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Mar 21, 2008

 

            
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1   5atmml  ((3 BLACK PINE MINE THUMBNAILS)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Montana, thumbnails,  3 Black Pine thumbnails.   The Black Pine is famous for Philipsburgite and Veszelyite.  Here are some thumbnails of other associated minerals from the Black Pine mine.  Azurite, Hemimorphite, and Chrysocolla on Quartz.

 

2   5atmml  ((3 BLACK PINE MINE THUMBNAILS)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Montana, thumbnails,  3 Black Pine thumbnails.   The Black Pine is famous for Philipsburgite and Veszelyite.  Here are some thumbnails of other associated minerals from the Black Pine mine.  Azurite, Pseudomalachite on Druzy Quartz on Pyrolusite on Quartz, and Chrysocolla on Quartz.

3  5atmml  ((3 BLACK PINE MINE THUMBNAILS)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Montana, thumbnails,  3 Black Pine thumbnails.   The Black Pine is famous for Philipsburgite and Veszelyite.  Here are some thumbnails of other associated minerals from the Black Pine mine.  Azurite, Pseudomalachite on Druzy Quartz on Pyrolusite on Quartz, and Chrysocolla on Quartz.

4   5atmml  ((3 BLACK PINE MINE THUMBNAILS)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Montana, thumbnails,  3 Black Pine thumbnails.   The Black Pine is famous for Philipsburgite and Veszelyite.  Here are some thumbnails of other associated minerals from the Black Pine mine.  Azurite, Pseudomalachite and Chrysocolla on Quartz, and Azurite & Brochantite.

5   5atmml  ((3 BLACK PINE MINE THUMBNAILS)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Montana, thumbnails,  3 Black Pine thumbnails.   The Black Pine is famous for Philipsburgite and Veszelyite.  Here are some thumbnails of other associated minerals from the Black Pine mine.  Azurite, Pseudomalachite on Quartz, and Druzy Quartz on Pyrolusite.

6    5atmml  ((3 BLACK PINE MINE THUMBNAILS)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Montana, thumbnails,  3 Black Pine thumbnails.   The Black Pine is famous for Philipsburgite and Veszelyite.  Here are some thumbnails of other associated minerals from the Black Pine mine.  Azurite, Pseudomalachite & Hemimorphite, and Druzy Quartz on Pyrolusite on Quartz.

 

 

7   8cogma  ((COBALTIAN CALCITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Bou Becker, Touissit, Morocco, 4.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm, Miniature,  Here is a specimen with light pink scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. 

 

8    8codta  ((BROCHANTITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Goumina, Er Rachida Province, Morocco, 10 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet,  Green acicular crystals of Brochantite from Morocco.  

 

 8uu ((STIBNITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Round Mountain, Nevada, 8.5 x 6 x 2 cm, Cabinet,  Massive Stibnite without crystals.  ex University of Utah Dept of Geology and Geophysics
10   8uu ((CASSITERITE, MUSCOVITE)),  old Ward's label, $10 MINIMUM BID, Keystone, South Dakota, 5.5 x 5.5 x 2 cm, Miniature,  3 specimens with the largest having dark areas of Cassiterite.  Sames with the other 2 smaller specimens.  old Ward's label,  ex University of Utah Dept of Geology and Geophysics

 

 
11    5cgxla ((WINGS & BUGS in COPAL)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Columbia, 6 x 5.5 x 1 cm, Miniature,  Many many termite wings with several actual insects.  Columbia Copal is fairly recent in geological time unlike Baltic amber which is much older.

 

12   8chkbi  ((GRAPHITE)),  $1 MINIMUM BID, Sonora, Mexico, 4.5 x 3.5 x 1 cm, Miniature,  Graphite, like Talc is always asked for and seldom found.  Here is a specimen of pencil "lead" from Mexico.

 

 

 
13  5swns  ((RHODONITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Chiurucu Mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Huanuco Department, Peru,  6.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm,  Miniature,  Pretty pink bladed crystals of Rhodonite from Peru.  These are highly desirable.
14   7dddbio  ((NATIVE SILVER)),  $20 MINIMUM BID, Unknown location, to 4.5 cm,  4 elongated Silver crystals not wires, one to 4.5 cm.   
15   7ddtg  ((BOURNONITE)),  $50 MINIMUM BID, Pachapaque, Peru, 10 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet,  Lustrous cog wheel Bournonite crystals on matrix.  Front undamaged.  Crystals also on the backside with minor rub on the high point of the large crystal.  Fine Bournonite on matrix specimens from Peru are uncommon and not seen too often.  ex Ernie Schlichter.

  
16  7ddcdis   ((WULFENITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Urumqi, Kuruktag Mtns, Xinjiang Uygur Region, Northern China,  2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Lustrous red orange crystals of Wulfenite. 
17   5cmdfi ((ORPIMENT in SHALE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Mecur Mine, Tooele County, Utah, 7.5 x 7 x 3 cm, Cabinet, The Mecur has since been open pit mined by Barrack Gold and reclaimed.  This is an older specimen collected many years ago.  There are radial clusters of yellow Orpiment crystals within the shale matrix. 

 

18    5codjis ((BIXBYITE on TOPAZ/HEMATITE pseudomorph after GARNET)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, 1.9 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm, Thumbnail,  Lots of black highly lustrous cubic Bixbyite crystals on the pseudo.  The pseudomorph is a combination of Hematite and oriented Topaz after Garnet.  With the light right you can see rows and columns of oriented Topaz crystals with the reflective faces all lining up.  A loop also helps.

19  5codjis ((BIXBYITE on TOPAZ)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, 3.5 x 1 x 1 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a highly included double terminated crystal of Topaz with multiple terminations.  On the Topaz crystal are several lustrous black cubic Bixbyite crystals. 

 

   
20    5cmshn ((TETRAHEDRITE, PYRITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Daly Judge Mine, Park City, Summit County, Utah, 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature,  Compound Tetrahedrite crystal with several visable faces with Pyrite.  Daly Judge is off limits for collecting since part of Park City's water supply run off flows from this mine.

21    5cmpr2960a ((HEMIMORPHITE on CALCITE with GOETHITE coating)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Ophir District, Tooele County, Utah, 6 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Miniature,  Undamaged scalenohedral Calcite crystal with a fully undamaged tip.  The crystal has a Goethite coating and a white cluster of Hemimorphite crystals. 

22    5cmpr2962ns ((CALCITE HELECTITES)),  $40 MINIMUM BID, Ophir Hill Mine, Ophir District, Tooele County, Utah, 13 x 10 x 6 cm, Cabinet,  This one amazingly has very little damage.  A group of about 30 of these were collected 10 years ago and all were heavily damaged except this one.  This is another Utah mine closed to collecting.  This is the mine in which the Scheelites were collected several years ago.  

23  6fborr ((MALACHITE, TENORITE, ANGLESITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Copper Mountain Mine, Pilot Range, Box Elder County, Utah, 8 x 4 x 4 cm, Cabinet,  Old specimen from Copper Mountain.  Green Malachite and a grey massive which is probably Tenorite.  Also the white crystals do not have the form of Calcite and are probably Anglesite.
24     6atadis ((GOLD SPINEL TWIN)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Olinghouse Mine, Nevada, 1.2 cm in length,  Here is a single spinel twinned Gold crystal from the Olinghouse Mine.  Several years ago many superb gold specimens both wires and spinel twins came from this Nevada Gold mine.

 

25    6atcet ((BARITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Book Cliffs, Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, 5 x 4 x 3.2 cm, Miniature,  A cluster of colorless Barite crystals on matrix.  Some damaged crystals and also an undamaged terminated crystal. 
26    6atadr ((PINK TOURMALINE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California, 1.6 x 1 x .7 cm, Thumbnail,  Nice terminated specimen with two paralled pink Elbaite Tourmaline crystals. 

27   5atjkns ((CALCITE STALACTITE)),  $25 MINIMUM BID, Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, 13.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Cabinet,  An undamaged stalactite of individual Calcite crystals from Bisbee. 

28    7hljdir ((SAHLITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Fahlun, Sweden, 6 x 5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Old labels, ex Delaware Institute of Science specimen.   

29  ari ((HEALED QUARTZ with dark inclusions)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, 9 x 5 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet,  A terminated Quartz crystal with a healed base and a base with dark inclusions. 

 30   6ideja ((ANTOZONITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Wilberforce Radium Mine, Ontario, Canada, 3.5 x 2.5 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Old labels, ex Evan Jones specimen. 

 

31  5swn ((CINNABAR, DOLOMITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Tongren, China, 5 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature,  Red Cinnabar crystals on a contrasting white to cream colored Dolomite on grey Limestone.

 

 
32  6atcet ((BARITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Book Cliffs, Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, 5 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature,  Two parallel terminated crystals of colorless Barite crystals. Some contact but undamaged.

33  5swl ((SCHEELITE, FLUORITE, DOLOMITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 7.5 x 4 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Combination specimen with fluorescent octahedral crystals of lustrous Scheelite and white Dolomite on light purple Fluorite. 

 

 

34   5swl ((FLUORITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 11 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Grey green cubic Fluorite crystals with octahedral modification on a contrasting light cream to tannish matrix. 

 

 
35  5swl ((CALCITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 9 x 8 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Different looking Chinese Calcite.  Stacked rhombs of Calcite forming what appears to be scalenohedrons.  The entire specimen has a light yellow brown coating. 

36   5swl ((FLUORITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 11 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Grey green cubic Fluorite crystals with octahedral modification on a contrasting light cream to tannish matrix. 

37  5swl ((FLUORITE on QUARTZ)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 6.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm, Miniature,  Two stubby terminated transluscent to transparent Quartz crystals with several small purple cubes of Fluorite attached to the Quartz.

 

 

38 5swl ((FLUORITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 11 x 9 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Purple Cubic Fluorite crystals with slight octahedral modifications.  Fluorite is on a Calcite or Dolomite matrix which is a light brown.

39  5swl ((FLUORITE with JAMESONIT/BOULANGERITE inclusions on QUARTZ)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 8 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, A cluster of cubes of Fluorite crystals (the dark areas has Jamesonite or Boulangerite inclusions).  A large terminated Quartz on a matrix with many short terminated Quartz crystals.

40  5swl ((ARSENOPYRITE, minor QUARTZ & CHALCOPYRITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 3 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, A cluster of lustrous silvery Arsenopyrite crystals with minor Quartz and minor Chalcopyrite. 

41    5swl ((HEMATITE on QUARTZ)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Guangdong, China, 4.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, A black lustrous plate of Hematite on a terminated crystal of Quartz.

 

42      5swl ((FLUORITE, FERBERITE, QUARTZ, CHALCOPYRITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 4 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, A cluster of lustrous undamaged Fluorite on one side.  Ferberite, Quartz, and Chalcopyrite on the other side. 
43   5swl ((QUARTZ, FLUORITE, ARSENOPYRITE coated with CHALCOPYRITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 5 x 5 x 4 cm, Miniature, A cluster of terminated Quartz with Arsenopyrite coated with golden Chalcopyrite and minor Fluorite. 
44   5swl ((QUARTZ, FLUORITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, Province, 5 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, A cluster of undamaged double terminated Quartz crystals with a cluster of light purple cubic Fluorite. 

 

 

45   7hhswa ((QUARTZ, CALCITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Orange River, Warmbad, Karas Region, Namibia,  6 x 6 x 2 cm,  A cluster of terminated Quartz crystals included with red brown inclusion covered with small white scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. 

 

 

 

 

46  7hhswa ((QUARTZ)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Orange River, Warmbad, Karas Region, Namibia,  5.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm,  A cluster of terminated Quartz crystals included with red brown inclusions. The one termination a little rough appears to have some contact on the tip.

  

47  5swl ((AMETHYST, EPIDOTE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Sichuan, China, 6 x 5.5 x 1.7 cm, Miniature, A cluster of terminated Quartz with Amethyst phantoms along with dark green Epidote. 

 

 

48    7hhswa ((QUARTZ)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Orange River, Warmbad, Karas Region, Namibia,  5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm,  A cluster of terminated lustrous Quartz crystals with some included with red brown inclusions near the crystal bases.

 

 
49   7atkrii  ((MALACHITE on COPPER with ARAGONITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 5 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  With other similar specimens, this looks like green Malachite on Copper (although the Copper is hard to see) with sprays of cream colored Aragonite.

 

 

50   7atkris  ((MIMETITE)),  $25 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 6 x 4 x 4 cm, Miniature,  This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  Looks like a fine sparkling specimen of gemmy Mimetite.  Small terminated gemmy crystals cover the surface of this Tsumeb specimen.  Like the others, there is probably several other minerals also present. 

51 7atkrnr  ((CALCITE)),  $25 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 9 x 5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  There are many rhombs of whitish Calcite.  There is also a much larger crystal that could also be Calcite.  The reverse has smaller almost botryoidal or spherical mounds of light blue grey crystals.

 

 

52  7atkris  ((MALACHITE)),  $1 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  The green looks like Malachite although I guess it could be Brochantite.  Matrix is a couple other species with maybe goethite. 
 
53   7atkra  ((CALCITE)),  $1 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 3.5 x 2 x 2 cm, Thumbnail,  This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  Lustrous Calcite scalenohedral crystals with small black inclusions. 

 

54  7atkrls  ((CALCITE with HEMATITE inclusions)),  $40 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 11 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet, This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  Not much guessing here.  It is a classic Tsumeb Calcite with Hematite inclusions causing the brownish red coloration.  There are a couple (2) minor edge dings but overall in good shape, especially for a cabinet sized Calcite.

55 7atkrls  ((MIMETITE with COPPER pseudo after CUPRITE)),  $40 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 8 x 8 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  Not much guessing on the Mimetite.  Rounded sheaf like yellow crystals with a matte luster.  A little guess is the small dark crystals lightly peppering some areas of the Mimetite.  Looping them with 10 x and some other similar specimens suggest the copper colored crystals are perhaps Copper pseudomorphs after Cuprite.  Probably a microscope will be required since they are still a little small looking with a loop.  Looping shows some of the Mimetite crystals damaged but probably an area of at least half the specimen is totally undamaged.

56    7atkril  ((CERUSSITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 6.5 x 5.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  This is looks like Cerussite crystals on matrix.  There are also smaller needle like terminated crystals that resemble small pin Quartz crystals.   Again ID is also your guess or have it IDed.

 

 
57  7atkrtr  ((CALCITE with MOTTRAMITE)),  $30 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 12 x 6 x 4 cm, Cabinet, This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  Not much guessing here.  It is a classic Tsumeb Calcite with dark green Mottramite covering the matrix.  Overall in great shape.  One end has contact damage and could be trimmed to remove.  One side of the Calcite crystals have a strange inclusion which may or may not be the Mottramite.  The other side of the Calcite does not even have a trace.
58   7atkrtr  ((DOLOMITE CAST)),  $25 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 12 x 7 x 3 cm, Cabinet, This is part of the large lot of 80 flats of Tsumeb specimens purchased from Kristalle last year at the beginning of Tucson.  These were not labeled as of the minerals.  Ex Uri Bahamm collection.  So the ID is a guess on my part.  Undamaged light weight Dolomite cast in yellows and browns.   Shows from front or back.  Looping the backside shows the thousands of small gemmy rhombs making up the apparent curved surfaces.

 

59   7hhswa ((JAPAN TWIN QUARTZ variety AMETHYST)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Madagascar,  2.5 x 2 x .8 cm,  Thumbnail,  A thumbnail sized Japan Twinned Quartz with a purple tip on one side.  Undamged neat thumbnail,  I guess I can say that the purple tip has a bruise on the back but is not chipped at the bruise. 
60   7hhswa ((REVERSE SCEPTER QUARTZ)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Mina Lilian mine, Chihuahua, Mexico,  4 x 3 x 2.5 cm,  A cluster of terminated lustrous Quartz crystals with some Amethyst terminations which are also reverse scepters. 
   
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MRZ114 – Picromerite (Schonite) on Halite - $300 (SOLD)
Potash Mine, Rossleben, Querfurt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Large Miniature, 5.7 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm

 

A sharply crystallized example of this rare sulfate species, formerly known as Schonite, from a classic locality long abandoned. Minor halite is associated underneath and around the backside. It is, overall, a very attractive miniature. It carries an old label from the Bergakadmemie Freiberg. Sharp and complete all around, very 3-dimensional.


 

7hhlmit  ((FLUORESCENT APATITE)),   $30 MINIMUM BID,  Sapo Mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil,  4 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature,  Here is a great miniature.  It is double terminated stacked crystals of Apatite which has a hollow core and is Fluorescent orange under UV.   Completely undamaged.
 

 

 

7jgcdl  ((NAN DAN METEORITES)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Nan Dan, Hunan, China, 2.5 cm, 2 thumbnails,  Two 2.5 cm length iron meteorites from Nan Dan China.  They are lightly varnished to protect from rusting but this man be removed with thinner or nail polish remover.

  

Fluororichterite - George Earle Farm, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada (small cabinet)

 

 

 

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