Lengenbachite with Dufrénoysite - Lengenbach Quarry - Binnatal - Wallais - Switzerland (Type Locality)
(#MINS9160)
Metallic, steel-gray Lengenbachite needles up to 0.8 mm in a vug of white contrasting dolomia matrix with Dufrénoysite xl 5 mm wide and Realgar in association, from the famous Swiss and type locality.
Specimen weight:31 gr.
Crystal size:up to 0.8 mm
 Overall size:42mm x 28 mm x 15 mm
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Gold - Brusson mine - Brusson - Ayas Valley - Aosta Valley - Italy
(#MINS9161)
Specimen rich of Gold in wire crystals up to 3 mm on quartz matrix.In this italian alpine mine now is strongly forbidden to go to search: no more specimens will be found there.
Specimen weight:8 gr.
Crystal size:up to 2 mm
Overall size:30mm x 20 mm x 15 mm
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Buttgenbachite - Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
(#MINS9164)
Rare eletric blue Buttgenbachite xls up to 2.5 mm on matrix with malachite and cuprite in association.
Specimen weight:97 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2.5 mm
Overall size:40mm x 35 mm x 24 mm
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Gold - Brusson mine - Brusson - Ayas Valley - Aosta Valley - Italy
(#MINS9162)
Specimen rich of Gold in wire crystals up to 4 mm on quartz matrix.In this italian alpine mine now is strongly forbidden to go to search: no more specimens will be found there.
Specimen weight:4 gr.
Crystal size:up to 4 mm
Overall size:18mm x 15 mm x 10 mm
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Goldhillite -Tripoli Mine, Del Cura Ravine, Huércal de Almería, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
(#MINS9155)
Dark green Goldhillite xls with adamantine luster with Conichalcite and Malachite in association.
Specimen weight:43 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1 mm
Overall size:43mm x 30 mm x 28 mm
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Phosphophyllite - Hagensdorf Sud - Oberpfalz - Bayern - Germany (Type Locality)
(#MINS9166)
A set of light blue, gemmy Phosphophyllites lying on a Quartz matrix with white Sholzite in association. Hagendorf is the Type Locality for Phosphophyllite, which was discovered in 1920. ..
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:up to 2.5 mm wide
Overall size:40mm x 38 mm x 18 mm
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Guimarãesite with Childrenite,/Eosphorite - Piauí valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil (TL)
(#MINS9150)
Specimen with Guimarãesite (TL) xls and Eeosphorite/Childrenite up to 1,2 cm in association on albite matrix.Very interesting combo- Former S.Maggia collection.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:36mm x 25 mm x 14 mm
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Silver var. Kongsbergite - Imiter Mine - Imiter Distr. - Tinghir Prov. - Drâa-Tafilalet Region - Morocco
(#GMA26015)
An evident, sculptural, leaf native Kongsbergite specimen from 2016 finds at the Imiter Mine of Morocco.
It's standing on a black matrix ...
Specimen weight:340 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 45 x 37
Overall size:62mm x 45 mm x 67 mm
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Fluorite and heulandite - Gibelsbach - Flesch - Goms - Wallis - Switzerland
(#GMA26014)
Druse covered with small whitish heulandite crystals, on which clearly visible green areas are found where fluorite crystals lie, partially covered by heulandite.
An uncommon Alpine specimen ...
Specimen weight:160 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 8
Overall size:65mm x 60 mm x 26 mm
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Olshanskyite - Shijiangshan mine - Linxi - Linxi Co. - Ulanhad League - Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region - China
(#GMA26013)
The olshanskyite is a rare borate and this is a miniature that is futuring long and perfected crystals that are scattering out from a crust of the same olshanskyite ...
Specimen weight:57 gr.
Crystal size:15 mm.
Overall size:47mm x 25 mm x 30 mm
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Sulphur var. "Talamone" - Giumentaro mine - Capodarso - Enna Prov. - Sicily - Italy
(#GMA26010)
Remarkable specimen of sulfur var. 'Talamone' with a large crystal prominently displayed.
Specimens of this variety are usually non-crystallized; at most, they may exhibit spheroidal shapes.
Specimen weight:230 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 28
Overall size:88mm x 55 mm x 47 mm
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Pink dolomite and calcite - Zandobbio - Bergamo Prov. - Lombardy - Italy
(#GMA26008)
Above a carpet of small pinkish dolomite crystals covering the entire piece, numerous yellowish calcite crystals are clearly visible ...
Specimen weight:207 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 2
Overall size:78mm x 60 mm x 53 mm
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Arsenopyrite, galena and calcite - Trepča Stan Terg Mine - Trepča complex - Trepča valley - Kosovska Mitrovica - Kosovo
(#GMA26007)
An excellent specimen completely covered with crystals of:
- Arsenopyrite with brilliant, golden-gray pseudocubic crystals (max. 12 mm)
- Opaque gray cubic galenas (max. 10 mm)
- Translucent calcite lenses ...
Specimen weight:1075 gr.
Crystal size:--
Overall size:140mm x 105 mm x 60 mm
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Cerussite - Tsumeb - Oshikoto Region - Namibia
(#GMA26006)
Historic specimen with large, well-formed cerussite crystals clustered together on a small matrix.
It was surely mined before 1990: the tag reads Southwest Africa,"" the name the region had before it gained independence that year.
Specimen weight:85 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 15
Overall size:50mm x 42 mm x 37 mm
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Fuchsite - Jacobina Gold District - Bahia - Brazil
(#GMA26002)
The surface of the specimen is almost completely covered with dark green fuchsite flakes.
It is also partially crystallized on the reverse side.
Fuchsite is a greenish, Cr-bearing variety of muscovite
Specimen weight:183 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 2
Overall size:80mm x 67 mm x 41 mm
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Iranite - Santa Ana mine, Tocopilla District, Antofagasta Region
(#MINS9151)
Sharp rare bladed brown Iranite xl 5 mm wide with orange small orange Wulfenite xls in association.
Specimen weight:44 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm wide
Overall size:40mm x 27 mm x 35 mm
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Lorandite (TL) and Realgar - Crven Dol Mine, Allchar, Kavadarci, Macedonia
(#MINS9159)
Specimen with bloody red xls of Lorandite up to 1 mm in size from the Lorandite type locale.
Rare tallium specie !!
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1 mm
Overall size:32mm x 21 mm x 17 mm
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Agardite-(Ce) - Clara Mine, Rankach valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
(#MINS9156)
Cluster of apple-green Agardite-(Ce) with dark green Cornwallite in association on baryte matrix.
Specimen weight:35 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:37mm x 28 mm x 25 mm
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Romanechite ps. after helvite and quartz - Jinlong hill -Longchuan Co. - Heyuan Pref. - Guangdong prov. - China
(#GMA26001)
Around a clear quartz crystal rising straight from the matrix (50 mm) is a crown of large black romanechite crystals.
The largest is 19 mm on a side.
These crystals are pseudomorphs ...
Specimen weight:200 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 19
Overall size:100mm x 60 mm x 85 mm
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Hydromagnesite, Artinite - Artinite pit, Picacho Peak, San Benito Co, ,California, USA
(#11344_HYDR_DANI)
Nice tiny globular hydromagnesite xx with acicular artinite xx.
Specimen weight:86 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:45mm x 40 mm x 30 mm
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Babingtonite and Quartz, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
(#9969b_BABI_DANI)
Rare indian babingtonite on matrix.
Specimen weight:108 gr.
Crystal size:7 mm
Overall size:90mm x 60 mm x 45 mm
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Aikinite altered to Bismutite with Gold - Ekateringburg, Berezovsk deposit, Beryozovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
(#MINS9154)
Aikinite xls partly altered to Bismutite up to 5 mm with native gold xls up to 1 mm in association on quartz matrix. A rarely seen specimen.
Specimen weight:51 gr.
Crystal size:Up tp 5 mm
Overall size:42mm x 27 mm x 33 mm
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Silver - San Giovanni Mine, Iglesias, Province of Sud Sardegna, Italy
(#FERR1610)
Wonderful sample of native Silver in sturdy wires with top patina inside a vug in the dolomia. From a unique occurrence at this famous mine just before its closure at the end of XX century.
Specimen weight:30 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:45mm x 25 mm x 20 mm
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Cobaltite - Traversella Mine, lev. 860, Val Chiusella, Torino, Italy
(#FERR1609)
Specimen rich in Cobaltite, featuring also clean christals with evident shape and faces.
From a unique finding occurred at the mine almost 30 years after its closure.
Specimen weight:83 gr.
Crystal size:0.2 cm
Overall size:55mm x 35 mm x 25 mm
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Bariopharmacosiderite with Agardite- Grube Clara, Oberwolfach, Baden Wuerttenberg, Germany
(#MINS9142)
Excellent sample of Bariofarmocaosiderite in clean, lustrous pseudocubic reddish-brown xls, scattered on matrix.
Classic german stuff!
Former Klaus Petitjean collection, year 1985
Specimen weight:123 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:56mm x 50 mm x 30 mm
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Cinnabar - San Martino sul Fiora Mine, San Martino sul Fiora, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
(#FERR1608)
Oldtimer of Cinnabar featuring clean red aggregates of micro crystals scattered on matrix, associated with white Dolomite in distorted rombohedra and colourless Quartz.
Specimen weight:85 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:72mm x 37 mm x 22 mm
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Cuprian Austinite - Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
(#MINS9143)
Superb rare cuprian austinite with vivid green color on limonitic matrix.
Specimen weight:1 gr.
Crystal size:up to 1-2 mm
Overall size:57mm x 57 mm x 37 mm
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Georgiadesite with Paralaurionite - Vrysaki Point slag locality, Velatouri, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece (TL)
(#MINS9148)
Very rare monoclinic georgiadesite crystal 1.5 mm wide with paralaurionite xls in association from the type locality.
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 1.5
Overall size:32mm x 14 mm x 22 mm
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Uvarovite - Outokumpu Cu-Zn deposit - Outokumpu Cu-Co-Zn-Ni-Ag-Au ore field - North Karelia - Finland
(#MINS9152)
This old specimen comes from the legendary Outokumpu Uvarovite Garnet locality.
It shows a dark green colored crystal of uvarovite 6 mm wide on quartz matrix.
Specimen weight:12 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 6
Overall size:17mm x 14 mm x 15 mm
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Coquimbite - Dexter No. 7 Mine, Calf Mesa, San Rafael Mining District, Emery Co., Utah, USA
(#MINS9144)
Very well crystallized and extremely representative Coquimbite xls up to 5 mm with classic association for this locale.
Specimen weight:56 gr.
Crystal size:Up tp 4 mm
Overall size:60mm x 46 mm x 30 mm
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Mansfieldite - Djebel Debagh mine - Guelma - Guelma prov. - Algeria
(#MINS9140)
Nice specimen of this rare arsenate of aluminium, with well shaped green coloured crystals over the surface.
Specimen weight:125 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1 mm
Overall size:55mm x 40 mm x 40 mm
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Kutnohorite - Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
(#MINS9139)
Cluster of Kutnohorite xls up to 10 mm with intense pink in color from the famous Wessels Mine of South Africa.
Specimen weight:3 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:20mm x 11 mm x 12 mm
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Destinezite, Copiapite - Coronel Manuel Rodríguez, Mejillones, ,Antofagasta, Chile
(#11317_DEST_DANI)
Red-brown destinezite xx with yellow copiapite xx.
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 10 mm
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Sulphur - Niccioletta mine, Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Toscana, Italia
(#FERR1607)
Sulphurs in Italy are surely first associated with Sicily, but there are also others less known localities where good specimens have been found. In this case, an excellent oldtimer from the "colline metallifere" in Tuscany, featuring ...
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:0.6 cm
Overall size:65mm x 40 mm x 25 mm
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Amethyst - Capurru Quarry, by Osilo, Province of Sassari, Sardinia - Italy
(#FERR1605)
Cluster of Amethysts from the old workings at the Osilo Quarry, featuring lots of xls with good violet colour, luster and typical internal hoppering.
Showy!
Specimen weight:66 gr.
Crystal size:to 2,3 cm
Overall size:85mm x 65 mm x 30 mm
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Baryte - Barega Mine, Villamassargia (SU), Sardegna, Italia
(#FERR1604)
Showy druse, covered by brilliant, perfect xls of green Baryte with excellent transparence too.
From a unique historical finding dating about 50 years ago.
Classic!
Specimen weight:1556 gr.
Crystal size:4 cm
Overall size:160mm x 100 mm x 70 mm
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Smithsonite - San Giovanni Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
(#FERR1601)
Fine druse with bothryoidal bubbles of pearl white Smithsonite, very brilliant and well contrasting against the gossan matrix.
From some recent limited findings at this classic mine, closed since decades.
Showy!
Specimen weight:283 gr.
Crystal size:
Overall size:80mm x 50 mm x 40 mm
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Perowskite and Magnetite - Rocca Sella, Rubiana, Prov. of Torino, Piemone, Italia
(#FERR1600)
Fine druse lined with black metallic xls of Magnetite, among which there are clean, brilliant cubes of brown Perowskite to 0,4 cm on edge.
Oldtimer from a classic italian locale, now gone.
Specimen weight:192 gr.
Crystal size:4 mm on edge
Overall size:85mm x 50 mm x 40 mm
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Geocronite - Pollone Mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
(#FERR1599)
A mass of lead grey Geocronite is set in a vug among clear Quartz xls. In the front side of the specimen, The Geocronite is well shaped showing the faces of the Xl.
Extremely rare!
Specimen weight:104 gr.
Crystal size:0.6 cm
Overall size:60mm x 30 mm x 42 mm
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Magnesite and Quartz - Dosso dei Cristalli. Lanzada, Sondrio, Malenco Valley, Lombardia, Italy
(#FERR1597)
Fine druse featuring pale yellowish well defined hexagonal xls of Magnesite up to 1 cm, scattered atop colourless Quartz.
Oldtimer from a famous italian locality now definitely gone!
Specimen weight:47 gr.
Crystal size:magnesites to 1 cm
Overall size:65mm x 32 mm x 25 mm
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Sanidine, Phlogophite and ? - Mt Somma, Campania, Italy
(#12379_SANI_DANI)
Nice sanidine xx, with green phlogophite xx and creamy unknown xx
Specimen weight:35 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm
Overall size:40mm x 40 mm x 20 mm
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Rinkite-Ce - Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., ,Arkansas, USA
(#11692_RINK_DANI)
Gorgeouis yellow brown acicular rinkite xx on matrix with black aegirine.
Specimen weight:26 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:40mm x 40 mm x 20 mm
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Pyromorphite - Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill properties, Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
(#MINS9136)
An aesthetic plate covered with lustrous, translucent, sunflower-yellow pyromorphite crystals up to 3-4 mm from the famous Bunker Hill mine.
Specimen weight:25 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3-4 mm
Overall size:55mm x 33 mm x 10 mm
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Smithsonite - Kelly mine, Magdalena, New Mexico, USA
(#MINS9137)
Specimen with intense blue/green Smithsonite in botryoidal mass from this classic locality.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm
Overall size:51mm x 38 mm x 14 mm
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Prehnite - Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
(#MINS9135)
Spheroidal growth of Prehnite crystals with perfect terminations, translucent, with a very bright luster and an intense yellow color, on graphite matrix.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:Upto 2,6 cm
Overall size:36mm x 25 mm x 40 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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Sideronatrite - Barranca del Cobre, Mejillones peninsula, Mejillones, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
(#MINS8889)
Specimen filled with deep yellow-orange sideronatrite xls up to 4 mm.
Specimen weight:33 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4 mm
Overall size:48mm x 25 mm x 30 mm
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Silver on Arsenic - Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
(#MINS9127)
East German classics.Dendritic growths of strongly elongated native Silver twinned crystals that conserve very fresh surfaces contrasting with the black Arsenic matrix. ....
Specimen weight:38 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,5 cm long
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 20 mm
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Fluorapatite - Panasqueira Mines, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal
(#MINS9126)
Sample with well-exposed hexagonal crystals of fluorapatite on matrix with muscovite and quartz xls in association. The crystals has a very good luster and a green color.
Specimen weight:78 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,1 cm wide
Overall size:60mm x 35 mm x 33 mm
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Villiaumite - Koashva Mt, Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
(#MINS9134)
Cluster of deep wine-red Villiaumite crystals up to 1,6 cm with pectolite in association.
Specimen weight:88 gr.
Crystal size:Uo to 1,6 cm
Overall size:55mm x 40 mm x 38 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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Franklinite - Sterling Mine -Sterling Hill - Ogdensburg - Franklin Mining distr. - Sussex Co. - New Jersey - USA
(#MINS9133)
Cluster of octahedral xls of Franklinite up to 1,7 cm with on calcite matrix. A classic from the type locality.
Specimen weight:30 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,7 cm
Overall size:35mm x 15 mm x 35 mm
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Chalcophyllite - Salsigne mine, Salsigne, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
(#MINS9121)
This specimen offer really nice chalcophyllite xls on matrix with eletric blue azurite in association.
Specimen weight:26 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:41mm x 27 mm x 26 mm
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Scawtite with Thaumasite - Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
(#MINS9132)
White glassy fibrous scawtite on basic calcium silicate and carbonate matrix with thaumasite in association.
Specimen weight:70 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2 mm
Overall size:46mm x 45 mm x 28 mm
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Stilbite-(Ca) with Laumontite - Basalt Quarry, Ambariomiambana, Ambohimalaza Commune, Sambava District, Sava, Madagascar
(#MINS9122)
Lustrous pearlescent stilbite-(Ca) crystals to 3,0 cm with snow-white Laumontite in association. From a 2011 find.
Specimen weight:93 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3,0 cm long
Overall size:73mm x 50 mm x 42 mm
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Bixbyite - Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
(#MINS9129)
Nice Bixbyite crystals shiny, evident on the riolite's matrix, cubic with octahedron's faces measuring up to 8 mm wide.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm wide
Overall size:32mm x 25 mm x 15 mm
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Analcime with Natrolite - Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
(#MINS9118)
Cluster of white analcime crystals up to 1,2 cm with white natrolite in association.
Specimen weight:16 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,2 cm
Overall size:33mm x 21 mm x 25 mm
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Fluorite with quartz - Riemvasmaak fluorite occurrences - Kakamas - ZF Mgcawu distr. - Northern Cape prov. - South Africa
(#MINS9114)
intense green colored and semitransparent Fluorite crystal with quartz xls in association
A classic specimen from this south african locality.
Specimen weight:23 gr.
Crystal size:2,7 x 2,3 cm
Overall size:38mm x 40 mm x 30 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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Eclarite - Bärenbad Mine (Bärnbad Mine), Scharnbachgraben, Hollersbach valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria (Type Locality)
(#MINS9110)
Shiny,whitish-grey Eclarite blades on quartz matrix from the Type Locality.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2 mm
Overall size:30mm x 23 mm x 12 mm
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Lanthanite-(Ce) - Britannia Mine, Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales, UK (TL)
(#MINS9109)
Lanthanite-(Ce) sub-mm clear glassy crystals set on matrix with malachite in association from the type locality.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:30mm x 18 mm x 12 mm
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Korobitsynite - Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia
(#MINS9107)
Pale yellow striated xls of Korobitsynite on matrix up to 5 mm from the co-type locality with green aegyrine in association.
Korobitsynite is a very rare silicate of rare hearths.
Specimen weight:24 gr.
Crystal size:up to 2 mm
Overall size:38mm x 30 mm x 18 mm
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Fluorite, Quartz - Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Uri, Switzerland
(#12724_FLUO_DANI)
This specimen offer many very nice pink fluorite xx of very high luster. As a bonus the fluorite xx are associate to nice quartz xx.
Specimen weight:190 gr.
Crystal size:20mm (q), 2 mm (f)
Overall size:75mm x 30 mm x 20 mm
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Quartz - Porretta Terme, Emilia Romagna, Italy
(#12524_QUAR_DANI)
Fantastic fenster quartz floater. Free from damage.
Specimen weight:273 gr.
Crystal size:50 mm biterminated
Overall size:80mm x 60 mm x 50 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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Quartz - Scrava mine, Statale, Liguria, Italy
(#12483_QUAR_DANI)
Nice pink red quartz crystals cluster.
Specimen weight:2 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm
Overall size:20mm x 15 mm x 15 mm
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Genthelvite, Quartz - Huanggang mine, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China
(#12472_GENT_DANI)
Very nice darrk brown huge Genthelvite xx on phrase Quartz.
Specimen weight:195 gr.
Crystal size:22 mm on edge
Overall size:75mm x 60 mm x 40 mm
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Vesigneite, Malachite included Calcite - Mashamba west mine, Kolwezi, ,Katanga, Dem. Rep. of Congo
(#12030_VESI_DANI)
Malachite included calcite with many tiny Vesigneite xx.
Specimen weight:55 gr.
Crystal size:5 m
Overall size:45mm x 30 mm x 25 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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Gillardite - 132 North Mine, Widgiemooltha, Western Australia, Australia (TYPE LOCALITY)
(#MINS9103)
This is a very rare attractive specimen with crystalline Gillarditeite.Gillardite is an extremely rare copper nickel chlorine halide, found only at this locality to date.
Specimen weight:24 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 0.8 mm
Overall size:35mm x 25 mm x 18 mm
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Ericaite - Panel 14, Boulby Mine, Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England, UK
(#MINS9100)
A single lustrous brownish cubic crystal of Ericaite embedded in syslte matrix coloured rerracotta red by association with Hilgardite.
Specimen weight:5 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 5 mm
Overall size:14mm x 12 mm x 14 mm
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Mereheadite - Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK (TL)
(#MINS9101)
Yellow-orange, vitreous Mereheadite within a veinlet of white calcite cutting a beautifully contrasting black matrix.
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm
Overall size:31mm x 25 mm x 20 mm
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Geocronite - Sala Silver Mine, Sala, Sala Municipality, Västmanland County, Sweden (TL)
(#MINS9099)
Silvery-grey geocronite with galena in association from the type locality.
Specimen weight:10 gr.
Crystal size:up to 2 mm
Overall size:23mm x 17 mm x 24 mm
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Parapierrotite with Realgar - Allchar, Ržanovo, Kavadarci Municipality, North MacedoniaAllchar, Ržanovo, Kavadarci Municipality, North Macedonia (TL)
(#MINS9097)
Very rare black group of crystals of Parapierrotite set on realgar matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:14 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:35mm x 19 mm x 23 mm
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Paulingite-(Ca) - Vinařice, Kladno, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
(#MINS9096)
Cluster of yellowish Paulingite xls up to 1 mm with honey brown colored center richly scattered on all matrix.
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:42mm x 18 mm x 30 mm
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Fluorite - Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
(#MINS9086)
Really nice group of lustrous, translucent, dark purple Fluorite crystals measuring 44x42x30 mm with well defined deep red Sphalerite xls in association on matrix.
Specimen weight:185 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 44 mm wide
Overall size:68mm x 67 mm x 38 mm
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Coquimbite with Römerite - Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
(#MINS9087)
Superb coquimbite xls up to 7-8 mm on matrix with splendid lilac colour .White spays of alotrichite and fine reddish Römerite up to 1,0 cm in association.
Specimen weight:80 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7-8 mm
Overall size:67mm x 35 mm x 36 mm
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Scheelite on Muscovite - Pingwu beryl mine (Huya W-Sn-Be deposit; Xuebaoding W-Sn-Be deposit), Huya township, Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China
(#MINS9092)
Marvelous orange-yellow Scheelite's crystal, very glossy, nicely standing out on the Muscovite's matrix. The sample is very nice, in excellent conditions, and it's natural, absolutely not oiled.
Specimen weight:240 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 24 mm
Overall size:68mm x 58 mm x 35 mm
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Mimetite on Smithsonite - Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region - Namibia
(#MINS9088)
Labeled specimen with golden-brown mimetite crystals up to 6 mm scattered on green Smitsonite xls.
Specimen weight:132 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 6 mm
Overall size:62mm x 55 mm x 34 mm
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Mcguinnesite with Vuagnatite - Copper King Mine, Red Mountain, Red Mountain District, Mayacmas Mts , Mendocino Co., California, USA (Type Locality)
(#MINS9095)
Blue green rare Mcguinnessite up to 1,5 mm scattered on matrix from the type locality with minor vuagnatite in association.
Specimen weight:26 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1.5 mm
Overall size:40mm x 24 mm x 16 mm
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Linarite - King Arthur Mine, Arriana, Rhodope, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
(#MINS9090)
Aggregates of very sharp, brilliant, acicular Linarite crystals with very bright color. In a limonite matrix with Quartz, Brochantite growths, and an unknown light blue species, probably Caledonite.
Specimen weight:34 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2 mm
Overall size:37mm x 35 mm x 25 mm
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Beryl (Var: Aquamarine) - Erongo Mountains, Erongo Region, Namibia
(#MINS9085)
Nice beryl aqua perched gently on a sharply microcline crystal decorated with schorl.
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 11 mm
Overall size:30mm x 23 mm x 25 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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Fluorite, Quartz - Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Uri, Switzerland
(#12720_FLUO_DANI)
Very nice pink fluorite xx with quartz xx
Specimen weight:38 gr.
Crystal size:12 mm
Overall size:45mm x 30 mm x 36 mm
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Silver, Pyrargiryte? - Porco, Agua de Castilla, Potosì, Bolivia
(#12291_SILV_DANI)
Very nice pseudo-wire silver with Pyrargiryte?
Specimen weight:5 gr.
Crystal size:na
Overall size:20mm x 20 mm x 10 mm
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Anatase, Hessonite Garnet - Formazza Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy
(#11663_ANAT_DANI)
Nice dark red Anatase xx with red Hessonite xx..
Specimen weight:19 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:35mm x 30 mm x 15 mm
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Pyrochlore Group - Vishneye Mts - Cheluyabinsk Oblast - Russia
(#MINS9065)
Several brown colored and semitransparent crystals of pyrochlore are visible over this specimen, for a strong contrast with the withish bulky calcite ...
Specimen weight:320 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm
Overall size:73mm x 67 mm x 45 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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Fluorite - Hilton Mine, Scordale, Murton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
(#MINS9061)
Specimen with twin fluorite xls up to 1,2 cm showing the classic yellow colour typic of the Hilton Mine.Classic!
Specimen weight:66 gr.
Crystal size:To 1,2 cm
Overall size:51mm x 38 mm x 30 mm
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