MINERALS FROM EUROPE  -Page 3

       

 

1729 MOLYBDITE  SOLD Ransart, Belgium Very fine examples of this rare molybdenum-oxide as thin yellow transparent plates or as green tabular translucent, sub-adamantine crystals on matrix.  (E)  $10.00  3 pieces available.  

50092

OLIVENITE (I)

Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany

Larger matrix pieces in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm boxes. $6.00

54155 OLIVENITE Ting Tang Mine, Gwinnap, Cornwall, England Highly lustrous very dark green crystal clusters (blue-green coating on Quartz crystals is Scorodite) and groups on matrix. $6.00; $7.00
4059 OLIVENITE Ting Tang Mine, Gwinnap, Cornwall, England Highly lustrous very dark green crystal clusters (blue-green coating on Quartz crystals is Scorodite) and groups on matrix. (E)  $5.00
4110 OLIVENITE Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England Groups of fine lustrous pistachio green crystals on matrix.  $5.00
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PARISITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Very fine pale pink to orange-pink transparent to translucent hexagonal crystals on matrix +/- Rutile.  (E)  $6.00
68 PARSONITE / METATORBERNITE Les Montmins, Echassières, Allier A very rare mineral!  One only as caramel to beige flattened rectangular laths in divergent fans.  1(E)  $20.00
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PERROUDITE
Cap Garrone, Var, France A very rare mineral as tiny (40x) red brown needles in vugs in small pieces of matrix. (E) $10.00
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PHILLIPSITE Perrier, Puy de Dôme OUTSTANDING MICROS! Highly lustrous - sub-adamantine Phillipsite crystals on dark blue-grey Celadonite in miarolitic cavities.  (E)  $6.00
3006 PHILLIPSITE Waterstein Head, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Scotland Lustrous, colourless crystal groups in vugs in basalt.  1 only (E)  $5.00
3002 PHILLIPSITE Sgurr A Mhadaidh, Ruaidh, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland Colourless to white transparent to translucent complex groups in vugs in basalt.  (E)  $5.00
29    PHILLIPSITE Fittà di Soave, Verona, Italy  Water-clear crystals on Caledonite in vugs in basalt.  (E)  $5.00
50029 PHILLIPSITE Fittà di Soave, Verona, Italy  Water-clear crystals on Caledonite in vugs in basalt in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $7.00
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PLUMBOGUMMITE Les Montmins, Echassières, Allier Very, very fine specimens generally as white to colourless or pale yellow or caramel coloured crystals forming "rosettes" and spheres on matrix.  (E)  $7.00;  $10.00
54127 PYROMORPHITE Burgam Mine, Shropshire, England Matrix 30x24mm - Vuggy Quartz matrix richly covered with opaque light grey-green tapering crystals.  Some hopper growth crystals.  $12.00
94 PYROMORPHITE San Andrés, Espiel, Cordoba, Spain One only with very fine, stubby apple-green prismatic crystals - pedion-terminated. 1(E) $6.00
51735 QUARTZ-PHANTOM Brunnital, Uri, Switzerland Fine, highly lustrous Quartz "phantoms" on matrix 21x18mm.  1 @ $7.00
71 RASPITE / PLUMBOGUMMITE SOLD Les Montmins, Echassières, Allier As lustrous golden to honey-brown tabular crystals with a "bevelled edge" appearance + spheres of white to colourless to pale yellow Plumbogummite CRYSTALS.  (E)  $12.00
180 REALGAR Cavnic mine, Cavnic (Kapnic or Kapnik), Maramures Co., Romania Superb brilliant red PRISMATIC crystals on a sulphide matrix with Stibnite.  (E)  $7.00

Only one piece remains
50180  REALGAR Cavnic mine, Cavnic (Kapnic or Kapnik), Maramures Co., Romania Superb brilliant red PRISMATIC crystals on a sulphide matrix with Stibnite in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.   $10.00
60180 REALGAR Cavnic mine, Cavnic (Kapnic or Kapnik), Maramures Co., Romania A superb piece with brilliant red PRISMATIC crystals on a sulphide matrix with Stibnite in a 5.8 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm box.  $20.00
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REALGAR Lengenbach, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland Lustrous bright red euhedral crystals on white Dolomite. (E) $6.00  2 only
176 REICHENBACHITE Fundpunkt 5.0, Borstein, Reichenbach, Odenwald, Germany Type locality - Druses of mid to dark green vitreous crystals with Pseudomalachite, Quartz and/or Chrysocolla. (E) $10.00
50176 REICHENBACHITE Fundpunkt 5.0, Borstein, Reichenbach, Odenwald, Germany Type locality - Druses of mid to dark green vitreous crystals with Pseudomalachite, Quartz and/or Chrysocolla in 3.8cm boxes.

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RHABDOPHANE--CE  

Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany TYPE LOCALITY! Tiny (40x) lustrous, colourless prismatic crystals or white acicular sprays - usually on Tetrahedrite or Quartz/Barite. (E) $6.00

50034

RHABDOPHANE-CE

Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany Larger pieces of Quartz/Barite/Fluorite matrix with colourless lustrous crystals and groups. $9.00
1732 RUTILE Alpe Cristallina, Val Bedretto, Tessin, Switzerland Very fine lustrous golden red-brown elongated crystals - some reticulated - on matrix.  2(E)  $6.00 each
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RUTILE Lengenbach, Bas Valais, Switzerland Very fine, metallic-adamantine, long to short prismatic, deep-red to black crystals. Some are of unusual almost pure bipyramidal habit. (E) $6.00
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RUTILE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais  Extremely fine lustrous red-brown to deep red short, stubby to long prismatic tetragonal crystals on matrix.  (E)  $6.00
50098 SCHEELITE Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany Rather crude light cream to orange tetrahedral crystals on matrix in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box. $7.00
50140 SCHEELITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Very fine pale yellow to light orange, sub-adamantine tetrahedral crystals on Quartz crystals in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box $8.00 each. A) Matrix 2.6 x 2.1 cm;  B) Matrix  2.7 x 2.0 cm with Fluorite;  C) Matrix 2.9 x 2.5 cm;  D) Matrix 2.7 x 2.0 cm;  E) Matrix 3.2 x 1.8 cm with Fluorite
140 SCHEELITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Very fine pale yellow to light orange, sub-adamantine tetrahedral crystals on Quartz crystals.  (E)  $7.00

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SCORODITE  (I)

Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany

Spheroids of very lustrous pale blue crystals on Quartz and/or Barite. 3(E) $5.00

4146 SCORODITE Hemerdon Bal, Tavistock, Devon, England Very, very fine highly lustrous colourless to light blue crystals in vugs in matrix.  (E)  $6.00
1702 SERPIERITE Julliushütte, Astfeld, Harz Mountains, Germany Transparent lustrous light blue crystal sprays in vugs in slag.  (E)  $7.00
54143 SIDERITE Wheal Drea, Cornwall, England Matrix 30X20mm - Triangular cross section crystals almost completely replaced by Goethite.  $10.00
54144 SIDERITE Wheal Drea, Cornwall, England Matrix 32x20mm - Triangular cross section crystals almost completely replaced by Goethite.  $7.00
12     SMITHSONITE Zorzone Mine, Bergamo, Italy  Extremely fine pieces with highly lustrous water-clear crystals in vugs.  (E)  $7.00
50012 SMITHSONITE Zorzone Mine, Bergamo, Italy  Extremely fine pieces with highly lustrous water-clear crystals in vugs in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $8.00
109 SMITHSONITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Fine light grey-white vitreous botryoids on matrix.  (E)  $5.00
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SYNCHYSITE-(Y) / PARISITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Pale cream to brick-red epitaxy of Synchysite-(Y) on Parisite +/- Rutile crystals.  Best at (30x).  (E)  $7.00
4149 SPHALERITE Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England Superb, deep red-brown adamantine crystals on matrix +/- Calcite.  (E)  $5.00;  $7.00
146   SPHALERITE Tosca Quarry, Varsi, Parma  Most unusual - stacks of tiny (30x) lustrous red-brown crystals forming "columns" on a matrix of +/- white acicular Aragonite, lustrous colourless Titanite and Lizardite lining the vugs.   (E)  $5.00
51731 STAUROLITE Finisterre, Coray, France A brown rather crude 1.7 x 1.6 x 1.8 cm "cross" crystals.  $8.00
53010 STELLERITE Edinbane, Isle of Skye, Scotland Groups and sheaves of tabular, colourless to pale cream, pearly crystals in vugs in basalt in 3.8 cm boxes  $6.00
3008 STELLERITE Edinbane, Isle of Skye, Scotland Groups and sheaves of tabular, colourless to pale cream, pearly crystals in vugs in basalt.  1 only   (E)  $5.00
182 STIBNITE Cavnic, Romania Lustrous blue-black metallic acicular crystal sprays on sulphide matrix +/- minor Realgar.  (E)  $5.00
3009 STILBITE/
CHABAZITE
Moonen Bay, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Scotland Fine combination specimen. Lustrous, transparent Chabazite crystals scattered on a matrix of lustrous, transparent Stilbite crystals.  (E)  $5.00
279 STOLZITE Les Montmins, Echassières, Allier Fine lustrous yellow-orange complex crystals on a corroded 'boxwork' matrix.  (E)  $7.00

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STOLZITE

Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany

Very fine tiny euhedral yellow-orange to orange, thin to thick or dipyramidal highly lustrous crystals in matrix +/- Mimetite, Bismutite. (E) $5.00

269 STRENGITE Les Montmins, Echassières, Allier Very, very fine pale pink to lilac crystals forming spheres on matrix.  (E)  $6.00;  $7.00
52 TUNISITE / CALCITE Condoret, Drôme, Remusat Very thin elongated tabular transparent colourless highly reflective crystals or as colourless flattened tabular crystals with Calcite crystals.  (E)  $8.00;  $10.00
4003 TURQUOISE  ("Rashleighite") Bunny Mine, St. Austell, Cornwall, England Druses of tiny (30x) light blue crystals on Quartz matrix.  Formerly known as "Rashleigite".  (N, E)  $5.00
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URANOPHANE Le Boucheron, Davignac, Corrèze EXCEPTIONAL PIECES!  Silky pale yellow acicular crystal sprays richly covering matrix.  (E)  $10.00
277 WAVELLITE Beauvoir, Echassières, Allier, France Extremely fine lustrous colourless transparent long prismatic terminated crystals in matrix.  (E)  $6.00
139 WULFENITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Fine yellow blocky or tabular crystal(s) - usually on Quartz crystal matrix.  (E)  $5.00
50139 WULFENITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Fine yellow blocky or tabular crystal(s) - usually on Quartz matrix in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $6.00 each.  A) 3.7 x 2.5 cm;  B) 3.0 x 1.4 cm
136 WULFENITE / FLUORITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Three only with blocky or tabular Wulfenite crystal(s) with Fluorite cubes.  3(E)  $6.00
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WULFENITE / HEMIMORPHITE Galérie des Éconduit, Mont Chemin, Bas Valais Two only with fine tabular yellow Wulfenite crystals with Hemimorphite crystals on matrix. 2(E)  $5.00
1724 CONICHALCITE/ Zn-OLIVENITE Agios Konstandinos, Lavrion, Greece Apple-green botryoids of Conichalcite with very, very fine highly lustrous silvery green acicular Zn-Olivenite crystals. 1(E) $7.00
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ZN-OLIVENITE             Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany Groups of apple green to grey-green  crystals richly coating gossan matrix. (E) $5.00

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