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Jamesonite |
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Mina Noche
Buena, Zacatecas, Mexico |
min |
$ 25 |
silver
acicular xls. on a pyrite matrix |
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Kinolite |
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Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona |
min |
$ 10 |
Blue micro-crystals on a gray matrix; specimens may
also contain apophyllite, gilalite or ruizite
One specimen free with any $100 order |
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scab |
$ 20 |
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Kyanite, Garnet, and Biotite |
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Hit-Ostrov, Karelia, Russia |
min |
$ 55 |
This is a colorful material with blue kyanite crystals on
top of a matrix of garnet and biotite |
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scab |
$ 100 |
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Lapis Lazuli |
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Afganistan |
tn |
$ 3 |
Both chunks and slices of this splendid blue material |
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min |
$ 10 |
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Lepidolite |
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Aracuai, Minas Gerias, Brazil |
min |
$ 50 |
small flat translucent plate of pink, lamellar lepidolite
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Magnetite and
Ilmenite |
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National Lead - Titanium Mine,
Tahawus, New York (Adirondaks) |
scab |
$ 40 for a chunk
or
$ 125 polished face
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Massive crystalline specimens
available as a scab size chunk or with a finely polished surface to
visualize the minerals |
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Magnetite |
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National Lead - Titanium Mine, Tahawus, New York (Adirondaks) |
scab |
$ 45 - $ 55 |
Massive crystalline form of non-magnetic magnetite; some specimens contain
pyrite |
| cab |
$ 60 |
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Malachite with Cyanotrichite |
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Grandview Mine, Grand Canyon,
Coconino County, Arizona |
tn |
$ 5 - $ 25 |
Acicular, dark green malachite with cotton-like cyanotrichite; some
specimens may have brochantite and/or azurite xls.
Photo is a high close-up of the
minerals. |
| min |
$ 35 - $ 50 |
| scab |
$ 65 |
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Mimetite |
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Ironwood "God’s" Claim, Pima
County, Arizona |
tn |
$ 15 |
Specimens have either orange
botryoidal or acicular xl. morphologies; this is a very colorful lot
for micro-collectors with unknown green microscopic minerals and some
wulfenite xls. |
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min |
$ 15 -
$ 25 |
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Mohawkite |
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Keweenaw County, Michigan |
min to cab |
$ 50 - $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) |
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Molybdenite on Calcite; some
with Phlogophite |
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Questa, Taos County New Mexico |
tn |
$ 10 |
Thumb-nail specimens are small pieces of pure molybdenum ore; Large
specimens are silver metallic ore on matrix; these new specimens are the
best we have ever had from this location |
| min |
sold |
| cab |
$ 100 |
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Molybdenum
ore |
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Jardinera # 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chile |
tn |
$ 10 |
Silver metallic specimens, some on a green matrix, collected in 1994 |
| min |
$ 25 -
$ 45 |
| scab |
$ 90 |
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Molybdenum ore |
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Santa Ana de Yelora, Sonora, Mexico |
tn |
$ 10 |
Silver metallic specimens on native rock, collected on site in 1999 |
| min |
$ 20 -
$ 30 |
| scab |
$ 40 -
$ 50 |
| cab |
$ 90 |
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Muscovite |
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Cotopaxi, Colorado |
tn |
$ 2 |
Mica books; some with matrix attached |
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min |
$ 4 |
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scab |
$ 10 |
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cab |
$ 25 |
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Orpiment |
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Betze Post Mine, Carlin Trend, Tuscarora Mountains, Elko
County, Nevada |
tn |
$ 5 |
Bright orange specimens with red realgar crystals on a gray
matrix |
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min |
$ 12 |
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scab |
$ 20 |
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Peridotite |
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Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico |
tn |
$ 4 |
Massive green peridot xls. with scattered black inclusions |
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min |
$ 7 |
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scab |
$15 |
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cab |
$30 |
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Prehnite |
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Poona, India |
min |
$ 5 |
A mint green, botyroidal material associated with white
minerals on the larger specimens; some specimens are entirely green in color |
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scab |
$ 10 |
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cab |
$ 20 |
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Prehnite pseudomorph after
Laumontite containing copper inclusions |
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Knife River, North Shore of
Lake Superior, Minnesota |
min |
$ 25 |
A light pink mineral with
copper inclusions throughout |
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scab |
$ 45 |
|
cab |
$ 65 |
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Pyr ite |
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Iron Mine,
Cornwall, Pennsylvania |
cab |
$ 75 |
Pyrite
crystals covering iron ore |
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Pyrite |
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Friedensville
Zinc Mine, near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
cab |
$ 28 |
Pyrite with
sphalerite on cemented breccia |
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Pyrophyllite |
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Indian Gulch, Mariposa County, California |
cab |
$ 20 |
Cream colored, massive, radiating crystals |
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Quartz, clear |
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Mt. Ida, Arkansas |
tn |
$ 4 |
Clean quartz crystals usually without perfect end
terminations |
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min |
$ 8 |
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Quartz, clear |
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Minas Gerais, Brazil |
min |
$ 20 |
Clear quartz crystal clusters |
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scab |
$ 30 |
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Quartz, pink |
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Minas Gerais, Brazil |
tn |
$ 3 |
Medium pink chunks of translucent quartz; a darker pink
opaque variety may in available, please inquire |
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min |
$ 6 |
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Quartz, Polyhedroid |
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Minas Gerais, Brazil |
scab |
$ 100 |
Unusual quartz specimens with weird polyhedroid shapes; no
two are ever alike |
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cab |
$ 125 |
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Ramsdellite |
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Mistake Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona |
tn |
$ 5 |
Silver-Gray-Black glistening crystals on a brown matrix |
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min |
$ 15 - $ 20 |
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scab |
$ 45 - $ 75 |
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cab |
$
125- $
250 |
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Realgar |
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Gold Strike Mine, Eureka
County, Nevada |
tn |
$ 5 |
Orange crystalline mineralization
throughout gray carbonaceous matrix |
|
min |
$ 12 |
|
scab |
$ 25 |
|
cab |
$ 40 |
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Rhodochrosite |
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Emma Mine, Silver Bow County, Montana |
tn |
$ 10 |
Fine pink to white botyroidal rhodochrosite crystals covering matrix of
pyrite, and/or sphalerite and/or quartz |
|
min |
$25 - $ 45 |
|
scab |
$45 - $125 |
|
cab |
$125 - $ 600 |
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Rhodochrosite |
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Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana |
scab |
$ 125 |
Massive, crystalline rhodochrosite; this material has
a deeper red color than the material listed above |
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Richterite |
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Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada |
tn |
$ 5 |
Black crystals of Richerite in a light matrix |
|
min |
$ 12 |
|
scab |
$ 20 |