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Mineral sizes are designated by the following standard abbreviations which indicate the largest dimension: tn (thumbnail) = 1" (2.5 cm), min (miniture) = 2" (5 cm), scab (small cabinet) = 3" (7.5cm), cab (cabinet) = 4" (10cm), and museum = 5" or larger (13 cm +)
Antimony, Native
Sizes available:
tn, $ 35
min $ 65
Glistening, silver, metallic specimens of native antimony ore
Bornite on Native Silver
San Martin Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico
Sizes available:
tn, $ 25
min, $ 50
scab, $ 85
Bluish-black ore covering thin sheets of pure silver; very impressive specimens
Bornite
Magma Mine, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona USA
Sizes available:
tn, $ 15
min, $ 30
scab, $ 75
cab, $ 200
Sizes available:
tn, $ 15
min, $ 30
scab, $ 75
cab, $ 200
Bright bluish-purple metallic ore; most specimens have pyrite inclusions; from a mine no longer in operation
Free sample available with any $ 100 mineral order
Bornite
Sizes available:
tn, $ 25
min, $ 150
scab, $ 250
Solid, bluish, metallic specimens collected in the deep mines of Butte when the mines were still active
White Pine Mine, Ontonagan County, Michigan USA
Sizes available:
min, $ 45
scab, $ 75
cab, $ 100
Flat specimens with a sharp contrast between the bright copper and the black shale; some specimens with native rock matrix
New Mexico, USA
Sizes available:
min, $ 25
scab, $ 50
3-dimensional pieces of native copper; some with matrix
Arizona USA
Sizes available:
min, $ 30
scab, $ 50
Three dimensional pieces of native copper; some with matrix
Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan USA
Sizes available:
scab, $ 55
cab, $ 250
This copper is
very bright and has slight reddish coloration
Sizes available:
min, $ 40
scab, $ 75
cab, $ 125
Native copper on a natural green-gray matrix
Size available:
min, $ 10
Pieces of copper dropped by glaciers; the copper is exposed and polished on one surface; unaltered surface is a bright green
Glistening copper on surface of native white and gray schist host rock. On most specimens, the copper is seen as multiple layers of thin sheets of copper throughout the host rock
Sizes available:
scab, $ 45
cab, $ 65
museum, $ 100
Copper Arsenides (mainly algodonite)
Single specimen available:
scab, $ 200
Thick rock slice (7mm), of calcite and host rock with embedded copper arsenides with copper
Copper Arsenides (mainly algodonite)
Single specimen available:
scab, $ 195
Thick rock slice (7mm), of calcite and host rock with embedded copper arsenides
Sizes available:
scab, $100
cab, $ 250
Fine blues, golds, on white matrix; a very attractive ore specimens; rare
Canada
Sizes available:
min, $ 65
scab, $ 130
cab, $ 200
Cobaltite is a sulfosalt mineral composed of cobalt, arsenic, and sulfur compounds to make the formula CoAsS
Sizes available:
1 inch circular disc, $ 10
2 inch circular disc, $ 40
These are 1 or 2 inch flat circular discs cut from drill cores showing the mineralization
Reference: see the photographs in USGS Professional Paper 26
Gold Ore
Sunnyside Gold Mine, Eureka, San Juan County, Colorado USA
[ Specimens have more quartz and/or galena and/or shalerite and less pyrite / chalcopyrite containing gold ]
Sizes available:tn, $ 5
min, $ 15
scab, $ 25 - 70
cab, $ 40 - 100
Quartz, gold, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite in matrix
[ Specimens have more pyrite / chalcopyrite containing gold and less base metals ]
Sizes available:
tn, $ 20
min, $ 50
scab, $ 100
cab, $ 200 - 300
Quartz, gold, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite in matrix
in matrix
Massive sulfide deposits containing pyrite/gold which are embedded in white to cream colored shists
Sizes available:
min, $ 25 - $ 400
cab $ 35 - $ 150
Price determined by the number of sulphides and/or metallic inclusions on the surface of the host rock; not assayed; mine is in the process of reopening
specimen
showing the metal content
of the host
rock; this is the actual color of
the specimen
is about 5 cm across, $ 400
flat of specimens from the previous owner of the
Haile Mine; above specimen from box in the lower left of of this photograph
but give a better perspective of the
ore and rock of the area but have a
lower price
Graphite
Sizes available:
tn, $ 16
Silver, metallic, specimens of graphite
Sizes available:
tn, $ 30
min, $ 60 - 125
scab, $ 175
Massive brown-gold-black glistening metallic crystals on matrix
Mohawkite
Sizes available:
min to cab;
prices range from
$ 50 to $ 150
Silver and/or copper colored metallic rocks composed of copper arsenides containing cobalt, silver, nickel and iron which were apparently dropped by the glaciers (they have one flat side); many have a white internal matrix
Molybdenite on Calcite; some
with Phlogophite
New Mexico USA
Sizes available:
tn, $ 10
cab, $ 100
Thumb-nail specimens are small pieces of pure molybdenum ore; larger specimens are silver metallic ore on matrix; some specimens with phlogophite crystals
Sizes available:
tn, $ 10
min, $ 25 (less ore and color contrast) to
$ 40 (more ore and color constrast)
scab, $ 150
Silver metallic specimens, some on a green matrix, collected in 1994
Sizes available:
tn, $ 10
min, $ 20 - $ 25
scab, $ 40 - 50
cab, $ 90
Silver metallic specimens on native rock, collected in 1999
Lac Preissac, Quebec, Canada
Sizes available:
tn, $20 - $ 30
min, $ 35
scab, $ 40- 75
cabinet, $ 100
Photo shown is an scab specimen; very impressive contrast of silver ore on white quartz
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