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Mixed and Rare Minerals

Sunday, 12 November 2023 06:00 PM

Introducing the "Mixed and Rare Minerals" gallery which is part of our New Additions galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including ilmenite, libethenite, mimetite, and segnitite and more from places like Ishpeming, Marquette Co., Michigan, United States, East Gunnislake mine, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico, and San Nicolás mine, Valle de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain.

Ilmenite

with Calcite - #CL62729

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Locality: Ishpeming, Marquette Co., Michigan, United States
Formula: Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃
Availability: Available
Price: $45.00
Size: 6 x 4.5 x 4 cm - Sm Cabinet

For just Ilmenite, this is an attractive specimen which is loaded with plates of metallic crystals from 1 to 3cm in a light pink Calcite matrix.

Ilmenite

Formula: Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃
Crystal System: Trigonal
Crystal Habit: Tabular, Massive - Lamellar
Cleavage: None, None, None
Luster: Sub Metallic
Color: iron black, black
Streak: brownish black
Class: Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Fracture: Conchoidal
Hardness: 5-5.5

Collection: Chet S. Lemanski, Jr. Collection

Mineralpedia: View Ilmenite
On Dakota Matrix: Previously Sold Ilmenite
On Dakota Matrix: Other Available Ilmenite
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Libethenite

#CL62734

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Locality: East Gunnislake mine, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England
Formula: Cu₂PO₄(OH)
Availability: Available
Price: $35.00
Size: 7 x 3.5 x 4 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: phosphate , copper

A good representative specimen of micro Libethenite crystals from this classic Cornish locality.

Libethenite

Formula: Cu₂PO₄(OH)
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Crystal Habit: Prismatic, Druse, Globular
Cleavage: Indistinct, Indistinct, None
Luster: Vitreous - Greasy
Color: green, dark green, blackish green, light olive green, dark olive green
Streak: light green
Class: Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Fracture: Brittle
Hardness: 4