Armenite - Isenwegg, Wasen Alp, Ganter valley, Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland
(#MINS9220)
This piece has glassy, lustrous, white crystals of Armenite up to 3 mm. This is a rare hydrated, barium, calcium, aluminum silicate from the famous from the famous Simplon Pass, in Switzerland (1995)
Specimen weight:87 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm
 Overall size:56mm x 36 mm x 28 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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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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Dufrenoysite - Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland (Type Locality)
(#MINS9186)
Group of elongated gray-metallic crystals of Dufrenoysite up to 4 mm long on dolomite matrix.A classic.
Specimen weight:35 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 4 mm
Overall size:30mm x 25 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fluorite - Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Uri, Switzerland
(#12726_FLUO_DANI)
Superb classic pink fluorite xx. The quality and transparency of this crystals it is just royal. 1990 find.
Specimen weight:38 gr.
Crystal size:29 mm on edge
Overall size:29mm x 29 mm x 29 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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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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Pezzottaite - Sakavalana mine, Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro area, Ambatofinandrahana District, Amoron'i Mania Region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar (TL)
(#MINS9045)
Pezzottaite hexagonal xls up to 3 mm long with good color with tourmaline in association on albite matrix from the type locality.
Specimen weight:22 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 3 mm
Overall size:37mm x 12 mm x 36 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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Microcline var. Amazonite - Crystal Peak area, Park and Teller Cos., Colorado, USA
(#MINS9001)
Nice blue amazonite crystal 2,3 cm tall, fully terminated on with albite in association.
Specimen weight:50 gr.
Crystal size:2,3 cm tall
Overall size:53mm x 27 mm x 38 mm
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Microlite on Albite - Ipè Mine - Governador Valadares - Minas Gerais - Brazil
(#MINS9008)
Cluster of orange octahedric also with corners modified by trapezohedron Microlite crystals up to 2.5 mm set on white contrasting Albite. A nice sample of this rare specie.Showy.
Specimen weight:36 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 2.5 mm
Overall size:50mm x 27 mm x 23 mm
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Lengenbachite - Lengenbach Quarry - Binnatal - Wallais - Switzerland (Type Locality)
(#MINS9160)
Metallic, steel-gray Lengenbachite needles up to 1 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 1 mm
Overall size:42mm x 28 mm x 15 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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Bayleyite - Gerstenegg-Grimsel cable tunnel, Gerstenegg, Grimsel area, Hasli Valley, Bern, Switzerland
(#MINS8985)
Specimen with vivid yellow sub-mm Bayleyite crystals on matrix.
Specimen weight:8 gr.
Crystal size:sub-mm
Overall size:24mm x 10 mm x 10 mm
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Sphalerite with native arsen- Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland
(#MINS8962)
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:68 gr.
Crystal size:5 mm
Overall size:40mm x 40 mm x 30 mm
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Sartorite - Lengenbach Quarry - Binnatal - Wallais - Switzerland (Type Locality)
(#MINS8876)
Cluster of Sartorite crystals up to 1,4 cm long set in dolomia matrix with sphalerite and pyrite in association from the type locality.
Specimen weight:132 gr.
Crystal size:Up to 1,4 cm long
Overall size:65mm x 45 mm x 35 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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Binnite (var. of Tennantite-(Zn)) -Lengenbach Quarry - Fäld - Binn - Goms - Valais - Switzerland
(#GM21003)
A big crystal of binnite is in good evidence over the whitish matrix of this specimen.
Several minicrystals of pyrites are seeded over all the faces of it.
Specimen weight:175 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 5
Overall size:57mm x 38 mm x 34 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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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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Titanite - Curnera Valley, Grischun, Switzerland
(#FERR1357)
Fine miniature featuring several clean brown Titanite xls, very well defined scattered on matrix.
Classic specimens from central Alps.
Specimen weight:15 gr.
Crystal size:0.6 cm
Overall size:45mm x 26 mm x 20 mm
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Hyalophane and siderite - Zagradski Potok mine - Zagradski Creek - Busovaca - Zenica-Doboj Canton - Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (with VIDEO !)
(#GM17090)
Fantastic specimen of this variety af albite, that has the typical 'knee' crystallization.
The main crystals are almost transparent and of gem quality ...
Specimen weight:660 gr.
Crystal size:mm. 28
Overall size:105mm x 93 mm x 43 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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Smoky Quartz, Orthoclase, Albite - Baveno Quarry, Province of Verbania, Piemonte, Italy
(#FERR0317)
Classic cluster featuring several prismatic xls of Quartz, slightly smoky, set upon a bed of pinkish xls of Orthoclase and of Albite.
Oldtimer from one of the most known italian localities.
Specimen weight:274 gr.
Crystal size:to 4,3 cm
Overall size:9,1 x 8,4 x 4,4 cm
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