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ML00328 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
miniature - 3.9 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm
$ 3000.00

This gold is typical of the intermediate zone located between the oxidized and sulfide ore. As with many Round Mountain golds, there are stacked cubes which have twinned off the primary leaf.

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Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00328a.jpg]

Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00328b.jpg]

ML00329 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
small cabinet - 7.5 x 7.3 x 1.7 cm
$ 11000.00

This "stellar" piece is a very heavy leaf thickly covered with large crystals exhibiting both cubic and octahedral crystal habits.

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Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00329a.jpg]

Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00329b.jpg]

ML00330 - Gold & Quartz
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
small cabinet - 8.0 x 5.7 x 4.5 cm
$ 25000.00

This large matrix gold shows textbook epimorphic leaf growth along the previous rhombohedral calcite crystal planes. Second generation crystal growth sprouting off of the leaves adds texture and relief in the form of cube and octahedral gold faces.

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Gold & Quartz from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00330a.jpg]

Gold & Quartz from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00330b.jpg]

ML00334 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
small cabinet - 5.9 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm
$ 15000.00

The undulatory nature of this golf leaf is the result of distortion within the vein due to Basin and Range faulting. The net result is that the lustrous twinned crystals along the face of the leaf reflect light sequentially as the specimen is rotated. This is one of my all time favorite specimens from the mine.

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Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00334a.jpg]

Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00334b.jpg]

ML00335 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
small cabinet - 6.1 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm
$ 9000.00

These heavy leaves stand up nicely off the matrix. Stout spinel law twin and cube-octahedron crystals grow both between the leaves.

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Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00335a.jpg]

Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00335b.jpg]

Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00335c.jpg]

ML00336 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
miniature - 3.9 x 2.0 x 0.8 cm
$ 1400.00

Some golds from Round Mountain require very little cleaning. This specimen had only a small amount of sericite clay that was washed off in order to expose these large hoppered octahedral crystals on the edge of the leaves.

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Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00336a.jpg]

Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00336b.jpg]

ML00338 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
miniature - 4.5 x 4.0 x 2.9 cm
$ 10000.00

Two intersecting leaves are surrounded by an amazing number of cubic gold crystals. Individual cubes measure up to 6mm on edge, but it appears to me that these are actually hoppered growth of a cubic crystal that is closer to 2cm on edge.

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Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00338a.jpg]

Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00338b.jpg]

Gold from Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00338c.jpg]

ML00095 - Elbaite & Lepidolite
Chia Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
small cabinet - 7.0 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm
$ 7000.00

This green tourmaline is total gem. It is a single crystal at the base which has grown into two seperate crystals at the upper portion of the specimen.

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Elbaite & Lepidolite from Chia Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/update3/ML00095a.jpg]

ML00107 - Fluorite & Quartz
Shaft 4, Huanggang Mine, Hexigton Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
cabinet - 10.0 x 6.0 x 3.6 cm
$ 1600.00

An unusual example of fluorite with two distinctly different sized crystals on the same specimen. The larger crystals are up to 2.5 cm and highly modified.

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Fluorite & Quartz from Shaft 4, Huanggang Mine, Hexigton Banner, Inner Mongolia, China [db_pics/update3/ML00107a.jpg]

Fluorite & Quartz from Shaft 4, Huanggang Mine, Hexigton Banner, Inner Mongolia, China [db_pics/update3/ML00107b.jpg]

ML00343 - Pyrargyrite
Level 530, Santa Elena Vein, ProaÃ±o Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico
miniature - 3.3 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm
$ 1000.00

A sinlge crystal showing well developed twinning.

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Pyrargyrite from Level 530, Santa Elena Vein, ProaÃ±o Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico [db_pics/update5/ML00343a.jpg]

Pyrargyrite from Level 530, Santa Elena Vein, ProaÃ±o Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico [db_pics/update5/ML00343b.jpg]

ML00350 - Gold
Olinghouse Mine, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
small cabinet - 5.5 x 4.1 x 2.9 cm
$ 1500.00

A classic example of Olinghouse gold. Lustrous leaves up to 1cm long occur on this thin quartz veinlet accented by epidote alteration along the vein.

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Gold from Olinghouse Mine, Washoe County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00350a.jpg]

Gold from Olinghouse Mine, Washoe County, Nevada, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00350b.jpg]

ML00351 - Gold
Ace of Diamonds Mine, Liberty, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
miniature - 3.4 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm
$ 4500.00

A 23.6 gram mass of intergrown herringbone crystals. A very good example from a highly sought after location that produced a very limited number of good specimens.

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Gold from Ace of Diamonds Mine, Liberty, Kittitas County, Washington, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00351a.jpg]

Gold from Ace of Diamonds Mine, Liberty, Kittitas County, Washington, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00351b.jpg]

Gold from Ace of Diamonds Mine, Liberty, Kittitas County, Washington, USA [db_pics/update5/ML00351c.jpg]

ML00355 - Beryl var. Aquamarine
Shigar Valley, Baltistan, N.A., Pakistan
small cabinet - 6.0 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm
~~$ 1200.00~~ DISCOUNTED 35.00% OFF TO $ 780.00

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Exceptionally clear transparency for the upper 2/3 of the crystal. Albite & muscovite add contrast at the base.

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Beryl var. Aquamarine from Shigar Valley, Baltistan, N.A., Pakistan [db_pics/update5/ML00355a.jpg]

Beryl var. Aquamarine from Shigar Valley, Baltistan, N.A., Pakistan [db_pics/update5/ML00355b.jpg]

ML00357 - Fluorite
Weardale, North Pennines, County Durham, England, UK
cabinet - 10.3 x 9.0 x 3.5 cm
~~$ 3500.00~~ DISCOUNTED 55.00% OFF TO $ 1575.00

A good example of interpenetrant twinning enhanced by daylight fluoresence.

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Fluorite from Weardale, North Pennines, County Durham, England, UK [db_pics/update5/ML00357a.jpg]

Fluorite from Weardale, North Pennines, County Durham, England, UK [db_pics/update5/ML00357b.jpg]

ML00361 - Elbaite & Albite
Shigar Valley, Gilgit Division, Pakistan
small cabinet - 6.6 x 6.2 x 4.6 cm
$ 3000.00

The white to colorless albite roses provide great contrast to the well formed tourmaline crystal.

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Elbaite & Albite from Shigar Valley, Gilgit Division, Pakistan [db_pics/update5/ML00361a.jpg]

Elbaite & Albite from Shigar Valley, Gilgit Division, Pakistan [db_pics/update5/ML00361b.jpg]

Elbaite & Albite from Shigar Valley, Gilgit Division, Pakistan [db_pics/update5/ML00361c.jpg]

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