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Mixed Minerals October 9, 2019 · 8 specimens |
K586 - Oil in Quartz sold
Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan
Miniature - 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm
Transparent Quartz crystal with inclusions of orange/yellow petroleum. It has 2 large, moving bubbles (to 4mm) that travel up to 1.2cm inside the Quartz. This has the largest amount of included oil in any Quartz of this type I've ever had. It's contacted on the bottom.
K585 - Oil in Quartz sold
Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan
Miniature - 4.5 x 1.6 x 1.5 cm
Transparent Quartz crystal with inclusions of orange/yellow petroleum. It has 2 mobing bubbles that travel up to 1cm inside the Quartz. This is unusual as most from this find are double-terminated floaters while this specimen is the only prismatic Quartz of this type I've ever had. Undamaged.
K458 - Prehnite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Small Cabinet - 5.5 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm
Rosette of translucent green/yellow Prehnite crystals with an attached partial cluster. Solid Prehnite with a flat backside due to growth against Calcite. Main crystal cluster is 4.5cm wide.
K449 - Prehnite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Small Cabinet - 6.5 x 5 x 2 cm
Clusters of translucent green/yellow Prehnite crystals. Solid Prehnite with a flat backside with a thin layer of attached Graphite. Good quality specimen with large distinct crystals.
K584 - Adamite sold
Oujela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature - 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm
Thick 'pinwheel' formation of Adamite with a smaller attached crystal group. Highly sparkly and undamaged. Old specimen.
K158 - Brucite $200 available
Killa Saifullah, Balochistan, Pakistan
Cabinet - 13 x 8.5 x 3 cm
K427 - Rhodolite gemstone $450 available
Tanzania
Thumbnail - 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm
Well saturated red Rhodolite garnet gemstone weighing 4.14 carats. I bought this from gem dealer Rick Kennedy about 20 years ago for about $250.
K405 - Lawsonite sold
Reed Station, Tiburon, Marin Co., California, USA
Miniature - 5 x 4 x 2 cm
Blue and white Lawsonite crystals in Glaucophane schist. Good representative specimen from the type locality, loaded with crystals. collected in 1965.