David K. Joyce

Latest Additions

Below are the most recent additions to my specimens database. Click on any of the thumbnails to view a larger image of the specimen.

All prices in Canadian dollars. For payment in US$, deduct 24% or multiply by 0.76.

 

Item #26869 Pectolite, Aegirine, etc 12.3x9.6x7.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $65.00 Mont Saint-Hilaire Quebec, Canada A great looking vug in a fragment of marble xenolith that is lined with clear, prismatic pectolite crystals. Many of the crystals are shattered by blast damage though but there are many intact. Lots of dark, green-black aegirine crystals, white albite and other minerals. Sawn base. Displays extremely well.	Item #26867 Marialite, Tremolite 4.8x4.9x4.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 16mm $55.00 Gooderham Ontario, Canada This specimen is mostly composed of marialite with a peculiar mauve tinge. The is a cavity in the middle of the piece with some terminated marialite crystals in it and one, in particular protruding out of it. Also some green tremolite.	Item #26866 Pectolite, Sphalerite, Aegirine, etc. 6.3x6.4x6.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: sp-5mm, p-7mm $65.00 Mont Saint-Hilaire Quebec, Canada A vug lined by colourless prismatic pectolite crystals runs up the middle of this marble matrix. There is a tetrahedral-looking brown sphalerite crystal at the center-right of the vug. As well, there are sharp dark, green-black aegirine crystals liberally sprinkled on the pectolites. Sawn on the left side but not noticeable. Displays very well!	Item #26864 Mimetite, Wulfenite 4.1x2.0x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: w-3mm, m-1mm $35.00 Rowley Mine Tiger Arizona, USA This cellular, quartz, gossan matrix is loaded with sprays of orangey, acicular mimetite crystals and a few square, lustrous bladed, orange, clear, wulfenite crystals. You can see mimetite sprays right through the wulfenites! Nice little specimen.
Item #26863 Triphylite 8.0x4.7x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $65.00 Palermo # 1 Mine North Groton, Grafton Co. New Hampshire, USA Nothing too fancy about this one! Well, there are some small, bladed crystals, probably vivianite on one side of the specimen. Just a solid mass of this unusual phosphate mineral from a famous pegmatite!	Item #26862 Quartz 7.6x5.5x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $120.00 Minas Gerais Brazil This is an interesting one. It is mostly composed of rose quartz crystals on a matrix of white quartz. Most of the top of the piece is rose quartz terminations with a chalcedony coating of the roase quartz in the center. Different! Unique!	Item #26861 Pectolite, Aegirine, Albite 8.7x6.5x7.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $45.00 Mont Saint-Hilaire Quebec, Canada The front of this marble matrix shows part of a vug totally lined with gemmy, prismatic pectolite crystals. along with some calcite, black aegirine and white albite. Sawn on the right side. Nice vug!	Item #26860 Marialite, Tremolite 9.7x7.5x6.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 30mm $170.00 Gooderham Ontario, Canada This specimen is mostly composed of light lavender coloured scapolite with a few nice green tremolite crystals here and there. The marialite crystals were found in a road cut for a short period of time and etched out of calcite. Some of the scapolite crystals are terminated nicely while others are broken at the termination. This is a particularly good example of this rare form of marialite.
Item #26858 Beryl 15.4x10.3x8.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 90mm $120.00 Beryl Pit (Canadian Beryllium mine) Quadeville Ontario, Canada A couple of tapered beryl crystals are well exposed in this pegmatitic matrix of orange feldspar, magnetite and smoky quartz. This is an older specimen and the beryl crystals are a lighter blue-green than I have seen from the pegmatite in more recent years. Still opaque but with good shape. Impressive, good looking piece!	Item #26857 Calcite 11.0x9.5x6.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $55.00 Flemingsburg Quarry Flemingsburg Kentucky, USA The top of this limestone matrix is crowned with colourless, gemmy, perfect rhombohedra of calcite. Some tiny crystals of an iron sulphide are also present in and on the crystals. Looks great!	Item #26855 Quartz, var. Amethyst 11.5x8.5x8.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $75.00 Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada A very displayable specimen of amethyst from the famous Thunder Bay area. It is a nicely open seam across the top that is lined with amethyst points and in the center is an usual prismatic amethyst crystal and I have highlighted the prism faces in the photo. A good one!	Item #26854 Dolomite, Wulfenite, Quartz 4.8x3.3x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: d-12mm, w-7mm $95.00 Tsumeb Mine Otjikoto Namibia This piece is an excellent dolomite crystal specimen from Tsumeb. The dolomite crystals are the very curved kind that are so curved, it defies understanding! "Saddle-shaped" is how the old textbooks describe them. Interestingly, the dolomite crystals have formed on a matrix of sharp quartz crystals and wulfenite crystals. The wulfenite crystals are a slightly yellowish colour and a strongly beveled, tabular crystal form. Nice!
Item #26853 Malachite, Baryte 12.3x10.5x8.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: bar-20mm $110.00 Mashamba West Mine Katanga Dem. Rep. of Congo This specimen is has a matrix of a sort of limonite breccia that is cemented with very thick banded, green malachite that shows botryoidal form in the open spaces. There are very nice, elongated colourless to white baryte crystals formed in a couple of the open spaces. We don't often see baryte crystals in these malachite specimens from Mashamba West! Displays well from a couple of directions!	Item #26851 Azurite 6.2x2.9x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $75.00 Morenci Mine Greenlee County Arizona, USA This piece is composed mostly of deep blue azurite. One side has a covering of individual, blue bladed crystals while the other side has more botryoidal aggregates of azurite covering much of it. What a mine! This one huge copper mine!	Item #26850 Malachite, Quartz 7.3x7.7x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $55.00 New Mexico, USA This vuggy quartz matrix is full of quartz lined vugs that are, in turn, full of acicular, deep green malachite needles. Gorgeous crystallization!	Item #26849 Aurichalcite, Hemimorphite 5.4x5.2x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $65.00 79 Mine Gila County Arizona, USA The front of this limonite matrix is a slightly concave openig that is largely covered with light blue acicular aurichalcite crystals associated with clear, colourless, bladed hemimorphite crystals. Looks great.
Item #26848 Atacamite 9.2x5.6x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $75.00 La Farola Mine Copiapo Chile The top of this flat rock matrix is an exposed seam of deep-emerald green atacamite crystals. The crystals are thick-acicular, terminated crystals is single crystals and divergent groups. Gemmy! Excellent!	Item #26846 Malachite 3.9x4.8x3.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $45.00 Mashamba West Mine Shaba Zaire This specimen is al malachite. It is a vug of malachite with the entire vug lined with lustrous, curved crystals of deep-green malachite. Deeper green than in the photo. Looks great!	Item #26845 Smithsonite, Mimetite 7.2x6.0x4.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $150.00 Tsumeb Mine Otjikoto Namibia Now, this is a special specimen! It is a vug of gray smithsonite with botryoids formed of curved smithsonite crystals. In the vug are sprays of light green, acicular mimetite crystals. Very nice and unusual!	Item #26843 Wulfenite, Quartz, Tennantite 3.1x2.9x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $75.00 Tsumeb Mine Otjikoto Namibia This specimen features a single, black, thick-tabular wulfenite crystal on a hodgepodge of elongated quartz crystals and corroded tennantite. The wulfnite crystal has a ding on one corned on the back, but it us not noticeable from the display side. Nice!
Item #26840 Cuprite, Copper 4.8x4.6x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $110.00 Cornwall England This specimen appears to be a thick cryst of cuprite crystals on a core of native copper, with small copper crystals poking out here and there. The cuprite crystals are sharp cubes with dodecahedral modifications. Nice old-time!!	Item #26838 Conichalcite 5.8x3.7x3.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $45.00 La Mina Ojuela Mapimi, Durango Mexico This limonite, gossan matrix has a cavity in the front of it that is lined with green crystals of conichalcite. Great looking specimen of this secondary mineral.	Item #26837 Tetrahedrite, Pyrite, Rhodochrosite 5.5x5.0x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $85.00 Cavnic Maramures Romania Sharp crystals of tetrahedrite are scattered on very light pink rhodochrosite and associated with small lustrous crystals of pyrite. Slight abrasions but great looking specimen!	Item #26836 Chalcopyrite, Enargite, marcasite 4.7x3.0x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: en-1.5mm, ch-9mm $75.00 Picher Oklahoma, USA Here is an unusual one! This specimen shows sharp chalcopyrite crystals that totally cover a matrix of sphalerite. Speckled on the chalcopyrite crystals are bladed crystals of enargite. Now, I was surprised when I saw them but looked on mindat and one of the pictures on mindat.org look exactly like the enargite crystals on chalco in this specimen! Very cool, unusual mineral specimen from this prolific lead-zinc mining area of the Tri-State fields.
Item #26834 Hausmannite 11.0x8.0x11.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $120.00 N'Chwaning Mine Kuruman South Africa A large fragment of, apparently solid hausmannite with a number of cavities lined with stepped crystals of black hausmannite. The crystals have a sort of elongated octahedral habit and good luster. Rich specimen!	Item #26833 Sphalerite, Fluorite 23.5x12.0x6.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: sp-60mm, fl-20mm $240.00 Cave in Rock Denton Illinois, USA Wow! This specimen is composed of a very thick crust of rich, brown sphalerite on a thin, maximum 15mm sheet of limestone. The sphalerite is composed of very complex, composite crystals of sphalerite with a high lustre. There are several excellent, purple cubes of fluorite scattered on the piece. Impressive display specimen. Extra postage may be required!	Item #26830 Andradite 6.5x4.0x7.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $55.00 Marmoraton Iron Mine Marmora Ontario, Canada A mound of very dark reddish-brown dodecahedral andradite crystals from the famous giant skarn zone that was once an iron Mine. Nice example!	Item #26823 Hematite 3.5x2.8x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $35.00 Palmer Marquette Michigan, USA A specimen of botryoidal hematite from one of the iron mines of the Palmer area of the famous Marquette Co. iron fields. Excellent example!
Item #26820 Quartz, var. Agate 13.4x8.9x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Minas Gerais Brazil A rich, polished agate nodule composed of reddish, brownish and white bands. Polished on one side, amygdule wall on the other side. Beautiful!	Item #26819 Andradite 7.0x7.3x7.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 16mm $65.00 Marmoraton Iron Mine Marmora Ontario, Canada A dark, red-brown mound of dodecahedral garnets rises up out of a matrix of pure white calcite and more andradite garnet underneath. Actually displays fairly well!	Item #26813 Malachite 7.8x6.7x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $55.00 Lubumbashi Haut Katanga Democratic Republic of Congo A beautiful, deep green, botryoidal plate of malackite. The inner malachite is the attractive banded, fine grained type but the last phase of the malachite deposition was sparkling, small, blocky crystals. Attractive piece from one of the localities that produces the best!	Item #26812 Quartz, var. Amethyst 9.4x7.8x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $65.00 Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada An attractive plate of medium purple amethyst with a light stripe of colourless quartz up the left of centre. The lighter strip is composed of tiny colourless crystals that have formed after the amethyst. Attractive!
Item #26811 Azurite, Chrysocolla, Malachite 10.0x7.4x6.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $55.00 Zaire The front/top of this dense matrix is covered with botryoidal azurite, which, in turn is largely coated with transluscent crhysocolla. Some of the botryoids are green malachite. Sorry, only locality data I have is Zaire. Interesting piece!	Item #26809 Tremolite 12.7x8.0x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 88mm $75.00 B.C. Mine Black Lake Quebec, Canada A mass of parallel, very light greenish, silky tremolite fibers from this long closed asbestos mine. Actually displays well for an unusual mineral like this.	Item #26808 Azurite 13.0x9.3x4.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $360.00 Tsumeb Otjikoto Namibia This specimen is a plate of chalcocite that has a thick covering of well formed deep blue azurite crystals. The crystals are thick, tabular crystals with really no associated minerals except for traces of some light green minerals. Impressive piece!	Item #26805 Stilbite 12.2x10.0x5.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 34mm $65.00 Cap D'Or Nova Scotia, Canada Part of a pocket of amber-ish stilbite sprays. The crystals are a light brownish-translucent and are mostly diverging groups of crystals, as we often see with stilbite. Nice example!
Item #26804 Quartz, Tourmaline 10.8x1.8x1.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $65.00 Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Brazil A beautiful, slender smoky quartz crystal that has inclusions and attached crystal sections of a deep greenish tourmaline near the base. The termination is not perfect but still, it is an elegant crystal!	Item #26800 Quartz, var. Amethyst 8.4x6.9x6.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 69mm $120.00 Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada A cluster of amethyst quartz crystals dominated by one larger crystal. This specimen is unusual in that it does not have the colloidal iron oxides that are so often included just under the surface of the quartz crystals. This results in a nice purple crystal with no red tinting or dots. You'll note from the label glued to the sawn base that the specimen was collected in 1970. Displays very well!	Item #26799 Quartz, var. Rose 5,6x3.5x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $140.00 Harvard Pit Plumbago Mountain, Newry Maine, Canada The top and front of this specimen is largely covered with pink quartz crystals. The rose quartz crystals have trigonal terminations and simple prism faces. The matrix is a section of microcline crystal. Nice specimen from a classic old pegmatite locality!	Item #26797 Quartz, faden 5.7x4.6x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $65.00 Boylston Guysborough Co. Nova Scotia, Canada A classic example of a faden showing the faden "string" passing through the middle of the parallel growth quartz crystals. As is common with the quartz crystals from this locality, there is a slight orangey tinge inside the crystals due to iron oxide inclusion. Nice!
Item #26796 Quartz, var Amethyst 4.7x3.7x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Sweden Oxford County Maine, USA A single, doubly terminated amethyst crystal with good colour. Looks like it was attached in a cavity of drusy white quartz crystals at one time and a fragment of those crystals are attached to the amethyst. Classic!	Item #26795 Quartz, faden 4.5x4.1x1.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $40.00 Boylston Guysborough Co. Nova Scotia, Canada This is a string of quartz crystals in the growth habit called a "faden". If you look carefully, you can see the faden line that runs through the central portion of the crystals. Additionally, the quartz crystals from this locality have an orangey tinge because of a light dusting of iron oxides just below the surface of the faces of the crystals. Nice Example!	Item #26791 Quartz 5.8x3.0x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 58mm $40.00 Fazenda Brejinho Bahia Brazil A nice cluster of medium-dark smokey quartz crystals. You can easily see through them with a little transmitted light. The crystals are prismatic but with prism faces that taper slightly towards the termination. The smaller crystal has a damaged termination but the larger crystals are very nice! Nice cluster!	Item #26790 Quartz 7.5x2.6x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $45.00 Conselhiero Pena Minas Gerais Brazil An extremely gemmy, very elongated quartz crystal showing nice etched features on every other prism face. There are some smaller crystals attached to the base. Sweet!
Item #26788 Quartz 8.5x4.7x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Tarryall Lake George, Park County Colorado, USA This crystal has an interesting multiple termination which may be an ancient fracture and resumed growth. It is extremely clear and gemmy and a very light smokey colouration inside.	Item #26786 Quartz, Faden 3.6x3.0x1.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $45.00 Coronel Murta Minas Gerais Brazil A sharp faden showing the "string" down the middle of the distorted faden-formed quartz crystal. There is an additional quartz crystal attached to it. A little chipping but, still, a nice example of this type of quartz.	Item #26785 Quartz 7.4x5.3x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $120.00 Middleville Herkimer County New York, USA A well formed "herkimer Diamond" from the famous locality in New York State. The crystal has very little, if any chipping or dsamage. It is very clear in the top half with internal fractures and inclusions in the bottom half. it has a little limestone attached and that is the small point of attachment on the back.	Item #26783 Quartz, Hematite 6.2x4.6x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: qu-53mm $65.00 Heping Guandong China This dramatic specimen shows a sharp, colourless quartz crystal thrusting up out of thin-bladed, black hematite crystals. Great modern classic locality!
Item #26780 Corundum 3.6x3.4x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 27mm $35.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A sharp, doubly terminated corundum crystal is embedded in the top of this feldspar and corundum matrix. The terminations are largely intergrown with feldspar but are there! Nice example!	Item #26776 Corundum 4.5x4.3x3.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 35mm $35.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Canada A well formed brown corundum crystal section is nicely exposed at the front and top of a feldspar and corundum matrix.	Item #26775 Corundum 4.1x2.4x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $40.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A well formed, singly-terminated brown, tapering, corundum crystal with a little feldspar attached to one face. Nice!	Item #26774 Corundum 5.2x5.3x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 52mm $40.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A short, sort of tabular corundum crystal that has terminations embedded in feldspar. Nice example.
Item #26773 Corundum 6.5x7.4x4.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 36mm $65.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A very sharp, singly terminated corundum crystal is perfectly exposed at the front of this feldspar matrix. Displays perfectly!	Item #26772 Corundum 11.5x6.7x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 37mm $85.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A well formed, hexagonal, brown crystal of corundum is well exposed at the top of this feldspar-corundum matrix. The crystal has very good shape and luster. Stands perfectly for display!	Item #26771 Corundum 4.3x3.0x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 26mm $45.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A squat, doubly terminated corundum crystal is well exposed in feldspar, magnetite, pyrite and phlogopite matrix. Not as dark brown as usual but more of a brownish green. Nice!	Item #26770 Corundum 6.9x3.5x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm $35.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A tapered corundum crystal section is exposed in feldspar-corundum matrix. Corundum; the hardest mineral after diamond on the Moh's scale!
Item #26769 Corundum 7.1x3.0x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 35mm $45.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A sharp, brown corundum crystal is embedded and partially intergrown with orange feldspar.	Item #26768 Corundum 11.5x5.5x6.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 35mm $75.00 Craigmont Mine Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A thick, tapered, brown corundum crystal is exposed in the front of a fine grained, feldspar matrix. The feldspar is spiked with many small crystals and fragments of corundum thoughout. The main crystal is horizontally striated with good luster. The termination is not complete but, still the specimen shows well.	Item #26765 Silver 8.1x5.5x6.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Colonial Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada The top and part of the bottom, in several places, of this fragment of diabase are slathered with leaves of native silver. The leaves are part of what once was a continuous leaves that were seams in the diabase that were ripped apart when cracked open. The Nipissing Diabase Sill is generally regarded as being related to the genesis of the Cobalt silver veins. Silver veins are always in close proximity to the Diabase sill but we don't often find it IN the diabase. Here is an excellent example of silver in Nipissing Diabase.	Item #26764 Silver 9.4x6.6x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Colonial Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada The top of this fragment of diabase is richly endowed with leaves of native silver. The leaves are part of what once was a continuous leaf that was a seam in the diabase that was ripped apart when cracked open. Another seam is partially exposed halfway down one side of the matrix as shown in one of the photos. The Nipissing Diabase Sill is generally regarded as being related to the genesis of the Cobalt silver veins. Silver veins are always in close proximity to the Diabase sill but we don't often find it IN the diabase. Here is a good example of silver in Nipissing Diabase.
Item #26762 Silver, Arsenides 8.9x6.9x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $120.00 Hellens-Eplett Mine North Cobalt Ontario, Canada This creamy-white dolomite is richly laced with native silver that has a thin coating of nickeline and breithauptite. The silver is mostly present as clots and veinlets with just a little crystallized silver. The specimen is sawn on one side to show the mineralogical textures very well. The reverse shows just native silver protruding from the dolomite and a greenish secondary product of the nickel minerals. Beautiful specimen from an unusual location!	Item #26755 Silver, Arsenides 10.5x7.8x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Christopher Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada A very dense section of silver and arsenides from the Christopher mine. Very dense, rich specimen!!	Item #26754 Silver, Rammelsbergite, Nickeline 17.4x12.0x0.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $120.00 Coniagas Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada A very rich slice of high-grade in nickel-rich arsenide matrix. Two of the nickel phases are readily identifiable, particularly the nickeline and the rammelsbergite. The rammelsbergite is the dark plumose phase at the upper right of the photo. Co-Ni-Ag-As, of course was named for the cobalt, nickel, silver and arsenic in its ores! Excellent specimen!	Item #26753 Silver, Arsenides 17.4x10.0x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $140.00 Coniagas Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada A very thick slice of high-grade silver ore showing dolomite-silver arsenide vein filling and one wall contact. There is very thick silver mineralization, probably more silver than arsenides! Rich!
Item #26752 Silver, Arsenides 12.4x6.4x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $120.00 Bailey Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada This is a very rich specimen!! The matrix is mostly dolomite vein with fine grained dendritic silver embedded in it everywhere. As well, there are lots of much courser veinlets of native silver, as well. Interestingly, there are a couple of blobs of colourless quartz, that have fractured differently than the dolomite and have more silver veinlets in them and no dendritic. Very interesting! Sawn one side rough the other.	Item #26751 Silver, Arsenides 8.5x6.2x7.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 27mm $65.00 Bailey Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada The sawn side of this piece shows strait crystals of silver coated by a thin layer of arsenide, embedded in dolomite. The rough side of the specimen shows similar but rough! The specimen is a vein and appears to be sheared right down the middle. Interesting piece.	Item #26750 Silver, Nickeline, Arsenides 11.7x6.0x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $85.00 Silverfields Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada Silver is present in this piece as thick veinlets and clots as well as at the core of the arsenide "rosettes". The only readily identifiable arsenide is nickeline. The silver arsenide is probably rammelsbergite. Sawn one side rough the other striking, dense specimen!	Item #26749 Silver, Arsenides 9.4x8.5x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $85.00 Capitol Mine Gowganda Ontario, Canada Beautiful, curved aggregates of dendritic silver coated with arsenide mineralization is well exposed on the sawn sade of this calcite-silver vein. Very rich!
Item #26748 Silver, Arsenides 10.7x10.5x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $85.00 Bailey Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada Veinlets of native silver traverse colloidal arsenides to give an impression of lightning coming down out of clouds. The colloidal arsenides are actually well defined! Unfortunately, the fellow that I usually use to analyse such things is out of business, otherwise, I'm pretty sure I could prove up several relatively rare minerals in this piece. Sawn one side. Very interesting piece!	Item #26741 Silver, Safflorite, Tremolite 11.5x5.7x2.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 22mm $110.00 Siscoe Mine Gowganda Ontario, Canada This specimen features a complete vein of crystallized silver coated by safflorite that wraps around a rock fragment. The silver is in elongated crystals with a coating of safflorite crystals. Light greenish trmolite needles are scattered about and small patches of silver are also in the cavities. Interesting piece!	Item #26740 Silver, Arsenides 9.5x6.0x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $140.00 Bailey Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada A heavy vein section of rich silver and a mixture of nickel and cobalt arsenides. Dense! Sawn on one end to expose the silver and arsenide structure. Very rich.	Item #26736 Silver, Safflorite 9.6x4.4x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Siscoe Mine Gowganda Canada A rich chunk of silver vein sliced on one side to better reveal the safflorite-coated dendritic silver. Globs of silver sticking out here and there. Nice one!
Item #26732 Safflorite 9.7x6.3x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $85.00 Langis Mine Casey Township Ontario, Canada A very heavy, dense plate of botryoidal safflorite. The safflorite is present as fine grained botryoids and as botryoids that have imprints of calcite crystals. Excellent!	Item #26731 Lollingite, Quartz 8.3x5.2x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $75.00 Siscoe Mine Gwganda Ontario, Canada This specimen shows a vein of lollingite that has had the calcite etched away to reveal botryoidal aggregates of lollinite crystals. The lollingite is all pointed, very sharp, tiny cyclic twins. Excellent example of lollingite!	Item #26730 Lollingite 9.1x5.9x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $65.00 Siscoe Mine Gowganda Ontario, Canada This specimen shows a vein of lollinite from which the calcite has been removed to reveal botryoidal aggregates of lollingite crystals. The botryoids are composed of cyclic twins of lollingite -very sharp! Excellent example of this iron arsenide mineral.	Item #26727 Vesuvianite 9.0x5.7x6.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 19mm $140.00 Jeffrey Mine Asbestos Quebec, Canada A piece of mostly green and purple vesuvianite. The top and front of it is composed of lots of open spaces lined with loads of small gemmy, purple vesuvianite crystals. Surprisingly in a deep vug in the middle of the piece is a large, well formed vesuvianite crystal! Interesting and different piece!
Item #26725 Suolunite 7.8x5.9x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $180.00 LAB Chrysotile Mine Black Lake Quebec, Canada Here is a rare one! This plate has an opening on the upper left that is lined with 5mm, or so, curved crystals of light lavender suolunite. Looks sort of like lavender prehnite! The bottom right is covered with small, up to one mm or so individual crystals of suolunite. Nice specimen of this unusual mineral.	Item #26724 Epidote 6.5x5.5x4.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $45.00 Calumet Mine Salida, Chaffee Co. Colorado, USA A seam of epidote has been exposed on the front of this matrix. Much of it is exposed shallow vugs of gemmy, sharp, green epidote crystals. Interesting locality piece!	Item #26723 Epidote, Quartz 3.9x4.5x4.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: ep-6mm, qu-30mm $45.00 Sayward Vancouver Island British Columbia, Canada A cluster of quartz crystals with a smattering of green epidote crystals spilling out of a recess between quartz crystals. Unusual locality!	Item #26722 Elbaite, Cookeite 6.3x3.8x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 43mm $140.00 Mt. Mica Gem Mine Paris Hill, S. Paris Maine, USA This specimen is a hodge-podge of criss-crossing elbaite crystals, mostly coated by a thin veneer of beige cookeite crystals. As well ,there are lots of small quartz crystals helping to hold it all together. Interesting and unique specimen from this famous pegmatite area!
Item #26721 Vesuvianite 8.7x5.9x3.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 16mm $150.00 Jeffrey Mine Asbestos Quebec, Canada Lots of gemmy-green vesuvianite crystals are present on the top of this plate of, mostly, solid vesuvianite. The crystals are mostly terminated with an assortment of tetragonal faces. Looks great.	Item #26720 Diopside, Grossular 5.4x3.1x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: d-3mm, g-1mm $65.00 Jeffrey Mine Asbestos Canada The top of this matrix is carpeted with very light-green, terminated, prismatic diopside crystals, with a few orangey-pink grossular crystals scattered on the diopsides. Nice!	Item #26719 Epidote 5.2x4.7x5.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $75.00 Dashkesan Azerbaijan The front-top of this specimen is covered with groups of divergent dark-green epidote crystals, with a few small quartz crystals. Different!	Item #26718 Epidote 4.8x3.5x2.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $40.00 Guadalupe Isle Baja Mexico A specimen showing stout, sharp epidote crystals from this unusual location. Just like the specimens shown in mindat.org.
Item #26717 Elbaite, Quartz 4.0x2.3x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 26mm $120.00 Dagenais Prospect Plumbago Mountain, Newry Maine, USA A flat-terminated very dark blue-ish elbaite crystal is well exposed in white, glassy quartz. The second crystal is only part of a crystal. Mounted on an acrylic stand to display perfectly.	Item #26714 Vesuvianite 7.0x6.3x5.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $120.00 Jeffrey Mine Asbestos Quebec, Canada A mass of solid, enmeshed vesuvianite crystals with many openings that have terminated crystals protruding into them. The crystals are a light green colour and are gemmy. Hard to believe this is a "rock forming mineral"! A glob of glue on the base allows it to stand perfectly for display.	Item #26713 Epidote 4.9x2.5x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $95.00 Naukluft Farm Rehobeth Namibia a very lustrous, singly terminated, dark green crystal. There is very little bruising or damage and the crystal has a habit that we don't often see. Same with the locality. Unusual! Really nice crystal!	Item #26712 Elbaite, Albite 3.8x3.6x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 27mm $120.00 Conselheiro Pena Minas Gerais Brazil This specimen is an intergrowth of larger, platey albite crystals and lots of deep-green, elongated elbaite crystals. The elbaite crystals range in size from needle-like to pencil thick. Interesting from all angles!
Item #26710 Enargite, Quartz 9.3x5.4x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $180.00 Leonard Mine Butte, Silver Bow Co. Montana, USA Here is a hard to come by, good-looking plate of enargite crystals from the famous Butte Locality. There is bruising on a number of the crystals but there are many unbruised enargite crystals, as well. Half of the specimen has many of the enargite crystals, draped with little blankets of tiny quartz crystals for a nice accent. Displays very well.	Item #26706 Pyromorphite 9.0x7.0x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2.5mm $140.00 Roughton Gill Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria England The front of this quartzite matrix is totally covered with yellow, sharp, prismatic vanadinite crystals. Excellent example from this very old, classic English locality!	Item #26705 Pyromorphite 8.7x6.0x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $65.00 Touissit Mine Bou Beker, Jerada, Oriental Morocco This altered, limestone matrix hosts many, lustrous, slightly curved-prismatic pyromorphite crystals on its vuggy exterior. A very good example from this locality!	Item #26703 Beryl, Var. Morganite 3.7x3.8x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $225.00 Galilea Mine Minas Gerais Brazil This is a piece of a larger crystal of the orangey-pink morganite crystals that you have all seen in textbooks and museums. Don't know why it is sawn on one side but it is a highly gemmy, thick, crystal fragment with small crystal sections of elbaite and quartz attached.
Item #26702 Beryl, var. Aquamarine 5.2x0.9x0.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $120.00 Teofilo Otoni Minas Gerais Brazil A very nice, long, slender, very light blue, well terminated beryl crystal from the world-famous pegmatite area. Nice crystal!!	Item #26701 Vanadinite 10.2x5.5x5.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 8mm $45.00 Mibladen Draa-Tafilalet Morocco The front, back and sides of this specimen are totally covered with sharp, hexagonal crystals of red vanadinite. A modern day classic! Displays as shown, very well.	Item #26700 Corundum 4.2x2.7x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 37mm $65.00 Gutz Farm Rosenthal Ontario, Canada A, long, tapering corundum crystal is embedded in white nepheline, in this good-looking example.	Item #26699 Corundum 3.8x2.6x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 38mm $75.00 Burgess Mine New Carlow Ontario, Canada A singly terminated, fairly well formed crystal of brown corundum with a little feldspar attached to the back. Well mounted on an acrylic base for excellent display!
Item #26697 Beryl, Muscovite 4.6x3.7x3.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 30mm $75.00 Northern Areas Pakistan A colourless, lustrous, interestingly shaped beryl crystal from the pegmatite area of northern Pakistan. Perhaps the fainted hint of blue in the crystal. In the photo, you are looking at the pinacoidal face, down the c-axis. There are other crystals and crystal sections enmeshed in the muscovite, as well.	Item #26694 Vanadinite, Descloizite, Calcite 4.4x4.4x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1.5mm $65.00 C and B Mine Gila County Arizona, USA The front of this specimen is largely covered with orangey-red hexagonal-prismatic vanadinite crystals, some of which are, in turn, covered by white calcite. On the back of the specimen, there is a druse of tiny descloizite crystals. Interesting locality piece!	Item #26692 Corundum 6.9x6.1x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 33mm $130.00 Tanzania Two, well formed pink "ruby" corundum crystals are embedded in matrix and nicely exposed. The matrix appears to be a micaceous marble with a mica deficient volume around the corundum crystals. The only locality data I have for it is Tanzania but I expect it is from the Morogoro area. Displays well!	Item #26690 Beryl 4.8x2.6x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $140.00 Kuna Mine Nuristan Afghanistan A well formed, light blue gemmy crystal with some internal cloudiness. The crystal is a simple hexagonal prism with an un-modified pinacoid termination with some growth features. Nice looking crystal!