Current Bids
| sp01-1-01 | Stilbite, Calcite & Drusy Quartz - Location: Poona, India. Small cabinet. This is an aesthetic piece. We have a matrix piece with some stilbite crystals (showing the famous bowtie habit to a certain extent) along with some small calcite crystals. The calcite crystals have been over coated by drusy quartz. The stilbite crystals form as beautiful salmon pink lustrous crystals and are well formed and sharp. | NO BID | |
| sp01-1-02 | Cupro Adamite - Location: Mapimi, Mexico. Thumbnail. Here we have a very nice blue-green Cupro-Adamite specimen. There is a single well formed and sharp crystal on an iron rich gossan matrix. The crystal is translucent and has a nice blue green color. | 5 | UK19 |
| sp01-1-03 | Beryl Var. Aquamarine & Schorl Tourmaline - Location: Gilgit Pakistan. Thumbnail. Here we have an attractive thumbnail matrix specimen of aquamarine along with some small euhedral black tourmaline crystals (schorl). The aquamarine is a nice pale blue color and well formed, sharp and gemmy. It is perched on a matrix of feldspar and mica and there are several small but sharp shiny back tourmaline crystals. | 25 | PA34 |
| sp01-1-04 | Lazulite & Siderite - Location: Yukon Territory, Canada. Miniature. Here we have an attractive specimen of dark blue lazulite crystals on matrix along with some siderite crystals. The lazulite crystals are all well formed and sharp with a dark navy blue color and a glassy luster. The siderite crystals are a dark yellow-brown color and are also well formed and sharp. | NO BID | |
| sp01-1-05 | Topaz - Location: Mimoso Do Sul, Espirito Santo, Brazil. Small cabinet. The crystal is actually a cluster of two crystals that are somewhat inter-grown with each other. The crystals are well formed and sharp and have a glassy luster. The crystals are a light pale greenish-white color and the crystals are very gemmy in some areas and gemmy (with numerous vales and inclusions in other areas. All of the external faces have a glassy luster. There are also a few small black tourmaline inclusions that can be seen. This is a very nice specimen of topaz that has the typical forms noted for topaz. In my opinion the photo does not really show how good this specimen really is. | 33 | Denmark01 |
| sp01-1-06 | Analcime (with Petroleum Inclusions) - Location: Esmarelda Co., Nevada. Large thumbnail to small miniature. This is an interesting specimen of analcime from a new location in western Nevada. What is so unusual about these analcime crystals is that they contain inclusions of Petroleum (oil). The petroleum was most likely picked up by the mineral forming solutions as they past through formations that contained oil as they migrated toward the surface. The analcime crystals are well formed and sharp and show a somewhat skeletal growth. They are a light pale blue color (the color is due to the inclusions). This is definitely a collector's item. | NO BID | |
| sp01-1-07 | Sphalerite on Matrix (Twins) - Location: Elmwood mine, Tennessee. Small cabinet. This is a very nice matrix specimen of lustrous, brownish-yellow crystals of sphalerite from the famous Elmwood mine in Tennessee. The crystals are all well formed, sharp with a brilliant glassy luster. Some of the sphalerite crystals show twinning. | 15 | Denmark01 |
| sp01-1-08 | Black Kyanite - Location: Brazil. Small cabinet. Nice aesthetic black kyanite crystal fan. A unique property of kyanite is that it has a hardness of 5 (on the Mohs scale) parallel with the crystals long axis and a hardness of 7 across the crystal. | 12 | TX69 |
| sp01-1-09 | Rhodochrosite - Peru. Miniature. Here we have an aesthetic and beautiful violet pink rhombohedral rhodochrosite crystal on a matrix of pyrolucite (Mn02). The Crystal has a great color and the quality of the rhodochrosite crystal is great. | 35 | ID15 |
| sp01-1-10 | Red Heulandite - Location: Poona, India. Miniature. This is a very good specimen of sharply formed red heulandite crystals on a drusy quartz matrix. The heulandite form as sharp diamond shaped crystal aggregates and are well formed and sharp. They have a dark red color (probably from iron oxides). One amazing thing about heulandite is that it comes in such a wide range of colors. | 20 | WY3 |
| sp01-2-01 | Tourmaline on Quartz & Feldspar - Location: Near Gilgit, Pakistan. Large thumbnail to small miniature. Interesting specimen of a quartz crystal tip with two well-formed and sharp tourmaline crystals. One is doubly terminated and a nice gemmy pink color while the other is bi-colored (dark green and pink). Both are partially coated by very fine-grained feldspar. | 25 | PA34 |
| sp01-2-02 | Apophyllite Cluster - Location: Poona, India. Miniature. This is a very aesthetic cluster of gemmy white mostly doubly terminated apophyllite crystals. This is almost a floater cluster of crystals. They are all very sharp with a glassy luster. | 14 | PA34 |
| sp01-2-03 | Galena & Calcite & Minor Pyrite - Location: Chihuahua, Mexico. Miniature. This is an aesthetic combination specimen of highly modified galena crystals partially over coated with a hood of calcite crystals. The galena crystals are all well formed and sharp and highly modified. They are a bright bluish-silver color and they have a metallic luster. The calcite crystals form as a 'druse' of sharply formed and sharply terminated crystals that form sort of a hood or hat of calcite crystals on the galena crystals. There is also some minor pyrite. This is a very attractive and aesthetic piece. | 10 | MA18 |
| sp01-2-04 | Beryl Var. Aquamarine - Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thumbnail. This is an unusual but very aesthetic specimen of highly etched aquamarine. The crystal is a light blue color and is very gemmy. The crystal is a complete crystal of aquamarine that was etched and partly re-dissolved during formation. A truly beautiful and unusual specimen of aquamarine. The crystal itself is shaped somewhat like an animal (bird or something) or possibly a number of other 'weird' thing after all it just requires imagination. | 12 | TX69 |
| sp01-2-05 | Garnet Var. Spessartine & Smoky Quartz - Location: China. Miniature. Here we have numerous small bright red spessartine garnet crystals on a matrix of feldspar along with some minor smoky quartz. The crystals have a bright dark red color, are well formed and sharp and have a glassy luster. Some of the smaller individual garnet crystals are somewhat gemmy. The crystals show the trapazoheral forms very well. | 10 | TX69 |
| sp01-2-06 | Adamite (Fluorescent) - Location: Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Miniature. Nice aesthetic matrix specimen of adamite crystals on an iron gossan matrix. Color is a beautiful lime green to yellow green. These crystals are all very sharp and well defined. More often than not, adamite crystals from this location form groups of small radiating clusters. Crystals this well defined are not all that common. The adamite will fluoresce a pale lime green color under both short and long wave ultra-violet light. | 16 | Singapore16 |
| sp01-2-07 | Yellow Barite - Location: Dee mine, Elko Nye Co., Nevada. . Small cabinet. Here we have some yellow barite crystals on an iron gossan matrix. The crystals are well formed and sharp. The have a light yellow color and are translucent to somewhat gemmy (in areas). The specimen is much better than the photo would indicate. | 35 | PA34 |
| sp01-2-08 | Sphalerite & Quartz - Location: Huaron Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Peru. . Small cabinet. Here we have a great specimen of sphalerite with quartz. The picture definitely does not do justice to this specimen!! We have a matrix of well-formed and sharp bluish-black sphalerite crystals. The sphalerite crystals all have a brilliant shiny (almost metallic) luster. There are several well-formed and sharp quartz crystals that are perched on the sphalerite crystals. | NO BID | |
| sp01-2-09 | Bixbyite & Pink Topaz - Location: Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah. Miniature. This is from a fairly new location that has just been developed over the last 2 years. Here we have a large modified crystal of bixbyite on a | 55 | PA34 |
| sp01-2-10 | Pascoite & Carnotite - Location: Firefly-Pignay Mine, Pandora mining District, Grand Co., Utah. Miniature . Here we have a rather stunning and very colorful combination specimen of the vanadium mineral pascoite (Ca3V10028 - 17H20) and carnotite (uranium mineral). The pascoite is a very bright red to reddish-orange color that forms as small botryoidal 'masses' and the carnotite forms as very small greenish-yellow crystals. This is a very colorful specimen. | 15 | TX69 |
