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Gorgeous large plate of translucent honey-colored Fluorite from a new find in China. The color blossums in Sunlight. Very little of this unique Fluorite is available.
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Kentucky Fluorspar District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
16 x 8.5 x 6.6 cm
$1,600
SOLD
#C3056 Almandine Garnets in Schist
Near Fauske, Nordland, Norway
12.6 x 8.6 x 3.4 cm
$375
#C3057 Calcite on Fluorite
Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois
16.5 x 8.5 x 7.5 cm
$300
#C3058 Pyromorphite on Matrix
Yangshuo, Gangxi Province, China
6.5 x 5.5 x 2 cm
$225
#C3059 Wavellite
Cerhovice, Bohemia, Czech Republic
9.5 x 5 x 2 cm
(Ex-Seaman Museum Collection)
$350
#C3060 Wolframite on Calcite
Julcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
17 x 13 x 4 cm
$180
#C3061 Fluorapatite Crystals on Matrix
Cerro de Mercado Mine, Victoria de Durango, Mun. de Durango, Durango, Mexico
7 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm
$40
SOLD
#C3062 Brown Fluorite & Celestite
Clay Center, Ohio
6.5 x 5 x 4 cm
$300
#C3063 Barite
Murcia, Spain
7 x 5 x 2.5 cm
$60
SOLD
#C3064 Malachite Sprays on Matrix
Zacatecas, Mexico
13.5 x 8 x 5 cm
$400
#C3065 Quartz Casts after Galena
Magmont Mine, Bixby, Viburnum Trend District, Iron County, Missouri
9.5 x 9 x 5.5 cm
(Ex-George Feist Collection)
$400
SOLD
#C3066 Pyrite on Quartz
Huanzala, Peru
10.2 x 7.1 x 6.3 cm
$300
Gorgeous dark honey colored Fluorite crystals with darker edge coloring from the Minerva Mine. The photos barely do this specimen justice.
Fauske
Norway Municipalities
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Garnets are most often seen in red, but are available in a wide variety of colors spanning the entire spectrum. The name "garnet" comes from the Latin granatus ("grain"), possibly a reference to the Punica granatum ("pomegranate"), a plant with red seeds similar in shape, size, and color to some garnet crystals.
Six common species of garnet are recognized based on their chemical composition. They are pyrope, almandine, spessartite, grossular (varieties of which are hessonite or cinnamon-stone and tsavorite), uvarovite and andradite (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Nice display of well formed isolated dark red Almandine Garnets in Shist.
#C3067 Barite with Quartz
Murray Mine, Elko County, Nevada
9 x 6 x 6 cm
(Ex-David & Emily Stoudt Collection)
$500
#C3068 Sphalerite, Quartz & Chalcopyrite
Casapalca, Huarochiri Province,
Lima Department, Peru
8 x 6 x 5 cm
$65
SOLD
#C3069 Magnesite and Quartz
Brumado, Serra das Eguas, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil
10 x 8.5 x 3 cm
$380
#C3070 Stibnite on Matrix
Xikuangshan Mine, Hunan Province, China
15 x 10 x 4.5 cm
$200
#C3071 Schorl Tourmaline on Smoky Quartz
Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil
12 x 7 x 4.5 cm
$400
#C3072 Malachite ps. After Azurite, Dioptase and Calcite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, SW Africa
9.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm
$500
Lustrous lemonade colored Calcite crystals on golden Fluorite. Hard to photograph-looks even better in person.
Nice specimen of grass green Pyromorphite crystals on matrix, which provides an aesthetic contrast. Name is from the Greek "pyro" for fire and "morph" for form.
Wavellite is a mineral that demonstrates the classic radiating globule crystal habit. In fact, Wavellite is probably the type mineral for this habit. The radial clusters reflect light to produce a sparkling pinwheel effect. Named after William Wavell (?-1829) of England who discovered the mineral.
Wolframite (Fe,Mn)WO4, is an iron manganese tungstate mineral that is the intermediate between ferberite (Fe2+ rich) and huebernite (Mn2+ rich). Along with scheelite, the wolframite series are the most important tungsten ore minerals (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Yellow green Apatite crystals on matrix.
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite, and chlorapatite, named for high concentrations of OH-, F-, or Cl- ions, respectively, in the crystal. The formula of the admixture of the three most common endmembers is written as Ca5(PO4)3(OH, F, Cl), and the formulae of the individual minerals are written as Ca5(PO4)3(OH), Ca5(PO4)3F and Ca5(PO4)3Cl, respectively (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Aesthetic rootbeer colored Fluorite crystals with Celestite from the Clay Center area of Ohio.
Location of Clay Center in Ohio
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Nice tree formation of complex Barite blades with a blueish tintnge.
Cathedral in Murcia
Dense forest of fine rich green sprays of Malachite needles on matrix.
Zacatecas is known as "la ciudad de cantera rosa" or "the city made of pink stone". A beautiful city on a hill (8200 ft. / 2485 m.) which seemingly grew overnight in the mountains of Mexico . In fact, it was the discovery of Silver in the area and the subsequent mines that were responsible for the quick rise of this city in 1546.
Zacatecas mining operations were one of the main sources of Spanish gold while Mexico was a colony known as New Spain.
Very unusual cast formed by Quartz forming over Galena crystals, which were eroded or dissolved away leaving the Quartz crust with cavities in the shape or form of the pre-existing Galena crystals.
"The Viburnum Trend, a narrow 45-mile-long belt containing lead deposits, is situated on the west flank of the Ozark uplift. The uplift consists of extrusive and intrusive Precambrian rocks that make up the midcontinent craton; it was the uplifting of these rocks that influenced the deposition of sedimentary formations. During the Upper Cambrian, the Lamotte Sandstone was first laid down on the Precambrian igneous rocks, followed by the Bonneterre Formation (average 300 feet thick) consisting of carbonate units. The Bonneterre was covered by 125 to 225 feet of Davis Formation shales. The Davis is overlain by Upper Cambrian Derby-Doerun Dolomite, the Potosi Dolomite, and the Eminence Dolomite and the Ordovician Gasconade Dolomite"
Beautiful specimen of Barite crystals with a sugar-like coating of glistening Quartz.
"Founded as a railroad-promoted townsite and railhead for the White Pine mines in 1869, the town of Elko has served for generations now as the provincial capital of an enormous cattle ranching empire embracing parts of four states. Sixty years ago Lowell Thomas called Elko "the last real cowtown in the American West," and until about 15 years ago that was still a good thumbnail description. But sophisticated new mining technologies permit the harvesting of microscopic particles of the precious metal from mountains (literally) of rock and dirt hauled 200 tons at a time to the crusher. Half a dozen large mining operations produce millions of ounces of gold a year in the region, and even though mining is now on the wane, their impact has transformed the old cowtown into a prosperous young city"
Nice combination of black Sphalerite, Quartz and golden Chalcopyrite crystals.
Neat plate of relatively rare Magnestie rhombohedral crystals with a nicely terminated Quartz crystal on th left side.
Clusters of Stibnite crystals on a matrix. You don't see many specimens of Stibnite still attached to a matrix.
Location of Hunan Province in China
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Very aesthetic formation of jet black bundles of fine Schorl crystals and light brown Smoky Quartz.
The most common variety of tourmaline is Schorl. It may account for 95% or more of all tourmaline in nature. The early history of the mineral schorl shows that the name "Schorl" was in use prior to the year 1400 (AD) because a village known today as Zschorlau (in Saxony, Germany) was then named "Schorl" (or minor variants of this name)
{From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia}
Gorgeous combination of green Malachite psedomorph after Azurite with clear gemmy Dioptase crystals and lustrous Calcite rhombs, some of which are tinted green from the Malachite. Great display secimen.
