New Arrivals Page 1
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JC7685. Calcite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 7.5 x 7.5 cm 177g $35.00. Bright luster, highly translucent crystals. Pretty. |
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JC7685. Vertical view. |
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JC7685. Another view. |
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JC7685. Another view. |
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JC8949. Beryl (aquamarine). Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. A 2.7 cm tall scepter...mostly clear, although in the right light is very pale bluish. $20.00 An odd thumbnail...not many scepters from here. Photographed it from 3 sides. |
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JC8949. Another view. |
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JC9295. Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico 5 x 6 cm 86g $85.00. Brilliant blue crystals typical of Milpillas. The matrix is a breccia with mixed little cobbles of matrix rock. One of these had been resting against the central crystal, and left little specks of host rock imbedded in the azurite where the azurite crystal grew against it. |
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JC9295. Another view. |
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JC9295. Another view. |
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JC9295. Another view. |
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JC9429. Cerussite. Monteponi mine, Iglesias, Carboni-Iglesias province, Sardinia, Italy. 7 x 9 cm 576g. $150.00. A solid mass of jackstraw crystals. More known for its anglesite and phosgenite, the locality has also produced outstanding aggregates of crystals in the distant past. This is a fine example of jackstraw cerussite from there; a solid and heavy mass of cerussite. Ex Jordi Povill collection. A rare specimen indeed and very nicely priced. |
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JC9249. Another view. |
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JC9249. Another view. |
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JC9249. Close up. |
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JC9444. Azurite, malachite. M'Ssici, Alnif county, Tinghir province, Draa-Taflilalet region, Morocco. 3 x 6 cm 33g. $35.00. These are some of the most distinctive and beautiful Azurite specimens around. There are many localities in the world where these are found, but the pieces from the M'Ssici locality in Morocco has produced some unique and eye-catching examples. This piece is a highly aesthetic miniature display specimen and nicely priced. This location is no longer producing any type of quality material. Purchased in 2018. |
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JC9444. Closer view. |
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JC9478. Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite mine, Mineral claim 24456, Mt. Shoobridge, Norther Territory, Australia. 5 x 6.8 cm 223g. $125.00. A nearly solid mass of yellow green/lime green crystals. These are from a little mining venture to procure pyromorphite specimens from this prospect. The find is quite limited, and very few specimens were produced. A rather different locality and not related to the Rum Jungle locality. Rarely seen material from a remote and little known location, the location was a small prospect long abandoned that was worked for specimens for a short time in the early 1990s. Both side are literally and liberally coated with hexagonal crystals, interspersed with a druze of pyromorphite crystals. The crystals are not lustrous, as is typical for this location. |
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JC9478. Another view. |
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JC9478. Closer view. |
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JC9499. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 4.5 x 7 cm 215g. $35.00 Yellow to slightly greenish yellow fan like sprays of adamite. Fluorescent lime green. |
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JC9499. Another view. |
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JC9499. Another view. |
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JC9499. Another view. |
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JC9502. Azurite. Sierra Rica, Mun. de Manuel Benavides, Chihuahua, Mexico. 5 x 11 cm 249g. $90.00. Brilliant blue crystals on a quartz matrix. Sparkly, dark royal blue drusy crystals. Quite pretty. |
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JC9502. Another view...more vertical. |
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JC9502. Another view. |
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JC9762. Vanadinite. Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker mining district, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. 6.5 x 10 cm 281g. $60.00. Typical specimen on a somewhat porous matrix, with tan/olive crystals. Damage to some of the crystals on the extreme right center, a small knob that sticks out slightly. Main body is damage free to naked eye. Many of these tend to be rather dull in luster, this piece has nice bright crystals. |
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JC9762. Another view. |
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JC9762. Closer view. |
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JC10732. Malachite pseudo azurite, azurite. Kerrouchene, Kerrouchen Caïdat, El Kbab Cercle, Khénifra Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region, Morocco. 3 x 5 cm 24g. $35.00. Nice little group of sharp crystals. The largest, partially pesudomorphed crystal has a bit of sandstone stuck on the end of the crystal. RESERVED |
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JC10732. Another view. |
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JC10732. Another view. |
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JC10732. Another view. |
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JC11361. Adamite. Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 1.8 x 3.5 x 5.3 cm 38g. $150.00. A choice cluster of pinwheel adamite. Older piece. A rather nice miniature. |
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JC11361. Another view...sort of vertical |
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JC11361. Side view showing the left pinwheel. |
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JC11361. Another view. |
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JC13700. Vanadinite. Puzzler mine, Adams mine group (Adams claims), Castle Dome district, Castle Dome mountains, Yuma county, Arizona. 6.5 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm 90g $65.00. I collected a bunch of these back in the late 1980's before the state closed and sealed the mine. Nice typical crystals from here, and must be considered an extinct locality for now. Prices have gone way up on these, and this one is well priced. There is still a lot of vanadinite in that mine; too bad its closed for ever to collectors. Ex Harry Critchley collection |
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JC13700. Another view. |
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JC13700. Another view. |
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JC13700. Close up. |
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JC13709. Pyromorphite. Daoping area. Goncheng, Guangxi, China. 9.2 x 6.7 x 3.6 cm 199g $85.00. These are from a find of a few years ago; an artisanal prospect near the Daoping mine. These were called the "Macha green" pyromorphites due to their somewhat similar color to that Chinese tea. Although some sites have listed these as from the Daoping mine, they are not. |
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JC13709. Another view. |
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JC13709. Close up view. |
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JC13734. Sphalerite, pyrite. Nanisivik Mine, Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada. 13.0 x 10.0 x 6.0 cm 866g $225.00. Although most noted for its exquisite pyrite specimens, the Nanisivik mine has produced some excellent sphalerites also. This is a high quality piece from there, as good sphalerite specimens from there are quite rare. A tough one to photo, as the 3 dimensional sphalerite crystals, which measure to 4 cm are hard to show. I took several photos from various angles to show the piece. Much better in person. No damage to the naked eye that I could see, except on some of the edges where it was removed from its pocket. Some of the sphalerite is coated with micro crystalline pyrite crystals of golden color as seen here. There are some larger pyrite crystals on the back to a few mm in size. Ex Harry Critchley collection |
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JC13734. Another view. |
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JC13734. Another view. |
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JC13734. Close up view. |
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JC13734. Close up view. |
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JC13734. Another view. |
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JC13734. Another view. |
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JC11735. Sphalerite (cleiophane
variety), galena. Septemvri mine, Madan, Smolyan, Bulgaria.
8.5 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm 182g $50.00 Sphalerite crystals
across the top edge and here and there have that light sort of yellow green
color they call cleiophane. Also present are satiny luster galena,
minor quartz. Ex Harry Critchley
collection
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JC11735. Another angle. |
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JC11735. View of sphalerites across the top showing the somewhat gemmy yellow green color. |
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JC11735. Another view. |
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JC11735. Close up of top area. |
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JC13710. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 4.5 x 3 x 2cm 61g $10.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. RESERVED |
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JC13710. Another view. |
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JC13710. Another view. |
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JC13711. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 6 x 3 x 2cm 63g $10.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13711. Close up |
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JC13712. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 5.5 x 3 x 2 cm 87g $15.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13712. Back side. |
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JC13714. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 6 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm 101g $15.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13714. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13716. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 4 x 2 x 2.5 cm 34g $8.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13718. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 3 x 3 x 2.5 cm 35g $10.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13718. Slightly different angle. |
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JC13719. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm 42g $15.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13719. Back side. |
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JC13722. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 3.5 x 2 x 1 cm 19g $8.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13723. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 3 x 3.5 x 1 cm 16g $8.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13724. Meneghinite. Mosscrow prospect, Birch Creek pluton contact zone, North of Deep Springs valley, Inyo county, California. C: 5-1979. 4 x 4 x 2 cm 94g $10.00 Back in 1979, while looking at the contact zones to the Birch Creek pluton, I found this prospect in the limestone and saw these odd metallic silvery crystals in quartz, some with minor pyrite. Rather mystified by what they are, I had them checked by x-ray powder diffraction, and found out they are meneghinite...apparently this is only the 2nd occurrence in the state, the Calkar quarry being the other one. Silvery, sort of feathery crystals in quartz. Nice locality specimen. |
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JC13724. Another side. |
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JC13724. Another side. |
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JC13724. Another side. |
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JC13724. Another side. |
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JC13724. Another side. |
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JC13730. Quartz. Beals Point/Granite Bay, Folsom reservoir, Placer county, California. 4.5 x 4 x 3 cm 28g $10.00 Back in 1972, when the drought was in full swing, Folsom lake became dry enough to expose an area of granitic rock between Beals Point and Granite Bay. In the granitics are scattered quartz veins, which at that time had never been looked at by collectors such as myself...so I dug up all of the veins and ended up with a flat of these little quartz specimens, which have languished in storage until I uncovered them recently. A few are presented here...neat location specimens. Last time the lake got low enough to expose the granitics, there has been so much silt coverage, the quartz veins are pretty much buried, so no more quartz from here, as I did a pretty thorough job of digging them up back in 1972. RESERVED |
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JC13730. Another view. Crystals vary from somewhat milky, to clear, with bright luster. |
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JC13731. Quartz. Beals Point/Granite Bay, Folsom reservoir, Placer county, California. 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm 40g $12.00 Back in 1972, when the drought was in full swing, Folsom lake became dry enough to expose an area of granitic rock between Beals Point and Granite Bay. In the granitics are scattered quartz veins, which at that time had never been looked at by collectors such as myself...so I dug up all of the veins and ended up with a flat of these little quartz specimens, which have languished in storage until I uncovered them recently. A few are presented here...neat location specimens. Last time the lake got low enough to expose the granitics, there has been so much silt coverage, the quartz veins are pretty much buried, so no more quartz from here, as I did a pretty thorough job of digging them up back in 1972. This piece has bright lustrous crystals completely around, front, back, and sides. Near floater. Cute and one of the prettier pieces collected. RESERVED |
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JC13731. Another view. |
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JC13731. Side view, showing crystals on the front and back. |
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JC13732. Quartz. Beals Point/Granite Bay, Folsom reservoir, Placer county, California. 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm 34g $10.00 Back in 1972, when the drought was in full swing, Folsom lake became dry enough to expose an area of granitic rock between Beals Point and Granite Bay. In the granitics are scattered quartz veins, which at that time had never been looked at by collectors such as myself...so I dug up all of the veins and ended up with a flat of these little quartz specimens, which have languished in storage until I uncovered them recently. A few are presented here...neat location specimens. Last time the lake got low enough to expose the granitics, there has been so much silt coverage, the quartz veins are pretty much buried, so no more quartz from here, as I did a pretty thorough job of digging them up back in 1972. |
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JC13732. Another view. |
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JC13733. Quartz. Beals Point/Granite Bay, Folsom reservoir, Placer county, California. 5.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm 52g $12.00 Back in 1972, when the drought was in full swing, Folsom lake became dry enough to expose an area of granitic rock between Beals Point and Granite Bay. In the granitics are scattered quartz veins, which at that time had never been looked at by collectors such as myself...so I dug up all of the veins and ended up with a flat of these little quartz specimens, which have languished in storage until I uncovered them recently. A few are presented here...neat location specimens. Last time the lake got low enough to expose the granitics, there has been so much silt coverage, the quartz veins are pretty much buried, so no more quartz from here, as I did a pretty thorough job of digging them up back in 1972. RESERVED |
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JC13733. Another view. |
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JC13733. Another view. |
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JC13733. Another view. |
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JC13686. Quartz. Sweetwater mountains plateau, Patterson district, Sweetwater mountains (Sweetwater Range), Mono county, California. 7.3 cm tall. 52g. $10.00 Back in 1996 I was able to drive the terrible road up into the Sweetwater mountains looking at old silver mines that are scattered around in the canyons. The Sweetwaters are all volcanics, and quite colorful and scenic. Interested in seeing the view from the highest point, I took my little 4 wheel drive up a virtually nonexistent road that topped out at the plateau...a beautiful area to see at about 11,000 feet. I was surprised to see several quartz vein occurrences scattered about, completely untouched, so spent the next couple days digging them up. These single crystals are rather unusual, as every other prism face is very narrow and tapers to non existent near the termination, leaving essentially a triangular termination instead of the usual more or less hexagonal terminations. I never could figure out exactly where these singles came from, as they were scattered over a fairly large area. Trigonal quartz habit I think. Three dominant faces giving a triangular look when looked at vertically. |
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JC13686. Another view. |
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JC13689. Quartz. Sweetwater mountains plateau, Patterson district, Sweetwater mountains (Sweetwater Range), Mono county, California. 7.3 cm tall. 52g. $10.00 Back in 1996 I was able to drive the terrible road up into the Sweetwater mountains looking at old silver mines that are scattered around in the canyons. The Sweetwaters are all volcanics, and quite colorful and scenic. Interested in seeing the view from the highest point, I took my little 4 wheel drive up a virtually nonexistent road that topped out at the plateau...a beautiful area to see at approximately 11,000 feet. I was surprised to see several quartz vein occurrences scattered about, completely untouched, so spent the next couple days digging them up. These single crystals are rather unusual, as every other prism face is very narrow and tapers to non existent near the termination, leaving essentially a triangular termination instead of the usual more or less hexagonal terminations. I never could figure out exactly where these singles came from, as they were scattered over a fairly large area. Trigonal quartz habit I think. Three dominant faces giving a triangular look when looked at vertically. I took a series of photos of the typical terminations on these single crystals. Several photos of these below. |
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JC13689. All these single crystals have the same type of termination. |
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JC13689. All these single crystals have the same type of termination. |
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JC13689. All these single crystals have the same type of termination. |
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JC13689. All these single crystals have the same type of termination. |
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JC13689. All these single crystals have the same type of termination. |
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JC13725. Quartz. Sweetwater mountains plateau, Patterson district, Sweetwater mountains (Sweetwater Range), Mono county, California. 5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm 37g $10.00 Back in 1996 I was able to drive the terrible road up into the Sweetwater mountains looking at old silver mines that are scattered around in the canyons. The Sweetwaters are all volcanics, and quite colorful and scenic. Interested in seeing the view from the highest point, I took my little 4 wheel drive up a virtually nonexistent road that topped out at the plateau...a beautiful area to see at approximately 11,000 feet. I was surprised to see several quartz vein occurrences scattered about and completely untouched, so spent the next couple days digging them up. These are interesting mineral specimens, if not exactly beautiful. The first generation of quartz resulted in clear, tapered quartz crystals. The 2nd generation of quartz left a secondary growth of mostly small, somewhat milky to clear small quartz crystals, giving the pieces a cactus like appearance, and the last generation of quartz left patchy, micro crystalline quartz crystals here and there on the 2nd generation quartz crystals, giving a sort of fuzzy look to them. RESERVED |
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JC13725. Back side. |
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JC13726. Quartz. Sweetwater mountains plateau, Patterson district, Sweetwater mountains (Sweetwater Range), Mono county, California. 4 x 3 cm 9g. $8.00 Back in 1996 I was able to drive the terrible road up into the Sweetwater mountains looking at old silver mines that are scattered around in the canyons. The Sweetwaters are all volcanics, and quite colorful and scenic. Interested in seeing the view from the highest point, I took my little 4 wheel drive up a virtually nonexistent road that topped out at the plateau...a beautiful area to see at approximately 11,000 feet. I was surprised to see several quartz vein occurrences scattered about and completely untouched, so spent the next couple days digging them up. These are interesting mineral specimens, if not exactly beautiful. The first generation of quartz resulted in clear, tapered quartz crystals. The 2nd generation of quartz left a secondary growth of mostly small, somewhat milky to clear small quartz crystals, giving the pieces a cactus like appearance, and the last generation of quartz left patchy, micro crystalline quartz crystals here and there on the 2nd generation quartz crystals, giving a sort of fuzzy look to them. |
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JC13726. Another view. |
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JC13727. Quartz. Sweetwater mountains plateau, Patterson district, Sweetwater mountains (Sweetwater Range), Mono county, California. 4 x 3 cm 12g $8.00 Back in 1996 I was able to drive the terrible road up into the Sweetwater mountains looking at old silver mines that are scattered around in the canyons. The Sweetwaters are all volcanics, and quite colorful and scenic. Interested in seeing the view from the highest point, I took my little 4 wheel drive up a virtually nonexistent road that topped out at the plateau...a beautiful area to see at approximately 11,000 feet. I was surprised to see several quartz vein occurrences scattered about and completely untouched, so spent the next couple days digging them up. These are interesting mineral specimens, if not exactly beautiful. The first generation of quartz resulted in clear, tapered quartz crystals. The 2nd generation of quartz left a secondary growth of mostly small, somewhat milky to clear small quartz crystals, giving the pieces a cactus like appearance, and the last generation of quartz left patchy, micro crystalline quartz crystals here and there on the 2nd generation quartz crystals, giving a sort of fuzzy look to them. RESERVED |
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JC13727. Another view. |
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JC13728. Quartz. Sweetwater mountains plateau, Patterson district, Sweetwater mountains (Sweetwater Range), Mono county, California. 4 x 2.5 cm 10g $8.00 Back in 1996 I was able to drive the terrible road up into the Sweetwater mountains looking at old silver mines that are scattered around in the canyons. The Sweetwaters are all volcanics, and quite colorful and scenic. Interested in seeing the view from the highest point, I took my little 4 wheel drive up a virtually nonexistent road that topped out at the plateau...a beautiful area to see at approximately 11,000 feet. I was surprised to see several quartz vein occurrences scattered about and completely untouched, so spent the next couple days digging them up. These are interesting mineral specimens, if not exactly beautiful. The first generation of quartz resulted in clear, tapered quartz crystals. The 2nd generation of quartz left a secondary growth of mostly small, somewhat milky to clear small quartz crystals, giving the pieces a cactus like appearance, and the last generation of quartz left patchy, micro crystalline quartz crystals here and there on the 2nd generation quartz crystals, giving a sort of fuzzy look to them. RESERVED |
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JC13728. Another view. Notice some reverse scepter on the front crystal. |
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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. RESERVED |
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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. |