Particles of HOLOTYPE material of Mongolite – extremely rare niobo-silicate known only in two localities worldwide. Sample comes from ex-collection of Dr. E.I. Semenov (Semenovite-(Ce)) obtained by him from the author of the mineral Dr....
Micro-nugget ~0.83×0.52×0.20 mm of pure, analyticaly confirmed by microprobe Stistaite from placer of Edzhei river. Dark in BSE phase on the SEM image (which is megascopically white) is thin film of Senarmontite, covering surface of...
Two well-formed joined at the base crystals.
Highly fluorescent. Sold as pink sapphires.
Single blue aquamarine crystal 17ct.
Single thin pencil of aquamarine. Labelled as Thuong Xuan (near to Xuan Le).
Two greenish opaque quartz crystals joined together. Not smooth faces.
Blue and green sapphires, some with good crystal form.
20g L5 chondrite meteorite. Found in 2000 but not from an observed fall. From the Meteoritical Society: Date: 16 Mar 2000 Latitude: 20°31.0’N Longitude: 56°40.0’E Mass (g): 408 kg Pieces: 1000’s Class: L4/5 Shock stage:...
Gemmy rich emerald-green fluorite octahedrons, to 15mm on edge, cover the matrix plate 75x70x25mm. This colourful two-generation fluorite is from a small 2016 find near Yiwu City, a very obscure locality in Zhejiang Province, China....
Lustrous purple “Grape Agate” with colourless-white calcite crystals, 60mm wide. From Joe George, aka The Scepter Guy, cascadescepters.com.
Labelled Poona. Most likely Nasik
Type Locality. Tiny blue crystals., Helmut Braith
Ex John Sobolewski, Matt Gibbs
Ex John Sobolewski, Matt Gibbs
Type Locality. Extremely rare chloride-borate of Ca and Sr. Part of holotype. This material is very rare, scarce and presents only in old collections and is completely unaccessible for collecting now., eBay geo-trader. Jaroslaw Skupiewski
Type Locality. Chalky-white microconcretions of satimolite – extremely rare borate mineral. Part of holotype., eBay geo-trader. Jaroslaw Skupiewski
Single gemmy colourless crystal, Hobart Show 2017
Type Locality. Few perfect micro crystals of extremely rare borate mineral (part of holotype), eBay geo-trader. Jaroslaw Skupiewski
Ex John Lewis collection.,
Single thin deep pink crystal 11.65ct, eBay seller
Two crystals in marble, Hobart Show 2017
Type Locality. Ex John Sobolewski, Matt Gibbs
Hemispheres of quartz (described as chalcedony, but not) with grey stilbite.
Chlorite and anatase inclusions in thin needle-like quartz. Minor white albite on quartz. Tiny brown rutile(?) on one quartz crystal.
A stunning colourless fluorapophyllite with a pink stilbite crystal all sitting on drusy quartz. The apophyllite measures 45mm across. Not my photo.
Cobaltoan lithiophorite cementing conglomerate from Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, formerly from the Arthur. L. Flagg (1883-1961) collection, catalogued as asbolite” with inventory number 3990 (black painted number & glued fabric strip). The two other...
Pale pink morganite beryl, labelled as Pakistan but identified as Pech by Rocksaholics. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $290.
Superb twinned chalcopyrite crystals, similar to one found at Mt Lyell in Tasmania. Mindat suggests chalcopyrite is doubtful from this locality.
Perfectly-formed wurtzite crystals, doubly-terminated quartz, plus other sulphides? Purchased at Keystone, priced at $500.
Attractive cluster of chlorite-included quartz. 73x47x47mm.
Three sharp red cinnabar crystals on white dolomite. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection (EWC 437), ex The Aesthetics Underground, Alberta, Canada.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley
Type Locality. ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Golden barite crystals on green fluorite with minor purple edges and minor dusting of pyrite. 110x105x35mm. 532g. #590450.
Purple cubes of fluorite on double quartz crystals. 57x35x22mm. #500640.
Two bluish green topaz crystals on a quartz matrix. Minor arsenopyrite, muscovite and purple fluorite. 45x45x30mm. #520679.
Type Locality. White fragments in a capsule. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection (1686).
Small doubly-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions, many with bubbles (enhydros).
Tiny orange crystals embedded in matrix.
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Klaus Brucksch 3/2005
Dehne McLaughlin 2/2005 – Was labelled as Tong Lou Shang, Guichi, Anhui Province, but in comparing to Mindat photos, is clearly Shilu Mine.
Nice Japan Law twin. See http://www.irocks.com/minerals/specimen/1471. Ex Marylin Dodge Collection.
Hashemite as yellow crystals, ettringite colourless prisms
Type locality. Yellow crusts
Hiromi Yamasaki. Formerly kôzulite.
Minsoc Xmas Auction
Heliodor – Two of a larger lot of individual crystals
Bulla Island (Bulli Island; Ostrov Bulla; Khara-Zire), Caspian Sea, Qobustan District (Gobustan; Kobustan), Azerbaijan
Thumbnail group of three interlocking crystals, previously in the Brian Shelton collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
About 20 1mm gem blue zoned sapphires from a placer deposit.
Numerous perfectly terminated, colour zoned elbaite crystals artfully positioned on a matrix of albite which is coated by a nicely contrasting carpet of tiny white muscovite crystals. 55x30x25mm.
Blue cap elbaite with small brown tantalite 47x42x30mm.
Colourless capped green elbaite on side of quartz crystal 44x26x25mm.
Colourless crystals on matrix of celestine. Micro specimen of a larger piece (since let go).
Pink cap multi-colour single crystal of elbaite. The crystal is doubly terminated and without any damage. 42 ct and 50x20x16mm.
Pink cap multi-colour single crystal of elbaite. The crystal is doubly terminated and without any damage. 43.95 ct and 29x13x12mm.
Deep pink rubellite tourmaline cluster with dark green cores. 33 ct and 30x22x20mm.
Acquired by Jake Slago from Alfredo Petrov at the 2013 Tucson Show. Rocks and Minerals magazine Jul-Aug 2006: The third sentence in this nine page article reads: As with the real blossoms, these stones, known...
White dolomite crystals on superb brown helvite crystals.
Tiny sharp golden fluornatromicrolite on albite, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
A single mesolite crystal from the Pune District (Poonah District), Maharashtra, India. Photo width is 11mm.
Boulangerite crystals in fluorite from the Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. Photo width 11mm.
Brown humite and pink spinel etched out of marble from Luc Yen, Yenbai Province (Yen Bai Province), Vietnam.
