New Arrivals Page 4
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JC11426. Barite. Dufton Fell Mine, Dufton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK. 5 x 6 cm 93g. $38.00 An old piece from this long closed mine. On the back it has a bit of brown goethite as a thin layer. Some minor rubbing on the crystal terminations, not surprising as it probably was collected in the early 1900's. Rarely ever seen for sale. RESERVED |
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JC11031. Fluorite. Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. 6.5 x 7 cm 197g. $ 50.00 Sawn back. Bluish green crystals that do not change color from tungsten lighting to daylight lighting. The white material around the crystals is probably calcite. An older piece, originally purchased from Wards Natural Science, then to the J. P. Osborn and sons collection # 179 then to the Bill Warren collection. I acquired the piece in August 1983 from Bill. Crowley collection #: 734. |
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JC11031. Another angle |
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JC11031. Another view. |
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JC12717. Gold, quartz. Olinghouse Mine, Olinghouse district, Pah Rah Range, Washoe County, Nevada. 2.5 x 2.4 x 2 cm 18g $150.00 Some of the gold from Olinghouse has a high silver content, and these are sometimes a bit tarnished, as can be seen in this piece. It was dissolved out of calcite, and still has a bit of calcite under the gold. Quartz is present as tiny, hair like needles coating the matrix. RESERVED |
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JC11430. Colemanite. Calico District, Calico Mts (Calico Hills), San Bernardino Co., California. 5 x 7 cm 175g. $30.00 An old piece, these were found usually as rounded nodules, similar to geodes. This one dates to the 1950's. Another rare mineral for this location...no more have been found in years. RESERVED |
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JC11418. Hubnerite, quartz. Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca Province, Áncash, Peru. 5 x 5 x 5.5 cm 154g. $30.00 Has a series of bladed crystals when looked at sideways. Looks best from the front, but tends to sort of hide the crystals behind the first one in the front. Terminations are present, although slightly ragged looking. |
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JC11418. Another view. |
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JC11418. Side view. |
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JC11422. Microlite, manganoan tantalite, albite. Ipê mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2.5 x 4 cm 14g. $38.00. Orange microlite crystals on bladed albite with a incomplete tantalite crystal in the front. |
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JC11693. Ferberite, arsenopyrite, quartz. Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. 8 x 10 cm 276g. $198.00. This is one of those that looks much better in person so to speak. Over a dozen brilliant blades of ferberite, both on end and lying sideways. Interspersed are several vertical standing or flat lying arsenopyrite crystals. Micro drusy quartz partially coats a few of the ferberites, and transparent quartz crystals are scattered here and there. A pretty piece. |
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JC11693. Close up top center. |
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JC11693. Close up top right. |
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JC11693. Another view. |
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JC11693. Another view. |
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JC11693. Another view. |
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JC11699. Ferberite, quartz, fluorite. Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China. 4.5 x 7 cm 191g. $98.00 A bright ferberite crystal is decorated with quartz crystals around the base with scattered small pretty much colorless fluorite cubes. The back side is coated with quartz and a few fluorite cubes. |
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JC11699. Slightly different angle. |
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JC11699. Tilted a bit. |
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JC11699. Back side. |
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JC11978. Erythrite. Bou Azzer district, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 2.5 x 4 cm 25g with stand. $98.00. A very nice miniature. A group on matrix that displays very well. Color is better in reality...camera could not get the color quite right. RESERVED |
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JC10703. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco.4 x 4.5 x 10 cm 242g $38.00 Dark red crystals on all sides of the piece. Photos show all sides of the piece. |
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JC10703. Another view |
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JC10703. Another view |
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JC10703. Another view, this of back side. |
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JC10704. Quartz. (Enhydro). Cong Ly (Cong Li), Hunan Province, China 3.5 x 9 cm 113g. $30.00 Double terminated crystal with H2O bubble and carbon inclusions. RESERVED |
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JC10704. Close up of one of the bubbles, although hard to see...black is carbon inclusions |
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JC10704. Close up of one of the bubbles, although hard to see is top center...black is carbon inclusions |
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JC10707. Apatite. Panasqueira mines, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 1.5 thick, x 4.5 x 6.5 cm 58g. $42.00. A light green, thin couple of crystals form a floater group. The back side has a bit of limonite on it as seen in the last photo. Odd piece. |
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JC10707. Back side. |
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JC7294. Barite. Stoneham, Weld county, Colorado. 1.7 x 2 cm $5.00. Before the more elongate crystals were produced from here, these tabular crystals were collected. Now rarely seen. This is a good example of a partially transparent light blue crystal group. RESERVED |
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JC7295. Barite. Stoneham, Weld county, Colorado. 2 x 3 cm $5.00 Two partial crystals. Before the more elongate crystals were produced from here, these tabular crystals were collected. Now rarely seen. This is a good example of a translucent to partially transparent light blue crystal. |
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JC7296. Barite. Stoneham, Weld county, Colorado. 1.7 x 3 cm $5.00. Before the more elongate crystals were produced from here, these tabular crystals were collected. Now rarely seen. RESERVED |
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JC7297. Barite. Stoneham, Weld county, Colorado. 1.5 x 2 cm $5.00 Before the more elongate crystals were produced from here, these tabular crystals were collected. Now rarely seen. RESERVED |
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JC7895. Calcite. N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. 5 x 5.5 cm 111g. $15.00. Silky to glassy luster crystals. It looks like the left side of the topmost crystal in this photo has a thin cleavage chip out of it. Hard to tell, but it is more lustrous than the rest of the crystal. |
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JC7895. Another view. |
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JC7895. Another view. |
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JC7895. Another view. |
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JC7942. Rutile. Champion mine, White Mountains, Mono county, California. 2 x 2 cm thumbnail. $10.00. A nice crisp crystal on Pyrophyllite. |
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JC7942. Another view. |
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JC7947. Fluorite. San Martin mine, San Martin-Sabinas district, San Martin, Municipio de Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico. 1.7 x 2 cm crystal. 8g. $5.00. Thumbnail. Although listed as one of the desirable minerals from the San Martin mine, rarely are specimens available for sale. Mine closed in early 2000's and hasn't reopened. RESERVED |
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JC7953. Azurite. Kerrouchene, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 1.5 x 3 cm 8g. $15.00. A bright single crystal as is common for specimens from here...they have a real tendency to pop off the hard matrix when trying to be collected. |
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JC7953. Another view. |
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JC7953. Another view. |
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JC8004. Fluorite, apatite. Yaogangxian mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang county, Chenzhou prefecture, Hunan province, China. 3.7 x 5 cm 65g. $35.00. A large greenish apatite crystal is host to a purple zoned fluorite crystal resting on its face. Unusual combo from here. |
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JC8004. Side view. |
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JC8004. Side view. |
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JC8005. Quartz. Petersen mountain, Washoe county, Nevada. $25.00 A 6 cm tall 73g. crystal, fairly gemmy, with amethyst tinges and smoky brown color. Was a scepter, but not much left of the stem. Nice clean crystal. RESERVED |
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JC8008. Calcite. N'Chwaning II mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape province, South Africa. 3 x 4.5 cm 20g. $25.00. Neat for the number of phantoms in the crystals. Looks like 8 or more. RESERVED |
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JC8014. Fluorite, quartz epimorph after calcite. La Viesca mine, Huergo, La Collada mining area, Siero, Asturias, Spain. 8 x 10 cm 89g. $38.00. Drusy quartz grew on a calcite crystal which is now gone. Bright drusy quartz is host to four light purple crystals of fluorite. RESERVED |
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JC8019. Gypsum. Santa Eulalia district, Mun. de Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico. 9 x 14 cm 592g. $25.00. A nice large "fishtail" twin of gypsum. Minor dings on the termination (common with gypsum as it is so soft). Wish I had the mine name, but the label just listed Santa Eulalia. Nice large gypsum cabinet specimen. RESERVED |
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JC8158. Quartz, schorl. David Ost, Erongo mountains, Namibia. 6 x 7 cm 144g. $37.00. A stout scepter on white quartz stem with a schorl crystal on the back side. |
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JC8158. Another view. |
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JC8158. Another view. |
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JC8167. Malachite. Victoria Mine, Dolly Varden district, Elko county, Nevada. 6 x 10 cm 230g $15.00 A relative rarity from Nevada. Dark green botryoids on heavily iron (goethite?) coated quartz crystals. RESERVED |
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JC8167. Close up view of lower right area. |
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JC8231. Mimetite. Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. 7 x 9 cm 304g. $40.00. Heavy specimen of slightly botryoidal to more globular/cauliflower like crystals. Color varies from yellow to a dark honey color. Not sure what the black mineral is. An older specimen from here, somewhat different from what has more recently been collected. Ex Muhl Herdorf, Germany, collection. RESERVED |
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JC8232. Celestite, sulfur. Giumentaro mine (Capodarso mine), Capodarso, Enna (Castrogiovanni), Enna province, Sicily, Italy. 6 x 6 cm 139g. $25.00. Nice bright, colorless crystals on a massive sulfur/rock matrix. Ex Mailen-stein , Germany, collection. I photographed it with both a white and black back ground to try to show the colorless crystals better. RESERVED |
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JC8255. Mimetite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 2 x 4.3 cm 30g. $20.00. From the find of the spring of 2013. These are a bright yellow, with great luster. No damage except on the edges. These add a nice bright spot to any collection. Brighter yellow than the photo would indicate. RESERVED |
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JC8322. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 2.5 x 4.5 cm 27g. $30.00. A half sphere that is 2.5 cm wide. The back side of the sphere has been sheared off. Shows well from the front. Fluorescent lime green. |
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JC8322. Back side. |
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JC5065. Cerussite. Daoping Lead-Zinc mine, Guangxi prov., China. 6 x 8 cm 389g. $38.00. A tough one to photograph, as the crystals blend together. Has reticulated crystals, bladed crystals, and "snowflake" crystals all together. One of the brighter, prettier cerussites I've seen from here. Two views are shown to try to get an idea of the myriad crystals composing this specimen. Reminds me of the old 9 level cerussites from the Bunker Hill mine that came out in the 1980's. These were found earlier on at the Daoping mine. |
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JC5065. Close up view. |
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JC5280. Fluorite. Huayllapon mine, Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 12 x 14 cm >1000g. $98.00. A 5.5 cm octahedron with smaller octahedron on cookeite. Minor damage to the larger crystals, visible in the photos. More of a rub spot than anything. RESERVED |
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JC3807. Hematite. N'Chwaning II mine, N'Chwaning mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape province, South Africa. A rather nice thumbnail with brilliant, lustrous faces. 12 x 16mm 6g. $5.00 |
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JC3807. Another side. |
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JC3807. Back side. |
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JC5142. Calcite. Huanzala, Huallanca district, Dos de Mayo province, Huanuco department, Peru. 4.5 x 3.5 cm 72g $15.00. Nice single crystal perched on a smaller, less obvious crystal. I got this one from Golden Minerals in June, 1994. Crowley collection #JAC1142 |
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JC5142. Another view. |
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JC6959. Vanadinite. San Antonio m., Chimenea Cox, Level 4. East Camp. Santa Eulalia. 6 x 7 cm 107g $35.00 These unusual vanadinites came out several years ago, a one time find, and no more have appeared since then. Pretty and sparkly. RESERVED |
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JC9234. Hemimorphite. Kimbanga prospect, Kimbedi, Mindouli district, Republic of Congo. 7 x 8.5 cm 264g. $38.00. Light blue crystals from this somewhat recent, apparently one time find. Minor ding in one spot. |
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JC9234. Another view. |
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JC11547.
Polybasite. Proano mine?, Fresnillo, Fresnillo municipality,
Zacatecas, Mexico. 1.4 x 1.7 cm $45.00. A classic, brilliant and well formed
cluster of polybasite as a thumbnail. Comes mounted in a perky
box.
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JC11021. Vesuvianite. Nr. Clio, Plumas county, California. 3 x 6 cm 84g. $20.00 1.5 cm crystals. This small pocket was filled with little groups of small crystals like this. Most fell apart when I tried to extract them, as they were highly fractured and tightly packed in the pocket. They have small very pale green almost white diopside crystals scattered around them. Most crystals are complete and undamaged. RESERVED |
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JC11019. Vesuvianite. Nr. Clio, Plumas county, California. 5 x 6 cm 90g. $20.00 3 cm crystals. Most of the crystals have been coated with a secondary layer of somewhat sparkly orange brown vesuvianite. The left corner of the front crystal has been broken off. |
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JC11019. Another view, this is more likely the front side for viewing. The main crystal is complete on the top half, the bottom half is heavily etched. Luster is a bit dull, more waxy than anything. |
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JC11019. Another view. |