BOL1 Boleite,

Amalia Mine, Santa Rosalia Co, Baja California, Mexico (Type Locality)

4.4x 4.3x 4.0 cm

A rare matrix boleite specimen, with an exceptionally sharp, 5mm (edge length) crystal..  As most of you already know, the matrix is clay, which meant that matrixes crumbled away from most of the specimens that were recovered.  To prevent this, the matrix of this specimen has been stabilized with a mixture of glue and water (standard procedure for matrix boleites).  This mine originally operated in the 1800's, was reworked for a couple years in the 1970's,  and has since been closed. 

For more information on the locality, see Mineralogical record Vol. 29 No. 1

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BOL2 Boleite,

Amalia Mine, Santa Rosalia Co, Baja California, Mexico (Type Locality)

2.6x2.5x 2.3 cm

A rare matrix boleite specimen, with a deep blue, 3 mm (edge length) crystal.  As most of you already know, the matrix is clay, which meant that matrixes crumbled away from most of the specimens that were recovered.  To prevent this, the matrix has been stabilized with a mixture of glue and water (standard procedure for these specimens).  There is a little bit of anglesite and atacamite on the matrix as well.

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ZAIC1 Cuprosklodowskite

Musonoi Extension, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo 

6.7x 3.7x 3.0 cm

A vain of bright green cuprosklodowskite running through the triangular prism-shaped matrix.  There is cuprosklodowskite on three sides of this specimen (two are pictured).  There is also another yellow uranium mineral present as well, though I am not certain of its identity.

These are getting very difficult to find as decent cabinet specimens.  

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CEM1 Cerrusite, Barite 

Mibladen, Morocco

9.4x 7.8x 3.5 cm

$100

A large cabinet specimen consisting of hundreds of terminated cerrusites on matrix with two pink barite rosettes.  Not rare, but pretty.

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JERJ1 Jeremejevite

Swakopmund, Namibia

1.2x .2x .2 cm.

A small, sharply terminated crystal of this extremely rare gem mineral.  Prices have come down substantially over the past couple years (I remember a few years ago something like this would have been in the hundreds...)

An interesting fact:  although just about all the jeremejevite on the market today comes from a few finds in Namibia, the type locality is actually in eastern Russia.

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TNA67 Beryl var. Aquamarine

Gilgit, Northern Areas, Pakistan

2.7x 1.6x 1.2 cm

$28

A gemmy, 2.7 cm ,double terminated, aquamarine crystal on an albite matrix. 

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HQ34  Quartz "Herkimer Diamond"

New York, United States 

8.6x 5.5x 2.9 cm

$100

An exceptional Herkimer specimen.  Most herkimers that you see will only have one or two crystals, but this one has literally hundreds, including a cluster of larger crystals to 1.55 cm  perched aesthetically at the top of the specimen.  Sawed on the reverse.

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EU2 Euclase

Serra do Parecis, Rondonia, Brazil

2.0x 1.2 x .4 cm

$58

A complete, double terminated, and very sharp euclase crystal with inclusions from brazil.

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NLA1 Lazurite

Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

13.5x 11.5x 7.5

$95

A large cabinet specimen with a single, sharp and well exposed lazurite crystal perched on a marble matrix.  The crystal measures 1.65x 1.5 cm.  There are some patches of pyrite scattered across the marble.  I had considered trimming this one, but I decided against it.

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NPAR1 Pargasite

Near Aliabad, Hunza Valley, Hunza, Pakistan

3.0x 3.0 x 2.0 cm.

$75

A large and well exposed pargasite crystal measuring 1.3 cm and showing good faces, on a matrix of marble.

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PYNC1  Pyromorphite

Daoping Lead-Zinc Mine, Guangxi Province, China

5.2x 4.6x 2.5 cm

A Nice miniature specimen hosting hundreds of green pyromorphite crystals, many with pinacoid terminations. These pyromorphites first started coming out in 1999, the mines have since been closed.

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CBOT5  Botryogen

Cerro Pintado, Iquique, Tamarugal Pampa, Tarapaca Province, Chile

5.0x 4.0x 2.3 cm

$45

A very rich specimen, covered with botryogen on all sides.  Ugly stuff... but rare.

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SCH1 Schröckingerite

Red Desert, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, United States

2.8x2.2x1.5 cm

A thumbnail specimen with a good bit of this rare uranium mineral on matrix. 

   NaCa₃UO₂SO₄(CO₃)₃F - 10H₂O,  read "hydrated sodium calcium uranyl sulfate carbonate fluoride."

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AD50  Adamite

Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico

7.25x5.4x 4.5 cm

$145

A cabinet specimen with many radial clusters of bright yellow adamite crystals, on a matrix of limonite.       

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FAR1 Ferberite

Tasna Mine, Rosario Section of Cerro Tasna, Nor Chichas Prov., Potosi Dept., Bolivia

4.1 x3.0x 2.7 cm

$68

Two very sharp, butterfly twinned ferberite crystals.  There is a contact on the base, where they were removed from the matrix.       

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CRO50 Crocoite

Dundas, Tasmania, Australia

8.5x 7.5x 4.5 cm

A cabinet specimen with many bright crystals of crocoite.       

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SCO1 Scorodite

Hemerdon Ball Mine, Plympton, Devon, UK

6.7x 5.2x 5.0 cm.

$88

An English scorodite specimen, hosting many sharp, small blue crystals.  The crystals are blue when viewed in artificial light (as in the pictures) and greenish-blue when viewed in natural light.       

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PBAR1 Barite on Dolomite

Cerro Warihuyn, Mir Aflores Huamlalias
Huanuco, Peru

4.4x 3.3x 2.0 cm

$78

A very aesthetic miniature, with an undamaged, 2 cm cluster of water-clear barite crystals perched on a dolomite matrix.  This specimen is from a new find, made within the last year.    

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PBAR2 Barite on Dolomite 

Cerro Warihuyn, Mir Aflores Huamlalias
Huanuco, Peru

5.65x 2.7x 2.5 cm

$45

A nice miniature, with a cluster of water-clear barite crystals, to 2 cm, on a dolomite matrix.  This is from a new find, made within the last year.        

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PBA3 Barite 

Tasna Mine, Bolivia

Cerro Warihuyn, Mir Aflores Huamlalias
Huanuco, Peru

$38

A nice miniature, with a 3.6 cm cluster of sharp, yellow barite crystals on matrix.  This is from a new find, made within the last year.        

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