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• Sale Items @ 40% discount! (18 specimens)
Azurite and Cuprian Austinite    Zacatecas - Mexico
Azurite and Cuprian Austinite click picture to see larger images.

Lustrous deep blue blades of Azurite on Limonite matrix with tiny green Cuprian Austinite crystals.

Size (l-w-h): 7 x 3 x 2.5 cm


Price: £36.00   NOW! £21.60
Calcite and Chalcophanite    Manolita Mine - Cartagena - Murcia - Spain
Calcite and Chalcophanite click picture to see larger images.

Translucent sharp crystals of Calcite with a brownish tinge caused by Chalcophanite inclusions.

Size (l-w-h): 7 x 5 x 4 cm


Price: £22.00   NOW! £13.20
Carrollite    Midingi Mine - Shaba Province - Congo (Kinshasa)
Carrollite click picture to see larger images.

More than a dozen mirror-bright silver Carrollite crystals to 8mm, distributed across the top surface of a rather unusual banded matrix. Some crystals show contact damage but overall still a very impressive example. The photos cannot convey the brilliance.

Size (l-w-h): 7 x 6 x 4.5 cm


Price: £52.00   NOW! £31.20
Cassiterite    Wheal Pendarves - Cornwall - United Kingdom
Cassiterite click picture to see larger images.

Granitic matrix with one side covered with quartz points and very fine needles of tourmaline. Amongst this are numerous groups of dark-brown to black Cassiterite crystals. Very difficult to photograph, and best appreciated with a loupe.

Size (l-w-h): 10 x 8 x 5 cm


Price: £59.00   NOW! £35.40
Chalcocite and Tennantite    Pig Lode - Geevor Mine - Pendeen - United Kingdom
Chalcocite and Tennantite click picture to see larger images.

A core of massive Chalcocite covered with tiny but highly lustrous Tennantite crystals, together with significant areas of intergrown lenticular crystals of chalcocite.

Size (l-w-h): 8 x 5 x 4.5 cm


Price: £46.00   NOW! £27.60
Corundum var Ruby    Kola Peninsula - Russia
Corundum var Ruby click picture to see larger images.

A 2cm crystal with numerous smaller ones in a granitic schist matrix.

Size (l-w-h): 5 x 3 x 2.5 cm


Price: £38.00   NOW! £22.80
Cuprite, Chrysocolla and Malachite on Calcite    Mashamba West - Shaba - Zaire
Cuprite, Chrysocolla and Malachite on Calcite click picture to see larger images.

Intersecting rhombs of Calcite host numerous blood-red octahedal Cuprite crystals (some broken), with tufty Malachite and powdery Chrysocolla. Looks superb under the loupe.

Ex Gilbert Gauthier collection.

Size (l-w-h): 5.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm


Price: £38.00   NOW! £22.80
Feldspar var Orthoclase    Gilgit - Skardu Road - Pakistan
Feldspar var Orthoclase click picture to see larger images.

A huge, well-formed Orthoclase crystal with several big quartz crystals attached. Minor schorl and mica.

Size (l-w-h): 12 x 8 x 8 cm


Price: £58.00   NOW! £34.80
Hematite var Specular    Wheal Maudlin - St Austell - United Kingdom
Hematite var Specular click picture to see larger images.

An intergrown mass of specular Hematite blades on an iron-stained granitic matrix

Size (l-w-h): 8 x 5 x 3 cm


Price: £15.00   NOW! £9.00
Libethenite    Miguel Vacas Mine - Vila Vicosa - Portugal
Libethenite click picture to see larger images.

A big chunk of slaty grey matrix coated on one side with micro crystals of dark olive-green Libethenite. Super sparkly under artificial lighting.

Size (l-w-h): 14 x 8 x 7 cm


Price: £52.00   NOW! £31.20
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