Mineral Specimens - page 18
The James Catmur Collection

JR66W3: Thick tabular crystal with simple forms, isolated and practically a floater. It is large, translucent, bright and has a color between yellow and brown depending of the zones. The sample is from a locality that is rarely represented in most of the good mineralogical collections.
Sherman Mine, Upper Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado  USA (±1988)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.7 × 3.2 cm = 4.5” × 3.4” × 1.3”

JT94W0: Sharp, individual, rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite. They are translucent, very bright and have a great intensity of color. Furthermore, they are implanted on an aggregate of sharp tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite, an uncommon association. The Rhodochrosite from Sweet Home Mine has become, in just a few years, one of the great classics due to their quality and the permanent closing of the mine.
Corner Pocket, Watercourse Raise, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado  USA (1994)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

JA46W0: Parallel aggregate of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated and with a neat color zoning, intense bluish green on the terminations and clearer on the dominant faces.
Park County Claims, Tarryall, Park County, Colorado  USA (±1990)

Specimen size: 9 × 7 × 4.5 cm = 3.5” × 2.8” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.5 cm = 2.8” × 1.0”

JD90W0: Grouped and isolated crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright, with a very intense and uniform color and implanted on a matrix of Clinochlore. One of the best examples of the 1998 find.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria District, San Benito County, California  USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.2 × 1.8 cm = 2.8” × 2.4” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

JR96X9: Cluster of very acute scalenohedral Calcite crystals. They are translucent and bright and are on matrix. The sample is from a not well known mine at Taxco from where such fine samples are scarce.
Mina Remedios, Taxco de Alarcón, Municipio de Taxco, Guerrero  Mexico (±1988)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 7.8 × 8.2 cm = 4.9” × 3.1” × 3.2”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.0” × 0.4”

JA16X9: Spheroidal Aggregates (well known as “pompons”) of laminar Barite crystals with a snowy white color and pearly luster. They are on matrix with small but very bright Sphalerite crystals. A French classic.
Mine des Cèdres, Asce. 32, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Malines, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon  France

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.5 × 4.7 cm = 4.1” × 3.3” × 1.9”

JV60W0: Aggregate of crystals that combine, in a balanced way, the faces of the dodecahedron and the trapezohedron. They are translucent, very bright, have an orange color and are on matrix, with leafy aggregates of Chlorite.
Val d'Aosta  Italy

Specimen size: 7 × 6.3 × 4.5 cm = 2.8” × 2.5” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

JV86X9: Parallel aggregate of doubly terminated Barite crystals, sharp laminar and showing very well defined crystalline forms. They are transparent and bright and are on matrix, with Siderite, Galena and Pyrite crystals.
Turt, Satu Mare, Maramures  Rumania (±2001)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.1 × 2.4 cm = 2.6” × 1.6” × 0.9”

JM46X9: Fanlike aggregates of sharp Erythrite crystals. They are bright, have an excellent very vivid color, and are on matrix, with small Quartz crystals.
Bou Azzer area, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate  Morocco (±1992)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.8 × 4 cm = 3.9” × 2.3” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.4” × 0.1”

JD73W3: Aggregate of crystals, large for the species, bright and with an intense and vivid red color. They have poorly developed prismatic faces, one of their terminations is polycrystalline, and with predominating pyramidal faces. The back sides of the crystals are almost flat.
Coud'a, Mibladen, Midelt, Khénifra  Morocco (10/2001)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.1” × 1.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.1” × 1.0”

JD37X5: Group of tabular crystals, some showing a clearly hemimorphic shape with very well marked pyramidal faces. They are very bright and have irregular color zoning.
We’ll send the Catmur collection label with the sample.
Mibladen, Midelt, Khénifra  Morocco (±1995)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.9 × 3 cm = 2.2” × 1.5” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.5 cm = 0.8” × 0.2”

JC98X5: Tabular Vanadinite crystals that have a very intense color and luster. They are spread on a group of white Barite crystals and on rocky matrix.
We’ll send the Catmur collection label with the sample.
ACF Mine area, Mibladen, Midelt  Morocco (±1995)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.5 × 3.7 cm = 2.7” × 2.6” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

JL92W0: A very sharp crystal that has an extraordinarily intense and uniform yellow color. It is very bright and transparent and has inclusions of Galena. Another magnificent classic of Touissit's golden age.
Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda  Morocco (02/1995)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.4 × 1.6 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 0.6”

JM62X9: Druse, on limonite matrix, of very sharp and well defined crystals, some of them doubly terminated. They are transparent, extraordinarily bright and have a very deep and intense metallic blue color.
Puit IX, Touissit, Oujda  Morocco (±1992)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.8” × 1.3” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”

JF10W0: Tabular crystals of Wulfenite with very well developed faces of the pinacoid and the dipyramid. They are between transparent and translucent, yellow in color with orange shades, very bright and on matrix.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb  Namibia

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5 × 3.3 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.2 cm = 0.5” × 0.5”

JC99W6: Group of extraordinarily flattened crystals of Galena with parallel growths showing the Spinel law twin, which is very evident on their edges. On a Sphalerite matrix, with Quartz and Pyrite.
Huancavelica  Peru (±1996)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.9 × 4.8 cm = 3.4” × 2.7” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.9” × 0.5”

JM61X9: Bundled aggregates of thin prismatic Stibnite crystals. They are very bright, have good terminations and are partially coated by white Calcite.
Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4 × 3.3 cm = 1.7” × 1.6” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 0.2 cm = 1.1” × 0.1”

JX60X9: Aggregate of flattened prismatic Stibnite crystals. They are very bright, have very well defined faces and edges and good terminations, and are partially coated by white Calcite.
Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 6 × 4 × 3.9 cm = 2.4” × 1.6” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 0.5 cm = 1.0” × 0.2”

JP16X9: Isolated complex Sphalerite crystal with polycrystalline growths and curved but well defined faces and edges. It is translucent, bright and has a deep intense and uniform red color. It is on a rocky matrix coated by small Quartz crystals.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.1 × 3.5 cm = 2.5” × 2.0” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

JB70X9: Parallel growths of very sharp dipyramidal Scheelite crystals. They are transparent with a very intense luster and have a vivid and uniform orange color. On matrix with leafy aggregates of Muscovite.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan  China (1996)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.7” × 2.0” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

JN46X9: Irregular aggregate or elongated crystals, most of them doubly terminated, with very well marked hollow terminations. The crystals have a vivid and uniform color and, in some areas, they have unidentified coatings.
Adelaida Mine, Dundas, Tasmania  Australia (±1998)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.1 × 3.2 cm = 1.8” × 1.6” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.4 cm = 1.0” × 0.2”

JP27X9: Irregular aggregate of crystals with finely striated prism faces and very well marked hopper terminations. The crystals are intensely colored and they have unidentified white coatings in some areas.
Adelaida Mine, Dundas, Tasmania  Australia (±1998)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.5 × 2.6 cm = 2.6” × 1.8” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 0.5 cm = 1.0” × 0.2”

JR13X9: Apophyllite-(KF) crystals, one of them clearly dominant and partially doubly terminated, formed by a prism, a dipyramid and the pinacoid (it is not a cleavage surface) on a base of Stilbite crystals.
Bombay, Maharashtra  India (±1993)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.2” × 2.6” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 5 × 3 cm = 2.0” × 1.2”

JG27W0: Single crystal neatly twinned on the law typical for the species. It is implanted on a white Calcite matrix, is transparent and has an especially intense and uniform red color. A miniature very representative of the species.
Pein Pyit, Mogok, Mandalay  Burma (1999)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.1” × 1.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

JE86W6: Excellent Fluorite for the locality, showing a rare combination of species, with pink rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite and Quartz, both typical of the Sweet Home mine.The crystals of Fluorite, transparent, bright and with a very deep color, show neatly defined faces of the cube and the dodecahedron.
Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado  USA (2001)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.5” × 1.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

JM69X0: Group of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on the cube faces. The crystals are translucent, with a clear violet color with a deeper color zoning on the edges. On the back there is a small matrix of Sphalerite.
Previously in the Tom Wiesner collection (num. 2343284), whose label we'll send to the buyer.
Denton mine, Harris Creek, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (02/03/1984)

Specimen size: 12 × 10.2 × 5 cm = 4.7” × 4.0” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 7.3 × 6.7 cm = 2.9” × 2.6”

JA28W3: Flattened drusy growth of very transparent cubic crystals with a very uniform violet color. An American classic of very good quality.
The sample was previously in the collection of Tom Wiesner (num. 73572074), whose label we’ll send with the Catmur label to the buyer.
Spivey Shaft, Minerva I Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (1974)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 10.3 × 1.7 cm = 5.4” × 4.1” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

JD69X0: Druse of very sharp cubic crystals, between transparent and translucent, with a very deep yellow color and very bright. A French classic of superior quality and transparency for samples from this mine.
Filon Mespoulière, Valzergues Mine, Valzergues, Montbazens, Aveyron  France (1990)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 8.4 × 6.3 cm = 3.7” × 3.3” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.9” × 0.6”

JF89X5: Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, dodecahedral and with small faces of the cube. They are colorless, transparent and very bright and have a small matrix and abundant inclusions.
We’ll send the Catmur collection label with the sample.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskij Kraj  Russia (07/2003)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.1 × 3.4 cm = 1.9” × 1.6” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.6 cm = 1.6” × 1.4”

JM91X9: Aggregate of two colorless crystals, formed by the dodecahedron, the octahedron and the cube, on a matrix of Quartz crystals. Each face has distinct characteristics, the dodecahedron is translucent, the octahedron shows polycrystalline surfaces and the cubic faces are very bright and completely clear.
Dalnegorsk, Primorskij Kraj  Russia (±2006)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 6.7 × 6 cm = 3.7” × 2.6” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4.5 cm = 1.8” × 1.8”

JF89X9: Aggregate of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals with abundant inclusions. They are on a group of smoky Quartz crystals, with small cubic Pyrite crystals. It is currently very difficult to obtain good samples from this locality.
Kara-Oba, Betpakdala, Karaganda Oblast  Kazakhstan (±1993)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 8.3 × 8.5 cm = 5.2” × 3.3” × 3.3”

Main crystal size: 7.7 × 4 cm = 3.0” × 1.6”

JG27X0: Group of cubic crystals with a very intense yellow color, extraordinarily bright and with selective coatings of Quartz microcrystals on some of the cube faces.
El Hamman, Meknès  Morocco (2003)

Specimen size: 12 × 7.8 × 5.5 cm = 4.7” × 3.1” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 5 × 3.7 cm = 2.0” × 1.5”

JA87X0: Group of translucent crystals with two growth phases very well differentiated by the difference of color. They have deep violet and bright faces of the octahedron while the faces of the cube are whitish and less bright.
Tounfit, Boumia  Morocco (2006)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.1 × 3.7 cm = 3.4” × 2.8” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3.2 cm = 1.4” × 1.3”

JX90W0: Aggregate of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on the faces, with a deep density of color typical of the samples from the locality that requires them to be observed with a strong light.
Tounfit, Boumia  Morocco (±2006)

Specimen size: 11 × 8.5 × 3.8 cm = 4.3” × 3.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.7 cm = 1.6” × 1.5”

JG37W3: Aggregate of cubic crystals, on matrix, with polycrystalline growths on their vertices. They have a deep green color and are bright and transparent, with mossy looking inclusions.
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District  Namibia (±2003)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 7.1 × 3.2 cm = 2.9” × 2.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”

JB59W6: Crystals of Fluorite composed of the dominant forms of the octahedron, beveled by the dodecahedron and the vertices are cut by small cube faces. They are translucent, with a pale greenish color, are with cubic crystals of Pyrite, aggregates of white lenticular crystals of Calcite and small twinned crystals of Sphalerite.
Mina Huallapon, Pasto Bueno, Pallasca, Ancash  Peru (1999)

Specimen size: 6 × 5.4 × 3.7 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2 cm = 1.1” × 0.8”

JM76X9: Floater aggregate of crystals, formed by the dodecahedron, the octahedron and the cube, with a small coating of Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated. The sample is from the first Fluorite finds at the Yaogangxian mine.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (±1992)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 4.2 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.7”

JB49W0: Group of cubic crystals of Fluorite. They are bright, transparent, with very well marked phantom growths delineated by an intense violet color and partially coated by white lenticular crystals of Calcite. The main crystal has a surface of exfoliation in one of its vertexes but, nonetheless, the sample is really attractive.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.8 × 4.7 cm = 4.6” × 3.9” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 4 cm = 2.1” × 1.6”

JP51W6: Group of very sharp cubic crystals, completely transparent, extraordinarily bright and with a blue color with lilac reflections. On matrix and with globular growths of Muscovite.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2001)

Specimen size: 14 × 9.7 × 5.7 cm = 5.5” × 3.8” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4 cm = 1.8” × 1.6”

JC46X9: The biggest crystals have an octahedral shape composed of polycrystalline surfaces with very well marked cubic forms and very deep colored zones in some areas. Some smaller crystals are neatly cubic, sharp and transparent. They all are on matrix, with Muscovite, Quartz and small Scheelite crystals. Spectacular.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2000)

Specimen size: 22.5 × 16 × 5.5 cm = 8.9” × 6.3” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 5 cm = 2.2” × 2.0”

JT51W0: Very aerial group of sharp transparent cubic crystals, some of them showing white inclusions in their central area. The crystals are extraordinarily bright, have a clear green color, intense and uniform, and are on a small matrix of limonite.
Xianghuapu Mine, Linwu, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2006)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.5 × 8.5 cm = 4.2” × 3.3” × 3.3”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

JQ27X9: Aggregate of vivid green octahedral crystals of Fluorite showing microcrystalline surfaces and the intense pearly luster typical of the samples from this mine. The Fluorite crystals are partially coated by sharp and transparent lenticular Calcite crystals.
Xianghuapu Mine, Linwu, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 8.7 × 5.3 cm = 4.9” × 3.4” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4 cm = 1.8” × 1.6”

JB88X0: Group of crystals on matrix. They are transparent, bright, have a very uniform green color and are with white lenticular crystals of Calcite. The smaller crystals are only cubes while the bigger ones also show octahedron faces, rougher than the cubic ones.
Xianghualing, Linwu County, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (1999)

Specimen size: 8 × 7.8 × 4.5 cm = 3.1” × 3.1” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.4”

JY27X0: Group of transparent and bright cubic crystals with a very uniform green color and very accentuated phantom growths. They have selective coatings of Calcite crystals on some of the faces of the cube. From the first Fluorite finds at the locality.
Xianghualing, Linwu County, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 5.8 × 4.9 cm = 4.3” × 2.3” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”

JB48X0: Group of Sharp cubic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent, bright, with a very uniform green color and on matrix, with white lenticular crystals of Calcite. From the first Fluorite finds at the locality.
Xianghualing, Linwu County, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 13.5 × 8.5 × 5.8 cm = 5.3” × 3.3” × 2.3”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.2” × 1.0”

JB91X0: Isolated crystal composed of equal cube and dodecahedron faces. It is transparent, with a sky blue color, with inclusions of white Quartz and a very well defined phantom growth with a very intense violet color. The crystal is on a matrix of small Quartz crystals.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang, Hunan  China (2000)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 9.1 × 2.8 cm = 3.8” × 3.6” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.1” × 1.1”

JJ89W0: Very well defined octahedral crystals that are translucent and have a very nice blue color. They are on a matrix of lenticular crystals of Calcite.
Sichuan  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.0” × 2.6” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.1” × 1.0”