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AF963 - Olmiite $ 1500 N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa miniature - 5 x 3 x 2 cm Superb matrix specimen with two complete clusters of translucent Olmiite. This is a specimen I bought many years ago from Clive Quiet from the original find. Perfect and undamaged Olmiite clusters that look like a pair of gumdrops.
TS183 - Smithsonite $ 750 Tsumeb, Namibia miniature - 4.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm Fine and lustrous crystals of pink Smithsonite. Some of the crystals have a grey/black coloration right along the very edges - people say this style looks as if a blow torch was passed over them.Good color and undamaged.
TZ146 - Prehnite $ 270 Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania miniature - 3.2 x 3.0 x 1.5 cm Blue Prehnite in a fantastic, flower-like formation. A complete floater with minor amounts of attached Graphite. Translucent blue with a really nice formation, way better than most from the find which were mostly irregular massess of crystals with damage along the edges.
TZ156 - Tanzanite $ 600 Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania miniature - 3.8 x 1.0 x 1.0 cm Glassy and gemmy single Tanzanite crystal with an elongated, unusual form. It's somewhat triangular in cross-section, natural and unheated. Fine and undamaged with good size and an interesting form.
A965 - Elbaite $ 350 Stak Nala, Skardu District, Pakistan thumbnail - 3 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm Double-terminated Elbaite attached to a double-terminated Quartz crystal. Main crystal is undamaged, though a tiny second Elbaite grown out of the Quartz is damaged across the termination, but it is so small you don't notice. Both crystals terminate in a yellow coloration.
TZ212 - Wurtzite with Sphalerite $ 250 Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania thumbnail - 1.4 x 1.0 x 1 cm Translucent red/orange color pagoda-shaped crystal of Wurtzite. At the tips are dark areas of epitaxial Sphalerite. These recent Wurtzite specimens from the Merelani Tanzanite mines are the world's best and now rarely found.
TS194 - Hausmanite with Ettringite, Andradite $ 260 N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa miniature - 3.8 x 3 x 2 cm Aesthetic combo specimen from the N'Chwanning Mine with Hausmanite, Ettringite, and Andradite. Fine quality Hausmanite (sharply formed with very bright, satiny luster) with an attached pale yellow Ettringite crystal all on red Andradite. For what is sometimes called a 'black ugly' mineral, this one is quite colorful!
TZ252 - Prehnite $ 300 Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania miniature - 4 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm Blue Prehnite specimen about as good as these get form wise as most of these are massess of crystals with at least some damage around the edges. This is a clean group front and back, nearly a floater with some traces of Graphite on the bottom where it was attached. These have a nice color change between shades of blue in different lighting.
SA702 - Ludlamite $ 600 Huanuni Mine, Oruro Dept., Bolivia thumbnail - 2.5 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm 1.4cm crystal of Ludlamite on matrix with Siderite. Aesthtics and quality are superb, undamaged.
SA705 - Apatite with Pyrite $ 400 Julcani Mine, Peru thumbnail - 2.8 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm Hard to find, old time specimen of yellow/green Apatite associated with Pyrite. The apatite has good luster, is double-terminated, perfect and undamaged.
AF558 - Gaudefroyite $ 750 N'Chwanning Mine, Kuruman, South Africa miniature - 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm Rare specimen of Gaudefroyite from the Kalahari manganese fields of South Africa. Back when these were being found, they were most commonly seen as thinner, crusy crystals on matrix. To find such thick Gaudefroyite crystals such as these on Manganite matrix were always rare, and even more so now. The crystals reach 13 x 7mm in size. Rare piece.
TZ283 - Sphalerite with Graphite, Calcite Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania miniature - 3.6 x 2.0 x 1.7 cm Floater group of Sphalerite crystals in excellent condition with attached Graphite and backside and bottom coated by Calcite crystals. Complete and undamaged. A really nice example and not a common Merelani specimen. Original list price was $380.
D364 - Zircon $ 150 Mashewa, Tanga Region, Tanzania thumbnail - 2.1 x 1.1 x 1.1 cm Single gemmy Zircon crystal with a nice wine red to red brown coloration. Complete all around and undamaged except for some slight edge chipping. Smooth, flat crystal faces on the termination with surface growth patterns on the prism faces, which is common with these crystals.
E519 - Manganite $ 2500 Ilfeld, Thuringen, Germany small cabinet - 6.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm Cluster of large crystals of Manganite, with individual crystals to 2.5cm tall and 1.2cm across on the terminations. Ex. Ralph Merril and W.F. Davidson collections. The Merril label indicates it was purchased in 1954 for $350.
A306 - Quartz with Calcite $ 200 Huangang, Inner Mongolia, China small cabinet - 6.5 x 6.5 x 4 cm Lustrous and sharp sceptered Quartz crystal associated with peach colored Calcite crystals. I love the tower-like form of the Quartz and myriad of crystal faces. Undamaged.
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