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Mineral sizes: tn = 1" (2.5 cm), min = 2" (5 cm), scab = 3" (7.5cm), cab = 4" (10cm),
museum = 5" or larger (13 cm +)
Sizes available:
min, large $ 90
min, smaller $ 45
flat, crystalline surfaces, purple in color, nice crystal terminations
Sizes available:
tn, $ 10
Opaque ruby crystals used to cut star ruby gemstones
Little Annie Vein, Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado USA
Sizes available:
scab, $100
cab, $ 250
Fine blues, golds, on white matrix; a very attractive ore specimens; rare
Sizes available:
min, $ 20 - $ 24
Medium, light, purple xls. surrounded by gearksutite (white powdery matrix) on a typical underground Tonopah rock matrix containing small pyrites
Sizes available:
tn, $ 10
min, $ 50
scab, $ 100
cab, $ 200
museum, $ 400
Multicolored material with gold and/or red and/or blue tigereye side by side on and in natural matrix; will cut into fine gemstones
Sizes available:
tn, $ 25
min, $ 45
scab, $ 75
Blue fibers of Riebeckite, some pieces with stunning schiller effect; please inquire about solid pieces of this blue tigereye for cutting gemstones
Stolberget, Vester Silfberg, Sweden
Sizes available:
tn, $ 10
scab, $ 15
Black radiating, massive xls. around garnets with biotite
Sizes available:
scab, $ 45
cab, $ 60
Green dioptase xls. with plancheite sprays and some light green malachite on a brown matrix
Sizes available:
min, $ 15 to $ 30
price depends on number of cystals present
Extremely delicate arsenian vanadinite crystals appearing as silver acicular xls. on a thin matrix with some calcite xls.; use a microscope to locate some wulfenite xls.
Collected in 2003
Sizes available:
min, $ 8 - $20
scab, $ 15 - $ 25
cab, $ 30 - $ 50
Deep reddish-purple xls. on skutterudite matrix, roselite and/or wendwilsonite could be found on some of these specimens
Sizes available:
min, $ 10
Massive form composed of numerous small irridescent blades
Sizes available:
tn, $ 4
Colors available; clear, blue, purple, and (upon rare occasions) yellow
Sizes available:
min, $ 10
scab, $ 20
Purple or bluish-purple chunks of solid fluorite
Size avaible:
cab, $ 50
Massive intergrown fluorite xls., very showy
Sizes available:
scab, $ 65
cab, $ 120
Fine blue cubes usually on a quartz matrix
Sizes available:
min, $ 25
scab, $ 50 - 65
cab, $ 100 - 125
Galena with calcite and/or chalcopyrite, some specimens with dolomite
Size Available:
scab, $ 145
Beautiful light orange xls. covering matrix
Size available:
min, $ 25
Interconnected shiny silver spherical masses
Sizes available:
tn, $ 250
min, $ 500
Deliate wires of gold forming plates on a white matrix; very attractive
Sizes available:
1 inch circular disc, $ 20
2 inch circular disc, $ 40
These are 1 or 2 inch flat circular discs cut from drill cores showing the mineralization
See the photographs in USGS Professional Paper 26
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
Haile Mine, 3 ½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina USA
Sizes available:
min, $ 25 - $100
cab $ 35 - $ 150
Massive sulfide deposits containing pyrite/gold which are embedded in white to cream colored shists
Price range indicates there are three grades of this material; please specify if you want the major sulphides/metallic inclusions on matrix, or less sulfide/metallic inclusions, or occasional sulfides/metallic inclusions
Sizes available:
tn, $ 16
Silver, metallic, specimens of graphite
Sizes available:
tn, $ 30
min, $ 60 - 100
scab, $ 150
Brownish-golden glistening metallic crystals on matrix
Sizes available:
tn, $ 10 - 25
Silver metallic sheets with rutile cystals
Sizes available:
min, $ 20 - 45
scab, $ 40- 100
Clear or white, radiating crystals (5 to 10mm) on a brown matrix
Sizes available:
min, $ 10
scab, $ 16
Pinkish-yellow heulandite crystals, first quality with radiating crystal structue or parallel crystal structure
Sizes available:
min, $ 8
scab, $ 14
Same as above, with large glistening crystal surfaces and less individual cystalline structure
Sizes available:
min, $ 15
scab, $ 25
cab, $ 45
Black acicular crystals forming
a layer on matrix
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