Grey Horse Mine, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Aesthetic array of bright hexagonal crystals to 8mm long on a matrix of calcite some 5cm x 3.5cm.
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£25 $45
Kunar Tal, Nuristan, Afghanistan.
Part of a large crystal 60mm x 30mm x 25mm, gemmy, good pink colour.
£30 $55
Cave-in-Rock, Illinois, U.S.A.
Part of a single large cube of zoned blue fluorite, the longest edge some 55mm. With a small calcite crystal.
£5 $9
Majuba Hill Mine, Nevada, U.S.A.
Pale matrix some 6cm x 4cm x 3cm sports a healthy growth of fibrous blue crystals.
£25 $45
Mina el Derierto, Salar de Vyuni, Bolivia.
IFragmant of matrix 5cm x 4cm is covered with a splendid group of lustrous yellow sulphur crystals.
£12 $20
Etoile du Congo, Lubumbashi, Congo(Kinshasa).
Botryoidal mass of green and turquoise chrysocolla 12cm x 5cm overall. a colourful specimen for the cabinet!
£30 $54
Golconda. Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Odd group of thin, tabular crystals 9cm x 6cm. A floater, the underside of the group re-healed. The black speck in the centre is a tourmaline crystal.
£20 $36
Gilgit, Pakistan.
Nicely terminated pale pink / green tourmaline crystal 20mm long grows out of a fragment of a quartz crystal 5cm x 3cm x 1.5cm.
£20 $36
Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Water clear part crystal of selenite grows out of a small fragment of limonitic matrix. Longest edge of the selenite crystal is 60mm.
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Chihuahua, Mexico..
Classic curved growth of gypsum crystals around 65mm tall.
£10 $18
Jacare Mine, Itingo, M.G., Brazil.
Single crystal 70mm long (x 20mm "diameter"), the core altered to lepidolite but with a 30mm long sheath of the original green tourmaline crystal remaining. A little minor cleavlandite.
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Gebel Musa, Sinai Region, Egypt.
Chunky crystal, doubly terminated, 80mm x 40mm x 30mm. The rich, dark colour conceals the fact that much of the crystal is gem clear.
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Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan, China.
Aesthetically balanced group of stibnite crystals, the main individual 70mm long and with a nice "kink" in it so typical of this mineral.
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Corocoro, La Paz, Bolivia.
Euhedral crystal of aragonite replaced with copper, itself oxidised to malachite. Classic specimen from a classic locality (and a large example at that: 20mm long x 30mm across.
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San Martin Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Block of irridescent sulphides 5cmx 4cm x 2cm bears a small sheet of native silver 30mm x 25mm.
£25 $45
Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Single gemmy purple crystal 35mm long attached to a tiny fragment of matrix with two other minor crystals.
£38 $70
Deshkazgan, Azerbaijan.
Plate of lustrous octahedra 5cm x 5cm, individuals approximately 8mm on edge. With a little minor epidote and grossular.
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Crystal Peak, Teller County, Colorado, U.S.A.
Large, dark, bulging quartz crystal 60mm long is complemented by a euhedral amazonite crystal at its foot.
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Aurangabad, India
Three somewhat distorted crystals produce a specimen some 4cm x 3cm x 2cm. Presumably some form of inclusion produces the very odd green hue of this specimen.
£20 $36
Shaba, Congo.
Tip of a pseudo-stalactite 40mm long x 30mm in diameter. Good banding on the basal section.
£25 $45
