A stout single crystal of diopside with a textbook termination, excellent luster and a light to dark green color. Uncommon locality.

From a  fairly recent find last year in Afghanistan. Blocky celestine prisms on a matrix of straw colored calcite scalenohedrons. The intense sea blue color comes from cobalt. These were first identified as herderites, but testing proved them to be celstines.

From a  fairly recent find last year in Afghanistan. A blocky celestine prism surrounded by a matrix of straw colored calcite scalenohedrons. The intense sea blue color comes from cobalt. These were first identified as herderites, but testing proved them to be celstines.

From a  fairly recent find last year in Afghanistan. Blocky celestine prisms on a matrix of straw colored calcite scalenohedrons. The intense sea blue color comes from cobalt. These were first identified as herderites, but testing proved them to be celstines.

Glassy pinkish red crystalline and crystals of pyrosmalite (Mn) with yellow spessartine. The darker mineral could be tephorite or fayalite which is found associated with the pyrosmalite.  Originally from Hori Mineralogy.+

Black metallic crystals of chalcocite contrasting nicely on a grayish matrix  that’s coated by sparkling clear tiny quartz crystals.

Deep red blocky crystals of crocoite act as a host for twinned pastel cerussites scattered in various areas of the specimen. Old timer from Tasmania, probably from the Comet Maestries mine, which was leased originally in 1988.

Beautiful lilac crystals of the chromium variety of clinochlore also known as Kammererite.

A single bright red hexagonal crystal of cinnabar on a creamy yellowish dolomite matrix.

A single bright red hexagonal crystal of cinnabar on a creamy dolomite matrix.