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CT116 - Cerussite $ 180 Touissit, Morocco thumbnail - 2.5 x 2 x 1.8 cm ![]() ![]() White 'snowflake' Cerussite cluster. Old material from the Chuck Trantham collection.
CT309 - Silver $ 225 Smuggler Mine, Aspen, Colorado, USA thumbnail - 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.5 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Sheet of solid Silver from the Smuggler Mine. Silver specimens from Aspen are very uncommon. Rare old specimen from the Chuck Trantham collection.
CT399 - Inderite $ 300 Boron, Kern Co., California, USA small cabinet - 8 x 3 x 2 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well formed cluster of terminated, translucent Inderite crystals. Elegant, prismatic crystals with a thin coating of white Tincalconite in areas. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection #53. Though Chuck saw many of these, this was the one he decided to keep, for obvious reasons.
CT350 - Analcime $ 275 North Table Mountain, Golden, Colorado, USA miniature - 3.5 x 3.2 x 3 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well formed, equant single Analcime crystal with smaller attached crystals. This locality has produced Colorado's finest zeolites and this is considered a large crystal for the locality. Complete all around and undamaged.
CT100 - Silver $ 250 Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico thumbnail - 2.8 x 2.5 x 1.2 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Specimen of Silver crystals from Batopilas. Not the typical 'herringbone' style for the locality, this is a dense mass of crystals, some showing platy, cubic crystals to 3mm. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection.
CT438 - Willemite var. Troostite $ 180 Sterling Hill, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA thumbnail - 3 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Complete 2.5cm Willemite crystal on white Calcite. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection, acquired by Chuck in 2000.
CT441 - Smithsonite $ 150 Tsumeb, Namibia thumbnail - 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Tan crystals of Smithsonite forming a 14mm sphere of intergrown crystals on a matrix covered by small Smithsonite crystals. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection, acquired by Chuck in 1998.
CT386 - Quartz after Tourmaline $ 150 Urubu Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil thumbnail - 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() A green Tourmaline crystal that has been almost entirely psuedomorphed to Quartz. Only a thin layer of Tourmaline remains on the front. Both the top and bottom show Quartz terminations, and the center and back are all mostly Quartz crystal. A strange one!!! Ex. Chuck Trantham collection, acquired by Chuck in 2005.
CT447 - Cornetite $ 125 Likasi, Katanga, Congo (DRC) small cabinet - 7.2 x 5 x 1.8 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Radial groups of blue Cornetite crystals with Chrysocolla on matrix.
CT378 - Polybasite with Quartz $ 175 Las Chispas Mine. Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico miniature - 4.9 x 3.5 x 2 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Polybasite and Argentite associated with white Quartz crystals. Historic specimen from and old silver mine that operated from the 1880's to about 1907.
CT425 - Chlorite after Garnet $ 220 Oldman Ranch, Wyoming, USA miniature - 5 x 4 x 3.2 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Large, complete dodecahedral crystal of Chlorite after Garnet. There is an indentation on the back face, otherwise it has perfect flat faces all around. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection acquired from Dyck's Minerals in 1987.
CT282 - Cinnabar $ 75 Culver Baer Mine, near Mercuryville, Sonoma Co., California, USA small cabinet - 6.5 x 4 x 1.5 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Long, flay laying crystals of Cinnabar on matrix from an obscure California mercury mine that began operation in 1872. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection, self collected by Chuck back in 1976.
CT357 - Wulfenite $ 125 Red Cloud Mine, Yuma Co., Arizona, USA miniature - 4 x 4 x 2.2 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Several translucent orange/red Wulfenite crystals on matrix. Largest crystal on top is 1.1cm wide.
CT404 - Natrolite $ 275 Chimney Rock Quarry, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA small cabinet - 5.2 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Single well terminated Natrolite crystal. Transparent crystal with some small crystals and coatings on two sides. Undamaged and even has a nice phantom about 1cm down from the termination. Old material from the classic USA locality that produced what are considered some of the world's best Natrolites.
CT405 - Natrolite $ 275 Chimney Rock Quarry, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA miniature - 4.6 x 1.3 x 1 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Single well terminated Natrolite crystal. Transparent and undamaged. Old material from the classic USA locality that produced what are considered some of the world's best Natrolites.
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