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Tucson 2020 Minerals February 7, 2020 · 21 specimens |
M534 - Kammererite sold
Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, East Anatolia, Turkey
Cabinet - 10.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
Richly crystallized Kammererite specimen loaded with large crystals to 7mm. Translucent crystals with deep purple color. Undamaged with crystals on both sides. The bottom is relatively flat and it stands up on it's own for display. This mine is long closed and pieces of this quality are hard to come by now.
M535 - Azurite sold
Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico
Miniature - 4 x 3 x 2 cm
Gem Azurite crystals to 1.5cm on a Malachite covered gossan matrix. Found in the 1950s, these old Azurites are some of the most transparent ever found. Some are partially altered to Malachite on their lower halves. This specimen has larger than average sized crystals as most (when you can find them) have sub-1cm sized crystals. There are some broken crystals but most are good. Great old piece and rare to find now.
M538 - Tsavorite, Diopside, on Graphite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Cabinet - 11 x 8 x 5 cm
Large display matrix Tsavorite specimen, which are hard to come by. This specimen has better than average, large Graphite crystals, white Diopside crystals, and Tsavorites crystals to 9mm. The Tsavorite have great green color (not pale!), and are gemmy.
M473 - Barite on Calcite sold
Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota. USA
Miniature - 5 x 5 x 5 cm
Gem quality 1.8cm Barite crystal on yellow Calcite crystals. Chipping along the back edge, otherwise undamaged with a perfect termination.
M532 - Axinite sold
Polar Urals, Russia
Miniature - 4 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
High quality miniature with razor sharp, transparent Axinite crystals along a thin shard of matrix. Double-terminated crystals to 2.5cm in size. Contact to the back side of the back crystal, otherwise all are perfect. Highly showy piece.
M533 - Spinel sold
Mogok, Myanmar
Thumbnail - 1.5 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm
Glassy red Spinel, a single crystal with a couple step overgrowth crystals on one corner. Undamaged and transparent, with internal imperfections that saved it from being cut. Color is everything with gems, and this has a superb blood red color. Weighs 9.2 carats.
M451 - Copper with Prehnite sold
Osceola Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, USA
Miniature - 4.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
Massive Copper and Copper wires with botryoidal light green Prehnite. The vug on the lower left has perfect hemispheres of Prehnite with Copper wires protruding out.
M551 - Quartz on Pyrite sold
Spruce Claim, King Co., Washington, USA
Small Cabinet - 6 x 5.2 x 3 cm
A 5cm Quartz scepter partially surrounded by a Pyrite crystal.
M553 - Tourmaline in Quartz sold
Taquarel, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Cabinet - 13.5 x 11 x 6 cm
Large specimen of double-terminated Quartz crystals included by needles of black Tourmaline. There are a few dings present, but there are so many perfect tips all around and it's priced at nearly the same cost as shown on it's 1970s era label. A complete floater crystallized all around. The crystals look great when backlit to show the needles of Tourmaline inside.
M552 - Smithsonite sold
Tsumeb, Namibia
Small Cabinet - 5.5 x 4 x 2 cm
Pink cobaltian Smithsonite crystals. Very clean with minimal damage and great color.
M590 - Cobaltite sold
Espanola, Ontario, Canada
Miniature - 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm
Cobaltite crystals in matrix. One side has a single 6mm crystal, the other sides has multiple crystals to 6mm. Mounted in a plastic box.
M565 - Tsavorite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Thumbnail - 1.8 x 1.7 x 1 cm
Intergrown pair of glassy and gemmy Tsavorite crystals. Largest crystal is 1.7cm. Very high luster!
M424 - Prehnite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Thumbnail - 1.7 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm
Exquisite, high quality cluster of Prehnite. If you appreciate high quality and don't mind the smaller size, this is a good one. Undamaged.
M375 - Tsavorite, Diopside, on Graphite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Small Cabinet - 6 x 4.5 x 4 cm
Row of deep green Tsavorite crystals, a lone white Diopside crystal, on Graphite. The Tsavorite have great green color (not pale!), are gemmy and undamaged, and reach 1cm in size.
M399 - Aurichalcite, Hemimorphite sold
Mina Oujela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Cabinet - 11 x 6.5 x 6 cm
Large, vuggy specimen covered by blue/green acicular crystals of Aurichalcite and transparent Hemimorphite. Old specimen with crystals all over.
M419 - Tsavorite with Graphite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Miniature - 5 x 3.8 x 3 cm
Cluster of Tsavorite crystals on a matrix of Tsavorite and Graphite. The Tsavorite are glassy and large; the compound crystal on top is nearly 3cm in size. A few nicks but generally undamaged. It appears to have detached like this in-situ as parts of the edges and the backside are rehealed.
M468 - Quartz with Pyrite sold
Oppu Mine, Amori, honshu, Japan
Small Cabinet - 6.5 x 6 x 3 cm
Cluster of Quartz crystals intergrown with cubic Pyrite from the famous Oppu Mine. It appears to have detached like this in-situ as the backside is also fully crystallized.
M452 - Copper sold
Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, USA
Small Cabinet - 6 x 4 x 2 cm
Aesthetic Copper specimen with a 3.8cm crystal atop smaller crystals of Copper.
M453 - Rhodochrosite on quartz sold
American Tunnel, Silverton, Colorado, USA
Small Cabinet - 5.8 x 4 x 3.5 cm
Deep pink crystals of Rhodochrosite on drusy Quartz crystals. Main Rhodo crystal is 2cm in size. Some of the drusy Quartz formed as casts after a now gone mineral.
M423 - Prehnite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Miniature - 3.8 x 3 x 2.5 cm
Exquisite, high quality cluster of translucent blue Prehnite. Crystallized all around and undamaged except for the bottom where is detached from matrix. These blue Prehnites are uncommon and have a color change (different shades of blue) in natural versus artificial light.
M465 - Ettringite sold
N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa
Thumbnail - 2.1 x 1.5 x 1 cm
Cluster of 4 bright lemon yellow Ettringite crystals. Undamaged quality thumbnail from the Kalahari manganese fields.