Mineral Specimens - page 8
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EH93AI8: Twinned Cassiterite crystals with very well defined parallel growths. They are between transparent and translucent, very bright, have a dark brown color with golden reflections, and they are on matrix, with Muscovite and a white Albite crystal. Exceptional for the locality.
Merekski District, Bureya Massif, Khabarovskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.6” × 1.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

MB29AI8: Group of Calcite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and with the clearly dominant scalenohedron but very rich in other minor forms. The crystals are of great quality and are transparent and very bright.
The sample is from the Jordi Vilallonga collection.
Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (1992)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 5.8 × 6 cm = 3.8” × 2.3” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 9.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.8” × 1.8”

M17L: Calcite with an unusual habit.
Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (1997)

Specimen size: 8 × 6 cm = 3.1” × 2.4”

MA68Z8: Aggregate of very sharp rhombohedral Calcite crystals with a second generation of lenticular crystals of the same mineral and druses of small Pyrite crystals that almost completely coat the rhombohedral faces. The sample is representative of the very varied mineralogical richness of Dalnegorsk.
Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 9.6 × 8.6 × 4.7 cm = 3.8” × 3.4” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.3 cm = 1.7” × 1.3”

AA47V2: Group of transparent crystals of Datolite with very well defined faces and edges, with extraordinary luster and transparency, light green color with slightly bluish reflections. They are on a matrix of white crystals of Quartz, some of them doubly terminated.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (2001)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”

TA96W4: Partially doubly terminated short prismatic crystal of Datolite, bright and with a clear green color and fine striations, perpendicular to the main axis due to the geometrical insertion of completely flat crystals of smoky Quartz, also present as well developed small and doubly terminated crystals.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.3” × 1.7” × 1.5”

VB99AI0: Group of flattened Datolite crystals that are bright, translucent, have a uniform clear green color and are with black and very bright Ilvaite crystals. A Russian classic.
First Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (1996)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 10.3 × 3.9 cm = 4.9” × 4.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.8” × 0.9”

TX51AG7: Aggregate of equant Datolite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are translucent, very bright and partially coated by clear Quartz crystals.
It is an old sample from the Richard Shupe collection (cat. nr. 6374) to whom we sold it in the past and whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 14.3 × 12.5 × 7.2 cm = 5.6” × 4.9” × 2.8”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.6” × 1.8”

EF26R9: Group of translucent crystals of Quartz. They are slightly spindled and most of them are doubly terminated, and they have inclusions which clearly define phantoms.
Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (±1990)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.2 × 2.9 cm = 3.2” × 2.4” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 6 × 1.1 cm = 2.4” × 0.4”

TM27Y6: Floater and doubly terminated loop-like growth with a thin central zone and progressive widening toward the terminations, typical with prase Quartz from this locality.
The sample is from the Roy Foerster collection (num. 1225), whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Sinerechenskoe, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 10.5 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm = 4.1” × 0.8” × 0.8”

EH89AI5: Elbaite (rubellite variety) with simple and very well defined faces and edges and a very smooth pinacoidal termination. It is translucent, bright, has a very intense and uniform color and it is with a tiny Feldspar matrix with leafy Mica aggregates.
Mokhovaya pegmatite, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), East Siberia Region  Russia (±2004)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 3.0” × 0.9” × 0.9”

EX74AH6: Two single Elbaite (rubellite variety) crystals, one of them doubly terminated and hemihedral. The crystals are with Albite and tabular Muscovite crystals and are translucent with an intense reddish-pink color with stripes of slightly yellowish shades.
Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), East Siberia Region  Russia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4 × 2.7 cm = 3.1” × 1.6” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 6.9 × 2 cm = 2.7” × 0.8”

LM77AE5: Very aerial aggregate, on matrix, of sharp flattened crystals that are between transparent and translucent, very bright, with inclusions, and that have a dark plum color with mauve shades. Russian Axinite-(Fe) specimens were famous for their size, deep color and sharpness of the crystals.
The sample is from the Carlos Millan collection (catalog #8123) who’s computer card we’ll send to the buyer. Previously it was in the Silvane collection.
Puiva Mount, Saranpaul, Khanty-Mansi Okrug, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region  Russia

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.4” × 2.0” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.3” × 0.8”

AY98P4: Group of crystals, the main one doubly terminated, on matrix and with Calcite crystals. The specimen has the highest possible quality for the locality.
Dodo Mine, Saranpaul, Khanty-Mansi Okrug, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region  Russia (04/2000)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.4 × 1.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.3” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.9 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

EV87AG0: Very sharp and platy Chalcocite crystals with a black color and blue metallic reflections. They are on a rock matrix with small white Calcite crystals. A classic from Kazakhstan, each day scarcer.
The sample is from the René Hubin collection from Neupré in Belgium, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karagandy Province  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.4 × 2.1 cm = 3.6” × 2.1” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

VF99AI8: Native Copper crystals that have very well defined faces and edges with the dominant octahedral form, very bright, associated with groups of octahedral Cuprite crystals that have coatings of Silver.
The sample is from the Jordi Vilallonga collection.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Kray, Western-Siberian Region  Russia (06-08/2008)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 1.1”

TQ89W8: Aggregate of Copper crystals that are pseudomorphs and perimorphs after octahedral crystals of Cuprite, with a second generation of small octahedral crystals of Cuprite with vivid reddish reflections.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Kray, Western-Siberian Region  Russia (20-25/11/2010)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.8” × 1.7” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

TA89S0: A novelty at Tucson 2011. Group of very well developed crystals of native Copper, some of them perimorphs after Cuprite and coated by aggregates of octahedral crystals of the same species that are very bright and with slightly curved faces and edges.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Kray, Western-Siberian Region  Russia (20-25/11/2010)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.7” × 2.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

TZ99N0: A novelty for Tucson 2009. Group of octahedral crystals with slight curvatures of faces and edges. They have excellent luster, with reddish reflections especially vivid under a strong light. The sample is from a recent find (July and August of 2008) at a Russian locality practically unknown until now.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Kray, Western-Siberian Region  Russia (06-08/2008)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.3” × 1.3” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.9” × 0.6”

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, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert , Karagandy Province  Kazakhstan (±1993)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.6” × 1.7” × 1.3”

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