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Apr 04, 2008

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1 6hlkmr ((PYRITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Grace Mine, Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 5.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Several Pyrite crystals in a white Calcite matrix. Grace Mine has be closed and the shaft sealed shut with alot of concrete. The property has be sold and partially developed.

2 7atjtne ((GOLD in QUARTZ)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Unknown location, California?, 5 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Gold in Quartz from probably California since came from a California collection. The close up shows the large flattened gold nugget in the vug but the color in the photo matches the iron staining on the Quartz. Better in person.

3 5atadir ((PYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Guang Xi, China, 7 x 7 x 1.7 cm, Cabinet, Here is a larger than normal Chinese Pyrite "flower" . Undamaged except for a bit of scuffing on the center of one side and some small expansion cracks, normal for these specimens.

4 7atjtin ((BULTFONTEINITE with POLDERVAARTITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, South Africa, 5.5 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, White sprays of acicular crystals of Bultfonteinite and cream colored euhedral crystals of Poldervaartite.

5 tatlmg ((HEMATITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil, 3.5 x 2 x 1 cm, Miniature, Lustrous black undamaged parallel crystals of Hematite from Brumado.

6 tatlmns ((APATITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Sapo Mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 3.8 x .8 x .8 cm, Miniature, Terminated and stacked crystals of grey green Apatite.
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7 tatlmit ((RUTILE star ON HEMATITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil, Thumbnail, Beautiful star shaped golden Rutile needles with a black Hematite in the center.

8 7atkrin ((SMITHSONITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia, 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, ex Clive Queit specimen. ex Kristalle, ex Uri Bahmann.

9 7atkrr ((PLATTNERITE pseudo after Wulfenite, WULFENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 3.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm, Under a loop the dark miniature which is identified as Plattnerite has replaced the Wulfenite crystals on one generation of Wulfenite. Then there is another generation of Wulfenite crystals. ex Kristalle.

10 5aamisc718ts ((WULFENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico, 3 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Large thick crystals of Wulfenite which are orange on one side, and brown on the other side.

11 6ikis ((ZEKTZERITE with secondary ZIRCON)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Washington Pass, Okanogan County, Washington, 1.5 x 1 x 1 cm, Thumbnail, Large etched partial crystals of Zektzerite with small Zircon crystals. Zektzerite is fluorescent. This photo sure does not show much. If you can imagine some of the dark areas are the Zircons and the white specks are the reflections of light of the top face.

12 6ari ((VANADINITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ramsey Mine, Arizona, 5 x 2.5 x 1 cm, Caramel colored undamaged crystals of Vanadinite from the Ramsey Mine in Arizona

13 6miscis ((FOSSIL BRACHIOPOD)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ohio, 4.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Here is a paraspirifer from Ohio of Devonion age. Undamaged with some minor Pyrite replacement.

14 5hhswa ((4 small CERUSSITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Bulldog Mine, Creede, Colorado, to 1.5 cm, 4 Thumbnails, Here are 4 thumbnails of twinned Cerussite crystals from the Bulldog Mine in Colorado.


15 5hhswa ((17 small VESZELYITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Montana, to 1 cm, 17 Thumbnails to micros, Here are 17 small specimens with the rare blue crystals of Veszelyite. 6 or so are actually pretty nice but small. I will try to put several pictures on the webpage auction preview since I am limited on the actually auction listing.

16 5ggssg ((LIBETHENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Kantanga, Congo, 3 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Dark green octahedral Libethenite crystals from the Congo.

17 7atkrr ((ARSENOPYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, 3.5 x 2 x 1 cm, Miniature, Lustrous terminated cluster of Arsenopyrite from Mexico.

18 7atkrr ((ADAMITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 7 x 3.5 x 2 cm, Cabinet, gemmy small yellow pinwheels of Adamite from the Ojuela.

19 7atkrr ((CHALCOPHANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 6 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Grey Chalcophanite on Adamite from the the Ojuela.

20 7atkrr ((ORPIMENT, REALGAR)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, 5 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Yellow almost gemmy Orpiment crystals from Getchell with associated red Realgar.

21 7atkrr ((VANADINITE variety ENDLICHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico, 5.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Hexagonal prisms of Endlichite. One half of the specimens the Endlichite crystals look fuzzy from smaller needle like secondary crystals which grew from the original crystals.

22 7atkrr ((AJOITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ajo, Arizona, 4 x 4 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Light greenish blue acicular crytals of Ajoite from Arizona. The crystals are contacted on the one side of the specimen but are acicular small crystals on the other side of the specimen.

23 7atkrr ((HEMIMORPHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 4 x 2 x 2 cm, Miniature, Colorless terminated crystals of Hemimorphite with some brown staining

24 7atkrr ((PYRITE, PYRITE PS. PYRRHOTITE, on DOLOMITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Smaller miniature of Pyrite from Santa Eulalia

25 7atkrr ((PLATTNERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 5.5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Grey brown Plattnerite on bladed crystals of Hemimorphite.

26 7atkrr ((SULFUR on CELESTINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, 8 x 7 x 4 cm, Cabinet, A pocket of yellow Sulfur crystals in the middle of Celestine with yellow Sulfur again on the perimeter of the specimen.

27 7atkrr ((ANGLESITE pseudomorph after GALENA)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Bingham, New Mexico, Thumbnail, A cluster of Galena crystals now covered with small whitish grey crystals of Anglesite. One small Galena is broken open to reveil the alteration. Also minor colorless Fluorite present.

28 7atkrr ((PSEUDOBROOKITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, Thumbnail, These are so very hard to collect with out breaking the delicate crystals. One smack with the rock pick and the vibration and shock is enough to make a great specimen a once great specimen. Here is a spray with delicate needle like crystals between 1.5 to 2 cm in length.

29 7atkrr ((CORUNDUM)), $10 MINIMUM BID, North Carolina, Thumbnail, Nice dark maroon colored hexagonal shaped Corundum crystal. 2.2 cm in width.

30 7atkrr ((CHROMIUM CLINOCHLORE aka KAMMERERITE on CHROMITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mersin, Turkey, Thumbnail, Very gemmy Kammerite crystals on a grey Chromite matrix.

31 7atkrr ((CYANOTRICHITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Blanchard Claims, Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico, Thumbnail, Blue Cyanotrichite and green Brochantite from Bingham.

32 7atkrr ((AEGIRINE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, Thumbnail, Black crystals of Aegirine in contrasting Albite from Magnet Cove.

33 7atrcis ((SCHOLZITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Reaphook Hill, Flinders Range, South Australia, Australia, 6.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Acicular white needles of this rarer carbonate from Australia.

34 7atrcis ((STICHTITE in SERPENTINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Stichtite Hill, dundas, Tasmania, Australia, 8 x 6.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Nice color combination of purple and lime green. The purple is the Stichtite and the lime green is the Serpentine.

35 7atrcr ((CRANDELLITE pseudomorph after WAVELLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Toms Quarry, Kapunda, South Astralia, Australia, 4 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Neat and strange pseudomorph from Australia.

36 7atrcr ((DECRESPIGNYITE Y, MALACHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Paratoo Copper Mine, Olary District, South Australia, Australia, 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Rare blue copper species, Descrespignyite from Australia with associated green Malachite occurring as veins through the matrix rock.

37 7atrcr ((FLUELLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Toms Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia, 3.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Another Australian species from Toms Quarry.

38 4aaprt ((2 FOSSIL TRILOBITES)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ptyocephalus yersini, Millard County, Utah, 6 and 10 mm, Here are two specimens of a smaller species of trilobite from Utah's lower Ordovician, Wah Wah Limestone formation. Utah is famous for its excellent rare and common Cambrian Trilobites. One does not usually think of Utah for its Ordovician trilobites. This is one that is found illustrating one of trilobites characteristics, that of rolling up in a ball protecting its softer underbody and legs. Photos show the head side and the tail or pygidium side.

39 3bar17r ((BARYTE formerly BARITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Rosebud Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, 5 x 3.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, White blocky undamaged Baryte crystals that resemble rhombs and look like Calcite at first glance.

40 6hlkmr ((APATITE on ACTINOLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Silver Hill Quarry, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 5.5 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature, Long greenish grey crystals of Actinolite with white opague hexagonal prisms of Apatite crystals. These were first discovered at this location only a few years ago with the Apatite crystals.

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49 4iddbir ((EPIDOTE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Northern Frontier District, Kenya, 5 x 4 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Dark green Epidote from Kenya, a one time find from several years ago.

50 7atkria ((COBALTIAN DOLOMITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 8.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm, Cabinet, This is either pink Cobaltian Dolomite or Cobaltian Calcite. I think it is Cobaltian Dolomite. ex Kristalle, ex Uri Bahmann.

51 7atkria ((CALCITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 5 x 5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Here is a large Calcite rhombic crystal. A cleavage on the top back face. Limonite coating that may be removable. ex Kristalle, ex Uri Bahmann.

52 5miscis ((TOURMALINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 3.5 x .6 x .5 cm, Miniature, Greenish blue terminated crystal of Tourmaline.

53 5miscr ((PYRITE 24 faces per crystal)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ross County, Ohio, 4.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, These are very unusual lustrous Pyrite crystal form in that they have 24 crystal faces per crystal. This specimen has what appears to be two cracks or two repairs. I do not believe these are repairs. These specimens are etched with HCl since the Pyrite are/were enclosed in Calcite. I looked at this with a loop. Easier seen on the back are two large furrows with hairline cracks. I can not actually see any cracks with by eye. I must use the loop and so they are small and tight throughout unlike a repair. I think that the furrows were from the acid seeping into the cracks and etching the limestone in addition to the calcite. You can see the etching on the surface of the limestone matrix. So the cracks were pre- etching. I do not see any sign of glue. I do see a small amount of remnant Calcite between the Pyrite. There are other small and tighter cracks on the back. I also can not find any crack through any of the Pyrite crystals. Perhaps the cracks even occurred pre crystallization of the Pyrite crystals. The one close up has a large Pyrite crystal that looks like it has a crack but it is not a crack. I just can not believe the Limestone matrix was ever separated. One last note there is also a furrow with a small crack in the furrow like these but the furrow and crack ends.

54 5atdbes ((PYRITE, GALENA, DOLOMITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahau, Mexico, 10 x 9.5 x 8 cm, Cabinet, Undamaged Mexican combination specimen.

55 7atkria ((ARAGONITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 6 x 5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Here is a stalactite of Aragonite/Calcite. ex Kristalle, ex Uri Bahmann.

56 misct ((FOSSIL TRILOBITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Wellsville Mountains, Utah, 7.5 x 4 x .7 cm, Cabinet, Here is a beautiful spiny trilobite from the Cambrian Spence Shales of Utah. This trilobite is almost 1 cm but longer if counting the tail spine which is easily visable.

57 7hlkmr ((UVAROVITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Urals, Russia, 12 x 11 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Large specimen with small emerald green lustrous Uvarovite Garnet crystals.

58 7hlkmr ((PECTOLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, 14 x 13 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Large specimen of radial white Pectolite.

59 arit ((THREE QUARTZ variety HERKIMER DIAMONDS)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Middleville, Herkimer County, New York, 5 cm in length, Miniature, 3 large Herkimer Diamonds, Two have some damage, one undamaged. All still in good shape. They do have some yellow iron staining.

60 7hlkmr ((ILMENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Faraday Mine, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada, 7 x 4 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, Iron titanium oxide.

61 7hlkmr ((CHRYSOTILE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ontario, Canada, 7 x 3 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Fibrous Chrysotile from Canada.

62 7hlkmr ((FELDSPAR)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Faraday Mine, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada, 12 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm, Cabinet, A group of three large terminated Feldspar crystals with a group of minerals from Faraday and so these are also probably Faraday. The largest crystal has been repaired or glued back with the other three crystals.

63 7hlkmr ((SODALITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada, 15 x 7 x 5 cm, Cabinet, A large deep blue Sodalite from Ontario.

64 7hlkmr ((SMOKEY QUARTZ on ALBITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada, 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, A stubby but flat light smokey Quartz on a matrix of Albite Feldspar from Canada.

65 5idmii ((HEULANDITE with CELADONITE inclusions)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Nasik, Maharashtra, India, 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 cm, Thumbnail, Undamaged floater cluster of three double terminated green Heulandite crystals.

66 7ddcets ((SIDERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Unknown location, 10.5 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Beautiful Siderite cabinet sized specimen, I do not see any label so I am not sure of the location. ex Ernie Schlichter

67 7hlkmg ((BERYL)), repaired, $10 MINIMUM BID, Quadville, Ontario, Canada, 8.5 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Obviously the long thin Beryl crystal needed to be repaired as a result of removing the matrix from the crystal. Great thing is that it is actually double terminated with a flat termination at the top and also terminated at the base. That makes this a very nice specimen. A little damage to the bottom termination and some small gaps at the back of the repairs to the long crystal. Again still a very nice specimen.

68 6atadg ((QUARTZ, PYRITE, SPHALERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Animon Mine, Peru, 8 x 5 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Long undamaged terminated Quartz with associated Pyrite on a dark Sphalerite matrix.

69 7hlkmg ((STRONTIANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Oak Hall Quarry, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 11.5 x 8 x 5.5 cm, Cabinet, Large heavy sprays of Strontianite crystals from Oak Hall Quarry. Some damage or crushing to the lower right of the sprays. This is the lesser known of the three prominent Pennsylvania Strontianite locations.

70 5atjkis ((AURICHALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Level 5, Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, 7.5 x 5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Here is a colorful Aurichalcite specimen from Bisbee with a Calcite accent.

71 6ddbfis ((MIMETITE, CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 12 x 10 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Here is a large specimen of white zoned Calcite crystals with yellow brown mounds of Mimetite crystals.

72 7hlkmr ((APATITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, 8.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, A greenish brown crystal of terminated Apatite from Ontario. Some damage to two spots on the back side of the specimen, one to the back of the termination and another on a side crystal of Apatite.

73 5swl ((FERBERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China, 4.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, A lustrous terminated specimen of Ferberite from Yaogangxian. The backside of the termination looks like a large chip but the scalloped area is actually undamaged contact from what I can tell using a loop.

74 5jlbgr ((WULFENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Stevenson-Bennett Mine, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm, Thumbnail, An old specimen of undamaged (except two very minor spots) specimen in thumbnail size of the yellow orange Wulfenite from New Mexico.

75 5swl ((BOURNONITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China, 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a large thumbnail of lustrous grey Bournonite. The specimen is half of a single large crystal.

76 5fbcdis ((GYPSUM)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Red River Floodway, Canada, 5.5 x 4 x 4 cm, Miniature, Fluorescent Gypsum sphere with a larger single twinned crystal protruding from the sphere. Appears to be undamaged.

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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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