A jet-black lustrous schorl crystal penetrates a group of clear, lightly smoky quartz crystals. Fabulous piece in exceptional condition!

Pastel green, lustrous prisms of smithsonite on a pastel tan first generation of smithsonite crystals. Beautiful specimen.

A very sculptural specimen of medium purple botryoidal smithsonite. Displays beautifully.

Exceptional rhombohedral crystals of smithsonite with deep yellow centers and zoned lighter edges. The temptation is to label it cadmium, but I don’t believe that it is accurate since most Tsumeb smithsonites labeled “cadmium” are pure guesses by collectors and dealers. Wonderful color, zoning and luster on this one, not to mention good sized and well defined crystals.

A group of brilliant prismatic clear crystals of smithsonite with excellent clarity and orange yellow zoning, on matrix. Most of the crystals are doubly terminated and the largest measures 2.3 cm!

A beautiful specimen composed of calcite rhombs that sat on a dolomite cast, have been completely replaced by cuprian smithsonite. Wonderful pseudomorph, ex Marshall Sussman Coll.

Light yellow prisms of smithsonite with a second generation of smaller crystals that give the specimen a marvelous drusy sparkle, associated with prismatic crystals of willemite. Fabulous smithsonite from this closed locality.

An extremely sharp crystal of orange spessartine (1.6 cm) is surround by flower-like groups of cleavelandite with smaller spessartines scattered about. Beautiful piece from the Ex Barlow Collection.

Brilliant and sharp wine colored spessartine crystals with books of muscovite, on a quartz matrix. Stunning display plate.

Ruby-jack colored lustrous sphalerite crystals forming spherical aggregates that sit on a matrix of sparkling marcasite. Mined in 2015-16, these were held back by a local miner, released in Sept. and made their way to us. They were written up and photographed for the “What’s New Report” of the Min. Rec.