|
Mineral |
Source |
Sizes |
Price |
Description |
|
Actinolite |
Schabny, Ural Mountains, Russia |
min |
$ 15 |
fine green crystalline masses |
|
Agate |
Agate Creek, Queensland, Australia |
singles |
$ 45 |
All of these have been cut and polished in house; all colors
are available; singles are pieces which had no matching half and the pairs
were agates which were cut down the middle; pieces range in size from 3 to 5
cm in length and about 3 cm in width |
|
pair |
$ 75 |
|
Amazonite |
Minas Gerais, Brazil |
tn |
$ 1 |
Broken crystalline sections; good green amazonite color |
|
Amazonite |
Crystal Peak, Florissant, Teller County, Colorado |
scab |
$ 25 |
Fine light green crystal clusters on matrix; some of these
appear to have a "bleached" appearance (which means the crystals lighten in
color toward their edges) |
|
cab |
$ 75 |
|
Antimony, Native |
Lac Nicolet Mine, Quebec, Canada |
tn |
$ 35 |
Glistening silver specimens of native antimony ore |
| min |
$ 65 |
|
Apophylite |
Poona, India |
museum |
$ 125 |
Apophyllite crystals completely cover surface of matrix;
specimen measures over 6 x 6 x 3cm |
|
Aquamarine |
Erongo Range, North of Karibib, Nambia |
min |
$ 30 |
finely termined aquamarine xls., partly transparent but
mostly with blue inclusions and some black schorl xls. |
|
Aragonite |
Minglanilla, Cuenca Province, Spain |
cab |
$ 125 |
Classic cylindrical specimen to 80cm in length |
|
Arsenopyrite |
Dalnegorsk, Russia |
min |
$ 45 |
Silver crystals on a rich matrix |
|
Astrophyllite |
Saami Mountain, Khibini, Kola Peninsula, Russia |
scab |
$ 100 |
This is very bright, golden
astrophyllite with numerous radiating xls. on gray to white matrix; some
with shorl crystals included in the matrix |
|
cab |
$ 125 |
|
Aurichalcite |
Chief Mine, Arizona |
min |
$ 10 |
Radiating green crystals from a gray-white matrix |
|
scab |
$ 25 |
|
Azurite |
Chino Pit, New Mexico |
tn |
$ 5 |
These are called "blueberries" due to their round shape;
their internal composition is azurite; their covering is also blue hence the
name "blueberry" |
|
Azurite on Gypsum crystals |
Mineral Creek, Pinal County, Arizona |
tn |
$ 10 |
Beautiful bright blue azurite crystals on a gypsum matrix |
|
min |
$ 50 |
|
scab |
$ 125 |
|
Bornite on Native Silver |
San Martin Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico |
tn |
$ 25 |
Blue to black ore covering thin sheets of pure silver; very
impressive specimens |
| min |
$ 50 |
| scab |
$ 85 |
|
Bornite |
Kelly Mine, Butte, Silver Bow County |
tn |
$ 30 |
Pure, solid metallic specimens collected in Butte years ago
when the mines were still active |
|
min |
$ 175 |
|
scab |
$ 275 |
|
Bornite |
Magma Mine, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona |
tn |
$ 15 |
Bright bluish-purple metallic ore; most specimens have
pyrite inclusions; from a mine no longer in operation |
|
min |
$ 30 |
|
scab |
$ 75 |
|
cab |
$ 200 |
|
museum |
$ 550 |
|
Calcite, optical |
Mexico |
tn |
$ 4 |
Fine, clean, optically clean crystals chunks |
|
Carrollite |
Kambove, Shaba Province, China |
scab |
$ 165 |
Shining silver crystals on a gray to white matrix |
|
Chrysocolla with malachite, azurite and tenorite |
Morenci Pit, Greenlee County, Arizoan |
min |
$ 65 |
Spherules of chrysocolla with green malachite and/or dark
blue azurite and/or black tenorite |
|
scab |
$ 250 |
|
Chrysotile |
Copper Hill, Salt River Canyon, Gila Co., Arizona |
min |
$ 15 to $ 30 |
Bands of white chrysotile in a serpentine (green) matrix |
|
Cinnabar |
Fenghuang, Hunan Province, China |
min |
$ 200 |
A striking "perfectly shaped" cinnabar crystal (~5 x 5mm) on
a white matrix |
|
Cinnabar |
Cahill Mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada |
tn |
$ 15 |
red-silver masses on matrix |
|
Cinnabar |
"G" Pit, Cordero Mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada |
min |
$ 15 |
Small red xls. on matrix |
|
Cinnabar |
Red Devil Mine, Red Devil, Kuskokwin Mnts., Alaska |
min |
$ 20 |
Red-purple xln. on matrix |
|
Cinnabar |
Nikitovka Mine, Donass,
Ukraine |
tn |
$ 20 |
Perfectly formed red cinnabar crystals without matrix |
|
Cinnabar |
El Entredicho Mine Almaden, Cuidad Real Spain |
scab |
$45 |
Massive reddish-silver ore containing cinnabar |
|
cab |
$100 |
Copper on Black Shale |
White Pine Mine, Ontonagan County, MI |
min |
$ 25 |
Showy, flat copper specimens because of the sharp contrast
between the bright copper and the black shale; several specimens with matrix
which is not black.
Museum pieces are flat specimens measuring
up to 20 x 30 cm. |
| scab |
$ 50 |
| cab |
$ 100 |
| museum |
$ 400 |
|
Copper |
Haile Mine, 3
½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina
>>>>> see additional information on this mine in the gold section below |
scab |
$ 100 |
Glistening copper on surface of native white and gray schist host rock. On
most specimens, the copper is seen as multiple layers with thin sheets
of copper penetrating the host rock
|
| cab |
$ 175 |
| museum |
$ 275 |
|
Copper |
Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, MI |
scab |
$ 35 |
The cabinet specimen has a drill bit impression on pure
copper which melted during the drilling process; the copper is attached onto
native matrix.
The other specimens here are 3-dimensional pieces of
either scab or museum size pieces.
|
| cab |
$ 250 |
| museum |
$ 400 |
|
Copper |
Chino Pit, New Mexico |
min |
$ 25 |
3-dimensional pieces of native copper; some with matrix |
| scab |
$ 50 |
|
Copper |
Osceola Mine, Michigan |
tn |
$ 5 |
This is native Michigan copper in amygdaloid form |
|
min |
$ 10 |
|
scab |
$ 15 |
|
cab |
$ 25 |
|
Copper |
Osceola Mine, Michigan |
min |
$ 20 |
These are drill core sections showing copper and the
native host rock |
|
scab |
$ 40 |
|
Copper |
Ray, Arizona |
min |
$ 25 |
Three dimensional pieces of native copper; some with matrix |
| scab |
$ 50 |
|
Copper Nuggets |
Keweenaw County, Michigan |
scab |
$ 30 |
Large nuggets of pure copper |
|
Copper Float |
Upper Midwest, Wisconsin and
Michigan |
min |
$ 10 |
Pieces of copper dropped by glaciers; the
copper is exposed and polished on one surface; unaltered surface is a bright
green |
|
Corundum |
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
|
|
Corundum |
Burma |
tn |
$ 10 |
Opaque ruby crystals used to cut star ruby gemstones |
|
Covellite
|
Little Annie Vein, Summitville, Rio Grande Co. |
scab |
$100 |
Fine blues, golds, on white matrix; a very attractive ore
specimens; rare |
|
cab |
$250 |
|
museum |
$5000 |
|
Crocidolite (var. Tigereye) |
Witenoom, Hamersley Range, West Australia |
tn |
$ 25 |
Multicolored material with gold and/or red and/or blue
tigereye side by side on and in natural matrix |
|
min |
$ 125 |
|
scab |
$ 175 |
|
cab |
$ 400 |
|
museum |
$ 800 |
|
Crocidolite |
Griqualand, Koega, Namibia |
min |
$25 |
fine blue fibers of Riebeckite, some pieces showing a
schiller effect |
|
scab |
$45 |
|
Cummingtonite |
Stolberget, Vester Silfberg,
Sweden |
tn |
$10 |
black radiating, massive xls. around garnets with biotite |
|
min |
$15 |
|
Ulexite |
Boron, California |
tn |
$ 10 |
These are sawed sections of the material commonly known as
TV rock; hold a piece over printed matter to get the image |
|
min |
$ 20 |
|
Ferrohornblende |
Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito, California |
min |
$ 10 |
massive dark material composed of numerous small irridescent
blades |
|
Fluorite Octahedra |
Cave-In-Rock District, Hardin County, Illinois |
tn |
$ 4 |
Different colors available |
|
Fluorite |
Tristate material: Oklahoma-Missouri-Arkansas |
min |
$ 5 |
Purple or bluish-purple chunks of fluorite |
|
scab |
$ 15 |
|
Fluorite |
Galena King Mine, Monzano Mountains |
cab |
$ 50 |
Massive intergrown xls., very showy |
|
Fluorite |
Bingham, New Mexico |
scab |
$ 40 |
fine blue cubes usually on a quartz matrix |
|
cab |
$ 60 |
|
Galena |
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 |
|
scab |
$ 65 |
|
cab |
$125 |
|
Garnets, Grossular |
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec |
scab |
$100 |
Beautiful light orange xls. covering matrix |
|
Gold Ore |
Haile Mine, 3 ½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina
The Haile Mine is located along the Carolina slate belt. It was discovered
in 1827 and was active again from 1988 to 1990. Free gold and sulfide
deposits containing gold are typical of this material. |
min |
$ 25
$ 50
$ 100 |
Massive sulfide deposits containing pyrite/gold or embedded in white to
cream colored shists
Price range indicates there are three grades of this material; please
specify if you want the best # 1 material, or less sulfide/metallic
inclusions # 2, or occasional sulfide/metallic inclusions, # 3
Please inquire if large museum size specimens are still available |
| cab |
$ 35
$ 75
$ 150 |
|
Gold, Native |
White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico |
tn |
$ 100 |
Wire gold in a white matrix; very attractive |
| min |
$ 250 |
|
Gold Mine Ore Samples |
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 |
|
Gold Mine Ore Samples |
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. We will
quote a price depending on availability of these select specimens.
|
|
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 |
|
min |
$ 50 |
|
scab |
$ 100 |
|
cab |
$ 150 |
|
Heubnerite
|
Adams Mine, Silverton, San Juan County |
tn |
$ 25 |
Brownish-golden glistening metallic crystals in matrix |
|
min # 1 |
$ 75 |
|
min # 2 |
$ 30 |
|
scab |
$ 125 |
|
Hemimorphite |
Ojeula Mine, Mexico |
min |
$ 10 |
Clear, radiating crystals (5 to 10mm) on a brown matrix |
|
scab |
$ 20 |
|
Heulandite # 1 |
Tunguska River Basin, Siberia |
min |
$ 10 |
Pinkish-yellow heulandite crystals, first quality |
|
scab |
$ 16 |
|
Heulandite # 2 |
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 |
|
Hollandite |
Rattlesnake Canyon, Socorro County, New Mexico |
min |
$ 10 |
Black acicular coatings on matrix |
|
scab |
$ 25 |
|
cab |
$ 40 |
|
Kyanite, Garnet, and Biotite |
Hit-Ostrov, Karelia, Russia |
min |
$ 100 |
This is a colorful material with blue kyanite crystals on
top of a matrix of garnet and biotite |
|
scab |
$ 145 |
|
Lapis Lazuli |
Afganistan |
tn |
$ 3 |
Both chunks and slices of this splendid blue material is
available |
|
min |
$ 10 |
|
Lepidolite |
Aracuai, Minas Gerias, Brazil |
min |
$ 50 |
small flat translucent plate of pink, lamellar lepidolite
|
|
Mohawkite |
Keweenaw County, Michigan |
min to cab |
$10 to $ 50 |
Silver metallic rocks composed of copper
arsenides containing cobalt, silver, nickel and iron |
|
Molybdenite
on Calcite with Phlogophite |
Questa, Taos
County, New Mexico |
tn |
$ 25 to $ 45 |
Silver
metallic ore on matrix; these new pieces are the best we have ever had from
this location |
|
Muscovite |
Cotopaxi, Colorado |
tn |
$ 2 |
Mica books; some with matrix attached |
|
min |
$ 4 |
|
scab |
$ 10 |
|
cab |
$ 25 |
|
Orpiment |
Betze Post Mine, Carlin Trend, Tuscarora Mountains, Elko
County, Nevada |
tn |
$ 5 |
Bright orange specimens with red realgar crystals on a gray
matrix |
|
min |
$ 12 |
|
scab |
$ 20 |
|
Peridotite |
Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico |
tn |
$ 4 |
Massive green peridot xls. with scattered black inclusions |
|
min |
$ 7 |
|
scab |
$15 |
|
cab |
$30 |
|
Prehnite |
Poona, India |
min |
$ 5 |
A mint green, botyroidal material associated with white
minerals on the larger specimens; some specimens are entirely green in color |
|
scab |
$ 10 |
|
cab |
$ 20 |
|
Prehnite pseudomorph after
Laumontite containing copper inclusions |
Knife River, North Shore of
Lake Superior, Minnesota |
min |
$ 25 |
A light pink mineral with
copper inclusions throughout |
|
scab |
$ 45 |
|
cab |
$ 65 |
|
Pyrophyllite |
Indian Gulch, Mariposa County, California |
cab |
$ 20 |
Cream colored, massive, radiating crystals |
|
Quartz, clear |
Mt. Ida, Arkansas |
tn |
$ 4 |
Clean quartz crystals usually without perfect end
terminations |
|
min |
$ 8 |
|
Quartz, clear |
Minas Gerais, Brazil |
min |
$ 20 |
Clear quartz crystal clusters |
|
scab |
$ 30 |
|
Quartz, pink |
Minas Gerais, Brazil |
tn |
$ 3 |
Medium pink chunks of quartz |
|
min |
$ 6 |
|
Quartz, pink |
Minas Gerais, Brazil |
tn |
$ 2 |
Light pink chunks of quartz |
|
Quartz, Polyhedroid |
Minas Gerais, Brazil |
scab |
$ 100 |
Unusual quartz specimens with weird polyhedroid shapes; no
two alike |
|
cab |
$ 125 |
|
Ramsdellite |
Mistake Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona |
tn |
$ 5 |
Silver-Black glistening crystals on matrix |
|
min |
$ 15 |
|
scab |
$ 25 |
|
cab |
$ 65 |
|
Rhodochrosite |
Emma Mine, Silver Bow County, Montana |
scab |
$ 125 |
Fine pink to white botyroidal rhodochrosite crystals
covering matrix of pyrite and quartz |
|
cab |
$ 600 |
|
Rhodochrosite |
Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana |
scab |
$ 125 |
Massive, crystalline rhodochrosite; this material has
a deeper red color than the material listed above |
|
Richterite |
Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada |
tn |
$ 5 |
Black crystals of Richterite on a light matrix |
|
min |
$ 12 |
|
scab |
$ 20 |
|
Silver |
Cobalt, Ontario, Canada |
tn |
$ 5 |
Veinlets of silver in slices of host rock |
|
min |
$ 15 |
|
Stilbite |
Tunguska Basin, East Siberia |
min |
$ 10 |
Most of these specimens consist of numerous radiating
crystals (6mm wide x 20mm long) extending from a flattened matrix; the color
of the stilbite is yellow-brown |
|
scab |
$ 20 |
|
cab |
$ 30 |
|
museum |
$ 50 |
|
Stilbite, bowtie |
Tunguska Basin, East Siberia |
tn |
$ 20 |
Classic "textbook" single bowties or multiples
[A few imperfect bowties are available from time to time in
various sizes at ½ of the prices given - ask for bowties # 2] |
|
min |
$ 45 |
|
scab |
$ 100 |
|
Stillwater Mine ore |
JM Reef, Stillwater Mine, Montana |
tn |
$ 15 |
Specimens are gabbro, mostly olivine/plagioclase cumulates
+/- augite +/- bronzite with chalcopyrite and/or pyrrotite and/or pentandite |
|
min |
$ 25 |
|
scab |
$ 40 |
|
cab |
$ 85 |
|
Sulfur |
Jemez Sulfur Springs, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico |
cab |
$ 65 |
Typical yellow, well-shaped sulfur crystals on matrix;
unusual because the origin in New Mexico |
|
Thomsonite |
Amudiha, Tunguska Basin, East Siberia
|
min |
$ 25 |
This rare zeolite with other zeolites on matrix |
|
scab |
$ 50 |
|
Tremolite |
Sunset South Mine, Harquahala Mnts., Maricopa Co., Arizona |
scab |
$ 10 |
chunks of massive material containing radiating tremolite
xls. |
|
Tremolite |
Ostanmossa, Norberg, Sweden |
tn |
$ 5 |
classic soft, white tremolite fibers (packed in glass tubes
with cotton to protect structure of fibers) |
|
min |
$ 10 |
|
scab |
$ 15 |
|
cab |
$ 20 |
|
Vanadinite |
Mibladen Lead Mines, 15km Northeast of Midelt, Morocco |
min |
$ 40 |
Typical Morocco vanadinite; these are small yellow crystals |
|
Vanadinite |
Mibladen Lead Mines, 15km Northeast of Midelt, Morocco |
min |
$ 60 |
This material has larger crystals of Vanadinite; the color
is orange-brown |
|
Vanadinite |
Hambug Mine, Yuma County, Arizona |
min |
$ 45 |
bright red crystals on a gray to black matrix |
|
Vermiculite |
Montana |
scab |
$ 20 |
Large black "mica" plates |
|
Vivianite |
Kertch, Crimea Peninsula, Ukraine |
min |
$ 75 |
Dark blue crystals on brown matrix |
|
scab |
$ 200 |
|
Wavellite |
Maulden Mountain, Mt. Ida, Arkansas |
min |
$ 25 |
Typical green spherules of wavellite; most of these are from
the new collecting site with the nicer crystalline structure and lime-green
color |
|
scab |
$ 40 |
|
Wood, Petrified |
Nacimento Mine, Sandoval County, New Mexico |
tn |
$ 5 |
Petrified wood containing replacement minerals including the
sulphides of copper and iron; the min piece has a polished surface |
|
min |
$ 10 |
|
cab |
$ 25 |