Fine Mineral Specimens Over $50
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Parys Mountain Mines, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
- Formula
- PbSO4
- Size
- 4.2 x 2.3 x 2.5 cm - Miniature
- Special Info
- Type Locality
This is a homely looking specimen, but it is indeed an Anglesite from the type locality of Anglesey. The crystals resemble blunt-shaped arrowheads from 1 to 3mm and are scattered throughout the vuggy matrix. It's actually a very desirable piece given its provenance from a mine first operated sometime in the 1760's.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Lomnice, Sokolov dist., Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
- Formula
- CaSO4
- Size
- 8 x 3.5 x 2 cm - Sm Cabinet
White chalky mass of Anhydrite, which replaced a large selenite crystal group.
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $50.00
- Locality
- Fianel mine, Ausserferrera, Ferrera, Viamala, Grisons, Switzerland
- Formula
- MnV5+2O6ยท4H2O
- Size
- 2.5 x 2 x 1.3 cm - Thumbnail
- Tagged
- vanadium
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Rusty red coatings on matrix. Fairly rare.
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $175.00
- Locality
- Quiruvilca mine, Santiago de Chuco prov., La Libertad dept., Peru
- Formula
- Ag1.5Pb22As33.5S72
- Size
- 4 x 2.7 x 2 cm - Miniature
Steel grey, striated, blocky crystals to 1mm lining matrix with Orpiment.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Shijangshan mine, Linxi, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia
- Formula
- Ag6(Cu4Fe2)Sb4S12S
- Size
- 7 x 5 x 2.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
A single, black, shiny crystal to 6mm with needles of Jamesonite crystals and Quartz. Questionable locality and eventhough it was analyzed and determined to be "argento", it lacks definite composition so I am guessing which end member it belongs to - (Cu4, Fe2). Nonetheless - a very good specimen.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Vermillion mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
- Formula
- Ni18Bi3AsS16
- Size
- 1.3 x 1 x 0.8 cm - Thumbnail
- Tagged
- sulfide, nickel. bismuth
The specimen was originally labelled as Bismutohauchecornite, but I am more inclined to call it Arsenohauchecornite based upon the brassy color and Bismutohauchecornite has not been reported from the Vermillion mine. The specimen sawed flat on two sides indicating it was probably worked on.
