1597 Stilbite-(Ca), Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA
Colourless crystals partly on epidote. Ex Bob Trimingham Collection #T-10527, acquired by him in 1987, purchased for $5 from Parker Minerals. Marked at US$8 by Jewel Tunnel Imports, but Keystone.
1593 Mimetite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Zoned hegagonal prisms. Ex Joan Lamond specimen #3972.
1576 Barite, Malachite, Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Za‹re)
Malachite on colourless-grey barite crystals. Ex Downunder Minerals.
1570 Cuprite, Copper, Gypsum, Pit F0 Supergene Deposit, Boddington Gold Mine, Boddington, Western Australia
Originally thought to be barite, but no barium in analyses, so more likely gypsum.
1568 Rosickýite, Unspecified offshore drill hole (Pacific Ocean), Ventura Co., California, USA
Tiny yellow crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1547 Gold, Fiery Creek, Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire, Victoria
Crystalline nugget 4.66g.
1534 Gold, Rhine river alluvials, Kembs, Sierentz, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France
Sealed glass ampule containing many flattened flakes of gold. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
1517 Zircon, Point Leo, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
Waterworn zircons half-filling a micro box. Colours range from pale yellow to dark reddish brown. Many fluoresce bright yellow under shortwave UV. Collected by Ron and Betty Wallace.
1512 Barite, Calcite, Old Moulds Mine, Langthwaite, Arkengarthdale, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Labelled as barytocalcite (not listed in Mindat), but could be barite. Colourless to white crystal aggregates. Width of view 6mm. Stack og 86 images.
1497 Azurite, Malachite, Cuprite, Mineral Hill Mine, Talingaboolba, Condobolin, Kennedy Co., New South Wales
Sharp blue azurite crystals on and around a cuprite crystal replaced by malachite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
1486 Picromerite, Leonite, Halite, Neuhof-Ellers Potash Works, Neuhof, Fulda, Hesse, Germany
White picromerite crystals (dehydrated to white, opaque leonite) with colourless halite.
1481 Gruzdevite, Tellurite, Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Yellow-green tellurite. Grey-metallic gruzdevite microcrystals are embedded in the matrix. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection number 1026. Ex John Betts number 58658.
1478 Birnessite, Serandite, Leucophanite, Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry; Carriere Mont Saint-Hilaire), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Brown-black birnessite pseudomorph after a prismatic 20mm serandite crystal with no matrix attached. The serandite crystallized first, the birnessite replaced the serandite atom-by-atom maintaining the crystal form, but changing the composition. Green crystals are leucophanite....
1469 Srebrodolskite, Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Brown micro veins. Probably from the same stock as is being sold by David Garske (1/2014) which is from Tony Jones, 2013, ex David Shannon, ex Mikon.
1453 Gold, California, USA
11 well-formed gold crystals. Ex Hugh Ford. Ex Eugene Carmichael, number 1401.
1438 Dravite, Zircon, Yinnietharra Station, Gascoyne, Western Australia
Zircon inclusion in dravite.
1409 Anatase, Muscovite, Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
Tiny very sharp anatase crystals with beige muscovite
1392 Inesite, N’Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Red crystals of inesite with minor calcite.
1391 Sogdianite, Wessels Mine (Wessel’s Mine), Hotazel, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
The rare lithium bearing double-ring silicate sogdianite is rich in this mount which has a display face of 17x9mm. Specimen is mounted on a pedestal in a two part plastic (black bottom, clear top) micromount...
1387 Hellyerite, Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania
From an old collection (dated 3/89), this 8x6x4mm piece is secured with mineral tack to a cardboard base in a clear plastic two piece micromount display case. Aqcuired from Jake Slagle, Baltimore.
1366 Jennite, Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
White crystalline. Ex Milt Soman.
