Europe
1534 Gold, Rhine river alluvials, Kembs, Sierentz, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France
Sealed glass ampule containing many flattened flakes of gold. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
1486 Picromerite, Leonite, Halite, Neuhof-Ellers Potash Works, Neuhof, Fulda, Hesse, Germany
White picromerite crystals (dehydrated to white, opaque leonite) with colourless halite.
1469 Srebrodolskite, Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Brown micro veins. Probably from the same stock as is being sold by David Garske (1/2014) which is from Tony Jones, 2013, ex David Shannon, ex Mikon.
1409 Anatase, Muscovite, Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
Tiny very sharp anatase crystals with beige muscovite
1366 Jennite, Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
White crystalline. Ex Milt Soman.
1217 Platinum, Tuba River, Western Siberia, Russia
Several dozen of these little nuggets, at least, mounted on a square of stiff yellow paper glued to the top of a cork pedestal in a two piece black plastic micromount display case. From the collection of the late Charles E. Bosworth, whose label states that these nuggets were collected...
1189 Variscite, Beauvoir quarry, Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Prismatic colourless crystals. Superb!
1167 Bastnaesite-(Ce), Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Ariege, Midi-Pyrenees, France
Well-formed hexagonal plates.
1156 Dundasite, Hemma adit, Schwall, Zeltschach, Friesach – Huttenberg area, Carinthia, Austria
White sprays on gossan. Have previous Jrgen label.
1159 Klebelsbergite, Sulphur, Stibnite, Pereta Mine, Pereta, Scansano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
White needles of klebelsbergite with yellow sulphur on stibnite. Have previous Jrgen label.
1142 Gismondine, Graulay (Graulai; Graulei; Grauley), Hillesheim, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
White octahedral crystals with greenish pyroxene.
1104 Kozyrevskite, Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast’, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
This NEW SPECIES occurs as very tiny, grass-green to light green aggregates of coarse prismatic to acicular crystals on volcanic scoria, typically with darker green undefined Cu-sulfates and occasionally black tenorite. Formula: Cu4O(AsO4)2 ? orthorhombic – IMA #2013-023, dimorphous with triclinic ericlakerite but ortherwise a new structural type and unrelated...
1000 Whewellite, Gluck Auf Schacht, Burgk, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
1.18x.95x.75cm, ex Freiberg Academy. A rare, old time example of this unusual mineral species from Germany. This specimen host a complex, gemmy, colorless crystal of whewellite on a small amount of matrix. The crystal has glassy lustre and sharp faces. Whewellite is one of the small number of naturally occuring...
0978 Jasper, Loire River alluvials, Amboise, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France
Waterworn pieces of jasper collected by Laura Gadsden in 2013
0971 Chrysothallite, Belloite, Avdoninite, Chlorothionite, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast’, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Another NEW SPECIES from this bizarre geological environment in Kamchatka, chrysothallite occurs as extremely small, bright golden yellow, equant micro crystals perched in scoria vugs, often with olive green belloite and occasionally other rare species such as deep green avdoninite, blue chlorothionite etc. Formula: K6Cu6Tl3+Cl17(OH)4*H2O, tetragonal, IMA #2013-008. Named for...
0864 Connellite, La Finosa Mine (Fontana Rossa Mine), Ghisoni, Corte, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France
6x3mm patch of crystalline connellite on the 1.6×1.3cm display face of this micromount. It is mounted on a cork pedestal in a two piece black plastic micromount display case. Specimen is from the collection of the late Charles E. (Eb) Bosworth of Pasadena, Maryland, and bears his label. A bit...
0681 Stepite, Geschieber vein, Svornost Mine (Einigkeit Mine), Jachymov (St Joachimsthal), Jachymov (St Joachimsthal) District, Krusne Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Bohmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Type locality. A uranium arsenate that occurs as green tabular crystals and spherical aggregates on weathered arsenic matrix.
0603 Carpholite, Horni Slavkov (Schlaggenwald), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Bohmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond 3704, but number does not match her Micro Collection Catalogue. Probably from her other mineral collection. Silky yellowish acicular flattened aggregates.