Hubnerite and quartz - Mundo Nuevo mine - Pasto Bueno - Pampas Distr. - Pallasca Prov. - Ancash - Perù
(#GMA26032)
Numerous black Hubnerite crystals are randomly arranged on this specimen, along with several clear Quartz crystals.
A high quality, rare and aestethic !
Specimen weight:55 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 17
 Overall size:46mm x 33 mm x 31 mm
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Azurite - Morenci mine, Morenci, Arizona, USA
(#14350_AZUR_DANI)
This a classic now not easy to be found. Morenci's azurite spherules on azurite matrix.
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Specimen weight:121 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:55mm x 50 mm x 30 mm
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Wulfenite - Red Cloud mine, Arizona, USA
(#13043_WULF_DANI)
Superb deep red wulfenite xx cluster. Ex Collector edge specimen.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1 mm on edge
Overall size:15mm x 15 mm x 5 mm
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Barrerite - Roky Pass - Kuju Island - Sitka Borough - Alaska - USA
(#MINS9230)
Very nice sample of Barrerite, with pearly, shiny and well-defined crystals, in excellent conditions. Mineral by now almost impossible to find, once it was collected on the seashore, in the few hours when the tide lowered enough to allow the…
Specimen weight:37 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,0 cm long
Overall size:45mm x 40 mm x 18 mm
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Kinoite xx, Ruizite xx (TL), Aphophylite - Christmas mine, Christmas, Arizona, USA
(#13409_KINO_DANI)
Very nice deep blue kinoite xx with very rare orange-brown ruizite xx on the classic apophyllite xx matrix.
Specimen weight:87 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Smoky gwindel Quartz - Aiguille Verte, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
(#12731_QUAR_DANI)
Superb smoky quartz gwindel with a nice light green chlorite patina.
Specimen weight:326 gr.
Crystal size:90 mm
Overall size:120mm x 80 mm x 40 mm
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Fluorite - Aiguille Verte, Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
(#MINS9207)
This specimen offer very nice pink fluorite xls up to 4 mm on albite matrix with smoky quartz in associaton.
Specimen weight:42 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4 mm
Overall size:48mm x 35 mm x 27 mm
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Spessartine - Praborna Mine, Servette-Chuc mining complex, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#MINS9209)
Orange spessartine up to 3 mm on quartz matrix from this old alpine manganese deposit locality.
Specimen weight:54 gr.
Crystal size:up to 3 mm
Overall size:45mm x 30 mm x 37 mm
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Quartz var. Faden Growth - Dara Ismael Khan District . Waziristan - Pakistan
(#MINS7543)
Cluster of transparent colorless quartz crystals in parallel faden-growth up to 3,3 cm tall.
Specimen weight:40 gr.
Crystal size:up to 4,5 cm x 2 cm
Overall size:35mm x 70 mm x 34 mm
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Quartz, Epidote - San Felipe, Cascas, La Libertad, Peru
(#12924_QUAR_DANI)
Superb combo! Red Quartz crystals cluster and green epidote.
Specimen weight:67 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
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Smoky Quartz, Axinite - Aiguilles Grises ridge, Miage Glacier, Monte Bianco massif, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#12817_QUAR_DANI)
Very rare! Axinite xx on gemmy smoky Quartz xx.
Specimen weight:166 gr.
Crystal size:12 mm (a), 25 mm (q)
Overall size:90mm x 60 mm x 30 mm
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Pseudobrookite - Thomas Range, Utah, USA
(#11090d_PSEU_DANI)
Very nice jet black pseudobrookite xx on rhiolite matrix.
Specimen weight:11 gr.
Crystal size:8 mm
Overall size:65mm x 60 mm x 65 mm
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Tourmaline var. Elbaite and Quartz - Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
(#MINS9193)
Cluster of green Elbaite xls up to 3,6 cm tall fully terminated with clear biterminated quartz crystal 4,7 cm wide. Showy.
Specimen weight:75 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3,6 cm tall
Overall size:43mm x 47 mm x 55 mm
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Prase quartz and hematite - Serifos island - Attica - Greece
(#MINS9196)
Cluster of dark green crystals of prase quartz xls up to 5,0 cm tall from a classic location.
Specimen weight:44 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5,0 cm tall
Overall size:50mm x 25 mm x 70 mm
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Aschamalmite - Nasenkopf mountain, Bramberg am Wildkogel, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
(#MINS9194)
Aschamalmite xls in Quartz.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm
Overall size:44mm x 22 mm x 18 mm
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Quartz - Miage glacier, Veny Valley, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#12820_QUAR_DANI)
Superb ialine quartz crystals of very high luster. 1992 find
Specimen weight:326 gr.
Crystal size:80 mm
Overall size:110mm x 80 mm x 50 mm
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Quartz - Miage glacier, Veny Valley, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#12819_QUAR_DANI)
Superb ialine quartz crystals of very high luster. 1970 find
Specimen weight:377 gr.
Crystal size:90 mm
Overall size:80mm x 90 mm x 80 mm
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Quartz - Miage glacier, Veny Valley, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#12818_QUAR_DANI)
Superb ialine quartz crystals of very high luster.
Specimen weight:390 gr.
Crystal size:90 mm
Overall size:105mm x 90 mm x 45 mm
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Gaidonnayite (TL), Quartz - Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
(#11797_GAID_DANI)
Rare colorless gaidonnayite xx on matrix from type locality.
Specimen weight:25 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm (g) 40 mm (q)
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 20 mm
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Murdochite - Bingham - Socorro - New Mexico
(#GMA26023)
Several black crystals of murdochite are spread all over the surface of this specimen.
Specimen weight:75 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 2
Overall size:53mm x 19 mm x 31 mm
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Bromargyrite - Commercial Cramer Mine, Mimbres mines group, Georgetown Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
(#MINS9167)
Greenish bromargyrite on matrix.
Specimen weight:34 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:33mm x 22 mm x 32 mm
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Gold - Brusson mine - Brusson - Ayas Valley - Aosta Valley - Italy
(#MINS9161)
Specimen rich of Gold in wire crystals up to 3 mm on quartz matrix.In this italian alpine mine now is strongly forbidden to go to search: no more specimens will be found there.
Specimen weight:8 gr.
Crystal size:up to 3 mm
Overall size:30mm x 20 mm x 15 mm
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Gold - Brusson mine - Brusson - Ayas Valley - Aosta Valley - Italy
(#MINS9162)
Specimen rich of Gold in wire crystals up to 4 mm on quartz matrix.In this italian alpine mine now is strongly forbidden to go to search: no more specimens will be found there.
Specimen weight:4 gr.
Crystal size:up to 4 mm
Overall size:18mm x 15 mm x 10 mm
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Phosphophyllite - Hagensdorf Sud - Oberpfalz - Bayern - Germany (Type Locality)
(#MINS9166)
A set of light blue, gemmy Phosphophyllites lying on a Quartz matrix with white Sholzite in association. Hagendorf is the Type Locality for Phosphophyllite, which was discovered in 1920. ..
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:up to 2.5 mm wide
Overall size:40mm x 38 mm x 18 mm
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Hydromagnesite, Artinite - Artinite pit, Picacho Peak, San Benito Co, ,California, USA
(#11344_HYDR_DANI)
Nice tiny globular hydromagnesite xx with acicular artinite xx.
Specimen weight:86 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:45mm x 40 mm x 30 mm
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Heterosite - Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
(#11328_HETE_DANI)
Nice purple heterosite on matrix.
Specimen weight:46 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:40mm x 35 mm x 30 mm
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Babingtonite and Quartz, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
(#9969b_BABI_DANI)
Rare indian babingtonite on matrix.
Specimen weight:108 gr.
Crystal size:7 mm
Overall size:90mm x 60 mm x 45 mm
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Aikinite altered to Bismutite with Gold - Ekateringburg, Berezovsk deposit, Beryozovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
(#MINS9154)
Aikinite xls partly altered to Bismutite up to 5 mm with native gold xls up to 1 mm in association on quartz matrix. A rarely seen specimen.
Specimen weight:51 gr.
Crystal size:Up tp 5 mm
Overall size:42mm x 27 mm x 33 mm
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Awaruite (Josephinite) - Josephine Creek placers, Josephine Creek Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
(#MINS9149)
silvery-bright, flattened alluvial thumbnail Awaruite nugget from the Josephine Creek placers of Oregon (Arlson & Co. placers). Awariute is an intermetallic alloy of Nickel and Iron.
Specimen weight:6 gr.
Crystal size:22 mm wide
Overall size:22mm x 8 mm x 12 mm
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Uvarovite - Outokumpu Cu-Zn deposit - Outokumpu Cu-Co-Zn-Ni-Ag-Au ore field - North Karelia - Finland
(#MINS9152)
This old specimen comes from the legendary Outokumpu Uvarovite Garnet locality.
It shows a dark green colored crystal of uvarovite 6 mm wide on quartz matrix.
Specimen weight:12 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 6
Overall size:17mm x 14 mm x 15 mm
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Coquimbite - Dexter No. 7 Mine, Calf Mesa, San Rafael Mining District, Emery Co., Utah, USA
(#MINS9144)
Very well crystallized and extremely representative Coquimbite xls up to 5 mm with classic association for this locale.
Specimen weight:56 gr.
Crystal size:Up tp 4 mm
Overall size:60mm x 46 mm x 30 mm
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Minyulite - Ross Annibal mine, Black Hills, Lowrence County, South Dakota - USA
(#12057a_MINY_DANI)
Gorgeus stunningly xls rich minyulite specimen.
Specimen weight:56 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm
Overall size:50mm x 20 mm x 30 mm
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Rinkite-Ce - Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., ,Arkansas, USA
(#11692_RINK_DANI)
Gorgeouis yellow brown acicular rinkite xx on matrix with black aegirine.
Specimen weight:26 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:40mm x 40 mm x 20 mm
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Fenster quartz - Porretta Terme - Alto Reno Terme - Bolgna Prov, - - Emilia-Romagna - Italy
(#GM25044)
Typical fenster quartz from this famopus italian locality.
It's composed by some crystals that are embraced together.
Specimen weight:55 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:56mm x 33 mm x 33 mm
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Pyromorphite - Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
(#MINS9136)
An aesthetic plate covered with lustrous, translucent, sunflower-yellow pyromorphite crystals up to 3-4 mm from the famous Bunker Hill mine.
Specimen weight:25 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3-4 mm
Overall size:55mm x 33 mm x 10 mm
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Smithsonite - Kelly mine, Magdalena, New Mexico, USA
(#MINS9137)
Specimen with intense blue/green Smithsonite in botryoidal mass from this classic locality.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm
Overall size:51mm x 38 mm x 14 mm
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Montgomeryite - Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer Mining District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
(#MINS8912)
Cluster of Montogomeryite crystals up to 1-1.5 mm richly set on matrix.
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:Up to1.5 mm
Overall size:50mm x 38 mm x 18 mm
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Fluorapatite - Panasqueira Mines, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal
(#MINS9126)
Sample with well-exposed hexagonal crystals of fluorapatite on matrix with muscovite and quartz xls in association. The crystals has a very good luster and a green color.
Specimen weight:78 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,1 cm wide
Overall size:60mm x 35 mm x 33 mm
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Franklinite - Sterling Mine -Sterling Hill - Ogdensburg - Franklin Mining distr. - Sussex Co. - New Jersey - USA
(#MINS9133)
Cluster of octahedral xls of Franklinite up to 1,7 cm with on calcite matrix. A classic from the type locality.
Specimen weight:30 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,7 cm
Overall size:35mm x 15 mm x 35 mm
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Metacinnabar - Mount Diablo Mine, Mount Diablo, Clayton, Contra Costa County, California, USA
(#MINS9128)
Steel grey-black Metacinnabar crystals are covering the surface of the matrix
Specimen weight:62 gr.
Crystal size:2-3 mm
Overall size:62mm x 40 mm x 30 mm
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Bixbyite - Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
(#MINS9129)
Nice Bixbyite crystals shiny, evident on the riolite's matrix, cubic with octahedron's faces measuring up to 8 mm wide.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm wide
Overall size:32mm x 25 mm x 15 mm
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Fluorite with quartz - Riemvasmaak fluorite occurrences - Kakamas - ZF Mgcawu distr. - Northern Cape prov. - South Africa
(#MINS9114)
intense green colored and semitransparent Fluorite crystal with quartz xls in association
A classic specimen from this south african locality.
Specimen weight:23 gr.
Crystal size:2,7 x 2,3 cm
Overall size:38mm x 40 mm x 30 mm
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Plimerite - Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia (TL)
(#MINS9111)
Tiny olive green crystals of Plimerit from the type locality.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:33mm x 23 mm x 10 mm
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Quartz - Porretta Terme, Emilia Romagna, Italy
(#12524_QUAR_DANI)
Fantastic fenster quartz floater. Free from damage.
Specimen weight:273 gr.
Crystal size:50 mm biterminated
Overall size:80mm x 60 mm x 50 mm
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Quartz - Scrava mine, Statale, Liguria, Italy
(#12483_QUAR_DANI)
Nice pink red quartz crystals cluster.
Specimen weight:2 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm
Overall size:20mm x 15 mm x 15 mm
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Genthelvite, Quartz - Huanggang mine, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China
(#12472_GENT_DANI)
Very nice darrk brown huge Genthelvite xx on phrase Quartz.
Specimen weight:195 gr.
Crystal size:22 mm on edge
Overall size:75mm x 60 mm x 40 mm
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Dugganite - Empire mine, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
(#11303c_DUGG_DANI)
Nice tiny greenish very rare dugganite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:37 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm
Overall size:45mm x 34 mm x 25 mm
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Hematite roses and Quartz - Galmihorn, Reckingen, Goms, ,Valais, Switzerland
(#12815_HEMA_DANI)
Classic super nice hamatite rosetes. A swiss alps classic. 1978 find.
Specimen weight:31 gr.
Crystal size:15 mm (e), 20 mm (q)
Overall size:45mm x 35 mm x 30 mm
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Ericaite - Panel 14, Boulby Mine, Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England, UK
(#MINS9100)
A single lustrous brownish cubic crystal of Ericaite embedded in syslte matrix coloured rerracotta red by association with Hilgardite.
Specimen weight:5 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm
Overall size:14mm x 12 mm x 14 mm
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Spessartine garnet - Wushan Spessartine mine - Tongbei - Yunxiao Co. - Zhangzhou pref. - Fujian prov. - China
(#GM25032)
The surface of this druse is densely covered with large and small spessartine garnets, that have a very dark brown color.
Some are so dark that they look like ...
Specimen weight:550 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 8
Overall size:100mm x 100 mm x 52 mm
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Humite - San Vito quarry - Somma-Vesuvius Complex - Naples Province - Campania – Italy
(#GM25026)
Signifint sample where there are some dark amber in color and semi-transparent crystals of humite.
Vesuvius is now declared a Park and it is impossible ...
Specimen weight:200 gr.
Crystal size:mm 1,5
Overall size:60mm x 52 mm x 45 mm
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Ramsdellite - Mistake Mine, Box Canyon District, Arizona, USA
(#11679_RAMS_DANI)
Very nice metallic grey Ramsdellite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:13 gr.
Crystal size:14 mm
Overall size:25mm x 20 mm x 10 mm
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Fluorite - Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
(#MINS9086)
Really nice group of lustrous, translucent, dark purple Fluorite crystals measuring 44x42x30 mm with well defined deep red Sphalerite xls in association on matrix.
Specimen weight:185 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 44 mm wide
Overall size:68mm x 67 mm x 38 mm
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Burkeite - Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA
(#MINS9092)
Top quality pinkish burkeite crystals on halite .
Specimen weight:24 gr.
Crystal size:1-2 mm
Overall size:60mm x 37 mm x 20 mm
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Mcguinnesite with Vuagnatite - Copper King Mine, Red Mountain, Red Mountain District, Mayacmas Mts , Mendocino Co., California, USA (Type Locality)
(#MINS9095)
Blue green rare Mcguinnessite up to 1,5 mm scattered on matrix from the type locality with minor vuagnatite in association.
Specimen weight:26 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1.5 mm
Overall size:40mm x 24 mm x 16 mm
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Linarite - King Arthur Mine, Arriana, Rhodope, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
(#MINS9090)
Aggregates of very sharp, brilliant, acicular Linarite crystals with very bright color. In a limonite matrix with Quartz, Brochantite growths, and an unknown light blue species, probably Caledonite.
Specimen weight:34 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2 mm
Overall size:37mm x 35 mm x 25 mm
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Amazonite (var. of microcline) – Tingir Distr. - Gilgit-Baltistan – Pakistan
(#GM25023)
Large but not well formed green crystal of amazonite, a variety of microcline.
On the crystal there are dark and massive traces of smoky quartz and schorl.
Specimen weight:145 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:55mm x 37 mm x 40 mm
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Millerite - Ca' dei Ladri (Silla) - Gaggio Montano - Bologna prov. - Emilia-Romagna - Italy
(#GM25022)
20 mm long millerite needle is clearly visible on the surface of this sample.
It emerges from a crystal of hyaline quartz ...
Specimen weight:105 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 20
Overall size:62mm x 30 mm x 50 mm
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Fluorite, Quartz - Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Uri, Switzerland
(#12720_FLUO_DANI)
Very nice pink fluorite xx with quartz xx
Specimen weight:38 gr.
Crystal size:12 mm
Overall size:45mm x 30 mm x 36 mm
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Shattuckite on quartz - Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region - Namibia
(#MINS9068)
Deep blue needles of Shattuckite on quartz contrasting matrix.
Specimen weight:143 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:78mm x 42 mm x 42 mm
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Quartz and fuchsite - Ihovitra, Itremo, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar
(#MINS9062)
Very nice small cabinet with transparent hyalin quartz xls up to 3,0 cm tall with green 'phantom' intrusions of fuchsite.
Specimen weight:88 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3,0 cm tall
Overall size:75mm x 45 mm x 33 mm
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Pargasite - Luc Yen - Yen Bai - Vietnam
(#GM25008)
Some green pargasite crystals are clearly visible on the white matrix of saccharoid marble.
On the back you can see a large brown crystal of hydroxylclinohumite, of which a tip can also be seen in front.
The sample was etched ...
Specimen weight:260 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 10
Overall size:100mm x 95 mm x 22 mm
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Rhodochrosite - Huayllapon mine, Pasto Bueno, Ancash, Peru
(#MINS9078)
Rhodochrosite xls up to 5 mm in quartz. Well crystallized sample.
Specimen weight:12 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm
Overall size:34mm x 23 mm x 18 mm
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Fluorite - Xianghualing mine - Chenzou - Hunan prov. - China
(#GM25003)
A large, semi-transparent, octahedral crystal of intense green color is flanked by another smaller one.
The main crystal is 75 mm. of size
They are placed on a white quartzite matrix, for a nice chromatic contrast.
Specimen weight:400 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 75
Overall size:88mm x 80 mm x 58 mm
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Spessartine and smoky quartz - Wushan Spessartine mine - Tongbei - Fujian prov. - China
(#GM24116)
Several small, bright, orange-red spessartine crystals are visible at the tip of the specimen.
A black, bright smoky quartz crystal is present near them.
A few spessartine crystals have grown on them.
Specimen weight:55 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 3
Overall size:41mm x 32 mm x 38 mm
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Chrysocolla - Eagle Eye mine, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
(#12000_CHRY_DANI)
Nice blue-deep green Chrysocolla on matrix.
Specimen weight:12 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:35mm x 20 mm x 10 mm
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Zinclipsocombite (TL) with Perhamite - Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
(#MINS9059)
Spherules of yellow- green zinclipscombite (TL) with white pearly Perhamite in association.
Specimen weight:40 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:50mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
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Galena, sphalerite and quartz - Sovietskii mines - Dal'negorsk -Primorskiy Kray - Far-Eastern Region - Russia
(#GM24103)
A complex aggregate of grey crystals of galena and dark crystals of sphalerite, that are intergrowth together. Some colourless crystals of quarts are visbile at its bottom.
Specimen weight:101 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 25
Overall size:38mm x 35 mm x 53 mm
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Quartz - Cavnic mine - Cavnic - Maramures Co. - Romania
(#GM24085)
A large crystal of very bright quartz is flanked by a smaller one.
On one side other mini-quartzes are grown and are partly covered by yellowish calcites.
The tip of the main quartz is perfect.
Very aesthetic specimen !
Specimen weight:1400 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:105mm x 90 mm x 135 mm
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Cinnabar on dolomite - Tongren pref. - Guizhou prov. - China
(#MINS9044)
Evident dark red crystals of cinnabar are in good evidence over the white matrix of dolomite with quartz in association. Very aestethic !
Specimen weight:21 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,1 cm
Overall size:55mm x 27 mm x 15 mm
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Desautelsite with Artinite - Artinite pit, Picacho Peak, New Idria Mining District, San Benito Co., California, USA
(#MINS9047)
Specimen rich of Orange-brown Desautelsite xls with tufts of Artinite in associaton.
Specimen weight:86 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:57mm x 38 mm x 40 mm
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Vauxite with Metavauxite- Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia (Type Locality)
(#MINS9050)
Specimen with blue Vauxite and Metavauxite xls set on matrix with quartz. A fairly rare iron phosphate (and one of the very few blue iron-containing minerals)
Specimen weight:51 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1 mm
Overall size:62mm x 45 mm x 23 mm
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Cassiterite and quartz - Viloco mine - Loayza Prov. - La Paz Deptm. - Bolivia
(#GM24076)
Numerous black and brilliant crystals of cassiterite cover the surface of this specimen.
They are mixed with several milky quartzes, for a nice contrast of color.
Specimen weight:240 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 8
Overall size:65mm x 43 mm x 37 mm
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Microcline var. Amazonite - Crystal Peak area, Park and Teller Cos., Colorado, USA
(#MINS9001)
Nice blue amazonite crystal 2,3 cm tall, fully terminated on with albite in association.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:2,3 cm tall
Overall size:53mm x 27 mm x 38 mm
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Luinaite-(OH) - Bald Hornet Prospect, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
(#MINS9003)
Sprays of Luinaite-(OH) in/on a nice quartz xl.Luinaite-(OH) is a very rare Tourmaline Group species, only found in about nine places in the world. The only reported locality for this species in North America is the Bald Hornet Claim.
Specimen weight:12 gr.
Crystal size:3-4 mm
Overall size:16mm x 14 mm x 37 mm
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Tinzenite - Molinello Mine - Graveglia Valley - Genoa Province - Ligury - Italy
(#MINS9002)
Specimen with orange lenticular crystals up to 4 mm wide with quartz xl in association.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:up to 4 mm
Overall size:45mm x 18 mm x 20 mm
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Chalcopyrite with Quartz - Animón Mine, Huarón mining district, Huayllay district, Pasco province, Pasco, Peru
(#MINS9018)
A nice, small cabinet specimen,with brassy Chalcopyrite xls up to 1,1 cm wide with water-clear quartz crystals in association.Specimens such as this came out in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
Specimen weight:156 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,1 cm
Overall size:78mm x 38 mm x 40 mm
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Papagoite - New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima Co., Arizona, USA (TL)
(#MINS9006)
Deep blue papagoite ftom the type locality.Very hard-to-obtain.
Specimen weight:38 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:50mm x 45 mm x 18 mm
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Cuprodongchuanite - Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province China (TL)
(#MINS8995)
Translucent, lustrous pale bluish green spheroidal aggregates of Cuprodongchuanite, a rare phosphate of lead, copper and zinc, discovered very recently and approved by the IMA as a new species in 2021
Specimen weight:25 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 0.5 mm
Overall size:42mm x 25 mm x 22 mm
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Linarite - Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Grand Reef Mountain, Klondyke, Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa Mining District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA
(#MINS8986)
Electric Blue Linarite crystals up to 2-3 mm on matrix.
Specimen weight:42 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2-3 mm
Overall size:40mm x 28 mm x 35 mm
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Goudeyite - Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA (TL)
(#MINS8984)
Very rare rounded green aggregates of goudeyite on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:44 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:50mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
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Syngenite - Holyn - Kalusa Salt deposit - Ivano-Frankivs'k Oblast' - Ukraine (Type Locality)
(#MINS8989)
Nice specimen of this rare potassium sulfate.
Semitransparent crystals up to 2,5 cm set on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:42 gr.
Crystal size:2,5 cm wide
Overall size:48mm x 25 mm x 43 mm
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Quartz (phantom) with Hematite - Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India
(#MINS8980)
Water clear parallel quartz with very nice and well defined hematite topped phantoms.
Specimen weight:19 gr.
Crystal size:3,5 cm tall
Overall size:28mm x 18 mm x 35 mm
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Fluorite - Mahodari quarry, Sinnar, Nashik District, Nashik Division, Maharashtra, India
(#MINS8982)
Translucent, yellow fluorite ball 2,2 cm wide aesthetically set on crust of sparkly quartz crystals.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:2,2 cm wide
Overall size:38mm x 38 mm x 35 mm
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Andalusite - Bregaglia Valley, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
(#MINS8971)
Very well represented prismatic Xls of Andalusite on quartzite 2,8 cm tall.
The Andalusite shows an intense colour and a good luster.
Classic old italian Alpine stuff.
Classic italian stuff.
Specimen weight:310 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2,8 cm
Overall size:105mm x 60 mm x 50 mm
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Pyrophyllite - Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia, USA
(#MINS8964)
Radial sprays of iridescent, golden-yellow and cream colored pyrophyllite blades cover all sides of this striking and very nice specimen from Graves Mountain.
Specimen weight:47 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm wide
Overall size:50mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
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Fuchsite, Quartz - Linopolis, Divino das Laranjerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
(#11196_FUCH_DANI)
Splendid fucsite xx with ialine quartz xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:435 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm rosettes
Overall size:105mm x 110 mm x 40 mm
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Newberyite - (TL) - Skipton Caves, Mt. Widderin, Skipton, Victoria, Australia
(#12078_NEWB_DANI)
Very nice rare pale brown newberyite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:8 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm
Overall size:15mm x 22 mm x 14 mm
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Vesuvianite, Clinochlore - Rocca Sella, Susa valley, Piedmont, Italy
(#11506_VESU_DANI)
Specimen equally interesting for the many nice clinochlore xx and the rich brown strongly elongated vesuviantite xx.
Specimen weight:59 gr.
Crystal size:27 mm (v), 2 mm (c)
Overall size:55mm x 45 mm x 12 mm
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Amethyst quartz and goethite - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
(#GM24022)
A large druse completely covered by quartz crystals with a beautiful amethyst color.
Most crystal tips are darker.
The black traces that can be seen are of goethite and ...
Specimen weight:550 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 10
Overall size:125mm x 110 mm x 43 mm
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Owner : GMineral (Voghera - Italy) 
