Fine Mineral Specimens Over $50
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Hard Scramble claim, near Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, United States
- Formula
- Cu2Pb5(SO4)3(CO3)(OH)6
- Size
- 6 x 5 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- carbonate, copper
Tight clusters of 1-4mm blue Caledonite crystals with darker blue Linarite. The two minerals are quite intergrown. Excellent specimen viewed under the scope. Formerly in the Jack Parnau collection.
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $900.00
- Reduced Price
- $650.00
- Notes
- Discounts/Promos do NOT apply to this item
- Locality
- Merekski dist., Bureya Massif, Khabarovskiy Kray, Russia
- Formula
- SnO2
- Size
- 5 x 7 x 4 cm - Sm Cabinet
Absolutely superb well formed, dark brown Cassiterite crystals to over 2cm with a beautiful adamantine luster and a few smoky Quartz points to 1cm covering matrix. Excellent piece!
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Poldory Sett, United Downs, St. Day, Cornwall, England
- Formula
- SnO2
- Size
- 8.5 x 5 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- tin
Translucent brown euhedral crystals to 3mm. Excellent piece.
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $150.00
- Locality
- Poldory Sett, United Downs, St. Day, Cornwall, England
- Formula
- SnO2
- Size
- 7 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- tin
Exceptionally well formed glassy brown crystals of Cassiterite to 2mm.
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $275.00
- Locality
- Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Formula
- PbCO3
- Size
- 11 x 6 x 5.5 cm - Cabinet
- Tagged
- carbonate
A great old time specimen with white Cerussite crystals to 15mm in a large vug rimmed by yellow Pyromorphite(?).
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $155.00
- Locality
- Tui mine, Mt. Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand
- Formula
- PbCO3
- Size
- 9 x 6 x 6 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- carbonate
This mine was once featured in a Mineraolgical Record issue V6 n1, 1975 titled Minerals of the Tui Mine, New Zealand". The specimen comes with an old Willard L. Roberts collection label in which he states it is from the author of that article, Dr. R. L. Ansin. The mine ceased operations in 1973, and shortly thereafter mineral collectors moved in for the goodies. They pulled out not only nice Cerussite like this, but also Azurite, Gold, Smithsonite, Chalcopyrite etc. This specimen contains one large 3cm vug filled with jackstraw white, long and slender white Cerussite crystals to 8mm. There are little, less than 0.5mm, faint blue Dundasite spheroidal groups covering much of the matrix along with the Cerussite.
