6102 Allanite-(Ce), Titanite, Raglan-Mount Cole road cuts, Raglan, Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire, Victoria
Prismatic allanite-(Ce) crystal broken along C axis with small brown titanite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection.
6100 Metatorbernite, South Alligator Valley Mineral Field (South Alligator Gorge), Northern Territory
Ex-John O. Griesbach well-known and oft published geologist with his personal hand-written label and ex Scott J. Williams with his dealer label. Specimen measures 4 cm. x 3.3 cm. x 2.9 cm.
6099 Malachite, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Vintage micromount that once belonged to the late micromounter, the Rev. Robert Jacoby. Mounted on old time cork pedestals in the kind of vintage cardboard cases that were favored by the top micromounters in this...
6098 Azurite, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Vintage micromount that once belonged to the late micromounter, the Rev. Robert Jacoby. Mounted on old time cork pedestals in the kind of vintage cardboard cases that were favored by the top micromounters in this...
6097 Azurite, Malachite, Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Vintage micromount that once belonged to the late micromounter, the Rev. Robert Jacoby. Mounted on old time cork pedestals in the kind of vintage cardboard cases that were favored by the top micromounters in this...
6096 Caledonite, Linarite, Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine (Mammoth-St Anthony Mine; Mammoth Mine; St. Anthony Mine), St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Neal Yedlin to J.W.Grandy Caledonite: Vintage Micromount. This specimen is from the the Mammoth MIne’s Collins Vein. Specimen display face measures 2 cm. x 1.7 cm. Mounted by the late famous Neal Yedlin apparently on...
6095 Kupletskite, Big Rock Quarry (3M quarry; Arch Street Pike quarry), Granite Mountain area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA
Vintage micromount mounted on Jan. 15, 1986 by Micromount Hall of Famer Marcelle Weber and later acquired by J.W. Grandy, this is as dazzling, showy, and attractive a kupletskite as you’ll ever find from a...
6094 Autunite, Bedford, Westchester Co., New York, USA
Brilliant yellow tabs on a matrix with display face of approximately 2 cm x 1.7 cm. Vintage micromount specimen was mounted by the late master, Neal Yedlin, on a pedestal in a vintage cardboard box...
6093 Arthurite, Majuba Hill Mine (Mylar Mine), Antelope District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA
1.5 cm x 1.2 cm vintage micromount mounted on a pedestal by the renowned late Bill Meinert. Meinert was the past Chairman of the Arthur Roe Memorial Micromount Symposium, held each year by the Tucson...
6092 Fluorite, Riemvasmaak fluorite occurrences, Kakamas District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Light green fluorite octahedrons are featured here partially blanketed with white druzy quartz. The faces of the fluorite has medium luster. The piece measures 1 1/2″ wide by3 3/8″ tall by 1 1/2″ front to...
6091 Barite, Porgera Mine, Mt Kare Valley, Mt Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
A bladed cluster of blocky barite crystals that are white with a bluish hue. These crystals were collected in the early to mid 1990’s. Size: H:6.5cm x W:4.9cm x D:2.2cm
6090 Gypsum, Calcite, Porgera Mine, Mt Kare Valley, Mt Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
A fine doubly terminated gypsum crystal on a cluster of greenish white calcite scalahedrons. The 4.0 cm gypum crystal is splayed at one termination, this occured insitu and was collected in the 1990’s from the...
6089 Gold, Castlemaine, Victoria
Small nugget, about 8mm tall, very coarse with minor quartz
6088 Dioptase, Harquahala Mine, Harquahala Mountains, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
Mounted in 1981 by Emilie Kendig. Labelled as Yuma Co. Now known as the Bonanza Mine and is in La Paz (County boundaries since changed)
6086 Rutheniridosmine, Iridium, Gold, Ironstone Creek, Para Para, South Island, New Zealand
Rutheniridosmine and Iridosmine (iridium) crystalline silvery grey granules, with native gold
6085 Barite, Calcite, Fluorite, Dam Rigg Level, Northside Mines, Whaw, Arkengarthdale, North Pennines, North Yorkshire, England
Lustrous white translucent barite crystals growing on minor calcite from one of the classic old English lead mines. The barite crystals on this piece reach 1.5 cm in maximum length and fluoresce a nice cream-white...
6084 Dolomite, Abbeytown quarry, Ballysadare, Co. Sligo, Ireland
A very nice fully crystalline specimen of light pink dolomite growing free of matrix with just superb crystallization’s growing with minor chalcopyrite and pyrite and measuring 4.5 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm in size. This...
6083 Beryl (Aquamarine), Slievenamiskan, Spelga, Mourne Mts, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
A unique specimen composed of a single well terminated gemmy crystal of light blue aquamarine growing free of matrix and measuring 13 x 8 x 6 mm in size. The specimen comes from a quite...
6080 Gold, Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Victoria
Two small coarse gold in white quartz specimens
6078 Barite, Heathcote, Victoria
Gemmy blue crystals of barite on an off white chalky matrix from Heathcote. Collected by Jon Mommers on a Minsoc Vic field trip in the 1980s, probably 1982
6077 Beryl (Aquamarine), Mount Bolton, Learmonth, Victoria
A single terminated beryl variety aquamarine crystal, which was recovered from a pegmatite. The crystal has a bluish green colour and some iron staining. Described as coming from near Lake Wendouree, Ballarat during Parks works,...
6076 Khmaralite, Zircon point pegmatite, Khmara Bay, Casey Bay, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Type locality. Green splinter on microscope slide. Analysed material. Analysis by Nikita Chukanov, Moscow, Russia.
6071 Fluorite, Esperanza Mine, Melchor Mezquiz, Mun. de Melchor Mezquiz, Coahuila, Mexico
A bright specimen of fluorite with stair-stepped formation. It has very nice dark orchid purple colour. The crystals are translucent with dark phantoms inside. Ex Mike Knew Collection. Mike Knew is the owner of Top...
6070 Wulfenite, Mimetite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mun. de Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Ex Mike Knew Collection. Mike Knew is the owner of Top Gem Minerals in Tucson, Arizona.
6069 Barite, Quartz, Gibraltar Mine, Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
Bright large translucent yellow barite crystals growing on very sparkly quartz crystal matrix. Barite is uncommon at this locality. Ex Mike Knew Collection. Mike Knew is the owner of Top Gem Minerals in Tucson, Arizona.
6065 Gold, Maryborough, Victoria
Alluvial or deep lead nugget with minor quartz, 0.38g.
6062 Gatehouseite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Type locality. Gatehouseite was first found at Iron Monarch in 1987. It occurs as radiating clusters of pale yellow and yellow to pale brownish orange micro crystals with barite and hematite.
6061 Fluorapatite, Schorl, Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson’s Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Victoria
Schorl inclusion in apatite, no matrix. Collected by Margaret Brown 19/3/1996
6058 Aluminite, Ana Mine, Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Not in Mindat. Pale yellow crystalline mass
6054 Arisite-(Ce), Tuperssuatsiaite, Analcime, Aegirine, Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek District, Namibia
Type locality for arisite-(Ce) which is pale pinkish thin hexagonal plates. Tuperssuatsiaite is brownish-red sprays
6053 Cervandonite-(Ce), Mt Cervandone (Scherbadung), Devero Alp, Baceno, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Type locality. Aggregate of black curved crystals
6052 Lautite, Vater Abraham Mine, Lauta, Marienberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Silver aggregate. Said to be from original material of 1881.
6051 Zeophyllite, Aegirine-augite, Phillipsite, Schellkopf, Brenk, Niederzissen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
White aggregates on phillipsite with pale green prismatic crystals of aegirine-augite
6049 Vinogradovite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Small colourless prismatic crystals
6044 Augelite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
Pale green crystals. Ex Al Ordway Collection, ex Bill Muller
6042 Sphalerite, Quartz, Siderite, Gypsum, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Tasmania
Collected. Gypsum post-mining?
6041 Mimetite (Bellite), Diaboleite, Schwartzembergite, Gypsum, La Poderosa Mine, Caracoles, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Orange prismatic bellite, blue diaboleite, yellow schwartzembergite