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I have approximately 5000 minerals in stock. But this site can only hold 500-600 specimens without slowing loading time. Below is a listing of 200 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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#40314 - Mineral: Acanthite, Imiter Mine, Dades, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Stalactitic formation of gray metallic acanthite crystals mounted on an acrylic display base (I will remove the base upon request). The acanthite crystals are pseudo-octahedral form and in parallel orientation. Overall Size: 3.5x2x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-18 mm. Price: $325

#44602 - Mineral: Acanthite pseudomorphs after Argentite, Freiberg District, Saxony, Germany. Chain-like aggregates of interconnected cubic dark-metallic acanthite crystals with remnants of brown matrix in the crevices between the acanthite crystals. Formed as argentite (stable only above 173° C) and alters to acanthite below 173° C. Ex. Wards ca. 1900 Overall Size: 4.5x3.5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $250

#33361 - Mineral: Adamite on Limonite, Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Transparent greenish-yellow adamite crystals in double-sided plates and individual crystals on brown limonite gossan. The adamite crystals have glassy crystal faces and fluoresce green under UV illumination. Ex. C.P. Maier; originally acquired in 1975 Overall Size: 8x7x6 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 mm. Price: $115

#31832 - Mineral: Analcime with Copper inclusions, Phoenix Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula Copper District, Michigan. Many complex aggregates of transparent analcime crystals with inclusions of metallic copper visible within and scattered overgrowth of small white crystals tentatively identified as fluorapophyllite, though microcline is possible. Rare. Ex. Dr. N. Luppescu Overall Size: 11x9x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: .5-8 mm. Price: $350

#41324 - Mineral: Analcime, Stilbite, Prehnite, Natrolite, Calcite, Quartz, Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey. Exceptionally large cluster with many minerals: etched white analcime crystals to 35 mm, translucent green prehnite crystal aggregates to 5 mm diameter, yellow stilbite crystals to 10 mm, acicular white natrolite to 12 mm, with minor quartz and calcite. Collected in 2008 Overall Size: 20x16x8 cm. Crystal Size: 1-35 mm. Price: $150

#32814 - Mineral: Anatase, Kharan Mountain, Baluchistan, Pakistan. Dark blue anatase crystal nestled in white matrix with another anatase crystal on the edge. The anatase is translucent when strongly illuminated (most notable in the thinnest areas). From a new find near the recent brookite discovery of 2005. No damage. Overall Size: 5x3x2 cm. Crystal Size: 5-8 mm. Price: $175

#40727 - Mineral: Andradite var. Melanite, New Idria District, San Benito County, California. Large lustrous black andradite garnet crystals, variety melanite, on crystallized clinochlore-coated matrix. The andradite crystals are among the best I have seen from the locality, though two are chipped. Overall Size: 8x5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-13.0 mm. Price: $150

#41935 - Mineral: Andradite var. Melanite Garnet, La Prieta Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico. Highly lustrous large black andradite garnet crystals on massive andradite matrix. The brilliant crystal faces have well defined growth-hillocks showing how the crystals grew in successive layers. A few of the corners around the periphery are incomplete. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #6; acquired in 1994 Overall Size: 7x5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-30 mm. Price: $225

#41675 - Mineral: Apatite-(CaF) (formerly Fluorapatite), Emmons Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine. Two large (for the locality) translucent purple apatite crystals up to 8 mm across on crystallized white albite and muscovite mica matrix. It appears a third apatite crystal, now missing, intersected the rear of the 2 apatite crystals on the specimen. Overall Size: 3x2.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 6-8 mm. Price: $110

#41977 - Mineral: Apatite-(CaF) (formerly Fluorapatite) and Quartz, Minas do Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal. Transparent green hexagonal apatite crystals up to 15 mm across on lustrous colorless quartz crystals up to 35 mm long with sugar-like small quartz crystals overgrown on the edge of the largest apatite crystal. The apatite fluoresces yellow under UV. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #26; acquired in 1972 Overall Size: 4.5x4.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-35 mm. Price: $200

#41987 - Mineral: Apatite-(CaF) (formerly Fluorapatite) with Muscovite, Minas do Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal. Cluster of lustrous pink-gray apatite crystals up to 20 mm across with silvery muscovite mica crystals up to 4 mm on the rear. The apatite crystals are tabular form, translucent, and have slight brown limonite staining in crevices. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #580; acquired in 1999 Overall Size: 32x22x18 mm. Crystal Size: 2-20 mm. Price: $275

#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

#40232 - Mineral: Apophyllite-(KF) and Stilbite on Quartz, Nasik, Maharashtra, India. New find of reddish apophyllite crystals (probably colored due to hematite inclusions) up to 36 mm across crystallized on all sides of finger-shaped formations of colorless druzy quartz. The cluster stands upright nicely and is complete all around. Overall Size: 6.5x6x5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-26.0 mm. Price: $225

#40231 - Mineral: Apophyllite-(KF) and Stilbite on Quartz, Nasik, Maharashtra, India. Exceptionally large square apophyllite crystal 52 mm across with bright red internal inclusion, probably of hematite, with colorless stilbite crystals up to 18 mm long around the sides. The apophyllite crystals are translucent and lustrous. Overall Size: 7x6.5x6 cm. Crystal Size: 2-52 mm. Price: $250

#24547 - Mineral: Apophyllite-(KF) on Heulandite, Pashan Hill Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Spray of transparent green apophyllite crystals up to 25 mm long on matrix covered with lustrous white heulandite crystals up to 1 mm with minor calcite and stilbite. Very clean, no damage. Overall Size: 7.5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: .5-25 mm. Price: $175

#41927 - Mineral: Apophyllite-(KF) with Heulandite, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. Transparent colorless apophyllite crystals up to 50 mm long with dark purple-brown heulandite crystal 30 mm across on a curved plate of chalcedony matrix. The specimens sits nicely with the largest apophyllite crystal perfectly centered on the top. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #72 Overall Size: 7.5x5.5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-50 mm. Price: $275

#40333 - Mineral: Apophyllite-(KF) with Stilbite, Pashan Hill Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Lustrous transparent vivid-green fluorapophyllite crystals up to 20 mm long with colorless stilbite crystals up to 8 mm long. The high refractive index and pyramidal terminations are highly reflective. Overall Size: 5.5x5.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-20 mm. Price: $350

#42152 - Mineral: Aragonite, Podreçzny, Czech Republic. Elongated transparent colorless aragonite crystals in a spray-shaped cluster of diverging crystals mounted to an acrylic display base (I will remove the base upon request). The aragonite fluoresces under UV illumination. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #411; acquired in 1984 Overall Size: 4.5x3.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 25-45 mm. Price: $150

#31734 - Mineral: Aragonite, Ironwood, Gogebic County, Michigan. Hemispherical crystal aggregates up to 15 mm diameter of pinkish white aragonite crystals lining several surfaces of irregular cavities in matrix. Ex. James G. Manchester (1871-1948) #1556; ex. Florence P. Manchester Overall Size: 11x8x7 cm. Crystal Size: 4-7 mm. Price: $300

#42896 - Mineral: Augelite, Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Large specimen of lustrous green augelite crystals scattered over several areas with microcrystals of ther phosphate minerals. The augelite crystals are transparent, pistachio-green color, with good size for this uncommon species. Overall Size: 11x10x6 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 8 mm. Price: $250

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

#29869 - Mineral: Azurite, Touissit Mine, south of Oujda, Morocco. Lustrous crystals of dark blue azurite on limonite gossan matrix. The azurite crystals show translucency when rear-illuminated. Overall Size: 7x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-25 mm. Price: $175

#42062 - Mineral: Azurite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Translucent dark-blue rhombohedral azurite crystals with minor remnants of matrix included in the bottom. The azurite crystals are sharp, well formed, with crystallization patters on the faces. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #78; acquired in 1997 from Classic Minerals Overall Size: 29x20x19 mm. Crystal Size: 2-20 mm. Price: $375

#40560 - Mineral: Azurite and Malachite, Phelps Dodge Morenci Mine, Greenlee County, Arizona. Colorful cluster velvety green malachite with sparkling dark-blue azurite crystals up to 1 mm. One side was sawn to remove excess matrix without damage. Overall Size: 9x6x6 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-1.0 mm. Price: $150

#41844 - Mineral: Azurite on Quartz, Manto Cuba Mine, Inca de Oro, Chile. Vivid blue bladed azurite crystals on milky quartz matrix with many smaller druzy azurite crystals. The larger azurite crystals are translucent, elongated, thin blades with fish-tail terminations indicating they are twinned through the middle. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #507 Overall Size: 10x7x6 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-8.0 mm. Price: $450

#41949 - Mineral: Azurite with Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. Lustrous dark-blue azurite crystals up to 3.5 mm across with a few crystals have a dull surface luster on select faces plus minor green malachite microcrystals. Accompanied by Segeler's pre-1989 label priced at $125. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #201; ex. Curt Segeler (1901-1989) Overall Size: 9x6x3 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 3.5 mm. Price: $250

#42078 - Mineral: Azurite with Malachite, La Sal District, San Juan County, Utah. Five interconnected spherical clusters of lustrous blue azurite crystals with minor green malachite in areas. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #203; acquired in 1990 from Collector's Edge Overall Size: 4x2.5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-2 mm. Price: $225

#44579 - Mineral: Barite, Cheshire Barytes Mine, Jinny Hill Road, Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut. Doubly-terminated transparent colorless bladed barite crystal with chisel-shaped termination. The barite crystal is large and well crystallized for this old locality that closed in 1871 (most specimens from this mine were opaque white). Ex. Miller collection ca. 1900 Overall Size: 5x2x1 cm. Crystal Size: 52 mm. Price: $125

#42180 - Mineral: Barite, Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, England. Transparent blue-gray barite crystals with lustrous crystal faces and red-brown hematite inclusions in the pointed terminations. The cluster displays nicely in several orientations. One crystal nestled in the bottom center is incomplete. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #381; Steve Chamberlain collection #5472; ex. William W. Jefferis (1820-1906) Overall Size: 7x3x3 cm. Crystal Size: 10-25 mm. Price: $250

#42231 - Mineral: Barite, Frizington, Cumberland, England. Translucent blue barite crystals with red-brown hematite inclusions on the crystal edge faces. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #155; ex. Scott Williams Overall Size: 7x4x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 12-45 mm. Price: $450

#42202 - Mineral: Barite, Baia Sprie, Maramures, Romania. Transparent-to-translucent blue barite crystals on quartz-rich matrix. The barite crystals are tabular rhombohedral form with glassy crystal faces. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #383; acquired in 1997 Overall Size: 8x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-33 mm. Price: $325

#41943 - Mineral: Barite and Stibnite, Kadamzhay Mine, Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan. Complex cluster of translucent pale-yellow tabular barite crystals up to 50 mm across intergrown with elongated gray metallic stibnite crystals up to 80 mm long. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #183; acquired in 1994 from Fersman Mineralogical Museum (Moscow) Overall Size: 8x6x5.5 cm. Crystal Size: 10-80 mm. Price: $175

#41808 - Mineral: Barite and Stibnite, Baia Sprie (formerly Felsobanya), Maramures, Romania. Transparent colorless bladed barite crystals up to 15 mm across overgrown on dark metallic elongated stibnite crystals up to 35 mm long. Some of the barite crystals are completely transparent. A few of the stibnite crystals are terminated. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #262 Overall Size: 8x6.5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-35 mm. Price: $350

#36755 - Mineral: Barite on Calcite, Meikle Mine, Elko County, Nevada. Transparent golden barite crystals with glassy crystal faces overgrown on greenish-gray calcite matrix. The many crystals intersecting at all angles, with lustrous surfaces, makes this a real eye-catcher. I searched through many to find one undamaged. Overall Size: 7x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-3 cm. Price: $475

#18630 - Mineral: Barite on Fluorite, Mina Emilio, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain. Water-clear crystals of cubic fluorite up to 25 mm with overgrowth of colorless, bladed barite crystals up to 12 mm. The fluorite crystals appear as gray because the color of the underlying matrix is showing through the fluorite. Overall Size: 10.5x9x7 cm. Crystal Size: 4-25 mm. Price: $350

#40129 - Mineral: Bastnäsite-(Ce), Zegi Mountain, near Abdul Rehman Kala, Pakistan. Doubly-terminated hexagonal translucent yellow-brown bastnäsite-(Ce) crystal perched on one edge of limonite stained matrix with a few small black hematite crystals up to 6 mm across. The bastnäsite-(Ce) crystal is quite large for this rare species. Overall Size: 5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 16 mm. Price: $795

#40277 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Doubly-terminated crystal of transparent blue beryl (gem variety aquamarine) with complexly etched surfaces throughout and white albite microcrystals in one area of one termination. This specimen must be seen in person to be appreciated. Overall Size: 4.5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 4 cm. Price: $500

#44411 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Riker Mount containing 19 aquamarine crystals, the blue-green transparent gem variety of the mineral species beryl. Several crystals are quite gemmy, though few are terminated. Ex. Chas. W. Velte Jr. (1914-1987) collection Overall Size: 13x10x2 cm Riker Mount. Crystal Size: 11-29 mm. Price: $200

#41401 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Erongo Mountains, 20 km north of Usakos, Namibia. Glassy blue crystal of transparent aquamarine, the blue gem variety of the mineral species beryl. The crystal has clean crystal faces, complex termination, and classic Erongo-blue color. The bottom rear corner is incomplete. Overall Size: 27x15x12 mm. Crystal Size: 27 mm. Price: $175

#41402 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Erongo Mountains, 20 km north of Usakos, Namibia. Glassy blue crystal of transparent aquamarine, the blue gem variety of the mineral species beryl. The crystal has clean crystal faces, complex termination, and classic Erongo-blue color that is unmatched from other localities. Overall Size: 28x19x16 mm. Crystal Size: 28 mm. Price: $175

#12428 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine, Skardu Road, Gilgit, 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

#37668 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine with Albite and Ferrocolumbite, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Three translucent blue-green aquamarine variety of beryl on crystallized albite matrix with scattered crystals of black ferrocolumbite. Overall Size: 6x3.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-19 mm. Price: $150

#40203 - Mineral: Beryl var. Aquamarine with Muscovite, Xuebaoding Mountain near Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China. Two parallel crystals of translucent aquamarine beryl up to 50 mm across with silvery muscovite mica crystals up to 8 mm on one corner. The aquamarine crystals are tabular hexagonal form with secondary edge and corner crystal faces. Overall Size: 6x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 3-50 mm. Price: $400

#39088 - Mineral: Beryl var. Emerald, Maguan-Malipo District, Yunnan Province, China. Two unterminated elongated green emerald crystals (green gem variety of the mineral Beryl) in brown limonite-stained quartz matrix. One crystal stands upright off the quartz the other is embedded. The limonite staining can be removed with treatment. Overall Size: 11x10x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 35-62 mm. Price: $375

#43163 - Mineral: Beryl var. Emerald (polished crystal section), Colombia. Section of a large translucent green emerald crystal, the green gem variety of the mineral species: beryl. The crystal was sawn and polished on all surfaces to highlight the vivid internal color and black inclusions. Overall Size: 39x34x3 mm. Crystal Size: 39 mm. Price: $125

#40302 - Mineral: Beryl var. Emerald on Calcite, La Pita Mine, Vasquez-Yacopi District, Colombia. Three gemmy medium-green hexagonal emerald crystals (the green gem variety of beryl) in milky calcite matrix. The emerald crystals have good clarity, but the color is not as rich as some of the other emeralds I have. Overall Size: 29x19x12 mm. Crystal Size: 7-13 mm. Price: $525

#39869 - Mineral: Bournonite, Yaogangxian Tungsten Mine, Nanling Mountains, Hunan Province, China. Large single crystal of dark metallic bournonite with mirror-like surface luster. The main crystal is attached to other parallel crystals on the side resulting in striated appearance due to twinning. A good single of this mineral species. Overall Size: 3.5x2x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-20 mm. Price: $225

#39875 - Mineral: Brookite on Quartz, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Large cluster of slender, gray quartz crystals up to 50 mm long with many black brookite crystals up to 6 mm across scattered throughout the specimen. This is one of the largest and richest brookite + Quartz clusters I've seen from Magnet Cove. Ex. Earl Calvert #2199 Overall Size: 13x9x6 cm. Crystal Size: 1-50 mm. Price: $400

#38043 - Mineral: Brookite on Quartz, St. Gotthard, Kanton Uri, Switzerland. Lustrous colorless quartz crystals up to 15 mm intergrown with translucent dark red-brown bladed brookite crystals up to 13 mm. The brookite crystals actually grow completely through the quartz and are up to 22 mm long, but only 13 mm are exposed. Overall Size: 4.5x4x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-15 mm. Price: $150

#44637 - Mineral: Calcite, Bigrigg Mine, near Egremont, Cumberland, England. Transparent single calcite crystal with faint reddish hematite coating on a few faces and no matrix attached. The calcite crystal is prismatic hexagonal form with scalenohedral-rhombohedral termination faces. Ex. Chas. W. Velte Jr. (1914-1987) Overall Size: 5.5x2.5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 48 mm. Price: $175

#25018 - Mineral: Calcite, Chihuahua, Mexico. An odd, rounded crystal of water-clear colorless calcite with crystal surface patterns visible on all outer surfaces. Internally some zones have a red-brown color. The surfaces pattern is quite attractive. It appears this was cleaned with dilute acid. Ex. Phillip Greybill (b. 1935- ) collection Overall Size: 13x11x10 cm. Crystal Size: 8-12 cm. Price: $400

#42256 - Mineral: Calcite (Mn-rich) with Pyrite, Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru. Blocky light-pink calcite crystals up to 20 mm across with yellow metallic 1 mm pyrite crystals scattered over several sides of the specimen. The pink color of the calcite is due to high manganese content. Has minor glue from previous base on bottom. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #147; acquired in 1991 Overall Size: 7x4x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-20 mm. Price: $395

#41926 - Mineral: Calcite (twinned crystals), Leiping, Hunan, China. Many transparent colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals on all sides of matrix with some crystals colored red-brown due to hematite inclusions. A large V-twinned pair of crystals is in the top center of the specimen. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #322 Overall Size: 6.5x4.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-35 mm. Price: $150

#41955 - Mineral: Calcite (twinned crystals), Leiping, Hunan, China. Many transparent colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals on all sides of matrix with some crystals colored red-brown due to hematite inclusions. A large V-twinned pair of crystals is in the top center of the specimen. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #506; acquired in 1998 Overall Size: 4x3.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-28 mm. Price: $150

#41829 - Mineral: Calcite (twinned crystals), Leiping, Hunan, China. V-twinned transparent calcite crystals 25 mm long on matrix covered with smaller calcite crystals. The calcite is colored red-brown with hematite inclusions. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #439 Overall Size: 10x4.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 3-25 mm. Price: $175

#29059 - Mineral: Calcite - twinned crystals, Tri-State Lead Mining District, near Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. Twinned crystals of golden, translucent calcite without matrix. The surfaces are clean with an etched pattern on some surfaces. The crystals are twinned on the {01·2} plane one of the rarer forms (more commonly they twin on the {01·8} plane). No damage. Overall Size: 14x6x5 cm. Crystal Size: 14 cm. Price: $125

#30512 - Mineral: Calcite pseudomorph after Barite with Quartz, (Goodfro Mine), Ouray County, Colorado. Large cluster of calcite pseudomorphs after blocky barite crystals up to 4 cm on a matrix of etched milky quartz crystals up to 20 mm. No damage. Though the exact mine is not listed on the label, it is likely that it originated in the Goodfro Mine. Ex. Swaboda Pseudomorph Collection Overall Size: 15x15x10 cm. Crystal Size: 1-40 mm. Price: $350

#44335 - Mineral: Calcite stalactites, cave encountered during highway construction near Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona. Ten globular white calcite stalactitic formations collected from a cave that was excavated during highway construction in 1974. The calcite fluoresces green under UV illumination. Ex. Chas. W. Velte Jr. (1914-1987) collection; collected in July 1974 Overall Size: 7x5x3.5 cm box. Crystal Size: 28x20 to 9x7 mm. Price: $150

#42234 - Mineral: Calcite with Hedenbergite inclusions, Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskij Kraj, Russia. Flawless scalenohedral single calcite crystal with glassy crystal faces and greenish hair-like hedenbergite inclusions throughout. The crystal edges have many complex secondary crystal faces that are not commonly seen in calcite. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #541; acquired in 1999 from D. Trinchillo Overall Size: 5x4x2 cm. Crystal Size: 2-50 mm. Price: $450

#43349 - Mineral: Calcite with Limonite, Idarado Mine, Ouray District, San Miguel County, Colorado. Translucent gray calcite crystals up to 20 mm long coated with brown limonite on all faces. The calcite crystals are complex form and arranged in chain-like interconnected formations up to 80 mm long. Overall Size: 8x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-20 mm. Price: $165

#36222 - Mineral: Calcite with sand inclusions, Rattlesnake Butte (Devils Hill), Shannon County, South Dakota. Elongated crystals of calcite with gray sand inclusions (commonly called Sand Calcite). The cluster is very sculptural and can be displayed horizontally and vertically (with support). Collected ca. 1980 Overall Size: 15x8x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1.5-7 cm. Price: $125

#41354 - Mineral: Calcite, Datolite, Calcite, Heulandite, Stilbite, Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey. Unusually large translucent yellow calcite crystals up to 60 mm across with colorful green translucent datolite crystals up to 23 mm across, brown stilbite crystals to 12 mm long and colorless heulandite crystals to 5 mm and colorless calcite to 7 mm. Collected in 2008 Overall Size: 13x10x7 cm. Crystal Size: 1-60 mm. Price: $175

#40325 - Mineral: Carrollite, Kamoye Mine, Kambowe, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Complex crystal of bright metallic carrollite on white marble matrix. The carrollite crystal has mirror-like surface luster. One corner has an irregular shape that appears to be a natural contact from a surrounding crystal. Overall Size: 4x3x2.2 cm. Crystal Size: 16 mm. Price: $595

#40927 - Mineral: Cassiterite, Horni Slavkov (Schlaggenwald), Cechy (Bohemia), Czech Republic. Heavy cluster of black cassiterite crystals with pseudo-octahedral crystal form and highly lustrous crystal faces. Many of the cassiterite crystals exhibit V-twinning on the (110) plane. Overall Size: 5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 3-30 mm. Price: $125

#29742 - Mineral: Cassiterite, Horni Slavkov (Schlaggenwald), Cechy (Bohemia), Czech Republic. Translucent crystals of dark brown cassiterite showing complex twinning from the old mines near Schlaggenwald. Minor flaws on edge. This specimen is illustrated in Rocks and minerals, March-April 2007, page 158. Ex. Dr. E. Sensel collection #M497 Overall Size: 5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-2 cm. Price: $375

#41975 - Mineral: Cassiterite (twinned crystals), Viloco Mine (Araca mine), Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia. Large crystals of translucent yellow-brown cassiterite with several pairs of V-twinned crystals including the largest crystals. These cassiterite crystals have better-than-average internal translucency and the crystals have only scattered edge wear. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #533 Overall Size: 4.5x3.5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 2-22 mm. Price: $175

#40131 - Mineral: Cassiterite and Muscovite, Xuebaoding Mountain near Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China. Superb specimen of complexly-twinned lustrous black cassiterite crystals up to 5 cm across overgrown on platy muscovite mica crystals up to 15 mm across. The cassiterite crystals are deep black color and show slight translucency in thin areas. Overall Size: 8x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-50 mm. Price: $650

#42155 - Mineral: Cassiterite and Quartz, Huanuni District, Dalence Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia. Lustrous black cassiterite crystals up to 8 mm long intermixed with frosted milky quartz crystals up to 7 mm long. The cassiterite shows translucent yellow-brown color around the edges where they are thinnest. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #534; acquired in 1998 Overall Size: 5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-8 mm. Price: $150

#37842 - Mineral: Cavansite, Calcite, Stilbite-Ca, Wagholi Quarry, Maharashtra, India. Unusual combination of rosettes up to 10 mm diameter of blue cavansite crystals on colorless stilbite-coated matrix with crystals of transparent colorless calcite crystals up to 1 mm scattered on the cavansite. Very attractive. Overall Size: 7x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $250

#41816 - Mineral: Celestine, Hammam Zriba, Zaghaoun, Tunisia. Translucent blue celestine crystals (celestite) with no matrix attached. The terminations of the celestine crystals have brick-red hematite inclusions. These were sold years ago by Weinrich mislabeled as barite, but were correctly identified in 1999. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #479 Overall Size: 5x4x1.2 cm. Crystal Size: 2.5-4.0 cm. Price: $135

#40716 - Mineral: Cerussite, Flux Mine, Harshaw District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Large, heavy cluster of prismatic white cerussite crystals fully crystallized all around with no matrix, only dark remnants where it contacted the pocket wall. The many intersecting crystals resulted in few termination. Overall Size: 10x7x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-24 mm. Price: $395

#39829 - Mineral: Cerussite, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. V-twinned translucent cerussite crystals with remnants of brown matrix included in the base. Both crystals are terminated, but the smaller crystal intersected the pocket wall giving an irregular shape. The large crystal has unusual hoppered-growth. Overall Size: 3.5x3x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 10-30 mm. Price: $125

#37519 - Mineral: Cerussite, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. V-twinned colorless cerussite crystals on crusty gray matrix. The cerussite crystals are internally translucent and have lustrous external faces. Ex. Lord Calvert collection Overall Size: 8x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 4-30 mm. Price: $195

#41080 - Mineral: Cerussite (twinned crystals), Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Double-sided specimen of reticulated translucent-to-transparent gray cerussite crystals with no matrix attached. The reticulation is due to repeated 60 degree twinning, typical of cerussite. Most of the cerussite crystals are complete and undamaged. Overall Size: 5.5x4x2 cm. Crystal Size: 2-32 mm. Price: $225

#42440 - Mineral: Cerussite on Barite, Mibladen, Atlas Mountains, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Translucent gray-brown cerussite crystals up to 30 mm long on pink-orange barite. An early generation of limonite-coated cerussite is visible between the later translucent cerussite crystals. Ex. V. Yount Overall Size: 8x4.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 3-30 mm. Price: $225

#43491 - Mineral: Cerussite, Pyromorphite, Smithsonite, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Translucent red-brown cerussite crystals up to 9 mm on elongated pyromorphite crystals to 10 mm long with greenish smithsonite microcrystals on the pyromorphite surfaces. Overall Size: 7x7x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 10 mm. Price: $150

#44475 - Mineral: Chabazite-Ca var. Haydenite with Stilbite, Jones Falls, Baltimore County, Maryland. Large specimen of rhombic brown Ba-rich chabazite crystals, variety Haydenite, up to 5 mm across on brown matrix with radiating sprays of brown stilbite crystals to 8 mm long. The chabazite crystals are overgrown with transparent colorless microcrystals. Ex. Miller collection ca. 1900 Overall Size: 12x6.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 8 mm. Price: $495

#42239 - Mineral: Chalcocite with Chalcopyrite-Bornite coating, Flambeau Mine, Lucky Friday Pocket, 402-1000 Level, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Many twinned chalcocite crystals with dark coating of iridescent chalcopyrite-bornite on the surfaces. The specimen is fully crystallized on all sides with no point of attachment. For more information on the locality see: The Flambeau Mine in RM v.72 #5. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #87; acquired in 1999; ex Scott Williams Overall Size: 7x4x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-10 mm. Price: $850

#38449 - Mineral: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Calcite, Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Large plate of lustrous cubic gray metallic galena crystals up to 10 mm across interspersed with yellow metallic chalcopyrite crystals up to 22 mm across. Selected edges of the galena crystals are coated with small 1 mm colorless calcite crystals. Overall Size: 21x14x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-22 mm. Price: $450

#39182 - Mineral: Chrysoberyl (twinned crystals), Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil. Flat sixling-twinned translucent greenish-brown chrysoberyl crystals with distinct surface patterns showing five distinct crystals radiating from a common center. Overall Size: 18x15x4 mm. Crystal Size: 5-10 mm. Price: $110

#39181 - Mineral: Chrysoberyl (twinned crystals), Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil. Flat sixling-twinned translucent greenish-brown chrysoberyl crystals with distinct surface patterns showing five distinct crystals radiating from a common center. One edge intersected an adjacent crystal leaving a contact. Overall Size: 18x16x3.5 mm. Crystal Size: 5-10 mm. Price: $125

#39177 - Mineral: Chrysoberyl (twinned crystals), Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil. Two V-twinned translucent chrysoberyl crystals with one corner that is gemmy and has potential for producing a 4 mm faceted gemstone. The V-twin is asymmetric with one crystal much longer than the other. Overall Size: 31x18x10 mm. Crystal Size: 27-21 mm. Price: $135

#39178 - Mineral: Chrysoberyl (twinned crystals), Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil. Flat sixling-twinned translucent greenish-brown chrysoberyl crystals with distinct surface patterns showing six distinct crystals radiating from a common center. The right edge intersected an adjacent crystal leaving a contact. Overall Size: 21x21x5 mm. Crystal Size: 10-15 mm. Price: $155

#37659 - Mineral: Copper (crystallized), Phoenix Mine, Phoenix, Keweenaw County, Michigan. Beautifully crystallized native copper crystals with textured crystal faces. The copper crystals are distorted rhombohedrons and the largest crystal is completely exposed all around. Overall Size: 17x15x12 mm. Crystal Size: 2-8 mm. Price: $165

#36522 - Mineral: Copper var. Spinel-law Twins, Dzezkazgan, Qarqaraly (Karaganda), Kazakhstan. Vertical formation of sharp, well defined copper crystals growing off a central copper crystal spine. The elongated, diamond-shaped copper crystals are indicative of Spinel-law twinning. The cluster is fully crystallized all around. Overall Size: 51x13x6 mm. Crystal Size: 1-45 mm. Price: $250

#36525 - Mineral: Copper var. Spinel-law Twins, Dzezkazgan, Qarqaraly (Karaganda), Kazakhstan. Vertical formation of sharp, well defined copper crystals growing off a central copper crystal spine. The elongated, diamond-shaped copper crystals are indicative of Spinel-law twinning. The cluster is fully crystallized all around. Overall Size: 53x15x8 mm. Crystal Size: 1-40 mm. Price: $275

#36524 - Mineral: Copper var. Spinel-law Twins, Dzezkazgan, Qarqaraly (Karaganda), Kazakhstan. A superb specimen of sharp, well defined copper crystals growing off a central copper crystal spine. The elongated, diamond-shaped copper crystals are indicative of Spinel-law twinning. The cluster is fully crystallized all around. Overall Size: 47x20x8 mm. Crystal Size: 1-25 mm. Price: $400

#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

#38656 - Mineral: Creedite and Fluorite, Dachang Mine, Quinlong, Guizhou Zhuang, China. Prismatic transparent creedite crystals up to 21 mm long and cubic fluorite crystals with pale green color and purple fringes. The creedite is mostly on one side, the fluorite on the opposite. Overall Size: 7x5.5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-21 mm. Price: $150

#38657 - Mineral: Creedite and Fluorite, Dachang Mine, Quinlong, Guizhou Zhuang, China. Prismatic transparent creedite crystals up to 5 mm long on greenish (quartz?) matrix. When viewed under magnification small purple fluorite crystals can be seen overgrown on the creedite. Overall Size: 8x5x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-5.0 mm. Price: $150

#35415 - Mineral: Datolite, First Sovietskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Large yellow-green datolite crystals with no matrix attached. The datolite crystals are translucent, lustrous with distinct crystals. Sensel acquired the specimen from Mountain Minerals for $200 in 1996. A few corners are chipped, though hard to see. Ex. Dr. E. Sensel collection #M1054 Overall Size: 8x7x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-5 cm. Price: $175

#19793 - Mineral: Dioptase, Omawe, Kaokoveld, Namibia. Many lustrous emerald-green dioptase crystals on milky quartz matrix with minute bluish plancheite botryoidal crystals visible in the spaces between the dioptase. The dioptase crystals are transparent and have glassy faces. Overall Size: 4.5x2.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-4.0 mm. Price: $125

#41966 - Mineral: Dioptase, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Large single crystal of emerald-green dioptase with no matrix attached and a few smaller crystals around the edges. The corners of the crystal are transparent, the centers have cloudy zones that appear to made of minute negative cavities or bubbles. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #117; ex. Zweibels in 1983 Overall Size: 26x19x15 mm. Crystal Size: 2-26 mm. Price: $650

#42095 - Mineral: Dioptase, Mindouli, Pool, Republic of Congo. Elongated lustrous emerald-green dioptase crystals with no matrix attached. The inner core of the crystals has layered growth of opaque and translucent dioptase as shown on the end of a crystal where it intersected the cavity wall.. Great color! Ex. Robert C. Lambert #99; acquired in 1975 from Pala Overall Size: 5x3x1 cm. Crystal Size: 4-18 mm. Price: $400

#40132 - Mineral: Dioptase and Shattuckite, Omawe, Kaokoveld, Namibia. Colorful cluster of lustrous deep-green translucent dioptase crystals up to 11 mm long in a shallow cavity lined with baby-blue shattuckite microcrystals. The quartz matrix was sawn flat on the bottom so the specimen sits nicely without support. Overall Size: 6x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-11.0 mm. Price: $700

#40127 - Mineral: Dioptase on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Vivid green sparkling dioptase crystal scattered in several cavities in calcite-rich matrix. The dioptase crystals are emerald-green, transparent, highly lustrous, with rich coverage throughout. Overall Size: 6x5.5x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-3 mm. Price: $250

#40252 - Mineral: Dioptase on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Brilliant emerald-green dioptase crystals up to 11 mm long on colorless rhombohedral calcite crystals up to 1 mm. Excellent color and luster. One crystal on the lower right edge is incomplete where the specimen was attached to surrounding matrix. Overall Size: 7x4x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-11 mm. Price: $550

#23514 - Mineral: Dioptase with Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Elongated specimen covered on front and rear with lustrous crystals of green dioptase up to 4 mm. One side has a secondary overgrowth of colorless calcite crystals up to .2 mm and two other minerals, one red, the other gray. Very showy - no damage. Ex. Michael D. McMillan collection (S. Africa) Overall Size: 5x2.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 4 mm. Price: $150

#37385 - Mineral: Dioptase, Wulfenite, Willemite, Tiger District, Mammoth, Pinal County, Arizona. Sparkling cluster of vivid green transparent dioptase crystals up to 1 mm long over tan-colored willemite that fluoresces white under UV illumination. Transparent yellow wulfenite crystals are visible when viewed under magnification. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 6x6x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.2-1.0 mm. Price: $125

#38805 - Mineral: Dolomite var. Cobaltian, Kakanda Mine, Shaba Copper Belt, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Bright pink cobalt-rich dolomite crystals completely coating one face of matrix. Note: these specimens are often incorrectly labeled as cobaltian calcite, but a thorough survey and analysis in 1999 shows they should be labeled cobaltian dolomite. Overall Size: 6x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1 mm. Price: $225

#38774 - Mineral: Edgarite with Pyrrhotite, Kaskasnyunchorr, Khibiny Massfif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Compact mass of crystallized dull gray edgarite with bronze-colored pyrrhotite. Overall Size: 16x15x12 mm. Crystal Size: 0.5-2.0 mm. Price: $115

#35888 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Paprok, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Gemmy green elbaite tourmaline crystal with striated prism faces and shallow pyramidal termination. The color varies from vivid green to nearly colorless at the termination. The crystal shows good color (not too dark). One rear edge is chipped. Overall Size: 27x18x18 mm. Crystal Size: 27 mm. Price: $315

#40259 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Transparent green-blue elbaite tourmaline crystal with white albite matrix attached. this specimen fools everyone - they think it is aquamarine beryl. But it is a pseudo-hexagonal elbaite tourmaline, the tip off being the secondary termination faces. Overall Size: 30x20x12 mm. Crystal Size: 30 mm. Price: $600

#40260 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Terminated bi-colored elbaite tourmaline crystals fully crystallized all around. The color of the elbaite crystals is a unique neon-green color with pale-pink zone at the termination. The specimen is mounted to an acrylic base for display. Overall Size: 51x13x12 mm. Crystal Size: 28-51 mm. Price: $750

#41434 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bi-colored translucent elbaite tourmaline with blue gray bottom zone and raspberry-pink pinacoid terminations. Remnants of white pocket clay are still in the crevices on the striated crystal sides (can be cleaned). Overall Size: 33x15x14 mm. Crystal Size: 33 mm. Price: $150

#42376 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Chapadinha Mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Transparent steel-blue elbaite tourmaline with interesting pink outer zones that show when light is passed through from rear. The elbaite crystal has a flat pinacoid termination with complex crystal patterns on the surface and edges. Overall Size: 36x11x10 mm. Crystal Size: 36 mm. Price: $150

#41710 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Transparent elbaite tourmaline crystal with shallow pyramidal termination and color that varies from green to blue-green at the termination. Overall Size: 26x10x9 mm. Crystal Size: 26 mm. Price: $150

#41430 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bi-colored translucent elbaite tourmaline with blue gray bottom zone and raspberry-pink pinacoid terminations. Remnants of white pocket clay are still in the crevices on the striated crystal sides (can be cleaned). Overall Size: 36x14x13 mm. Crystal Size: 36 mm. Price: $175

#41431 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bi-colored translucent elbaite tourmaline with blue gray bottom zone and raspberry-pink pinacoid terminations. Remnants of white pocket clay are still in the crevices on the striated crystal sides (can be cleaned). Overall Size: 47x13x13 mm. Crystal Size: 47 mm. Price: $175

#35649 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Khat Chay Mine, Momeik, Burma (Myanmar). Mushroom-shaped elbaite tourmaline crystals translucent red color, with a radiating internal structure and many minute crystal terminations. On the bottom the dark tourmaline core is visible and the crystals that transition from black to red. No damage. Overall Size: 40x35x30 mm. Crystal Size: 10-20 mm. Price: $575

#41708 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California. Doubly-terminated bi-colored elbaite tourmaline crystal with flat pinacoid termination and secondary edges faces. Most of the tourmaline crystal is translucent pink but the upper termination zone is intense green color. Overall Size: 24x20x20 mm. Crystal Size: 20 mm. Price: $225

#37337 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, (Himalaya Mine), Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California. Gemmy green elbaite tourmaline crystal with steep termination. Internally most of the crystal is transparent green, but the termination zone is chatoyant (silky) colorless possibly caused by etching along the crystallization axis. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 58x20x20 mm. Crystal Size: 58 mm. Price: $350

#40312 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline, Malchanskoye pegmatite field, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. Translucent pink elbaite tourmaline crystal with shallow pyramidal termination and several faces partially coated with gray muscovite microcrystals. The termination has sparkling internal reflections that resemble metallic inclusions. Overall Size: 30x25x20 mm. Crystal Size: 30 mm. Price: $250

#37354 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline on Milky Quartz, Pala District, San Diego County, California. Terminated pink rubellite tourmaline (variety of elbaite) embedded in a light gray milky quartz crystal with yellowish albite. Other rubellite tourmalines are visible inside the quartz on the rear. The tourmaline termination and sides are chipped. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 5x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 40 mm. Price: $350

#41366 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline with Albite, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Terminated bi-colored elbaite tourmaline crystal with minor white albite attached on one side. The elbaite crystal has a transparent colorless layer over a translucent zone and a opaque black lower zone. Overall Size: 4.5x3x3 cm. Crystal Size: 35 mm. Price: $175

#42374 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline with Albite, Stak Nala, Skardu District, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Transparent elbaite tourmaline crystal with flat pinacoid termination modified by secondary faces on the edges plus minor platy albite crystals attached on one side. The elbaite crystal is pink at the top, then green, colorless and brown (pink+green) Overall Size: 26x25x21 mm. Crystal Size: 25 mm. Price: $165

#41712 - Mineral: Elbaite Tourmaline with Lepidolite, Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California. Bi-colored elbaite tourmaline crystal with flat pinacoid termination and secondary edges faces. Most of the tourmaline crystal is translucent pink but the upper termination zone is intense green color. One side has a small group of purple lepidolite. Overall Size: 25x17x15 mm. Crystal Size: 4-25 mm. Price: $175

#36845 - Mineral: Elbaite var. Rubellite Tourmaline, Baxao Mine, Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bi-colored crystals of elbaite tourmaline with no matrix attached. The elbaite crystals are transparent yellow in the lower portions and pink in the terminations. The bottom is naturally crystallized too. Currently mounted on an acrylic stand. Overall Size: 38x6x3.5 mm. Crystal Size: 38 mm. Price: $150

#37341 - Mineral: Elbaite var. Rubellite Tourmaline, Pala District, San Diego County, California. Hot-pink transparent elbaite, variety rubellite tourmaline crystal with no matrix attached. The rubellite crystal is flattened in section and is terminated. One corner of the termination has white albite attached. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 32x14x7 mm. Crystal Size: 32 mm. Price: $300

#37346 - Mineral: Elbaite var. Rubellite Tourmaline, Pala District, San Diego County, California. Doubly-terminated translucent pink rubellite variety of elbaite tourmaline with no matrix attached. The rubellite crystal has a flat pinacoid termination with secondary edge faces on one end. One termination has the locality inked in white. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 25x17x16 mm. Crystal Size: 25 mm. Price: $325

#41705 - Mineral: Elbaite var. Watermelon Tourmaline, Santa Rosa Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Terminated crystal of watermelon tourmaline variety of elbaite. The name is due to the pink center surrounded by the green rind. The color zoning is easily visible because the outer green zone is highly transparent (gemmy). Overall Size: 39x11x11 mm. Crystal Size: 39 mm. Price: $175

#37940 - Mineral: Enargite with Quartz, Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain pass, Silverton District, San Juan County, Colorado. Brilliantly lustrous dark enargite crystals up to 9 mm with scattered patches of colorless quartz microcrystals. The enargite crystals are well crystallized, with striated crystal faces the result of complex twinning. A beautiful specimen. Ex. Mitch Gunnell; ex. Calvert (no old labels) Overall Size: 8x7x2 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-9.0 mm. Price: $400

#41179 - Mineral: Epidote, near Diakon, Kayes Region, Mali. Doubly-terminated clusters, resembling bow-ties, of green epidote crystals fully crystallized on all surfaces. The epidote crystals are internally opaque and have complex surfaces composed of many smaller sub-parallel crystal faces. Overall Size: 9x6.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-9 cm. Price: $125

#42179 - Mineral: Epidote, Mabel Mine, Castro Virreyna, Huancavelica, Peru. Lustrous green-black epidote crystals with chisel-shaped terminations. All crystals are complete and undamaged, but there is a contact on the lower right from a crystal that intersected the cluster. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #558; acquired in 1999 Overall Size: 6x3.5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 10-40 mm. Price: $175

#39536 - Mineral: Epidote with Prehnite, near Diakon, Kayes Region, Mali. Large cluster of prismatic dark green-black epidote crystals up to 45 mm long with a hemispherical translucent green prehnite crystal group 18 mm diameter. The prehnite crystals have striated prism faces with chisel-shaper terminations. Overall Size: 13x9x6 cm. Crystal Size: 1-45 mm. Price: $195

#37573 - Mineral: Euclase on Quartz, Ecuador, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Large milky quartz crystal 10 cm long with etched termination and pock-marked exterior surfaces on two sides. One side has many transparent colorless euclase crystals up to 5 mm scattered over the surface. This is genuine - not one of the recent fakes. Overall Size: 10x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-100 mm. Price: $250

#37500 - Mineral: Fairfieldite, Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina. Translucent pale-yellow fairfieldite crystals in rosettes and aggregates up to 4 mm across on a pearly translucent white mineral (bikitaite?). This specimen is very rich in fairfieldite and all crystals are complete. Ex. John Albanese (1898-1969), ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 13x8x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-2 mm. Price: $250

#38399 - Mineral: Fluorapophyllite, Calcite, Datolite, Analcime, Quartz, Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey. Large specimen covered on one face with blocky white fluorapophyllite crystals up to 18 mm and golden pseudo-cubic calcite crystals up to 6 mm, with smaller datolite, analcime and quartz crystals. Ex. W.S. Vaux (1811-1882) collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #7728 Overall Size: 22x14x10 cm. Crystal Size: 1-18 mm. Price: $475

#38397 - Mineral: Fluorapophyllite, Calcite, Datolite, Analcime, Quartz, Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey. Large elongated plate covered on one face with blocky white fluorapophyllite crystals up to 25 mm and golden pseudo-cubic calcite crystals up to 18 mm, with smaller datolite, analcime and quartz crystals. Two fluorapophyllite crystals are missing. Ex. W.S. Vaux (1811-1882) and Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923) collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #24038 Overall Size: 29x15x8 cm. Crystal Size: 1-25 mm. Price: $675

#40218 - Mineral: Fluorite, Eastgate Quarry, Weardale, County Durham, England. Transparent green cubic fluorite crystals over milky quartz matrix. The fluorite crystals fluoresce under UV illumination. Internally the fluorite has whitish center zones with best transparency at the corners. Ex. D. Barker #1137; ex. G. Clark Overall Size: 6x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 10-23 mm. Price: $195

#44739 - Mineral: Fluorite, Freiberg District, Saxony, Germany. Large plate of colorless cubic fluorite crystals to 16 mm across with scattered partial coating of microcrystals of an unidentified metallic sulfide mineral, probably pyrite. The sulfide coating give the fluorite a green appearance. Ex. Chas. W. Velte Jr. (1914-1987) collection #282 Overall Size: 7x7x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 16 mm. Price: $150

#28773 - Mineral: Fluorite, Caldwell Stone Quarry, Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. Large plate of cubic crystals of translucent, purple fluorite up to 12 mm across. For more information, see: pg. 110 of Rocks and Minerals May-June 1981. Overall Size: 13x7x3 cm. Crystal Size: 3-12 mm. Price: $175

#42263 - Mineral: Fluorite, Walworth Quarry, Wayne County, New York. Several transparent cubic fluorite crystals on limestone matrix. The fluorite crystals pale-blue color and have glassy crystal faces. The large fluorite crystal on the right rear has been restored into position (no visible glue). Ex. Robert C. Lambert #511; acquired in 1999 Overall Size: 6x4x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-19 mm. Price: $125

#40117 - Mineral: Fluorite, Riemvasmaak, Gordonia District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. New find of vivid green octahedral fluorite crystals in a cluster of interconnected crystals. The green color of the fluorite from this locality is unique. The fluorite on the left side has yellow fluorite microcrystals on the surface. Overall Size: 5.5x5.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-18 mm. Price: $250

#24764 - Mineral: Fluorite, La Viesca Mine, La Collada, Siero, Asturias, Spain. Cluster of many complex cubic fluorite crystals with internal color zoning varying from gray-purple centers and deeper purple outer zones. The crystals are cubic habit with surfaces of many parallel smaller cubic faces. No damage. Overall Size: 7x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 15-45 mm. Price: $165

#24766 - Mineral: Fluorite, La Viesca Mine, La Collada, Siero, Asturias, Spain. Cluster of many complex cubic fluorite crystals with internal color zoning varying from gray-purple centers and deeper purple outer zones. The crystals are cubic habit with surfaces of many parallel smaller cubic faces. No damage. Overall Size: 7x4.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-25 mm. Price: $175

#32164 - Mineral: Fluorite, Caravia-Berbes District, Asturias, Spain. Colorful cluster of purple fluorite crystals. The fluorite crystals are cubic form, with secondary dodecahedral edge faces. The crystals are transparent with zones of deeper color in areas. A great specimen with good color. Ex. A. Fernandez collection Overall Size: 11x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 cm. Price: $975

#36424 - Mineral: Fluorite (pink), Göschener, Canton Uri, Switzerland. Large octahedral pink fluorite crystals with remnants of white albite matrix on the rear. The fluorite crystals are translucent and have silky surface luster. The octahedral crystals have dodecahedral edge modifications and many parallel crystal faces. Overall Size: 3.5x3x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-28 mm. Price: $325

#39129 - Mineral: Fluorite (rare botryoidal form) on Quartz, Tekhdi, Madhya Pradesh, India. Translucent yellow-green fluorite in hemispherical formations up to 40 mm diameter on matrix of small colorless quartz crystals. The fluorite is actually transparent internally, but the dull outer texture conceals the inner clarity. Collected in 2007 from a new locality in central India Overall Size: 7x6x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 25-40 mm botryoids. Price: $150

#39132 - Mineral: Fluorite (rare botryoidal form) on Quartz, Tekhdi, Madhya Pradesh, India. Botryoidal formations of translucent green-beige fluorite on colorless quartz crystals. The fluorite is 27 and 19 mm diameter and have a fringe of microcrystalline white quartz around the perimeter. One edge shows radial crystal structure. Collected in 2007 from a new locality in central India Overall Size: 9x6x3 cm. Crystal Size: 19-27 mm botryoids. Price: $150

#39136 - Mineral: Fluorite (rare botryoidal form) on Quartz, Tekhdi, Madhya Pradesh, India. Large translucent yellow fluorite botryoidal formation 45 mm acoross surrounded by colorless quartz crystals. The fluorite has an unusual gap around the edge before the quartz starts. The fluorite has white microcrystalline quartz around the perimeter. Collected in 2007 from a new locality in central India Overall Size: 12x7x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 45 mm botryoid. Price: $150

#39133 - Mineral: Fluorite (rare botryoidal form) on Quartz, Tekhdi, Madhya Pradesh, India. Botryoidal formations of translucent amber-colored fluorite on colorless quartz crystals. The fluorite is 31 and 32 mm diameter and have a fringe of microcrystalline white quartz around the perimeter. One of the best I have of this find. Collected in 2007 from a new locality in central India Overall Size: 7x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 31-32 mm botryoids. Price: $250

#39135 - Mineral: Fluorite (rare botryoidal form) on Quartz, Tekhdi, Madhya Pradesh, India. Botryoidal formations up to 27 mm diameter of translucent green-beige fluorite on colorless quartz crystals. The fluorites have a fringe of microcrystalline white quartz around the perimeter. One of the best I have from this new find. Collected in 2007 from a new locality in central India Overall Size: 12x9x3 cm. Crystal Size: 15-27 mm botryoids. Price: $250

#39139 - Mineral: Fluorite (rare botryoidal form) on Quartz var. Amethyst, Tekhdi, Madhya Pradesh, India. Two translucent yellow-gray fluorite botryoidal formations up to 21 mm diameter on purple amethyst quartz crystals. The grayish fluorite color is due to amethyst showing through the yellow fluorite. White microcrystalline quartz surrounds the fluorite. Collected in 2007 from a new locality in central India Overall Size: 11x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 17-21 mm botryoids. Price: $175

#39142 - Mineral: Fluorite (rare botryoidal form) on Quartz var. Amethyst Geode, Tekhdi, Madhya Pradesh, India. Large geode of purple amethyst quartz with three yellow botryoidal fluorite formations up to 50 mm diameter in one corner. One fluorite formation has a red (hematite?) inclusion just below the surface. The outside has been worked to reduce excess quartz. Collected in 2007 from a new locality in central India Overall Size: 19x18x9 cm. Crystal Size: 12-50 mm botryoids. Price: $400

#40460 - Mineral: Fluorite (twinned crystals), Blackdene Mine, County Durham, England. Large plate of purple fluorite crystals up to 18 mm on edge completely covering one face of the matrix. The fluorite crystals are interpenetrant twins and many have cloudy inclusions. One large crystal is chipped. Fluoresces violet under UV illumination. Overall Size: 13x11x6 cm. Crystal Size: 3-18 mm. Price: $150

#40136 - Mineral: Fluorite on Muscovite, Nagar, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Transparent crystal of pale-green fluorite 22 mm across on matrix of platy muscovite mica crystals up to 12 mm. The fluorite crystal has textured cubic faces with dodecahedral edge faces and a center zone fluoresces under UV illumination. Overall Size: 9.5x5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-22 mm. Price: $225

#42201 - Mineral: Fluorite on Pyrite and Galena, Naica Mining District, Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico. An extraordinary specimen of complex transparent pale blue-green fluorite crystals up to 30 mm across overgrown on metallic gray galena and yellow pyrite crystals. The fluorite crystals show parallel cubic, octahedral and a hexoctahedral faces. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #168; ex. Zweibels in 1977 Overall Size: 7x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-30 mm. Price: $450

#39994 - Mineral: Fluorite with Calcite, Xianghualing Mine, Linwu, Hunan, China. Transparent green fluorite crystals up to 5 cm across with transparent colorless calcite crystals up to 6 mm partially coating one fluorite. The fluorite crystal has octahedral faces composed of many smaller cubic faces. Overall Size: 9x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-50 mm. Price: $165

#41363 - Mineral: Fluorite with Calcite, Denton Mine, Harris Creek District, Hardin County, Illinois. Two differently-colored groups of fluorite crystals up to 50 mm across with minor scalenohedral yellow calcite crystals up to 10 mm long. The left fluorite is milky purple, the right group is yellow center with blue outer layers. Overall Size: 12x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-50 mm. Price: $300

#42104 - Mineral: Fluorite with Pyrite, Mina Emilio, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain. Water-clear pale-blue cubic (actually rectangular) fluorite crystals up to 17 mm on edge with a few pyrite microcrystals included in the fluorite and on the surface. The internal clarity of the fluorite is noteworthy. Minor edge chipping in areas. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #109; acquired in 1992 Overall Size: 6x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 17 mm. Price: $400

#40373 - Mineral: Fluorite with Sphalerite, Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Large cubic fluorite crystal 10 cm across with pale purple color and surfaces composed of smaller, parallel, cubic crystal faces. One corners has brown sphalerite matrix attached. An old specimen from this famous mine that is no longer producing. Overall Size: 13x10x7 cm. Crystal Size: 1-10 cm. Price: $150

#44758 - Mineral: Galena, Franklin District, Sussex County, New Jersey. Heavy mass of solid galena with parallel cleavage faces throughout. Ex. Chas. W. Velte Jr. (1914-1987) collection #656 Overall Size: 6.5x4.5x4 cm.. Price: $125

#43539 - Mineral: Gold (crystallized leaf), Round Mountain Mine, near Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada. Twisted leaf gold specimen with no matrix attached. The surfaces of the gold have fine crystallization patterns visible throughout. Weight: 0.804 grams Overall Size: 26x9x4 mm. Crystal Size: 0.5-1.0 mm. Price: $165

#44543 - Mineral: Grossular Garnet, Dognecea, Banat Region, Romania. Lustrous red-brown transparent grossular garnet crystals with minor white calcite in areas. The grossular garnet crystals are a combination of dodecahedral and trapezohedral forms and have slightly striated crystal faces. Ex. Miller collection ca. 1900 Overall Size: 10x7.5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-8 mm. Price: $400

#25542 - Mineral: Gypsum var. Selenite, Lake Gillies, South Australia, Australia. Very well formed transparent selenite crystal with opaque tapering core inside the crystal. Unusual complex termination caused by crystal twinning {110}. Fully crystallized on all surfaces with no point of attachment - a floater. Overall Size: 6.5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 6.5 cm. Price: $125

#37185 - Mineral: Hemimorphite, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Extraordinarily large hemimorphite crystals in a narrow fan-shaped cluster mounted to an acrylic base (will remove upon request). The hemimorphite crystals are lustrous and translucent. Overall Size: 4.5x3x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 20-45 mm. Price: $175

#40877 - Mineral: Hydroxylherderite, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Limonite-stained prismatic hydroxylherderite crystals many exhibiting v-shaped fish-tail twinning. Though several crystals are incomplete or chipped, the large crystal size and prevalent twinning make this a notable specimen. Ex. Irenee DuPont D-748 Overall Size: 7x5x6 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 cm. Price: $225

#41763 - Mineral: Inesite, N'Chwaning Mine, Kuruman District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Rich specimen of orange-brown acicular inesite crystals completely coating one face of gray matrix. The inesite crystals are transparent, slender crystals often in bundled aggregates radiating from the matrix. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #304 Overall Size: 10.5x6.5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 3-4 mm. Price: $500

#35657 - Mineral: Lazulite, Siderite, Quartz, Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Double-sided specimen of translucent dark-blue lazulite crystals up to 8 mm with colorless quartz crystals up to 12 mm and rhombic brown siderite crystals up to 5 mm. The back is covered with siderite crystals. An excellent specimen with little damage. Overall Size: 17x9x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $150

#44600 - Mineral: Limonite pseudomorphs after Pyrite on Quartz, Boscobel, Grant County, Wisconsin. Well defined brown limonite pseudomorphs after pyritohedral pyrite crystals up to 8 mm across sparkling translucent brown quartz crystals to 1 mm. The pyrite crystals formed first, then altered to limonite, but keeping the original pyrite shape. Overall Size: 6.5x5.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-8 mm pseudos. Price: $350

#42193 - Mineral: Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. Concave cluster of dark green malachite crystals. The formation walls are 3 mm thick composed of fibrous green malachite. The inner malachite is crystallized in velvety rounded formations to 8 mm diameter. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #191; acquired in 1999 Overall Size: 6.5x5.5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-3 mm. Price: $550

#36381 - Mineral: Malachite, Burra Burra, north of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Large stalactitic formation with surfaces of velvety green malachite. The largest stalactite finger is 4 cm tall. All surfaces are completely coated with fine acicular transparent malachite microcrystals (looks beautiful under magnification). Overall Size: 12x10x6 cm. Crystal Size: .5-4 mm. Price: $975

#41915 - Mineral: Malachite and Shattuckite, Kolwezi District, Shaba Copper Belt, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Large blocky green malachite crystals up to 35 mm across completely filling a concave formation of blue fibrous shattuckite crystals up to 3 mm long. The top of the cluster contacted the top cavity wall resulting in incomplete terminations in the center. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #455 Overall Size: 8x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 3-35 mm. Price: $475

#40409 - Mineral: Manganite* with Barite and Quartz, Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Harz Mountains, Thuringia, Germany. Lustrous dark metallic manganite crystals up to 7 mm long with one area intergrown with translucent white barite plus minor quartz on the bottom. The manganite crystals are striated, prismatic form with flat, pinacoid terminations. Overall Size: 5x3x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-7 mm. Price: $175

#42264 - Mineral: Mimetite on Philipsbornite, Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, Thailand. Transparent yellow mimetite crystals up to 4 mm long on dark matrix that was reported by B. Pinch to be philipsbornite. Looks beautiful under magnification. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #467; acquired in 2000 Overall Size: 6x5x1 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 mm. Price: $375

#25023 - Mineral: Mimetite var. Campylite with Coronadite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. Large specimen with many crystals of yellow-brown mimetite crystals coating matrix crystals. Classic old specimen from the famous mine opened in the early 1800s and abandoned by 1890. Large specimens from this locale are uncommon. Overall Size: 15x14x8 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 mm. Price: $825

#35418 - Mineral: Mottramite on Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Large plate of tabular calcite crystals up to 12 mm completely coated with dark mottramite crystals up to .5 mm. The calcite crystals are flattened rhombohedral form and their shape is distinctly visible beneath the mottramite overgrowth. Ex. Don Belsher collection Overall Size: 12x12x4 cm. Crystal Size: .2-12 mm. Price: $250

#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

#41937 - Mineral: Neptunite and Natrolite, Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito County, California. Many lustrous black neptunite crystals with compact white natrolite between the crystals. The neptunite is actually translucent dark-red which is visible in several crystals with good illumination. An unidentified green micromineral is in two areas. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #1; acquired in 1995 Overall Size: 9x7x2 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 14 mm. Price: $450

#36931 - Mineral: Orpiment, Shimen Mine, Hunan, China. Lustrous yellow-orange orpiment crystals, with a few small colorless calcite crystals, mounted on a base. The orpiment crystals grew together in a compact mass and have lustrous chisel-shaped terminations and chatoyant yellow prism faces on the sides. Overall Size: 6x6x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-5 cm. Price: $175

#29354 - Mineral: Paravauxite, Llallagua, Bustillos Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia. Gray matrix coated on all sides with greenish paravauxite crystals. The paravauxite forms a thin druse in areas, but in recessed pockets the paravauxite grew up to 6 mm with even larger crystals to 12 mm on a flat face (side of a vein). ex. J. Cilen (1916-1997) #4401 Overall Size: 15x9x8 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $375

#36377 - Mineral: Penfieldite Pb2Cl3(OH) with Boleite, Sierra Gorda District, Antofagasta, Chile. Large specimen with many small pockets lined with rare penfieldite crystals up to 4 mm (easily visible with the naked eye) on matrix with blue boleite. The penfieldite is colorless, six-sided, elongated, tapering crystals with minute striations. Overall Size: 8.5x6x6 cm. Crystal Size: .5-4 mm. Price: $150

#41678 - Mineral: Penfieldite, Boleite, Cerussite, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Chile. Many cavities lined with rare penfieldite crystals with blue boleite microcrystals and minor cerussite. The penfieldite is colorless, six-sided, long tapering crystals, with minute striations. The penfieldite fluoresces yellow under UV illumination. Collected August 2001 Overall Size: 6.5x6x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 4 mm. Price: $150

#39362 - Mineral: Phosgenite on Galena, Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy. Transparent yellow phosgenite crystals in a small cavity in gray metallic galena. There are two phosgenite crystals, separated by a 2 mm thick section of another phosgenite crystal (hard to photograph). The phosgenite fluoresces under UV illumination. Overall Size: 8x6x6 cm. Crystal Size: 7-20 mm. Price: $250

#31680 - Mineral: Prehnite, Interstate Route 80 road cut, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey. Large plate covered with yellow-green prehnite crystals in spherical aggregates up to 5 mm diameter. Areas between the prehnite crystals are coated with greenish-brown clay. The contrasting colors and large size make this an attractive specimen. Overall Size: 24x17x6 cm. Crystal Size: 3-5 mm. Price: $250

#31403 - Mineral: Pseudomalachite and Psilomelane, Schuyler Copper Mine, North Arlington, Bergen County, New Jersey. Large sandstone matrix stained with green malachite, deep green pseudomalachite and brown psilomelane. Looks beautiful under magnification. Pseudomalachite is sought after from this old mine founded ca. 1715. A few areas show minor scuffing. Collected in the 1950s by Leonard Miller Overall Size: 12x9x5 cm. Crystal Size: .2-.5 mm. Price: $150

#37515 - Mineral: Pyrargyrite, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Lustrous dark metallic pyrargyrite crystals up to 5 mm an sparkling calcite microcrystals. Some of the calcite crystals have minute pyrargyrite inclusions visible inside when viewed under magnification. The bottom was sawn flat to remove excess matrix. Collected ca. 1900; ex. Carter Rich Overall Size: 7x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: .1-5 mm. Price: $595

#34759 - Mineral: Pyrite in matrix, Logrono, Ambassaguas, Spain. Exceptionally large cluster of cubic pyrite crystals in matrix. Both pyrite crystals are on the same side and the specimen displays nicely from several angles. The crystal faces have small pitting due to matrix intergrowths. Four corners are damaged. Ex. Frank Jaeger collection #428 Overall Size: 21x17x9 cm. Crystal Size: 5 cm. Price: $250

#41754 - Mineral: Pyrite with Hematite, Isola d'Elba, Tuscan Archipelago, Livorno, Italy. Large partial crystal of yellow metallic pyrite with depressed crystal faces lined with sparkling black bladed hematite crystals to 4 mm across. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #224 Overall Size: 6x5.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-60 mm. Price: $250

#44566 - Mineral: Pyrolusite, Ilfeld, Harz, Germany. Gray-black metallic pyrolusite crystals in a thick vein formation that has finely developed crystal surfaces on the face of the specimen. Ex. Miller collection ca. 1900 Overall Size: 6.5x5.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 mm. Price: $275

#42050 - Mineral: Pyromorphite, Bad Ems, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany. Translucent brown-beige pyromorphite crystals in a tapered cluster of sub-parallel crystals with no matrix attached. The pyromorphite crystals are lustrous hexagonal prisms with flat pinacoid terminations that have a silky luster. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #248; acquired in 1978 Overall Size: 3x2x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-8 mm. Price: $150

#41386 - Mineral: Pyromorphite, Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho. Lustrous yellow-green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals in a curved cluster overgrown on earlier orange arsenic-rich pyromorphite. Ex. A. Goldstein #668 Overall Size: 29x26x18 mm. Crystal Size: 1-8 mm. Price: $225

#40311 - Mineral: Pyromorphite, Bunker Hill Mine, 17-23 Floors, 9th Level, Jersey Vein, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho. Elongated cluster of lustrous yellow-green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals with flat pinacoid terminations that are whitish. All crystals are highly lustrous and complete. Ex. Bob Hopper (mine owner) Overall Size: 5x2.5x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-6 mm. Price: $775

#37447 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado. Doubly-terminated amethyst quartz crystals with no matrix attached. The amethyst is milky in the center with medium purple at the terminations. One end is chipped, but the large crystals make this specimen noteworthy. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 6.5x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 3-6 cm. Price: $150

#21306 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Piedras Parado, Municipio de Tatatila (formerly Las Vigas), 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

#33313 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Piedras Parado, Municipio de Tatatila (formerly Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico. Many transparent medium-purple amethyst quartz crystals up to 40 mm long on an irregular plate of translucent gray calcite crystals up to 3 mm. Several of the amethyst crystals are doubly-terminated. Overall Size: 9x5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 cm. Price: $165

#35636 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst, Piedras Parado, Municipio de Tatatila (formerly Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico. Many deep purple amethyst quartz crystals on gray calcite crystal-coated matrix. The amethyst crystals are transparent and have deepest color at the terminations. Overall Size: 10x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 4-25 mm. Price: $400

#30843 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst (Cactus Quartz), 20 km west of Pretoria, Magaliesberg Mountains, Guateng, South Africa. Medium purple amethyst crystals up to 6 cm long with overgrowth of smaller 3-4 mm amethyst crystals around the prism faces of the larger crystals. No damage. Overall Size: 7x7x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-70 mm. Price: $150

#41806 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst (Cactus Quartz), 20 km west of Pretoria, Magaliesberg Mountains, Guateng, South Africa. Purple amethyst crystals up to 6 cm long with overgrowth of smaller 2-3 mm amethyst crystals around the prism faces of the larger crystals, but they do not coat the larger terminations of the underlying crystals. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #611 Overall Size: 9x4x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-60 mm. Price: $175

#36702 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst Flower, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Restored large fan-shaped formation of pale to purple amethyst quartz crystals. These formations are commonly called Amethyst Flowers because of their resemblance to flowers. There are two plates joined together (no glue line is visible). Overall Size: 19x17x4 cm. Crystal Size: 2-40 mm. Price: $175

#36141 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst Scepter, Diamond Hill, Ashaway, south of Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. Complex cluster of milky quartz crystals with the larges crystal on the top being doubly-terminated with an amethyst scepter termination at one end. The cluster appears to have formed when free crystals settled in solution. Damage, bottom sawn flat. From my personal collection Overall Size: 12x11x10 cm. Crystal Size: 2-90 mm. Price: $135

#41249 - Mineral: Quartz var. Amethyst and Milky, Eastman Quarry, Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine. Doubly-terminated medium purple amethyst quartz crystals 50 mm long with smaller milky quartz crystals up to 6 mm long intersecting the terminations. Good color and luster for this locality. Overall Size: 7x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 5-50 mm. Price: $125

#42141 - Mineral: Quartz var. Gwindel-habit, Val Giuv, Graubünden, Switzerland. Transparent pale-smoky quartz crystals with glassy crystal faces on milky quartz matrix. The quartz crystals exhibit Gwindel-habit (twisted stacked aggregate of doubly-terminated crystals). Ex. Robert C. Lambert #278; acquired in 1978 from Pala Overall Size: 5.5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 28-32 mm. Price: $275

#41807 - Mineral: Quartz var. Gwindel-habit, Graubünden (Grissons), Switzerland. Doubly-terminated transparent smoky quartz exhibiting rare Gwindel habit of stacked horizontal crystals that twist in orientation on a central vertical axis. The exact locality was not given, but probably originated at Val Giuf. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #27; ex. Curt Segeler Overall Size: 9x6x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 25-45 mm. Price: $1250

#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

#39090 - Mineral: Quartz var. Rose on Smoky Quartz, Lavra da Ilha, Jequitinhonha River, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Large central smoky quartz crystal 9 cm long with a rim of pink rose quartz crystals around the outside. The smoky quartz crystal has unusual crystallization patterns on the surface. Rose quartz crystals are rare. The tip of the smoky quartz is chipped. Overall Size: 11x9x7 cm. Crystal Size: 5-90 mm. Price: $350

#39089 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky, Sao Jose de Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Transparent doubly-terminated smoky quartz crystals 8 cm long overgrown on a core of translucent milky quartz. The smoky quartz is lustrous and quite transparent. One termination tip is chipped. Overall Size: 12x8x7 cm. Crystal Size: 8 cm. Price: $175

#39103 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky, Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Several doubly-terminated smoky quartz crystals up to 9 cm long overgrown on the termination of a single milky quartz crystal 7.5 cm long (a scepter-shaped formation) with minor white albite included on the rear faces. One termination is chipped. Overall Size: 13x12x8 cm. Crystal Size: 3-9 cm. Price: $225

#41248 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky-Amethyst, Eastman Quarry, Millennium Pocket, Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine. Doubly-terminated group of parallel quartz crystals with dark-smoky to pale-purple amethyst color internally and glassy crystal faces. Collected May-June 2000 Overall Size: 8x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-5 cm. Price: $125

#36793 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky-Amethyst Scepter, Crystal Park, Beaverhead County, Montana. Scepter-shaped formation of transparent quartz with a 3 cm long stem of smoky quartz topped by a larger cap of pale pink amethyst quartz. All surfaces have widely varying etched textures on the faces. Overall Size: 62x28x20 mm. Crystal Size: 62 mm. Price: $165

#42261 - Mineral: Quartz var. Smoky-Amethyst Scepter with bubble inclusion, Tafelkop, Goboseb Mountains, Namibia. Scepter-shaped quartz crystal with a 30 mm wide cap on a 20 mm wide stem mounted on an acrylic base for support. The quartz crystal has pale amethyst and smoky zones internally and has several internal cavities including one with a movable bubble. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #386; acquired in 2000 Overall Size: 6x3x2 cm. Crystal Size: 60 mm. Price: $150

#42225 - Mineral: Quartz var. Solution-Quartz, Jeffrey Mine, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Elongated cluster of many doubly-terminated colorless transparent quartz crystals fully crystallized on all surfaces with no point of attachment (solution-quartz = crystallized out of solution). Remnants of a glued label are on remain on the rear. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #40; acquired in 1979 Overall Size: 9x5x3 cm. Crystal Size: 5-25 mm. Price: $475

#38453 - Mineral: Quartz with Chalcopyrite and Galena, Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Transparent colorless quartz crystals up to 27 mm long with brassy metallic chalcopyrite crystals up to 5 mm across and rounded (resembles melted metal) gray metallic galena crystals up to 10 mm across. Overall Size: 9x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-27 mm. Price: $125

#39419 - Mineral: Quartz with Pyromorphite, Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Very large milky-smoky quartz crystals up to 12 cm long with grass-green pyromorphite crystals up to 2 mm long scattered on all surfaces. This is the largest quartz crystal I have seen from the Wheatley Mine. Overall Size: 16x9x9 cm. Crystal Size: 1-120 mm. Price: $125

#43489 - Mineral: Rhodochrosite with Pyrite coating, Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Huanuco Department, Peru. Curved stalactitic formation of rhombohedral pink rhodochrosite crystals up to 6 mm with thin surface coating of yellow-metallic pyrite microcrystals. The cluster is fully crystallized on all surfaces except where it was attached to matrix on the ends. Overall Size: 8x2x2 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 6 mm. Price: $175

#32711 - Mineral: Rutile, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Twinned crystal of lustrous red-black rutile with remnants of matrix on the bottom. The crystal has smooth, lustrous surface and is twinned through the middle. No significant damage. Overall Size: 35x25x22 mm. Crystal Size: 34 mm. Price: $195

#39162 - Mineral: Rutile (twinned crystals), Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. lustrous red-black rutile crystals forming a 60 degree V-twin and each arm of the twin is also internally twinned through the middle. This specimen is complete all around (unusual for this locality) and has a partial natural crack though the bottom. Overall Size: 4.5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 30-35 mm. Price: $350

#41020 - Mineral: Rutile (twinned crystals), Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Terminated dark red rutile crystals with no matrix attached. The rutile crystals show classic knee-twins (60° twins) on several sides. Remnants of silicone glue remain on the bottom from an old base that was removed. Overall Size: 22x20x18 mm. Crystal Size: 4-20 mm. Price: $165

#41017 - Mineral: Rutile (twinned crystals), Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Doubly-terminated dark red rutile crystals with no matrix attached. The rutile crystals show classic knee-twins (60° twins) on several sides. Overall Size: 3.5x3x2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-32 mm. Price: $295

#34901 - Mineral: Rutile and Hematite, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. Two twinned clusters of golden rutile crystals growing from a center cluster of dark metallic hematite crystals. The rutile crystals are v-twinned at 60 degree angles. Overall Size: 4x2x1 cm. Crystal Size: 3-30 mm. Price: $125

#34899 - Mineral: Rutile and Hematite, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. Twinned clusters of golden rutile crystals growing from a center cluster of dark metallic hematite crystals. The rutile crystals are v-twinned every 60 degree angles resulting in a star-shaped cluster. Overall Size: 4x2.5x1 cm. Crystal Size: 3-40 mm. Price: $195

#34903 - Mineral: Rutile and Hematite, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. Two twinned clusters of golden rutile crystals growing from a center cluster of dark metallic hematite crystals. The rutile crystals are v-twinned at 60 degree angles. Overall Size: 3.5x3x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 5-25 mm. Price: $235

#38743 - Mineral: Rutile on Hematite, Itamarandiba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Flat gray metallic hematite compound crystal 100 mm across with one face overgrown with 60 degree-twinned dark red rutile crystals up to up to 15 mm long. The rutile crystals are exceptionally lustrous and well crystallized. Overall Size: 10x7x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-100 mm. Price: $350

#41752 - Mineral: Scheelite and Fluorite, Linwu, Hunan, China. Large octahedral gray-brown scheelite crystals up to 30 mm with water-clear pale-blue (nearly colorless) cubic fluorite crystals up to 15 mm on edge. The scheelite fluoresces bright white under UV illumination. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #514 Overall Size: 8x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 10-30 mm. Price: $275

#37779 - Mineral: Schorl Tourmaline, Guadalupe Mine, Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico. Large single crystal of black schorl tourmaline with shallow pyramidal termination and surfaces composed of many smaller parallel crystal faces. Overall Size: 8x5.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 8 cm. Price: $125

#44467 - Mineral: Scorodite, Dernbach, Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Transparent bluish-green scorodite crystals in a 10 mm cavity in brown matrix. The scorodite crystals have lustrous crystal faces and are quite large for the species. Overall Size: 5.5x4x2.2 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4.5 mm. Price: $375

#37234 - Mineral: Shigaite on Calcite, N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman District, North Cape Province, South Africa. Many hexagonal platy crystals of shigaite in aggregates up to 6 mm across on translucent gray calcite crystals. The shigaite crystals are lustrous and have iridescent color ranging from yellow to green to red. Looks beautiful under magnification. Rare! Overall Size: 30x20x15 mm. Crystal Size: .5-6 mm. Price: $475

#33390 - Mineral: Silver, Japan. Wire crystals of native silver on black matrix, possibly a manganese oxide/ No other mine location was given and all references have failed to indicate where this could have originated. Ex. C.P. Maier Overall Size: 19x14x6 mm. Crystal Size: 1-3 mm. Price: $175

#43172 - Mineral: Silver and Copper var. Halfbreed, Keweenaw Peninsula Copper District, Michigan. Metallic native copper with a crystallized group of silver crystals along the top edge. Copper-silver combination specimens are called half-breeds by local miners and collectors. This specimen has well defined crystals and pleasing patina. Overall Size: 4.5x3.5x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-7.0 mm. Price: $175

#36972 - Mineral: Silver with Acanthite, Andres del Rio District, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico. Feather-shaped formation of native silver crystals with no matrix. The silver crystals grew off a central crystal 37 mm long and the surfaces have a secondary coating of gray-black metallic acanthite. Glue remnants on rear from a base. Overall Size: 38x14x3 mm. Crystal Size: 0.2-38.0 mm. Price: $325

#41245 - Mineral: Smithsonite, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico. Large specimen of translucent smithsonite with classic blue-green color known as Kelly Blue for this famous mine because of the rich color. The surface of the smithsonite has not been altered or acid-etched and shows individual crystal faces throughout. Overall Size: 13.5x7.5x4 cm. Crystal Size: layers 4-10 mm thick. Price: $1850

#40157 - Mineral: Smithsonite and Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Bright yellow-orange smithsonite microcrystal crust overgrown with rhombohedral white calcite crystals up to 6 mm on edge. The calcite fluoresces red under UV illumination. This is a very attractive specimen from the famous Tsumeb Mine, now long closed. Overall Size: 11x8x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.2-6.0 mm. Price: $550

#41917 - Mineral: Spessartine Garnet, Putian, Fujian Province, China. Wine-red trapezohedral spessartine garnet crystals on contrasting white quartz-albite matrix. The spessartine crystals are highly lustrous with slightly striated crystal faces. One crystal has a tiny chip on one corner. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #508; ex. Betts #11849 Overall Size: 7x4.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-9 mm. Price: $225

#18789 - Mineral: Sphalerite, (Andara Mines), (Picos de Europa), Spain. Blocky cleavage of dark brown sphalerite with one face terminated and coated with earthy smithsonite. Most likely from Andara Mines given it's age. World renowned W.S. Vaux was the donor, an indication of the quality at the time. Old museum label no. 5792, donated by William Sansom Vaux (1811-1882). Overall Size: 6x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 4 cm. Price: $150

#37571 - Mineral: Sphalerite and Galena, Tri-State Lead Mining District, Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. An outstanding specimen of translucent red-brown sphalerite crystals up to 30 mm with a few gray metallic galena crystals up to 25 mm. The galena crystals have unusual growth patterns on the surfaces of smaller galena crystals. Ex. John Albanese, Jr. Overall Size: 14x12x6 cm. Crystal Size: 3-30 mm. Price: $185

#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

#39119 - Mineral: Sphalerite and Quartz, Shuikoushan Mine, Hunan Province, China. Double-sided cluster of transparent deep-red sphalerite crystals up to 20 mm mixed with colorless quartz crystals to up to 2 mm. The sphalerite crystals are highly lustrous and show good translucency throughout. Overall Size: 9x6x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-20 mm. Price: $165

#39087 - Mineral: Sphalerite and Quartz, Shuikoushan Mine, Hunan Province, China. Double-sided cluster of transparent deep-red sphalerite crystals up to 15 mm mixed with colorless quartz crystals to up to 2 mm. The sphalerite crystals are highly lustrous and show good translucency throughout. Stands upright without additional support. Overall Size: 13x10x6 cm. Crystal Size: 1-15 mm. Price: $250

#42902 - Mineral: Sphalerite with Quartz and Chalcopyrite, Krushev Dol Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Showy specimen of lustrous black Spinel-law twinned sphalerite crystals up to 16 mm across with transparent colorless quartz crystals up to 35 mm long growing up through the sphalerite plus a brassy metallic 8 mm chalcopyrite crystal in a crevice. Overall Size: 11.5x8x4 cm. Crystal Size: 3-35 mm. Price: $225

#36651 - Mineral: Sphalerite, Calcite and Quartz, Shuikoushan Mine, Hunan Province, China. Floater specimen (fully crystallized on all surfaces with no apparent point of attachment) of transparent deep-red sphalerite crystals up to 8 mm mixed with colorless translucent calcite crystals up to 11 mm and colorless quartz crystals to 1 mm. Overall Size: 6x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 11 mm. Price: $115

#36652 - Mineral: Sphalerite, Calcite and Quartz, Shuikoushan Mine, Hunan Province, China. Many translucent red-brown sphalerite crystals up to 15 mm with areas of white quartz coating. The sphalerite crystals are highly lustrous and very eye-catching. Overall Size: 11x11x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-15 mm. Price: $375

#38486 - Mineral: Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Dark tetrahedral sphalerite crystals up to 14 mm with yellow metallic chalcopyrite crystals up to 6 mm on greenish quartz microcrystal matrix. The sphalerite is translucent when rear-illuminated and many are Spinel-law twinned. Overall Size: 10x9x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-14 mm. Price: $165

#44050 - Mineral: Spinel, Sungate Mine, An Phu, Luc Yen, Yen Bai District, Vietnam. Lustrous gray-pink spinel crystals in complex cluster of many octahedral crystals. The spinel crystal surfaces are translucent with shallow subsurface fractures that appear white. Many crystal faces exhibit growth layers of parallel, stepped faces. Overall Size: 9x5.5x4.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-45 mm. Price: $150

#23881 - Mineral: Spodumene, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Doubly-terminated crystal of translucent, yellow-green spodumene with no matrix attached. The top termination has a partial overgrowth of white quartz. The bottom termination has a complex shape, though crystal faces are distinctly visible. No damage. Overall Size: 13x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 13 cm. Price: $250

#36410 - Mineral: Spodumene var. Kunzite, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Single crystal of transparent pink kunzite (the pink gem-grade variety of spodumene) with chisel-shaped termination and striated prism faces. The kunzite crystal is internally flawless. Weight: 16.3 grams Overall Size: 48x14x9 mm. Crystal Size: 48 mm. Price: $300

#36685 - Mineral: Spodumene var. Kunzite, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Doubly-terminated single crystal of hot-pink spodumene, variety kunzite. The crystal has striated sides and chisel-shaped terminations. The pink color runs throughout, except one termination is greenish. Overall Size: 5.5x2x1 cm. Crystal Size: 5.5 cm. Price: $300

#44462 - Mineral: Stephanite on Pyrite with Siderite, Grand Prize Mine, Tuscarora, Elko County, Nevada. Black stephanite microcrystals coating cubic pyrite crystals up to 6 mm across with translucent brown siderite crystals 5 mm across and additional pyrite crystals to 10 mm across that are not coated with stephanite. Overall Size: 5x4.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 10 mm. Price: $450

#42428 - Mineral: Stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Ehime, Shikoku Island, Japan. Large crystal of metallic stibnite with mirror-like faces on one side and satin luster with minor damage on the other side. The stibnite crystal has a natural curvature, typical of stibnite crystals. Collected pre-1950 Overall Size: 170x21x12 mm. Crystal Size: 170 mm. Price: $750

#41837 - Mineral: Stibnite with Pyrrhotite, Cavnic (Kapnik) Mine, Maramures, Romania. Large cluster of lustrous metallic stibnite crystals up to 50 mm long in a radiating formation with a small group of bronze-colored platy pyrrhotite crystals up to 15 mm across. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #245 Overall Size: 12x7x8 cm. Crystal Size: 5-50 mm. Price: $400

#41770 - Mineral: Stibnite with Quartz, Herja (formerly Kisbanya) Mine, Baia Mare, Maramures, Romania. Elongated metallic stibnite crystals up to 30 mm long intergrown with small translucent gray quartz crystals up to 2 mm long. One side is predominantly quartz with the stibnite growing out of the other side. Currently mounted to a display stand. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #413; ex. Bruce Museum (Stamford, Ct.) Overall Size: 10x7x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-30 mm. Price: $275

#38269 - Mineral: Stilbite and Calcite, Moore's Station, Mercer County, New Jersey. Pristine plate of orange-brown stilbite crystals up to 6 mm long with overgrowth of sparkling colorless transparent calcite microcrystals up to .05 mm. The calcite fluoresces under UV illumination. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #23164, collected by Sam Gordon (1897-1952) in 1924 Overall Size: 11x10x6 cm. Crystal Size: 0.2-6.0 mm. Price: $425

#38276 - Mineral: Stilbite, Calcite, Pyrite, Moore's Station, Mercer County, New Jersey. One of the best specimens in the collection: translucent brown stilbite crystals up to 9 mm long transparent colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals up to 1 mm with a few larger rhombohedral calcite crystals up to 7 mm and pyrite microcrystals. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #23020, collected by Sam Gordon (1897-1952) in 1924 Overall Size: 12x10x5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-9.0 mm. Price: $275

#35826 - Mineral: Sulfur, Girgenti, Sicily, Italy. Parallel crystals of translucent yellow sulfur with small remnants of dark bitumen (natural petroleum) in some of the crystal crevices. The central group of crystals is complete, with no damage. Ex. R. Bideaux Overall Size: 6x5x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-4 cm. Price: $250

#23721 - Mineral: Tennantite on Quartz, Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia. Several triangular crystals of tennantite up to 20 mm on white quartz crystals up to 5 mm. The tennantite crystals have a greenish surface coating of another mineral, most like austinite replacing tennantite. No damage. Ex. John Rumble collection (South Africa) Overall Size: 8x7x4 cm. Crystal Size: 1-20 mm. Price: $200

#41526 - Mineral: Tetrahedrite, Cavnic (Kapnik) Mine, Maramures, Romania. Sharp, well crystallized metallic tetrahedrite crystals up to 9 mm across in contrasting white calcite matrix with minor yellow metallic pyrite crystals up to 1 mm. Overall Size: 9x8x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-9 mm. Price: $195

#36964 - Mineral: Tetrahedrite with Quartz, Huallanca District, Huanuco Department, Peru. Double-sided specimen of large well-defined tetrahedrite crystals up to 17 mm on edge with colorless quartz crystals up to 2 mm long and yellow metallic pyrite crystals up to 0.5 mm. The tetrahedrite crystals are clean and lustrous, with secondary faces. Ex. Dr. E. David #112J Overall Size: 6.5x4.5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-17.0 mm. Price: $450

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

#32767 - Mineral: Titanite var. Sphene, Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Superb specimen of green titanite crystals up to 45 mm long (!) on a plate of schist matrix. The titanite crystals have glassy faces with surface texture due to minute chlorite inclusions. Many crystals show prominent v-twinning. Overall Size: 13x8x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-45 mm. Price: $425

#40287 - Mineral: Topaz, Aramosh Valley, Azad Kashmir. Transparent sherry-colored topaz crystal with flat pinacoid termination with large triangular {011} faces. Internally the topaz has wispy (silky) zones running through the middle. The outer edges are chipped in several places. Overall Size: 28x18x17 mm. Crystal Size: 28 mm. Price: $125

#21184 - Mineral: Topaz, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Single crystal of Imperial topaz with steep termination. This crystal has excellent color - deep golden orange. Internally very clean (much better than commonly available) and externally undamaged. Overall Size: 17x11x8 mm. Crystal Size: 17 mm. Price: $125

#44668 - Mineral: Topaz, Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Doubly-terminated transparent colorless topaz crystal with complex terminations and striated prism faces. The center portion of the topaz crystal is mostly flawless (gem-grade). The topaz crystal is fully crystallized on all surfaces - a floater. Overall Size: 7x4x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 7 cm. Price: $400

#40265 - Mineral: Topaz, Shigar valley, north of Skardu, Gilgit, Pakistan. Doubly-terminated transparent sherry-colored topaz crystal with flat pinacoid termination with large triangular {011} faces. Internally the topaz has wispy (silky) zones running through the middle. Overall Size: 40x23x20 mm. Crystal Size: 40 mm. Price: $375

#40141 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Mibladen, Atlas Mountains, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Rich deep-red vanadinite crystals on earthy pink-brown matrix. The vanadinite crystals are highly lustrous, tabular hexagonal form, and vary from transparent to translucent. The crystals on the rear have tan-colored outer surfaces. Overall Size: 6x6x6 cm. Crystal Size: 1-8 mm. Price: $175

#36732 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Mibladen, Atlas Mountains, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Sparkling cluster of lustrous red-orange vanadinite crystals covering two faces of matrix with areas of black manganese oxide. The vanadinite crystals are tabular hexagonal form with secondary edge faces. Overall Size: 8x7x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-6.0 mm. Price: $195

#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

#37161 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Touissit Mine, south of Oujda, Morocco. Double-sided cluster of greenish-brown vanadinite crystals fully crystallized all around. The vanadinite crystals are doubly-terminated, hexagonal and tapered towards the terminations (barrel-shaped). Overall Size: 6x4x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-10 mm. Price: $250

#40142 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Mibladen, Atlas Mountains, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Large deep-red vanadinite crystals on pink-brown matrix. The vanadinite crystals are highly lustrous, tabular hexagonal form, and vary from transparent to translucent. The crystals on the rear have tan-colored outer surfaces. A few small xls are missing. Overall Size: 7x6x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-18 mm. Price: $375

#38840 - Mineral: Vanadinite, Acif Mine, Mibladen, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Concave cluster of interconnected red vanadinite crystals and no attached matrix. The vanadinite are tabular, hexagonal form and are internally translucent. One side is highly lustrous with many crystals, the other side is flattened and dull luster. Ex. E. M. Gunnell (1903-1986); acquired from Lidstrom's in 1974 Overall Size: 5x3x1.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-16 mm. Price: $400

#42090 - Mineral: Vanadinite on Barite, Mibladen, Atlas Mountains, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Sparkling cluster of lustrous deep-red vanadinite crystals up to 5 mm scattered over bladed white barite crystals up to 22 mm across. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #261 Overall Size: 5.5x4x3 cm. Crystal Size: 0.5-22.0 mm. Price: $225

#41924 - Mineral: Vanadinite on Barite, Mibladen, Atlas Mountains, Khénifra Province, Morocco. Large and colorful cluster of lustrous red vanadinite crystals up to 5 mm across on bladed white barite crystals up to 12 mm. The vanadinite crystals are tabular hexagonal form with beveled edge faces and are internally translucent. An excellent specimen Ex. Robert C. Lambert #284 Overall Size: 7x6.5x3.5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $450

#42010 - Mineral: Vivianite, Kerch Iron-Ore Basin, eastern Crimea, Ukraine. Fan-shaped formations of dark vivianite crystals up to 15 mm long on shallow pocket lined with botryoidal black manganese-oxides. The vivianite crystals are translucent and show blue color under strong illumination. Ex. Robert C. Lambert #417; acquired in 1990 Overall Size: 5x5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: 2-15 mm. Price: $175

#38422 - Mineral: Vivianite (pseudomorphs and crystals), Mullica Hill, Gloucester County, New Jersey. Six different specimens of black vivianite crystals in limonite matrix, including a rare pseudomorph after bivalve 45 mm across, a pseudomorph after a 60 mm belemnite (straight, conical-shaped mollusk) and assorted crystalline specimens. Ex. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection #22534 Overall Size: 9x8 to 5x5 cm. Crystal Size: 1-15 mm. Price: $175

#44542 - Mineral: Wavellite, Svatá Dobrotivá (St. Benigna), Bohemia, Czech Republic. White acicular wavellite crystals in radiating circular formations on one face of matrix. The wavellite crystals grew in a constricted vein that resulted in only two-dimensional development. Ex. Miller collection ca. 1900 Overall Size: 9x7x3 cm. Crystal Size: 1-12 mm. Price: $125

#39779 - Mineral: Witherite with Fluorite, Cave-in-Rock District, Hardin County, Illinois. Large cluster of translucent pseudohexagonal yellow-gray witherite crystals in compound groups covering front, top and rear of the specimen with minor purple fluorite crystals around the edges. One of the largest Illinois witherite specimens I've seen. Overall Size: 13x11x8 cm. Crystal Size: 5-55 mm. Price: $425

#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

#37080 - Mineral: Wulfenite on Quartz, Loudville Lead Mines, Manhan River, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Many small orange wulfenite crystals scattered over milky quartz crystal matrix. I have not counted all of the wulfenite crystals, but there are probably over 100 - they are everywhere when viewed under magnification. From my personal collection Overall Size: 6x5x2.5 cm. Crystal Size: .2-1.5 mm. Price: $275

#41353 - Mineral: Wulfenite with Mimetite, San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, north of Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Transparent yellow bladed wulfenite crystals up to 6 mm with translucent orange mimetite in spherical crystal aggregates up to 1.5 mm diameter. For more information see article: Famous Mineral Localities - San Francisco Mine in Min Rec. v.35, #6, p.41. Overall Size: 9x6x6 cm. Crystal Size: micro to 6 mm. Price: $150

#30259 - Mineral: Wulfenite, Mimetite, Willemite, Ahumada Mine, Sierra de Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Large cluster of bright yellow-orange wulfenite crystals up to 8 mm across intergrown with colorless calcite and lemon-yellow mimetite on brownish willemite microcrystal matrix. The wulfenite crystals have great color and luster. Overall Size: 13x13x7 cm. Crystal Size: 1-8 mm. Price: $325

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