RALSTONITE
|
Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Firth, Arsuk, Kitaa (West
Greenland) Province, Greenland |
TYPE LOCALITY! Very fine pieces
with lustrous cubo-octahedral, colourless Ralstonite +/- Thomsenolite prisms,
Pachnolite. (E) $10.00 |
310 |
RALSTONITE
|
Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut
(Ivigtut), Arsuk Firth, Arsuk, Kitaa (West Greenland) Province, Greenland |
TYPE LOCALITY! Very fine pieces with lustrous cubo-octahedral, colourless
Ralstonite +/- Thomsenolite prisms, Pachnolite on matrix 2.6 x2.0.
$12.00 |
50310 |
|
REALGAR |
Getchell Mine, Humbolt County, Nevada, USA |
Highly lustrous red-orange crystals in vugs. 1 x $7.00
|
50394 |
REICHENBACHITE
|
Fundpunkt 5.0, Borstein, Reichenbach,
Odenwald, Germany |
Type locality - Druses of mid to
dark green vitreous crystals with Pseudomalachite, Quartz and/or Chrysocolla.
(E) $8.00 |
176 |
|
ROCKBRIDGEITE
|
Mullica Hill, Gloucester County, New
Jersey, USA |
Fine very dark green to black crystals
of various habits - from botryoids to acicular sprays in belemnites. Usually
more than one habit per piece. (E) $6.00 |
447 |
ROSASITE / SMITHSONITE
|
Silver Hill Mine, Cerro Colorado District, Cerro Colorado Mountains, Pima
County, Arizona, USA |
Extremely fine silvery-blue acicular crystals on or with Smithsonite. A) 2.4 x
2.1cm; B) 3.0 x 2.1 cm; $8.00 ) |
50354 |
ROSENBUSHITE
 |
Wind Mountain, Otero
County, New Mexico, USA
|
A
very rare mineral usually as a single, elongated pale yellow to colourless
crystal(s) in a vug +/- brown Aenigmatite / Thomsonite / Analcime. Use high
magnification and turn specimen slowly in light. $8.00; $10.00 |
457 |
RUTILE after ANATASE
|
Pitorra Mine, Governador
Valadares, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil |
Superb specimens! Highly lustrous golden coloured reticulated Rutile
replacing (?) dipyramidal Anatase crystals to 1.2cm. (E) $8.00
These specimens are extremely fine. They are so lustrous that we had
trouble taking a photograph that shows just how beautiful the specimens
really are.
|
706 |
RUTILE
|
Diamantina, Minas Gerais,
Brazil
|
Superb deep red adamantine twinned
crystals. (E) $7.00
|
738 |
RUTILE
|
Nassfeld, Böckstein, Austria |
Lustrous golden to red-brown acicular
crystal groups on a white matrix. (E) $6.00 |
49 |
RUTILE
 |
White
Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA |
Very, very
fine lustrous golden acicular crystals on and in Quartz crystals. (E) $6.00 |
303 |
SAZHINITE-Ce
 |
Aris Quarries, Aris,
Windhoek, Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia |
Fine examples of this
rarity (30x). It occurs as creamy white bladed crystals in vugs +/- Tuperssuatsiaite,
Aegirine, Natrolite. (E) $10.00; $12.00 |
990 |
SCORODITE

NEW |
Stavoren Tin Mine, Limpopo, South
Africa |
Druses of sub-adamantine pale blue to
colourless crystals on matrix and in vugs. (E) $6.00
|
993 |
SCORODITE
 |
Clara Mine,
Rankach Valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
Groups of highly
lustrous translucent light blue crystals on matrix. (E) $6.00
|
82 |
|
SERPIERITE |
Herzog Julius
Smelter (slag locality), Astfeld, Goslar, Harz Mtns, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Two only of these
extremely fine pieces with groups of lustrous bright blue
crystals with a slightly pearly lustre in vugs in slag. 2(E)
$7.00 |
115 |
|
SERPIERITE / GYPSUM |
Val Varenna,
Pegli, Genova, Italy |
One only -
Extremely fine tiny (30x) bright blue crystals with Gypsum varietal Selenite
in slag. 1(E) $7.00 |
1104 |
|
SERPIERITE / SELENITE |
Herzog Julius
Smelter (slag locality), Astfeld, Goslar, Harz Mtns., Lower Saxony, Germany |
One only - a
small piece of matrix with light blue Serpierite crystals with superb Gypsum
variety Selenite crystals. 1(E) $6.00 |
30 |
|
SIDERITE |
Penlee Quarry,
Paul, Penzance-Ludgvan area, Mount's Bay District, Cornwall, England |
Two only - Interesting
pieces with crystals of different colours from colourless to yellow to
iridescent coated crystals in vugs in matrix. (2E)
$6.00 |
168 |
SIGLOITE
 |
Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Bustillos Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia |
Type Locality: Very sharp cream to white tabular crystal groups +/-
Paravauxite.
Sigloite
has a greasy to dull lustre and pseudomorphs after colourless, lustrous
transparent Paravauxite. (See MinRec - Mar/Apr 2006) (E) $8.00 |
723 |
SMITHSONITE

NEW |
Level 8, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua,
Mexico |
Beautiful, colourless to
grey-green transparent tapering, curved crystals +/- Hemimorphite,
Aurichalcite in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm boxes. $8.00 Smithsonite is a common
mineral but these are uncommonly fine specimens. |
50747 |
SPECULAR HEMATITE
 |
Wheal Cock, St. Just,
Cornwall, England |
Fine euhedral tabular
metallic crystals on Quartz matrix. (E) $6.00 |
42 |
SPESSARTINE
|
Navegador Mine, Conselheiro Peña, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Superb transparent red, gemmy stepped-growth crystal
groups etched out of Calcite. (E) (A photo of each individual
piece is available) $12.00 |
745 |
SPESSARTINE
|
Navegador Mine, Conselheiro Peña, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Superb transparent red, gemmy stepped-growth crystal
groups etched out of Calcite. A) 1.6 x 1.2 cm $12.00; B) 1.8 x
1.2cm $12.00 (2) |
50745 |
|
SPESSARTINE |
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou area, Fujian, East Region,
China |
Wonderful pieces! Bright orange, transparent to
translucent crystals on white matrix +/- Mica group mineral, Quartz. A) 3.0 x
2.1 cm $8.00 (1) |
51008 |
|
SPHALERITE |
Peregrina Mine, Chilecito, La Rioja
Province, Argentina |
One only - Highly lustrous jet black
modified crystals with Quartz crystals. 1(E) $6.00 |
793 |
SPHALERITE

NEW |
Elmwood Mine, near Carthage, Tennessee, USA |
Superb, brilliantly lustrous brown to red-brown crystals
on matrix of Quartz, Dolomite, Calcite. (E) $6.00
|
554 |
STIBNITE
 |
Consolidated Durham Mines, Lake George, York County,
New Brunswick, Canada |
Very fine brilliant metallic terminated crystal(s) on
white Calcite or Quartz. (E) $6.00 |
617 |
STILBITE-Ca
 |
Partridge Island, Bay of Fundy,
Nova Scotia, Canada |
Lustrous
colourless to white tabular crystal groups on orange to salmon coloured
Chabazite-Ca +/- Heulandite. (E) $6.00 |
625 |
STOLZITE
NEW |
Les Montmins, Echassières, Allier, France
|
Fine lustrous yellow-orange complex crystals on a
corroded boxwork matrix. (E) $7.00
|
1167 |
STRENGITE
|
Mullica Hill,
Gloucester County, New Jersey, USA |
Very attractive
groups of pale pink to white crystals in belemnites.
(E) $6.00
|
445 |
|
STRENGITE |
El Criollo Quarry, Cerro
Blanco, Cordoba, Argentina |
One only - Tiny lustrous
pale lilac to white crystals in matrix. 1(E) $6.00 |
786 |
STRENGITE
 |
Rock Run Station, Indian
Mountain, Alabama, USA |
Very, very
fine pieces - usually as pale pink spherical aggregates of lustrous crystals
on matrix +/- Rockbridgeite, Kidwellite, Dufrenite et al. (E) $6.00 |
312 |
STRUNZITE
NEW |
Mons, Hainaut Province, Belgium
|
Two only - Very fine pieces with cream-coloured
acicular crystals forming flattened radial groups on matrix. 2(E) $6.00
|
96 |
STRUNZITE
 |
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Waidhaus, Vohenstrauß, Oberpfälzer Wald, Upper Palatinate,
Bavaria, Germany |
Old time classic pieces! TYPE
LOCALITY! Beautiful, lustrous creamy-white acicular sprays in vugs in matrix
+/- Rockbridgeite, Laueite. (E) $7.00 |
204 |
SULPHUR
|
El Desierto Mine, San
Pablo de Napa, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí department, Bolivia |
Very, very fine lustrous
glassy euhedral pale yellow crystals on matrix. (E) $7.00 |
705 |
|
SULPHUR |
Sulphur Pit, Crescent
Valley, Eureka County, Nevada, USA |
One only - Intergrowths
of sharp euhedral terminated yellow crystals. 1(E) $7.00 |
304 |
SZENICSITE
|
Jardinera # 1Mine, Inca
de Oro, Copiapó, Atacama Province, Chile |
Type locality! An
extremely rare mineral as dark green, lustrous lamellar crystal sections in
matrix. (E) $15.00
|
728 |
TETRAHEDRITE

NEW |
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, La
Libertad Department, Peru |
Fine sharp lustrous metallic crystals and
groups with lustrous Pyrite crystals. (E) $6.00
|
796 |
TETRAHEDRITE
NEW |
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, La
Libertad Department, Peru |
Rich coverage of lustrous,
metallic crystals with Pyrite. A) 2.5 x 2.0 cm; B) 3.0 x 2.5cm $8.00
|
50796 |
THOMSENOLITE
 |
Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Firth,
Arsuk, Kitaa (West Greenland) Province, Greenland |
TYPE LOCALITY! Extremely fine pieces with colourless,
lustrous Thomsenolite as pseudo-cubic crystals or elongated "cubic" crystals
+/- Pachnolite, Ralstonite. (E) $8.00 |
594 |
|
THOMSENOLITE |
Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Firth,
Arsuk, Kitaa (West Greenland) Province, Greenland |
TYPE LOCALITY! Extremely
fine pieces with colourless, lustrous Thomsenolite as pseudo-cubic crystals or
elongated "cubic" crystals +/- Pachnolite, Ralstonite.
A) 3.2 x 2.5 cm; B) 3.0
x 2.2cm +/- Thomsenolite prisms. $12.00 |
50305 |
THOMSONITE
 |
Wind Mountain, Otero County, New Mexico, USA |
Sprays and spheres of silky white Thomsonite crystals
in vugs in syenite matrix +/- Aenigmatite. (E) $6.00 |
302 |
|
TRIDYMITE |
Roc de Courlande, Chastreix, Puy-de-Dôme, France |
Extremely fine flattened tabular colourless to white
crystals in vugs in basalt. (E) $6.00 |
1 |
|
TRIDYMITE / MALACHITE |
Graftlspitz, Brixlegg, Austria |
One only - Dull blue green (30x) crystals with botryoid
Malachite. 1(E) $7.00 |
89 |
|
TOPAZ |
East Grants Ridge, Cibola County, New Mexico, USA |
Very sharp, highly lustrous prismatic pinkish brown to
colourless transparent crystals on matrix 3.0 x 1.1cm . $6.00 (1) |
50433 |
|
TOPAZ |
Villa Garcia, Quebradilla, Municipality of Zacatecas,
Zacatecas, Mexico |
Extremely fine specimens!
Beautifully formed, pedion terminated, lustrous prismatic crystals coloured
red due to included iron. A) 3.5 x 2.5cm; B) 2.5 x 2.0cm; C) 2.7 x 2.0cm: D)
2.5 x 1.7 cm. $8.00 |
50797 |
|
VALENTINITE |
Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto, Italy |
Two only - Colourless elongated to acicular crystals in
vugs in matrix. 2(E) $6.00 |
238 |
VALENTINITE
 |
Lac Nicolet, South Ham, Québec,
Canada |
Sharp euhedral crystals of
various habits - six habits have been observed - with Stibnite +/- Kermesite.
Larger matrix pieces to 3.5 x 2.0 cm with rich coverage of Valentinite,
Stibnite +/- Kermesite. $10.00 |
50622 |
VANADINITE
 |
Mibladen, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilatet
Region, Morocco
|
Very, very fine bright orange tabular crystals on matrix.
(E) $6.00
|
964 |
VANADINITE
 |
Taouz Mine, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilatet
Region, Morocco
|
Extremely fine, clusters of lustrous deep orange to
yellowy tabular crystals on botryoidal matrix. Very attractive mounts. (E)
$6.00
|
972 |
VARISCITE
 |
Beauvoir Quarry, Echassières,
Ebreuil, Allier, Auverge, France |
Very, very fine pieces with
clusters of colourless to light blue to pale pink crystals on matrix. (E)
$7.00 |
298 |
WAKEFIELDITE-Ce

NEW |
near Keremos, New Westminster Mining District, British
Columbia, Canada
|
We have managed to obtain a few pieces of
this mineral. These are some of the very finest crystals of this extremely rare Vanadate
we have ever seen. They occur as small, dark red to black slender prismatic
crystals (some with a slight brassy tarnish) in
vugs in matrix. In spite of its very fragile nature, almost all
crystals are complete. One or two have some minor imperfections. (E)
$20.00 - $35.00
|
693 |
WULFENITE
 |
Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA |
Extremely fine specimens
with highly lustrous bright orange translucent to transparent tabular crystals
on matrix. $8.00 |
51000 |
WULFENITE
 |
Xichang, Sichuan Province, China
|
Bright yellow transparent to translucent crystals on
Barite. (E) $6.00
|
999 |
ZEMANNITE
 |
La Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
|
Type locality! Very fine examples of this rare mineral as
dark brown to orange brown to almost pink prismatic crystal groups and sprays
- usually on Quartz. (E) $12.00
|
718 |
ZUNYITE
 |
Zuni Mine, Anvil Mountain, Silverton District, San Juan
County, Colorado, USA
|
Type locality! Lots of small, colourless, transparent to
translucent trigonal crystals embedded in matrix. (E) $7.00
|
346 |