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ALBITE, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Odd and unusually appealing matrixless white crystal clusters. Hard to describe, sort of frosted and stacked, nice pieces with more charm than usually exhibited by this mineral. $3

ALBITE, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Typical sparkling 25mm matrixless cluster of small white to colorless xls, $2

AMETHYST, Lake Balkash, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan - Utterly darling squat doubly terminated deep purple crystals on shards of matrix, nine lovely thumbnails for you to choose from! 

AMETHYST, Blue Point Mine, Thunder Bay, Ontario - typical druses of points, nice purple TN’s $5

AMETHYST, Mursinka, Middle Urals, Russia - Scepter crystals with pale purple heads and colorless shafts, slightly frosted, around 2cm long, TN’s $5

ANALCIME, Five Islands, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia - A particularly nifty thumbnail with colorless to brownish-red xls, the largest 6mm across and reasonably clear. Nice locality piece, $8

ANALCIME, Amethyst Cove, King's County, Nova Scotia - A superlative thumbnail with a chain of six pristine colorless crystals to 10mm on buff-colored quartz matrix. About as good a thumbnail of the mineral as you'll ever see! $19

ANALCIME, Lambert Quarry, near Kings Valley, Benton County, Oregon - A white 15mm xl, a bit etched or contacted on one side, on nicely contrasting black matrix. TN, $9

ANALCIME, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Que - A 2cm pair of white xls with natrolite and aegirine, $5

ANALCIME, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Que - nice equant white xls in the 2cm range, some with natrolite, $5

ANATASE, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Matrixless elongated bipyramids in shades of brown. Decent but not fabulously aesthetic crystals averaging about 14mm long (half an inch!) are only $8 each - very reasonable for such large xls!

RUTILE pseudo ANATASE, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Dark brown chatoyant rutile has completely replaced anatase bipyramids in the 12mm range. Relatively sharp pseudos are $15 each; bizarre skeletal sort of pseudos are $12 each. Really neat stuff.

ANATASE with RUTILE, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Same as above, but with varying quantities of oddly chatoyant darker brown rutile partially replacing the anatase xl. Singles and clusters 12mm +, $10 each

ANATASE, Viveli, Hardangervidda, Norway - Large sharp loose black crystals, all TN size. 13-25mm, $18-$50. The only locality in the world from which monstrously large crystals can be had for reasonable prices. Please order by letter.

ANATASE, Matskorhae, Ullensvang Statsallmenning, Horland Fylke, Norway - A black 11mm bipyramid with some small contacts. TN, $9

ANDRADITE, San Benito County, California - A number of sparkling black xls to a large 6mm, their size unfortunately causing contact damage from the tight veins they formed in. $4

ANTIMONY, Arechuybo, Mexico - Nice bright chunks, TN’s 10-15mm across, $5

ANTIMONY, Velez-Malaga, Costa del Sol, Spain - Brilliant silvery cleavages, around 2cm across, TN’s $25 & $35, priced by size and richness - this is good stuff!

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 - Solid alluvial nodule sections, with one or more bright silvery cleavage faces, TN’s 15-25mm across, $15-30

APOPHYLLITE, NATROLITE, ANALCIME, Lincoln Creek Quarry, near Doty, Lewis County, Washington - a cool colorless 15mm prismatic xl perched atop black matrix with natrolites to ~10mm on the back and 1mm analcimes, very nice TN, from a state not exactly known for its apophyllite production, $10

ARSENOPYRITE, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico - A nice lustrous pair of xls, incomplete on side and bottom. TN, $6

ARAGONITE, Berkeley Hill Tunnel, Oakland, California - A small cluster of clear colorless tabular xls to ~10mm. TN, $5

ARAGONITE, Oamaru Quarry, Otago, New Zealand - An unusual specimen with a nice fan of twinned prismatic aragonite xls. Sawn matrix. TN, $8

ARAGONITE, Morocco - Typical somewhat brownish floater ball of twinned xls. TN, $3

ARDENNITE, Salmchateau, Belgium-  One left, yellowy/orange massive in quartz, $20

ARSENOPYRITE, Romaho Mine, New Mexico - A nice complete floater 1cm xl with subdued silvery luster. $4

ATACAMITE, Tanunda, South Africa - Botryoidal green, some micro xlization, $4

AZURITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - A very nice little group of small black-blue xls with a bit of matrix, 15mm across, especially nice with a bit of magnification. $10

AZURITE, Bisbee, Arizona - A highly aesthetic grouping of xln spheres, electric blue on the front and altered to greenish/brown malachite on the back. Nice! $22

AZURITE, MALACHITE, Bisbee, Arizona - An attractive druse of zillions of tiny dark blue sparkling xls, with just a bit of acicular malachite on matrix. $8

AZURITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - Sparkling 25mm cluster of numerous blue/black prisms to about 7mm, with wee malachite balls and calcite rhombs, great under the scope, $20

AZURITE, Toussit, Morocco - A classy and unusual blue/black crystal, 20x12x7mm, with odd, somewhat ragged multiple terminations on each end, $30

BARITE, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los Angeles County, California - An aggregate of platy tan xls, TN, $6

BARITE, STIBNITE, Carlin Trend, Nevada - A small but exquisite water-clear palest yellow 6mm barite xl, sitting up nicely, with a few smaller barites and some brilliant stibnite xls. TN, $8

BARITE, Rowley Mine, near Theba, Maricopa County, Arizona - A pair of thin tabular clear colorless xls, no matrix. Unusual locality. TN, $9

BARITE, White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan - A nice pair of long thin xls to 20mm, colorless, with clear tips. One seldom sees a nice barite from Michigan! TN, $12

BARITE, Clara Mine, Bavaria, Germany - Tightly-packed clear colorless blades in a druse 20mm across on matrix, not bad under the scope. TN, $6

BARITE, Stoneham, Colorado - Nice pale blue parallel growth of three xls with decent clarity and luster, $4

BARITE, Norman, Oklahoma - Typical 15mm red ‘desert rose’, $2

BERTRANDITE, Governour Valadares, Brazil - Glistening white massive/xln TN, $12, unusual for the mineral.

BERYLLONITE, Telirio Mine, near Corrego Frio, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Colorless crystals, mostly fairly crude, some facet-grade, HIGHLY UNUSUAL FOR THE MINERAL! 10-25 mm, priced by size and quality, $8 to $50 each

BISMUTH, Rio Quilace, Bolivia - Rounded alluvial nuggets, around 1cm across, very unusual and interesting specimens, TN’s $10

BISMUTHINITE, BISMUTH, Keys Mine, Deepwater, New South Wales, Australia - A chunk of dull to silvery massive bismuthinite with minor micro native bismuth. TN, $8

BIXBYITE, Thomas Range, Utah - A super-lustrous flat-faced cube, 7mm across, with modified edges, on a small ryolite matrix. TN, $18

BLOEDITE, Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California - A superb perfect floater crystal, blackish, 20mm across. TN, $29

BOLEITE, Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico - A nice sharp deep blue cube 5mm on edge, which isn't a bad size for the mineral. No matrix. TN, $15

BORACITE, Luneberg, 40 km S-SE of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Germany - Unusually large and well-formed modified cubes, but not great on color, being mostly a dull brown. The sharpest 5mm xls are $12 each, just as big but not as well formed are $10 each; decent 4mm xls are $8 each, and smaller xls, running 2-3mm in size, great for mm's, are $4 each.

BRAZILIANITE, Linopolis, Brazil - An etched yellow-green spearpoint-shaped crystal 25mm long, $15

BROOKITE, Magnet Cove, Arkansas - A fairly rough, dull black 7mm crystal perched on brown quartz, $5

BROOKITE on QUARTZ, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas - A pair of sharp metallic black brookites, 6 & 2 mm across, perched in the middle of a 27mm long doubly-terminated opaque smoky quartz xl. Very seldom are these brookites so interesting and aesthetic, a most unusual TN. $25

BUERGERITE, near Mexquitic, San Luis Potosi, Mexico - Excellent, highly lustrous black/dark brown xls to 7mm on matrix. TN, $15

CALCITE, Nova Scotia, Canada- A nice clear colorless 1cm equant xl on matrix, light on locality information, $3

CALCITE, Grant Quarry, near Greely, Ontario - A dozen available, mostly stout, large, sharp prisms sans matrix, shades of yellow, some smaller with matrix, some with phantoms, all a bit dinged. $8 each.

CALCITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - Typical plate of glassy rhombs with an olive greenish color supplied by duftite or something similar. $3

CALCITE pseudo after IKAITE, Olenitsa River, Russia - Cool dark brown spiky floater balls of xls, also a few single or triple xls to a few cm, -specify which habit you'd like- neat and unusual pseudomorph, no damage. New batch, chunky TN $6 (The photo looks a bit better than the specimens; the real thing is a bit browner.)

CALCITE, Levant Mine, Cornwall, England - Papery white blades covering matrix, $5

CALCITE, Magma Mine, AZ - A neat glistening rounded sheaf of xls, colorless, on black matrix, $8

CALCITE, Dundas, Ontario - A pair of rough yellow dogsteeth, $2

CALCITE pseudo after IKAITE, Olenitsa River mouth, Kola Peninsula, Russia - Spiky brown crystal balls, TN's $8

CATAPLEIITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - A colorless glassy hexagonal crystal about 4mm across embedded in matrix, $4

CAVANSITE, Wagholi Quarry, India - Superb matrix specimens with fine blue balls about 8-10mm across perched on druses of heulandite on matrix. Great display pieces, with lovely color. These are the cream of the crop, chosen from 1,500 pieces. TN's $25

CELESTINE, Pugh Quarry, Custer, Ohio - Nice translucent blue prisms on matrix, $3

CELESTINE, Maybee, Michigan - A pale blue lustrous translucent xl group that sure looks like a faden, $8

CELESTINE, Maybee, Michigan - A decent chunky colorless to blue xl, with the back showing contact damage, $6

CERUSSITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - a selection of superb TN's, all different, from $22 - $25. Miniatures and cabinet size available here.

CERUSSITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - Nice glassy loose little grey/white twinned group, 25x10x3mm, TN $15; loose 3cm incomplete xls, colorless, fairly clear, showing classic twinning, TN’s, $20 ea.

CERUSSITE, Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona - Typical jackstraw cluster of nice bright silky white prisms to 15mm long, $6

CERUSSITE, Broken Hill, Zambia - Typically weird cerussite; a couple of clear xls, one incomplete, on top of a black-included mass of the same, $6

CHABAZITE, STILBITE, Jaquish Road, south of Goble, Columbia County, Oregon - A) a 15mm mound of glistening, snow-like sharp white rhombohedra to 3mm on edge on a druse of white stilbites to 5mm, no matrix. 35x25x15mm, $10; B) A complete-all-around 20mm mound of sparkling white rhombs, mostly 2mm but one at 6mm, with some acicular mesolite, on a base of bladed stilbite and a bit of matrix. Cool TN, $15

CHALCOCITE with BORNITE, Flambeau Mine, Wisconsin - Typically weird, rounded little xl cluster, 15mm across, with a thin coat of bornite providing an iridescent sheen, TN $5

CHILDRENITE, Mendes Pimental pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Really weird dull brown opaque xl, incomplete on the backside. You'd never guess this thing was a childrenite, it looks more like betafite. TN, 20mm xl, $22

CHRYSOBERYL, Espirito Santo, Brazil - Lovely yellow-brown 25x12mm loose prismatic apparently twinned xl, looks almost sceptered. Perfect and well-terminated with some gemmy sections. Modest color change depending on light source.TN, $45

CHRYSOBERYL, Ambatondrazaka, Lac Alaotra, Madagascar - These are really cool yellow partial sixling twins with good to complete transparency. Nice affordable examples. 7-12mm across, 1mm thick at the most, (supermodel-thin!) are $12 each. Xls in the 11mm range, but a more normal 3mm thick, are $15 each, only two available.

CHRYSOCOLLA, 79 Mine, AZ - Bumpy blue botryoidal, $5

CLINOZOISITE, Vesper Peak, Snohomish County, Washington - Neat dark brown lustrous fan of xls, complete all around except on one side. TN, 20mm tall, $15

COLEMANITE, Death Valley, Inyo County, California - Sparkling mounds of colorless xls to about 4mm, $6

COPPER, CUPRITE, MALACHITE, Estrella mine, Bolsico District, Chile - Dendritic xln copper embedded in cuprite with a bit of malachite. Magnification reveals that the copper is in fact crystallized. Neat TN, quite unusual. 20x15x15mm, $12

COPPER, Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona - Typical nice coppery branching xlizations, one 4cm across with a bit of matrix at $8, another 15mm across at $4

COPPER, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan - An exellent 3cm branching xl aggregate, crudely xlized, with a nice patina, $12

COPPER-SILVER 'halfbreed', near Houghton, Houghton County, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan - Neat loose nuggets of the two metals, tarnished. Flattened a bit from the mill rollers, 20x12mm, $4

COPPER, Onganja Mining District, ~30 km N of Seeis, Namibia - A neat crudely xln dark brown dendrite, 20x10mm. See MR V27 #2. TN, $8

CORUNDUM, Iredell Co., North Carolina - Unusual alluvial pebble, light green on the outside with a pink nodule in the core, all opaque. $10

CREEDITE, Contessa Mine, Aquiles Serdan, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico - A nice spray of small sharp colorless xls with a bit of matrix. TN, $6

CROCOITE, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia - A thick, unterminated 23x10mm xl of stunning fire-red color. TN, $30

CUBANITE, Henderson #2 Mine, Chibougamou, Quebec - Superb loose crystals, bright brassy pseudohexagonal cyclic twins with no matrix from the classic locality. Nice for the price! 14mm across, $45. Nice smaller twinned xls, 8-10mm, $25 each

CUPRITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - Druses of intergrown xls on massive cuprite, $7 

CYLINDRITE, Poopo, Oruro Prov., Bolivia - Small loose steely cylinders of this most unusual sulfide, a few mm thick and 10-15mm long. One of about two minerals known to crystallize like this. $8 each.

DANBURITE, San Luis Potosi, Mexico - A nice 35mm long white prism with a clear tip, damaged on the back side, with a smaller xl at the base, lustrous and very attractive, $8

DIADOCHITE, Richelle, Liege, Belgium - An off-white rounded lump 25mm across. TN, $10

DIAMOND, Vaal River, Cape Province, South Africa - Highly rounded blackish dodecahedra, just under 3mm across, size and price make up for lack of form. $10

DIAMOND, Argyle Mine, Western Australia - rounded blackish octahedra, ~3mm, $15

DIAMOND, Tshikapa, Zaire - yellowish cubes, ~3mm, $15

DIAMOND, Sewa River, Sierra Leone - rounded greenish cube, ~3mm, $15

DIAMOND, Tortia, Ivory Coast - rounded octahedra, ~2mm, $15

DIAMOND, Kasai Province, Congo - rounded yellow/greenish cube, other forms, ~2mm, $15

DIAMOND, Aikhal Mine, Yakutia, Siberia, Russia - Slightly smoky sharp 2mm octahedra, $15

DIAMOND, Argyle Mine, 200km S of Kununurra, Western Australia - Blackish/whitish 3mm rounded octahedron, $18

DIAMOND, Tshikapa, Zaire - A somewhat rough-faced 3mm cube, opaque, $15

DIASPORE, around Bafa Lake, Etibank Mines, Milas, Mugea, Turkey - A highly transparent striated palest yellow-brown prismatic xl; termination sharp but slightly contacted on the right side, back side cleaved. Quite nce for the species! 19mm tall xl, TN, $75

DIOPTASE, Tsumeb, Namibia - about 10 xls, to 5mm, on a 15mm matrix, $5; a mound of sparkling green xls to a couple of mm on a 20mm colorless calcite crystal, $15; about a dozen xls, one 10mm, on a sparkling brown matrix, choice display TN, $50

DIOPTASE, Kaokoveld, Namibia - Nice green xls, more elongated than the Tsumeb xls, with or without matrix; singles, groups or crusts, smallish TN’s $7

DIOPTASE, Tsumeb, Namibia - Nice green xls, with or without matrix, TN’s $10, $20

DOLOMITE on QUARTZ, Spruce Claim, WA - nice ring of tan xls around the termination of a clear colorless 15mm quartz xl, $4

DONNAYITE-(Y), Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - Stout hexagonal barrels in shades of olive greenish on calcite matrix. Good xls, about 3-6 mm, on matrix, $8, $10, $16

DRAVITE, Jajarkot, Nepal - A very cute, highly transparent yellow-brown doubly-terminated crystal, 17mm long. TN, $15

DRESSERITE, DAWSONITE, Francon Quarry, Quebec - A group of off-white xl balls, each about 3mm across, altogether about 10mm across, with minor micro dawsonite, on sawn matrix. Magnification reveals the dresserite xls making up the spheres are nicely terminated. A couple of other balls are split open, revealing the bright white radiating xlization. The most aesthetic dresserite specimen I have ever seen. This is a mineral that hardly ever gets big, from the type locality, which is now essentially defunct. If you need to add some rarity to your competition thumbnail display, this is the piece for you. 25mm across, TN, $90

DYSCASITE, Kuber Schacht, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic - A small sparse xl group; interesting specimen of one of the rarer silver minerals, very seldom found in xls. TN, 22mm tall, $40

ELBAITE, Lavra do Pederneira, Santa Maria do Suasui, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Fine color-zoned prisms 25-30 mm long, nicely terminated, with red tips and almost purplish bases; the color is hard to describe. Good luster, mostly translucent to opaque--> NICE! $18 each

ELBAITE, Arqueana Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Exquisite transparent green prisms, most with slightly darker terminations. Facet-grade material, saved from the cutters. Crystals about 1cm long are $8; crystals in the 15-25mm range, some with opaque lower halves, are $12 each.

ELBAITE, Newry, Maine - Small polished slab of watermelon tourmaline from an ever so classic location, showing the succession from red centres to colorless to olive to dark green/black skins, quite neat. 3mm thick, 11mm across, $20

ELBAITE, Minas Gerais, Brazil - An unterminated bluish crystal section in mica matrix, the entire crystal is hollow, the walls are 1mm thick - talk about unusual! $20

ELBAITE, Minas Gerais, Brazil - A slender 20x4mm black prism, dark green when backlit, with a nice termination, $4

ELBAITE, Minas Gerais, Brazil - A small 14mm cluster of dark green unterminated prisms and needles, $4

ELPIDITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - dull grey prismatic xln, TN’s $3

ELPIDITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - a rather good 30x15mm jackstraw cluster, $10

ENARGITE, PYRITE, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana - A superb pair of xls, the main one 10x10mm, with a little pyrite. Unusually aesthetic, classic locality. TN, $45

EOSPHORITE, Rio Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil - A pile of tabular brown blades to about 4mm with some other micro species. TN, $9

EPIDOTE, Green Monster Mine, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - A nice thick dark green doubly terminated twinned loose xl. Nice luster but some contact damage. 20x17x9mm, TN, $15

EPIDOTE, Knappenwand, Austria - A small green/black xl, lustrous, with a stepped multiple-termination, 9x8x4mm, $10.

EPIDOTE, QUARTZ, Mineral County, Nevada - 5 dark green epidote prisms to 2cm with a jumble of milky quartz xls of the same size, nice combo, $14

EPIDOTE, Mineral County, Nevada - cute little specimen with a 10mm epidote and a 5mm quartz, $5

EUDIALYTE, Kangerdluarssuk, Ilimaussaq, Greenland - A well-formed partial single xl, dark red/brown, with good flat faces. Nice size. 15x13x10mm, $20

FEITKNECHTITE, Noda-Tamagawa Mine, Iwate Prefecture, Japan - Massive brown chunks in the 2cm range, $6

FLUORAPATITE, Sceptre Claims, Emerald Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada - Delightful mint-green crystals, totally gemmy, with cool terminations. TNs, 11-15mm long, $6 each

FLUORAPATITE, Nuristan, Afghanistan - A dull, rounded, incomplete, doubly terminated, opaque, purple 10mm xl on a bit of quartz matrix, $6

FLUORAPATITE, Cerro Mercado Mine, Mexico - Exquisitely transparent   yellow-green prism, sharply terminated, 17mm long, TN, $5

FLUORAPOPHYLLITE, PREHNITE, Loudoun County, Virginia - A very aesthetic colorless xl 12mm across perched atop a plate of green prehnite. TN, $15

FLUORAPOPHYLLITE, PREHNITE, Bull Run, Loudoun County, Virginia - A nice pearly 9mm xl on a druse of prehnite on matrix. Nice TN, $6

FLUORAPOPHYLLITE, Poona, India - A very clear, pale mint-green xl rising up from matrix, TN, $15

FLUORAPOPHYLLITE, Bombay, India - Four fairly nice colorless xls to 10mm, topped with a bit of prehnite and a couple of dozen tan gyrolite balls, $8

FLUORITE, Wallworth, New York - A sharp and  utterly transparent, colorless, parallel-growth cube cluster, 9mm, $12

FLUORITE, Dundas Quarry, Ontario - yellow/brown generally imperfect cubes, 10-15mm, little or no matrix, TN’s $3

FLUORITE, Florence Mine, Beckermet, England - A small druse of clear cubes on a thin skin of hematite, pale blue on the edges and dark in the centre. $6

FLUORITE, Heights Mine, Weardale, England - 20mm dinged green cube with a couple of others, not pretty but only $5

FLUORITE, Mt.White, CO - Rounded opaque pale green octahedra to 15mm, $14

FLUORITE, Elmwood, Tennessee - A nice purple 15mm cube with a smaller one on sphalerite, slightly dinged corners, $7

FLUORITE, Cookes Peak, Luna Co., AZ - Small plate of tiny purple cubes, $3

FLUORITE, Pays Plat occurrence, 12 km west of Rossport, Ontario - A crust of opaque dark purple/black cubes to 6mm, $4

FLUORORICHTERITE, Earle Property, Wilberforce, Ontario - Good black tabular terminated xls in the 15-30mm range, $3

GALENA, SIEGENITE, Buick Mine, Viburnum Trend, Iron County, Missouri - A cool tabular 15mm spinel twin, with minute sparkling siegenite xls (also twinned, great with magnification) on the front and some dolomite on the back. Unusual and interesting. TN, $20

GALENA, Buick Mine, Viburnum Trend, Iron County, Missouri - A very cool steely pseudo-hexagonal spinel twin crystal, 17x12x3mm. $15

GALENA, Reynolds County, Missouri - A nice steely cube 16mm on edge, sitting very prettily on a bit of matrix. A couple of corners are incomplete but it’s still highly aesthetic. $12

GALKHAITE, Getchell Mine, Nevada - very small dark red cubes of this rare sulfosalt, 1mm or less, on matrix, most with excellent micro potential, TN’s $20,30,40

GEARKSUTITE, Boulder County, Colorado - A chalk-white mass 20mm across. TN, $5

GILLESPITE, SANBORNITE, La Madrelena Mine, Mexico - Bright red cleavages in white sanbornite, TN’s $6

GOETHITE ps. PYRITE, Hiddenite, NC - Nice sharp 16mm brown cube with a smaller one at it’s base, $4

GOLD, Olinghouse Mine, Washoe County, Nevada - A band of bright, tiny, needle-like xln gold on matrix. Appreciable with the naked eye and lovely under the scope. $75

GOLD, Mirage Claim, near Bissett, Manitoba - Bright, small but visible gold masses to a few mm max in quartz. Small quartz matrices. On the pricy side because this is a rather unusual locality - whooda thunk there's gold in Manitoba of all places? TN's $10

GOLD, Columbia Basin, Helmville, Powell County, Montana - A 5x3x0.5mm loose nugget from an unusual locality. TN, $10

GORMANITE, Big Fish River, Yukon -A thin plate of small dark green needles, none too aesthetic, $4

GOYAZITE, Linopolis, Brazil - 15-20mm solid clusters of 1mm rhombohedrons with augelite/brazilianite crystals associated, best appreciated with magnification, TN’s $20

GRATONITE, Excelsior Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Peru - A small steely xl cluster of one of Peru's rarest sulfides. A number of the xls are incomplete, but at least a dozen are terminated. Smallish TN, 12mm, $20

GROSSULAR, York River Skarn Zone, near Bancroft, Ontario - Nice orange xls, clusters and singles, 5-30mm, generally imperfect, TN’s $5

GROSSULAR, Coahuila, Mexico - A single sharp opaque yellowish 12mm dodecahedron with somewhat rough faces, $2

GYPSUM, Folkstone, Kent, England - Pair of crude floater sand-included platy xls, $3

GYPSUM, Baja California, Mexico - fair platy rosette, $2

GYROLITE, OKENITE, PREHNITE - Bombay, India - Nine or more cute 3mm greenish-brown spheres on a colorless prehnite druse with a bunch of acicular white okenite, $3

HEMATITE, Gotthard, Tessin, Switzerland - A small black iron rose perched on matrix, 10mm across and almost as thick. Classic stuff. A smallish TN, the photo makes it look bigger than it is. $25

HEMATITE pseudo MAGNETITE, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada - A nice group of sharp brown octahedra, no matrix. TN, $4

HEMIMORPHITE, Ojuela Mine, Mexico - A neat, almost solid spray of xls that spanned the vein; the sides are contacted but the terminations are nicely exposed, 25x20mm, $8

HEMIMORPHITE, Ojuela Mine, Mexico - Nice little cluster of clear colorless tabular xls, $4

HEMIMORPHITE, 79 Mine, AZ - Four glistening connected 6mm botryoids on matrix, quite nice, 20x12mm, $15

HERDERITE, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil - matrixless clusters of opaque brown bladed xls, good inexpensive specimens, only $8 each

Green HEULANDITE, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra State, India - Very cool TNs, with weird green color caused by microscopic inclusions of a chlorite group mineral. Nice xl clusters, some singles, running 15-20mm across, only $5 each. A few extra-nice larger clusters, 30-40mm across, at $10 each.INESITE, Wessels Mine, South Africa - Orangey/brown druses, sprays, TN’s, $10, one at $20

HUBNERITE, FLUORITE, Silverton, Colorado - Countless thin red/black tabular hubnerite blades, with tiny fluorite cubes, on a bed of solid quartz xls. Really, really nice under the scope! Biggest xl is about 5mm long. 30mm TN, $12

JEREMEJEVITE, Ameib Farm, Erongo Mountains, Namibia - Small blue crystal sections from this recent find, 7-12mm long, $8 each. Nice long prismatic terminated crystals, colorless, yellowish, to pale blue, 9-14mm long, $15 each.

KALIPYROCHLORE, Lueshe Deposit, Kivu Province, Congo - A loose 3mm octahedron, tan, somewhat rough. $20

KERMESITE, Lac Nicolet Antimony Mine, Quebec - Rich deep maroon solid silky sprays, with minor stibnite and perhaps others, small TN’s $10

LAVENDULAN, Mazarron area, Murcia Province, Spain - Electric-blue lustrous xln film on a 20x15mm surface, attractive, unusual locality. TN, $30

LAZULITE, Rapid Creek, Yukon - A very large, 14mm! xl with a couple of others, plus siderite and quartz, $35

LEIFITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - superb matrixless solid acicular sprays of silky white leifite, really nice, inexpensive specimens of this beryllium silicate, TN’s $10 each

LEIGHTONITE +? Chuquicamata, Chile - Sparse sky-blue powdery leightonite with veinlets and a micro xl or two of an unknown green mineral. TN, $20

LEUCITE, Caserta, Italy - Nice opaque white pair of xls, the main one 20mm across. Faces are dull and edges a bit rounded, looks much like an analcime xl that's been weathered for a few hundred years. TN, $8

LIBETHENITE, Mindola Open Pit, Rokana Mine, near Kitwe, Zambia - See Min Rec V9#6 - KILLER THUMBNAILS from the locality that has produced the world's best libethenite. Dark green lustrous crystals; loose and on matrix, $25 to $90.

LINARITE, BROCHANTITE, QUARTZ, Los Azules Mine, 345 km E of Copiapo, Copiapo Province, Chile - Colorful but not very well xlized deep blue linarite coating quartz xls - most unusual!, with minor brochantite. TN, $10

MAGNETITE, (CUBIC XLS!) 2500' Level, Fowler Orebody, ZCA #4 Mine, Balmat, New York - Excellent examples of this unusually rare form; cubic magnetite is known from perhaps five or six localities at the most, and from what I can recall, all but the Balmat xls are very micro indeed. These are really nice sharp black cubes averaging about 8mm on edge, just dandy TN's, a mere $10 each. 

MALACHITE, Globe, AZ - Nice solid velvety acicular with mssv azurite, $5

MANGANITE, Caland Mine, Atikokan, Ontario - Solid druses of lustrous black tabular xls to a few mm long, crystal crusts of essentially pure manganite, most without matrix, $4 each.

MELLITE, Csordakut Mine, Tatabanya,  Hungary - A pair of connected brown xls, well formed and with decent luster, the largest 22mm across. That's just under an inch, and that is a good sized mellite xl. One corner of the main xl is missing, and there is one other contact, otherwise nicely formed. Nice blue FL under SW. An unusual mineral found in coal mines, perhaps a half dozen localities known. TN, $75

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

MICROCLINE, Teller County, CO - A terminated 3cm milky green xl, backside incomplete, $5

MILLERITE, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky - Geode fragments with varying quantities of wispy acicular brassy millerite, from a locality that is now closed to collecting, $3 and $8, plus one nice little 15mm geode half with lots of millerite at $10

MIMETITE, Hat Yai Province, Thailand - Strange and cool lemon-yellow lustrous crystals, 14-20mm across, showing hopper growth. Neat TN's from this new locality, only $15 each.

MIMETITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - A wee 15mm cluster of spiky yellow xls, no matrix, $10

MOLYBDENITE, Moly Hill Mine, near Malarctic, Preissac Township, Abitibi County, Quebec - Excellent sharp thin hexagonal bluish silvery xls on quartz matrix. Excellent examples, TN-min, $9-$19

MOLYBDENITE, Malarctic, Que - A pair of lustrous rounded hexagonal xls to 6mm in quartz matrix, $4

MOLYBDENITE, Val d’Or District, Quebec - A large silvery blue matrixless crystal, 23mm across, edges somewhat rough but with obvious hexagonal form, $8

MONOHYDROCALCITE, South Maricopa Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona - Porous light brown masses, about 10-15mm, $6

NEPTUNITE, Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito Co., Calif. - A lustrous black well terminated 6mm prism on white massive natrolite on matrix, $6

MUSCOVITE, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Excellent platy yellow/green xls in clusters, some twinning but unfortunately none repeated enough to form the cool stars. Attractive TN's, mostly floaters, averaging 25mm across, $5 each. One nice larger cluster, 40x25x25mm, at $8 

NATROLITE, Ice River Complex, ~25 km south of Field, British Columbia, Canada - Excellent colorless to white crystals, some gemmy, some doubly terminated. Unusual location; most of the interesting mineral areas are in a National Park, but not all, these were collected outside the park boundaries and are hence legal. About a three day hike through the Rocky Mountains I'm told, so don't expect to see much coming out. $14-20

NATROLITE, APOPHYLLITE, ANALCIME, Lincoln Creek Quarry, near Doty, Lewis County, Washington - B) a wild jumble of natrolite needles to 15mm among countless clear colorless apops to ~8mm with some 1mm analcimes, superb with magnification! TN, $12

NEPHELINE, Kertzenbuckel, Erbach, Germany - Really neat loose xls, opaque buff-colored, 7mm across. Two available, pretty much identical, $15 each.

NEPTUNITE on NATROLITE, Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito County, California - Lovely lustrous sharp black prismatic multiple crystal on pure white natrolite matrix. Neptunite is 16mm long. Superb, aesthetic specimen for the TN lover! $45

NORMANDITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - Quite rich silky orange blotches on matrix, all appreciable without magnification, smallish specimens, $12 and $15

ORTHOCLASE, West Maroon Creek, Colorado - A nice sharp loose blocky greyish ~30mm simple xl. TN, $5

ORTHOCLASE twin, West Maroon Creek, Colorado - A textbook-quality Carlsbad twin, very sharp, opaque, sort of tan colored. Really neat example of one of the coolest of all twins. 25mm tabular floater xl. TN, $10

PARAVAUXITE, Llallagua, Potosi, Bolivia - A superb xl bowtie, palest green, lustrous, 15mm across, no matrix. Beautifully mounted on a glass rod. Great TN, lousy photo! $75

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

POTASSIUM ALUM, near Silver Peak, Nevada - yeah, it’s a real mineral, ice-like 2cm chunks TN $6

PREHNITE, Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec - A white 20mm long xl, habit similar to that of a highly elongated anatase xl. Common mineral, rare in large single crystals. This locality is pretty much kaput. TN, $30

PREHNITE, Bombay, India - Cute little light green cross, prehnite replacing laumontite, $4

PREHNITE cast after LAUMONTITE, Bombay, India - A cute very slightly divergent pair of long pale green xln casts 4cm long. $6

PROBERTITE, Borax Pit #3, near Ryan, Inyo County, California - Whitish/tan colored sort of fibrous/xln fragment. TN, $10 Not worth photographing, you'll have to use your imagination.

PYRITE, Road cuts near Sherbrooke, Quebec - Typical cubes in grey matrix; almost perfect 6mm $4, a 7mm cube with a few nicks for $3

PYRITE, Quiruvilca, Peru - Nice cluster of complex xls to 10mm with cool striae, $4

PYRITE, Trabzon, Turkey - Nice floater 7mm octahedron, $5

PYROLUSITE, Taylor Mine, Minnesota - black blades in a quartz-lined cavity, two sawn faces on the back can’t be seen easily, $4

PYROMORPHITE, 14 level, 18 stope, Brown vein, Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Idaho - A neat little doubly terminated brown xl 10mm long on a small bit of matrix. TN, $4

PYROMORPHITE, Phoenixville, PA - Small dark green  xls from this ancient classic locality, just over 10mm long. $5

PYROMORPHITE, Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Correze Department, France - Typical small brown xls with yellow caps, about 2mm long, on matrix, $8

QUARTZ, Herkimer, New York - A fine 15mm colorless xl, clear but with internal flaws, with a smaller xl on matrix. The smaller xl is incomplete and the back of the main xl is slightly flawed, but the view from the front is great. $15

QUARTZ, Mt. Ida, Arkansas - Nice floater pair of doubly terminated clear colorless parallel xls, $5

QUARTZ, Middleville, NY - A 20mm cluster of fine clear xls, varying from colorless to yellow to black due to inclusions and probably iron staining, odd, $14

QUARTZ, variety ROSE, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Palest to nicely pink rose quartz in varying degrees of crystallization, $5, $10, $12

QUARTZ, Lincoln County, NM - A couple of nice clear smoky prisms to 10mm on a little bit of matrix, $5

QUARTZ, CHLORITE, Jessieville, Arkansas - Doubly terminated 27mm long prism, clear, showing green chlorite inclusions in the bottom half. A couple of contacts on side and back. $5

QUARTZ, HEMATITE, Quartzite, Arizona - Clear colorless prisms to 10mm with a couple of good black lustrous hematite xls, $15

QUARTZ scepter, King County, Washington - A fine clear colorless 25mm long scepter with a normal xl crossing it at an angle at the base. $25

QUARTZ, variety AMETHYST, Hickory, North Carolina - An odd little pair of crystals looking a bit like pale purple herkimers, ever so glassy, partially double-terminated, 15mm across, $5

QUARTZ, ANKERITE, Pedro Pipe, King County, Washington - A slightly flattened clear colorless 20mm xl with small brown ankerites to ~3mm on its back and top. $5

QUARTZ Bahia, Brazil - A 2cm prism, contacted on a couple of sides, rendered mostly opaque and red by a phantom inclusion, clear and colorless on the tip. Kinda neat. $5

QUARTZ, SPHALERITE, Casapalca, Peru - Numerous small clear colorless prisms to about 10mm long on a plate of black xln/cleaved sphalerite, $8

QUARTZ, Musclow Road Cut, Bancroft, Ontario - A druse of small amethystine xls to about 5mm, some with micro hematite/goethite inclusions. $2

QUARTZ, Birds Creek, Bancroft, Ontario - A sparkling druse of small 5mm smoky xls, $2

RHODIZITE, Tsilaisina, 50 km S of Antsirabe, Madagascar - Small but fairly nice sharp yellow dodecahedra, 3mm across, known from perhaps a half dozen localities, $5 each

RHODOCHROSITE, La Capillita Mine, Catamarca Province, Argentina - A polished slice the size of a quarter, ~2mm thick. Quite pretty. TN, $22

RHODOCHROSITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Que - Nice little translucent dark red 5mm rhombohedral xl, $5

RHODOCHROSITE pseudomorphs after EUDIALYTE - Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - Small brown, somewhat crude crystals, replaced by solid rhodochrosite, the exteriors a druse of tiny rhodo xls, the original eudialyte xl form still appreciable. Pretty darn unusual. 10-25mm singles or clusters, $15 each

SCAPOLITE, Brazil - Loose gem xls, clear yellow striated prisms, with lovely terminations, around 1cm long, thin to thick. I saved these from being turned into cut stones. $8

SCHORL, Little 3 Mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California - A sharp and lustrous black 15mm prism in a clump of xln white feldspar, classy! $25

SENARMONTITE, Djebel Hamimat Antimony Mine, near Constantine, Algeria - I was very surprised to acquire a nice lot of these, they're from Germany's Senckenberg Nature Museum, and the label was dated 1910! Senarmontite is not very rare, but it hardly ever comes in crystals over a few millimeters. These are loose octahedra, grey to sort of off-white, with a bit of bruising around the edges, having been stored together for the last ninety years or so; not exactly lookers but great for the mineral. The best is 9mm on its longest edge, with a couple of much smaller xls attached on the backside, at $20. 8mm+ xls are $15 each; 6mm+ xls are $10 each; and 4mm+ xls are $6 each. Classic old stuff!

SERANDITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - The thin tabular pink habit:   25-30mm crystals, mostly multiple xls or sheaves of xls, all terminated but none absolutely perfect, $12 each.

SERANDITE: The thick pinkish-orange habit:  A good sized xl with cleaved right side prism face, bumpy pink exterior from secondary xlization, 26x18x12mm, $40

SHORTITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - Nice chunks of bright yellow massive shortite, $10 each

SIDERITE, Brookfield, NS - Fair brown rhombs to 8mm, sawn back, $3

SIDERITE, ANKERITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - typical sharp brown rhombs, loose,12-25mm across, with a thin skin of epitaxial lighter brown ankerite, $5-8. A 25mm xl, shades of brown, sans ankerite coating, the main face, triangular, being either a modification of the basic rhombohedron which I can’t figure out or a product of twinning, as in the Min Rec MSH issue photo on p.338. Not pretty but interesting, $6. A nice sharp brown 10mm xl with others in a vug in matrix, TN $6

SILVER, Silverfields Mine, Cobalt, Ontario - An aggregate of fine, thread-like silver wire, 15mm across, the biggest wire is about 6mm long. Very old specimen! TN, $25

SILVER, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico - An utterly superb xlized herringbone sort of wire, no matrix. 15mm across, 30mm long if straightened out. Incredibly aesthetic! TN, $75

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, Batopilas, Mexico - Sparse spiky xln to 3mm in etched calcite on matrix, best with magnification, $8

SILVER, Sarbay Deposit, North Kazakhstan - Neat sinuous little single wires, no matrix, about 10mm long, small TN’s $6

SILVER, Zacatecas, Mexico - Cute little curly wires to a few mm on a smallish matrix, $6

SILVER, Gowganda, Ontario - A bright paper-thin leaf of native silver about 1cm square on a small matrix, $5

SPESSARTINE, Garnet Hill, White Pine Co., Nevada - A flat-faced, lustrous, sharp black 1cm xl, with a bit of contact damage, on matrix. Classy. $10

SPHALERITE, Dundas Quarry, near Hamilton, Ontario - complex black xls under 10mm on limestone, TN’s $4; 2cm xl groups, TN’s $5

SPINEL, Mogok, Burma - Intense red octahedra, most well-formed and gemmy, 2-4 mm across, $5 each

STIBNITE, Baia Sprie, Romania - A wild busy cluster of zillions of silvery needles to 25x1mm, $12

STIBNITE, Herja, Romania - Very classy group of bright black interlocking sprays, $15

STIBNITE, Oaxaca, Mexico - A decent 20mm solid silvery spray, $4

STILBITE, Poona, India - 25mm pearly pinkish "Roman sword" xl on apophyllite, incomplete near the base, $6

STILBITE, Centreville, VA - Cool little 7mm yellow/orange ball on matrix, $5

THENARDITE, Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California - A 30mm xl cluster, sort of greyish-white, composed of one large and several small xls. A good example of the species. TN, $15

TOPAZ, Tanagama, Yama, Japan - An excellent loose clear colorless xl, almost as wide as it is tall, and beautifully terminated, 15x14x9mm, $20. Also smaller xls, running about 8mm long and 2-4mm across, decent TN's or large micros, $6 each.

TOPAZ, Thomas Range, UT - A beautiful lustrous brown xl 25mm long, both ends unfortunately cleaved, with a few other topaz xls and superb micro bixbyite xls, $8

TURQUOISE, Gunneath China Clay Pit, Cornwall, England - A pale blue to robins egg blue chunk of chalky turquoise with a bit of quartz. Tiny vugs are lined with extremely tiny xls, with 45x you just pick up the glinting xl faces, might be very cool if you have access to a SEM. An unusual old locality, one of the two dozen or so that have produced turquoise xls. TN, $20 

TURQUOISE, Bishop Mine, Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia - A 12mm specimen composed mostly of blue-green turquoise with a bit of xlization visible under the scope. $5

UVITE, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil - Nice green xls in small, medium, and large, at $3, $7, and $14 ea

UVITE, Pierrepont, NY - Lustrous loose black xls, most with imperfections, TN’s $5

VANADINITE (ARSENIAN), Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos, Mexico - A small (10mm) matrixless pair of lustrous brown xls looking much like bunny ears, $2

VANADINITE, Mibladen, Morocco -#2- A similar piece with a chain of xls along the edge of the matrix, $25

VANADINITE, Mibladen, Morocco - Nice red xls to 5mm on a chip of matrix, $8

VANADINITE, San Carlos, Mexico - A half dozen unusual tan hexagonal barrels to 5mm with xln calcite, $4

VANADINITE (ARSENIAN), Los Lamentos, Mexico - An attractive, rich brown, super-lustrous group of mostly hollow, incomplete xls to about 20mm, $8

VARISCITE, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas - A sparkling green druse of minute xls, about 20x15mm across on matrix, $5

VILLIAUMITE, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - good very dark red to black chunks and patches with other stuff, around 15mm TN’s, good examples, $10

VIVIANITE, LUDLAMITE, Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada - A couple of these, C) and D), are thumbnails.

VIVIANITE, Huanuni, Bolivia - Nice sprays of slim blue xls, $6

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: WULF3 - The nicest thumbnail, with a fiery orange 2mm xl, very cute. $22

WULFENITE, Tsumeb, Namibia - Two nice loose xls, one thick at $15 and one thin, unfortunately scratched up but transparent and a good size, at only $6.

WULFENITE, Mezica Mine, Slovenia, Yugoslavia - A 2cm cluster of small brown thick tabular xls to 4mm; the main faces dull but the xl edges lustrous. Classic locality, $15

WULFENITE, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico - Typical brownish orange blocky xls, xl groups, $2, $4, and $10

WULFENITE, near Lone Mtn., Broadwater Co., Montana - Lustrous orange tablets a few mm across, on 15-30mm matrices, all TN's, $8 each

WULFENITE, Harrington-Hickory Mine, Beaver Co., Utah - Very nice rich specimens, 20-50mm across, with orange blades to about 5mm,  TN's to min's, $8 each

WULFENITE, Rowley Mine, AZ - The thinnest bright orange tablets to 7mm on matrix, $6

WULFENITE, Los Lamentos, Mexico - glistening brown masses of xls to 3mm, $6 - $8

XENOTIME-(Y), Nova Horizonte, Bahia State, Brazil - Good lustrous loose brown xls or parallel xl groups, mm-TN. 8mm xls $5; 10-14mm xls $8; 17mm xls $15, and a few jumbo xls, 20-23mm at $20 each.

ZIRCON, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - A nice lustrous sharp brown bipyramid, 7mm across, contacted in a few spots, sitting up nicely on matrix, $5

ZIRCON, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - A nicely formed brown bipyramid, 3 corners imperfect. Good size for the locality, 11x10x10mm, $9

ZIRCON, Saranac Mine, Bancroft, Ontario - A dark brown xl 15 mm long, good for the locality, $8

ZIRCON, Saranac Mine, Bancroft, Ontario - A couple of decent 8mm xls in matrix, $5

ZIRCON, Natividade, Goias, Brazil - Good large bipyramids in shades of brown, nice pure matrixless xls, big enough to demonstrate why zircon is considered a heavy mineral. Xls running 12-15mm across, only $6 each! A few larger xls, at 22mm+ are $10 each, and one big honker, not very well formed but 35x20x20mm at $14.

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