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Feb 13, 2009

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	1 9btad ((CALCITE STALACTITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, China, 10 x 4 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Here is a stalactite from a cave formation in China.

	2 9btad ((QUARTZ with OLIVINITE inclusions)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, 9 x 7 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Here is an uncommon and interesting specimen. It is Quartz with green Olivinite inclusions and Olivinite needles like crystals on Quartz.

	3 9btad ((GOLD)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Olinghouse Mine, Washoe County, Nevada, 18 x 7 x 3 cabinet, Here is a specimen with a sawn back and base. Sits up for display. It is Gold from Olinghouse which has fine crystaline Gold. This one has Gold in the cracks of the volcanic matrix trapped in the Calcite which is removed with HCl. Here is an Olinghouse Gold that you do not have to spent 4 and 5 figures to own.

	4 9btad ((RHODOCHROSITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Manuelita Mine, Morococha, Junin Department, Peru, 9 x 6 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a pretty pink Peruvian Rhodo.

	5 9btad ((QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Morococho, Junin Department, Peru, 4 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Undamaged neat little Quartz cluster from Peru.

	6 9btad ((FERBERITE on QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mundo Nuevo, Pasto Bueno, Ancash Department, Peru, 9 x 8 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Superb undamaged specimen with small undamaged double terminated Huebnerite crystals on a matrix covered with Quartz crystals and small Muscovite Mica. I can only see one Quartz crystal with a missing termination and otherwise totally undamaged.

	7 9btad ((CREEDITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Hall's Mine, Nye County, Nevada, 12 x 6.5 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Undamaged light purple Creedite on matrix.

	8 9btad ((VANADINITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Mibladen, Morocco, 4.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Small specimen covered with small lustrous orange Vanadinite crystals.

	9 9btad ((QUARTZ, PYRITE, MUSCOVITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Animon Mine, Peru, 9 x 5 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, Cabinet specimen with terminated Quartz and associated Muscovite and Pyrite. Looks undamaged to me.

	10 9btad ((FLUORITE on QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Pasto Bueno, Ancash Department, Peru, 10 x 9 x 8 cm, Cabinet, Superb undamaged specimen with large terminated Quartz crystals (one back crystal is missing the termination). On the Quartz is a beautiful green undamaged Fluorite.

	11 9btad ((TETRAHEDRITE, QUARTZ, SPHALERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Casapalca Mine, Lima Department, Peru, 13 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Aesthetic Peruvian combination. Terminated Quartz with a little but not much damage. Nice looking undamaged Tetrahedrite crystals and also nice looking undamaged Sphalerite.

	12 9btad ((QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Pasto Bueno, Peru, 9 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Sharp undamaged terminated Quartz crystal from Peru.	,

	13 9btad ((SPESSARTINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada, 6 x 4.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Lustrous Spessartine Garnet to 1 cm on Rhyolite matrix.	,

	14 9btad ((AJOITE included QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa, 8 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm, Cabinet, A cluster of stubby Quartz terminations. On the side two crystals have greenish blue Ajoite inclusions. Ajoite is a rare potassium sodium copper silicate.

	15 9btad ((SPHALERITE)), $10 MINIMUMTE BID, Julcani Mine, Julcani District, Huancavelica Department, Peru, 7 x 5 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, Gemmy dark honey colored Sphalerite crystals from Julcani. Looks undamaged but probably has some minor areas if looped. As good or better than the Chinese Sphalerites.

	16 9btad ((AXINITE, QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUMTE BID, Pampa Blanca, Castrovirrena Province, Huancavelica, Peru, 6.5 x 5 x 3 cm, miniature, Individual mostly undamaged brown Axinite crystals on terminated Quartz crystals. One Quartz termination is damaged.

	17 9btad ((CASSITERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Ximeng, Yunnan Province, China, 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Here is the somewhat uncommon deep coffee colored somewhat transluscent to transparent in places Yunnan Cassiterite.	,

	18 9btad ((FLUORITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Qinglong, Guizhou Province, China, 16 x 10 x 9 cm, Large Cabinet, Here is the new stacked light purple cubic Fluorite crystals. It has numberous stacked columns evidently etched out of Calcite with some white Calcite remaining. Looks like a coral head.

	19 9btad ((CALCITE, MARCASITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Brushy Creek Mine, Reynolds County, Missouris, 30 x 19 x 6 cm, Extra Large Cabinet, Here is a plate of grey semi lustrous terminated and double terminated Brushy Creek Calcite with associated Marcasite. The next three terminated crystals size wise have minor cleaved tips but no major damage. These are getting scarcer and scarcer with the many tons of specimens now all in collections.

	20 9btad ((AEGERINE with FELDSPAR)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Mt Malosa, Zomba, Malawi, 5.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Here is cluster of black lustrous Aegerine with cream colored small associated Feldspar crystals.

	21 9btad ((TENNANTITE pseudo after ENARGITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Julcani Mine, Huancavelica, Peru, 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Thicker than usual crystal of this pseudo that came out 7 or 8 years ago in several lots from Peru. Undamaged with contact on base and one side.

	22 9btad ((CUPRITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia, 5 x 4 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Red crystals of Cuprite on massive Cuprite from Red Dome.

	23 9btad ((gem CALCITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia, 6.5 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Undamaged gemmy Calcites with the back side Calcite crystals having brown mud inclusions. I noticed one crystal missing being cleaved at the surface of the matrix and barely noticable.

	24 9btad ((AZURITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia, 3.8 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Cluster of blue Azurite form Red Dome. Undamaged but with an attachment at the base.

	25 9btad ((PYROMORPHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Daoping Mine, Gulin, China, 4 x 2 x 1.5 cm Miniature, Undamaged aesthetic clusters of green Pyromorphite on matrix. Could be trimmed in half to make two nice thumbnails or kept as is.

	26 9btad ((GYPSUM variety SELENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Lily Mine, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru, 16 x 13 x 6.5 cm Cabinet, Highly fluorescent golden Selenite from Peru. No major damage. Pretty much completely undamaged with only a couple of minor crystal edge abrasions.

	27 9btad ((OLIVINITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada, 7.5 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Great coverage of needles of grey green Olivinite from Majuba Hill.

	28 9btad ((OLIVINITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada, 3.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Here are a style of Olivinite consisting of dark blackish green lustrous needles of Olivinite in a vug formed in a crack in the matrix rock from Majuba Hill. At places the Olivinite completely filled the crack.
	29 9btad ((TETRAHEDRITE, QUARTZ, SPHALERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Casapalca Mine, Lima Department, Peru, 18 x 8 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Aesthetic Peruvian combination. Terminated Quartz highlights the Tetrahedrite crystals with associated Sphalerite at one side.

	30 9btad ((RHODOCHROSITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Manuelita Mine, Morococho, Junin Department, Peru, 13 x 12 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a large pretty pink Peruvian Rhodo with coverage on front and backsides.

	31 9btad ((CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Huanzala Mine, Peru, 10 x 8 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Hexagonal crystals of Calcite cover the matrix which is a combination of Pyrite and Fluorite. This mine produces some of the worlds finest pink Fluorite. On this specimen the Fluorite is a light pinkish grey from the little that is exposed.


	32 9btad ((CASSITERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Ximeng, Yunnan Province, China, 5 x 3.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Here is the somewhat uncommon deep coffee colored somewhat transluscent to transparent in places Yunnan Cassiterite. This specimen is a section of multiple lustrous terminated crystals.

	33 9btcee ((MUSCOVITE, EPITAXIAL PYRITE on ARSENOPYRITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 11.5 x 9 x 2 cm, Cabinet, Here is a plate of Muscovite with a few Calcite and Arsenopyrite crystals. The Arsenopyrite have an epitaxial overgrowth of Pyrite.

	34 9btcee ((SIDERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 8 x 6 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Here is a specimen of the huge Siderite crystals from Portugal. Damage to the back crystal can be seen in the photo. Back, bottom, and two sides are flat cleavage planes.

	35 9btcee ((WOLFRAMITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 11.5 x 6.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Here is a lustrous striated Panasqeira Wolframite with minor associated Arsenopyrite. Not a complete crystal but displays nicely.

	36 9btcee ((CALCITE with minor APATITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 8.5 x 6 x 2 cm, Cabinet, Here is the other one of these specimens. It is Calcite with partial crystals of purple Apatite showing on the sides. Perhaps more are covering by the Calcite. Definitely is a good ID from the Apatite association that this is Panasqueira.

	37 9btcee ((CALCITE with PYRITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 9 x 5.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Here is a Quartz crystal covered with hexagonal crystals of Siderite. The Quartz in not really terminated or call the termination damaged but the Siderite is in great condition.

	38 9btcee ((CALCITE with PYRITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 6 x 5 x 4 cm, Miniature, Here is a solid lustrous Pyrite with a highlight of Calcite on the left side.

	39 9btcee ((CHALCOPYRITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 8 x 4 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a solid lustrous Chalcopyrite mostly covering with a dark coating that seems to cover the Chalcopyrite crystals from here. I think the dark coating may be just the crystal surface of the Chalcopyrite.

	40 9btcee ((ARSENOPYRITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 7 x 5 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a solid lustrous Arsenopyrite with some attachment and contact areas. The actual Arsenopyrite crystals are undamaged.

	41 9btcee ((CALCITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 12.5 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet, No attachment with Calcite covering the surfaces of the rock.

	42 9btcee ((SPHALERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 6 x 5 x 4 cm, Miniature, Solid Sphalerite with minor surface Siderite.

	43 9btcee ((QUARTZ)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 10 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Terminated Quartz crystal with on few micro edge chips on one face and an internal 1 cm edge bruise.

	44 9btcee ((QUARTZ, SIDERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Panasqueira, Covilha, Portugal, 9.5 x 4 x 3 cm, Cabinet, terminated Quartz crystal with a one face covered with light brown Siderite crystals. Undamaged and Quartz edges and tip undamaged.

	45 9btrdit ((ASTROPHYLLITE)) $15 MINIMUM BID, Khibina Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia, 5.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Here is and aesthetic specimen of the silicate Astrophyllite. 5 radial bursts of crystals on a contrasting white matrix.

	46 9btrdg ((ANAPAITE)) $15 MINIMUM BID, Kertch, Crimea, Ukraine, 3 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Here is lustrous green colored Anapaite, a phosphate crystallized inside a fossil mullusk shell.

	47 9btrdir ((RHODOCHROSITE)) $15 MINIMUM BID, Djayrem Mine, Central Kazakhstan, 4 x 3.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Here is botryoidal Rhodochrosite from Kazakhstan.

	48 9btrdit ((ANDRADITE variety MELANITE, PYRITE)) $15 MINIMUM BID, Sarbayskiy Mine, Kazakhstan, 6 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Undamaged black lustrous Melanite Garnet with a crystal of Pyrite in the lower center.

	49 9btrdt ((ANALCIME)) $1 MINIMUM BID, Ozernoe Loc., Tungusk River, North Siberia, Russia, 3 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Here is an unusual location for Analcime for the Russian suite.


	50 9btrdis ((SHUISKITE, UVAROVITE)) $15 MINIMUM BID, Saranovskii Mine, Urals, Russia, 3 x 3 x 1 cm, Miniature, Here is the rare silicate Shuiskite which are the light whisps to needle like crystals in associated with the emerald green Uvarovite Garnet.

	51 9btrdr ((ADAMITE)) $15 MINIMUM BID, Verhniy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail to small Miniature, Here is a lustrous green Adamite on contrasting brown matrix from Russia


	52 9btmsn ((IRON CROSS TWINNED PYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Lemgo, Germany, 1 x 1 x 1 cm, Thumbnail, Neat example of this famous twin type. It says Pyrite but it is oxidized with a bronze patina and resembles the Goethite pseudomorphs after Pyrite.

	53 9btmsr ((KETTNERITE, CHRYSOCOLLA, DIOPTASE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Blue Bell Claims, Soda Mountains, Baker, California, 4 x 4 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Kettnerite is the light yellow green. It is a rare secondary Ca-Bi carbonate. It is associated here with green Dioptase and bluegreen Chrysocolla.

	54 9btmsr ((POTTSITE)), TYPE LOCATION, $15 MINIMUM BID, Linka Mine, Potts, Lander County, Nevada, 3.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, This is the type location for this hydrated Pb Bi vanadate.

	55 9btmse ((VASHEGYITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, VanNavSan claim, Gibellini District, Eureka County, Nevada, 6 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature, This is an Al phosphate.

	56 9btmsr ((KANKITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Munzig, Germany, 7 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, This is an Fe Arsenate.

	56 9btmsns ((COPPER pseudomorph after ANTLERITE, CUPRITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Chile, 3 x 3 x 1 cm, Miniature, Unusual pseudomorph from Chile. Copper alse has coating of small Cuprite crystals.

	57 9btmsr ((THORIANITE)), TYPE LOCATION, $15 MINIMUM BID, Balangoda, Ratnapura, Ceylon, 3MM x 3MM x 3MM, Miniature, Old material collected prior to 1950 at the type location. ThO2. Thorium is a hazardous mineral and care should be taken to not ingest. Wash hands after handling.

	58 9btmsi ((RAMSDELLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mistake Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona, 1.3 x 1.6 x 1 cm, Thumbnail, Nice large lustrous crystals of Ramsdellite in this thumbnail sized specimen.

	59 40499atsmls ((APOPHYLLITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Jalgoan, Maharashtra, India, 4 x 5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Excellent undamaged Apophyllite with sharply formed crytals perched on a terminated stalactite of spongey Quartz. High quality Indian zeolite specimen retail 100.

	60 5atdbn ((HEUBNERITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Adams Mine, San Juan County, Colorado, 2 x 2 x 1.7 cm, Thumbnail, Thumbnail sized specimen with large Heubnerite crystals.

	61 8attgg ((GYPSUM variety SELENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Chihuahua, Mexico, 11 x 5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Intergrown group of three clusters of Gypsum from Chihuahua.

	62 6dboris ((ORPIMENT, REALGAR)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, 9 x 6 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Fine specimen of yellow Orpiment and Realgar. Both a fine red lustrous Realgar crystal and a larger yellow Orpiment crystal present on this specimen with associated white Calcite.

	63 5atdbe ((PHENAKITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mt Antero area, Chaffee County, Colorado, 9 x 9 x 7 mm, Thumbnail, Single crystal of Colorado Phenakite in a thumbnail size.

	64 ari ((BROOKITE on SMOKY QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Moses Hill, Magnet Cover, Arkansas, 4.5 cm, Miniature, Several black lustrous Brookite crystals on Smoky cluster. These are seen sometimes out of old collectious or accumulations. I have not seen newly collected specimens for sale.

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	71 5swns ((FERBERITE, QUARTZ, MUSCOVITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan County, China, 10.5 x 9 x 8 cm, Cabinet, A heavy specimen with parallel black thick blades of Ferberite. The Ferberite is covered with 5 to 10 mm crystals of Muscovite. Also associated Quartz and a spherical unknown which is probably Chalcopyrite. The large Quartz looks like it originally had two terminations. One is there and the other is either damage or contacted and not present.

	72 99idcsir ((TETRAHEDRITE, QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Casapalca Mine, Peru, 5 x 6 x 4 cm, Miniature, Here is a specimen of Tetrahedrite with associated Quartz. The Tetrahedrite also has a thin coating of golden Chalcopyrite giving the Tetrahedrite a golden sheen.

	72 al4120ir ((KYANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 6.5 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Blue blades of Kyanite with a base of Quartz.

	74 bru27r ((QUARTZ)), $5 MINIMUM BID, Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil, 8 x 6 x 2 cm, Cabinet, A specimen covered with Quartz crystals from Brumado, now closed.

	75 8ghmrit ((HEMIMORPHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Magistral, Durango, Mexico, 7 x 6 x 5.5 cm, Cabinet, Light blue botryoidal Hemimorphite which almost looks like Smithsonite. This is also coming out of China but beware the Chinese do dye some lots.

	76 8ghmro ((CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico, 9.5 x 7 x 5 cm, Miniature, Here is a goethite vug filled with large Calcite crystals.

	77 8ghmrig ((QUARTZ ROSETTE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Santa Rosa Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 6 x 3 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Santa Rosa is well known for its Tourmalines. Here is an undamaged Quartz rose from the same mine.

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	48 8hljdr ((OPAL)), $10 MINIMUM BID, White Cliffs, Australia, 3 x 4.5 x 1.7 cm, Miniature, White opal with red and green fire. Hard to photograph and show color.

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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.


	10 8jhmrt ((HALITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, 5.5 x 6.5 x 3 cm, Miniature to Small Cabinet, Stiking orange fluorescent under UV on this California cubic Halite specimen.
		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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