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.

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Item #24949 Lepidolite, Albite 9.4x8.6x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 21mm $55.00 Dunton Mine Plumba Go Mountian, Newry Maine, USA A very good crystal of this lithium mica well situated on a cluster of albite crystals. Excellent pegmatite specimen from this famous pegmatite area!	Item #24948 Azurite 7.2x4.4x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $45.00 Juanita Mine Kelly, Socorro Co. New Mexico, USA Some nice azurite crystals in cavities with other copper minerals from this famous mining area.	Item #24947 Hematite 4.0x2.5x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm $45.00 Novo Horizonte Bahia Brazil A cluster of highly lustrous, sharp, hematite crystals. Very well formed with some small abrasions. Great hematite crystals from this locality.	Item #24946 Tremolite 4.9x2.4x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 31mm $45.00 Dave Bush Farm Richville, St. Lawrence County New York, USA A fairly, well-formed specimen of prismatic, colourless tremolite crystals from a little-known Grenville locality from New York State. The main crystal is singly terminated with the termination at the lower end of the specimen.
Item #24945 Arsenopyrite 6.9x5.3x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 55mm $40.00 Goldenville Gold Mine Goldenville Nova Scotia, Canada A large, rounded, silky-striated, silvery-metallic, mostly complete arsenopyrite crystal attached to metasediment matrix. Above average size for this locality.	Item #24944 Tennantite, Quartz 4.9x2.9x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $45.00 Conception Del Oro Zacatecas Mexico Conception del Oro is famous for specimens of tennantite on drusy quartz like this. This one has some well formed modified tetrahedral crystals, associated with pyrite on the milky quartz crystals.	Item #24941 Grossular 10.0x5.1x5.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $110.00 Austria Loads of sparkling, dark red grossular crystals cover much of the front of this specimen. Sorry, no detailed locality data but it does look like something from the Salzburg area. Displays very well. s	Item #24940 Quartz 7.3x2.5x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $40.00 Conselhiero Mata Minas Gerais Brazil Brazil is the source for many fine quartz crystals. Most have damaged terminations. Here is a nicely terminated milky quartz crystal from this famous area. s
Item #24932 Spodumene, var Kunzite 7.3x4.2x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $140.00 Afghanistan A well formed, short spodumene crystal from the contemporary classic locality for "kunzite". The crystal shows very good clarity and a light lilac colouration. Hard to believe it is a pyroxene group mineral!! s	Item #24931 Topaz 6.3x3.5x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $85.00 Wales Alaska, USA Here is a locality that we don't hear from very often! A well-formed, terminated topaz crystal from Alaska! Very cool Americana! s	Item #24930 Grossular 6.1x4.3x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $65.00 Sierra Des Cruces Coahuila Mexico VERY cool grossular. Can a crystal GET any more vibrant red-pink? Several well formed grossular crystals in an unreal hue top this matrix. Have been etched of of calcite. Displays well. s	Item #24929 Topaz 2.6x2.4x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $55.00 Capelinhas Minas Gerais Brazil A well-formed, colourless topaz crystal from this famous pegmatite area. It has a little abrasion but still looks very good. Nice example! s
Item #24928 Beryl 3.7x2.4x1.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm $55.00 Canadian Beryllium Mine, Beryl Pit Quadeville Ontario, Canada Here is a nice beryl specimen from "The Beryl Pit" in the giant pegmatite at Quadville, Ontario. These are rarely, if ever terminated. This one has an above-average blue colour and sharp prism faces. s	Item #24927 Beryl 7.2x5.2x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 65mm $65.00 East Stoneham Oxford Co. Maine, USA A greenish beryl crystal partially embedded in quartz, with a little mica and feldspar. The crystal transitions from a wider crystal to a more narrow crystal part-way up. Classic Maine pegmatite locality! s	Item #24926 Corundum 4.4x3.0x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $55.00 Bagrine Mogok, Myanmar A couple of well-formed, fairly transluscent, corundum crystals are well exposed on the front of this matrix. Nice! s	Item #24925 Beryl 3.9x1.6x1.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Teofilo Otoni Minas Gerais Brazil For some reason, aquamarine from this and certain other localities are well formed crystals with a tube town the middle. This crystal shows that interesting growth peculiarity. This well formed crystal has a very good termination, first and second order prism faces and a light blue colouration. s
Item #24924 Spodumene, var Kunzite 5.0x2.0x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 San Diego Co. California, USA A very light, lavender spodumene crystal from the famous Himalaya Mine. The crystal has an etched termination and typical striated prism faces. A little iron tinting. Classic mineralogical Americana! s	Item #24923 Beryl 4.4c3.2x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $40.00 Teofilo Otoni Minas Gerais Brazil A light greenish beryl crystal with a flat, pinacoidal termination. The crystal formed in mica and some of the mica is still attached. s	Item #24922 Topaz 3.9x2.3x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $85.00 Shigar Valley Baltistan Pakistan What a nice colourless, topaz crystal! Clear as glass! This gemmy, terminated crystal has lots of interesting faces that make up the termination. s	Item #24921 Beryl 3.5x0.8x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $55.00 Erongo Mountains Erongo Namibia An extremely sharp, hexagonal prism of light blue aquamarine, the blue variety of beryl. The crystal has a sharp pinacoidal termination and lots of small, black tourmaline crystals attached to it and included in it. And a nice "sidecar" crystal to boot! s
Item #24920 Spodumene, var Kunzite 4.6x1.3x0.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $85.00 Kabul Afghanistan A very light mauve, well terminated crystal of this lithium-rich spodumene, a pyroxene-group mineral.The crystal s gemmy with nice terminal faces and typical vertical stria. Nice! s	Item #24918 Beryl 4.1x1.3x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Izumrudnye Kopi Ekaterinberg Russia Here is a nice beryl-aquamarine crystal from a classic Russian locality. It has well formed prism faces and a fairly etched termination. Gemmy! s	Item #24917 Aquamarine 5.4x3.5x3.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $65.00 Brazil Brazil is famous for beryl-aquamarine crystals. Here is a nicely terminated example. It shows well formed prism faces and a mainly pinacoidal termination, although there are modifying faces around the pinacoid. Probably from Minas Gerais. s	Item #24916 Topaz 3.7x3.0x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Minas Gerais Brazil A very light-blue, terminated, topaz crystal showing prefect basal cleavage on...the base! The crystal has some contact spots but is a well shaped and well terminated crystal! s
Item #24915 Dravite 5.1x4.4x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 16mm $40.00 West Pierrepont St. Lawrence Co. New York, USA A couple of black dravite crystals are partially embedded in a matrix of light-coloured tremolite crystals. The dravite crystals have the crayon-shape termination and good lustre. Unusual specimen from the American side of the Grenville Geological province. s	Item #24914 Dravite 5.6x4.3x3.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $40.00 Tait Farm L'Amable, Hastings County Ontario, Canada Some nice, well terminated crystals of uvite on this specimen. Jet black with high lustre.	Item #24903 Orthoclase, Katophorite 4.0x3.8x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: Or 30mm, Ka 20mm $40.00 Bear Lake Diggings nr. Gooderham Ontario, Canada A sharp-looking cluster of these two minerals. Two microcline crystals kind of supported by a katophorite group amphibole crystal. Very nice!	Item #24900 Rutile 2.9x2.1x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $35.00 McGregor Lake Templeton Township Quebec, Canada Heavily striated, deep red-brown rutile crystals are intergrown with feldspar crystals. The rutile crystals have "melted" terminations that we often see from this locality. Good example!
Item #24899 Marialite 4.3x3.4x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 36mm $45.00 Zec Desert Bras Couper, Montserf Quebec, Canada A couple of very nice creamy-white marialite crystals stuck together to form a pleasing specimen of this mineral. The crystals have a very slight partial alteration veneer and fluoresce a very nice deep red colour. Nice!	Item #24897 Rutile 3.5x2.4x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $50.00 MacGregor Lake Templeton Township Quebec, Canada This is the premier rutile locality in the Grenville and has produced many striated, twinned and untwinned rutile crystals. Here is a nice example!	Item #24893 Marialite 9.0x6.1x3.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $75.00 Zec Desert Montcerf Quebec, Canada A large cluster of shorter, well terminated marialite crystals, all showing very good tetragonal prism and terminations. Some of the crystals have a thin alteration covering composed of allanite. Shows well!	Item #24852 Cassiterite 5.9x5.2x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $60.00 La Paz Bolivia Real a high-grade tin ore from one of the most prolific tin-mining areas of the world. There are openings with cassiterite and quartz crystals in the specimen. Rich! s
Item #24850 Bismuth 7.3x6.0x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $65.00 Japan Rich clots of native bismuth in quartz matrix from Japan. Sorry, that is the only locality data that I have. Rich! s	Item #24849 Elbaite, Quartz 7.4x4.7x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Minas Gerais Brazil Here is a flattened, clear quartz crystal that is shot through with dark green elbaite tourmaline crystals. Classic Brazilian pegmatite crystal specimen. s	Item #24847 Galena, Pyrite 4.0x4.0x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: Ga 13mm, Py 19mm $40.00 Milikin Mine Reynolds Co. Missouri, USA Nice specimen from this famous old mining area! It shows sharp galena crystals, the ore mineral, associated with pyrite crystal aggregates that appear to be pseudomorphs after marcasite. Very interesting! s	Item #24846 Quartz 9.9x3.8x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $40.00 North Carolina, USA An interesting quartz crystal showing multiple terminations. Nice! s
Item #24844 Millerite 5.2x2.2x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Marbridge Mine Lamotte Twp Quebec, Canada This is a piece of solid millerite, on one half, showing excellent cleavage.Thick cleavages, NOT thin acicular or hairy crystals! We have seen cleavable millerite from the Sudbury area recently but this is a sample from an old locality. there was an article written about the Marbridge Mine, in the Mineralogical Record, back in 1976, Volume 7, #4, (July-August) issue with pictures of very similar millerite. Very cool! s	Item #24841 Tennantite 5.8x5.0x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 8mm $40.00 Cobre Mine Conception Del Oro, Zacatecas Mexico This quartz-pyrite vein fragment is totally covered with drusy quartz crystals and speckled with sharp crystals of tennantite. A classic Mexican specimen! Not all crystals are perfect but most are excellent! s	Item #24840 Arsenic 5.7x4.2x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Merry Widow Mine Port McNeill British Columbia, Canada A piece of, mostly, native arsenic from this long-closed mine on Vancouver Island. It is weathered shows some arsenic oxide coating and botryoidal structure. You know how I usually say "Displays well"? or "Looks great!"? Well, this one doesn't! :) BUT is is excellent native arsenic! s	Item #24792 Aragonite 12.5x5.9x1.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 80mm $45.00 BC Mine Black Lake Quebec, Canada OK, this is not a world class aragonite specimen but it IS an interesting locality piece from this old, long-closed- asbestos mine in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Looks like very elongated, white aragonite crystals formed in a seam in host rock. Different!
Item #24789 Marialite, Pyroxene 10.2x7.0x7.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: Ma 15mm, Py 12mm $45.00 Yates Mine Otter Lake Quebec, Canada The Yates Mine, near Otter Lake was a prolific producer of "Grenville" mineral specimens for many decades. It has been closed now for 10 or so years. This is an interesting specimen from there andis a plate of pyroxene crystals with a number of well formed marialite crystals poking out here and there. As well, the marialite is a bright fluorescent red, as you can see from the photo's. Nice!	Item #24786 Tremolite 8.8x5.9x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $40.00 H&H Quarry, Haley Sta., Ross TWP Renfrew County Ontario, Canada Very colourless, tightly packed tremolite crystals. Tremolite usually has a green tint due to iron content. If iron content is high enough, the tremolite transitions to the actiolite end of the tremolite-actinolite series. This is pure end-member tremolite!	Item #24784 Baryte 6.0x4.8x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $40.00 County. Rd 10 & Pike Lake Rd Lanark County Ontario, Canada Sharp blades of baryte crystals in curved aggregates make up this plate. Handsome specimen from an unusual locality!	Item #24783 Baryte 5.5x4.4x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $40.00 Co. Rd 10 & Pike Lake Rd Lanark Co. Ontario, Canada Great looking specimen of baryte featuring the "crested baryte" habit of growth. Some calcite around the sides and on the bottom. Unusual locality!
Item #24776 Fergusonite-(Y) 6.5x3.7x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 17mm $85.00 Gole Quarry Madawaska Ontario, Canada There are several sharp fergusonite-(Y) crystals exposed in the feldspar of this matrix, between mica crystals. Moderately radioactive. Very good specimen of this relatively rare mineral!	Item #24775 Zircon 6.8x4.8x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $75.00 Ross Mine, Foresters Falls, Ross TWP Renfrew County Ontario, Canada This specimen shows a sharp zircon crystal embedded in the side of a coarse pyroxene crystal which in turn is embedded in calcite and feldspar of the calcite vein-dyke. There are probably other, smaller zircon crystals embedded in the piece. example of a calcite Very good example of a calcite vein-dyke mineral assemblage.	Item #24774 Zircon 6.2x4.9x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $65.00 Ross Mine, Foresters Falls, Ross TWP, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada A fairly well formed zircon crystal is nicely exposed in pinkish feldspar matrix. Another, smaller crystal is poking out, just below it. Notice the radial fracturing around the zircon, in the feldspar resulting from radiation emitted by the slightly radioactive zircon crystal, over hundreds of millions of years? Classic Grenville!	Item #24772 Zircon 2.0x0.7x0.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $45.00 Ross Mine, Foresters Falls, Ross Twp, Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A fairly clearly metamict crystal of zircon from this lesser known locality. It has good faces and lustre. weathered out of a calcite vein-dyke. Very good example!
Item #24771 Galena 3.5x5.0x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 22mm $55.00 Stanton Deposit Arnprior Ontario, Canada Here is a rich, coarsely crystallized sample of galena in calcite from this very old, little-known location. It is actually a crystal of galena embedded in calcite vein material.	Item #24766 Dioptase, Cerussite 11.2x7.3x10.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: Di 4mm, Ce 9mm $85.00 Tsumeb Mine Otjikoto Namibia This specimen is a porous rock specimen with beautiful, emerald green dioptase crystals scattered within, here and there, plus a couple of nice cerussite crystals. The dioptase crystals have the classic, dodecahedral shape, with lustrous faces. The cerussite crystals are colourless, twinned, lustrous crystals. Unusual specimen! s	Item #24765 Baryte, Calcite 9.5x7.2x8.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: Ba 3mm, Ca 10mm $45.00 Aguathuna Port au Port Peninsula Newfoundland, Canada This limestone matrix has a large vug lined with colourless and white-zoned baryte crystals on one side. As well, there are some sharp scalenohedral crystals of calcite in the vug. Interestingly, this specimen is from an ancient "white smoker", a hot spring at the bottom of an ancient ocean that precipitated barium, calcium and iron minerals. s	Item #24762 Calcite 11.3x9.9x9.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $75.00 Roberts Pit, Steep Rock Iron Mine Atikokan Ontario, Canada A cavity of beautiful, pure-white calcite crystals, in a vug lined by ferruginous dolomite crystals in iron-rich rock, from this famous old iron mine. It operated for many years but is now largely flooded. Looks great! s
Item #24761 Apatite, Adularia 10.3x5.8x9.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $75.00 Tyrol Austria This fragment of alpine cleft mineralization has a number of white to green-chlorite coated adularia twinned crystals, plus some very nice flattened, sharp, almost discoidal fluorapatite crystals. Classic Tyrolian alpine cleft mineralization! s	Item #24750 Diopside 12.0x9.4x8.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 38mm $75.00 Birds Creek Hastings co. Ontario, Canada A very nice plate of light green, well formed diopside crystals embedded in calcite. The crystals are all well formed o the front of the specimen, while o the bottom, some are incomplete, as you might expect. This location has been closed for decades! Nice old timer. s	Item #24747 Stilbite 6.9x 5.2x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $55.00 Strain Lake, HWY 41, nr. Khartoum, Griffith TWP. Renfrew County Ontario, Canada A vug of stilbite crystals from the Grenville! These crystals were precipitated from low temperature hydrothermal solutions that broke down older silicates in the surrounding rocks. Unusual!	Item #24746 Heulandite, Feldspar ps Scapolite 5.1x3.1x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: He 3mm, Fe 6mm $35.00 Strain Lake, HWY 41, nr. Khartoum, Griffith TWP. Renfrew County Ontario, Canada Lots of sharp, pearly heulandite crystals encrusting altered, older silicates on this specimen. The heulandite resulted from the breakdown of older silicates by low temperature hydrothermal solutions. Interesting geologically as well as mineralogically!
Item #24743 Augite, Heulandite 6.0x5.9x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: Au 28mm, He 3mm $55.00 Strain Lake, HWY 41, nr. Khartoum, Griffith TWP. Renfrew County Ontario, Canada THIS is an interesting spcimen! It shows feldspar-epidote pseudomorphs after scapolite, plus augite crystals all encrusted-speckled with sharp heulandite crystals. Lots of unusual alteration and replacement in this specimen!	Item #24741 Schorl 11.1x5.2x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 30mm $65.00 Calumet Island Pontiac County Ontario, Canada Terminated crystals of schorl are nicely exposed on white marble in this specimen. One particular crystal is dominant. Interesting piece from an unusual locality!	Item #24739 Muscovite, Tremolite 14.1x6.5x5.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: Mu 40mm $65.00 Calumet Island Pontiac County Quebec, Canada This specimen shows a number of "hockey stick"-like twinned crystals of muscovite embedded in but nicely exposed in/on white calcite-tremolite marble. twinning like this is not often seen in muscovite.	Item #24738 Heulandite, Augite 7.0x5.4x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: Au 19mm, He 3mm $55.00 Strain Lake, HWY 41, nr. Khartoum, Griffith TWP. Renfrew Co. Ontario, Canada Very interesting! A very good specimen of sharp heulandite crystals speckled on pyroxene group, probably augite crystals. The theory is that low temperature hydrothermal solutions breaking down the augite and other silicates in the deposit, eventually crystallized as silicates on the augite, in this case, heulandite. Nice and interesting specimen!
Item #24735 Muscovite, Tremolite 6.9x3.8x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 36mm $40.00 Calumet Island Pontiac County Quebec, Canada Interesting, twinned muscovite crystals nicely exposed in white marble matrix. The crystals resemble a Mercedes-Benz symbol. Unusual crystallization.	Item #24709 Cerussite 7.8x4.8x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $120.00 Tsumeb Namibia A couple of larger cerussite crystals are at one end of this matrix with other smaller ones scattered here and there. Lots to look at! s	Item #24704 Cerussite 5.8x4.0x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $85.00 Tsumeb Namibia An excellent, gemmy cluster of cerussite crystals. The crystals are colourless and all show stepped growth some twinning. Great! s	Item #24703 Cerussite 4.6x4.3x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 19mm $75.00 Tsumeb Namibia A beautiful, cyclic twin of this lead carbonate mineral. And from one of the most famous localities for this mineral! s
Item #24701 Smithsonite 13.0x11.2x7.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $140.00 Tsumeb Namibia A plate of sharp smithsonite crystals from one of the most famous localities for this mineral! Rich! s	Item #24699 Quartz 12.6x6.5x8.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 126mm $45.00 Lyndhurst Leeds & Grenville Co. Ontario, Canada An elongated, milky quartz crystal from this famous locality in southern Ontario. Doubly-terminated s	Item #24694 Cerussite 4.4x3.1x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $45.00 Souss-Massa-Drad Bou Azer Morocco Lots of nice, well formed, colourless crystals of cerussite on baryte. Modern Classic!	Item #24692 Wavellite 5.6x3.9x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $55.00 Mauldin Mt. Montgomery County Arkansas, USA An above-average specimen of this phosphate mineral from the famous Arkansas area. Botryoidal aggregated of crystals on matrix. Looks great!
Item #24690 Sturmanite 5.6x3.9x4.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $140.00 Wessels Mine Kurman, Cape Province South Africa Several nice, sharp, dull-yellow crystals of sturmanite are present on this piece and one stands out as excellent. The crystals are flattened dypyramids with very small pinacoid faces. Excellent example! s	Item #24688 Fluorite 7.5x4.54.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $65.00 Monarch Mine Wickenberg Arizona, USA Fairly sharp fluorite crystal octahedra cover much of this vein matrix. The Wickenberg area was famous for gold mining. Of course, there were interesting minerals in the veins, in addition to the gold and here is a good example! s	Item #24687 Mimetite 4.4x3.0x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $140.00 Tsumeb Otjikoto Namibia Lots of beautiful, well terminated yellow-green crystals of mimetite cover much of this specimen. This IS a very good one! s	Item #24685 Dioptase 7.6x4.9x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $55.00 Mindouli Congo This specimen is practically covered with small,beautiful, sharp crystals of this unusual copper silicate mineral. Looks great! s
Item #24683 Hinsdalite 7.5x3.5x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $75.00 Sylvester Mine Zeehan, Tasmania Australia Elongated, hexagonal laths of pure white hinsdalite, very similar to specimens illustrated on mindat.org. Nice specimen of a relatively rare mineral! s	Item #24682 Wulfenite 5.0x3.3x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $75.00 Los Lamentos Chihuahua Mexico A very nice cluster of wulfenite crystals of a different style than we normally see at Los Lamentos. s	Item #24681 Colemanite 5.1x5.4x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $40.00 Boron Kern Co. California, USA Very sharply terminated bladed crystals of this borax mineral cover the top of this specimen. I think the rounded, brownish crystals are calcite or dolomite. From the famous borax mines of California, near Boron! s	Item #24680 Fluorite 7.7x7.4x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 17mm $65.00 RosiClare Mine Hardin County Illinois, USA Sharp, purple fluorite crystals with smaller crystals scattered on the fluorite. Some sphalerite poking through the fluorites, as well. s
Item #24677 Vanadinite 4.7x3.8x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $65.00 Apache Mine Gila County Arizona, USA Sharp, deep red, hexagonal crystals of vanadinite are scattered about the top and side of this matrix. Nice specimen from a classic AZ locality. s	Item #24676 Cinnabar 6.8x4.1x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $65.00 Alaska, USA A rich specimen of cinnabar the sulphide mineral of mercury. This is an ore-grade specimen from one of the deposits in Northern Alaska, according to an affixed label. Sorry, don't know which one! Can't be the Red Devil Mine which is in southwest Alaska. Rich! s	Item #24672 Celestine 12.1x9.3x6.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm $40.00 Forks of Credit Ontario, Canada Have you seen orange celestine before? This celestine from the famous area of southern Ontario is REALLY orange! Different and unusual! s	Item #24671 Schorl 11.1x6.9x7.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 60mm $45.00 Villeneuve Mine Val-Des-Bois Quebec, Canada Nice example of a schorl crystal in feldspar matrix from this large pegmatite. The schorl crystal is pitch black and well formed, although not complete on one side. It is terminated. s
Item #24669 Andradite, Grossular 13.0x5.9x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $45.00 Marmoraton Mine Marmora Ontario, Canada Nice example of the garnets from the gigantic skarn zone that is/was the Marmoraton Iron Mine. The mine was a very large open pit that has now been closed for decades. Some feldspar crystals associated. Nice! s	Item #24668 Titanite, Magnetite 13.3x10.4x6.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 17mm $75.00 New York MIne Glamorgan Township, Haliburton Ontario, Canada This is a very nice specimen of titanite on octahedral crystals of magnetite. Hard to see the magnetite crystals in the pictures. Much of the titanite appears to be oriented on the magnetite. Very good! s	Item #24666 Katophorite 7.0x9.5x6.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 28mm $35.00 Wilberforce Haliburton Ontario, Canada A plate of well formed crystals of this amphibole-group mineral. The crystals are pitch-black, short prisms with very good terminations. A little of the original calcite that once enclosed the entire plate is still present. Nice example! s	Item #24658 Cerussite 8.5x8.5x5.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $65.00 Flux mine Patagonia Arizona, USA The flux mine is a classic, old Arizona Locality thatis famous for its "jackstraw" habit white cerussite crystals. Here is a very good example that I think we can send safely. s
Item #24656 Millerite 4.9x4.0x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 8mm $55.00 Halls Gap Lincoln County Kentucky, USA Nests of golden millerite needles are present on the chalcedony lining of this geode from the Famous Hall's Gap area. There are also some spiky crystals that may be millerite but I'm not sure. Interesting piece! s	Item #24655 Millerite 3.6x2.6x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $45.00 Halls Gap Lincoln County Kentucky, USA Lots of golden, hairlike, prismatice crystals of this nickel sulphide mineral stick out of the silica lining of this geode from the famous Hall's Gap area of Kentucky. Classic! s	Item #24654 Millerite 4.8x3.8x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $45.00 Halls Gap Lincoln County Kentucky, USA This silica geode has many fine, hairlike millerite crystals in it. The crystals are very fine, golden hairs that criss-cross across the open space. Nice! s	Item #24653 Cerussite, Duftite 15.5x10.1x6.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $75.00 Tsumeb Namibia A rather large example of green duftite on matrix hosting many colourless, sharp, cerussite crystals. Extra postage may apply! s
Item #24652 Arsenopyrite 12.0x7.1x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $45.00 Port Dufferin Gold Mine Port Dufferin Nova Scotia, Canada A very nice example, rarely seen, from this old Nova Scotian Gold Mine. It shows sharp, silvery, wedge-shaped arsenopyrite crystals embedded in shaly rock. Unusual locality! s	Item #24646 Andradite 4.6x3.3x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 23mm $45.00 Bond Zone, Oka. Deux-Montagnes Co. Quebec, Canada Dark, highly corroded garnets from this famous carbonatite that was developed for niobium in the 1960's. s	Item #24642 Sphalerite 5.5x4.5x4.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $55.00 Hyatt mine, St. Lawrence Zinc St. Lawrence New York, USA Gemmy, yellow sphalerite crystals are exposed here and there in calcite crystal cavities in this specimen from the famous zinc mine in the Grenville Geological province that extends into New York state. Beautiful crystals! s	Item #24640 Pyrite 2.9x2.6x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $35.00 Spruce Claim King co. Washington, USA Very nice pyrite crystal specimen from this famous quartz-pyrite locality. s
Item #24639 Pyrite, ps Marcasite 5.6x3.7x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $45.00 Nanisivik Mine Baffin Island Nunavut, Canada The Nanisivik Mine was a zinc mine that operated in the Arctic for many years. At one time it was the second most northern base metal mine in the world. Way up there! It was famous for the peculiar pseudomorphs of pyrite after marcasite, extra peculiar because of oriented overgrowths of pyrite ON the pseudomorphs. Here is a very good example! s	Item #24636 Pyrite 5.8x4.3x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $40.00 Duff Quarry Huntsville Ohio, USA Sharp crystals of pyrite are present in the calcite-lined cavity on the top of this specimen. The crystals appear complex but are merely nice combinations of various isometric crystal forms. Classic Ohio! s	Item #24630 Wulfenite 7.4x5.2x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $45.00 Ojuela Mine Durango Mexico Lots of thin, platy crystals of yellow wulfenite on this limonite matrix. Older specimen from this famous locality. s	Item #24629 Fluorite 9.0x7.1x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 8mm $125.00 Berbes Ribadesseca, Asturias Spain Very nice cluster of clear, colourless fluorite crystals from this famous locality. The simple cubic crystals have a slight pinkish undertone. Looks great! s
Item #24627 Cerussite, Malachite 5.2x4.1x2.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $120.00 Tsumeb Namibia A beautiful specimen of cerussite crystals, twinned, of course, on matrix. s	Item #24626 Vanadinite, var. Endlichite 7.5x6.1x7.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $40.00 Mapimi Chihuahua, Mexico Lots of bright, hexagonal crystals of vanadinite are scattered on a cluster of calcite crystals-matrix. Excellent example of this arsenic-rich variety of vanadinite. s	Item #24624 Hematite 5.0x3.7x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $40.00 Errington Pit, Steep Rock Iron Mine Atikokan Ontario, Canada Lustrous, botryoidal, hematite from the long closed Errington Pit of Steep Rock Iron Mines. A large lake had to be drained to accomplish this mine. It was respected as an engineering feat in the 50's but would be condemned in the present environmentally sensitive times! s	Item #24622 Hematite 4.5x4.1x4.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $40.00 Errington Pit, Steep Rock Iron Mine Atikokan Ontario, Canada Lustrous, botryoidal, hematite from the long closed Errington Pit of Steep Rock Iron Mines. A large lake had to be drained to accomplish this mine. It was respected as an engineering feat in the 50's but would be condemned in the present environmentally sensitive times! s