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Barite (barium sulphate) is a commonly occuring mineral that tends to form in attractive clusters. In its pure form Barite is transparent to translucent and grows as colorless or white crystals but if chemical impurities are present it can take on a wide range of colors, including shades of blue, yellow, red and green.
Metaphysical Property: Yellow or golden Barite is linked to dream magic, and sleeping with a piece under your pillow will encourage vivid dreams as well as helping you remember them more clearly when you wake. However, find a less expensive and smaller piece than this one to put under your pillow.
Absolutely stunning specimen of lustrous golden Barite blades in complex cluster formation.
Historical flag of Felsõbánya (Kingdom of Hungary)
Aesthetic combination of octahedral crystals of lavender Fluorite on Adularia with Quartz.
Adularia is a tectosilicate mineral with formula KAlSi3O8. It is a form of orthoclase which crystallizes at unusually low temperatures. It is found in the Adula Mountains of Switzerland
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Hundreds od dark cinnamon colored Hessonite crystals to 3-4 mm with minor light green Diopside crystals to 8 mm.
Striated crystals of Hessonite or Cinnamon Stone is a variety of garnet, belonging to the calcium aluminium grossularite type, Ca3Al2Si3O12. The name is from the Greek hēssōn, inferior, in allusion to its lower hardness and density than most other garnets (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
An impressive specimen of curving, bladed glistening gray Calcite, which color is due to inclusions of Jamesonite. This is a real beauty !
Jamesonite is a sulfosalt mineral, a lead, iron, antimony sulfide with formula Pb4FeSb6S14. With the addition of manganese it forms a series with benavidesite. It is a dark grey metallic mineral which forms acicular prismatic monoclinic crystals.
It was named for Scottish mineralogist Robert Jameson (1774-1854). It was first identified in 1825 in Cornwall, England. It is also reported from South Dakota and Arkansas, USA; Zacatecas, Mexico and Romania (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
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Outstanding glassy, translucent crystals of orange Wulfenite on matrix. Thin bladed specimens from this location are quite scarce. Very good codition with only a couple of minor chips.
Cerro de Mercado Mine, Victoria de Durango, Mun. de Durango, Durango, Mexico
8 x 6 x 2 cm
$55
SOLD
#A1078 Mimetite
Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
8 x 7.5 x 2.5 cm
$200
#A1079 Melanite Garnets
Urals Region, Russia
11 x 6.5 x 5 cm
$150
SOLD
#A1080 Fluorite & Celestite
Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio
9 x 5 x 4 cm
$160
#A1081 Celestite with Calcite
San Rafael Swell, Hanksville, Utah
9 x 7.5 x 5 cm
$80
SOLD
#A1083 Pyrite & Siderite
Julcani Mine, Julcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
10 x 6.5 x 4 cm
$150
SOLD
#A1084 Epidote
Rosario Mable Mine, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
12 x 9 x 6 cm
$180
SOLD
#A1085 Fluorite
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huanuco Department, Peru
14 x 12 x 6 cm
$100
SOLD
#A1082 Sulfur, Calcite & Celestite
Machow Mine, Tarnobrzeg, Podkarpackie, Poland
14 x 7 x 5 cm
(Ex-David & Emily Stoudt Collection)
$450
Wow ! This is a great specimen of "Rutile Stars," The golden Rutile crystals grow off of a Hematite crystal and the orientation is caused by its six rhombic faces.This is the best one I have seen in some time.
Ed David stopped at my booth at the Franklin, New Jersey Fall Gem & Mineral Show and bought this fine specimen. A fine gentleman and great collector !
Nice scattering of yellow Apatite crystals on matrix.
Location of the State of Durango in Mexico
Mimetite, whose name derives from the Greek mimethes, meaning "imitator", is an arsenate mineral which forms as a secondary mineral in lead deposits, usually by the oxidation of galena and arsenopyrite. The name is a reference to mimetite's resemblance to the mineral pyromorphite. This resemblance is not coincidental, as mimetite forms a mineral series with pyromorphite (Pb5(PO4)3Cl) and with vanadinite (Pb5(VO4)3Cl). The most notable occurrences are Mapimi, Durango, Mexico and Tsumeb, Namibia (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Very attractive plate of yellow- green botryoidal Mimetite.
Large specimen with hundreds of vitreous black Melanite crystals on front and back sides. Melanite is the black variety of Andradite Garnet. Andradite was named after the Brazilian mineralogist José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva (1763-1838).
Root beer colored Fluorite crystals with Celestite. Fluorite from the limestone quarries of Ohio is often a pretty tan or brown. caused by organic petroleum compounds caught up in the fluorite’s structure.
Neat vug or geode filled with glassy Celestite crystals and beautiful orange Calcite.
The San Rafael Swell is a large geologic feature located in south-central Utah, USA about 30 miles (50 km) west of Green River, Utah. The San Rafael Swell, approximately 75 miles by 40 miles (120 x 65 km), consists of a giant dome-shaped anticline of sandstone, shale, and limestone that was pushed up millions of years ago. Since that time, infrequent but powerful flash floods have eroded the sedimentary rocks into numerous valleys, canyons, gorges, mesas and buttes. The Swell is part of the Colorado Plateau physiographic region (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Tarnobrzeg is a town in south-eastern Poland, on the east bank of the river Vistula, with 51,300 inhabitants (2001). Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (Polish: Województwo Podkarpackie) since 1999, it had previously been the capital of Tarnobrzeg Voivodship (1975-1998). The city was a major center for the mining and processing of sulphur and sulphuric acid. However, its mines have since closed having been deemed uneconomic. The mine in Piaseczno was closed first, followed by the Machów mine (after 40 years of working — it had been the biggest open-cast sulphur mine in Europe), and finally the Jeziórko mine in the 1990s.
Since the 1980s, the land in the mining areas has gradually been reclaimed. The Machów mine has been filled with water to form a reservoir used for recreation, and the same is happening with the Jeziórko mine — it is being slowly filled from the nearby Vistula river (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Fine specimen of Sulfur crystals with Calcite and Celestite from the long closed Machow Mine in Poland.
Aesthetic formation of light gray Siderite crystals on golden Pyrite. Siderite is a mineral composed of iron carbonate FeCO3. It takes its name from the Greek word sideros, “iron”.
Huancavelica (147 km. far from Ayacucho) is the capital of the department with the same name and it has more than 30,000 citizens. It is located in the middle of the Cordillera de los Andes and it is isolated from the others towns because of its height (3500 meters).
It was founded in 1571 by the Spanish to take advantage of the mining resources.
Large nearly black Epidote crystal spray formation. Hard to photograph - looks better in person.
Epidote is a calcium aluminium iron sorosilicate mineral, Ca2(Al, Fe)3(SiO4)3(OH), crystallizing in the monoclinic system. Well-developed crystals are of frequent occurrence: they are commonly prismatic in habit, the direction of elongation being perpendicular to the single plane of symmetry. The faces are often deeply striated and crystals are often twinned. Many of the characters of the mineral vary with the amount of iron present for instance, the color, the optical constants, and the specific gravity (3.33). The hardness is 6.5. The color is green, grey, brown or nearly black, but usually a characteristic shade of yellowish-green or pistachio-green (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Beautiful, sparkling clear mass of Fluorite crystals from the Huanzala Mine.
The Huanzala mine is about 250 km north of Lima in the northwest corner of the Huallanca district. The orebodies contain pyrite, lead-zinc, copper, silver-tin-tungsten minerals. This mine is very famous for the incredible pyrites and for the fantastic pink fluorites, probably the best in the world for quality and association.
