1224 Gold, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Gold in matrix, 10x5mm. Ex Roland Fogg MM Collection, 1971. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.
1221 Silver, McMillanville (McMillanville District), Globe Hills, Globe Hills District, Globe-Miami District, Gila Co., Arizona, USA
A dense aggregate of native silver wires, 9x6mm. Ex Roland Fogg MM Collection, 1967. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.
1219 Calcite, after Aragonite, Fort Collins area, Larimer Co., Colorado, USA
Pseudomorph. Labelled as calcite ps hanksite, Larimer Co., California. Described as rarely seen pseudomorph with label indication that it was in the American Museum Natural History and dated 12/11/78. Diameter is 2.5 cm. There are...
1217 Platinum, Tuba River, Western Siberia, Russia
Several dozen of these little nuggets, at least, mounted on a square of stiff yellow paper glued to the top of a cork pedestal in a two piece black plastic micromount display case. From the...
1215 Sugilite, Norrishite, Hoskins mine, Grenfell, Forbes Co., New South Wales
Purple specs of sugilite with brownish-black norrishite. Ex Joan Lamond specimen 3165. Joan acquired it from the Melbourne Museum in 1999.
1189 Variscite, Beauvoir quarry, Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Prismatic colourless crystals. Superb!
1167 Bastnaesite-(Ce), Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Ariege, Midi-Pyrenees, France
Well-formed hexagonal plates.
1159 Klebelsbergite, Sulphur, Stibnite, Pereta Mine, Pereta, Scansano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
White needles of klebelsbergite with yellow sulphur on stibnite. Have previous Jrgen label.
1156 Dundasite, Hemma adit, Schwall, Zeltschach, Friesach – Huttenberg area, Carinthia, Austria
White sprays on gossan. Have previous Jrgen label.
1142 Gismondine, Graulay (Graulai; Graulei; Grauley), Hillesheim, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
White octahedral crystals with greenish pyroxene.
1118 Cuprite, Gypsum, Cobaltoan Calcite, Mutooroo Mine, Pine Creek – Mutooroo area, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia
Single gypsum blade with well-formed cuprite crystals on pink calcite. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
1104 Kozyrevskite, Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast’, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
This NEW SPECIES occurs as very tiny, grass-green to light green aggregates of coarse prismatic to acicular crystals on volcanic scoria, typically with darker green undefined Cu-sulfates and occasionally black tenorite. Formula: Cu4O(AsO4)2 ? orthorhombic...
1098 Kolwezite, Cobaltoan Calcite, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
Tufts of acicular green crystals on pink cobaltoan calcite.
1095 Ettringite, Wessels Mine (Wessel’s Mine), Hotazel, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Yellow unusual almost tabular flattened prismatic crystals. Acquired at the 2013 Artisan’s Festival, Ballarat.
1089 Azurite, Malachite, Anglesite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Sharp distinct crystals of azurite, and lesser anglesite, on malachite. Previously in the Terry Enwright collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
1073 Chlorapatite, South Dakota, USA
ex H.Worner Collection #63
1069 Azurite, Malachite, Burra Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Minor malachite balls on bladed azurite. Previously in the Terry Enwright collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
1065 Beryl (Aquamarine), Mendes Pimentel, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Single pale greenish rounded thumbnail crystal. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
1064 Stibnite, Ichinokawa mine, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan
Thumbnail group of three interlocking crystals, previously in the Brian Shelton collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
1062 Copper, Bisbee, Warren District, Cochise County, Arizona
A mass of solid copper, whose crystallization is mostly crude. However a few distinct crystals reaching 1.1 cm are present. This specimen is almost completely free of green patina. Weighs 164 grams. 6.1×5.0x 3.3cm from...
1061 Copper, Bisbee, Arizona
A mass of solid copper, whose crystallization is mostly crude. However a few distinct crystals reaching 1.1 cm are present. This specimen is almost completely free of green patina. Weighs 164 grams. 6.1×5.0x 3.3cm from...
1059 Mendipite, Hydrocerussite, Cerussite, Torr Works Quarry (Merehead Quarry), Cranmore, Somerset, England
Specimen measures 3.3×3.1×1.8cm and is affixed with mineral tack on a white plastic square. It bears the label of the late and legendary David Shannon with a notation that he sold it in October, 1989.
1046 Corundum (Sapphire), Anamushi alluvials, Kashiba City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
About 20 1mm gem blue zoned sapphires from a placer deposit.
1016 Gold, Second Broad river, Rutherford Co., North Carolina, USA
Four gold nuggets panned by Charles Willett in Second Broad River, Near Marion,, Rutherford Co., mounted on cork post (standard micromount support).
1013 Gold, Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Georgia, USA
Gold nugget panned by E Lee Wood. Mounted by Charles Willett on a cactus needle.
1000 Whewellite, Gluck Auf Schacht, Burgk, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
1.18x.95x.75cm, ex Freiberg Academy. A rare, old time example of this unusual mineral species from Germany. This specimen host a complex, gemmy, colorless crystal of whewellite on a small amount of matrix. The crystal has...
0987 Pyromorphite, Plumbogummite, Sylvester Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania
Labelled as hinsdalite, but now thought to be plumbogummite from this location.
0979 Emerald, Muzo Mine, Mun. de Muzo, Vasquez-Yacopi Mining District, Boyaca Department, Colombia
Trapiche emerald Type 2 star ~3mm across
0978 Jasper, Loire River alluvials, Amboise, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France
Waterworn pieces of jasper collected by Laura Gadsden in 2013
0971 Chrysothallite, Belloite, Avdoninite, Chlorothionite, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough (North Breach), Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast’, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Another NEW SPECIES from this bizarre geological environment in Kamchatka, chrysothallite occurs as extremely small, bright golden yellow, equant micro crystals perched in scoria vugs, often with olive green belloite and occasionally other rare species...
0963 Stilbite, Chlorite (Corrensite?), Natrolite, Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, USA
Neal Yedlin mount. The label is affixed atop another label on one of the old carboard micromount display cases as were popular in the first half of the 20th Century. Display face measures 1.6×1.6cm. Specimen...
0930 Elbaite, Albite, Muscovite, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Numerous perfectly terminated, colour zoned elbaite crystals artfully positioned on a matrix of albite which is coated by a nicely contrasting carpet of tiny white muscovite crystals. 55x30x25mm.
