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TA-1885 - Topaz with Opal var. Hyalite
Tepetates, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Attractive, brown-red topaz crystals perched on matrix with a crown of colorless hyalite opal clinging to the top and side of the largest crystal. A Mexican classic! Front and back views shown. Size: 2.1 x 1.2 x 1.8 cm.

  
$20.00

TA-1293 - Weloganite
Francon Quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Type Locality)
Choice, vitreous yellow, pagoda-shaped cluster of well-formed weloganite crystals. From the type and only locality for this extremely rare species. One of the better thumbnail-sized weloganites I've seen. Personally collected in 1981. Size: 1.2 x 1.1 x 2.0 cm.

  
$75.00

TA-1523 - Wulfenite
Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Nice cluster of tabular, butterscotch-colored wulfenite crystals perched on white calcite-encrusted matrix. Size: 2.9 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm.

  
$25.00

MA-1594 - Zircon
Miask Deposit, Zlatoust, Ilmen Mountains, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
A sharp, lustrous, adamantine brown zircon crystal perched upright in matrix. This miniature specimen fits perfectly in a thumbnail box. Brightly fluorescent. Size: 3.0 x 2.0 x 2.9 cm.

  
$45.00

MA-1444 - Calcite on Pyrite
690 Level, La Sirena Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico
Very showy and fine specimen consisting of a bright, sparkling, brassy, microcrystalline pyrite matrix with a doubly terminated, colorless, slightly translucent, calcite crystal perched aesthetically on the matrix. Smaller calcites in association. Size: 4.3 x 2.2 x 7.4 cm.

  
$50.00

MA-1364 - Erythrite
Mount Cobalt, Northwest Queensland, Australia
Matrix with excellent coverage of interpenetrating needles of deep raspberry-red erythrite. Very good example of this cobalt mineral! Size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 1.8 cm.

  
$50.00
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