3910 Boussingaultite from The Geysers, California, USA
Colourless/yellowish Boussingaultite from The Geysers, West Mayacmas Mining District, Sonoma County, California, USA. 45 x 25 x 17mm.
Colourless/yellowish Boussingaultite from The Geysers, West Mayacmas Mining District, Sonoma County, California, USA. 45 x 25 x 17mm.
Galena crystal overgrown by (royal blue) Linarite, colourless Anglesite and associated with Quartz and minor (green) Brochantite.
Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill Mine, Idaho, USA. Dimensions: 55 mm x 30 mm x 18 mm.
Not strictly a mineral but a rare man-made glass known as trinitite from the Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, USA which was the site of the first atomic bomb blast...
3148 Topaz | Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA | 28x15x13mm.
3079 Wulfenite with Mimetite and Chrysocolla | Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA | 25x15x13mm.
Alumohydrocalcite – Contra, Contra Costa Co., California, USA. Specimen measures 50x35x17mm.
Spadaite – Alvarado Mine, Gold Hill, Gold Hill Mining District (Clifton Mining District), Utah, USA. Field of view is 25mm.
Gageite – Pennsylvania Mine, Sugarloaf Mountain, Black Wonder Mining District, Santa Clara Co., California, USA. Specimen measures 33x20x10mm.
Beaverite-(Cu) – Bristol mine, Bristol Silver Mines Inc., Bristol and Jackrabbit Mining Districts, Nevada, USA. Specimen measures 40x35x23mm.
Hardystonite (TL), Bustamite, Franklinite (TL), Willemite – Franklin Mine, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. Specimen measures 40x35x15mm.
2731 Manganbabingtonite in green-brown Johannsenite – Landsman Camp (Landsman group), Aravaipa, Aravaipa Mining District, Graham County, Arizona, USA. FOV 17mm.
3058 Baryte (Var: Baryte Rose)- Lake Thunderbird area, Norman, Cleveland Co., Oklahoma, USA. Specimen measures 100x73x48mm.
Pyromorphite from Jersey Vein 9th Level, Bunker Hill Mine, Yreka Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA. 45x35x25mm.
3022 Axinite-(Fe), New Melones Spillway (Dam site), Calaveras County, California, USA. 50x35x30mm. 1970’s find.
3183 Orientite, Manganese Mine, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw Co., Michigan, USA. FOV 30mm.
3176 Black crystalline Vonsenite, New City Quarry, Riverside, Riverside Co., California, USA. 50x23x16mm.
3165 Santaclaraite (Type Locality), Pennsylvania Mine, Sugarloaf Mountain, Black Wonder Mining District, Santa Clara Co., California, USA. 40x30x22mm.
3496 Talmessite, Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah, USA. 39x24x2mm.
3491 Phoenicochroite, Tonopah-Belmont Mine, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa, Arizona, USA. 35x28x12mm.
3374 Microcline (Var: Amazonite), Glacier Peak Claims, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA. 33x30x20mm.
‘Cuproroméite’ from the Comanche Mine, Blind Spring Mining District, Benton Range, California, USA. Originally named partzite. Partzite discredited in IMA proposal: 16-B. Found to be a very fined grained mixture of a plumboroméite-like oxide phase...
3180 Chevkinite-(Ce), Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA. 46x32x15mm.
3305 Paulingite-Ca (TL), Three Mile Creek, Oregon, USA. FOV 3mm.
3288 Pseudoboleite, Anglesite – Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA. 30x15x20mm.
3276 Kinoite, Fluorapophyllite-(K), Christmas Mine, Arizona, USA. 25x20x15mm.
Trona | FMC Green River Trona Mine, Green River Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA | 35x33x25mm |
Old-school specimen of “crestmoreite” (white) in blue Calcite. Originally reported from Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA. Taylor (1953) showed that crestmoreite is a submicroscopic intergrowth of “wilkeite” and tobermorite. This specimen hosts snow-white...
Colusite (TL) with Quartz, East Colusa Mine, Butte Mining District, Montana, USA. 50x40x35mm.
Stevensite after Pectolite, Paterson, New Jersey, USA. 45x35x25mm.
Wulfenite on Baryte, Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA. 32x20x30mm.
Hemispheres of bright vibrant red Mimetite, orange Wulfenite on a Quartz coated matrix. Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA. FOV 25mm.
Dark blue Shattuckite with blue-green Ajoite (Type Locality) | New Cornelia Mine (Ajo Mine), Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona , USA | 40x40x35mm | No. 2706
Copper in/on Calcite with Epidote | Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton Co., Michigan, USA | 45x40x30mm | No. 2634
Fluorite on Sphalerite | Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Tennessee, USA | 45x43x40mm | No. 2495
Hanksite (Type Locality) | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA | 30x25x20mm | No. 2517 |
Benitoite (blue) & Neptunite (black) with Natrolite (white) | California State Gem Mine, Santa Rita Peak, New Idria Mining District, California, San Benito Co., USA. [40x25x20mm]
White Sanbornite (Type Locality), Gillespite (red) with Celsian (whitish/translucent) from Trumbull Peak, Incline, Mariposa Co, California, USA. [53x25x5mm] No. 2324.
Orpiment from Cut 62, Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. FOV 40mm.
Na2KLiFe2+2Ti2Si8O24 Neptunite is a silicate mineral named for Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. It was first described in 1893 for an occurrence at the type locality for the species – Narssârssuk pegmatite, Narsaarsuk...