General Stock Page 25  Barney Ritter collection

	BR74.  Apatite, arsenopyrite, mica.   Boca Grande mine, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal.   4.5 x 4 x 1.5 cm 24g   $275.00   Group of flat, green crystals to 2cm in size. Tiny, brilliant silver micro crystals of arsenopyrite here and there.
	BR74.  Another view.
	BR74.  Another view.
	BR548.  Azurite, cerussite.   Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.  5.5 x 7.5 cm 115g   $325.00    Flat plate of 1-3mm size azurite in total coverage. Small mm size cerussites on one edge. Cuprodundasite listed on label, and may be present.    Ex: Claude H. Yoder coll.#575 Purchase :9-1998. Ex: Mineralogical Research
	BR548.  Close up of upper right.
	BR548.  Close up of left side.
	BR528.  Azurite.   Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz municipality, Sonora, Mexico.  5.5 x 5 cm 104g $900.00   Brilliant up to 2 cm crystals.   This is a really nice piece.   Displays beautifully.
	BR528.  Another view.
	BR528.  Another view.
	BR505.  Azurite.  Burra Burra mine, North Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia.  7 x 6 x 4.5 cm 265g  $250.00   Bright blue globular ball of micro crystalline azurite...solid azurite.  Specimens of azurite were discovered in a clay zone in the early 70s when this old mine was open cut.   Ex: CK Minerals. Ex Mineralogical Research; purchased  April 2013   I photographed it from all sides.
	BR505.  Another view.
	BR505.  Another view.
	BR505.  Another view.
	BR505.  Another view.
	BR427.  Azurite (doubly terminated single)  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Ex: Lorraine Sofia coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research.  5 x 3.5 cm 52g    $980.00.   A brilliant 4 cm+ doubly terminated floater crystal  with offsets. Outstanding piece.  All faces, front and back have brilliant glassy luster.  Hard to catch just how good this one is with a camera.
	BR427.  Another view.
	BR427.  Another view.
	BR427.  Another view.
	BR427.  Another view.
	BR427.  Another view.
	BR427.  Back side.
	BR427.  Back side.
	BR235.  Azurite, malachite.  Chessy, Rhone, France. Ex: Lorraine Sofia coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research  Purchase:3-2008  4 x 3 x 2.2 cm 50g   $350.00  Ball of azurite (rose). Tiny malachite after cuprite crystals scattered on it.
	BR235.  Another view.
	BR235.  Another view.
	BR235.  Another view.
	BR298.  Azurite.  Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco.  6.5 x 4 x 4 cm   $800.00   Vug = 3 x 5 cm. 170g Vug with dark blue brilliant crystals up to 1 cm.   Ex: Jim Clark coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research Purchase:8-2001.  An absolutely gorgeous specimen from the finds of the 1990's at Touissit.  Brilliant, glassy, gemmy crystals in an approximately 5 cm wide opening.  The piece is sort of geode like.   The crystals extend all the way to the back side, where a small hole shows more crystals...this shown in a photo below.   These are virtually unavailable these days.   I took a lot of photos of this one, maybe a bit of overkill, but trying to show how beautiful this piece is.
	BR298.  Another view, showing the depth of the vug with crystals...they extend all the way down to the piece in this view.
	BR298.  Another view.
	BR298.  Looking into the vug.
	BR298.  Looking into the vug.
	BR298.  Looking into the vug.
	BR298.  Looking into the vug.
	BR298.  Looking into the vug.
	BR298.  Closer look into the opening.
	BR298.  Closer look into the opening.
	BR298.  Closer look into the opening.
	BR298.  Closer look into the opening.
	BR298.  Closer look into the opening.
	BR298.  Closer look into the opening.
	BR298.  Bottom side, where the vug opens up and goes clear through the piece.
	BR602.  Azurite, cerussite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.  4.5 x 2.5 cm 32g   $975.00    2.5 cm azurites, stout, dark blue, w/ small cerussites on back.  Ex Claude Yoder coll.#758 Purchased by him in June 1999.   Ex Mineralogical Research.  Bright luster, glassy, nicely terminated crystals.
	BR602.   Slightly different angle.
	BR602.   Slightly different angle.
	BR602.   Slightly different angle.
	BR602.  Back side.
	BR604.  Azurite, cerussite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.  6 x 4 x 2 cm 67g   6 x 4 x 2 cm 67g $750.00    Brilliant blue, up to 8 mm crystals with tiny clear cerussite crystals perched on the azurites. A shallow vug filled with brilliant, glassy, dark blue azurite crystals, which was hard to photograph showing the back of the opening.  Sawn back.  Ex: Claude Yoder coll.#1790 Purchased by him in January 2006.   Ex Mineralogical Research.
	BR604.  Another view.
	BR604.  Another view.
	BR604.  Another view, close up.
	BR191.  Azurite.  Concepion del Oro (El Cobre mine), Zacatecas, Mexico.   4 x 6 cm 33g  $120.00   Mislabeled as Bisbee, Arizona, and is very obviously from the El Cobre mine, collected in the 1960's when these came out.   Ex: Francis N & Jean Marshall coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research.  Brilliant blue gemmy crystals scattered throughout.
	BR191.  Closer view.
	BR206.  Barite.  Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores, nr. Llata, Huamlalies prov., Huanuco dept., Peru. 6.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm 69g. $95.00  Matrix less group of thick gray translucent crystals. Glassy luster.  Floater specimen.  Purchased from Mineralogical Research in November 2006.  A tough one to photo and show how pretty it is.  Photos do not do this one justice.   Much better in person.
	BR206.  Photo has it a bit browner than it is...actually is a light, sort of soft gray color, as above.  Showing how glassy the crystals are in this photo.
	BR206.  Another view.
	BR206.  Another view.
	BR206.  Another view.
	BR206.  Back side.
	BR206.  Back side.
	BR206.  Back side.
	BR206.  Back side.
	BR234.  Barite.   Silius, Cagliari Province, South Sardinia, Italy. 5 x 5 x 3 cm 114g   $350.00    Ex: Jean-Pierre Cand collection who purchased it in April 2003. Ex: California State Mineral Museum.  Then to Barney Ritter.   A classic group of crystals from this old location that shut down in the 1970's.  Very nice, glassy golden highly translucent crystals.
	BR234.  Another view.
	BR234.  Another view.
	BR234.  Another view.
	BR234.  Another view.
	BR441.  Cerussite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia.   4.5 x 5 cm 68g  $400.00   Reticulated, stout, glassy, light smoky group. Ex Willy Israel coll. #2820,  Ex: Clive Queit coll.  Purchased July, 1984.   Ex Earths Treasures; Purchased April, 2011.
	BR441.  Another view.
	BR441.  Back side.  Coated with smithsonite?
	BR171.  Copper coated with malachite.  Ray mine, Pinal county, Arizona.  6 x 5.5 cm 119g  $40.00  Copper with light coating of bluish malachite oxidation coating.  Ex: Francis N. & Jean Marshall collection. Ex: Mineralogical Research.   Flat plate of copper crystals with partial alteration to malachite.   This one might look better cleaned.
	BR171.  Back side.
	BR92.  Cuprite, malachite.  Mashamba West mine, Shaba prov., Zaire (Congo).  2 x 5 cm tall 30g  $150.00   1 cm blocky Cuprite crystals, and then fuzzy malachite forming a cover around them.  Ex: Lorraine Sofia coll., Ex: Roberts Minerals. Ex: Mineralogical Research .  This piece is mislabeled as azurite replaced by malachite.  Not sure how 3 different dealers did not note these as cuprite crystals.     SOLD
	BR606.  Epidote.  Raskoh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan. 7 x 5 x 2 cm 137g   $125.00   A 6 cm x 2 cm flat epidote crystal, with smaller around it. The large crystal is flat tabular and pseudohexagonal in shape which is an uncommon crystal form for a monoclinic mineral.  On one side (left side in this photo) is a octahedral appearing crystal.  These have magnetite inclusions, which is unusual for epidote.      Ex: Mountain Minerals International.    (Apparently this location on label is wrong.. -Garde-e-Jungle, Dalbundi, Baluchistan Pakistan is not correct).
	BR606.  Another view.  The pseudo octahedral crystal is on the lower right.
	BR606.  Another view.  The pseudo octahedral crystal is on the lower right.
	BR606.  Another view...the pseudo octahedral crystal is on the top in this photo.
	BR535.  Fluorite, quartz.  Blackdene mine, Weardale, county Durham, England. 7 x 4.5 x 3 cm 107g   $185.00  Clear, colorless, with purple interior crystals, twinned, to 1.5 cm on sparkly, stubby quartz crystals.  Ex: Ann Williams coll. Ex: Claude H. Yoder coll.# 752 Purchased June 1999.  Ex: Mineralogical Research, purchased April, 2014
	BR535.  Another view.
	BR535.  Close up of the fluorite crystals.
	BR14.  Galena, pyrite.  Sweetwater mine, Reynolds county, Missouri.  2.7 x 3 x 2.2 cm 128g $48.00   Brilliant cube, has a group of pyrite crystals on the back.    Ex: Roberts Minerals, Purchased August 1997.
	BR14.  Another view.
	BR14.  Another view.
	BR14.  Another view.
	BR14.  Another view.
	BR152.  Malachite.  Brown’s prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia. Purchased: April 2009  Ex: Mineralogical Research.  5 x 3 x 2.4 cm 67g  $135.00    Mound of malachite with tiny mm cerussite and micro pyromorphite.
	BR152.  Different angle.
	BR547.  Pyromorphite, barite.  Les Farges mine., Ussel, Correze, Limousin, France. 5 x 5 x 2 cm 72g  $450.00      Slightly rounded barite crystal covered with grass green crystals on front and mostly on back   Ex: Claude H. Yoder coll.#389. Purchased January 1998.  Ex: Mineralogical Research.  Purchased August 2014.  Classic green crystals from Les Farges....not many of this quality available these days.
	BR547.  Close up.
	BR547.  Back side.
	BR582.  Roselite, Cobaltlotharmeyerite.  Aghbar mine, Souss-Massa-Draa region, Morocco. 7 x 4.5 x 3 cm 106g  $170.00  Two vugs filled with micro-crystals.  Ex: Ossola Mineraux. Ex: Kay Robertson coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research.
	BR582.  Close up of the vug.
	BR603. Siderite.  Brazil.    3 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm 87g  $20.00.   Wish I had more accurate locality on this one.   A cleavage rhomb, partial crystal.
	BR603.  Back side.
	BR600.  Silver in bornite/chalcopyrite.  San Martín Mine, Sombrerete Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico   Ex: Sagestone Minerals.  20 x 8 x 9 cm 1,558g. $300.00  A solid mass of bornite with a few thin veins of native silver going through it.  A large and heavy mass of mostly bornite, with some golden chalcopyrite and a few veins of native silver going through the whole thing.  The bornite in places has classic irridescence, giving its mining name of "peacock ore".
	BR600.  Another view, same side.
	BR600.  One of the veins of silver...its all along the top part from one side of the photo to the other.  The silver is coated with what appears to be bornite, which masks the silver color.
	BR600.  One of the veins of silver...its all along the top part from one side of the photo to the other.  The silver is coated with what appears to be bornite, which masks the silver color.
	BR600.  One of the veins of silver...its all along the right side of the photo, and is a bit more blackish than the bornite.  The silver is coated with what appears to be bornite, which masks the silver color.  Looking closely, you can see the color of the silver here and there along the extreme top edge of the silver.
	BR600.  One of the veins of silver...its all along the top part from one side of the photo to the other.  The silver is coated with what appears to be bornite, which masks the silver color, although you can see a bit of the silver color along the very top of the vein as sort of white/pinkish color.
	BR600.  Reverse side.  The silver vein is present all along the piece from one side to the other in the top 1/4 of the specimen.
	BR600.  Closer view of the above photo...the silver vein is fairly obvious in this shot.
	BR600.  An even closer shot showing the silver vein.
	BR600.  Close up of the left side of the above photo.
	BR447.  Vanadinite var. endlichite, calcite.  Ahumada mine., Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. 3 x 5 cm tall 93g  $150.00   Collected February 1999.  Ex: Jim Clark coll. Ex: Mineralogical Research. Purchased February 2011.  Older piece.  These older pieces have not been collected for many years.  May be Apex mine., San Carlos. Has # printed on piece: G37.  The Apex mine has very similar vanadinite.
	BR447.   Another view.
	BR447.  Back side.
	BR257.  Wavellite.  Mauldin Mountain m., Montgomery county, Arkansas.  6 x 4 x 3 cm 70g.  $325.00  Light green sort of mammilary; superior specimen Ex: Mineralogical Research
	BR257.   Another view.
	BR607.  Wulfenite.  Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico.   3 x 5 cm 26g  $175.00  Yellowish crystals to 1.5 cm on limonite...10+crystals.  Obviously an older piece from here, the upper levels...rather different than most specimens seen from here.    Ex: Earth’s Treasures.
	BR607.  Another view.
	BR607.  Another view.
	BR605.  Wulfenite, quartz.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 3 x 4 cm 33g with stand.  $475.00    A 1.5 cm, yellow orange crystal on matrix. Nice miniature.   Ex: Claude H. Yoder coll.#2145 Purchased April 2008.   Ex Mineralogical Research.  A tiny ding present on the top center, visible in the photo.
	BR605.  Closer view.
	BR605.  Back side.
	BR536.  Wulfenite.  Red Cloud mine, Silver district, La Paz county, Arizona.  3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm 17g   $950.00   Bladed, bright, lustrous, red orange crystals to 1.5 cm.  Ex: Claude H. Yoder coll. #300 Purchased May 1997; Ex: Graeber & Himes (May 1997); Ex: Mineralogical Research. Purchased April 2014.  Fine miniature of bright red orange crystals so classic for the Red Cloud mine.  Photos of the piece from all angles.   Seems a bit pricey, but high quality miniatures like this are seldom seen for sale these days.
	BR536.  Another view.
	BR536.  Another view.
	BR536.  Another view.
	BR536.  Another view.
	BR536.  Another view.
	BR359.  Wulfenite.  Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 3.5 x 3 cm 49g   $340.00    Ex: Donald K. Olson. Purchased October 2001 .   Single, pale yellow, stout crystal.   Tiny ding on top left.
	BR359.  Back side.