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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM

ALASKA


Clintonite
Clintonite. Clintonite.
 

MT97AL5: Group of highly profiled laminar and tabular crystals of Clintonite, with a very well defined hexagonal outline, translucent, very deep green, on matrix. High quality for the locality
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.7 × 2.3 cm = 2.91” × 1.85” × 0.91”

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

Epidote with Quartz
 

MA13AM8: Parallel growth of two Epidote crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very sharp crystal forms and excellent terminations, translucent, very lustrous and with a very deep green color, on matrix, with water-clear Quartz crystals. The specimen comes from one of the great classical localities for the species.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 0.94” × 0.91” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.43”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Epidote with Quartz. Epidote with Quartz.
Epidote with Quartz
Epidote with Quartz. Epidote with Quartz.
 

TAR6AO0: Epidote crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with well defined faces and edges, translucent, with good luster and a very deep green color. On matrix, with water-clear Quartz crystals.
We will ship the specimen, from one of the great classic localities for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.

Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.14” × 0.98” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.39”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Epidote with Quartz
 

MF14AM6: Group of Epidote crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated, translucent, with bright luster and a very deep green color. On matrix, with water-clear Quartz crystals. The specimen comes from one of the great classical localities for the species. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that the specimen was previously in the Frank Melanson collection.
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.98” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.31”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Epidote with Quartz. Epidote with Quartz.
Epidote with Quartz
Epidote with Quartz. Front
Front
Epidote with Quartz. Front
Front
Epidote with Quartz. Side
Side
 

TP26AN1: Sharp Epidote crystal, with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with bright luster and an intense color, implanted in a transparent Quartz crystal. A fine miniature from a classic locality for the species.
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 Sullivan collection.
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 1.14” × 0.63” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.55”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Epidote with Quartz
 

TF96Z5: Very sharp doubly terminated, twinned, Epidote crystal on a matrix of Quartz crystals. The sample is a fine miniature from a classic locality.
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA (2013)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.26” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.06” × 0.75”

Epidote with Quartz. Front
Front
Epidote with Quartz. Side
Side
Epidote
Epidote. Front
Front
Epidote. Top
Top

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFA99AN4: Isolated crystal of Epidote, of good size for the locality, with excellent terminations, very lustrous and with very deep pistachio-green reflections on the edges. A good American classic.
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.81” × 1.06”

Epidote with Quartz
 

MT48AA8: Parallel aggregate of elongated Epidote crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are translucent, with a very deep color and perfect termination. The sample is from a very recent find at the locality, a great classic for the species.
This sample has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2014 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 120, page 51
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA (07/2014)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 2.56” × 0.94” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 1.8 cm = 2.56” × 0.71”

Epidote with Quartz. Front
Front
Epidote with Quartz. Top
Top
Doubly terminated Epidote with Quartz and Andradite
Doubly terminated Epidote with Quartz and Andradite. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Epidote with Quartz and Andradite. Top
Top
 

TB47T8: Group of really huge crystals, one of them doubly terminated, with an extraordinarily deep green color and very intense luster, with some Quartz crystals and on matrix. Extraordinary sample, an American classic.
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA (±1970)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 9.5 × 7 cm = 4.06” × 3.74” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 6.7 × 5.7 cm = 2.64” × 2.24”

Epidote
 

TD9AE3: Fanlike aggregate of crystals with a very elongated prismatic shape and acute and very bright pyramidal terminations. With some small Quartz crystals. Both the crystal morphology and the type of aggregate are different than usual for samples from Prince of Wales Island.
Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA (2003-2005)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm = 1.89” × 0.98” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 0.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.08”

Epidote.

ARIZONA


Fluorite (octahedral)
Fluorite (octahedral). Fluorite (octahedral).
 

TRH37AN3: Groups of Fluorite crystals with an octahedral habit with very marked polycrystalline growths and with the vertices truncated by cube faces. They are translucent, shiny, and very deep green. The specimen comes from a little-known US locality.
Heson Mine (Hesson Mine), Buckskin Mountains, Santa Maria District (Planet District), La Paz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.68” × 2.20” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.98”

Fluorescent long UV & minor fluorescence short UV
Wulfenite
 

TC66AN2: Parallel growth on a tiny bit of matrix of two Wulfenite crystals with pyramidal faces, well developed, with bright luster and a very vivid and uniform red color.
We will ship the specimen, from one of the great classic American localities, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.55” × 0.08”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Wulfenite. Wulfenite.
Wulfenite
Wulfenite.
 

TE47E0: A very esthetic Wulfenite that is very upright on the matrix, shows a well-defined crystal form, is partially gemmy, and has a good, slightly redder than normal color.
Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona  USA (2001)

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 1 cm = 1.18” × 0.79” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.51” × 0.12”

Wulfenite
 

MB96AJ4: Isolated and grouped tabular Wulfenite crystals on matrix. They are translucent and bright with a good reddish orange color. An American classic.
Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4.6 × 2 cm = 3.07” × 1.81” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

Wulfenite. Wulfenite.
Hematite (variety iron rose)
Hematite (variety iron rose). Hematite (variety iron rose).
 

MB13AM7: Floater group with rosette growths of lamellar Hematite crystals, extraordinarily sharp and lustrous.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label, which indicates that it was in the Sullivan collection.
Big Bertha Mine (Veta Grande Mine), Middle Camp-Oro Fino District, Dome Rock Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.55” × 0.20”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Hematite
 

MF37AH6: Very sharp and fine crystal with very well defined faces and edges, extraordinarily bright and on a bit of matrix.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label on which it appears that it had previously been in the Sullivan collection.
Big Bertha Mine (Veta Grande Mine), Middle Camp-Oro Fino District, Dome Rock Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.59” × 0.28”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Hematite. Hematite.
Minium
Minium. Minium.
 

TB14AN2: Nodular growths of Minium, a rare species in mineral collections, uniform bright red in color, on matrix, with Quartz and Galena in cavernous and grainy aggregates.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Tonopah-Belmont Mine, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Bighorn Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.3 × 1.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.91” × 0.55”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Wulfenite with Vanadinite
 

TRA62AN4: Very aerial group of lamellar Wulfenite crystals that are transparent, with the bright luster and a very vivid orange color which have made the specimens from this deposit famous. This Wulfenite appears on a matrix partially covered by small yellow Vanadinite crystals with a short prismatic habit.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rowley Mine, Theba, Painted Rock District, Painted Rock Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 1.10” × 0.75” × 0.47”

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Wulfenite with Vanadinite. Wulfenite with Vanadinite.
Copper with Malachite
Copper with Malachite. Front
Front
Copper with Malachite. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TD87AJ3: Dendritic growth of extraordinarily sharp cubo-octahedral native Copper crystals that are extremely elongated, with a very well defined spinel-law twin and partially coated by Malachite. A classic from Arizona.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.4 × 0.8 cm = 1.26” × 0.94” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.31”

Copper
 

NA80C9: Shape, luster and color of the best quality for the locality.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3 × 2.4 cm = 1.50” × 1.18” × 0.94”

Copper.
Copper with Cuprite
Copper with Cuprite. Copper with Cuprite.
Copper with Cuprite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Copper with Cuprite
 

TT73AF0: Dendritic Copper crystals that are very elongated and bright with well-defined faces and edges with very visible spinel law twinning. They are partially coated by reddish Cuprite.
The sample is with an old Copper City Rock Shop label that we’ll send to the buyer.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 9 × 5.2 × 4.3 cm = 3.54” × 2.05” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.08”

Copper
 

NL97AM5: Very aerial dendritic growth of elongated Copper crystals, with the dominant forms of the dodecahedron. From one of the most classic American copper mines. The specimen is from the Pedro Hernández collection.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 14.3 × 7.5 × 4.2 cm = 5.63” × 2.95” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.12”

Former collection of Pedro Hernández
Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper.
Copper
Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper.
 

VA47Y9: Dendritic growth of flattened Copper crystals that, in some areas on the sample, show very well defined faces and edges. The piece, very aerial and with remains of the rocky matrix, is from a classic American mine.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 15.5 × 10 × 7 cm = 6.10” × 3.94” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

Former collection of A. Mayor
Chrysocolla after Gypsum
 

TA91N0: Group of Gypsum crystals comletely replaced by Chrysocolla. The crystals are on a botryoidal-concentric formation of the same Chrysocolla but the color is more intense.
The sample is from the exceptional collection of Dr. Marvin D. Rausch, which label we’ll send to the buyer.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA (1976-1977)

Specimen size: 19 × 10 × 5 cm = 7.48” × 3.94” × 1.97”

Chrysocolla after Gypsum.
Chrysocolla after Gypsum.
Azurite with Cerussite
Azurite with Cerussite. Azurite with Cerussite.
 

TX93G1: It is really difficult to obtain a specimen of Azurite from this locality, especially one of excellent quality. The parallel group of prismatic crystals partially doubly terminated is outstanding. Several Cerussite crystals are on the matrix as well as some on the Azurite. A classic. It comes with two old labels.
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6.8 × 6.2 × 7.4 cm = 2.68” × 2.44” × 2.91”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.30” × 0.98”

Cerussite minor fluorescence short UV
Boleite
Boleite  

BMR70AQ0: Very sharp Boleite crystal, with a little limonite matrix. Its very well defined faces have brilliant luster and a very deep color. The crystal is of high quality for the deposit, from which it is very rare to be able to obtain a specimen.
The label, from an important European collection, has been applied to both of the pieces into which we split the original piece, as previously the two crystals seemed a bit lost.
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 0.9 × 0.8 × 0.9 cm = 0.35” × 0.31” × 0.35”

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

Boleite. Front
Front
Boleite. Side
Side
Boleite
Boleite. Front
Front
Boleite. Top
Top
Boleite  

BMM91AQ0: Very sharp Boleite crystal, with a little limonite matrix. Its very well defined faces have brilliant luster and a very deep color. The crystal is of high quality for the deposit, from which it is very rare to be able to obtain a specimen.
The label, from an important European collection, has been applied to both of the pieces into which we split the original piece, as previously the two crystals seemed a bit lost.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What’s New on the Internet Reports' section, report 67, July 24, 2023 edition, page 17
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 1.2 × 1.1 × 1.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.43” × 0.51”

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

Caledonite with Chlorargyrite (variety embolite) and Linarite
Caledonite with Chlorargyrite (variety embolite) and Linarite  

TH92AE9: Aggregates of Caledonite crystals with a color between clear blue, slightly greenish and deep green. They have a dipyramidal shape with very well defined faces and edges, and they are on matrix, with deep blue Linarite crystals and small Chlorargyrite (variety embolite) crystals. An American classic from the R.W. Thomssen collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.2 × 3.3 cm = 2.17” × 2.05” × 1.30”

Caledonite with Chlorargyrite (variety embolite) and Linarite. Caledonite with Chlorargyrite (variety embolite) and Linarite.
Linarite
Linarite. Linarite.
 

TF86H7: Crystals occupy the vugs on the clearer matrix. They are very well defined, bright and transparent. The locality is, furthermore, a classic.
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.5 × 4.8 cm = 1.89” × 1.38” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

Pyrite
 

MA6AM7: A floater crystal of Pyrite dominated by pyritohedron forms in distinct parallel growths, with a hopper on one of the faces. This specimen, from a little-known American locality, will be shipped 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.
Magma Mine, Superior, Pioneer District, Pinal Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.94” × 0.59” × 0.39”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Pyrite. Front
Front
Pyrite. Side
Side
Copper
Copper. Copper.
 

MF46AM9: Very aerial dendritic growth of Copper crystals with well defined faces and edges. The specimen, from one of the most classic localities for the species, comes from the Robert J. Noble collection and we will send it to the buyer in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label.
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo District, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.7 × 0.6 cm = 1.06” × 0.67” × 0.24”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Copper
 

TP67G0: A floater group of crystals with good color and some skeletal growths.
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo District, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.10” × 0.75” × 0.63”

Copper. Front
Front
Copper. Rear
Rear
Copper
Copper. Copper.
 

MA12AM7: Dendritic growth of sharp, lustrous Copper crystals with the typical reddish tone of pieces from this classic American deposit.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo District, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.6 × 1 cm = 1.22” × 0.63” × 0.39”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Copper
 

MA46AN0: Aerial group of Copper crystals dominated by octahedral and dodecahedral forms, lustrous, with curvatures and polycrystalline growths.
We will ship the specimen, which comes from a classic American locality for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo District, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.30” × 1.02” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.63”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Copper. Copper.
Malachite after Azurite with Copper
Malachite after Azurite with Copper. Front
Front
Malachite after Azurite with Copper. Side
Side
Malachite after Azurite with Copper.
 

EY48AK8: Malachite pseudomorphic after Azurite crystals, very sharp and aerial, with simple crystal forms with fibrous surfaces and satin sheen. Highlighted by small Copper crystals that accompany the Malachite - a rare association. An excellent American classic.
This specimen, from Doug Toland's collection, is accompanied by an old Roberts Minerals label that we will send to the buyer.


New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo District, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.1 × 2.5 cm = 1.73” × 0.83” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.71”

Wulfenite
Wulfenite  

NE98AM5: Polycrystalline growth of very sharp Wulfenite crystals, translucent, with great luster and a deep and uniform orange color. A classic USA piece that comes from the Ignacio Gaspar collection, whose collection card we will send to the buyer.
Old Yuma Mine, Saguaro National Monument, Amole District, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.7 × 1.3 cm = 1.38” × 1.06” × 0.51”

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Wulfenite. Front
Front
Wulfenite. Side
Side
Wulfenite. Rear
Rear
Rosasite
Rosasite. Rosasite.
 

TP6AL4: Spheroidal aggregates of Rosasite, one of them clearly dominant, very deep and uniform in color, on matrix and with botryoidal Goethite.
We will deliver the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Silver Bill Mine, Costello Mine group, Gleeson, Turquoise District, Dragoon Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.4 × 0.8 cm = 1.34” × 0.94” × 0.31”

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Copper
 

MP96: A nice old classic specimen: a floater copper, complete in all sides, pretty rich and with minor Cuprite crystals on the rear. Excellent for the locality!
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.4 × 2.9 cm = 2.83” × 1.73” × 1.14”

Copper.
Azurite with Malachite
Azurite with Malachite. Front
Front
Azurite with Malachite. Side
Side
Azurite with Malachite  

MZ69AM3: Parallel growths of Azurite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, good luster and a very vivid color. On matrix, with small acicular Malachite crystals.
The specimen, from one of the great classic American localities, comes from the Ignacio Gaspar collection (number AZU-12), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4 × 3 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.18” × 1.18”

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Azurite with Malachite
 

TX30AH2: Equant Azurite crystals with the dominant forms of the lateral pinacoid and prism. They are translucent, very bright, have a very intense and deep color and are on a limonite matrix, with small fan-like Malachite aggregates. An American classic, with very good quality for the locality.
Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6 × 3.8 cm = 3.35” × 2.36” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

Azurite with Malachite. Azurite with Malachite.
Copper with Calcite
Copper with Calcite.
Copper with Calcite.
 

TE47H3: Good arborescent group, very aerial, with sharp Copper crystals in a pocket filled with very small crystals of Calcite. Even considering Copper as a common species for the locality, good samples are actually rare.
Cole Mine (Cole shaft), Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6.9 × 4.4 × 4.5 cm = 2.72” × 1.73” × 1.77”

Calcite extremely fluorescent long & short UV
Azurite with Malachite
 

TZ86V2: Group of crystals of Azurite with a slightly unusual habit, being very flat. They are transparent with a deep blue color, and are on matrix, with bundles of acicular crystals of Malachite. A very good sample from one of the most classic American localities.
Sacramento Pit, Sacramento Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 5 × 3.7 × 3.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.46” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.59”

Azurite with Malachite. Azurite with Malachite.
Azurite with Malachite.
Azurite with Malachite
Azurite with Malachite. Front
Front
Azurite with Malachite. Side
Side
Azurite with Malachite. Side
Side
Azurite with Malachite.
 

EP51AF7: Spheroidal and rosette aggregates of very sharp and flat, lenticular Azurite crystals that have very well defined faces and edges. They are very bright with a very deep color and are with small spherulitic Malachite.
The sample, an American classic, is from the collection of René Hubin from Neupré in Belgium, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6.3 × 5.7 × 5 cm = 2.48” × 2.24” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

Former collection of René Hubin
Azurite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Azurite
 

TB27AL4: Druse of lustrous lenticular crystals, with an intense and vivid color, which formed as the last phase of concentric growths of the Azurite, forming fine layers of different intensity of color.
An American classic, with a label from the Anthony J. Albini collection and another from Schortmann’s that we will send with the specimen.
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.6 × 4.6 cm = 3.23” × 2.20” × 1.81”

Azurite. Front
Front
Azurite. Rear
Rear
Azurite.
Malachite pseudo Azurite
Malachite pseudo Azurite.
 

TR47H3: A very esthetic floater group. Malachite, velvety and fibrous, has different green tones and it completely pseumomorped prismatic crystals of Azurite, some of them doubly terminated. A classic of XXth century.
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 2 cm = 1.46” × 1.18” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.28”

Malachite
Malachite  

TX96AJ8: Fan-like aggregates of acicular Malachite crystals with a silky luster and a uniform clear green color.
The sample, typical of the best Bisbee era, is from the Lee Hogg collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4 × 1.1 cm = 1.65” × 1.57” × 0.43”

Former collection of Lee Hogg
Malachite. Front
Front
Malachite. Rear
Rear
Malachite
Malachite. Malachite.
Malachite  

TD51AM5: Vug with botryoidal growths of acicular Malachite crystals with an intense silky luster and a very deep color. The specimen is from the Mark Mauthner collection (number 4579), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 7.6 × 4.6 × 2.7 cm = 2.99” × 1.81” × 1.06”

Former collection of Mark Mauthner
Calcite
Calcite  

MC10I2: The crystals are rhombohedrons, very defined and have yellowish-white color. They made subparallel groups forming attractive curvatures.
The specimen is from John. S. White collection and we’ll send the label with the sample.
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.6 × 3.1 cm = 2.17” × 1.42” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

Intense fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite.
Cuprite
Cuprite. Cuprite.
Cuprite  

TJ6AJ8: Very aerial growth, on matrix, of very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals that are beveled by the dodecahedron. They are translucent, bright and have a very deep red color. A classic from Bisbee of great quality.
From the Thomas P. Moore collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 1.4 cm = 1.18” × 0.79” × 0.55”

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

Former collection of Thomas P. Moore
Atacamite with Brochantite on Cuprite
 

TM47AH6: Elongated prismatic Atacamite crystals that are very fine, transparent and extraordinarily bright, with small spray-like aggregates of acicular Brochantite crystals that have a lighter color, all on a Cuprite matrix. The Atacamite has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Cole Mine (Cole shaft), 700 ft level, 110 stope, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 2.6 × 3.2 × 1.7 cm = 1.02” × 1.26” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

Atacamite with Brochantite on Cuprite. Atacamite with Brochantite on Cuprite.
Atacamite with Brochantite on Cuprite.
Azurite
Azurite. Front
Front
Azurite. Rear
Rear
 

TQ48M2: This Azurite specimen is from a classic North American locality. A perfect floater formed by divergent crystals, with very differentiated and sharp faces and edges. Color is really excellent. The specimen was mined probably 10 years ago, when the Morenci mine works engulfed older workings, like the Detroit mine from over 100 years before.
Morenci Mine, Morenci, Copper Mountain District, Shannon Mountains, Greenlee County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4 × 3.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.57” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.8 cm = 0.63” × 0.31”

Azurite
 

EM67AE8: Rosettes, on a rocky matrix, of tabular crystals with a very vivid blue color. An American classic.
Morenci, Copper Mountain District, Shannon Mountains, Greenlee County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 10 × 9.5 × 6.5 cm = 3.94” × 3.74” × 2.56”

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

Azurite. Azurite.
Dioptase with Chrysocolla
Dioptase with Chrysocolla. Dioptase with Chrysocolla.
 

TP99Z7: Aggregates of small Dioptase crystals on a Chrysocolla matrix. They are very elongated, bright and have an intense color. The sample has a very good quality for the locality, an American classic.
Morenci Mine, Morenci, Copper Mountain District, Shannon Mountains, Greenlee County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.2 × 1.8 cm = 2.52” × 2.05” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”

Aurichalcite

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TPM86AQ1: Radial growths of acicular crystals of Aurichalcite, with very good luster and an intense and uniform color on a limonite matrix.
The specimen is from the collection of Dr. Collin Kaeder.
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.9 × 1 cm = 1.34” × 1.14” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.1 cm = 0.12” × 0.04”

Former collection of Dr. Collin Kaeder
Aurichalcite.
Aurichalcite with Smithsonite
Aurichalcite with Smithsonite. Aurichalcite with Smithsonite.
 

TA37AN1: Groups of acicular crystals of Aurichalcite with bright luster and an intense green color, implanted on a botryoidal surface of bluish green Smithsonite that partially covers the rock matrix. An American classic different from others as the Aurichalcite is located on the Smithsonite.
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 7 × 5 × 4.7 cm = 2.76” × 1.97” × 1.85”

Aurichalcite with Limonite
 

MC76L1: Groups of fan-shaped acicular crystals with intense color, between blue and greenish, on a Limonite matrix. A very pleasant and luminous specimen from a classic locality.
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.5 × 4.4 cm = 3.39” × 2.17” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.16” × 0.04”

Aurichalcite with Limonite. Aurichalcite with Limonite.
Hemimorphite
Hemimorphite. Front
Front
Hemimorphite. Side
Side
 

MH46AM6: Hemimorphite druse, on a limonite matrix, which forms botryoidal growths of a uniform sky blue color. From a classic US locality. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that the specimen was previously in the Sullivan collection.
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona  USA

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Azurite
 

TR69AL7: Group of flattened Azurite crystals, sharp, translucent, lustrous and with a very vivid color. The best quality for what is known from here, a mine where quality specimens are not so common.
Bluebird Mine, Miami, Miami-Inspiration District (Globe-Miami District), Gila County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.34” × 1.02” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

Azurite. Front
Front
Azurite. Side
Side
Calcite
Calcite. Calcite.
Calcite  

TB6AK3: Group of very sharp Calcite crystals on matrix, with prismatic habit and good rhombohedral terminations, transparent, colorless, and very lustrous. The specimen is from a very rare locality and comes from the Lee Hogg collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Portland Mine, Lost Cabin Wash, Black Mountains, Mining District Pilgrim, Mohave County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 4 × 2.4 cm = 2.36” × 1.57” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.39” × 0.16”

Former collection of Lee Hogg
Vanadinite
 

TCM16AN4: Druse of Vanadinite crystals with dipyramidal habit, lustrous, and red with orange tones.
We will send this specimen, from a known but little published locality for mineral collecting, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label stating that it was previously in the Sullivan collection.
J.C. Holmes Mine, Temporal Gulch area, Patagonia, Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.87” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Vanadinite. Vanadinite.
Mottramite with Wulfenite
Mottramite with Wulfenite. Mottramite with Wulfenite.

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TXL89AP3: Microbotryoidal growths of Mottramite with a grey-green color that partially cover tabular Wulfenite crystals that have good luster and an orange color. An excellent American classic from a classic locality.
Glove Mine, Glove Mine group, Devil's Cash Box Ridge, Cottonwood Canyon, Amado, Tyndall District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 11.1 × 6.1 × 4.1 cm = 4.37” × 2.40” × 1.61”

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

Ramsdellite
 

EG14X0: Druse on matrix of very sharp, short prismatic crystals of simple forms with very well defined faces and edges and very bright. From a classic locality for the species.
Mistake Mine, Sam Powell Peak, Box Canyon, Yavapai County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.50” × 1.26” × 0.75”

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

Former collection of Claus Hedegaard. Number 11655
Ramsdellite.
Cerussite with Fluorite
Cerussite with Fluorite. Cerussite with Fluorite.

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MFB87AP6: Group of twinned (sixlings) crystals of Cerussite, translucent, with very good luster and snow-white color. On matrix, with deformed cubic Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, translucent and pale green.
Of the best quality known for the locality.
Hull Mine, Hull Mine group, Buckeye vein group, Castle Dome Mine group, Castle Dome District, Castle Dome Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 1.61” × 0.79” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Vanadinite
 

TA16AN2: Crust, on matrix, of Vanadinite crystals with a prismatic habit, many of them doubly terminated, with bright luster and an intense and uniform color between red and orange.
We will ship the specimen, from a classic American locality, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Puzzler Mine, Adams Mine group, Kofa Game Range, Castle Dome District, Castle Dome Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.1 × 1.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.22” × 0.67” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Vanadinite. Vanadinite.

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