|
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 |
314 |
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 |