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I have approximately 5000 minerals in stock. But this site can only hold 800-900 specimens without slowing loading time. Below is a listing of 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.

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#44513 - Mineral: Andradite var. Demantoid Garnet, Val Malenco, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy. Lustrous translucent demantoid garnet crystals, the green variety of andradite, in tan-colored matrix. Many crystals are complete, but others are incomplete. Remnants of metallic magnetite are visible on the underside. Ex. Miller collection ca. 1900 Overall Size: 8x4.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-6 mm. Price: $65

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

#37384 - Mineral: Apophyllite-(KF) (formerly Fluorapophyllite) with Stilbite and Pyrite, Erie Railroad Cut (ca. 1910), Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey. Double-sided specimen of glassy colorless apophyllite crystals up to 8 mm across with cubic metallic pyrite microcrystals on the front and translucent beige-colored stilbite crystals up to 5 mm on the rear with minor laumontite. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 7x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 8 mm. Price: $65

#12139 - Mineral: Azurite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Warren District, 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

#5836 - Mineral: Azurite with Malachite ps. after Azurite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Small pocket of lustrous dark blue azurite crystals with portion pseudomorphed into chatoyant malachite. Overall Size: 2.5x1.5x1 cm. Crystal Size: 9 mm. Price: $65

#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

#12428 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, 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

#17999 - Mineral: Calcite, Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Two golden yellow calcite crystals with minor matrix attached on one side. The calcite crystals are translucent and have complex surfaces of many parallel crystal faces. No damage. Ex. Earle Sullivan collection (Ct.) Overall Size: 10x6x5 cm. Crystal Size: 7-10 cm. Price: $65

#27554 - Mineral: Calcite, Herja Mine (Kisbanya), Baia Mare, 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 II, MD. (1896-1970); ex. Charles Pennypacker Overall Size: 9x8x5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-15 mm. Price: $95

#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

#14442 - Mineral: Columbite-(Fe), 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. Joe Cilen (1916-1997) #12023 Overall Size: 25x22x10 mm. Crystal Size: 10-25 mm. Price: $95

#15669 - Mineral: Copper, Found while digging the foundation of Keweenaw Gift Shop, Keweenaw, Michigan. Elongated specimen of native copper with a multi-colored, almost iridescent, patina. On the back side is a hemispherical depression (post-mining?). Ex. Phyllis Smith collection Overall Size: 11x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: -. Price: $50

#23831 - Mineral: Copper, Cornwall, England. Rectangular mass of intergrown copper wire crystals. The copper has tarnished over the years, but could be cleaned. Ex. Joe Cilen (1916-1997) #8754 Overall Size: 35x20x5 mm. Crystal Size: 5 mm. Price: $70

#10196 - Mineral: Copper in Calcite, Calumet, Michigan. Translucent calcite with native copper inclusions. The calcite prevents the copper from oxidizing, keeping the copper a bright metallic color. Ex. J. Legro collection, ca. 1895 Overall Size: 6x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-20 mm. Price: $50

#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

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

#5332 - Mineral: Cuprite with Native Copper, Bisbee, Warren District, Cochise County, Arizona. Vein of native copper with dark red cuprite crystals running through ligh matrix. Cuprite crystals to 2 mm exposed on bright native copper. Ex. Lizzul collection. Overall Size: 10x5x2 cm. Crystal Size: .5-2 mm. Price: $60

#34744 - Mineral: Epidote and Actinolite, Cumberland, north of Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island. Dark green-black actinolite crystals up to 6 mm on yellow-green epidote crystals. The actinolite are thin, lustrous crystals and they are protected in the recesses of the cavity. Ex. John A. Manley ca. 1890s Overall Size: 6x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-7 mm. Price: $65

#33184 - Mineral: Fluorite with Quartz coating, Mine La Cabaña, Berbes District, Asturias, Spain. Single cubic crystal of fluorite with sugar-like coating of colorless quartz microcrystals. The fluorite crystal has a beautiful pinkish-purple color and shows faint internal zoning. The top corner is chipped. Overall Size: 7x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 5 cm. Price: $55

#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

#30494 - Mineral: Magnetite on Dolomite, New Idria District, San Benito County, California. Dense mixture of black magnetite crystals up to .2 mm intergrown with rhombic, white crystals of dolomite up to 5 mm. Fully crystallized on all sides - no damage. Lininger's label lists the wrong location. Ex. Jay Lininger (1939-2004) California reference collection Overall Size: 5.5x5.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: .2-5 mm. Price: $55

#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

#5813 - Mineral: Native Silver, Dzezkazgan, Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Single wire of native silver in very sculptural formation collected in the big discovery of 1989-1990. Ex. John Durkos #1189 Overall Size: 25x15x1mm. Crystal Size: 25x15x1mm. Price: $70

#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

#49559 - Mineral: Quartz pseudomorph after Crocidolite (Tiger-Eye), headwaters of the Orange River, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Unusually large vein of tiger-eye with bands of golden color caused by quartz pseudomorphs after fibrous crocidolite crystals. The tiger-eye is wavy and has a chatoyant reflection. This is the largest tiger-eye specimen I have ever seen. Overall Size: 23x19x8 cm. Crystal Size: 45 mm. Price: $350

#34747 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine. Large single termination of a pale-medium purple amethyst quartz crystal with patches of white albite inclusions visible inside the crystal. Minute damage on a few edges due to glaciation collapsing the pocket. Collected in 1969 by Clifford Earl Trebilcock (1920-2000) Overall Size: 11x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 11 cm. Price: $50

#24945 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Diamond Hill, Ashaway, south of Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. Doubly-terminated crystal of purple amethyst that was probably the cap on a scepter formation. The back side shows where a milky quartz center was attached. Excellent color for this locality. This location is often mislabeled as Ashaway Village. Overall Size: 5x3.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5 cm. Price: $75

#48583 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Piedra Parada, Las Vigas de Ramirez, Veracruz, Mexico. Several intersecting transparent purple amethyst quartz crystals with lustrous, glassy crystal faces and remnants of matrix on the bottom where it was attached to the rock. Overall Size: 7x5.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-55 mm. Price: $85

#21306 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Piedra Parada, Las Vigas de Ramirez, 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

#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 is one of the few locatities 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 is one of the few locatities 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

#23196 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky (with 6.95 carat oval gemstone), Crystal Peak District, Lake George area, Park-Teller Counties, Colorado. Single crystal of smoky quartz with striated crystal faces, with a 6.95 carat oval faceted gemstone of smoky quartz. The termination has a small nick, all else is clean and undamaged. Overall Size: 45x18x14 mm. Crystal Size: 45 mm. Price: $55

#16563 - Mineral: Silver, Beaver Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. Heavy specimen composed primarily of native silver with minor cobalt and calcite. The native silver has a nice natural patina. Ex. J. Durkos collection #1205 Overall Size: 6x4x2 cm. Crystal Size: -. Price: $55

#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

#38518 - Mineral: Sphalerite and Galena on Quartz, Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Gray metallic cuboctahedral galena crystals up to 12 mm across with translucent dark-yellow Spinel-law twinned sphalerite crystals up to 4 mm and colorless quartz crystals up to 2 mm on the rear. Overall Size: 5.5x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $55

#38488 - Mineral: Sphalerite and Galena on Quartz, Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Translucent dark yellow sphalerite crystals up to 15 mm across with cubic gray metallic galena crystals up to 18 mm across overgrown on colorless quartz crystals up to 16 mm long. Each galena crystal has one octahedral corner face and etched surfaces. Overall Size: 8x6x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-18 mm. Price: $125

#23366 - Mineral: Sphalerite and Quartz, Huaron District, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru. Many tetrahedral crystals of dark yellow sphalerite with overgrowth of white quartz crystals. The sphalerite crystals are all complexly twinned (Spinel-law) and show translucent areas when illuminated from the side. Minor pyrite throughout. Overall Size: 7x6x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $70

#24792 - Mineral: Sphalerite with Chalcopyrite, Tri-State Lead-Zinc Mining District, near Joplin, Jasper County, 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

#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 II, MD. (1896-1970) Overall Size: 6x5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 18-40 mm. Price: $85

#36936 - Mineral: Tetrahedrite, Sphalerite, Pyrite, Herja Mine (Kisbanya), Baia Mare, 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

#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

#41730 - Mineral: Wulfenite, San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, north of Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Thin transparent yellow wulfenite crystals with remnants of brown limonite gossan matrix on the bottom and minor orange mimetite microcrystals in crevices. Most of the crystals are complete and undamaged. Overall Size: 32x25x20 mm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $55

#44883 - Mineral: Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona. Twenty-eight translucent orange wulfenite crystals mounted in a styrofoam-lined acrylic display box for protection. Each wulfenite crystal could be remounted into an individual Perky-style thumbnail display box and you would have 28 for trading. Ex. Chas. W. Velte Jr. (1914-1987) Overall Size: 7.5x5x2.5 cm box. Crystal Size: 3-10 mm. Price: $175

#41729 - Mineral: Wulfenite with Mimetite, San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, north of Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Platy translucent yellow wulfenite crystals up to 5 mm across with orange mimetite crystals in spherical aggregates up to 2 mm diameter. The wulfenite crystals have lustrous faces and beveled edges that catch the light. A few crystals are incomplete. Overall Size: 4x2x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $65

#41733 - Mineral: Wulfenite with Mimetite, San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, north of Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Platy translucent yellow wulfenite crystals up to 13 mm across with orange mimetite crystals in spherical aggregates up to 2 mm diameter. The wulfenite crystals have lustrous faces and beveled edges that catch the light. One crystal is incomplete. Overall Size: 35x20x15 mm. Crystal Size: 1-13 mm. Price: $75

#12065 - Mineral: Zircon, Kipawa Complex, Villedieu Twp., Québec, Canada. Doubly-terminated brown zircon crystal. Very sharp and well formed. Fluoresces under UV illumination. Overall Size: 3x1.5x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 3 cm. Price: $55 

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