New Arrivals Page 4
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JC8816. Quartz. Hot Springs blowout, nr. Adam peak, east side Osgood mountains, Potosi district, Humboldt county, Nevada. 5 x 7 cm 160g. $10.00. These quartz crystals come from an old, and long since dormant hot spring occurrence on the east side of Adam peak. Originally it was open to the air, and specimens could be collected from down in the throat of the dried up spring. Many crystals were sand blasted on one side, where sand laden water surged against the crystals and literally rounded them off over time. The occurrence is now filled in and any remaining crystals are deeply buried. These are a few examples of specimens from this rather unique occurrence. Collected in 1990. |
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JC8816. Another view. |
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JC8060. Tetrahedrite. Jaqui adit, Mundo Nuevo mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion province, La Libertad department, Peru. 3 x 4.3 cm 41g. $3.00 More of a locality piece than anything. Crude, partly broken crystals. |
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JC9163. Wulfenite, mimetite. San Francisco mine (Cerro Prieto mine), Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe, Mun. de Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. 5 x 8 cm 135g. $15.00. Several broken crystals. Layer of mimetite with wulfenite crystals scattered overall. |
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JC9163. Another view. |
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JC8918. Clinozoisite. Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad, Peru 6 x 2 x 3 cm 53g $10.00 A one time find, and small occurrence of these beige/honey colored crystals. |
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JC8918. Side view, back side |
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JC9129. Quartz. Hot Springs blowout, nr. Adam peak, east side Osgood mountains, Potosi district, Humboldt county, Nevada. 8.5 x 11 cm 562g $30.00 Collected in 1990. This was an open throat spring deposit...at the time one could go head first into the hole, and work your way down, and there were quartz clusters, many of them smoky, all over the place; an odd thing was that on many of them, where the water was working its way to the surface, it picked up a lot of sand, which sand blasted one side of the quartz crystals. This specimen does not have that problem, as it is from near the surface and off to the side in the granitic country rock. Unfortunately, now, mineral collectors working the surface area dumped a lot of debris down the hole, so getting to the good stuff is no longer possible. To all intents and purposed the deposit is now worked out because of this. These crystals are trying to be doubly terminated. Luster is quite glassy. A rare occurrence for quartz. RESERVED |
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JC9129. Another view. |
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JC9129. Another view. |
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JC9129. Another view. |
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JC9129. Another view. |
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JC9129. Another view. |
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JC9129. Another closer 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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JC9131. Pyromorphite, quartz. Daoping mine, Gongcheng county, Guilin, Guangxi, China. 4.5 x 7.2 cm 76g $40.00. These were from a limited find at the mine, and tended to have relatively high prices as the pyromorphite is on quartz crystals. That zone is now worked out, so know more quite like this are coming out. |
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JC9131. Close up, left side in above photo. |
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JC9205. Bournonite, pyrite, quartz Viboras mine, Machacamarca, Machacamarca district, Cornelio Saavedra province, Potosi', Bolivia. 3.5 x 5 cm tall. 55g. with stand. $50.00 Several crystals with bright satiny luster with minor quartz and pyrite. Hard to find miniature from this location. I photographed this one from all sides. |
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JC9205. Another view. |
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JC9205. Another view. |
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JC9205. Another view. |
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JC9205. Another view. |
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JC9234. Hemimorphite. Kimbanga Prospect, M'Fouti, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 7 x 8.5 cm 264g $40.00 Light blue crystals. Quite pretty from this limited find. Nicely priced...a quick search of the internet shows the few available quite a bit more expensive. |
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JC9234. Back side with both light blue and colorless hemimorphite crystals. |
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JC9234. Close up. |
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JC9243. Spessartine. Wushan spessartine mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao county, Zhangzhou prefecture,
Fujian prov., China. 7 x 10 cm 346g.
$150.00. Nice coverage of brilliant, gemmy crystals.
A dark chlorite like mica is also present. Good specimens of
this quality are becoming much less common and rather expensive.
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JC9243. Another view. |
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JC9243. Another view, slightly different angle. |
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JC9243. Close up. |
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JC9246. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt province, Draa-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 6.5 x 11.5 cm 202g. $95.00 Dense coating of dark red crystals on barite. Somewhat different habit than most seen. Collected in 2017. |
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JC9246. Close up. |
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JC9246. Oblique view. |
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JC9241. Pyromorphite. Daoping mine, Gongcheng county, Guilin prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, China. 5.5 x 7.5 cm 71g. $55.00. A flat plate, rather thin with one side coated with crystals. Collected in 2017. |
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JC9241. Closer view of top half. |
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JC9242. Pyromorphite. Pfingstwiese mine, Bad Ems district, Lahn valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. 6.5 x 8 cm 208g. $50.00. Nice coverage of crystals from this lesser known mine in the Bad Ems district. Color is a pale lime green with a tannish discoloration in one angle...probably clay. |
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JC9242. Close up. |
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JC9213. Mimetite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 4.5 x 7.5 cm 5g. $35.00. Prismatic yellow crystals. |
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JC9213. Close up of the crystals. |
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JC9289. Azurite, malachite. Khanong open pit, Sepon mine, Vilabouly district, Savannakhet province, Laos. 4 x 7 cm 93g. $95.00. Brilliant, drusy azurite coating botryoidal malachite. Hard to tell in the photo, but this is a nice little vug containing the crystals of azurite. Pretty. |
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JC9289. Closer view. |
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JC9314. Pyromorphite. Hofsgrund (South field), Schauinsland Pb-Zn mining district, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. 5.5 x 7.5 cm 79g. $50.00. A green coating of micro crystals has larger pyromorphite crystals scattered over the surface. Classic Black Forest area pyromorphite specimen. |
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JC9314. Closer view. |
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JC9317. Malachite pseudo Azurite. Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Mun. de Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico. 5.5 x 9 cm 171g. $60.00. Bladed crystals of malachite pseudo after azurite. |
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JC9317. Another view. |
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JC9317. Another view. |
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JC9330. Azurite, malachite. Khanong open pit, Sepon mine, Vilabouly district, Savannakhet province, Laos. 7.5 x 8.5 cm 266g. $98.00. Brilliant dark blue azurite makes for a pretty specimen. A bit of damage on the right side as seen in the photos. This mine has not been producing any more decent azurites such as this one. |
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JC9330. Close up of the center area. |
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JC9372. Azurite. Sidi Ayed, Boulemane province, Fes-Meknes region, Morocco. 9 x 12.5 cm 602g. $190.00. Intense, sparkly blue azurite coating massive quartz. Beautiful color and sparkle to the azurite. Really nice piece from here. I looked at a lot of specimens from Sidi Ayed at Tucson, and this is far and away the best one I saw. Has a sawn base and sits beautifully as shown here. The azurite also coats most of the back, and other than the exposed quartz on the right side in this photo, the azurite wraps around the entire specimen. Collected in 2017. A really pretty piece that would stand out in any cabinet. RESERVED |
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JC9372. Close up of top half. |
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JC9372. Close up of bottom half. |
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JC9372. Back side. |
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JC9509. Quartz, siderite, magnesite. Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 5 x 8 cm 106g. $80.00. Tan siderite crystals with clear quartz crystals. A 3 cm wide magnesite crystal is on the front or backside, depending on orientation. It has little speckles of what looks like inclusions of pyrrhotite. A few other bladed magnesites are also present. One of the quartz crystals has a long, flat inclusion of an unknown mineral. The quartz crystals are clear and gemmy. RESERVED |
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JC9509. The magnesite is front center in this photo. |
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JC9509. Another view. |
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JC9509. Another view. |
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JC9833. Epidote, prehnite. Bendougou village, Arrondissement Diakon, Commune Diakon, Cercle de Bafoulabe, Kayes region, Mali. 6 x 7 cm 182g. $45.00 A single prehnite ball is perched on glassy dark greenish black epidote crystals. The dealer brought these over from Mali in barrels with no padding, and the specimens were still covered with their original dirt. There are minor dings here and there because of the way they were shipped over to the U.S. Unlike a lot of these, the epidotes have very bright luster...color is a bit darker than the photo indicates. Nice looking piece. |
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JC9833. Another view. |
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JC9833. Another view |
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JC9833. Another view |
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JC11214. Barite. Meikle mine, Goldstrike mines, Bootstrap district, Elko county, Nevada. 8 x 16.5 cm 711g $75.00 Large plate of barite crystals, with light yellow color, dozens of them on the plate. Gemmy, transparent, glassy luster, without the internal fracturing so common on barites from here. Very pretty, with almost no damage, except on the edges. When I got this specimen it had a large amount of heavy matrix on the back side that I had to saw off to make it presentable, so the back side is sawn. RESERVED |
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JC11214. Close up of central left area in above photo. |
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JC11214. Close up of central right area in top photo. |
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JC11214. Side view. |
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JC10549. Azurite. Puit IX, Zelidja mine, Touissit dist., Oujda-Angad prov., Oriental region, Morocco. 4.5 x 7.5 cm 263g. $280.00. From the mid 1990's finds at Touissit. Brilliant, dark blue crystals, very pretty. This big find produced some of the best azurites from Touissit. Not many for sale these days of this quality. RESERVED |
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JC10549. Another view, slightly different angle. |
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JC10549. Another view. |
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JC10549. Back side. |
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JC9063. Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 6.5 x 10 cm 272g. $235.00. Dark red, with brownish tones. One crystal has a tiny ding on its edge, otherwise undamaged. |
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JC9063. Another view. |
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JC9063. Another view. |
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JC9063. Another view. |
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JC9063. Another view. |
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JC9125. Amethyst, calcite. Kakamunurle Mine, Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India. 7.5 x 8 cm 144g $75.00 These came out several years ago, and made quite a hit. This one is slightly different in that the crystals are sort of short and squat, and try for double terminations even though attached to matrix. There is a double terminated dogtooth calcite hidden in with the amethyst. This view is with the specimen lying flat. It is basically a flat lying piece with a somewhat mounded appearance as seen here. The color is light amethyst, difficult to accurately get with the camera. RESERVED |
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JC9125. Another view. |
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JC9125. Another view. |
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JC9125. Another view. |
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JC13614. Pyrite, dolomite. East open pit mine, Nanisivik mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. 7.6 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm 82g $55.00. Crystallized dolomite has a scattering of bright pyrite crystals over the front and back sides. Pieces from the Nanisivik mine are quite uncommon these days. RESERVED |
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JC13614. Back side. |
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JC13614. Close up. |