MA-1480 - Fluorite with Quartz
Highway 17 Road cut, Rossport, Ontario, Canada
Very aesthetic and colorful specimen of white quartz crystals cradling translucent to transparent, cubic crystals of magenta-colored fluorite to 0.9 cm on matrix. From last year's find. Size: 6.4 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm.

  

MA-1959 - Millerite
Halls Gap Road cut, Lincoln County, Kentucky
Small geode with a shallow vug lined with acicular crystals of bright, metallic, brassy yellow millerite. This locality is off limits to collectors now. Very good example of this nickel sulfide. Size: 3.6 x 2.4 x 3.3 cm.

  

MA-1960 - Opal var. Hyalite
Erongo Mountains, Karibib, Namibia
Jelly-like, pale yellow to clear opal covering the front of a white matrix with a few acicular, black schorl tourmaline crystals. Fluoresces bright green under UV light. Neat! Size: 5.1 x 3.0 x 6.1 cm.

  

TA-1484 - Pyrite, Rhodochrosite and Quartz
Morococha District, Yauli Province, Junin Department, Peru
A very aesthetic thumbnail specimen comprised of stacked, lustrous, brassy pyrite crystals hosting glassy, transparent, colorless quartz crystals and opaque, pale pink bundles of rhodochrosite. Attractive combination! Size: 1.9 x 1.6 x 3.0 cm.

  

MA-1691 - Pyromorphite
Daoping Lead-Zinc Mine, Guangxi Province, China
Lovely matrix specimen with sharp, grass green, barrel-shaped pyromorphite crystals to 6 mm in length. From the find of 2000 - 2001. These have become scarce. Nice! Size: 1.9 x 3.3 x 4.2 cm.

  

MA-1507 - Quartz (with large s-face)
Hot Springs County, Arkansas
A glassy, colorless, transparent quartz crystal with a very large, uncommon s-face. The s-face has unusual growth patterns on the surface. Minor chipping on the crystal termination does not detract. Ex. Robert Linck Collection. Size: 3.0 x 2.5 x 6.4 cm.

  

MB-1585 - Quartz with Hedenbergite inclusions
Sinerechenskoye Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
A very fine and sharp 4.0 cm quartz crystal infused with green hedenbergite on a matrix of small, red andradite garnets. The base of the crystal is intersected by a second smaller, doubly terminated quartz crystal. The quartz crystals have good luster. Great aesthetics! Size: 4.3 x 4.0 x 6.8 cm.

  

MC-1597 - Smithsonite var. Cobaltian Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
A beautiful, undamaged smithsonite specimen from Tsumeb featuring brilliant, lustrous, translucent, pink rhombohedral crystals to 8 mm in length with good separation and evenly distributed over matrix. This is a good one! Size: 6.0 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm.

  

CC-1602 - Topaz with Bixbyite
Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah
An excellent and undamaged combination specimen featuring a 2.3 cm glassy, translucent, sharply terminated, sherry-colored topaz crystal with three lustrous, metallic black, cubic bixbyite crystals to 3 mm (one is a penetration twin) perched on the topaz, all on a rhyolite matrix. There are two other bixbyite crystals and a smaller pair of topaz crystals as well. Matrix specimens are uncommon. This is the type locality for bixbyite. Previous dealer's price was $550.00. Size: 6.3 x 7.5 x 8.8 cm.

  

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