Manganogrunerite - Razoare, Maramureș Co., Romania
(#MINS9214)
Specimen with fibrous Manganogrunerite xls richly set on matrix. A very rare magnesium-iron-manganese Amphibole.
Specimen weight:48 gr.
Crystal size:up to 4 mm long
 Overall size:45mm x 42 mm x 30 mm
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Rutile var. sagenite on hematite - Novo Horizonte - Bahia - Brazil
(#MINS9206)
Specimen with golden rutile needle in "six star" formation up to 1,0 cm wide sticking up off shiny central hematite crystals .
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1,0 cm long
Overall size:32mm x 30 mm x 20 mm
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Cervandonite-(Ce) - Mount Cervandone, Baceno, Devero Alp, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy (Type Locality)
(#MINS9185)
Cluster of this rare Si-Arsenate, containing several rare hearth, in the classic rosette shape.
Typical material of alpine fissure and type locality!
Specimen weight:96 gr.
Crystal size:4 mm wide
Overall size:65mm x 45 mm x 25 mm
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Prase quartz and hematite - Serifos island - Attica - Greece
(#MINS9196)
Cluster of dark green crystals of prase quartz xls up to 5,0 cm tall from a classic location.
Specimen weight:44 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5,0 cm tall
Overall size:50mm x 25 mm x 70 mm
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Andradite var. Melanite - Sokolovskoe Iron Mine, Rudny, Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan
(#MINS9189)
Black Melanites up to 1,0 cm with razor-sharp crystallization and mirror luster.
Specimen weight:120 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,0 cm
Overall size:50mm x 33 mm x 36 mm
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Hematite, epitaxial Rutile - Cavradi gorge - Grischun, Switzerland
(#12801_HEMA_DANI)
Gourgeous, lustrous and large hematite xx with rutile epitaxy. 1985 find. A cavradi classic.
Specimen weight:4 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm
Overall size:20mm x 20 mm x 10 mm
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Pyrolusite - Montels, Saint-Girons, Ariège, Occitanie, France
(#11602_PYRO_DANI)
Very nice bright metallic pyrolusite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:39 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Lollingite - Cruvin mine, Bruzolo, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
(#MINS9184)
Cluster of metallic lead grey Lollingite crystals up to 1.5 mm n rosettes richly cover the matrix.
Specimen weight:39 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1.5 mm wide
Overall size:32mm x 28 mm x 25 mm
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Durangite and hematite - Durangite Locality - Thomas Range - Juab Co. - Utah
(#GMA26021)
Reddish areas of durangite are visible over the dark matrix of hematite
Specimen weight:130 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:56mm x 48 mm x 35 mm
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Pyrite - Valle Giove Stope - Rio Marina - Rio- Elba Island - Livorno Prov. - Tuscany - Italy
(#GMA26012)
On a pinch of hematite matrix, a virtually perfect pentadodecahedral pyrite.
It actually consists of at least two crystals almost completely interpenetrating each other.
Specimen weight:260 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 53 x 43
Overall size:53mm x 50 mm x 34 mm
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Awaruite (Josephinite) - Josephine Creek placers, Josephine Creek Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
(#MINS9149)
silvery-bright, flattened alluvial thumbnail Awaruite nugget from the Josephine Creek placers of Oregon (Arlson & Co. placers). Awariute is an intermetallic alloy of Nickel and Iron.
Specimen weight:6 gr.
Crystal size:22 mm wide
Overall size:22mm x 8 mm x 12 mm
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Gilmarite - Guanaco (Huanaco), Santa Catalina, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
(#MINS8904)
Gilmarite in blue rosettes xls up to 1 mm scattered in vugs of matrix with green Conicalcite in association .A rare copper arsenate. Ex Sandro Maggia coll.
Specimen weight:46 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 0.5 mm
Overall size:50mm x 25 mm x 28 mm
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Cafarsite - Wanniglescher, Cherbadung Binnatal, Wallis, Switzerland (Type Locality)
(#MINS9124)
Specimen with a very sharp cubic-octahedral crystals up to 6 mm wide aesthetically perched on matrix. Cafarsite is a rare calcium, titanium, iron, and manganese, arsenate.From the type locality.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 6 mm
Overall size:38mm x 21 mm x 8 mm
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Lollingite - Cruvin mine, Bruzolo, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
(#MINS9120)
Cluster of metallic lead grey Lollingite crystals up to 1.2 mm n rosettes richly cover the matrix.
Specimen weight:51 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1-2 mm wide
Overall size:44mm x 30 mm x 18 mm
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Rutile var. sagenite on hematite - Novo Horizonte - Bahia - Brazil
(#MINS9116)
Specimen with golden rutile needle in "six star" formation up to 1,5 cm wide sticking up off shiny central hematite crystals .Really showy.
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:up to 2,0 cm wide
Overall size:38mm x 4 mm x 30 mm
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Cobalto-Austinite, Roselite - Aghbar mine, Bou Azzer district,,Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco
(#12494_COBA_DANI)
Suberb bright green rare Cobalto_Austinite xx with nice magenta Roselite xx.
Specimen weight:337 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:88mm x 85 mm x 35 mm
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Hematite, epitaxial Rutile - Cavradi gorge - Grischun, Switzerland
(#12795_HEMA_DANI)
Gourgeous, lustrous and large hematite xx. The xx is partly hollow. 1993 find.
Specimen weight:338 gr.
Crystal size:39 mm
Overall size:38mm x 22 mm x 30 mm
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Hematite roses and Quartz - Galmihorn, Reckingen, Goms, ,Valais, Switzerland
(#12815_HEMA_DANI)
Classic super nice hamatite rosetes. A swiss alps classic. 1978 find.
Specimen weight:31 gr.
Crystal size:15 mm (e), 20 mm (q)
Overall size:45mm x 35 mm x 30 mm
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Natrolite, Rhodochrosite - Mont Saint Hilaire, Québec, Canada
(#12829_NATR_DANI)
Very nice combo offering gemmy Natrolite with a nice Rhodochrosite rosett
Specimen weight:4 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm (n)
Overall size:25mm x 20 mm x 15 mm
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Hematite, epitaxial Rutile - Cavradi gorge - Grischun, Switzerland
(#12733_HEMA_DANI)
Very nice hematite xx of high luster with epitaxic rutile xx. 1987 find.
Specimen weight:28 gr.
Crystal size:15 mm
Overall size:32mm x 25 mm x 30 mm
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Pyromorphite - Rosenberg mine, Braubach, Bad Ems district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
(#MINS9064)
A very nice example of pyromorphite from this classic location, lustrous pale brown barrel-shaped prismatic crystals up to 6 mm on matrix with chalcopirite in asociation.A German classic !!
Specimen weight:76 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 6 mm
Overall size:58mm x 28 mm x 30 mm
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Hematite - Mount Cervandone, Devero Valley - Italy
(#MINS9075)
Cluster of very nice hematite crystals up to 5 mm with high luster from a classic alpine locale.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:up to 5 mm
Overall size:32mm x 25 mm x 12 mm
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Zinclipsocombite (TL) with Perhamite - Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
(#MINS9059)
Spherules of yellow- green zinclipscombite (TL) with white pearly Perhamite in association.
Specimen weight:40 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:50mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
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Vauxite with Metavauxite- Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia (Type Locality)
(#MINS9050)
Specimen with blue Vauxite and Metavauxite xls set on matrix with quartz. A fairly rare iron phosphate (and one of the very few blue iron-containing minerals)
Specimen weight:51 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1 mm
Overall size:62mm x 45 mm x 23 mm
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Yuanfuliite - Nuestra Señora del Carmen Mines, La Celia lamproite outcrops, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain
(#MINS9036)
Several groups of radial golden brown needles of rare Yuanfuliite up to 1-1.5 mm, with dull black Hematite in association.
Specimen weight:9 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1-1.5 mm
Overall size:23mm x 22 mm x 15 mm
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Serpierite - Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion mining district, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
(#MINS9029)
Specimen with rare blue serpierite xls richly scattered in rosettes on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:170 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2 mm
Overall size:85mm x 40 mm x 35 mm
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Fluorite - Marienschacht Mine, Wölsendorf, Schwarzach bei Nabburg, Schwandorf District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
(#MINS9005)
Cluster of glassy, transparent to translucent Fluorite xls up to 8 mm with color changig to green to golden brown with internal iron oxide inclusions.
Specimen weight:178 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm
Overall size:75mm x 45 mm x 33 mm
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Ferristrunzite - Mont-des-Groseillers - Blaton - Bernissart - Hainaut - Wallonia - Belgium
(#GM24069)
The surface of this specimen is completely covered with cream-colored needles of ferristrunzite.
Many of them are arranged in a rosette ...
Specimen weight:43 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 2
Overall size:62mm x 47 mm x 21 mm
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Quartz (phantom) with Hematite - Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India
(#MINS8980)
Water clear parallel quartz with very nice and well defined hematite topped phantoms.
Specimen weight:19 gr.
Crystal size:3,5 cm tall
Overall size:28mm x 18 mm x 35 mm
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Cuprian adamite (var. of adamite - Ojuela mine - Mapimì - Mun. de Mapimì - Durango -Mexico
(#MINS8963)
A vuggy, multi layered, ocherous limonite has been filled with rosettes of sparkling, lime green cuproadamite crystals of small size but high sugary brilliance.
Specimen weight:44 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2 mm
Overall size:56mm x 35 mm x 28 mm
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Canavesite - Salvere level - Brosso mine - Cálea - Léssolo - Canavese distr. - Torino prov. - Piedmont - Italy
(#GM24045)
The surface of this specimen is almost completely covered by rosettes of snow-white needles of canavesite.
It's an extremely rare borate ...
Specimen weight:295 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 3
Overall size:66mm x 55 mm x 44 mm
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Magnesite - Pomba pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado (Bom Jesus dos Meiras), Bahia, Brazil
(#MINS8923)
Cluster of gemmy Magnesite crystals to 1.2cm in size from the famous Brumado Mine in Brazil. This locality is well known for some of the world's finest Magnesite crystals and this is an excellent example.
Specimen weight:45 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 12 mm
Overall size:55mm x 38 mm x 25 mm
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Serpierite - Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion mining district, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
(#MINS8873)
Specimen with rare blue serpierite xls richly scattered in rosettes on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:45 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:42mm x 32 mm x 27 mm
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Lollingite - Cruvin mine, Bruzolo, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
(#MINS8872)
Cluster of metallic lead grey Lollingite crystals in rosettes up to 5 mm richly cover the matrix.
Specimen weight:75 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2-3 mm wide
Overall size:55mm x 30 mm x 28 mm
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Rose Quartz "Pink Amethyst" with Calcite - El Choique mine, Pehuenches Department, Neuquén Province, Argentina
(#BALD0788)
Geode of Quartz's crystals, with an unusual pink-orangey color, with scalenohedral Calcite's crystals laid on the Quartz itself, with a nice aesthetic result. This Quartz is usually commercially labeled as "Pink Amethyst", even if the name…
Specimen weight:293 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:84mm x 92 mm x 63 mm
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Vantasselite - Bihain, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium (Type Locality)
(#MINS8832)
Specimen rich of nice silky white rosettes of Vantasselite up to 3 mm wide on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:28 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm
Overall size:62mm x 40 mm x 20 mm
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Vauxite - Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia (Type Locality)
(#MINS8680)
Cluster of blue Vauxite xls up to 1-2 mm. A fairly rare iron phosphate (and one of the very few blue iron-containing minerals)
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1-2 mm
Overall size:48mm x 30 mm x 14 mm
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Analcime with Natrolite, Rhodochrosite and Aegirine - Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
(#BALD0757)
Analcime's crystals, the biggest of 50 mm, are partially covered by 22 mm Natrolite's crystals, also biterminated, nice well formed Rhodochrosite's rosettes up to 15 mm and Aegirine, both in big crystals up to 38 mm and in small, slender...
Specimen weight:945 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 50 mm
Overall size:170mm x 130 mm x 82 mm
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Hematite on Albite - Fibbia, Fontana, Airolo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
(#BALD0721)
Nice group of Hematite's crystals, up to 10 mm, very shiny, implanted on a carpet of Albite's crystals up to 16 mm, green for Chlorite (?) inclusions. An Alpine classic.
Specimen weight:218 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:67mm x 70 mm x 70 mm
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Rosenbergite - Le Cetine mine, Chiusdino, Tuscany, Italy
(#11861_ROSE_DANI)
Tiny but nice colorless rosenbergite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:11 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm
Overall size:30mm x 22 mm x 22 mm
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Monheimite - Montevecchio Mines, Arbus, Medio Campidano Province, Sardinia, Italy
(#FERR1568)
Rice grain xls of yellowish Monheimite, scattered on massive quartz matrix.
Monheimite is an iron bearing variety of Smithsonite, with Fe replacing Zn in a certain quantity.
Quite rare!
Specimen weight:17 gr.
Crystal size:0.3 cm
Overall size:40mm x 32 mm x 25 mm
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Hematite & Albite - Arbola Glacier, Sabbione, Formazza, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
(#FERR1532)
This is a classic alpine floater, with a shiny group of Hematite "ironrose" set atop a cluster of Albite in pearl white translucent crystals, well shaped and mostly double terminated.
Showy!
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:.
Overall size:43mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Sampleite with Atacamite - Santa Catalina Mine, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
(#MINS8305)
Electric-blue rosettes of sampleite xls up to 2-3 mm with green atacamite on matrix.
Specimen weight:31 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2-3 mm
Overall size:48mm x 40 mm x 14 mm
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Hematite (iron rose) - Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
(#FERR1454)
Cluster featuring several aggregates of tabular hexagonal, lustruous xls of black Hematite (iron rose).
Specimen weight:100 gr.
Crystal size:2.5 cm
Overall size:55mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Hematite "Iron Rose" with Quartz, Adularia and Chlorite - Fibbia, Fontana, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland
(#BALD0650)
Nice group of centimetric Hematite Roses, with smoky Quartz up to 20 mm, Adularia's microcrystals and pulverulent Chlorite. Cut at the base.
Specimen weight:295 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:71mm x 70 mm x 42 mm
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Ettringite - N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#BALD0589)
Group of hexagonal Ettringite's crystals, the biggest is 20 mm. With some microcrystals of Hematite and Andradite.
Specimen weight:176 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 20 mm
Overall size:57mm x 45 mm x 45 mm
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Pyrite - Rio Marina, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
(#BALD0588)
Group of compenetrated, pentagon-dodecahedral Pyrite's crystals. The major is 62 mm. There are some traces of Hematite.
Specimen weight:706 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 62 mm
Overall size:85mm x 70 mm x 55 mm
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Roselite on Quartz with Goethite - Aghbar Mine (Arhbar Mine), Aghbar, Bou Azzer District (Bou Azer District), Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
(#BALD0579)
Group of isolated Roselite's crystals, very nice, with good color, translucent, in very well conditions. The biggest crystal, twinned and biterminated has really remarkable dimensions (10 mm).
Specimen weight:122 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:65mm x 45 mm x 46 mm
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Veszelyite - Laochang Mine, Gejiu Co., Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
(#FERR1360)
Veszelyite in clean blue rosettes of xls scattered on matrix, from a recent chinese find.
Rare specie, known in only few locales in the world.
Specimen weight:40 gr.
Crystal size:0.4 cm
Overall size:45mm x 44 mm x 33 mm
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Adamite - Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
(#FERR1353)
Showy cluster loaded by brilliant Adamite rosettes, on matrix.
Specimen weight:25 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:48mm x 32 mm x 28 mm
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Hemimorphite - Is Murvonis Mine, Domusnovas, Province of Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy
(#FERR1102)
Fine group of colorless xls of Hemimorphite, grouped in a typical rosette, aesthetically set on a base of quartz.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:.
Overall size:50mm x 27 mm x 30 mm
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Hausmannite on Hematite - N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#FERR1024)
Showy small floating specimen featuring some black Haussmannite octahedra, grown over a lustruorus iron black Hematite xl.
Very aesthetic, though small specimen from a world known locale.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:0,7 cm
Overall size:22mm x 17 mm x 10 mm
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