Marioantofillite - Monte Copello-Reppia mine, Reppia, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy (TL)
(#MINS9296)
Specimen rich of blue Marioantofilliite crystals forming a sphere associated with pale green malachite sprays and Allophane from the type locality.
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
 Overall size:55mm x 34 mm x 20 mm
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Boleite - Amelia Mine, Arroyo de la Soledad, Boleo District, Santa Rosalía, Mun. de Mulegé, Baja California Sur (BC Sur), Mexico
(#MINS9287)
Sharp crystals of Boleite 6 mm with a nice indigo blue color, on a stabilized matrix, coming from a no longer productive locality.
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:6 mm wide
Overall size:45mm x 26 mm x 18 mm
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Bakhchisaraitsevite - Kovdor Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor Massif, Kovdorsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
(#MINS9290)
Micaceous pale yellow / cream crystals of Bakhchisaraitsevite up to 1.5 mm set on dolomite matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:46 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1.5 mm
Overall size:48mm x 27 mm x 24 mm
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Loparite - N'orkpakhk Mt, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
(#MINS9288)
Loparite-(Ce): cubes in a cluster twinned by interpenetration with black colour and submetallic lustre.
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:37mm x 20 mm x 23 mm
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Falkmanite - Bayerland mine, Pfaffenreuth, Leonberg, Tirschenreuth District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany (Type Locality)
(#MINS9292)
Dark gray-metallic fibrous crystals of Falkmanite up to 8 mm wide on quartz matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:54 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm wide
Overall size:50mm x 27 mm x 26 mm
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Dufrenoysite - Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland (Type Locality)
(#MINS9285)
An elongated gray-metallic crystals of Dufrenoysite 5 mm wide on dolomite matrix.A classic.
Specimen weight:54 gr.
Crystal size:4 mm wide
Overall size:50mm x 27 mm x 26 mm
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Ludlamite - Cabeça de Cachorro claim – Sao Gabriel de Cahoeira – Amazonas Brazil
(#MINS9286)
Cluster of gemmy, semitransparent and vivid green colored of Ludlamite xls up to 0,7 cm wide on matrix with sharp Vivianite xls in association.
Specimen weight:23 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 0.7 cm
Overall size:38mm x 18 mm x 30 mm
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Covellite - Bor Mine, Bor, Bor District, Central Serbia, Serbia
(#MINS9293)
Covellite forming violet-blue, fatty to shiny, leafy and scaly aggregates that grow throughout the sample.Very uncommon, two-sided material from Serbia.
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:35mm x 12 mm x 32 mm
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Bariopharmacosiderite - Grube Clara, Oberwolfach, Baden Wuerttenberg, Germany
(#MINS9291)
Nice sample of Bariofarmocaosiderite in clean, lustrous pseudocubic reddish-brown xls, scattered on matrix.
Classic german stuff!
Specimen weight:27 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:40mm x 27 mm x 20 mm
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Tuperssuatsiaite - Aris Quarries (Ariskop Quarry; Railway Quarry), Aris, Windhoek, Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia
(#MINS9284)
A very nice specimen with green acicular Tuperssuatsiaite crystals spray up to 2.5 mm in a vug of matrix.
Specimen weight:44 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2.5 mm
Overall size:45mm x 34 mm x 30 mm
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Salammoniac - Carola Mine, Döhlen, Freital, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
(#MINS9289)
Showy specimen of the uncommon halide, sal ammoniac, from an old find. The white, translucent and lustrous crystals form are set richly on matrix.
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2-2.5 mm
Overall size:40mm x 20 mm x 35 mm
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Sphalerite - Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland
(#MINS9283)
A single xls honey translucent tetrahedra of Sphalerite is perched on a matrix of white granular dolomia. A classic from the swiss Alps!
Specimen weight:75 gr.
Crystal size:4 mm
Overall size:45mm x 28 mm x 40 mm
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Sodalite with Cancrinite - Cancrinite Hill, Dungannon Township, Town of Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
(#MINS9282)
Dark blue Sodalite with yellow Cancrinite in association. Old find from from the classic locality in the Bancroft area. Ex coll. Dr. Francesco Bedognè #1018.
Specimen weight:54 gr.
Crystal size:-
Overall size:50mm x 28 mm x 38 mm
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Fluorite - Bergmännisch Glück Mine, Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
(#MINS9281)
Dark purple fluorite crystals up to 6 mm with sparkling reflections under transmitted light.
Specimen weight:18 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 6 mm
Overall size:35mm x 26 mm x 18 mm
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Cummingtonite - Antrona Valley, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
(#MINS9298)
Cluster of Cummingtonite xls up to 4 cm long on matrix.
Specimen weight:100 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4,0 cm
Overall size:48mm x 47 mm x 30 mm
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Uvite - Brumado - Bahia - Brasile
(#GMA26045)
From a world-famous location, an elegant aggregate composed entirely of very dark green Uvite crystals.
The photos are slightly overexposed to highlight the details.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 7
Overall size:40mm x 32 mm x 35 mm
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Vanadinite - Mibladen mining district, Meknès-Tafilalet, Morocco
(#17683_VANA_DANI)
Stunning double-sided vanadinite xx cluster. Superb for aesthetic shape.
Specimen weight:17 gr.
Crystal size:17 mm
Overall size:32mm x 20 mm x 16 mm
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Thorite var. Orangite xx - Vorondolo massif, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
(#17648_THOR_DANI)
Very nice quite large crystal cluster.
Specimen weight:27 gr.
Crystal size:35 mm
Overall size:35mm x 20 mm x 20 mm
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Orpiment - Quiruvilca mine, Quiruvilca, La Libertad, Peru
(#17646_ORPI_DANI)
A classic. Nice deep orange orpiment xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:27 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:40mm x 35 mm x 10 mm
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Klebelsbergite xx,. Stibnite xx- Pereta Mine, Pereta, Italy
(#17606_KLEB_DANI)
Class! Gorgeous Klebelsbergite needles on a Stibnite xx in a vug.
Specimen weight:51 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm
Overall size:50mm x 40 mm x 20 mm
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Rockbridgeite - Leonie I mine, Schleichershof, Bavaria, Germany
(#17471_ROCK_DANI)
Dark green Rockbridgeite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm
Overall size:35mm x 30 mm x 15 mm
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Osumilite-(Mg) - Hiji, Hayami District, Oita Prefecture, Japan
(#13659_OSUM_DANI)
Nice classic jet black osumilite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:23 gr.
Crystal size:1 mm
Overall size:35mm x 30 mm x 20 mm
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Pezzottaite - Sakavalana mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro area, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar (TL)
(#MINS9276)
Pezzottaite hexagonal xls up to 2.5 mm long with good color on albite matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:32 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2.5 mm
Overall size:42mm x 35 mm x 14 mm
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Lefontite - João Teodoro claim, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil (type locality)
(#MINS9279)
Extremely rare Lefontite in brown crystals from the type locality. Formula : Fe2Al2Be(PO4)2(OH)6
Specimen weight:8 gr.
Crystal size:20 mm
Overall size:18mm x 10 mm x 42 mm
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Olivine, humite - San Vito quarry - Somma-Vesuvius Complex - Naples Province - Campania – Italy
(#MINS9272)
Excellent sample with yellow Olivine xl 5 mm wide with amber in color and semi-transparent crystals of humite. Vesuvius is now declared a Park and it is impossible to do new research.
Specimen weight:28 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm wide
Overall size:36mm x 30 mm x 18 mm
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Allanite-(Ce) - Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France
(#MINS9271)
A well shaped 4 mm crystals of this REE , perched in contrasting matrix from this classic locality. All former Allanites-Ce from Trimouns seem to be Dissakisite-Ce.
Specimen weight:40 gr.
Crystal size:4 mm tall
Overall size:31mm x 30 mm x 27 mm
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Fluornatromicrolite - Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
(#MINS9278)
Honey-yellow fluornatromicrolite octahedra with adamantine luster up to 5 mm on muscovite xls matrix. Fluornatromicrolite is a rare tantalum oxide with fluorine redefined from "microlite" in 1998 and is typically found in pegmatites.
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:35mm x 25 mm x 27 mm
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Hessonite garnet with Diopside - Saulera, Ala valley, Piedmont, Italy
(#MINS9267)
Nice specimen featuring red hessonite crystals, very brilliant up to 10 mm, on rodingite matrix, associated to greenish Diopside up to 6 mm . Classic garnet sample from one of the most famous locales in the italian Alps.
Specimen weight:52 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 10 mm
Overall size:50mm x 44 mm x 20 mm
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Roscoelite in quartz - Brazil
(#MINS9275)
Pearly Roscoelite inclusions in smocky quartz. Roscoelite is a valid Ima specie that belongs to the mica group. Ex. F. Bedognè collection with label.
Specimen weight:86 gr.
Crystal size:40x27x57 mm
Overall size:40mm x 27 mm x 57 mm
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Glauberite - Consuelo mine - Chinchón - Madrid - Spain
(#MINS9244)
Aggregate of nice Glauberite crystals up to 1,2 cm.
Probably this mine is the unique in the world where were found transparent crystals of glauberite.
Specimen weight:46 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,2 cm
Overall size:40mm x 32 mm x 28 mm
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Enargite - Furtei mine, Cantiere Is Concas, Furtei, Sardinia, Italy
(#MINS9245)
A classic of Italian mineralogy. A group of striated metallic Enargite crystals up to 3 mm in matrix cavities. Ex. Dr. Francesco Bedognè collection with original label.
Specimen weight:54 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm
Overall size:45mm x 40 mm x 18 mm
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Cavansite and stilbite - Wagholi quarry - Poona distr. - Maharastra state - India
(#GMA26033)
A twinned double crystal of electric blue Cavansite lies on a carpet of whitish Stilbites.
This species is increasingly rare to find on the market ...
Specimen weight:65 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 24
Overall size:35mm x 41 mm x 30 mm
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Hubnerite and quartz - Mundo Nuevo mine - Pasto Bueno - Pampas Distr. - Pallasca Prov. - Ancash - Perù
(#GMA26032)
Numerous black Hubnerite crystals are randomly arranged on this specimen, along with several clear Quartz crystals.
A high quality, rare and aestethic !
Specimen weight:55 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 17
Overall size:46mm x 33 mm x 31 mm
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Grossular, Diopside, Clinochlore - Testa Ciarva, Ala valley, Piedmont, Italy
(#14528_GROS_DANI)
Nice red grossular xx with light green diopside xx and clinochlore xx. A classic.
Specimen weight:91 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:50mm x 45 mm x 40 mm
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Pyrite - Huanzala mine, Huanzala, Huallanca District, Ancash, Peru
(#14527_PYRI_DANI)
Nice pyrite striated xx cluster. Note the complex habit of the xx.
Specimen weight:159 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:50mm x 50 mm x 40 mm
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Kulanite - Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining district, Yukon, Canada
(#13919_KULA_DANI)
Rare, nice and large, for the species kulanite xx matrix.
Specimen weight:30 gr.
Crystal size:up to 2 mm
Overall size:35mm x 25 mm x 10 mm
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Chalcophyllite - Salsigne mine, Salsigne, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
(#13829_CHAL_DANI)
Superb bright blue-greeen chalcophyllite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:86 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:50mm x 40 mm x 20 mm
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Sphalerite - Estaño Orcko mine, Machacamarca district, Potosì, Bolivia
(#12279_SPHA_DANI)
This specimen offer relatively sharp, dark, lustrous, modified dodecahedra of Sphalerite.
Specimen weight:39 gr.
Crystal size:15 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Barrerite - Roky Pass - Kuju Island - Sitka Borough - Alaska - USA
(#MINS9230)
Very nice sample of Barrerite, with pearly, shiny and well-defined crystals, in excellent conditions. Mineral by now almost impossible to find, once it was collected on the seashore, in the few hours when the tide lowered enough to allow the…
Specimen weight:37 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,0 cm long
Overall size:45mm x 40 mm x 18 mm
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Leightonite, Salvadora mine, Caracoles, Antofagasta Region, Chile
(#MINS9238)
Nice crystals cluster of light blu leightonite crystals up to 1.5 mm on porphyric matrix.
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1.5 mm
Overall size:32mm x 20 mm x 23 mm
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Tarbuttite- Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Zambia (TL)
(#MINS9237)
Cluster featuring pearl white Tarbuttite xls, quite well defined up to 2 mm.
Tarbuttite is a rare zinc phosphate, and this specimen is from the type Locality.
Specimen weight:12 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:42mm x 26 mm x 15 mm
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Kinoite xx, Ruizite xx (TL), Aphophylite - Christmas mine, Christmas, Arizona, USA
(#13409_KINO_DANI)
Very nice deep blue kinoite xx with very rare orange-brown ruizite xx on the classic apophyllite xx matrix.
Specimen weight:87 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 25 mm
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Zinkenite, Stannite, Andorite - San José mine, Oruro City, Bolivia
(#12246_JAME_DANI)
Superb trio offwering Stannite xx, Andorite xx and Zinkenite elongated xx.
Specimen weight:21 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:35mm x 70 mm x 10 mm
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Legrandite - Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
(#MINS9224)
Group of prismatic yellow crystals of legrandite up to 7 mm on limonitic matrix. Rare and showy.
Specimen weight:6 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:32mm x 8 mm x 26 mm
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Bastnäsite-(Ce) - Trimouns, Luzenac, Ariege, France
(#MINS9226)
Cluster of very sharp Bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals 8 mm in width between transparent and translucent, with orangey color set on contrasting dolomite matrix.
Specimen weight:30 gr.
Crystal size:8 mm wide
Overall size:36mm x 20 mm x 24 mm
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Spinel - Aliabad marbles, Aliabad, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
(#MINS9222)
Deep blue Spinel octahedron crystals up to 6 mm on white Calcite matrix.
Specimen weight:27 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 6 mm
Overall size:37mm x 26 mm x 26 mm
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Columbite-(Fe) - Analalava District, Sofia Region, Mahajanga (Majunga) Province, Madagascar
(#MINS9211)
Interesting specimen with black metallic columbite crystals up to 3,0 cm long.
Specimen weight:205 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3,0 cm tall
Overall size:40mm x 40 mm x 48 mm
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Kutnohorite with Manganoan Calcite, N'Chwaning III mine, KMF, North Cape Province, South Africa
(#MINS9229)
Very nice kutnohorite crystals with pink fluorescent manganoan calcite.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,5 cm
Overall size:55mm x 30 mm x 20 mm
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Fluorite - Aiguille Verte, Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
(#MINS9207)
This specimen offer very nice pink fluorite xls up to 4 mm on albite matrix with smoky quartz in associaton.
Specimen weight:42 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4 mm
Overall size:48mm x 35 mm x 27 mm
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Fluorite - Aiguille Verte, Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
(#MINS9216)
This specimen offer very nice pink fluorite xls up to 3 mm on albite matrix.
Specimen weight:35 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm
Overall size:36mm x 34 mm x 21 mm
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Cerussite - Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
(#MINS9205)
Very nice glassy slighly colorless translucent twinned Cerussite crystals grouping up to 2,8 cm wide, no matrix or point of attachment.
Specimen weight:72 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2,8 cm
Overall size:35mm x 25 mm x 33 mm
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Vesuvianite - Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
(#MINS9204)
Cluster of bright "root beer" Vesuvianite xls up to 1,8 cm long set on rodingite matrix.
Specimen weight:52 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,8 cm long
Overall size:44mm x 22 mm x 30 mm
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Spessartine - Praborna Mine, Servette-Chuc mining complex, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#MINS9209)
Orange spessartine up to 3 mm on quartz matrix from this old alpine manganese deposit locality.
Specimen weight:54 gr.
Crystal size:up to 3 mm
Overall size:45mm x 30 mm x 37 mm
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Quartz, Epidote - San Felipe, Cascas, La Libertad, Peru
(#12924_QUAR_DANI)
Superb combo! Red Quartz crystals cluster and green epidote.
Specimen weight:67 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
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Adamite (Var: Manganese-bearing Adamite) - Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
(#MINS9190)
Sample with Manganoan Adamite crystals up to 7 mm, purple in the terminations, very glossy. on limonitic matrix. Found in the 80's, it's in very good conditions.
Specimen weight:65 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 7 mm
Overall size:45mm x 44 mm x 37 mm
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Aschamalmite - Nasenkopf mountain, Bramberg am Wildkogel, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
(#MINS9194)
Aschamalmite xls in Quartz.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm
Overall size:44mm x 22 mm x 18 mm
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Fluorapatite - Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
(#MINS9199)
Cluster of very nice lavender Fluorapatite crystals up to 1,6 cm wide without matrix.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,6 cm wide
Overall size:33mm x 27 mm x 23 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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Columbite-(Fe) - Piano del Lavonchio, Rio Vasca, Craveggia, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
(#MINS9198)
Prismatic elongated black crystals of columbite-(Fe) 7 mm long on pegmatite matrix.
Specimen weight:37 gr.
Crystal size:7 mm long
Overall size:45mm x 25 mm x 30 mm
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Rosasite with Aurichalcite - Sounion, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
(#MINS9192)
Azure spheres of Rosasite with many green Aurichalcite crystals in association.
Specimen weight:47 gr.
Crystal size:3 mm
Overall size:57mm x 50 mm x 27 mm
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Colemanite - Mustafakemalpasha Mine - Bursa Province - Marmara Region - Turkey
(#MINS7816)
An excellent group of twinned crystals up to 8 mm, very bright and with a notable zonation of its color between its center, of burned-honey color, and the zones near the edges, completely clear.
Specimen weight:69 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 8 mm
Overall size:47mm x 37 mm x 30 mm
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Senarmontite (TL) - Djebel Hammimat mine, Ain Babouche, Constantine Province, Algerien
(#13255_SENA_DANI)
Very nice rare and historical senarmontite xx cluster.
Specimen weight:36 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:35mm x 25 mm x 20 mm
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Vesuvianite - Bellecombe, Aosta Valley, Italy
(#12822a_VESU_DANI)
Gemmy bicolored vesuvianite xx cluster.
Specimen weight:32 gr.
Crystal size:10 mm
Overall size:33mm x 35 mm x 20 mm
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Gaidonnayite (TL), Quartz - Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
(#11797_GAID_DANI)
Rare colorless gaidonnayite xx on matrix from type locality.
Specimen weight:25 gr.
Crystal size:< 1 mm (g) 40 mm (q)
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 20 mm
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Gibbsite - Saga Pearl quarry, Tvedalen, Vestfold, Norway
(#11792_GIBS_DANI)
Very nice gibbsite xx on matrix.
Specimen weight:29 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:45mm x 40 mm x 25 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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Ancylite-(Ca), Serandite, Aegirine - Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
(#11440_ANCY_DANI)
Nice ancylite xx with serandite and aegirine.
Specimen weight:16 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:40mm x 20 mm x 20 mm
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Clinochlore - Pera di Fassa, Trentino-Alto-Adige, Italy
(#11416_CLIN_DANI)
Nice green clinochlore xx of high luster on matrix.
Specimen weight:66 gr.
Crystal size:13 mm
Overall size:45mm x 45 mm x 40 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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Pargasite - Pargas (Parainen), Turku-Pori, Länsi-Suomen Lääni, Finland (TL)
(#MINS9180)
Dark green Pargasite to 2,4 cm tall are scattered throughout this massive calcite matrix. From the type locality.
Specimen weight:95 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2,4 cm
Overall size:50mm x 38 mm x 33 mm
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Sulphur - Perticara Mine, Novafeltria, Rimini Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
(#MINS9183)
Nice xls of Sulfur, which show a classic bi-pyramidal habit and very good brightness and transparence.
The cluster is a floater and has no matrix.....
Specimen weight:20 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2,3 cm wide
Overall size:43mm x 25 mm x 22 mm
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Carlfriesite - Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico (TL)
(#MINS9168)
Specimen with yellow Carlfriesite xls up to 0.8 mm richly set on matrix with green Tlapallite in association.
Specimen weight:24 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 0.8 mm wide
Overall size:35mm x 35 mm x 18 mm
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Ephesite - Gloucester mine, Gloucester Farm, Postmasburg manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa.
(#MINS9172)
Beautiful and lustrous crystals of the very rare red mica, Ephesite. This specimen, from the famous Postmasburg finds on a farm in the early 1980s, has mica books (up to 3 mm across) showing the classic pseudo-hexagonal cross-section of mica.
Specimen weight:31 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm wide
Overall size:38mm x 30 mm x 18 mm
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Fluoro-Leakeite - Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Jönköping County, Sweden (TL)
(#MINS9175)
Bluish crystals of fluoro-leakeite up to 4 mm from the type locality.
Specimen weight:5 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4 mm
Overall size:37mm x 22 mm x 6 mm
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Bromargyrite - Commercial Cramer Mine, Mimbres mines group, Georgetown Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
(#MINS9167)
Greenish bromargyrite on matrix.
Specimen weight:34 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:33mm x 22 mm x 32 mm
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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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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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Rouaite - Tenke Mine, Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
(#MINS9163)
Aggregate of thick, greenish-blue, tabular crystals of Rouaite up to 5 mm on a red cuprite matrix.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:up to 5 mm
Overall size:34mm x 24 mm x 15 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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Faujasite-Na, phillipsite and offretite - Limberg quarries - Sasbach - Kaiserstuhl - Baden-Württemberg - Germany (TL)
(#MINS9165)
The surfaceof the vugs of this specimen are covered by several octahedrycal minicrystals of Faujasite-Na, a rare zeolite from the type locality.
Specimen weight:36 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1 mm
Overall size:48mm x 35 mm x 24 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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Molybdenite - Perda de Pibera mine - Gonnosfanadiga - South Sardinia Prov. - - Sardinia - Italy
(#GMA26004)
A cluster of molybdenite crystals are clearly visible all around the matrix.
A sample so rich in crystals of this species is rare from Sardinia.
Specimen weight:86 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 14
Overall size:50mm x 40 mm x 40 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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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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Caledonite - Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
(#MINS9157)
Old Classic. Blue green Caledonite xls up to 1 mm.
Specimen weight:40 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1 mm
Overall size:45mm x 27 mm x 30 mm
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Bixbyite - N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
(#MINS9158)
Group of very sharp Bixbyite crystals, of cubic habit, very bright to 4 mm in Manganese matrix.
Specimen weight:93 gr.
Crystal size:to 4 mm
Overall size:55mm x 35 mm x 18 mm
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Braunite - Hartkoppe, Sailauf, Bavaria, Germany
(#11413_BRAU_DANI)
Nice tiny braunite xx on matrix. The specimen offer hundreds of tiny xx.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:40mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
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Braunite (TL) - Oehrenstock, Langewiesen, Ilmenau, Ilm District, Thuringia, Germany
(#11409_BRAU_DANI)
Rare! Well shaped braunite xx on matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:69 gr.
Crystal size:2 mm
Overall size:40mm x 35 mm x 30 mm
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