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Proprietar Mine, Broken Hill, Yancownna Co., New South Wales, Austraia. |
An old timer, light yellow-greenish iodargyrite crystals covering the dark gray surface of chocolate brown matrix. Unfortunately there is bruising on some of the crystals, but still a good specimen of this very rare silver chloride. Richard Wright collection. |
7.0 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm |
| RU102 |
$65.00 US |
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Tom's Phosphate Qarry, Kapunda, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia. |
An excellent specimen of brown limonitic matrix; a cavity on top side of the specimen is completely covered with tiny sprays of acicular Minyulite crystals from this well know phosphate quarry in South Australia.
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5.0 x 3.5 x 1.8 cm |
| RU104 |
$26.00 US |
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Biggenden Mine Biggenden Shire, Queensland, Australia. |
Lustrous, metallic grey-white bismuthinite needles, on top of the base rock. Richard Wright specimen. |
8.0 x 4.5 x 6.0 cm |
| RU106 |
$10.00 US |
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Overntjern Quarry, Sarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway. |
A colourful association of light grey althausite and yellow lizardite. Type locality specimen. |
4.0 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm |
| RU112 |
$36.00 US |
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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 |
| RU117 |
$42.00 US |
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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 |
| RU126 |
$26.00 US |
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Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Kweenaw Co., Mitchigan, USA. |
Metallic steel grey mineral belonging to hexagonal crystal system, but very rare as a crystal. However, it looks very much that there is a crude crystal of algodonite on top of the specimen. |
0.0 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm |
| RU134 |
$25.00 US |
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Good Hope Mine, Hedley, Osoyoos Mining Dstrict, Britsh Columbia, Canada. |
Not an IMA approved specimen and possibly just tellurium rich ikunolite. Originally F Magri collection, and than Brian Shelton specimen. |
2.0 x 2.0 x 1.8 cm |
| RU137 |
$14.00 US |
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South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Austalia. |
Brownish-red mass of the rare secondary alteration mineral which was formed during mine fires at the mine. |
3.5 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm |
| RU138 |
$22.00 US |
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Inspiration pit, Inspiration Mine, Globe-Miami District, Miami, Gila County, Arizona, USA. |
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6.5 x 5.0 x 2.0 cm |
| RU139 |
$24.00 US |
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Tom's Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, Mt Lofty Ranges South Australia. |
Great very showy specimen with hundreds of tiny sparkling crystals of fluellite with some minor leucophosphate covering the top surface of base rock from this well known phosphate locality n South Australia. |
5.0 x 5.0 x 1.0 cm |
| RU142 |
$32.00 US |
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Wissen, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. |
A fine specimen with a group of large golden coloured crystal needles with good metallic lustre perched on top of dark matrix from this classic German locality. |
3.3 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm |
| RU146 |
$33.00 US |
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