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Pyrosmalite-(Mn)   SOLD

Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales Australia.

Sparkling lustrous small maroon coloured crystals of this exceptionally rare mineral from Broken Hill sitting on top of typical base rock from this classic Australian location.

3.0 x 1.5 x 2.0 cm

Cacoxenite   SOLD

Ratlaufchen Mine, Waldgirmes, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany.

Brown goethite wih quartz base rock is generously covered in parts with silky acicular rosettes and fans of yellow-brown crystals of cacoxenite.

4.0 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm

Bornite   SOLD

North Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia.

Massive iridescent dark blue bornite.

5.0 x 3.0 x 3.0 cm

Antlerite   SOLD

Pst Mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA>

This outstanding specimen is very showy, nearly solid microcrystalline to massive dark green antlerite, a member of copper sulfate group. It has an original label from Kristallkeller, a German dealer by the name of R. and U. Buchner". See the enclosed picture of the label.

3.0 x 3.0 x 1.0 cm

Bismuth   

Wolfram Camp, Dimbulah, Mareeba Shire, Queensland, Australia.

Angular piece of solid bismuth detached from masses of quartz, wolfram, and molybdenite mineralization, with traces of some of these minerals.

4.0 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm

Kornerupine   SOLD

Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia

Dark green eight sided vitreous prisms of rare borosilicate in base rock of schistose granulate. As described in Mineralogical Record, 1984, ps 99-101.

6.5 x 6.0 x 3.5 cm

Minyulite   SOLD

Tom's Phosphite Quarry, Kapunda, Mt Lofy Ranges, South Australia.

An excellent specimen of brown limonitic matrix covered on top with tiny sprays of minyulite and grandallite after minyulite crystals from this classic phosphate quarry in South Australia.

8.0 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm

Cyanotrichite   SOLD

Peacock Mine, Leadore District, Lamhi Co., Idaho, USA.

Acicular deep blue silky tuffs of Cyanotrichite in cavities in/on light brown matrix. William Baker specimen.

5.0 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm

Mordenite   

Old Broken Hill Road, Coromandel Peninsula, Thames Valley, North island, New Zealand.

Spray of fine acicular mordenite crystals to 5mm filling the cavity in base rock. Cavity size is aproximetly 25 x 20 mm.

6.0 x 5.0 x 2.5 cm

Polythionite   

Demix Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville Co., Queebec, Canada.

Scholzite   SOLD

Reaphook Hll, Martins Well, South Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

Sprays of lustrous acicular translucent-whitish crystals, completely covering the top of brown gossan matrix. This is a very fine specimen of this rare zinc phosphate from this classic phosphate quarry in South Australia.

10.5 x 7.0 x 4.0 cm

Pyrosmalitr-(Mn)   

Zinc Corporationine, Broken Hill, Yuncowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia.

Sparkling lustrous small maroon coloured crystals of this exceptionally rare mineral from Broken Hill sitting on top of typical base rock from this classic Australian location.

5.0 x 3.0 x 1.0 cm