John Betts - Fine Minerals, New York, NY  212-678-1942
Dealers of Fine Minerals and Natural Crystal Clusters since 1989.

Other Minerals  Available Upon Request

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I have approximately 5000 minerals in stock. But this site can only hold 500-600 specimens without slowing loading time. Below is a listing of 200 other minerals  ($75 and up) currently available from our warehouse, but not pictured on this web site. Email to inquire about availability, info or photos. Because these are buried among 4500 specimens in the warehouse, expect a delay of up to one week in filling any requests. Click here if you are lookng for faster service to select from the mineral galleries on this site.

4500 more  minerals are available. Email your requests and I will do my best to find what you are looking for.

#33767 - Mineral: Alstonite* with Barite, High Cross Vein, Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England. Richly-crystallized cluster of colorless alstonite crystals up to 5 mm with bladed barite crystals up to 4 mm. The alstonite resembles calcite, except there is no cleavage as seen in calcite. Most of the crystals are undamaged. Ex. John A. Rorer, Jr. collection #167; Ex. D. Lloyd Collection Overall Size: 5.5x3x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $95

#36249 - Mineral: Analcime with Aegirine, DeMix Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Large crystal of white analcime fully crystallized on all surfaces with various minerals (serandite, aegirine, polylithionite, etc.) included in some of the faces. The analcime has porcelain-like surfaces and has several contacts. Overall Size: 6x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-50 mm. Price: $75

#31832 - Mineral: Analcime with Copper inclusions, Phoenix Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula Copper District, Michigan. Many complex aggregates of transparent analcime crystals with inclusions of metallic copper visible within and scattered overgrowth of small white crystals tentatively identified as fluorapophyllite, though microcline is possible. Rare. Ex. Dr. N. Luppescu Overall Size: 11x9x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: .5-8 mm. Price: $350

#38215 - Mineral: Andradite Garnet, Garnet Hill, Calaveras County, California. Large partial crystal of brown-black andradite garnet. Both dodecahedral and trapezohedral faces are identifiable. Collected in 1955 Overall Size: 9x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 9 cm. Price: $95

#37293 - Mineral: Andradite Garnet with Magnetite and Pyrite, Cornwall Iron Mines, Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Double-sided specimen with dark andradite garnet crystals up to 17 mm with flattened crystals of dark metallic magnetite up to 15 mm and and small yellow metallic pyrite crystals up to 1 mm. Several andradite crystals are incomplete. Ex. Steve Chamberlain collection #822, originally acquired in 1962 Overall Size: 8.5x8x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-17 mm. Price: $85

#30174 - Mineral: Anglesite, Touissit Mine, south of Oujda, Morocco. Large central crystal of lustrous anglesite 4 cm long with cluster of smaller anglesite crystals overgrown on the termination. All crystals are complete and undamaged. Overall Size: 5.5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-40 mm. Price: $75

#24536 - Mineral: Apophyllite-(KF), Pashan Hill Quarry, Poona District, Maharashtra, India. Beautiful cluster of transparent green fluorapophyllite crystals with steep, pyramidal terminations. No damage. Overall Size: 4x3x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-15 mm. Price: $150

#31734 - Mineral: Aragonite, Ironwood, Gogebic County, Michigan. Hemispherical crystal aggregates up to 15 mm diameter of pinkish white aragonite crystals lining several surfaces of irregular cavities in matrix. Ex. James G. Manchester (1871-1948) #1556; ex. Florence P. Manchester Overall Size: 11x8x7 cm. Crystal Size: 4-7 mm. Price: $300

#37484 - Mineral: Aurichalcite, Utah. Bright blue-green aurichalcite crystals on limonite gossan matrix with colorless hemimorphite. No exact location is listed, but this possibly originated in the Tintic District. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 5x3.5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-3 mm. Price: $85

#12139 - Mineral: Azurite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. Plate of matrix almost completely covered on one side with lustrous, dark blue azurite crystals from the most famous azurite locality in the U.S, now long closed. Overall Size: 8x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-10 mm. Price: $150

#29869 - Mineral: Azurite, Touissit Mine, south of Oujda, Morocco. Lustrous crystals of dark blue azurite on limonite gossan matrix. The azurite crystals show translucency when rear-illuminated. Overall Size: 7x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-25 mm. Price: $175

#38730 - Mineral: Barite, Baia Sprie, Maramures, Romania. Lustrous transparent blue barite crystals completely coating one face of a large block of matrix. The barite crystals thin blades with lustrous crystal faces. Good color. Overall Size: 13x12x9 cm. Crystal Size: 5-30 mm. Price: $75

#36138 - Mineral: Barite, Niobec Mine, St. Honore, Quebec, Canada. Large single wedge-shaped barite crystal with small rhombohedral calcite microcrystals on the termination. The barite is translucent white, but has brown limonite staining on the surfaces. A good large crystal with only a small bruise on one corner. From my personal collection Overall Size: 9x6x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 9 cm. Price: $85

#37978 - Mineral: Barite, Dee North Mine, Elko County, Nevada. Round cluster of translucent, golden barite crystals from the recently closed gold mine. The barite crystals are lustrous, prismatic form with chisel-shaped terminations. Very clean, no damage. Overall Size: 5x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-24 mm. Price: $125

#36754 - Mineral: Barite, Rust Bucket Pocket, Meikle Mine, Elko County, Nevada. Large crystals of golden barite on minor gray matrix. The barite crystals are tabular rhombohedrons with glassy crystal faces. Overall Size: 7x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 10-35 mm. Price: $700

#36755 - Mineral: Barite on Calcite, Meikle Mine, Elko County, Nevada. Transparent golden barite crystals with glassy crystal faces overgrown on greenish-gray calcite matrix. The many crystals intersecting at all angles, with lustrous surfaces, makes this a real eye-catcher. I searched through many to find one undamaged. Overall Size: 7x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-3 cm. Price: $475

#35435 - Mineral: Barite with Malachite inclusions, Mashamba West Mine, Shaba Copper Belt, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Many interconnected barite crystals with remnants of dark matrix. The barite is translucent green with lustrous crystal surfaces and mounted to an acrylic display base (I will remove if requested). The green color is due to malachite inclusions. Overall Size: 4x3x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-3 cm. Price: $115

#27593 - Mineral: Barytocalcite, Alston Moor, Cumberland, England. Several pockets lined with transparent, colorless barytocalcite crystals (one cavity is filled with a second white mineral that may be barite). With old pen-and-ink label that has been partially bleached obscuring the complete text, though it is visible. Ex. A. Lincoln Sherk, MD. (1890s-1969) Overall Size: 10x7x6 cm. Crystal Size: .5-6 mm. Price: $95

#25035 - Mineral: Barytocalcite, Blagilll Mine, Alston Moor (Type Locality), Cumberland, England. V-shaped formation that crystallized in a vein, lined with white crystals of barytocalcite. The shape of the cluster protected the crystals from any damage. Fluoresces under UV illumination. Overall Size: 13x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-10 mm. Price: $200

#36384 - Mineral: Benstonite, Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock District, Hardin County, Illinois. Large calcite plate completely covered with white benstonite crystals. A 3 cm scalenohedral calcite crystal, also coated with benstonite, stands up off the plate. A great benstonite specimen from the now closed Illinois mining district - no more to come. Overall Size: 15x10x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-7 mm. Price: $1500

#21147 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, 90 km ENE of Kabul, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Single crystal of medium blue-green beryl (variety aquamarine) without matrix. The crystal has a simple, flat termination. Some edges have minute nicks (barely visible). Overall Size: 22x16x15 mm. Crystal Size: 22 mm. Price: $75

#30688 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Large single crystal of transparent aquamarine beryl with no matrix attached. The aqua crystal has a flat pinacoid termination, with second-order faces on the corners. Edges show minor wear when viewed under magnification. Overall Size: 37x30x21 mm. Crystal Size: 30 mm. Price: $85

#12428 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Skardu Road, Gilgit, Pakistan. Pale blue aquamarine beryl crystal (17 mm wide x 25 mm long) in white albite matrix. The beryl has been exposed on the top and side. The termination shows many rounded growth hillocks and has pyramidal modifications around the edges. No damage. Overall Size: 6x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 25 mm. Price: $150

#38115 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Extraordinary single crystal of aquamarine beryl found many years ago, in the early days of specimen mining in this troubled country. The aquamarine crystal is hexagonal form, has glassy crystal faces, flat pinacoid termination with secondary faces. Overall Size: 15x8x8 cm. Crystal Size: 15 cm. Price: $7500

#37668 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine with Albite and Ferrocolumbite, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Three translucent blue-green aquamarine variety of beryl on crystallized albite matrix with scattered crystals of black ferrocolumbite. Overall Size: 6x3.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-19 mm. Price: $150

#24904 - Mineral: Boléite on matrix, Amelia Mine, Boléo, near Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Rare matrix specimen of blue boléite crystals in yellowish clay-like matrix. The boléite crystals are cubic form and seen to be translucent when viewed under magnification. Classic specimen. Overall Size: 5x2.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 4 mm. Price: $125

#36889 - Mineral: Bournonite on Pyrite, Cavnic (Kapnik), Maramures, Romania. Brilliantly lustrous bournonite crystals up to 5 mm long on matrix of bournonite and yellow metallic pyrite crystals. The bournonite crystals are all complex cogwheel-twins with striated prism faces. Overall Size: 3.5x3x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $150

#20860 - Mineral: Bournonite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Baia Sprie (formerly Felsobanya), Maramures, Romania. Many crystals of gray-metallic bournonite on matrix of quartz and pyrite. The bournonite crystals all show the classic cogwheel-twinning that bournonite is famous for. Purchased from Ward's in 1909 for $2.00. Ex. Robert C. Linck (1905-1970); Ex.Robert B. Gage (1875-1946) (old labels were lost) Overall Size: 5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $95

#38043 - Mineral: Brookite on Quartz, St. Gotthard, Kanton Uri, Switzerland. Lustrous colorless quartz crystals up to 15 mm intergrown with translucent dark red-brown bladed brookite crystals up to 13 mm. The brookite crystals actually grow completely through the quartz and are up to 22 mm long, but only 13 mm are exposed. Overall Size: 4.5x4x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-15 mm. Price: $150

#27554 - Mineral: Calcite, Baia Sprie (formerly Felsobanya), Maramures, Romania. Flat cluster of translucent gray calcite crystals with white surface coating on crystal faces oriented in one direction. The coating on selected faces was probably due to fluid flow through the cavity. With old Pennypacker pen-and-ink label. Ex. A. Lincoln Sherk, MD. (1890s-1969); ex. Charles Pennypacker Overall Size: 9x8x5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-15 mm. Price: $95

#25018 - Mineral: Calcite, Chihuahua, Mexico. An odd, rounded crystal of water-clear colorless calcite with crystal surface patterns visible on all outer surfaces. Internally some zones have a red-brown color. The surfaces pattern is quite attractive. It appears this was cleaned with dilute acid. Ex. Phillip Greybill (b. 1935- ) collection Overall Size: 13x11x10 cm. Crystal Size: 8-12 cm. Price: $400

#32608 - Mineral: Calcite (twinned crystals), Daye Mine, Hubei Province, China. Plate of transparent calcite crystals with a large, symmetric twinned calcite crystal. The twin plane is visible running through the middle (hard to photograph). No damage. Overall Size: 6x4.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-36 mm. Price: $135

#29059 - Mineral: Calcite - twinned crystals, Tri-State Mining District, near Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. Twinned crystals of golden, translucent calcite without matrix. The surfaces are clean with an etched pattern on some surfaces. The crystals are twinned on the {01·2} plane one of the rarer forms (more commonly they twin on the {01·8} plane). No damage. Overall Size: 14x6x5 cm. Crystal Size: 14 cm. Price: $125

#38281 - Mineral: Calcite and Natrolite, Moore's Station, Mercer County, New Jersey. Scalenohedral translucent yellow calcite crystals up to 14 mm intergrown with acicular white natrolite crystals up to 8 mm. The old locality Moore's Station (now called Moore) is on the western border of NJ northeast of Trenton. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #21734 Overall Size: 8x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-14 mm. Price: $85

#37358 - Mineral: Calcite on Hematite, Cumberland, England. Pristine crystals of colorless transparent calcite on brown hematite matrix. The calcite crystals are prismatic form with steep scalenohedral-rhombohedral terminations. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 7x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 20-35 mm. Price: $350

#36309 - Mineral: Calcite on Prehnite pseudomorphs after Glauberite, Fanwood Quarry, Union County, New Jersey. Classic specimen of green prehnite pseudomorphs (epimorphs) after glauberite crystals up to 15 mm long with yellow calcite crystals up to 25 mm. No damage. See article: Mineralization at the Fanwood & Summit Quarries in Rocks and Minerals, M-J 1987. From my personal collection #354 Overall Size: 13x10x6.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-25 mm. Price: $95

#30512 - Mineral: Calcite pseudomorph after Barite with Quartz, (Goodfro Mine), Ouray County, Colorado. Large cluster of calcite pseudomorphs after blocky barite crystals up to 4 cm on a matrix of etched milky quartz crystals up to 20 mm. No damage. Though the exact mine is not listed on the label, it is likely that it originated in the Goodfro Mine. Ex. Swaboda Pseudomorph Collection Overall Size: 15x15x10 cm. Crystal Size: 1-40 mm. Price: $350

#30870 - Mineral: Calcite with Realgar inclusions, Shimen Mine, Hunan, China. Large scalenohedral crystal calcite with many smaller calcite crystals on the base of matrix. The calcite crystals are yellow-gray with red inclusions of realgar. The specimen stands upright without additional support. No damage. Overall Size: 9x9x5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-80 mm. Price: $250

#36222 - Mineral: Calcite with sand inclusions, Rattlesnake Butte (Devils Hill), Shannon County, South Dakota. Elongated crystals of calcite with gray sand inclusions (commonly called Sand Calcite). The cluster is very sculptural and can be displayed horizontally and vertically (with support). Collected ca. 1980 Overall Size: 15x8x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1.5-7 cm. Price: $125

#39967 - Mineral: Calcite, Chrysocolla, Malachite, Mashamba Mine, Shaba Copper Belt, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Large cluster of platy deep-green malachite crystals up to 25 mm across overgrown with pale blue-green powdery chrysocolla and transparent yellow calcite crystals up to 20 mm long. This cluster is clean and colorful. Overall Size: 13x9x8 cm. Crystal Size: 1-25 mm. Price: $400

#37669 - Mineral: Carrollite in Calcite, Kamoye Mine, Kambowe, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Bright metallic carrollite crystal that formed on the edge of a small pocket in colorless calcite matrix. The faces of the carrollite crystal that are in the pocket are lustrous and undamaged. The outer faces have a melted appearance. Overall Size: 4x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 10 mm. Price: $75

#37911 - Mineral: Cassiterite on Albite, Corrego do Urucum, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Complexly twinned black cassiterite crystals in a cluster 17 mm across perched on the edge of platy white albite, variety cleavelandite, crystals up to 25 mm. Excess albite matrix could be trimmed away to balance the cassiterite better. Overall Size: 10x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-25 mm. Price: $135

#25714 - Mineral: Cassiterite on Quartz, Huanuni District, Dalence Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia. Translucent crystal of brown cassiterite on contrasting matrix of white quartz. Looks beautiful under magnification - lustrous, elongated crystals showing complex twinning. Overall Size: 5x3x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-8 mm. Price: $85

#37902 - Mineral: Cavansite on Stilbite-Ca, Wagholi Quarry, Maharashtra, India. Many spherical rosettes up to 15 mm diameter of vivid blue cavansite crystals on thin crystallized plates of colorless stilbite-Ca crystals up to 1 mm. A few partial cavansite spheres show the radiating internal structure. Overall Size: 6x5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-7 mm. Price: $400

#37842 - Mineral: Cavansite, Calcite, Stilbite-Ca, Wagholi Quarry, Maharashtra, India. Unusual combination of rosettes up to 10 mm diameter of blue cavansite crystals on colorless stilbite-coated matrix with crystals of transparent colorless calcite crystals up to 1 mm scattered on the cavansite. Very attractive. Overall Size: 7x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $300

#27511 - Mineral: Celestine on Sulfur, Girgenti, Sicily, Italy. Prismatic crystals of lustrous, colorless celestine (celestite) up to 15 mm long with partial coating on the sides of yellow sulfur microcrystals. The celestine fluoresces white under UV illumination. Ex. A. Lincoln Sherk, MD. (1890s-1969); ex. Dr. Egee Overall Size: 8x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 15 mm. Price: $95

#38692 - Mineral: Cerussite, Daoping Mine, Yangshuo, Guangxi Zhuang, China. Many colorless cerussite crystals in brown gossan. The cerussite crystals are throughout the specimen. The crystals are prismatic with striated prism faces. A good specimen with no copper staining as commonly encountered. Overall Size: 4x3x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $75

#37519 - Mineral: Cerussite, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. V-twinned colorless cerussite crystals on crusty gray matrix. The cerussite crystals are internally translucent and have lustrous external faces. Ex. Lord Calvert collection Overall Size: 8x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 4-30 mm. Price: $400

#37651 - Mineral: Cerussite, Galena, Quartz, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Many colorless cerussite crystals up to 4 mm long on limonite-stained quartz crystals up to 3 mm and corroded gray galena. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 7x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: .1-4 mm. Price: $125

#14442 - Mineral: Columbite, Bedford, Westchester County, New York. Large crystal of dark metallic columbite with parallel crystals along the sides. The surface has a tan-colored surface alteration. This was probably collected at the old Kinkel Quarry or nearby pegmatite localities. Ex. J. Cilen #12023 Overall Size: 25x22x10 mm. Crystal Size: 10-25 mm. Price: $95

#37659 - Mineral: Copper (crystallized), Phoenix Mine, Phoenix, Keweenaw County, Michigan. Beautifully crystallized native copper crystals with textured crystal faces. The copper crystals are distorted rhombohedrons and the largest crystal is completely exposed all around. Overall Size: 17x15x12 mm. Crystal Size: 2-8 mm. Price: $165

#36525 - Mineral: Copper var. Spinel-law Twins, Dzezkazgan, Qarqaraly (Karaganda), Kazakhstan. Vertical formation of sharp, well defined copper crystals growing off a central copper crystal spine. The elongated, diamond-shaped copper crystals are indicative of Spinel-law twinning. The cluster is fully crystallized all around. Overall Size: 53x15x8 mm. Crystal Size: 1-40 mm. Price: $275

#36524 - Mineral: Copper var. Spinel-law Twins, Dzezkazgan, Qarqaraly (Karaganda), Kazakhstan. A superb specimen of sharp, well defined copper crystals growing off a central copper crystal spine. The elongated, diamond-shaped copper crystals are indicative of Spinel-law twinning. The cluster is fully crystallized all around. Overall Size: 47x20x8 mm. Crystal Size: 1-25 mm. Price: $400

#37920 - Mineral: Copper with Cuprite coating, Mufulira Mine, Zambian Copper Belt, Zambia. Crystallized native copper in a dense mass intergrown with minor milky quartz. The copper crystals are all coated with a reddish cuprite microcrystalline coating, obscuring the sharp crystal faces. Overall Size: 6x4.5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.2-4.0 mm. Price: $150

#38656 - Mineral: Creedite and Fluorite, Dachang Mine, Quinlong, Guizhou Zhuang, China. Prismatic transparent creedite crystals up to 21 mm long and cubic fluorite crystals with pale green color and purple fringes. The creedite is mostly on one side, the fluorite on the opposite. Overall Size: 7x5.5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-21 mm. Price: $150

#38657 - Mineral: Creedite and Fluorite, Dachang Mine, Quinlong, Guizhou Zhuang, China. Prismatic transparent creedite crystals up to 5 mm long on greenish (quartz?) matrix. When viewed under magnification small purple fluorite crystals can be seen overgrown on the creedite. Overall Size: 8x5x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-5.0 mm. Price: $150

#32751 - Mineral: Crocoite with Massicot, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Lustrous crystals of red-orange crocoite up to 14 mm long on gossan matrix with yellow-orange, powdery massicot(?). Many crystals are terminated. Overall Size: 8x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: .1-14 mm. Price: $75

#38248 - Mineral: Cylindrite*, (Santa Cruz Mine), Poopó District, Oruro Department, Bolivia. Bright metallic cylindrite crystals embedded in Ag-Sn ore. The cylindrite crystals show textbook-like cylindrical crystal form with brilliant surface luster. Ex. Richard Hauck Overall Size: 7x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-30 mm. Price: $150

#35415 - Mineral: Datolite, First Sovietskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Large yellow-green datolite crystals with no matrix attached. The datolite crystals are translucent, lustrous with distinct crystals. Sensel acquired the specimen from Mountain Minerals for $200 in 1996. A few corners are chipped, though hard to see. Ex. Dr. E. Sensel collection #M1054 Overall Size: 8x7x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-5 cm. Price: $175

#19793 - Mineral: Dioptase, Omawe, Kaokoveld, Namibia. Many lustrous emerald-green dioptase crystals on milky quartz matrix with minute bluish plancheite botryoidal crystals visible in the spaces between the dioptase. The dioptase crystals are transparent and have glassy faces. Overall Size: 4.5x2.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-4.0 mm. Price: $125

#35560 - Mineral: Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Large crystals of emerald-green dioptase crystals in a hemispherical crystal cluster. Great color, luster and translucency. The cluster is mounted to an acrylic display base (I will remove upon request). Overall Size: 25x20x14 mm. Crystal Size: 3-20 mm. Price: $175

#23514 - Mineral: Dioptase with Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Elongated specimen covered on front and rear with lustrous crystals of green dioptase up to 4 mm. One side has a secondary overgrowth of colorless calcite crystals up to .2 mm and two other minerals, one red, the other gray. Very showy - no damage. Ex. Michael D. McMillan collection (S. Africa) Overall Size: 5x2.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 4 mm. Price: $150

#38805 - Mineral: Dolomite var. Cobaltian, Kakanda Mine, Shaba Copper Belt, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Bright pink cobalt-rich dolomite crystals completely coating one face of matrix. Note: these specimens are often incorrectly labeled as cobaltian calcite, but a thorough survey and analysis in 1999 shows they should be labeled cobaltian dolomite. Overall Size: 6x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1 mm. Price: $225

#37156 - Mineral: Dolomite with Hematite, Brumado, Serra das Eguas, Bahia, Brazil. Triangular transparent dolomite crystal with brown hematite coating selected faces and included within the dolomite. Smaller second-generation dolomite crystals grew on the edges of the larger crystal. This is a unique specimen, unlike any seen before. Overall Size: 7x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-60 mm. Price: $250

#30690 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Large crystal of deep green elbaite tourmaline with a steep, etched termination. Internally much of the crystal is flawless. Dark green crystals are usually faceted into smaller gemstones. Minor edge wear. Overall Size: 60x12x9 mm. Crystal Size: 60 mm. Price: $75

#37331 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Gillette Quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Doubly-terminated transparent-to-translucent green elbaite tourmaline crystal with striated crystal faces. Both terminations are flat, with many smaller, parallel, shallow pyramidal crystal faces. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 26x7x5 mm. Crystal Size: 26 mm. Price: $85

#36551 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Momeik, northeast of Mogok, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar). Glassy complex crystal of translucent pink elbaite tourmaline, variety rubellite, with rounded shape due to radiating crystals terminating into a smooth surface. Unlike earlier finds from this occurrence, the surfaces are smooth and lustrous. Overall Size: 17x17x15 mm. Crystal Size: 7-8 mm. Price: $95

#37337 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, (Himalaya Mine), Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California. Gemmy green elbaite tourmaline crystal with steep termination. Internally most of the crystal is transparent green, but the termination zone is chatoyant (silky) colorless possibly caused by etching along the crystallization axis. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 58x20x20 mm. Crystal Size: 58 mm. Price: $350

#35649 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Khat Chay Mine, Momeik, Burma (Myanmar). Mushroom-shaped elbaite tourmaline crystals translucent red color, with a radiating internal structure and many minute crystal terminations. On the bottom the dark tourmaline core is visible and the crystals that transition from black to red. No damage. Overall Size: 40x35x30 mm. Crystal Size: 10-20 mm. Price: $575

#35417 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline Slice, Madagascar. Large slice of transparent ruby-red elbaite tourmaline with a thin green outer rind. The slice was polished on one side. This is an extraordinary specimen notable for it's size and completeness. No damage. Collected in the 1970s Overall Size: 12x12x1 cm. Crystal Size: 12 cm. Price: $3000

#37354 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline in Milky Quartz, Pala District, San Diego County, California. Terminated pink rubellite tourmaline (variety of elbaite) embedded in a light gray milky quartz crystal with yellow albite. Other rubellite tourmalines are visible inside the quartz on the rear. The tourmaline termination and sides are chipped. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 5x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 40 mm. Price: $400

#36846 - Mineral: Elbaite var. Rubellite Tourmaline, Baxao Mine, Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bi-colored crystals of elbaite tourmaline with no matrix attached. The elbaite crystals are transparent yellow in the lower portions and pink in the terminations. The bottom is naturally crystallized too, though not classic terminations Overall Size: 27x14x7 mm. Crystal Size: 20-27 mm. Price: $125

#36845 - Mineral: Elbaite var. Rubellite Tourmaline, Baxao Mine, Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bi-colored crystals of elbaite tourmaline with no matrix attached. The elbaite crystals are transparent yellow in the lower portions and pink in the terminations. The bottom is naturally crystallized too. Currently mounted on an acrylic stand. Overall Size: 38x6x3.5 mm. Crystal Size: 38 mm. Price: $150

#37341 - Mineral: Elbaite var. Rubellite Tourmaline, Pala District, San Diego County, California. Hot-pink transparent elbaite, variety rubellite tourmaline crystal with no matrix attached. The rubellite crystal is flattened in section and is terminated. One corner of the termination has white albite attached. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 32x14x7 mm. Crystal Size: 32 mm. Price: $300

#37346 - Mineral: Elbaite var. Rubellite Tourmaline, Pala District, San Diego County, California. Doubly-terminated translucent pink rubellite variety of elbaite tourmaline with no matrix attached. The rubellite crystal has a flat pinacoid termination with secondary edge faces on one end. One termination has the locality inked in white. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 25x17x16 mm. Crystal Size: 25 mm. Price: $325

#37940 - Mineral: Enargite with Quartz, Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain pass, Silverton District, San Juan County, Colorado. Brilliantly lustrous dark enargite crystals up to 9 mm with scattered patches of colorless quartz microcrystals. The enargite crystals are well crystallized, with striated crystal faces the result of complex twinning. A beautiful specimen. Ex. Mitch Gunnell; ex. Calvert (no old labels) Overall Size: 8x7x2 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-9.0 mm. Price: $400

#23972 - Mineral: Ettringite, Wessels Mine, Kuruman District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Plate of bright lemon-yellow ettringite crystals. The ettringite crystals are hexagonal form with pyramidal terminations. The outer zones are transparent with a milky white internal zone. No damage. Overall Size: 4x3x1 cm. Crystal Size: 3-8 mm. Price: $85

#37573 - Mineral: Euclase on Quartz, Ecuador, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Large milky quartz crystal with etched termination and pock-marked exterior surfaces on two sides. One side has many transparent colorless euclase crystals up to 5 mm scattered over the surface. This is genuine - not one of the recent fakes. Overall Size: 10x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-100 mm. Price: $250

#37500 - Mineral: Fairfieldite, Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina. Translucent pale-yellow fairfieldite crystals in rosettes and aggregates up to 4 mm across on a pearly translucent white mineral (bikitaite?). This specimen is very rich in fairfieldite and all crystals are complete. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 13x8x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-2 mm. Price: $250

#25060 - Mineral: Ferberite, Minas do Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal. Exceptionally large group of parallel black ferberite crystals with striated prism faces and terminations composed of many smaller parallel termination faces. A fine specimen. Ex. Phillip Greybill (b. 1935- ) collection Overall Size: 10x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 7-10 cm. Price: $350

#34185 - Mineral: Fluorapatite, Emmons Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Lilac-purple fluorapatite crystals up to 3 mm in a dense grouping perched on albite and muscovite. Nestled in crevices are spherical black crystal aggregates of another mineral, possibly siderite. Looks beautiful under magnification. No damage. Overall Size: 6x4.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-3 mm. Price: $85

#37656 - Mineral: Fluorapatite, Minas do Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal. Flattened cluster of glassy green-gray fluorapatite crystals with scattered mica crystals in areas. The fluorapatite crystals are transparent and have exceptionally lustrous surfaces. Overall Size: 5x3x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 4-15 mm. Price: $125

#24547 - Mineral: Fluorapophyllite on Heulandite, Pashan Hill Quarry, Poona District, Maharashtra, India. Spray of transparent green fluorapophyllite crystals up to 25 mm long on matrix covered with lustrous white heulandite crystals up to 1 mm with minor calcite and stilbite. Very clean, no damage. Overall Size: 7.5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: .5-25 mm. Price: $175

#35646 - Mineral: Fluorapophyllite on Stilbite, Momin Akhada, near Rahuri, 50 km north of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India. Radiating clusters up to 5 cm diameter of transparent green fluorapophyllite crystals up to 15 mm on white stilbite crystal-covered basalt. These radiating formations were discovered in 2002. No damage. See: Spectacular New Apophyllite in R. M. v.77 #2. Overall Size: 13x13x5.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-15 mm. Price: $900

#33117 - Mineral: Fluorapophyllite with Stilbite-Ca, Nasik, Maharashtra, India. Large crystal of fluorapohyllite 33 mm on edge with several smaller stilbite and fluorapophyllite crystals around the sides. The central crystal is color zoned and has lustrous crystal faces. No damage. Overall Size: 5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 4-33 mm. Price: $95

#38399 - Mineral: Fluorapophyllite, Calcite, Datolite, Analcime, Quartz, Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey. Large specimen covered on one face with blocky white fluorapophyllite crystals up to 18 mm and golden pseudo-cubic calcite crystals up to 6 mm, with smaller datolite, analcime and quartz crystals. Ex. W.S. Vaux (1811-1882) collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #7728 Overall Size: 22x14x10 cm. Crystal Size: 1-18 mm. Price: $475

#38397 - Mineral: Fluorapophyllite, Calcite, Datolite, Analcime, Quartz, Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey. Large elongated plate covered on one face with blocky white fluorapophyllite crystals up to 25 mm and golden pseudo-cubic calcite crystals up to 18 mm, with smaller datolite, analcime and quartz crystals. Two fluorapophyllite crystals are missing. Ex. W.S. Vaux (1811-1882) and Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923) collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #24038 Overall Size: 29x15x8 cm. Crystal Size: 1-25 mm. Price: $675

#33167 - Mineral: Fluorite, Mine La Cabaña, Berbes District, Asturias, Spain. Transparent vivid purple fluorite crystals with a few patches of brownish quartz microcrystals on the fluorite surfaces. The bottom is crystallized with minute parallel cubic crystal faces. Good color and clarity, no damage. Overall Size: 7x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 15-52 mm. Price: $85

#33171 - Mineral: Fluorite, Mine La Cabaña, Berbes District, Asturias, Spain. Single cubic crystal of translucent purple fluorite with etched crystal surfaces. The bottom surfaces are crystallized with many minute parallel cubic crystal faces. No damage. Overall Size: 7x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5 cm. Price: $85

#24786 - Mineral: Fluorite, La Viesca Mine, La Collada, Siero, Asturias, Spain. Flattened square crystal of transparent purple fluorite with bluish internal zoning. The crystal surfaces have many parallel cubic micro crystal faces. Note the dodecahedral edges bevels composed of small cubic faces. No damage. Overall Size: 55x53x25 mm. Crystal Size: 53 mm. Price: $85

#33172 - Mineral: Fluorite, Mine La Cabaña, Berbes District, Asturias, Spain. Floater crystal (fully crystallized all around with no point of attachment) of vivid purple fluorite with a sugar-like coating of colorless quartz microcrystals on one face. Excellent color and transparency. No damage. Overall Size: 4x3.5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 4 cm. Price: $85

#36765 - Mineral: Fluorite, Erongo Mountains, Damaraland, Namibia. Transparent green fluorite crystals in a complex cluster of interconnected crystals. The fluorite crystals are cubo-octahedral crystal form, have curved (convex) crystal faces and a slightly etched surface texture. Overall Size: 42x25x20 mm. Crystal Size: 1-9 mm. Price: $95

#24780 - Mineral: Fluorite, La Viesca Mine, La Collada, Siero, Asturias, Spain. Pale purple crystals of transparent fluorite on quartz-coated matrix. The fluorite crystals are clean and almost flawless internally. The crystals are cubic form, often flattened on one axis, and one has large dodecahedral edge faces. No damage. Overall Size: 4x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-18 mm. Price: $125

#24764 - Mineral: Fluorite, La Viesca Mine, La Collada, Siero, Asturias, Spain. Cluster of many complex cubic fluorite crystals with internal color zoning varying from gray-purple centers and deeper purple outer zones. The crystals are cubic habit with surfaces of many parallel smaller cubic faces. No damage. Overall Size: 7x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 15-45 mm. Price: $165

#28773 - Mineral: Fluorite, Caldwell Stone Quarry, Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. Large plate of cubic crystals of translucent, purple fluorite up to 12 mm across. For more information, see: pg. 110 of Rocks and Minerals May-June 1981. Overall Size: 13x7x3 cm. Crystal Size: 3-12 mm. Price: $175

#24766 - Mineral: Fluorite, La Viesca Mine, La Collada, Siero, Asturias, Spain. Cluster of many complex cubic fluorite crystals with internal color zoning varying from gray-purple centers and deeper purple outer zones. The crystals are cubic habit with surfaces of many parallel smaller cubic faces. No damage. Overall Size: 7x4.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-25 mm. Price: $175

#32725 - Mineral: Fluorite, Xianghuapu, Linwu, Hunan, China. Highly transparent light-green fluorite crystals (up to 5 cm across) with no attached matrix. The fluorite has large glassy cubic crystal faces with textured dodecahedral edge faces. The purchaser will not be disappointed. Overall Size: 10x8x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 cm. Price: $350

#28939 - Mineral: Fluorite (twinned crystals) with Muscovite, Nagar, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Transparent twinned crystals of fluorite with small muscovite crystal protruding on one end. The fluorite crystal is internally flawless with color varying from pale green to pink. The reentrant twinned faces are visible on the top. No damage. From my personal collection Overall Size: 9x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 9 cm. Price: $425

#37810 - Mineral: Fluorite and Calcite, Tietiuche, 300 km NE of Vladivostok, Russia. Translucent green fluorite crystals up to 4 mm with tan-colored translucent calcite crystals up to 14 mm. The fluorite crystals are complex form of modified octahedrons. This is the only specimen I have ever seen of fluorite from this obscure locality. Ex. A.S. Goldstein #346 Overall Size: 6x4.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-14 mm. Price: $395

#24768 - Mineral: Fluorite on Quartz, La Viesca Mine, La Collada, Siero, Asturias, Spain. Single crystal of purple fluorite on matrix covered with small quartz crystals. The fluorite crystal is cubic with faces composed of many smaller, parallel, cubic faces. The fluorite crystal is so transparent, you can see through to matrix. No damage. Overall Size: 6x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-19 mm. Price: $75

#38497 - Mineral: Galena (distorted crystals) with Chalcopyrite on Quartz, Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Gray metallic galena crystals up to 14 mm with yellow metallic chalcopyrite crystals up to 6 mm on quartz crystals up to 10 mm. The galena crystals did not form the usual cubic crystals, but are compressed on one axis, and have octahedral corner faces. Overall Size: 9x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-14 mm. Price: $85

#37667 - Mineral: Goosecreekite, Stilbite, Quartz, Nasik, Maharashtra, India. Pearly white rare goosecreekite crystals in wedge-shaped crystal aggregates up to 18 mm long on branching, coral-like quartz crystal formations with a single translucent colorless stilbite crystal 17 mm long. Overall Size: 6x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-18 mm. Price: $195

#30983 - Mineral: Gypsum var. Selenite, Pina de Ebro, Aragón, Zaragoza Province, Spain. Perfect, water-clear selenite (transparent variety of gypsum) crystals on a base of white gypsum. The crystals are all terminated, though the tallest crystal has brown inclusions in the termination. No damage. Do NOT wash in water. Overall Size: 7x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-55 mm. Price: $75

#25542 - Mineral: Gypsum var. Selenite, Lake Gillies, South Australia, Australia. Very well formed transparent selenite crystal with opaque tapering core inside the crystal. Unusual complex termination caused by crystal twinning {110}. Fully crystallized on all surfaces with no point of attachment - a floater. Overall Size: 6.5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 6.5 cm. Price: $125

#37178 - Mineral: Hemimorphite, Santa Eulalia District, Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Double-sided cluster of lustrous white hemimorphite crystals covering front and rear of thin gossan plate. The cluster is slightly curved and displays well from several angles. Ex. Jim Minette (1936-2002) Overall Size: 8x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-15 mm. Price: $75

#37185 - Mineral: Hemimorphite, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Extraordinarily large hemimorphite crystals in a narrow fan-shaped cluster mounted to an acrylic base (will remove upon request). The hemimorphite crystals are lustrous and translucent. Overall Size: 4.5x3x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 20-45 mm. Price: $175

#23426 - Mineral: Hydrocerussite on Cerussite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Large, twinned crystals of cerussite with surface replacement of hydrocerussite. Even without the rare hydrocerussite this would be a great specimen with well defined, large crystals. No damage. Overall Size: 4.5x4x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-4.5 cm. Price: $225

#37525 - Mineral: Hübnerite, Pasto Bueno, Ancash Province, Peru. Cluster of many sub-parallel huebnerite crystals. The huebnerite is dark red and shows translucency around the thin edges. The crystals are terminated at one end and fully crystallized all around. Ex. Steve Chamberlain collection #461; acquired from R. Currier Overall Size: 7x2x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-5 cm. Price: $85

#37918 - Mineral: Kermesite, Wenshan, Yunnan, China. Two intersecting terminated crystals of rare kermesite with no matrix attached. The kermesite looks black, but is actually translucent red when rear illuminated. The crystal sides show cleavage faces where attached to adjacent crystals. Overall Size: 5x1.4x.5 cm. Crystal Size: 4.5-5 cm. Price: $95

#27656 - Mineral: Kinoite and Fluorapophyllite, Christmas Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona. One face of matrix coated with blue kinoite crystals intergrown with colorless, transparent fluorapophyllite. Under magnification the crystals are seen to be colorful and lustrous. Overall Size: 5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: .2-1 mm. Price: $95

#38738 - Mineral: Kolwezite* and Plancheite, Mashamba West Mine, Shaba Copper Belt, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Large single botryoid of tan-colored kolwezite 15 mm diameter on matrix coated with blue plancheite crystals up to 1 mm. Overall Size: 3.5x3x3 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-7.0 mm. Price: $225

#35657 - Mineral: Lazulite, Siderite, Quartz, Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Double-sided specimen of translucent dark-blue lazulite crystals up to 8 mm with colorless quartz crystals up to 12 mm and rhombic brown siderite crystals up to 5 mm. The back is covered with siderite crystals. An excellent specimen with little damage. Overall Size: 17x9x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $150

#36376 - Mineral: Liddicoatite* Tourmaline, Valozoro, Ambositra, Madagascar. Large polished slice of a transparent liddicoatite tourmaline crystal showing colorful internal zoning. The center is a gradated green to pink triangular zone surrounded by alternating green and pink zones. Overall Size: 100x90x3 mm. Crystal Size: 90 mm diameter. Price: $4500

#29266 - Mineral: Malachite, Omega Mine, Helvetia District, Pima County, Arizona. Large plate with arborescent formations of lustrous, green malachite crystals. The malachite is overgrown on a greenish-yellow second mineral that may be pseudomorphs or osarizawaite (reported in 1988). Looks beautiful under magnification. From my personal collection, personally collected in 1995. Overall Size: 11x8x4 cm. Crystal Size: micro. Price: $85

#36381 - Mineral: Malachite, Burra Burra, north of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Large stalactitic formation with surfaces of velvety green malachite. The largest stalactite finger is 4 cm tall. All surfaces are completely coated with fine acicular transparent malachite microcrystals (looks beautiful under magnification). Overall Size: 12x10x6 cm. Crystal Size: .5-4 mm. Price: $975

#14573 - Mineral: Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite, Northwest Extension, Morenci Mine, Morenci, Arizona. Superb malachite pseudomorph after azurite crystals up to 1 cm. Exceptionally well formed, no damage. Overall Size: 4x4x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-10 mm. Price: $75

#23407 - Mineral: Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Bright green specimen of malachite pseudomorph after large azurite crystals (up to 5 cm!) The surface is covered on all faces with velvet-like, green malachite. The original shape of the azurite is clearly visible. No damage. Overall Size: 10x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-5 cm pseudos. Price: $400

#29367 - Mineral: Malachite with Cerussite, Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia. Rounded aggregates up to 4 cm diameter on velvet-like green malachite with microcrystals of colorless cerussite scattered throughout. One of the best specimens Cilen had from Australia with few (if any) imperfections. ex. J. Cilen (1916-1997) #8709 Overall Size: 12x8x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-2 mm. Price: $250

#37278 - Mineral: Manganotantalite on Quartz, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Several lustrous black manganotantalite crystals up to 9 mm perched on the edge of a smoky quartz crystal 110 mm long. The manganotantalite crystals show dark red translucency when rear-illuminated. Overall Size: 11x4x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-110 mm. Price: $95

#25023 - Mineral: Mimetite var. Campylite with Coronadite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. Large specimen with many crystals of yellow-brown mimetite crystals coating matrix with black coronadite crystals. Classic old specimen from the famous mine opened in the early 1800s and abandoned by 1890. Large specimens from this locale are uncommon. Overall Size: 15x14x8 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $825

#36512 - Mineral: Mordenite with Heulandite, Rat's Nest Claim, Custer County, Idaho. Plate of brown basalt completely covered on one face with fine hair-like white mordenite crystals up to 10 mm long with a few pink heulandite crystals up to 10 mm mixed in. Hard to photograph - must be seen in person to be appreciated. Overall Size: 8x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-10 mm. Price: $150

#35418 - Mineral: Mottramite on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Large plate of tabular calcite crystals up to 12 mm completely coated with dark mottramite crystals up to .5 mm. The calcite crystals are flattened rhombohedral form and their shape is distinctly visible beneath the mottramite overgrowth. Ex. Don Belsher collection Overall Size: 12x12x4 cm. Crystal Size: .2-12 mm. Price: $250

#38287 - Mineral: Natrolite over Calcite, Moore's Station, Mercer County, New Jersey. Hollow vein formation with the walls of the vein lined with acicular white natrolite crystals up to 15 mm long over pale-yellow calcite crystals up to 10 mm. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #22740 Overall Size: 12x8x7 cm. Crystal Size: 3-15 mm. Price: $175

#36931 - Mineral: Orpiment, Shimen Mine, Hunan, China. Lustrous yellow-orange orpiment crystals, with a few small colorless calcite crystals, mounted on a base. The orpiment crystals grew together in a compact mass and have lustrous chisel-shaped terminations and chatoyant yellow prism faces on the sides. Overall Size: 6x6x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-5 cm. Price: $175

#36817 - Mineral: Pezzottaite*, Sakavalana pegmatite, near Mandosonoro village, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar. Translucent pink pezzottaite crystal with asymmetric hexagonal shape and beveled edge faces around the edges. The crystal has matte surface luster and it tapers in stepped layers that were embedded in the matrix. The outer edge is included with albite. Overall Size: 16x9x7 mm. Crystal Size: 16 mm. Price: $295

#38846 - Mineral: Pollucite on Albite, Lepidolite, Elbaite, Paprok, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Large pink-brown transparent pollucite crystal, a rare zeolite mineral, on a complex matrix of crystallized colorless albite, pink lepidolite and bluish elbaite tourmaline. The pollucite has a textured surface of smaller parallel faces. Ex. George Loud #6357 Overall Size: 8x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 27 mm. Price: $400

#37515 - Mineral: Pyrargyrite, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Lustrous dark metallic pyrargyrite crystals up to 5 mm an sparkling calcite microcrystals. Some of the calcite crystals have minute pyrargyrite inclusions visible inside when viewed under magnification. The rear was sawn flat. Collected ca. 1900; ex. Carter Rich Overall Size: 7x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: .1-5 mm. Price: $675

#36905 - Mineral: Pyrargyrite var. Ruby Silver, Proaño Mine, Level 425, San Alberto Vein, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. Metallic-looking single crystal of pyrargyrite with complexly crystallized surfaces and termination. The crystal is actually translucent dark-red but requires strong rear-illumination to see the translucency. Overall Size: 22x20x15 mm. Crystal Size: 15 mm. Price: $400

#35571 - Mineral: Pyrite and Sphalerite, Eagle Mine, Gilman District, Eagle County, Colorado. Showy cluster of brassy pyrite crystals up to 12 mm on black sphalerite crystals up to 1 mm. The contrast of the pyrite against the darker sphalerite is very attractive. One pyrite group has a contact from a missing crystal, otherwise it is undamaged. Overall Size: 7x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $175

#37652 - Mineral: Pyromorphite, Tennants Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Elongated specimen covered on one face with prismatic green pyromorphite with a white micromineral and dull gray micromineral. The pyromorphite crystals have good color and coverage, but broken terminations are visible in areas when viewed under 20X. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 11x7x4 cm. Crystal Size: .1-5 mm. Price: $75

#37973 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico. Medium-purple amethyst quartz crystals up to 34 mm on brown druse of minute colorless quartz crystals up to 0.5 mm. Several of the amethyst crystals are doubly-terminated. The amethyst is lustrous and have water-clear terminations. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 7x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-33.0 mm. Price: $75

#21306 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Piedras Parado, Municipio de Tatatila (formerly Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico. Many purple crystals of transparent amethyst quartz on matrix of shorter, colorless quartz crystals. The amethyst crystals color varies from pale at the base to medium purple at the tip. The terminations all have three faces. No damage. Ex. P. Santillo Overall Size: 7x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 3-30 mm. Price: $145

#37447 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado. Doubly-terminated amethyst quartz crystals with no matrix attached. The amethyst is milky in the center with medium purple at the terminations. One end is chipped, but the large crystals make this specimen noteworthy. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 6.5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 3-6 cm. Price: $150

#33313 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Piedras Parado, Municipio de Tatatila (formerly Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico. Many transparent purple amethyst quartz crystals on an irregular plate of medium smoky quartz crystal matrix. The color is medium purple with excellent internal clarity. No damage. Overall Size: 9x5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 cm. Price: $150

#34839 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Four Peaks Amethyst Deposit, Mazatzal Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona. Large single crystal of medium-dark purple amethyst quartz with sparkling violet microcrystal inclusion (lepidocrocite?) visible in the termination. The crystals are clean and lustrous, though the termination is chipped on the rear. See Min. Rec. v.7 #2. Ex. Frank Jaeger collection #394 Overall Size: 12x8x7 cm. Crystal Size: 12 cm. Price: $275

#35636 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Piedras Parado, Municipio de Tatatila (formerly Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico. Many deep purple amethyst quartz crystals on gray calcite crystal-coated matrix. The amethyst crystals are transparent and have deepest color at the terminations. Overall Size: 10x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 4-25 mm. Price: $400

#36702 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst Flower, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Restored large fan-shaped formation of pale to purple amethyst quartz crystals. These formations are commonly called Amethyst Flowers because of their resemblance to flowers. There are two plates joined together (no glue line is visible). Overall Size: 19x17x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-40 mm. Price: $175

#36141 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst Scepter, Diamond Hill, Ashaway, south of Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. Complex cluster of milky quartz crystals with the larges crystal on the top being doubly-terminated with an amethyst scepter termination at one end. The cluster appears to have formed when free crystals settled in solution. Damage, bottom sawn flat. From my personal collection Overall Size: 12x11x10 cm. Crystal Size: 2-90 mm. Price: $135

#22544 - Mineral: Quartz var. Rose Quartz Crystals, Rose Quartz Locality, Plumbago Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. White albite matrix with a shallow cavity lined with pink crystals of rose quartz. This locality is one of the few locations in the world that produce crystals of rose quartz. Collected in June 1969 by Clifford Earl Trebilcock (1920-2000) Overall Size: 11x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-7 mm. Price: $85

#22543 - Mineral: Quartz var. Rose Quartz Crystals, Rose Quartz Locality, Plumbago Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. White albite matrix with a shallow cavity lined with pink crystals of rose quartz. This locality is one of the few locations in the world that produce crystals of rose quartz. This specimen is one of the best of the find. Collected in June 1969 by Clifford Earl Trebilcock (1920-2000) Overall Size: 10x6x5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-8 mm. Price: $125

#37363 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky Dauphine-law Twin, St. Gotthard, Kanton Uri, Switzerland. Flawless crystal of smoky quartz with silky luster on the external crystal faces. The twin suture lines are visible on the prism faces confirm this is a Dauphine-law twin. Internally the crystal is transparent with scattered flaws. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 9.5x3x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 9.5 cm. Price: $400

#37504 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky with Microcline, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Two dark smoky quartz crystals up to 8 cm long with colorless microcline feldspar on the base. The specimen stands upright without support. Suture lines on the faces of the smoky quartz indicate they are Dauphine-law twinned. Top termination is chipped. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 8x57x6 cm. Crystal Size: 4-8 cm. Price: $95

#36793 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky-Amethyst Scepter, Crystal Park, Beaverhead County, Montana. Scepter-shaped formation of transparent quartz with a 3 cm long stem of smoky quartz topped by a larger cap of pale pink amethyst quartz. All surfaces have widely varying etched textures on the faces. Overall Size: 62x28x20 mm. Crystal Size: 62 mm. Price: $165

#36143 - Mineral: Quartz, Hydroxyl-herderite, Cookeite, Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine. Complex cluster of milky quartz crystals up to 50 mm with yellowish flattened hydroxyl-herderite crystals up to 6 mm and white cookeite microcrystals. The rear side has casts after another mineral, possibly beryl. No damage. From my personal collection; ex. R. Woodman Overall Size: 13x13x6 cm. Crystal Size: .5-50 mm. Price: $175

#38563 - Mineral: Rhodochrosite, Galena, Quartz, Pyrite, Raura District, Cajatambo Province, Peru. Pink rhodochrosite crystals up to 3 mm on spherical aggregates of druzy white quartz crystals up to 1 mm that are on metallic gray galena crystals up to 10 mm with scattered yellow metallic pyrite crystals up to 1 mm. Overall Size: 8x8x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-10 mm. Price: $95

#32711 - Mineral: Rutile, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Twinned crystal of lustrous red-black rutile with remnants of matrix on the bottom. The crystal has smooth, lustrous surface and is twinned through the middle. No significant damage. Overall Size: 35x25x22 mm. Crystal Size: 34 mm. Price: $195

#34905 - Mineral: Rutile and Hematite, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. Two twinned clusters of golden rutile crystals growing from a center cluster of dark metallic hematite crystals. The rutile crystals are v-twinned at 60 degree angles. Overall Size: 4x2.5x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-28 mm. Price: $90

#34899 - Mineral: Rutile and Hematite, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. Twinned clusters of golden rutile crystals growing from a center cluster of dark metallic hematite crystals. The rutile crystals are v-twinned every 60 degree angles resulting in a star-shaped cluster. Overall Size: 4x2.5x1 cm. Crystal Size: 3-40 mm. Price: $195

#34903 - Mineral: Rutile and Hematite, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. Two twinned clusters of golden rutile crystals growing from a center cluster of dark metallic hematite crystals. The rutile crystals are v-twinned at 60 degree angles. Overall Size: 3.5x3x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-25 mm. Price: $235

#37779 - Mineral: Schorl Tourmaline, Guadalupana Mine, Cerro de Chavito, Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico. Large single crystal of black schorl tourmaline with shallow pyramidal termination and surfaces composed of many smaller parallel crystal faces. Overall Size: 8x5.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 8 cm. Price: $125

#36369 - Mineral: Selenium, Smithsonite, Pyrite, Darwin Mines, Inyo County, California. Metallic silver-colored native selenium with botryoidal translucent yellow smithsonite and yellow metallic pyrite from the famous find in 1985 (see What's New in Minerals in Mineralogical Record v.18-#2). Rare. collected ca. 1985 Overall Size: 28x16x12 mm. Crystal Size: .5-2 mm. Price: $75

#37234 - Mineral: Shigaite, N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman District, North Cape Province, South Africa. Many hexagonal platy crystals of shigaite in aggregates up to 6 mm across on translucent gray calcite crystals. The shigaite crystals are lustrous and have iridescent color ranging from yellow to green to red. Looks beautiful under magnification. Rare. Overall Size: 30x20x15 mm. Crystal Size: .5-6 mm. Price: $475

#9830 - Mineral: Silver, Batopilas, Mexico. Feather-like formation of native silver of 5 mm crystals growing from 35 mm long stem. Overall Size: 35x7x2 mm. Crystal Size: 5 mm. Price: $80

#33390 - Mineral: Silver, Japan. Wire crystals of native silver on black matrix, possibly a manganese oxide/ No other mine location was given and all references have failed to indicate where this could have originated. Ex. C.P. Maier Overall Size: 19x14x6 mm. Crystal Size: 1-3 mm. Price: $175

#36986 - Mineral: Silver (set of wire crystals), Elura Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. Fifteen specimens of native silver crystals mounted in a black-backed acrylic display box for protection. Most of the specimens have elongated central crystals with smaller silver crystals growing off at an angle. Overall Size: 4x4x1 cm box. Crystal Size: 1-25 mm. Price: $75

#32999 - Mineral: Silver in Calcite, Andres del Rio District, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico. Rich cluster of bright metallic native (natural) silver intergrown with white calcite. The silver shows herringbone crystallization with small, parallel crystals growing from central crystal stems. No damage. Overall Size: 32x22x12 mm. Crystal Size: 1-10 mm. Price: $150

#1233 - Mineral: Smoky Quartz on Albite, North Moat Mountain, Bartlett, New Hampshire. Large, rounded matrix of white albite crystals (pocket wall) covered with many lustrous smoky quartz crystals. The smoky quartz crystals range from large, doubly-terminated crystals to small sugary looking crystals. One of my best finds from NH. Personally collected in 1992 Overall Size: 24x18x11 cm. Crystal Size: 5-60 mm. Price: $95

#37661 - Mineral: Sperrylite*, Vermillion Mine, Denison Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. Two bright metallic sperrylite crystal on sulfide ore. The sperrylite crystals are cubic, with octahedral corner faces. Two crystals on one specimen is uncommon. Looks beautiful under magnification. No damage. Collected by Bill Plavac Overall Size: 15x10x10 mm. Crystal Size: .15-.20 mm. Price: $100

#37662 - Mineral: Sperrylite*, Vermillion Mine, Denison Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. Brilliant metallic sperrylite crystal on sulfide ore with several smaller sperrylite crystals scattered throughout. The sperrylite crystals are cubic, with octahedral corner faces. Looks beautiful under magnification. No damage. Collected by Bill Plavac Overall Size: 13x12x5 mm. Crystal Size: .10-1.00 mm. Price: $100

#37771 - Mineral: Sphalerite, Big Four Mine, Summit County, Colorado. Heavy cluster of crystallized translucent sphalerite with complex crystallization patterns on the surfaces. When rear-illuminated the sphalerite shows gemmy areas with dark red-brown to yellow color. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 9x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 cm. Price: $75

#18789 - Mineral: Sphalerite, (Andara Mines), (Picos de Europa), Spain. Blocky cleavage of dark brown sphalerite with one face terminated and coated with earthy smithsonite. Most likely from Andara Mines given it's age. World renowned W.S. Vaux was the donor, an indication of the quality at the time. Old museum label no. 5792, donated by William Sansom Vaux (1811-1882). Overall Size: 6x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 4 cm. Price: $150

#38239 - Mineral: Sphalerite (Spinel-law twinned crystals), Eagle Mine, Gilman District, Eagle County, Colorado. Lustrous black sphalerite crystals on pyrite and sphalerite matrix. The sphalerite crystals all Spinel-law twinned crystals (twinned on the {111} plane), resulting in triangular appearance with beveled edges. Ex. Don Belsher collection Overall Size: 7x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-15 mm. Price: $75

#37571 - Mineral: Sphalerite and Galena, Tri-State Lead Mining District, Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. An outstanding specimen of translucent red-brown sphalerite crystals up to 30 mm with a few gray metallic galena crystals up to 25 mm. The galena crystals have unusual growth patterns on the surfaces of smaller galena crystals. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 14x12x6 cm. Crystal Size: 3-30 mm. Price: $185

#24792 - Mineral: Sphalerite with Chalcopyrite, Tri-State Lead Mining District, near Joplin, Missouri. Superb specimen of translucent, red-brown sphalerite crystals up to 15 mm with minor crystals of brassy chalcopyrite up to 1 mm. The translucency of the sphalerite is exceptional - even the large crystals show translucency. Minor edge damage. Ex. L. Russianoff collection Overall Size: 5.5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-15 mm. Price: $85

#36651 - Mineral: Sphalerite, Calcite and Quartz, Shuikoushan Mine, Hunan Province, China. Floater specimen (fully crystallized on all surfaces with no apparent point of attachment) of transparent deep-red sphalerite crystals up to 8 mm mixed with colorless translucent calcite crystals up to 11 mm and colorless quartz crystals to 1 mm. Overall Size: 6x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 11 mm. Price: $115

#36652 - Mineral: Sphalerite, Calcite and Quartz, Shuikoushan Mine, Hunan Province, China. Many translucent red-brown sphalerite crystals up to 15 mm with areas of white quartz coating. The sphalerite crystals are highly lustrous and very eye-catching. Overall Size: 11x11x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-15 mm. Price: $375

#23373 - Mineral: Sphalerite, Calcite, Barite, Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junin Department, Peru. Many gemmy crystals of red-brown sphalerite crystals up to 11 mm with tan-colored calcite crystals up to 3 mm. The sphalerite looks beautiful when rear-illuminated, superb translucency. Several colorless bladed barite crystals up to 14 mm are on one end. Overall Size: 9x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-15 mm. Price: $125

#38486 - Mineral: Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Dark tetrahedral sphalerite crystals up to 14 mm with yellow metallic chalcopyrite crystals up to 6 mm on greenish quartz microcrystal matrix. The sphalerite is translucent when rear-illuminated and many are Spinel-law twinned. Overall Size: 10x9x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-14 mm. Price: $165

#36786 - Mineral: Spinel, Ketuti, Mahenge, Tanzania. Large central crystal of pink spinel with several smaller spinel crystals attached around the sides. The spinel has an opaque surface layer, smooth faces with textured crystal patterns and is crystallized all around with no point of attachment. Overall Size: 36x35x32 mm. Crystal Size: 3-35 mm. Price: $75

#28405 - Mineral: Spinel with Phlogopite, Sussex County, New Jersey. Octahedral crystal of black spinel 18 mm across perched on the edge of as book of phlogopite mica crystals up to 4 cm with old pen-and-ink label attached to the bottom. The spinel crystal is complete and undamaged. Ex. A. Lincoln Sherk, MD. (1890s-1969) Overall Size: 6x5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 18-40 mm. Price: $85

#23881 - Mineral: Spodumene, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Doubly-terminated crystal of translucent, yellow-green spodumene with no matrix attached. The top termination has a partial overgrowth of white quartz. The bottom termination has a complex shape, though crystal faces are distinctly visible. No damage. Overall Size: 13x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 13 cm. Price: $250

#37913 - Mineral: Spodumene and Smoky Quartz on Albite, Mawi, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Rare matrix specimen of transparent spodumene crystals up to 26 mm with a chain-like group of smoky quartz crystals up to 21 mm. The spodumene crystals are nearly colorless and have glassy faces. Must be seen in person! Overall Size: 10x9x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-26 mm. Price: $425

#34354 - Mineral: Spodumene var. Kunzite, Stewart Mine, Pala District, Queen Mountain, San Diego County, California. Transparent pink kunzite variety of spodumene crystal with excellent crystallized surfaces and complete termination. There appears to be two crystals twinned through the middle with terminations at opposite ends on opposite sides. Overall Size: 25x21x8 mm. Crystal Size: 23-25 mm. Price: $85

#36410 - Mineral: Spodumene var. Kunzite, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Single crystal of transparent pink kunzite (the pink gem-grade variety of spodumene) with chisel-shaped termination and striated prism faces. The kunzite crystal is internally flawless. Weight: 16.3 grams Overall Size: 48x14x9 mm. Crystal Size: 48 mm. Price: $300

#36685 - Mineral: Spodumene var. Kunzite, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Doubly-terminated single crystal of hot-pink spodumene, variety kunzite. The crystal has striated sides and chisel-shaped terminations. The pink color runs throughout, except one termination is greenish. Overall Size: 5.5x2x1 cm. Crystal Size: 5.5 cm. Price: $300

#38279 - Mineral: Stilbite, Moore's Station, Mercer County, New Jersey. The best Moore's Station specimen in the Academy collection: Large plate of golden orange-brown stilbite crystals with many hemispherical stilbite rosettes up to 14 mm diameter with minor colorless calcite crystals. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #23158, collected by Sam Gordon (1897-1952) in 1924 Overall Size: 23x17x10 cm. Crystal Size: 3-6 mm. Price: $1200

#38269 - Mineral: Stilbite and Calcite, Moore's Station, Mercer County, New Jersey. Pristine plate of orange-brown stilbite crystals up to 6 mm long with overgrowth of sparkling colorless transparent calcite microcrystals up to .05 mm. The calcite fluoresces under UV illumination. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #23164, collected by Sam Gordon (1897-1952) in 1924 Overall Size: 11x10x6 cm. Crystal Size: 0.2-6.0 mm. Price: $425

#38276 - Mineral: Stilbite, Calcite, Pyrite, Moore's Station, Mercer County, New Jersey. One of the best specimens in the collection: translucent brown stilbite crystals up to 9 mm long transparent colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals up to 1 mm with a few larger rhombohedral calcite crystals up to 7 mm and pyrite microcrystals. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #23020, collected by Sam Gordon (1897-1952) in 1924 Overall Size: 12x10x5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-9.0 mm. Price: $275

#36656 - Mineral: Stilbite-Ca, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. Lustrous orange stilbite-Ca crystals in classic wheat sheaf-shaped crystal aggregates (doubly-terminated clusters with narrow centers and flared ends). The stilbite-Ca crystals are lustrous and translucent. Deep color! Overall Size: 6x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-6 cm. Price: $85

#23920 - Mineral: Stilbite-Ca, Aurangabad, Maharastra, India. Unusual formation of translucent, colorless stilbite crystals up to 16 mm in an elongated, vertical growth on top of much larger pink stilbite crystals up to 4 cm. Fully crystallized all around with no damage. Overall Size: 8x8x5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-40 mm. Price: $95

#23721 - Mineral: Tennantite on Quartz, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Several triangular crystals of tennantite up to 20 mm on white quartz crystals up to 5 mm. The tennantite crystals have a greenish surface coating of another mineral, most like austinite replacing tennantite. No damage. Ex. John Rumble collection (South Africa) Overall Size: 8x7x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-20 mm. Price: $200

#38675 - Mineral: Tennantite on Quartz, El Cobre Mine, Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Double-sided plate of white quartz crystals up to 4 mm with overgrowth of tennantite crystals up to 11 mm. The tennantite crystals have lustrous, complex surfaces with a variety of crystal forms. Ex. Speckels collection Overall Size: 12x7x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-10 mm. Price: $250

#36936 - Mineral: Tetrahedrite, Sphalerite, Pyrite, Herja (formerly Kisbanya) Mine, Maramures, Romania. Well crystallized dark metallic tetrahedrite crystals up to 13 mm with dark brown (translucent when rear-illuminated) sphalerite crystals up to 5 mm with yellow metallic pyrite crystals to 3 mm. Ex. James Madison University collection Overall Size: 9x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-13 mm. Price: $450

#21184 - Mineral: Topaz, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Single crystal of Imperial topaz with steep termination. This crystal has excellent color - deep golden orange. Internally very clean (much better than commonly available) and externally undamaged. Overall Size: 17x11x8 mm. Crystal Size: 17 mm. Price: $125

#36928 - Mineral: Topaz on Albite with Hydroxyl-herderite, Limoeiro Mine, Virgem de Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Pristine crystal of colorless topaz 25 mm long on white albite, variety cleavelandite matrix with tan-colored hydroxyl-herderite microcrystalline overgrowth. The topaz has a chisel-shaped termination. Overall Size: 6x5x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 25 mm. Price: $295

#32727 - Mineral: Uvarovite Garnet, Saraovskii Mine, Mordovskaya, Ural Mountains, Russia. Flat plate almost completely covered on one face with sparkling vivid green uvarovite microcrystals. The uvarovite garnet formed in thin veins that are opened to expose the garnets. The garnetless patch in the center is where the vein pinched closed. Overall Size: 6.5x4x.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.1-0.5 mm. Price: $80

#36740 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Mibladen, Atlas Mountains, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Large blocky red vanadinite crystals on a thin plate of brown gossan matrix. All crystals are clean and lustrous. Overall Size: 4.5x3.5x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-12 mm. Price: $225

#29381 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Mibladen, Atlas Mountains, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Greenish-brown crystals of vanadinite (mislabeled pyromorphite) oriented flat on matrix so the specimen resembles alligator skin. All crystals are complete and undamaged. Though labeled as from Mibladen, I suspect it is actually from Touissit, Morocco. Ex. John Durkos collection #1071 Overall Size: 6x6x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-10 mm. Price: $250

#37161 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Touissit Mine, south of Oujda, Morocco. Double-sided cluster of greenish-brown vanadinite crystals fully crystallized all around. The vanadinite crystals are doubly-terminated, hexagonal and tapered towards the terminations (barrel-shaped). Overall Size: 6x4x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-10 mm. Price: $250

#38840 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Acif Mine, Mibladen, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Concave cluster of interconnected red vanadinite crystals and no attached matrix. The vanadinite are tabular, hexagonal form and are internally translucent. One side is highly lustrous with many crystals, the other side is flattened and dull luster. Ex. E. M. Gunnell (1903-1986); acquired from Lidstrom's in 1974 Overall Size: 5x3x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-16 mm. Price: $400

#29830 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Touissit Mine, south of Oujda, Morocco. Sparkling cluster of yellow-brown vanadinite crystals with lighter colored terminations. The vanadinite crystals are hexagonal, prismatic form with {1011} edge faces around the pinacoid terminations. All crystals are lustrous and well crystallized. Overall Size: 13x7x7 cm. Crystal Size: 1-8 mm. Price: $550

#35036 - Mineral: Variscite, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Sparkling green variscite microcrystals coating two faces of brown sandstone matrix. The variscite looks beautiful under magnification: lustrous, transparent-to-translucent, with vivid green color. Ex. John A. Manley ca. 1890s Overall Size: 6x5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: .2-.5 mm. Price: $75

#37170 - Mineral: Veszelyite, Philipsburgite* on Hemimorphite and Quartz, Black Pine Mine, Flint Creek Valley, Granite County, Montana. Lustrous green veszelyite crystals up to 7 mm scattered on quartz crystals up to 32 mm that are coated with olive-tan hemimorphite microcrystals. Blue green philipsburgite microcrystals are visible under magnification overgrown on the veszelyite. Overall Size: 11x5x4 mm. Crystal Size: .1-32 mm. Price: $350

#37080 - Mineral: Wulfenite on Quartz, Loudville Lead Mines, Manhan River, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Many small orange wulfenite crystals scattered over milky quartz crystal matrix. I have not counted all of the wulfenite crystals, but there are probably over 100 - they are everywhere when viewed under magnification. From my personal collection Overall Size: 6x5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: .2-1.5 mm. Price: $275

#30259 - Mineral: Wulfenite, Mimetite, Willemite, Ahumada Mine, Sierra de Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Large cluster of bright yellow-orange wulfenite crystals up to 8 mm across intergrown with colorless calcite and lemon-yellow mimetite on brownish willemite microcrystal matrix. The wulfenite crystals have great color and luster. Overall Size: 13x13x7 cm. Crystal Size: 1-8 mm. Price: $325

#35384 - Mineral: Zoisite var. Tanzanite*, Merelani Hills, near Arusha, Tanzania. Large crystal of blue-violet tanzanite with no matrix attached. The crystal is terminated and complete all around. Shows excellent color change when viewed from front (blue) and side (violet). Internally flawed, no external damage. Overall Size: 36x18x16 mm. Crystal Size: 36 mm. Price: $2250

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