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March 9, 2018
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Minerals
K ~ Z
aj
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Thumbnail specimens
- micro / macro crystals
Small cabinet
pieces + matrix pieces |
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KARIBIBITE
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Boca Rica Claim, Sapucaia do Norte,
Galiléia, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Very fine pieces
with sprays of silky golden-brown acicular crystals forming tight to
small prickly spheres on Löllingite. $12.00
Fe3+3(As3+O2)4(As3+2O5)(OH) |
736 |
KOSNARITE on ALBITE
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Jenipapo District, Itinga, Jequitinhonha
Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
One only of this
"extremely rare" Phosphate! Colourless to white pseudo-cubic crystals -
sometimes dipyramidal. $25.00
KZr2(PO4)3 |
706 |
KRUPKAITE
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Barbora adit, Knöttel area, Krupka,
Krušné Hory Mountains, Ústí Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic |
Type locality!
Two only of this rarity! Areas of metallic steel-grey crystalline and /
or crystals on matrix. $12.00
PbCuBi3S6 |
64 |
KUZELITE
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Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg volcano,
Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany |
Very fine
example of this rare mineral! Colourless glassy thin tabular to platy to
micaceous crystals in small pieces of matrix. $12.00
Ca4Al2(OH)12[SO4]
· 6H2O |
4 |
LAUMONTITE
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Circle X Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains,
Ventura County, California, USA |
One only - A
fine piece with colourless tabular crystals in a vug. $8.00
CaAl2Si4O12 ·
4H2O
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3063 |
LAUMONTITE
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Route 395 road cut, Temecula, San Diego
County, California, USA |
One only - A
nice piece with colourless to chalky white crystals in a matrix.
$8.00
CaAl2Si4O12 ·
4H2O
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3064 |
LAVENDULAN
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Big Indian Mine, La Sal, San Juan County,
Utah, USA |
Cross sections
of highly lustrous bright turquoise spheres on matrix. $10.00
NaCaCu5(AsO4)4Cl
· 5H2O |
2386 |
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LEGRANDITE
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Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Municipio de Mapimí,
Durango, Mexico |
One only - A
very piece as highly lustrous bright transparent glassy yellow crystals
on matrix. $20.00
Zn2(AsO4)(OH)·5H2O |
4070 |
LIBETHENITE
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Miguel Vacas Mine, Conceição, Vila
Viçosa, Évora District, Portugal |
A very fine
very, very with highly lustrous vitreous transparent emerald to hunter
green tetrahedral crystals on matrix. $12.00
Cu2(PO4)(OH) |
2436 |
LINARITE
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Schlackental, Oberschulenberg, Lower
Saxony, Germany |
One only of this
beautiful pieces as a cluster of highly lustrous deep royal blue
crystals in a vug in matrix. $10.00
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2 |
15 |
LIZARDITE
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Dypingdal Serpentine-magnesite deposit,
Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway |
One only -
Aesthetically challenged as is most specimens from Norway as pale yellow
crystalline mass off matrix. $10.00
Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
9024 |
LOMONOSOVITE
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Yubileinaya pegmatite, Karnasurt area,
Karnasurt underground mine, Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula,
Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia |
Type locality!
One only as dark green to almost black "material" on matrix. Not very
pretty at all! $12.00
Na5Ti2(Si2O7)(PO4)O2 |
9080 |
MACKAYITE
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Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield
District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA |
Type
locality! Two only of this very rare Te-bearing mineral - Highly
lustrous light green crystals on matrix. $12.00
Fe3+(Te4+2O5)(OH) |
306 |
MALACHITE
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Serpieri shaft, Kamariza Mine, Kamariza
Mines, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí Prefecture, Greece |
An
"outrageously" beautiful piece as brilliantly lustrous elongated
transparent green tabular crystals on matrix. $15.00
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
2460 |
OLIVENITE
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El Guanaco Mine, Guanaco, Santa Catalina,
Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile |
Two only of
these very fine pieces as highly lustrous flattened tabular translucent
to transparent deep olive green crystals on matrix. $10.00
Cu2(AsO4)(OH) |
793 |
OLIVENITE
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South pit, Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill,
Gold Hill District, Deep Creek Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, USA |
Very fine
pieces! Clusters of stubby highly lustrous light to dark green (some
bi-coloured) crystals on matrix. $10.00
Cu2(AsO4)(OH) |
2397 |
OYELITE
AB |
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines,
Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South
Africa |
B) Very
fine compact spheres of silky white crystals on matrix. $10.00;
$12.00
Ca5BSi4O14.6H2O |
926 |
PERROUDITE
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Capitana Mine, Copiapó Province, Atacama
Province, Chile |
Very, very fine
examples of this very "rare" mineral as clusters of highly lustrous tiny
(40x) bright orange to reddish-brown almost acicular crystals on matrix.
$10.00; 2 x $15.00
Hg5Ag4S5(I,Br)2Cl2 |
786 |
PURPURITE
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Earl Lode, Custer District, Custer
County, South Dakota, USA |
Not very
aesthetic but still quite pretty! Lustrous light to deep magenta purple
columnar crystals on matrix. 40x shows the columnar and / or botryoidal
crystals. $10.00
(Mn3+,Fe3+)PO4 |
403 |
PYRITE
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Wallace Stone Company Quarry, Pigeon,
Huron County, Michigan, USA |
Extremely fine
pieces as very thin glassy-like acicular to filamentous brassy Pyrite on
Quartz in geodes and/or geode sections. $10.00
FeS2 |
515 |
RHENIITE
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Kudriavy volcano, Iturup Island, Kuril
Islands, Sakhalinskaya Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia |
One only -A rather
pretty little piece of dull matrix richly coverage with tiny lustrous black
metallic crystals. $15.00
ReS2 |
9113 |
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RHODOCHROSITE
AB
C |
American Tunnel Mine, Howardsville,
Silverton District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA |
Fine pieces from
a classic American locality! Incredibly beautiful pieces as very pale
pink to rose pink crystal clusters on lustrous Quartz matrix. (Unmounted
available - $8.00) $10.00
MnCO3 |
517 |
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SANTAROSAITE
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Santa Rosa Mine, Santa Rosa-Huantajaya
District, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile |
Type locality!
IMA 2007 - A very rare mineral - Highly lustrous tiny (30x) light to
dark blue "jelly-like" spherules on matrix. $20.00; $25.00
CuB2O4 |
710 |
STOKESITE
AB
CD |
Urucum Mine, Galiléia, Doce Valley, Minas
Gerais, Brazil |
Four only -
Superb pieces - Nodules of colourless lustrous glassy discoidal
crystals. $25.00
CaSn[Si3O9]
· 2H2O |
712 |
VANADINITE / DESCLOIZITE
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Gonzalito Mine, Complejo Gonzalito
District, Sierra Grande, Rio Negro Province, Argentina |
Extremely
aesthetic pieces with reddish-brown tapering barrel-shaped crystals with
unusual terminations on lustrous black Descloizite. $10.00
Pb5(VO4)3Cl
/ PbZn(VO4)(OH)
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734 |
VARISCITE
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Lavra de Eduardo, Conselheiro Peña, Minas
Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil |
Two only of
these very, very fine pieces with highly lustrous rose-pink to red
crystal(s) highlighted by white Albite. $10.00
AlPO4 ·
2H2O |
780 |
YANOMAMITE
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Periquito Mine, Monte Alegre de Goiás,
Goiás, Brazil |
One only of this
"extremely rare" Indium bearing arsenates - Clusters of tiny
(40x) colourless crystals (white pointer) on matrix. $30.00
InAsO4 ·
2H2O |
753 |
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