New Arrivals Page 3
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JC6378. Magnetite, arsenopyrite. Huanggang mine (Huanggangliang mine), Hexigten Banner (Keshiketeng county), Ulanhad League (Chifeng prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China. 9 x 13 cm >1000g. $300.00. This one really struck my eye. A neat combination. The magnetite has a bright satiny luster, dodecahedral form, which is rather unusual, and are a dark blackish brown, sitting on top of brilliant silvery arsenopyrite. The arsenopyrite does have some damage around the edges, and I tried to show this in the lower close up photo below. A striking and different specimen. Originally these were sold as andradite by the Chinese, and they have now changed the identification to magnetite...makes sense as a magnet sticks to them rather well. |
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JC6378. A closer view of the arsenopyrite. |
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JC6460. Adamite (cuprian), conichalcite or cuprian austinite?, calcite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 4.3 x 9 cm 194g. $60.00. Light blue almost turquoise colored cuprian adamite associated with what appears to be either cuprian austinite or conichalcite as the more green areas. Some scalenohedral calcite crystals are perched on the right side, and a broken calcite is on the left side. |
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JC6462. Pyromorphite. Sherman mine, Sunset peak, nr. Burke, Coeur d'Alene dist., Shoshone county, Idaho. 4 x 6 cm 123g. $50.00. A near solid mass of odd yellow with a greenish tint, crystals. This mine has been closed since the 1960's and is totally inaccessible, as the entrance is badly caved. Specimens from here are rarely available. |
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JC6464. Crocoite. Adelaide mine, Zeehan dist., Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 5.5 x 6 cm 72g. $100.00. A jackstraw group of crystals with some gibbsite as a partial white coating. Very delicate, and would probably not survive a trip by mail outside the U.S. Will be packed in soap powder for shipment. From the big find at the mine in 2010. The color is bright orange with a hint of red/red-orange. |
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JC6465. Crocoite. Adelaide mine, Zeehan dist., Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 5.5 x 6.5 cm 74g. $80.00. A group of crystals on limonite with some gibbsite as a partial white coating, mostly on the matrix. Very delicate, and would probably not survive a trip by mail outside the U.S. Will be packed in soap powder for shipment. From the big find at the mine in 2010. The color is bright orange with a hint of red/red-orange. |
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JC6466. Crocoite. Adelaide mine, Zeehan dist., Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 5.5 x 7 cm 83g. $90.00. A group of crystals with some gibbsite as a partial white coating on dark brown hematite/limonite matrix. Very delicate, and would probably not survive a trip by mail outside the U.S. Will be packed in soap powder for shipment. From the big find at the mine in 2010. The color is bright orange with a hint of red/red-orange. |
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JC6466. Side View. |
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JC6467. Crocoite. Adelaide mine, Zeehan dist., Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 5 x 5 cm 33g. $70.00. A stacked group of crystals with some gibbsite as a partial white coating, all attached to a light colored matrix. Very delicate, and would probably not survive a trip by mail outside the U.S. Will be packed in soap powder for shipment. From the big find at the mine in 2010. The color is bright orange with a hint of red/red-orange. |
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JC6467. Side view |
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JC6467. Depending on preference, this might be considered the display (front) side. |
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JC6469. Crocoite. Adelaide mine, Zeehan dist., Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 4.5 x 5 cm 59g. $45.00. Dark red, hollow crystals on a very dark brown hematitic matrix. From the big find at the mine in 2010. |
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JC6470. Crocoite. Adelaide mine, Zeehan dist., Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 2 x 3.5 cm 4g. $20.00. A stacked group of crystals with some gibbsite as a partial white coating. Very delicate, and would probably not survive a trip by mail outside the U.S. Will be packed in soap powder for shipment. From the big find at the mine in 2010. The color is bright orange with a hint of red/red-orange. |
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JC6473. Epidote. Raywoo mine, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. 6 x 8 cm 250g. $200.00. A nicely twinned main crystal with various other odd shaped crystals, some of which are pseudo-hexagonal. Several views are shown of the various sides of this specimen. These came out relatively recently, and are very unusual shaped epidote crystals. There are magnetite inclusions in some of the crystals. I rotated the specimen so that each photo shows a different part of the specimen. The last photo shows what I consider the base...a flat, sort of pseudo hexagonal crystal. I picked this one for the variety of crystal forms as well as the central twin. |
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JC6473. Another view showing the twinned crystals making up the center part of the specimen. A strange triangular shaped crystal is resting on the upper left side. |
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JC6473. Another view. |
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JC6473. Another view. |
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JC6473. The basal crystal. |
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JC6474. Silver. New Nevada mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico. 3.5 x 7.5 cm 76g. $250.00 Small, sharp, crystals are present all over this specimen, front and back. |
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JC6474. Reverse. |
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JC5214. Azurite, malachite. Blue Jay mine, nr. Big Eightmile creek, Leadore, Lemhi county, Idaho. 5.5 x 10 cm 274g. $35.00. Small botryoids of malachite are implanted on micro-drusy azurite crystals coating a skarn breccia fragment. Tiny black specks of tenorite are scattered on many of the malachite botryoids like tiny black freckles. One of the prettier pieces from this find of 2003. |
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JC5214. A closer view. |