Minerals
Gunnar Färber
Minerals
Gunnar Färber
| Daliranit xx | Zareh Shuran Mine, Takab, Takan Tepe, West Azarbaijan Prov. / Iran / TYP; orange fein-nadelige hochglänzende Kristalle auf Kluftzonen in Auripigment Quarz Matrix. Hervorragende Exemplare des höchst seltenen neuen Hg-Pb-As-Sulfid; MM 95,00 |
| Dalyite xx | Água de Pau Volcano, San Miguel Island, Azores Isands / Portugal; colorless to pale brownish cubic crystals of 1 mm on Albite-Aegirine matrix, developed in peralkaline syenites ejecta; MM 38,00 |
| Danalit xx (xx) | Finngruvan, 401 m Sohle, Yxsjöberg, Ljusnarsberg, Örebro, Västmanland / Schweden; violett-rot-braune hochglänzende um 2 cm große Kristalle und bis 4 cm große massive Aggregate aus reinem Danalit, eingewachsen in Fluorit-Biotit-Quarz-Matrix. Hervorragende Exemplare aus einem Fund um 1980.; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Danalite (xx) | Finngruvan, 401 m Sohle, Yxsjöberg, Ljusnarsberg, Örebro, Västmanland / Sweden; the rare Iron Beryllium Silicate forms violet-reddish-brown high lustrous crystals aggregates of 2 cm, inter grown in Fluorite-Biotite-Quartz-matrix. Old classic Swedish specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Danbait (xx) | Helbra, Eisleben, Mansfeld, Sachsen Anhalt / Deutschland; Silber-weiß bis hell-rosa metallische Aggregate aus reinem massiven Danbait. Die höchst intermetallische Kupfer- Zink Verbindung, fand sich in nur wenigen Exemplaren, als primäres Mineral in einer aus dem tiefsten Mittelalter stammenden Schlacken Halde.; Capsel 48,00; MM 95,00 |
| Danbaitexl | Helbra, Eisleben, Mansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; silver-white metallic 2 mm aggregates of pure Danbaite. This very rare copper-zinc alloy was collected in a few small samples as a primary mineral in a historic find at this early medieval slag dump; Capsule 28,00 |
| Danburite xl | Cristalmayu Valley, Alto Chapare, Chapare Prov., Cochabamba Dept. / Bolivia; bright like mirror luster double terminated sharp well formed single crystals of 3 cm. The unusual grey color of this crystals based of inter growing of tiny Magnesio-riebeckite crystals, nice specimens; KS 19,00 |
| Davanite xx | Davan Stream, Chara and Tokko Rivers Confluence, Aldan Shield, Eastern Siberian Region / Russia / TYP; colorless grains of |
| Davidite-(La) X | Billeroo Prospect, Plumbago Station, Olary Prov., South Australia / Australia; dark brownish well terminated single crystals of 1,5 cm (MM) to 2,5 cm (KS); MM 48,00; KS 75,00 |
| Davreuxite (xx) | Wipper Valley, Biesenrode, Harz Mts., Saxony Anhalt / Germany; massive pale grayish-brown acicular vein-like aggregates of |
| Decrespignyite-(Y) xx | Olary Block, Paratoo Mine, Yunta, South Australia / Australia / TYP; sky-blue radial-acicular aggregates intergrown to globular aggregates, very rich together with some white Kamphaugite-(Y) aggregates on fracture zones in dolomitic Limestone; |
| Deerite xx | Laytonville Quarry, Laytonville, Mendocino Co., California / USA / TYP; dark brownish needle crystal aggregates of 5 mm, together with dark greenish Zussmanite in Quartz matrix. A confirmed Deerite is a very rare mineral, even from the type location in Laytonville; these specimens are the first ones I have seen; KS 48,00 |
| Defernite xx | Kombat Mine, Kombat, Grootfontein, Otavi Mts. / Namibia; pale-violet brownish glassy bright lusterous long tabular crystals of 1,5 cm, very rich in black Hausmannite matrix. Very rich specimens of the rare Calcium analogue of Azurite; |
| Demantoid xls | Tubussis Farm 22, Karibib District, Erongo Region / Nambia; beautiful crystal clusters of green bright luster well terminated crystals of 5 mm, very rich on large cavities in massive pale brownish Garnet matrix. Very pretty specimens from a new find; |
| Denisovit xx | Mt. Yukspor, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula / Rußland / TYP; weiße aus faserigen Kristallen aufgebaute um 3 cm große Aggregate aus reinem Denisovit, zum Teil mit etwas Nephelin; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Derbylite xx | Bucca Dela Vena Mine, Stazzema, Lucca, Apuan Alps, Tuscany / Italy / TYP; black metallic prismatic crystals of 1 mm together with Siderite and Calcite crystals on matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Desautelsite xx | Artinite Pit, Clear Creek Canyon, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California / USA; orange-brownish to reddish brownish micro crystalline crystal aggregates cover an area of several square centimeter on greenish Antigorite matrix. Together with bright white 1 cm large radial acicular Artinite crystal aggregates. Pretty specimens from a new find in February 2014; |
| Descloizite xx | Overland Mine, Ely, White Pine Co., Nevada / USA; lustrous bright orange crystal aggregates, very richly scattered on matrix. Very intensively colored specimens from a new discovery; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Destinezite xls | Lichtenberg Absetzer Dump, Ronneburg, Gera, Thuringia / Germany; this uncommon Iron phosphate forms pale yellow massive crystal aggregates of pure Destinezite. Older specimens collected approx. 20yearsago; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Deveroite-(Ce) xls | Kodanda Rama Pegmatite field, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh / India; the new rare Cerium-Oxalate occurs here as colorless bright luster long prismatic crystals of 0,3 mm very rich on fracture zones in Allanite-Bastnäsite matrix. Old newly examineted specimens collect in the 1960s; MM 95,00; KS 148,00 |
| Deweylite + Uvarovite | Lojane Mine, Presevo Valley, Skopje / Macedonia; pale-violet glassy aggregates with nice green Uvarovite crystals on black Alumo-chrompicotite matrix. Old specimens collect all-round 1970; KS 28,00 |
| Diadochite | Richelle, Vise, Liege Prov. / Belgium; the uncommon Iron Phosphate forms pale yellowish-grey aggregates of 4 cm of pure Diadochite; KS 19,00 |
| Diamond xl | Areinha Claim, left bank of Jequitinhonha River, Inhai, Diamantina, Minas Gerais / Brazil; pale yellow transparent Diamond crystals of 4 mm, with a size of 0,12 ct; 0,36 ct; 0,37 ct, 0,42 ct and 0,47 ct. Brazilian Diamonds are quite rare, found very sporadically during gold panning in the river. The price is 320,- Euro per Carat |
| Diaphorite xx | Pribram, Bohemia / Czech Republic / TYP; grey- metallic crystals of 1 mm and massive aggregates together with Galena on Barite matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Diaspore xx | Sivec Marble Quarry, Sevic Mts., Prilep, Pelagonia Massiv / Macedonia; colorless transparent gemmy long prismatic crystals of |
| Dickite xls | Pant-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales / UK / TYP; white high lustrous 0,2 mm crystals. Very rich inter grown to 1 cm aggregates on vugs in Dolomite matrix. A Dickite from the Type location is very unusual; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Dickite xx | Pant-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales / UK / TYP; highly lustrous white 0.2 mm crystals, very rich, intergrown to 1 cm aggregates in vugs in matrix. Dickite from the Type location is very unusual; KS 28,00 |
| Dickite xx | Pant-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales / UK / TYP; highly lustrous white 0,2 mm crystals, very rich, inter- grown |
| Dickthomssenite xls | Blue Cap Mine, Lyon Canyon Creek, Paradox Valley, San Juan Co., Utah / USA; colorless long prismatic crystals of 2 mm, inter grown to acicular crystal aggregates, together with pale yellow tabular Metarossite crystals, very rich on Sandstone matrix. Very good specimens; MM 38,00; KS 85,00; NS 148,00 |
| Dingdaohengite-(Ce) X | Mt. Malosa Massif, Zomba / Malawi; lustrous bright well terminated dark-brownish prismatic 5 mm single crystal; MM 125,00 |
| Diopsid X | Nilaw, Nuristan / Afghanistan; hell-pink-farbige bis farblose hochglänzende um 1,5 cm (MM) bis 2 cm (KS) große prismatische Einzelkristalle in partieller Edelsteinqualität. Pink-farbiger Diopsid war bisher eigentlich unbekannt; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 |
| Diopside xls | Ikalamavony, Ampandramaika-Malakialina, Matsiatra, Fianarantsoa/ Madagascar; lustrous bright glass-clear pale green well terminated gemmy crystals of 3 cm on Quartz matrix. Nice specimens from a rare location; NS 38,00 |
| Dioptase xx | Tantara Mine, Shinkolobwe, Katanga / Congo; lustrous emerald-green prismatic crystals of 1 cm, very rich on vugs in massive Dioptase matrix. Very good specimens from a new find; KS 28,00; NS 48,00; HS 225,00 |
| Dolomite xx | Pomba Pit, Serra das Eguas, Brumado, Bahia / Brazil; collorless gemmy twinned crystals of 1,5 cm together with Magnesite crystals of 1 cm on massive Magnesite matrix (NS), or as twinned single crystals of 2,5 cm (KS); KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Doloresite xx | Firefly Mine, La Sal Creek Canyon, La Sal, San Juan Co., Utah / USA; black-metallic microcrystalline aggregates, very rich in Sandstone matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Donbassite xx | Lansford Anthracite Mine, Lansford, Carbon Co., Pennsylvania / USA; silky colorless to white aggregates very rich on fractures in black Anthracite matrix. This is the first approved North American Donbassite; NS 38,00; HS 65,00 |
| Donpeacorite xx | Mt. Vassiliko, Katakalaii, Andros Island, / Grecce; highly lustrous long-prismatic brownish crystals of 3 mm, intergrown to acicular aggregates, very rich on a Quartz-Spessartine matrix; KS 48,00; NS 125,00 |
| Dorallcharite xx | Crven Dol Mine, Allchar, Majdan, Kavadarci, Roszdan / Macedonia / TYP; massive yellow to yellowish-beige microcrystalline aggregates on red Realgar matrix, with some grey Scorodite, colorless Gypsum and occasionally some Lorandite and Raguinite. These are probably the finest-known specimens of this rare Thallium Iron Sulfate; MM 65,00; KS 148,00; NS 320,00 |
| Dozyite xx | Nikka Vord, Baltasound-Haroldswick area, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland / UK; glassy pale violet tabular crystals of 1 mm, inter grown to crystal aggregates to 1 cm on fracture zones in Magnesiochromite. Very good specimens of this rare Magnesium-Aluminum-silicate; KS 75,00; NS 125,00 |
| Dravite X | Chawia, Taita Hills, Taita Taveta District, Coast Prov. / Kenya; gemmy orange-yellow "eye clear" Manganese-bearing Dravites of 1 cm, found in an alluvial deposit; KS 28,00 |
| Dravite xx | Planitis Island, Panormos Bay, Tinos Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; highly lustrous dark brown crystals of 1 cm in Magnesiokatophorite-Muscovite matrix. Planitis is a small uninhabited Island in the Aegean Sea; KS 28,00 |
| Dravite xx | Grasyma Quarry, Großer Waldstein, Weißenstadt, Fichtelgebirge, Franconia, Bavaria / Germany; brownish crystal aggregates of inter grown long prismatic Dravite crystals of 5 mm, together with some reddish brown tabular Lepidocrocite crystals in small cavities; |
| Dufrenite xx | "Hoff auf mich" Mine, Ullersreuth, Hirschberg, Vogtland, Thuringia / Germany / TYP; lustrous bright deep dark-green to nearly black 3mm spherical crystal aggregates, very rich on vugs in massive brownish Goethite matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Dufrenoysite xx | Lengenbach Quarry, Im Feld, Binn Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; grey-metallic acicular aggregates of 8 mm on Dolomite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Duftite xx | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia / TYP; greenish crystal aggregates with some colorless Cerussite and blue Azurite crystals, scattered on a matrix of massive Duftite; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Dumortierite xx | Dehesa, Alpine, Laguna Mts., San Diego Co., California / USA; glassy radial-acicular violet crystal aggregates of 2 cm in white Sillimanite- Quartz matrix. Beautiful specimens; these are the nicest Dumortierites I have ever seen; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Dumortierite xx | Itremo, Ambatofinandrahana, Amoron'i Mania, Fianarantsoa Prov. / Madagascar; nice crystal clusters of long prismatic blue Dumortierite crystals of 2 cm, inter grown with pale blue Sillimanite and Quartz. Nice colorful specimens from a new find; |
| Dundasite xls | Tynagh Mine, Killimor, Co. Galway, Ireland; "Pseudomorph of Dundasite after Cerussite". The rare Lead Aluminum Carbonate occurs as white radial-acicular crystals aggregates. Inter grown to massive aggregates up to 1 cm large long-prismatic "crystals"; KS 38,00 |
| Duranusite xls | L'Eguisse Mine, Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur / France / TYP; the very rare Arsenic-Sulfide modification occurs as reddish gray metallic crystals of 0,2 mm with Realgar in white Quartz matrix; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Dussertite xx | Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg / Germany; yellowish-green crystals of 0,5 mm on Quartz-Limonite matrix; MM 14,00; KS 28,00 |
| Dysprosium-Vigezzite (xx) | Österby Pegmatite, Österby, Gustavs, Säter, Dalarna / Sweden / TYP; dark brownish high lustrous glassy aggregates of 5 mm in Quartz Muscovite matrix. Dysprosium is in there the dominate Rare Earth element. From the view of chemistry is it a Vigezzite. The mineral is metamict and X ray amorphous; MM 48,00 |
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(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
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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.