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AF552 - Vanadinite $ 600 SOLD Mibladen, Morocco small cabinet - 5.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm 
Brilliant bright red crystals with excellent luster. Crystals to 1.2cm wide standing upright on matrix. Vanadanite has been coming out in quantity over the years, but both quantity and quality has diminished over the past few years. I found one Moroccan miner in Tucson this year with a handful of quality pieces. Get a good one now, 5.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm.
AF553 - Vanadinite $ 450 Mibladen, Morocco miniature - 4.9 x 3.5 x 2 cm 
Brilliant bright red crystals with excellent luster. Crystals to 9mm wide standing upright on matrix. Vanadanite has been coming out in quantity over the years, but both quantity and quality has diminished over the past few years. I found one Moroccan miner in Tucson this year with a handful of quality pieces. Get a good one now, 4.9 x 3.5 x 2 cm.
AF554 - Vanadinite $ 500 SOLD Mibladen, Morocco miniature - 3.5 x 3.1 x 2 cm 
Brilliant bright red crystals with excellent luster. Thick crystals to 1.3cm wide tightly clustered on a small amount of matrix. Vanadanite has been coming out in quantity over the years, but both quantity and quality has diminished over the past few years. I found one Moroccan miner in Tucson this year with a handful of quality pieces. Get a good one now, 3.5 x 3.1 x 2 cm.
AF555 - Vanadinite $ 300 SOLD Mibladen, Morocco thumbnail - 2.5 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm 
Brilliant bright red crystals with excellent luster. Crystals to 1.4cm wide standing upright on matrix. Vanadanite has been coming out in quantity over the years, but both quantity and quality has diminished over the past few years. I found one Moroccan miner in Tucson this year with a handful of quality pieces. Get a good one now, 2.5 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm.
AF556 - Vanadinite $ 200 SOLD Mibladen, Morocco thumbnail - 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm 
Brilliant bright red crystals with excellent luster. Crystals to 1cm wide standing upright on matrix. Vanadanite has been coming out in quantity over the years, but both quantity and quality has diminished over the past few years. I found one Moroccan miner in Tucson this year with a handful of quality pieces. Get a good one now, 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm.
AF557 - Vanadinite $ 200 Mibladen, Morocco miniature - 4 x 2 x 1.5 cm 
Orangy red crystals with excellent luster. Thick crystals to 8mm wide covering matrix. Vanadanite has been coming out in quantity over the years, but both quantity and quality has diminished over the past few years. I found one Moroccan miner in Tucson this year with a handful of quality pieces. Get a good one now, 4 x 2 x 1.5 cm.
A910 - Epidote on Quartz $ 600 Meigu, Sichuan Prov., China large cabinet - 18 x 15 x 14 cm 
Large cabinet sized specimen of Epidote crystals on cluster of large Quartz crystals. Waht makes this specimen is the 10.5cm double terminated crystal setting pererfectly in the center, as if being held in an hand. A couple of tiny trivial nicks, otherwise all crystals complete and in good condition, it's even recrystallized all along the bottom, 18 x 15 x 14 cm.
A911 - Fluorite, Quartz, Arsenopyrite $ 300 SOLD Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China cabinet - 9.5 x 9 x 5 cm 
Good combo specimen of all species, pics say it all, cool piece, 9.5 x 9 x 5 cm.
A912 - Fluorite $ 150 SOLD Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China cabinet - 12 x 7.5 x 6 cm 
This specimen fits right in with this year's theme of "mineral oddities". The matrix is either Fluorite or Quartz casts after Calcite, with an 8.5 cm Fluorite stalactite attached to one side. The underside of the matrix has numerous large indentations and holes from the former Calcites, 12 x 7.5 x 6 cm.
A914 - Clinozoisite $ 90 Zagi Mountain area, Pakistan miniature - 3.7 x 1 x 0.5 cm 
This is one of two unusual crystals I picked up this year from one Paki dealer. It is translucent yellow brown, tapering up to a rounded termination. Most were crystal fragments but I picked up two that had terminations. The form was not familiar to me so Ihad them analyzed, the results indicating right between Clinozoisite and Epidote, 3.7 x 1 x 0.5 cm.
NA182 - Oligoclase $ 150 SOLD Hawk Mine, Mitchell Co., North Carolina thumbnail - 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm 
Transparent gem crystal section with a couple crystal faces present. Ex. American Museum of Natural History, Clarence Bement, Lawrence Conklin collections, 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm.
A915 - Stibnite in Quartz $ 600 SOLD China thumbnail - 
Smokey Quartz sphere included by Stibnite crystals. I normally don't purchase polished specimens, however this was too unusual to pass up. Having grown up in California, I have admired the Stibnite in Quartz crystals from a deposit in nearby Nevada, the only locality I am aware of where Stibnite occur within Quartz crystals, until now. The Nevada crystals rarely even reach the diameter of this sphere, indicating the potential for some large Stibnite included Quartz crystals from China. The Sibnite in the sphere forms nice sprays, many with yellow coatings of Stibconite. Sphere is a little over 7.5 cm, about the size of a baseball. ©2010 Marin Mineral |