New Arrivals Page 3
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JC9958. Amazonite. Crystal Creek, Teller county, Colorado. 4.5 x 6.5 cm 135g $40.00 Ex: Crowley collection #1740. I collected this one in 2002. Light blue crystals with whitish striping on the faces. No damage. RESERVED |
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JC9958. Another view, slightly different angle. |
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JC8630. Muscovite cast from microcline, schorl. Erongo Mountains, David Obst, Erongo Region, Namibia 5 x 7 cm 52g $25.00. Yellow, sparkly muscovite has formed around now missing microcline crystals, with a bit of schorl on one side. One view shows the hole where the microcline used to be. Interesting piece. |
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JC8630. Hole where microcline used to be. |
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JC8630. Reverse showing schorl crystals on the muscovite. |
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JC4338. Pyromorphite. Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin, Guangxi, China. 7 x 9 cm 212g $175.00 Yellowish green, brilliant, glassy crystals...that wet look. From the earlier finds at Daoping. Curtains and acicular crystals. Pretty. Collected 2008. |
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JC4338. Slightly different angle. |
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JC4338. Slightly different angle. |
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JC4338. Closer view. |
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JC4338. Back side. |
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JC10887. Creedite. Qinglong Mine, Dachang Sb ore field, Qinglong County, Qianxinan, Guizhou, China 6.5 x 9 cm 88g $95.00 Flat plate with light purple crystals. Collected in 2020. Both light purple and colorless crystals are present, with some colorless crystals on the back side. |
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JC10887. Close up. |
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JC10887. Close up. |
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JC9994. Grossular (topazolite). Cerro De La Concordia, Piedra Parada, Tatatila Municipality, Veracruz, Mexico. 5 x 10 cm 266g $175.00. Light yellow, gemmy crystals. Collected in 2019. Nice piece from the somewhat earlier finds here. Specimens of this quality were rather uncommon from here. |
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JC9994. Another view. |
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JC9994. Closer view, right end of above photo. |
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JC12751. Rhodonite. Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 6 x 6 x 2.5 cm 164g $20.00. A massive piece of magenta/red rhodonite. Cleavage faces reflect the light rather nicely. RESERVED |
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JC12751. Another view. |
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JC12751. Another view. |
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JC12751. Another view. |
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JC11479. Austinite (cuprian). Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 5 x 7 cm 90g $40.00 Nice covering of fairly bright green cuprian austinite. RESERVED |
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JC11479. Close up. |
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JC9903. Vanadinite on barite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 8 x 13 cm 718g. $195.00. A matrix of barite blades on this CABINET size specimen is heavily encrusted with bright red, gemmy vanadinite crystals. No obvious damage. This is a beautiful specimen that really stands out. The vanadinite is literally solidly coating the barite with vanadinite on all sides of the specimen, with the back side not as heavily coated with vanadinite showing the barite blades to great advantage. |
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JC9903. Slightly different angle. |
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JC9903. A side view. |
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JC9903. Back side. |
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JC9906. Vanadinite on black manganese coated barite. ACF mine area, Mibladen mining district, Midelt, Khenifra province, Meknes-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 6 x 9 x 9 cm 805g. $435.00 Bright, dark red, gemmy vanadinites on black manganese coated barite. The specimen is a knob of matrix, with the barite/vanadinite wrapping around the knob as seen in the photos below. Displays very well. Gorgeous specimen. |
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JC9906. Close up. |
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JC9906. Back side. |
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JC13453. Mimetite. Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 9.0 x 5.0 x 4.5 cm 327g $85.00. Ex Fabre Minerals collection Ex Claus Hedegaard#10826 coll. Light sort of beige color, sparkly crystals in little tufts coating the matrix. |
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JC13453. Another view. |
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JC13453. Another view. |
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JC13453. Closer view. |
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JC13772. Galena, linarite, chalcopyrite. Dispozitch Mine, Silver Star Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada. 8 x 5 x 2.5 cm 326g $20.00. The galena (steel galena) from here is some of the brightest I have ever seen...it is a brilliant silvery color with intense sparkle. There is a bit of linarite on the lower right. A couple of small patches of chalcopyrite are embedded in the galena. Sawn back. Really nice ore sample. RESERVED |
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JC13772. Another view. |
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JC13773. Mimetite. Yanga Koubenza Quarries, Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo. 11.3 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm 213g $300.00. Sharp, well defined yellow crystals on hematitic matrix. This locality has produced some really fine mimetite, as well as several other minerals of note. |
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JC13773. Closer view. |
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JC13773. Closer view. |
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JC13774. Galena, tetrahedrite?. Gold Eagle mine, Lone Mountain District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. 8.5 x 8 x 7 cm 752g $10.00. Nice ore sample from this mine that closed in 1966. Tetrahedrite? or a similar sulfosalt is present here and there in the galena specimens from this mine. A close up photo of the tetrahedrite is below. The specimen is mostly galena with a bit of carbonate and quartz mixed in. I photographed it from all sides. RESERVED |
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JC13774. Close up of the tetrahedrite? Sort of a dark silvery near the center and a bit on the lower left. |
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JC13774. Another view. |
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JC13774. Another view. |
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JC13775. Andradite. N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa. 11.0 x 8.5 x 3.0 cm 623g $90.00. A solid layer of waxy luster andradite on the front and partially coating the back side. Matrix is hematite. Ex Harry Critchley collection |
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JC13775. Closer view. |
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JC13775. Back side. |
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JC13778. Tarbuttite. Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine) No. 2, Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia. 4 x 3 x 1.5 cm 15g $15.00. Typical colorless crystals on limonitic matrix. RESERVED |
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JC13753. Galena, linarite. Dispozitch Mine, Silver Star Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada. 5.5 x 5 x 4 cm 235g $10.00 The galena (steel galena) from here is some of the brightest I have ever seen...it is a brilliant silvery color with intense sparkle. There is a bit of linarite on the lower right. A couple of small patches of chalcopyrite are embedded in the galena. Sawn back. Really nice ore sample. Sawn base. RESERVED |
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JC13753. Back side. |
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JC13753. Another side. |
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JC11820. Hematite. Payún Matrú volcano, Altiplano de Payún Matrú, Agua Escondida District, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province, Argentina. 3 x 3 cm 10g $20.00. |
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JC11820. Another view. |
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JC11820. Another view. |
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JC11860. Hydroxylapatite Sapo Mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil 6 x 8 cm 165g $150.00 Large dark green crystal with albite. RESERVED |
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JC11860. View of termination. The light spot is a trick of light, no damage. |
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JC11860. Another view. The light area on the middle right is a trick of light, no damage. There is a tiny ding just below that light area, visible as a white spot. |
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JC11860. Another view. |
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JC11866. Cerussite. Les Dalles mine, Mibladen, Aït Oufella Caïdat, Midelt Cercle, Midelt province, Drâa-Tafilalet region, Morocco. 5 x 6 cm 252g $75.00 Large single crystal. I photographed it from two angles. |
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JC11866. Another view. |
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JC11866. Another view. |
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BR100. Cuprite, copper. Copper Queen mine., Bisbee, Arizona. 5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm 141g. $75.00 A solid knob of micro crystalline cuprite and massive cuprite with some copper. Ex: Lorraine Dodge Coll. #LDC17. Collected: 1895-1901. Ex: Mineralogical Research |
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BR100. Another view. |
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BR100. Close up. |
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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. |
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BR14. Another view. |
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BR14. Another view. |
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BR14. Another view. |
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BR14. Another view. |
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BR60. Quartz pseudo ilvaite, quartz, pyrite. 292 meter, Nikolaevskiy mine, Kharovskiy drift, Dal’negorsk, Russia; 9 x 5 x 5 cm 238g $475.00 An incredibly rare piece, with stout up to 2.5 cm ilvaite crystals, with quartz completely replacing the ilvaite. Also present are acicular quartz crystals up to 2.5 cm, some sprinkled with pyrite micro crystals. Collected : March 1998. Ex Mineralogical Research Purchased : 8-2000 |
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BR60. Another view. |
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BR60. Close up of the quartz replacing the ilvaite. |
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BR60. Close up of the quartz and pyrite crystals. |
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BR60. Another view. |
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BR60. Another view. |
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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. |
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BR171. Back side. |
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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 |
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BR257. Another view. |
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BR274. Andradite var. topazolite. Perovskite knob, Serpentine dome, New Idria district., San Benito county, California. 6.5 x 5 x 3 cm 105g $70.00 Ex: Jean-Pierre Cand Minerals. Purchased December 2003. Golden crystals on dark clinochlore. Older piece...this particular location is completely cleaned out. |
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BR274. Back side. |
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BR274. Close up. |
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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. |
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BR441. Another view. |
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BR441. Back side. Coated with smithsonite? |
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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. |
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BR447. Another view. |
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BR447. Back side. |
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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 |
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BR535. Another view. |
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BR535. Close up of the fluorite crystals. |
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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. |
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BR582. Close up of the vug. |
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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. |
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BR603. Back side. |
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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". |
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BR600. Another view, same side. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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BR600. Closer view of the above photo...the silver vein is fairly obvious in this shot. |
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BR600. An even closer shot showing the silver vein. |
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BR600. Close up of the left side of the above photo. |
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JC11802. Vivianite. Bolivia. 2.5 x 6 cm with stand, 30g with stand. $50.00. Single terminated crystal, highly translucent when back lit with typical green color. Wish I had a more exact location, but unfortunately all he had for location is Bolivia. |
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JC11802. Reverse. |
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JC11802. Back lit. |
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JC11802. Back lit. |
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JC11855. Siderite. Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal. Approximately 7 x 7 cm 549g $50.00. Some nice big siderite crystals...a classic from Panasqueira. Large rhombohedral crystals. Bit of quartz and ferberite on back side. |
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JC11855. Another view, same side. |
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JC11855. Another view, same side. |
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JC12077. Smithsonite. San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 6 x 8 cm 268g. $50.00 Interesting finger of smithsonite sticking up from the central area. The color is a sort of a light gray with slight yellowish tints here and there. Fairly lustrous and sparkly...all the white specks are sparkles off crystal faces. RESERVED |
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JC12077. Another view. |
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JC12077. Another view. |
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JC12077. Close up of the finger of smithsonite. |
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JC12084. Cassiterite. Piaotang mine, Xihuashan ore field, Dayu county, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China. 4 x 4.5 cm 246g $90.00. A very large, for the locality, cassiterite. The white spots are growth irregularities rather than damage. There is a tiny ding on the tip of the crystal facing out. |
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JC12084. Another view. |
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JC12084. Another view. |
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JC12084. Another view. |
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JC12084. Another view. |
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JC12084. Back side. There is a bit of purple fluorite fragments attached to the back. |
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JC12084. Back side. There is a bit of purple fluorite fragments attached to the back. |
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JC11801. Cassiterite. Minas Gerais, Brazil. 4.8 x 6.5 cm 114g $75.00 Although the label said Conselheiro Lafaiete, this location has never produced good cassiterite as near as I can tell. May be mislabeled and be from elsewhere in Minas Gerais. A single, somewhat complex crystal. The base, where it was detached from the matrix, is a sort of fine grained pinkish material, with what appears to be cleavelandite. |
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JC11801. Another view. |
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JC11801. Another view. |
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JC11801. Another view. |
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JC11801. Another view. |