Mineral Specimens - page 1
USA

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”

EC67AL5: Fan-like aggregates, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, with very elongated Epidote crystals with very well defined faces and edges, bright, translucent, with a very deep pistachio-green color and on a group of Quartz crystals.
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alaska  USA (2003-2005)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.7 × 2 cm = 2.44” × 1.46” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.71”

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”

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”

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”

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”

MX470AL4: Wulfenite crystals very rich in crystalline forms, well individualized, with a very intense and uniform color and good luster, on matrix and with small rhombohedral Calcite crystals. Excellent example of a classic American locality, from an old collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 8.6 × 6.1 × 2.7 cm = 3.39” × 2.40” × 1.06”

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

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”

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”

EM96AA5: Very aerial dendritic growth of elongated and flattened Copper crystals showing very well defined Spinel-law twins and partially coated by cubo-octahedral Cuprite crystals. An excellent American classic.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 0.8 cm = 1.50” × 1.22” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.12”

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”

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”

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”

TM67X2: Elongated spheroidal growths, on matrix, of small dipyramidal crystals. They are very bright and have a color between dark brown and reddish brown.
The sample, very significant and of excellent quality for the mine, is with a Schortmann’s Minerals label that we'll send to the buyer.
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.65” × 1.06”

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”

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”

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”

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”

TF48AL1: Very 3-dimensional growth of Malachite pseudomorphing equidimensional crystals of Azurite, with very well defined faces and edges, intense color, on matrix. Before the Azurite started altering to Malachite a thin dark coating, probably Cuprite, formed on the faces of the crystals, as suggested by the mineralogy of the locality and some of the crystalline forms, apparently octahedral, present in the matrix.
This great quality piece comes from the collection of Rock H. Currier (No. 4667) whose label we will send to the buyer.
The specimen is from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 64 in the volume 25, number 2
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo District, Pima County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.2 × 4.9 cm = 3.03” × 2.05” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.26” × 0.98”

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”

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”

TH92AM5: Group of flattened Quartz crystals with a distinct Japan-law twin. The crystals are transparent and lustrous and of a size and transparency greater than usual in specimens from this mine.
Washington Camp-Duquesne Mines, Patagonia Mountains, Washington Camp-Duquesne District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.3 × 4.8 cm = 2.60” × 2.09” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.3 cm = 1.77” × 1.30”

TR89AM5: Group of translucent octahedral crystals with a pale green color with polycrystalline surfaces and partially covered by small groups of white Quartz crystals. Among the best possible quality for what is known from this mine.
Homestake-Jack Pot Mine, Black Mountains, Oatman District-San Francisco District, Mohave County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.7 × 4.9 cm = 2.87” × 2.24” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.34” × 1.06”

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”

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”

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”

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”

EE68AI7: Spheroidal aggregates, on limonite matrix, of bright Azurite micro-crystals that have a very vivid color, with small coatings of aggregates of acicular Malachite crystals. It is from a locality that is a classic for worldwide mineralogy.
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.9 × 4.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.32” × 1.89”

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

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”

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”

TD56AJ2: Very aerial parallel growth on matrix of Malachite after Azurite crystals that are flattened and very sharp with very well defined faces and edges.
An excellent Bisbee classic that is very well documented by labels of the Richard Graeme and the Lee Hogg collections, labels that we will send to the buyer.
Sacramento Pit, Sacramento Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.89” × 1.69” × 0.98”

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

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”

TQ69AM9: Druse of lenticular Azurite crystals, with bright luster and a vivid and uniform color, partially covered by acicular Malachite crystals. This very characteristic specimen comes from one of the great classic American localities for the species.
Morenci, Copper Mountain District, Shannon Mountains, Greenlee County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.3 × 2.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.69” × 1.10”

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

MN91AL3: Group of slightly flattened Azurite crystals, with the dominant forms of the rhombohedron and polycrystalline growths on the faces, of a very vivid blue color, on matrix and partially covered with Malachite. From one of the great classic localities in Arizona, and with more color and better luster than usually found there.
Morenci Mine, Morenci, Copper Mountain District, Shannon Mountains, Greenlee County, Arizona  USA (±1995)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.4 × 2.9 cm = 2.17” × 1.73” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55”

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”

TP16AD3: Rosette aggregates of flattened lenticular crystals with very well defined crystalline forms and an intense color. They are on matrix, with limonite and with Malachite coatings. An American classic, with the added interest of the very specific locality details, noting the precise mine and the exact area where the sample was found.
Morenci Mine, Northwest Extension, Morenci, Copper Mountain District, Shannon Mountains, Greenlee County, Arizona  USA

Specimen size: 13.5 × 7.8 × 5.2 cm = 5.31” × 3.07” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.28” × 0.12”

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”

HB11AM2: 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: 2.1 × 2 × 1.1 cm = 0.83” × 0.79” × 0.43”

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”

HD9AM2: 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: 4.4 × 4.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.73” × 1.65” × 0.98”

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”

HJ10AM2: 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: 6 × 4.9 × 3.4 cm = 2.36” × 1.93” × 1.34”

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”

TM47AL4: Neptunite crystals with sharp terminations and on a rock matrix covered by white Natrolite. Prismatic crystals, shiny and free of damage, stand out for their aerial position on the matrix. A classic.
We will deliver the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
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 × 2.8 × 1.6 cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.16”

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”

T89GH5: This variety of Andradite is from the plentiful (and the only one known to date) find in the Yellow Cat Mine, November, 1998. It has a surface rich with dodecahedra with very well-defined faces and edges, bright and having an excellent color.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California  USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.2 × 3.2 cm = 2.56” × 1.65” × 1.26”

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

T98HAK3: Groups of very sharp rhombohedral crystals of Andradite (variety topazolite), very transparent and brilliant and of a very uniform honey-yellow color. On a rock matrix, 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: 6.8 × 4.7 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 1.85” × 0.79”

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

T29NAK3: Andradite crystals (topazolite variety) with the dominant crystal forms of the rhombohedron, combined with cube and trapezohedron faces, transparent, very bright and uniform honey-yellow. On a rock matrix, with abundant spheroidal aggregates of very deep green, almost black, Clinochlore. An American classic.
Yellow Cat Mine, New Idria, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California  USA (11/1998)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.2 × 2.9 cm = 3.62” × 2.83” × 1.14”

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

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”

TB58T1: Group of three doubly terminated crystals, with a good definition of terminal faces and growths of a fibrous aspect on the prism. The prisms have a very good geometrical color zoning, which is perpendicular to the main orientation of the crystal.
The sample is from the John H. Marshall collection, as the catalog number of register on the piece shows, though we don’t have the original label from John.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2020, page 61
Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California  USA

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.85” × 0.87” × 0.91”

EZ48AK5: Groups of translucent, very lustrous, outstanding axinite-(Fe) crystals of intense brown color with mauve tones, on a matrix with colorless, transparent and very lustrous twinned Albite crystals. Associated with fibrous aggregates of slightly greenish Actinolite (byssolite variety). A fine specimen from a classic American locality for Axinite-(Fe)
New Melones Dam, Jamestown, Calaveras County, California  USA

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4.8 × 4 cm = 3.07” × 1.89” × 1.57”

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

TR46AH4: Irregular aggregates of fine acicular Stibnite crystals, a lot of them doubly terminated. They are very bright, on a rock matrix coated by Quartz microcrystals. The sample is from a very poorly known locality.
McLaughlin Mine, Knoxville, Knoxville District, Napa County, California  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 2.8 × 3.3 cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.43” × 0.04”

TQ29AH6: Very aerial growth of very sharp octahedral crystals with deep hollows on octahedron faces and extraordinarily bright.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
De Maria Mine, Sage Hill, Michigan Bluff District, Placer County, California  USA

Specimen size: 1.4 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.55” × 0.31” × 0.28”

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

MC12AM8: Centered aggregates of flattened Goethite crystals, with a botryoidal growth at the back, lustrous and with color tones ranging from black to bronze reflections. An American classic that we will send to the buyer in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Crystal Creek, Crystal Peak area, Condado Teller, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.14” × 1.06” × 0.94”

EM27AM2: Parallel growth of two Microcline crystals (amazonite variety) with very well defined faces and edges and selective green and white coloration, known to mineral collectors as “white cap” microcline. From the most classic locality for amazonite.
The specimen is from the Moutet collection in Marseille. We will send the buyer, together with the specimen, a label from the prestigious Deyrolle house in Paris where Moutet bought the specimen many years ago.
Crystal Peak area, Teller County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.2 × 5.4 cm = 2.44” × 2.05” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4 cm = 1.97” × 1.57”

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”

TD27AL8: Parallel aggregates of skeletal Sylvanite crystals, very brilliant and on a Quartz matrix. From a classic North American locality.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Cresson Mine, Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.18” × 1.10” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.15 cm = 0.24” × 0.06”

TV96AL7: Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very rich in faces and perfect sharp terminations. Shiny and extremely transparent. We will send the specimen, from a classic American locality for the species, in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, where it is stated that it had previously been in the “Bunk” Melanson collection.
Book Cliffs area, Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.98” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 0.83” × 0.71”

TF88AJ8: Botryoidal Smithsonite growths on matrix and very rich with dark inclusions. A rarity of US mineralogy that is guaranteed by three labels, not one of which gives the name of the collector. We will send the three labels to the buyer.
Leadville, Leadville District, Lake County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.28” × 2.13” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.20”

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”

ER70AL2: Rosette growths of outstanding lenticular crystals, deep pink in color. On Sphalerite matrix, with cubic Pyrite crystals. A classic of American mineralogy.
Eagle Mine, Gilman, Gilman District, Eagle County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 7.1 × 4.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.80” × 1.65” × 1.34”

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

NA92AI3: Very sharp rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals that are translucent, bright, very aerial and have an intense color. They are implanted on a group of Quartz crystals on matrix, with small Tetrahedrite and Pyrite crystals.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection (num. 99) whose original label we’ll send to the buyer.
Sweet Home Mine, Hedgehog pocket, Main Stope drift, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 2.13” × 1.26” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.28”

EN87AI8: Rhombohedral Rhodochrosite crystals that are translucent and bright with a very intense and deep color. They are with Galena, Pyrite and small Quartz crystals and, furthermore, there are Fluorite crystals, something uncommon at the locality.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Sweet Home Mine, main stope, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado  USA (1993)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 7 × 3.6 cm = 3.19” × 2.76” × 1.42”

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

MC51AM3: Aggregates of sharp lamellar Covellite crystals, with edges in an excellent state of preservation, with an intense and vivid metallic blue color, on matrix and with Quartz. High quality for the locality.
The specimen comes from the Ignacio Gaspar collection (number COV-2), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Summitville Mine, Summitville District, Rio Grande County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4 × 3.5 cm = 2.05” × 1.57” × 1.38”

ER97AK4: Arborescent aggregate of Gold crystals, some of them leafy, others hooked and some with defined crystalline forms. The specimen comes from a mine from which one rarely sees any specimens.
Dixie Mine, Idaho Springs, Ute Creek Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado  USA

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.9 × 2 cm = 1.22” × 1.14” × 0.79”

EM49W7: Very well defined and flattened crystals, many of them doubly terminated, bright and on matrix, with small Calcite crystals.
An American classic from the William Pinch collection, with a wide pedigree as two more labels testify. We will send all three labels to the buyer.
Bristol Copper Mine, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut  USA

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.9 × 2.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.54” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.35” × 0.16”

TA68AI8: Twinned Rutile crystal with very well defined faces and edges. The surface of the faces is very bright with intense red reflections. On the base and partially on the back and the top there is a small matrix of Pyrophyllite.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia  USA

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.02” × 0.91” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.87”

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”

TP28AI0: Floater group of very well defined crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with a good length, a very intense luster and yellowish green color.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label in which it appears that it has been in the Sullivan collection.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 1.02” × 0.67” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.43”

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”

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”

EJ17AM1: Druse on matrix with two generations of Pyromorphite with different characteristics, an earlier one with spheroidal growths of small crystals, with good luster and orange color, and the second with larger crystals of pyramidal habit and with geometric growths around the terminations, lustrous and greenish-yellow. A high-quality American classic.
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 13.3 × 8.6 × 5.4 cm = 5.24” × 3.39” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

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”

TR27AL3: Long, tapered Pyromorphite crystals, many of them doubly terminated, grass green with yellow tones, on a Quartz matrix. The specimen has quite different characteristics from those of the nearby and better known Bunker Hill Mine.
Sherman Mine, Burke, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 3.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.93” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.2 cm = 0.31” × 0.08”

TB90AF2: Druse of elongated crystals with very well defined hoppered terminations. They are bright, have an olive-green color and are on matrix. They are from a mine near Bunker Hill, not so well known, that produced rare samples with such high quality.
The sample is with a label of The Crystal Mine, from Reno, Nevada, that we’ll send to the buyer.
Sherman Mine, Burke, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho  USA

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.5 × 4.4 cm = 3.35” × 2.17” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.31” × 0.12”

TE17V2: Arborescent growths of Gold with idiomorphic crystals with very well defined faces and edges, on Quartz matrix with an unidentified metallic mineral. The sample is from a locality that is practically unknown by the mineralogical community.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2017, page 75
Belshazzar Mine, Quartzburg District, Boise County, Idaho  USA (2009)

Specimen size: 4 × 3 × 2 cm = 1.57” × 1.18” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.08”

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”

JM69X0: Group of cubic crystals with polycrystalline growths on the cube faces. The crystals are translucent, with a clear violet color with a deeper color zoning on the edges. On the back there is a small matrix of Sphalerite.
Previously in the Tom Wiesner collection (num. 2343284), whose label we'll send to the buyer.
Denton Mine, Goose Creek Mine group, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (02/03/1984)

Specimen size: 12 × 10.2 × 5 cm = 4.72” × 4.02” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 7.3 × 6.7 cm = 2.87” × 2.64”

JA28W3: Flattened drusy growth of very transparent cubic crystals with a very uniform violet color. An American classic of very good quality.
The sample was previously in the collection of Tom Wiesner (num. 73572074), whose label we’ll send with the Catmur label to the buyer.
Minerva I Mine, Spivey shaft, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA (1974)

Specimen size: 13.7 × 10.3 × 1.7 cm = 5.39” × 4.06” × 0.67”

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

ER56AI1: Splendid druse of great quality and very esthetic, two generations of crystals both with a very sharp cubic morphology, very bright and with geometrical growths on the edges. Both crystal generations contrast due to differences in size and color. The first are larger and honey yellow, the second are smaller with violet shades.
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 14.3 × 9.5 × 2.4 cm = 5.63” × 3.74” × 0.94”

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

TF88AE2: Aggregate of two scalenohedral Calcite crystals with very well defined parallel polycrystalline growths. They are translucent, have a pale yellow color with white phantoms and are on a Sphalerite matrix. An American classic.
Rosiclare, Rosiclare Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois  USA

Specimen size: 14.7 × 11 × 9.3 cm = 5.79” × 4.33” × 3.66”

Main crystal size: 14 × 7 cm = 5.51” × 2.76”

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”

MP26AM9: Group of Calcite crystals on matrix, with poorly developed prism faces and clearly dominant forms of a flattened rhombohedron. They are transparent, lustrous, and have an intense and uniform yellow color. The specimen, from a classic American locality for the species, is from the Robert J. Noble collection and will be sent to the buyer in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label.
Berry Materials Corp. Quarry, North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana  USA

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.10” × 1.06” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.02” × 0.75”

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”

MD16AM8: Very sharp, complete floater crystal of transparent and lustrous Baryte with a little matrix.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa  USA

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.5 × 1 cm = 1.06” × 0.59” × 0.39”

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”

TB66AG3: Groups of octahedral Pyrite crystals with minor cube faces. They are very well defined and bright and are on a rocky matrix coated by small, very acute, scalenohedral Calcite crystals, transparent and bright. The sample is from a not well known Iowa mine.
Pint's Quarry, Raymond, Black Hawk County, Iowa  USA

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.95” × 2.56” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

TB28S1: Group of very bright cuboctohedral crystals of Galena that have polycrystalline and partially skeletal growths. An American classic.
Ballard Mine, Baxter Springs, Picher Field, Tri-State District, Cherokee County, Kansas  USA

Specimen size: 9.4 × 7.2 × 4.4 cm = 3.70” × 2.83” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3 × 3.1 cm = 1.18” × 1.22”

MV66AM0: Floater group of very well defined dodecahedral crystals, bright and of good size, with fine alignments formed by the recrystallization of very shiny Copper microcrystals. With a little matrix and casts of vanished Quartz crystals. An American classic, a high quality miniature.
Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.87” × 0.87”

GA96AK5: Very aerial arborescent growth of native Copper crystals with defined faces and edges, some of them perfectly profiled, on matrix.
The sample is from the Casado Margolles collection (No. V 35), whose file we will send to the buyer.
Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 4.9 × 2.7 × 2.8 cm = 1.93” × 1.06” × 1.10”

TF86H5: Excellent crystallization clearly showing the faces of the dodecahedron, even considering the typical deformation and elongation of crystals.
The sample is from an old collection of Northwestern University and we’ll include the label.
Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 6 × 3.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.36” × 1.42” × 1.34”

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

TM43AJ2: A copper “foot”. Parallel growths of crystals that have very well defined faces and edges with a predominant octahedron and dodecahedron, some of them almost complete and all them very bright.
Copper Harbor, Lake Superior, Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.3 × 2.4 cm = 2.40” × 1.30” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1 cm = 0.91” × 0.39”

TX71AL3: Arborescent growth of very aerial and individual crystals of Copper with curvatures on the faces and edges.
Cliff Mine, Phoenix, Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 11 × 5.6 × 2.3 cm = 4.33” × 2.20” × 0.91”

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

TB86AL6: Very aerial dendritic aggregate of rhombododecahedral Copper crystals on matrix, slightly deformed in the growth process but with very well defined faces and edges. Excellent specimen, very elegant and large. An American classic.
Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 20.5 × 15 × 6.7 cm = 8.07” × 5.91” × 2.64”

TF66AH5: Dendritic growth with a clearly dominant crystal of a good size, with the well-developed faces of the dodecahedron and the octahedron.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label in which it appears that it had previously been in the “Bunk” Melanson collection.
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Houghton County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.06” × 0.87” × 0.63”

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

TK69L5: A classic specimen from a classic locality. Dendritic growth of crystals of considerable size, elongated, with some well defined faces. Nice floater.
Houghton County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 10.6 × 8.2 × 2 cm = 4.17” × 3.23” × 0.79”

TV46AJ8: Very aerial dendritic native Copper growths on matrix with aggregates of complex Calcite crystals that are translucent, bright, and have a pale pink color. This association of native Copper and well crystallized Calcite is known but rare at Keweenaw.
The sample is from the American mineral dealer Al McGuinness whose label we will send to the buyer.
Keweenaw Copper District, Ontonagon County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 11.4 × 7.5 × 5.1 cm = 4.49” × 2.95” × 2.01”

EP89AA5: Arborescent growth of curved native Silver crystals with fresh, bright surfaces typical of the best samples from the locality and with small cubic crystals and foliated surfaces of Galena and small Quartz fragments. A very good American classic.
Keweenaw County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 4 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.57” × 0.91” × 0.59”

TX53AL3: Tree-like growth, on matrix, of very elongated crystals of Silver, with pronounced twists (“wires”) and crystalline terminations. An excellent example from a mining district from which Silver is known but not abundant.
Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan  USA

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.89” × 0.91” × 0.83”

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”

LH76AE7: Very sharp and aerial Galena crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are cubic with small octahedral faces, and are on matrix with small white Dolomite rhombohedra and twinned Chalcopyrite crystals.
The sample is from the Carles Millán collection whose catalog card we’ll send to the buyer.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri  USA

Specimen size: 7.6 × 4.3 × 4.9 cm = 2.99” × 1.69” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.65”

TM89AJ8: Great doubly terminated scalenohedral Calcite crystal with very well defined polycrystalline growths. It is translucent, very bright, with an intense yellow color, and on matrix with Sphalerite and Pyrite.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri  USA

Specimen size: 15.4 × 7.8 × 5.4 cm = 6.06” × 3.07” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 15.4 × 5.3 cm = 6.06” × 2.09”

EM96AL7: Arborescent growth of very well defined octahedral Gold crystals, which includes small fragments of Quartz matrix. Of the best quality for a mine that is not too well known and from which specimens are rarely seen.
Atlantic Cable Mine, Georgetown Sub-district, Deer Lodge County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.59” × 0.59”

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

TA66AL6: Elongated Enargite crystal with very well defined faces and edges, finely striated, with good luster and excellent terminations, from a classic American 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.
East Colusa Mine, (Berkeley Pit), Butte, Butte District, Silver Bow County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.59” × 0.28”

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”

MX49AJ1: Druse with Rhodochrosite crystals formed by a prism with rhombohedral terminal faces and where two different growth phases can be clearly seen, an inner first one (perhaps Calcite further replaced by Rhodochrosite) that is translucent and with a more intense color, and a second one with a lighter pink color. The sample, from a classic US locality, shows on its lower edge small Pyrite crystals.
Emma Mine, Butte, Butte District, Silver Bow County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 9 × 5.2 × 3.4 cm = 3.54” × 2.05” × 1.34”

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

EJ70AG0: Very sharp and elongated Veszelyite crystals, a rare copper and zinc phosphate. They have a considerable length for the species, have very well defined faces and are on a Quartz matrix. An excellent miniature from a locality that is a classic for the species.
Black Pine Mine, John Long Mountains, Philipsburg District (Flint Creek District), Granite County, Montana  USA

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.87” × 0.55” × 0.28”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

EX94AM5: Floater group with flattened crystals, with the dominant shapes of the cube and the dodecahedron, and very aesthetic elongated shapes.
Round Mountain Mine, Round Mountain, Round Mountain District, Nye County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.87” × 0.83” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.24”

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”

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”

TD98AL9: Very aerial aggregate of lamellar Gold crystals (electrum variety), very rich in Silver, approximately 27%, with well defined edges and on a Quartz matrix. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the specimen.
R.J. Roberts lode, Willow Creek District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA (2015)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.79” × 0.63” × 0.39”

TA30AC9: 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: 2.1 × 2 × 0.8 cm = 0.83” × 0.79” × 0.31”

TF90AK7: Very aerial aggregate of leafy gold crystals (electrum variety) very rich in silver (27% approx.) and with finely profiled edges. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
R.J. Roberts lode, Willow Creek District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA (2015)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.91” × 0.75” × 0.24”

TQ74AK4: Arborescent aggregate of Gold crystals (electrum variety) very rich in silver (27% approx.), leafy and with finely serrated edges. The specimen comes from a unique find made in a previously unknown mine. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the specimen.
R.J. Roberts lode, Willow Creek District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA (2015)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.4 × 0.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.94” × 0.31”

TR16AM3: Very aerial group of lamellar Gold crystals (variety electrum), some of them with very well marked skeletal growths and a little matrix at the back. The specimen comes from a relatively recent find in a known gold zone.
Specimens from this find were analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
R.J. Roberts lode, Willow Creek District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA (2015)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.5 × 1 cm = 1.14” × 0.98” × 0.39”

TC96AK3: Centered spray of very brilliant acicular Stibnite crystals on a matrix of the same mineral in massive form. The specimen, from a location where good quality Stibnite is rare, was in the Bill Williams collection (No. 885), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Goldstrike Mines, Deep Post orebody, Betze-Post pit, Lynn District, Eureka County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.4 × 1.9 cm = 2.52” × 1.73” × 0.75”

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

MT27AM9: Groups of Chalcophyllite crystals on matrix, very sharp, with a sharp hexagonal outline and a very uniform greenish blue color. This specimen, from a classic American locality for the species, is from the Robert J. Noble collection and will be sent to the buyer in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label.
Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 2.8 × 1.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.63” × 0.71”

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

TD49AE9: Single crystal, on a rocky matrix, of this rare silver sulphosalt. It has very well defined faces and edges and an unusually intense luster.
Mina Rosebud, Rosebud District, Pershing County, Nevada  USA

Specimen size: 4 × 2.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.02” × 0.59”

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

EA90AI4: Very sharp rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals with very well defined faces and the interpenetration twin. They have a very vivid color and are on matrix with small Quartz crystals. This specimen has an extraordinary quality for the locality, well known for the species but where good Cinnabars are rare. With label from Scott J. Williams
Snowshoe Mine, Paradise Valley, Poverty Peak District, Humboldt County, Nevada  USA (±1954)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.6 × 4.1 cm = 2.17” × 1.42” × 1.61”

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

TA96T8: Very well defined scepter growth whose base is a smoky crystal, with a very deep color, capped by a sharp crystal with a short prism and translucent with many inclusions. Because of a neat irregular growth on the back it is possible to see the termination of the dark smoky stem.
Royal Scepter Mine, Hallelujah Junction area, Washoe County, Nevada  USA (06/2010)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 4 × 4 cm = 5.20” × 1.57” × 1.57”

TT47AL3: Equidimensional Fluorapophyllite-(K) crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with an apparently cubic habit, with very well defined faces and edges, translucent white, on matrix, with Quartz and small white botryoidal aggregates of Prehnite. The specimen comes from a classic American locality for the species.
Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey  USA (±1930)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 3.2 cm = 2.56” × 1.97” × 1.26”

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

TC47Y6: Very rounded, almost spherical, Prehnite crystals with a very clear green color on a surface of transparent and extraordinarily bright Datolite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and on a rocky matrix. A good American classic of which currently circulate very few samples.
This piece is from the Tichelman collection (num. 309) whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey  USA (±1970)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 6.1 × 3 cm = 2.99” × 2.40” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

TJ27H7: The crystal is doubly terminated and its faces and edges have an excellent definition, much better than most usual for this classic material. The matrix of white Calcite contrasts with the darker shades of the crystal.
The sample is from Thomas P. Moore collection.
Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

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

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”

TV87AL3: Arborescent growth of flattened Copper, on matrix, very aerial, with poorly defined crystalline forms. High quality Coppers like this one are very rare in Franklin.
The specimen comes from the Rock Currier collection (No. 3070), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.61” × 1.06” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 0.75” × 0.43”

NA50Z7: Octahedral Franklinite crystals with very well defined faces and curved edges. The crystal, of good size, is free of damage which is rare for samples of this fragile species. It is on a Calcite matrix with red crystalline Zincite nodules.
Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey  USA

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.8 × 4.2 cm = 3.19” × 2.68” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.6 cm = 1.10” × 1.02”

TF48N9: Octahedral crystals of considerable size, very well defined with a deep and uniform color and good luster, which not so frequent in the samples of this locality.
The number mark on the sample indicates it was on the collection of John H. Marshall, well known collector of Pyromorphite but who also collected Fluorites.
William Wise Mine, Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire  USA (1990)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 5.7 × 4.6 cm = 3.50” × 2.24” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 4.5 cm = 2.48” × 1.77”

MB27AM6: Flattened Azurite crystal with very marked polycrystalline growths on the faces, lustrous, with a bright color and with small coatings of Malachite. From a rarely seen locality. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Emma Mine, Hanover-Fierro District, Grant County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 3 × 2.3 × 2.4 cm = 1.18” × 0.91” × 0.94”

NV26AJ9: Spheroidal growths on matrix of flattened Azurite crystals with a lenticular shape. They are bright and have a very vivid color. The sample, from an American locality that is classic for the species and samples on matrix are rare.
From the Ignacio Hernández collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Hanover Creek area, Hanover-Fierro District, Grant County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.2 × 3.6 cm = 2.52” × 2.05” × 1.42”

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

DC68AL8: Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals with staggered edges on matrix, translucent, shiny and with an intense violet color. The locality is a great North American classic for the species and in this case the crystals are larger than usual for this locality.
Pine Canyon deposit, West Burro Mountains, Burro Mountains District, Grant County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 7 × 6.1 × 3.9 cm = 2.76” × 2.40” × 1.54”

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

HB47AM5: Druse, on matrix, of sharp, translucent octahedral crystals with an intense and uniform violet color.
Pine Canyon deposit, West Burro Mountains, Burro Mountains District, Grant County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 16 × 12.2 × 4.4 cm = 6.30” × 4.80” × 1.73”

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

EA90AL5: Botryoidal growths of translucent Smithsonite, of an intense greenish-blue color, on a botryoidal limonite matrix covered with light green Aurichalcite microcrystals.
The specimen comes from the Doug Toland collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.8 × 3.4 cm = 1.93” × 1.89” × 1.34”

MM37AG9: Botryoidal Smithsonite with a very aerial character, with a pale blue color and areas with intense blue shades. The sample is very typical for Kelly Mine samples, an American classic.
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico  USA

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.8 × 3 cm = 2.01” × 1.89” × 1.18”

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”