There are 23 minerals sized at Cabinet and Larger.
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A beautiful example of the crystallized gypsum formation known as a “Ram’s Horn”. Aesthetic, lustrous and in fine condition.
A 3 cm group of nearly black, intergrown manganocolumbite crystals with a matte finish sits at the center of a white albite matrix with minor quartz and flanked by two pastel pink prismatic crystals of morganite. The rear reveals an oddly shaped flattened quartz crystal.
A very special piece from the Shimen Mine in China. It is a two sided specimen where calcite prisms are selectively sprinkled with acicular orpiment crystals and are completely blanketed on the other side. It is undamaged (very rare for Shimen specimens) and is a complete floater. Super!
Bright and golden, striated pyrite crystals sit on a matrix of lustrous jet black sphalerite crystals. The rear also shows some nice (but smaller) pyrites coating the matrix. Very fine old timer from this historical Colorado locality.
One of the strangest quartz specimens I have come across. Distorted, sceptered clear quartz crystals are overlapping milky quartz crystals creating white phantoms, with crystals growing in every direction and minor fluorite. Bizarre.
NEW!
A large smoky quartz crystal on a matrix of cookeite, lepidolite and albite. There’s a sharp growth phantom on one side of the crystal and some contact on the rear, but it does not affect the other display sides. An old Eastern classic. Super!
A superb, slightly smoky, gemmy quartz crystal sprinkled with equally gemmy lustrous orange red spessartine crystals. This is a doubly terminated quartz crystal with a prismatic tapering termination on one end and a healed termination on the other end.
Pink rhombs of rhodochrosite with pastel pink zoned edges, on matrix. Ex Bill Logan Coll.
A beautiful specimen of lustrous crystals of calcite that have been replaced by light pink rhodochrosite. The Lowe (stating ex JL White coll.), Barstow and Koster labels are included.
Brilliant and sharp wine colored spessartine crystals with books of muscovite, on a quartz matrix. Stunning display plate.