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.
1276 Sonoraite, Emmonsite, Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Single platey crystal of yellowish sonoraite with green emmonsite.
1274 Chalcocite, Cook’s Kitchen Mine, Pool, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Collected in 1820 and acquired from the Captain Sara Collection by Brian Shelton , a beautiful well-formed thumbnail with classic silvery black chalcocite crystals on a quartz matrix.
1270 Barite, Snuff Horn Lead Shaft, Old Moulds Mine, Langthwaite, Arkengarthdale, North Pennines, North Yorkshire, England
A little miniature specimen from early old small shaft workings in the Moulds area. Translucent to clear small ‘spear tip’ baryte crystals in a baryte matrix. Specimen is 30x29mm.
1258 Cerussite, Goldscope Mine, Newlands Valley, Braithwaite District, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England
White micro jack straw cerussite crystals on quartz matrix. From one of the most recognisable locations in the Lake District. The Goldscope workings, now protected, date back to the late Elizabethan 16th Century.
1248 Sphalerite, Quartz, Admiralty Flats, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nent Valley, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England
Quartz epimorph after sphalerite(?) with lustrous sphalerite crystals.
1244 Barite, White Coppice Quarry, Chorley, Lancashire, England
Tiny white micro spear baryte crystals on matrix. A rarely offered location specimen from central Lancashire.
1240 Cuprite, Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Copper crystals showing dissolution features. Ex Arthur L Flagg Collection, 1937. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.
1237 Cuprite, Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
Lustrous red cuprite crystals. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.
1235 Delafossite, Cuprite, Vaalhoek Mine (Valhoek Mine), Pilgrim’s Rest, Pilgrim’s Rest District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Dark delafossite matrix with red cuprite crystals. Ex Arthur L Flagg Collection, 1950s. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection. Labelled as Vaalhoek Mine, Transvaal.
1229 Vauxite, Paravauxite, Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province (Bustillos Province), Potosi Department, Bolivia
Type Locality for both species. Light blue vauxite and aqua green paravauxite. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.