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Item MS1 - RHODOCROSITE- Catamarca, Argentina; a "finger" (stalactitic) growth of this pink manganese carbonate, 1 3/4" long, 3/4" wide, and curving. Condition is good. $45.
Item MS2 - MOHAWKITE- Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan; a hefty, 1 1/4" nugget of this mix of copper, silver, nickel, cobalt and other minerals. Tarnished, but in good shape. $50.
Item MS3 - VARISCITE- Little Green Monster Mine, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah; a slice of this rare hydrated aluminum phosphate, exhibiting a nice green color. Dimensions are just under 4" wide, 3/16" thick, and 4 1/2" tall. Condition is very good. $155.
Item MS4 - METEORITE- Maritime Province, Eastern Siberia; a part of the Sikhote-Alin fall (February 12, 1947 10:38AM). This specimen is a nickel-iron, coarse octahedrite, and roughly 1 1/8" x 1" x 3/4". $60.
Item MS5 - FLUORITE- Ft. Wayne, Indiana; (thumbnail) a half-dozen transparant, light-yellow fluorite cubes sit on a small matrix section. Largest crystal edge is 1/2" across, and specimen is in good shape. $24.
Item MS6 - CROCOITE- Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia; a 1 5/8" x 3/4" x 1" limonitic matrix is heavily covered in deep orange-red, acicular crocoite needles. A colorful addition to a collection, and in very good condition. $45.
Item MS7 - SMOKY QUARTZ- North American Emerald Mine, Hiddenite, North Carolina; a truly "gemmy" light-smoky crystal - terminated and with minor mica attached lower at one side. Crystal is 2 1/8" long and 7/8" wide. Condition is fine. $55.
Item MS8 - BIKITAITE- Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina; (thumbnail) an inch long, semi-transparant crystal of this rare lithium mineral (a zeolite). Condition is very good. $24.
Item MS9 - AMETHYST- Oak Ridge, Guilford County, North Carolina; a cluster of the light-amethyst from Oak Ridge. Specimen has four main crystals - the largest one sceptred (as many from here are), and measuring 7/8" wide and 1 1/4" tall. Full dimensions of piece are 1 5/8" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/2", and condition is good. $40.
Item MS10 - MANGANOSIDERITE- Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada; a well-formed siderite rhomb - 1 1/4" to a side - from the classic Mt. St. Hilaire area. Specimen is in very good shape, and comes with an old Belmont Abbey College label. $40.
Item MS11 - HAUSMANNITE- N'Chwaning Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese ore fields, South Africa; (thumbnail) a grouping of sharp octahedral, high-lustre crystals of this manganese oxide. Ex Firebird Minerals Danny Jones) specimen, in good shape. $25.
Item MS12 - FLUORITE- Denton Mine, Harris Creek District, Hardin County, Illinois; a corner of a light-blue fluorite cube - roughly 2" across. Not a full cube, nor is it a gemmy-clear specimen, but a reasonable choice as a sample of the sky-blue Illinois fluorite. $30.
Item MS13 - DRAVITE- Yinniethara, Western Australia; a large, reddish brown dravite crystal; fairly complete and with minor mica still attached at places. Measurements are 1 3/4" x 1 1/2" x 3/8", and condition is good. $25.
Item MS14 - KUNZITE- Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil; a 2 3/4" x 1" x 1/2" piece of kunzite, with good transparancy and a nice pink color. Condition is good. $65.
Item MS15 - CALCITE with CHALCOPYRITE inclusions- Ben Hogan Quarry, Black Rock, Lawrence County, Arkansas; a grouping of perhaps 20 translucent calcite crystals sits on a thin bed of pink dolomite in this piece. The calcites are LOADED with included chalcopyrite crystals! Specimen comes with label from the Art Smith Collection, and measures 3" x 2 1/2" x 1 3/4". Condition is very good. $80.
Item MS16 - LINARITE- Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Graham County, Arizona; vibrant "neon blue" linarite crystals are embedded in a small vug in a matrix piece. Dimensions are 1 5/8" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/4", and linarite seam is just shy of 1/2" long. Condition is good. Note that these Grand Reef pieces are fairly pricey! (compare online) $50.
Item MS17 - CORUNDUM- Haywood County, North Carolina; another of the Kenny Gay Collection pieces (I purchased the entire collection from his family, and it has rapidly dispersed throughout the mineral community. There MANY great Carolina specimens sourced from his lifetime of collecting!) This is a sapphire with matrix attached at various places around the perimeter. I believe it's from Wood Creek based on my own collecting experiences there, but Kenny's label didn't specify. Dimensions are 1 3/" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/2", and condition is good. $45.
Item MS18 - SHARK TOOTH- Texas Gulf Mine, Aurora, North Carolina; a 1 3/4" wide, 1 3/4" long shark tooth from the phosphate mines near the NC coast. Condition is good. $35.
Item MS19 - GOLD on QUARTZ- Cotton Patch Mine, Stanley County, North Carolina; (thumbnail) a small piece of gold shows in a seam in a milky quartz matrix. A good "starter sample" of NC gold. $16.
Item MS20 - GYPSUM on AMETHYST- San Vicente Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico; 1" long, transparant, golden-brown, doubly-terminated selenite sits on a bed of pale amethyst crystals. This came through the Bob lauf Collection, and he purchased it in 1996 from Dave Bunk. In Bob's words, "very unusual and attractive piece". Measurements are 2 1/4" x 1 3/4" x 5/8", and condition is fine. Comes with both Bob's and Dave's labels (Dave had it priced at $40 in 1996). $50.
Item MS21 - MIMETITE- Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico; rolling masses (botryoidal) of yellow/olive-green mimetite crystals run across the top of a 2 1/4" x 2 1/8" x 1 3/4" matrix. A nice specimen from a (very) recent collection purchase. Condition is very good. $45.
Item MS22 - AMAZONITE- Smoky Hawk Claim, Teller County, Colorado; a single amazonite crystal with an excellent green-blue color (not one of the common "faded" crystaals). Measurements are 1 1/2" x 1" x 3/4", and condition is very good. $45.
Item MS23 - AQUAMARINE- Erongo Mountains, Namibia; (thumbnail) a 1 1/4" long, doubly-terminated aqua crystal - transparant at both ends with a deeper, "cloudy" look towards the middle. Condition is good. $29.
Item MS24 - "Imperial" TOPAZ- Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil; (thumbnail) a single, orange, terminated topaz crystal, roughly 3/4" tall and 1/4" wide. ondition is very good. $22.
Item MS25 - APATITE and MICA- Minas Gerais, Brazil; a doubly-terminated, green apatite crystal has muscovite mica books growing off it. Apatite is relatively large (1 1/8" long and 3/4" wide), with a deep-green color. Full measurements are 1 3/4" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/4", and condition is good. $65.
Item MS26 - TEKTITE- Khon-Kheen Province, Thailand; a jet-black, somewhat rounded sample of the material created upon meteorite impact (it's been melted, thrown up on the air, and then falls back). Measurements are 1 1/2" x 1" x 7/8", and condition is good. $39.
Item MS27 - DANBURITE- Aurora Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico; a large, terminated, lustrous danburite crystal, with a few smaller ones at it's base. From the collection of Kenny Gay, and he purchased it from M. Phantom Minerals in 1997. Specimen is 1 1/8" wide, 3/4" deep, and 2 1/4" high, with nice clarity. Condition is fine. $79.
Item MS28 - DOLOMITE and MUSCOVITE MICA- Rist Mine, Hiddenite, North Carolina; two 1" siderite rhombs (and a half-dozen other smaller ones) have grown on an edge of a piece of matrix, along with 7/8" muscovite books. Specimen was in the Kenny Gay Collection (comes with his label), and measures 4 1/2" x 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". Condition is good. $40.
Item MS29 - FLUORITE- Buckskin Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona; light-violet colored fluorite crystals cover the top of a 3 3/4" x 2 3/4" x 2 1/4" (mostly fluorite) matrix. Condition is good. $45.
Item MS30 - PREHNITE- Lane Quarry, West Springfield, Massachusetts; an old M. Phantom Minerals piece - lime-green prehnite crystals lining the inside of a fist-sized vug. Dimensions are 4" x 2" x 3", and condition is good. A nice sample from a northeastern quarry! (Comes with Neal's label). $45.
Item MS31 - DIAMOND- near Luderitz Bay, Namibia; a gemmy, .2265 carat diamond crystal. Condition is very good. $50.
Item MS32 - SMITHSONITE and AURICHALCITE- Pinal County, Arizona; a vug, lined with green smithsonite, contains a deep sky-blue aurichalcite crystal inside. From a recently-acquired collection which contained many southwestern (US and Mexico) specimens. Measurements are 2" x 1 3/4" x 1 1/2", and condition is good. $35.
Item MS33 - APATITE and MICA- Coparaque Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; two deep-green (partially etched) apatite crystals have intergrown with muscovite in this specimen. Measurements are 2" x 1" x 1", and condition is good. $35.
Item MS34 - QUARTZ with CHLORITE and CLAY inclusions - Palms Appartments, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina; a thick, terminated quartz crystal has both green chlorite inclusions throughout the crystal, and white top faces due to a clay inclusion. This piece came from the Kenny Gay Collection (although I dug many quartzes here, I never found any with the white top). Crystal is 2 1/2" long, 1 1/8" wide, and in very good condition. Kenny bought this for $100 from Backwoods Prospector. $60.
Item MS35 - CALCITE with DIOPTASE inclusions- Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia; a nice grouping of lustrous, semi-transparant calcite rhombs has deep-green dioptase inclusions at the lower portion of the calcites (where they're attached to the matrix). Measurements are 1 7/8" x 1" x 1 1/4", and condition is fine. $65.
Item MS36 - SPODUMENE- Minas Gerais, Brazil; a facetable spodumene - very light-yellow hint of color, and measuring 1 1/2" x 1" x 1/2". Condition is good. $55.
Item MS37 - SMOKY QUARTZ/AMETHYST- Crystal Park, Beaverhead County, Montana; three separate sceptred specimens come in a 2" x 2" box in this offering. Each is a smoky-amethyst with nice terminations, and the largest is actually a cluster of five crystals (this one is 1 3/4" x 3/4"). Collected by the late Paul Burton (Forsyth Club) on one of his digging adventures in the 1980's with fellow collector Grey Weaver to this wilderness area. Condition is very good. $70.
Item MS38 - SPHALERITE- Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England; small, glistening sphalerite crystals cover the top surface of a 2" x 1 1/8" x 1 1/4" matrix piece. Condition is good. $25.
Item MS39 - CHALCOPYRITE on BARITE- Dreislar, Sauerland, Germany; sharp, bladed, light-pink barite crystals and intermittent chalcopyrite crystals spread across them. An eye-catching specimen, measuring 3 1/4" x 3" x 2". Condition is very good. $55.
Item MS40 - EPIDOTE on ORTHOCLASE- Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; a fine combination specimen with a satin-finish, white orthoclase crystal (1 3/8" long and doubly-terminated) that has deep-green epidote crystals growing off it. Dimensions are 1 1/2" x 7/8" x 1". $40.
Item MS41 - FAIRFIELDITE- Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina; a bedding of sharp, lustrous, translucent fairfieldites cover the top surface of a 1 1/4" x 1" x 3/4" piece of matrix. Condition is very good. $75.
Item MS42 - LAZULITE- Carolina Pyrophyllite Mine, Staley, Randolph County, North Carolina; a thick seam of deep-blue lazulite runs through a pyrophyllite-rich matrix piece. An old Kenny Gay Collection specimen, measuring 4 1/4" x 4" x 3 3/4". Condition is good. Note that this mine is also known as both the "Staley Mine" and the "Gerhardt Mine". $75.
Item MS43 - FLUORITE on SPHALERITE- Cumberland Mine, Smith County, Tennessee; a nice combination miniature, with dark-purple fluorite cubes set on a crystallized base of this zinc-based mineral (sphalerite). Largest cube is roughly 3/8" in diameter, and total measurements are 1 3/4" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/8". Condition is very good. $40.
Item MS44 - CHRYSOBERYL- Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil; (thumbnail) an olive-green, "V-twin" sample of chrysoberyl. Condition is very good. $70.
Item MS45 - BERYL- Ray Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina; a yellow/green beryl crystal, 3 1/4" long and 3/4" in diameter, sits exposed in a small quartz/mica matrix. Crystal has a slight break and bend to it - one that's been completely re-healed. The top of the beryl is terminated, with the bottom showing a partial (flat) termination. Specimen is in good condition. $125.
Item MS46 - SCHORL TOURMALINE on QUARTZ- North American Emerald Mine, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina; a curving band of semi-transparant quartz has black schorl tourmaline crystals at it's base (as well as some included). Quartz terminations are perfect, and there's a slight smoky coloration to the tips. Dimensions are 2" x 1 3/4" x 1 1/4", and condition is very good. An ex Kenny Gay Collection piece, and he paid $75 for it in 2009. $95.
Item MS47 - STAUROLITE ("Fairy Cross")- Hackney Farm, Fannin County, Georgia; (thumbnail-sized, but not in a perky box) a sharp, well-formed "St. Andrews" fairy cross from Georgia! This one measures 5/8" high and 5/8" wide, and is in great shape. $16.
Item MS48 - SMITHSONITE- Tsumeb, Namibia; (a thumbnail-sized specimen, yet not mounted in a perky box) a sharp, 1/4"+ smithsonite rhomb sits up on a small matrix piece. Smithsonite is tan in color, and set against a dark matrix (providing good contrast). Condition is good. $35.
Item MS49 - MAGNETITE- Shady Valley, Tennessee; an open vug is filled with small, silvery, glistening magnetite crystals. Vug measures 1" x 1 1/4", with full specimen being 2 1/4" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/4". Condition is good. $38.
Item MS50 - CALCITE- Wayne County, Missouri; tan/orange colored, rhombohedral calcites are stacked on a 3 1/4" x 2 3/4" x 2" matrix section in this specimen. Calcite has a "nailhead" formation growth, and condition is good. $30.