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Mixed Minerals December 9, 2020 · 9 specimens |
CT704 - Bismuthinite sold
Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo, PotosÃ, Bolivia
Small Cabinet - 5.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm
Long metallic Bismuthinite crystals in matrix. Specimen is loaded with crystals throughout. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection.
D177 - Rhodochrosite sold
N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa
Small Cabinet - 5.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
Cluster of large, deep red scalenohedral Rhodo crystals. Individual crystals to 1.5cm in size. There are a few cleaved tips but most are perfect.
CT317 - Fluorite sold
Durham, England
Thumbnail - 2 x 2 x 1.8 cm
Penetration twin of transparent green Fluorite cubes. Mounted on lucite in a perkey box. Perfect and undamaged. Ex Chuck Trantham collection, acquired by Chuck from the Judy & Chris Cook collection.
LL150 - Tetrahedrite with Quartz sold
Casapalca Mine, Casapalca, Huarochiri Province, Lima, Peru
Small Cabinet - 9 x 7 x 5.5 cm
Black Sphalerite and clear Quartz crystals serves as the matrix for a large 2.9cm Tetrahedrite crystal.
LL236 - Tourmaline sold
Himalaya Mine, San Diego Co., California, USA
Miniature - 3.2 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm
Transparent, partially double-terminated single Tourmaline crystal. The crystal has a dark green termination followed by a grass green central zone with a very faint pink zone in the middle. Undamaged crystal that weighs 9.8 grams.
LL241 - Enargite on Barite $200 available
Butte, Silver Bow Co. Montana, USA
Thumbnail - 1.4 x 1 x 1 cm
LL154 - Spessartine, Quartz on Microcline sold
Audry Lynn Mine, Riverside Co., California, USA
Small Cabinet - 5.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm
Porcelein white Microcline crystal with attached red Garnets and a 3.8cm double-terminated Quartz crystal. Excellent for a California garnet specimen. The Quartz is light smokey in color and has some extra faces between the termination and prism faces and is possibly a Dauphine twin.
CT607 - Chambersite sold
Venice Salt Dome, Lousiana, USA
Thumbnail - 0.6 x 0.6 x 0.6 cm
Complete and undamaged tetrahedron of Chambersite, a rare mineral found in salt formations in a small number of localities worldwide. Translucent 'Amethyst' purple in color and collected by Fred Pough in 1970. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection.
LL212 - Thaumasite sold
N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa
Thumbnail - 1.6 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm
Double-terminated, transparent yellow Thaumasite crystal. Thaumasite is a rare mineral in the Ettringite group, the best were found at the N'Chwanning. This is an old piece I bought from Clive Queit at the Tucson show about 20 years ago. He had a number of specimen at the time, but this is one of very few double-terminated crystals I've ever seen.