HOLMQUISTITE |
Volta Grande Pegmatite, Nazareno, Mortes Valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil |
Not the usual habit of crystals frozen in
rock. These pieces have sprays of white to colourless acicular crystals on
Quartz fragments. $10.00 Li2(MgFe2+)3(Fe3+Al)2Si8O22(OH)2 |
768 |
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HUBEITE |
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong Mining District, near Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China |
Type locality! Radiating aggregates of
divergent fan-like clusters of lustrous brown bladed crystals on pink Inesite
crystals +/- Apophyllite-(KF), Quartz and colourless, lustrous Calcite
crystals. $10.00
Ca2Mn2+Fe3+Si4O12(OH).2H2O |
991 |
JAMESONITE |
San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico |
Collected 1991 - Very good examples of
this mineral as very thin acicular grey to black metallic crystals on iron
matrix +/- Fluorite, Mimetite, Wulfenite. $8.00 Pb4FeSb6S14 |
681 |
| JOAQUINITE-Ce | Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito River headwater area, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California, USA |
Type locality!
Fine examples of this rare item as blocky orange-brown crystals on matrix.
$12.00 Ba2NaCe2Fe2+Ti2Si8O26(OH).H2O |
327 |
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KASOLITE |
Derry District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA |
Sub-adamantine
yellowy-orange elongated flattened tabular crystals with greasy lustre in
vugs in matrix. $10.00 Pb(UO2)SiO4.H2O |
581 |
| KENTROLITE | Big Chief Mine, Percha Creek, Hillsboro, Hillsboro District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA |
Sharp lustrous black
to very dark green crystals on matrix. $7.00 Pb2Mn3+2Si2O9 |
330 |
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KIDWELLITE |
Iron Monarch opencut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia |
Very attractive
pieces!. Most unusual habit - spheres of silky acicular creamy
crystals on a dark brown iron matrix.
$7.00 NaFe3+9(PO4)6(OH)10.5H2O |
862 |
| KIMZEYITE | Kimzey Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas, USA |
Type locality. From the Clyde Hardin
Collection - an American rarity - pseudomorphs of Kimzeyite after
Baddeleyite. Single mounted crystals. Not very pretty.
$10.00; $12.00 Ca3(Zr,Ti)2(Si,Al,Fe3+)3O12 |
419 |
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LIBETHENITE
/APATITE-(CaF) |
Old Reliable Mine, Copper Creek, Bunker Hill District, Galiuro Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, USA |
Lots of
"pseudomorphing" here! Sprays of bright green Libethenite on
Apatite-(CaF) pseudo after Baryte or Mica or Chrysocolla. $7.00 Zn2(AsO4)(OH).H2O |
343 |
LOUPE  |
Peoples Republic of China |
This is an excellent little 10X, 21 mm loupe. It is far superior to the
Russian ones. The lenses are free from distortion and the frame is
strongly
made of chrome plated steel. It even comes in a foam-lined carrying case! The price is certainly right - $12.00 |
6000 |