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Mixed Minerals September 23, 2018 · 10 specimens |
C584 - Roweite, Olshanskyite sold
Shijiangshan Mine, Inner Mongolia, China
Small Cabinet - 7 x 6 x 5 cm
Crystals of brown Roweite and white Olshanskyite in crystal sizes and quality not seen before this find. Interestingly, the type locality for Roweite is Franklin, New Jersey, where only one specimen was found.
C585 - Clinoatacamite sold
Lily Mine, Ica Department, Peru
Small Cabinet - 7 x 5.5 x 5 cm
High quality specimen of Clinoatacamite crystal groups atop sparkling drusy Quartz crystals. Good isolated crystal groups of this rare species. The Lily Mine is now closed.
C586 - Brochantite on Cuprite sold
Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Small Cabinet - 6 x 4 x 4 cm
Thick crystal groups of green Brochanite atop Cuprite. Rare piece from Bisbee with unusually wide (to 7mm) crystal groups.
C589 - Stilbite on Kunzite sold
Kunar, Afghanistan
Thumbnail - 2.8 x 1.3 x 0.4 cm
Neat specimen of a double-terminated Kunzite crystal with a removable layer of Stilbite on one side. Stilbite is uncommon in pegmatites.
C590 - Tanzanite sold
Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
Thumbnail - 2.2 x 1 x 0.9 cm
Unusual Tanzanite crystal that is yellow in one direction and blue with yellow when viewed from the other direction. Complete and undamaged with great glassy luster. Weighs 18.9 carats.
C591 - Mimetite sold
Mount Bonnie Mine, Northern Territory, Australia
Miniature - 4.9 x 2.9 x 2 cm
Cluster of Mimetite crystals with individual crystals to 9mm. Undamaged and sort of a floater with crystals on backside too. Locality is closed and these are seldom seen for sale anymore.
C592 - Veszelyite sold
Laochang Mine, Gejiu Co., Yunnan Province, China
Miniature - 3.6 x 3 x 2.5 cm
Sharp crystals of Veszelyite to 2mm lining vug in matrix. Veszelyite is a rare phosphate mineral only found in a few places worldwide as collectable mineral specimens. These specimens have only been found in the past few years and are one of the more interesting mineral surprises from China.
C593 - Apatite on Siderite $650 available
Panasquiera, Portugal
Miniature - 4 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
C595 - Azurite sold
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
Cabinet - 9.5 x 7.5 x 5.5 cm
Large, lustrous Azurite crystals that formed in a thick seam. It's not perfect, as the big crystals grew into both sides of the seam, but there are plenty or terminated crystals present and it's just darn impressive in size and volume of electric blue color.
C596 - Rhodochrosite after Clam sold
Kertch, Crimea, Ukraine
Small Cabinet - 8.5 x 7 x 3.5 cm
Fossil bivalve that has been replaced with pink Rhodochrosite. The old iron mine where these were found is long closed and these are no longer being found. This is an excellent example with an uncompressed fossil with the bottom half still in matrix and the top half exposed and partially open to reveal the botryoidal pink interior.