A pair of light purple octahedrons with cubic stepped growth on the faces of the crystals sit on a matrix of off-white quartz. The right crystal demonstrates the ochsenhauge habit. New find from late 2020.
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Reddish orange tabular crystals of vanadinite on black goethite stalactites. Great luster and form. Just a pretty thing.
Thick, very sharp bladed crystals of barite with a lustrous light gray color on a matrix of pastel yellow calcites.
Sharp yellow to brown translucent tabular crystals of barite on matrix. Classic AZ locality.
Lustrous amber crystals of sphalerite are intermixed with tan crystals of siderite. Classic Spanish locality.
A group of translucent deep orange brown calcite stalactites on calcite and limestone. From what I have learned is that these are found in concretions and not caves.
A milky cerussite group of “V” twins sits with yellow mimetites, green duftite on a tan dolomite matrix. Crystallized all the way around. Wonderful small cab.
A specimen of cuprite crystals on matrix with a secondary layer of acicular chalcotrichite crystals on one side of the specimen coating the primary cuprites. Great red color.
Hoppered galena crystals sprinkled with tan siderites, on a matrix of very light yellow fluorite. Old UK classic locality active since the early 1800s.
Doubly terminated and sceptered amethyst crystals line vugs with calcite on a volcanic tuft matrix. This locality in Sardinia has produced the best amethysts found in Italy.