David K. Joyce

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Item #3050 Stilbite 9.8x5.5x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $30.00 Wasson's Bluff Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada A rounded aggregate of brownish stilbite (with a little nick on it) is exposed in a vug with some smaller stilbite crystals and a few white analcime trapezohedra. This is an oldy that I exchanged from an institution. The antique catalogue number is affixed to the bottom and I can attest that it was collected in the early part of last century. Displays well.	Item #3065 Stilbite 6.5x3.7x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 32mm $30.00 Harbourville Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada A very perky specimen with a central crystal standing straight up in the air supported by a couple of crystals directly behind it. Displays very well.	Item #3068 Stilbite 10.0x5.8x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 48mm $50.00 Harbourville Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada One of the bettler-looking, larger specimens. Bundles of stilbite crystals up to 48mm or so long are pleasantly grouped. Displays well, particulrly if slightly propped up behind.	Item #3071 Stilbite 7.5x3.5x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 50mm $20.00 Harbourville Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada Two creamy, composite bundles of stilbite lay in close contact along with a couple of smaller crystals. One of the bigger bundles has a point on its termination where it contacted the other side of the vein and has a little rock there. Displays well.
Item #3280 Thompsonite, Stilbite, Apophyllite 2.9x2.1x1.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: t-7mm, a-4mm $25.00 Cape D'Or Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada A cute cluster consisting of a ball of thompsonite at the front, some nice green apophyllite crystals on the right side and an elongated stilbite crystal at the back of the specimen. Unusual combination!	Item #3806 Catapleiite 2.9x2.4x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $35.00 Mont Saint-Hilaire Quebec, Canada A nice cluster of thin, beige, catapleiite crystals. The crystals are very lustrous with hexagonal shape and bevelled edges. A good example of this zirconium silicate.	Item #4466 Gmelinite ps Chabzite 5.0x4.6x4.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: a-6mm $30.00 Pinnacle Rock, Five Islands Cumberland County, Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada Glassy, gemmy crtystals of analcime stud this vug in gmelinite after chabazite crystals.	Item #5101 Weloganite, Quartz 10.3x7.5x5.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 17mm $65.00 Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec, Canada A couple of yellow, tapering crystals of weloganite are prsent in this vug in the top of a fragment of phonolite. One is a part crystal and the other is complete, tapering at both ends. There are a number of quartzcrystals in the vug as well.
Item #18120 Calcite 7.0x4.8x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 28mm $45.00 Inverhuron Bruce Co. Ontario, Canada Two wonderful calcite crystals, one larger, one smaller are present on the front of this limestone plate. The crystals both exhibit complex crystal faces and interesting hoppered faces. Needs support to lean back to display like in the picture.	Item #18121 Calcite 7.5x6.5x3.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $45.00 Inverhuron Bruce Co. Ontario, Canada A number of complex calcite crystals are tucked away here and there in the various nooks and crannies of this specimen. Wonderful!	Item #5854 Calcite 9.6x5.5x5.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $35.00 Pine Point Mine Pine Point Northwest Territories, Canada This is one single crystal with the termination, the rhombohedron, facing you and the top and sides are the hexagonal prism.	Item #10334 Calcite 3.6x3.0x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 19mm $35.00 Inverhuron Ontario, Canada Three nice, lustrous, well formed, complex light honey calcite crystals on limestone matrix. The matrix is covered with tiny crystals and these larger crystals are a later generation. Beautiful twinning with some slightly hoppered faces.
Item #6012 Augelite 10.0x5.7x4.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7.0 $125.00 Rapid Creek Yukon, Canada Very sharp, lustrous crystals of augelite cover much of the front of this specimen. The crystals are gemmy and range from light green to a colourless iron-included brown. Displays well.	Item #6925 Sphalerite 3.5x1.9x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $25.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Canada A nice looking thumbnail specimen of brownish sphalerite on limestone matrix. There are two main larger crystals and a smaller one.	Item #6930 Sphalerite 2.9x2.9x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $30.00 Flamboro Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada A single complex, black sphalerite crystal attached to a fragment of limestone. A very good example of this form of sphalerite from this deposit.	Item #6941 Sphalerite 10.0x6.2x5.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $80.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada An aggregate of dark brown sphalerite crystals tucked away in a fossil void in limestone. The crystals are complex and lustrous. One little contact point where some sphalerite is missing. The specimen is very handsome and displays well!
Item #7126 Heulandite 5.4x4.4x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5.4x4.3x3.0 $35.00 Amethyst Cove Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada The top of this specimen is covered with rich-looking heulandite crystals with a beige colour. The crystals are sharp, diamond shaped in cross section with the typical pearly lustre that we always see in heulandite. Great mineral! Displays very well.	Item #7133 Heulandite 6.4x3.4x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 12mm $25.00 Hall's Harbour Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada A number of sharp, pearly-lustred heulandite crystals are scattered over this piece of siliceous sinter. Very good example of this zeolite mineral.	Item #18205 Calcite 11.5x7.2x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $45.00 Paris Ontario, Canada Botryoidal aggregates of creamy coloured calcite line openings in brecciated limestone. Fluorescent too. Fluoresces a bright yellow!	Item #7986 Quartz, Analcime 5.0x2.8x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: a-4mm $30.00 McKay's Head Nova Scotia, Canada A kind of cathedral quartz that has an amethystine tinge and is encrusted by small, white analcime trapezohedra. The very top of the cathedral is missing but this is not noticeable from the display angle.
Item #7992 Stilbite, Laumontite 8.2x4.1x3.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: s-10mm, l-3mm $25.00 Victoria Harbour Nova Scotia, Canada A pleasant specimen of stilbite exposed in a heulandite vein. The heulandite is under a carpet of sharp, well-formed laumontite crystals. The laumontite crystals are only 3mm or so and these are the kind that usually survive dehydration. Looks good!	Item #7998 Stilbite, Chabazite 10.5x9.7x5.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 17mm $75.00 Cape D'Or Cumberland Co. Canada Sharp, creamy, chabazite crystals line this shallow vug, across the full width of this specimen. Well formed stilbite crystals as doubly terminated prisms or divergent sprays are scattered acrtoss the chabazites. Funny how some of the crystals are single crystals and others are divergent! Wonder why? This is an excellent display piece.	Item #8000 Stilbite, Chabazite 4.7x4.3x4.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 26mm $40.00 Cape D'Or Cumberland Co. Nova Scotia, Canada A superb example of stilbite. The front of this specimen is largely covered by small sparkling chabazite crystals. On the chabazite are two stilbites, one a very sharp single crystal and the other a divergent group of very sharp, well terminated crystals. Excellent piece that displays very well.	Item #8002 Stilbite 7.8x7.0x4.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $35.00 Cape Spencer Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada This piece is covered both sides by rounded, beautiful, composite stilbite crystals. The crystals are actually divergent groups of crystals that are taking on the "wheat-sheaf" characteristics. Looks great.
Item #8003 Stilbite 8.6x6.1x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 50mm $35.00 Harbourville Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada A nice plate of well-formed stilbite crystals. The stilbite crystals are composite crystals composed of sharp crystals with that pearly lustre and a slight pink-hematite tinge. Looks very good!	Item #8004 Stilbite 7.7x5.0x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 34mm $30.00 Harbourville Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada This plate of composite crystals of stilbite has the largest member in the centre to make for very good display. The crystals ar sharp, white with a tinge of pink hematite tint.	Item #8006 Stilbite 9.8x6.2x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $35.00 Cape Spencer Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada The top of this plate is largely covered with curved, composite crystal groups of beige stilbite. The crystals are very well formed and are on their way to forming hemispheres. Small, pearly heulandite crystals are scattered between the stilbites. Looks very good.	Item #8028 Stilbite 5.5x4.1x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 40mm $30.00 Cape Spencer Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada This beautiful specimen features a full "bow-tie" across the front of it. Nice-looking piece.
Item #8053 Gmelinite ps. Chabazite 5.3x2.5x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 17mm $35.00 Five Islands Cumberland County Nova Scotia, Canada The front of this specimen is covered with lustrous gmelinite pseudos after chabazite and features a larger rhomb right in the middle. Nice peices!	Item #8056 Gmelinite ps. Chabazite 5.7x4.4x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $35.00 Pinnacle Rock, Five Islands Cumberland County, Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada This specimen is a plate of rhombohedrons that show lustrous triangular overgrowths which are typical of gmelinite. Some of the crystals also appear partially hollow. Nice1	Item #8057 Gmelinite ps. Chabazite 5.3x4.0x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 19mm $30.00 Pinnacle Rock, Five Islands Cumberland County, Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada Three rhombohedra that are actually pseudomorphs of gmelinite after chabazite make up this very good specimen. A very good example.	Item #8235 Grossular, Prehnite 3.6x2.4x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3-4mm $35.00 Jeffrey Mine Asbestos Quebec, Canada Gemmy, colourless grossular crystals are stacked up on white, blocky crystals of prehnite in this nice-looking specimen. Classic association.
Item #8245 Grossular 5.2x4.1x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $60.00 Jeffrey Mine Asbestos Quebec, Canada The top of this plate is covered with gemmy, orange dodecahedral crystals of grossular. A little bruising. Classic specimen from the Jeffrey Mine.	Item #8368 Gmelinite ps. Chabazite 8.3x5.0x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 20mm $40.00 Pinnacle Rock, Five Islands Cumberland County, Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada The top of this vein is open to expose a number of well formed crystals of gmelinite in the form of chabazite -pseudomorphs. Some small calcite crystals associated.	Item #8370 Gmelinite ps. Chabazite 4.1x3.3x4.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 14mm $35.00 Pinnacle Rock, Five Islands Cumberland County, Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada A cavity containing some sharp, lustrous, light orange pseudomorphs of gmelinite after chabazite from the famous Bay of Fundy region of Nova Scotia.	Item #8371 Gmelinite ps. Chabazite 5.8x4.3x3.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 14mm $40.00 Five Islands Nova Scotia, Canada A very nice vug of gmelinite pseudomorphs after chabazite. The crystal in the lower right shows the contact twin habit of chabazite which is much less common than the interpenetrating twinning that we often see.
Item #8372 Gmelinite ps. Chabazite 8.1x6.2x4.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 21mm $40.00 Five Islands Nova Scotia, Canada This vein is open at the top to expose a number of very nice gmelinite pseudomorphs after chabazite. The central one has an contact twin. Very nice example. Displays well.	Item #8713 Heulandite 6.3x4.6x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 16mm $45.00 Five Islands Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia, Canada An attractive specimen of "sinter" quartz crystals with, literally, a "crown" of sharp heulandite crystals. Good looking!	Item #9052 Calcite 5.1x3.6x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $30.00 Nanisivik Mine Baffin Island Nunavut, Canada A well-formed crystal of calcite that yo uoften see from Mississippi Valey-type sulphide deposits. The crystal is sigly terminated on one end and multply-terminated at the other end like it had been broken off of its matrix and then started to grow, again. Nice crystal!	Item #9061 Pyrite 5.4x4.5x5.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $25.00 Nanisivik Mine Baffin Island Nunavut, Canada Strongly striated pyrite crystals on a matrix of pyrite and sphalerite from this long-closed zinc mine.
Item #9145 Demantoid-Andradite, Amphibole 4.8x2.9x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $100.00 Jeffrey Mine Asbestos Quebec, Canada Several nice demantoid-andradite crystals are embedded in this matrix of asbestiform amphibole and rock. Some of the crystals are rounded and others are very sharp dodecahedra.	Item #9169 Catapleiite 5.2x5.0x4.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $150.00 Mont Saint-Hilaire Quebec, Canada A piece of albite-aegerine matrix has a couple of gemmy, very well formed crystals of colourless catapleiite formed on it. The crystals are high quality, gemmy, bevel-edged thick tabular crystals. They have had growth intererupted by other minerals at the edge in a couple of places but are perfect otherwise.	Item #9706 Celestine 6.0x5.0x1.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $50.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada A sharp, slightly blue, tabular crystal with "sand" inclusions in the centre. The crystal shoes sharp prism faces and well developed termination.	Item #9708 Celestine 7.8x6.7x1.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $75.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada A larger, broad prism with multiple termination. The crystals has a slight blue tinge, a couple of limestone inclusions and lots of tiny marcasite crystals. It shows full contact with another crystal on the back. Beautiful!
Item #9734 Celestine 8.8x8.0x6.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 15mm $75.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada This large celestine crystal section serves as a matrix for clusters of clear, slightly blue, fairly gemmy celestine crystals. Looks great!	Item #9744 Celestine 5.7x3.6x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 22mm $80.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada This cluster of celestine crystals is from a "sand" pocket. The clestine crystals seemed to have grown in a nest of tiny calcite crystals encapsulating many of the calcite crystals within. The tops of the celestines are free of calcite crystals. Nice!	Item #9750 Celestine 6.3x3.6x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $25.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada A pure white, well shaped celestine crystal. Sits just like this for display.	Item #18268 Baryte, Marcasite 10.7x10.0x6.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $75.00 Aguathuna Port au Port Newfoundland, Canada The top of this specimen is largely covered with small, sparkling, bladed baryte crystals and some bronzy marcasite crystals. The barytes are in sort of botryoidal groupings. Very fossiliferous limestone matrix. Looks great!
Item #9754 Sphalerite 3.8x3.6x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $30.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada A very nice small cluster of dark brown sphalerite crystals on limestone matrix.	Item #9757 Fluorite 5.1x4.2x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 19mm $35.00 Flamboro Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada The matrix of this piece is a jumble of interlocking fluorite crystals, the good ones up to 19mm in length. The nicest one, the focus of this specimen. is a slightly elongated crysta l9mm long in an open space on a sliver of limestone that is embedded in the fluorite. Sweet!	Item #9761 Sphalerite 3.8x3.1x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above. $35.00 Lafarge Quarry Wentworth County Ontario, Canada An above average sized, complex crystal of sphalerite with a little limestone attached. Dark brown with nice lustre.	Item #18266 Baryte 4.1x3.6x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $35.00 Aguathuna Port au Port Newfoundland, Canada A nice plate of colourless barite crystals with white zones on the corners.
Item #18261 Calcite 8.0x6.3x6.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $85.00 Hwy 17 Madoc Ontario, Canada A well formed, blocky, twinned crystal from this old locality. The crystal is mostly grayish with a slight mauve tinge. A little limestone attached to the back/bottom. Very nice! DS	Item #10345 Calcite 8.3x4.8x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $55.00 Inverhuron Ontario, Canada A superb calcite crystal is perfectly exposed on this plate of smaller calcite crystals. The plate is propped up at a perfect viewing angle by a crystal tripod on the back. Very nice!	Item #13993 Silver, Arsenides 10.5x11.0x4.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $850.00 Silver Bear Zone, Terra Mine, Camsell River Area, Mackenzie District Northwest Territories, Canada This is a very heavy specimen composed of dendritic and disseminated silver with thin coating of an arsenide, probably skutterudite. About 2/3 of the specimen is composed of very rich, closely packed grains of native silver with dendritic silver on either side. Nicely polished on one side and rough on the other sides. They don't mine silver like THIS any more!	Item #13995 Silver, Arsenides 6.5x3.6x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $220.00 Silver Bear Zone, Terra Mine, Camsell River Area, Mackenzie District Northwest Territories, Canada Very high grade, thickly packed, dendritic silver in quartz. The silver has a discontinuous coating of skutterudite and shows some erythrite around the edges. Polished on one side and rough on all the others. Very hackly, rich, silver!
Item #13989 Silver, Skutterudite 7.5x4.0x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n $140.00 Silver Bear Zone, Terra Mine, Camsell River Area, Mackenzie District Northwest Territories, Canada This vein section has a core that is composed of granular silver interspersed with rounded globules of skutterudite. Very interesting texture to this high-grade!	Item #13990 Silver 8.2x5.7x3.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $160.00 Silver Bear Zone, Terra Mine, Camsell River Area, Mackenzie District Northwest Territories, Canada Mineralogy of this specimen is simple. Just rich silver wrapped around and between quartz grains in this high grade specimen. Can't see any other minerals besides the wall-rock and breccia inclusions except a little bit of galena here and there. Polished on side. Rich!	Item #13991 Silver 6.6x6.2x3.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $220.00 Silver Bear Zone, Terra Mine, Camsell River Area, Mackenzie District Northwest Territories, Canada A rich specimen of high grade silver showing rich native silver in and around quartz grains. Very little other mineralization besides the calcite between the quartz and the wall rock and a little bit of galena.	Item #13986 Silver, Arsenides 8.2x5.4x1.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $150.00 Silver Bear Zone, Terra Mine, Camsell River Area, Mackenzie District Northwest Territories, Canada This vein is mostly composed of silver in quartz with a little calcite, cherty breccia fragments and wall rocks. Polished on one side and rough the other. Very good example!
Item #13980 Silver, Skutterudite 5.6x4.7x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $150.00 Silver Bear Zone, Terra Mine, Camsell River Area, Mackenzie District Northwest Territories, Canada A rich vein section showing a core of native silver interspersed with tiny round spherules of skutterudite. Nice zoning of the vein exhibited. Polished on top, rough on the bottom.	Item #18127 Calcite 7.5x6.0x5.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 14mm $45.00 Inverhuron Bruce Co. Ontario, Canada Several sharp, interesting crystals of calcite inhabit the front of this limestone matrix. Shows very well.	Item #18126 Calcite 4.2x4.2x3.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 13mm $40.00 Inverhuron Bruce Co. Ontario, Canada A gemmy, complex calcite crystal its on brecciated limestone matrix. The crystal has great lustre and some interesting, slightly hoppered faces. Can be displayed with the crystal on the front, as well.	Item #18122 Calcite 8.2x7.2x5.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm $65.00 Inverhuron Bruce Co. Ontario, Canada This specimen features a nicely twinned, complex calcite crystal sheltered in a concave area of the limestone plate. Looks great and displays well!
Item #18125 Calcite 6.0x2.8x5.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 18mm $55.00 Inverhuron Bruce Co. Ontario, Canada A gem of a calcite crystal is nestled into a concave, tiny-crystal lined space on this piece. A couple of incomplete strontianite balls are present just above it. With support, diplays well!	Item #16037 Babingtonite 6.5x7.4x5.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 5mm $120.00 Digdequash New Brunswick, Canada The front of this specimen is a vuggy area that has many sharp crystals of babingtonite intermixed with uninteresting prehnite. Calcite has been etched away to reveal the excellent babingtonite crystals. Unusual!	Item #19148 Barite 4.4x3.5x2.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 10mm $35.00 Aguathuna Port au Port Peninsula Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada This cluster of white, tabular barite crystals shows very nice contrasting white zonations on the edges of one of the prism faces. Sweet!	Item #18215 Baryte, Calcite 8.8x6.9x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 25mm $65.00 Aguathuna Port au Port Newfoundland, Canada A very nice, sharp scalenohedral calcite crystal in and on sharp, white-zoned barite crystals. From an ancient, ocean-bottom white smoker vent.
Item #21996 Calcite, Hematite 4.6x3.8x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $35.00 Verona Ontario, Canada Here is a blocky, sharp calcite crystal from an unusual locality, a quarry near Verona, Ontario. Lustrous faces with sharp, hexagonal crystals partly covering the crystal, as you can see. Nice!