December 2021 Update

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TZM63AN8: A complex floater crystal of Hematite, very rich in crystal forms and extraordinarily shiny.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning mining area, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field (KMF), Northern Cape Province  South Africa

Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.67” × 0.47”

MLH13AN8: Polycrystalline growth of Pyrite crystals with cubic habit, very lustrous and with partial coatings of small white Quartz crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.22” × 1.10” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.14” × 1.06”

MMA11AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. White tabular crystals of Baryte partially covered by a perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.4 × 2.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.34” × 0.98”

MCX96AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. Polycrystalline growth of a mosaic of perimorphic Pyrite crystals with bright luster, on a tabular Baryte crystal, on a matrix of white Quartz crystals partially covered by Pyrite.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 6.4 × 4.3 cm = 2.99” × 2.52” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3 cm = 1.38” × 1.18”

MLM28AN8: A novelty from Morocco, from a discovery in the summer of 2020. White parallel and tabular Baryte crystals covered by a perimorphic growth of a mosaic of small, very bright, cubic and octahedral Pyrite crystals. On the back of the piece (see video) the almost total dissolution of the original Baryte crystals can be seen.
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region  Morocco (07/2020)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 6 × 6.3 cm = 3.58” × 2.36” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.50”

TRB16AN8: Parallel, twisted and very stylized growth of Gold crystals of well defined morphology, with the dominant forms of the octahedron, with distinct spinel-law twins and with curious hooked terminations.
The material has been carefully analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Aouint Ighoman, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun Region  Morocco (2020)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 1.50” × 0.12” × 0.12”

JRM10AN8: Parallel growth of very sharp and lustrous complex Aegirine crystals with perfect terminations. Given its morphological rarity, the specimen has been analyzed, and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mount Malosa, Zomba District  Malawi

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm = 3.62” × 2.60” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 3.9 cm = 2.60” × 1.54”

EDL99AN8: Spheroidal growth of small translucent octahedral Fluorite crystals, with good luster and an intense and uniform emerald-green color, something remarkable because the vast majority of pieces found so far in this mine were of a more or less intense lilac-purple color which, due to lack of the intense green shown by this specimen, did not stand out.
Guxian, Tongbai, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.6 × 3.8 cm = 2.36” × 1.81” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 4 cm = 1.65” × 1.57”

EPF67AN8: A novelty in the summer of 2021 and, in all likelihood, the best known for the species thus far. Imayoshiite occurs in numerous very sharp crystals, with a tabular habit and hexagonal outline, transparent, very lustrous and colorless to slightly yellow, associated with spheroidal growths of pinkish Bultfonteinite, with small white fibrous coatings of Shinichengite (this new mineral species was initially labeled as possible Tobermorite-Clinotobermorite) and on an Andradite matrix.
The specimens have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
To learn more about this species and the rest of the paragenesis discovered so far in this mine, it is essential to read the article 'Rare Borate Minerals from the Shijiangshan-Shalonggou Deposits, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China' whose authors are César Menor-Salván, Berthold Ottens and Ed Richard, featured in Rock & Minerals magazine of September/October 2021, volume 96, number 5
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 2.8 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.51” × 0.24”