South American

$200 to $500

Fine single Xenotime crystal, translucent brown, undamaged, 2.7 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm.

Krause Vein, Pailaviri (Unificada) Mine, Potosi, Bolivia

Phosphophyllite crystal with good blue/green color and internal gemmy areas. Terminated with good crystal faces on one side, backside is irregular where crystal intergrew with the matrix, size 1.9 x 1.0 x 0.9 cm.

Large single Imperial Topaz crystal with good luster. Lower portion of one side is incomplete, the only thing keeping this one from being an expensive crystal, size 4.7 x 2.4 x 1.5 cm.

Highly unusual "bent" Aqua crystal in Quartz, crystal is 6.5 x 1 cm, don't know how this happened. From a friends collection dating back to 1970s, 12 x 6 x 7 cm.

Fine single twinned crystal. Good green color. Though not as large as they come, this is bigger than normal, 4.8 x 1.9 x 1 cm.

Near floater specimen of Dolomite crystals covered by small Pyrrhottite crystals serving as the matrix for a superb 4.2 cm Albite crystal. Usually seen as platy groups, I have never seen such a fine single crystal displayed so perfectly. Super for a Feldspar collector, 10 x 7 x 5 cm.

Mina da Ponte, Aracuai, Mnas Gerais, Brazil

Clear Quartz crystal partially enclosing what was once a green Tourmaline crystal. The Tourmaline within the Quartz remains complete, however where it exits the Quartz (on top and along the backside), it has altered to a rectangular stack of Lepidolite crystals. Two small dings on the Quartz. Really neat and interesting specimen, 4 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm.

Undamaged 2.7cm purple Herderite crystal on Albite, size 3 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm.

Floater specimen consisting of a solid mass of crystalline Pyrite that is coated on one side by tightly packed brown Siderite crystals which are in turn sprinkled with Ludlamite crystals to 7mm, no damage, a really interesting specimen, 6 x 5.5 x 2 cm.

Eosphorite crystals to 1.2 cm with small white bipyramidal crystals of what I beleive to Wardite on crystalizzed Rose Quartz. From the Fred Pough collection with old label, size 10 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm.

1.2cm Phosphophyllite crystal associated with octahedral Pyrite and Quartz crystals. This is a well formed crystal with smooth crystal faces, 1.6 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm.

Numerous purple Herderite crystals to over 1cm on Muscovite that has partially replaced a large Feldspar crystal. The larger crystals are obvious but there are also many (50?) smaller crystals all among the mica. The Feldspar is still present at the core and visible on the bottom with the outer layer replaced to mica. From a friend's personal collection who purchased it in Brazil in the 1970s, size 8 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm.

Dramatic specimen with a mound of red Uvite crystals (red is the most desired color of this tourmaline species) with a 5.5cm double terminated Quartz set centrally in the front. There is a natural fracture in the Quartz crystal- this is not a repair. Uvite crystals cover both front and back of mound, 4.2 x 5.5 x 2 cm.

Vary large single yellow Dolomite crystal grown atop a rhomb of Magnesite, complete all around, 7 x 7 x 5 cm.

Telirio Mine, Mendes Pimental, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lustrous terminated and undamaged crystal, 3.9cm, attached to feldspar with other smaller Brazilianites. A cute 1cm double term crystal is attached to feldpsar with both ends floating off the feldspar. Great luster, translucent with gemmy areas. Mined June 2001, 4 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm.

Telerio Mine, Mendes Pimental, Minas Gerais, Brazil

At least 10 Brazilianite crystals of fine quality perched along the edges of bladed Albite crystals. This was my favorite matrix piece out of a large lot mined in June 2001 and brought back from Brazil by Steve Perry, a beauty, 5 x 3.5 x 2 cm.

Glassy, lustrous blue Apatite crystals to 8mm on the smooth face of a Quartz crystal shard. High quality, gemmy Apatite, 11 x 6 x 3 cm.

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