David K. Joyce

Secondary Minerals, Various Locations, Page Two

Here are more interesting minerals from the oxidized zones!

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Item #13313 Smithsonite 10.5x7.5x4.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $85.00 Laurion Greece An excellent specimen of light greenish, botryoidal smithsonite from one of the oldest and most famous mining areas of the world. Very nice!	Item #20095 Malachite, Cerussite, Pyromorphite 7.5x7.1x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: Ma 12mm $85.00 Brown's Prospect Rum Jungle Northern Territory, Australia A plate of botryoidal malachite on pyromorphite garnished with small crystals of cerussite. Interesting paragenesis and a good looking piece! t	Item #20267 Kermesite, Calcite 11.5x8.0x8.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 35mm $240.00 Dafeng Shanlin Co., Guanxi, Zhuang China A number of sprays of cherry-red, acicular, free-standing kermesite crystals are exposed in a narrow, drusy calcite crystal-lined seam on the front of this matrix. Unusual and different locality for this relatively rare mineral.	Item #21277 Azurite, Malachite 14.5x12.3x5.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $260.00 Liufengshan Mine Anhui China An amazing, great-looking example of copper mineralization! The matrix is, essentially, porous, botryoidal, dark-green malachite in which all of the cavities are lined with lustrous, blue, razor-sharp crystals of azurite. Partially sawn base. This is a large cabinet specimen that looks great. R
Item #21595 Vanadinite 5.1x3.1x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $75.00 J.C. Holmes Claim Patagonia Arizona, USA Vibrant-orange-red vanadinite crystals cover much of this fragment of rock, probably a breccia fragment, originally. The crystals are hexagonal prisms with prominent pyramidal faces. Nice!	Item #22155 Pyromorphite 8.6x3.7x5.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $55.00 Phoenixville Pennsylvania, USA The top of this silica-rich rock is covered with pyromorphite crystals, the classic colour of pyromorphite from this old mine. Very old, classic American mining location!	Item #22200 Descloizite 9.3x7.2x6.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $75.00 Berg Aukas Grootfontein Namibia Wow! A heavy cluster of descloizite crystals from the place that arguably produces the best. This cluster of terminated, deep brown crystals its very nicely for display.	Item #22679 Hemimorphite 3.5x3.7x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $40.00 Wolftone Mine Leadville Colorado, USA Here is something we don't see very often! This piece has an open vug at the top that contains very sharp, thin-bladed, colourless, gemmy hemimorphite crystals. Nice and unusual!
Item #24420 Smithsonite, Hydrozincite 11.0x8.1x4.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $75.00 Colle Seriana Bergamo Italy A large vug in this massive smithsonite specimen is lined with botryoidal brownish smithsonite composed of tiny smithsonite crystals. The smithsonite formed on top of botryoidal white hydrozincite. The hydrozincite is fluorescent blue-white, as hydrozincite often is. Will need some extra postage. Old, classic locality!	Item #24484 Hemimorphite, Calcite 8.1x6.2x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $40.00 Ojuela Mine Mapimi, Durango Mexico Here is an attractive hemimorphite specimen! The front of the piece is an open vug with a "star" of hemimorphite on a pedestal of calcite crystals. The rest of the vug has calcite crystals scattered about on botryoidal iron oxides. The matrix is highly corroded, altered galena and each fragment of galena is covered with secondary lead minerals. Some interesting crystals under the microscope, perhaps mimetite or others. Interesting, good looking specimen!	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 #25002 Pyromorphite 10.3x8.5x4.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $75.00 Phoenixville Chester County Pennsylvania, USA The front of this specimen is covered with green pyromorphite crystals, the kind that the Phoenixville Mine is famous for. The crystals formed in a narrow fissure so many of the crystals are contacted, since they bridged the opening. There are lots of nice crystals on the specimen too, as you can see? A real American classic!
Item #25129 Malachite 9.5x6.5x7.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm ball $2.00 Kandesei Kaokoveld Plateau Namibia This specimens features large hemispherical ball, about an inch, of malacite. Though contacted on much of the specimen the underside shows gorgeous vivid green acicular malachite crystals radiating outward. Smaller examples are common, not so much for this size. The back of the specimen behind the ball shows a metallic mineralization (borite?). DJ	Item #25204 Hemimorphite 5.4x3.8x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $40.00 Cleveland Mine Stevens Co. Washington, USA Now here is an unusual one from the NW. The top of this specimen is a meanderig vug that is lined with elongate, colourless hemimorphite crystals, some tinted with iron oxide. This is a mineral we are used to seeing from Mexico or Arizona, not Washington State!	Item #25209 Libethinite 6.0x3.6x4.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $45.00 Villa Vicosa Evora Dist. Portugal Lots of dark, olive-green libethenite crystals on small quartz crystals from this unusual (for me) locality. Looks great up close!	Item #26368 Hemimorphite 5.0x4.0x2.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $40.00 Paglio Pignolino Mine Bergamo, Lombardy Italy Here is an interesting and unusual specimen(for me!). A vug lined with colourless, sharp, hemimorphite crystals. I see no other minerals other than the hemimorphite. Nice!
Item #26499 Adamite 5.5x3.8x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $40.00 Kamariza Mine Lavrion, Atika Greece Cavities in this gossan matrix have rounded clusters of very blue adamite. As well, there are small crystals of a greenish mineral, as well. Ancient, Interesting locality!	Item #26538 Erythrite, Conichalcite, Calcite 6.5x4.3x1.7 cm $55.00 Cerro Minado Mine Cuesta Alta, Almiera Spain Here is an unusual location! This plate has many, pink, very sharp crystals of erythrite present here and there where the top of the plate is not totally covered by pure white calcite. As well,m there are smaller green balls of conichalcite scattered over the erythrite crystals. Interesting and unusual piece!	Item #26579 Hydrozincite 11.4x8.7x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $85.00 Colle Seriana Bergamo Italy Here is an unusual one! This is a very rich specimen of hydrozincite that, in places is botryoidal, where open spaces exist and massive in others. Where there are open spaces, there are tiny, colourless, prismatic crystals on the botryoidal hydrozincite, perhaps hemimorphite. The hydrozincite fluoresces a bright blue-white colour, perhaps not quite as turquoise as in the picture but an intense blue-white that is characteristic of hydrozincite. Displays 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 #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 #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 #28199 Linarite, Gypsum 9.5x6.8x6.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $85.00 Blanchard Mine Socorro County New Mexico, USA The cavities across the top and front of this quartz-fluorite matrix are largely lined with deep blue linaraite crystals and colourless gypsum. The linarite is the main mineral of interest and is composed of sharp prismatic to skeletal blue crystals. The gypsum crystals are poorly formed but gemmy crystals. The matrix is also interesting showing different colours of fluorite and containing partially altered crystals of galena. Interesting and beautiful!	Item #28196 Malachite, ps azurite 7.5x5.0x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $120.00 Whim Creek W. Australia Australia The cavity on the top of this brecciated matrix is lined with sharp, thick-bladed malachite pseudomorphs after azurite. As well, clusters of deeper green malachite are scattered over the pseudomorphs. Nice specimen from an unusual locality, in this part of the world!
Item #28201 Linarite, Fluorite, Gypsum 6.3x4.4x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $65.00 Blanchard Mine Socorro County New Mexico, USA The top of this specimen is mostly part of a vug that is lined by fluorite crystals that have, in turn, been partially or totally covered by bright, deep-blue, linarite crystals and white skeletal gypsum crystals. The linarite crystals actually coat the fluorite crystals nicely in some parts of the opening. Interesting and beautiful!	Item #28203 Linarite, Baryte, Quartz 4.3x3.0x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: b-21mm, l-1mm $65.00 Mex-Tex Mine Garden Spring Canyon, Socorro Co. New Mexico, USA This is a nice specimen from one of the lesser known localities in Socorro Co. The matrix is totally composed of baryte, with a larger, complete, rectangular, bladed baryte crystal at the back. at the base of the quartz crystal-encrusted baryte crystal is a patch of sparkling, blue linarite crystals. Nice looking, excellent specimen!	Item #28205 Linarite, Malachite 6.7x6.6x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: l-1mm $85.00 Blanchard Mine Socorro County New Mexico, USA The top of this fluorite matrix is mostly covered with openings lined with small, sparkling crystals of deep-blue linarite, with some small tufts of malachite crystals here and there. This is a very striking specimen from this classic linarite locality!