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This page was last updated on 30 May 2010

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Mineral sizes:

thumbnail (tn) = up to 1" (2.5cm) /   miniature (min) = up to 2" (5 cm) /  small cabinet (scab) = up to 3" (7.5cm) /  cabinet (cab) = around 4" (10 cm) /  museum = larger than 4" (> 10 cm)

 

Mineral

Photograph

Source

Sizes

Price

Description

Jamesonite

Mina Noche Buena, Zacatecas, Mexico

min

$ 25

silver acicular xls. on a pyrite matrix

Kinolite

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

scab

$ 20

Kyanite, Garnet, and Biotite

Hit-Ostrov, Karelia, Russia

min

$ 55

This is a colorful material with blue kyanite crystals on top of a matrix of garnet and biotite

scab

$ 100

Lapis Lazuli

Afganistan

tn

$ 3

Both chunks and slices of this splendid blue material

min

$ 10

Lepidolite

Aracuai, Minas Gerias, Brazil

min

$ 50

small flat translucent plate of pink, lamellar lepidolite

 

       
Magnetite and Ilmenite

National Lead - Titanium Mine, Tahawus, New York (Adirondaks) scab $ 40 for a chunk

or

$ 125 polished face

 

Massive crystalline specimens available as a scab size chunk or with a finely polished surface to visualize the minerals
Magnetite

National Lead - Titanium Mine, Tahawus, New York (Adirondaks) scab $ 45 - $ 55 Massive crystalline form of non-magnetic magnetite; some specimens contain pyrite
cab $ 60
 

 

       
Malachite with Cyanotrichite

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
Mimetite

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.
min $ 15 -  $ 25

 

Mohawkite

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)

Molybdenite on Calcite; some with Phlogophite

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

Molybdenum ore

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

Molybdenum ore

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

Muscovite

Cotopaxi, Colorado

tn

$ 2

Mica books; some with matrix attached

min

$ 4

scab

$ 10

cab

$ 25

Orpiment

Betze Post Mine, Carlin Trend, Tuscarora Mountains, Elko County, Nevada

tn

$ 5

Bright orange specimens with red realgar crystals on a gray matrix

min

$ 12

scab

$ 20

Peridotite

 

Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico

tn

$ 4

Massive green peridot xls. with scattered black inclusions

min

$ 7

scab

$15

cab

$30

Prehnite

Poona, India

min

$ 5

A mint green, botyroidal material associated with white minerals on the larger specimens; some specimens are entirely green in color

scab

$ 10

cab

$ 20

Prehnite pseudomorph after Laumontite containing copper inclusions

Knife River, North Shore of Lake Superior, Minnesota

min

$ 25

A light pink mineral with copper inclusions throughout

scab

$ 45

cab

$ 65

Pyrite

Iron Mine, Cornwall, Pennsylvania

cab

$ 75

Pyrite crystals covering iron ore

Pyrite

Friedensville Zinc Mine, near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

cab

$ 28

Pyrite with sphalerite on cemented breccia

Pyrophyllite

 

Indian Gulch, Mariposa County, California

cab

$ 20

Cream colored, massive, radiating crystals

Quartz, clear

Mt. Ida, Arkansas

tn

$ 4

Clean quartz crystals usually without perfect end terminations

min

$ 8

Quartz, clear

Minas Gerais, Brazil

min

$ 20

Clear quartz crystal clusters

scab

$ 30

Quartz, pink

Minas Gerais, Brazil

tn

$ 3

Medium pink chunks of translucent quartz; a darker pink opaque variety may in available, please inquire

min

$ 6

Quartz, Polyhedroid

Minas Gerais, Brazil

scab

$ 100

Unusual quartz specimens with weird polyhedroid shapes; no two are ever alike

cab

$ 125

Ramsdellite

Mistake Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona

tn

$ 5

Silver-Gray-Black glistening crystals on a brown matrix

min

$ 15 -  $ 20

scab

$ 45 -  $ 75   

cab

$ 125- $ 250

Realgar

Gold Strike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada

 

tn

$ 5

Orange crystalline mineralization throughout gray carbonaceous matrix

min

$ 12

scab

$ 25

cab

$ 40   

Rhodochrosite

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

Rhodochrosite

Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana

scab

$ 125

Massive, crystalline rhodochrosite; this material has a deeper red color than the material listed above

Richterite

Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada

tn

$ 5

Black crystals of Richerite in a light matrix

min

$ 12

scab

$ 20

 


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