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swr SPHALERITE with CALCITE and FLUORITE, Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith
County, Tennessee,
10 x 7 x
5 cm, Large lustrous Sphalerite crystals. The right large crystal has
some tip cleaved otherwise in good shape. On the Sphalerite at the
lower right are scalenohedral Calcite crystals both terminated and double
terminated with also have inclusions. Several small dark purple cubes
of Fluorite are also in the area of the Calcite.
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| 2 swr SMITHSONITE,
Kelly Mine, New Mexico, 8 x 6 x
2.5 cm, Blue green botryoidal Smithsonite from the Kelly Mine.
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| 3 mdir CALCITE, Tri-State District, Oklahoma, 9 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm, Golden Calcite from Tri state district. Front side looks damage free. Backside has some fairly minor damage. This is a very fine cabinet sized Tri State Calcite. |
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| 4 swr COVELLITE
with PYRITE, Butte, Montana, 6 x 4 x
1.5 cm, A Butte Covellite with associated Pyrite.
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| 5 jdr FLUORESCENT
SCHEELITE, Humboldt County, Nevada, 7 x 6 x 4.5 cm, Not the
prettiest specimen, but a fine cabinet sized Fluorescent California
Scheelite.
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| 6 swr ADAMITE,
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 7 x 4 x
2.5 cm, Nice color and luster on this cabinet sized Adamite. Some
contacted crystals on the front. It is probably nicely fluorescent but
I did not put the lamp on it.
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| 7 mdis SPHALERITE,
Tri-State District, Oklahoma, 5.5 x 5.5 x
5 cm, Excellent undamaged Sphalerite miniature specimen. Sphalerite
crystals are lustrous and undamaged.
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| 8 swr CALCITE, Mexico,
11 x 10 x
5 cm, Larger cabinet specimen covered with Calcite terminated scalenohedral
crystals. The cream colored Calcite crystals have tips
highlighted in a darker yellow brown color.
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| 9 swr SMOKEY QUARTZ,
$1 OPENING BID, Cantera Huarita, Pasto Bueno, Peru, 8 x 6 x
5.5 cm, Cabinet sized Smokey Quartz cluster from Peru.
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| 10 swr SPHALERITE with
BARITE,
Manualita Mine, Peru, 7 x 5 x
4 cm, The main Sphalerite crystals are undamaged and have associated white
Barite crystals.
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11 swr LINARITE, New Mexico,
10 x 5 x
5 cm, Cabinet sized blue Linarite on a lead sulfide heavy matrix.
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| 12 swr BARITE, Dee Mine,
Nevada, 9 x 5 x
5 cm, A cabinet sized specimen of golden Barite crystals. Some
minor damage or roughness, but overall in good shape.
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| 13 swr PYRARGYRITE on
QUARTZ, Uchucchacua Mine, Lima Department, Peru, 4 x 4 x
3.5 cm, Minor small Pyrargyrite crystals on a Quartz druze.
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| 14 swr SMOKEY
QUARTZ, ORTHOCLASE, Sawtooth Mtns, Stanley Custer County, Idaho, 6 x 3 x
3 cm, Nice miniature of Smokeys and Orthoclase from the
Idaho Sawtooth Range.
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| 15 g NATIVE SILVER,
Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico, 3 x 2 x
1.5 cm, Native Silver on matrix from the famous Mexican location.
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| 16 swr
COPPER, Bisbee, Arizona, 3 x 3 x
2 cm, Large Bisbee thumbnail sized Copper.
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| 17 dwr NATIVE
SILVER, Uchucchacua Mine, Lima Department, Peru, 6.5 x 4 x 2 cm,
Several Silver wires on matrix.
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18 swr CELESTINE on SULFUR, Sicily, Rocolmoto, Italy, 8 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm, Clear sprays of white to clear Celestine crystals on yellow Sulfur.
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19 dwt ZIRCON, McKinney Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, 8 to 1.5 mm, 5 Zircon crystals. 2 are clusters and 3 are single complete double terminated crystals from North Carolina. |
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| 20 swr TOURMALINE
included QUARTZ, $1 MINIMUM BID, Llantajirca, Pachapaqui, Ancash Department, 8.5 x 4 x
4 cm, Single Quartz crystal with several smaller daughter crystals included
by Tourmaline from Peru.
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| 21 jwr
BARITE, Northumberland, Nye County, Nevada, 6 x 5 x 5 cm, Fine cluster
of terminated Barite crystals. Very little damage if any
to most terminated lustrous Barite crystals.
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| 22 swr DESCLOIZITE,
Total Wreck Mine, Arizona, 3 x 2.5 x
2 cm, Dark brown druze of small sparkling Descloizite crystals from the
Total Wreck Mine in Arizona.
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| 23 swr INCLUDED QUARTZ,
Minas Gerais, Brazil, 5 x 2.5 x
2.5 cm, Most of these Included Quartz specimens have crystal faces that have
been artificially added. This is an uncommon specimen with all the
faces being natural crystal faces.
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| 24 jdr
PHOSPHORESCENT CALCITE,
Terlingua, Texas, 5 x 3.5 x
3 cm, Here is a miniature specimen of the well known Terlingua Calcite.
longwave pink, shortwave blue, and phoshorescent.
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| 25 swr SNAKESKIN AGATE, 6.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm, This is the best example of Snakeskin Agate that I have seen. The specimen is a floater with no attachment point and the skin is very course. Neat specimen.
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| 26 jdr AMAZONITE,
Pike's Peak, Colorado, 3.5 x 3 x
2.5 cm, Bluish green single crystal of Amazonite.
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| 27 jdis
APATITE with ACTINOLITE and ACTINOLITE included QUARTZ, Imieceil, Haute
Atlas, Morocco, 5 x 4 x
3.5 cm, Hexagonal tan colored Fluorapatite crystals on darker green
Actinolite. Also terminated green Actinolite included Quartz crystals.
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| 28 jdn,r FLUORITE
on BARITE, Caldwell Quarry, Danville, Kentucky, 5 x 5 x
2.5 cm, Purple Flurite cubic crystals on contrasting white Barite.
Damage and roughness to Fluorite as seen in photos.
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29 bru116 GREEN UVITE on MAGNESITE, Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil, 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Green lustrous Uvite (a variety of Tourmaline) on a matrix of white rhombic Magnesite crystals.
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30 jdl ANDRADITE, (TOPAZOLITE), Stanley Butte, Graham County, Arizona, 5.5 x 5 x 4.5 cm, ex George Whitehead collection, Lustrous Stanley Butte Andradite. Matrix is solid Andradite.
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31 jda,r
COPPER, Houghton, Michigan, 8 x 5 x
3.5 cm, Interesting Native Copper specimen from Michingan. More of the
Calcite could be removed to expose more of the Copper crystals.
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32 dbls SMITHSONITE with minor HEMIMORPHITE, Level 8, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, 4 x 3 x 3 cm, Fine miniature with many round spheres of light green Smithsonite on matrix. There is also a small amount of small white Hemimorphite crystals.
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33 swr PETOSKEY STONE, 8 x 7 x 2.5 cm, Named after the Ottawa Indian chief, Chief Pet-O-Sega. It is actually the Devonian (350 million years old) fossil colonial coral Hexagonaria Percarinata.
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34 swr GALENA, Tri-State District, Missouri, 6 x 5 x 2.5 cm, Aesthetic miniature specimen with multiple cubes of lustrous Galena crystals on grey chert from the Tri State District.
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35 swr RHODOCHROSITE, QUARTZ, Manualita Mine, Peru, 7 x 4.5 x 3 cm, Pink druze of Rhodochrosite and white terminated Quartz crystals.
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36 swr STIBNITE, White Cap Mine, Manhattan,
Nevada, 9 x 5.5 x
3 cm, Cabinet specimen of lustrous Antimony Sulfide crystals.
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37 swr PYRITE on QUARTZ, Mundo Nuevo Mine,
Pasto Bueno, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department, Peru, 10 x 5 x
4 cm, Cluster of terminated Quartz with several cubic lustrous Pyrite
crystals.
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38 lb,a RUTILE, Graves Mountain,
Georgia, 6 x 5 x
4.5 cm, A large miniature matrix specimen with several lustrous Rutile
crystals in several sizes. |
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39 lbt CHROME ANTIGORITE, Woods Chromite Mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 12 x 6 x 1.5 cm, Fibrous crystals with a purple tinge of Chrome Antigorite.
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40 swr CALCITE with PYRITE, QUARTZ, CHALCOPYRITE, Milpo Mine, Peru, 6.5 x 5.5 x 5 cm, Rhombs of Calcite with associated Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, and Quartz.
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| 41 dwn
AUGITE, Capo di Bove, near Rome, Italy, xls to .8 cm, Six euhedral
crystals of black Augite. Small but great crystals of Augite in a
glass vial from Italy.
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lbr CALCITE on HEMIMORPHITE,
Silver Bill Mine, Cochise County, Arizona, 7 x 5 x
1.5 cm, Neat specimen of a crust of grey Hemimorphite with several Calcite
crystals from the Arizona Mine, Silver Bill Mine.
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dwr CERUSSITE on LIMONITE, $1 MINIMUM BID, Adelaide Mine, Dundas,
Tasmania, Australia, 3 x
2.5 x
2 cm, Here is an undamaged yellow Cerussite on a contrasting dark brown
limonitic matrix.
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swr IRIDESCENT SPHALERITE with CHALCOPYRITE,$1 MINIMUM BID, Tri-State
District, Missouri, 5.5 x
3.5 x
2 cm, Beautifully iridescent Sphalerite with large orientated Chalcopyrite
crystals.
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| 45 djr
CYANOTRICHITE with CHRYSOCOLLA, $1 MINIMUM BID, Mason Pass, near Yerington, Lyon County,
Nevada, 3.5 x 2.5 x
1.5 cm, Specimen of blue Cyanotrichite with blue green Chrysocolla.
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| 46 swr
RHODOCHROSITE, Pasto Bueno, Peru, 3 x 3 x
1.5 cm, Small specimen with several rhombs of pink Rhodochrosite from Pasto
Bueno.
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| 47 swr
CHALCOPYRITE on FLUORITE, Huanzala Mine, Peru, 2.5 x 1.5 x
1.2 cm, Thumbnail sized pale green Fluorite and contrasting golden
Chalcopyrite.
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| 48 swr QUARTZ with PYRITE,$1 MINIMUM BID, Casapalca Mine, Peru, 5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature Quartz specimen with associated Pyrite. |
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49 g
GOLD, Harvard Open Pit Mine, Jamestown, California, .8 x .8 x
.7 cm, Gold in Quartz professionally mounted as a thumbnail in a perky box.
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| 50 r AZURITE,
Miami, Arizona, 1.2 cm across, An Azurite geode which has been opened
into 3 pieces to show the druzy Azurite crystalline center.
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51 dur WULFENITE, Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona, 1.3 x 1 cm, Gemmy undamaged red orange Red Cloud Wulfenite mounted in a thumbnail perky box.
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ne IMPERIAL TOPAZ, Rodrigo Silva, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2.3 x 1.3 x
1 cm, lustrous imperial Topaz terminated crystal with an uncommon
termination.
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| 53 jdn,r KINOITE,
Christmans Mine, Arizona, 4 x 3 x
2 cm, old ex Eileen Sheets collection, Miniature
specimen of dark blue Kinoite on matrix.
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DESCRIPTION TO BE ADDED dDdedr ALBITE, Grossari, near St Johann, Salzburg, Austria, 5.5 x 3 x 2 cm, old Ward's label with specimen, Back of Ward's label has "purchased dec 1950 for $1.50 and specimen still has $1.50 price tag on it. Classic European specimen of white Albite on matrix from Austria. |
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| 54 mdr DEMANTOID GARNET,
Erongo Mountains, Namibia, 1 x 1 x 1 cm, Undamaged partially gemmy
single crystal of Demantoid Garnet. Second photo shows
backlightlighting.
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55 swr CYLINDRITE, Poopo, Bolivia,
7 x 7 x 4 cm, Here is very fine richly covered Cylindrite specimen.
This is the only mineral where the crystals are formed as rounded circular
cylinders shaped like pipe. This is a great example.
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| 56 swr PYRITE on QUARTZ,
Casapalca Mine, Peru, 4.5 x 3.5 x
2.5 cm, Fine miniature with 2 undamaged Pyrite crystals nested within
the terminated contrasting white Quartz crystals.
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| 57 mdt GARNET, Alabama, $1
MINIMUM BID,
2.5 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm, Single floater complete crystal of Garnet from Alabama.
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| 58 dun,r STIBNITE,
Wuling Antimony Mine, Qingland area, Jiangxi Province, China, 11 x .5 x
.5 cm, Lustrous terminated undamaged Stibnite crystal.
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| 59 ns HOLFERTITE,
Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, 2 x 2 x
1.5 cm, This is an example of the new mineral Holfertite. You
need a loop to view due to its small size. It's a yellow needle shaped
crystal found on Topaz, Hematite, and Rhyolite from the famous Topaz
Mountain's Thomas Range in Utah.
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| 60 swr
CHALCOPYRITE and MARCASITE on SPHALERITE, Tri-State District, 3.5 x 3 x
2.5 cm, This is a miniature specimen of Sphalerite with both
Chalcopyrite and Marcasite crystals.
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| 61 jdn ADAMITE, Mina
Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 4 x 3.5 x
3 cm, Very nice specimen with yellow botryoidal Adamite
which probably fluoresces very nicely.
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jdi,r BERYL variety AQUARMARINE, Ray Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina,
3.5 x 3 x
2.5 cm, hexagonal non terminated section of Aqua from
North Carolina.
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| 63 jdi CERUSSITE,
Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, 4 x 3 x
3 cm, ex D W Schmerling collection, A vug of white Cerussite
crystals from the Glove Mine, more known for world class Wulfenite
specimens.
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64 jdr FLUORESCENT
FLUORITE, near Canyon City, Fremont, County, Colorado, 6 x 4 x
3.5 cm, Light purple botryoidal Fluroescent Fluorite from Colorado.
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| 65 jdis
APATITE, Enrenfriedensdorf, Saxony, 6 x 4 x
3.5 cm, ex Martin L Ehrmann with old label and original price of 25
cents, ca 1938, Historic miniature specimen of light purple Apatite on
matrix from old classic German location.
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| 66 jdn,r BARITE on
FLUORITE, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, 4 x 4 x
2.5 cm, ex Ernestine Whiting collection. White spear shaped
Barite crystals on a Fluorite matrix.
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| 67 jdn
STRONTIANITE, Westphalia at Drensteinfurt, Germany, 4 x 2.5 x
1.5 cm, ex George Whitehead collection, white non terminated
Strontianite crystals from classic German location.
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| 68 jdt,g
GREENOCKITE CRYSTALS, CdS, Philadelphia Mine, Arkansas, 3 x 3 x
3 cm, ex D W Schmerling collection, yellow micro crystals of
Greenockite which is CdS.
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| 69 jdi,r
GARNET, Roxbury, Connecticut, 5 x 4 x
2.5 cm, ex D W Schmerling collection, a dark 2 cm Connecticut
Garnet on matrix.
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| 70 jda,r
CUPRITE variety CHALCOTRICHITE on QUARTZ, Chessy, France, 6 x 3 x
2.5 cm, ex George Whitehead collection, Reddish acicular
Chalcotrichite on a Quartz matrix from a classic European location of Chessy.
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| 71 jdr
ALLOPHANE, Maid of Sunshine Mine, Cochise County, Turquoise District,
Arizona, 5 x 3 x 2 cm, Blue green botryoidal Allophane from Arizona.
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72 jdi UVAROVITE and DIOPSIDE, Magog,
Quebec, Canada, 4.5 x 4 x
2 cm, Light green Diopside crystals and dark green Uvarovite crystals
on matrix.
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| 73 jdn,r
WAVELLITE, Langenstriegis, Saxony, DDR (Germany), 4 x 2 x
1.5 cm, Green acicular crystals of Wavellite from a German location.
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74 jdn,r SPHALERITE, CALCITE,
Franklin area, Sussex County, New Jersey, 4 x 2 x
1.5 cm, Sphalerite and Calcite from Frankling. Calcite should
fluoresce red orange.
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| 75 jdn,r TREMOLITE, Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria, 4 x 3.5 x 2 cm, ex George Whitehead collection, Light green crystals of Tremolite from Austria. |
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jdr BARITE with PYRITE inclusions, Sierra County,
New Mexico, 5 x 2.5 x
2 cm, A miniature specimen with covered with small lustrous Barite
crystals with Pyrite inclusions from New Mexico.
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77 jdn VESUVIANITE, Lake Jaco,
Morelos, Mexico, 3.5 x 2 x
2 cm, A single terminated crystal of lustrous yellow brown
Vesuvianite from Laco Jaco.
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78 jdi,r VIVIANITE, Anloua, Cameroun
(Africa), 3.5 x 2 x
.5 cm, A cleaved crystal of dark green translucent Vivianite from
Africa. The typical location for Vivianite is Bolivia. This is
an uncommon location.
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| 79 jdr DIASPORE, Emery
Mines, Chester, Massachusetts, 6 x 4 x
1.5 cm, ex George Whitehead, The chemical formula is AlO(OH)
This is a miniature specimen from Massachusetts on a thin matrix.
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| 80 gg SIX ZEOLITE
MINIATURES, Skookumchuck Dam, Bucoda, Washington, 5
to 8 cm in length, Six Washington
state zeolites from the Skookumchuck Dam location out of the Gil Griffin
collection. Stilbite, Calcite, Analcime, Thomsonite, Mesolite, Quartz,
and Mordenite are represented.
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