Mineral Specimens - page 8
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TAM16AO1: Very sharp and shiny disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystal, with Arsenopyrite crystals and on a metallic matrix,
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Sarbaiskoe deposit, Rudny, Kostanay Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.26” × 0.94” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”

DC89AJ0: Parallel growth of very sharp Quartz (smoky variety) crystals. They are partially doubly terminated, transparent, very bright, with inclusions, and are on a matrix of crystallized Ferberite with small Pyrite crystals.
The sample was in the Desmond Sacco collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 10.3 × 5.4 × 6.8 cm = 4.06” × 2.13” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 8.8 × 5.7 cm = 3.46” × 2.24”

ME14AM7: A complete floater crystal of Andradite with elongated dodecahedron shapes, very lustrous and with a deep black color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label, indicating that it was in the Melanson collection.
Vilyui River Basin, Vilyuysky, Sakha Republic (Yakutia)  Russia

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.91” × 0.43” × 0.39”

THJ64AN4: Cubo-octahedral Galena crystal with very balanced crystal forms, lustrous, on Hedenbergite matrix.
We will ship the piece in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.75” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 0.71” × 0.71”

NRM29AO0: Sphalerite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, in which the forms of the tetrahedron and the polysynthetic twinning typical of this species predominate. On matrix, with fine, very lustrous, water-clear Quartz crystals and small groups of brown rhombohedral Siderite crystals.
Very fine and elegant piece.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.4 × 3.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.73” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.2 cm = 1.22” × 0.87”

TK14AN2: Group of Datolite crystals very rich in faces, translucent, with good luster and a pale green color with slightly bluish tones.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 3.7 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm = 1.46” × 0.75” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.79”

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, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (1996)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 10.3 × 3.9 cm = 4.88” × 4.06” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.81” × 0.91”

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, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 14.3 × 12.5 × 7.2 cm = 5.63” × 4.92” × 2.83”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.77”

M17L: Calcite with an unusual habit.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia (1997)

Specimen size: 8 × 6 cm = 3.15” × 2.36”

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, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 9.6 × 8.6 × 4.7 cm = 3.78” × 3.39” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.30”

DM89AE3: The crystal, very large for the locality, combines a prism and a terminal rhombohedron, with very well defined polycrystalline faces. I It is translucent and bright with a very intense and uniform pink color. There is a small bit of Sphalerite at its base.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8.8 × 7.8 cm = 4.02” × 3.46” × 3.07”

DY39AE2: Aggregate of Ilvaite crystals with bright and very well defined faces and edges, on a matrix of very platy Calcite crystals partially coated by small cubic Pyrite crystals. The Ilvaites from Dalnegorsk, relatively abundant some years ago, are now scarce, even moreso in this quality.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 5.6 × 3.8 × 3.3 cm = 2.20” × 1.50” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.50” × 0.71”

TBR56AO0: Parallel growth of sharp Axinite (Group) crystals, translucent, with good luster and an excellent smoky color with violet tones.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 1.22” × 0.71” × 0.47”

LFY94AO5: Cuboctahedral Galena crystals, very shiny, on matrix, with twinned Sphalerite crystals and lustrous trapezohedral Chalcopyrite crystals.
This 'museum size' specimen comes from the collection of Philippe Morelon (number 780), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 21 × 16 × 7.5 cm = 8.27” × 6.30” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.71”

ML16AN0: Group of Quartz crystals (prase variety) with distinct polycrystalline surfaces, with good luster and a deep and uniform color, and with small Andradite crystals at the base.
We will ship the specimen in the original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Second Sovetskii Mine, 230↓, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.42” × 0.67” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1 cm = 1.18” × 0.39”

MT66AL5: Very aerial crystals of prase Quartz with polycrystalline surfaces with the typical tapered shape of local specimens, deep in color, on matrix, with small Andradite crystals.
Sinerechenskoe, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.7 × 3.9 cm = 2.40” × 1.46” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1 cm = 1.18” × 0.39”

DR67AC4: Aggregate of crystals that have polycrystalline surfaces and with the tapered shape typical of the samples from the locality. The sample, very aerial and esthetic, is bordered, at the base, by small Andradite crystals. The sample is from the Desmond Sacco collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Sinerechenskoe, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.56” × 2.17” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 2 cm = 2.28” × 0.79”

MX89AK6: Elbaite crystal with very well defined faces and edges, with perfect terminal faces, with pyramid and pinacoid forms. The crystal, translucent and bright, is a different color from those known to date in this pegmatite, with pinkish-yellow tones that accompany the usual red color that is very intense on the terminal faces.
Sosedka vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai, Far Eastern  Russia (2019)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 1.46” × 0.87” × 0.83”

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, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia (±2004)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 2.99” × 0.94” × 0.91”

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, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4 × 2.7 cm = 3.07” × 1.57” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 6.9 × 2 cm = 2.72” × 0.79”

NLR67AO5: Two doubly terminated Fluorapatite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and a yellow-green color, on a matrix of pink Calcite.
The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.

Slyudyanka (Sludyanka), Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6 × 3.2 cm = 3.03” × 2.36” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 1 cm = 1.61” × 0.39”

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, Tyumen Oblast  Russia

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.44” × 1.97” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2 cm = 1.26” × 0.79”

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, Khabarovsk Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 2.56” × 1.77” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”

NE74AJ8: A native Gold pebble, complete and bright from one of the most classic gold localities in Russia.
The sample is from the Carlos Prieto collection whose handwritten label we will send to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 71 in the volume 24, number 3
Asachinskoe deposit, Kamchatka Territory  Russia

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.43” × 0.16”

TR37AL7: Flattened crystal between translucent and transparent with a fibrous appearance and a pearly luster and with curious very aerial polycrystalline recrystallizations. The specimen, of great quality for the species, comes from the prestigious Rock Currier collection (No. 6722), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Pamir Mountains, Viloyati Mukhtori Gorno-Badakhshan  Tajikistan

Specimen size: 10.3 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm = 4.06” × 0.91” × 0.31”

DD57AM1: Group of Fluorite crystals with clearly dominant dodecahedron forms and with cube faces. Transparent, lustrous, colorless, on matrix, with Quartz crystals. A classic from Dalnegorsk.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia (07/2003)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.7 × 4.4 cm = 2.01” × 1.85” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.4 cm = 1.46” × 1.34”

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, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (±1993)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.4 × 3.3 cm = 2.64” × 1.73” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.18” × 1.02”

TJB86AO2: Floater group of octahedral Cuprite crystals, with minor shapes of the cube and the dodecahedron, one of them dominant and very aerial, translucent, with good luster and a deep red color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the collection of Robert J. (Bob) Noble, which
also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.79” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”

ME86AM6: Floater group of octahedral Cuprite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, beveled by the faces of the rhombic dodecahedron. Translucent, lustrous and deep red in color. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.7 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.67” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.63”

TLL96AO4: Polycrystalline growth of Cuprite with very sharp octahedral faces, with slight curvatures on the edges, with good luster and intense reddish internal reflections.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.

Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.14” × 0.87” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.79” × 0.67”

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., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (06-08/2008)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.30” × 1.26” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.63”