Europe – Page 4 – The Pebble Collection

Bulgaria Europe

10059 Sphalerite, Galena, Quartz, Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria

Sharp crystals of sphalerite and galena. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $24.

October 5, 2019

Europe Portugal

10065 Fluorapatite, Quartz, Tourmaline, Pyrite, Panasqueira Mine – Couto Mineiro da Panasqueira, Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco District, Portugal

Purple hexagonal apatite crystals on a pale smoky quartz with tourmaline inclusions and minor pyrite.

October 5, 2019

Europe Italy

10033 Protochabourneite, Arsiccioite, Pyrite, Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy

Type Locality for both species. This relatively NEW SPECIES was approved in 2011 but has only recently reached the mineral market (October 2014). Protochabourneite occurs as black micro granular aggregates sparely scattered in quartz/pyrite matrix,...

October 5, 2019

Europe Hungary

10012 Quartz, Barite, Hungary

Quartz pseudomorph after barite. Ex Brother Juan Salvador, FMS, a volunteer at the AMNH in the 1880s. His card apparently read One of the great treasures of my collection, 16/7/1884. Ex American Museum of Natural...

October 5, 2019

Europe Germany

10013 Calcite, Millerite, Hematite, St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Flat topped colourless prisms of calcite on matrix. The underside has acicular millerite (rare at this location) and hematite. Ex Aug Kranz hand-written label carbonate of lime. Ex A. Kranz in Bonn, Oct 23. Ex...

October 5, 2019

Europe Russia

4662 Azoproite, Tazheranskii Massif (Tazheran Massif), Lake Baikal area, Irkutskaya Oblast’, Prebaikalia (Pribaikal’e), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Type Locality. Small shiny black crystalline masses and grains of this unusual borate in white brucite marble. Analysed material, obtained in 2001. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (3828)

October 5, 2019

Europe Russia

4658 Kamchatkite, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast’, Far-Eastern Region, Russia

Type Locality. Tiny green chip in capsule. Alters in air. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (3839).

October 5, 2019

Europe Russia Type Locality

4659 Type Locality. Fedorovskite, Solongo B deposit, Vitim Plateau, Buriatia Republic (Buryatia), Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Small capsule of brown fibrous material of this rare manganese borate mineral. Obtained in 1997. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (3345)

October 5, 2019

Asia Kazakhstan

4656 Preobrazhenskite, Inder B deposit and salt dome, Atyrau (Gur’yev), Atyrau Province (Atyrau Oblysy; Atyrau Oblast’), Kazakhstan

Type Locality. White fragments in a capsule. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection (1686).

October 5, 2019

Europe Russia

4661 Arctite, Koashva Open Pit, Koashva Mt, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast’, Northern Region, Russia

Small, glassy colourless inclusions (fluorescent blue in SW UV) in natrolite. A very rare sodium-calcium-barium phosphate, obtained in 2008 (at some cost!). Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (4408)