MINERALS    A - E
 

Name Location Description Number
ACANTHITE / ARGENTITE Mina Rayas, Guanajuato, Mexico Extremely fine pieces with silvery metallic Acanthite after "cubic" Argentite crystals in dendritic growths +/- Polybasite.  (E)  $7.00 751

ACTINOLITE  

 

Luck Quarry, Goose Creek, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA Very photogenic - thin to thick colourless to light green crystals +/- Chlorite, Albite, Titanite, Ca -Apatite.  (E)  $5.00  599
ADAMITE     Beltana deposit, Puttapa, Flinders Range, South Australia Glassy individual transparent crystals and clusters - colourless to pale green and yellow.  Some with Hematite or Coronadite inclusions.  Usually with Willemite and/or Hedyphane.  (E)  $5.00  843
ANALCIME Boron Open Pit #1, Kramer District, Kern County, California, USA Very fine, lustrous colourless crystals on Saponite in basalt.  (E)  $5.00 319
ANATASE Brallo Pass, Pavia, Italy 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)  $5.00 149
ANATASE  Casteli di Casio, Bologna, Italy Very fine highly lustrous yellow-brown acute octahedral crystals on matrix.  $5.00 13
ANTLERITE      Jomac Mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA Druses of vitreous emerald-green tabular crystals +/- Ca-Cyanotrichite.  (N, E)  $5.00 429
APOPHYLLITE
ON MORDENITE
Jaquish Road, Goble, Columbia County, Oregon, USA Colourless crystals with unusual prism faces on or with thin white Mordenite needles. 2 (E) $7.00 426
ARSENOPYRITE    Serpieri Mine, Agios Konstandinos, Greece Dark brassy prismatic crystals and/or sprays of crystals in matrix.  Usually frosted with tiny Siderite, +/- Quartz, Serpierite(?) sprays, Calcite.  (E)  $6.00 213
ARSENOPYRITE North Tincroft Lode, Cook's Kitchen Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England Sharp blocky brassy to blue black crystals in sulphide matrix. (E) $5.00  4001
ATENCIOITE               Linópolis, Divinodos Laranjeiras, Governador Valadares, Rio Duce, Minas Gerais, Brazil NEW Mineral! (IMA 2004-041)   Ca2Fe2Mg2Fe2+2Be4(PO4)6(OH)46H2O. 
Radial brown botryoidal crystals with beige to pale green acicular crusts. (E).  To keep the price within reason we have mounted some pieces on pedestals in Euro boxes.
All mounts are good examples of the species.
 $30.00
 
711
ATENCIOITE Linópolis, Divinodos Laranjeiras, Governador Valadares, Rio Duce, Minas Gerais, Brazil NEW Mineral! (IMA 2004-041)  Ca2Fe2Mg2Fe2+2Be4(PO4)6(OH)46H2O. 
Radial brown botryoidal crystals with beige to pale green acicular crusts plus Ushkovite crystal(s). 1(E). $35.00
 
711A
AURICHALCITE  Galérie des Éconduit, Mt. Chemin, Bas Valais, Switzerland Unusual habit!  Pale blue-green botryoidal mats on matrix +/- Hemimorphite.  (E)  $5.00 107
AURICHALCITE Jean Baptiste Mine, Agios Konstandinos, Lavrion, Attiki, Greece Very fine spheres of silvery-blue crystals on matrix in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box. $6.00 50257
AURICHALCITE Jean Baptiste Mine, Agios Konstandinos, Greece Very fine spheres of silvery-blue crystals on matrix. (E) $5.00 257
AURICHALCITE  79 Mine, Hayden County, Arizona, USA Very attractive specimens! Matrix pieces A) 3.0 x 2.7 cm; B) 3.2 x 2.2 cm with fine acicular to bladed light blue crystals with discoid Calcite and Hemimorphite. $7.00
 
50315
AUSTINITE    Beltana deposit, Puttapa, Flinders Range, South Australia Rich druses of crystals on matrix +/- Willemite.  One only (E)  $5.00  844
AUSTINITE - ADAMITE Agios Konstandinos, Lavrion, Greece Very rich coverage of pale green to almost colourless Austinite crystals on matrix +/- Adamite.  (E)  $5.00
 
225
AZURITE
 
"Kilometre-3", Agios Konstandinos, Attiki, Greece Two only as brilliantly lustrous dark blue crystals against a background of light blue-green (Gibbsite?). (E) $6.00 19
BA-PHARMACOSIDERITE
 
Les Montmins, Echassières, Allier, France Yellow to orange-brown to pale green cubic crystals in vugs in matrix.  (E)  $6.00   268
BARITE   Frostburg, Maryland, USA Extremely fine lustrous colourless prismatic crystals - usually doubly terminated - on irridescent Siderite matrix. (E) $5.00 587
BARITE     Mina San Camila, L'Union, Cartagena, Spain Very fine pieces with lustrous white crystals made up of stacked "cockscomb" crystals. (E) $6.00 65
BARITE   Mina San Camila, L'Union, Cartagena, Spain Very attractive pieces of brilliant white crystals in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box $8.00. A) 3.2 x 2.4cm; B) 2.8 x 1.6 cm; C) 3.0 x 1.6 cm; D) 3.4 x 2.1 cm.   50065
BARITE   Mina Victoria, Estrecho San Gines, Cartagena, Spain Very fine pieces with blades of light blue-grey crystals which are tipped with secondary growth bright white Barite crystals. (E) $6.00 68
BARITE Mina Victoria, Estrecho San Gines, Cartagena, Spain Very fine pieces with blades of light blue-grey crystals which are tipped with secondary growth bright white Barite crystals.   A) 2.9 x 2.0 cm;     B) 3.0 x 2.6 cm;   C) 3.3 x 2.5 cm $10.00 each 50068
BERMANITE    Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Vitreous to slightly resinous brown-red tabular pseudo-orthorhombic crystals or bright brick red rosettes like druses on Leucophosphite and/or Jarosite. (30x)  9(E) $8.00 each 341
BERTRANDITE
 
Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Two only as groups of lustrous, colourless transparent to white crystals on matrix. 2(E) $6.00 each 371
BERTRANDITE  Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA Rare at Palermo.  Tiny, colourless to white crystal group(s) on matrix.  (E)  $6.00   1 only. 583
BERTRANDITE Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Rio Duce, Minas Gerais, Brazil Clusters of highly lustrous colourless prismatic or tabular crystals.  (E)  $6.00 705
BERTRANDITE Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Rio Duce, Minas Gerais, Brazil Clusters of highly lustrous colourless prismatic or tabular crystals in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  A) 2.2 x 1.2 cm; B) 3.0 x 1.2 cm  $7.00 each 50705
BIOTITE Roc-du-Courlande, Puy de Dôme, France Extremely fine lustrous transparent golden-brown micaceous crystals in groups in vugs in matrix.  (E)  $6.00    1 only. 1748
BISMUTHINITE  Hallett's Shaft, West Caradon Mine, St. Cheer, Cornwall, England Groups of tiny (30x) blue black to silvery black acicular crystals in complex Quartz, Chlorite matrix. One specimen has long acicular crystals altering to a Bismuth carbonate. (E) $6.00 4002
BIXBYITE Beryllium Virgin Claim, Paramount Canyon, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA Lustrous metallic black cubes in Rhyolite +/- Ilmenite, Hematite, Pseudobrookite.  (E)  $6.00 413
BIXBYITE Beryllium Virgin Claim, Paramount Canyon, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA Lustrous metallic black cubes in Rhyolite +/- Ilmenite, Hematite, Pseudobrookite.    $8.00 50413
BOKITE Monument Number 2 Mine, Apache County, Arizona, USA Small pieces of matrix coated with this rare and unattractive mineral as chocolate brown semi-metallic to dull radiating groups of platy to columnar crystals.  (E)  $7.00 462
BOLÉITE Phillipsburg, Montana, USA Unusual pale powder-blue cubes on matrix.  (N, E)  $5.00 504
BROCHANTITE Douglas Hill, Lyon County, Nevada, USA One only with highly lustrous bright green crystals on matrix. 1(E) $5.00

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BROOKITE   Casteli di Casio, Bologna, Italy Lustrous red to red-brown flattened prismatic crystals on matrix.$5.00 11
BULTFONTEINEITE / POLDERVAARTITE    Wessels Mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa An extremely fine combination of "2" rare minerals. Glassy beige prismatic crystals of Poldervaartite with sprays of glassy silky Bultfonteineite on matrix. 2 only (E) $10.00 960
BULTFONTEINEITE Wessels Mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa Sprays of glassy silky Bultfonteineite on matrix. 1 only (E) $8.00 961
BURBANKITE
    
     
Osumu Utsumi Mine, Morro do Ferro, Bortolas Quarry, Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil Very fine pieces with colourless elongated crystals in vugs with Natrolite, Chlorite, Hematite.  (E)  $6.00; $8.00; $12.00 712
BYSSOLITE Luck Quarry, Goose Creek, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA A superb piece with tufts and sprays of lustrous silky acicular crystals on matrix.  (E) $5.00 308
CACOXENITE Hagendorf-Sud, Bavaria, Germany Lustrous pale yellow to cream coloured acicular crystal sprays on a small piece of matrix.  1(E)  $6.00 1731
CALCITE Fall Hill Quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire, England A single creamy-yellow translucent doubly terminated scalenohedron Calcite crystal.  $10.00 54021
CALCITE Elmwood Mine, near Carthage, Tennessee, USA One only - colourless transparent scalenohedral Calcite crystals - some doubly terminated on a brilliantly lustrous mass of Sphalerite crystals in a 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box. $8.00

50555

"CAMPYLITE" Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England Lustrous deep orange, curved barrel-shaped crystals from this classic English locale.  $10.00 54030
CANAVESITE  Brosso, Salvere Level, Torino, Italy Sprays and spherical groups of shiny white acicular crystals on brown or dark grey matrix.  (N, E)  $6.00
 
152
CARACOLITE  Challacollo Mine, Challacollo, Tarapacá Province, Chile A new find of a very rare mineral and of far better quality. Lustrous, colourless pseudohexagonal prismatic crystals on matrix. (N, E) $10.00; $12.00; $15.00  748
CARBONATE APATITE Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Botryoidal aggregates and spheres of white acicular crystals - nearly always on Rockbridgeite.  (E)  $5.00 589
CARBONATE-FLUORAPATITE (I) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA As tiny white acicular crystals surrounding - or as coatings on - Fluorapatite crystals.  3(E)  $5.00 each. 1508
CARPHOLITE  Horni Slavkov, Krásno, Czech Republic Attractive lustrous straw yellow to almost colourless flat-lying radial groups of crystals on matrix. (E) $7.00 16
CARPHOLITE  Horni Slavkov, Krásno, Czech Republic Attractive lustrous straw yellow to almost colourless flat-lying radial groups of crystals on matrix. A) 3.0 x 2.5 cm; B) 2.9 x 2.2 cm; D) 3.0 x 1.8 cm. $10.00 each
 
50016
CASSITERITE  Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England Very sharp chocolate brown transparent adamantine elongated crystals in vugs in sulphide matrix +/- Marcasite, Arsenopyrite, Pyrite. (E) $7.00 4006
CERUSSITE  Beer Cellar Mine, Granby, Missouri, USA Sharp blocky crystals of various habits in matrix (slag?).  (E)  $5.00 311
CHABAZITE-NA   Boron Open Pit #1, Kramer District, Kern County, California, USA Formerly "Herschelite" - Very sharp colourless to white thin hexagonal plates either as single crystals or as overgrowths on Gmelinite with Saponite, Analcime, Na-Phillipsite, Pyrrhotite etc in basalt.  (E)  $5.00 312
CHALCOPYRITE Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Germany Very sharp aesthetic, clean, euhedral brassy crystal(s) of varied habits - usually twinned - in vugs in Quartz in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $7.00 50007
CHALCOSIDERITE   Stowes Shaft, Wheal Phoenix, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England Very fine light apple green thin tabular crystals on matrix. (E) $6.00; $7.00 4008
CHALCOSIDERITE Les Montmins, Allier, France Very fine vitreous medium to pale green crystals usually in spheres.  (E)  $6.00 62
CLINOPTILOLITE-NA Skotnice, Bohemia, Czech Republic Lustrous opaque brick red tabular crystal druses on matrix. 3(E) $6.00 each 71
CLINTONITE Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California, USA For the species collector - Darker green Clintonite variety Xanthophyllite in Montcellite.  1(E)  $6.00 327
COBALTIAN-CALCITE Kambove, Shaba, Katanga Province, D. C. R. Wonderful colour: lustrous pinkish-mauve crystals.  Some manganese oxides.  (E)   $7.00    972
COLEMANITE    Boron Open Pit #1, Kramer District, Kern County, California, USA Very sharp, euhedral, colourless terminated prismatic crystals in vugs in basalt.  (E)  $6.00 321
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 1724
COPPER   Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, USA Fine groups of copper crystals from this classic locale.  (E)  $5.00 301
COPPER White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA Superb examples of fine Michigan Copper.  A) Clusters of modified cubic crystals to 1.0cm $5.00; B) Groups of elongated flattened "tabular" crystals forming clusters from 8.0mm to 22.0mm.  $6.00 306
CORNETITE  Manto Russo Mine, Salado, Chile Very fine light peacock blue to darker blue lustrous crystals on matrix +/- Malachite, Pseudomalachite and other Cu oxides.  1 (E) 3(N)  $6.00 732
CORONADITE  Beltana deposit, Puttapa, South Australia Very fine groups of silvery-black acicular crystals.  Best at 30x.  (E)  $5.00 808
CUPRIAN ADAMITE 150' Level, Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah, USA 2 only as very fine light green to almost colourless crystals on drusy Quartz.  (E)  $5.00 357
CUPRITE var. CHALCOTRICHITE  Morenci Mine, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA Brilliant red reticulated groups, sprays and columns etc on matrix.  (N, E)  $5.00 401
CUPRO-ADAMITE Hilarion Mine, Agios Konstandinos, (Kamareza) Lavrion,  Greece Extremely fine highly lustrous bright green Cuprian-Adamite spheres and aggregates on matrix.  (E)  $6.00 220
CYANOTRICHITE  Tungui, Guangxi Province, China We have obtained another 4 pieces of this fine mineral. Superb pieces with coverage of radial groups of light blue acicular crystals.  (E)  $6.00 1001
DACHIARDITE-CA Cape Lookout Quarry, Tillamook County, Oregon, USA Frosted milky hemispherical aggregates +/-  snow white mounds and cavity linings of Mordenite-Na, colourless to light green Clinoptilolite-Ca +/- Phillipsite-K.  (E)  $6.00 418
DIOPSIDE/
VESUVIANITE
Roccamurata Quarry, Parma, Italy 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).  $6.00 196
DUFRÉNITE 
 
Julian Mountain, Alabama, USA Two only as pale yellow-green spherules on bright Quartz crystals. 2(E) $6.00 each 355
DUFRENOYSITE   Lengenbach, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland Long prismatic to almost acicular, blue-black, metallic crystals.  (E)  $10.00  15
DUFTITE / MALACHITE Tsumeb, Namibia Clusters of tiny pale green Duftite crystals with sprays of lustrous acicular Malachite +/- Calcite, Smithsonite.  (E)  $6.00 911
ENSTATITE / BIOTITE / HEMATITE    Roc de Courlande, Puy de Dôme, France Sharp euhedral light brown translucent prismatic Enstatite crystals with Hematite crystals and Biotite crystals in volcanic matrix.  (E)  $6.00   283
EOSPHORITE Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA Radial spherical groups of pale yellow to light brown acicular short prismatic crystals on Albite +/- Fluorapatite, Mitridatite.  (E)  $4.00 1507
EPIDOTE   Albatera, Alicante,Spain Extremely fine micros with sprays of lustrous yellow-green elongated crystals on matrix. (E) $6.00  64
ERYTHRITE Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, England Very fine pale rose-pink spheres on matrix. (E) $7.00 1 Only. 4011
EUDIALYTE Point of Rocks, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA Small (30x) transparent lustrous pale rose pink equant to short tabular crystals with Aegirine +/- Analcime, Polylithionite.  (E)  $6.00 444

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