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...
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...
Purple specs of sugilite with brownish-black norrishite. Ex Joan Lamond specimen 3165. Joan acquired it from the Melbourne Museum in 1999.
Prismatic colourless crystals. Superb!
Well-formed hexagonal plates.
White needles of klebelsbergite with yellow sulphur on stibnite. Have previous Jrgen label.
White sprays on gossan. Have previous Jrgen label.
White octahedral crystals with greenish pyroxene.
Single gypsum blade with well-formed cuprite crystals on pink calcite. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
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...
Tufts of acicular green crystals on pink cobaltoan calcite.
Yellow unusual almost tabular flattened prismatic crystals. Acquired at the 2013 Artisan’s Festival, Ballarat.
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.
ex H.Worner Collection #63
Minor malachite balls on bladed azurite. Previously in the Terry Enwright collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
Single pale greenish rounded thumbnail crystal. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
Thumbnail group of three interlocking crystals, previously in the Brian Shelton collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
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...
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...
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.
About 20 1mm gem blue zoned sapphires from a placer deposit.
Four gold nuggets panned by Charles Willett in Second Broad River, Near Marion,, Rutherford Co., mounted on cork post (standard micromount support).
Gold nugget panned by E Lee Wood. Mounted by Charles Willett on a cactus needle.
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...
Labelled as hinsdalite, but now thought to be plumbogummite from this location.
Trapiche emerald Type 2 star ~3mm across
Waterworn pieces of jasper collected by Laura Gadsden in 2013
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...
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...
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.
