ES-104 - Neptunite
Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito County, California
Fine plate of crossite and white natrolite hosting lustrous, glassy, black neptunite crystals, to 1.9 cm in length. Some of the crystals are doubly terminated. Choice specimen of this rare silicate that sits up perfectly for display! Size: 7.8 x 2.2 x 3.7 cm.

  

ES-44 - Petalite
Shengus, Gilgit, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Translucent, gemmy, equant, crystallized petalite with an etched surface resulting in irregular, reflective faces. Petalite is an uncommon lithium aluminum silicate. Size: 6.2 x 4.2 x 3.6 cm.

  

ES-111 - Quartz var. Rose Quartz
Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
An unusual cluster of glassy, pale pink quartz crystals with no matrix. The crystals are arranged side by side in a vertical formation and many are doubly terminated. There is a contact on the lower left side of the specimen where it was removed from matrix. Size: 4.7 x 3.0 x 5.9 cm.

  

ES-22 - Serandite with Aegerine on Analcime
Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Cluster of opaque, white analcime crystals serve as the matrix for salmon-pink blades of serandite to 2.5 cm long sprinkled with sprays of lustrous white natrolite crystals to 1.6 cm long. Frozen in the analcime is a singly terminated, vitreous, black aegerine crystal 2.3 cm long with other unterminated aegerine crystals. Contacts on the left side and bottom where the specimen was removed from matrix. Size: 4.3 x 4.5 x 5.2 cm.

  

ES-116 - Siderite with Dolomite
Morro Velho Mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lustrous, sharp, translucent, tan-green siderite crystals to 2.7 cm long topped off with a crown of colorless, lustrous, translucent dolomite crystals to 1.6 cm across from this gold mine in the southeast region of Brazil. An attractive specimen with good color! Size: 5.6 x 3.5 x 7.1 cm.

  

ES-9 - Smithsonite
Chihuahua, Mexico
Relatively large specimen of silky, banana skin-yellow, botryoidal smithsonite with excellent luster. A Mexican classic with unusual color! Size: 5.5 x 3.0 x 9.4 cm.

  

ES-3 - Weloganite
Francon Quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Type Locality)
Good matrix specimen hosting a cluster of glassy, well-formed, hexagonal, yellow weloganite crystals to 1.1 cm long. Two of the weloganite crystals are incomplete but the main crystal is perfect. From the type and only locality (now closed) for this extremely rare species. Sits up perfectly for display. Size: 6.1 x 4.6 x 3.4 cm.

  

CB-1505 - Chabazite, Laumontite and Quartz
New Street Quarry, Paterson, New Jersey
Superb and undamaged specimen of pink-orange chabazite crystals to 5 mm with sprays of white laumontite crystals to 3 mm on a thin plate of colorless quartz crystals. Good color and luster. Ex. Robert Linck Collection. Size: 8.1 x 1.1 x 4.2 cm.

 

CA-1503 - Fluorapatite in Calcite
Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
A well exposed, doubly terminated, green-brown crystal of fluorapatite 4.7 cm long frozen in a pale pink calcite matrix. No damage. Ex. Robert Linck Collection. Size: 7.7 x 4.8 x 7.0 cm.

 

MA-1428 - Fluorite
Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
A frosty green, complex group of parallel fluorite crystals mostly covering a quartz matrix. Two different views are shown. Very fine miniature Russian fluorite! Size: 4.8 x 5.5 x 4.0 cm.

 

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