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Mixed Minerals April 18, 2025 · 15 specimens |
P959 - Serandite, Analcime, Natrolite, Rhodochrosite $650 available
Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Small Cabinet - 6.3 x 4 x 4 cm
P960 - Willemite sold
Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA
Small Cabinet - 5.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
Specimen of solid green Willemite from Franklin. Importantly, areas get translucent to transparent. Found on the Trotter dumps. Ex. Robert Batic collection.
P961 - Azurite sold
Touissit, Morocco
Miniature - 5 x 3.5 x 3 cm
Fan-like groups of elongated Azurite crystals on matrix from old finds at Touissit. The crystals show strong translucency when backlit and all have good terminations.
P962 - Dioptase on Calcite sold
Altyn-Tyube, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
Small Cabinet - 5.2 x 3 x 2 cm
Emerald-green Dioptase crystals attached to a single scalenohedral Calcite crystal. The Dioptase crystals are undamaged and reach 7mm ub suze. The only one like it I've ever seen from this locality.
P963 - Inesite sold
N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa
Small Cabinet - 5.5 x 3 x 2 cm
Two spherical clusters of red Inesite with attached white Calcite. Note that the camera picked up the red strongly and the Inesite is a darker slightly more maroon red to my eyes.
P964 - Azurite, Malachite on Selenite sold
Boleo, Santa Rosalia, Baja Sur, Mexico
Miniature - 4 x 3 x 1.7 cm
Here's a really neat specimen from one of my favorite localities. It's a rarely seen Azurite specimen from the source of Boleite and Cumengeite. A flat layer of colorless Selenite forms the core of the specimen, with massive Malachite and crystal clusters of Azurite attached on both sides. Ex. J & A Bellanger collection.
P965 - Vivianite $450 available
Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Potosi, Bolivia
Miniature - 4.3 x 3.5 x 3 cm
P966 - Ruby $350 available
Morogoro, Tanzania
Miniature - 3.5 x 3.5 x 0.8 cm
P967 - Stilbite $250 available
Cornwall Mines, Cornwall Borough, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
Miniature - 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm
P968 - Vesuvianite sold
Balochistan, Pakistan
Miniature - 4.1 x 3 x 2.5 cm
Rare old Vesuvianite specimen from Pakistan. These are elongated green crystals more reminscent of those from the Jeffrey Mine than more recent finds of Vesvianite from Pakistan that are tabular and brown. The crystals are glassy, grass-green and transparent at the terminations. Mindat only show one other similar from Balochistan that was in the Bill Pinch collection. This one was in the Fred Pough collection and comes with his old label.
P969 - Vesuvianite $200 available
Drum Valley, Tulare Co., California, USA
Miniature - 4.7 x 3.2 x 2 cm
P970 - Chrysoberyl sold
Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Thumbnail - 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm
Doubly-terminated Chrysoberyl sixling from Brazil. It's well crystallized all around though has some slight damage. Both front and back sides shown - backside is crystallized though partially contacted from another crystal.
P971 - Tremolite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Miniature - 4.4 x 2.2 x 2 cm
Fine quality floater cluster of doubly-terminated chrome Tremolite crystals. The Tremolite are superb - translucent to transparent with vivid green color. Nothing but great crystals all around!
P972 - Diaspore sold
Pinarcik, Mugla Prov., Turkey
Miniature - 5 x 2 x 1.5 cm
Interconnected, gem quality V-twin Diaspore crystals of a style characteristic of the initial finds at the locality. The previous collector nicknamed this one 'The Checkmark' for obvious reasons. Weighs 12.5 grams.
P973 - Linarite $375 available
Grand Reef Mine, Graham Co., Arizona, USA
Miniature - 4 x 3.5 x 3 cm
