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The first batch of minerals from Don Zowader's collection. The profits raised from this collection are going to the family of the late, great, John Veevaert. Happy hunting!


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DZ2904 - Cassiterite
St. Agnes, Cornwall, England
small cabinet - 7.5 x 7.1 x 5.0 cm
$ 850.00 SOLD

A flat vein section of golden brown cassiterites with a few quartz crystals.


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Cassiterite from St. Agnes, Cornwall, England [db_pics/zowater/DZ2904a.jpg]





DZ4006 - Quartz
Collier Creek Mine, Montgomery County, Arkansas USA
small cabinet - 8.3 x 6.6 x 2.5 cm
SOLD

This quartz shows just how good material from Arkansas can get. The formation resembles faden from Pakistan, but obviously it is not.


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Quartz from Collier Creek Mine, Montgomery County, Arkansas USA [db_pics/zowater/DZ4006a.jpg] Quartz from Collier Creek Mine, Montgomery County, Arkansas USA [db_pics/zowater/DZ4006b.jpg] Quartz from Collier Creek Mine, Montgomery County, Arkansas USA [db_pics/zowater/DZ4006c.jpg] Quartz from Collier Creek Mine, Montgomery County, Arkansas USA [db_pics/zowater/DZ4006d.jpg]





DZ4007 - Columbite-Tantalite
Bahia, Brazil
miniature - 4.0 x 3.2 x 1.7 cm
$ AT-AUCTION

An exceptionally well formed and terminated crystal of this relatively rare species of the transition metals. The crystal has a slightly bronze color highlighted by a blue iridescence resembling covallite from Butte, MT.


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Columbite-Tantalite from Bahia, Brazil [db_pics/zowater/DZ4007a.jpg] Columbite-Tantalite from Bahia, Brazil [db_pics/zowater/DZ4007b.jpg]





DZ4009 - Rhodochrosite on Quartz
Silverton, Colorado USA
small cabinet - 5.6 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm
$ 325.00 SOLD

Lustrous pink rhombohedral rhodochrosite forming disc shaped crystals are perched on drusy quartz epimorph after calcite.


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Rhodochrosite on Quartz from Silverton, Colorado USA [db_pics/zowater/DZ4009a.jpg] Rhodochrosite on Quartz from Silverton, Colorado USA [db_pics/zowater/DZ4009b.jpg]





DZ4010 - Rose Quartz
Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
small cabinet - 6.0 x 2.4 x 2.0 cm
$ AT-AUCTION

Large and well formed rose quartz with unusually good transparency.


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Rose Quartz from Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/zowater/DZ4010a.jpg] Rose Quartz from Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/zowater/DZ4010b.jpg] Rose Quartz from Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/zowater/DZ4010c.jpg]





DZ4008 - Siderite
Wheal Maudlin, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
small cabinet - 5.9 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm
$ 300.00 SOLD

This classic example of Cornish siderite beautifully demonstrates the growth zonations known as "Horse tooth".

 

ex G.S. Camm & David Lloyd collections.

circa 1820's


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Siderite from Wheal Maudlin, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK [db_pics/zowater/DZ4008a.jpg] Siderite from Wheal Maudlin, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK [db_pics/zowater/DZ4008b.jpg]


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