Microminerals from Italy #1

A land that has brought us many beautiful things.......

         


now brings us some fine microminerals

 
50010
ANATASE San Salvatore, Val Trebbia, Piacenza  Sharp adamantine steeply bipyramidal crystals on matrix in a 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0cm box.  $7.00
13            ANATASE Casteli di Casio, Bologna  Very fine highly lustrous yellow-brown acute octahedral crystals on matrix.  (E)  $5.00
50013      ANATASE Casteli di Casio, Bologna  Very fine highly lustrous yellow-brown acute octahedral crystals on matrix in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box. $7.00
149 ANATASE Brallo Pass, Pavia  Very fine, typical Alpine material - sharp, highly lustrous transparent pinkish brown to orange brown crystals of various habits with water clear Quartz crystals on matrix.  (E)  $5.00
50160    ANATASE Telecchio, Piacenza  Lustrous greenish-brown bipyramidal crystals on Quartz matrix in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $7.00  
11          BROOKITE Casteli di Casio, Bologna  Lustrous red to red-brown flattened prismatic crystals on matrix.  (E)  $5.00
50011    BROOKITE Casteli di Casio, Bologna  Lustrous red to red-brown flattened prismatic crystals on matrix in a 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.$7.00
152          CANAVESITE Brosso, Salvere Level, Torino  Sprays and spherical groups of shiny white acicular crystals on brown or dark grey matrix.  (N, E)  $6.00
196   DIOPSIDE/ VESUVIANITE Roccamurata Quarry, Parma  Very highly lustrous pale green to colourless prismatic Vesuvianite crystals with steep pyramidal terminations in groups and clusters with Diopside crystals in matrix.  (N, E, U).  $6.00
50196    DIOPSIDE/ VESUVIANITE Roccamurata Quarry, Parma  Very highly lustrous pale green to colourless prismatic Vesuvianite crystals with steep pyramidal terminations in groups and clusters with Diopside crystals in matrix IN 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $7.00
3            FLUORAPATITE Colli Albani, Rome  Very fine, lustrous colourless prismatic crystals in vugs.  (E)  $5.00
4             FLUORAPATITE / AUGITE Colli Albani, Rome  Superb elongated colourless prismatic crystals in matrix with good Augite crystals. (E)  $6.00
50004    FLUORAPATITE / AUGITE Colli Albani, Rome  Superb elongated colourless prismatic crystals in matrix with good Augite crystals in a 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $8.00
14          HARMOTOME Fittā di Soave, Verona  Fine colourless blocky crystals in vesicles in matrix +/- pink Chabazite.  (E)  $5.00
50014    HARMOTOME Fittā di Soave, Verona  Fine colourless blocky crystals in vesicles in matrix +/- pink Chabazite in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $7.00
8            HEMIMORPHITE ON HYDROZINCITE Zorzone Mine, Bergamo  Highly lustrous water-clear crystals and sprays on creamy-white botryoidal Hydrozincite.  Beautiful pieces.  (E)  $5.00
50008    HEMIMORPHITE ON HYDROZINCITE Zorzone Mine, Bergamo  Highly lustrous water-clear crystals and sprays on creamy-white botryoidal Hydrozincite in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  Beautiful pieces.  $7.00

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