| Below is a gallery of high quality classic mineral specimens from closed
or lost localities known for great mineral specimens acquired from old
collections available for sale from John Betts - Fine Minerals in New York
City, NY. To purchase mineral specimens, go to the
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Sizes: (t) = Thumbnail, (m) = Miniature, (c) = Cabinet, (lc) = Large Cabinet

#44740, Zircon var. Cyrtolite, (Kinkel
Quarry?), Bedford, New York (c) $250 |

#44389, Azurite, Franklin, New Jersey
(m) $75 |

#45465, Wulfenite with Mimetite, Ahumada
Mine, Mexico (m) $250 |

#44538, Uvite Tourmaline, Power's Farm,
Pierrepont, New York (c) $325 |

#43851, Clinoclase and Cornubite, Majuba
Hill, Nevada (c) $325 |

#43974, Uvarovite Garnet, Saranovskoye
Mine, Russia *Type Locality (c) $250 |

#44678, Analcime, Sowerbutt Quarry, New
Jersey (m) $55 |

#24777, Fluorite, La Viesca Mine, Spain
(m) $125 |

#42087, Calcite var. Manganoan (twinned crystals)
with Quartz, Huaron District, Peru (m) $250 |

#46140, Cinnabar on Dolomite, Tsa Tien
Mine, China (m) $150 |

#44611, Uvite Tourmaline, Power's Farm,
Pierrepont, New York (m) $195 |

#39238, Galena, Tri-State Lead Mining
District, Missouri (c) $125 |

#46078, Elbaite Tourmaline, Mount Mica,
Maine (t) $225 |

#45124, Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
(m) $350 |

#45253, Elbaite Tourmaline with Cookeite,
Pala District, California (t) $48 |

#43828, Clinoclase, Majuba Hill, Nevada
(c) $300 |

#40716, Cerussite, Flux Mine, Arizona
(c) $325 |

#43853, Clinoclase, Cornubite,
Cornwallite, Majuba Hill, Nevada (m) $165 |

#40315, Acanthite, Imiter Mine, Morocco
(m) $250 |

#46022, Wulfenite, Glove Mine, Arizona
(m) $32 |

#44012, Calcite var. Manganocalcite,
Wessels Mine, South Africa (m) $45 |

#43850, Clinoclase and Cornwallite, Majuba
Hill, Nevada (c) $195 |

#45856, Laumontite and Heulandite pseudomorph
after Pectolite with Stilbite, Prospect Park Quarry, New Jersey
(c) $225 |

#45582, Hemimorphite var. Calamine, Sterling
Mine, New Jersey (c) $125 |

#44303, Datolite with Quartz, Dalnegorsk,
Russia (c) $95 |

#46110, Gypsum, Red River Floodway, Canada
(c) $125 |

#44238, Topaz on rhyolite, Topaz Mountain,
Utah (c) $150 |

#44300, Elbaite Tourmaline with
Cookeite*, Mount Mica, Maine *Type Locality (t) $55 |

#44308, Sphalerite (twinned crystals),
Logansport, Indiana (m) $40 |

#42094, Quartz var. Amethyst, Amatitlan,
Mexico (m) $185 |

#45482, Uvite Tourmaline with Magnesite,
Brumado, Brazil (m) $225 |

#44210, Mimetite, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
(c) $275 |

#44456, Calcite, Príbram, Czech
Republic (m) $225 |

#46131, Azurite with Chrysocolla, Morenci
Mine, Arizona (c) $195 |

#46215, Dioptase on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine,
Namibia (m) $95 |

#43580, Calcite, Berry Materials Quarry,
Indiana (m) $75 |

#45165, Almandine Garnet in Rhyolite,
Garnet Hill, Nevada (c) $350 |

#45447, Wulfenite with Mimetite, San
Francisco Mine, Mexico (c) $125 |

#44219, Cyanotrichite, Grandview Mine,
Arizona (m) $85 |

#45279, Cerussite, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
(m) $48 |

#45682, Anorthite var. Labradorite*,
Nain, Labrador, Canada *Type Locality (c) $150 |

#46050, Quartz var. Amethyst, July 4th
Pocket, Intergalactic Pit, Maine (m) $150 |

#45278, Vanadinite, Touissit Mine, Morocco
(m) $48 |

#40550, Cassiterite (twinned crystals),
Krásno District, Czech Republic (t) $40 |

#45676, Pyrite in matrix, Mina
Ampliación a Victoria, Spain (c) $150 |

#25560, Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
(m) $125 |

#39042, Barite with Calcite and
Chalcopyrite, Minerva #1 Mine, Illinois (c) $45 |

#45542, Wavellite, Mauldin Mountain,
Arkansas (t) $26 |

#45569, Celestine on Sulfur, Machow Mine,
Poland (c) $225 |

#45692, Dioptase with Malachite, Tsumeb
Mine, Namibia (m) $375 |

#45686, Vanadinite, J.C. Holmes Claim,
Arizona (c) $325 |

#45707, Silver in Arsenic, Pohla Mine,
near Crottendorf, Germany (t) $225 |

#45875, Cubanite (V-twinned crystals),
Henderson #2 Mine, Chibougamau, Canada (t) $38 |

#45698, Fluorite, William Wise Mine,
New Hampshire (c) $325 |

#45958, Topaz, Government Pit, Albany,
New Hampshire (t) $48 |

#45911, Quartz, Tamminen Quarry, Maine
(c) $225 |

#45850, Pyrite, Ambasaguas, Spain
(m) $125 |

#45678, Siderite, Bisbee, Arizona
(c) $250 |

#45873, Cubanite (V-twinned crystals),
Henderson #2 Mine, Chibougamau, Canada (t) $45 |

#45960, Fluorite, William Wise Mine,
New Hampshire (m) $55 |

#46036, Smithsonite, Kelly Mine, New
Mexico (m) $395 |

#46113, Prehnite, Quartz, Epidote, Djebel
Melh, Bou Arfa, Morocco (c) $350 |

#46045, Azurite with Malachite pseudomorphs after
Cuprite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona (m) $350 |

#46041, Malachite pseudomorphs after
Azurite, New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Arizona (c) $350 |

#46181, Fluorite, Naica Mining District,
Mexico (m) $125 |

#46214, Dioptase on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine,
Namibia (m) $115 |

#46121, Andradite Garnet, Stanley Butte,
Arizona (c) $125 |

#46119, Dioptase, Cuprite var. Chalcotrichite,
Calcite, Christmas Mine, Arizona (c) $150 |

#46174, Ilvaite with Quartz, 1st Sovietskiy
Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia (m) $125 |
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#46189, Stibnite, Baiutz, Romania
(lc) $375 |

#42019, Gold (crystallized), Eagle's
Nest Mine, California (m) $1500 |

#43871, Liddicoatite Tourmaline, Alakamisy,
Madagascar *Type Locality (c) $1100 |

#43969, Wulfenite, Bad Bleiberg, Austria
*Type Locality (c) $400 |

#43707, Quartz var. Laguna Agate, Ojo
Laguna, Mexico (c) $450 |

#41849, Azurite, Malachite, Tenorite,
Czar Mine (Czar Shaft), Arizona (c) $950 |

#45570, Barite on Manganite, Lucy Mine,
Negaunee District, Michigan (c) $400 |

#37363, Quartz var. Smoky Dauphine-law
Twin, St. Gotthard, Switzerland (c) $400 |

#43557, Fluorite, Hill-Ledford Mine,
Illinois (lc) $750 |

#43829, Clinoclase, Cornubite,
Cornwallite, Majuba Hill, Nevada (lc) $650 |

#43874, Liddicoatite Tourmaline, Alakamisy,
Madagascar *Type Locality (c) $1450 |

#43562, Wulfenite, Mimetite, Willemite,
San Francisco Mine, Mexico (c) $500 |

#41744, Olmiite on Calcite, N'Chwaning
II Mine, South Africa (lc) $750 |

#44069, Grossular Garnet in Quartz, Pitts
and Tenney Quarry, Maine (lc) $150 |

#44042, Pyrrhotite, Galena, Calcite, Quartz,
Siderite, Dalnegorsk, Russia (lc) $400 |

#44578, Barite, Cheshire Barytes Mine,
Connecticut (c) $550 |

#43826, Barite with Dolomite, Sherman
Tunnel, Colorado (lc) $95 |

#43561, Wulfenite with Mimetite, San
Francisco Mine, Mexico (c) $575 |

#44530, Grossular Garnet, Raymond, north
shore of Panther Pond, Maine (c) $575 |

#42091, Dioptase on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine,
Namibia (m) $4250 |

#42188, Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
(c) $2750 |

#42056, Fluorite, Glacier d'Argentieres,
France (t) $325 |

#42184, Dioptase on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine,
Namibia (m) $400 |

#42100, Cerussite, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
(m) $2750 |

#42159, Azurite with Malachite, Copper
Queen Mine, Arizona (c) $500 |

#44536, Fluorite with Calcite, (Hilton
Mine), England (c) $400 |

#42044, Azurite, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
(m) $500 |

#45171, Cuprite with Malachite on
Chrysocolla, Mashamba West Mine, Democratic Republic of the Congo
(Zaire) (lc) $500 |

#44528, Dioptase on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine,
Namibia (c) $450 |

#44151, Rhodochrosite on Quartz, Sweet
Home Mine, Colorado (c) $2750 |

#46197, Ferberite, Arsenopyrite, Siderite,
Quartz, Minas do Panasqueira, Portugal (c) $400 |

#41784, Barite with Calcite, Elk Creek,
South Dakota (c) $400 |

#41742, Benitoite* and Neptunite, Benitoite
Gem Mine, California *Type Locality (lc) $3500 |

#41804, Cerussite (reticulated), Tsumeb
Mine, Namibia (c) $3000 |

#41788, Azurite with Malachite with
Tenorite, Morenci Mine, Arizona (c) $2750 |

#41899, Smithsonite, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
(c) $3500 |

#43552, Variscite with Crandallite and
Montgomeryite, 16 CM ACROSS!, Little Green Monster Mine, Utah
(lc) $4500 |

#41882, Sphalerite (Spinel-law twinned) on
Pyrite, Rodna, Romania (c) $450 |

#30259, Wulfenite, Mimetite, Willemite,
Ahumada Mine, Mexico (lc) $295 |

#43564, Rhodochrosite and Quartz, Sunnyside
Mine, Colorado (c) $750 |

#45896, Apatite-(CaF) in Calcite, Yates
Mine, Canada (lc) $495 |

#41789, Azurite and Malachite with Malachite
pseudomorphs after Cuprite, Bisbee, Arizona (c) $4750 |

#45480, Epidote, Knappenwand, Austria
(m) $400 |

#41824, Quartz var. Japan-law Twin, Pasto
Bueno District, Peru (c) $550 |

#45481, Copper (crystallized) with
Epidote, Quincy Mine, Hancock, Michigan (m) $875 |

#45464, Dioptase on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine,
Namibia (m) $475 |

#44195, Wulfenite, Bad Bleiberg, Austria
*Type Locality (c) $400 |

#42160, Copper and Calcite, Quincy Mine,
Hancock, Michigan (m) $950 |

#45725, Copper (crystallized), Tsumeb
Mine, Namibia (m) $650 |

#45572, Galena, Dalnegorsk, Russia
(c) $500 |

#45675, Azurite on Chrysocolla, Morenci
Mine, Northwest Extension, Arizona (c) $150 |

#45895, Sulfur, Girgenti, Italy
(lc) $450 |

#45893, Calcite with Dioptase inclusions,
Tsumeb Mine, Namibia (lc) $475 |

#45810, Fluorite on Quartz, Weardale,
England (c) $400 |

#45988, Goethite, Lucy Mine, Negaunee
District, Michigan (lc) $275 |

#45912, Smithsonite on Coronadite,
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Australia (lc) $400 |

#45989, Almandine Garnet, Ötztal,
Austria (lc) $750 |

#46039, Quartz var. Smoky with Chlorite,
Maderanertal, Switzerland (lc) $300 |

#46004, Calcite (twinned crystals),
Sokolovskiy-Sarbaiskiy Mine, Russia (c) $400 |

#41363, Fluorite with Calcite, Denton
Mine, Illinois (lc) $275 |
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