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Mixed Fine and Rare Minerals

Friday, 19 March 2021 07:00 PM

Introducing the "Mixed Fine and Rare Minerals" gallery which is part of our New Additions galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including adamite, austinite, beryl, bornite, elpidite, and fluorite and more from places like Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah, United States, Stak Nala, Gilgit, Skardu road, Northern Areas, Pakistan, Magma mine, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States, Alluaiv Mt., Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia, and Elmwood mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, United States.

Adamite

#55311

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Locality: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Formula: Zn₂AsO₄(OH)
Availability: Available
Price: $40.00
Size: 7 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: arsenate

Purple manganoan Adamite with crystals to 4mm accompanied by a bit of sugery green Austinite.

Adamite

Formula: Zn₂AsO₄(OH)
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Crystal Habit: Tabular, Druse, Encrustations
Cleavage: One Good
Luster: Vitreous - Resinous
Color: yellow, green, violet, pink, yellowish green
Streak: white
Class: Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Fracture: Brittle
Hardness: 3.5

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Austinite

#37655

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Locality: Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah, United States
Formula: CaZnAsO₄(OH)
Availability: Sold
Size: 7 x 4.5 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: arsenate

Light or even faint green sparkly groups of Austunite crystals to 3mm across in spongy limonitic matrix. The Gold Hill mine is mineralogically one of the more famous mines of the American West. Don't ever go to this mine without two spare tires in 100 degree heat.

Austinite

Formula: CaZnAsO₄(OH)
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Cleavage: Good, None, None
Luster: Subadamantine
Color: brown, colorless, green, yellowish white, white
Streak: white
Class: Orthorhombic - Disphenoidal
Fracture: Brittle - Uneven
Hardness: 4-4.5

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Beryl

var. aquamarine - #AH55375

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Locality: Stak Nala, Gilgit, Skardu road, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Formula: Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈
Availability: Available
Price: $125.00
Size: 3.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm - Miniature
Tagged: beryllium , pegmatite mineral

A terminated, very clear and gemmy aquamarine crystals with beveled edges to 3.5cm across.

Beryl

Formula: Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Crystal Habit: Crystalline - Coarse, Prismatic, Columnar
Cleavage: Imperfect, None, None
Luster: Vitreous - Resinous
Color: green, blue, yellow, colorless, pink
Streak: white
Class: Hexagonal - Dihexagonal Dipyramidal
Fracture: Brittle - Conchoidal
Hardness: 7.5-8

Collection: Arnold G Hampson Collection

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Bornite

with Chalcopyrite - #AH55413

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Locality: Magma mine, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States
Formula: Cu₅FeS₄
Availability: Sold
Size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: sulfide , copper , ore specimen

There are crude crystals of tarnish Bornite amonst shiny Chalcopyrite crystals to 1mm.

Bornite

Formula: Cu₅FeS₄
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Crystal Habit: Massive - Granular, Reniform, Granular
Cleavage: Imperfect, None, None
Luster: Metallic
Color: copper red, bronze brown, purple
Streak: grayish black
Class: Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Fracture: Conchoidal
Hardness: 3

Collection: Arnold G Hampson Collection

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Elpidite

#PD55398

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Locality: Alluaiv Mt., Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia
Formula: Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
Availability: Sold
Size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm - Sm Cabinet

The Elpidite on this specimen form divergent groups of white, acicular crystals to over 1cm. It is a zirconium silicate and is rather uncommon.

Elpidite

Formula: Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Crystal Habit: Fibrous
Cleavage: Perfect, Perfect, None
Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
Color: brown, colorless, yellow brown, white, light red
Streak: white
Class: Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
Fracture: Brittle
Hardness: 7

Collection: Don Phillips Collection

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Fluorite

with Sphalerite - #55395

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Locality: Elmwood mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, United States
Formula: CaF₂
Availability: Sold
Size: 11 x 10 x 4.5 cm - Cabinet

Large cabinet specimen with one deep purple crystal of Fluorite to 2.7cm on deep red Sphalerite matrix.

Fluorite

Formula: CaF₂
Crystal System: Isometric
Crystal Habit: Crystalline - Coarse, Massive - Granular, Disseminated
Cleavage: Three perfect, octahedral cleavages.
Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
Color: purple, clear, yellow, green, red, blue
Streak: white
Geological Setting: Occurs in a wide range of geologic environments including low temperature Missississippi Valley lead-zinc deposits, hydrothermal gold deposits, Alpine cleft metamorphic environments
Class: Isometric - Hexoctahedral
Fracture: Uneven
Hardness: 4

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