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Minerals from California
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Artinite
Mineral # 1300
Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California
9.5 x 4.5 x 5 cm$ 59
Artinite
Mineral # 1300
Click on the image to get a jpeg four times larger so you can see the acicular
hydrated magnesium carbonate crystals; there also in another area of
crystallization on the left edge of the specimen see above
Aurichalcite
Mineral # 1301
War Eagle Mine,
Inyo County, California
6 x 6 x 2.5 cm
$ 49
Aurichalcite
Mineral # 1301
A closer view of the Aurichalcite, an attractive zinc and copper carbonate mineral on matrix
Gold Ore
Mineral # 1302
Mineral # 1302
Rich Gulch Consolidated Gold Mines (Eagle Rock, Virgilia), Edmanton District, Plumas County, California
8 x 5
x 3.5 cm
$ 30
$ 30
Gold Ore
Mineral # 1302
Click on the jpeg; you can actually see metallic flecks in the dark gray-brown rock; I can't guarantee it is gold,
but it looks like it and this is an attractive specimen; they are mining a vein deposit there at this time
Matildite and Pyrite in Quartz
Mineral # 1303
3 x 3 x 2 cm
Darwin Mine, Inyo County, California
$ 45
Matildite and Pyrite in Quartz
Mineral # 1303
Slightly closer view and slightly different angle of this specimen
The Darwin Mine was located in a lead, silver, and zinc mining district
Neptunite
Mineral # 1304
Benitoite Gem Mine
Santa Rita Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California
SOLD
11.5 x 9 x 7.5 cm
Mineral # 1304
A close up view of the dark blue (almost black) Neptunite crystals;
note several partial light blue Benitoite crystals on the left side
Selenite Crystal
Mineral # 1305
Darwin, Inyo County, California
10.5 x 1 x 1 cm
$ 25
Selenite Crystal
Mineral # 1305
Another view of the opposite side of the crystal;
it does have a few chips, but they don't distract too much
Silver - Lead Ore, High Grade
Mineral # 1306
War Eagle Mine, Upper Noonday Camp, Nopah Range, Inyo County, California
The mine is located 6 miles east of Tecopa, California
Iron, silver, gold, galena, pyrite, sphalerite, and associated minerals
4.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
$ 75
Mineral # 1306
Click on specimen to enlarge this closer view; the silver ore is located in a very interesting gray
and white conglomerate rock at least partly composed of dolomite.
Reference: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Report 106, 1976, 72 pages.
Silver - Lead Ore, High Grade
Mineral # 1307
War Eagle Mine, Upper Noonday Camp, Nopah Range, Inyo County, California
6.5 x 5 x 3.5 cm
$ 48
Silver - Lead Ore, High Grade
Mineral # 1307
A closer view. Click on specimen to enlarge.
This specimen has a slightly different composition to the host rock.
Note the large number of small veins of ore.
Tetrahedrite and Pyrite in Quartz
Mineral # 1308
Panamint Valley, California USA
located east of the Argus and Slate Ranges
and west of the Panamint Range
4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm
$ 45
Tetrahedrite and Pyrite in Quartz
Mineral # 1308
A closer view showing the black Tetrahedrite inclusions in the host rock.
This rock has a polished face for better visualization. When this specimen is turned in bright light the middle of the Tetrahedrite is silver colored. Also note the number of fractures in the quartz host rock.
Ulexite
Mineral # 1309
Boron, California
7.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm
$ 30
Some of these are sawed sections; commonly known as TV rock;
cut and polished thin sections give an interesting magnification and/or double appearance to printed matter
Ulexite
Mineral # 1309
A closer view showing the internal longitudinal crystalline structure to the specimen.
The actual composition of this rock: It is a hydrated sodium calcium borate hydroxide.
Selenite Crystal
Mineral # 1310
Darwin, Inyo County, California
6 x 2.3 x 2 cm
$ 38
Mineral # 1310
A closer view of this exceptionally clean crystal.
Mineral # 1311
McLaughlin Mine (Manhattan Mine), Knoxville, Knoxville District, Napa County, California
2.6 x 2 x 0.5 cm
SOLD
Myrickite
Mineral # 1311
A closer view of this small rock slab turned vertically.
This is actually cinnabar which has been agatized to a hardness of 7 (just like quartz).
In some places it is hardened into stone by the process of opalization.
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1312
Normandy-Dulmaine Mine, Rough and Ready District,
about 5 miles West of Grass Valley, Nevada County, California
11 x 10 x 7 cm
$ 75
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1312
A closer view of some of the Chalcopyrites on one side of specimen;
Pyrites and Chalcopyrites are found at numerous locations on this specimen;
note the white vein on the top right corner; you can sort of follow it down the edge of the rock;
it cuts through the entire rock in several locations but does not seem to affect the mineralization.
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1312
A very close view of the same attractive patch of Chalcopyrites
Mineral # 1313
Osceola Mine, Rough and Ready District, Nevada County, California (located about 5 miles NW of Grass Valley, California)
This mine is just over 1 mile Northwest of the Normandie Dulmaine Mine noted above
(do not confuse this Osceola Mine with the other Osceola Mine in Sierra County just to the North)
6.5 x 5 x 5.5 cm
$ 195
Mineral # 1313
A closer view of specimen; I do not claim that you are looking at gold here; it could be partially gold,
but it is a nice specimen from a real gold mine
Mineral # 1313
A even closer view of specimen
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1313
A closer view and a different angle
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1314
Osceola Mine, Rough and Ready District, about 5 miles NW of Grass Valley, California
6.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
$ 75
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1314
Opposite side of specimen from image above
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1314
Closer view of specimen at an angle
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1315
Osceola Mine, Rough and Ready District, about 5 miles NW of Grass Valley, California
10 x 8.5 x 7 cm
$ 199
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1315
A closer view of one side of this very colorful specimen
Gold Mine Ore
Mineral # 1315
A closer view at a different angle; I do not claim the yellow metal here to be gold,
it could be, but I did not have it analyzed; it is a very colorful,
one of a kind, specimen from a real gold mime
Mineral # 1315
Another closer view
Mineral # 1315
Another close view at a different area of the specimen
Molybdenite, Hornblende, Feldspar, Scheelite
Mineral # 1316
Annex Claim Area
Pine Creek Mine
Bishop District, Inyo County, California
5.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
$ 48
Mineral # 1316
Another view of this specimen along one edge; Hornblende is the top central black crystal;
granular feldspar is toward one edge has its typical structure and chatoyancy;
Schellite (usually orange to red) is the crystal pointing downward on the jpeg above;
A large, 2 cm subhedral molybdenite crystal is present on this specimen
Mineral # 1317
Annex Claim Area, Pine Creek Mine
Bishop District, Inyo County, California
7.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm
$ 125
Molybdenite, Epidote, Quartz
Mineral # 1317
Another view showing the green Epidote on the lower left side with quartz;
Molybdenum is scattered throughout the specimen
Mineral # 1317
Another view showing several quartz crystals next to the patches of molybdenum;
this metal has its name derived from the Greek word Molybdos meaning lead;
it originally was through to be another lead ore due to its silver color resembling galena
Mineral # 1317
Another view showing the Epidote and Molybdenum and several orange spots which are Scheelite;
a 3cm Molybdenum rosette is dominant; several other smaller rosettes are also present on this specimen
Azurite, Rosasite, Malachite, Hemimorphite, and Hydrozincite
Mineral # 1318
Zinc Hill Mine, Darwin District, Inyo County, California
8 x 10 x 2.5 cm
$ 75
Mineral # 1318
A closer view of this specimen. The Zinc Hill Mine has produced a number of specimens with
Hemimorphite, but it was usually covered by an interesting, but unknown, black mineral.
There was a sequence of minerals where azurite was altered to malachite and Rosasite.
There is some azurite around the edges of Rosasite on this specimen.
Hemimorphite was deposited later and hydrozincite after that. The white areas on this specimen are thought to be hydrozincite.
For more information on the mineralogy of this specimen, go to Mineral Record, Volume 16, pp. 110-113, 1975
Mineral # 1318
A close-up view of this specimen showing greater detail; note azurite directly below the resasite as described above.
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