Miniature to Cabinet Size Specimens

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ADAMITE, Laurium, Attica Peninsula, Greece - A miniature sized chunk of brown Fe oxide matrix cut by a vein of blue-green adamite, nicely xlized in openings on front and back, the largest xl patch about 10mm across. Lovely under the scope. 50x40x25mm, $10

AEGIRINE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - Nice black freestanding prism, 4cm long with a curious rough termination, $10

AGRELLITE, Kipawa, Quebec - TYPE LOCALITY- Typical xln/massive cleavages, nice pink SW fluorescence, most with nice bright red massive eudialyte. Known from only a few localities. A smallish piece of a few cm for $4; good rich pieces in the range of 7 cm only $10.

ALBITE, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Cool and kind of unusual frosted white crystal clusters, no matrix. 4cm, $6 each

AMETHYST, Pine Grove District, Beaver County, Utah - A weird specimen from a state not renowned for its amethyst production. Basically a trio of nice xls, sort of doing the reverse-scepter thing, to 35x15mm, colors ranging from white to pale purple, opaque to clear at the tips. No matrix; even the bottom side is cool. 70x50x20mm, $14

AMETHYST, Diamond Willow Mine, Thunder Bay, Ontario - Typical reddish clusters of points, collected ~ 20 years ago, miniature to 8cm, $5, 10, 15

AMETHYST, Purple Haze Mine, Thunder Bay, Ontario - Huge reddish points, terminal faces only, the bases showing great purple color, all around 80mm across. These are exceptionally large xls, in unusually good shape, produced only rarely. Classic Canadian specimens! $20; one larger 110mm xl @ $40

AMETHYST, Blue Point Mine, 50 km NE of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada - Lustrous purple druses of glassy xls in the 5mm range, nice pieces, ~50 mm across, $10

ANALCIME, Five Islands, Colchester County, Nova Scotia - Agood  miniature with sparkling brownish-red to colorless xls, $12

ANALCIME, QUARTZ, STILBITE, Amethyst Cove, King's County, Nova Scotia - Nicely formed white xls to 15mm, 85x45x30mm, $15

ANALCIME, Maxwell's Quarry, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland - Good white xls with associates on matrix, miniatures $10 & $15

ANTIMONY, Lac Nicolet Antimony Mine, Quebec - Superb grey fine-grained solid chunks of native antimony (Element 51). Fine specimens collected in 1987. Some have associated Sb microminerals, including stibnite, valentinite, kermesite. TN's $8, miniatures, 40-50mm, $12 ea; cabinet specimens, 70-80mm, $35 each.

ANTIMONY, Kern County, California - Half of an alluvial nodule of solid native antimony, showing the brilliant tin-white interior and dull rounded exterior. A small miniature, could be jammed into a TN box, very nice for the species. 35x15x15 mm, $45

ANTIMONY, Velez-Malaga, Costa del Sol, Malaga Province, Andalucia, Spain - Good specimens showing native antimony cleavages in matrix. A) An excellent 90 mm piece with an antimony vein cutting matrix, $75. B) A 20mm mass showing bright cleavage faces, and smaller masses elsewhere, in a 70x40x30 mm matrix, $40. C) A 20 mm mass of bright cleavages in a 60x30x20 mm matrix, $40

APOPHYLLITE, Cape D'Or, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia - White to green ! to reddish apophyllite, miniature to cabinet size, $9-20

APOPHYLLITE, Maxwell's Quarry, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland - Several miniatures available, $6, $7, $8, $15

APOPHYLLITE, LAUMONTITE, PYRRHOTITE, Gaspe Copper Mine, Murdochville, Quebec, Canada - Greyish tabular xls to 17mm on edge, mostly flat-lying, coat one face of the matrix with many small prismatic bits of white laumontite and abundant inclusions of micro brassy pyrrhotite within the clear apophyllite xls. An odd specimen from an unusual locality. 70x60x20mm, $18

ARSENIC, PYRARGYRITE, Storliden Mine, Vasterbotten, Sweden - Good rich  specimen of this semi-metal, dull black botryoids in contrasting white calcite, with small amounts of filmy red pyrargyrite. 

ASTROPHYLLITE, Eveslogchorr Mt., Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia - Superb, attractive specimens of a mineral that is rarely so aesthetic. Classic radiating habit, bright, lustrous big brown sprays of thin crystal blades. ~50mm spray in  from 60mm matrix Good stuff, displaying the habit it was named for. One left - miniature, $18

AURICHALCITE, +- ROSASITE, HEMIMORPHITE, HYDROZINCITE, Los Azules Mine, 345 km east of Copiapo, Chile - Excellent sky-blue crystal carpets composed of long thin terminated aurichalcite crystals to 4mm, complemented by varying amounts of quite small blue to green botryoidal rosasite and well-crystallized colorless hemimorphite to a few mm. A very few specimens also have white massive to micro xln hydrozincite, which fluoresces a nice blue-white under SW UV. Beautiful, rich specimens; excellent display material that is especially beautiful under the scope.

AURICHALCITE, CALCITE, ROSASITE, HEMIMORPHITE, 79 Mine, near Hayden, Gila County, Arizona - A nice assemblage of crusts of sky-blue aurichalcite needles dappled with colorless calcite xls, with colorless hemimorphite blades and tiny balls of rosasite. Especially nice with a bit of magnification. Comes with a Hamel Mining and Minerals label. 55x30x20mm, $8

AZURITE, MALACHITE, TOURMALINE, Remolinos Mine, Copiapo, Chile - Colorful miniatures, some with malachite pseudo azurite. Cool specimens, unusual locality, $15-22 - Click the blue link to see the photos!

AZURITE, MALACHITE, near Dexing, Jiangxi Province, China - Lovely deep blue crystals in vugs lined with acicular malachite, from an unusual locality. One superb miniatures left @ $150  AZURITE B)

AZURITE, MALACHITE, OK Mine, NW of Milford, Beaver Lake District, Beaver County, Utah - Druses of sparkling deep blue micro xls lining vugs with minor malachite. Very nice under the scope. 35 to 60mm specimens, priced by richness, cheap at $8 - $10

AZURITE, CHRYSOCOLLA, MALACHITE, DOLOMITE, Mestas de Con, Cangas de Onis, Asturias, Spain - A 1cm patch of bright blue micro xls on a 5x4x2cm matrix. $10

AZURITE, MALACHITE, Pueblo Mine, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada - A one inch patch of drusy micro azurite xls with a bit of azurite, appreciable with the naked eye and great under the scope. 50x40x30mm, $15

AZURITE, Silver Cave Mine, Patagonia, Arizona - A dark blue crust of about a zillion small xls on matrix. On a walnut base. 55x40x20mm, $15

BARITE -  Superb display specimens from the Plavac collection, click here!

BARITE, Niobec Mine, 13 km NW of Chicoutimi, 200 km N of Quebec City, Quebec - Cool old tabular reddish loose barite crystals, one skinny and transparent, 35x32x5mm, $10, the other chunky and opaque, 34x27x17mm, incomplete, $6

BARITE, CALCITE, FLUORITE, Minerva Mine, Illinois - Piles of glassy off-white small barite blades with small white calcites on a matrix of light violet xln fluorite. Awesome under the scope. 50x50x25mm, $10

BARITE, Rock Candy Mine, near Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada - A beautiful thick yellow xl, no matrix, mostly opaque but clear at the very tip. 35x40x16mm, $20

BARITE on CALCITE, Elk Creek, South Dakota - A superb cabinet specimen of an American classic. A cluster of tapering brown crystals to 75mm long with lovely clear upper sections, on a nicely contrasting druse of yellow micro-xln calcite. 11x10x6cm, REDUCED TO $650

BASTNAESITE-(Ce), ALLANITE-(Ce), CALCITE, TALC, Trimouns Quarry, 6 km north of Luzenac, Ariege Department, French Pyrenees, France - A highly interesting specimen with a perfectly formed thin platy transparent brown 6mm bastnaesite-(Ce) crystal group, associated with micro prisms of allanite-(Ce) and colorless calcite xls, on a bed of freestanding clear colorless talc _crystals_. Talk about cool. The bottom has some saw cuts, practically invisible unless the piece is picked up, and totally acceptable as this is not the sort of specimen one sticks in a trimmer. 75x70x30mm, $175

BOLEITE, Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico - Two dark blue cubes on the front of the matrix, to 5mm on edge, and three more cubes elsewhere, could be trimmed into four thumbnails but better as is. As with probably all of these, the clay matrix has been impregnated with thinned glue, but it's not even noticeable. 55x40x30mm, $35

BRAZILIANITE, Linopolis district, Minas Gerais, Brazil - A superb miniature, the largest xl 4cm long, with a bit of albite matrix, 6x4x3cm, $240

CALCITE coated with QUARTZ, Jalgaon quarry complex, ~450 km NE of Bombay, Maharashtra State, India - (See MR V34#1, pp.71-73) - Highly cool colorless or palest yellow calcite xls completely covered in drusy quartz with some very small stilbite xls. Neat specimen, $20

CALCITE, Tenecape, Hants County, Nova Scotia - Very pretty miniature with an equant translucent colorless xl 20mm across, with a small contact on the back, on a druse of smaller xls. 40x30x20mm, $10

CALCITE, Tenecape, Hants County, Nova Scotia - A druse of very sharp spikey xls to 15mm. 60x40x10mm, $8

CALCITE, Tenecape, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada -  Pale yellow calcite xl, very nice miniature, $10

CALCITE penetration twins (+- STILBITE, PYRITE, etc.), Sokolovskiy-Sarbaiskiy Mine, Rudniy, Kazakhstan - Pale yellow penetration twins averaging 15-20mm in size, nicely translucent to transparent, on crusts of small stilbite blades with pyrite are $8 each. Or you can have a larger xl, 30-40mm, with no matrix for the same price - your choice, please specify which you'd prefer. Really pretty specimens!

CALCITE, Tenecape, Hants County, Nova Scotia - A nice sharp equant 15mm xl, translucent and colorless, with many smaller xls on matrix. 40x30x25mm, $5. A thin plate, coated on both sides with nice equant colorless crystals averaging 3-4mm, with one at 7mm. 8x5x1cm, $5

CALCITE, Grand River occurrence, Paris, Ontario, Canada - Drusy xln white to yellow calcite coatings on matrix fluoresce a nice mild yellow under SWUV. Miniature to cabinet sizes, $4 to $12

CALCITE, Magma Mine, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona - A small miniature with relatively colorless xls. 35x25x20mm, $12

CALCITE, Frontier Quarry, Lockport, New York - A 35mm yellow dogstooth with a couple of smaller ones perched atop limestone matrix. 7x7x3.5cm, $6

CALCITE, Frontier Quarry, Lockport, NY - A nice yellow doubly terminated multiple-xl dogstooth. One termination is incomplete, no matrix. 5x2x2cm, $6

CALCITE, Lincoln Quarry, near Beamsville, ~40km west of Hamilton, Ontario - Two cabinet specimens with 10-20 mm xls, A)10x6x3cm and B) 8x6x4cm, each $10

CALCITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - A matrixless miniature with nice glassy colorless to reddish rhombs to 2cm on edge. 55x45x35mm, $15

CALCITE, Grant Quarry, near Greely, south of Ottawa, Ontario - A pair of really nice small miniatures, just over TN size, well xlized and pale yellow, each only $12.

CALCITE, Kandivali, India - A large cabinet specimen with a pale yellow bulging rhomb of 9x8x5cm (!) on matrix. The xl is 12cm across on the diagonal, - almost 5" ! The lustre is subdued but this is compensated for by the lack of damage; only the base of the xl is incomplete and this is completely hidden on the bottom of the piece. The matrix is coated with minute quartz xls, and fits the xl like a glove, in an unusually aesthetic manner. Overall size is 22x8x8 cm, just under 9" across. $200 

CANCRINITE, French River, Ontario - Excellent solid yellow cleavages, with the rich color for which this locality is known. About as good as the mineral ever gets, excepting the extremely rare xls from MSH. I don't know of any more deeply-colored cancrinite from anywhere in Ontario, this material is suitable for cutting cabochons. No rock matrix. 5cm specimens, $15 each

CARNOTITE on PETRIFIED WOOD, San Rafael, Utah - Small amounts of yellow powdery carnotite on a chunk of brown petrified wood. An interesting old specimen with a pristine Ward’s label dated 1924 (!) and an old Michigan College of Mines label as well. 60x40x25mm, $25

CAVANSITE, Wagholi Quarry Complex, India - Superb matrix specimens with fine blue balls of ~1cm perched on druses of heulandite. Great display pieces, with lovely color. Small miniatures, your pick, PRICE REDUCED, now only $25-$29 each

CELESTINE, Rockwood Quarry, Monroe County, Michigan - A large, loose, thick xl, pale white-grey-blue, sharp, lustrous, nicely terminated, with one contact on the bottom edge and some calcite on the other side. 55x70x25 mm, $25.

CELESTINE, Dundas Quarry, near Hamilton, Ontario - a nice, heavy, solid cluster of tabular xls, no longer available from this locality, ranging from colorless to pale blue and palest yellowish, 1-3cm, a few doubly terminated. Minor sparkly drusy calcite on the back, overall 7x5x2cm, $15

CELESTINE, Stoneco Quarry, Portage, Wood County, Ohio - A nice selection of 4-8" crystals, $30 - $200

CELESTINE, Michigan Stone Company Quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan - A solid druse of sparkling pale blue transparent celestine prisms to 20mm long on limestone matrix. Many of the xls are incomplete, but at least a couple of dozen are sharply terminated. $10

CELESTINE, CALCITE, Pugh Quarry, Custer, Ohio - About a half dozen nice little blue prisms to about 5mm long on a druse of yellow calcite xls, one of which is 15mm. 4x3x3cm, $4

CERUSSITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - Two great miniatures! One is a loose brownish twin for $35 and the other a superb cluster of clear colorless xls, very nice, for $60

CHABAZITE, Wasson's Bluff, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia - A couple of really teriffic miniatures showing good sized orangy rhombs, above average quality for the locality.

CHALCOCITE, Coca-Cola Mine, Talcuna District, 35 km NE of La Serena, Elqui Province, Chile - Brilliant steely metallic crystals, loose and on matrix. I think it's safe to say that nowhere else on the internet is such a nice selection of these new specimens available. Lots of pix of eight speciens so I've split the lot up by size: thumbnail chalcocite(3), miniature chalcocite(4), cabinet chalcocite (1)

CHALCOPYRITE, CALCITE, QUARTZ, PYRITE, Cavnic, Maramures, Romania - Brilliantly lustrous  golden chalcopyrite tetrahedra to 9mm with a patch of calcite xls, quartz xls to 1cm, and micro pyrites. Nice assemblage, a flashy miniature. 50x40x30mm, $15

COLEMANITE, Death Valley, Inyo County, California - Colorless xls coating a 40mm matrix, $8

COLLINSITE, Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada - Mostly cream to colorless arrowhead-shaped crystals, in patches and solid druses on matrix. Collinsite crystals are known from only a few localities, and this locality produces the best in the world. Small miniatures, 4-6cm; good representative specimens $10 each, some better pieces @ $15 each.

COPPER, CUPRITE, KINOITE, APOPHYLLITE, Christmas Mine, near Hayden, Gila County, Arizona - A tarnished dendrite of native copper 20mm long with minute cuprite octahedra growing on it lies flat on a druse of sparkly minute apophyllite xls covering bright blue micro kinoite. Native copper is seldom seen from this interesting locality. 60x25x20mm, $15

COPPER, Ray Mine, Pinal Co., Arizona - A dull brown branching arborescent group, crudely xln, 45x10x10mm, $6

COPPER, Calumet, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan - Two specimens available, both with nice bright native copper on matrix. A) is   80x70x40mm and sort of hackly and sculptural looking. B) is 60x65x35mm, crudely crystallized, with a sawn base. Both on walnut bases.Your choice only $15 each.

CORUNDUM, variety RUBY in marble, Pakistan - A lovely red 22x8mm crystal in white marble matrix with minor bits of pyrite. Unusually well formed, nicely terminated crystal, superior to most from this area, which are usually kind of blobby. Great color, incredible contrast of red on white, and mild red fluorescence under SW UV. Sawn base, so it sits perfectly for display, but it could use a trim. The marble has been etched to expose the ruby. 80x60x30mm, $299

DIOPSIDE, Orford Nickel Mine, Orford Township, Quebec - One nice terminated xl left, the best of an entire flat of xl sections collected in the late eighties from the dumps of this long-abandoned mine. 85x12x10mm, $30

DIOPSIDE, Wakefield, Quebec - A group of dull greenish crudely terminated prisms to 50mm long, none too aesthetic but not a bad specimen. 60x50x35mm, $8

DIOPTASE, Altyn-Tube, Kirshese Steppes, Kazakhstan - Beautiful deep green lustrous xls, some contacting around the edges, the largest partially doubly terminated and 10mm long. Excellent miniature from this classic old locality. 40x30x25mm,$75 

DIOPTASE, MALACHITE, Harquahala Mine, south of Salome, Yuma County, Arizona - Deep green sparkling micro xls, a solid druse on one face, another face about half coated with xl clumps, plus some radiating lighter green malachite. Great under the scope, good for the locality. 50x50x20mm, $25

DIOPTASE, CALCITE, Christmas Mine, near Hayden, Gila County, Arizona - A superb miniature, loaded with countless bright green sparkling xls to a couple of mm on slightly larger colorless calcite dogsteeth. Excellent for the locality! 50x35x15mm, $45

DIOPTASE, CHRYSOCOLLA, Magma Mine, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona - A rich sparkling green druse of xls to ~2mm covers a 60x40mm area, with more on the back. A very seldom seen locality for dioptase. 70x60x30mm, $40

DIOPTASE, Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona - A bright green 6x3cm druse of sparkling micro xls on a 7x5x4cm matrix. Very good for the locality. $65

DOLOMITE, Rabbit Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada - A nice cluster of numerous reddish-brown rhombs up to 13mm on edge, without matrix. Good miniature for a collector of carbonates or Canadian minerals. 55x40x40mm, $14

ELBAITE, Arqueana Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil - A nice green pencil tourmaline crystal, the upper half transparent, with a somewhat rough, black termination. Nice small miniature or TN; here's a photo of the same stuff, just smaller xls. 32x5 mm, $20

ELBAITE in MUSCOVITE, Hebron, Maine - A 40x3mm green elbaite prism embedded in a yellowish slab of muscovite, no rock matrix. 80x50x10mm, $15

ENARGITE, El Guanaco gold mine, 93 km east of Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile - Good specimens of a mineral that is seldom seen from Chile.

A) 40-60mm specimens sporting countless superb lustrous black microxls to 2mm in vugs in quartz matrix, awesome specimens under the scope. Only 3 specimens of this quality available. $19 each.

B) Decent representative specimens, 40-50mm, loaded with black bladed massive to xln enargite, xl sections from 5-10mm, each with at least modest micro xls and enough macro xliztion to interest any non-micromounting sulfide fan. $12 each.

EPIDOTE, Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Fine sharp loose dark green/black prismatic xls with simple basal terminations. TN's around 25mm long, $5; medium size xls about 5cm long, $8, large xls about 8cm long, $12. A few clusters available, at $12, $14, $18, and $20.

EPISTILBITE, QUARTZ, Nasik, India - A shallow basalt vug lined with pristine white sparkling quartz xls hosts a superb 20mm twinned epistilbite group; lustrous, perfect, showing very interesting twinning with each tabular xl also a twin. A prize for the zeolite collector; very distinctive and unusual cabinet specimen. 130x120x40mm, $175

EPISTILBITE, Jalgaon quarry complex, ~450 km NE of Bombay, Maharashtra State, India - (See MR V34#1, pp.71-73) An assortment of very fine miniatures of varying habits, ranging from superb sharp xls groups to complete hemispheres. Excellent examples of a mineral seldom seen in such large crystals; this is one of the hardest zeolites to find in nice display specimens. $35-$120

EPISTILBITE with HEULANDITE and STELLERITE, and just plain EPISTILBITE, Jalgaon quarry complex, ~450 km NE of Bombay, Maharashtra State, India - Another nice selection of TN-miniatures, two with associated minerals, less expensive pieces than the last batch, $40-$60

EUDIALYTE, Norra Karr, Granna, Smaland County, Sweden - Reddish-pink massive in a white albite matrix, rich and even somewhat attractive! 10x5x3cm, $16

EUDIALYTE, Sheffield Lake Complex, Kipawa River, Quebec - Nice bright red/pink masses in matrix, 5-8cm miniatures $5 each. Click here to see a large cabinet specimen.

FELDSPAR pseudomorphs after SCAPOLITE - Hwy. 41 Roadcut, near Griffith, Ontario - Thick, red to pinkish prisms, very sharply replaced, most with some degree of black or greenish coating. Not terribly attractive, but good, affordable specimens of an interesting pseudomorph, collected about thirty years ago. Small singles and clusters, 5cm or less, $3. (A couple of the accessory minerals, pyroxene and non-pseudomorphous feldspar, in decent ~7cm clusters, are available, $8 for the pair.)

FLUORAPOPHYLLITE, Garpenberg North Mine, near Hedemora, Bergslagen mining district, Sweden - 2 cabinet specimens with solid druses of colorless/white xls to 20mm across, at $25 & $35.

FLUORAPOPHYLLITE on STILBITE, Nasik, India - A lovely 2cm colorless tabular crystal on pale pink stilbite xls to 2cm, no matrix. 4x3x3cm, $10

FLUORAPOPHYLLITE, Jalgaon, North Maharashtra State, India - A fine miniature with four main xls, the largest 25 & 30mm long, colorless, lustrous, transparent to translucent. 35x30x20mm, $35

FLUORAPOPHYLLITE, CHABAZITE, Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia, Canada - A plate of green & white blocky fluorapophyllites, the largest 2cm across, with complex colorless chabazites of odd habit to about 1cm. Canadian apophyllite is not often seen in this quality. 10x6x4cm, $20

FLUORITE, South Shore Sand & Gravel Quarry, near Chester, Nova Scotia - Slabs of yellowish granite coated with innumerable small deep purple (almost black) fluorite crystals averaging about 3-4mm across. Not just any old fluorite xls, though, these are really cool: the bulk of the xls are overgrown by a second generation of fluorite and rounded, but each has some smaller first gen xls that are sharp, clear, phantomed cubes modified by the hexoctahedron - each corner has six tiny modifying faces! And the phantoms aren't just cubes in a cube, theyre hexoctahedrons in a modified cube! Not exactly pretty stuff with the naked eye, but awesome under the scope! 70mm across, $8

FLUORITE, SPHALERITE, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico - Nifty colorless transparent colorless but frosted sharp octahedra on black xln sphalerite. 20x15mm xl, perhaps a twin. 40x25x15mm, $20

FLUORITE, Eastgate Quarry, Weardale, England - Sharp transparent green cubes to 12 mm on edge. Fine interpenetration twins, a couple of spots of damage present. 80x50x30mm, $45

FLUORITE, Madoc, Ontario - A plate of green xls to 4cm, no matrix. The xls are well formed and quite clear, but surface alteration or some sort of deposit has taken away any luster. 11x7x4cm, $55

FLUORITE, Iron Flats, Stanhope, County Durham, England - A plate of translucent to transparent pale green cubes to 14mm on edge, contact damage on the edges as usual, and small xls on the back. 60x35x20mm, $30

FLUORITE, GALENA, Iron Flats, Stanhope, County Durham, England - Clear to cloudy pale green cubes to 18mm on edge with minor galena. Several points of damage, but the main pair of xls is quite attractive. 75x55x40mm, $45

FLUORITE, Cumberland, England - A clear green twin 12mm across on matrix, 65x35x30mm, $14

FLUORITE, GALENA, Iron Flats, Stanhope, County Durham, England - A fine cabinet specimen of sharp glassy pale green cubes with minor galena. The crystals reach 2cm on edge. There is a barely visible natural fault right across the specimen, splitting some crystals, (which was recemented by Ma Nature, so the specimen is in no danger of splitting in two) and I think it only adds character and a talking point to the specimen. 15x8x8cm, $220

FLUORITE, Pugh Quarry, Custer, Wood County, Ohio - A cabinet specimen with scattered tiny brown cubes to 3mm across. Under the scope this is very, very pretty stuff, and this piece would make a large number of micromounts. 12x8x7cm, $20

FLUORITE, Highway 17 Roadcut, near Rossport, Ontario - Sharp darkest purple/black cubes to 6mm, the largest xl incomplete, a better than average miniature from this locality. 50x30x15mm, $6

FLUORITE, Huallapon Mine, Peru - monster green octahedron, 7cm on the long edge, deeply etched, with matrix, $70; pale green rough xls to 2cm on matrix of quartz xls, 6cm, $20

GILLESPITE in SANBORNITE, La Madrelena Mine, Tres Pozos, Municipio de Tecate, Baja California, Mexico - Crimson cleavages in white sanbornite, interesting barium silicates. 30-50 mm pieces, $5 each

GOETHITE, Londonderry, Nova Scotia, Canada -  60 to 70mm pieces of solid fibrous brown-black goethite. Neat chunks of iron ore that show the structure well, with a nice sort of silky brown-black sheen. $6 each.

GOLD, ATACAMITE, BOLEITE, La Compania Mine, Sierra Gorda district, Antofagasta Province, Chile - Small paper-thin plates of gold with veins and scales of dark green atacamite and lesser quantities of blue boleite, the latter mostly scaley, rarely in tiny cubes where thin veinlets offered room to grow. The matrix is a dark brown soft, highly altered rock. A new and unusual find! All sizes, prices.

GROSSULAR, Jeffrey Mine, Shipton Township, Richmond County, 160 km east of Montreal, Quebec, Canada - A beautiful miniature with a pair of water-clear peach colored xls, the largest 9mm across on diorite matrix. The smaller xl is damaged but it doesn't stand out. The piece sits perfectly for display, and has nice luster and color contrast. Very cute! See MR V10#2 for a writeup on the locality.45x25x15mm, $125

GYPSUM, Lake Gilles, near Corunna Station, 30km NW of Iron Knob, South Australia - A very cool colorless transparent doubly terminated floater twin xl. The terminations aren't well formed, the twinning is really bizarre. 70x35x30mm, $12

HEMATITE, QUARTZ, Deposit #2, Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. property, 150 km SW of Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut (formerly NWT) - A piece of a fabulous high-grade iron deposit that's about to be mined. About a billion tons of 70% iron ore is what they've found so far; it will take 50 years to mine it out. Solid, lustrous flaky specular hematite, cut by quartz veins. Openings show countless platy black hematite xls in druses and balls, on nice clear colorless quartz crystals, very nice under the scope. 70x40mm, $10

HEMATITE, BARITE, Grube Hering, Germany - A druse of innumerable minute sparkling platy black hematite xls, with barite blades, nice under the scope. 40x20x15mm, $6

HEMIMORPHITE, Altenberg, Saxony, Germany - A druse of small colorless blades to 4mm on matrix, great under the scope. An old and unusual locality. 70x30x25mm, $20

HEMIMORPHITE, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico - A very nice plate of glistening white xls to 15mm long on matrix. 4x4x2cm, $25

HEULANDITE-(Ca) on MORDENITE, Rat's Nest Claim, near Challis, Custer County, Idaho - Lovely miniatures, nice color contrast of pink xls on white mordenite. Amazing heulandites for the continent! ~$10 each

HEULANDITE, ANALCIME, QUARTZ, Amethyst Cove, King's County, Nova Scotia - A wonderful miniature combining lustrous smoky heulandite xls to 12mm with a glassy white 15mm analcime xl on weird opaque white quartz xls. Excellent piece! 35x30x20mm, $25

KERMESITE, STIBNITE, VALENTINITE, SENARMONTITE, QUARTZ, Lac Nicolet Antimony Mine, Wolfe County, Quebec - Oversize specimens with naked-eye appreciable kermesite, superb under the scope. A) Dark maroon acicular kermesite spray, 1cm long, with the usual micro associates. Very good for the mineral. 40x25x20mm, $60. B) Sprays of kermesite to 1cm, without the valentinite but with a small amount of native antimony, 60x45x25, $55.

KIDWELLITE, STRENGITE, minor CACOXENITE, GOETHITE, Coon Creek Mine, Polk County, Arkansas - A rich, thick vein of quite bright green acicular radiating compact kidwellite nicely exposed in the centre of the matrix. The mineralized area is about 70x25mm, and up to 7mm thick, with individual radiating sprays to about 8mm across. Some very nice micro pale pink strengite, very minor yellow acicular cacoxenite, and black botryoidal goethite are present. A rich and actually quite attractive specimen of a mineral that almost never looks like much without a scope. 70x35x40mm, $45

LIBETHENITE, Mindola open pit, Rokana Mine, Zambia - These are fine specimens of a mineral not often seen in such large crystals. The crystals are so dark green as to be black, and occur in vugs in grey argillite matrix. From the basement of one of the co-authors of the article on the occurrence in Min.Rec V9 #6. Superb thumbnail specimens are available as well.

A) A 5 mm crystal fetchingly centered in a 2 cm vug in a 5x4x3cm matrix. A particularly cool specimen; the luster isn't the finest but the aesthetics are certainly there. $40. Photo

C) A lustrous sharp 7mm crystal made up of several stacked individuals, on the edge of a deep vug in a 4x3x3cm matrix, $90. Photo

LINARITE, CERUSSITE, BROCHANTITE, Los Azules Mine, 345 km east of Copiapo, Copiapo Province, Chile - Fabulously colorful deep blue linarite, lustrous crudely xln lining cavities with superb bright green sprays of brochantite and modest to very nicely xlized cerussite, the best a smoky sixling twins of about 9mm long. Superb under the scope, and lots of color and sparkle even without magnification. 

LIN-B: Loads of linarite, nice brochantite, minor small cerussite, 45x40x35mm, $25

LIN-D: Colorful but poorly xlized, lots of linarite, less brochantite, 45x40x20mm, $10

LIN-E: Nice TN, blue linarite lining quartz xls in a vug, $10

MAGNETITE, FLUORAPATITE, MICA, Faraday Mine Property, near Bancroft, Ontario - A semi-parallel grouping of rough dull black octahedra to 25mm across with apatite crystal sections and black mica flakes. No matrix. 70x50x35mm, $6

MARCASITE, PYRITE, Stoney Mtn. Quarry, Manitoba - Lustrous mound of pyrite xls topped with marcasite xls, nice piece from an unusual locality. 40x25x35mm, $10

MESOLITE, STILBITE, LAUMONTITE, Cape D'Or, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada - Mats of light peach colored finely acicular wispy mesolite completely covering matrix, with minor micro stilbite and laumontite. Fine undamaged specimens of a mineral that is particularly fragile and difficult to collect. Miniature to cabinet size, $18-35

META-AUTUNITE, Streuberg Quarry, near Bergen, Vogtland District, Saxony, Germany - Fine thumbnails and small miniatures, bright yellow-green and beautifully crystallized, little or no matrix. Radioactive, with intense dayglo fluorescence under SW UV. Spectacular specimens, $35-75

METEORITES - Gao-Guenie, H5 chondrite, Gourounsi, Burkina Faso, Africa - Nice stony meteorites, brownish colored exteriors, flecks of metal exposed when sawn. Excellent, inexpensive specimens, these fell on March 5, 1960. Bargains at only $25 to $60!

MILLERITE, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky - A pair of ~3cm quartz-filled geodes from this now-closed classic location, one with a rich patch of millerite about 7mm across, the other quite sparse, the pair for $12

MILLERITE, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky - A couple of ~4cm geode halves with very sparse acicular micro millerite, $8

MILLERITE, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky - A couple of 4cm geode halves with very sparse acicular millerite, $15

MILLERITE, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky - a pair of ~4cm geodes with sparse acicular millerite, $20

MILLERITE, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky - A pair of 4cm geodes with more abundant acicular millerite, $30

MIMETITE, Pingtouling Mine, near Sanjiang City, Liannan County, Guangdong Province, China - A nice range of specimens; beautifully crystallized TNs and miniatures in shades of orange and yellow, $12 - $45

MIMETITE, WULFENITE, Rowley Mine, near Theba, Maricopa County, Arizona - Plentiful orange micro mimetites covering matrix with some small fragments of wulfenite blades. Nice under the scope, would make many micromounts. 70x50x30mm, $8

ORTHOCLASE, Jarilla Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico - A very sharp perfect opaque pinkish 15x8mm xl sticking out of matrix quite aesthetically. A smallish miniature, 40x25x10mm, $7. Also a 5cm piece with a15mm xl, $6.

PETALITE, Genipapo Mine, near Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Highly gemmy colorless prismatic crystal fragments, a small degree of xlization present, far more than the usual formless masses available. A rare gem rough saved from the cutters. TNs, 15-25mm long, $10 each; chunkier pieces, 25-35mm long, $15 each

PETALITE, Varutrask pegmatite, Sweden - grey/white cleavage, ~4cm, no matrix, $10

POWELLITE, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra State, India - Enormous white crystals, and smaller golden-yellow crystals with lustrous white stilbite blades and white heulandite crystals. Excellent bright creamy-yellow fluorescence under SW UV. Nice selection, crystals to 6cm - over TWO INCHES! Prices reduced.

POWELLITE, Jardinera No.1 Mine, 5 km E of Inca de Oro, Atacama Province, Chile -Small (~2-5mm) greenish-yellow xls and xl druses, on miniature sized matrices. Not a rare mineral, but only a few localities have produced crystals. This is the type locality for szenicsite; see Min Rec V28, #5, p.387. All specimens require 20x for best appreciation. Nice yellow fluorescence under SW UV.

POW-B, 60x40x40mm, rich, with larger xls to 5mm, $75

POW-D, 50x40x20mm, modest xls in tight druses, $30

POW-E, 40x30x30mm, $75, excellent 5mm xl

PURPURITE, Sandamab Mine, between Usakos and Klein Spitzkopje, Namibia - Good solid purple chunks of this phosphate that never forms xls. Bought a whole pile of it so you get great prices! 10-20mm pcs $3; 30-40mm pcs $5; 50-60mm pcs $15; and a few 70-90mm pcs at $20 each. 

PYRITE, No.27 Mine, Viburnum Trend District, Missouri - A glistening brassy botryoidal to xln druse on two sides of the matrix. A nice piece! 100x70x50 mm, $29

PYRITE, SPHALERITE, Huanzala, Huanuco Province, Peru - A good cluster of sharp, brilliant cubes, speckled with tiny black sphalerite xls, no matrix, contacted around the edges. 60x40x30mm, $15

PYROMORPHITE, Yang Shao, near Guilin, Guangxi Province, China - A rich and beautiful miniature, loaded with undamaged crystals to 6mm long, 6x5x3cm, $275

QUARTZ (Japan Law Twins), Tentadora Mine, near Pampa Blanca, Castrovirrena Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru - Good sharp colorless to white tabular twins, tn-miniature size, some with xls hiding amongst normal prismatic quartz xls, some with the twins sitting up beautifully. A nice selection of specimens is available, $25-65. One seldom sees reasonably priced specimens of this famous twin.

QUARTZ on SPHALERITE, Huancavelica, Peru - Nice white quartz xls on black sphalerite with micro pyrite. Great association. 85x50x30mm, $15

ROSE QUARTZ, Minas Gerais, Brazil - A moderately well xlized sort of multiple-crystal group, crystallized on almost all sides with typically indistinct form. Pleasing pink color, mounted on a walnut base. 35x30x20mm, $20

QUARTZ, Grant Quarry, near Greely, south of Ottawa, Ontario - Exquisite lustrous loose single crystals, glassy and smoky, with internal veils, occasional external hopper faces, and little or no point of contact, mostly in the essentially-bipyramidal Herkimer style with skinny prism faces. Lovely specimens, very clean and undinged, no matrix. All around 30-45mm, classy minatures. $30 each.

QUARTZ, DOLOMITE, Grant Quarry, near Greely, south of Ottawa, Ontario - A fine specimen with upwards of two dozen dark smoky quartz xls to 17mm long with small dolomite rhombs and micro calcite and marcasite on matrix. 75x45x35mm, $65

QUARTZ, DOLOMITE, MARCASITE, Grant Quarry, near Greely, south of Ottawa, Ontario - An excellent cabinet specimen with transparent to opaque smoky quartz xls to just under 4x3cm, three of them doubly terminated, with dolomite rhombs, much sparkly micro marcasite and micro calcite xls. 9x7x6cm, $85

QUARTZ, Herkimer, New York - A typical 30x25x17mm colorless, glass-clear "herkimer diamond". A few spots of damage are present. $20

QUARTZ, SIDERITE, Morro Velho Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil - A nice group of clear colorless xls with a flattened brown14mm siderite rhomb at the base. 55x30x30mm, $18

QUARTZ, Lawrenceville, Quebec, Canada - A joined pair of xls, milky base and somewhat clear and colorless tips, contacts on the base on either side but otherwise pristine. Excellent for the locality! 80x50x75, price reduced to $35

QUARTZ, Lincoln County, New Mexico - A cluster of a half dozen intergrown light smoky transparent prisms to 20mm, without matrix. 35x25x25mm, $6

QUARTZ, Hot Springs area, Arkansas - A fine cabinet specimen with 8 clear colorless prisms up to 6x2cm, quite aesthetically arranged. The backsides of the terminations of the two main xls are dinged, but it's invisible from the front. 65x70x40mm, $28

QUARTZ, Mt. Ida, Arkansas - An excellent large cabinet specimen, with thick water-clear crystals up to 50mm long and 25mm thick. A matrixless plate of solid quartz xls, a few are dinged but they don't detract much. 22 x 12 x 9 cm, $175

RHODOCHROSITE on QUARTZ, Huallapon Mine, Pasto Bueno, Ancash Province, Peru - A red  rhomb 12mm on edge. 35x25x15mm, $25

SIDERITE, CHILDRENITE, AUGELITE, Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada - A pair of nice dark brown over 1cm rhombs with many smaller, plus mats of micro brown childrenite prisms and nice micro augelite. Far better than average for the mineral from this locality. 50x40x25mm, $9

SIDERITE, QUARTZ pseudo after AEGIRINE - Long prismatic crystals, groups of aegirine completely replaced by sideritem, quartz, and other minerals. No terminations, no matrix, cool and unusual pseudos found nowhere else in the world!   6-8cm long, $15 each

SILVER, Teutonic Bore, N.Agnew Nickel Deposit, Western Australia, Australia - Very thin leaflets of silver in matrix. On the sparse side, best with a bit of magnification. 40x35x20mm, $6

SILVER, Cobalt district, Ontario, Canada - From one of the greatest silver camps in the world, three rich ore samples are available, all with one or more cut surfaces which expose the native silver. These could be polished or coated to really bring out the silver, and are suitable for cutting cabochons. A) A 60x40x9mm slab, loaded with silver on both faces, $10. B) sold C) An end cut, with one cut face showing the rich spiderweb of silver veinlets to about 3mm thick, and some silver leaf and veinlets exposed on the rough areas. An awesome ore sample! 120x90x80mm, $75.

SILVER, Number 1 Level, Elura Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia - Wild wire silvers from a locality not often seen these days and pretty much ignored in the literature. Sinuous yet xln to varying degrees, these came out from the upper oxide zone of this mine in the late eighties. Nicely tarnished, no matrix. Miniatures and cabinets run from $35 to $110.

SMITHSONITE, CERUSSITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - A druse of green xls with micro cerussite, on a matrix of massive cerussite. Miniature, 50x40x30mm $35

SMITHSONITE, Tarnowitz, Silesia, Germany - A druse of brownish smithsonite on matrix. Not attractive, but an old locality piece with a cool Krantz label and a Michigan College of Mines label as well. The specimen bears a none-too inconspicuous catalog number from the latter institute. An interesting piece for a collector of smithsonite or old labels. 50x40x30mm, $12

SODALITE, Cancrinite Hill, Bancroft, Ontario - Deep blue massive, some with yellow cancrinite. A Canadian classic. 4-8 cm, $3 to $10 each

SPESSARTINE, Yunxiao Mine, Fujian Province, China - Pretty little spessartine crystals in shades of orange, ranging from small TN's to small miniatures, only $4 each. A few extra nice TN's, nice individual xls or more lustrous xl druses, some with associated feldspar or quartz xls, at $8 - these are cute!

SPHALERITE on DOLOMITE, Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Beasain, Guipuzcoa, Spain - A cute 10mm sphalerite xl perched atop a plate of white dolomite xls, both lightly speckled with minute chalcopyrite xls, with ankerite at the base. The sphalerite xl is incomplete on the backside, and red when backlit. 50x40x20mm, $30

SPHALERITE, QUARTZ, CALCITE, BOULANGERITE, Trepca, Serbia - A plate of nice, lustrous twinned black sphalerite crystals with a bit of white quartz and calcite and some steely acicular matted boulangerite hiding here and there and also included in some of the calcites. There's  significant damage on the right hand side of the piece, but it blends in with the overall lusterous nature of the piece. A nice old European piece, suitable for the collector of classic localities, sulfides, or twins. Mounted on a walnut base. 70x40x30mm, $35

SPINEL, Mogok, Burma - A super bright red pair of octahedra to 4mm on edge in perfectly-contasting white matrix. 40x25x20mm, $75

STELLERITE, HEULANDITE-(Ca), APOPHYLLITE, Jalgaon quarry complex, ~450 km NE of Bombay, Maharashtra State, India - (See MR V34#1, pp.71-73) - A perfectly sculpted green chlorite-rich matrix hosts a deep vug all but filled with three glassy colorless stellerite balls to 30mm, with glassy colorless heulandite xls to 15mm on one edge, and a small bit of apophyllite to boot. There are a couple of sawn faces on the back, which detract not at all. 70x60x50mm, $25

STELLERITE, Jalgaon quarry complex, ~450 km NE of Bombay, Maharashtra State, India - A slightly yellowish golfball sized glistening xl aggregate of stellerite is set off by a background of chalk-white mordenite. The stellerite ball is an impressive 50x40mm, complete but for the back sidewhere it grew against the vug wall. Small bit of damage on the top but you have to look for it. A nifty display piece! 110x50x40mm, $60

STIBNITE, Kadamzhaj, Tienshan Mountains, Kirgizistan (former USSR) - Cute group of matchstick-sized xls, with rounded terminations, no matrix. 45x14x6mm, $20

STIBNITE, Raura, Peru - A solid radiating spray of black to silvery needles, no matrix. A very hard to find locality piece for the stibnite or sulfide collector. 5x4x3cm, $40

STILBITE, Cape D'Or, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia - Great miniature to cabinet size pieces ranging from excellent bowties to cauliflower-like mounds of off-white stilbite. Fine specimens!

STILBITE,  Nova Scotia - Miniatures from a couple of other east coast localities.

SUOLUNITE, Black Lake Mine, Thetford,  Coleraine Township, Quebec  - Pale lilac druses of small, close-packed blades; no matrix, TN - Min, $10-$175

THOMSONITE, ANALCIME, HEULANDITE, APOPHYLLITE, Cape D'Or, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia - A pair of intergrown balls, composed of innumerable tiny thomsonite xls, with minor micro associates. Sure it's ugly, but it's a fairly decent and unusually large thomsonite. 40x30x25mm, $18

UVAROVITE, Saranovskoe deposit, Perm Oblast, 90 km NW of Nizhniy Tagil, Central Ural Mountains, Russia - Refreshingly bright green tiny xls in sparkling druses on thin sawn matrices. Will add a nice spot of color to your cabinet for very little money. 

Sadly only a very few of these have crystals suitable for micromounting; 30-60mm pieces are $12 each.

Nice miniatures averaging 40-60 mm across are $8 each. 

70-100mm pieces are $12 each. 

A couple of 100x50mm pieces are available at $20 each. 

VANADINITE, Mibladen, Morocco - An attractive largish miniature of sparkling red-brown vanadinites to about 5mm generously scattered on a yellowish matrix. The base has been sawn, and a few of the xls have very slight damage, to no ill effect. A pretty piece, quite regal on its walnut base. 60x40x30mm, $65

VIVIANITE, LUDLAMITE, Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada -  TN to miniature size

WULFENITE, Santa Ana Mine, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Chile - A superb miniature with small but super-sparkly brilliant red xls to 4mm on edge. This is the best specimen I've seen from the locality, very colorful and an absolute must-have item for the wulfenitophile. 45x40x20mm, $60

WULFENITE, MIMETITE, Santa Ana Mine, Siera Gorda, Antofagasta, Chile - A very cute miniature with five small but incredibly bright red-orange crystals to about 3mm on edge. Magnification reveals some yellow prismatic mimetite. 30x30x20mm, $30

WULFENITE, Defiance Mine, Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona - blades 15mm on edge, overall 5x3x3cm, $45

WULFENITE, Touissit, Morocco - Two miniatures available, with nice yellow blades, A) $30, B) $45

WULFENITE, Laura Mine, Albunuelas, Granada, Spain - Small miniatures with nice pale orange-yellow blades to a few mm on matrices of 3-4cm. A most unusual locality! Locality specimens, $4

WULFENITE, Gleeson District, Cochise County, Arizona - A miniature with a one inch patch of thin orangish xls to about 5mm on edge. 35x35x20mm, $15

WULFENITE, Gleeson District, Cochise County, Arizona - A large matrix with very thin orangish xls to about 6mm hiding here and there. 9x6x5cm, $16

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