71 specimens found!

BCN0254	_6 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	2.6x1.8x1cm
Darker than in the picture; no matrix. Found before 2003.

BCN0252	_7 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	3x1.6x1.6cm	11g
Darker than in the picture; no matrix. Found before 2003.

AMX0467	_7 €
Boleite
Boleo, Baja California, Mexico
Thumbnail	0.3x0.3x0.3cm
Individual x (top right in the picture). Deep blue internal reflections. No matrix

BCN1402	_7 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	2x1x0.9cm
Cluster of large pyromorphite xls, some skeletal. Deep green color. No matrix. These large crystals, unlike smaller xls, are usually loosely attached to the matrix or occur as floaters.
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BCN0251	_8 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	3x2x1.7cm	18g
Darker than in the picture; no matrix. Found before 2003.

ACN0255	_8 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Thumbnail	1.5x1.2x0.8cm	2g
The only bluish green specimen available. Minor matrix

BMX0570	_8 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature	2x1.5x1.5cm
Grayish green spherical mimetite and yellow transparent wulfenite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.

ACN1399	_9 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Thumbnail	1.9x1x1cm
Cluster of large pyromorphite xls, some skeletal. Deep green color. No matrix. These large crystals, unlike smaller xls, are usually loosely attached to the matrix or occur as floaters.
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ACN1401	_9 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Thumbnail	1.6x1x1cm
Cluster of large pyromorphite xls, some skeletal. Deep green color. No matrix. These large crystals, unlike smaller xls, are usually loosely attached to the matrix or occur as floaters.
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AMX0465	_10 €
Boleite
Boleo, Baja California, Mexico
Thumbnail	0.4x0.4x0.3cm
Individual x (top left in the picture). Deep blue internal reflections. No matrix

BCN1398	_10 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	2.1x1.5x1.2cm
Cluster of large pyromorphite xls, some skeletal. Deep green color. No matrix. These large crystals, unlike smaller xls, are usually loosely attached to the matrix or occur as floaters.
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BCN0253	_11 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	2.9x2.8x1.3cm	19g
Darker than in the picture; no matrix. Found before 2003.

BCN0256	_11 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	2.5x2x1.5cm
Yellow green matrix specimen. Translucent xls.

BCN1400	_11 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	2.4x0.7x0.6cm
Cluster of large pyromorphite xls, some skeletal. Deep green color. No matrix. These large crystals, unlike smaller xls, are usually loosely attached to the matrix or occur as floaters.
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BMX0564	_12 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature	4.5x4.5x2cm	28g
Grayish green spherical mimetite, yellow transparent wulfenite and yellow-brown adamite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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BMX0566	_12 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite, Adamite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature	3.5x2.5x2cm
Grayish green spherical mimetite and yellow transparent wulfenite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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BMX0569	_12 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature	3.5x2.5x2cm
Grayish green spherical mimetite and yellow transparent wulfenite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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CMX0562	_15 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite, Adamite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Small Cabinet	8x6x5cm	198g
Grayish green spherical mimetite, yellow transparent wulfenite and yellow-brown adamite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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CMX0563	_15 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Small Cabinet	9x6x6cm	239g
Grayish green spherical mimetite and yellow transparent wulfenite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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CMC0605	_15 €
Cerussite with Barite
Mibladen, Morocco
Small Cabinet	7x3x1.5cm	50g
Black sulfide matrix and pink barite covered with transparent cerussite xls to 3mm. Small damages in the periphery. Mined in the 80s.
fluorescent LW strongly yellow cerussite!
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BDE0650	_15 €
Plattnerite, Minium
Churfuerst Ernst Mine, Boenkhausen, Sundern, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Miniature	2x1.5x1cm
Brown crusts of plattnerite and bright red flakes of minium. Collected in 1978, when collecting was still possible in the dumps of this ancient mine.
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BDE0652	_15 €
Proustite, Galena
Alte Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Kleinvoigtsberg, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Miniature	2.3x2x1.5cm	12g
Most of the sulfide part of this specimen consists of blackish galena. Interspersed are some irregular proustite xls (to 2mm), quite dark (brownish red with submetallic luster) and difficult to distinguish from the galena. From an old mine that is long out of operation.
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BMX0565	_16 €
Mimetite, Mimetesit
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature	3x2x1.5cm
Grayish green spherical mimetite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm.

BMX0567	_16 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature	2.5x2.5x2cm	11g
Grayish green spherical mimetite and yellow transparent wulfenite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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ADE0657	_16 €
Vauquelinite, Crocoite
Callenberg North open cut No1, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany
Thumbnail	1.8x1.7x0.8cm
Very colorful specimen with orange red crocoite and greenish yellow vauquelinite. Crocoite occurred in this mine from 1977 to 1986. The mine closed down in 1990.
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CMC1165	_16 €
Cerussite with Barite
Mibladen Mine, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Small Cabinet	5.5x4x3.3cm	73g
Colorless transparent cerussite cluster of 1.5x1cm (undamaged) on a background of smaller, highly lustrous cerussite xls and pink barite blades.
fluorescent LW yellow cerussite, SW multicolor yellow and red
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BCN1354	_16 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Miniature	3.5x2x2cm	23g
Bright green pyromorphite associated by yellow and black minerals, both not analyzed and (in the case of the black mineral) rarely seen on Daoping specimens.
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BSL1219	_17 €
Wulfenite
Helena Mine, Crna (Schwarzenbach), Mezica (Miess), Slovenia
Miniature	2.6x1.6x0.8cm
Cluster of orange to brownish orange xls. Contacted on the back of the specimen. Famous locality.

CMX0561	_18 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Small Cabinet	7.5x5.5x3.5cm	78g
Grayish green spherical mimetite and yellow transparent wulfenite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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BMX0568	_18 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature	4x3x2.5cm	16g
Grayish green spherical mimetite and yellow transparent wulfenite growing on orange- to dark-brown (limonite and other minerals) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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BTR1149	_18 €
Vanadinite, Descloizite
Keban, Diyarbakir Province, South-Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey
Miniature	4x3x2cm	22g
Yellow and grey vanadinite xls to 5mm growing on druzy descloizite. Mined in the 1970s.
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CMC1164	_18 €
Cerussite with Barite, Galena
Mibladen Mine, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Small Cabinet	5x4x3cm	85g
Pale brownish yellow cerussite cluster of 2.2cm (undamaged, contacts on two sides) on a background of smaller, highly lustrous cerussite xls and pink barite blades overgrowing galena.
fluorescent LW bright yellow cerussite
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BCZ1156	_22 €
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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ACN1369	_22 €
Bournonite with Quartz
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
Thumbnail	1.7x1.6x1.4cm
Steel gray individual x, single terminated with attached quartz x. Small damage near the termination and large contact areas at the rear side.
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CCN0833	_25 €
Galena with Quartz
Rucheng Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Small Cabinet	7x6x2.5cm	102g
Single sharp and lustrous galena cuboctahedron surrounded by quartz xls.
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CCN0235	_27 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Pb-Zn Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Small Cabinet	5x4x1cm	18g
On matrix, both sides crystallized
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CCN0293	_28 €
Sphalerite, Galena
Rucheng Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Small Cabinet	8x5.5x4.5cm	314g
Greenish yellow translucent sphalerite xls, some iridescent, make up most of this specimen. Interspersed are 1cm galena xls and delicate quartz clusters.
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BBL0477	_28 €
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.

CDE0524	_28 €
Pyromorphite
Schauinsland near Freiburg, Black Forest, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Small Cabinet	9x6x5cm	210g
Classic locality. Needles to 3mm forming yellow to green crusts.
fluorescent LW pale yellow
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CGR0621	_28 €
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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CCN1044	_28 €
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Small Cabinet	6x4.5x3cm	63g
Matrix specimen with slender xls to 4mm. Good color.
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CCN0798	_30 €
Pyromorphite, Bindheimite
Daoping Pb-Zn Mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi Province, China
Small Cabinet	5.7x2.8x2.5cm	33g
Light green xls to 1cm with submetallic luster. Note the yellow fluorescence of the pyromorphite! Other minerals, among them most probably yellow bindheimite are present on the specimen. Looks a lot better in person.
fluorescent LW yellow!
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BCA1159	_34 €
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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DMX0560	_35 €
Mimetite (Mimetesit), Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Cabinet	10.5x7x5cm	197g
Grayish green spherical mimetite and yellow transparent wulfenite growing on orange-brown (limonite) gossan matrix. Individual x are in the range of 2 to 5mm. the colors are not accurate in the pictures. Either the xls are ok and the matrix is too grey or the matrix is ok and the mimetite too yellow. Therefore the written description.
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DCN1223	_35 €
Calcite with Galena
Taolin Pb-Zn mine, Yueyang, Linxiang, Hunan Province, China
Cabinet	10x7x7cm	315g
Slightly yellowish, quite transparent calcite xls associated by some galena. From a findplace that is well known for sphalerite and galena and rarely produces good quality calcite - if at all, then with a different crystal habit. Not completely free of bruises, however most of the flaws (see picture) are inside of the crystals.
fluorescent LW and SW orange calcite
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DCN0287	_36 €
Sphalerite, Galena with Calcite
Shuikoushan, Hengyang Pref., Hunan Province, China
Cabinet	12.5x12.5x4.5cm	730g
Rich coverage of reddish brown, sharp and transparent sphalerite xls and sharp, highly modified galena xls. The back side and the rim of the specimen are covered with yellowish calcite xls. Some damages, mainly on the back side and periphery, do not distract from the overall appearance of the specimen.
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BDE0580	_38 €
Crocoite, Coronadite
Callenberg North open cut No1, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany
Miniature	4.5x3x2cm	24g
Rich specimen with Crocoite xls on brown Coronadite. Crocoite occurred in this mine from 1977 to 1986. This specimen was found in 1986. The mine closed down in 1990.
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CCN0955	_38 €
Apatite, Rhodochrosite with Pyrite, Quartz and others
Lame (Lamo) Zn-Cu deposit, Nandan Co, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi, China
Small Cabinet	8.5x6x3.5cm	260g
Light purple apatite xls on pink rhodochrosite. The specimen contains numerous other species, namely pyrite, galena and a mineral forming colorless transparent needles that are partially covered by dolomite.
fluorescent Fluorapatite LWSW orange
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CCN0989	_38 €
Rhodochrosite, Apatite, Fluorite with Pyrite, Quartz
Lame (Lamo) Zn-Cu deposit, Nandan Co, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi, China
Small Cabinet	5x4x3.5cm	67g
Wildly intergrown crystallization of rhodochrosite (to 2cm), fluorite (colorless), quartz, pyrite and inconspicuous white, short-prismatic fluorapatite, recognized by its orange fluorescence. The base of the specimen is sawn.
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CDE1607	_38 €
Semseyite
Germania Mine, Dietersdorf, Harzgerode, Harz Mts, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Small Cabinet	5.5x4x2.5cm	70g
Massive semseyite throughout the specimen, with at least one crystallized vug, showing the characteristic habit. Analyzed! Found 2003.
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CCN0836	_40 €
Bournonite, Sphalerite with Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
Small Cabinet	8x7x4.5cm	244g
The dominant crystallization is a sharp bournonite cluster of 2x2cm, with one of the crystals unfortunately damaged and repaired (visible crack, see picture). Remarkable however are numerous sharp dark brown pseudo-octahedral sphalerite xls to 2mm, recognizable by dark orange internal reflections. Sphalerite is a rare mineral at Yaogangxian. The specimen hosts a multitude of other minerals, namely arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite.
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BCN1368	_40 €
Bournonite, Chamosite with Quartz
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
Miniature	4.8x3x2.2cm	30g
A 2.3x1.8cm individual x, untwinned, covered by greenish spherules of chamosite and growing from a cluster of quartz xls. The bournonite is double terminated, freestanding with undamaged display side and terminations, however has damages at two sides.
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CCN0317	_42 €
Sphalerite with Galena, Quartz
Shuikoushan, Hengyang Pref., Hunan Province, China
Small Cabinet	7.5x6x5.5cm	145g
Sharp transparent brown-red sphalerite xls to 1.5cm. This mine is one of the top five locations for sphalerite worldwide. Associated with highly modified Galena xls to 3mm, some with Calcite crust. The background consists of milky quartz xls. Not undamaged, but quite impressive.
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DCN0288	_45 €
Galena, Sphalerite with Quartz, Calcite
Shuikoushan, Hengyang Pref., Hunan Province, China
Cabinet	10x7x2.5cm	172g
One side of the specimen has sharp, highly modified galena xls and reddish brown transparent sphalerite xls against grey matrix wheras the other side has only galena, however on red matrix. Very showy specimen!
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DMC0457	_45 €
Vanadinite with Barite
Mibladen, Morocco
Cabinet	13.5x4x4.5cm	368g
Sharp, deep orange to red xls to 8mm loosely scattered on pink to brownish barite. Back side has more xls.
fluorescent LW orange (white crusts)
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DRO0599	_45 €
Sphalerite with Chalcopyrite, Galena
Cavnic (Kapnik), Maramures Co., Romania
Cabinet	13.5x7.5x3cm	476g
Polymetallic sulfide specimen consisting of sphalerite and galena in the deeper layers. The sphalerite apparently recrystallized on the surface to form cones covered with second generation sparkling black sphalerite xls. In between the sphalerite cones are pseudo-tetrahedral chalcopyrite xls to 1cm with iridescent coating. More to discover! Calcite covering had been removed.
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CDE1183	_45 €
Pyromorphite-Mimetite
Badenweiler, Black Forest, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Small Cabinet	6x3.5x1.5cm	36g
Botryoidal crust of bright brownish-yellow pyromorphite with overgrowing aggregates of green second generation pyromorphite. The yellow variety analyzes as intermediate between pyromorphite and mimetite.
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CNA1217	_45 €
Mottramite, Calcite
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Small Cabinet	5.5x5.5x3cm	92g
Dark green dendritic and bright green crusty mottramite covering sharp, colorless, heavily included calcite rhombohedrons. The specimen is remarkable for the famous location, the rarity of the mottramite and the bright fluorescence of the calcite.
fluorescent SW bright orange calcite
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DCN0993	_48 €
Rhodochrosite with Galena, Pyrite, Quartz
Lame (Lamo) Zn-Cu deposit, Nandan Co, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi, China
Cabinet	10x5.5x4cm	267g
Pink rhodochrosite xls to 6mm, associated with quartz and distorted galena xls grow on a matrix of predominantly massive pyrite, sphalerite, galena and quartz.
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DCN0145	_55 €
Galena with Quartz, Sphalerite
Shuikoushan, Hengyang Pref., Hunan Province, China
Cabinet	12x13x12cm	1405g
Sharp, highly modified Galena xls up to 1.5cm, some with Calcite crust. The specimen is a complex three-dimensional maze of brown matrix, completely covered with up to 8mm long rock crystals that look like icing. The sparkle could not be more spectacular!
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CCN1407	_58 €
Galena, Epidote
Guangdong Province, China
Small Cabinet	9.5x6x3cm	140g
Unique combination of sharp, shiny galena xls of over 1cm with columnar epidote and quartz. The findplace is said to be Guangdong Province, however this is unconfirmed.
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CCN1042	_62 €
Rhodochrosite, Galena with Pyrite, Fluorite, Quartz
Lame (Lamo) Zn-Cu deposit, Nandan Co, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi, China
Small Cabinet	5.5x4.5x4cm	130g
Deep pink clusters of undamaged rhodochrosite xls in between black schistose matrix and white quartz xls. More rhodochrosite, intergrown with galena and pyrite, is on a small vug on the back side of the specimen.
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CCN0835	_65 €
Bournonite, Jamesonite with Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite?, Stannite?, Galena?
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
Small Cabinet	7.5x7x6cm	347g
Combo specimen with several of the rarer Yaogangxian sulfides: Bournonite as freestanding, slim clusters to 1.5cm (better than the photo indicates), Jamesonite as needles to over 1cm and silky grey, unidentified 1cm xls, possibly surface coated chalcopyrite. Interesting specimen with Bournonite/Jamesonite vugs all around.
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DIR0611	_85 €
Aurichalcite, Rosasite, Murdochite, Hemimorphite
Chah Kuh, (Tchah Khuni) Esfahan (Isfahan; Aspadana) Province, Iran
Cabinet	10.5x9.5x6cm	588g
Very rich specimen hosting a multitude of species. Most evident is a 3x2cm aurichalcite pocket with 5mm long acicular xls. Other pockets host rosasite, murdochite, hemimorphite xls to name an obvious few. More to discover! Not a recent find, probably from the 1970s.
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CCS1178	_90 €
Boulangerite, Sphalerite var Marmatite with Pyrite, Calcite, Dolomite, Quartz
Stari Trg Mine, Trepca complex, Trepca valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Serbia
Small Cabinet	8.2x5.5x5cm	159g
Dense mass of acicular boulangerite xls, freestanding as well as included in calcite (coloring it grey) and dolomite. Moreover associated with deep black, iron-rich sphalerite (sharp tetrahedrons to 7mm) and sharp, tarnished pyrite xls to 1cm, some iridescent. Classic locality. The specimen was found before 1990.
fluorescent LW pink calcite
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DCN0229	_115 €
Sphalerite, Galena with Quartz
Shuikoushan, Hengyang Pref., Hunan Province, China
Cabinet	19x13x6.5cm	930g
Brownish red transparent, highly reflective, sphalerite xls to over 1cm (almost invisible in the pictures) in association with sharp, highly modified Galena xls in clusters up to 1.5cm, some with Calcite crust. Good contrast to the reddish brown druzy quartz matrix! Better in person.
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CMC0626	_160 €
Vanadinite var Endlichite (arsenian Vanadinite), Mottramite
Touissit, Oujda, Morocco
Small Cabinet	7.5x4x4cm	163g
Barrel shaped, sharp xls to 1.2cm! some double terminated. The color varies from greenish light yellow-brown to olive. Submetallic luster. Crystallized nearly all around, almost a floater. Associated with minor black mottramite. An outstanding specimen!
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DCN0996	_175 €
Mimetite, Mimetesit
Pingtouling (Pingtouning), Liannan (Sanjiang), Shaoguan Prefecture, Guangdong Province, China
Cabinet	14x10.5x6.5cm	626g
Large specimen, richly covered with brownish to greenish-orange mimetite xls to 5mm. Most are barrel-shaped, the habit varies all the way from hexagonal prismatic to spindle-shaped. Both color and habit are relatively unusual for this location.
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DCN1357	_180 €
Plumbogummite, Mimetite
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Cabinet	15x15x6.5cm	1065g
Large specimen, covered on both sides with rare plumbogummite. Slightly different colors on both sides: blue to greyish blue against considerably lighter blue on reverse side. Very few bruises, quite rare for a specimen of this size. Yellow mimetite occurs in deeper layers on this specimen.
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BCN0837	_210 €
Mimetite, Mimetesit
Pingtouling (Pingtouning), Liannan (Sanjiang), Shaoguan Prefecture, Guangdong Province, China
Miniature	4.5x4.2x2.7cm	86g
Mimetite at its best! Individual xls up to one cm wide! Some hollow, some transparent, bright orange to yellow-brown color. Naturally no matrix on this specimen, almost a floater.
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DIT1212	_280 €
Geocronite with Quartz
Pollone mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Cabinet	11.5x7x5.5cm	517g
Very rich specimen of world class geocronite; sharp xls to 7mm! From an old find that set the standard for geocronite, a rare lead antimony arsenic sulfide. The official findplace was the Buca dellAngina mine, later attributed to neighboring Pollone mine. Old collection label (the label is ca.1970, the specimen much older).
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