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	JC13840. Albite. New Melones Dam spillway, West Belt, Calaveras County, California. 2 x 2 cm $20.00 Little group of albite crystals. Collected: 1982 . At the time, these were fairly common in shrinkage voids in the country rock. Went back in the 1990's and the voids, which were commonly leaking water, were filled with trees and brush growing out of them, making collecting in them nearly impossible.
	JC13840. Another view.
	JC11983. Apatite. Anemzi, Agoudim, Midelt Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 1 x 2.2 cm 7g Thumbnail, Single crystal $30.00
	JC11983. Another view.
	JC11982. Apatite. Imilchil Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 2 x 2 cm 19g $30.00. Thumbnail specimen
	JC11982. Another view.
	JC11977. Apatite. Anemzi, Agoudim Midelt Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. 2x 2.5 cm 25g. $35.00. Thumbnail. Pretty single crystal, has a chip out of the back side of the crystal, seen in the photo below. .
	JC11977. Another view.
	JC12030. Bixbyite. Thomas range, Juab county, Utah. A 17mm single crystal. 11g. $75.00. Nice thumbnail.
	JC12030. Another view.
	JC12030. Another view.
	JC11984. Bixbyite, topaz. Thomas range, Juab county, Utah. 8mm crystal 3g Thumbnail specimen. $75.00
	JC11984. Another view.
	JC11984. Another view.
	JC2783. Goethite. Crystal Creek, Teller county, Colorado. 2.3 cm thumbnail specimen. $5.00. Collected in 2002. Didn't notice the cotton thread until I saw the photo.
	JC2783. Another view.
	JC4419. Ludwigite. Spring Gulch/Valley View mine, Quartzite (White Rock) canyon, Spring Mountain district, nr. Big Windy Peak, Lemhi county, Idaho. 1 x 1.5 cm. $5.00 A broken tip of a ludwigite crystal, with quite a bit of oxidation giving the crystal the orangish brown color. The white area is a coating on the crystal face. Very poor termination, typical of these.
	JC13848. Orthoclase. West Maroon Pass Area, Pitkin County, Colorado. 2.5 cm doubly terminated crystal. $20.00. When I was a whole lot younger and more ambitious, in 1968 I took the trail into this area to see about collecting some of these. The hike was a bit strenuous, but not that bad for a young man, and gorgeous scenery....I found these things laying around where they had weathered out of this granitic rock, and thinking they were not worth a lot, brought out several dozen. This is one of two I kept, long since selling and or giving away the rest.
	JC13848. View of the termination.
	JC13818. Orthoclase. West Maroon Pass Area, Pitkin County, Colorado. 2.5 cm doubly terminated crystal. $20.00. When I was a whole lot younger and more ambitious, in 1968 I took the trail into this area to see about collecting some of these. The hike was a bit strenuous, but not that bad for a young man, and gorgeous scenery....I found these things laying around where they had weathered out of this granitic (granodiorite?) rock, and thinking they were not worth a lot, brought out several dozen. This is one of two I kept, long since selling and or giving away the rest.
	JC13818. A view of the other termination.
	JC13817. Paravauxite Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí, Bolivia 1.5 cm crystal $3.00 Purchased: 1976
	JC13832. Pyrite. Eagle Mine, Gilman, Gilman Mining District, Eagle County, Colorado. 2.5 x 3 cm $10.00 Cute group. Purchased 1977
	JC13841. Pyromorphite. Little Giant mine, nr. Mullan, Shoshone county, Idaho. 2 x 2.5 cm $25.00 In 1967 I visited the Little Giant mine, as having been told by Art Cooper, the gent that had worked the Sherman mine about this same time, that there was pyromorphite to be had. At that time, one could take a two wheel drive vehicle up the road, right to the entrance to the adit. I was truly amazed at the abundance of pyromorphite present...it was everywhere, floors, walls, ceiling...all the way to the end of the adit. Then, the best collecting was a short distance in from the entrance, and I happily spent a few days collecting hundreds of these things in sizes up to about 10 inches across...larger ones I broke into smaller pieces...I finally ran out of storage space in my old dodge dart and had to quit collecting. This is the typical color, although there was a small area on the right side of the entrance where they occurred as glassy, lime green to yellow green crystals similar to the Bunker Hill. Further in the adit, there were silvery ones in the ceiling, and near the end of the adit, were yellow green crystals, quite different from the ones like this. This is one of the thumbnails I kept, I solid rounded ball of crystals. Sold several hundred specimens after that for $1 to $5 each...sure wish I had a hundred or so of them now.
	JC12442. Pyromorphite. Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia, Canada. A small, 15mm across, thumbnail, of pyromorphite from this popular site. $25.00.
	JC3344. Sphalerite, arsenopyrite. Pucarrajo (Huallanca) mine, Huallanca district, Bolognesi province, Ancash department, Peru. 2.2 x 2.8 cm 26g. $10.00
	JC13830. Vesuvianite. Bill Waley Mine (Bill Waley Indian Allotment Mine); Washapie Mountain, Tulare County, California. 2 x 2 cm crystal. $20.00 Vesuvianite occurred in this mine in several crystal habits and colors. Dark green, black, brown, and olive. This is one of the black crystals that occurred there. Some of these, like this one, I found loose, while others had to be etched out of the blue calcite, which was endemic in the mine, and is the host to all the contact metamorphic minerals that were present in there at the time. Although these look black, in high intensity light, they are actually a very dark green. Collected in 1971. I wrote this location up in California Geology, October 1974, Pages 224-226, A publication of the California Division of Mines and Geology. A very rare one time occurrence.
	JC13830. Another view.
	JC13830. Another view.
	JC13830. Another view.