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Mineral # 5051
Apollo Mine,Unga Island
Aleutians East Borough, Alaska
4 x 4.5 x 5 cm 125 grams
$ 249
This specimen has a single cut that becomes the base of the rock.
Click on the speciment to enlarge it x 4. Several veins pass completely through the rock.
Silver - Zinc Ore
Mineral # 5051
This is the base of the rock showing the veins traveling through the specimen.
All 3 of the Apollo Mine Specimens are composed of a black matrix
composed of andesite and dacite that hosted the mineralization at the mine.
The mine has 5 minerals of importance. While silver and zinc are most abundant,
copper, lead and gold were present in smaller amounts. It seems the the veins
in this rock look like silver-zinc veins in many locations.
Apollo Ore
Mineral # 5052
5 x 12 x 12 cm 1406 grams
$ 399
This is another specimen where the minerals were deposited in swirling patterns.
Most of the waves tend to be silver toned except for the one on the top of the specimen
where there could be a little gold mixed in.
This mine was discovered in 1891.
Mineral # 5052
This is another photo taken at a different angle with a change of lighting.
There are a few cracks in this specimens. Blasting will do that.
This specimen is so thick that it won't come part.
Apollo Ore
Mineral # 5053
4 x 14 x 14 cm 1088 grams
$ 699
This is a third specimen from the same location.
This is larger specimen which has been cut and polished; it also has streaks and waves in deposition,
but there is one big difference, GOLD is present in some of these folds.
Apollo Ore
Mineral # 5053
This is a closer photo of this specimen which was cut and polished.
Most of the ore was taken from a single 6,000 foot tunnel.
Mineral # 5053
This is a photo of the bottom of this specimen. It was good ore all the way through.
Azurite, Malachite, and Chrysocolla
Mineral # 5054
3.5 x 3.5 x 5.5 cm 151 grams
$ 145
Bonanza Mine, Kennecott Mines, Nizina Mining District, Alaska
When mining was completed there well 12 levels to the mine.
Property is now part of St. Elias Natonal Park
Azurite, Malachite, and Chrysocolla
Mineral # 5054
Another view of the specimen showing azurite xls "hiding" in tunnels.
Other minerals found elsewhere in this mine were copper, chalcocite,
covellite, bornite, chalcopyrite, digenite, enargite, and more....
Ore sample from the Bonanza Mine
Mineral # 5055
Bonanza Mine, Kennecott Mines, Nizina Mining District, Alaska
$ 395
This specimens has four saw cuts. You are looking here at the base of this specimen.
The other three saw cuts are along three of the sides which turn this specimen into a rectangle.
The white streeks all through the specimen are apparently white quartz.
Mineral # 5055
This is the view of the top of the rectangle from a slight angle.
There is a little hill on one corner. Below and toward the center of this
specimen is a patch of chalcocite surrounded by malachite.
Mineral # 5055
This is a closer view showing more detail.
A railway carried its first load of "copper" away to Cordova 196 miles away.
A steamship took the ore from there to Seattle.
Mineral # 5055
This is a close photo of the chacocite surrounded by malachite.
Malachite and chalcocite from theBonanza Mine
Mineral # 5056
This is the best specimen I currently have from Kennecott.
3.5 x 6 x 7.5 cm 317 grams
$ 495
I have sprayed the front of the specimen with a clear coat to preserve the
malachite as it tends to fall out of the small rivlets specially from some locations.
Holding and looks at this specimen confirms that this is copper ore.
Mineral # 5056
This is a closer view of this specimen
Mineral # 5056
One interesting spot on the right side of this specimen above is a
patch of individual malachites with several different shapes.
Silver and tetrahedrite Ore
Mineral # 5057
Lucky Friday Mine, Hunter Mining District, Shoshone County, Mullan, Idaho
2 x 3 x 6 cm 96 grams
$ 100
Silver and Tetrahedrite Ore
Mineral # 5057
Lucky Friday Mine, Hunter Mining District, Shoshone County, Mullan, Idaho
Another view of the other side of the specimen just above
Silver, Lead and Zinc ore
Mineral # 5058
3 x 3 x 7.5 cm 137 grams
$ 195
Click this specimen to see even yellow, it is sphalerite!
Remember to tap all specimens on this website to increase their size x 4.
Mineral # 5058
This is the other side of this mineral which also shows quartz and granite in the mix with lots of sphalerite.
Silver, Lead, and Zinc ore
Mineral # 5059
Sullivan Mine, Kimberley, Fort Steele Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
1.5 x 5 x 6 cm 181 grams
$ 75
This is a slab cut from a long piece of ore. It is very consistant with finely (never coarse) deposited nature
in this sediment hosted massive sulfide deposit.
Mineral # 5059
The deposit was discovered in 1892. Mining started in 1909 and ended in 2001.
This is a photograph of the other side of this specimen.
The day this mine closed, everyone that wanted a souvenir was allowed to
take several pieces of ore home.
Silver, Lead, and Zinc ore
Mineral # 5060
3 x 7.5 x 8 cm 453 grams
$ 160
Sullivan Mine, Kimberley, Fort Steele Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
This is the back side of another specimen from the same mine as above with two cuts
at a right angle so you can sit this one on a shelf and see most of the specimen
all at once from a distance.
Silver, Lead, and Zinc ore
Mineral # 5060
This is the front side of the specimen.
The minerals are fine as usual but here they have a swirl pattern.
The last level at the mine where mining occurred was level 2600.
Some other Sullivan ore samples also contained barite and/or pyrite and/or sphalerite.
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