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FM101 - Apatite $ 100 Mwajanga, near Komolo, Tanzania thumbnail - 1.6 x 1.1 x 0.7 cm Single golden green Apatite crystal from Mwajanga. This locality is best known for it's Dravite, but sometimes turns up other species. Complete all around and transparent.
FM102 - Apatite $ 160 Mwajanga, near Komolo, Tanzania thumbnail - 1.9 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm Single golden green Apatite crystal from Mwajanga. This locality is best known for it's Dravite, but sometimes turns up other species. Complete all around and transparent.
FM104 - Spessartine $ 200 Nani, Loliondo, Tanzania thumbnail - 1.8 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm Sharp orange Spessartine crystal from recent small scale mining at this locality. A complete crystal with slightly oblong form. Undamaged.
FM105 - Spessartine $ 250 Nani, Loliondo, Tanzania thumbnail - 1.8 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm Gemmy orange Spessartine crystal from recent small scale mining at this locality. A complete crystal with good color and gem zones. Minor edge chipping, otherwise undamaged.
FM107 - Spessartine $ 290 Nani, Loliondo, Tanzania thumbnail - 2.2 x 2.2 x 2 cm Gemmy orange Spessartine crystal from recent small scale mining at this locality. A complete crystal with good color and gem zones. Minor edge chipping, otherwise undamaged.
AU859 - Spessartine $ 850 Nani, Loliondo, Tanzania miniature - 4 x 4 x 3.5 cm Large, gemmy orange Spessartine crystal from recent small scale mining at this locality. A nearly complete crystal with damage at the bottom, otherwise complete all around. Weighs 400 carats with gem rough value.
AU842 - Zircon $ 50 Mozambique thumbnail - 0.8 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm Small single wine red to brown Zircon crystal from Mozambique. Complex form with luster and internally transparent.
FM109 - Tourmaline $ 2000 Malkan Pegmatite Field, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia small cabinet - 5.6 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm Gemmy pink Tourmaline crystal from Russia. Good transparency with a pink body color that grades to an intense pink termination. Super color and transparency at the tip. Complete all around. Ex. Paul Geffner collection. Weighs 29.63 grams.
FM110 - Tourmaline with Albite $ 250 Stak Nal, Skardu, Pakistan miniature - 4.9 x 1.9 x 1.2 cm Cluster of 3 doubly-terminated Tourmaline crystals with attached white Albite. The crystals have yellow pyramidal terminations at one end and transparent green terminations at the other end. Undamaged flaoter cluster.
FM111 - Wulfenite $ 750 Tsumeb, Namibia thumbnail - 2.5 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm Stout, translucent orange Wulfenite crystals on matrix with Quartz crystals from Tsumeb. Great thumbnail specimen good from both sides with crystals to 1cm on edge.
FM113 - Proustite $ 600 Millotingo Mine (San Juan Mine), Pacococha, Huarochirà Province, Lima, Peru thumbnail - 2.0 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm Thick, red Proustite crystals from an obscure, now defunct silver mine in Peru. From MINDAT: 'Millotingo Mine opened in 1933, and was originally called the San Juan Mine, or San Juan de Millotingo Mine. It was closed in 1992 because of weak metal prices and local terrorist activity by Shining Path. The ore yielded 39 million ounces of silver and 90,000 ounces of gold over that time span. Mining at Millotingo exploited fractures in andesite where silver minerals, mainly sulphosalts, are concentrated in upper portions away from silicified zones'.
FM114 - Chondrodite with Clinochlore $ 750 Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan thumbnail - 2.5 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm Chondrodite crystals to 1.5cm on green Clinochlore crystals. Excellent example from this fine.
FM115 - Bournonite $ 280 Georg Mine, Willroth, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany thumbnail - 2 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm Cluster of shiny metallic Bournonite crystals with form and high luster typical for this mine.
FM116 - Fluorite $ 600 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China miniature - 3.5 x 3 x 3 cm Two connected octahedrons of pink Fluorite. A perfect floater with no points of contact, complete all around. Ex. Stevia Thompson collection.
FM117 - Brucite $ 600 Killa Saifullah, Balochistan, Pakistan small cabinet - 7.2 x 5.5 x 2.7 cm Uncommon bi-colored Brucite specimen. A colorless, wheel-shaped Brucite cluster is partially coated by a second generation of yellow Brucite. I bought this when they first came out and kept it in my collection because it was so unusual. I've never seen another like it.
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