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Thursday, 08 May 2025 06:00 PM

Introducing the "Rare Minerals" gallery which is part of our New Additions galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including baryte, bismuthinite, caledonite, gold, hunchunite, and libethenite and more from places like Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, United States, Coats peg., Petaca dist., Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico, United States, Rowley mine, Maricopa Co., Arizona, United States, Fire Creek mine, Lander Co., Nevada, United States, Tagil River, Ural, Russia, and Miguel Vacas mine, Vila Vecosa, Portugal.

Baryte

#65842

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Locality: Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, United States
Formula: BaSO₄
Availability: Available
Price: $25.00
Size: 4.5 x 2.8 x 2 cm - Miniature

A set of white to colorless Baryte rhombs to 1.8cm with an odd colorless prismatic crystal.

Baryte

Formula: BaSO4
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Crystal Habit: Tabular, Prismatic, Massive - Fibrous
Cleavage: Perfect, Perfect, Imperfect
Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
Color: white, yellowish white, grayish white, brownish white, dark brown
Streak: white
Class: Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Fracture: Uneven
Hardness: 3-3.5

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Bismuthinite

with Bismutite - #55131

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Locality: Coats peg., Petaca dist., Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico, United States
Formula: Bi₂S₃
Availability: Available
Price: $35.00
Size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm - Miniature
Tagged: sulfide

Light straw yellow crystals to 4mm, an alteration of Bismuth in Quartz.

Bismuthinite

Formula: Bi₂S₃
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Crystal Habit: Prismatic, Massive - Lamellar, Granular
Cleavage: Perfect, None, None
Luster: Metallic
Color: gray, silver white, tin white
Streak: gray
Class: Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Fracture: Brittle - Sectile
Hardness: 2

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Caledonite

#65511

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Locality: Rowley mine, Maricopa Co., Arizona, United States
Formula: Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆
Availability: Available
Price: $195.00
Size: 8 x 5 x 4 cm - Sm Cabinet
Tagged: copper

Rich specimen loaded with blue Caledonite crystals.

Caledonite

Formula: Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Crystal Habit: Prismatic, Radial, Striated
Cleavage: Perfect, Distinct, None
Luster: Vitreous - Greasy
Color: blue, blue green, green, dark green
Streak: greenish white
Class: Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
Fracture: Uneven
Hardness: 2.5-3

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Gold

#65049

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Locality: Fire Creek mine, Lander Co., Nevada, United States
Formula: Au
Availability: Available
Price: $150.00
Size: 3.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm - Miniature
Tagged: native element

An excellent and interesting specimen of Gold ribbons throughout Quartz mass.

Gold

Formula: Au
Crystal System: Isometric
Crystal Habit: Arborescent, Platy, Granular
Cleavage: None, None, None
Luster: Metallic
Color: yellow, pale yellow, orange, yellow white, reddish white
Streak: yellow
Class: Isometric - Hexoctahedral
Fracture: Hackly
Hardness: 2.5-3

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Hunchunite

with Gold - #65824

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Locality: Tagil River, Ural, Russia
Formula: Au₂Pb
Availability: Available
Price: $225.00
Size: 1 x 1.2 x 0.5 cm - Thumbnail
Tagged: silver
Special Info: XRD Confirmed
Special Info: EDS Confirmed
Special Info: ID by Polished Section

Thi is an old polished section from Prof. Nikolay Rudashevskiy, the late Russian mineralogist, who described and authored numerous new minerals. This polished section was obviously a microprobed analytical specimen to describe this particular locality.

Please see the provenance tab to view all the analytical data from Nikolay Rudashevskiy.

Hunchunite

Formula: Au₂Pb
Crystal System: Isometric
Luster: Metallic
Color: lead gray, silver gray
Class: Isometric - Hexoctahedral
Hardness: 3.5

Special Info: XRD Confirmed
Special Info: EDS Confirmed
Special Info: ID by Polished Section

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Libethenite

#65815

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Locality: Miguel Vacas mine, Vila Vecosa, Portugal
Formula: Cu₂PO₄(OH)
Availability: Available
Price: $35.00
Size: 3 x 3 x 2 cm - Thumbnail
Tagged: phosphate , copper

Green micro crystals, less than 0.5mm, with triangular faces.

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

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