MINERALS    F - L
 

Name Location Description Number
FAIRFIELDITE Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA Brilliantly lustrous white to colourless spherical stacks of crystals coating matrix.  (E)  $6.00
 
1516
FERRIERITE-Na Altoona, Wahkiakum County, Washington, USA TYPE LOCALITY! Monoclinic variety given new species status in 1999.  Colourless to white aggregates of pointed diamond-like blades +/- colourless transparent prisms of Clinoptilolite-Ca, snow white Mordenite-Na..  Very rare at Altoona.   One only (E) $7.00
 
362
FLUORAPATITE Wheal Remfrey, St. Enoder, Cornwall, England Colourless, blocky prismatic crystals on matrix. (E) $6.00

 
4012
FLUORAPATITE  Mount Rubellite Road, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA Very fine specimens! Highly lustrous gemmy bi-coloured prismatic crystals on matrix. Crystals usually have one or more blue bands. (E) $7.00  360
FLUORAPATITE 
Dunton Quarry, Newry, Maine, USA Colourless to light blue prismatic crystals on matrix. (E) $6.00 362
FLUORAPATITE 
 
Mount Rubellite Road, Hebron, Oxford County, Maine, USA Three only with sharp colourless crystals on matrix. 3(E) $6.00 each 363
FLUORAPATITE 
 
Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA Very fine sprays of tiny white almost acicular crystals on matrix. (E) $6.00 367
FLUORAPATITE  Colli Albani, Rome, Italy Very fine, lustrous colourless prismatic crystals in vugs.  (E)  $5.00   Restocked item 3
FLUORAPATITE Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA Unusual habit as short stubby prismatic crystals, colourless to pale brown or green with frosted pedions on matrix.  (E)  $5.00 Restocked item 345
FLUORAPATITE / AUGITE  Colli Albani, Rome, Italy Superb elongated colourless prismatic crystals in matrix with good Augite crystals. (E)  $6.00 Restocked item 4
FLUORAPOPHYLLITE Palabora Open pit, Phalaborwa, South Africa Groups of euhedral colourless blocky pseudotetragonal crystals on matrix. (E) $5.00 977
FLUORITE Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, England Sharp lustrous colourless cubes on matrix +/- Calcite/Barite from the classic English locale. (E) $6.00 4013
FLUORITE    Elmwood Mine, near Carthage, Tennessee, USA Extremely fine pieces with lustrous purple to pale purple to almost colourless crystals on Quartz, Calcite, Dolomite matrix. A few on Sphalerite. (E) $5.00  556
FLUORITE (I) Pugh Quarry, Custar, Wood County, Ohio, USA Superb transparent cinnamon brown cubes on matrix +/- Dolomite/calcite. Collected 1982  (E)  $5.00 356
"FRANCONITE" Wheal Druid, Redruth, Cornwall, England Matrix 2.2 x 1.8 cm of Quartz crystals being replaced by masses of tiny (30x) lustrous, transparent light brown Apatite variety "Francolite" crystals.  1 - $12.00 54083
GMELINITE-NA Boron Open Pit #1, Kramer District, Kern County, California, USA Very fine, lustrous colourless to cream crystals as either single crystals or balls on Saponite clay in basalt.  (E)  $5.00 313
GOETHITE     Embournegade, Alban, Tarn, France Brilliantly lustrous prismatic terminated deep red to black crystals on matrix.  Very fine pieces (E) $6.00
 
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GOETHITE/QUARTZ
 
Cinque Quarry, East Haven, Connecticut, USA Very attractive deep golden brown rosettes and sprays on and/or in Quartz crystals. (E) 359
GOLD
 
Swift River, Byron, Maine, USA Small, flattened water-worn nuggets pin-mounted. (N) $6.00 309
GOWERITE Corkscrew Mine, Death Valley, California, USA Globular clusters of lustrous silky white acicular crystals.  (E)  $5.00 460
GOYAZITE Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire A) Rosettes-like spheres of thin white plates. (E)  $5.00;  B) Opaque white rather crude pseudo-cubic crystals with slightly pearly lustre.  (E)  $6.00 597
GROUTITE     Campbell Shaft, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA Fine old Bisbee material.  Lustrous black crystals encrusting a botryoidal iron/manganese matrix.  (E)  $10.00;  (N)  $7.00
 
337
GYPSUM Julliushütte, Astfeld, Harz Mountains, Germany Small piece of slag with superb clear Gypsum crystals with Botallackite(?)  1(E)  $6.00 1703
HAIWEEITE  Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil Very fine examples of this rare mineral as balls of light yellow-green acicular to lamellar crystals +/- Uranophane, Calcite, Fluorite, Albite.  (E)  $12.00; $15.00; $20.00 709
HANCOCKITE Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA Very sharp red prismatic crystals.  Use 30x.  Usually with yellow Andradite.  (N, E)  $5.00 507
HARMOTOME  Fittà di Soave, Verona, Italy Fine colourless blocky crystals in vesicles in matrix +/- pink Chabazite.   $7.00 50014
HARMOTOME  Fittà di Soave, Verona, Italy Fine colourless blocky crystals in vesicles in matrix +/- pink Chabazite.  (E)  $5.00 14
HAUSMANNITE N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari manganese field, Republic of South Africa Very fine examples with stacks of silvery-black metallic tetrahedra on matrix with minor Mn-Vesuvianite.  (E)  $7.00 966
HAUSMANNITE N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari manganese field, Republic of South Africa Very fine examples with stacks of silvery-black metallic tetrahedra on matrix 2.6 x 2.2 cm with minor Mn-Vesuvianite in a 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $12.00 50966
HAYNESITE   Repete Mine, San Juan County, Utah USA New stock of this rare mineral (1997) as tiny (30x) bright yellow, acicular crystals in radial groups.  (N, E)   $10.00 409
HEMIMORPHITE
Hidden Treasure Mine, Tooele County, Utah, USA Lustrous colourless sprays of Hemimorphite crystals against a dark red-brown background of botryoidal Plattnerite +/- Calcite. (E) $5.00 376
HEMIMORPHITE Hidden Treasure Mine, Tooele County, Utah, USA Lustrous colourless sprays of Hemimorphite crystals against a dark red-brown background of botryoidal Plattnerite +/- calcite. Larger matrix piece 3.0 x 2.8 cm with very rich coverage. $7.00 50376
HEMATITE Murol, Puy de Dôme, France Lustrous blue-black tabular Hematite crystals on matrix.  1(E)  $6.00 1759
HEMIMORPHITE  Galérie des Éconduits, Mt. Chemin, Bas Valais, Switzerland Very fine, lustrous colourless to cream crystal groups and spherical aggregates on Quartz crystals and/or matrix +/- minor Aurichalcite, Hydrozincite.  (E)  $5.00 132
HEMIMORPHITE Galérie des Éconduits, Mt. Chemin, Bas Valais, Switzerland A fine specimen 3.0 x 2.6 cm with Hemimorphite crystals on Quartz crystals in a 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box. $7.00 50132
HEMIMORPHITE Zorzone Mine, Bergamo, Italy Highly lustrous water-clear crystals and sprays on creamy-white botryoidal Hydrozincite. Beautiful pieces.   (E) $5.00 8
HEMIMORPHITE  Beltana deposit, Puttapa, Flinders Range, South Australia Very attractive micros on  matrix .  3 Only (E) $5.00 841
HEMIMORPHITE - SMITHSONITE  Agia Varvara, Lavrion, Greece Very fine lustrous colourless spherical aggregates and spherical aggregates of Hemimorphite +/- pale apple-green Smithsonite on Goethite.  (E)  $5.00 226
HEMIMORPHITE / HYDROZINCITE  Galérie des Éconduits, Mt. Chemin, Bas Valais, Switzerland Fine pieces with lustrous glassy Hemimorphite crystals with bright white spheres and botryoids of Hydrozincite.  2(E)  $5.00 131
HEMIMORPHITE / HYDROZINCITE  Galérie des Éconduits, Mt. Chemin, Bas Valais, Switzerland Fine pieces with lustrous glassy Hemimorphite crystals with bright white spheres and botryoids of Hydrozincite in a 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $8.00   50131
HEMIMORPHITE ON HYDROZINCITE Zorzone Mine, Bergamo, Italy Highly lustrous water-clear crystals and sprays on creamy-white botryoidal Hydrozincite.  Beautiful pieces.  (E)  $5.00
 
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HUTCHINSONITE  Quiruvilca, Peru Sharp euhedral prismatic metallic deep-red to black crystals with Orpiment crystals on matrix. (E) $5.00; $7.00 702
ILMENITE      Beryllium Virgin Claim, Paramount Canyon, Sierra County, NM Very fine sharp lustrous black pseudo-cubic and/or pseudo-octahedral crystals on Rhyolite +/- Ilmenite.  (E)  $5.00 427
ILMENITE      Tosca Quarry, Varsi, Parma, Italy Very very fine euhedral black metallic to sub-metallic stubby crystals on matrix.  (E)    $5.00 145
IODARGYRITE Beauvoir-Echassières, Alliers, France Extremely fine specimens.  Highly lustrous almost adamantine colourless to very pale yellow either as tabular, hexagonal crystals or as prismatic or pyramidal habits.  Some are small but the crystals are excellent. (E) $8.00 53
JAHNSITE Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA Highly varied habits!  Usually as spherical aggregates of tiny, yellow to brown vitreous crystals or as stubby individual crystals.  (E)  $6.00 593
JAHNSITE (I)   Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Light to dark brown, deep red-brown vitreous short to long prismatic crystals as either single crystals, clusters or subparallel groups +/- Rockbridgeite, Hureaulite, Leucophosphite.  12(E)  $7.00 each 333
JAHNSITE (II)  Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Type locality!  Same morphology as Jahnsite (I) but because it is lower in iron and higher in  Mg and MN, the crystals are yellow-green to yellow or green +/- leucophosphite.  1(E)  $7.00 334
JAMESONITE Mine Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango State, Mexico A very, very fine piece with metallic acicular blue-black crystals on Pyrite in a hinged box.  1 - $7.00 701
JAROSITE  Barranco Jaroso, Sierra Almagrera, Spain Type locality! Superb sub-adamantine, brown tabular crystals 1 - 3 mm on Fe-rich matrix.  (N)  $5.00 197
JAROSITE Richmond Sitting Bull Mine, Galena, South Dakota, USA Very fine highly lustrous orange crystals with Goethite on matrix.  (E)  $6.00 1518
JAROSITE (I)   Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah, USA Lustrous vitreous orange-brown hexagonal tabular crystals in spheres and rosettes on Scorodite(?) matrix. (E)  $5.00
 
410
JASMUNDITE Bellerberg, Eifel, Germany Dark brownish-red compact, massive material. No crystals. 1(E) $5.00 1720
KIDWELLITE     Les Montmins, Echassières, Allier, France Pale yellowy-green to light sage green botryoids of silky acicular Kidwellite on Quartz  +/- Leucophosphite or Ba-Pharmacosiderite.  (E)  $6.00    272
KUTNOHORITE   Arezzo, Italy Spherical or saddle-shaped groups - cream to brown to black - on superb Aragonite crystals in calcareous nodules. (E) $7.00 151
KUTNOHORITE Arezzo, Italy Spherical or saddle-shaped groups - cream to brown to black - on superb Aragonite crystals in calcareous nodules in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm boxes.  $8.00 50151
LANGITE Hallett's Shaft, West Caradon Mine, St. Cheer, Cornwall, England Fine blue-green tapering crystals with silvery lustre in matrix with other CU secondaries (30x). (E) $7.00 4014
LAUEITE Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire As lustrous vitreous prismatic crystals.  Colours from pale yellow to bright red-orange.  (E)  $6.00 592
LAUEITE Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA Honey-brown, yellowish-brown to very pale brown transparent to translucent vitreous crystals.  (E)  $5.00 1517

LAUMONTITE 

Luck Quarry, Goose Creek, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA Very fine pearly white prismatic crystals +/- Fluorapatite.  (E)  $5.00     588
LEMANSKIITE   Abundancia Mine, Guanaco, Taltal, Antofagasto province, Chile Spheres and aggregates of dark sky-blue lamellar crystal with Lammerite on matrix. (E) $15.00  770
LEUCOPHOSPHITE Les Montmins - Echassières, Allier, France Groups of lustrous colourless to very pale pink tabular crystals usually forming spherical groups +/- Kidwellite.  (E)  $7.00 271
LEUCOPHOSPHITE  Tip Top Mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Glassy transparent to translucent prismatic to blocky crystals from almost colourless to light pink.  (E)  $7.00  324
LINARITE
 
Graham County, Klondyke, Arizona, USA  Groups of bright blue crystals on matrix. (E) $6.00 370
LUDWIGITE   Colli Albani, Rome, Italy Sharp acicular to elongated, blue-black crystals and sprays  in matrix in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box.  $8.00 50005
LUDWIGITE    Colli Albani, Rome, Italy Sharp acicular to elongated, blue-black crystals and sprays  in matrix. 1 only left (E)  $7.00 5

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