New Arrivals Page 1
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JC13132. Cuprite, malachite. Copper Basin mine, Copper Basin district, Custer county, Idaho. 11 x 7.5 x 5 cm 396g $15.00 More of an ore/location sample than anything; massive, sparkly cuprite on the face with patches of green malachite staining. Although cuprite is not listed as one of the minerals from this mine on Mindat, they are legitimate, as I collected these in 2021. |
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JC13132. Close up. |
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JC13136. Andradite var topazolite. Nr. Benitoite mine, Serpentine dome, Idria district, San Benito county, California. 7 x 6 x 4 cm 304g $15.00 I picked this up while wandering around the area in the early 1970's. Was a loose piece below a heavily sage brush coated hill. Never could figure out where it came from...somewhere underneath all that brush. Small, somewhat brownish to golden crystal in what appears to be a highly altered bluish (crossite?) rock very similar to what the benitoite is associated with. |
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JC13136. Back side. |
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JC13141. Barite, sphalerite. Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith county, Tennessee. 16 x 8 x 4 cm 1,258g $400.00 An older piece from earlier production. The barite is a little different, as it has spheres comprised of somewhat more distinctively crystallized, ivory colored barite crystals, 5.0 cm across, that are perched on a cluster of splendent, brownish-black, sphalerite crystals. Large cabinet size piece. Another great display specimen. |
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JC13141. Another view |
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JC13141. Another view |
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JC13144. Siderite, wolframite. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 3.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm 206g $45.00 A large siderite crystal perched on a black wolframite crystal, with smaller siderites scattered around as seen here. |
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JC13145. Arsenopyrite, mica, quartz. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 6 x 4.5 x 5 cm Tall. 116g $50.00. Splendent, upright silvery arsenopyrite crystals with partial coating of mica, and a nearly solid layer of mica on the back. Pretty. |
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JC13145. Back side. |
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JC13145. Another view. |
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JC13245. Azurite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 3 x 2 x 2 cm 24g $25.00. A thumbnail with small brilliant blue crystals as seen here. |
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JC13245. Another view. |
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JC13246. Azurite, malachite. M'Ssici, Alnif Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 6 x 4.5 x 5 cm 128g $70.00 A typical piece from here, these came out several years ago. Blue, sort of botryoidal azurite rosettes with scattered malachite alteration. |
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JC13246. Another view. |
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JC13247. Epidote, axinite. Pampa Blanca, Pampa Blanca District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru. 3 x 5.5 cm 38g $37.00 Spray of epidote crystals with a couple of somewhat crude axinite crystals on the base, seen on the right in this photo. |
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JC13247. Slightly different angle, showing the axinite on the bottom right. |
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JC13252. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 16 x 4.5 x 3.8 cm 160g $85.00 Very bright and sparkly golden color adamite, with a partial coating of calcite on one end. |
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JC13252. Closer view, central area. |
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JC13252. Calcite covered area. |
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JC13293. Pyromorphite, quartz. Daoping mine, Gongcheng county, Guilin, Guangxi, China. 9 x 4.5 x 4 cm 124g $125.00. Plate of massive quartz with yellow green crystals scattered on all sides. |
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JC13293. Back side. |
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JC13293. Closer view. |
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JC13297. Hematite, quartz. Jinlong hill, Longchuan Co. (Lungchuan Co.), Heyuan, Guangdong, China. 10 x 7 x 5 cm 624g $200.00. Clear, gemmy quartz crystals with bright silvery black hematite botryoids around the base. There are a couple of broken quartz crystals around the edges, where it was presumably removed from the pocket. There is a bit of clay caught inside the edges of some of the hematite spheres. Displays well. RESERVED |
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JC13297. Another view. |
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JC13297. Another view, more vertical. |
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JC13297. Another view. |
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JC13297. Another view. There is one broken crystal in the center, visible in this shot. |
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JC13297. Another view. |
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JC13297. Another view. |
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JC13298. Calcite on rosasite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 7.3 x 5.3 x 3.5 cm $46.00 Typical rosasite color, with a thin layer of calcite crystals overlying the rosasite. There is some rubbing of the calcite, as seen as white spots here and there. |
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JC13298. Another view. |
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JC13298. Another view. |
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JC13298. Close up of bottom left as seen in the top photo. |
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JC13298. Close up of upper right as seen in the top photo. |