Mineral Specimens - page 8
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EF56AM2: Floater doubly terminated Beryl crystal (variety heliodor), with good terminal faces at the upper end, polycrystalline growths at the opposite end, and very marked growth forms (“edged”) on the prism faces. Transparent, very lustrous and with an intense yellow color. An European classic.
Khoroshiv (Volodarsk-Volynskii), Zhytomyr Oblast  Ukraine

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2 × 1.7 cm = 2.05” × 0.79” × 0.67”

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”

MXL90AO2: Very aerial dendritic growth of elongated octahedral Copper crystals, with a very sharp spinel-law twin. The exact locality of the specimen is difficult to determine because of its age, but according Russian experts it belongs to the Dzezkhazgan copper zone of the former USSR.
Satpayev, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 10.8 × 5.3 × 2 cm = 4.25” × 2.09” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 0.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.28”

MJ66AN0: Group of Bornite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very sharp crystal forms, with bright luster and blue metallic iridescence, on a Quartz crystal matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 1.06” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

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, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.4 × 2.1 cm = 3.62” × 2.13” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

TF73AL5: Very aerial aggregate of needle-shaped Cosalite crystals, a sulphosalt of lead and bismuth, rare in quality collection specimens. The Cosalite crystals, with good terminations and luster, are covered with transparent Fluorite crystals. This piece comes from the Rock Currier collection (no.6166), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Solnechnoye Mine, Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.61” × 0.94” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 0.7 cm = 1.61” × 0.28”

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”

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”

MXE96AP3: Elongated prismatic Kyanite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, transparent, lustrous, and intense blue, on a matrix of Muscovite (fuchsite variety).
Borisovskie Sopki, Plast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ural Federal District  Russia

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.40” × 1.61” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.08”

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”

TL26AN2: Group of very sharp Sphalerite crystals with a tetrahedral habit, lustrous, on matrix, with Calcite and Quartz.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 3 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.18” × 1.02” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.94”

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”

TL96AL7: Parallel growth of two octahedral crystals beveled by the dodecahedron, very sharp, transparent, colorless and on a matrix of Pyrrhotite.
The specimen comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Second Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.02” × 0.87” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

MK63AN0: Isolated floater crystal of Datolite with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with good luster and pale green color.
We will ship the specimen in the 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: 2.8 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.10” × 1.02” × 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”

TM86AL4: Very well defined Datolite crystal of good size, translucent, a uniform pale green with slightly yellow tones and on matrix with small very sharp Calcite crystals that also partially cover the Datolite.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.03” × 2.20” × 1.81”

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”

MH13AM8: Very sharp doubly terminated crystal of Pyrrhotite, with distinct parallel growths and intense luster. On matrix, with Quartz and Sphalerite crystals.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Nikolaevski Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.10” × 0.91” × 0.98”

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

SV89AJ0: Large Pyrrhotite crystals with very well defined parallel growths, with an intense brass color and luster and on matrix with small Quartz and Pyrite crystals and twinned Sphalerite.
The sample was in the Desmond Sacco collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.5 × 6.2 cm = 3.62” × 2.56” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 3.5 cm = 1.85” × 1.38”

TBX13AN8: Doubly terminated scalenohedral crystals of Calcite, one of them clearly dominant, between transparent and colorless, very lustrous, oriented and on matrix.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label that states that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 3.7 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.46” × 0.67” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.47”

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”

TFB16AO0: Group of sharp Axinite (Group) crystals, with a very elongated habit, uncommon in Russian specimens, translucent, with good luster and a very deep color, with purplish reflections, and covered by Quartz microcrystals.
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: 2.9 × 1.6 × 1 cm = 1.14” × 0.63” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.28”

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”

TR70Z5: Group, on matrix, of very sharp and acute crystals whose habit is very different from the Axinite-(Fe) from other Russian, French or Pakistani localities. Their brightness is excellent and they have a very deep color.
Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.9 × 4.9 cm = 3.19” × 2.72” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.1 cm = 1.06” × 0.43”

LE36AK2: Quartz crystals with an unusual habit, curious "double" rhombohedral terminations, brilliant, bright red due to inclusions of Hematite and partially recrystallized. The specimen is one of the few that could be recovered in Magnetite matrix. From the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 593), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Second Sovetskii Mine, 230↓, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 8.4 × 8.2 × 8.3 cm = 3.31” × 3.23” × 3.27”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1 cm = 1.65” × 0.39”

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”

TRT68AO8: Group of very sharp dipyramidal Scheelite crystals, with very marked parallel growths, translucent, with good luster and an intense orange color. On matrix, with Quartz crystals and Cassiterite. The specimen comes from a little-known locality that had its moment in the years when Russian minerals were just emerging on the mineralogical market, but about which little else became known later.
Tenkergin Mine, Iul'tinskiy Mining Complex, Iultinsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug  Russia

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.93” × 1.34” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.06” × 0.83”

ERB69AP0: Beryl crystals (emerald variety) with very sharp crystal forms, growth interruptions and some with twisted growth. Intense chrome-green color and on Phlogopite matrix.
A Russian classic.
Krupskoye deposit, Izumrudnye Kopi area, Malyshevo, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ural  Russia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.2 × 3.5 cm = 3.07” × 2.44” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 2 cm = 1.93” × 0.79”

THJ86AN4: Pale blue Topaz crystal very rich in crystal forms and with excellent terminations, transparent and lustrous.
We will send the specimen, from one of the great classical localities for the species, in the original Perkins box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Murzinka Mine, Sarapulka District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ural  Russia

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.1 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.83” × 0.79”

AB14AL8: Group of Andradite crystals on matrix, with the dominant forms of the dodecahedron beveled by the trapezohedron and lustrous black color with brownish reflections. Of excellent quality for the locality.
Berezovskoe Mines, Uspenskaya Mountain, Berezovskii, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ural  Russia

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.93” × 1.85” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

ER94AL5: Crocoite crystals with a very different habit to that of the Australian Crocoites, with a very short prism and almost equidimensional, on matrix, with small deep green Vauquelinite crystals. The specimen is from the type locality for both species.
Berezovskoe Mines, Uspenskaya Mountain, Berezovskii, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ural  Russia

Specimen size: 7.8 × 5 × 2 cm = 3.07” × 1.97” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.24” × 0.24”

TFR68AO6: Parallel growth of two Sulphur crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with parallel growths, good luster and a very vivid color. On matrix, with transparent scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Vodinskoe deposit, Samaraskaya Oblast, Povolzhsky Region  Russia

Specimen size: 8 × 4.8 × 4.5 cm = 3.15” × 1.89” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.51”

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”

NC87AJ8: Pair of Wiluite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges and with an olive Green color. A Russian classic from the type locality for the species that is from the Carlos Prieto collection whose handwritten label we will send to the buyer.
Vilyui River Basin, Vilyuysky, Sakha Republic (Yakutia)  Russia

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.4 × 3.1 cm = 1.50” × 1.34” × 1.22”

MC37AH2: Very sharp dodecahedral Uvarovite crystals that are very bright with a very deep color. Some of them are more isolated and larger than usual for the locality. They are on a rocky matrix.
Saranovskii Mine, Saranovskaya (Sarany), Gornozavodskii, Perm Krai, Ural  Russia

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.5 × 2.1 cm = 3.74” × 2.17” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.12” × 0.12”

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, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia (2019)

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

TD94AG4: Group of crystals in parallel growth, translucent, very rich in terminal faces, whose color is between olive-green and honey brown and that are partially coated by Quartz crystals.
Oktyabrskaya vein, Malkhan (Malchan), Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.1 × 3.3 cm = 2.68” × 1.61” × 1.30”

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”

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, Tyumen Oblast  Russia (04/2000)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.4 × 1.5 cm = 1.50” × 1.34” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.9 cm = 0.59” × 0.35”

EC87AE5: Quartz crystals in parallel growth with very well defined faces and edges, transparent and bright, with inclusions, and with an intense yellow color that has areas of different color intensities and shades.
Olkhovka, Tyumen Oblast  Russia (05-06/2010)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 3.5 × 2.7 cm = 4.53” × 1.38” × 1.06”

MA88AL4: Eudialyte crystals, one of them clearly dominant, on a Calcite matrix, with highly profiled faces and edges and very lustrous, translucent, of an intense red color with mauve tones. A Russian classic of higher quality than usual.
Eveslogchorr Mountain, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast, Northern Region  Russia

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.4 × 5.6 cm = 3.27” × 2.13” × 2.20”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

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”

EV57AK7: A nugget of considerable size that still retains in some areas a few rounded cube-octahedral faces, and enclosing remnants of Quartz matrix. The specimen, which comes from Michel Jouty's collection, has been depicted in the magazine Mineral Observer, vol. 24 (3) of 2019, p. 71, figure 4, in an article about Ste. Marie 2019.
Siberia  Russia

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.30” × 0.55” × 0.75”

MA89AE7: Cubo-octahedral Sperrylite crystals, a rare platinum arsenide much desired by collectors. The crystals, that have the very well balanced faces of the cube and octahedron, are very well defined, extraordinarily bright, and on a Chalcopyrite matrix.
Talnakh, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Zabaykalsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 3.8 × 1.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.50” × 0.71” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.16” × 0.16”

MF27AL3: Doubly terminated polycrystalline growths of bright, translucent crystals, with a vivid and uniform color, implanted inside a fossil bivalve shell in matrix.
Chernomorsky Mine, Eltigen-Ortel' Trough, Kerchenskoe deposit, Kerch peninsula, Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast  Russia

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.65” × 1.54” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

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”

EF92AL9: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant. Transparent, shiny, with an intense green color and very rich in inclusions in the core of the crystal, with a marked dissolution channel. The specimen is from the prestigious collection of Fluorite by Pierre-Marie Guy.
Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3 × 4.5 cm = 1.85” × 1.18” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”

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”

GX96AK0: Two octahedral crystals, one of them dominant, translucent with a uniform light green color and perched in a Microcline matrix partially covered by white Quartz crystals. The sample is from the Casado Margolles collection (number FRM 136) whose record we will send to the buyer.
Kent Massif, Karkaraly District, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.5 × 3,2 cm = 3.62” × 2.95” × 1.18”

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

TR86AL6: Floater cube-octahedral crystal of Cuprite with very balanced cube and rhombododecahedron faces, with hopper growths on some of the faces and with very intense translucent red internal reflections.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59” × 0.59”

TRN46AN3: Floater group of Copper crystals, very lustrous, with unusually sharp crystal forms in which the dodecahedron and octahedron predominate.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 482 in the volume 53, number 4, July-August 2022
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.1 ×  1.4 cm = 0.71” × 0.43” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

TT37N4: Curved, extraordinarily elongated and flat crystal of native Copper that is on a dendritic smaller group. The Copper is partially coated by reddish Cuprite and small growths of Malachite. A very elegant piece.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan (2008)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.17” × 1.42” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 1.3 cm = 1.73” × 0.51”

NFR66AO8: Dendritic growth of elongated Copper crystals, with the crystal forms of the octahedron and the rhombododecahedron, very balanced and partially covered by plates and cubo-octahedral micro-crystals of Cuprite with translucent reflections of an intense red color.
The specimen is both aesthetic and representative of the locality, and comes to us from the collection of Santiago Jiménez García.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.1 × 0.5 cm = 2.52” × 1.61” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

TG56AF8: Very aerial dendritic growth of flattened complex crystals, some of them with very well defined dodecahedral faces. It is bright and with small remnants of a rocky matrix. The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, Madrid.
Itauz Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region  Kazakhstan

Specimen size: 11.4 × 10.8 × 3.6 cm = 4.49” × 4.25” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 0.59” × 0.28”

TQM63AN3: Floater polycrystalline group of very sharp Cuprite crystals, with bright luster and intense reddish flashes around the edges.
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: 1.8 × 1.7 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67” × 0.67”

TMR76AO4: Very sharp floater octahedral Cuprite crystal, with slight curvatures on the edges, with good luster and intense reddish flashes near the edges.
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: 2.1 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.75” × 0.67”

TXB26AO0: Floater group of octahedral Cuprite crystals, one of them dominant and very aerial, with slight curvatures on the edges, translucent, lustrous, and with a deep red color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.1 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.79” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.75” × 0.67”

MR96AM9: Group of very sharp cubo-octahedral Cuprite crystals, with clearly dominant octahedron faces, translucent, with bright luster and vivid reddish reflections.
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.2 × 2.5 cm = 0.91” × 0.87” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

TXF96AO1: Complete octahedral floater Cuprite crystal, very sharp, with parallel growths, good luster, intense reddish sparkling reflections on the edges and related small Copper crystals.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.79” × 0.63”

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”

MD66AM6: Very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals, translucent, with good luster and a deep red color, with some of the crystals totally or partially covered by small crystallizations of Copper. 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: 3.3 × 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.30” × 0.71” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

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., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (20-25/11/2010)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.69” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

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

Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.26” × 1.06”

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”

TJJ66AN9: Complete polycrystalline floater growth of octahedral Cuprite crystals, finely beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron, lustrous, and with abundant aggregates of microcrystals of the rare species Miersite.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.14” × 0.67” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.28” × 0.20”

MT66W8: Aggregate of octahedral crystals some of them showing very small faces of the cube. The crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, are coated in some areas by lemon yellow crystals, isolated or clustered, of Miersite, a rare iodide of silver and copper.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia (2011)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 2.7 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.67”

TD36AJ1: Spheroidal aggregates of small cubic Miersite crystals with a greenish-yellow color spread on an aggregate of platy translucent very bright Azurite crystals on a limonite matrix.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai  Russia

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.06” × 0.94” × 0.43”