Minerals C

Cacoxenite xls

Leveäniemi Mine, Svappavaara, Kiruna, Lappland / Sweden; golden-yellow radial-acicular crystals aggregates very rich a 2 cm lagre vugs in Magnetite-Hematite matrix, old specimen collect around 1980; KS 19,00

Cacoxenite xx

Mangangrube, Ober-Rosbach, Friedbergm Taunus, Hesse / Germany; golden yellow needle crystals of 2 mm, very rich on vugs in brownish Goethite matrix. Very good specimens collected around 1920; NS 48,00

Cafarsite xx

Wanni glacier, Monte Cervandone, Binn Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; well terminated dark brownish crystals of 5 mm, very rich on Gneiss matrix.; HS 75,00

Cahnite xls

Vallerano Quarry, Valleranello, Rome Prov., Latium / Italy; pale yellowish brown bright diamond luster tetragonal crystals of
0,3 mm beside of some colorless Phillipsite-K and Chabasite-K crystals; MM 38,00; KS 65,00

Calcioancylite-(Nd) xls

Seula Mine, Mount Camoscio, Baveno, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; pale pinkish radial acicular isolated crystal aggregate of 1 mm on white Albite matrix; KS 38,00

Calcioancylite-(Nd) xx

Seula Mine, Mount Camoscio, Baveno, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; isolated pale pinkish crystals of 1 mm on white Albite matrix; KS 48,00

Calcioancylite-(Nd) xx

Seula Mine, Mount Camoscio, Baveno, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; isolated pale pinkish crystals of 1 mm on white Albite matrix; KS 48,00

Calcio-Arsentsumebite xx

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi. Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia / TYP; pale olive-green highly lustrous crystal aggregates on vugs in blue Azurite matrix; MM 28,00

Calciobetalit xx

Elliot Lake, Algoma District, Ontario / Canada; braune glasige um 8 mm große Kristallaggregate in Calcit Matrix. Es dürften die besten bisher bekannten Calciobetalite sein.; MM 38,00; KS 75,00

Calcio-Chrysotile xx

Kyra Xeni, Marlas, Tinos Island, Aegean Sea / Greece / TYP; massive fibrous white aggregates with needle- like crystals to 2 cm. Calcium-bearing Chrysotile has been unknown in the literature till now; KS 28,00

Calciodelrioite xls

West Sunday Mine, Slick Rock District, San Miguel Co., Colorado / USA / TYP; white radial acicular botryoidal thin crystal aggregates very rich on fractures on sandstone matrix; KS 75,00

Calcio-Duftite xx

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia; very nice botryoidal aggregates of intergrown glassy green crystals. Calcio-Duftite has not previously been described from Tsumeb; MM 28,00; KS 48,00

Calcioferrite xls

Montcada Hill Quarry, Montcada i Reixac, Vallès Occidental, Catalonia / Spain; apple-green radial-acicular crystal aggregates of 5 mm, very rich on large cavities on grey slate rock matrix. Pretty specimens from a new find; KS 28,00

Calcio-Olivine

Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel Mts., Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; tan to pale-brownish microcrystalline aggregates, very rich with some dark brown Jasmundite in pale matrix; MM 19,00; KS 28,00

Calciosamarskite xls

New prospect near Platt Pegmatite, Big Creek, Carbon Co., Wyoming / USA; bright dark brownish crystal aggregates of 1 cm (KS) to 2 cm (NS), some together with Columbite-(Fe) in Feldspar-Muscovite matrix. Quite rich specimens of this rare Ca-Y-Nb-Ta-Oxide; MM 28,00; KS 65,00

Calcite xls

Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; white double terminated spindle-like crystals of 1,5 cm, together with pale brownish Siderite crystals to 1,5 cm on massive Sphalerite-Siderite matrix. Old time specimens collect around 1900; NS 75,00

Calcjarlite (xx)

St. Peters Dome, Cheyenne District, El Paso Co., Colorado / USA; this extremely rare Ca-Al-Fluoride exists as microscopic intergrowths with Thomsenolite, Ralstonite and Cryolite, as brownish to white aggregates of 1 cm in Quartz; MM 48,00; KS 85,00

Calderite xls

Schmorrasgrat, Starlera Valley, Ferrera Valley, Grischun / Switzerland; this rare Manganese-Iron-Garnet forms yellowish-brownish well terminated crystals of 3 mm, very rich in vugs in massive Calderite-Braunite-Hematite matrix. Very rich specimens from a new find; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Calderite xx

Otjosondu deposit, Okahandja, Otjozondjupa Region / Namibia / TYP; glassy orange-brownish crystals to 5 mm, very rich on black metallic Braunite matrix. Very good specimens of this rare Garnet; MM 28,00; KS 48,00; NS 125,00

Caledonite xls

Mina Victoria, Salar de Pintados, Pozo Almonte, II Region, Atacama / Chile; sky-blue bright luster crystals of 3 mm, very rich full cover crystal-crusts on Andesine matrix. Particular together with greenish brown Chlorargyrite crystals, grown on the top of the Caledonite. Beautiful and very rich specimens from a new find.; NS 48,00; HS 125,00

Callaghanit xx

Helbra, Eisleben, Mansfeld, Sachsen Anhalt / Deutschland; blaue glasige dichte Kristallaggregate, sehr reich als dichte Kristallpartien auf großen Kluftzonen in hellbrauner Matrix. Helbra im Mansfelder Land ist weltweit erst der sechste Fundort für das seltene Cu-Mg-Karbonat.; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Callaghanite xls

August Bebel slag locality, Helbra, Mansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; this rare Copper-Magnesium Carbonate occurs asa blue crystal-crust of several square-cm, together with red Cuprite and black Delafossite on 5 cm (NS) to 10 cm (HS) large Copper
crystal-trees. Pretty specimens from a new find; NS 19,00; HS 38,00

Camaronesite xx

Cuya, Cuya, Los Camarones, Arica, Atacama Desert, I Region / Chile / TYP; this new very rare Iron-Phosphate-Sulfate forms pale violet crystal aggregates, very rich on vugs and fracture zones on a Sulfate matrix. Pretty, colorful specimens; KS 125,00

Camerolaite xx

Piesky, Spania Dolina, Banská Bystrica Co. / Slowakia; pale blue botryoidal 2 cm crystal aggregates, on vugs in brownish Quartz matrix; KS 19,00; NS 38,00

Cannizzarite xls

La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands, Messina Prov, Sicily / Italy / TYP; dark gray metallic bright luster crystals up to 3 mm, very rich on Scoria matrix. Outstanding good specimens, collected in more as 400 degrees Celsius hot Fumaroles, during a highly active phases in October 2002; KS 28,00; NS 48,00; HS 185,00

Cannonite xls

Tunnel Extension No. 2 Mine, Bullion Canyon, Tushar Mts,, Piute Co., Utah / USA / TYP; pale yellowish-white crystal aggregates of 1 mm on grey-metallic Cuprobismutite matrix. Cannonite from the Type-location is very rare; MM 38,00

Canosioite (xls)

Valletta Mine, Canosio, Maira Valley, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; this very rare new Ba-Fe-Arsenate occurs as 0,5mm crystal aggregates in colorless matrix. Only a very few small samples of approx. 4 mm available; Capsule 125,00

Canosioite xls

Valletta Mine, Canosio, Maira Valley, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; the very rare new Ba-Fe-Arsenate occurs as 1 mm crystal aggregates in Quartz-Braunite matrix; MM 75,00

Canutite xls

Mina Torrecillas, Salar Grande, Iquique, I Region / Chile / TYP; this very rare new Na-Mn-Arsenate of the Alluaudite group forms brown prismatic crystals of 0,5 mm, together with Magnesiokoritnigite and Lavendulan; MM 65,00; KS 85,00

Carbonado xl

Andarai, Chapada, Diamantina, Bahia / Brazil; lustrous deep brownish crystal aggregate of 5 mm. The origin of these black Diamonds is not very clear. The most acceptable theory says they formed during a supernova in interstellar space and were brought by a giant meteorite which struck the earth approximately 1 billion years ago; MM 38,00

Carbonate-fluorapatite xx

Land Pebble Phosphate District, Polk Co., Florida / USA; beige radial-acicular crystal groups of 5 mm intergrown in parallel to 1 cm thick massive vein-like aggregates of pure Carbonate-fluorapatite. Very old historic samples; KS 28,00

Carbonate-Hydroxylapatite xx

Gua Kemit, Karang Bolong Mts., Kebumen, Java Island / Indonesia; white radial-acicular crystal aggregates as a 2 mm thick crust on vugs in massive glassy pale brownish Fluorapatite. Unique specimens from a rare location; NS 38,00

Carbonate-Montebrasite xx

Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais / Brazil / TYP; highly lustrous, pale yellowish, well terminated "floater crystals" of 3 cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS). The designation Carbonate-Montebrasite refers to the very high amount of CO2 inside crystals but outside the unit cell. The crystals have the very unusual or maybe unique characteristic, of blowing apart under pressure, higher temperature and particularly ultrasonic beams; the fragment radius can be several meters. Normal handling of the crystals is harmless, but I do not take any responsibility for any of your experiments!; KS 19,00; NS 38,00

Carletonite X

Mont Saint Hilaire, Montreal, Quebec / Canada / TYP; pale blue glassy prismatic single crystals of 6 mm (floater) collected around 1995; MM 12,00

Carlfrancisite xx
IMA 2012-033

E15-11 south stope, 11 level, Asia West, Kombat Mine, Kombat, Otavi Mts., Namibia / TYP; highly lustrous golden-yellow tabular crystals of 3 mm on manganese silicate matrix; MM 125,00

Carlhintzeite xx

Gigante Pegmatit, Punilla Dept., Córdoba / Argentinia; rich crusts of colorless crystals to 0,3 mm on Hematite Apatite matrix; MM 28,00; KS 75,00

Carlosturanite xx

Sampeyre, Val Varaita, Cuneo, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; pale brown elongated fibers up to 4 cm on serpentine matrix; KS 28,00

Carnallite xl

Bartensleben Shaft, Morsleben, Börde, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; colorless glassy well terminated single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS), old specimens; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Carpathite xx

Picacho Peak, Clear Creek Canyon, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California / USA; pale yellow brightly lustrous well terminated crystals and acicular aggregates of 1 cm very rich on vugs in Quartz matrix. (Fluoresces sky-blue under LW and SW). Superb specimens from a new find in February 2014; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Carpholite xx

Wipper Valley, Biesenrode, Harz Mts., Saxony Anhalt / Germany; yellowish-brown acicular crystal aggregates of 2 cm, very rich together with black Braunite crystals on Quartz; very good specimens from a new find; KS 19,00; NS 28,00; HS 38,00

Carrollite xx

Kamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambove, Katanga / Congo; beautiful crystal clusters (floaters) of 2 cm (MM), 2,5 cm (KS), 3,5 cm (NS) and 4,5 cm (HS) of sharp intergrown silver-white-metallic mirror-luster bipyramidal crystals to 1,3 cm. Outstanding specimens, discovered a few weeks ago during prospecting works in a small pocket zone;

Caryinit (xx)

Langban, Värmland / Schweden / TYP; orange-braune glasige hochglänzende um 3 mm große Kristallpartien, sehr reich in Diopsid-Jacobsit Matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00

Cäsium-Polylithionit xx

Myoken Pegmatite, Satomi, Kuji gun, Ibaraki Pref., Honshu Island / Japan; farblose tafelige um 2 mm große Kristalle, verwachsen zu massive Aggregaten aus reinem Cäsium reichem Polylithionit; MM 28,00; KS 48,00

Cassiterite X

Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay / Myanmar; black highly lustrous single crystals of 3 cm. Only two specimens available; KS 75,00

Cassiterite xls

Sabsar Pegmatite, Shengus, Haramosh Mts, Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan/ Pakistan; lustrous black bright well terminated twinned single crystals of 2 cm (MM) to 2,5cm (KS). Nice Cassiterite crystals from a Pegmatite are quite unusual; MM 19,00; KS 38,00

Cassiterite xls

Mina Siglo Vente, Llallagua, Bustillo Prov., Potosi Dept. /Bolivia; Cassiterite xls + Sphalerite xls and Quartz xls, together forming a pseudomorph after Franckeite crystals,comprising freestanding brownish crystal aggregates of 1 cm on 2 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS) large well terminated Pyrite crystals, very unique specimens; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Cassiterite xx

Mina San Antonio, Viloco, Loayza Prov., La Paz Dept. / Bolivia; brown bright luster well terminated single crystals of 3 cm (KS) and nice crystal cluster of 4 cm (NS). This crystals are transparent by transmission light !. Pretty specimens from a new find;
KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Catapleiit (xx)

Mt. Kaskasnyunchorr, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula / Rußland; "Pseudomorphosen von Catapleiit + Gaidonnayit nach Zirsinalit Kristallen". Aggregate aus hellbraunen blockigen um 5 mm großen Kristallen auf Aegirin Matrix; KS 48,00; NS 75,00

Catapleiite xx

Eikaholmen Island, Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold / Norway; pale orange-brownish thick-tabular crystals of 2 cm, very rich together with Feldspar, Aegirine and Astrophyllite. Nice and historic specimens collected around 1880; NS 65,00

Cejkaite xx

Eureka Mine, Castell-estaó, El Pallars Jussà, Lleida, Catalonia / Spain; tiny pale yellow crystals, very rich on a Sandstone matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Celsian xls

Gun Claim, 4 km s/e of Wilson Lake, 16 km s/e of Mt. Itsi, 155 km n/e of Ross River, Yukon Territory / Canada; this rare Barium-Silicate occurs here as pale blue well terminated prismatic crystals of 1 mm, very rich on large cavities on a blue massive Celsian matrix. Unique specimens from a remote location on the "end of the world"; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Celsian xx

Benallt Mine, Rhiw, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales / UK; colorless long-prismatic crystals of 3 mm, very rich in large vugs in a Tephroite matrix. Celsian crystals are very uncommon; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Cerchiaraite-(Fe) xls

Big Creek, Pine Flat Lake, Trimmer, Fresno Co., California / USA / TYP; dark green radial accicular crystal aggregates of
5 mm, very rich in Sanbornite-Quartz matrix. Very good specimens of the rare Barium-Iron-Silicats; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Cerianit-(Ce) (xx)

Morro do Ferro, Pocos de Caldas, Minas Gerais / Brasilien; schwarze hochglänzende massive Aggregate aus reinem Cerianit-(Ce), zum Teil mit Kristallen in einigen Kluftzonen innerhalb des massiven Cerianit-(Ce) Aggregate.
Einmalige Proben gefunden um 1955; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Cerite-(Ce) (xls)

Bastnäs Mine, Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland / Sweden / TYP; pale violet glassy crystal aggregates of 1 cm, together with dark brownish Ferriallanite-(Ce). Very rich specimen; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Cerite-(Ce) xx

Casette Quarry, Montoso, Ortieul, Infernotto Valley, Cuneo, Piedmont / Italy; glassy pale pinkish 0,5 mm crystals very rich on vugs in a Granite matrix; KS 28,00

Cerussite xx

Touissit, Oujda-Angad Prov., Oriental Region / Marocco; colorless to beige transparent gemmy crystal clusters of 3 cm (floaters) with crystals to 1,5 cm. Beautiful and low priced specimens; KS 19,00

Cerussite xx

Ongin Mine, Whanghae Do / North Korea; lustrous silky white 1 cm prismatic Cerussite crystals inter- grown to 2 cm crystal aggregates of pure Cerussite. I have never before heard of a Cerussite specimen from North Korea; KS 38,00

Chalcanthite (xx)

Mina Quetana, Chuquicamata, Calama, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; glassy blue crystal aggregates of 3 cm, partly inter grown with some white Quartz. Nice colorful specimens; KS 19,00; NS 38,00; HS 95,00

Chalcanthite xls

Huber stock, Krasno, Horni Slavkov, Bohemia / Czech Republic; sky blue glassy crystals of 4 mm, very rich beside of some colorless needle-like Gypsum crystals on Quartz matrix. Nice and old specimens collect around 1960; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Chalcanthite xx

Tulsequah Chief Mine, Mt. Eaton, north of Taku River, Whitewater Mts., 57 km east Juneau (Alaska), British Columbia / Canada; wonderful crystal clusters of gemmy sky-blue crystals of 2 - 3 cm. These are the nicest Chalcanthite specimens I have seen for many years. They were found during current prospecting work in an old mining tunnel. There are also some nice pictures available of the old underground working; KS 28,00 - 48,00; NS 65,00 - 185,00

Chalcoalumit xx

Mina Copaquiri, Guatacondo, Iquique, I Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; intensiv cyanid-blaue radialstrahlige kugelige um 2 mm großen Kristallaggregate dicht verwachsen zu botryoidalen Kristallkrusten auf großen Kluftzonen in Allophan-Gips Matrix. Es sind mit Abstand die schönsten Chalcoalumit Stufen die ich je sah; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Chalcocite xls

Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Redruth, Cornwall, England / UK; dark-blue metallic well terminated crystals to 5 mm, very rich on Bornite matrix. Old time specimens collect around 1900; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Chalcocite xx

Eisleben, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony Anhalt / Germany; dark bluish-grey metallic crystal aggregates of 1,5 cm with Calcite crystals on black copper-slate matrix; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Chalcomenite xls

Hal Lake Selenium Occurrence Nr. I, Uranium City, Beaverlodge Lake, Saskatchewan / Canada; the Copper Selenite forms bright sky-blue crystals up to 2 mm, very rich as 2 cm large crystal aggregates on fracture zones in Rhyolite matrix. Very nice specimens from a new find; MM 19,00; KS 38,00; NS 95,00

Chalcomenite xx

Mina El Dragón, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Potosí Dept. / Bolivia; glassy blue prismatic crystals to 1 mm, in vugs and oxidation crusts on massive Krutaite-Penroseite matrix. Some in association with Malachite and pale-blue to brownish Allophane. Rich specimens of this uncommon Copper Selenite; MM 19,00; KS 28,00

Chalcophanite xls

Villia Mine, Villia, Plaka, Lavrion, Attikí Pref. / Greece; grey-black bright metallic luster tabular crystals of 1 mm, very rich on large vugs in Goethite-Calcite matrix. Very nice a rich specimens of the uncommon Zinc-Manganese-Oxide;
KS 19,00; NS 38,00

Chalcophyllite xx

Piesky Mine, Spania Dolina, Banska Bystrica Co., Slovakia; tabular green crystals of 1,5 mm, very rich together with blue Azurite on 3 cm pockets in Quartz-Muscovite matrix. Pretty specimens from a new find; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Chalcopyrite xls

Bollnbach Mine, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; yellow metallic well terminated crystal of 1 cm, grown on a crystal aggregate of 2 cm large pale brownish Siderite crystals. Nice old time specimens, collect around 1920; NS 95,00

Chalcopyrite xls

Reynolds Mine, Summitville, Rio Grande Co., Colorado / USA; very nice several centimeter large crystals clusters of bright yellow metallic tabular crystals. This are surrounding pseudomorphs after Coverlet crystals. Outstanding stunning specimens, collect around 1950; KS 38,00; NS 85,00; HS 320,00

Chalcosiderite xx

Schneckenstein cliff, Kielberg Mt., Vogtland, Saxony / Germany; glassy pale green crystal aggregates of 1 cm, together with Quartz crystals in vugs in Quartz matrix. Pretty specimens collected around 1950; KS 28,00; NS 65,00

Chalcosiderite xx

Tannenberg Mine, Mühlleithen, Klingenthal, Vogtland, Saxony / Germany; green glassy radial crystal balls, very rich completely coating on 2 cm large vugs in Quartz matrix. This are the richest German Chalcosiderite I have seen ever; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Chalcosin xx

Eisleben, Mansfelder Land, Sachsen Anhalt / Deutschland; dunkel-blau-grau metallische um 1 cm große Kristallaggregate in Calcit; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Chalcostibite xx

Rar-el-Anz, Cherrat Wadi, Casablanca, Grand Casablanca Region / Morocco; nice crystal clusters of dark grey metallic thick-prismatic crystals of 3 cm. These crystals are covered by an intensive blue Antimony-rich Azurite = "Stibian-azurite" and green Cuproromeite. Outstanding specimens collected around 1970; KS 38,00; NS 95,00

Challacolloite xx

La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Aeolian Islands, Lipari, Sicily / Italy; glassy orange-yellow prismatic crystals of 1 mm, very rich on grayish Scoria matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00

Chamosite (xx)

Teerbau Quarry on Kehrzug, Hut valley, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony / Germany; "Pseudomorphs of Chamosite after Ilvaite". Greenish brown 1 cm large long prismatic "crystals" in Quartz matrix. Old specimens collect around 1900; NS 28,00

Chamosite xx

Planitis Island, Panormos Bay, Tinos Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; tabular green crystals of 2 mm, very rich on Albite-Quartz Matrix. Planitis is a small uninhabited Island in the Aegean Sea; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Chamosite (xx)

Haut de Cry, Chamoson, Rhone Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; massive scaly dark brownish aggregates of pure Chamosite. It is the most ugly Chamosite I have ever seen, but it comes from the type locality; KS 14,00; NS 19,00

Chanabayaite xx

Pabellon de Pica, Punta Colina, Iquique, I Region / Chile / TYP; long prismatic acicular blue crystal aggregates with greenish Sal ammoniac. This extremely rare Copper-Chlorine-ammine-triazolate is the second organometallic mineral in nature. The mineral was discovered by me during a field trip in the year 2008; KS 95,00; NS 148,00

Changoite xx

La Compañia Mine, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; highly lustrous transparent pale-yellowish 5 mm crystals and crystal aggregates, with pale greenish 3 mm crystals of Kröhnkite and colorless Caracolite crystals. Outstanding specimens of this rare Na-Zn-Sulfate; KS 75,00; NS 148,00

Chegemite xx

Mt. Lakargi, Chegem Caldera, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Northern Caucasus Region / Russia / TYP; glassy pale pinkish crystals of 3 mm, very rich, inter-grown with pale yellow Katoite-Wadalite and white Larnite; MM 38,00; KS 48,00

Chengoudaite

Harvard Mine, Jamestown, Tuolumne Co, California / USA; this extremely rare Ag-Fe-Te-S Phase has developed submicroscopic intergrowths with Acanthite. As grey metallic aggregates in Quartz, some with native Gold; MM 125,00

Cheralite xx Monazit-(Nd)

Petaca, Tusas Mts., Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico / USA; Cheralite forms waxy red brownish crystals of 5 mm inter grown in pale brownish Monazite-(Nd) / Monazite-(Ce). The Nd / Ce ratio varies between 45 to 55 %; KS 48,00; NS 85,00

Chevkinite-(Ce) xx

Arondu, Mt. Chogo Lungma, Basha Valley, Skardu, Baltistan / Pakistan; very nice crystal clusters of inter grown well terminated black prismatic crystals of 4 cm x 2 cm. Outstanding and rich specimens discovered two years ago in a remote area in the mountains of Northern Pakistan; KS 48,00; NS 75,00; HS 148,00; GS 450,00

Chiappinoite xls

Lombadas, Lake Fogo, Agua de Pau Volcano, San Miguel Island, Azores / Portugal / TYP; the outstanding rare Y-Mn-Silicate occurs as colorless prismatic crystals of 1 mm in a small cavity in Sanidine-Aegirine matrix. All known Chiappinoite specimens (less as 30 small MMs) found in a single 15 cm large eject boulder; MM 195,00

Chiavennite xls

A/S Granite Quarry, Tuften, Tvedalen, Larvik, Vestfold / Norway; pale orange-brownish tabular crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich as
2 cm x 2 cm crystal-crust on Natrolite matrix; KS 28,00

Chibaite xx
IMA 2008-067

Arakawa, Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; glassy white aggregates of 4 mm of pure Chibaite, with isometric 1 mm crystals; MM 125,00

Chiolite xls

Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord,,Kitaa Prov. / Greenland; colorless blocky ice-like massive aggregates of 3 cm. With white fine grained Topaz and some colorless Cryolite. Very good specimens of this uncommon Sodium-Aluminum-Fluoride;
KS 19,00; NS 38,00; HS 65,00

Chiolite xx

Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord,, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland; colorless blocky ice-like massive aggregates of pure Chiolite. Very good specimens of this uncommon Sodium-Aluminum-Fluoride; KS 19,00; NS 38,00

Chloritoid xx

Galgenberg, Leoben, Styria / Austria; dark green bright luster tabular crystal aggregates of 5 mm, very rich in mica-schist matrix;
KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Chlormayenite xls

Hatrurim, Negev Desert, Death Sea / Israel; very rich crystal aggregates of colorless highly lustrous crystals of 0,2 mm on dark greyish Spurrite-Calcite matrix. Very rich specimens of this rare Ca-Al-Cl-Oxide; MM 28,00; KS 48,00

Chromatite xx

Ma'aleh Adumim, Hatrurim formation, West Bank of Jordan, Palestine / TYP; very rich pale yellow aggregates of minute crystals in a tan Limestone matrix; MM 48,00

Chromatite xx

Ma'aleh Adumim, Hatrurim formation, West Bank of Jordan, Palestine / TYP; pale yellow aggregates of minute crystals, very rich in tan Limestone matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00

Chromatitexls

Ma'aleh Adumim, Hatrurim formation, West Bank of Jordan, Palestine /TYP; very rich pale yellow aggregates of minute crystals in tan Limestone matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00

Chrombismite (xx)

Mina de Posse, Brejauba, Conceicao do Mato Dentro, Minas Gerais / Brazil; orange-yellowish brown aggregates of 0,5 mm in grey Bismutit matrix; MM 125,00

Chrome-Chalcedony

Pieta Creek, 5 miles north east of Cloverdale, Mendocino Co., California / USA; massive pieces of green Chalcedony colored by Chrome compounds. This is very uncommon, as normally all green color in Chalcedony and Agates is based on Nickel. Good specimens for polishing; NS 28,00; HS 38,00

Chrome-Chalcedony xls

Harmancik Chrome Deposit, Tavsanli, Bursa Prov., Marmara Region / Turkey; olive green rounded Chrome-Chalcedony aggregates of 2,5 cm (KS) to 3,5 cm (NS). The aggregates are nearly compiled covered by bright luster small Quartz crystals. This makes the specimens very pretty. Nice specimens from a new find; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Chrome-Halloysite-10Å (Miloschite)

Mt. Rudnjak, Gokcanica, Kraljevo, Serbia / TYP; massive pale blue aggregates with some greenish Volkonskoite and brownish Nontronite; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Chrome-Omphacite xls

Barbara Lowrie, Mt. Comba Carbonieri, Pellice Valley, Piemonte / Italy; emerald green 5 cm larger prismatic crystals in pale Gedrite matrix. Very nice one side polish specimens. This is Jade in gemmy quality from a new find in the Italian Alpe Mountains.; NS 38,00

Chromian Pyrope xls

Aheim, Almklovdalen, Vanylven, More og Romsdal / Norway; violet glassy bright luster crystals of 5 mm, very rich inter grown with bright green 1 cm large Chrome-Diopsid crystals. The two minerals forms a very rare and unique type of rock. It is a "Pyrope-Clinopyroxenite"; KS 28,00; NS 38,00; HS 75,00

Chromian Diopside xx

Keretti Mine, Outokumpu, Eastern Finland Region / Finland; nice crystal cluster of grass-green prismatic crystals of 2 cm;
NS 28,00; HS 48,00

Chromian-Alumoceladonite xx

Cape Grammata, Grammata Bay, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; highly lustrous tabular green crystals of 3 mm, very rich in a pale greenish-grey acicular Diopside matrix; very nice specimens; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Chromian-Lawsonite xx

Cape Marmari, Grammata Bay, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; highly lustrous, dark pine-green to light pistachio-green, sharp rhombohedral crystals of 1 cm, very rich with some Muscovite and brown Ankerite on pale greenish Actinolite or dark blue Glaucophane matrix. This material is outstandingly good. Please look at the comments about it in several Tucson show reports (Trinity, Fabre, Irocks); KS 38,00; NS 95,00

Chromian-Lawsonite xx

Cape Marmari, Grammata Bay, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; highly lustrous, dark pine-green to light pistachio-green, sharp rhombohedral crystals of 1 cm, very rich with some Muscovite and brown Ankerite on pale greenish Actinolite on dark blue Glaucophane matrix. This material is outstanding. Please look at the comments about it in several Tucson show reports (Trinity, Fabre, Irocks); KS 38,00; NS 95,00

Chromian-Titanite X

Kondoa, Singida / Tanzania; apple-green transparent gemmy well terminated single crystals in high end gem quality; MM 28,00

Chromo-alumino-povondraite xx

American #1 Talc Mine, Balmat, St. Lawrence Co.,, New York / USA; this new member of the Tourmaline group has developed glassy dark green crystals of 1 mm, very rich in pale greenish Tremolite matrix; MM 85,00; KS 125,00

Chrysoberyl xl
"Alexandrite"

Magara Mine, Lake Manyara, Arusha, Masai Steppe / Tanzania; pale-greenish well terminated single crystals up to 1 cm, with a good color change in to bluish, and the crystals shows a cat's eye effect; MM 28,00

Chrysoberyl xx

Santa Tereza, Espírito Santo / Brasilien; highly lustrous transparent yellowish-green gemmy twinned crystals of 2.5 cm (KS), 3.5 cm (NS). Very good specimens; KS 48,00; NS 75,00;

Chrysoberyl xx
Var. Alexanderite

Carnaiba Mining District, Carnaiba, Pintobacu, Bahia / Brazil; nice matrix specimens with crystals of 1,5 cm. (KS) to 2 cm (NS) The crystals show often twinned and triplet form and a color changing from dark green to brownish; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Chrysoberyl xls

Kolsva Pegmatit, Köping, Västmanland / Sweden; greenish-yellow crystal aggregates of 2 cm with some Quartz. This is the first time I have seen a Chrysoberyl from a Swedish location; KS 28,00

Chrysocolla

Fünf Bücher Mosis Mine, St Andreasberg, Harz Mts, Lower Saxony / Germany; sky-blue botryoidale aggregates on Quartz, very nice specimens; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Chrysocolla xls

Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Prov., Campania / Italy; greenish-blue glassy long-tabular "crystals" of 5 mm. This are a very rare Pseudomorph from Chrysocolla after Tenorite. Very rare Pseudomorph, only know from Mt. Vesuvius, collect during the end of the 19th century; KS 85,00; NS 145,00

Chrysoprase

Niquelandia Complex, Niquelandia, Goias / Brazil; pale green massive layer-like aggregates of pure Chrysoprase; NS 38,00

Churchite-(Y) xls

Mt.Malosa, Zomba / Malawi; white long prismatic well terminated crystals of 1,2cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS). These crystals are pseudomorphs after giant Hingganite-(Y) crystals. Absolutely unique specimens, only two KS size and two NS size specimens available; KS 350,00; NS 650,00

Churchite-(Y) xls

Maffei Mine, Nitzelbuch, Auerbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria / Germany / TYP; silky white radial-acicular crystal aggregates up to 3 mm on very rich brownish Goethite matrix. Nice specimens of this rare Yttrium-phosphate; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Cinnabar xx

Great Western Mine, Middletown, Mayacmas Mts, Lake Co., Calfornia / USA; bright red long-prismatic crystals of 5 mm, very rich on Quartz matrix. Nice specimens from early 1940; KS 19,00; NS 28,00; HS 48,00

Cinnabar xx

Idria Mine, Idria, Ljubljana / Slovenia; red-metallic crystals of 2 mm, very rich with some native mercury on matrix. Nice specimens; KS 19,00; NS 48,00

Clairite xls

Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany; this very rare Ammonium-Iron-Sulfate occurs as glassy yellow well terminated crystals to 1 mm, together with white Rostite on colorless Tschermingite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 48,00

Claringbullite xls

Cole Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona / USA; glassy tabular blue crystal aggregates of 2 mm together with needly blue Connellite crystals on cavities in massive Cuprite matrix; KS 48,00

Claudetite xx

Crven Dol Mine, Allchar, Majdan, Kavadarci, Roszdan / Macedonia; silky white 3 mm radial-acicular aggregates with colorless Gypsum and red Realgar crystals very rich on matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Clausthalite (xx)

Eskeborn Shaft, Tilkerode, Harz Mts, Saxony Anhalt / Germany silver grey metallic vein-like aggregates of 5 mm, very rich in Calcite-Siderite-matrix. Quite good and rich specimens; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Cleusonite xls

Cleuson Lake, Nendaz Tal, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; black bright luster well terminated prismatic crystals of 3 mm on Quartz-Chlorite-matrix. Very good specimens of the rare Pb-U-Fe-Zn-Ti-Oxide. Collect in August 1997, before the flooding of the dam, the site is no longer accessible; KS 48,00; NS 95,00

Clinoatacamite xx

Mina Santa Rosa, Iquique, I Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; tiny prismatic green crystals, very rich with some Azurite on matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Clinocervantite xx

Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Prov., Tuscany / Italy; colourless long-prismatic crystals to 2 mm very rich on vugs in massive Valentinite matrix; KS 38,00

Clinochalcomenite xx

Mina El Dragón, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Potosí Dept. / Bolivia; pale blue to pale greenish-blue glassy 0,5 mm crystals and aggregates with some Allophane on Krutaite-Penroseite matrix; MM 38,00

Clinoenstatite X

Chaungyi, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay / Myanmar; transparent gemmy green Chromium- bearing Clinoenstatite crystals of
8 mm (MM) and 1,2 cm(KS). Top specimens; MM 28,00; KS 48,00

Clinoenstatite xx

Phakant, Myitkyina-Mogaung, Kachin State / Myanmar; This is a Clinoenstatite-Jade and develops semi trasparent Aggregates of 2,5 cm (KS) to 3,5 cm (NS). Clinoenstatite in gemmy quality was previously unknown; KS 48,00

Clinoferrosilite xls

Durham Ranch, Wright, Reno Junction, Campbell Co., Wyoming / USA; black bright luster long prismatic crystals of 2 mm, inter grown with colorless Tridymite to several centimeter large crystal aggregates, very rich specimens. Mindat.org has listed 16 locations for Clinoferrosilite, but I have never seen any before; KS 48,00; NS 95,00

Clinohedrite (xx)

Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey / USA / TYP; colorless-white (orange fluorescence) 5 mm aggregates, with tan (pale blue fluorescence) 1 cm aggregates of Hardystonite and brownish Andradite; KS 28,00

Clinoptilolite-K xx

Reese River Reservoir, Carico Lake Valley, 50 km north of Austin, Lander Co., Nevada / USA; massive pale beige crystal aggregates of pure Clinoptilolite-K; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Clinoptilolite-Na xx

Hector, Cady Mts., San Bernardino Co., California / USA; massive white aggregates of tiny inter-grown Clinoptilolite-Na crystals;
KS 14,00; NS 28,00

Clinothulite xx

Birch Creek, Deep Springs, Inyo Co., California / USA; bright pinkish long-prismatic crystals of 1 cm, very rich on large open veins in greenish gray mica matrix. Very nice specimens from a new find; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Clinozoisite xl

Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan / Pakistan; orange brownish transparent gemmy long prismatic single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3,5 cm (NS). Nice crystals with a unusual color; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Clinozoisite xl

Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mts.,Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan/ Pakistan; outstanding water-clear gemmy olive-green well terminated long prismatic single crystals of 2 cm (MM) to 3 cm (KS). Very nice specimens; MM 14,00; KS 19,00

Clinozoisite xx

Serra da Mangabeira, Paramirim, Bahia / Brazil; highly lustrous pale green long-prismatic crystals of 1.5 cm, very richly intergrown with Quartz crystals; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Cobaltarthurite xx

Dolores prospect, Pastrana, Mazarrón-Águilas, Murcia / Spain / TYP; pale brownish radial acicular aggregates of 1 mm on matrix; KS 28,00

Cobaltite xl

Tunaberg Cu-Co Ore Field, Tunaberg, Nyköping, Södermanland / Sweden / TYP; white metallic well terminated sharp single crystals of 5 mm; MM 12,00

Cobaltoan - Calcite xx

Kamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambowe, Katanga / Congo; gemmy deep pinkish crystals of 5 mm, very rich on large vugs in a Carbonate matrix. The intensive color and luster of the crystals is much better than those from Morocco;
KS 19,00; NS 28,00; HS 48,00

Cobaltomenite xls

Lopez Incline Mine, Temple Mts., Emery Co., Utah / USA; the rare Cobalt-Selenide forms violet red crystals aggregates of
1 mm, very rich on fracture zones on matrix; MM 19,00; KS 28,00

Cobaltzippeite xx

Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon, San Juan Co., Utah / USA / TYP; orange microcrystalline aggregates of Cobaltzippeite, with yellow Natrozippeite, pale green Johannite and greenish yellow Uranopilite on vugs in a Gersdorffite-Uraninite-bearing sandstone; MM 65,00; KS 95,00

Coconinoite xx

Yomac Mine, White Canyon, Blanding, San Juan Co, Utah / USA; pale yellow microcrystalline aggregates of 1 cm, very rich with some colorless Gypsum crystals on vugs in a Sandstone matrix; very good specimens of this uncommon Fe-Al-Uranyl-Sulfo-Phosphate; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Colemanite xx

U.S. Borax Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California / USA; colorless highly lustrous doubly terminated arrow-shaped single crystals and crystal aggregates of 4 cm! Such perfectly developed Colemanite floater crystals are very uncommon; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Colemanite xx

Corkscrew Canyon Mine, Black Mts., Death Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; colorless crystals of 3 mm, very rich as crusts covering a tan matrix, very nice specimens collected in 1980; NS 28,00; HS 38,00

Columbite-(Fe) X

Skratorp, Rade, Oslofjorden, Ostfold / Norwegen; black well terminated single crystals of 2 cm. Old historic specimen, the pegmatite's in Skratop was in operation around 1900; KS 19,00

Columbite-(Mn) xx

Alto de Furnas Pegmatite, Equador, Rio Grande do Norte / Brazil; "peculiar pseudomorphic epitaxial growth". This is an extremely unusual orientated intergrowth of 1,5 cm crystals of Columbite-(Mn) and Waylandite, but the Waylandite itself is pseudomorphic after 3 cm crystals of Bismuthinite. See my article about this in Lapis magazine 2/2011; KS 38,00

Columbite-Fe X

Jacu claim, Equador, Borborema, Rio Grande do Norte / Brazil; black prismatic single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS);
KS 19,00; NS 38,00

Columbite-Mn X

Taboa pegmatite, Carnaúba dos Dantas, Borborema, Rio Grande do Norte / Brazil; well terminated single black crystals of semi-metallic lustre, from 3 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS); KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Colusit xx

East Colusa Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana / USA / TYP; bronzefarbige hochglänzende metallische um 2 mm große Kristalle sehr reich neben etwas Pyrit im Quarz Matrix. Hervorragende Proben des seltenen Cu-V-As-Sulfosalzes;
MM 19,00; KS 38,00

Combeite xls

Lava Eruption of 1917, Ol Doinyo Lengai Vulcano, Massai Steppe, East Africa Rift Valley / Tanzania; the rare Na-Ca-Silicate forms colorless long prismatic striated crystals of 4 mm, enclosed in a grey Nepheline Aegerine Lava Matrix;
MM 48,00; KS 75,00

Compreignacite xx

Eureka Mine, Castell-estaó, El Pallars Jussà, Lleida, Catalonia / Spain; tiny pale yellow crystals together with pale green Andersonite on a Sandstone matrix; KS 38,00

Compreignacite xls

Storm Mountain Pegmatite, Storm Mountain, Larimer Co., Colorado / USA; orange-yellow crystal aggregates to 3 mm, together with some yellow Meta-Autunite on Heterosite-Muscovite matrix. Unique specimens of this rare Potassium-Uranium-Oxide;
KS 28,00

Congolite X

Bischofferode, Bleicherode, Thuringia / Germany; violett transparent single crystal of 2 mm; Capsel 48,00

Conichalcite xls
Yakhontovite

Farrington and Gilbert Mine, Garfield District, Mineral Co., Nevada / USA; bright green radial acicular botryoidal crystal aggregates of 3 mm. Together with black Yakhontovit and some pale blue Chrysocolla, very rich on large fracture zones in Quartz matrix. Nice specimen from a new find; KS 14,00; NS 28,00; HS 38,00

Conichalcite xx

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Otavi Bergland / Namibia; green radial-acicular botryoidal crystal aggregates with 4 mm crystal balls, very rich on Quartz-Dolomite matrix. Outstanding, rich specimens; KS 148,00; NS 285,00

Connellite xls

August Bebel slag locality, Helbra, Mansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; sky-blue crystal crust covering several square-cm on matrix. Pretty specimens; KS 28,00

Cookeite xx

Mt Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford Co., Maine / USA / TYP; "Pseudomorph after Rossmanite" very pale yellow tabular crystals of 2 mm intergrown to rounded prismatic aggregates of 2 cm on Quartz-Albite matrix. Very nice specimens of this rare pseudomorph; KS 28,00

Copper xx

Bucim Kop, Topolnica, Plackovica Mts., Strumica / Macedonia; highly lustrous, sharp and well terminated copper-colored crystals of 3 mm, very rich in vugs of massive Cuprite. Old and very unique specimens; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Coquimbite xx

Mina Javier Ortega, Huachuas, Lucanas Prov., Ayacucho Dept. / Peru; very pretty clusters of gemmy violet crystals to 2 cm. These are the largest and nicest Coquimbite crystals I have ever seen; NS 38,00 - 65,00

Cordierite xl

Nangwa, Babati, Babati District, Manyara / Tanzania; blue bright luster transparent gemmy single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS) in cut stone quality. The crystals shows a strong pleochroism (color changing) from blue to pale blue to near pale brown, depended on the direction of the transmitted light; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Coronadite xx

High Sedling Mine, Cowshill, Weardale, North Pennines, Durham Co., England / UK; the rare Lead-Manganese-Oxide forms deep dark grey sub metallic botryoidal massive aggregates of pure Coronadite together with some Quartz; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Correianevesite xx

Mina Jacáo, Galilea, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais / Brazil / TYP; lustrous brownish bi-pyramidal crystals of 2 mm, very rich on vugs in greenish-grey Triphylite matrix. Pretty specimens for a new species; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Corrensite

Autobahn road cut north of Lothe, Nordrhein-Westfalen / Germany; this uncommon clay mineral forms greyish-brown massive pieces of pure Corrensite; KS 28,00

Cortesognoite xls
IMA 2014-029

Molinello Mine, Graveglia Valley, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy / TYP; this new Ca-V-Silicate is the Vanadium analog of Lawsonite. It forms pale brownish glassy needle-like crystals to 1 mm, mostly intergrown to vein-like crystal aggregates in a Quartz matrix; KS 65,00

Corundum xls
"Sapphire"

Hazrat Saeed, Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Prov / Afghanistan; blue bright luster well terminated long prismatic spindle-like crystals of 2 cm, very rich in brownish Muscovite matrix; KS 19,00; NS 28,00

Corundum xx
"Ruby"

Sivec Marble Quarry, Sevic Mts., Prilep, Pelagonia Massiv / Macedonia; very nice crystals cluster of bright luster pinkish to violet well terminated sharp pseudo-hexagonal crystals of 2 cm (KS) 3 cm (NS) up to 5 cm (HS). Pretty specimens from a rare location;
KS 28,00; NS 48,00; HS 125,00

Cosalit xx

Mina Bolivar, Piedras Verde, Mun. de Urique, Chihuahua / Mexiko; dunkel-grau metallische um 1 cm große nadelige freistehende Kristalle neben gelben um 5 mm großen Chalcopyrit Kristallen auf einer Matrix aus um 2 cm großen Quarz Kristallen. Es sind die besten Cosalite Kristalle die ich je sah; KS 38,00; NS 85,00

Covellite xls

Reynolds Mine, Summitville, Rio Grande Co., Colorado / USA; very pretty crystals cluster with violet metallic bright luster crystals of 1,5 cm. Nice and old specimens collect around 1950; KS 38,00; NS 95,00

Covellite xx

Mina Quebrada Blanca, Altos de Pica, evalation 4500 meter, 200 km east of Iquique, I Region / Chile; violet metallic hexagonal crystals of 5 mm, together with Pyrite crystals very rich on Quartz matrix. Nice specimens from a rare location; NS 38,00

Cranswickite xls

Calingasta, Calingasta Department,, San Juan / Argentinia / TYP; white acicular vein-like crystal aggregates of 1 cm, inter grown with some colorless Hexahydrite; KS 48,00

Creaseyite xx

Soga, Iquique, I Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; apple green needle crystals of 1 mm intergrown to radial acicular balls, with orange Mimetite, very rich on vugs in Andesite. This are the first find of the rare Cu-Pb-Silicate in South America; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Creedite xls

Mina Navidad, Abasolo, Rodeo, Durango / Mexico; colorless to very pal brownish transparent gemmy crystals of 1 cm, very rich in vugs in massive Creedite matrix. Nice specimen; NS 28,00

Cristobalite xls

Durham Ranch, Wright, Reno Junction, Campbell Co., Wyoming / USA; by inclusion of Hematite red-brownish coloreded, several square centimeter large globular crust of Cristoblaite, on grayish glassy Tridymite-Anorthite-matrix. Strange what the nature here have formed, I have never seen a such kind of mineralization before; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Crocoit xx

Callenberg Nord, Callenberg, Glauchau, Sachsen / Deutschland; orange-rote hochglänzende um bis 1,5 cm große langprismatische Kristalle, neben gelblich-grünen Pyromorphit, sehr reich auf Matrix, sehr schön farbenprächtige Stufen gefunden um 1980;
KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Cronstedtite xx

Mina Brunita, La Peraleja, Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Murcia / Spain; highly lustrous 2 mm black crystals on vugs in massive Pyrite; MM 19,00; KS 28,00

Cryolite (xx)

Cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord., Kitaa Prov. / Greenland / TYP; colorless luster crystal aggregates of 5 cm, together with some Galena and Siderite; NS 28,00

Cryolite xx

Cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord, Kitaa Prov., Greenland / DK / TYP; colorless highly lustrous idiomorphic crystals of 5 mm, very rich in on vugs in massive Cryolite. Idiomorphic crystals of Cryolite from Ivigtut are very rare; KS 48,00; NS 125,00

Cryptomelan xx

Malyi Clay Pit, Miskolc, Bükk Mts., Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Co. / Ungarn; "Pseudomorphosen nach Aggregaten von Wurzeln fossiler Pflanzen" schwarze um 0,5 mm große Cryptomelan Kristalle, verwachsen zu verästelten (korallenartigen) rundlichen Aggregaten. Sehr seltene Pseudomorphose; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Cryptomelane xls

Baptista Claim, Galileia, Minas Gerais / Brazil; the K-Mn-Oxide forms dark-grayish brown semi-metallic botroydale crystal aggregates in a size of several centimeter. Nice specimens from a new find; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Cubanite (xx)

Zinkgruvan, Askersund, Närke / Sweden; massive yellow-metallic aggregates with cleavage planes of 3 cm of pure Cubanite in Calcite matrix; NS 28,00

Cumengeite xx

Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía, Boleo, Mun. de Mulegé, Baja California / Mexico / TYP; dark blue bipyramidal 1 mm crystals overgrown with cubic crystals of an epitaxis of Pseudoboleite and Boleite. Very nice crystals and aggregates on a matrix of white Anglesite crystals; MM 19,00; KS 38,00

Cuprian-Boulangerite xx

Bayerland Mine, Pfaffenreuth, Waldsassen, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria / Germany; violet-grey metallic acicular crystals of 1,5 cm., epitaxial grown with Covellite to massive crystal aggregates with some Quartz matrix. Such epitaxie are very unusual. Old samples newly-examined, collected around 1940; KS 38,00; NS 65,00

Cuprite xx
(Chalcotrichite)

Cole shaft, Bisbee, Mule Mts., Cochise Co., Arizona / USA; very rich red needle crystals to 5 mm with some native Copper crystals in a Quartz Limonite matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Cuprobismutit (xx)

Tunnel Extension Mine, Bullion Canyon, Tushar Mts., Piute Co., Utah / USA; grau metallische um 3 mm große Kristalle, als sehr reiche Aggregate in Quarz; MM 38,00

Cuprocopiapite xls Boothite xls

Mina Quetana, Calama, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile / TYP; this new rare Copper-Iron Sulfate forms yellowish-green tabular crystals of 3 mm, very rich on a blue Boothite matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00

Cupropavonite xx

Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, Silverton, San Juan Co., Colorado / USA / TYP; grey metallic platy-prismatic crystals of 1 mm very rich in vugs in white Barite matrix; MM 38,00

Cuproromeite (xx)

Blind Spring Hill, Benton Range, Mono Co., California / USA / TYP; waxy dark green 2 cm aggregates in Quartz-Goethite matrix. Rich specimens from the type locality; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Cuprostibite

Mt. Nakalak, Taseq Lake, llimaussaq, Narsaq,, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland / TYP; violet-metallic aggregates of 5 mm, very rich in greenish Feldspar-Aegirine matrix; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Cuprotungstite xx

Carrera Pinto, Cachiyuyo de Llampos, Copiapó, III Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; glassy, vein-like, pale green crystal aggregates in colorless massive Scheelite; KS 28,00

Cuspidine xx

Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Prov., Campania / Italy / TYP; white prismatic crystals to 3 mm, together with greenish-brown glassy Vesuvianite crystals on vugs in Vesuvianite-Biotite matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Cylindrite xx

Mina Santa Cruz, Poopó, Poopó Prov., Oruro Dept. / Boliva / TYP; very nice crystal cluster of dark grey-metallic freestanding rounded 3 cm crystals on Wurtzite-Pyrite matrix. These are the finest Cylindrite specimens I have ever seen;
KS 38,00; NS 75,00; HS 185,00

Cymrit xx

Kalugeri Hill, Babuna River, Jakupica Mts., 15 km n/w of Nezilevo, Veles / Makedonien; weiße tafelige bis blockige um bis 1,5 cm große Kristalle als massive Aggregate neben Barium reichem Muskovit und Quarz. Es sind die bisher weltweit größten Cymrit Kristalle; KS 28,00; NS 38,00

Cymrite (xx)

Langban Gruvan, Langban, Värmland / Sweden; pale grey (under UV greenish-yellow) 3 mm aggregates, very rich with dark brownish 5 mm Kentrolite aggregates in Manganophyllite-Andradite matrix; KS 28,00

Cymrite xx

Kalugeri Hill, Babuna River, Jakupica Mts., 15 km n/w of Nezilevo, Veles / Macedonia; lustrous prismatic white Cymrite crystals of 1,5 cm !!!, together with Barium- bearing Muscovite in Quartz matrix. These are definitely the largest known crystals worldwide of this uncommon Barium-Aluminum-Silicate; KS 28,00; NS 38,00; HS 75,00

Cyprine xls
IMA2015-044

Ovstebo, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark / Norway / TYP; the new Copper-Calcium-Aluminum-Silicate occurs as blue glassy long prismatic crystals of 5 mm on Quartz-Fluorite matrix; KS 48,00

Cyrilovite xx

Mina Jacáo, Galilea, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais / Brazil; highly lustrous yellow crystals, very rich together with brownish Frondelite in vugs in Albite matrix. Very rich specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00; HS 95,00

Cyrtolite xx

Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay / Myanmar; waxy brownish parallel-acicular long-prismatic intergrown crystals to 3 cm; unique specimens; KS 38,00; NS 85,00

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Abbreviations:

xx = crystals
(xx)= partial or intergrown crystals
X or x = single crystal
Capsel (capsule) = 0.1 to 0.5 cm
MM = micromount approx. 0.5 to 1.0 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

Abbreviations:

xls = crystals; (xls) = partial or intergrown crystals; xl = single crystal.

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.