ML00181 - Fluorite
Weardale, North Pennines, County Durham, England, UK
small cabinet - 5.8 x 4.0 x 3.6 cm
$ 175.00
Gemmy purplish fluorite crystals with good daylight fluorescence.
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ML00182 - Kunzite, Elbaite, Quartz & Albite
Mawi, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
cabinet - 12.0 x 9.7 x 5.5 cm
$ 3800.00
A colorful association piece from Afghanistan. Pink spodumene, green tourmaline, blue albite and clear-grey quartz.
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ML00183 - Serandite, Aegirine, Polylithionite & Microcline
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
cabinet - 9.8 x 7.5 x 5.8 cm
$ 2100.00
An unusal formation of serandite crystals with a complex geometric pattern.
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ML00186 - Silver, Sphalerite, Pyrargyrite, Polybasite & Calcite
Freiberg, Saxony, Germany
miniature - 4.4 x 3.0 x 2.3 cm
$ 1500.00
Stout silver wires with zinc and silver sulfide minerals on matrix.
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ML00187 - Proustite
Dolores I Mine, Chañarcillo, Region III, Chile
miniature - 4.0 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm
$ 2500.00
Nice ruby red crystals from my favorite silver location, Chanarcillo. The old label is very special, having crystallographic information, suggesting this piece was studied extensively.
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ML00190 - Silver
Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
small cabinet - 7.5 x 1.5 x 1.1 cm
$ 4000.00
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ML00191 - Silver
Chañarcillo, Region III, Chile
small cabinet - 5.1 x 4.2 x 2.3 cm
$ 450.00
Silver crystals with herringbone textures are typical of Chanarcillo, however, pieces in matrix are much more unusual.
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ML00192 - Acanthite
Chañarcillo, Region III, Chile
miniature - 4.7 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
$ 600.00
What makes this small matrix piece so special is the museum display that comes with it, including old labels, a box, and a silver stand for the labels.
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ML00194 - Gold in Quartz
Alaska, USA
small cabinet - 5.2 x 4.0 x 1.5 cm
$ 1000.00
This gold-rich quartz vein looks like it might be from the Fairbanks gold district of Alaska.
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ML00195 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
miniature - 4.9 x 3.1 x 0.8 cm
$ 4500.00
A highly lustrous, stout leaf, with twinned octahedral crystals all over the display surface.
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ML00196 - Gold
Fairview Mine, Seven Troughs, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
small cabinet - 6.1 x 4.2 x 1.8 cm
$ 2000.00
A polished end cut of an extremely high grade piece of quartz vein. Total gold content has not been calculated.
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ML00200 - Gold
Harvard Mine, Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California, USA
miniature - 4.4 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm
$ 1600.00
An irregular piece of gold that was at the center of a quartz vein.
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ML00201 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
miniature - 4.2 x 3.7 x 2.1 cm
$ 9200.00
Leaves and elongate spinel twin crystals with tiny quartz crystals.
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ML00202 - Gold
Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
small cabinet - 5.2 x 4.3 x 3.0 cm
$ 1600.00
Light colored gold, typical of the golds found below the oxidation zone. Although Round Mountain is a volcanic cauldera system, this piece has a paleozoic sediment matrix resultant from country wall rocks being faulted into the cauldera system.
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ML00203 - Polybasite
Tambang Mangani Mine (Grube Mangani), Mangani, Muara Sipongi, Sumatera Barat Province, Sumatera (Sumatra) Island, Indonesia
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$ 400.00
Polybasite from an unusual locality. This piece is from a very old collection shown by the old label. Clearly this collector survived his time with the natives.
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