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JC13591. Fluorite. Revenue group. (Cox Canyon mine), IXL district, Churchill county, Nevada 9 x5.5 x 5.5 cm 605g $15.00. Of interest mainly as an obscure locality piece. Cubic crystals, not lustrous, sort of weak satiny luster. Color varies from pale greenish to near colorless. Collected in 2021. The locality is heavily picked over/collected. Not much chance of anything coming out in the future. This one is a little heavy on the matrix, but I was afraid to cut it down, fearing it might fall apart. Sold |
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JC13663. Amethyst. Kakamunurle Mine, Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India. 11.2 x 10.3 x 4.3 cm $325.00 A pretty and relatively large, three-dimensional rosette of Amethyst from India. This unusual find is very distinctive for the shape and composition, unlike other Indian finds . The piece is composed of a multitude of very lustrous, deep saturated purple Amethyst crystals that start out as translucent milky to pale purple in color at the point of divergence and radiate upward becoming a beautifully saturated purple color and forming a crown of crystals with excellent transparency and luster, frequently with a scepter look. Daylight shot. Much prettier in person. |
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JC13663. Another view...Daylight. |
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JC13663. Under LED light. |
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JC13663. Back lit. You can see the scepter look on the crystals upper left. |
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JC13663. Closer view. |
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JC13677. Hemimorphite. Santa Eulalia district, Aquiles Serdán municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 10.5 x 7 x 4.5 cm 407g $85.00. Nice sized piece with typical white to near transparent crystals. |
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JC13677. Another view. |
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JC13677. Another view. |
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JC9152. Pyromorphite. Moulay
Bouazza, Khenifra province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra region, Morocco.
5 x 5.5 cm. 67g. $35.00. Pretty little piece from this
limited find in Morocco; the locality is now cleaned out.
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JC9152. Close up view. |
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JC9488. Azurite, malachite. Liufengshan mine, Chichi county, Chizhou prefecture, Anhui province, China. 7 x 13 cm 489g. $175.00. Not often seen are specimens from here with larger crystals. Most specimens are small druses of crystals. This nice piece has 1 cm crystals in a shallow vug with botryoidal malachite. Crystals have bright luster and display nicely. There are a few broken crystals, mostly on the left side of the specimen in this photo. |
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JC9488. Another view. |
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JC9488. Another view. |
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JC9339. Azurite, malachite. Liufengshan mine, Guichi district, Chizhou prefecture, Anhui province, China. 11 x 18 cm >1000g (2.6 Lbs). $625.00 A large cabinet specimen from the Liufengshan mine, with larger crystals. Rarely does this mine produce crystals over a few mm in size; these are up to 7mm or so, and average about 5mm. There is very little damage to the main crystal exposures. There is one area on the very top of the specimen where it probably contacted the side of the vug/pocket it resided in that has damage This can be seen on the very top, slightly right of center. There a few areas of botryoidal malachite, some of it slightly iron stained, as can be seen. A very nice piece with good sized crystals for the location. A large cabinet specimen from my collection. A really pretty piece, with brilliant luster crystals, that would stand out in any cabinet display. |
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JC9339. Close up of left side in the above photo. |
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JC9339. Closer view of the left side, with a botryoidal malachite sphere tinted yellowish by iron oxide stain. |
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JC9339. Another view. |
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JC9339. Close up of the left end of the above photo. Shows the malachite spheres nicely. |
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JC9339. Close up of the right side in the 2nd photo above. |
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JC10484. Calcite (cobaltoan). Agoudal Mines, Agoudal, Bou Azer District (Bou Azzer District), Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco. 8 x 12.5 cm 688g. $350.00. The specimen features a solid coating of bright pink cobaltoan calcite with a solid matrix, so it is not fragile and displays very well. The mine is currently flooded I have been told, so the chances of more of these from this particular mine is slim. Really pretty, cotton candy pink sparkly botryoids making up the specimen. Very eye catching. |
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JC10484. Another view. |
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JC10484. Another view. |
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JC10484. Another view. |
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JC10484. Close up view of the bottom right in the above photo. |
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JC9108. Pyromorphite. Moulay Bouzza, Khenifra province, Beni Mellal-Khenifra, Morocco. 5 x 7.5 cm 133g. $60.00 Bright, lime/yellow green crystals from this find of several years ago. Location is now worked out. |
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JC9108. Close up view. |
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JC9466. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 6 x 6.5 cm 166g. $70.00. Bright red crystals on buff colored matrix. Sawn base. Nice. There is one broken crystal, near the top center more easily seen in the close up below. |
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JC9466. Close up. |
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JC8438. Wulfenite. Erupcion mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. 9 x 11 cm 936g. $1,600.00. An excellent old specimen of Wulfenite from the classic Mexican location of the Erupcion Mine, Chihuahua. The Wulfenite crystals display the quintessential tabular-blocky butterscotch crystals, so characteristic of the location. The Wulfenite crystals measuring to 1.2cm are highly lustrous. A fine, older specimen of Wulfenite from the mine. There is some damage on the top back side, not visible from the front (display side), which does not detract from the specimen. CABINET specimen |
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JC8438. Another view. |
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JC8438. Another view. |
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JC9146. Azurite. Khanong open pit, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhet Province, Laos? or Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui, China . 9 x 15 cm 1,206g $425.00 Brilliant blue crystals filling a shallow vug. Crystals to about 5mm in size. A very pretty specimen that really stands out. On one end, not at all visible in the photos, is a hole that goes down into the piece, and it is completely lined with brilliant crystal also, and there is a bit of malachite in rounded balls, down in there too. There has been a bit of controversy over Sepon mine specimens. The mine quit producing azurite in 2015 supposedly. Most of the specimens originally from the mine went to China, and were then sold. The Liufengshan mine in China has produced beautiful azurite very similar to these. So, the question remains, is the Sepon mine location for this piece accurate? I bought it at the Tucson show from a Chinese dealer in 2017, who was insistent that it is from the Sepon mine. The crystals in this piece are brilliant and gemmy...a bit more so than I am used to seeing from the Liufengshan mine. So, hopefully the label is accurate, but there is a question. From my personal collection, #JAC1768 |
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JC9146. Back side. |
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JC9146. Another view. |
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JC9146. Closer view. |
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JC9333. Azurite. Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui, China. 6 x 6.5 cm 143g $40.00. Bright blue drusy crystals typical for the Liufengshan mine. Purchased in 2017. |
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JC9333. Another view. |
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JC9333. Back side. |
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JC9293. Azurite. Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico. 6 x 10 cm 329g $300.00. Brilliant blue crystals on matrix. Has a sawn base...when I got this one, it had a lot of excess matrix that needed to be removed. Pretty piece with nice contrast with the matrix. Some crystals are flat lying, and some are blades standing vertical on the matrix. Only damage is the very top back side, where a couple of crystals are cleaved off, I'm guessing where they were in contact with the pocket wall and this can be seen in this photo, and the one below, at the very top of the piece. I think nicely priced for its size and beauty. |
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JC9293. Slightly different angle. |
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JC9293. Close view of the top...the damaged crystal on the very top is visible in this photo. Does not really detract from the piece. |
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JC9293. Close up of the lower portion of the specimen. |
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JC9758. Azurite, malachite. Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Municipio de Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. 4 x 6.5 cm 60g. $295.00. A two centimeter main crystal with satellite crystals attached. The back of the main crystals, not visible in this photo, were in contact with the pocket walls, so parts of the crystals are a bit flat. These are the brilliant crystals with an almost Schiller like luster, where the original crystals were partly replaced by malachite and then a thin layer of azurite crystallized on the malachite, giving this incredible luster the Milpillas azurites are famous for. The visible malachite is for the most part the thin layer of malachite that in the top half of the specimen is now azurite. |
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JC9758. Another view. |
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JC9758. Another view. |
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JC9758. Closer view. |
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JC13484. Arsenopyrite, magnetite, quartz, scheelite. Huanggang mine, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia A.R., China. 8.5 x 7 x 6 cm 532g $125.00 Brilliant silvery arsenopyrite crystals coating loellingite. The arsenopyrite crystals are resting on a matrix of magnetite. Nestled down in the middle left in this view is a white scheelite crystal. Small quartz crystals are draped across the lower front. As the camera "sees" things somewhat differently than the human eye, I photographed some of these specimens with both black back grounds, and lighter colored backgrounds. SOLD |
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JC10459. Hematite, quartz. Jinlong hill, Longchuan Co. (Lungchuan Co.), Heyuan, Guangdong, China. 8 x 10 cm 444g. $175.00. Nicely shaped hematite blades/roses with a secondary growth of microscopic, sparkly crystals, of unidentified mineral. There are broken quartz crystals along the edges, otherwise in good shape. |
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JC10459. Another view. |
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JC10459. Another view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |