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Five Pages of minerals, mostly under $35.

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CLR2 Clinoclase

Copper Stope, Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, United States

4.5x 3.1x 2.5 cm

$30

 

A miniature specimen from a locality that is known for producing rarities.  The Copper Stope is no longer stable, and collecting has become dangerous.  

 

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CLR3 Copiapite

Copper Stope, Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, United States

2.7x 1.8x 1.7 cm

$15

 

A thumbnail of this difficult to obtain material, from the arid Atacama Desert. 

 

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CLR5 Rhodochrosite

Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Prov., Lima Dept., Peru

5.4x 5.5x 6.8 cm

$40

 

A 1.4 cm scalenohedron sits against a nicely contrasting matrix coated with manganese oxides.  These things are getting much harder to come by.  

 

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CLR6 Stibnite

Herja, Baia Sprie, Romania

4.1x 1.4x .5 cm

$15

 

A rather wide single crystal from this locality, which was responsible for bringing large quantities of stibnite to the market in the years before the Chinese mines became the primary source.  

 

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CLR8 Smithsonite

Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico

4.4x 2.7x 2.3 cm

$28

 

A beautiful miniature of pink smithsonite, with rainbow-like zoning on the reverse.  

 

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CLR12 Apatite, Muscovite

Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar Valley, Hunza, Pakistan

5.6x 3.7x 2.3 cm

$25

 

A light pink, heavily etched (but undamaged) group of apatite crystals lying in the middle of an iron oxide stained muscovite matrix.

 

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CLR54 Torbernite

Margabal Mine, Aveyron, France

4.2x 3.6x 2.1 cm

$35

 

A miniature specimen of torbernite from the Margabal mine.

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CLR16 Haynesite

Repete Mine, San Juan Co, Utah, United States

5.5x 3.9x .5 cm

$20

 

A larger-than-normal sample of this rare radioactive mineral from the western United States.  Named for Patrick Haynes, it was discovered only a few years ago. 

 

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CLR18 Apatite

Gilgit, Pakistan

2.0x 1.6x 1.0 cm

$15

 

A thumbnail of terminated, pinkish, apatites from the Northern Areas of Pakistan. 

 

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CLR21 Pottsite

Linka Mine, Potts, Lander Co., Nevada, United States (Only Locality)

3.0x 2.6x 2.0 cm

$26

 

A rare example of this one-locality species, consisting of a powdery coat of pottsite on matrix. 

 

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CLR73 Pseudobrookite

Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, United States

2.2x 1.4x 1.3 cm

$18

 

A nice thumbnail of this difficult to obtain material.  Comes mounted in a perky box. 

 

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CLR23 Quartz var. Amehyst "Cactus Quartz)

Magaliesburg, Guateng Prov., South Africa

11.0x 7.9x 5.2 cm

$35

 

A large cabinet specimen of "cactus quartz" from South Africa.  These specimens are actually two generations of quartz, the second growing over and perpendicular to the first, giving it a cactus-like appearance.   

 

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CLR24 Quartz var. Amehyst "Cactus Quartz)

Magaliesburg, Guateng Prov., South Africa

8.8x 7.8x 3.7 cm

$35

 

A large cabinet specimen of "cactus quartz" from South Africa.  These specimens are actually two generations of quartz, the second growing over and perpendicular to the first, giving it a cactus-like appearance.

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CLR25 Ramsdellite

Mistake Mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona, United States

4.5x 3.6x 1.5 cm

$20

 

An ugly but reasonably rare manganese mineral from Arizona.

 

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CLR27 Rhodochrosite, Pyrite

Broken Hill Mine, Yancowinna Co., NSW, Australia

3.7x 3.0x 2.0 cm

$30

 

An unusual example of almost stalactitic rhodochrosite on pyrite, from a classic Australian locality.  This is an older piece, from the days before improved mining techniques prevented specimens from escaping the mine.

 

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