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.
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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)
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).
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)
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)
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).
4651 Oxycalciopyrochlore, Magnetite, Schelingen, Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Reddish-brown loose crystals. Ex Dennis McMurdie, ex Minerals Unlimited. Originally called koppite.
4626 Tavagnascoite, Esperance superiore tunnel, Tavagnasco Mine, Tavagnasco, Canavese District, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Type Locality. A couple of tiny white crystals on matrix. Approved 2015.
4627 Cortesognoite, Molinello Mine, Graveglia Valley, Ne, Genova Province, Liguria, Italy
Type Locality. Tan crystals on matrix. Approved 2014.
4600 Uvarovite, Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya Village (Sarany), Gornozavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast’, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia
Type Locality. Rich green uvarovite crystals to 1mm on every side.
4567 Sphalerite, Dolomite, Treves, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Jean-Vincent Coureau
4569 Cacoxenite, La Lande quarry, Plumelin, Morbihan, Brittany, France
Jean-Vincent Coureau
4406 Pseudolaueite, Hagendorf South (Hagendorf Sud) Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Jim Daly 11/2007 (Roy I. Grim coll’n)
4405 Schoonerite, Hagendorf South (Hagendorf Sud) Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Jim Daly 11/2007 (Roy I. Grim coll’n)
4290 Lemmleinite-Mg, Kovdor Zheleznyi Mine (Iron Mine), Kovdor Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Sauktown 6/2006. Likely Lemmleinite-Ba (no such mineral as Lemmleinite-Mg)
4136 Smithsonite, Sheshodonnell Mine, Castletown, Co. Clare, Eire
Richard Bell 9/2005
4043 Ekaterinite, Korshunov Deposit, Lower Ilim, Irkutsk, Transbaikalia, Russia
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
4035 Beryllonite, Viitaniemi, Erajarvi, Etela-Suomen Laani, Finland
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
4031 Aphthitalite, Monte Somma (Mt Vesuvius), Naples, Campana, Italy
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
3992 Sillenite, Eulytine, Grube Weihauptel, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Diederik Visser 3/2005
3985 Neustadtelite, Bismutite, Galdner Falk Mine, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Diederik Visser 3/2005
3986 Anatase, Quartz, Orthoclase (Adularia), Ankogel area, Tauern, Austria
Diederik Visser 3/2005
3989 Lavendulan, Fluorite, Grube St. Johannes, Wolkenstein, Germany
Diederik Visser 3/2005
3990 Ludwigite, Szaibelyite (Ascharite), Grube Pohla, Schwartzenberg, Saxony, Germany
Diederik Visser 3/2005
3919 Linarite, Pilou, Diahot, Northern Province, New Caledonia
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3921 Uvarovite, Anna-Madeleine Mine, Mont Dore, Southern Province, New Caledonia
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3922 Hematite, Goro, Yate, Southern Province, New Caledonia
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3923 Siderite, Goro, Yate, Southern Province, New Caledonia
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3904 Strengite, Quartz, Les Montmins Mine, Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3907 Hemimorphite, Rivet Quarry, Peyrebrune, Realmont, Tarn, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3908 Calcite, La Baume, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3898 Cuprite, Salsigne Mine, Salsigne, Montagne Noire, Aude, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3899 Galena, Fluorite, La Boule, Le Kaymar, Lunel, Aveyron, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3889 Phillipsite, Natrolite, Detroit de Rodez, Rodez, Aveyron, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3890 Pyromorphite, La Maladrerie, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3891 Linarite, La Baume, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3892 Siderite, La Maladrerie, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
3766 Cristobalite, Fluorvarulite, Zinkhutte Genna, Letmathe, Germany
Fluorvarulite not a species – unknown what this is.
3571 Derbylite, Bucadella Mine, Vena, Seravezza, Lucca, Toscana, Italy
Collected Nov 1993