5cm Calcite - $175
Verchiny Mine (Upper Mine), Dal'negorsk, Primorsky Kray, Russia
5.5 x 2.7 x 1.2 cm

A water clear terminated Verchiny Calcite.  The front is smooth and lustrous while the back has some small sand grain inclusions which can also be seen through front view.  There is some edge wear on the termination.  These are a must for the Calcite Collection.

cm7 Beryl variety Heliodor - $125
Orissa, N E India, India
3.5 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm

How many Indian Heliodors have you heard of?  A few were available back in 1999.  Most of these were heavily damaged and crystal sections.  I've only seen the ones that I ended up getting as part of a large purchase of other Indian specimens in 1999.  This is a well formed hexagonal transluscent crystal with a flat termination.  The flat termination has hexagonal grownths similar to the trigonal growths on the India Ruby crystals.  

cm8 Wulfenite - $600
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
7 x 6 x 5 cm

 

Superb, lustrous, double terminated, orange Wulfenite crystals to 1.5 cm from classic Los Lamentos.  Wulfenites are usually jumbled together but here are three isolated crystals and one isolated cluster of three crystals.  This can be displayed a couple of different ways.  This is an old specimen from the Gil Griffin collection which dates back at least 20 years.  Choice aesthetic specimens with the fabulous orange color are stunning and hard to come by.  

cm9 Quartz pseudomorph after Barite with Pyrite - $450
Quiruvilca Mine, Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad, Peru
13 x 13 x 8 cm

 

Impressive large cabinet sized pseudomorph.  Four large Barite blades completely pseudomorphed to undamaged  Quartz. Hundreds of lustrous Pyrite crystals contrast with the white Quartz and cover much of the Quartz.   Some of the Pyrite is missing but mostly on the back and bottom.  Overall the Pyrite is in v ery good shape.  Only a few of these came out back in 1999.  They are almost never available any longer.  Great for the pseudomorph or Peru collector.  

cm11 Hubnerite, Quartz - $275
Pasto Bueno, Ancash Department, Peru
5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm

Several terminated Hubnerite crystals perched in a maze of terminated Quartz crystals, making an elegant and aesthethic miniature.  Only damage I can see is to the lower back Hubnerite which is at or near the contact area.  All the many Quartz crystals are amazingly perfect.  This is a fine Peruvian miniature.

cm14 Quartz - Japan Law Twins - $450
Mina Flor del Peru II, near Pampa Blanca, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Dept., Peru
8 x 6 x 5 cm

cm15 4617- Copper - $425
Houghton County, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan
6 x 3.5 x 3 cm

A choice sharp elongated Copper crystal makes this sculpturally aesthetic miniature.    This is an older specimen found in the Gil Griffin collection.

cm16 Acanthite, Quartz, Calcite - $175
San Juan de Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
3 x 2.6 x 1.5 cm

 

Beautifully well formed crystals of this Silver Sulfosalt make up this floater.  Lustrous crystal faces at various angles of Acanthite have an association of small white Calcite crystals and small white Quartz crystals forming this aesthetic small miniature.