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This page was last updated on 29 January 2010

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Mineral sizes:

thumbnail (tn) = up to 1" (2.5cm) /   miniature (min) = up to 2" (5 cm) /  small cabinet (scab) = up to 3" (7.5cm) /  cabinet (cab) = around 4" (10 cm) /  museum = larger than 4" (> 10 cm)

Mineral

Photograph

Source

Sizes

Price

Description

Silver Dendites

Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

tn

$ 35

Massive veinlets of silver in slices of cobalt ore host rock  [to make a good jpeg, I have used a specimen with fine veinlets on a light colored matrix]

min

$ 55

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

$ 30

cab

$ 60

Ulexite

Boron, California tn

to

min

$ 10

 to

$ 20

These are sawed sections of the material commonly known as TV rock; hold a piece over printed matter to get the image

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

Hamburg, Nine, 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

$ 5

Typical green spherules of wavellite in matrix

scab

$ 20

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

$ 25

cab

$ 75

 


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