RHODONITE
|
San Martin Mine,
Chiurucu, Huallanca, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru |
Superb specimens. The best micro
Rhodonite crystals ever found. Highly lustrous transparent rose pink tabular
crystals on matrix +/- Pyrite. $10.00
CaMn4Si5O15 |
757 |
RUTILE
|
Galérie des Éconduits,
Mont Chemin, Bas Valais, Switzerland |
Extremely fine
lustrous red-brown to deep red short stubby to long prismatic tetragonal
crystals on matrix
$7.00
TiO2 |
28 |
RUTILE
|
Galérie des Éconduits,
Mont Chemin, Bas Valais, Switzerland |
Highly lustrous dark brown-black very
thin elongated tabular to acicular crystals on white Dolomite/Quartz matrix.
$7.00
TiO2 |
105 |
RUTILE
|
Champion Mine, White
Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA |
Highly lustrous
brilliant dark red crystals of various habits on
Quartz crystal matrix.
$7.00
TiO2 |
508 |
SAMPLEITE
|
Engaño Feliz Mine,
Cerro Pintado, Las Pintadas District, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province,
Atacama Region, Chile |
Lovely pieces!
Bright blue sprays of lustrous crystals on limonite matrix +/- Libethenite,
Atacamite.
$7.00
NaCaCu5(PO4)4Cl.5H2O |
787 |
SCHOLTZITE
|
Reaphook Hill, Martins
Well, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia |
Radial groups of very
lustrous colourless flattened tabular crystals on matrix. $7.00
CaZn2(PO4)2.2H2O |
802 |
SCOLECITE
|
Palabora Mine,
Loolekop, Limpopo Province, South Africa |
Very fine pieces!
Silky acicular creamy white crystals in vugs in basalt +/- tabular Heulandite
crystals.
$7.00
Ca[Al2Si3O10].3H2O |
918 |
SELENITE /
HALITE
|
Pernatty Lagoon, Mount
Gunson, Stuart Shelf area, Andamooka Ranges - Lake Torrens area, South
Australia, Australia |
Very pretty pieces!
Rich clusters of pale blue-green crystals +/- halite. These pieces have
NOT been dyed - except - by Mother Nature!
$8.00
CaSO4.2H2O/NaCl |
833 |
SHUISKITE
|
Saranovskii Mine,
Saranovskaya, Gorozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast', middle Urals, Urals
Region, Russia |
Some of the finest
specimens! Habit ranges from silky fibrous to acicular to thin elongated
tabular pinkish-brown on matrix +/- Uvarovite crystals. $12.00;
$15.00
Ca2(Mg, Al)(Cr,Al)2(Si,Al)3(O,OH)14 |
916 |
SPESSARTINE
|
Crowley Lake, Mono County,
California, USA |
Very, very fine gemmy deep
red-brown crystal(s) on matrix. $7.00
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3 |
560 |
SPESSARTINE
|
Navegadora
Mine, Penha do Norte, Conselheiro Pena, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast
Region, Brazil |
Absolutely
superb! Pale rose-pink to darker red, tabular crystals in vuggy Albite. $8.00
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3 |
784 |
SPHALERITE
|
Mogilata deposit,
Madan Ore Field, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria |
Another highly
lustrous sulfide from Bulgaria. Splendent brown-yellow to almost black
crystals +/- Quartz crystals. $7.00
ZnS |
161 |
SPHALERITE
|
Commodore # 5 Mine, Creede District,
Mineral County, Colorado, USA |
Collected 1974 / 1988 - Lustrous brown to
green-brown crystals on matrix +/- Pyrite, Galena, Quartz. $7.00
ZnS |
466 |
|
STIBNITE |
Cavnic Mine, Cavnic,
Maramures County, Romania |
Two only - Lustrous
blue-black metallic acicular crystal sprays and groupings on sulphide matrix.
$7.00
Sb2S3 |
31 |
TAKOVITE
|
Perseverance Mine,
Agnew, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Goldfields0Esperance Region, Western
Australia, Australia |
Another rare
item from Western Australia! This mineral from the Hydrotalcite group
occurs as pale blue spherules on matrix. $10.00
Ni3Al2(OH)16(CO3,OH).4H2O |
864 |
TITANITE
|
White Mountains, Inyo
County, California, USA |
Lustrous gemmy
transparent orange crystals on matrix +/- Anatase. $7.00
CaTiOSiO4 |
504 |
TITANITE
|
Imilchil, Er Rachidia Province,
Meknès-Tafilatet Region, Morocco |
Very, very fine
sub-adamantine tapering light honey brown crystals in matrix. $8.00
CaTiOSiO4 |
961 |
TOPAZ
|
Holfertite Pit,
Starvation Canyon, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA |
Two only - Collected
1987 - Fine euhedral transparent prismatic crystals on matrix. $7.00
Al2SiO4(F,OH)2 |
451 |
TURQUOISE
|
Viesalm, Stavelot
Massif, Luxemburg Province, Belgium |
These are very
pretty micros! Very fine pieces with
pale blue botryoidal clusters of crystals on matrix. $10.00; $12.00
Cu2+Al6(PO4)4(OH)8.4H2O |
7 |
VLADIMIRITE
|
Vein # 53, Ait Ahmane, Bou Azzer
District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco |
A very rare arsenate as sharp silky white
crystal groups and sprays on matrix . $12.00; 1 X $15.00
Ca5H2(AsO4)4.5H2O |
956 |
WAVELLITE
|
Kelly Bank Mine,
Lyndhurst-Vesuvius District, Rockbridge County, USA |
Three only - Very fine
colourless flattened elongated tabular crystals on matrix.
$7.00
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3.5H2O
|
505 |
WEEKSITE
|
Anderson Mine, Date
Creek Basin, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA |
Fine pieces with
bright yellow crystals usually as radial groups on matrix +/- orange-yellow
Carnotite crystals - 40X $8.00
(K,Na)2(UO2)2(Si5O13).3H2O |
362 |
|
WULFENITE |
Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Municipio de Mapimí,
Durango State, Mexico |
Two only - Flattened transparent yellow
crystals . Two with thick tabular orange crystals. $7.00
PbMoO4 |
682 |
|
WULFENITE |
Santa Ana Mine, Tocopilla District,
Tocopilla Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile |
Brilliant orange-red to orange tabular
and/or bipyramidal crystals on matrix. $7.00
PbMoO4 |
780 |
WULFENITE
|
Por Si Acaso Mine,
Caballo Muerto District, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile |
Very fine pieces with
blocky yellow-orange Wulfenite crystals +/- Fluorite crystals, Duftite.
$7.00
PbMoO4 |
791 |
WULFENITE
|
Whim Creek Copper
Mine, Whim Creek, Roebourne Shire, Pilbara Region, South Australia, Australia |
Wonderful pieces!
Lustrous gemmy transparent yellow to yellow-orange modified octahedral
crystals on gossan with Smithsonite +/- Malachite.
$7.00
PbMoO4 |
801 |
ZÁLESÍITE
|
Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill District, Deep
Creek Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, USA |
Very fine examples of this rarity!
Small light blue-green spheres of acicular crystals on matrix +/-
Conichalcite, Aragonite. $12.00
CaCu6[(AsO4)(AsO3OH)6].3H2O |
352 |
ZÁLESÍITE
|
Tucumana Mine, Inca de
Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile |
One only - A very rare
Calcium-Arsenate as sprays of tiny (40x) light green crystals in vugs in
matrix +/- Rutile, Apatite-(CaF), Albite $12.00
CaCu6[(AsO4)(AsO3OH)6].3H2O |
714 |