CCN0249 | |||||
Pyrite, Hubeite with Calcite, Quartz | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 8x6x5cm | 270g | |||
Brown hubeite as well as pyrite and apophyllite growing on white dolomite rhombohedrons. Unfortunately many pyrite xls are damaged. | |||||
BAT1170 | |||||
Tyrolite with Azurite | |||||
Falkenstein district, Schwaz, Brixlegg - Schwaz area, Inn valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 3x1.8x0.7cm | ||||
Bluish green platy sprays of tyrolite (calcium copper arsenate) xls on both sides of the specimen. Associated by other copper minerals, namely azurite (dark blue) and probably devilline (light blue). Type locality for tyrolite. | |||||
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CRU0581 | |||||
Charoite, Aegirine | |||||
Murun Massif, Chara River, Davan, Torgo River Basin, Aldan Shield, Saha (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5x4.5x3cm | 55g | |||
Pale violet charoite intergrown with aegirine needles. Older specimen (the mineral was described in 1978) with collection label. | |||||
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BAT1171 | |||||
Tyrolite with Azurite | |||||
Falkenstein district, Schwaz, Brixlegg - Schwaz area, Inn valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 3.8x2.5x0.7cm | ||||
Bluish green platy sprays of tyrolite (calcium copper arsenate) xls on both sides of the specimen. Associated by other copper minerals, namely azurite (dark blue) and probably devilline (light blue). Type locality for tyrolite. | |||||
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BCZ0636 | |||||
Slavikite | |||||
Skrivan, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 3.8x1.7x1cm | ||||
Cream colored crust of this rare sulfate mineral. Type locality | |||||
ARU1600 | |||||
Wiluite | |||||
Vilyui (Vilui, Wilui) River Basin, Saha Republic (Sakha Republic, Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (TL) | |||||
Thumbnail | 1.7x1.3x1.3cm | ||||
Rare member of the vesuvianite group. Type locality. | |||||
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ADE0644 | |||||
Faujasite with Offretite | |||||
Limberg Quarries, Sasbach, Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (TL) | |||||
Thumbnail | 1.2x1.2x0.8cm | ||||
Several freestanding colorless transparent octahedral xls of this rare isometric zeolite. Just visible with the bare eye. Associated with other zeolites. Type locality for faujasite. | |||||
CDE0640 | |||||
Faujasite with Offretite | |||||
Limberg Quarries, Sasbach, Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5.5x4.5x3.5cm | 65g | |||
Several freestanding sharp, clear octahedral xls of this rare isometric zeolite. Just visible with the bare eye. Associated with other zeolites. Type locality. | |||||
BDE0643 | |||||
Faujasite with Offretite, Erionite | |||||
Limberg Quarries, Sasbach, Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 4.2x2.2x2cm | 13g | |||
Several freestanding octahedral xls of this rare isometric zeolite. Just visible with the bare eye. Associated with other zeolites. Type locality for faujasite. | |||||
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BCZ1156 | |||||
Heyrovskyite Pb10AgBi5S18 | |||||
Hurky u Cista, Velka Chmelistna (Grossmeleschen), Rakovnik, Bohemia (Boehmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 4.3x2.3x2cm | 16g | |||
Silvery-gray irregular grains to 9mm with occasional crystal faces. Rare lead silver bismuth sulfide from the type locality! | |||||
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CCN0927 | |||||
Apophyllite, Hubeite with Quartz | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5.5x3x3cm | 31g | |||
Transparent, flat apophyllite xls, interspersed with hubeite clusters to 3mm, covering a quartz and dolomite matrix. Hubeite type locality | |||||
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BDE1076 | |||||
Miargyrite | |||||
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Braeunsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 3.3x2x1.2cm | ||||
Grains and patches of miargyrite (to several mm) in quartz matrix. From the type locality, a long defunct mine in the Freiberg mining district. | |||||
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CUS0575 | |||||
Meta-Schoderite Al2PO4VO4x6H2O | |||||
VanNavSan Claim, Fish Creek Range, Gibellini District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5.8x5x3.3cm | 54g | |||
Thin olive yellow to brownish orange colored crust of metaschoderite and other vanadium minerals. Mined at least 15 years ago. Type locality! | |||||
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BRU0480 | |||||
Tausonite SrTiO3 | |||||
Murun Massif, Chara River, Davan, Torgo River Basin, Aldan Shield, Saha (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 3x1.5x1.3cm | ||||
Well developed x (1mm, dark brown) of this rare strontium titanium mineral. This is the natural analogon of the synthetic material "fabulite". Type locality. | |||||
BBL0477 | |||||
Cylindrite Pb3Sn4FeSb2S14 with Sphalerite | |||||
Poopo town, Poopo Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 4.2x2.6x2.6cm | 44g | |||
Numerous cylindrical xls in massive sphalerite. From the type location. | |||||
CGR0621 | |||||
Laurionite PbClOH | |||||
Lavrion District Mines, Attiki (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5x5x4cm | 90g | |||
Colorless needles to 3mm in vugs of ancient silver mining slag. Type locality. More xls of other white minerals on the specimen. From the famous Laurion mining area (the last mine closed in 1977). | |||||
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CES1177 | |||||
Jarosite with Hematite, Goethite | |||||
Jaroso Ravine, Sierra Almagrera, Los Lobos, Cuevas de Almanzora, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 6x5x3.5cm | 125g | |||
Vug in hematite matrix, lined with sharp, lustrous, dark brown transparent jarosite xls to about 2mm. Excellent crystallization from the type locality. | |||||
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CCN1355 | |||||
Hubeite with Apophyllite, Dolomite, Quartz | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 7.5x4.5x3.5cm | 90g | |||
Wild jumble of transparent apophyllite, brown hubeite and light brown dolomite, all well crystallized, growing on a single quartz x. Floater specimen from the type locality of hubeite. | |||||
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CCN1411 | |||||
Hubeite with Quartz | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5x3x2.5cm | ||||
Very well developed crystallization of hubeite, quite large for this species. From the type locality of this rare manganese mineral! | |||||
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CCN0931 | |||||
Hubeite with Apophyllite, Quartz, Pyrite | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5.5x3.5x2.5cm | 29g | |||
Brown crusts of hubeite included apophyllite covering several quartz tips growing out of a double terminated phantom quartz! Hubeite type locality. | |||||
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CAT1169 | |||||
Tyrolite with Azurite | |||||
Falkenstein district, Schwaz, Brixlegg - Schwaz area, Inn valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 7.5x6.5x3cm | 148g | |||
Very rich covering of bluish green platy sprays of tyrolite (calcium copper arsenate) on both sides of the specimen. Associated by other copper minerals, namely azurite (dark blue) and probably devilline (light blue). Type locality for tyrolite. | |||||
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BNA0633 | |||||
Germanite Cu13Fe2Ge2S16, Renierite | |||||
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 2.2x1.4x0.9cm | ||||
Pinkish violet patches of germanite and bronze pink renierite in massive polymetallic sulfide ore. Type locality for germanite. | |||||
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BCA1159 | |||||
Hawleyite CdS, Plumbojarosite with Galena, Sphalerite, Siderite | |||||
Hector-Calumet mine, Calumet, Galena Hill, Mayo Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 3.3x3x2cm | 29g | |||
Bright yellow microcrystalline crusts on a matrix of siderite (light brown), galena, sphalerite (reddish black) and plumbojarosite (yellow-brown). Hawleyite is the cubic equivalent of greenockite. Rare cadmium mineral from the type locality! | |||||
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CCN0929 | |||||
Hubeite, Inesite with Quartz, Apophyllite, Pyrite | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 8x4x4cm | 90g | |||
Freestanding clusters of hubeite with individual xls to 3mm, some partially included in apophyllite, growing on quartz. Pyrite cubes. Individual inesite xls to 5mm. Good hubeite crystallization from the type locality. | |||||
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CCN0930 | |||||
Hubeite with Quartz, Chalcopyrite | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 8x5x3cm | 74g | |||
Freestanding clusters of hubeite with individual xls to 5mm (!) growing on quartz. Well developed chalcopyrite xls. Excellent hubeite crystallization from the type locality. | |||||
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CCN0933 | |||||
Inesite, Hubeite included Quartz with Pyrite | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5.5x5x5cm | 178g | |||
Salmon colored inesite xls to 1.5cm associated with quartz xls and pyrite. Note the hubeite inclusion in one of the quartz xls. | |||||
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BCN0966 | |||||
Inesite, Babingtonite with Hubeite, Quartz, Chalcopyrite | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Miniature | 4x3.5x3cm | 25g | |||
Three of the rarer species from Fengjiashan Mine on a single specimen: several pink inesite xls to 1cm, numerous mm sized babingtonite xls and brown hubeite xls as overgrowth on rock crystals. All species are well crystallized and undamaged! Thumbnail floater. | |||||
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CDE1606 | |||||
Preisingerite, Bismutite ps Bismuthinite | |||||
Arme Hilfe Mine, Ullersreuth, Hirschberg, Vogtland, Thuringia, Germany (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 5x4x3cm | 70g | |||
Rare secondary bismuth minerals: Dark grey preisingerite (analyzed) and bismutite (white to yellow, partially pseudomorph after bismuthinite) in brown limonite matrix. Found 2005. Bismutite type locality. | |||||
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ARC0641 | |||||
Kalipyrochlore | |||||
Lueshe Mine, Kivu, Dem Rep Congo (Zaire), (TL) | |||||
Thumbnail | 0.7x0.6x0.6cm | ||||
Octahedral x from the type locality (and probably only locality) of this rare niobium mineral. The specimen was found in the mid 1970s, then called safiannikoffite. | |||||
CCN0792 | |||||
Apophyllite, Hubeite, Calcite, Quartz var Amethyst | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 6.5x4.5x3cm | 69g | |||
Apophyllite xls to 1.5cm growing on a calcite and amethyst matrix. In between the apophyllie are minute xls of hubeite.. | |||||
CIT1172 | |||||
Augite var Fassaite, Vesuvianite with Calcite | |||||
Fassa Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 9x8x6cm | 436g | |||
Green xls of fassaite (to 5mm, some transparent!) intergrown with brown vesuvianite (to 1.5cm, some peripheral xls damaged) and blue calcite. Colorful combination from a famous findplace, the type locality for augite var. fassaite. The base is saw-trimmed. | |||||
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CKA1200 | |||||
Dioptase | |||||
Altyn-Tyube (Altyn-Tube) deposit, Kirghiz Steppes (Asiatic Steppes), Qaraghandy Oblysy (Karaganda Oblast), Kazakhstan (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 7x7x4cm | 233g | |||
Dioptase xls to 1cm. Tips slightly damaged on one side, does however not distract from the overall appearance. Type locality. | |||||
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CCN0932 | |||||
Hubeite, Dolomite, Calcite, Apophyllite with Quartz | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 9x6x5cm | 215g | |||
Sharp white dolomite rhombohedrons to 3cm completely overgrown ("iced") by flat transparent calcite xls. The secondary coating (only on one side) consists of clear apophyllite and quartz, both crystallized. Included in the apophyllite and also freestanding are clusters of brown hubeite. Type locality. Looks better (more regular) in person! | |||||
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CCN1361 | |||||
Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Hubeite with Quartz, Dolomite | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Small Cabinet | 8.5x6x5.5cm | 245g | |||
One side of the specimen is dominated by a combination of brown crusts of hubeite included quartz and pyrite cubes, and the other side is dominated by rounded tetrahedrons of chalcopyrite (to 1cm) and dolomite xls overgrown by quartz. | |||||
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CDE0659 | |||||
Uranocircite with Barite, Quartz | |||||
Streuberg Quarry, Bergen, Falkenstein, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany (TL) | |||||
Small Cabinet | 6x4x4cm | 170g | |||
Freestanding, well crystallized platy uranocircite on barite matrix (a strong indicator that it is actually uranocircite and not autunite) from the type locality. The strong daylight fluorescence provides a stark contrast to the surrounding smoky quartz xls. Found in 1986. | |||||
fluorescent LW and SW bright greenish yellow! | |||||
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BDE1069 | |||||
Pucherite, Schumacherite | |||||
Pucher Shaft, Wolfgang Maassen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 4.2x3.5x1.8cm | 37g | |||
Very well developed xls of reddish brown pucherite, as well as brownish yellow crusts of schumacherite, two rare bismuth vanadates. From a long defunct mine, type locality for schumacherite. | |||||
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CUS0471 | |||||
Jahnsite-(CaMnMg) | |||||
Tip Top Mine (TL), Custer Co., South Dakota, USA | |||||
Small Cabinet | 7.5x6.5x5cm | 263g | |||
Rich covering of brown xls, up to 2mm, as big as they get. Type locality. The mine is no longer in operation and flooded. Mined in the 80s. | |||||
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DCN0928 | |||||
Manganilvaite, Hubeite with Dolomite, Quartz, Pyrite | |||||
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China | |||||
Cabinet | 10.5x8x7.5cm | 382g | |||
Black clusters of manganilvaite xls and brown crusts of hubeite included apophyllite, covering a quartz and dolomite matrix. Unusual association! Hubeite type locality. | |||||
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DCH1214 | |||||
Orthoclase var Adularia, Limonite ps Hematite with Chlorite | |||||
St Gotthard Massif, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland (TL) | |||||
Cabinet | 18x11x7cm | 900g | |||
Classical alpine combination of milky white adularia xls, dark green chlorite and a 1.8cm "Eisenrose" (iron rose) hematite altered to limonite. From an older collection, found before 1980. | |||||
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BCA1146 | |||||
Kulanite, Siderite | |||||
Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada (TL) | |||||
Miniature | 3x2.5x1.8cm | 20g | |||
Blocky dark green kulanite xls to 0.7cm in association with yellow transparent siderite and a colorless transparent, striated x, possibly wardite. Kulanite is a rare barium iron phosphate. Type locality. Note that the size and appearance of the largest x is quite exceptional for this species! | |||||
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