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Pyrrhotite on Sphalerite   SOLD

Herja mine, Baia Mare, Maramures Co., Romania.

Unusul formation of stacked hexagonal pyrrhotite crystals to 15mm accross with a few white calcite crystals pearched on top and minor sphalerite crystals in between. The back side is full of tiny quartz crystals in spherical formation. Richard Wright specimen. 

7.0 x 5.0 x 2.5 cm

Magnetite   

Diamantina, Mins Gerais, Southern Region, Brazil.

Sharp well terinated manetite crystals to 14 mm pearched on to of greenish sparkling base rock Cy Fortanier specimen.

5.0 x 5.0 x 2.5 cm

Adamite   

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

Yellow-green adamite crystals with a superb lustre and gemmy covering one side of the brown limonite gossan matrix and lining the walls of cavities on the opposite side. Adamite crystals will fluoresce green under UV light.

7.0 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm

Pyrite   

Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huanuco Department, Peru.

A fist size of lustrous metallic yellow crystals of pyrite to 20 mm in size, no matrix from this famous locality in Peru.

8.0 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm - 418.0 g

Calcite var. Manganoan   

Asaraco Mine, Quiruvilca, Casapalca, Junin, Province, Peru.

Great miniature of light pink cone shaped calcite crystals to 15 mm long with minor matrix. They don’t come much better. Ex Brian Shelton collection.

4.0 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm

Picture Jasper   

Italy.

 A large polished cabochon with mountain scenery and grey sky.

Magnetite   SOLD

Cerro Huanaguino, Potosi Department, Bolivia.

Sharp octahedral crystals with a supper lustre sprinkled generously over the top part of the base rock.

6.0 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm

Calcite   

Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China.

Beautifully formed water clear transparent to translucent crystals of calcite groups forming this very aesthetic sculpture.

Apatite   SOLD

Yate Mine, Otter Lake, Huddersfield Township, Pontiac Co., Quebec, Canada.

A colourful, very lustrous large single bluish - green apatite with some natural etching perched on orange calcite.

7.5 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm

Malachite   SOLD

Lubumbashi, Southern Area, Katanga Copper Zone, Ktanga, Congo.

Green malachite coating the top part of this large specimen as well as some smaller sections on the other side, and filling the veins in white-gray base rock.

9.0 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm

Pyromorphite   

Saint-Salvy Mine, Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme, Tarn, Midi-Pyrenes, France.

A superb cluster of light olive-green Pyromorphite crystals up to 10 mm without matrix. Brian Shelton specimen.

4.0 x 3.0 x 1.7 cm

Pyromorphite   

Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and western region, Cunbria, England, UK

A very fine old time miniature, covered all over with vivid yellow-green, very lustrous rounded aggregates to 5mm and other tiny crystals f Pyromorphite. Brian Shelton specimen.

3.3 x 2.0 x 0.8 cm