Fine Mineral Specimens from all over the world
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CH01- Rubellite (Elbaite). Malkhan Pegmatitic Field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Chitinskaya Oblast, Transbaikal, Eastern Siberia, Russia.
Very well formed prismatic crystal of Elbaite, variety Rubellite, with the flat pinacoidal and pyramidal faces. It is between translucent to transparent and very bright, with an exceptionally intense and deep purplish-red color and with nice striations. Very good Russian Rubellite specimen in perfect condition, no damage. The crystal weighs 39 grams.
Specimen size: 3.5 cm x 2.5 cm. Weight: 39 grams
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CH02 - Amethyst Quartz. Amatitlán, Eduardo Neri Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico.
Some of the best Amethysts in the world came from the far region of Amatlitán, Guerrero in Mexico. The crystals from Guerrero are larger around the lower and middle part, tapering towards the ends, a good way to generally distinguish them from the locality of Veracruz, also in Mexico. This a good sample from this mineral deposit. It is composed of a main large transparent crystal accompanied by other Amethyst smaller crystals. The colour is a deep reddish purple. The crystals show an excellent clarity with phantoms of colour along the prisms and with reflecting fluid inclusions. The cause of that colour is those Fe3+ atoms substituting for some silicon atoms. This one is an excellent Guerrero Amethyst suitable for a demanding mineral collector. No damage.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 4 cm
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CH03- Tanzanite with Graphite. Lelatema Mountains, Manyara Region, Tanzania.
Single gemmy crystal of Zoisite, Tanzanite variety, with very well defined faces, edges and crystalline forms, and with perfect terminal faces. The crystal has a good transparency, it is extraordinarily bright and with a very intense, deep and uniform lavender blue color. The condition is excellent without damage. Accompanied by Graphite.
Specimen size: 2 cm x 1.5 cm
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CH04- Tanzanite with Graphite. Lelatema Mountains, Manyara Region, Tanzania.
Single gemmy crystal of Zoisite, Tanzanite variety, with very well defined faces, edges and crystalline forms, and with perfect terminal faces. The crystal is transparent, very bright and with a very intense, deep and uniform lavender blue color. The condition is excellent, no damage. Accompanied by Graphite.
Specimen size: 2.5 cm x 1.5 cm
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CH05- Vanadinite. Mibladen mining district, Midelt province, Morocco.
Sharp crystals of Vanadinite with prismatic habit and very well defined faces and edges, bright luster and a very nice strong red color. Disposed on matrix. Aesthetic Vanadinite specimen in excellent condition, no damage.
Specimen size: 11 cm x 8 cm
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CH06- Vanadinite. Mibladen mining district, Midelt province, Morocco.
Sharp crystals of Vanadinite with prismatic habit and very well defined faces and edges, bright luster and a very nice deep red color. Disposed on matrix. Aesthetic Vanadinite specimen in excellent condition.
Specimen size: 13 cm x 8 cm
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CH07- Fluorite with Galena. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Fluorite specimen composed of gemmy cubic crystals with the typical interpenetration twin of two cubes. The Fluorite crystals are completely transparent, very bright and with a nice green color that changes to a violet color in sunlight as seen in the videos. With rounded cubo-octahedral Galena crystals with a metallic grey color. A classic Fluorite specimen from the famous mine, formerly known as Rogerley mine. It is in excellent condition. A very good Fluorite specimen.
Specimen size: 10 cm x 6 cm
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CH08- Blue Topaz. Araçuaí, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Great prismatic crystal of Topaz with very well marked forms of dissolution and some well defined faces. It is completely transparent, with high brilliance and a very attractive blue color. Etched crystal in perfect condition, without damage. Excellent gemmy Topaz coming from the Araçui Pegmatite District in Minas Gerais. No damage. A little difficult to photograph because of its high brilliance, much better in person. It weighs 224 grams!!!
Specimen size: 6 cm x 5 cm. Weight: 224 grams
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CH09- Cleiophane with Galena. September Mine (9th of September Mine) , Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria.
Group of complex Sphalerite crystals, translucent, with good brilliance and intense greenish color that characterizes the Cleiophane variety. With small cubic crystals of Galena. Of the best quality for the locality. In very good condition.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 6 cm
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CH10- Pyrite. Huanzala Mine, Huanzala, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru
The Pyrites from Huanzalá are well known to mineral collectors worldwide. They stand out for their brilliance and richness of crystallographic forms. In this piece we suggest, the Pyrite crystal shows very well defined faces and edges and with excellent goldtone and top luster. It is formed by nice cubic crystals in an aerial position with very fine growth striations. It is extraordinarily lustrous and settled on matrix of small Calcite crystals. In excellent condition as seen. Very good aesthetic.
Specimen size: 5 cm x 4 cm
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CH11- Fluorite. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Gemmy cubic crystals of Fluorite with the typical interpenetration twin of two cubes aesthetically arranged in the center of the piece. The central Fluorite crystals are completely transparent, very bright and with a nice green color that changes to a violet color when passing from incandescent light to sunlight as seen in the videos. Accompanied by other smaller cubic crystals of Fluorite. Specimen in perfect condition, no damage. Aesthetic and very good quality Fluorite from the Diana Maria mine.
Specimen size: 5.5 cm x 4 cm
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CH12- Fluorite. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Group of well formed cubic crystals of Fluorite that are between transparent and translucent, very bright and with white inclusions. They have an intense green color that changes to a violet color when passing from incandescent light to sunlight as seen in the videos. Specimen in excellent condition.
Specimen size: 9 cm x 5 cm
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CH13- Fluorite. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Excellent Fluorite specimen composed of bright crystals with the typical interpenetration twin of two cubes. The Fluorite crystals are transparent to translucent, very lustrous and with a nice deep green color that changes to a violet color when passing from incandescent light to sunlight as seen in the videos. A classic Fluorite specimen from the famous mine, formerly known as Rogerley mine. In very good condition.
Specimen size: 9 cm x 8 cm
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CH14- Fluorite. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Aesthetic Fluorite specimen composed of very bright crystals with the typical interpenetration twin of two cubes. The Fluorite crystals are transparent to translucent with high brilliance and a nice strong green color that changes to an intense violet color when passing from incandescent light to sunlight as seen in the videos. A classic Fluorite specimen from the famous mine formerly known as Rogerley mine. In very good condition.
Specimen size: 9.5 cm x 8 cm
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CH15- Fluorite with Galena. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Fluorite specimen composed of gemmy crystals with the typical interpenetration twins of two cubes. The Fluorite crystals are completely transparent, very bright and with a nice green color that changes to an intense violet color when passing from incandescent light to sunlight as seen in the videos With rounded cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena with a metallic grey color. A classic Fluorite specimen from the famous mine, formerly known as Rogerley mine. In perfect condition. Very good quality Fluorite from the Diana Maria mine.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 4 cm
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CH16- Fluorite with Galena. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Fluorite specimen composed of a group of crystals with the typical interpenetration twin of two cubes. The Fluorite crystals are transparent to translucent with a nice green color that changes to a violet color when passing from incandescent light to sunlight as seen in the videos. A classic Fluorite specimen from the famous mine, formerly known as Rogerley mine. A very good sample from the Dianan Maria mine, in very good condition.
Specimen size: 11.5 cm x 5.5 cm
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CH17- Fluorite. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Fluorite specimen composed of a group of crystals with the typical interpenetration twin of two cubes. The Fluorite crystals are transparent to translucent with a nice green color that changes to a violet color when passing from incandescent light to sunlight as seen on videos. A classic Fluorite specimen from the famous mine, formerly known as Rogerley mine. In very good condition.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 4 cm
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CH18- Fluorite. Pocket 42, Sutcliffe vein, Diana Maria mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Durham, England, United Kingdom.
Fluorite specimen composed of a group of crystals with the typical interpenetration twin of two cubes, one of them is clearly dominant and it is settled in an aerial position. The Fluorite crystals are translucent to transparent with a nice deep green color that changes to a violet color when passing from incandescent light to sunlight as seen in the videos. A classic Fluorite specimen from the famous mine, formerly known as Rogerley mine. Very nice specimen in very good condition.
Specimen size: 5.5 cm x 4 cm
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CH19- Ferberite with Quartz. Panasqueira mines, Aldeia de Sao Francisco de Assis, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Tabular crystal of Ferberite perched on a prismatic crystal of Quartz. The Ferberite crystal is terminated and shows a good brilliance. The Quartz crystal is also well terminated and has good transparency. Specimen in very good condition. A classic from the Panasqueira mines.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 6 cm
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CH20- Hemimorphite with Cerussite. Mfouati, Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo.
Botroydal growths of Hemimorphite with a vivid and intense blue color accompanied by small scattered crystals of Cerussite. A beautiful and fairly find of blue Hemimorphite from the M'fouati mine in the Congo. No damage.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 5 cm
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CH21- Scheelite with Muscovite. Pingwu mine, Huya township, Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China.
Dipyramidal crystals of Scheelite, translucent to transparent, with very well defined faces and edges showing a nice and strong orange color and high brilliance. Floater specimen accompanied by Muscovite crystals. In excellent condition.
Specimen size: 4.5 cm x 4 cm
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CH22- Crocoite. Red Lead mine, Dundas, Zeehan mining district, Tasmania, Australia.
A fine quality specimen composed of a group of elongated Crocoite crystals with an excellent and intense red color, good transparency, top luster and with good terminations. On Limonite matrix. Very good Crocoite specimen from Tasmania in excellent condition.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 5.5 cm
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CH23- Crocoite. Red Lead mine, Dundas, Zeehan mining district, Tasmania, Australia.
Group of elongated Crocoite crystals with an excellent and intense red color, transparent to translucent and very high luster, with good terminations and on Limonite matrix. Very good Crocoite specimen from Tasmania in excellent condition.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 4 cm
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CH24- Fluorapatite with Quartz. Panasqueira mines, Aldeia de Sao Francisco de Assis, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
Old blue Fluorapatite specimen from the Panasqueira mine. Prismatic crystal of Fluorapatite with a well defined color zoning. It is settled on a Quartz crystal coated by small lenticular crystals of Siderite. In excellent condition. It was extracted circa 1985.
Specimen size: 8 cm x 5 cm
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CH25- Fluorapophyllite with Stilbite. Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India.
Group of well defined crystals of Fluorapophyllite that combine the faces of a very short prism with the dipyramid and the flat pinacoid. They have a nice green color, with high brilliance and good transparency. In excellent condition. With some crystals of white Stilbite.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 3 cm
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CH26- Azurite with Malachite. Khanong open pit, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhet Province, Laos
A great new locality the Sepon Mine in Laos has been producing a few unusual and very fine Azurites. This specimen comprises a very sharp Azurite crystal, aerial, with very well defined
faces and edges, extraordinarily bright and deep blue color and on matrix, with fibrous Malachite. The sample has a better quality than the usual for the locality. No damage.
Specimen size: 6.5 cm x 4.5 cm
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CH27- Celestine with Calcite. Laman celestine deposit, Qala e Naw District, Badghis, Afghanistan.
Specimen composed of Celestine crystals with sharp faces, one of them clearly dominant, very large and doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges and with an intense sky blue color. On matrix with very acute light yellow scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. Great contrast. In very good condition.
Specimen size: 7 cm x 3.5 cm
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CH28- Rhodochrosite with Quartz. Detroit City Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA.
The Detroit City Portal mining operations began in 2017. After 7 years of mining operations, the Detroit City Portal of the Sweet Home Mine was permanently closed in September 2024. This mine was approximately 300 feet, or 90 meters, above the old Sweet Home Mine workings that it was closed in 2004. The portal was removed and the entrance was cemented and reclaimed. The two mines did not connect but both of them have produced some of the highest-quality Rhodochrosite specimens in the world. This specimen is a very good example of the good quality of the specimens found there, it is formed by a very well formed rhombohedral crystal of Rhodochrosite with sharp faces and edges, with nice red color and high brilliance. Settled on a bed of small crystals of Quartz. A classic in perfect condition, no damage.
Specimen size: 7.5 cm x 5 cm
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CH29- Fluorite with Pyrite. Milpo Mine, Atacocha Mining District, Cerro De Pasco, Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru.
Aggregate of well formed crystals of Fluorite, very rich in faces with predominant forms of the cube, octahedron and dodecahedron. The crystals have a strong and vivid green color and are very bright. Accompanied by shiny cubic crystals of Pyrite and Sphalerite. The condition is excellent. Better in person.
Specimen size: 6 cm x 4 cm
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CH30- Fluorite with Pyrite. Milpo Mine, Atacocha Mining District, Cerro De Pasco, Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru.
Transparent to translucent crystal of Fluorite accompanied by shiny Pyrite crystals. It is very bright and has an intense and very luminous green color with perfectly defined faces and edges, dominant octahedron forms with cube modifications. A little treasure in excellent condition, without damage.
Specimen size: 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm
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CH31- Pink Halite. Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA.
Group of complexly-hoppered crystals of pink Halite to 1 cm on matrix. This attractive specimen is in excellent condition and displays nicely.
Specimen size: 9.5 cm x 4 cm
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