Minerals
Gunnar Färber
Minerals
Gunnar Färber
| Acanthite xls | Imiter Mine, Djebel Saghro, Ouarzazate Prov., Draa-Tafilalet Region / Morocco; nice crystal clusters of inter growing 1 cm large well formed bi-pyramidal crystals. Pretty specimens from a new find; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Actinolite xx | Jumbo Copper Mine, Copper Mts., Prince of Wales Island, Alaska / USA; "Pseudomorph from Actinolite after Diopside crystals (Uralite)". Very nice crystal clusters of dark green well-terminated 2 cm-long prismatic "crystals". Very nice old-time specimens collected around 1920; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Actinolite xx | Jumbo Copper Mine, Copper Mts., Prince of Wales Island, Alaska / USA; "Pseudomorph from Actinolite after Diopside crystals (Uralite)". Very nice crystal clusters of dark green well-terminated 2 cm-long prismatic "crystals". Very nice old-time specimens collected around 1920; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Adranosite-(Fe )xls | Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany; pale-yellowish-green needle crystal aggregates of 0,5 mm very rich with white Boussingaultite; MM 38,00 |
| Aegirine xx | Rundemyr, Ovre Eiker, Buskerud / Norway / TYP; lustrous dark orange-brownish long prismatic crystals of 5 cm in Feldspar-Quartz matrix. This is the Type-material of Aegirine described in 1821 by P.H.Ström as "Acmite" and in 1835 given by Berzelius the name Aegirine; KS 14,00; NS 28,00; HS 48,00 |
| Aerinite xx | Estopiñán dam, Estopiñán del Castillo, Huesca, Aragón / Spain; sky blue fibrous massive aggregates with some Serpentine matrix; |
| Aeschynite-(Y) xl | Urstad Feldspar Mine, Hitterö, Hidra Island, Flekkefjord, Vest-Agder / Norway / TYP; waxy dark orange-brown well-terminated bright single crystals of 2,5 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS). Pretty specimens from the Type-location for Aeschynite-(Ce), collected around 1880; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 , |
| Aeschynite-(Y) xx | Clora May Pegmatite, Trout Creek Pass, Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., Colorado / USA; brightly lustrous deep dark brownish well terminated crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS). Very good specimens; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Afghanite xx | Le Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo, Latium / Italy; nice crystal groups of colorless hexagonal crystals to 3 mm in vugs in Sanidinite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Afmite xls | Fumade, Castelnau-de-Brassac, Tarn, Midi-Pyrénées / France / TYP; white tabular crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich on vugs in brownish Goethite matrix; MM 38,00 |
| Afmite xx | Fumade, Castelnau-de-Brassac, Tarn, Midi-Pyrénées / France / TYP; white tabular crystals of 0,3 mm, very rich on matrix; MM 75,00 |
| Agardite-(Nd) xx | Hilarion Mine, Agios Konstantinos, Laurion, Attika / Greece / TYP; pale green needle crystals of 1 mm, on brownish Goethite matrix; KS 48,00 |
| Agrellite xx | Kipawa alkaline complex, Sheffield Lake, Témiscamingue Co., Quebec / Canada / TYP; white to very pale brownish acicular glassy crystals of 2 cm, very rich together with pinkish Eudialyte, dark green Aegirine in Microcline matrix. Very good specimens of the rare Fluorine barring Sodium-Calcium-silicate; KS 19,00; NS 38,00; HS 65,00 |
| Agrinierite (xx) | Margnac Mine, Compreignac, Haute-Vienne, Limousin / France / TYP; glassy orange 2 mm crystal aggregates with some yellow Uranophane and dark brownish Uraninite; MM 65,00 |
| Aguilarite (xls) | Ken Snyder Mine, Gold Circle District, Elko Co., Nevada / USA; grey aggregates of 1 cm, with crystals of Aguilarite to 1 mm, inter grown with Naumannite and Electrum, as vein-like aggregates in Quartz Calcite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Ag-Zn-Tetrahedrite (xx) | Cavnic Mine, Cavnic, Maramures Co. / Romania / TYP; grey-metallic aggregates of a Silver- and Zinc-rich Tetrahedrite with pale pinkish Rhodochrosite (TYP) and Quartz, old specimens; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Aheylite xls | Mt. Kourou Diakouma, Linguere, Saraya, Kedougou Dept., Tambacounda Region / Senegal; the rare Iron-Aluminum-Phosphate of the Turquoise Group, occurs here as pale-grayish-blue acicular 1 cm crystal aggregates beside of pale yellow Senegalite on cavities in brownish Goethite matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Ahlfeldite xls | Mina El Dragon, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Potosí Dept. / Bolivien; the rare Nickel-Selenide forms pinkish glassy very rich crystals aggregates of 5 x 5 mm, together with blue Chalcomenite crystals on Penroseite matrix. Very rich specimens; |
| Ahlfeldite xx | Mina El Dragón, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Potosí Dept. / Bolivia; pale pinkish crystal aggregates of 1 mm (MM), or as well terminated 1 mm crystals (KS), together with blue Chalcomenite crystals on Krutaite-Penroseite matrix. Nice specimens of this rare Nickel-Selenite; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Akaganeite xx | Piasten Mine, Miedzianka, Jelenia Góra, Rudawy Janowickie Mts, Lower Silesia / Poland; brownish massive wood-like aggregates of micro crystalline Akaganeite; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Akatoreite xx | Monte Maniglia, Bellino, Varaita Valley, Cuneo Prov., Piedmont / Italy; lustrous bright orange-yellow long tabular crystals of |
| Alabandite xl | Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts., Simanjiro District, Manyara Region / Tanzania; highly lustrous well-terminated black bi-pyramidal single crystals of 2,5 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS). Outstanding crystals of this uncommon Manganese-Sulfide from a new find; |
| Albertite | Dingwall, Ross-shire, North West Highlands, Scotland / UK; highly lustrous black asphalt-like aggregates of 1 cm, very rich in a brownish matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Albertite | Albert Mine, Hillsborough Parish, Albert Co., New Brunswick / Canada / TYP; the Hydrocarbons forms black massive asphalt-like aggregates. Old specimens collect around 1870; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Albite (xx) | Finakas Bay, Finakas, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; "pseudomorphs of Albite after Lawsonite": prismatic white "crystals" of 1.5 cm on a fine-grained green Clinochlore-Albite matrix. Very rare and unique pseudomorphs; KS 28,00; NS 65,00 |
| Albite (xx) | Osteradalen, Ostera, Tvedestrand, Aust-Agder / Norway; orange colored bright luster gap-crystals with intensive irises reflexion (Sunstone). Old historic specimens from a classic sunstone locality discovered in 1842, the locality is now emptied; |
| Albite (xx) | Ibitiara, Bahia / Brazil; this are very interest and unique specimens of two common minerals. There are glass clear Quartz crystals |
| Albite xls | Ambohimasina, Manapa, Antsirabe / Madagaskar; pale blue, bright luster 7 cm x 4,5 cm x 2,5 cm large single crystal in gemmy quality; NS 125,00 |
| Alcaparrosaite xx | Mina Alcaparrosa, Cerritos Bayos, Calama, Atacama Desert, II Region / Chile / TYP; transparent highly lustrous pale yellowish long-prismatic crystals to 3 mm, with some Ferrinatrite on a Coquimbite matrix. This extremely rare new K-Ti-Fe-Sulfate was discovered by me in 2008. It is the first known Titanium Sulfate in nature, it is hydrophobic and it floats in water! ; MM 125,00 |
| Aldermanite xx | Moculta Phosphate Quarry, Angaston, Mt Lofty Range, South Australia / Australia / TYP; white silky very rich crystal aggregates of tiny crystals on brownish Phosphate matrix; MM 28,00; KS 65,00 |
| Alfredopetrovite xls | Mina El Dragon, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Porco, Potosi Dept. / Bolivia/ TYP; this new Aluminum selenide, named after Alfredo Petrov, forms colorless to white acicular crystal crusts with pinkish Ahlfeldite and blue Chalcomenite as oxidation rims on massive Penroseite; MM 75,00 |
| Algodonite (xx) | Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Keweenaw Co., Michigan / USA; yellow metallic 5 mm large crystal aggregates of Algodonite zonar surrounded by a 1 mm seams of Mohawkite (native Copper with approx. 11 % Arsenic), very rich in Quartz matrix. Old specimens collect around 1920; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Alipite xx | Szklary, Ząbkowice, Lower Silesia / Poland / TYP; pale-greenish mica like crystal aggregates on vugs in Quartzite. Unique specimens of the Type material of the rare Nickel analogue of Saponite, collect all-round 1850; KS 28,00 |
| Allactite xx | Langban Gruvan, Langban, Värmland / Sweden; rose-violet to violet-brownish crystals to 5 mm on vugs in typical Skarn matrix; KS 65,00 - 148,00 |
| Allanite-(Nd) (xx) | Åskagen Quarry, Torskebäcken, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; black long-prismatic crystals to 4 mm, intergrown in brownish massive waxy-lustered Iimoriite-(Y). This is the original crystalline Allanite-(Nd). The correctness of some large black crystals offered as Allanite-(Nd) during the last month is very suspect; MM 48,00; KS 85,00 |
| Allanite-(Y) xx | White Cloud Pegmatite, South Platte, Jefferson Co., Colorado / USA; brownish prismatic crystals of 2 mm, with pale red-brownish 1 cm blocky aggregates of an inter growth of Yttrofluorite-Synchysite-(Y) in pale brownish Feldspar matrix. Yttrium dominant Allanite is quite rare; KS 28,00 |
| Alloclasite xx | Bou Azzer Mine, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Prov. / Morocco; highly lustrous grey metallic long-prismatic crystals of 3 mm, very rich on vugs and veins in Safflorite-Quartz matrix. These are the best Alloclasite specimens I have ever seen; |
| Alloclasite xx | Bou Azzer Mine, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Prov. / Morocco; highly lustrous grey metallic long-prismatic crystals of 3 mm, very rich on vugs and veins in Safflorite-Quartz matrix. These are the best Alloclasite specimens I have ever seen; see article in Lapis 11/2010; KS 28,00 - 38,00 |
| Alloriite xx | Mt. Cavalluccio, Sacrofano, Campagnano, Roma, Latium / Italy / TYP; colorless prismatic crystals of 1 mm on vugs in alkali-syenitic ejectum; KS 48,00 |
| Almandine X | Mariovo, Prilep / Macedonia; well terminated, violet-reddish brown single crystals of 1,3 cm (MM) to 2,5 cm (KS); MM 8,00; KS 19,00 |
| Almandine xls | Asadabad, Konar Prov., Nuristan / Afghanistan; very nice crystal cluster of dark red-brownish well terminated twinned Alamadine crystals of 3 cm (NS) to 5 cm (HS). Impressive specimens from a new found; NS 38,00; HS 48,00 |
| Almandine xx | Frabrica, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; well- terminated orange-brown 1 cm crystals with some long-prismatic blue Glaucophane crystals in a Muscovite-Quartz matrix; NS 28,00 |
| Almandine xx | Kyanite Creek, Staro Lagovo, Prilep, Pelagonia Massiv / Macedonia; red brownish luster 2 to 3 mm large crystals, very rich inter grown in 5 cm large black long prismatic Kyanite single crystals "Black Kyanite". This is a very unusual and rare combination, and for sure interest for Garnet collectors; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Almandine xx | Stikine River, Wrangell Island, Wrangell-Petersburg Borough, Alaska / USA; violet-reddish bright luster dodecahedral single crystals of 1,5 cm (MM) to 2,5 cm (KS). Nice crystals with historic old labels collect around 1900; MM 19,00; KS 38,00 |
| Alnaperboeite-(Ce) xls | Stetind Pegmatite, Mt. Stetind, Tysfjord, Nordland / Norway / TYP; greenish brown glassy prismatic crystals of 0,5 mm, in a colorless Yttrofluorite matrix. Alnaperboeit-(Ce) and Perboeite-(Ce) forms a continuous solid-solution series; MM 95,00 |
| Alpeite xls | Monte Alpe Mine, Castiglione Chiavarese, Tre Monti, Genova and La Spezia Prov. / Italien / TYP; Alpeite is a new rare member of the Ardennite group. The forms orange brown bright luster tabular crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich in Quartz matrix.; |
| Alpersite xx | Big Mike Mine, Grass Valley, Pershing Co., Nevada / USA / TYP; pale bluish to white microcrystalline aggregates intergrown with Pentahydrite and some Chalcanthite; MM 75,00; KS 95,00 |
| Althausite xx | Overntjern Quarry, Overntjern, Modum, Buskerud / Norway; lustrous bright blocky violet-brownish 2 cm crystal aggregates, very rich in a pale brownish-grey Magnesite-Clinochlore matrix. Very good specimens of this rare high-pressure Magnesium-Phosphate; KS 38,00; NS 75,00; HS 125,00 |
| Aluminian-Jarosite xx | Pine Ridge, Superior, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming / USA; yellowish- brown microcrystalline aggregates of an unusual Aluminum-rich Jarosite, very rich on fracture zones on pale brownish clay-schist matrix; KS 14,00; NS 19,00 |
| Aluminite | Morl, Halle, Saxony Anhalt, Germany / TYP; massive white aggregates of pure microcrystaline Aluminite. Morl is the Type-locality for Alumnite, first described from there in 1807. The few new available specimens were found accidentally during construction works in summer of 2010; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Aluminite | Newhaven, East Sussex, England / UK; globular white 3 cm aggregates of pure Aluminite; KS 19,00 |
| Aluminoceladonite xx | Agios Ioannis, Mt. Kouvara, Andros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; colorles-white tabular crystals of 1 mm, very rich with red Piemontite crystals as layer-like structures in metamorphic Quartzite; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Aluminocerit-(Ce) xx | Casette Quarry, Montoso, Ortieul, Infernotto Valley, Cuneo, Piedmont / Italien; rosa farbige um 0,5 mm große glasige Kristalle, sehr reich auf flachen Kluftzonen auf Granit Matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Alumino-Magnesiotaramite xx | Mbwewe, Bagamoyo, Pwani Region / Tanzania; glassy dark-grayish green crystals of 3 mm, very rich in glassy grayish Anorthite matrix, in association with some pinkish Cordierite crystals to 5 mm and tiny yellowish Titanites; KS 38,00 |
| Aluminotaramite (xx) | Cape Marmari, Grammata Bay, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; glassy pale-brownish long-prismatic 2 mm crystals, very rich in an ultra-high-pressure metamorphic Glaucophane-Muscovite matrix; KS 65,00; NS 125,00 |
| Alumoakermanite xls | Durham Ranch, Wright, Reno Junction, Campbell Co., Wyoming / USA; orange-brownish bright luster stalactite-like crystals clusters of 3 cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS). Very nice and very unusual specimens discover in a small 40 cm large pocket zone in Paralava; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Alumo-chrompicotite (xx) | Cliff Quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland / UK; black massive aggregates of pure Alumo-chrompicotite, newly-examined old specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Alumo-Lizardite (xx) | Agios Stavros, Marlas, Tinos Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; highly lustrous dark-green tabular crystals of 2 cm intergrown to massive aggregates of pure Aluminum-rich Lizardite; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Alumotantite xx | Alto do Giz Pegmatite, Equador, Rio Grande do Norte / Brazil; this rare Aluminum-Tantalum-Oxide forms colourless to pale greenish glassy crystal aggregates of 2 mm in a 1 cm (MM) to 1,5 cm (KS) orange brownish Simpsonite crystal; |
| Alunit xx | Bomboly Hill, Mád, Zempléni Mts., Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Co. / Ungarn; sehr schöne Kristallaggregate aufgebaut aus braunen gefärbten (durch Hämatit Einlagerung) hochglänzenden um 5 mm großen Kristallen; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Alunogen xx | Becker Shaft, Hänichen, Bannewitz, Dresden, Saxony / Germany; white to pale yellow crystals of 2 mm, very rich on a matrix of massive Alunogen. Very good historic specimens collected around 1890; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Alwilkinsite-(Y) xls | Val Daone Mine, Limes, Daone Valley, Trento Prov., Trentino-Alto Adige / Italy; the new very rare Y-Uranyl-Sulfate, forms yellow tiny crystals on Quartz matrix; MM 85,00 |
| Amarantite xx | Mina Quetana, Chuquicamata, Calama, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; highly lustrous transparent orange-brown crystals |
| Amarantite xls | Cuya, Cuesta de Camarones, Arica, I Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; nice crystal clusters of bright orange-red-brownish crystals of 4 cm !. These are the largest Amarantite crystals I have ever seen (or heard of); KS 48,00; NS 95,00 |
| Amblygonite X | Laranjeiras claim, Galiléia, Minas Gerais / Brazil; highly lustrous pale yellow transparent gemmy single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS). Amblygonite in gemmy crystals is very uncommon; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Ambrinoite xx | Cava di Signols, Oulx, Val di Susa, Torino, Piemonte / Italy / TYP; orange-red spots of 0.5 mm in pale Anhydrite matrix; |
| Ambrinoite xx | Cava di Signols, Oulx, Val di Susa, Torino, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; orange-red isolated crystals of 0,5 mm in pale Anhydrite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Ameghinite (xx) | Tincalayu Mine, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Sijes, Salta Prov. / Argentinia / TYP; colorless glassy luster massive samples of pure Ameghinite. The rare Sodium-Hydrogen-Borate are only known from old samples from the Type location, collect around 1970; |
| Ammineite xx | Caleta Pabellon de Pica, Punta Colina, Iquique, I Region / Chile / TYP; blue crystal aggregates of 1 mm, very rich on vugs on Hallite matrix. Ammineite is the first mineral with a Ammine (NH3) complex. The new Copper mineral was discover by me in April 2007. There are only a limited amount of good specimens known; KS 95,00 - 125,00 |
| Ammonioalunite xx | Grube Anna, Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany; pale yellow micro-crystalline aggregates, very rich with colorless Tschermigite on matrix; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Ammonioborite xx | Larderello, Pomarance, Pisa Prov., Tuscany / Italy / TYP; white parallel-growing 2 mm crystal clusters of 1 mm prismatic crystals, together with tabular white 2 mm Sassolite crystals in a small vial. Collected around 1920 in a hot boric acid spring; MM 38,00 |
| Anatacamite xx | La Vendida Mine, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile / TYP; dark green high lustrous crystals of 1 mm. Grown as triangular wing-like crystals attached on long prismatic Atacamite crystals; KS 75,00 |
| Anatase xls | White Mts., Mono Co., California / USA; dark blue diamond luster 1 mm crystals, very rich grown on Quartz crystals. Nice specimens from anew find; KS 12,00 |
| Andalusite xl | Bluebird Mine, Vitrefrax Hill, Obregon, Cargo Muchacho Mts., Imperial Co., California / USA; pale brownish well formed double terminated single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS). Nice and unique specimens from a rare location; |
| Andersonite xls | Yellow Cat, Thompson District, Grand Co., Utah / USA; this rare Na-Ca-Uranyl-Carbonate forms pale green glassy cubic crystals of |
| Andersonite xx | Eureka Mine, Castell-estaó, El Pallars Jussà, Lleida, Catalonia / Spain; glassy pale green crystals to 1 mm, very rich on Sandstone matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Andesine xx | Iwo Island, Vulcano Islands, Ogasawara Archipelago, 1000 km S/E of Tokyo / Japan; crystal aggregates of 1.5 cm with grayish prismatic crystals to 1 cm; MM 19,00 |
| Andorite xls | Pulacayo Mine, Huanchaca, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Potosi Dept. / Bolivia; dark-brown metallic well terminated crystals of 3 mm, together with Pyrite crystals on large cavities in Quartz matrix. Old newly examined samples, collect around 1900; |
| Andorite xx | Chañarcillo, Copiapó, Atacama Desert, III Region / Chile; grey-metallic crystals of 5 mm, very rich on typical black Chanarcillo schist matrix. Andorite has never before been described from Chanarcillo. Old specimens, newly examined, collected around 1880; KS 75,00; NS 185,00 |
| Andradite xls | Wheeler Ridge, Bishop, Inyo Co., California / USA; orange-brownish bright luster crystals of 1 cm, with dark greenish Chamosite crystals on cavities in massive Garnet matrix. Nice specimens from a new find; KS 14,00; NS 28,00 |
| Andradite xx | Mina La Valenciana, Morro de Yeso, Malargüe, Mendoza / Argentina; transparent green gemmy crystals of 4 mm, very rich on a Hematite-Garnet matrix. Nice specimens from a rare location; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Andradite xx | Ocna de Fier, Vaskö, Banat Mts., Caraş-Severin Co. / Romania; yellowish-brown bright luster crystals up to 1 cm, very rich on Calcite matrix. Pretty and old specimens; NS 28,00 |
| Angarfite xx | Angarf-South Pegmatite, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Prov., Souss-Massa-Draâ Region / Morocco / TYP; highly lustrous golden-brownish 0,5 mm needle crystals on a dark Phosphate matrix. Only a few small 3 mm size specimens available; Capsule 85,00 |
| Angastonit xx | Penrice Quarry, Angaston, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Range, Süd Australien / Australien / TYP; weiße säulige um 1 mm große Kristalle, sehr reich als dichter Kristallrasen auf großen Kluftzonen in brauner Limonit Matrix; MM 75,00; KS 125,00 |
| Anglesite xx | Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Prov., Sardinia / Italy; transparent pale grey single crystals of 3,5 cm (KS) or as transparent 1 cm crystals on vugs in massive Galena matrix (NS). Old specimens collected around 1920; KS 38,00; NS 28,00 |
| Anhydrite xx | Kohnstedt Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia / Germany; white prismatic idiomorphic crystals of 1 cm, grown on massive Anhydrite matrix (NS), or as nice crystal clusters (floaters) of 2,5 cm (KS). This are this finest German Anhydrite specimens I have seen any time; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Anhydrite xx | Niedersachsen Potash Works, Wathlingen, Celle, Lower Saxony / Germany; transparent pale yellow prismatic crystals of 1,5 cm, very rich on massive Anhydrite matrix. Historic specimens collected around 1930; NS 48,00; HS 95,00 |
| Anhydrite xx | Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz Mts., Thuringia / Germany; well terminated pale violet prismatic single crystals of 1,5 cm (KS) to 2,5 cm (NS), very nice; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Ankangit (xx) | Corinto, Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Brasilien; schwarze nadelige um 5 mm große Kristalle in farblosem Quarz; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Ankangite xx | Monte Arsiccio Mine, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Prov., Tuscany / Italy; highly lustrous idiomorphic black-metallic crystals on Calcite-Barite matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Annabergite xx | Km-3 Mine, Lavrion, Lavrion Mining District, Atika / Greece; lustrous bright apple-green radial tabular crystal aggregates of |
| Annite xx | Autum Pegmatite, Randijaur, Jokkmokk, Lappland / Northern Sweden; lustrous well terminated 6-sided black crystals of 4 cm, grown on pale brownish Feldspar matrix. These are the finest Annite crystal specimens I have ever seen. New discovery of July 2013; |
| Anorthit xx | Miyake Island, Izu Archipel, Tokyo Pref., Japan; um 2 cm große Kristallaggregate aufgebaut aus um 1 cm großen scharfkantigen farblosen Kristallen; KS 19,00 |
| Anorthite xls | Toalde la Foia, Monzoni Mts.,Fassa Valley, Trentino-Alto Adige / Italy; waxy orange crystals of 1 cm on cavity in Albite-Augite- Spinel matrix. Pretty specimens, collected around 1900; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Anorthite xls | Torbjornsbu Mine, Arendal Iron Mines, Arendal, Aust-Agder / Norway; "pseudomorphs from Anorthite after Scapolite crystals". Orange-red long prismatic "crystals" of 8 mm, very rich on Quartz matrix. Very rare and nice pseudomorphs. Old time specimens collect around 1880; KS 38,00 |
| Ansermetite xx | Fianell Mine, Ausserferrera, Val Ferrera, Grischun / Switzerland / TYP; flat dark red crystal aggregates of 5 mm, very rich on fracture zones in pale brownish Quartzite matrix. Outstanding specimens from a new find of this rare Manganese vanadate; |
| Anthoinite xx | Kirimbari Hill, Akagera National Park, Nguzi, Kibungo Prov. / Rwanda; white aggregates of minute crystals, with some yellowish-brown Ferritungstite on vugs in eroded Ferberite aggregates; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Anthophyllite xx | Cape Grammata, Grammata Bay, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; gemmy green long-prismatic 1 cm crystals, intergrown to massive aggregates with some Quartz; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Anthracene xx | Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden, Saxony / Germany / TYP; colourless tabular crystals of 3 mm very rich on native Sulfur. Anthracene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with the formula C14H10; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Anthraxolite | Wadh, Khuzdar District, Balochistan / Pakistan; black some millimeter large asphalt-like inclusion in glass-clear bright luster double terminated 3 cm large Quartz crystals. Wonderful specimens from a few find; KS 19,00 |
| Antimon (xx) | Pluton Creek, Bontaba, Mareeba, North-Queensland / Australien; weiß metallische hochglänzende um 3 cm große massive Aggregate in hellbrauner Stibiconit Matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Antimony xl | Kalliosalo Granite Quarry, Nurmo, Seinäjoki, Western and Inner Finland Region / Finland; silver white metallic bright luster single crystals of 1 cm (MM) to 1,5 cm (KS) of native Antimony !! Collect around 1975, very unique specimens; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Antimony xls) | Kalliosalo, Seinäjoki, Western and Inner Finland Region / Finland; massive silver-white metallic 3-cm aggregates of native Antimony with 5 mm Antimony crystal cleavages; KS 38,00 |
| Antipinite xx | Pabellon de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Prov., Tarapaca Region / Chile / TYP; sky-blue glassy micro crystalline aggregates of |
| Antlerit xx | Mina Chuqui, Chuquicamata, Calama, II-Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; dunkelgrüne um 1 cm mächtige gangartige Kristallpartien, sehr reich in Andesit Matrix. Hervorragende Stufen des nicht so häufigen Kupfersulfats; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Antlerit xx | Heinrich Schacht, Planitz, Zwickau, Sachsen / Deutschland; grüne hochglänzende Kristalle, verwachsen zu um 2 mm großen radialen Kristallaggregaten auf heller Schiefer Matrix. Antlerit aus Deutschland ist relativ selten; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Apatite-(CaCl) xx | Lavra de Chapadinha, Aqueana, Aracuai, Minas Gerais / Brazil; pale greenish-grey botryoidal crystal aggregates, together with some brownish Eosphorite, very richly scattered on Quartz crystals. The development of Apatite-(CaCl), the former "Chlorapatite," in a granite-pegmatite is very unusual; NS 38,00 |
| Apuanite xx Versiliaite xx | Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Prov., Tuscany / Italy / TYP; black prismatic crystals to 1 mm, with some black tabular Versiliaite to 0,5 mm on vugs in Barite, very good specimen; NS 65,00 |
| Aragonite xx | Los Molinillos - La Vacariza, Minglanilla, Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha / Spain; nice crystal clusters of pale violet to colorless 4 cm crystals with a 6-sided cross-section; NS 28,00; HS 48,00 |
| Arandisite (xx) | Stiepelmann Mine, Arandis, Swakopmund, Erongo Region / Namibia / TYP; yellowish green glassy transparent crystal aggregates of 1,5 cm of pure Arandisite in Quartz Cassiterite matrix. Very good specimens from the rare and unique Tin silicate; KS 38,00; NS 68,00 |
| Ardennite-(As) xx | Mt. Vassiliko, Katakalaii, Andros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; orange-yellowish-brown acicular aggregates of 2 cm of inter grown long prismatic Ardennite-(As) crystals of 1 cm. Together with brownish acicular to mica-like aggregates of Gonyerite and black Cryptomelane in Quartz matrix; KS 38,00; NS 48,00 |
| Ardennite-(V) xls | Kawaguchi, Kamogawa River, Saijyo, Ehime Pref., Shikoku Island / Japan; this rare Vanadium bearing Mn-Al-Silicate forms orange brownish acicular crystal aggregates of 5 mm, with Piemontite and Braunite in Quartz matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Argandite xls | Pipji Glacier, Pipjitälli, Turtmann Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; the extremely rare Manganese Vanadate, occurs as 60 µm large orange crystals together with Pyrobelonite and Reppaite. And forms 2 mm large crystal aggregates on thin fracture zones in Jacobsite-Kutnohorite matrix; KS 125,00 |
| Argento-Famatinit xx | Vein 14, Level 390, Mina Herminia, Julcani District, Angaraes Prov., Huancavelica / Peru; dunkelbraun metallische sehr reiche Kristallaggregate, neben grau metallischen Bournonit Kristallen auf einer Matrix aus Freibergit, Baryt und Quarz; |
| Argentotetrahedrite xls | Keno Hill, Mayo Mining District, Yukon Territory / Canada / TYP; the new rare Silver mineral forms grey metallic bright luster |
| Arisit-(Ce) xx | Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Montreal, Québec / Canada / TYP; beige-farbige glimmerartige um 1 mm große Kristallrosetten neben orange-braunen um 5 mm großen Kentbrooksit Kristallen, auf Kluftzonen in Syenit Matrix; MM 85,00; KS 125,00 |
| Arisite-(La) xls | Aris Phonolite Quarry, Aris, Windhoek, Khomas Region / Namibia /TYP; transparent pale yellowish hexagonal tabular single crystal of 1,5 mm, on vugs in Phonolite matrix, some together with Tuperssuatsiaite or Labuntsovite-(Ca); KS 48,00 |
| Arisite-(La) xx | Aris Quarry, Windhoek, Khomas Region / Namibia / TYP; pale yellowish transparent hexagonal tabular single crystal, together with brownish Tuperssuatsiaite on vugs in Phonolite matrix; KS 85,00 |
| Aristarainite xx | Eagle Borax Spring, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; colorless highly lustrous transparent tabular crystals up to 2 mm, very rich on vugs in a massive evaporate matrix of Halite, Blödite and Thenardite crystals. These are the finest known specimens of this extremely rare Sodium Magnesium Borate; KS 65,00; NS 95,00 |
| Aristarianite xx | Eagle Borax Spring, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; highly lustrous white crystals to 0,4 mm, together with tabular |
| Armangite xx | Brattfors Gruvan, Nordmark, Vermland / Sweden; black blocky 1 mm crystals with brownish tabular Katoptrite in Calcite-Garnet-matrix; Capsule 65,00; MM 125,00 |
| Armenite xls | Isenwegg, Wasen Alp, Ganter Valley, Simplon Pass, Brig, Wallis / Switzerland; the rare Barium Silicate of the Osumilite group forms colorless to white pseudo-hexagonal long prismatic crystals of 5 mm, very rich on alpine clefts zones in Zoisite-Celsian-Muscovite-Gneiss matrix. Nice specimens from a recent find in July of 2016; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Armenite xx | Isenwegg, Wasenalp, Ganter Valley, Simplon Massif, Brig, Wallis / Switzerland; very nice thumbnail size specimens with white prismatic crystals of 5 mm (KS) to 1 cm (NS) on a matrix of massive Armenite and Quartz; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Arsenbrackebuschite xx | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango / Mexico; 1 cm druses of sharp orange-brownish crystals in a matrix of massive greenish-brown massive Tsumcorite and colorless highly lustrous 5 mm Mimetite crystals. Very attractive specimens; KS 48,00; NS 65,00 |
| Arsenic (xx) | Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; a 2.5 cm black stalactite of native Arsenic !! I have never seen a native Arsenic like this before; KS 38,00 |
| Arsenic xx | St. Andreasberg, Harz Mts., Lower Saxony / Germany; black long prismatic 2 mm crystals, inter grown to 1,5 cm large crystal aggregates, with some reddish Realgar on a matrix of Quartz crystals. Crystals of native Arsenic from St. Andreasberg are very rare; NS 125,00 |
| Arsenic xx | Akadani Mine, Fukui, Chubu Region, Honshu Island / Japan; dark grey crystal balls of 1 cm (MM) to 2 cm (KS) with inter grown |
| Arsenic xx | Block 1205, Nelson vein, Sohle 675, Schacht 366, Alberoda, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; long-prismatic grayish-black idiomorphic crystals to 2 mm, very rich with some red Realgar on vugs in native Arsenic. Idiomorphic crystals of native Arsenic are extremely rare in German ore deposits; MM 28,00; KS 75,00; NS 148,00 |
| Arsen-Miargyrit (xx) | Mina Palomo, Castrovirreyna Prov., Huancavelica / Peru; schwarze sehr reiche Aggregate aufgebaut aus winzigen Kristallen in Quarz; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Arsenolamprite (xx) | Mina Alacrán, Alacrán, Tierra Amarilla, III Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; silver white metallic long tabular crystals up to 1 cm as vein like aggregates in native Arsenic. Top specimens collect all-round 1980; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Arsenolite xls | Wolfgang Maaßen Mine, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; colorless bright luster tiny pyramidal crystals, very rich on native Arsenic, Nickeline and Nickelskutterudite; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Arsenopyrite xls | St. Lampertus Mine, Zechenberg, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Saxony / Germany; silver white metallic 4 mm crystals very rich as a |
| Arsiccioite xx Protochabourneite xx | Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Tuscany / Italy / TYP; this new very rare Ag-Hg-Tl-As-Sulphide Arsiccioite forms red metallic 0,3 mm crystal aggregates, together with the new black metallic Tl-Pb-As-Sulphide Protochabourneite, on cavities in Quartz Pyrite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 48,00 |
| Arsiccioite xx Protochabourneite xx | Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Tuscany / Italy / TYP; this new very rare Ag-Hg-Tl-As-Sulphide Arsiccioite forms red metallic 0,3 mm crystal aggregates, together with the new black metallic Tl-Pb-As-Sulphide Protochabourneite, on cavities in Quartz Pyrite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 48,00 |
| Arthurite xx | Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Callington Corrnwall, England / UK / TYP; pale green crystals of 1 mm, very rich on vugs and fracture zones in Quartz matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Artinite xx | Artinite Pit, Clear Creek Canyon, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California / USA; white radial accicular velvety cystals balls of 1,5 cm, very rich on large fracture zones on greenish Antigorite matrix. Absolulty superb specimens from a new discover pocket zone in February 2014; KS 28,00; NS 38,00; HS 85,00 |
| Artroeite xx | Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Prov., Campania / Italy; highly lustrous, colorless to white, needly to acicular crystal aggregates of 2 mm, on vugs in brownish Lava matrix. Outstanding specimens of this rare Lead-Aluminum-Fluoride; |
| Artsmithite xx | Funderburk Prospect, Pike Co., Arkansas / USA / TYP; silky white needle aggregates with some beige Calomel crystals and Cinnabar on Quartz; MM 148,00 |
| Ashanite (xx) | Röjmyrheden Pegmatite, Varuträsk, Skellefteå, Västerbotten / Sweden; highly lustrous black sub- metallic crystal aggregates to |
| Ashburtonite xx | Anticline prospect, Ashburton Downs, West Australia / Australia / TYP; sky-blue crystals up to 0,3 mm very rich on vugs tan schist-matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Ashcroftine-(Y) xls | Narsaarsuk Pegmatite, Narsaarsuk Plateau, Narsaq, Kujalleq/ Greenland / TYP; pale pinkish needle crystal aggregates of 3 mm on cavities in Nepheline matrix; KS 48,00 |
| Ashcroftine-(Y) xx | Mont Saint Hilaire, Montreal, Quebec / Canada; highly lustrous pale pinkish needle crystals of 3 mm on Albite Aegirine matrix; MM 38,00 |
| Askagenite-(Nd) (xx) | Åskagen Quarry, Torskebäcken, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; deep black prismatic crystals and aggregates of 3 cm with grayish brown Neodymium dominant Allanite and orange-brown Allophane in Feldspar matrix. Very rich specimens of the new rare Nd-Mn-Silicate of the Allanite group; KS 48,00; NS 95,00 |
| Aspidolite xx Magnesiosadanagaite | Kasuga Mine, Kasuga-mura, Gifu Pref., Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; highly lustrous, pale brownish, mica-like tabular crystals to 1 mm together with dark brownish Magnesiosadanagaite crystals to 0.5 mm in Calcite matrix; MM 95,00 |
| Astrophyllite xls | St Peters Dome, Cheyenne Mts., El Paso Co., Colorado / USA; bright golden-brown elongated tabular crystals of 3 cm, very rich in Quartz-Feldspar matrix. Nice specimens from a new find; KS 19,00; NS 28,00; HS 65,00 |
| Atencioite xx | Lavra de Poco D´Antas, Piaui Creek, Itinga, Minas Gerais / Brazil; olive-green spherical crystal aggregate, together with pale brownish long prismatic Childrenite crystals of 2 cm, very rich as a crystal crust fully covering large Quartz crystals and Albite crystal aggregates. These new specimens are the finest known of this rare Beryllium Phosphate of the Roscherite group. To analyse Atencioite is very complicated. Besides exact microchemical analyses it needs a full crystallographic examination. The result of both tests has shown that these olive-green spherical crystals are the finest known of the species; NS 75,00 - 185,00 |
| Athabascaite xls | Hal Lake Selenium Occurrence Nr. II, Uranium City, Beaverlodge Lake, Saskatchewan / Canada; the rare Copper-Selenide forms dark violet metallic idiomorphic crystals up to 2 mm, very rich with some white Albite on Rhyolite matrix. This specimens are the finest Athabascaite crystals ever find; KS 148,00; NS 285,00 |
| Aubertite xx | Mina Santa Elena, La Alcaparrosa, Calingasta, San Juan / Argentina; Turquoise colored glassy crystal aggregates of 5 mm, together with white fibrous aggregates of Pickeringite and orange-brownish Botryogen crystals; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Augelite xx | Horrsjöberg, Torsby, Värmland / Sweden; glassy pale yellowish massive crystal aggregates with some pale blue Trolleite and Rutile; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Auricupride xx | Zolotaya Gora, Soimon Valley, Karabash, Chelyabinsk, Ural Mts. / Russia / TYP; copper-red metallic crystal aggregates of 1 mm, isolated in Rodingite-Serpentinite matrix; KS 38,00; NS 48,00 |
| Autunit xx | Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland; grünlich-gelbe tafelige um 5 mm große Kristalle sehr reich auf Kluftzonen in Quarz Matrix. Alte historische Stufen; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Avalite xx | Avala Mine, Mt. Avala, Beograd, Serbia / TYP; pale green tiny crystals, very rich on vugs in grayish Quartzite; KS 28,00 |
| Awaruite (xls) | Quadrada, Selva, Poschiavo Valley, Grischun / Switzerland; the rare inter metallic mineral of Nickel and Iron occurs as yellow metallic crystals of 1 mm, as inclusions in dark greenish Serpentinite; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Axinite-(Fe) xls | Nausherwani Mine, Char Kohan, Kharan, Baluchistan/ Pakistan; nice crystal cluster of intergrown gemmy brown water clear well terminated crystals of 2,5cm (NS) to 4 cm (HS). Pretty specimens from a new find; NS 38,00; HS 65,00 |
| Azurite xx | Empress of India Mine, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory / Canada; bright lustrous dark blue crystals of 2 mm, together with green Malachite and Chrysocolla on Quartz matrix. Azurite in crystals is really rare throughout Yukon Territory or even any other Arctic regions world wide; KS 19,00; NS 48,00 |
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Capsel (capsule) = 0.1 to 0.5 cm
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Capsule= 0.1 to 0.5 cm; MM = micromounts approx. 0.5 to 1.5 cm; KS = small piece approx. 1.5 to 4 cm.
NS = average-sized piece approx. 4 to 7 cm; HS = hand-sized piece 7 to 10 cm; GS / MS = museum-sized pieces larger than 10 cm.