00 Nearly solid mass of "steel" galena, with a bit of tetrahedrite? present...upper left in this photo. Close ups below. RESERVED |
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JC13805. Slightly out of focus...tetrahedrite? is the silvery vein like area on the left. |
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JC13805. Another view...tetrahedrite? is slightly right of center. |
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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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JC13812. Wulfenite. Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona 2.5 x 2.5 cm $25.00 Typical red orange crystal group, with one partial crystal sort of pointing out towards the front and the others parallel. C: 1973 Was from a vug about the 90 to 100 foot level on the north side of the incline....about 3 feet tall, 6 inches wide, and about 18 inches deep. Bright red orange crystals near the top of the opening, grading to near dark red near the base of the vug, where red mimetite became associated. I thought the mine was named for the red dust you get when collecting back then. Used to get so covered in red dust, would leave and go to the landing on the Colorado river, where they had pay showers. Turns out I was wrong...not named for the red dust, but should have been. RESERVED |
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JC13813. Hemimorphite. 11 level, Quill Orebody, Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone county, Idaho. 1.8 x 2.8 cm TN C:1980. $15.00. Something you never see for sale from the Bunker Hill mine are these little hemimorphites. They are from a small area on the 11 level of the mine, and have long since disappeared from the market. A very rare occurrence for the Bunker Hill. RESERVED |
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JC13814. Pyromorphite, malachite. Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia. 2 x 3.5 cm TN $10.00 Purchased 1977. An older piece from here, prior to the big finds of several years ago. RESERVED |
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JC13815. Stibnite. White Caps Mine, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada. 2 cm crystal. $3.00 C: 1976. I was able to get underground at the White Caps mine back in 1976, and one area above the flooded 300 level had a bit of stibnite exposed, and this is one of the crystals from there. RESERVED |
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JC13816. Smithsonite. Kelly Mine, Magdalena Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico. 1.5 x 2 cm $40.00 Pale blue teardrop crystals. C: 1968 RESERVED |
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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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JC13819. Dioptase. Reneville, Kindanba District, Pool Department, Republic of Congo 1.8 cm group. $30.00 A large single crystal with smaller satellite crystals around it. Purchased: 1976. A tough one to photo and show the main crystal. RESERVED |
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JC13819. Another view. |
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JC13819. Another view. |
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JC13819. Another view. |
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JC13820. Vesuvianite on calcite. Bill Waley Mine (Bill Waley Indian Allotment Mine); Washapie Mountain, Tulare County, California. 2 x 3 cm with a 1.5 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 odd rounded crystal aggregates that occur 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. 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. RESERVED |
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JC13820. Another view. |
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JC13821. Wulfenite, hemimorphite, aurichalcite. Empress Mine, Zinc Hill subdistrict, Darwin district, Argus Range, Inyo County, California. 2.5 x 2.5 cm $20.00. When I visited this mine in 1969, on the left side of the adit entrance was an area that had hemimorphite, aurichalcite, smithsonite, and minor wulfenite. I went back in the early 1990's to have another look at the mine, and the entire area where these occurred was gone...I was amazed to say the least. A few of these I saved as thumbnail specimens. Wulfenite from this mine is exceedingly rare...I have never seen any other than the ones I collected... The smithsonite area was totally obliterated also. In 1969, in the ceiling of the main adit, linarite crystals were scattered all over a hard limestone...in 1991 these were totally gone. Pretty much a deceased locality now. RESERVED |
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JC13821. Another view of the little cavity lined with tiny wulfenite crystals and sort of botryoidal hemimorphite. |
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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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JC13823. Malachite. Cosumnes Copper Mine, Fair Play, Fairplay District, El Dorado County, California. 2 x 2 cm $5.00 This mine was the subject of my Masters Thesis, and at that time was pretty much untouched by collectors. Andradite, molybdenite, epidote, chalcopyrite, & bornite were the main minerals. Malachite and azurite were quite rare. This is a little, I think, chalcopyrite nodule heavily oxidized with a coating of tiny malachite crystals. A bit of chalcopyrite is stuck to the base. Of interest as a location specimen from this now closed and inaccessible mine. C: 1971 RESERVED |
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JC13823. Back side. |
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JC13824. Pyrite. Morning Star Mine, Mogul Peak, Monitor - Mogul Mining District, Alpine County, California. 1.8 x 2 x 1.8 cm $5.00 When I first visited this mine in the early 1970's, enargite in small crystals were abundant in boulders in front of the main adit, which was caved a short distance in. Pyrite was also abundant in boulders around the dump. I went back again in 1975 and collected some more enargite, and a few pyrite just because they were there. I visited the mine again in the early 1990's, as living in Reno it was not that far away. I was quite surprised that there were no boulders with enargite anywhere....they were all gone....even pyrite was very scarce. So this is one of the little pyrites I kept from the 1975 trip. RESERVED |
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JC13824. Back side. |
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JC13825. Hemimorphite. 11 level, Quill Orebody, Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone county, Idaho. 2 x 2.3 cm TN C:1980. $15.00. Something you never see for sale from the Bunker Hill mine are these little hemimorphites. They are from a small area on the 11 level of the mine, and have long since disappeared from the market. A very rare occurrence for the Bunker Hill. RESERVED |
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JC13826. Quartz on quartz. Pup claim, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, north of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. 3 cm tall. $5.00 C: 1975. Back in 1975 the road into the Birch Creek pluton contact zone north of Deep Springs valley, was accessible by a two wheel drive vehicle...the road had been recently improved, I'm guessing by an exploration company checking the place out. An amazing area with many weird minerals, like the meneghinite I had previously offered for sale. The area seemed to be untouched by mineral collectors. There is a shaft a couple of miles in that was sunk on a quartz vein that contained massive tetrahedrite, obviously the mineral of interest. Around the shaft entrance was a halo of vuggy quartz, which was loaded with quartz crystals and quartz pseudo after dolomite crystals. Some of these quartz crystals were coated with a secondary layer of drusy quartz, making for very pretty and sparkly crystals such as this. I kept only a couple of thumbnails, and this is the best one. Needless to say, there are no more crystals around the shaft entrance. RESERVED |
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JC13826. Another view. |
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JC13827. Mimetite. San Pedro Mine, San Pedro Corralitos, Casas Grandes Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 1.5 x 2.5 cm $10.00 Purchased 1971. Little group of typical yellow crystals. RESERVED |
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JC13827. Another view. |
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JC13828. Copper. Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Cochise county, Arizona. 1.5 x 2 cm $5.00. A little group of copper crystals that have stayed remarkably bright...probably because they were in a Perky box. Purchased 1964 for 50 cents...one of my first mineral purchases. RESERVED |
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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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JC13831. Wulfenite. Empress Mine, Zinc Hill subdistrict, Darwin district, Argus Range, Inyo County, California. 2 x 3 cm $30.00 When I visited this mine in 1969, on the left side of the adit entrance was an area that had hemimorphite, aurichalcite, smithsonite, and minor wulfenite. I went back in the early 1990's to have another look at the mine, and the entire area where these occurred was gone...I was amazed to say the least. A few of these I saved as thumbnail specimens. Wulfenite from this mine is exceedingly rare...I have never seen any other than the ones I collected... The smithsonite area was totally obliterated also. In 1969, in the ceiling of the main adit, linarite crystals were scattered all over a hard limestone...in 1991 these were totally gone. Pretty much a deceased locality now. RESERVED |
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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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JC13833. Wulfenite. Empress Mine, Zinc Hill subdistrict, Darwin district, Argus Range, Inyo County, California. 2 x 3 cm $25.00 When I visited this mine in 1969, on the left side of the adit entrance was an area that had hemimorphite, aurichalcite, smithsonite, and minor wulfenite. I went back in the early 1990's to have another look at the mine, and the entire area where these occurred was gone...I was amazed to say the least. A few of these I saved as thumbnail specimens. Wulfenite from this mine is exceedingly rare...I have never seen any other than the ones I collected... The smithsonite area was totally obliterated also. In 1969, in the ceiling of the main adit, linarite crystals were scattered all over a hard limestone...in 1991 these were totally gone. Pretty much a deceased locality now. RESERVED |
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JC13834. Axinite, albite, byssolite. New Melones Dam spillway, West Belt, Calaveras County, California. 1.8 x 1.8 cm $15.00 Little group of albite crystals with small axinite crystals across the top, trace epidote, and hairlike byssolite. 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. RESERVED |
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JC13834. Another view. |
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JC13835. Sphalerite, dolomite. Smithshire quarry, Nr. Smithshire, Hancock county, Illilnois. 2 x 2 cm. $30.00 This one was collected by William (Bill) Sanborn in the summer of 1978, in company with Gene Tribbey. Here is what he says on the label: : "Single crystals (only) occur in 'solution pockets' in these limestone quarries. NEVER more than one xl in a pocket; xls vary from 1/4" to to 3"! Much sought by Illinois collectors." The Sphalerite has an odd semi-metallic reflectiveness on the surface, where you think it might actually be gemmy, but it's simply how the light bounces off the surface of some of the crystal faces. A great old-time Midwest Sphalerite specimen from this uncommon locality. RESERVED |
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JC13835. Another view. |
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JC13835. Another view. |
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JC13835. Another view. |
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JC13836. Stibnite. Sulphur Bank Mine, Clear Lake Oaks, Sulphur Creek District, Lake County, California 2.5 x 3 cm $35.00 This is a fantastic stibnite specimen for the locality. When I collected these back in 1978, there were weathered boulders on the east side of the dumps that could be broken open with a sledge hammer, and inside were voids with these needle like stibnite crystals. The area is now a superfund site, and when I visited the mine about 10 years ago...these boulders were no longer present. If this survives shipping, it is a great representative piece from there. RESERVED |
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JC13836. Another view. |
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JC13837. Azurite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. A 1.8 cm crystal. Purchased in 1968. $50.00. RESERVED |
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JC13837. Another view. |
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JC13837. Another view. |
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JC13838. Smithsonite & ? Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 1 x 1.8 cm $45.00 Purchased 1978. Ex Wolfgang Pilz. Light green translucent crystals with un identified reddish mineral. RESERVED |
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JC13838. Another view. |
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JC13838. Another view. |
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JC13839. Albite, byssolite. New Melones Dam spillway, West Belt, Calaveras County, California. 2 x 3 cm $25.00 Little group of albite crystals, and hairlike byssolite. 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. RESERVED |
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JC13839. Another view. |
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JC13839. Another view. |
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JC13839. Another view. |
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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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JC13842. Pyromorphite. Little Giant mine, nr. Mullan, Shoshone county, Idaho. 1.5 x 3 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. RESERVED |
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JC13843. Stibnite. White Caps Mine, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada. 1.5 cm crystal. $3.00 C: 1976. I was able to get underground at the White Caps mine back in 1976, and one area above the flooded 300 level had a bit of stibnite exposed, and this is one of the crystals from there. RESERVED |
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JC13844. Wulfenite. Tecoma mine, Tecoma hill, Lucin district on the Nevada Utah border. 1.6 cm crystal. $20.00 Collected 1976. RESERVED |
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JC13846. Pyromorphite. Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone county, Idaho. 1.8 x 3.2 cm. $40.00 Interesting history on this one. Collected by Earl.V. Shannon (Minerals of Idaho, 1926) in 1922. Given to Art Cooper (mined the Sherman mine in 1960's) by Earl Shannon's wife, and hence to me by Art Cooper. C: 1922. Crystals are a little more olive than the photo shows. Similar in looks to the Little Giant pyromorphites, but the matrix is wrong for the Little Giant. RESERVED |
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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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JC13849. Maxwellite. Squaw Creek tin mine, Catron county, New Mexico. 3 x 2.7 cm $10.00 Collected by Patrick Haynes, not sure when collected early 1990's. Tiny microscopic red crystals in this altered rhyolite...need a microscope to see these little guys. Has his label. RESERVED |
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JC13849. Close up...label put on by Pat Haynes. |
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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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JC13851. Tripuhyite var. Squawcreekite. Squaw Creek tin mine, Catron county, New Mexico. 2.5 x 3 cm $10.00. Tiny red orange crystals in altered rhyolite. Need a microscope for these. Collected by Patrick Haynes in the 1990.s RESERVED |
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JC13851. Close up...arrow by Pat Haynes. |
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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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JC13853. Axinite. New Melones Dam spillway, West Belt, Calaveras County, California. 1.5 x 2 cm $20.00. Collected in 1982. RESERVED |
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JC13853. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13853. Back side. |
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JC13854. Axinite. New Melones Dam spillway, West Belt, Calaveras County, California. 1.7 x 2.2 cm $15.00 Collected 1982. RESERVED |
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JC13854. Another view. |
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JC13854. Another view. |
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JC13854. Another view. |
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JC13855. Axinite. New Melones Dam spillway, West Belt, Calaveras County, California. 1.5 x 1.3 cm $15.00 Has a bit of albite and byssolite on it. Collected: 1982. RESERVED |
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JC13855. Another view. |
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JC13855. Back side. |
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JC13855. Back side. |
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JC13856. Pyrite. Antimony King mine? Bernice, Dixie valley, Churchill county, Nevada. 4.5 x 2.5 cm 2.5 x 1.5 cm group on slate $10.00 Collected in 1977. Not sure if I got the mine name correct. These were near the entrance of the adit. Most groups came loose when I tried to trim them from their place in the wall...managed to get this group out intact. RESERVED |
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JC13856. Back side. |
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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. |