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Baryte   SOLD

Cavnic, Maramures, Romania

Large greyish Barite crystals to 30 mm across; the top of the matrix and part of Barite crystals are than covered with tiny pyrite crystals.

8.0 x 7.5 x 4.0 cm

Andradite   SOLD

Stanley Butte, San carlos, Stanley District, Pinaleno Mountains, Graham co., Arizona, USA.

A cluster of sharp, olive green Andradite crystals to.8 mm on crystallized garnet base.

4.0 x 4.0 x 2.3 cm

Sphalerite Pyrite and Calcite   SOLD

Stari Trg Mine, Trepca Complex, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia and Montenegro.

A mixture of pyrite crystals, white calcite, and large to 20 mm lustrous black sphalerite crystals, covering the base of solid pyrite.

7.0 x 3.0 x 3.0 cm

Malachite   

Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro, New Mexico.

A patch of dark green needles of malachite on top of base rock. Ex William Baker collection.

4.5 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm

Calcite   

Xianghualing Mine, Linwo Co., Chenzhou Perfecture, Hunan Province, China,

Delicate light pink coloured plate rhombs of Calcite crystals to 40 mm across, edges and parts of the crystals are than covered with bright sparkling micro crystals of Chalcopyrite.Delicate pink under UV light.

8.0 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm

Grossular   

Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Shipton township, Richmond Co., Quebec, Canada.

A multitude of tiny sparkling grass-green crystals of Grossular, a variety of Garnet, sprinkled in the shallow cavity and contrasting beautifully against the whitish matrix, with cut bottom part of the specimen.

7.0 x 4.0 x 2.5 cm

Pyromorphite   SOLD

Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang, Autonomous Region, China.

Very pretty cluster of bright green Chinese pyromorphite crystals to 5 mm pearhed on top of brownish matrix that is impregneted and coveren all over with tiny sparkling pyromorphite crystal needles.

6.0 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm

Sphalerite and Calcite   SOLD

Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA.

Display specimen; a large white calcite half sphere some 40 mm across perched on top of very lustrous good sized spahalerite group of crystals on top greyish base rock.

9.0 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm

Sulphur   SOLD

Recalmuto Mine, Recalmuto, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy.

A slab of base rock carpeted on both sides with tiny calcite crystals and than sprinkled with lustrous, bright yellow sulphur crystals. with sawn bottom.

Rosasite   

Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mun. de Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.

Nice, deep blue green Rosasite sharply contrasting dark brown limonite matrix.

4.5 x 4.0 x 1.0 cm

Amber   

Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland.

Large, very dark brown crystal of limonite, pseudomorph of cubic pyrite crystal. Cy Fortanier specimen.

5.5 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm

Mimetite and Wulfenite   SOLD

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia.

Hundreds of tiny, strong golden yellow coloured mimetite crystals, with a few transparent crystals of wulfenite on brown limonite matrix.

8.0 x 3.0 x 1.0 cm