Mineral Specimens - page 8
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KF88L9: Group of well defined faces and edges on tabular Pyrrhotite crystals. With some recrystalization on the pinacoid faces. To increase esthetics, a very bright Chalcopyrite crystal is located in the center of the specimen.
The specimen is from the James Catmur collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Dalnjegorsk, Primorskij Kraj  Russia (±1994)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.3 × 2 cm

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm

S177S: Very unusual crystals of Bornite on quartz - we have never seen another specimen with this crystallography from this locality. Well positioned on the quartz and esthetic.
Dzhezkazgan  Kazakhstan (1997)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.5 cm

EA88K8: Crystal with a very sharp tetrahedral habit, of well-defined faces and edges, uncommon with Sphalerite, and with flat faces without curvatures or striations. The color is quite good, so the crystal has an excellent contrast on the Quartz crystal martrix.
Dzhezkazgan  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7.5 × 5.4 cm

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm

HA29K6: The specimen is from a very uncommon locality. It is rounded but has diffuse crystalline forms on the back.
Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk, East Siberia  Russia

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.1 × 0.8 cm

E93AF: Free standing and well formed single crystal of Anatase with some other minor crystals as well. Very showy!
Lapcha, North Urals  Russia (1995)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 5.5 cm

TX47J3: This prismatic crystal has an extraordinarily intense color, red with mauve shades. It has a magnificent definition of faces and edges and also magnificent are the luster and transparency.
Sosedka pegmatite, Malkhan, Chitinskaya Oblast, Transbaikal  Russia (07-08/2006)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.2 × 1 cm

TT86L1: Dendritic floater growth, very aerial, with well defined crystals, superficially covered by a layer of Cuprite, that gives an elegant reddish color.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan  Kazakhstan (2007)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 2.5 × 0.4 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm

TW99L5: Well defined skeletal growth, with a very marked spinel-law twin, on a dendritic growth of small copper crystals. Both the base and the main crystal are partially covered by Cuprite. The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a novelty from Tucson 2008 in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 37, volume 33, number 4.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan  Kazakhstan (2007)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 3.1 × 0.7 cm

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 0.8 cm

M14F: A well crystallized native copper floater.
Dzhezkazgan  Kazakhstan (1998)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.5 cm

TN46L1: Copper specimen that combines an elongated crystal, with some flattened faces and pointed terminations, and other lateral and parallel crystal growths, with cube and dodecahedral combinations. A perfect floater.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan  Kazakhstan (2007)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 1.2 × 0.7 cm

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm

TV97L1: Dendritic floating growth, very esthetic and aerial, with elongated crystals with some sharp faces.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan  Kazakhstan (2007)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.4 × 2.2 cm

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm

TG76L1: Group of translucent octahedral Fluorite crystals, on a smoky Quartz crystal. The sample is from a locality where nowadays is quite difficult to obtain specimens.
Kara-Oba, Betpakdala, Karaganda Oblast  Kazakhstan (±1993)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.4 × 3.3 cm

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm

TR17K9: Group of crystals with dominant octahedron and cube. Violet color and large size, on a layer of small Muscovite crystals.
Kara-Oba, Betpakdala, Karaganda Oblast  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.7 × 6.2 cm

Main crystal size: 5.9 × 5.7 cm

FA53L3: Excellent group of three Fluorite octahedrons (uncommon in the deposit) showing a very aerial position, two of them dominant. Crystals show very sharp faces and edges, totally clear, on a matrix formed by cubic Galena crystals covered by Siderite.
We will send the handwritten label , from Jan Buma collection, to the buyer of this esthetic specimen.
Second Sovietsky Mine, 230↓, Dalnjegorsk, Primorskij Kraj  Russia (09/1996)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.5 cm

M17L: Calcite with an unusual habit.
Dalnjegorsk, Primorskij Kraj  Russia (1997)

Specimen size: 8 × 6 cm

MP56F0: An extremely brilliant, twinned crystal that is richly endowed with faces and has a form that is dominated by the rhombohedron and scalenohedron. The region where the twinning occurred has created a strange form. In the photo one cannot really appreciate its incredible transparency, but when you hold it in your hands this aspect of it really stands out.
Sarbay mine, Rudny  Kazakhstan (08/2003)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4 × 3.5 cm

VG76G7: The growth is very curious. The Calcite forms very long scalenohedrons which are covered by multiple growths of little scalenohedral crystals of the same mineral. Calcite has a nice pale pink color and it’s on a matrix covered by little Quartz crystals.
Dalnjegorsk, Primorskij Kraj  Russia

Specimen size: 12 × 9 × 5 cm

M61DHA5: Amethyst quartz with very aerial crystals and an unusual habit well positioned on the matrix.
Yakutia, Siberia  Russia

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 6.5 cm

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.5 cm

TT86E0: Although many people call this "beta" Quartz, it is not. They do so because it resembles beta Quartz, which means that there are no prism faces, only pseudo pyramidal faces. Dalnjegorsk is one of the localities that are well known for this called "beta" Quartz (although of course them are not a specie) Given the brilliance, definition of the faces, and esthetics this one could be considered to be among the best.
Dalnjegorsk, Primorskij Kraj  Russia

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.4 × 4.6 cm

EB58E9: The crystal is large, very aerial, has good color and brilliance. It stands out from the matrix, and has the typical widening for prase Quartz from this locality. The matrix has other small prase Quartz crystals as well as small Andradite crystals.
Sinerechenskoje, Primorskij Kraj  Russia (1999)

Specimen size: 10 × 6 × 5.5 cm

Main crystal size: 7 × 2 cm