Bournonite on Rhodochrosite

Pachapaqui | Bolognesi Province | Áncash | Peru

Size: 7.7x6.8x3.0cm

Price: € 850.00 ~ 941.97 $
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Peruvian mines are known for their excellent sulfosalts. The Bournonite from the Julcani Mine (#6042) is one example, and this Bournonite on Rhodochrosite from Pachapaqui is another one. ...

Bournonite on Siderite

Julcani Mine | Julcani District | Angaraes Province | Huancavelica | Peru

Size: 6.2x5.1x3.4cm

Price: € 350.00 ~ 387.87 $
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What an extremely aesthetic specimen with three excellently crystallized Bournonite cogwheel clusters. They sit wonderfully exposed on beige, disc-shaped Siderite rhombohedrons that measu ...

Spessartine on Galena

North Mine | Broken Hill | Yancowinna Co. | New South Wales | Australia

Size: 5.4x4.0x3.5cm

Price: € 2500.00 ~ 2770.50 $
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This is an Australian top specimen from the well-known North Mine of Broken Hill in the western reaches of the New South Wales outback. Numerous deep reddish-brown—in transmitted light ev ...

Cavansite on Stilbite

Wagholi Quarry | Pune | Maharashtra | India

Size: 6.5x4.1x3.0cm

Price: € 450.00 ~ 498.69 $
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A perfect cluster of deep royal blue Cavansite crystals with a slight green hue is perfectly exposed on cream-white sparkling Stilbite matrix. The Cavansite aggregate has a diameter of 2. ...

Azurite

Touissit | Jerada Province | Oriental Region | Morocco

Size: 6.3x4.8x3.0cm

Price: € 1800.00 ~ 1994.76 $
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Even considering the one or two imperfections that can be seen here and there on this Moroccan Azurite specimen, it is still a highly aesthetic piece. Its numerous fan-shaped sprays of re ...

Hematite

Ouro Preto | Minas Gerais | Brazil

Size: 3.3x2.4x2.0cm

Price: € 250.00 ~ 277.05 $
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What an exceptional Iron Rose consisting of tabular, six-sided Hematite crystals like the petals of a flower (get it?). The black crystals are well defined with extremely high metallic lu ...

Chrysocolla

Musonoi Mine | Kolwezi | Lualaba | Dem. Rep. of Congo

Size: 7.9x6.1x3.2cm

Price: € 750.00 ~ 831.15 $
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I´m not particularly enthusiastic about Chrysocolla specimens, however, the color and aesthetics of this piece blew me away. A slightly undulating specimen, covered with extremely smooth ...

Orpiment & Calcite

Jiepaiyu Mine (Shimen Mine) | Shimen As-(Au) Deposit | Changda Prefecture | Hunan Province | China

Size: 5.1x4.7x4.2cm

Price: € 700.00 ~ 775.74 $
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These extraordinary Orpiment-Calcite specimens from China from the 1990s were considered the "Best of Species" for decades and can still easily compete with the best finds of the species ...

Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite

Seabra | Bahia | Brazil

Size: 5.1x4.4x3.8cm

Price: € 600.00 ~ 664.92 $
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This is an amazing specimen with bladed, green rosettes of Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite in an exceedingly aesthetic arrangement on gossan matrix. Numerous botryoidal Malachite clus ...

Ludlamite on Siderite

Huanuni Mine | Huanuni | Dalence Province | Oruro Department | Bolivia

Size: 4.6x2.9x1.6cm

Price: € 900.00 ~ 997.38 $
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Actually, Ludlamite crystals are not necessarily the benchmark of mineralogical yearnings; however, things change when you have a crystal cluster of almost gigantic dimensions such as thi ...

Scheelite on Muscovite

Pingwu Mine | Huya | Mt. Xuebaoding | Pingwu. Co. | Sichuan | China

Size: 5.6x4.3x3.7cm

Price: € 850.00 ~ 941.97 $
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This specimen is perhaps slightly more compact of the two Pingwu Scheelite pieces. And, as I said before, we have all definitely seen much larger crystals of this species. And again, the ...

Scheelite on Muscovite

Pingwu Mine | Huya | Mt. Xuebaoding | Pingwu. Co. | Sichuan | China

Size: 9.5x4.1x3.8cm

Price: € 950.00 ~ 1052.79 $
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We´ve all definitely seen much larger Scheelite crystals, however, octahedral crystals with this translucency and gemminess are probably rather rare. In addition, the almost clear, light ...