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Silver Dendites |
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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] |
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min |
$ 55 |
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Stilbite |
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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 |
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Stilbite, bowtie |
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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 |
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Stillwater Mine ore |
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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 |
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Sulfur |
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Jemez Sulfur Springs, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico |
cab |
$ 65 |
Typical yellow, well-shaped sulfur crystals on matrix;
unusual because the origin in New Mexico |
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Thomsonite |
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Amudiha, Tunguska Basin, East Siberia
|
min |
$ 25 |
This rare zeolite with other zeolites on matrix |
|
scab |
$ 50 |
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Tremolite |
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Sunset South Mine, Harquahala Mnts., Maricopa Co., Arizona |
scab |
$ 10 |
chunks of massive material containing radiating tremolite
xls. |
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Tremolite |
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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 |
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Ulexite |
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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 |
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Vanadinite |
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Mibladen Lead Mines, 15km Northeast of Midelt, Morocco |
min |
$ 40 |
Typical Morocco vanadinite; these are small yellow
crystals |
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Vanadinite |
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Mibladen Lead Mines, 15km Northeast of Midelt, Morocco |
min |
$ 60 |
This material has larger crystals of Vanadinite; the color
is orange-brown |
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Vanadinite |
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Hamburg, Nine, Yuma County, Arizona |
min |
$ 45 |
bright red crystals on a gray
to black matrix |
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Vermiculite |
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Montana |
scab |
$ 20 |
Large black "mica" plates |
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Vivianite |
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Kertch, Crimea Peninsula, Ukraine |
min |
$ 75 |
Dark blue crystals on brown matrix |
|
scab |
$200 |
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Wavellite |
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Maulden Mountain, Mt. Ida, Arkansas |
min |
$ 5 |
Typical green spherules of wavellite in matrix |
|
scab |
$ 20 |
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Wood, Petrified |
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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 |