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 20% or multiply by 0.8.

 

Item #22530 Hematite 7.8x4.5x4.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $65.00 Steep Rock Iron Mine Atikokan Ontario, Canada Excellent example of botryoidal hematite from this historic, long closed iron mine.	Item #22528 Celestine 13.3x6.x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 50mm $75.00 Forks of the Credit Ontario, Canada Here is something different! A cavity in this limestone is totally filled wit ha radiating aggregate of celestine. Not the blue-gray celestine that we are used to but a bright orange-coloured celestine. Beautiful example!	Item #22526 Calcite 9.4x7.5x7.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 21mm $65.00 Inverhuron Ontario, Canada Beautiful, highly modified scalenohedra of calcite showing interesting hoppers and gemmy interiors. Great crystals!	Item #22524 Goethite 6.0x5.0x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $40.00 Steep Rock Iron Mine Atikokan Ontario, USA A nice example of botryoidal/stalactitic goethite from this great Canadian iron Mine. Now long closed.
Item #22523 Plagioclase (Labradorite) 5.1x5.0x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $40.00 Saranac Lake New York, USA A wonderful fragment of labradorite showing excellent colour change. Unusual locality!	Item #22522 Celestine 5.1x3.2x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 32mm $45.00 Clay Center Ohio, USA This is just a very nice specimen of celestine from a famous American locality. The matrix is a jumble of spongy calcite and interlocking celestine crystals with a beautiful celestine crystal protruding out the top. Really nice crystal forms on the celestine.	Item #22521 Skutterudite, Cobaltite (Dendrite) 10.6x8.0x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Cobalt Lode Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada THIS is a cool piece! You can see the thick bands of solid skutterudite on both sides of the specimen. Branching out from the skutterudite into the carbonate are dendrites of cobaltite. Dense. Interesting. Looks great.	Item #22520 Polyhalite 7.3x5.4x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $75.00 Eddy County New Mexico, USA A mass of solid, orangey polyhalite showing rich crystalline areas. Excellent!
Item #22518 Willemite, Calcite, Franklinite 5.5x4.1x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Franklin New Jersey, USA A wonderful specimen of fluorescent green willemite, associated with calcite (Fl red) and black franklinite. V-nice!	Item #22517 Chrysotile 4.6x3.8x4.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Gila County Arizona, USA An excellent specimen of fibrous chrysotile asbestos with a honey-colour. Very good example!	Item #22516 Fairfieldite 5.9x3.6x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm glob $65.00 Foote Mine Kings Mtn. North Carolina, USA Rounded crystal aggregates of fairfieldite on a plate of, I think calcite of dolomite. This is one of the best localities for fairfieldite.	Item #22514 Wollastonite 7.8x2.9x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Pit Cairn New York, USA A piece of solid wollastonite showing elongated structure typical of wollastonite.
Item #22507 Bixbyite, Topaz 5.2x3.1x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: Bi 8mm, To 8mm $65.00 Thomas Range Juab County Utah, USA A super sharp bixbyite crystal and several topaz crystals are well exposed on the side of this rhyolite matrix. The bixbyite crystal is pitch-black and shows sharp indentations caused by modifying faces. It does have one corner missing but otherwise is amazing! As well, there are a couple of doubly-terminated topaz crystals on the same face as the bixbyite. Classic Thomas Range!	Item #22505 Pectolite 4.1x3.1x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 McNamara Quarry Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada Here is an unusual specimen! This si a nice example of radiating pectolite crystals from the McNamara Quarry near Thunder Bay. Unusual and looks great!	Item #22501 Scapolite 5.2x4.9x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $45.00 HWY 121 Haliburton Ontario, Canada Nice, lustrous marialite crystals etched out of calcite. The crystals are terminated and some kind of gemmy/translucent. Nice example of unaltered scapolite.	Item #22499 Betafite 2.7x2.4x1.5 , 1.4x1.7x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $65.00 Silver Crater Mine Bancroft Ontario, Canada A couple of sharp crystals of this pyrochlore group mineral. Cube-octahedral crystal form shown well! A little fluorapatite included in one. Naturally etched out of calcite, near the surface of this carbonatite deposit.
Item #22498 Zircon 3.5x2.5x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $75.00 MacDonald Mine Monteagle TWP., Hastings Co. Ontario, Canada A cluster of large zircon crystals partially embedded in quartz matrix. This is the variety of zircon referred to as "cyrtolite" due to a small rare earth element content. A little rumbled due to blast damage but still pretty darn good from this old, long closed mine.	Item #22494 Allanite 6.8x3.9x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Frontenac Co. Ontario, Canada A rather large crystal section of allanite from Frontenac county. Big!	Item #22492 Anhydrite 6.6x3.0x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Faraday Mine Bancroft Ontario, Canada Just a solid, cleavage specimen of purple-ish anhydrite. I don't know a lot about pegmatites but there was a lot of anhydrite in this one. Not sure why!? Excellent example!	Item #22487 Silver, Arsenides 9.9x8.8x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $95.00 Bailey Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada Extremely rich silver in a silver-arsenide vein-section. Some of the silver is crystallized in "herring-bone' type crystallization while much of it is disseminated and in veinlets. Very rich!
Item #22486 Silver, Arsenides 10.5x8.8x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $95.00 Bailey Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada A rich vein section that comes comes with old label. The silver shows some dendritic crystallization but much of it is re-mobilized and veinlet silver. Rich!	Item #22485 Silver 11.6x9.4x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $180.00 Cobalt Lode Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada The other sawn, larger "half" of #22484. Very nice example of silver mineralization in Nipissing diabase. The specimen shows a vein of silver and arsenides cutting through diabase with re-mobilized silver streaking off in tension fracture veinlets perpendicular to the silver arsenide vein. Some of the vein silver shows good dendritic structure. Sawn on one side, rough on the other. Super!	Item #22484 Silver 12.2x9.7x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $150.00 Cobalt Lode Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada Very nice example of silver mineralization in Nipissing diabase. The specimen shows a vein of silver and arsenides cutting through diabase with re-mobilized silver streaking off in tension fracture veinlets perpendicular to the silver arsenide vein. Sawn on one side, rough on the other. Some of the vein silver shows good dendritic structure. Really nice piece!	Item #22483 Silver, Nickeline 14.4x6.1x1.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $325.00 Silverside Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada The other sawn side of #22482. Very high grade silver mineralization showing dendritic silver associated with heavy arsenide mineralization in carbonate vein matrix. Some of the silver is in place of the original crystallization and some has been re-mobilized out of the arsenides and replaced with other arsenides. Sawn on one side, rough on the other. Rich, instructive mineralization from the Cobalt silver mining camp. Looks great!
Item #22481 Silver, Arsenides 18.4x10.4x6.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $825.00 Crown Reserve Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada The other sawn half of #22480. Superb vein-section of high- grade silver representative of the heydays of silver mining in the Cobalt, Ontario silver mining camp. This piece shows very rich silver dendrites embedded in carbonate. The silver dendrites have a shroud of cobalt arsenides coating them. As well, there are veinlets of pure silver cutting through both the carbonates and the arsenides and silver, probably re-mobilized from somewhere else in the vein. Sawn on one side, rough on the other. Dense! Beautiful and impressive.	Item #22480 Silver, Arsenides 18.4x6.9x8.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $825.00 Crown Reserve Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada THIS is a fantastic specimen of dendritic native silver coated by cobalt arsenides in carbonate vein matrix. The silver exhibits branching dendritic stricture at the coreof the arsenide, probably safflorite, "rosettes". As well there are lots of veinlets of pure silver coursing through the vein section. This is representative of a real ore-grade vein-section from the heydays of the Cobalt mining camp. Sawn on one side, rough on the other. Looks great!	Item #22477 Chalcocite 5.4x3.2x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Flambeau Mine Ladysmith Wisconsin, USA A specimen of solid chalcocite composed of variously twinned chalcocite crystals. The Flambeau mine was a great source of chalcocite crystals for a short period in the 1990's but the mine has been closed since 1997 and then rehabilitated. Nice piece from this famous locality!	Item #22476 Natrolite on Prehnite 7.4x5.9x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $65.00 Millington Quarry Basking Ridge New Jersey, USA Nice natrolite crystals distributed on light green, botryoidal prehnite. New Jersey classic!
Item #22475 Natrolite 5.5x3.6x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $65.00 Millington Quarry Basking Ridge New Jersey, USA Pure white natrolite crystals cover most of the front of this specimen. From the famous trap rocks of NJ!	Item #22474 Wardite 6.3x4.8x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $85.00 Fairfield Utah, USA This is a nodule from the famous locality at Fairfield, Utah that, according to the accompanying label is mostly wardite. I do not know enough about this type of mineralization to comment further. There could be other rare phosphate minerals in the specimen. Very interesting!	Item #22472 Coquimbite 4.5x3.4x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $75.00 San Rafael Swell Emery County Utah, USA A rather excellent specimen of this relatively rare mineral! Looks great!	Item #22470 Gmelinite 6.0x3.2x4.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $45.00 Prospect Park New Jersey, USA One of the less common species of zeolite found at Prospect Park area. The crystals look very much like the gmelinite replacements of chabazite that we find at Wasson's Bluff, Nova Scotia. Similar but different!
Item #22468 Scheelite 5.2x3.8x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $65.00 Ortiz Grand Santa Fe New Mexico, USA A couple of sharp, orangey, scheelite crystals are nicely exposed on this matrix. Excellent example from this mine. Exactly like the examples on mindat.org.	Item #22467 Celestine 7.9x6.5x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 23mm $65.00 Stoneco Quarry Lime City Ohio, USA A nice specimen exhibiting light coloured, slightly divergent, barrel-shaped crystals of celestine. Classic, midwest locality!	Item #22465 Arsenopyrite 13.4x7.9x7.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 14mm $75.00 Sigma II Mine Louvicourt Quebec, Canada A large fragment of quartz-laced matrix that has many silvery arsenopyrite crystals embedded in it. Could be broken into smaller specimens but I kind of liked it like this!	Item #22463 Magnetite 3.5x3.5x2.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $35.00 Gatineau Park Quebec, Canada A fairly sharp but rough-hewn octahedron of magnetite from this unusual location. Gatineau Park is all of the locality information that I have.
Item #22461 Meionite 3.8x2.5x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 35mm $40.00 Bear Lake Pontiac County Quebec, Canada A nice couple of meionite crystals in parallel growth. The crystals are creamy white with small alteration patches of a mica or allanite.	Item #22460 Galena 6.0x5.7x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Wright Mine Ville Marie Quebec, Canada A rich specimen of galena in calcite/rock breccia matrix. This is from the site that was the location of the first recorded mine in Canada. French explorers visited the place as early as 1668 and the first recorded ore (anticipated lead-silver) was taken out in 1686. The mineralization was worked in earnest between 1890 and 1903 for lead but has been idle since. (Info from mindat.org). An excellent, representative specimen from this historic site.	Item #22456 Calcite 3.0x2.4x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $35.00 Tsumeb Namibia A single, well formed calcite crystal showing modified rhombohedral faces. Looks great!	Item #22455 Calcite 4.2x3.7x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $50.00 Tsumeb Namibia A plate of colourless, razor-sharp rhombohedral crystals of calcite on matrix showing secondary copper colouration.
Item #22454 Calcite 5.2x4.0x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $35.00 Tsumeb Namibia Just a simple, larger, rhombohedral calcite crystal with calcite as matrix. Nice crystal!	Item #22453 Calcite, Hematite 3.9x4.1x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: He 0.5mm. Ca 4mm $30.00 Tsumeb Namibia One side of this plate is covered with sharp rhombs of calcite white the other side is largely composed of botryoidal hematite and some calcite crystals. A little different association!	Item #22452 Duftite, Calcite 4.3x2.9x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: Du 0.5mm, Ca 12mm $70.00 Tsumeb , Namibia An interesting specimen of duftite-coated calcite crystals. The duftite is present as botryoidal hemispheres scattered on the calcite crystals.	Item #22450 Calcite 4.4x2.9x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $45.00 Tsumeb Namibia A plate of pinkish calcite crystals on lighter matrix. A little malachite or other copper mineralization in the matrix. Nice!
Item #22449 Calcite, Adamite(?), Conichalcite 4.7x3.4x1.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $55.00 Tsumeb Namibia A very nice cluster of clear, colourless calcite crystals on a copper-rich matrix featuring malachite. Possibly some other interesting minerals. Classic Tsumeb.	Item #22448 Calcite 5.0x3.8x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $55.00 Tsumeb Namibia A cute aggregate of sharp calcite crystals tinted with an oxide of iron.	Item #22447 Calcite 4.0x3.5x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 22mm $45.00 Tsumeb Namibia A lovely cluster of pure white calcite crystals from this famous mine! Looks great!	Item #22445 Calcite, Dolomite 5.3x3.9x1.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $35.00 Tsumeb Namibia A plate of white dolomite crystals with hematite-tinted calcite rhombs scattered over it. Nice.
Item #22444 Calcite 3.4x3.5x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 26mm $30.00 Tsumeb Namibia A cluster of roughly rhombohedral, composite, calcite crystals on a base of iron-tinted calcite. Unusual!	Item #22443 Calcite 5.0x3.2x4.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 8mm $35.00 Tsumeb Namibia A cluster of simple, white calcite crystals. A little, associated copper mineralization, probably duftite. Looks good!	Item #22441 Calcite, Dolomite 4.5x3.5x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $30.00 Tsumeb Namibia Nice, white rhombohedron of calcite on smaller dolomite crystals. a little chafing on some edges but still sharp! Nice simple crystal.	Item #22440 Calcite 3.3x2.4x1.2 / 3.3x2.7x1.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $30.00 Tsumeb Namibia Two crystals from the same pocket showing fairly clear composition with some hematite tinting. Nice faces and stria!
Item #22439 Calcite, Mottramite 3.2x2.7x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 28mm $40.00 Tsumeb Namibia Coloureless clear calcite crystal cluster associated with botryoidal mottramite. The mottramite is both on and included in the calcite crystals.	Item #22438 Calcite, Dolomite 5.1x5.6x3.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: Ca 7mm, Do 12mm $40.00 Tsumeb Namibia a number of creamy coloured calcite crystals are sprinkled around a cluster of red-tinted dolomite crystals. Some white quartz on the bottom. Nice looking piece!	Item #22433 Iron, Terrestrial 7.7x5.2x0.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $170.00 Hungtukun Massif Taimyr, Siberia Russia A large slice, polished both sides, showing very rich native iron in rock matrix. One side ofthe specimen is a solid strip of iron, as you can see in the picture. Very good example!	Item #22426 Iron, Terrestrial 2.4x1.8x0.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $38.00 Hungtukun Massif Taimyr, Siberia Russia An extremely rich, small specimen of native iron in black rock matrix. Very nicely polished on both sides.
Item #22421 Iron, Terrestrial 5.0x3.8x0.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Hungtukun Massif Taimyr, Siberia Russia This specimen is a slice of native iron in rock matrix that shows solid iron across the bottom of the slice. Excellent polish both sides.	Item #22413 Gormanite 6.6x3.8x2.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $65.00 Big Fish River Yukon, Canada A rich, covering of dark greenish, acicular gormanite crystals on, mostly, one side of this brecciated matrix.	Item #22412 Satterleyite 7.6x2.9x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $75.00 Big Fish River Yukon, Canada An excellent specimen of this rare mineral, present in a "phosphate nodule" from the famous phosphate area of the Yukon. The satterlyite is present as radiating, resinous, yellow crystals as a major component of the nodule.	Item #22410 Bornite 7.2x5.0x3.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 New Imperial Mine Yukon, Canada A rich bornite ore specimen from an unusual locality, the large New Imperial Copper Mine in the Yukon.
Item #22406 Manganite 6.4x5.5x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $55.00 Caland Ore Property Atikokan Ontario, Canada A plate of pitch-black, lustrous crystals of manganite on iron ore. The Caland Mine, next door to the Steep Rock Iron Mine is famous for these manganite crystals.	Item #22405 Goethite 5.9x6.0x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $65.00 Steep Rock Iron Mine Atikokan Ontario, Canada A solid piece of goethite showing splintery-crystallized structure and banded form. One of the ore types at this long-closed iron mine!	Item #22403 Siderite 5.5x3.9x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $45.00 MacLennan Mine MacLennan Twp Ontario, Canada The McLennan Mine was a small nickel-copper mine located near Garson, Ontario, It has been closed for decades. Vugs of siderite crystals and other minerals were occasionally found at this operation. Unusual!	Item #22397 Tetrahedrite, Quartz, Sphalerite 10.2x6.3x7.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $75.00 Casapalca Mine Peru Mostly a mound of quartz crystals, largely covering sphalerite crystals with some sharp tetrahedrite crystals here and there. Very good example!
Item #22396 Rhodoshrosite, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Galena 19.2x12.2x8.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: Rh 42mm cluster, Sh 9mm $240.00 Huaron Mine Pasco Peru A very large specimen showing, mostly, a covering of pink rhodochrosite crystals on sphalerite. Also some chalcopyrite and galena present. Big, showy specimen! R	Item #22395 Azurite 7.0x10.5x6.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 4mm $120.00 China A rather large specimen of botryoidal azurite! If you look at the the undulating carpet of solid azurite closely, you can see that it is composed of thousands of small crystals. Extremely rich. Sorry, don't know the exact locality but probably Chizhou, Anhui copper mining area. R	Item #22393 Aurichalcite 12.6x10.3x8.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Arizona, USA Large specimen showing radiating tufts of blue-green aurichalcite in open spaces all thoughout this very vuggy rock. Sorry, don't know the exact locale. Rich! R	Item #22385 Willemite, Zincite, Franklinite 8.0x6.5x6.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Franklin New Jersey, USA A rich specimen of, mostly zincite, franklinite and willemite along the bottom. Looks rich in white and U/V light.
Item #22383 Esperite, Willemite, Franklinite 4.5x2.2x1.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Franklin New Jersey, USA A rich specimen of esperite showing characteristic yellow-green fluorescence. Associated with some willemite and, of course, franklinite.	Item #22379 Calcite 7.2x5.7x4.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 50mm $55.00 Sweetwater Mine Reynolds co. Missouri, USA Classic Sweetwater Mine specimen showing a prismatic calcite crystal laying flat on limestone matrix. Associated with small, golden chalcopyrite crystals. Looks great!	Item #22376 Zircon, Siderite 6.4x6.2x4.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: Z-2m, S-11mm $65.00 Mont Saint-Hilaire Quebec, Canada Hundreds of small zircons thickly scattered around this matrix of albite crystals. The zircons are yellow-florescent, as well! R	Item #22374 Calcite 10.0x7.0x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 40mm $75.00 Pea Ridge Mine Sullivan Missouri, USA A large cluster of scalenohedral calcite crystals, from tiny to 40mm or so in size. Dusted with iron oxide mineralization. Nice piece from this old iron mine.
Item #22373 Calcite 3.3x1.9x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 32mm $40.00 Pea Ridge Mine Sullivan Missouri, USA A nice cluster of scalenohedral calcite crystals with a partial reddish, botryoidal hematite phantom coating. Nice specimen from this old iron mine..	Item #22372 Calcite, Chalcopyrite 4.0x3.6x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $35.00 Pea Ridge Mine Sullivan Missouri, USA A sharp, scalenohedron of calcite with some small crystals of chalcopyrite and smaller marcasites on it. The calcite has inner phantoms of hematite in the terminal areas that give it a reddish colour. From and old iron mine!	Item #22371 Pyrite 6.2x5.5x5.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $35.00 Rolla Quarry Rolla Missouri, USA Sharp pyrite crystals on a matrix of bladed calcite crystals on limestone. Unusual locality!	Item #22370 Barite 7.0x4.2x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $65.00 Lamb Mine Morgan co. Missouri, USA A nice plate of white baryte crystals. The crystals are sharp, tabular, colourless crystals on massive baryte matrix. Unusual!
Item #22366 Cassiterite, Muscovite 7.2x5.0x5.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $85.00 Pingwu Mine Xueboding, Pingwu, Sichuan China A rather large, twinned crystal of cassiterite from this modern classic locality. The crystal shows the "V" twinning that is characteristic from this locality. black with high luster. Not complete but very good!	Item #22365 Kutnahorite, Hematite 10.1x6.6x4.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 69mm $75.00 Nchwaning Mine Kalahari South Africa Nice bundles of creamy white kutnahorite from the famous Nchwaning mine! Fairly white with just a tinge of pink.	Item #22363 Adamite, Var. Cuproadamite 8.0x5.8x4.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $120.00 Tsumeb Namibia A larger specimen of green, cuproadamite crystals line a vug in matrix. Excellent specimen from this amazing location!	Item #22360 Cassiterite, Quartz, Fluorite, Fluorapatite, Miscovite 7.0x4.7x 3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: Ca22mm, Qu12mm $75.00 Xueboding Mine Pingway Sichuan, China This specimen shows sharp, black cassiterite crystals on matrix associated with quartz and other minerals. The fluorite and apatite crystals are not prominent but present as small crystals. Nice example of this tin oxide!!
Item #22359 Rhodizite 7.2x4.3x5.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 17mm $85.00 Antandrokomby, Sahatsiho, Ambositra Amoron'i, Mania Madagascar These are very interesting specimens! This piece shows a nice, light yellow rhodizite crystal in pegmatitic matrix.	Item #22354 Sphalerite 4.2x4.0x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 30mm cluster $65.00 Elmwood Mine Carthage Tennessee, USA A complex, very dark brown sphalerite crystal is well exposed on this matrix of creamy-white dolomite crystals. Displays very well. One of the nicest sphalerite crystal locations in modern times!	Item #22353 Digenite 4.0x2.4x3.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $65.00 Butte Montana, USA A massive specimen of digenite from this famous old locality. Can't say for sure it is digenite but the label accompanying it, IDs it as digenite.	Item #22351 Galena 4.4x3.2x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 24mm $65.00 Amax Mine Boss Missouri, USA A very nice large galena crystal, with a smaller sidecar attached to a little limestone matrix. The larger crystal has great luster, tiny octahedral modifications on the cube corners and an interesting creased growth feature on the front. Looks great!
Item #22350 Sphalerite 6.5x5.5x4.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 44mm $45.00 Joplin Missouri, USA A couple of large, twinned, dark brown sphalerite crystals on limestone matrix. The sphalerites have little calcite crystals sprinkled on them. Nice!	Item #22348 Spessartine 5.5x4.0x4.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $45.00 Garnet Hill Ely, White Pine co. Nevada, USA These are so cool! An extremely sharp, deep red, spessartine-garnet trapezhedron exposed in a small cavity in rhyolite. The crystals has great luster and it is just hard to understand how a garnet of this size can form is such a small cavity. They do!	Item #22347 Enargite 7.6x6.0x3.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 14mm $75.00 Butte Montana, USA Nice crystals of enargite around the edges of this enargite/pyrite matrix. Sharp, prismatic crystals.	Item #22346 Galena 7.4x5.0x4.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $55.00 Brushy Creek Mine Reynolds co. Missouri, USA We're used to seeing the calcite and pyrite crystals from Brushy Creek Mine but not so much the galena. Here is a nice example. Complex cube-octahedra on dolomite crystal -coated, brecciated matrix
Item #22345 Quartz 6.9c6.1x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 8mm botryoids $40.00 Tiff Missouri, USA Interesting plate of sort of drusy and botryoidal quartz from Missouri. The specimen is actually botryoidal chalcedony coated with the tiny quartz crystals. Creamy white. Looks great!	Item #22344 Galena 7.9x2.6x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $45.00 Sweetwater Mine Ellington, Reynolds co. Missouri, USA Nice plate of galena crystals. The crystals are cube-octahedra and are scattered about on what I believe is the nicest side and thickly clustered on the bottom.	Item #22341 Siderite, Pyrite 5.7x5.3x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: Py-15mm, Si-6mm $75.00 Eagle Mine Gilman Colorado, USA A very nice cluster of lustrous, parallel growth pyrite, partially encrusted with curved, bladed siderite crystals. Gilman classic!	Item #22332 Crocoite 18.0x9.2x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $75.00 Red Lead Mine Dundas, Tasmania Australia Classic crocoite specimen showing bright orange, prismatic crystals on gossan matrix, tinged with white gibbsite. Looks great! r
Item #22324 Wulfenite 10.5x6.5x1.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $160.00 Touissit Bou Beker Morocco A really nice specimen from this modern day classic locality, famous for yellow wulfenite crystals. The wulfenite is in bladed, beveled yellow crystals that cover most of this piece. Looks great! r	Item #22323 Cinnabar, Dolomite 12.3x7.2x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $150.00 Tongren Chizhou, Hunan China Wow! A large, very nice specimen of gemmy-red cinnabar crystals associated with dolomite crystals. This is an old classic association and occurrence that you'll see in many of the old mineralogy textbooks. Displays well. r	Item #22322 Bournonite, Siderite 8.8x3.2x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: Bo 7mm, Si 2mm $75.00 Quiruvilca Mine Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad Peru A less common association from the famous Quiruvilca Mine. The specimen is a mound of bournonite crystal faces encrusted with small siderite crystals. r	Item #22321 Enargite, Pyrite 6.5x4.8x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: En 18mm, Py 15mm $75.00 Quiruvilca Mine Santiago de Chuco La Libertad, Peru This specimen shows blocky crystals of enargite associated with fairly sharp, stepped, octahedral pyrite crystals. One of the most famous occurrences for enargite this mineral.
Item #22318 Galena, Quartz, Sphalerite 11.4x9.4x5.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: Ga 36mm, Qu 17mm, Sp13mm $120.00 Madan Bulgaria A large cluster of predominately large galena crystals associated with quartz and sphalerite crystals. The galena crystals are various combinations of cube and octahedron with a lead-gray, matte finish. Looks great! r	Item #22316 Tetrahedrite, Quartz 10.8x10.2x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 46mm $150.00 Casapalca Mine Huarochiri, Lima Peru This is pretty nice! Several large crystals of tetrahedrite sit on top of a bed of small quartz crystals. The tetrahedrite crystals are well formed with the largest somewhat with skeletal form. A really nice specimen from one of the best tetrahedrite localities. Displays very well. r	Item #22315 Enargite 8.0x6.2x5.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $75.00 Casapalca Mine Huarochiri Lima, Peru There is a cavity in the upper part of this specimen that shows sharp enargite crystals. The crystals are elongated prisms with flat terminations and pitch black colouration. It is not a perfect specimen but there are some really nice crystals on it. r	Item #22307 Smithsonite 12.4x9.9x7.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $150.00 Tsumeb Namibia A great looking specimen of one of the most famous minerals from this well known base metal and specimen producing mine! The crystals are stubby scalenohedra with a light off-green colour. Displays well.