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S13160 - Fluorite with Calcite - $1350
Walworth Quarry, Walworth, Wayne Co., New York
Overall Size: 12 x 8.7 cm
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Known for optical grade fluorite, only a few spots furnish these collector type jewels out of hundreds of localities known
to produce transparent but not truly 100% flawless cubes. Some of them set the standard for excellence as they are so
CLEAR and hit such a high level of clarity they practically DISAPPEAR from dolomite matrix! It also has a single
wonderful damage free white calcite.
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S13166 - Barite - $325
New Jersey Zinc Eagle Mine, Gilman District, Eagle Co., Colorado
Overall Size: 8 x 5.8 cm
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This is a very fine plate of blocky crystals from Gilman, Eagle Co., Colorado, known to provide to dealers back in the
day some incredibly GEMMY and glassy faced flaming orange crystals. There is just no comparison of the style I know
of to this material in that state. This one, in particular, has a lot of punch to it.
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S13167 - Quartz with Dolomite - $300 SOLD
Benchmark Quarry, St Johnsville, Montgomery Co., New York
Overall Size: 4.2 x 3.4 cm
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1000 times better than this photo; and the image is fine. Normally I would say this piece needs more to make the
specimen excellent in this size range, but in person it is beyond good and perfect for you quartz guys! MUCH more
glassy, transparent and bright in person. No damage.
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S13168 - Barite - SOLD
Sherman Mine, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado
Overall Size: 4.1 x 3 cm
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Incredibly glassy faces and gemmy sections. There is just one other comparison for this style I know of in that state, for
they were known to be much more common back in the day at the mine, not the case today. In good condition for a soft
cleavable mineral.
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S13169 - Barite - SOLD
Sherman Mine, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado
Overall Size: 5.5 x 2.5 cm
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There is just one other comparison for this style I know of in that state, for they were known to be much more common
back in the day at this mine, not the case today. The piece has overall an attractive amber hue, with dozens of tabular
blades of incredibly glassy faces and gemmy sections.
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S13170 - Gypsum - $600 SOLD
Naica, Mun de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
Overall Size: 8 x 7.3 cm
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A wonderful sharp clear crystal sits on striking reddish limonite matrix, turning a modest piece into an attractive
specimen. This variety of gypsum (selenite) provides some of the best phantoms and this one has something special
about it. Quite mesmerizing with so many ghostly inclusions frozen just underneath the surface.
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S13173 - Molybdenite with Muscovite - $465
Moly Hill Mine, La Motte, Quebec, Canada
Overall Size: 4 x 3.8 cm
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Molybdenite in exceptionally perfect crystals is rare. Specimens without rude foliated hexagonal profiles can be near
impossible to obtain, and so that is why we were ecstatic to have run into this lovely damage free, pocket formed
2 x 1.7 cm crystal with some silvery yellow muscovite thrown in for style.
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S13174 - Fluorite - $375 SOLD
Hilton Mine, Appleby, Cumbria, England
Overall Size: 4.7 x 3.3 cm
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Look no further, if you have always wanted a colorful HILTON MINE fluorite with good luster and gemmy areas then
here it is! Like a flight of stairs each cube is made up of sharp well constructed architecture. In fine condition.
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S13175 - Siderite with Hematite - $185
Sterling Mine, Antwerp, Jefferson Co., New York
Overall Size: 6 x 5.5 cm
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An old-time "antique looking" siderite from the famous Sterling mine in Antwerp, New York. They can be found in good
crystallized specimens in curved aggregation planted on shiny black hematite. The specimen was formerly in the
collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
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S13176 - Witherite - $150
Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock District, Hardin Co., Illinois
Overall Size: 3.2 x 2.2 cm
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A single 2.1 cm waxy crystal in totally pristine shape. The quality is extremely high and the nice pyramidal shape adds
an extra boost to an already superfine small specimen. Some of the very best come from this location.
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S13177 - Dravite - $575
West Pierrepont, St Lawrence Co., New York
Overall Size: 6.7 x 5.5 cm
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6.7 x 5.5 cm. A GLOSSY and for what it is, riveting 4.2 cm long damage free doubly terminated crystal atop others
on this spectacular dravite from New York. This seemingly lifeless crystal is, in fact, ripe with internal reddish brown
highlights. 100% quality, completely free of minutely cracked surface markings on all faces, from a
prominent East Coast collection.
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S13178 - Goethite with Aragonite - $425
Inglaterra Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico
Overall Size: 11.5 x 7.8 cm
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Fine rich black stalactitic goethite features several bulging and well defined groups placed over porcelain white
carbonates, that really do make this piece a work of modern art. For their type and at this locale, common or not,
such cabinet plates make some of the nicest and most impressive display pieces around.
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S13179 - Kidwellite with Goethite - $225
Coon Creek Mine, Shady, Polk Co., Arkansas
Overall Size: 5.5 x 4.1 cm
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Kidwellite was found sparingly at this locality, an uncommon phosphate, it forms soft green-yellow botryoidal skins
over goethite. This one is extra nice in that dark slick gossan matrix brings out the crystals in this rarity,
two of the five measure 2 cm max.
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S13180 - Goethite - $200
Inglaterra Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico
Overall Size: 7.2 x 4.7 cm
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This particular piece is just out of this world, literally alien in appearance, with mirror-smooth stalactitic goethite features
bulging from alike matrix, that really do make this piece a work of modern art. Very hard and sturdy, no damage.
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S13182 - Millerite with Quartz - $600
US 27 roadcut, Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky
Overall Size: 6.2 x 4.1 cm
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The brassy greenish yellow mineral millerite, for a nickel sulfide, is one of the more strange and unusual species in the
mineral kingdom, with its elongated fibrous masses in the direction of the c axis, crystals capture one's attention just by
being plain weird. This location is no longer accessible to collectors.
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