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Thumbnails May 18, 2020 · 18 specimens |
D444 - Realgar sold
Shimen Mine, Hunan Prov., China
Thumbnail - 2.8 x 1.7 x 2 cm
Translucent red tabular crystal. Complete all around and undamaged with a tiny crystal attached to the left side of the termination. This locality has produced the world's best Realgar crystals and are no longer easy to find.
D445 - Digenite sold
Steward Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA
Thumbnail - 2 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm
Well formed single crystal of Digenite, 1.5cm long, associated with Quartz and Pyrite. Butte was well known for producing crystals of this uncommom copper sulfide, and this is a fine thumbnail sized example.
D448 - Huebnerite on Quartz sold
Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana, USA
Thumbnail - 1.5 x 1.1 x 1 cm
Small but highly aesthetic specimen with a single red Huebnerite crystal atop Quartz crystals. The Hubnerite crystal is 7mm tall. Great locality piece.
D449 - Wavellite sold
Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA
Thumbnail - 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm
Well separated individual hemispheres of Wavellite to 7mm wide. Great color with a satiny surface luster. A really lovely piece!
D452 - Gratonite sold
Excelsior Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Peru
Thumbnail - 1.3 x 1.2 x 1 cm
Silvery colored cluster of Gratonite, a rare lead arsenic sulfide. Well formed bright crystals spraying out in all directions. This is from an old collection, the sticker on the bottom of the perky box indicates it was purchased in 1974 for $20.
D453 - Apatite sold
Pederniera Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Thumbnail - 1.9 x 1 x 0.7 cm
Cluster of intergrown, vivid blue Apatite crystals. The crystals reach 7mm in diameter.
D454 - Phenakite sold
Mt. White, Colorado, USA
Thumbnail - 1 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm
Colorless Phenakite crystal with sharp, well crystallied faces, almost garnet-like in form. Collected in 1998.
D455 - Grossular on Diopside sold
Eden Mills, Vermont, USA
Thumbnail - 1.5 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm
Sharp cinnamon orange Grossular crystal atop a green Diopside crystal. The garnet is gemmy, complete and undamaged.
D458 - Hematite var. Kidney Ore sold
Black Widow Mine, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
Thumbnail - 2.3 x 2 x 2 cm
Bubbly mound of shiny black Hematite from a neat Arizona locality. The old albel shows a date of 1985.
D460 - Andradite sold
Copper Mtn., Prince-of-Wales Island, Alaska, USA
Thumbnail - 1.4 x 1 x 1 cm
Sharp, well formed single Andradite crystal from a locality more well known for it's Epidote. Complete all around and undamaged though contacted n the bottom face where it grew against matrix.
D461 - Kunzite sold
Katerina Mine, Pala, California, USA
Thumbnail - 2.3 x 2 x 1.3 cm
Gemmy pink Spodumene var. Kunzite, 1.3cm on matrix. Neat San Diego Co., locality and uncommon to find on matrix such as this.
D464 - Smithsonite on Dolomite, Chalcoprite on Sphalerite sold
Philidelphia Mine, Rush Creek Mining District, Marion Co., Arkansas, USA
Thumbnail - 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
Uncommon thumbnail of cadmium rich, yellow Smithsonite atop curving crystals of Dolomite associated with translucent orange Sphalerite sprinkled with tiny Chalcopyrite crystals. Neat and colorful thumbnail, the only one like it I've seen.
D465 - Digenite sold
Steward Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA
Thumbnail - 1.4 x 1.3 x 0.5 cm
Well formed single crystal of Digenite, 1.4cm tall. Butte was well known for producing crystals of this uncommom copper sulfide, and this is a fine thumbnail sized example.
D466 - Anapaite in fossil Bivalve sold
Kertch, Crimea, Ukraine
Thumbnail - 2.9 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm
Bright green crystals of Anapaite that formed inside a fossil bivalve. These are interesting and beautiful classics from an old iron mine that is long closed. Once fairly abundant, these are now not commonly seen.
D468 - Chalcocite sold
Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA
Thumbnail - 1.4 x 0.9 x 0.3 cm
Well formed single crystal with a wonderful patina and classic form. These date back to the mid 1800s. Undamaged and with no apparent point of contact, a floater. Professionally mounted in a perky box.
D472 - Enargite $125 available
Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA
Thumbnail - 1.8 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
D474 - Galena on Pyrite stalactite sold
Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA
Thumbnail - 2.7 x 1 x 1 cm
Two octahedral Galena crystals attached to a long, finger-like stalactite of Pyrite. Highly aesthetic thumbnail.
D475 - Galena on Pyrite after Anhydrite sold
Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA
Thumbnail - 3 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
A psuedomorph or cast of Pyrite after Anhydrite sits horizontaly behind a 1.5cm cube of Galena, both of which sit atop additional Pyrite and Galena cubes. Highly aesthetic thumbnail.