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June Update (15 specimens)
Barite on Orpiment    Elbrusskiy Mine - Northern Caucasus - Russia
Barite on Orpiment click picture to see larger images.

This is an extremely rare combo specimen. The only other one I've seen can be seen here:

Barite on Orpiment at irocks.com

This barite crystal may be smaller, but has a nicer colour and termination, despite the small ding on the shoulder.

Size (l-w-h): 3.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm


Price: £175.00
Chalcopyrite on Barite    Dreislar Mine - North Rhine - Westphalia - Germany
Chalcopyrite on Barite click picture to see larger images.

Well formed brassy Chalcopyrite crystals to 5mm, perched on white bladed Barite. I can confirm that this specimen is at least 35 years old, as that's how long I have had it!

Size (l-w-h): 9.5 x 4.5 x 1.5 cm


Price: £36.00
Cinnabar    Almaden - Spain
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Blood red Cinnabar crystals from a classic location for this species. Catalogue card states: from the Henderson collection, bought from Sig Olson in 1937!

Size (l-w-h): 4.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm


Price: £39.00
Dioptase on Calcite    Guchab - Otavi - nr Tsumeb - Namibia
Dioptase on Calcite click picture to see larger images.

Beautiful, deep blue-green lustrous Dioptase crystals, coating one face of a gemmy terminated Calcite crystal.

ex George Fletcher collection.

Size (l-w-h): 4.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm


SOLD (£68.00)
Fluorite on Creedite    Mina Navidad - Durango - Mexico
Fluorite on Creedite click picture to see larger images.

Crude, green Fluorite crystals sitting on a mass of orange Creedite. The largest Fluorite shows some octahedral form. This association is not so easy to obtain nowadays.

Size (l-w-h): 7.5 x 5 x 3 cm


Price: £38.00
Jamesonite    Conception del Oro - Zacatecas - Mexico
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This is one of the best Jamesonites I've had, with very dense coverage of silvery needles, on a quartz and pyrite matrix. Photographs don't do it justice.

Size (l-w-h): 8 x 4 x 2.5 cm


Price: £53.00
Pyrite    Huaron - Peru
Pyrite click picture to see larger images.

Superb plate of very shiny, modified octahedral Pyrite to about 2cm with a small amount of white drusy Quartz.

Size (l-w-h): 8 x 6 x 2.5 cm


Price: £34.00
Pyromorphite    Cordoba - Spain
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A nice lime-green Pyromorphite, with good contrast from the white matrix.

Size (l-w-h): 4.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm


Price: £32.00
Realgar    Mina Palomo - Julcani Dist. - Huancavelica - Peru
Realgar click picture to see larger images.

This the last of these Mina Palomo specimens that I have. Most of these pieces tend to have flat lying and aggregated crystals, but this one has a nice 3 dimensional appearance. Matrix is lustrous brown Sphalerite.

Size (l-w-h): 5 x 4 x 2 cm


Price: £72.00
Smithsonite    Tsumeb - Otavi Highlands - Namibia
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Distinct and zoned Smithsonite rhombs set against a dark, hematite stained matrix, coated with tiny sparkling micro-crystals of smithsonite.

Size (l-w-h): 3.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm


Price: £32.00
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