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Mixed Minerals

Friday, 15 September 2023 04:00 PM

Introducing the "Mixed Minerals" gallery which is part of our New Additions galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including calcite, ceruleite, cyrilovite, fluorite, grossular, and rhodochrosite and more from places like Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, Wheal Gorland, St. Day dist., Cornwall, England, Iron Monarch mine, Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia, Coldstones quarry, Pately Bridge, North Yorkshire, England, Sierra de Cruces, Coahuila, Mexico, and Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada.

Calcite

with Hematite - #BAC62442

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Locality: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Formula: CaCO₃
Availability: Available
Price: $75.00
Size: 6.5 x 7.5 x 4 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: carbonate

This type of Calcite is an enduring classic from Mexico. Scalenohedral crystals to 3.5cm with sparkling coatings of iron-stained Calcite.

Calcite

Formula: CaCO₃
Crystal System: Trigonal
Crystal Habit: Crystalline - Coarse, Stalactitic, Massive
Cleavage: Perfect, Perfect, Perfect
Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
Color: colorless, white, pink, yellow, brown
Streak: white
Class: Trigonal - Hexagonal Scalenohedral
Fracture: Brittle - Conchoidal
Hardness: 3

Collection: William & Anne Cook Collection

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On Dakota Matrix: Previously Sold Calcite
On Dakota Matrix: Other Available Calcite
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Ceruleite

#BAC62434

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Locality: Wheal Gorland, St. Day dist., Cornwall, England
Formula: Cu₂Al₇(AsO₄)₄(OH)₁₃·12H₂O
Availability: Available
Price: $45.00
Size: 7 x 4.5 x 2 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: arsenate , copper

Light blue coatings.

Ceruleite

Formula: Cu₂Al₇(AsO₄)₄(OH)₁₃·12H₂O
Crystal System: Triclinic
Color: blue, deep blue
Streak: bluish white
Class: Triclinic - Pinacoidal
Hardness: 5-6

Collection: William & Anne Cook Collection

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On Dakota Matrix: Previously Sold Ceruleite
On Dakota Matrix: Other Available Ceruleite
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Cyrilovite

with Strengite - #CL62430

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Locality: Iron Monarch mine, Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia
Formula: NaFe³⁺₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₄·2H₂O
Availability: Available
Price: $55.00
Size: 7 x 7 x 3.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: phosphate

Micro crystalline coatings of Cyrilovite with minor Strengite.

Cyrilovite

Formula: NaFe³⁺₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₄·2H₂O
Crystal System: Tetragonal
Crystal Habit: Massive - Granular, Pseudo Cubic
Cleavage: None, None, None
Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
Color: yellow, orange yellow, brown
Streak: yellow
Class: Tetragonal - Trapezohedral
Fracture: Uneven
Hardness: 4

Collection: Chet S. Lemanski, Jr. Collection

On Dakota Matrix: Previously Sold Cyrilovite
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Fluorite

#BAC62429

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Locality: Coldstones quarry, Pately Bridge, North Yorkshire, England
Formula: CaF₂
Availability: Available
Price: $125.00
Size: 7.5 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm - Sm Cabinet

Purple and lustrous Fluorite cubes to 1cm with micro Hemimorphite overgrowth. Ex Lindsay & Patricia Greenback and Scott Willaims Mineral Company specimen with tags.

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