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D444 - Realgar $ 150 SOLD Shimen Mine, Hunan Prov., China thumbnail - 2.8 x 1.7 x 2 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Translucent red tabular crystal. Complete all around and undamaged with a tiny crystal attached to the left side of the termination. This locality has produced the world's best Realgar crystals and are no longer easy to find.
D445 - Digenite $ 150 SOLD Steward Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA thumbnail - 2 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Well formed single crystal of Digenite, 1.5cm long, associated with Quartz and Pyrite. Butte was well known for producing crystals of this uncommom copper sulfide, and this is a fine thumbnail sized example.
D448 - Huebnerite on Quartz $ 120 SOLD Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana, USA thumbnail - 1.5 x 1.1 x 1 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Small but highly aesthetic specimen with a single red Huebnerite crystal atop Quartz crystals. The Hubnerite crystal is 7mm tall. Great locality piece.
D449 - Wavellite $ 120 SOLD Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA thumbnail - 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Well separated individual hemispheres of Wavellite to 7mm wide. Great color with a satiny surface luster. A really lovely piece!
D452 - Gratonite $ 175 SOLD Excelsior Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Peru thumbnail - 1.3 x 1.2 x 1 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Silvery colored cluster of Gratonite, a rare lead arsenic sulfide. Well formed bright crystals spraying out in all directions. This is from an old collection, the sticker on the bottom of the perky box indicates it was purchased in 1974 for $20.
D453 - Apatite $ 75 SOLD Pederniera Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil thumbnail - 1.9 x 1 x 0.7 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cluster of intergrown, vivid blue Apatite crystals. The crystals reach 7mm in diameter.
D454 - Phenakite $ 125 SOLD Mt. White, Colorado, USA thumbnail - 1 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Colorless Phenakite crystal with sharp, well crystallied faces, almost garnet-like in form. Collected in 1998.
D455 - Grossular on Diopside $ 145 SOLD Eden Mills, Vermont, USA thumbnail - 1.5 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sharp cinnamon orange Grossular crystal atop a green Diopside crystal. The garnet is gemmy, complete and undamaged.
D458 - Hematite var. Kidney Ore $ 125 SOLD Black Widow Mine, Pima Co., Arizona, USA thumbnail - 2.3 x 2 x 2 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Bubbly mound of shiny black Hematite from a neat Arizona locality. The old albel shows a date of 1985.
D460 - Andradite $ 125 SOLD Copper Mtn., Prince-of-Wales Island, Alaska, USA thumbnail - 1.4 x 1 x 1 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Sharp, well formed single Andradite crystal from a locality more well known for it's Epidote. Complete all around and undamaged though contacted n the bottom face where it grew against matrix.
D461 - Kunzite $ 125 SOLD Katerina Mine, Pala, California, USA thumbnail - 2.3 x 2 x 1.3 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Gemmy pink Spodumene var. Kunzite, 1.3cm on matrix. Neat San Diego Co., locality and uncommon to find on matrix such as this.
D462 - Quartz with inclusions $ 75 Jinkouhe District, Leshan, Sichuan, China thumbnail - 1.9 x 1.1 x 1 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Black hydrocarbon inclusions inside a transparent, double-terminated Quartz crystal. Fine and undamaged. Prefessionally mounted in a perky box.
D464 - Smithsonite on Dolomite, Chalcoprite on Sphalerite $ 225 SOLD Philidelphia Mine, Rush Creek Mining District, Marion Co., Arkansas, USA thumbnail - 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Uncommon thumbnail of cadmium rich, yellow Smithsonite atop curving crystals of Dolomite associated with translucent orange Sphalerite sprinkled with tiny Chalcopyrite crystals. Neat and colorful thumbnail, the only one like it I've seen.
D465 - Digenite $ 120 SOLD Steward Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA thumbnail - 1.4 x 1.3 x 0.5 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() Well formed single crystal of Digenite, 1.4cm tall. Butte was well known for producing crystals of this uncommom copper sulfide, and this is a fine thumbnail sized example.
D466 - Anapaite in fossil Bivalve $ 125 SOLD Kertch, Crimea, Ukraine thumbnail - 2.9 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bright green crystals of Anapaite that formed inside a fossil bivalve. These are interesting and beautiful classics from an old iron mine that is long closed. Once fairly abundant, these are now not commonly seen.
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