Picture Jasper   

Italy.

 A large polished cabochon with mountain scenery and grey sky.

Andradite   

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

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   

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   

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.

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

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

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

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