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CT167 - Uvite with Magnesite $ 120 Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil thumbnail - 2.5 x 2 x 1.3 cm Bright and lustrous green Uvite crystals (a Tourmaline species) associated with white Magnesite crystals. Undamaged specimen with partially transparent Uvites to 1.2cm in size.
CT159 - Rose Quartz scepter $ 125 Pitorra Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil thumbnail - 2 x 1 x 1 cm Pink Rose Quartz scepter head over a white Quartz stalk. This is an unusual one and the old label calls it a 'Hopper scepter' as it is somewhat cup-shaped. The Rose Quartz is also totally transparent which is uncommon and Rose Quartz is more typically only translucent. Neat, undamaged specimen.
CT222 - Hydromagnesite, Artinite $ 125 Staten Island, Richmond Co., New York, USA thumbnail - 3 x 2 x 1 cm White hemispheres of Hydromagnesite and acicular sprays of Artinite that contrast well against a green matrix. Old specimen likely from the 1960s.
CT243 - Diaboleite, Caledonite $ 125 Rowley Mine, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA thumbnail - 1.3 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm Small cluster of Diaboleite and Caledonite crystals. Old spceimn mounted in a plastic box.
CT165 - Legrandite $ 225 Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico thumbnail - 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm Wide vug in Limonite filled with golden crystals of Legrandite. A rarity from the Chuck Trantham collection, originally acquired by Chuck from Al McGuinness in 1988.
CT198 - Bournonite $ 150 Machacamarca Mine, Potosi Dept., Bolivia thumbnail - 2.5 x 2.3 x 1.5 cm Well formed 2.5cm 'cogwheel' of Bournonite that sits up perfectly for display on a small amount of matrix. This is from older finds at mine that has produced some of the world's finest Bournonites.
CT182 - Bournonite $ 90 Machacamarca Mine, Potosi Dept., Bolivia thumbnail - 2.4 x 2.3 x 1.5 cm Well formed intergrown 'cogwheels' of Bournonite to 2.2cm with small amounts of attached matrix. This is from older finds at mine that has produced some of the world's finest Bournonites.
CT338 - Rutile $ 400 Champion Mine, White Mountains, Mono Co., California, USA miniature - 4.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm Mirror-lustrous Rutile crystals to 1.2cm that contrast well against a matrix of white Pyrophyllite. Ex. Chuck Trantham personal collection, collected by Chuck at the mine in September 1983. This was considered special enough to Chuck to be illustrated in his Mineral Collections of California supplement to the Minerlogical Record magazine. Sawcut on base.
CT286 - Bornite wtih Quartz $ 300 Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan miniature - 3.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm Large, slightly irridescent Bornite crystals to 2cm on a matrix of Quartz crystals. Bornite crystals are rare, these are just released from an old collection.
CT270 - Chrysocolla after Malachite after Azurite with Wulfenite $ 600 Whim Creek, Western Australia, Australia small cabinet - 7 x 5.5 x 4 cm A 3.2cm crystal of the double pseudomorph of Chrysocolla that has replaced a crystal of Malachite after Azurite. Scattered crystals of orange Wulfenite are present on the matrix.
CT303 - Anglesite $ 275 Touissit, Morocco thumbnail - 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm Well terminated, gemmy Anglesite crystal on Galena. Good yellow color.
CT312 - Goosecreekite $ 150 Nasik, Maharashtras State, India thumbnail - 3 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm Undamaged thumbnail sized cluster of the rare Zeolite Goosecreekite. Goosecreekite is far more uncommon than other Indian zeolites, and these from Nasik are the world's best. A nice example with great crystals, in the thumbnail size range.
CT348 - Siegenite $ 275 Buick Mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA thumbnail - 3 x 2.5 x 1 cm Crystals of Siegenite on a sulfide rich matrix that is crystallized on both sides. Siegenite is a cobalt nickel sulfide that is one of the rarer and most sought after minerals from Missouri's Viburnum Trend.
CT126 - Wulfenite $ 450 Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico small cabinet - 8.5 x 5 x 3.5 cm Orange Wulfenite crystals on a Calcite matrix coated by tiny Descloizite crystals. Main crystal is 1.7cm wide and perfect. A couple chips on some minor crystals, but most of them are perfect. Ex. Chuck Trantham collection.
CT109 - Dioptase with Wulfenite $ 350 Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Arizona, USA miniature - 4 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm Vuggy matrix with excellent sprays of acicular Dioptase crystsals and bright orange Wulfenite crystals. Old specimen with good crystals on both sides.
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