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Corundum |
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Morogoro, Tanzania |
min |
large, $ 90
small, $ 45 |
Specimen one: flat,
crystalline surface, purple in color, ~2cm across surface; edges have nice
terminations (specimen height: ~1.5cm)
Specimen two: about half the size of above specimen |
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Corundum |
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Burma |
tn |
$ 10 |
Opaque ruby crystals used to cut star ruby gemstones |
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Covellite
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Little Annie Vein, Summitville, Rio Grande Co. |
scab |
$100 |
Fine blues, golds, on white matrix; a very attractive ore
specimens; rare; museum specimen pictured here is the covellite pictured on
our business cards |
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cab |
$250 |
|
museum |
$5000 |
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Creedite |
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Liberty Mine,
Tonopah, Nevada |
min |
$ 20 - $ 24 |
Medium purple
xls. surrounded by gearksutite (white powdery matrix) on a typical
underground Tonopah rock matrix containing small pyrites |
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Crocidolite (var. Tigereye) |
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Witenoom, Hamersley Range, West Australia |
tn |
$ 10 |
Multicolored material with gold and/or red and/or blue
tigereye side by side on and in natural matrix |
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min |
$ 50 |
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scab |
$ 100 |
|
cab |
$ 200 |
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museum |
$ 400 |
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Crocidolite |
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Griqualand, Koega, Namibia |
tn |
$ 25 |
Blue fibers of Riebeckite, some pieces showing a
schiller effect |
| min |
$ 45 |
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Cummingtonite |
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Stolberget, Vester Silfberg, Sweden |
tn |
$ 10 |
Black radiating, massive xls. around garnets with biotite |
| scab |
$ 15 |
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Dioptase |
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Harquahala Mine, 8 miles South of Salome, Arizona |
scab |
$ 45 |
Green dioptase xls. with plancheite sprays and some light green malachite on
a brown matrix |
| cab |
$ 60 |
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Endlichite |
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Glove Mine,
Santa Cruz County, Arizona |
min |
$ 15
to
$ 30 |
Extremely delicate arsenian vanadinite crystals appearing as silver acicular
xls. on a thin matrix with some calcite xls.; use a microscope to locate
some wulfenite xls. Collected in 2003 |
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Erythrite |
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BouAzzer, Morocco |
min |
$ 8 to $ 20 |
Deep reddish-purple xls. on skutterudite matrix, roselite and/or
wendwilsonite could be found on some of these specimens |
| scab |
$ 15 to
$ 25 |
| cab |
$ 30 to
$ 50 |
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Ferrohornblende |
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Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito, California |
min |
$ 10 |
massive dark material composed of numerous small
irridescent blades |
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Fluorite Octahedra |
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Cave-In-Rock District, Hardin County, Illinois |
tn |
$ 4 |
Different colors available; select from clear, blue,
purple, and (upon rare occasions) yellow. Please inquire. |
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Fluorite |
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Tristate material: Oklahoma-Missouri-Arkansas |
min |
$ 5 |
Purple or bluish-purple chunks of fluorite |
|
scab |
$ 15 |
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Fluorite |
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Galena King Mine, Monzano Mountains |
cab |
$ 50 |
Massive intergrown xls., very showy |
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Fluorite |
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Bingham, New Mexico |
scab |
$ 40 |
fine blue cubes usually on a quartz matrix |
|
cab |
$ 60 |
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Galena |
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Sweetwater Mine, Missouri |
min |
$ 25 |
Galena with calcite and/or chalcopyrite, some specimens with
dolomite
Occasionally we have galena from other mines in Missouri -
please inquire |
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scab |
$ 65 |
|
cab |
$125 |
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Garnets, Grossular |
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Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec |
scab |
$100 |
Beautiful light orange xls. covering matrix |
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Goethite |
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Garland County, Arkansas |
min |
$25 |
Interconnected shiny silver spherical masses |
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Gold, Native |
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White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico |
tn |
$ 100 |
Wire gold in a white matrix; very attractive |
| min |
$ 250 |
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Gold Mine Ore Samples |
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From the Homestake Mine, Lead, SD |
tn |
$ 20 |
These are 1 " flat circular discs showing the
mineralization; compare to the pictures in USGS Professional Paper 26 |
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Gold Mine Ore Samples |
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Sunnyside Gold Mine, Eureka, San Juan County
[These specimens have more quartz and/or galena and/or
shalerite and less pyrite / chalcopyrite containing gold] |
tn |
$ 5 |
Quartz, gold, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite
combinations in matrix We now have a stock of this
material with pink rhodonite associated with the other minerals as pictured
below.
We will quote a price depending on availability of these select specimens.
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min |
$ 15 |
|
scab |
$ 25 |
|
cab |
$ 40 |
|
 |
Same as above, only larger crystalline structure
[These specimens have more pyrite / chalcopyrite
containing gold in
addition to the other minerals] |
tn |
$ 20 |
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min |
$ 50 |
|
scab |
$ 100 |
|
cab |
$ 150 |
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Graphite
|
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La Colorado,
Sonora, Mexico |
tn |
$ 16 |
pure silver
metallic specimens of graphite |
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Heubnerite
|
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Adams Mine, Silverton, San Juan County |
tn |
$ 25 |
Brownish-golden glistening metallic crystals in matrix |
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min # 1 |
$ 75 |
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min # 2 |
$ 30 |
|
scab |
$ 125 |
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Hematite |
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Minas Gerias, Brazil |
tn |
$ 10 |
Silver metallic sheets with rutile cystals |
|
tn |
$ 25 |
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Hemimorphite |
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|
min |
$ 10 |
Clear, radiating crystals (5 to 10mm) on a brown matrix |
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scab |
$ 20 |
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Heulandite # 1 |
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Tunguska River Basin, Siberia |
min |
$ 10 |
Pinkish-yellow heulandite crystals, first quality |
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scab |
$ 16 |
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Heulandite # 2 |
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Tunguska River Basin, Siberia |
min |
$ 5 |
Same as above, only slightly less desirable due to crystal
shape, color, etc. but these are good considering the price |
|
scab |
$ 8 |
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Hollandite |
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Rattlesnake Canyon, Socorro County, New Mexico |
min |
$ 10 |
Black acicular coatings on matrix |
|
scab |
$ 25 |
|
cab |
$ 40 |