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Minerals
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| 318 | PHILLIPSITE (NA, K) | Boron Open Pit #1,Kramer District, Kern County, CA | Colourless to white, blocky crystals on ferric Saponite in basalt. (E) $5.00 |
| 445 | POLYLITHIONITE | Point of Rocks, Colfax County, NM | Fine, euhedral colourless to light brown, transparent pseudohexagonal crystals in vugs in matrix with Aegirine. (E) $5.00 |
| 415 | PREHNITE | Centerville, VA | Groups of pale green tabular crystals forming barrel shapes; lightly dotted with Pyrite crystals. (E) $5.00 |
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50455 |
PSEUDOBROOKITE | Beryllium Virgin Claim, Paramount Canyon, Sierra County, NM | A piece of Rhyolite matrix to 2.6 cm with very fine lustrous black crystals in vugs +/- Ilmenite/Hematite in a 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm box. 1 @ $7.00 |
| 60455 | PSEUDOBROOKITE | Beryllium Virgin Claim, Paramount Canyon, Sierra County, NM | A piece of Rhyolite matrix to 2.8cm with very fine lustrous black crystals in vugs +/- Ilmenite/Hematite in a 5.5 cm box. 1 @ $7.00 |
| 394 |
REALGAR | Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, NV | Very fine, highly lustrous red-orange crystals on matrix. (E) $5.00 |
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50394 |
REALGAR | Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, NV | Larger matrix pieces with highly lustrous red-orange crystals in vugs. $7.00 |
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RHODOCHROSITE | Boron Open Pit #1, Kramer District, Kern County, CA | Groups of thin, delicate pink to light beige crystals forming spheres on ferric Saponite in basalt. (E) $5.00 |
| 598 | ROCKBRIDGEITE | Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, NH | A) groups of lustrous green-black acicular crystals in matrix. (E); B) 1 only as black prismatic crystals. (E) $5.00 |
| 50598 |
ROCKBRIDGEITE | Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, NH |
B) Matrix 2.7 x 2.4 cm - A piece with several aspects of the
mineral! Best are small black blocky crystals on
Ca-Hyroxylapatite. $7.00; E) Matrix 2.4 x 2.0 cm - Rich coverage of black botryoids and crystals on Mitridatite - also a small green acicular group. $7.00. |
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50332 |
ROSASITE | Summit Mine, Broadwater County, MT | Beautiful larger matrix pieces with deep green-blue Rosasite often frosted with highly lustrous Quartz points in 3.8 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm box. $7.00 |
| 50432 | SCEPTRE QUARTZ | Crystals Peak, MT | A 2.3cm tall lustrous colourless transparent Quartz sceptre crystal in a Perky # 2 box. $10.00 |
| 421 |
SCORODITE | Copper Stope, Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, NV | Lustrous colourless to white prismatic crystals on matrix. Usually with pale green cubes of Pharmacosiderite. (N, E) $5.00 |
| 300 |
SEARLESITE | Cave Springs Spring, Esmeralda County, NV | Very, very fine examples of the species as lustrous, colourless terminated prismatic crystals. (E) $10.00 |
| 50300 |
SEARLESITE | Cave Springs Spring, Esmeralda County, NV | Very fine examples of the species as lustrous, colourless prismatic crystals on matrix in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm box. 3 @ $12.00 each |
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SEARLESITE | Boron Open Pit #1, Kramer District, Kern County, CA | Fine specimens of this rare borosilicate as tapering colourless crystals and groups in vugs in basalt. (N, E) $7.00; $10.00 |
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60305 |
SPHALERITE
/ CALCITE |
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, TN | 1 only with extremely fine Sphalerite, calcite and quartz crystals on matrix 3.6 x 2.0 in a 5.8 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm box. $7.00 |
| 315 |
STRACZEKITE | Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs, AR | Lustrous, vitreous to almost metallic flaky black crystals, groups and spherules on matrix. Use 30x. (E) $5.00 |
| 590 | STRUNZITE | Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, NH | Sprays and mats of creamy white to straw coloured acicular crystals with silky lustre. (E) $6.00 |
| 50590 |
STRUNZITE | Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, NH | Fine silky lustrous white to creamy-white acicular sprays in vugs +/- Rockbridgeite, Siderite. $7.00 See Photo Listing |
| 60590 | STRUNZITE | Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, NH | A) Matrix 2.6 x 1.7 cm - rich coverage in 2 vugs of lustrous, silky cream-coloured acicular crystals. $8.00; |
| 449 | TETRANATROLITE | Point of Rocks, Colfax County, NM | Sharp pearly white crystals in vugs. (E) $5.00 "Status of this mineral - Is it now Garronite? Being debated." |
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433 |
TOPAZ | East Grants Ridge, Cibola County, NM | Very sharp, highly lustrous prismatic pinkish-brown to colourless transparent crystals on matrix. (E) $5.00 |
| 50433 | TOPAZ | East Grants Ridge, Cibola County, NM | Larger matrix pieces to 3.0 cm in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm box. $6.00 |
| 456 |
TRIPUYHITE ( formerly-SQUAWCREEKITE) |
Squaw Creek Tin Mine, Catron County, NM | Very tiny (30x) golden yellow-brown to dark brown lustrous crystals on matrix +/- red Maxwellite +/- Hematite. (2N)(E) $7.00 each. NB "Squawcreekite" has been discredited and the mineral is now to be referred to as Tripuyhite |
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VANADINITE | J.C. Holmes Claim, Patagonia, AZ | Unusual habit! Vitreous brown tabular crystal forming spheres on Albite with Sphalerite crystals. (E) $5.00 |
| 406 |
VIVIANITE | My Creek, Monmouth County, NJ | Very fine deep-blue-black crystals and sprays in vugs. (N, E) $7.00 - 1(E) @ $5.00 |
| 395 |
WAVELLITE | County Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, AR | Very fine spheres, hemispheres and/or single euhedral pale green crystals. (E) $5.00 |
| 50395 | WAVELLITE | County Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, AR | Larger matrix pieces to 3.0x2.0cm with fine pale green spheres on matrix. $6.00 |
| 50551 | WAVELLITE | Willard Mine, Pershing County, NV | Sprays of colourless to cream thin lath-like crystals in matrix 3.2 x 1.5 cm. 1 @ $7.00 |
| 50552 | WAVELLITE /CACOXENITE | Willard Mine, Pershing County, NV | Very attractive lustrous colourless to cream acicular to lath-like sprays of Wavellite with tiny golden-brown spherules of Cacoxenite on Quartz point matrix. C) 3.0 x 2.4 cm $7.00 |
| 551 | WAVELLITE | Willard Mine, Pershing County, NV | Two only of these outstanding pieces with thin elongated tabular lustrous, colourless to cream crystals forming sprays on Quartz. 2(E) $6.00 |
| 586 | WHITMOREITE | Palermo # 1 Mine, North Groton, NH | Type locality! A) As colloform aggregates of brown crystals. (E) $7.00; B) As sprays of individual brown to yellow-brown crystals. (E) $8.00 |
| 420 |
YUGAWARALITE | 200/237 Road Quarry, Wolf Point, Cowlitz County, WA | Very, very, fine, thin, tabular, lustrous colourless bladed crystals in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm boxes. Rich coverage! (N, E) $6.00 |
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ZIRCON | Wind Mountain, Otero County, New Mexico | Sharp, euhedral pale pink crystals in syenite +/- Analcime, Natrolite. (E) $5.00 |