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RUTILE, QUARTZ, CLINOCHLORE, Moose Point, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada - Quite nice brownish red prismatic rutile xls to a few mm with quartz xls on a druse of green clinochlore xls. $5
PREHNITE, Virginia Trap Rock Quarry, Virginia - A neat
matrixless plate of thin blades, $5
PYROMORPHITE, Wheatly Mine, Pennsylvania - Lovely bright green prisms
covering matrix, $8
QUARTZ, near Middleville, NY - A vug lined with lovely clear colorless
xls, very pretty, $5
QUARTZ, STIBNITE, PYRRHOTITE, ANTIMONY, Lake George Antimony Mine, New
Brunswick, Canada - A nice clear colorless quartz xl, doubly terminated, with acicular
stibnite inclusions, associated with thin papery pyrrhotite and granular grey antimony. $5
QUARTZ, Fat Jack Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona - Two dozen loose crystals
of varying odd forms individually mounted in a large hand-made cardboard box 3" long.
A neat little collection of oddball quartzes! $15
SHORTITE, FMC Mine, Wyoming - Nice clear xls embedded in Eocene clay, odd
stuff, $10
SILVER, Level 21, Trebsko, near Pribram, Czech Republic - Tarnished
hackly to wiry silver with galena etc, $8
SILVER, El Bonanza Mine, Port Radium, NWT, Canada - A lovely little
crystal group, very very nice!!! $10
SILVER, QUARTZ, Sarbay Mine, Rudny, Kazachstan - Sinuous thin wire
snaking amongst quartz xl-lined matrix, nice, $8
MALACHITE, CALCITE, Mendota Fissure, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan - A
gorgeous green ball in a calcite crystal lined vug, great for the state, $10
MAXWELLITE, Squaw Creek Tin Mine, Catron Co., NM - About a dozen small
red xls in vugs, most somewhat crude but a couple very nice, $15
MORDENITE, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand - Lovely silky white sprays
in a vug, $6
MURDOCHITE, Blanchard Claims, New Mexico - Numerous nice small black xls
on matrix, $8
OLIVENITE, AZURITE, MALACHITE, San Luis Potosi, Mexico - Countless pale
green needles with a bit of darker green malachite and many superb brilliant blue azurite
xls, a fantastic combination!!! $15
OLIVENITE, Old Robertson Claim, Yavapai Co., AZ - Numerous modestly
xlized tabular green lying flat on matrix, $5
OSUMILITE, HEMATITE ps PHLOGOPITE, Obsidian Cliffs, Lane County, Oregon -
Nice sharp black osumilite xl with thin tabular brown xl of phlogopite replaced by
hematite, very nice, $4
PARAVAUXITE, Llallagua, Bolivia - Nice sharp loose pair of xls, $8
PHENAKITE, Wasau Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin - Nice clear
colorless prism, somewhat rounded termination, sticking out of quartz matrix, an unusual
locality for the mineral, $10
PEROVSKITE, San Benito Co., California - Very nice sharp lustrous
modified cubes on matrix, $8
PICROPHARMACOLITE, Markirch, Alsasce, France - Lovely silky white
acicular clumps, balls on matrix in an oversized rectangular old mm box. $15
PSEUDOBROOKITE, Paramount Canyon, Sierra Co., New Mexico - Nice lustrous
black tabular xl almost filling a vug, $5
PSEUDOBROOKITE, Bellerberg, Eifel, Germany - Nice long black tabular xls,
$5
PYROMORPHITE, Burgam Mine, Shropshire, England - Excellent long green
prismatic xls, ~20mm square coating, $8
GROSSULAR, Orford Nickel Mine, Quebec - A superb transparent intense
green crystal on brownish diopside, just gorgeous!!! Collected in '87. $10
GALKHAITE, FLUORITE, REALGAR, GYPSUM, North Pit area, Getchell Mine,
Nevada - Tiny red cubes with modest associates in a vug in quartz, atypical stuff for the
locality, $9
ANDRADITE, Eifel, Germany - Fairly nice little lustrous brown xls in wee
vugs with some other stuff, $4
ALMANDINE, Rutherford #1 Mine, Amelia, Virginia - A tiny transparent red
sharp 1mm loose xl, very pretty, $4
GOETHITE on QUARTZ, Walker Valley, Washington - Superb sprays of brown
needles on colorless quartz xls, $5
GOLD, Antofagasta Desert, Chile - Minute flake in matrix, rare locality,
$12
GOLD, Bull Frog Mine, Nye County, Nevada - Several tiny flecks in matrix,
$10
GOLD in URANINITE, Mitterberg, Salzburg, Austria - A very small mass of
black uraninite with a small fleck of embedded gold, most unusual association and
locality! $15
GOLD, Sheep Mine, Cienega, Arizona - Many tiny flecks in matrix, nice,
$12
GOWERITE, COLEMANITE, Corkscrew Canyon, Inyo County, California - Nice
white acicular with small colorless colemanites, rich and good, $10
GYPSUM, REALGAR, FLUORITE, North Pit area, Getchell Mine, Nevada -
Excellent clear colorless xls, $5
HANNEBACHITE, Hannebacher Ley, Eifel, Germany - Excellent platy white xls
in a wee vug, $20
HEMATITE, Willow Creek, near Cuchillo, New Mexico - Nice black xl in a
vug, $5
HEMIMORPHITE, Blue Bell Mine, San Bernardino County, California -
Gorgeous colorless tabular xls, really nice! $6
HYDROTALCITE, Dypingdal, Snarnum, Norway - Pearly green mass from the
type locality, $8
INESITE, Hale Creek Mine, Trinity County, California - A small group of
beautiful light pink prismatic xls, pretty! $10
IODARGYRITE, Mizpah Mine, Tonopah, Nevada - Four loose green xls, crude,
to a few mm, $6
JAROSITE, Calamita Mine, Elba Mine, Italy - Fine brown xls, $8
KASOLITE, Musoni Mine, Katanga, Zaire (formerly Congo) - Excellent
vein-squeezed sunbursts of thick prismatic orange xls, very nice, $15
LAVENDULAN, Santa Catalina Mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile - Intense blue
semi-xln splotches to about 4mm lying flat on dark brown matrix, great color but not much
xlization, $6
LAURELITE, Grand Reef Mine, Graham County - A few tiny colorless loose
needles in a wee zip lock bag. Type locality, very very rare, $20
LUDLAMITE, Santa Eulalia, Mexico - A superb tabular green doubly
terminated crystal 9mm long, almost TN size, $15
MATULAITE, Bachman Mine, Hellertown, Pennsylvania - Ivory colored flaky
to botryoidal, quite rich on matrix, $15
ADAMITE, San Rafael Mine, Nye Co., Nevada - Nice light green xl fans on a
small matrix, atypical locality, $6
ADAMITE, Glory Hole area, Gold Hill, Utah - Sharp light green xls that
are actually hollow, odd! $5
AUGELITE, FLUORAPATITE, WARDITE, LAZULITE, SIDERITE, Rapid Creek, Yukon -
You know the drill: fabulously xlized tramsparent pale green augelites, colorless
prismatic fluorapatite, colorless octahedra of wardite, modest platy blue lazulite, all on
brown siderite rhombs, lots to look at!!! $15
AURICHALCITE, Mapimi, Mexico - Neat little vug loaded with blue xls,
great color contrast, $5
BARITE, Blaine County, Idaho - Nice cluster of colorless xls, one double
terminated, on quartz xls, $3
BARITE, STIBNITE, Herja Mine, Romania - Nice lustrous single platy barite
xl with an unterm'd stibnite xl on one side, $6
Ba-PHARMACOSIDERITE on HIDALGOITE Gold Hill Mine, Utah - countless tiny
orangey cubes on green massive hildagoite, $8
BIXBYITE, HEMATITE, Paramount Canyon, New Mexico - A nice black cube with
good tabular hematite xls, $6
CALCITE, Malpais Hill, Pinal Co., AZ - Really nice clear colorless
prismatic xls in vugs, lots of 'em, $5
CELESTINE, Maumee Stone Co. Quarry, Lime City, Ohio - Nice equant clear
xl, just slightly bluish, on matrix, $4
CUPRITE, COPPER, Ray, Arizona - bright red acicular patch with a
bit of xln copper on matrix, classic old stuff, $6
CROCOITE, PYROMORPHITE, Kapi Mine, Tasmania, Australia - Fabulous orange
xls, a few doubly terminated, with nice small green pyros on a largish matrix, very pretty
stuff, $10
CUPRITE, Chanarcillo, Copiapo, Chile - A single blackish octahedra on a
small bit of matrix, very minimalistic, $5
EPIDOTE, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan - Excellent clear green tabular xls
on matrix, $6
WULFENITE, Padre Kino Mine, La Paz County, Arizona - A
cute little ~2mm loose pyramidal orange xl, $6
TITANITE, PREHNITE, Virginia Trap Rock Qu., Louduon County, Virginia - A
vug lined with nice prehnite xls hosts some very small palest yellow titanite xls. Pretty
much a reference specimen only. $4
STRONTIANITE, Lime City, Ohio - Lots of white stuff on calcite xls, some
nicely xln, $5
PYRITE, CALCITE, QUARTZ on DOLOMITE, St. Eustache, Quebec - A lovely
little cube with colorless quartz and calcite xls on pale pink saddle-style dolomite xls,
no matrix, self-collected in '87. $6
SILVER, El Bonanza Mine, Port Radium, NWT - An exquisite loose twinned xl
group, with smaller xls coming off the main one, hard to describe, see the MR article. $15
STIBNITE, Xikuangshan Sb Mine, Shaoyang County, Hunan Province, China -
Three for the price of one, nice silvery metallic long prismatic terminate xls mounted
individually in one box. $6
PUMPELLYITE, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan - Small but superb group of
dark green balls made up of tiny needles, with a bit of epidote. Very pretty. $6
SULFUR, Baja California, Mexico - Fine complex transparent yellow xls on
matrix, some rounded, some with too many faces to count, cool stuff! $6
TARBUTTITE, Broken Hill, Zambia - A druse of clear crystals, very nice
and rich, $8
TORBERNITE, Bois Noirs, Loire, France - Lovely wee transparent green
tablets in a little vug, quite nice, $6
TSUMEBITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - A minute platy green hexagonal crystal on a
slightly larger quartz xl section. $25
TOPAZ, Grants Canyon, Valencia Co., New Mexico - Superb clear beautifully
formed free-standing topaz xls on a matrix loaded with quartz xls. Just lovely! $10
VANADINITE, Puzzler Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona - Highly lustrous sort of
tan colored xls on all sides. Nice! $5
VESUVIANITE, Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec - A lovely clear terminated
squat PURPLE crystal in a vug in massive/xln same. A very common mineral, but known in
this color from perhaps two localities total. Very pretty. $10
WICKENBURGITE, FLUORITE, WILLEMITE, Rattail Claim, near Wickenburg,
Maricopa Co., Arizona - Excellently xlized clear colorless lining a vug with a bit of
colorless acicular willemite and a modest purple fluorite xl. Very nice. $9
WILLEMITE, King Solomon Wash, Yavapai County, Arizona - A nice little
spray of clear colorless xls. $5
WILLHENDERSONITE, Venanzo, Terni Province, Italy - A 20mm square matrix
loaded with white crystal clumps of this rare zeolite. Could be trimmed into a few smaller
mms. $28
WULFENITE, Mammoth St-Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona - Four
thin transparent orange xls on matrix, good specimen from a classic old locality, $10
WULFENITE, Ruth Mine, Goodsprings, Clark County, Nevada - A decent thick
orange xl on matrix, not really fabulous but when's the last time you've seen a Nevada
wulfie? $8
WULFENITE, Mies, 60 km NE of Ljubljana, Slovenia (former Yugoslavia) -
Somewhat rough tabular xl projecting from clump of same from the top European wulfenite
locality. $8
WULFENITE, near Theba, Arizona - Lovely bright orange on white matrix, $5
NATROALUNITE, Big Star deposit, Marysvale, Utah - chalky white chunks,
$3
NATROLITE, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia - long clear colorless xls, $2
NESQUEHONITE, DYPINGITE, Sounion, Laurium, Greece [NOT
from slags.] - Colorless xl aggregates in clusters and druses on botryoidal white
dypingite. Rich and fine specimens, about 2-3cm across, $10 and $16
NORTHUPITE, Searles Lake, CA - single sharp loose octahedra 2-3mm, some
with contact points, $3 each
OFFRETITE, Clifton, Grenlee County, AZ - Nice small clear colorless
prisms $4
OKENITE, Poona, India, puffballs of white needles, $2
OLIVENITE, Clara Mine, Germany - tiny green xls on matrix, $3
OPAL, Queretero, Mexico - cool colorless botryoidal patch in a vug, $4
ORPIMENT, Elbrusskij, Kabau River, Russia - Superb, oversized
specimens puttied in European boxes, loaded with gorgeous orange druses of prismatic
crystals, great stuff! $9
OSUMILITE, Obsidian Cliffs, Lane County, Oregon - nice black xls on
matrix, $3
PARISITE - SYNCHYSITE, ANATASE, Solumsasen Quarry, Norway - excellent
sharp chunky hexagonal prisms (xls are parisite-(Ce) with lamellae of synchisite-(Ce),
with anatase xls, $4
PATRONITE, Minasraga, Peru -(TYPE LOCALITY) - Small black chips of this
rare vanadium sulfide, around 5mm, known from perhaps two localities, $10
PECTOLITE, Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec - white crystal clusters, good
stuff, $3 and $6
PEROVSKITE, Oka, Quebec - good sharp lustrous black cubes, 1-2mm, in
matrix, $3
PHARMACOSIDERITE, Kamariza, Laurium, Greece [non-slag]- Good to superb
small sharp brown cubes on matrix. $3
PHENAKITE, Mt.Foster, BC - Nice clear colorless stubby prisms to a few mm
on grungy chlorite-coated quartz xl fragments; known from perhaps 3 localities in Canada,
priced by number and quality of xls. TNs $15-18-20-25, small mins $15-25
PHILLIPSITE, Malpais Hill, Pinal Co, AZ - excellent clear colorless
clusters in vugs, $4
PLATTNERITE, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico - lots of tiny black xls on matrix,
$2
POLLUCITE, Bennett Quarry, Oxford Co., Maine - several small pink chunks,
under 10mm, $3
POLLUCITE, Varutrask pegmatite, Vasterbotten, Sweden - chunks much like
quartz, $3
POTASSIUM ALUM - Really nice 10mm ice-like chunks of this seldom seen
species, some with a bit of sulfur, (water soluble!) $4
PREHNITE, Manassas, Virginia - good pale green botryoidal xln, $3
PREHNITE, Bombay, India - modest xl cluster, $2
PREHNITE, Traprock Qu., Virginia - green xl druse, $2
PRISMATINE, Stakholmen, Sweden - Greyish 10mm chunks of this new species,
revalidated and distinguished from kornerupine in 1996, $4
PSEUDOBROOKITE, Eifel district, Germany - Fine small brilliant black
striated prisms, $3
PUMPELLYITE, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan - fine green acicular sprays in
vugs, $3
PURPURITE, Sandamap pegmatite, Namibia - nice 1cm purple chunk, $4
PYRITE, Dundas Quarry, ON - nice small xls on limestone, $2
PYRITE, Halls Gap, Kentucky - cool acicular xls with 90 degree bends and
stuff, $3 to $7
PYRITE, Halls Gap, Kentucky - nice cubes, $2
PYROAURITE, near Bryson, Quebec - small blue spots in marble, fairly
rich, $3 PYROCHLORE, Oka, Quebec - Reddish-brown octahedrons in matrix,
$3
PYROMORPHITE, Dunbrack Mine, near Musquodoboit Harbor, Halifax County,
Nova Scotia - Prismatic xls in shades of brown, opaque to transparent, scattered or in
tight druses. Beautiful stuff, from a very unusual locality, $5 each. Also one rare piece
with with tiny green xl patches at $6.
PYROMORPHITE, Phoenixville, PA - Nice loose dark green crystals, about a
quarter inch long from a classic locality, $5
PYROMORPHITE, Bergam Mine, Shropshire, England - good green xls carpeting
matrix, $4
PYROMORPHITE, Wheatley Mine, Pennsylvania - tiny green xls on matrix, $2
PYROMORPHITE, WULFENITE, Chihuahua, Mexico - green xls with orange
wulfenite xls, $3
PYROMORPHITE, South Mine, Broken Hill, Australia - Approximately three
zillion nice sharp green transparent xls carpeting matrix, nice stuff, $3
QUARTZ, Mill Creek Quarry, Polk County, Oregon - Really cool specimens
with glass-clear pale amethystine prisms extending from colorless radiating xl aggregates,
associated with white stilbite blades, about as weird and wonderful as quartz ever gets!
$3 (larger specimens available)
QUARTZ, rose, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Very nice pale pink typically etched
and malformed crystals, some doubly terminated, $4
QUARTZ, Hwy 62 road cut, Bancroft, Ontario - colorless xls, $1
QUARTZ, Imlay, South Dakota - nice colorless xls lining a geode, $2
QUARTZ, Herkimer, NY - nice clear colorless doubly terminated xls, $2;
one with a bubble at $4
REALGAR, STIBNITE, David Bell Mine, Hemlo, Ontario -
Sparse red, orangey mssv disseminated in matrix, from, one of Canada's biggest gold mines,
not known for specimens, $2
REALGAR, Getchell Mine, Nevada - nice red xls, $2
REALGAR, Hunan Province, China - fine loose transparent red xls to 5mm or
so, a bunch in a gelcap for $3
"RHENIITE", ReS2, (name not yet approved) Kudriavy Volcano,
Russia -(TYPE AND *ONLY* LOCALITY)- Silvery material, like shredded tinfoil, found on the
rim of an active volcano. Only mineral known with rhenium as a significant component.
Sparse on matrix. Name not approved by IMA, looks like this one will remain a
mineralogical orphan for a long time. $20
RHODIZITE, Tsilaisina, 50 km S of Antsirabe, Madagascar - Nice sharp
yellow
dodecahedrons of this rare borate, 3mm across, known from perhaps a half dozen localities,
$5
RINKITE, Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes, Quebec - Mostly colorless tabular
xln, not too aesthetic stuff, with various associates on matrix, $4
ROSASITE, Kamariza, Laurium, Greece [non-slag] - kind of cool dark green
balls hither and thither on matrix, puttied in Euro boxes, $4
ROSASITE, Mapimi, Mexico - nice rich botryoidal blue on matrix, $3
SAFFLORITE, Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany - Cool silvery/grey
balls and druses, super rich specimens, only $5!
SANBORNITE, La Madrelena Mine, Tres Pozos, Baja California, Mexico -
Solid chunks showing brilliant white cleavages, some with GILLESPITE, $4, (larger, $6)
SCAPOLITE, Brazil - Fine pale
yellow/near-colorless gem scapolite xls, well
formed, terminated, and transparent, both elongated and stubby prismatic, $6, (TN's $8)
SCHNEIDERHOHNITE, Level 46, Tsumeb, Namibia - (TYPE LOCALITY)- a few tiny
loose brown cleavage fragments, under 1mm, in a gelcap, $10
SCHROECKINGERITE, Eropia Mine, Wyoming - flaky bright yellow-green patch,
$3
SCHODERITE, Van-Nav-San claim, Eureka Co, Nevada (TYPE LOCALITY) -
Mustardy
orange-yellow coating on matrix, rich but way ugly, $4
SCHOLZITE, Reaphook Hill, South Australia - long clear colorless needles,
$3
SCHUMACHERITE, Pucher Mine, Schneeberg, Germany (TYPE LOCALITY)- Yellow
films, xln, on quartz, 3-4cm pieces $10
SCORODITE, Kamariza, Laurium, Greece [non-slag] - Really nice druses of
sharp xls, unfortunately with a bit of a light brown mineral coating, still pretty
respectable, $5
SCORODITE, Gold Hill, Utah - numerous tiny green xls on all surfaces, $4
SERANDITE, Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes, Quebec - Fairly nice colorless to
pink prismatic xls with various associates, $6
SERPIERITE, Hilarion Stollen, Laurium, Greece - [NON-SLAG]- Three
centimeter specimens with blue serpierite needles lining vugs, attractive stuff, $8
each
SIDERITE, Rio Tinto Mine, Spain - cool flattened brown xls, $3
SIDERITE, Antwerp, NY, nice small brown xls, $2
SIDERITE, Savage Mtn, Maryland - brown xl druse, $1
SIEGENITE, Buick Mine, Missouri - nice silvery octahedron on matrix, $6
SILVER, Batopilas district, Chihuahua,
Mexico - Exceedingly cute micros or small thumbnails, matrixless arborescent xl groups,
rounded to very sharp, 8-13mm across. Your choice, $8 each.
SILVER, Elura Mine, near Cobar, New South Wales, Australia - nice loose
little xl spears, groups, $5 each; one gelcap with small xl groups to a few mm, would make
a number of mounts, $8
SILVER (Mercurian), Las Herrerias, Almeria, Spain - Small amounts of
bright mercurian silver, odd very thin platy semi xln on roughly 2-3cm matrices at $10
& $12.
SILVER, Gowganda, Ontario - nice little loose xl groups, mostly under
5mm, $4
SILVER, Sarbay Mine, Kazachstan - tiny wires to a couple mm in vugs in
matrix, $5
SILVER, Gowganda, Ontario - thin leaves in matrix, $2 to $3
SILVER, Cobalt, Ontario, leaves, masses, on/in matrix, $2
SILVER, Christopher Mine, Cobalt, Ontario - Great loose little wires,
5-10mm, old stuff, $4. Clumps of wire, around 10mm in size and absolutely amazing, very
photogenic indeed, $8
SILVER, Sarbay Deposit, North Kazachstan
- Both sinuous loose wires and small wiry patches on matrix, your choice, $5
SILVER, manmade, from the US Mint in San Francisco, CA - cool bright
silver crystal clusters, freshly minted you might say, a whole bunch for $3
SMITHSONITE, Maingron, Doubs, France - Colorless xls of the rice grain
style, druses, $4
SMITHSONITE, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, Australia - neat colorless
xls, a little sharper than the classic rounded 'rice grain' habit; $4
SMITHSONITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - neat tiny pale green balls on drusy
dolomite, $3
SPANGOLITE, Laurium, Greece - Numerous small blue/green xls showing the
typical tapering hexagonal prism, on 10-20mm matrices, puttied in Euro micromount boxes.
$8 ea
SPERRYLITE, Vermilion Mine, Sudbury District, Ontario - (TYPE LOCALITY) -
TINY loose silvery cubes, well under 1mm, of this Canadian classic, $12
SPHAEROCOBALTITE, Schneeberg, Germany (TYPE LOCALITY) - Nice botryoidal
and minute xln in shades of pink on matrix, 2-4cm pieces, $8
SPHALERITE, Treves, Gard, France - Beautiful honey brown to reddish xls,
druses, $3
SPHALERITE, Dundas Quarry, ON - complex xls, orange/brown, $2
SPHALERITE, Lockport, NY - very pretty lustrous yellow/brown xl clusters
on dolomite xls, $3
SPINEL, Mogok, Burma - Intense red octahedra, most well-formed and gemmy,
loose xls 2-4 mm across, $5 each
SPINEL, York River Skarn Zone, Bancroft, Ontario - small octahedra in
marble, $2
SPINEL, Dewitts Corners, Perth, Ontario - black octahedra in matrix, $3
STEENSTRUPINE-(Ce), SERANDITE, Shkaltuka Vein, Lovozero, Kola Peninsula,
Russia - Vitreous black masses with mssv serandite, $6
STIBNITE, Herja, Romania - good to excellent lustrous silvery sprays of
needles, $2 to $4
STIBNITE, +++ Lac Nicolet, Wolfe Township, Quebec - brilliant radiating
solid sprays, unterminated, embedded in matrix with fine red kermesite and other
associates, $3
STIBNITE, Lake George Antimony Mine, New Brunswick - a nest of tiny black
acicular stibnite in quartz matrix, $3
STILBITE, Nababeep, South Africa - nice yellowish tabular xls, $2
STRENGITE, Indian Mtn., Alabama - bladed pink xls on matrix, $2
STRONTIANITE, Taylor Qul, PA - typical white xl clumps, sprays, $2
SVANBERGITE, Mt. Brussilof Mine, near Radium, BC - orange pseudocubic xls
on nicely contrasting white xln dolomite, good specimens but not as nice as the killer
piece photographed, $4
SYNCHYSITE-(Ce), Hopffeldboden, Obersulzbach, Salzburg, Austria - Odd
little pale orangeish prisms hiding in vugs, puttied in European boxes, $4
SYNCHYSITE-(Ce) - PARISITE-(Ce), ANATASE, Solumsasen Quarry, Norway -
excellent sharp chunky hexagonal prisms, parisite-(Ce) with lamellae of synchisite-(Ce),
in vugs with teensy anatase xls, really nice, $4
THEISITE, Grabanz, Finkenstein, Austria - thin light green platy
radial xln sprays on matrix, $6
THORIANITE, Balangoda district, Sri Lanka - Nice simple black cubes
around 2mm, with slightly rounded edges betraying their alluvial origin, $4
THORIANITE, Yates Uranium Mine, Quebec - good black cubes, no matrix, $3
THORIANITE, Yates Uranium Mine, Quebec - loose black penetration twins,
$4
TINCALCONITE, Borax, Calif - chalk white powdery mssv, alteration of
borax, gelcap $2
TOCHILINITE, York River Skarn Zone, Bancroft, ON - felted black masses in
matrix, $3
TORBERNITE - see METATORBERNITE
TOPAZ, Topaz Mtn, Utah - a small, loose, colorless, well terminated xl,
$2
TOPAZ, Emmelberg, Eifel, Germany - tiny clear colorless xl spray,some xls
cleaved, unusual! $2
TOPAZ, Grants, NM - a nice clear xl on matrix, $3
TRONA, FMC Mine, Wyoming - nice translucent yellow cleavages, $3
TSCHERNICHITE, Neer Road Pit, Goble, Oregon - (TYPE LOCALITY) - Very rare
zeolite, known from only 3 localities. Small xls lining small vugs, TN-size matrix, $25
TUGTUPITE, Ilimaussaq, Greenland - Pale pink massive in matrix, 10-15 mm
pieces, super intense red fluorescence under SW UV. $10
TUPERSSUATSIAITE, Aris phonolite, 20km south of Windhoek, Namibia - Nice
brown acicular sprays in vugs, $5
TURQUOISE xls, WAVELLITE, Palazuelos de las Cuevas, Spain - tiny xls, $4
TURQUOISE xls, Bishop Mine, Virginia - small sharp xls, mostly in druses,
nice color, $2 to $4
TURQUOISE, Vielsalm, Belgium - solid attractive botryoidal blue druses of
minute (SEM size) xls lining tiny vugs, $4
TYUYAMUNITE, Uruvan, Paradox Valley, Colorado - Bright fluorescent
yellow, thin to thick platy xln, not well xlized like the Montana stuff but rich, $3
PLEASE NOTE: SPECIMENS ON THIS LIST REQUIRE A MICROSCOPE TO APPRECIATE!
URANOPHANE, Madawaska/Faraday Mine, Ontario - Very attractive bright
yellow acicular tufts in vugs, a Canadian classic, $3
UVAROVITE, Keretti Mine, Outokumpu, Finland - Nice dark green xls and
clusters, 1-2mm, embedded in matrix, from the top locality for the mineral. $6
VALENTINITE, STIBNITE, ANTIMONY, QUARTZ, Lac Nicolet Antimony Mine,
Wolfe County, Quebec - An oversize 'micro' with several nice valentinite xls to 3mm, fine
sprays of stibnite, and a 2cm patch of native antimony. Really nice under the scope.
35x20x15mm, $25
VALLERIITE, BORNITE, Little Chief Mine, near White
Horse, Yukon Territory, Canada - Good 15mm chunks of mssv brown valleriite, looking much
like pyrrhotite but with good cleavage, intergrown with bright purple bornite, $4
VANADINITE, Puzzler Mine, AZ - nice brownish to orangish xls, druses, $2
VANADINITE, C&B Vanadium Mine, AZ - nice yellow-orange xls on matrix,
$3
VANADINITE, Chihuahua, Mexico - nice brown prismatic on calcite xls, $3
VANADINITE, Old Yuma Mine, AZ - a couple of nice orange prisms on matrix,
$2
VANADINITE, Apache Mine, Gila County, Arizona - classic gorgeous
sparkling orange-red hexagonal xls covering matrix, $2
VANADINITE, Oberschaeffler, Austria - Good small orange prismatic xls on
matrix, $4
VANADINITE, Annaberg, Austria - Typical chunky brown hexagonal prisms on
matrix, $3
VARISCITE, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas - quite nice green xl balls,
druses, $3
VESIGNIEITE, near Vrancice, Pribram, Czech Republic - green massive on
matrix, $4
VESUVIANITE, Jeffrey Mine, Quebec - small green prismatic xls in small
openings in massive vesuvianite, $2
VESUVIANITE, Jeffrey Mine, Quebec - small PINK crystals in vugs of
massive pink vesuvianite, modest to good xls, $3
VESZELYITE, Black Pine Mine, Montana - a few loose transparent blue xls,
nice color but imperfect, under 5mm, in a gelcap, $5
VILLIAUMITE, Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes, Quebec - sparse red embedded
masses, veinlets, $3
VILLIAUMITE, Aris Phonolite, Namibia, - quite decent crystals, a bit
rounded, in vugs, $4
WAVELLITE, Clear Spring Mine, Bartow, Florida - minute colorless
needles, druses, neat, $4
WAVELLITE, Arnold Road, Jackson
County, Wisconsin - Silky white veins a few mm thick of white acicular xls, cutting thru
sandstone, some with small widenings showing tiny terminations,unusual locality, $4
WELOGANITE, Francon Quarry, Quebec -(TYPE LOCALITY)- Fine yellow
hexagonal prisms on matrix, $4. All - and I do mean all - sizes available, please inquire.
WICKENBURGITE, Potter-Cramer Claim, Wickenburg, Arizona - very tiny clear
colorless hexagonal plates, $3
WULFENITE, MIMETITE, Santa Ana Mine, Siera Gorda,
Antofagasta, Chile - Small but beautiful crystals from an unusual locality. The best are a
fabulous red-orange and exquisite with 20x or so, mostly thick tabular but some
pseudo-octahedral xls. Varying quantities of mimetite are present, in minute orange
needles, sprays. A few display-quality pieces are available, but most specimens require
magnification. Please order by number: WULF3 -
The nicest thumbnail, with a fiery orange 2mm xl, very cute. $22; WULF4- 40-80 mm pieces with fair to superb micro xls,
~1-3mm, scattered in vugs, from sparse to fairly rich, (from 1 to a dozen or two xls),
priced by quantity and quality of xlization. $10 - $20
WULFENITE, near Lone Mtn., Broadwater Co., Montana - Lustrous orange
tablets a few mm across, on 15-30mm matrices, TN's $8
WULFENITE, Harrington-Hickory Mine, Beaver Co., Utah - Nice specimens,
20-50mm across, with orange blades to about 5mm, $8
WULFENITE, Laura Mine, Albunuelas, Granada, Spain - Nice orange thin
tablets, 1-4mm, scattered individually or in tight druses on matrix. Modest
~3-4cm specimens. $4
WULFENITE, Oberschaffler, Hochobir, Austria - Nice orangey-yellow
modified blades on contrasting white matrix, 15-35mm specimens puttied in Euro boxes, $4
WULFENITE, Jauken mining district, Carinthia, Austria - Nice
medium-orange tablets and pseudo-cubic xls to a few mm, $4
WULFENITE, Laurium, Greece [non-slag]- sharp orange tablets, in
vugs, good for $4 and superb for $10
WULFENITE, Purple Passion Mine, near Wickenburg, Arizona - Two habits
available: specimens with a few or dozens of acicular brown needles and 'fuzzy tabs',
where the pinacoid, usually flat and lustous, is sort of weird and fuzzy. Some of these
fuzzy tabs are a pleasing orange, some are brownish. Various associates. All in TN boxes
and will make fine micromounts, most require trimming. $5
WULFENITE, Red Cloud Mine, Arizona - Orange xls, some dingage, $4
WULFENITE, Chihuahua, Mexico - nice xls, mostly blocky, orange to browns,
$2
WULFENITE, MIMETITE, Mapimi, Mexico - thin orange blades with yellow
mimetite xls, $3
WULFENITE, MIMETITE, Rowley Mine, AZ - typical orange blades with
mimetite xls, $3
YUKSPORITE, Yukspor Mtn., Kola Penin., Russia (TYPE LOCALITY) - nice sheets of fibrous xls, shades of pinkish-orange, $7
ZARATITE, Tasmania - Bright green films, crusts, nice color, $3
ZIPPEITE, Ambrosia Lake, Grants, NM - very bright yellow little grains on
matrix, $3
ZIRCON, Saranac Mine, Bancroft, Ontario - nice brown/blk dbl term'd xls
in matrix, $2
ZIRCON, Faraday Mine, Bancroft, Ontario - a couple of small loose
brownish xls, groups for $2
ZIRCON, Beryl Pit, near Quadeville, Ontario - good, quite sharp xls in
feldspar, $2
ZUNYITE, Tintic District, Juab County, Utah - Numerous tetrahedrons
intergrown and locked in brown matrix, xls on all sides, interesting stuff, $3
ZUNYITE, Big Bertha Mine, Yuma, AZ - a small clear xl in matrix, $3
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