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JC4333. Pyromorphite. Dao Ping
lead-zinc mine, Goncheng Co., Guilin pref., Guangxi Zhuang Auto. Reg.,
China. 3 x 5 cm 76g $35.00 Lime green crystals
from the earlier finds in 2008.
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JC4333. Closer view. |
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JC6713. Spessartine, albite.
Haramosh Mts., Skardu dist., Gilgit-Baltistan prov., Pakistan
9 x 9 cm 449g $75.00 Wine covered spessartine crystals
heavily covering the front, and to a lesser extent, the sides, crystals vary
from about 1 mm up to several millimeters, and are bright and gemmy.
Pretty piece |
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JC6713. Closer view of the larger
crystals....so many together hard to tell them apart. |
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JC6713. View showing the side with
albite crystals and a few larger spessartine crystals. |
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JC7571. Wulfenite. Ojuela mine,
Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 7.5 x 11 cm 364g. $100.00.
A solid covering of orange, dog tooth style crystals making for a very nice
wulfenite specimen. Collected prior to 2015 when I acquired the piece. From
the San Juan Poniente vein.
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JC7571. Slightly different
angle. |
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JC7571. Closer view. |
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JC9686. Zunyite. Big Bertha
Extension mine, Middle Camp-Oro Fino district, Dome Rock mountains, Nr.
Quartzite, La Paz county, Arizona. 3 x 6 cm 84g. $35.00.
A 14mm crystal, has a small, broken (cleaved) tip. The crystal cracked
and has been re-cemented with quartz. Collected: 1986.
Originally called "The Electric Meatball claim", I collected these a few
years after the original find. The location is exhausted now for the
larger crystals, and rarely more than micro crystals are ever seen on the
market. These fluoresce in short wave ultraviolet a deep red color.
Best of species for this mineral until the finds in Iran.
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JC9686. Another view. |
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JC9686. Close up. |
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JC9686. Another view. |
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JC11222. Wulfenite. Defiance
mine, Gleeson, Turquoise district, Cochise county, Arizona. 2 x 5 cm 10g. $25.00 Older specimen. Purchased from Crystal Classics.
Been in my collection for over 30 years. No matrix.
Classic crystal form for the Defiance mine. Piece is quite
fragile and used to be double this size.
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JC12061. Columbite. Gilé
District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique. 2 x 3.5 cm 30g
$75.00. Nice elongated crystal. Not the prettiest thing, but
these are quite rare, especially in this quality. Crystal
is close to black in color. RESERVED |
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JC12061. Another view. |
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JC12061. Another view. |
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JC12061. Back side. |
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JC12550 Vesuvianite. Sierra de
Cruces, Sierra Mojada Municipality, Coahuila, Mexico. 3.8 x
8.9 x 10.5 cm 285g $65.00. Plate with numerous
brownish classic form crystals. Nice bright luster on the crystals.
This one was collected prior to 2023. |
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JC12550. Closer view. |
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JC12694. Ludlamite.
Cabeça do Cachorro claim, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil.
11.4 x 8.8 x 2.2 cm 375g $300.00 First saw these
several years ago at Tucson. Since then there has been a lot of material
available, and has so often happened with mineral finds, they have quickly
disappeared from the market place. Beautiful green glassy lustrous
translucent crystals of ludlamite measuring to 1.0 cm in size mostly
covering the top of this matrix. Fine example for the species. |
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JC12694. Closer view. |
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JC12998. Molybdenite. Pine Creek mine, Annex
claims?, Bishop district, Scheelite, nr. Bishop, Inyo county, California. 11
x 11 x 2.5 cm 608g $50.00 A conglomeration of crystals,
with none really distinctive on the front. One group, a sort of
complex group, measures 5.5 cm across. Specimen is about 60%
molybdenite. I collected these in 2012, from underground
in the upper workings of the mine. Not sure of the exact level.
These came from the ceiling in a drift in these upper workings...I think
where the old Annex claims were first filed many years ago. These are
some of the finest molybdenite specimens to come from the Pine Creek mine.
The specimen is nearly solid molybdenite, with crystals on the front and
back. Quite rare...virtually none of these are seen for sale and
are exclusive to this web site.
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JC12998. Closer view of the top
area. |
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JC12998. Back side. |
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JC14041. Veszelyite,
hemimorphite. Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
6 x 5 x 3 cm 89g $150.00. This one caught my
eye by the deep blue and highly lustrous crystals lining the two vugs in the
front of the piece. I checked the internet to see what was out there
like this....this one is quite a bit better than most I saw and nicely
priced. . Although the crystals are small, the color
and luster is exquisite. Specimen originally was about 4
inches across, and I trimmed it down to this size. One of the trim
pieces is also offered for sale. RESERVED |
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JC14041. Closer view. |
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JC14044. Veszelyite, hemimorphite.
Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China. 4 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
16g $20.00 Nice little group of somewhat
larger crystals trimmed from the specimen above.
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JC14044. Back side. |
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JC14000. Wulfenite, dolomite & ?
Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 12 x 12 x 4 cm 430g
$275.00. A large, flat plate festooned with tannish wulfenite
crystals. Some dolomite groups are near the top and on the left
side. The small white crystals I am not sure what they are.
There are several broken crystals on the piece, which brings the price
way down. Many of them, especially the smaller crystals
are whole. I haven't seen a large plate of wulfenite from Tsumeb
in a long time. |
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JC14000. Another view,
slightly different angle. |
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JC14000. Close up of lower
area. |
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JC14000. Close up of lower
area. |
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JC14000. Close up of the upper
area, with the 3 dolomite groups visible as larger white crystals. |
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JC14000. Another close up. |
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JC14000. Another close up. |
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JC14000. Another close up,
top of piece. |
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JC14040. Azurite. Touissit,
Touissit-Bou Beker district, Jerada province, Oriental region, Morocco.
5 x 4 x 2 cm 77g $35.00 Group of odd crystals. |
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JC14040. Another view. |
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JC14040. Another view. |
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JC10999. Vesuvianite. Nr.
Clio, Plumas county, California. 5 x 8 cm 200g $40.00.
Group of brown crystals with classic flattened dipyramids. I
collected these in 2015 from above a rail road tunnel about 2 miles east of
Clio. RESERVED |
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JC10999. Another view. |
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JC10999. Side view. |
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JC10999. Back side. |
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JC13771. Anglesite &?. Dispozitch
mine, Silver Star Mining district, Mineral county, Nevada.
7 x 5 cm 176g $35.00 Associated with the fine
linarites recently collected from this mine, are these odd pieces with
sparkly clear crystals that appear to be anglesite, along with some light
blue unknown. This one could stand some x-ray diffraction
work.
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JC13771. Close up view. |
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JC13771. Close up view. |
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JC12858. Grossular.
Paymaster canyon, Gillis range, Mineral county, Nevada. 4.5
x 3 cm 38g $40.00 A 2 cm non gemmy, glassy, complete
crystal embedded in siliceous crud. These were from a vein in a
contact zone (skarn), highly brecciated, and recemented with siliceous
material. Most crystals sustained some damage in place....this
one is nice, because it is a complete crystal all the way around.
Some had gemmy areas, this one pretty much doesn't. An unusual crystal
from a pretty much unknown location in upper Paymaster canyon.
One of these from this find is shown in Mindat.
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JC12858. Another view. |
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JC12858. Another view. |
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JC12858. Close up view. |
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JC11626. Azurite, malachite.
Liufengshan mine, Guichi district, Chizhou, Anhui, China. 7.5 x 13 cm
727g. $350.00. Bladed crystals with botryoidal malachite
sitting on them. The malachite is a bit more green in person so
to speak. From a find at the mine a couple of years ago. Pretty,
with lots of sparkle. Classy piece from this mine. Very nicely
priced as a quick check of the internet will show....similar ones are
anywhere from $900 on up. |
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JC11626. Close up of upper
third. |
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JC11626. Close up of lower third. |
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JC11626. Back side. |
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JC12022. Stibnite. Baia
Sprie mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures county, Romania. 6 cm Tall 12g
$40.00. Cute group of bright lustrous crystals. |
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JC12022. Another view. |
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JC12022. Another view. |
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JC12712. Rutile. Hiddenite,
North Carolina. 6 grams of rutile crystals. $12.00
Sorry about the dust....didn't notice it until I saw the photo. I have
3 of these vials. All RESERVED
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JC13390. Titanite. Imilchil,
Imilchil Caïdat, Imilchil Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region,
Morocco. 4 x 5 x 1 cm 14g $35.00 A little
floater plate completely coated with titanite crystals, front and back. |
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JC13390. Closer view. |
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JC13360. Arsenopyrite. Dachang
Sn-polymetallic ore field, Nandan County, Hechi, Guangxi. 7.3 x
6.6 x 5.1 cm 426g $98.00. Unusual and somewhat skeletal
metallic, silvery gray Arsenopyrite. Very heavy for its size. It is a
really unusual specimen of this material. The piece has an engaging textural
component across the front as well as interesting open crevasses running
along on the back. The crevasses are filled with platy metallic
Arsenopyrite crystals while the front has a number of flat angular features
intermixed with a microscopic spider web network of crystal structures. A
highly unusual example from Nandan County, Guangxi, China. Nice and
sparkly. Ex. Kurt Hefendehl collection. This piece
is shown on Mindat. Rare for the locality.
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JC13360. Closer view of top
third. |
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JC13360. Back side. |
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JC12485. Heterogenite, chrysocolla.
Star of the Congo, Lubumbashi (Elizabethville), Southern area, Katanga
Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) .
7.2 x 10 cm 191g $85.00 So lustrous it looks WET -
a rich and very pretty specimen of heterogenite (cobalt hydroxide - it is
the dark botryoidal mineral on this specimen) with accents of chrysocolla.
very high quality for this material! |
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JC12485. Close up view. |
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JC12433. Hubnerite.
Ruby mine, Galena mountain, Howardsville, Animas district, San Juan county,
Colorado. 5.3 x 5.7 x 7.3 cm 255g. $200.00. One
location in Colorado that has very rarely seen specimens for sale is the
Ruby mine. Specimens are quite rare, and this is a fine example
of the hubnerite specimens from there. |
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JC12433. Another view. |
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JC12433. Closer view. |
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JC12433. Closer view. |
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JC12796. Mimetite. Tsumeb mine,
Tsumeb, Namibia. 10 x 6 x 2.5 338g $50.00. Pale yellow
acicular crystals. Nicely priced.
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JC12796. Closer view. |
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JC6791. Barite. Cerro Huarihuayun,
Miraflores nr Llata, Huamalalies prov., Huanuco dept, Peru 5.5 x 6
cm 153g $35.00 A 4.5 cm main crystal, fairly thick and
sturdy for the location, with a pleasing golden honey color. Crystal
is fairly transparent with glassy luster. One of the early specimens
from here, collected in 2012. The main crystal has an
invisible repair along its base, where it cleaved off along a cleavage
plane. Very hard to detect the repair. Priced low
because of the repair.
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JC6791. Another view. |
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JC6791. Another view. |
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JC6791. Close up of the main
crystal. |
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JC12893. Clinozoisite. (var.
Clinothulite?) Paymaster Canyon, Gillis Range, nr. Hawthorne, Mineral
county, Nevada. C: 2013 3 x 4 x 5 cm 118g $35.00
A nearly solid mass of sprays, with a small blob of what appears to be
albite on the top in this photo. A weird occurrence, as it came
from a pegmatite rather than a contact zone.
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JC12893. Another view. |
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JC12893. Another view.
The clinozoisite is lighter pink than the photo shows. The lower front
piece with the crack behind it, I put a drop of super glue in it to
stabilize it. |
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JC11586. Azurite, malachite.
Liufengshan mine, Guichi district, Chizhou, Anhui, China.
9 x 15 cm 437g. $255.00 This one is from
a find a couple of years ago. Royal blue bright drusy crystals coating the front.
Quite pretty, sparkly and bright. Interesting how it grades from a royal
blue on the left to a darker blue on the right. Nicely priced as a
quick look at these on the internet shows. |
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JC11586. Closer view. |
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JC11586. Closer view. |
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JC11518. Azurite. Morenci mine,
Morenci, Greenlee county, Arizona. 8 x 8.5 cm 311g.
$125.00. Rounded hemispheres of azurite grouped together
on light colored matrix. There is minor rubbing on some of the
spheres, as can be seen in the photo, although it is pretty minimal. |
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JC11518. Closer view. |
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JC9012. Azurite, quartz.
Sierra Rica, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Sierra Rica, Chihuahua. 6 x 9 cm 86g
$200.00. A really fine azurite from this somewhat lesser known
locality. Crystals are a dark midnight blue as seen here. This one is far better than most seen for sale out there.
It has been in several collections, with the previous owners listed here,
and the price they had on it at the time. Ex Crowley collection #1755.
I acquired this one in October, 2016.
Ex Stoudt Coll. Purchase price $500 #444
Ex Peter Megaw $400
Ex Evan Jones
Ex Irv Michelson coll. |
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JC9012. Closer view. |
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JC13054. Barite. Cerro
Warihuyn, Miraflores, Huamalíes Province, Huánuco, Peru. 7 x 5 x
4.8 cm 102g $125.00 I picked this one because of the
matrix as a background. Crystals are fairly transparent with a
grayish/tannish look. Displays well. Glassy luster. |
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JC13054. Another view |
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JC13054. Another view |
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JC13054. Side view |
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JC13054. Oblique view |
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JC13054. Back side view |
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JC11667. Cyanotrichite, azurite.
Peacock mine, Lemhi county, Idaho. 3.3 x 4.1 x 9.7 cm
92g. $175.00. Ex Geary Murdock coll. Although there
has never been a Peacock mine found in Lemhi county, the locality persists
as to the location of these. Mr. Peacock was a mining
engineer/geologist with properties he was partially or completely invested
in scattered throughout central Idaho. This may or may not have come
from one of his enterprises, or it may have been named Peacock mine just for
the colorful azurite etc. found there, wherever there is. These
tend to be rather rare and hard to come by. The cyanotrichite is in
fuzzy light blue crystals scattered thru the center and upper parts of the
piece in this view. Close ups below. |
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JC11667. Closer view. |
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JC11667. Back side. |
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JC11699. Ferberite, quartz, fluorite.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan,
China. 4.5 x 7 cm tall. 191g. $48.00 A
bright ferberite crystal is decorated with quartz crystals around the base
with scattered small pretty much colorless fluorite cubes. The
back side is coated with quartz and a few fluorite cubes.
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JC11699. Rotated a bit. |
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JC11699. Side view. |
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JC11699. Back side....quartz
crystals with a couple fluorite crystals. |
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JC11600. Fluorite on quartz "casts"
after calcite. La Fluorita Dulcita prospect, nr. Tombstone, Cochise
county, Arizona. 3.7 x 5.7 x 7.5 cm 113g.
$90.00. A commercially worked little "mine" where these
fluorites were collected. Crystals are octahedrons for the most
part. Specimen is not back lit, it just tends to be a bit
translucent. |
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JC11600. Another view. |
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JC11600. Back side. |
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JC12559. Pyromorphite. Block 14,
Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales,
Australia. 8.0 x 7.5 x 3.0 cm 221g. $50.00
Typical acicular crystals of light brown pyromorphite crystals have a layer
of more rounded looking pyromorphite on top of them. Along the
right side in this photo, are typical acicular/prismatic pyromorphite
crystals. An older piece. |
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JC12559. Another view. |
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JC12559. Close up, top portion of
above photo. |
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JC12559. Back side. |
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JC8805. Pyromorphite. Pcheloyad
Mine, Momchilgrad, Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria. 4.3 x 5.3 cm 53g
with stand $115.00 Ex Wendel Minerals; Ex Crowley
collection #1752. Nice miniature with typical brown crystals
from this mine. Front and back views. These of quality are
getting quite scarce. Nicely priced miniature.
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JC8805. Back side. |
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JC8805. Another view. |
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JC8805. Side view.
Some damage to a few crystals, not visible from the front display side. |
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JC9487. Spessartine.
Wushan spessartine mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao county, Zhangzhou prefecture,
Fujian prov., China. 8 x 10.5 x 2.5cm 406g.
$60.00. Plate of bright orange crystals with several small
quartz crystals present. The quartz crystals are capped by a white
unknown, probably an amorphous silica material. There is a minor
bruise near the top center, and another on the left center, not obvious.
Sawn back. RESERVED |
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JC9487. Another view. |
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JC9487. Closer view of left side
in above photo. |
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JC9487. Closer view of
bottom right in upper photo. |
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JC9487. Closer view of the top
right in upper photo. |
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JC13961. Wulfenite.
Erupción Mine, Los Lamentos Mountains, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua,
Mexico. 5.2 x 2.2 x 2.6 cm 41g $125.00.
Nice bright orange crystals on white calcite coated matrix. Old piece.
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JC13961. Another view. |
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JC13961. Another view. |
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JC13961. Another view. |
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JC13983. Azurite, malachite.
Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise county, Arizona.
6 x 4 x 2.5 cm 107g $90.00 Ex: Crowley collection
#72. I purchased this one at Tucson show, 1974.
Drusy coating on rounded malachite.
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JC13983. Back side. |
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JC11971. Apatite. Panasqueira
Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. 3 x 4.5 cm 49g
$40.00 A sharp group of beige to very slightly pink
crystals. Associated with white dolomite? crystals. Nice
miniature. Older piece...pre 2000.
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JC11971. Another view. |
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JC11971. Another view. |
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JC11971. Another view. |
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JC11971. Another view. |