ML00388 - Azurite & Malachite
Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhet Province, Laos
cabinet - 13.5 x 7.0 x 5.6 cm
$ 9500.00

Lustrous electric blue azurite crystals on a matrix of malachite ps. after azurite There has obviously been a lot of azurite on the market in the last few years with the production form the Milpillas Mine. While these crystals are not as large as some from Milpillas, the color and luster is superior.

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ML00389 - Quartz var. Amethyst
Shuniah Mine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
small cabinet - 8.5 x 7.0 x 4.0 cm
$ 550.00

Color zonation in this specimen yields an unusual radiating star pattern. The color saturation is much deeper than normal for the mine.

 

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ML00390 - Quartz
Brandberg, Erongo Region, Namibia
small cabinet - 8.3 x 6.0 x 3.9 cm
$ 900.00

A nice amethyst quartz group with well defined phantoms. The larger crystal has a nice fluid inclusion bubble.

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ML00391 - Topaz
Katlang, Mardan District, NW Frontier Province, Pakistan
small cabinet - 7.5 x 6.4 x 4.3 cm
$ 5000.00

A large imperial topaz from katlang. Natural cracks have been gap filled, but there is no repair.

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ML00392 - Pyromorphite
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
miniature - 4.3 x 4.0 x 2.3 cm
$ 2250.00

Fantastic pyromprphite from Bunker Hill with Great luster and classic barrel shaped crystals.

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ML00394 - Barite
Elk Creek, Meade County, South Dakota, USA
small cabinet - 8.0 x 6.0 x 4.2 cm
$ 550.00

Deep amber color with a well defined chisel point termination on the main crystal.

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ML00395 - Dyscrasite
Bouismas Mine, Bou Azzer District, Morocco
miniature - 4.8 x 4.2 x 1.6 cm
$ 175.00

Although labeled as dyscrasite, this is most likely silver, pseudomorphed after dyscrasite.

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ML00396 - Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
small cabinet - 5.5 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm
$ 500.00

This specimen consists of pyromorphite crystals up to 7mm forming a hemisphere. The backside is also crystalline, but shows a cast where the crystals formed over rounded nobs of gossan.

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ML00397 - Spessartine & Smoky Quartz
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Fugian Province, China
cabinet - 9.5 x 6.0 x 3.6 cm
$ 500.00

Isolated gemmy spessartines perched on an unusually transparent smoky quartz and microcline.

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ML00398 - Vanadinite and Aragonite
Bou la Maden, Mibladen, Morocco
small cabinet - 7.8 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm
$ 500.00

Cherry red vanadanites contrasted by white aragonite on selective faces.

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ML00399 - Fluorite
Riemvasmaak, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
cabinet - 10.6 x 6.4 x 4.5 cm
$ 750.00

Translucent green fluorite octahedrons perched on a quartz matrix.

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ML00400 - Fluorite with Quartz
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
cabinet - 11.5 x 9.6 x 4.3 cm
$ 450.00

This is a nice combination piece. Gemmy zoned fluorites and dolomite perched on quartz with associated chlorite and muscovite.

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ML00367 - Silver & Calcite
Guanajuato District, Guanajuato, Mexico
small cabinet - 8.6 x 4.7 x 3.5 cm
$ 1500.00

A group of thin silver wires in and on scalenohedral calcite.

ex Al & Sue Liebetrau collection

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ML00401 - Wulfenite, Malachite & Beaverite(?)
Whim Creek Mine, Roenourne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
cabinet - 10.3 x 8.5 x 5.4 cm
$ 225.00

This is a classic assemblage from Whim creek. Di-pyramidal wulfenites are perched on a yellow gossanous oxide (beaverite?) along with sharp malachite pseudomorphs after azurite.

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ML00402 - Grossular
Sierra de la Cruz, Municipo Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mexico
small cabinet - 7.1 x 6.3 x 5.0 cm
$ 425.00

While garnets from this locality are common, crystals of this size and color intensity are few and far between.

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