The Miner's Lunchbox - Selected Specimens

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ML00413 - Hessite
Botești Mine, Zlatna, Alba, Romania
miniature - 4.9 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm
$ 5500.00

Well formed crystals nicely offset on the white quartz crystal matrix. Hessite is one of my most favorite minerals!

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Hessite from Botești Mine, Zlatna, Alba, Romania [db_pics/update6/ML00413a.jpg]

Hessite from Botești Mine, Zlatna, Alba, Romania [db_pics/update6/ML00413b.jpg]

Hessite from Botești Mine, Zlatna, Alba, Romania [db_pics/update6/ML00413c.jpg]

ML00430 - Gold in Quartz
Sesame Vein, Itogon Mine, Baguio, Luzon, Philippine Islands
small cabinet - 8.0 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm
$ 2500.00

Itogon is one of the Philippines oldest mining hubs, with known gold panning activity stretching back to before the 17th-century Spanish colonial conquest.

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Gold in Quartz from Sesame Vein, Itogon Mine, Baguio, Luzon, Philippine Islands [db_pics/update6/ML00430a.jpg]

Gold in Quartz from Sesame Vein, Itogon Mine, Baguio, Luzon, Philippine Islands [db_pics/update6/ML00430b.jpg]

Gold in Quartz from Sesame Vein, Itogon Mine, Baguio, Luzon, Philippine Islands [db_pics/update6/ML00430c.jpg]

ML00431 - Gold
Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, USA
miniature - 4.2 x 3.4 x 2.0 cm
$ 200.00

Until it closed in 2002, The Homestake Mine was the largest and deepest mine in North America. The mine produced more than forty million troy ounces of gold during its lifetime.

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Gold from Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00431a.jpg]

Gold from Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00431b.jpg]

ML00432 - Gold, Quartz & Pyrrhotite
Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, USA
miniature - 4.2 x 3.1 x 1.4 cm
$ 220.00

In 2007, the Homestake Mine was selected by the National Science Foundation as the location for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, where physics experiments in areas such as dark matter and neutrino are conducted.

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Gold, Quartz & Pyrrhotite from Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00432a.jpg]

Gold, Quartz & Pyrrhotite from Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00432b.jpg]

ML00433 - Gold in Quartz
Lydenberg, Transvaal, South Africa
small cabinet - 9.0 x 6.3 x 4.7 cm
$ 525.00

On 6 February 1873 alluvial gold was discovered in the district by several prospectors and the Lydenburg goldfields were proclaimed three months later. Among the first finds were two large nuggets: Emma (765kg) and Adeliza (737kg), both bought by President TF Burgers. Today the gravels of the Spekboom River are still being washed for alluvial gold.

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Gold in Quartz from Lydenberg, Transvaal, South Africa [db_pics/update6/ML00433a.jpg]

Gold in Quartz from Lydenberg, Transvaal, South Africa [db_pics/update6/ML00433b.jpg]

ML00434 - Gold in Quartz
Sun Gold Mine, Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
small cabinet - 5.6 x 3.8 x 3.5 cm
$ 600.00

The Sun Gold Mine was a small underground Ag-Cu-Au-Pb-Zn mine located in Pima County, Arizona. The Mine only produced for three years, from 1949 to 1952.

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Gold in Quartz from Sun Gold Mine, Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00434a.jpg]

Gold in Quartz from Sun Gold Mine, Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00434b.jpg]

Gold in Quartz from Sun Gold Mine, Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00434c.jpg]

ML00435 - Gold in Quartz
Morro Velho Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
thumbnail - 6.0 x 4.1 x 3.2 cm
$ 350.00

In 1915, the Morro Velho mine reached a vertical depth of 5,824 feet, which made it the deepest mine in the world at the time. The miners continued going deeper, and the mine kept the title of world’s deepest until 1928, when the Village Deep mine in South Africa reached a vertical depth of 8,000 feet, exceeding the depth of the Morro Velho.

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Gold in Quartz from Morro Velho Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/update6/ML00435a.jpg]

ML00436 - Gold in Quartz
Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe
small cabinet - 7.2 x 6.6 x 4.8 cm
$ 500.00

With three large gold mines at Freda Rebecca, Shamva and Mazowe, Mashonaland Central Province is an important gold area. However judging from hundreds of poorly capitalised small mines and some well-resourced dormant large mines such as Eureka and RAN, current production can only be projected to be negligible compared to the potential the province holds.

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Gold in Quartz from Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe [db_pics/update6/ML00436a.jpg]

Gold in Quartz from Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe [db_pics/update6/ML00436b.jpg]

Gold in Quartz from Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe [db_pics/update6/ML00436c.jpg]

ML00437 - Gold
Whitlatch Mine, Unionville, Lewis & Clark Coiunty, Montana, USA
small cabinet - 6.0 x 3.6 x 2.9 cm
$ 2000.00

"Whitlatch-Union Mine" is a past producer polymetallic veins deposit site discovered in 1864 in the Rocky Mountains of Montana.

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Gold from Whitlatch Mine, Unionville, Lewis & Clark Coiunty, Montana, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00437a.jpg]

Gold from Whitlatch Mine, Unionville, Lewis & Clark Coiunty, Montana, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00437b.jpg]

Gold from Whitlatch Mine, Unionville, Lewis & Clark Coiunty, Montana, USA [db_pics/update6/ML00437c.jpg]

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