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MA-1454 - Fluorite on Quartz
Portezuelo, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Attractive specimen with two clusters of light butterscotch-colored, cubic fluorite crystals on drusy quartz from a new find in Argentina last year! Size: 5.0 x 4.4 x 3.6 cm.

  

$35.00

MA-1487 - Hemimorphite
Esmeralda Mine, Durango, Mexico
Beautiful, botryoidal, rich turquoise-colored hemimorphite on matrix. A colorful specimen of this zinc silicate that is usually found as small, white bladed crystals.
Size: 6.2 x 4.6 x 2.5 cm.

  

$50.00
$40.00

LB-1147 - Milky Quartz on Dolomite after Calcite
Cavnic, Maramures, Romania
Translucent, tapering, milky quartz crystals to 5.2 cm in length rising up from cream-colored, slightly silky-lustered dolomite pseudomorphs after calcite, with minor brassy pyrite in association. The quartz crystals also have a coating of white calcite on one side. Very attractive and in excellent shape! Size: 10.6 x 7.9 x 6.3 cm.

  

$100.00

MB-1891 - Orpiment
Elbrusskiy Mine, Caucasus , Russia
Brilliant orange, thick orpiment crystals to 2 mm in length completely covering the top of a barite matrix. Very bright and colorful! Previous dealer price was $200.00.
Size: 4.9 x 1.7 x 4.3 cm.

  

$125.00

CB-1937 - Quartz var. Amethyst (Japan-law twin)
Daye, Hubei Province , China
Fine, translucent, purple Japan-law twinned quartz crystal.  No matrix and complete all around. Japan-law twinned quartz crystals aren't common to begin with, but twinned amethyst crystals are very seldom seen.  Size: 8.0 x 2.7 x 5.2 cm.

  

$250.00
$180.00

CA-2054 - Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb , Namibia
Aesthetic and fine Tsumeb smithsonite specimen comprised of matrix covered with lustrous, translucent, slightly gray to colorless rhombohedrons measuring up to 8 mm across.
Size: 8.9 x 7.0 x 5.2 cm.

  

$40.00
$35.00

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