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Friday, 12 April 2024 06:00 PM

Introducing the "Rare Minerals" gallery which is part of our New Additions galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including idaite, quartz, and vanadinite and more from places like Cuchillo Negro dist., Sierra Cuchillo, Sierra Co., New Mexico, United States, near Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico, and Touissit-Bou Beker dist., Jerada Prov., Oriental, Morocco.

Idaite

#BAC63965

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Locality: Cuchillo Negro dist., Sierra Cuchillo, Sierra Co., New Mexico, United States
Formula: Cu₃FeS₄
Availability: Available
Price: $45.00
Size: 3.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm - Miniature
Tagged: sulfide , copper

Dark metallic mass. Sub microscopic.

Idaite

Formula: Cu₃FeS₄
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Crystal Habit: Microscopic Crystals, Inclusions
Luster: Metallic
Color: brown, copper red, red
Class: Hexagonal - Dihexagonal Dipyramidal
Hardness: 2.5-3.5

Collection: William & Anne Cook Collection

On Dakota Matrix: Previously Sold Idaite
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Quartz

var. amethyst - #63377

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Locality: near Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico
Formula: SiO₂
Availability: Available
Price: $225.00
Size: 4.3 x 4 x 2.5 cm - Miniature

An attractive group of phantom amethyst crystals. The largest is 3.5cm. Very nice!

Quartz

Formula: SiO₂
Crystal System: Trigonal
Crystal Habit: Crystalline - Coarse, Druse, Crystalline - Fine
Cleavage: Indistinct, None, None
Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
Color: brown, colorless, violet, gray, yellow
Streak: white
Class: Trigonal - Trapezohedral
Fracture: Conchoidal
Hardness: 7

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Vanadinite

#CL63953

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Locality: Touissit-Bou Beker dist., Jerada Prov., Oriental, Morocco
Formula: Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl
Availability: Available
Price: $125.00
Size: 6.5 x 5.5 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: vanadium

Creamy brown, somewhat color zoned, hexagonal prismatic crystals to 7mm. A good small cabinet specimen with all of the crystals perched nicely on one end of the specimen.

Vanadinite

Formula: Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Crystal Habit: Globular, Prismatic, Nodular
Cleavage: None, None, None
Luster: Adamantine
Color: brown, brownish yellow, brown red, colorless, yellow
Streak: brownish yellow
Class: Hexagonal - Dipyramidal
Fracture: Brittle - Conchoidal
Hardness: 3.5-4

Collection: Chet S. Lemanski, Jr. Collection

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