Bournonite from Yaogangxian is considered by many as the finest in the world, with bright silvery, mirror lustrous surfaces and good more prismatic (rather than 'cogwheel') form. This is a good thumbnail sized crystal, partially double-terminated, and complete on both sides. From the collection of Lorraine Sofia, a local collector who considered herself to be a 'mini John Barlow" and had a good eye for quality specimens.

Unusual Tourmaline crystal with a green cap atop colorless 'Achroite' Tourmaline. A fat single crystal that is complete all around and undamaged.

My last Sanidine, a big transparent crystal. Feldspar is a mineral not ususally known for fine collector gem crystals, but at this locality in Madagascar, amazing water clear crystals are sometimes found. This is a large, thick crystal in good condition, crystal faces on the front, top, top left, and right sides, a cleavage face on the back and edge chipping on the lower left side. The crystal has a good yellow coloration, is internally transparent, and looks (to my non-gemcutter eyes) like it could cut a large gemstone. Weighs 44.15 grams.

A sharp, transparent blue cubic crystal. In great condition and all the faces are natural, not cleavages. The blue color of the Halite is caused by natural radiation in the mine.

Blue Lawsonite crystals on a green schist matrix from the type locality in Marin Co., California. The crystals display good lustrous faces rather than more commonly seen broken surfaces. This is an old Chuck Trantham specimen. His old label notes that it was collected by him and Al McGuinness back in 1968.

Purple and yellow cubic Fluorite (purple outer layer, yellow core) withe backside covered by scalenohedral Calcite crystals and small platy Barite crystals. An undamaged floater crystallied all around.

Large single crystal of rare Cubanite from the world's best locality for the species. Bright, lustrous golden color wtih twinning striations evident on the front face. These are typically more coin-like in form, and at 1.2cm thick, it is much chunkier than most. Rare material from a closed locality dating back 25 years or more.

Black opal that has completely replaced a section of fossil Bamboo from recent finds in Java. It has a bright play of color (reds and greens) in areas and also shows fine detail of the former bamboo. These were found in the past 2 years and are uncommon.

White spheres of Phillipsite on sparkly Gismondine on dark grey basalt creating a specimen with both variety and sparkle. Both Phillipsite and Gismondine are uncommon Zeolite minerals.