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 #29678 Adamite 9.0x8.5x6.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $65.00 Ojuela Mine Mapimi, Durango Mexico The top and two sides of this gossan matrix is covered with olive green, lustrous, curved adamite crystals. The picture featured here exaggerates the fluorescence of the adamite a bit but it is still VERY fluorescent. Attractive interesting specimen in most types of light! :)	Item #29677 Mimetite, Gypsum 12.5x10.5x6.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm balls $75.00 San Pedro Mine San Luis Potosi Mexico A large matrix of porous calcite with many openings covered with yellow balls of mimetite, which in turn have colourless, clear gypsum on them. Not all of them but a large percentage. Attractive, interesting piece!	Item #29676 Grossular 7.0x7.0x3.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $40.00 Lucky Four Claims Foley Peak British Columbia, Canada This is a locality piece from Foley Peak, the place we collected the large Japan-law twinned Quartz Crystals. The deposit is a skarn zone with very large masses of garnet. There are not many crystals but, on occasion, in quartz pods, good crystals can be encountered. Here is an example of a sharp dodecahedron, partially exposed in quartz, in turn with is in a mostly garnet matrix. A little malachite, probably due to weathering of chalcopyrite.	Item #29674 Grossular, Diopside, Calcite 6.4x3.3x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $45.00 York River Skarn Zone Bancroft, Hastings County Ontario, Canada The York River area has been off limits for many years now, since the installation of a conservation area. This specimen was collected decades ago and sports a very well formed grossular crystal. Could be etched to reveal more grossulars and diopside crystals...or not. :)
Item #29673 Cuprite 3.5x3.2x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $40.00 Tsumeb Mine Otjikoto Namibia The top of this siliceous gossan crust is totally covered with sharp dodecahedra/octahedra of cuprite. The crystals appear very dark but where crystals are crushed along the edge you can see that they are very red! A less common Tsumeb mineral.	Item #29672 Callaghanite, Hydromagnesite 3.5x3.5x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $35.00 Sierra Magnesite mine Gabbs, Nye Co. Nevada, USA This rock fragment has two veins of callaghanite exposed on it;top and bottom. As well ,ther are tiny balls of hydromagnesite on a number of places on the matrix, as well. There are a few nice, deep blue micro-crystals of callaghanite on the piece.	Item #29670 Lazulite 3.2x1.5x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $40.00 Rapid Creek Yukon, Canada This small specimen has its top covered with lustrous, blue and green, gemmy crystals of twinned lazulite. Not big but nice! TS	Item #29661 Quartz, Chlorite 10.5x6.0x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11.5 $55.00 Windsor Quebec, Canada A cluster of quartz crystals from this "alpine cleft" type locality. The largest, a sharp, but bent crystal is heavily included with small crystals of chlorite. Interestingly, the smaller crystals are not included with chlorite. Interesting piece from this long worked out locality! RTD
Item #29659 Hemimorphite 4.3x2.8x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 35mm $40.00 Santa Eulalia Chihuahua Mexico A simple cluster of divergent, snow-white hemimorphite crystals from one of the areas that produces the best!	Item #29658 Microcline 2.7x2.2x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $45.00 Konzo Ethiopia A very peculiar crystal of microcline which I think would be considered amazonite. The crystal is a bright green with fairly gemmy areas. Interesting and unusual!	Item #29657 Hemimorphite 5.0x4.6x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $40.00 Santa Eulalia Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua Mexico Mexico is famous for excellent clusters of hemimorphite crystals. Here is one! A miniature showing white hemimorphite crystals with a divergent crystal habit. RTD	Item #29656 Sphalerite, Quartz, Chlorite 6.0x3.5x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: sph-27mm $40.00 Vtoroy Sovietskiy Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray Russia A single, complex, brown sphalerite crystal with a cluster of quartz crystals attached to it. If you look carefully at the bases of the quartz crystals, you'll see a green mineral. The green is composed of many tiny spherical crystals of chlorite. RTD
Item #29654 Quartz 5.5x3.7x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: $40.00 Brazil Sorry, Brazil is the only locality info that I have for this one. It is an interesting parallel growth of smoky quartz crystals formed on colourless quartz. Very cool looking! RTD	Item #29652 Quartz 15.5x9.5x8.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $85.00 Anahi Mine La Gaiba, Sandoval, Santa Cruz Bolivia A huge amethyst crystal showing that unique purple colour, characteristic of these kinds of crystals from the Anahi Mine. Slight damage to the tip. Looks great though. And impressive! RTD	Item #29651 Quartz 15.0x11.5x11.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 110mm $75.00 Hot Springs Arkansas, USA A cluster of gemmy colourless to milk at the bases quartz crystals from THE famous locality. "Rock Crystal". Heavy , so probably some extra postage required, depending where it is going. Terminations are in great shape with only one having a small chip missing. Displays very well. RTD	Item #29650 Sphalerite 7.0x5.0x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 50mm $45.00 Elmwood Mine Carthage Tennessee, USA One of the great sphalerite localities of the world. Here is a very nice, miniature sphalerite specimen consisting of two complexly twinned sphalerite crystals. The crystals are brown in colour but light transmission reveals a slightly red brown colour. Very nice! RTD
Item #29648 Epidote 5.8x4.7x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Quetta Baluchistan Pakistan This single, sharp crystal of epidote has a tabular crystal habit. It is lustrous all over but the lustre is partly obscured by loads of tiny, epidote crystals that partly cover most of the crystal faces. Some smaller epidote crystals are on the back of the main crystal. Really nice crystal!	Item #29647 Koettigite 8.0x5.2x2.5 cm $75.00 La Mina Ojuela Mapimi, Durango Mexico Much of the top of this limonite matrix is covered with grey-blue koettigite, some of it fairly well crystallized. The sprays of vivianite-like crystals are in radiating or divergent clusters and appear to be a little corroded. Still nice!	Item #29646 Koettigite, Gypsum 9.0x5.4x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $85.00 Ojuela Mine Mapimi, Durango Mexico RTD The top of this specimen is honeycombed with openings that contain a dozen and a half, or so clusters of grey-blue koettigite crystals. The Koettigite crystals are sharp, well terminated crystals. This is one of the relatively rare minerals that occurs at Ojula Mine, collected many years ago. Accompanied by a Ward's Science Establishment label. Excellent!	Item #29643 Quartz 7.1x5.5x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Anahi Mine Santa Cruz Bolivia RTD An unusually coherent, doubly terminated crystal from this famous "ametrine" locality. The crystal is unusually lustrous, very gemmy and shows mostly amethyst colouration with some areas of citrinous quartz. It is not perfect like most of the crystals from this locality but WAY better formed and preserved than most. Nice crystal!
Item #29641 Goethite 4.4x4.0x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 23mm $65.00 C.G. Coil Claim Lake George, Park County Colorado, USA RTD An exemplary spray of splendent, terminated, dark brown goethite crystals. The main spray is nice but there is also a small, auxiliary spray on the front, kind of like a feather in a cap! Sawn on the base. Displays very well! Collected in 2010 by Adam Sotomayer. Beautiful!	Item #29640 Epidote 4.8x3.9x4.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $35.00 Quetta Baluchistan Pakistan RTD Here is a large, blocky, well formed epidote crystal from this famous locale. The crystal is striated with smaller crystals attached to it in a couple of places. Feels great! Looks great!	Item #29639 Calcite 5.5x4.2x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 30mm $40.00 St. Clothilde Quebec, Canada RTD A cluster of sharp, disc-shaped calcite crystals from this famous quarry in Quebec. The crystals are actually largely flattened rhombohedra with small prism faces, there is a small ding on one of the crystals, as you can see. Nice cluster collected back in 1986!	Item #29638 Marcasite 4.7x3.4x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $40.00 Brushy Creek Mine Reynolds co. Missouri, USA RTD A mound of light-golden, botryoidal marcasite from this famous lead-zinc mine. Looks great!
Item #29637 Quartz, var. Faden 6.0x3.8x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $45.00 Dara Ismael Khan District S. Waziristan Pakistan RTD Here is an excellent example of a "faden" growth of quartz. It is a certain style of growth, often seen in alpine cleft occurrences where the quartz crystals formed after relatively rapid changes to the cavity opening shape, during mountain building. You can see the faden "string" across the center of the crystal cluster. Crystallized on all sides.	Item #29636 Elbaite 3.4x3.2x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 14.5mm $75.00 Mt. Apatite Maine, USA RTD There are several very gemmy, deep green elbaite crystal sections embedded in this pegmatite matrix. I say very gemmy, since I think they are cut-able! Gemmy crystals from a famous locality!	Item #29634 Epidote, Prehinite 3.6x3.0x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: e-35mm $35.00 Djouga Bendoukou, Kayes Mali RTD A very well formed, dark green epidote crystal atop a light green ball of prehnite crystals. The epidote is doubly terminated and an excellent example of this mineral.	Item #29633 Gypsum 3.6x3.4x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $35.00 Tiger Mine Gila County Arizona, USA RTD A very nice cluster of white gypsum crystals on a matrix showing secondary copper mineralization. Well mounted on an acrylic base. Personally collected by Bob 21 years ago!
Item #29631 Wulfenite. Quartz 7.1x4.1x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $65.00 Pure Potential Mine La Paz County Arizona, USA RTD The red-orange crystal on the right practically glows. This very nice crystal is one of two in a quartz lined vug that fills the front of this specimen. A few willemite crystals here and there. Collected with George Godas in 1997. Displays very well.	Item #29630 Wulfenite 3.2x1.9x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $30.00 Pure Potential Mine La Paz County Arizona, USA RTD Just a little guy, but nice crystals from an unusual wulfenite locality. Bob collected these specimens with George Godas in 1997.	Item #29627 Schorl 6.1x6.3x4.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 45mm $70.00 Erongo Namibia RTD An excellent example of this tourmaline group mineral from the area that produces some of the best. The schorl crystals on this specimen are equant, highly lustrous and pitch-black. They are doubly terminated and hemimorphic, like most tourmalines. Stands just like this for display. Beautiful example of this mineral!	Item #29626 Fluorapatite 7.3x4.3x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 57mm $85.00 Sapo Mine Goiabeira, Minas Gerais Brazil RTD The Sapo Mine is famous for the peculiar, stepped and elongated crystals of fluorapatite such as these. A one-time find m10, or so, years ago, yielded a number of fine specimens such as this one. Oddly, some of the crystals are hollow and most are terminated by a pinacoid and one pyramidal form. Very light green. Sits JUST like this for display.
Item #29620 Fluorapatite 3.9x2.6x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $280.00 Shengus Mine Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan Here is a spectacular specimen representing fluorapatite! This is a single crystal with stepped growth, showing prominent pinacoidal termination on a hexagonal prism and modified by first and second order pyramids. The faces are lustrous with an crystal interior that is mostly gemmy with cloudiness near the center of the crystal. The are some inclusions of a needle-like mineral near the bottom, probably byssolite or some thing similar and a little chlorite attached to the base. Excellent! RTD	Item #29619 Vanadinite, descloizite 4.0x2.7x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $75.00 J.C. Holmes Claim Patagonia Arizona, USA RTD Loads of characteristic vanadinite crystals on black, bladed descloizite from this AZ classic locality. The vanadinite crystals are an orange colour and show the hexagonal prism with prominent hexagonal pyramidal terminations. Collected in 2004. Nice!	Item #29618 Gypsum 8.5x6.5x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $65.00 Iron Cap Mine Graham County Arizona, USA Sort of popcorn-like formations of gypsum on matrix from the famous zinc mine in Graham Co. Striking and unusual!	Item #29617 Wulfenite, Mimetite 3.4x2.9x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 8mm $35.00 Rowley Mine Maricopa County Arizona, USA A single, sharp, thin-tabular, beveled wulfenite crystals sits on matrix, surrounded by tiny, yellow mimetite crystals. The wulfenite is a bit more orange than in the photo. Very nice!!
Item #29615 Corundum 5.0x2.8x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $35.00 Soutpansburg Range Limpopo South Africa RTD A well formed simple, doubly terminated, blue-grey corundum crystal from this famous corundum producing area of the world. The crystal has triangular terminal markings on one of the terminations. Excellent example!	Item #29614 Vanadinite, Calcite 7.5x4.7x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $30.00 Pure Potential Mine La Paz County Arizona, USA RTD Lighter coloured, bright, vanadinite crystals from the Pure Potential mine. Gemmy crystals associated with white-colourless calcite crystals. Collected with George Godas in 1997.	Item #29613 Vanadinite 4.4x4.2x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $40.00 Pure Potential Mine La Paz County Arizona, USA RTD Much of the top and sides of this dark, calcite matrix is covered with sparkling, hexagonal crystals of deep red vanadinite. The crystals have a simple hexagonal form terminated by pinacoids. Collected with G. Godas in 1997.	Item #29612 Stibnite 7.8x4.7x4.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 24mm $65.00 Baia Sprie Romania RTD This specimen is a cluster of stout, well terminated stibnite crystals from one of the most famous localities for this mineral. There are a couple of crystals missing but that is not very noticeable. Displays very well! RTD
Item #29609 Vanadinite 4.4x3.8x2.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $65.00 Touissit Bou Beker Morocco RTD A cluster of very large, beige, vanadinite crystals from this famous area of Morocco. The crystals show hexagonal outline with flat terminations. Dense!!	Item #29608 Vanadinite 2.6x2.1x1.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4.5mm $30.00 Old Yuma Mine Tucson Arizona, USA RTD A nice little specimen showing perfect, orange-red, hexagonal prisms of lustrous vanadinite.	Item #29606 Wulfenite, Willemite 9.3x6.4x5.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7.5mm $35.00 Red Cloud Mine La Paz County Arizona, USA RTD Some very nice, well formed orangey wulfenite crystals on tis specimen, along with small elongated crystal bundles of willemite, that fluoresces green. Classic AZ!	Item #29605 Pyromorphite 2.5x2.3x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $65.00 Les Farges Mine Ussel France RTD A wonderful cluster of barrel-shaped pyromorphite crystals with that peculiar green colour typical of pyromorphite from Les Farges. The cluster looks great and is an excellent example!
Item #29598 Hematite 6.8x5.0x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $35.00 Black Rock Truro Nova Scotia, Canada This plate of baryte and hematite is covered with bright lustrous, botryoidal hematite. Looks great!	Item #29596 Hematite 8.5x7.0x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n $40.00 Black Rock Truro Nova Scotia, Canada A handson, lustrous, botryoidal specimen of hematite, an iron oxide mineral. Displays well and looks great!	Item #29592 Baryte, Calcite 6.0x5.0x4.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: b-11mm, c- 12mm $45.00 Rainy Cove Nova Scotia, Canada A geode-like vug in coarse sandstone revealing scalenohedral calcite crystals and a couple of yellow, thick-tabular baryte crystals. Nice!	Item #29590 Copper 10.6x6.1x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm $85.00 Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA A large grouping of groups of herringbone copper crystal clusters intergrown in every direction. Very cool!
Item #29589 Copper 10.5x7.0x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 48mm $340.00 Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA A cluster of solid copper, all in sharp, bizarrely twinnned crystals. The crystals all look rathger spade like and you can see all of the faces that have been contorted into these interesting crystal forms. Very spade-like. Looks great and shows well! Additional photos available.	Item #29588 Copper 11.0x9.0x8.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $120.00 Ojibway Mine Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA The top of this basalt fragment is an ope space that has many complex, copper crystals in it. The cavity is lined with quartz crystals and small adularia crystals, I believe. The copper crystals are clusters of elongated crystals. Very interesting, from a great old mine!!	Item #29587 Copper 21.5x7.2x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 140mm $120.00 Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA A monster cluster of rounded copper crystals showing some parallel growth and some branching growth. Very impressive! Great from both sides.	Item #29585 Copper 17.5x10.0x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 75mm $95.00 V.V.Quarry Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA A monster cluster of rounded, finger-like crystals of native copper, with some zeolites attached. These are large crystals that appear to be out of glacial drift. Impressive!
Item #29584 Copper 10.0x4.7x4.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $120.00 Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA This specimen is a cluster of branching copper crystals pointing every which way! A handsome piece that sits perfectly got display.	Item #29583 Copper 6.2x6.0x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 28mm $325.00 Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA A stunning specimen of the real "herringbone" crystal habit of copper. This piece is solid copper and shows long "backbone" crystals with smaller "rib" crystals shooting off of them at 90 degrees. A wonderful specimen from one of the premier crystallized copper areas of the world!!	Item #29581 Arsenopyrite 9.0x4.8x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 14mm $35.00 Wine Harbour Nova Scotia, Canada A couple of silver, bright arsenopyrite crystals are exposed in this argillite matrix. The one on the front is best exposed with another crystal on the top partially exposed. Old gold mine. Unusual locality!	Item #29578 Pyrrhotite 3.3x4.3x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as $35.00 Dalnegorsk Russia This is a lustrous single crystal that has a large member and then a smaller, divergent crystal member. They both start from the common base. Nice and interesting crystal!
Item #29571 Berthierite, Quartz 6.3x5.9x5.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $45.00 Lake George Antimony Mine Lake George New Brunswick, Canada This block of white quartz has a vug front and center that is packed with brownish-cast, metallic berthierite needles. Tested. An unusual specimen from this long closed antimony mine!	Item #29570 Copper 11.1x8.2x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 30mm $85.00 Colonial Copper Mine Cap D'Or Nova Scotia, Canada A group of dendritic copper crystals that resemble coppoer coloured lightening. The copper crystals are embedded in chlorite, as is always the case at Cap D'Or. Sits perfectly for display!	Item #29569 Silver, Laumontite 2.7x1.8x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $35.00 Dankoe Mine Keremeos British Columbia, Canada This matrix composed of native silver and a dense clay-like mineral shows casts of a previous hexagonal mineral. The hollow casts have lots of colourless, sharp laumontite in them. Interesting mineralization from a long closed mine!	Item #29568 Silver, Laumontite 2.1x1.7x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Dankoe Mine Keremeos British Columbia, Canada Small but potent! This piece is mostly native silver showing casts of some previous hexagonal mineral imprinted in the silver. All of the hollow casts have sharp, white, tiny laumontite crystals in them.
Item #29563 Silver 5.7x3.8x2.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Imiter Mine Djebel Saghro, Ouarzazate Morocco Jus a very high grade specimen of thick native silver in quartz and rock matrix. The silver cuts through the entire matrix and protrudes out one side. High grade!	Item #29562 Silver, Acanthite 3.5x1.6x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $40.00 Imiter Mine Djebel Saghro, Ouarzazate Morocco A small but rich silver specimen. It is totally composed of enmeshed acanthite and native silver. Lots of open spaces with lots of "wire" silver".	Item #29560 Proustite, Arsenopyrite 9.6x4.5x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $125.00 Bouismas Mine Zagora, Draa-Tafilalet Morocco Two areas of proustite and arsenopyrite crystals, together, that appear to be in dendritic habit. Perhaps they replaced native silver in this calcite vein? At least I think the darker mineral is arsenopyrite! Interesting and unusual example.	Item #29559 Proustite 5.1x4.1x0.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $75.00 Bouismas Mine Zagora, Draa-Tafilalet Morocco One end of this calcite vein fragment is covered with deep, red, well formed proustite crystals. Very nice example of this particular "Ruby Silver" mineral.
Item #29556 Proustite, Xanthoconite 6.8x3.5x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: p-2mm, x-micro $55.00 Bouismas Mine Zagora, Draa-Tafilalet Morocco This calcite vein material has a number of deep red proustite crystals on it, as well as some beautiful, yellow xanthoconite crystals. Nice xample of these two silver minerals that are paramorphs!	Item #29553 Proustite, Xanthoconite 10.5x10.1x5.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 45mm $75.00 Bouismas Mine Zagora, Draa-Tafilalet Morocco This calcite vein, exposed on top of pyritized rock matrix shows bright red, "ruby silver" crystals. They are very gemmy, red proustite crystals, squished into this very narrow vein. As well, there is one very sharp, orange xanthoconite crystal. Extra postage required. A bit heavy! Rich!	Item #29543 Silver, Arsenides 12.9x9.5x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $160.00 Mckinley-Darragh Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada This specimen is an end cut of a very rich vein section, cut one side and rough the other. The cut side shows dendritic silver that constitutes the majority of the mineralization with a little arsenides and carbonate. The rough side shows thick native silver, Rich!	Item #29542 Silver, Arsenides 16.0x7.1x0.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $95.00 Beaver Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada This slice of high grade, dendritic silver mineralization is from one of the original silver discoveries in the Cobalt Mining Camp. It shows the super mineralization that made Cobalt one of the major silver producing areas of the world!
Item #29540 Silver, Arsenides 9.6x6.6x0.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Beaver Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada A slice of very high grade silver mineralization, showing thick, dendritic native silver, lightly encased in cobalt arsenides, probably safflorite. Rich!	Item #29534 Corundum 7.1x5.8x6.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm $45.00 Gutz Farm Brudenell twp, Rrenfrew Co. Ontario, Canada This matrix of nepheline syenite hosts several corundum crystals but, one in particular is very well exposed. The 25mm crystal is dark brown, tapered and nicely striated. Nice example!	Item #29531 Fluorapatite 14.1x5..8x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $75.00 Bear Lake Diggings Haliburton Co. Ontario, Canada A very large, singly terminated fluorapatite crystal with fairly sharp prism faces and rounded termination. There are holes in the crystal that were once occupied by spherules and inclusions of calcite. Impressive!	Item #29529 Corundum 7.7x5.6x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 21mm $45.00 Gutz Farm Brudenell twp, Renfrew Co. Ontario, Canada A number of elongated corundum crystals embedded in this syenite matrix. One doubly terminated crystal is perfectly exposed on the top/front of the matrix.
Item #29528 Tremolite 14.0x2.9x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $45.00 Bristol (Hilton Mine) Bristol twp. Pontiac Co. Quebec, Canada A long fragment of tightly packed tremolite crystals, with a curious curvature to it. Very light coloured so I assume it is close to end-member tremolite. From an unusual locality, as well!	Item #29527 Fluorapatite 10.0x6.5x5.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $65.00 Bear Lake Diggings Haliburton Co. Ontario, Canada A rather large, singly-terminated, fluorapatite crystal. There were big ones at this occurrence!!	Item #29522 Uvite ps Serendite 4.1x3.4x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $110.00 Portage-du-Fort Pontiac Co. Quebec, Canada I didn't realize that I had another of these! This specimen shows a sharp pseudomorph of uvite replacing serendibite. researcherse have sometimes found a core of blue serendibite in these unusual pseudos! Rare!	Item #29521 Beryl 6.5x5.1x6.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 42mm $250.00 Chumar Bakhoor Pakistan This phlogopite mica matrix sports a sharp, light bluish beryl crystal. The crystal is terminated by a compound pinacoid with interesting growth features. A striking specimen.
Item #29520 Vesuvianite 2.9x2.0x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $95.00 Jeffrey Mine Quebec, Canada A gorgeous thumbnail-sized specimen of gemmy, green, vesuvianite crystals. What a place the Jeffrey Mine was for vesuvianite! This is an excellent example!	Item #29518 Grossular, Diopside 3.2x2.8x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $70.00 Vesper Peak Washington Washington, USA A sharp, gemmy grossular crystal is perched at the upper part of this diopside-lined vug. Nice looking piece!	Item #29515 Diopside 1.9x1.2x1.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $70.00 Cawood Quebec, Canada Rarely, do we see completely colourless, euhedral crystals of diopside. Here is one! This is one of the few localities that I have seen such crystals, often of gem quality, or partial gem quality like this one!	Item #29511 Apatite, Albite, Muscovite 4.5x2.8x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $280.00 Sapo Mine Goiaberra, Minas Gerais Brazil A gorgeous, sharp, crystal of fluorapatite on albite-muscovite matrix. The tabular fluorapatite crystal is dark green, showing short prism faces and narrow pyramidal truncations. Very nice!
Item #29510 Beryl 2.0x1.9x19 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $75.00 Topaz Mtn. Thomas Range Utah, USA The Thomas Range is well known for red beryl, one of, if not the only place in the world, that red beryl occurs. This specimen shows a tabular red, crystal of beryl on the rhyolite matrix.	Item #29504 Quartz 4.7x1.2x1.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $45.00 Jasper Claim Mt. Breckenridge, Harrison Lk. British Columbia, Canada This beautiful, well terminated quartz crystal is a light citrine in colour. Very gemmy! Nice piece from an unusual location.	Item #29501 Fluorite 3.1x2.9x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $55.00 Hwy 7 road cut near Deloro, w of Madoc Madoc Ontario, Canada A beautiful, light green cluster of fluorite cube-octahedra from this old long worked out locality. Looks great! PB	Item #29499 Bastnasite - (Ce) 2.4x0.9x0.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $480.00 Zagi Mtn. Pakistan A stunning example of this rare earth mineral! It is a doubly-terminated crystal with excellent terminations. It is a bit rough on one area on the back bottom where it intergrew with the host mineralization a bit. Excellent crystals like this do not come around that often.
Item #29498 Wulfenite, Mimetite 3.1x1.0x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $65.00 Rowley Mine Maricopa County Arizona, USA A gorgeous plate of orangey wulfenite crystals! The Rowley Mine is famous for crystals like this!	Item #29497 Epidote 3.5x2.9x0.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $290.00 Tormiq Valley Pakistan A beautiful "gwindel" of epidote from this remote, mountainous area. The dark green, lustrous crystal is twisted in a manner similar to the more familiar gwindel quartz crystals from Switzerland! Really nice!	Item #29491 Diopside 2.0x1.2x0.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: As above $35.00 Ch. Principal road cut N. of Laurel Quebec, Canada A well-formed, partially gemmy, singly terminated crystal of diopside from this Grenville occurrence.	Item #29486 Quartz 7.4x4.2x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 16mm $40.00 Silica Bell Claim Laidlaw British Columbia, Canada A nice plate of colourless, highly lustrous, quartz crystals. Often there are other minerals perched on the quartz crystals at this spot but this is just simple a nice quartz cluster.
Item #29485 Epidote, Prehnite, Quartz 5.1x3.4x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $35.00 Silica Bell Claim Laidlaw British Columbia, Canada Dark-green sprays of epidote crystals and light green rounded prehnite crystals are both on gemmy-colourless quartz crystals. Nice association piece from this unusual alpine cleft location.	Item #29483 Hardystonite, Willemite 12.0x9.8x8.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Franklin New Jersey, USA Bright green willemite and dark blue-purple hardystonite are the two fluorescent minerals here along with some fluorescent-red calcite and lots of non-fluorescent black franklinite. Hardystonite is a zinc silicate, that was not an ore mineral at Franklin.	Item #29482 Silver 11.1x9.4x6.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $345.00 Batopilas Chihuahua Mexico Alarge vein of silver crystals in rock and calcite from one of the most famous silver localities in the world. It is not the herringbone style of crystallization that we often see from there but closely packed but separate well formed dendrites of native silver with sharp crystals. Excellent! Very rich!	Item #29481 Prehnite, Quartz 9.0x4.8x6.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: Pr 3mm, Qu 15mm $40.00 Silica Bell Claim Laidlaw British Columbia, Canada Rounded aggregates of sharp, very light-green prehnite crystals all attached to clear, terminated quartz crystals. Late stage mineralization from this alpine cleft locality.
Item #29480 Adularia 3.9x3.5x1.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $35.00 Silica Bell Claim Laidlaw British Columbia, Canada A nice adularia specimen from this unusual alpine cleft occurrence in British Columbia. A sharp adularia crystal on quartz crystals. Nice!	Item #29479 Cinnabar 12.1x7.1x7.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $150.00 Guizhou China This strange looking piece is solid cinnabar. It appears to be formed as part of some venting process. Very dense and interesting!	Item #29478 Wulfenite 10.1x7.6x6.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $80.00 Hunan China Lots bright-yellow, bladed wulfenite crystals associated with smaller, dull calcite crystals on this specimen. Rich and looks good for display.	Item #29474 Apatite 7.9x4.1x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 19mm $45.00 Cerro de Mercado Durango Mexico The Cerro de Mercado Mine is famous for these gemmy fluorapatite crystals embedded in a hard siliceous matrix. This specimen shows a gemmy-yellow crystal, well terminated exposed nicely on the siliceous matrix. Interesting occurrence and shows well!
Item #29471 Grossular 9.0x6.9x5.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $85.00 Jeffrey Mine Asbestos Quebec, Canada A very nice cabinet specimen of, sparkling, colourless grossular crystals on matrix. Displays well!	Item #29469 Euxenite -Y 6.5x3.0x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $55.00 Beryl Pit Quadville Ontario, Canada This fragment of pegmatite matrix shows a very sharp, well terminated euxenite crystal embedded in feldspar and magnetite matrix. There is a second nice crystal with a small nick out of it. Very brittle crystals!	Item #29468 Antimony 3.5x4.3x4.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $55.00 Chihuhaha Mexico A very rich fragment of a vein filled with native antimony. Some antimony secondaries on the contact. Sorry, that is the only locality information that I have! Nice example!	Item #29465 Arsenopyrite 4.5x4.9x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 14mm $40.00 Lucy Mine Wawa Ontario, Canada Sharp, VERY long crystals of arsenopyrite are embedded in this matrix which is composed of a fine blend of siderite and silica. The lucy mine was a very old, long closed open pit mine and a fore-runner of the more modern McLeod Mine that we are more familiar with.