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Overlooked Treasures
Mineral Specimens Personally Recommended by John Betts

Call them what you want: Sleepers, Great Buys, Overlooked. These are minerals that are excellent specimens at reasonable prices. They should have sold quickly. Perhaps the photograph does not adequately describe the beauty of the specimen. Maybe it was added to the site during a slow period and nobody noticed. Perhaps the rarity of the mineral at locality is unappreciated by outsiders. Whatever the reason these are very nice specimens and deserve a second notice.
These specimens are personally recommended. You cannot go wrong, there is a full money back guarantee - if you are not delighted with the specimen send it back for a full refund. No questions asked. To purchase mineral specimens, go to the online order form.

Sizes: (t) = Thumbnail, (m) = Miniature, (c) = Cabinet, (lc) = Large Cabinet

#39198, Andradite var. Melanite Garnet, New Idria District, California (m) $40	#44418, Wulfenite with Mimetite, Mina Ojuela, Mexico (c) $40	#43853, Clinoclase, Cornubite, Cornwallite, Majuba Hill, Nevada (m) $165	#45759, Beryl var. Heliodor, Brazil (t) $300	#45824, Pectolite with Calcite, Pyrite, Millington Quarry, New Jersey (c) $85
#44070, Fluorite with Chalcopyrite, Denton Mine, Illinois (c) $125	#45569, Celestine on Sulfur, Machow Mine, Poland (c) $225	#45630, Quartz with Hedenbergite inclusions, Mega Xhorio, Greece (c) $225	#39238, Galena, Tri-State Lead Mining District, Missouri (c) $125	#45731, Pyrite, Route 81 roadcut, south of Syracuse, New York (t) $28
#43271, Beryl var. Aquamarine with Schorl Tourmaline, Erongo Mountains, Namibia (t) $125	#40315, Acanthite, Imiter Mine, Morocco (m) $250	#44012, Calcite var. Manganocalcite, Wessels Mine, South Africa (m) $45	#44678, Analcime, Sowerbutt Quarry, New Jersey (m) $55	#44040, Orthoclase var. Adularia with Chlorite, Grosstal, Switzerland (m) $45
#45856, Laumontite and Heulandite pseudomorph after Pectolite with Stilbite, Prospect Park Quarry, New Jersey (c) $225	#45379, Andradite Garnet in Quartz with Clinozoisite, Nightingale District, Nevada (c) $125	#40128, Thomsonite, Soagaon, India (c) $195	#25560, Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia (m) $125	#45857, Prehnite epimorph after Anhydrite with Calcite, Phillipsite, McBride Avenue & Browertown Road Pumping Station, New Jersey (m) $75
#39280, Calcite on Calcite, Meshberger Quarry, Indiana (m) $75	#38004, Galena with Dolomite, Chalcopyrite, Milliken Mine, Missouri (m) $38	#44135, Apatite-(CaF) on Albite, Afghanistan (m) $195	#41844, Azurite on Quartz, Manto Cuba Mine, Chile (c) $150

#43959, Calcite, Sweetwater Mine, Missouri (lc) $350	#40204, Beryl var. Aquamarine with Muscovite, Xuebaoding Mountain near Pingwu, China (m) $400	#44549, Brazilianite, Corrego Frio, Brazil *Type Locality (lc) $450
#44897, Copper (crystallized), National Mine, Rockland, Michigan (c) $650	#43871, Liddicoatite Tourmaline, Alakamisy, Madagascar *Type Locality (c) $1100	#45809, Topaz on Quartz, Dassu, Shigar Valley, Pakistan (c) $2500
#45992, Stibnite, Wuling Mine, China (lc) $550	#45991, Apophyllite-(KF) on stalactitic Quartz, Jalgaon, India (lc) $400