David K. Joyce

Cobalt/Gowganda, Ontario -Various Species

Although Cobalt was famous for the vast quantities of silver mined there over many decades, many other minerals, some fairly rare, have been found there in impressive specimens, confirmed by electron microprobe analysis. Here are some.

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Item #21512 Safflorite, Nickeline 8.3x5.3x5.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $85.00 Nipissing 73 Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada This is an interesting, different one! Very elongated lobes of nickeline are coated with silver-grey safflorite crystals. The lobes are mostly safflorite but have narrow, hollow interiors that may have been filled with silver or some other mineral, at some time. The nickeline would then be some sort of pseudomorph. Looks great, anyway!	Item #22017 Lollingite, Quartz 3.4x3.6x4.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $40.00 O'Brien Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada The top of this rock matrix is covered with a botryoidal arsenide, possibly lollingite or safflorite that is in turn, thickly sprinkled with 1-2mm lollingite crystals. Interesting AND looks good!	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 #29274 Bismuth 10.2x8.2x4.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Deer Horn Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada A couple of sides of this specimen are covered with rich native bismuth, and very bright cleavages, in places. The sides that reveal the bismuth are actually veinlets of the mineral that were veinlets once embedded in the rock. Nice!
Item #22859 Safflorite, Skutterudite, Nickeline 9.3x7.7x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $75.00 Nipissing 404 Shaft Cobalt Ontario, Canada This specimen appears to be a botryoidal covering of safflorite with some nickeline in the interior of the botryoids, as well. The botryoidal minerals are largely covered with tiny, sparkling skutterudite crystals. Interesting specimen of these minerals.	Item #22862 Nickeline, Rammelsbergite, Skutterudite, Safflorite 6.7x6.9x3.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Nipissing 404 Shaft Cobalt Ontario, Canada This specimen of botryoidal arsenides shows layers of nickeline, rammelsbergite and skutterudite with a thin skin of safflorite in places. Interesting AND looks great!	Item #26731 Lollingite, Quartz 8.3x5.2x3.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $75.00 Siscoe Mine Gwganda Ontario, Canada This specimen shows a vein of lollingite that has had the calcite etched away to reveal botryoidal aggregates of lollinite crystals. The lollingite is all pointed, very sharp, tiny cyclic twins. Excellent example of lollingite!	Item #27040 Nickeline, arsenides 1.2x1.0x0.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $40.00 Rustex Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada lots of sharp, hexagonal nickeline crystals on this specimen. Rarely do we see such good crystals of this nickel arsenide mineral.
Item #29450 Arsenopyrite on Skutterudite 13.5x8.3x6.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $125.00 Hudson Bay Mine Cobalt Ontario, Canada A cabinet specimen showing botryoidal skutterudite sprinkled with sparkling small arsenopyrite crystals. Dense!	Item #28357 Skutterudite 4.2x3.4x2.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 11mm $65.00 Rustex( Hudbay) Mine Gowganda Ontario, Canada The top of this matrix of unidentified, botryoidal arsenides is studded with sharp, excellent crystals of skutterudite. The cubes are typical, with kind of curved but sharp faces. We don't often see larger crystals from these deposits but here are some!	Item #29060 Acanthite, ps Argentite 4.2x3.9x0.9 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Keeley Mine South Lorrain Township Ontario, Canada This specimen is solid silver sulphide but is really a cast after other minerals. One side is heavily slickensided, while the other is all casts of argentite after calcite crystals., showing calcite crystal imprints. There are a few argentite crystals at the edges. Very interesting!