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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

HC9AM2: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2 × 1.9 cm = 1.10” × 0.79” × 0.75”

HH96AM2: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.54” × 1.26” × 1.06”

HG12AM2: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.93” × 1.34” × 0.87”

HF11AM2: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.4 × 2.3 cm = 2.13” × 1.73” × 0.91”

EN96AI0: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Montgomery County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 5.7 × 6.4 × 6.1 cm = 2.24” × 2.52” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.83”

LE14F2: The good color, growth and form of this botryoidal group are notable. This is a mineral that is becoming rare from this locality. A real classic. From the David Lucas collection, number 456, and we will give the buyer his label.
Mauldin Mountain Quarries, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 5 × 2.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.97” × 0.98”

NB28X3: Spherical aggregates of Wavellite on a matrix of micro-crystalline Quartz. The aggregates, more isolated and distinguishable than usual for the samples from Mauldin Mt., have a clear apple green color and a very intense luster. The sample is from John. S. White (num. 21-3-7), whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Mauldin Mountain Quarries, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 7 × 3.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.76” × 1.26” × 1.14”

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

HK12AM2: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.8 × 5.7 cm = 2.80” × 2.68” × 2.24”

HL14AM2: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.3 × 5.2 cm = 3.35” × 2.48” × 2.05”

HM87AM2: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 8.9 × 8.2 × 5.1 cm = 3.50” × 3.23” × 2.01”

HL48AM2: Multiple layers of Wavellite crystals finished in spheres, also of Wavellite. The luster, color, and overall quality are higher than usual for this deposit. The specimen comes from an old find, at least three decades old.
Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 9.4 × 8.6 × 6.8 cm = 3.70” × 3.39” × 2.68”

TB56Z1: Sphalerite crystals in a tetrahedral shape, with parallel polycrystalline growths and small iridescent Chalcopyrite crystals. They are on a matrix of pinkish Dolomite crystals with the saddle-shape habit, and doubly terminated white Calcite crystals. A very good American “oldie.”
Hoxie, Lawrence County Zinc District, Lawrence County, Arkansas  USA

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4 × 3 cm = 2.68” × 1.57” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.26” × 1.18”

TE99: Colorful and sharp classic Elbaite (Rubellite) from the classic Himalaya Mine. The crystal is thick, transparent and crystallized at the base. The association with a doubly terminated quartz gives it a nice contrast. A perfect and potent specimen!
Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California  USA

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 1.50” × 1.46” × 1.18”

TE86L1: Doubly terminated Elbaite crystal, with different terminations. One of them with a single pinacoidal face and the other a little bit more complex with the pinacoid and six uneven faces from a pair of trigonal pyramids. Translucent and excellent and intense pink color with greenish tones at both terminations.
Pala District, San Diego County, California  USA

Specimen size: 4.7 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 1.85” × 0.63” × 0.55”

TE87G0: A prismatic crystal with a high degree of transparency and an excellent color. The two tips show intense pink color zones. On the complete tip there is a little group of crystals of 'lepidolite' and Quartz.
Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California  USA

Specimen size: 6.8 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 2.68” × 0.87” × 0.59”

NB26AI3: Group of isolated and very bright Neptunite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. One of them, clearly dominant, is doubly terminated and is on a perfectly vertical position on its Natrolite matrix. An American classic of great quality.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection (num. 56) whose original label we’ll send to the buyer.
California State Gem Mine (Benitoite Gem Mine), San Benito River headwaters area, Santa Rita Peak, New Idria District, San Benito County, California  USA

Specimen size: 6.1 × 2.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.40” × 1.10” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.9 cm = 1.26” × 0.35”

EB91I2: Just a classic. The crystals, prismatic, have excellent luster and they are free of damage. They are doubly terminated and very well positioned on the Natrolite matrix.
California State Gem Mine (Benitoite Gem Mine), San Benito River headwaters area, Santa Rita Peak, New Idria District, San Benito County, California  USA

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.3 × 3.1 cm = 2.87” × 2.48” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 0.6 cm = 1.42” × 0.24”

EK29H1: Both crystals, the main one, very big, and the little one on the lower part of the specimen, have very good color and luster, in sharp contrast with the white Natrolite matrix.
California State Gem Mine (Benitoite Gem Mine), San Benito River headwaters area, Santa Rita Peak, New Idria District, San Benito County, California  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 2.3 × 2 cm = 1.18” × 0.91” × 0.79”

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

ME37AJ4: Neptunite crystals on matrix with very well defined faces and edges and very bright. They are with a Benitoite single crystal and Joaquinite-(Ce) crystals of a good size for the species, with a dipyramidal shape, very well defined faces and edges, translucent and with an intense orange color.
California State Gem Mine (Benitoite Gem Mine), San Benito River headwaters area, Santa Rita Peak, New Idria District, San Benito County, California  USA

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.2 × 4.4 cm = 2.17” × 2.05” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.24”

T99DAK3: Very sharp rhombohedral crystals of Andradite (variety topazolite), transparent, lustrous, and very uniform honey-yellow. On matrix rock, with abundant spheroidal aggregates of Clinochlore, very deep green, almost black. An American classic.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California  USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 3.8 × 1.4 cm = 2.56” × 1.50” × 0.55”

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

T88NG0: An excellent specimen of this Andradite variety from the plentiful (and the only one known to the date) find in the Yellow Cat Mine, November, 1998. The surface is fully covered by dodecahedral crystals with an excellent color and luster.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California  USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 8 × 6 × 3 cm = 3.15” × 2.36” × 1.18”

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

T97CH5: This variety of Andradite is from the plentiful (and the only one known to date) find in the Yellow Cat Mine, November, 1998. Crystals are dodecahedra of very well-defined faces and edges; they are bright and have good color contrasting on a slightly bluish matrix.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California  USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 4.4 × 2.7 cm = 3.70” × 1.73” × 1.06”

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

T76CAK3: Groups of Andradite crystals (topazolite variety) dominated by the rhombohedron, along with cube and trapezohedron faces, transparent, very lustrous and a uniform honey-yellow. An American classic.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California  USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 4.7 × 2.7 cm = 3.70” × 1.85” × 1.06”

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

MF14AH6: Very aerial radial spray of acicular and extraordinarily thin Artinite crystals on matrix.
Artinite Pit, Clear Creek, Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California  USA

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.6 × 1 cm = 1.26” × 0.63” × 0.39”

TC20X9: Single thin crystals and flattened parallel and skeletal Caledonite growths. They are translucent and very bright, have a very intense and vivid blue color and are on a rocky matrix with Quartz. A great American classic, more esthetic than usual.
Reward Mine, Reward, Russ District, Inyo County, California  USA

Specimen size: 7.9 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 3.11” × 1.77” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.20” × 0.12”

TN18X5: The sample is very representative, both for its size and the morphology of its crystals, among best-known crystallization of this rare phyllosilicate. The crystals, with a very uniform dark green color, are laminar and are embedded on a matrix of blue Calcite and granular greenish-yellow Vesuvianite. The sample was obtained in the famous 2001 find that was described in an article in Mineralogical Record.
Commercial Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore, Riverside County, California  USA (06-07/2001)

Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.32” × 2.09” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

TM96N9: Extraordinary example of Axinite-Fe, especially knowing its origin, a classic North American locality. The crystals are complete, transparent, bright, and of an excellent color, they are on a matrix of Quartz crystals with small crystals of Albite.
It is from the collection of Dr. Marvin D. Rausch (Massachusetts), whose label we’ll send to the buyer with the specimen.
New Melones Dam, Jamestown, Calaveras County, California  USA

Specimen size: 9.4 × 8.5 × 5.7 cm = 3.70” × 3.35” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 1.02”

MK13V1: Parallel colorless transparent crystals, two of them clearly dominant. They have very well defined faces and edges and perfect smooth terminations. A borate that is quite infrequent in good crystals.
The sample is from the Thomas P. Moore collection (without label)
Kramer Hills deposit, Boron area, Kramer Hills, San Bernardino County, California  USA (2010)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.2 × 1 cm = 1.30” × 0.47” × 0.39”

TM16H1: In this miniature two groups of flattened Gold crystals, typical of the locality, stand aerially on the Quartz matrix.
Eagle's Nest Mine, Sage Hill, Michigan Bluff District, Placer County, California  USA (2001)

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

TE10G5: The most prominent crystallization on the Quartz matrix is really a single, elongated, crystal of an exceptional length. In this group there are also the typical flat crystals from Eagle’s Nest, and some others that are quite well defined octahedra.
Eagle's Nest Mine, Sage Hill, Michigan Bluff District, Placer County, California  USA (2003)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.57” × 1.26” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 0.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.16”

TQ46Z3: Arborescent growths with laminar terminations and quite well defined equant cubic crystals on the left of the image and elongated crystals at the bottom-center. An American classic, whose locality has been recognized by experts on Gold and its history.
Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras County, California  USA

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.3 × 1.2 cm = 1.42” × 1.30” × 0.47”

MT86AG7: Very aerial crystalline dendritic growth with polycrystalline surfaces and small but well developed crystals, with predominant cube faces in some areas. It is from a well known mine that has produced very few samples of such quality.
16 to 1 Mine, Alleghany, Alleghany District, Sierra County, California  USA

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.10” × 0.59”

VL29Y5: Dendritic growths of hooked, laminar and mossy Gold, without well defined crystals but showing a very esthetic morphology on the white Quartz matrix. It is from an old classic locality of which there practically are no longer samples.
16 to 1 Mine, Alleghany, Alleghany District, Sierra County, California  USA (±1979)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6 × 4.3 cm = 3.07” × 2.36” × 1.69”

MB26AM8: Group of rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals, flattened, with very sharp polycrystalline growths and an intense and uniform pink color on Sphalerite matrix.
We will send the buyer the specimen 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.
Sunnyside Mine group (American Tunnel Mine), Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka District, San Juan County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.8 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.71” × 0.79”

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

CE17D7: A perfect example with its well formed main crystal, nicely positioned on the matrix, and transparent. So overall it shows off the best features of the finds that were made in Stoneham.
Stoneham, Weld County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.46” × 1.30” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.42” × 0.67”

TB16V4: Group of flattened prismatic crystals of Anhydrite, one of them dominant, completely pseudomorphed by Quartz. The Quartz forms a continuous surface of small, very bright, crystals.
The sample, very typical for the locality, is with a label of the collector, Robert Stoufer, that we will send to the buyer.
OS pocket, Ouray, Ouray District, Ouray County, Colorado  USA (1992)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 4.4 × 2.5 cm = 3.70” × 1.73” × 0.98”

TM56AI8: Very bright flattened Calaverite crystals with very well defined parallel growths and with very fine growth striations. On matrix with Calcite. The Calaverite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been photographed and published in the Bulletin ‘MiniBul A.G.A.B.’ on page 3 of number 9/2021
Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.94” × 0.94” × 0.28”

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

TA76W1: Surface very rich in very bright crystalline growths, typical for the species, locally skeletal and coating a rocky matrix. It is from a classic American locality and it comes from the Earl L. Calvert collection (num. 310) whose label we'll send to the buyer.
Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 5.6 × 2.4 × 4.1 cm = 2.20” × 0.94” × 1.61”

ET47G5: Crystal of good size, a floater, having well defined prism and terminal faces. This is a rare locality, there are usually very few in collections.
Crystal Lode pegmatite, Fulford District, Eagle County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.3 × 3.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.69” × 1.54”

TM99Z6: Very well defined Sphalerite crystals that are twinned, completely transparent, very bright, have a very uniform deep honey color and are with scalenohedral Chalcopyrite crystals and small Galena cubes. A great American classic of high quality.
Commodore Mine, Creede District, Mineral County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.56” × 1.65” × 1.02”

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

TB37Y6: Chalcopyrite crystals, with very well defined faces and edges, implanted on a druse of translucent Sphalerite crystals with a dark honey color, twinned and showing the dominant faces of a tetrahedron. An American classic.
Commodore Mine, Creede District, Mineral County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 9.9 × 7.9 × 3.7 cm = 3.90” × 3.11” × 1.46”

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

TQ27AH6: Group of Microcline (amazonite variety) crystals on matrix with a small Albite rosette and a small acicular Schorl crystal. The sample, a very old one, is not repaired.
Pikes Peak, Teller County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.6 × 2.8 cm = 2.24” × 1.81” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1.3 cm = 1.22” × 0.51”

T96FKX7: Microcline crystal (amazonite variety) showing well defined faces and edges, with intense bluish-green color and on smoky Quartz crystals, very rich in inclusions. An American classic.
Pikes Peak, El Paso County, Colorado  USA (1993)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 7.5 × 4.5 cm = 3.27” × 2.95” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.91”

EC90H7: Group of rhombohedral crystals whose faces have excellent color, luster and transparency, contrasting with the bevels on the edges which are more frosted. The group contrasts with the associated species, the well defined tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite, the Chalcopyrite and small crystals of Quartz. The locality is now one of the great classics for Rhodochrosite.
Sweet Home Mine, Corner pocket, Watercourse raise, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (09/94)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.8 × 3.3 cm = 2.24” × 1.50” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

TB67AA2: Sharp rhombohedral crystals of Rhodochrosite. They are translucent, very bright and have a great intensity and depth of color. Furthermore, they are implanted on a matrix with small Quartz and Pyrite crystals and twinned Tetrahedrite, an uncommon association. The Rhodochrosite from Sweet Home Mine has become, in just a few years, one of the great classics due to its quality and the permanent closing of the mine.
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7.7 × 3.2 cm = 3.74” × 3.03” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.55”

ER96H1: An excellent group, very rich in rhombohedral, very sharp crystals. Color, luster and transparency are magnificent. Matrix is Quartz, Pyrite and Tetrahedrite. The quality of the specimen is exceptional because of its excellent condition. A specimen of high desirability.
Sweet Home Mine, Hedgehog pocket, Main Stope drift, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (09/1996)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 6.2 × 4.4 cm = 3.82” × 2.44” × 1.73”

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

TD89T3: Laminar growth with polycrystalline surfaces corresponding to very well defined triangular faces. The sample is an example of the old- fashioned presentation typical of samples early in the 20th century, a black box with glass top and with a Schortmann’s Minerals, Easthampton, Massachusetts, label.
Breckenridge District, Summit County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.63” × 0.08”

TA58H2: This kind of “boat” is a fossilized shell of Mercenaria sp, the interior of which is now occupied by honey-colored Calcite crystals filling most of the available inner space. The Calcite crystals “borrowed” calcium from Mercenarias for their growth.
Ruck's pit, Fort Drum, Okeechobee County, Florida  USA (2003)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.3 × 3.6 cm = 2.09” × 1.30” × 1.42”

TM26L1: A well defined and aerial crystal with very sharp faces and edges, showing reddish reflections. This specimen shows the typical Rutile twin. Well positioned on a Pyrophyllite matrix.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia  USA (1998)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.17” × 1.38” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.51”

TJ53L7: A Classic Specimen. Good sized Rutile crystal with well defined faces and a very marked and classic twin. Faces show a very good luster, with deep reddish reflections. At the base and at the top and back side we can see a small Muscovite rich matrix.
The sample is accompanied by a collection label. On the back of the label is handwritten that this sample was collected by Terry and Jean Ledford in the spring of 1998. As is our custom, we will send the label to the buyer.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia  USA (1998)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.8 × 5.3 cm = 2.76” × 2.68” × 2.09”

EL73AI5: Twinned Rutile crystal with very well defined faces and edges, an excellent luster and implanted on a matrix of a laminar Pyrophyllite aggregate. An excellent sample, a classic both for the species and for the locality.
We’ll send to the buyer, with the sample, the original commercial label of “Aesthetics Underground” from Canada from the Rob Woodside collection.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia  USA

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.1 × 4.2 cm = 2.91” × 2.01” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 4 cm = 1.69” × 1.57”

MG46AJ4: Very aerial group of Pyromorphite crystals with very nice curvatures that give them a barrel, almost spherical, shape. Their reddish orange color and luster are excellent. Although it has been reported that these globular orange crystals from Bunker Hill are arsenic-rich Pyromorphite specimens, we analyzed some samples and the results are that they really are pure Pyromorphite, with no arsenic.
The sample is from the Thomas P. Moore collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 2 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.79” × 0.87”

TT68AK9: Aerial group of sharp crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with slight curvatures on faces and edges, of considerable size for the locality, very bright and orange.
We will send the specimen in the original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it came from the Sullivan collection, with an entry for Tucson 1997
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.83” × 0.67”

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

NC88AJ9: Group of prismatic Pyromorphite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and flat pinacoidal terminations, while some of them have polycrystalline or hollowed terminations. Luster, color and esthetics are excellent. An American classic.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Bunker Hill Mine, Jersey Vein, 9th level, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.50” × 1.10” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.39” × 0.20”

MB48AB5: Aggregate of Pyromorphite crystals, many of them doubly terminated, very well defined, with slightly curved faces and edges, bright and between a yellow and orange color. An excellent American classic.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.93” × 1.50” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.71” × 0.31”

TP27AH4: Very aerial aggregate of Pyromorphite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated and others with very well defined hollow growths. They are bright and have an excellent color. An American classic, not only of great quality but also different than usual for this extraordinary mine.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.7 × 4.3 cm = 2.01” × 1.46” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.71”

VD59Y3: Group of crystals on matrix, with a very well marked barrel-shape and vivid orange color with the intense luster typical of this type of sample from the Bunker Hill Mine. As a rarity, we note a coating of a second generation of yellow crystals with a prismatic shape and very well marked curvatures of faces and edges. While this type of crystals is described as arsenical, nor by the bibliography or by analysis we have done previously, we know that this is so.
The piece is from the Harjo Neutkens collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.6 × 1.9 cm = 2.20” × 1.81” × 0.75”

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

TB96C8: A large monster! A huge crystal standing on the top of a matrix that is made up of other huge Pyromorphite crystals. The form is excellent and the color is very agreeable as it is turning towards golden brown. Everything complete, a floater and, as the photo shows, excellent!
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.5 × 3.1 cm = 2.24” × 1.38” × 1.22”

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

TC63AH1: Group of Pyromorphite crystals with very well defined curvatures that give them a barrel habit. They have an excellent orange color and luster. Although it has been reported that this kind of globular orange crystals from Bunker Hill are arsenic-rich Pyromorphite specimens, we analyzed some samples and the results are that they really are pure Pyromorphite, with no arsenic.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 4.7 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

TR26Q1: Sharp twinned crystals with very well defined crystal form, transparent and of excellent luster. We especially note the locality, now abandoned, that produced good but scarce specimens of this species.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 1 × 1.3 cm = 1.18” × 0.39” × 0.51”

TF56V1: Group of flattened crystals, transparent to translucent, and neatly twinned. They are on a matrix of rough Galena. The locality is a world classic for Pyromorphite, but good samples of Cerussite from there are less common.
The sample is from the Geary Murdock collection, whose label we'll send to the buyer.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.1 × 2.9 cm = 2.13” × 2.01” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.31”

TB37AD5: Aggregate of twinned Cerussite crystals, not usually well crystallized at Bunker Hill. The crystals are colorless, between transparent and translucent, very bright and are on matrix, with granular Galena. The sample is from the Geary Murdock collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.3 × 4.9 cm = 3.31” × 2.48” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.51” × 0.35”

LT74F1: This is a great specimen, both in comparison to other Ludlamites that have been found at this mine as well as Ludlamites from elsewhere in the world. It is a plate of gem quality crystals with excellent color, brilliance and the typical forms for Ludlamite, showing the faces of two perpendicular prisms and the well-developed pinacoid. As is so typical for the locality there are two prismatic crystals of dark Vivianite on the Ludlamite. From the David Lucas collection, number 787, and we will give the buyer his label.
Blackbird Mine, Blackbird mine complex, Blackbird District, Lemhi County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.5 × 1 cm = 3.35” × 2.95” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

TD66Q8: Neatly shaped prismatic crystal with a bright and transparent pinacoidal termination. The prismatic faces of the crystal, with a good blue color, are also transparent but they have translucent zones. The lower part of the crystal is naturally corroded due to the contact zones with its matrix. We especially note the locality, very uncommon.
The sample is from the Gary Murdock collection, whose label we will send to the buyer. Previously it was in the University of California (Santa Barbara) collection.
Sawtooth Batholith, Sawtooth Mountains, Boise County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 3.7 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 1.46” × 0.39” × 0.31”

EV27AM5: Group of very sharp crystals, between transparent and translucent, shiny and with geometric color zoning marked by the contrast between the yellow in most of the crystal and the intense and deep violet in the edges. A classic from the USA.
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.3 × 3.6 cm = 1.81” × 1.69” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 4.1 cm = 1.73” × 1.61”

TR47AM9: Group of sharp Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with bright luster and geometric color zoning very marked by the contrast between the yellow color in most of the crystal and the deep violet color in the edges. With inclusions of small crystals of Chalcopyrite. A classic from the USA.
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (±1980)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.4 × 4.6 cm = 3.94” × 2.13” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.54” × 1.06”

TC26G3: This floater specimen is very esthetic and original. Tabular white crystals of Baryte are aerial on a Fluorite crystal having a curious growth, formed by three faces of a cube and a fourth one being octahedral, where the Baryte group is attached.
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 5 × 4.3 cm = 2.05” × 1.97” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.02”

TR73X6: Scalenohedral crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, modified by other crystalline forms. The Calcite, translucent, bright and with a honey-yellow color, is implanted on a group of crystals of deep violet colored Fluorite. An American classic.
Denton Mine, Goose Creek Mine group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 14 × 9.5 × 6.5 cm = 5.51” × 3.74” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 4.5 cm = 2.44” × 1.77”

TX46Q6: “Book” aggregates of thick tabular crystals with very well defined blue color from one of the great classic localities of North America.
The sample has a Geary Murdock collection label that we’ll send to the buyer.
Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 7 × 5.3 cm = 2.36” × 2.76” × 2.09”

VA47Y5: An intergrowth of two crystals on a matrix of very acute Calcite crystals. The crystals of Witherite, yellowish in color, are formed by a thick prism, horizontally striated, and much flattened and slightly curved rhombohedral terminations.
Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (±1978)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 1.85” × 1.65” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.2 cm = 1.61” × 1.26”

EX89Y3: Two partially doubly terminated crystals, one of them clearly dominant, isolated and with very well defined faces and edges, which is really uncommon for Minerva I Mine samples. The Witherite is on a matrix partially coated by small white Alstonite crystals.
The sample is from the Martin Zinn collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.

Minerva I Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.8 × 3.5 cm = 2.13” × 1.89” × 1.38”

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

M82N: Doubly terminated Calcite. Sharp edges and pretty gemmy. A perfect representative sample from Berry Materials quarry.
Berry Materials Corp. Quarry, North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana  USA

Specimen size: 4.2 × 6.5 cm = 1.65” × 2.56”

EH47X0: Group of crystals on matrix formed by a short prism and a terminal flattened rhombohedron. The crystals are transparent, bright, with yellow color and slight orange tones and very well marked phantom growths. An American classic.
Berry Materials Corp. Quarry, North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana  USA

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.7 × 3.9 cm = 4.21” × 3.43” × 1.54”

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

TK57AD2: Very aerial aggregate of very sharp doubly terminated crystals that are transparent and bright and whose color is between smoky and yellow. Some of them have parallel growths and inclusions.
Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa  USA (2011-2012)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 4.8 × 2.7 cm = 4.06” × 1.89” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 2.7 cm = 1.81” × 1.06”

LX69AE4: Floater aggregate of Copper crystals with a considerable length. Their faces and edges are unusually well developed, forming parallel growths.
The sample is from the Carles Millan collection (catalog#1111), who’s computer card we’ll send to the buyer.
Central Mine, Central, Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.2 × 1.4 cm = 2.44” × 1.26” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

TE68D8: A large crystal of native Copper. It is a complete floater that is very esthetic given the perfect form of the main crystal.
Osceola Mine, Osceola No. 6, Osceola, Houghton County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 6.7 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 2.64” × 0.98” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.26” × 0.63”

EC86P2: Very aerial aggregate of big, bright crystals whose faces are very well defined for the species and contrasting with the white coatings of Calcite.
The sample is with an old label of the collection of the Museum of Mineralogy and Petrology of Berlin University.
Lake Superior, Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 6.9 × 3.8 × 3.4 cm = 2.72” × 1.50” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2 cm = 1.14” × 0.79”

TZ91AF1: Nodular growth of native Copper well known as a “skull,” that has partially preserved the walls of the original nodule and that has poorly defined crystallizations inside. An American classic with an old Minerals International label that we’ll send to the buyer.
Centennial Mine, Centennial No. 6 shaft, Centennial, Houghton County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.8 × 4.5 cm = 3.43” × 2.68” × 1.77”

EM37AA1: Arborescent growth of elongated crystals with well-defined faces and edges, with a considerable length and on a small crystalline Calcite matrix. A museum quality sample.
Lake Superior, Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 16 × 6.5 × 1.5 cm = 6.30” × 2.56” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 2.2 cm = 2.17” × 0.87”

TF97Q8: Arborescent growth that, from the base to the upper zone, developed progressively taller crystals that have better developed crystalline forms. A good sample.
Wolverine Mine, Wolverine, Houghton County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 4 × 3.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.57” × 1.46” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

ED52T4: Arborescent aggregate of Silver crystals, elongated and very well defined for the species. They are with equant and isolated crystals of native Copper. The sample has a number corresponding to an indeterminate collection.
The specimen has been published in the Chinese magazine ‘Mineral Lover’ on page 6 in the volume 9/2011
Tamarack Mine, Tamarack, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.77” × 0.98” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.4 cm = 0.71” × 0.16”

MF47E7: From a locality that used to be very productive (although it is no longer so) this one stands out from all the others found there for various reasons: the form of the crystal (slightly oblong and with small octahedral modification on the corners), all the faces are undamaged, the brilliance of the faces, and, above all, its great position on the matrix of botryoidal Pyrite. So while many Galenas have been found in the Tri-State district this one is special.
Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper County, Missouri  USA

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.65” × 1.65” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.3 cm = 1.18” × 0.91”

TF76F6: A classic species, with the classic cuboctahedral form and from a classic locality. It started as a cube and then later on cuboctahedral forms grew on it, orientated to the cube. All of which makes the specimen especially attractive.
Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper County, Missouri  USA

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.77” × 1.38”

TG68W7: Doubly terminated crystals showing curvatures on their faces and edges. They are translucent and have an intense lemon yellow color. On matrix, with small rhombohedral crystals of Dolomite and microcrystals of Chalcopyrite.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri  USA

Specimen size: 11.8 × 10.3 × 9.3 cm = 4.65” × 4.06” × 3.66”

Main crystal size: 9 × 2.8 cm = 3.54” × 1.10”

MB12AM7: Very sharp, lustrous Galena crystals on matrix. An American classic that we will send to the buyer 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.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri  USA

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

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.39”

EA99AA2: Druse with very sharp Enargite crystals on a matrix of massive Enargite and Pyrite. The crystalline forms, a finely striated prism and the pinacoid, are very bright. An American classic.
Butte, Butte District, Silver Bow County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.3 × 4.7 cm = 2.40” × 2.09” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

TY86Q1: Leafy aggregates, very bright, of excellent color and on a matrix very rich in Pyrite. An American classic.
Butte, Butte District, Silver Bow County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.89” × 1.54” × 0.98”

TC87G0: A fine group of subparallel growths of rhombohedral crystals with sharp edges and a soft and uniform pink color, with a little covering of Pyrite. The specimen is from Butte, a classic locality from which, actually, it is now very difficult to obtain good samples.
It comes with a label from Shaw's Mojave Desert Gem and Mineral Shop, Yermo, California.
Butte, Butte District, Silver Bow County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6 × 2.8 cm = 3.23” × 2.36” × 1.10”

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

E61A: Fluellite its a rare mineral that is only found in millimetre sized crystals. Its color is usually white, so we cannot expect great beauty for this mineral. In this case the Wavellite helps by adding contrast and giving some esthetics to this rare mineral which is hard to find it in good specimens.
Willard Mine, Willard District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA (1999)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.5 cm = 2.17” × 2.17”

LX26F0: A sample with lots of brilliant small crystals of Clinoclase, typical of the species. To add to this there are concretions of the rare arsenate Parnauite, which is a lighter green color. This comes from the David Lucas collection; number 575 and we will give the buyer David’s label.
Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 7.5 × 7.2 × 5.2 cm = 2.95” × 2.83” × 2.05”

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

T26CJ1: A very esthetic botryoidal aggregate, in which Hydrozincite also forms thin acicular crystals, which are rare. There are small black Plattnerite crystals spread on the specimen. The sample has an intense fluorescence under a violet light.
Yellow Pine Mine, 900 level, Goodsprings, Goodsprings District, Clark County, Nevada  USA (8-11/1996)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 7.5 × 6.5 cm = 5.71” × 2.95” × 2.56”

AG66Q1: Group on matrix of tabular crystals. They are bright and very transparent, intense yellow color with geometrical zoning. Another American classic.
Meikle Mine, Bootstrap District, Elko County, Nevada  USA (1998)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.5 × 3.7 cm = 1.34” × 0.98” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.47”

TB97F2: A splendid group of tabular Baryte crystals, which are very transparent, lemon yellow with hints of orange, and which contrast very well with the matrix of lenticular yellowish Calcite. A really special specimen.
Meikle Mine, Bootstrap District, Elko County, Nevada  USA (2003)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8 × 5 cm = 4.53” × 3.15” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2 cm = 1.18” × 0.79”

T90BAC9: Aggregate of tabular crystals on matrix. The crystals have very well defined faces and edges and are transparent and bright, with a vivid golden yellow color. The sample, a classic for an American Baryte, is from a one-time find in the mine, a find that, unfortunately, hasn’t been repeated.
Meikle Mine, Bootstrap District, Elko County, Nevada  USA (1998)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 6.3 × 7.3 cm = 4.92” × 2.48” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.24” × 1.50”

T14FI7: Excellent and esthetic group of prismatic honey-yellow crystals. The luster and transparency varies, depending on the faces, between extraordinary on most of them to greasy or matte on others. In spite of the color and luster which resembles Baryte from the famous Meikle mine, this is from a different mine very near to the Meikle mine in which specimens of such quality are very scarce.
Dee Mine, main decline, Bootstrap District, Elko County, Nevada  USA (2000)

Specimen size: 14.5 × 12 × 6 cm = 5.71” × 4.72” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.47”

TM56Z9: Botryoidal aggregate of translucent clear lilac-colored Fluorite on matrix. This shape is uncommon for Fluorite.
Blue Ribbon - Boyce Mine, Aura District, Elko County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 8.6 × 5.4 × 3.3 cm = 3.39” × 2.13” × 1.30”

TG12K2: Group of two very bright trapezohedrons with very sharp faces and edges in a vug with small crystals of Quartz. The dark color of the Almandine contrasts strongly with the slightly pinkish rhyolite matrix.
Garnet Hill, Ely, Robinson District, White Pine County, Nevada  USA (2006)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.8 × 3.5 cm = 3.27” × 2.28” × 1.38”

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

TF3AK5: Flattened parallel aggregate of very well defined rhombododecahedral crystals and triangular growth shapes that correspond to octahedron faces. In the words of Bob Noble on his label: “spinel twin structure“. This very aesthetic specimen is of high quality and comes from a classic American locality for the species.
The specimen will be sent in Bob Noble‘s original Perky box, which also contains the label.
Round Mountain Mine, Round Mountain, Round Mountain District, Nye County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 1.6 × 0.3 cm = 1.18” × 0.63” × 0.12”

TC56Z3: Arborescent growths, on matrix, of strongly elongated Gold crystals, some of them with very well defined terminal faces, curvatures and wires. It is quite different than usual at this mine.
Round Mountain Mine, Round Mountain, Round Mountain District, Nye County, Nevada  USA (±2001)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.46” × 1.06” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.39” × 0.08”

TJ96S3: Very rich dendritic growths, on matrix, of sharp elongated cubic and octahedral crystals with perfect terminations and very well defined faces and edges.
Round Mountain Mine, Round Mountain, Round Mountain District, Nye County, Nevada  USA (2007)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.46” × 1.10” × 0.67”

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

T99FH5: The sample is from a very unusual locality. On a matrix of Quartz, the Gold made blades of parallel, very stylized, crystals forming wall type growths. (Winnemucca)
Lizard Ridge Mine, Ten Mile District, Humboldt County, Nevada  USA (08/1995)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.9 × 3 cm = 2.20” × 1.93” × 1.18”

TB98AC9: A novelty at Tucson 2016. Aggregate very rich in silver (27% aprox.) leafy Gold crystals (electrum variety), with flat octahedral crystals in groups that resemble leaves. Its color is the classic "old gold" of electrum due to its Silver-rich composition.
R.J. Roberts lode, Willow Creek District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA (2015)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.51” × 0.39”

TR89AE8: Galkhaite is a very rare sulphosalt. The crystals on the sample, with a good size for the species, are cubic, with small octahedron faces, quite well defined, bright and on matrix, with Galena and Pyrite.
Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada  USA (1999)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.81” × 1.14” × 1.06”

T87RS4: Fine example of this very rare vanadate of lead and bismuth (only three localities in the world, two in Nevada) from the type locality. It is with another rare related species, Clinobisvanite, which is easy to distinguish from the Pottsite either by its reddish color or by its fluorescence.
Linka Mine, Spencer Hot Springs, Austin, Lander County, Nevada  USA (±2000)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.1 × 1.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.83” × 0.55”

T19X: Excellent color.
Twin Creeks Mine, cut 62, Potosi District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada  USA (04/99)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.77” × 0.98”

JT46F9: ¡Superb! Exceptional brightness and color make this a superb specimen enhanced by remarkable crystal size and sharpness. All of these features combine to put the piece among the best from this well-known mine. The sample, absolutely unaltered even considering the passing of years, is from an accredited collection. We’ll send the collection label with the specimen.
Twin Creeks Mine, cut 62, Potosi District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada  USA (04/1999)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 6 × 3.3 cm = 2.48” × 2.36” × 1.30”

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

TJ40AF7: Spheroids of almost white Pectolite with radial sections. On matrix with small pale green crystals of a not identified species (probably Datolite).
The sample is from the inventory of Charles Key and has a great quality for the species and the locality.
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5.1 × 5 cm = 3.62” × 2.01” × 1.97”

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

MP27J0: Spherical growths of laminar crystals on a serpentine matrix. We especially note the rich green shades of the group. This Prehnite is from a classic locality and good specimens are very scarce today.
Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 11 × 8.2 × 3.7 cm = 4.33” × 3.23” × 1.46”

RF16S7: Bright nodular growths typical of Zincite from Franklin. Very intense red color, with pinkish Tephroite on a white Calcite matrix.
Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.2 × 3.6 cm = 2.40” × 1.65” × 1.42”

HF61K9: Fanlike acicular-fibrous crystal groups. The color of these crystals varies between pure white blue and the creamy white. The locality and the specimen can be considered to be classics.
Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 9.5 × 7 × 5 cm = 3.74” × 2.76” × 1.97”

P36BF6: The octahedral crystals are typical of this locality, but in this case they have reached an unusually large size. The color is deep and on one side you can see clear violet to green zoning.
Pine Canyon deposit, West Burro Mountains, Burro Mountains District, Grant County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 3.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.10” × 1.10”

TT52N9: Excellent sample, a classic from a classic locality. Its crystals, of very deep color, have very well defined faces and edges and are on a matrix of small crystals of Quartz.
It is from the collection of Dr. Marvin D. Rausch (Massachusetts), whose label we’ll send to the buyer with the specimen.
Judith Lynn Claim (T & G Prospect), Pine Canyon deposit, West Burro Mountains, Burro Mountains District, Grant County, New Mexico  USA (±1985)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 8.9 × 4.7 cm = 5.20” × 3.50” × 1.85”

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

TE14AB7: Floater and complete rosette growth with sharp rhombohedral crystals and with a very vivid color. The sample is from an old find at a poorly reported mine in New Mexico.
Hanover #2 Mine, Hanover-Fierro District, Grant County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.10” × 0.94” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.4 cm = 0.31” × 0.16”

TT66AK3: Smithsonite as a botryoidal aggregate, translucent, green with very pale blue tones and a small bit of matrix rock on the back. An American classic, very aesthetic and of great quality, which comes from the collection of Anna and Danilo Rolando (No. 9577), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.7 × 4.5 cm = 3.43” × 1.85” × 1.77”

VF71Y4: Fine botryoidal growth, on matrix, with a very intense and uniform greenish blue color and showing a luster that is very intense for the species. Lateral areas allow viewing the banded growth of the mineral. An excellent American classic.
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 9 × 8.5 × 5.5 cm = 3.54” × 3.35” × 2.17”

EG49T4: Radial aggregates of acicular crystals that have extraordinary color and luster. They are on a Quartz matrix with small drops of Brochantite. The sample is numbered as 463, corresponding to an indeterminate collection.
The specimen has been published in the Chinese magazine ‘Mineral Lover’ on page 6 in the volume 9/2011
Blanchard Mine (Portales-Blanchard Mine), Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.24” × 1.81” × 1.34”

ED86D6: The specimen is nice but it also comes from an unusual locality, even though one initially assumes that it is from Los Lamentos. This comes from the dispersion of the Bally Museum collection so has a label with it that we will send to the purchaser. In a few crystals there is minor damage, but it is not very significant and none of the major crystals has any damage.
Organ Mountains, Organ District, Doña Ana County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 4.5 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.77” × 1.18”

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

TA37AL2: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Group of doubly terminated Tremolite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and doubly terminated, with sharp faces and edges. The crystals, partially covered with small white Dolomite rhombohedra, have an intense luster between vitreous and silky, are much more transparent than usual in specimens from this area and are green-gray in color with bluish tints. From a very recent find, the quality is superior to that generally known in the St. Lawrence County area.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a novelty from Tucson 2020 in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 62 in the volume 25, number 2
Big Mole claim, West Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York  USA (06/2019)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.30” × 1.26” × 0.87”

TF50AL1: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Doubly terminated floater crystal, with very well defined faces and edges and with two different terminations, with rough faces. The crystal is grey-green with bluish tints, has an intense luster between vitreous and silky, and is much more transparent than usual in specimens from this area. From a very recent find, with a quality superior to what is generally known in St. Lawrence County.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a novelty from Tucson 2020 in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 62 in the volume 25, number 2

Big Mole claim, West Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York  USA (06/2019)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 1.42” × 0.43” × 0.31”

TV46AL2: A novelty at Tucson 2020. Tremolite crystal, on a Dolomite matrix, with very well defined faces and edges, with a polycrystalline termination, an intense luster between vitreous and silky, translucent, but with greater transparency than usual in specimens from this area and of green-gray color with bluish tints. From a very recent find, the quality is superior to that generally known in the St. Lawrence County area.
Big Mole claim, West Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York  USA (06/2019)

Specimen size: 7 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 2.76” × 0.83” × 0.71”

TK27AJ2: Doubly terminated Tremolite crystal (chrome rich variety) with acute polycrystalline terminations, very well defined prismatic faces and edges, translucent with a very intense green color and with small, brown, Clinohumite crystals and platy Graphite crystals. A rare US classic proposed in Tucson 2019.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2019, page 77
Washburn Farm, Macomb, Macomb Township, St. Lawrence County, New York  USA (05/2018)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.42” × 0.59” × 0.59”

TH76S7: A floater crystal of Spodumene of irregular shape, with parallel growths, an excellent degree of transparency and good color and luster. We note its locality, which was an early name for what is now hiddenite.
We will send the label of the sample, from Minerals Unlimited, Berkeley, California, to the buyer.
Stony Point (Hiddenite), Alexander County, North Carolina  USA

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.2 × 0.8 cm = 1.26” × 0.87” × 0.31”

T3FA2: Very original and iridescent (brown & violet) Fluorite from Auglaize quarry, which from time to time rewards us with samples like this one.
Stoneco Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Paulding County, Ohio  USA

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

HF86AM2: Complete floater group of tabular Baryte crystals with sand inclusions (variety baryte rose). An excellent USA classic of which nowadays you don't see many good specimens.
Slaughterville, Cleveland County, Oklahoma  USA

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8.4 × 5.8 cm = 3.35” × 3.31” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 4.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.89”

MT60AF1: Two doubly terminated crystals, formed by a prism with curved edges and a poorly defined terminal rhombohedron. The crystals are completely filled by sand inclusions. An American classic that is currently difficult to obtain in good samples because the area where they are found has been declared a National Park.
Rattlesnake Butte, Jackson County, South Dakota  USA (± 1990)

Specimen size: 10.9 × 4.9 × 4.7 cm = 4.29” × 1.93” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 9 × 3.3 cm = 3.54” × 1.30”

CF86AD3: Druse of complex Sphalerite crystals that are very rich in faces and have very well defined forms. They are translucent, very bright and have a very deep color. On a rocky matrix with small rhombohedral Dolomite crystals. An American classic.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee  USA

Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.2 × 5.2 cm = 3.82” × 2.83” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.47”

MY6R8: Sphalerite crystals more individualized than usual for the locality. They have a very well defined tetrahedral habit and are twinned, translucent and very bright, being implanted on a matrix coated by Quartz with small white crystals of Dolomite and yellow crystals of Calcite. A USA classic.
Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee  USA

Specimen size: 11.4 × 7.2 × 5.7 cm = 4.49” × 2.83” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.3 cm = 0.75” × 0.51”

ET90L1: Very complex Sphalerite crystal groups. Very sharp faces and edges, some of them with interesting curvatures. Crystals are translucent, with a dark honey color, on rhombohedral white Dolomite and scalenohedral yellowish Calcite crystals. Elmwood is one of the great classics of the USA for Calcite crystals, but also it has provided excellent Sphalerite specimens. So, as we said, a great one.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee  USA

Specimen size: 12 × 10.5 × 4.7 cm = 4.72” × 4.13” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.69” × 1.10”

MY87AM3: Druse of lenticular Azurite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very lustrous, with a vivid color and with small Malachite concretions. An excellent American classic.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar collection (number AZU-11), whose label we will send to the buyer.
La Sal Mountains, La Sal District, Grand County, Utah  USA

Specimen size: 5 × 3.5 × 3.5 cm = 1.97” × 1.38” × 1.38”

TA67Q6: A floater, a nodular aggregate of crystals that have very well defined faces and edges, with an excellent luster and an extraordinary blue color, with small nodules of Malachite. The quality is excellent for the locality.
La Sal Mountains, La Sal District, Grand County, Utah  USA

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.6 × 3.5 cm = 2.44” × 1.81” × 1.38”

ME46AE9: Aggregate, on a rocky matrix, of very transparent and bright Topaz crystals with very well defined cubo-octahedral Bixbyite crystals with a rare laminar shape. Small crystals of Hematite coat some faces of the Bixbyite crystals. An excellent thumbnail, very esthetic.
Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah  USA

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.75” × 0.63”

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

TE14AJ1: Group of very sharp topaz crystals on a rhyolite matrix. They have very well defined faces and edges, are bright and transparent with inclusions, and are with two very sharp cubic Bixbyite crystals.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah  USA

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.91” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1 cm = 0.79” × 0.39”

TA96E0: Within a pocket in the typical riolite matrix there is this very luminous and upright Topaz. Small crystals of Quartz and Bixbyite accompany it. All of it is very brilliant and bright.
Little Round Top, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah  USA (11/2003)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm = 3.15” × 1.77” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.39” × 0.24”

EG86AG0: A very fine crystal on a rhyolite matrix. It is very sharp, with very well defined faces and edges, an excellent luster and very transparent.
Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah  USA (06/2017)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.7 × 4.4 cm = 3.35” × 2.64” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.9 cm = 0.63” × 0.35”

EF91AI8: Two Topaz crystals on a rhyolite matrix, one of them clearly dominant. They have very well defined faces and edges and are transparent, very bright and with an intense color.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah  USA

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.8 × 4.3 cm = 4.25” × 3.07” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1.5 cm = 1.22” × 0.59”

MA13AF2: Very elongated Pseudobrookite crystals with good terminations. They are bright, very well defined and are on a rhyolite matrix. An excellent miniature of a very well known American classic.
Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah  USA

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.38” × 1.34” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.1 cm = 0.28” × 0.04”

NB86AI7: Druse of cubic and very sharp Fluorite crystals that are transparent, bright and have a color change from pale lilac to deepest violet. It’s important to note that Fluorite is a rare species at this locality, very well-known for classical samples of Topaz, Bixbyite, red Beryl and Pseudobrookite.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah  USA (06/2017)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 7 × 3.4 cm = 3.07” × 2.76” × 1.34”

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