Center / South America
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Fluorapatite on Muscovite & Albite
Sapo mine, Ferruginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Large silvery crystal groupings of muscovite to 6.0 cm in size on and albite crystal matrix with a bright dark green tabular crystals of fluorapatite to…
VIVIANITE
Huanuni mine, Dalence Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia - Deep blue translucent thin prismatic crystal grouping of vivianite measuring 4.0 x 1.5 x 0.5 cm. Ex Chris & Agatha Galas collection.
WULFENITE & DOLOMITE
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia - A bright specimen with several wulfenite crystals to the size of 0.6 cm on the edge ! The orange brown crystals of wulfenite stand on a drusy off-white dolomite…
SMITHSONITE
San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico - Lot of smithsonite crystals up to 0.4 cm in size cover the cavities of this rock ! Nice light blue color ! Overall size is 5x3x1.5 cm
SMITHSONITE
San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico - Lot of smithsonite crystals up to 0.4 cm in size cover the cavities of this rock ! Nice light blue color ! Overall size is 5.5c3x2.5 cm
SMITHSONITE
San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico - Lot of smithsonite crystals up to 0.4 cm in size cover the cavities of this rock ! Nice light blue color ! Overall size is 5.5X3x2.5 cm
SILVER
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Prov., Peru - Wires of native Silver rising up to 1 cm on matrix. Small but nice specimen ! Overall size is 1.7 x 1.6 x 0.7 cm
SMITHSONITE
San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico - Nice coating of smithsonite crystals up to 0.5 cm in size ! Bright light blue color ! Overall size is 4.5x2.5x1 cm
SMITHSONITE
San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico - Coating of globular smithsonite crystals ! Nice ligh blue color ! On the back of the rock a lot of 1-3 mm hemimorphites ! Overall size is…
SMITHSONITE
San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico - Nice coating of smithsonite crystals up to 0.4-0.5 cm. Bright light blue color. Overall size is 5x2x1.5 cm
WULFENITE
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mun. de Mapimi, Durango, Mexico - Esthetic wulfenite specimen with several bright orange crystals up to 1.5 cm in size ! Showy thumbnail !Overall size is 2x1.2x1 cmOjuela Mine,…
EMERALD
Muzo, Colombia - A super esthetic specimen hosting a perfectly terminated emerald crystal of 1.9 cm in size ! The color is bright green. The crystal has no damage and sits on quartz crystals. Other…
SMITHSONITE
SAN ANTONIO MINE, S.ELALIA, MEXICO - Nice coating of millimettric bright light blue smithsonite crystals. Overall size is 6x3.5x1.5 cm
VIVIANITE
San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico - A slightly translucent bluish green double terminated undamaged crystal of vivianite 1.0 cm in length perched nicely upon this 3.5 x 2.0…
UVITE & MAGNESITE
Brumado, Bahia, Brazil - A nice uvite crystal shows on this quartz and magnesite matrix. The uvite has a great green color and it is 0.9 cm in size. The crystal is gemmy and is very esthetic. Overall…
RHODOCROSITE
Uchuchaccua Mine, Oyon, Peru - 3.5cm wide exposed portion of a vug with translucent pink Rhodochrosite crystals. Good undamaged crystals to 1 cm in size ! There are a lot of crystals here, more than 2…
PYRITE, SPHALERITE & QUARTZ
Brilliant sharp striated cubic crystals of pyrite to 1.8 cm on edge across the top of this lustrous black sphalerite crystal matrix with quartz. The sphalerite crystals measure to 1.2 cm in size. This…
AZURITE
Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico - Very nice deep blue crystals of azurite forming a cluster of 3x3x1.5 cm in size. The crystals are well shaped and up to 1.8x1.5 cm in size ! Very esthetic…
ALABANDITE & RHODOCHROSITE
Uchucchacua Mine, Lima Department, Peru - Semi lustrous sharp crystals to 1.5 cm in size across the top of this matrix with minor rhodochrosite. In very good condition and quite fine for the species.…
ELBAITE & QUARTZ
Minas Gerais, Brazil - A very nice and esthetic specimen ! A quartz point, perfectly terminated hosts a couple of bright green elbaites that emerge from the quartz crystal. A third elbaite is…
WULFENITE & WILLEMITE
Erupcion mine, Chihuahua, Mexico - Blocky lustrous pseudo-cubic crystals of wulfenite to 0.5 cm in size on matrix with acicular crystallized willemite. Minimal micro-chipping present but still in good…
WULFENITE
San Francisco Mine, La Trinidad, Sonora, Mexico - Bright yellow wulfenite crystals forming a nice, undamaged floater specimen. The specimen is completely covered by wulfenite crystals up to the size…
FLUORAPATITE
Cerro Mercado, Durango, Mexico - There are a number of apatites on this rock. The main crystal is terminated, with a bright yello color and is 1.5 cm in size ! there are also smaller crytals around !…
ELBAITE
Cruzeiro mine, Sao Jose Safian City, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Greatly terminated elbaite. The crystal shows pink and red colors. The size is 2.4x0.5x0.4 cm. Weight is around 2 gr.
ELBAITE
Cruzeiro mine, Sao Jose Safian City, Minas gerais, Brazil - Greatly terminated elbaite. The crystal shows pink and red colors. The size is 2x0.3x0.3 cm. Weight is close to 2 gr.
ELBAITE
Cruzeiro mine, Sao Jose Safian City, Minas gerais, Brazil - Perfectly terminated pink and green elbaite of 2.3x0.5x0.5 cm in size ! No damage ! Great colors !
VIVIANITE
Tomokoni mine, Machacamarca, Potosi, Bolivia - Sharp deep green vivianite crystal with siderite. In very good condition. Size: 4.0 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm.
VALENTINITE
Colavi Mine, Colavi subdistrict, PotosÃ, Bolivia - A very good example of the very rare Antimony Oxide, Valentinite. The specimen has sharp prismatic crystals of Valentinite atop massive Galena up to…
FLUORAPATITE & ALBITE
Sapo mine, Ferruginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Tabular mostly gemmy lustrous crystal of fluorapatite 0.9 cm across on an albite crystal matrix. In very good condition. Size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 4.0 cm
PYROMORPHITE
Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico - A bright yellow single fluorapatite crystal sands atop a small matrix. The crystal shows good form and a uniform soft yellow/green colour and the size is 1 cm. Very…
CASSITERITE
Viloco Mine, Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia - Lustrous black large crystals of cassiterite covering the top of a 3.3 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm matrix. Micro-chipping present but very minimal, in…
HELVITE
NAVEGADORES MINE,MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL - Fark helvite crystal of 0.6 cm in size shows up on the white albite of this specimen. Nice specimen of 3x2.5x2 cm.
WULFENITE
Chapacase Mine, nr. Maria Elena, CHILE - Nice 7x2.5x3 cm specimen with several 1-3 mm deep red wulfenite crystals. They are nicely exposed on the matrix or forming groups of crystals.
WULFENITE
Chapacase Mine, nr. Maria Elena, CHILE - Bright coating of 1-2 wulfenite crystals. The color is bright red/orange and and the overall size is 4x4x4.5 cm.
UVITE & MAGNESITE
BRUMADO, BAHIA, BRASIL - Nice combination specimen. This crystalline magnesite rock hosts some terminated red uvite crystals around 0.4 cm and a nice metallic hematite blade of 0.6 cm ! Overall size…
UVITE on MAGNESITE
BRUMADO, BAHIA, BRASIL - Very nice specimen with large crystals ! On a carpet of crystalline magnesite there are almost a dozen terminated red uvites, the largest is up to 1x1.3 cm ! Very showy…
TOPAZ
PADRE PARAISO, MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL - Bright cluster of gemmy topazes ! The group is compesed by a half a dozen terminated crystals up to 2.5 cm in size. No damage a part from the contact on the back…
TOPAZ
PADRE PARAISO, MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL - An other nice specimen of topaz ! this rock hosts almost a dozen crystals, all terminated and up to 3x2 cm ! Great cluster and luster for this showy specimen,…
HEMATITE
Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil - Bright hematite crystal of 3.8x3.4x0.6 cm with great luster.
BRASILIANITE
BRAZIL - Very nice offmatrix terminated brasilianite crystal of 1.4x1 cm
BRASILIANITE
BRAZIL - Real showy cluster of brasilianite crystals, the largest are up to 0.7 cm, on matrix. 2x1.5x2 cm
FLUORAPATITE
MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL - Nice group of terminated fluorapatite crystals. The color is light blue/green, their size is up to 0.6 cm and form a cluster of 1-1.2 cm in size. Overall size of this showy rock…
PROUSTITE
UCHUCHACUA MINE, LIMA DEPT., PERU - A bright cluster of deep red proustite crystals show up on the top of this specimen. The crystals are terminated and up to 2 mm. The cluster size is 0.6x0.3 cm.…
RHODOCROSITE
UCHUCHACUA MINE, LIMA DEPT., PERU - Bright pink rhodocrosite crystals show up on this specimen. The crystals size is up to 1.1 cm. Overall size is 6x3.5x3 cm.
ADAMITE
Mapimi, Durango. Mexico - Nice green adamite crystals on matrix together with calcite crystals. The adamites are up 0.5 cm on the edge. Bright colors ! Showy speciemen of 4.5x4x3 cm
AUGELITE & SIDERITE
BOTTINO MINE, SERAVEZZA, CARRARA, ITALY - Very nice specimen from this hystoriacal and well known italian locality ! This rock hosts a lot of perfectly terminated sphalerite crystals (blenda) up to…
AMETHYST
Veracruz, Pedra Parada, Mexico - The whole rock is covered by amethystine quartz crystals ! The main crystals are with a nice amethyst color close to the top and their size is up to 1 cm. Showy rock…
BRASILIANITE
Corrego Frio, Linopolis, Minas gerais, Brazil - Nice light yellow/green crystals of brasilianite forming a cluster on the face of a quartz crystal. The brasilianites are up to 0.6-1 cm in size. No…
WULFENITE
Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico - Nice and rapresentative specimen from this known locality. There are various wulfenite crystal, bipiramidal in shape up to 1 cm in size. Nice bright orange color…
ELBAITE (RUBELLITE) & CLEAVELANDITE
Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Spectacular terminated crystal of 3.7x1.5x1.5 cm in size. The crystal has a lot of cleavelandite on its faces and show a nice termination ! The color of the…
ELBAITE var RUBELLITE
Barra das Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Very nice biterminated crystal of rubellite ! The crystal is 4.7x1x1 cm in size. The color is red with gemmy aspect ! The crystal is a floater. No damage.
ORPIMENT
HUBNERITE & QUARTZ
Mundo Nuevo, Pasto Bueno District, Pallasca Prov., Ancash Depart., Peru - Nice cluster of terminated quartz crystals up to the size of 5 cm ! There are various hubnerite crystals 0f 0.3-0.5 cm located…
APATITE
Bolivia - Nicely terminated apatite crystal located on the top of this specimen. The crystal is undamaged and 1.4x0.6 cm wide ! Nice rock of 4.5x3x2.5 cm in size
APATITE
SAPO MINE, MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL - Bright and perfectly terminated apatite crystals . The crystals are undamaged and are 1.4 cm in diameter ! Super crystals ! Very showy specimen of 4x3.5x2 cm in size
ELBAITE
CRUZEIRO MINE, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL - Greatly terminated green elbaite of 2.5x0.3x0.3 cm in size. Great colors: pink-light green-green.
ELBAITE
CRUZEIRO MINE, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL - Greatly terminated red elbaite of 3.4x0.3x0.3 cm in size. Great colors: red and light green at the base
AUGELITE
Machacamarca Mine, near Colavi, Dept. Potosi, Bolivia - These are some of the best Augelite crystals to hit the mineral market in a long time. This piece features dozens of fine, sharp, lustrous,…
UVITE
Brumado, Bahia, Brazil - Incredibly well formed uvite crystal to the size of 1 cm show greatly on this specimen. The uvites show a spectacular green color and are gemmy. There are several dozens…