1065 Beryl (Aquamarine), Mendes Pimentel, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Single pale greenish rounded thumbnail crystal. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
1064 Stibnite, Ichinokawa mine, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan
Thumbnail group of three interlocking crystals, previously in the Brian Shelton collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
1062 Copper, Bisbee, Warren District, Cochise County, Arizona
A mass of solid copper, whose crystallization is mostly crude. However a few distinct crystals reaching 1.1 cm are present. This specimen is almost completely free of green patina. Weighs 164 grams. 6.1×5.0x 3.3cm from the Walter G. Hubbard collection and Jim Parrish collection. They were rescued from an old...
1061 Copper, Bisbee, Arizona
A mass of solid copper, whose crystallization is mostly crude. However a few distinct crystals reaching 1.1 cm are present. This specimen is almost completely free of green patina. Weighs 164 grams. 6.1×5.0x 3.3cm from the Walter G. Hubbard collection and Jim Parrish collection. They were rescued from an old...
1059 Mendipite, Hydrocerussite, Cerussite, Torr Works Quarry (Merehead Quarry), Cranmore, Somerset, England
Specimen measures 3.3×3.1×1.8cm and is affixed with mineral tack on a white plastic square. It bears the label of the late and legendary David Shannon with a notation that he sold it in October, 1989.
1046 Corundum (Sapphire), Anamushi alluvials, Kashiba City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
About 20 1mm gem blue zoned sapphires from a placer deposit.
1016 Gold, Second Broad river, Rutherford Co., North Carolina, USA
Four gold nuggets panned by Charles Willett in Second Broad River, Near Marion,, Rutherford Co., mounted on cork post (standard micromount support).
1013 Gold, Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Georgia, USA
Gold nugget panned by E Lee Wood. Mounted by Charles Willett on a cactus needle.
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...
0987 Pyromorphite, Plumbogummite, Sylvester Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania
Labelled as hinsdalite, but now thought to be plumbogummite from this location.
0979 Emerald, Muzo Mine, Mun. de Muzo, Vasquez-Yacopi Mining District, Boyaca Department, Colombia
Trapiche emerald Type 2 star ~3mm across
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...
0963 Stilbite, Chlorite (Corrensite?), Natrolite, Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, USA
Neal Yedlin mount. The label is affixed atop another label on one of the old carboard micromount display cases as were popular in the first half of the 20th Century. Display face measures 1.6×1.6cm. Specimen is mounted in typical Yedlin fashion on a pedestal.
