New Arrivals Page 1
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JC11589. Hubnerite. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 2.5 x 4 cm 53g. $10.00 Single crystal from this famous locality. Good bright luster with hints of the red internal color. |
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JC11589. View of the termination. |
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JC11589. Back side. |
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JC11589. White background, and view of the termination. |
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JC11591. Hubnerite, muscovite. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 2.7 x 5 cm 69g. $12.00. Couple of prismatic crystals with muscovite. Nice bright luster. |
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JC11591. Another view. |
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JC11591. Another view. |
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JC11593. Hubnerite. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 2.4 x 3.7 cm 26g. $10.00. Single crystal with minor muscovite. Bright luster. |
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JC11593. Another view. |
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JC11593. Back side. |
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JC11593. Back side, white background. |
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JC11594. Hubnerite, quartz. Pasto Bueno, Pampas district, Pallasca province, Ancash department, Peru. 2 x 3.5 cm 20g. $5.00 |
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JC11594. Another view. |
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JC11594. Another view. |
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JC11560. Cerussite. Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. 3 x 6 cm 85g $38.00. Bright glassy, very slightly smoky crystals. |
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JC11560. Close up of left end in top photo. |
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JC11560. Another view. |
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JC11560. Close up of central area in above photo. |
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JC11758. Cinnabar, quartz. Tongren Mine, Bijiang District, Tongren, Guizhou, China. 3.5 x 1.8 x 2 cm $18.00 Group of dark red crystals with bright luster. RESERVED |
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JC11758. Another view. |
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JC11758. Another view. |
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JC11758. Another view, close up. |
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JC11758. Close up. |
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JC11729. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 4 x 5 x 3 cm 73g. $12.00 Clear, sparkly yellow crystals in a shallow vug. |
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JC11729. Closer view. |
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JC8919. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 7.5 x 9 cm 112g. $5.00. brownish balls, almost bow ties in shape, of adamite on hematitic matrix. |
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JC8919. Closer view. |
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JC8819. Quartz. Hot Springs blowout, nr. Adam peak, east side Osgood mountains, Potosi district, Humboldt county, Nevada. 5 x 6 cm 91g with stand. $15.00. A doubly terminated crystal, a little crude in shape. 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. 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 purposes the deposit is now worked out because of this. These crystals are trying to be doubly terminated. A rare occurrence for quartz. |
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JC8819. Another view. |
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JC8819. Another view. |
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JC8819. Another view. |
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JC9098. Epidote. Djouga diggings, Benduko, Sandari district, Kayes region, Mali. 4.5 x 8 cm 116g. $40.00. There was one dealer from Mali I ran across at Tucson. He had a table full of specimens from the Djouga diggings, none of which had ever been cleaned...the original red dirt was all over them. I took a chance and bought several, and wish I had bought more, as they cleaned up beautifully. This is a pretty group of epidote crystals, dark green, with bright glassy luster, stacked up nicely in a pleasing arrangement. Pretty much un-damaged. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC9098. Another view. |
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JC11123. Scheelite. Pingwu beryl mine, Huya township, Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwu county, Mianyang, Sichuan, China. 6.5 x 11.5 cm 703g. $498.00 Three scheelite crystals, lined up in a row with a thin bit of matrix on the bottom of the specimen. Color is a honey yellow-orange. No damage. Bright luster as can be seen in the photos. Very nice specimen. |
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JC11123. Another view. |
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JC11123. Another view. |
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JC11123. Another view. |
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JC9124. Vanadinite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 3 x 3.5 cm 12g $5.00. Little miniature. |
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JC4616. Pyromorphite. Dao Ping lead-zinc mine, Goncheng Co., Guilin pref., Guangxi Zhuang Auto. Reg., China. 6 x 8 cm 253g $275.00. This unique style of pyromorphite dates to the early 2000s, and was one of the most rare of many styles produced in the first releases of material from this amazing lead mine, in Guangxi province of China. This piece came out prior to 2009 when I acquired it...a rather limited find of the pyromorphites on quartz and sometimes quartz crystals. |
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JC4616. Another view. |
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JC4616. Close up. |
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JC6589. Andradite. Cowboy mine, (nr), Wellington Hills, Lyon County, Nevada. 6 x 8 cm 206g. $25.00. Collected in October, 2011, this limited find produced cinnamon brown, transparent, crystals. Very difficult to photo, as the crystals are clear, so unless the crystal's face reflects the light, you are looking into the crystal. They do have fracture lines going through them, as you look into them. Glassy luster. Etched out of calcite, which filled the voids in the garnet seams. RESERVED |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC6589. Another view. |
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JC10459. Hematite, quartz. Jinlong hill, Longchuan Co. (Lungchuan Co.), Heyuan, Guangdong, China. 8 x 10 cm 444g. $175.00. Nicely shaped hematite blades/roses with a secondary growth of microscopic, sparkly crystals, of unidentified mineral. There are broken quartz crystals along the edges, otherwise in good shape. |
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JC10459. Another view. |
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JC10459. Another view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |
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JC10459. close up view. |
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JC13505. Arsenopyrite. Huanggang Mine, Hexigten, Inner Mongolia A.R., China. 7.5 x 7.5 x 6 cm 532g $65.00. Fairly bright, modified crystals from the finds of several years ago (around 2011). |
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JC13505. Another view. |
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JC13505. Another view. |
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JC13505. Another view. |
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JC13485. Dioptase, calcite. Mindouli, Mindouli Dist., Pool Dept., Republic of the Congo. 12 x 7 x 2 cm 247g $300.00 Brilliant green/blue green...typical dioptase color. Pretty. As the camera "sees" things somewhat differently than the human eye, I photographed the specimen with both black back ground, and lighter colored backgrounds. |
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JC13485. With light back ground. |
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JC13485. Close up. |