Fine Mineral Specimens Over $50
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $295.00
- Locality
- Vojtěch mine, Příbram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Formula
- Ag2S
- Size
- 6 x 4 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- sulfide, silver
Old time specimen from a classic and historic locality. There is a large protrusion of Acanthite crystals that measures 2.5 x 1.5cm filled with several distorted cubic crystals to around 3.5mm.
- Availability
- Sold
- Featured
- Featured in Special Editions
- Locality
- Niederschlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
- Formula
- Ag2S
- Size
- 7 x 5 x 4 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- ore mineral, sulfide, silver
Dark gray crude crystals of Acanthite through Quartz mass from a historic Silver mine.
- Availability
- Sold
- Featured
- Featured in Special Editions
- Locality
- Hope mine, Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana, United States
- Formula
- Ag2S
- Size
- 9 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- ore mineral, sulfide, silver
This is a little known locality from Philipsburge, Montana. Behind the old town is a large district which produced manganese, one of the largest in the country. This mine, as with some others in the district, produced Silver. This specimen contains black, sectile Acanthite and associated with brown Chlorargyrite. This material assyed 1100 oz/t Silver.
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $55.00
- Locality
- Keweenaw Co., Michigan, United States
- Formula
- Cu1-xAsx; x = 1/7
- Size
- 4 x 2 x 2 cm - Miniature
Heavy brassy metallic mass of Algodonite, a rare copper arsenide.
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $55.00
- Locality
- Hilltop mine, Organ dist., Dona Ana Co., New Mexico, United States
- Formula
- PbTe
- Size
- 3 x 1.5 x 1 cm - Thumbnail
- Tagged
- tellurium
Metallic, silvery crystal grains in matrix. Very rich.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Coronel Manuel Rodríguez mine, Mejillones, Antofagasta, Chile
- Formula
- Na2Ca(SO4)2 · 1.5H2O
- Size
- 2 x 2 x 1.5 cm - Thumbnail
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Rich specimen with 0.5 to 1mm white to colorless crystals of Antofagastaite with orange crystals of Sideronatrite. There is alot more Antofagastaite than the photos depict. The orange Sideronatrite floods out the white colorless Antofagstaite.
