Minerals
Gunnar Färber
Minerals
Gunnar Färber
| Eastonite xx | Mt. Vassiliko, Katakalaii, Andros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; highly lustrous colorless-white tabular crystals of 2 mm, very rich in layer-like structures in metamorphic Quartzite; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Ecdemite xx | Langban Gruvan, Langban, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; yellowish-grey-greenish crystal aggregates very rich on a fracture zone in Andradite-Hematite matrix. Outstanding specimens, collected around 1900; KS 125,00 |
| Eckermannite xx | Mt. Vassiliko, Katakalaii, Andros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; dark blue long-prismatic crystals of 5 mm, very rich on Quartz; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Edgarite xx | Kaskasnyunchorr, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Rußland / TYP; black metallic tabular crystals of 0,3 mm, very rich with brass metallic Pyrrhotite in Quartz matrix; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Edoylerite xx | Clear Creek Mine, Clear Creek Canyon, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California / USA / TYP; yellow needle crystals and thin crystal aggregates on 3 mm to 5 mm large cavities in reddish-grey metallic vein-like Cinnabar aggregates in Quartz-Serpentinite matrix. Nice specimens from a new find in February 2014; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Eitelite xx | Westvaco Mine, Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming / USA; silky, pale-yellowish-brown, long prismatic, well terminated, semi-transparent single crystals and crystal aggregates of 3 cm (KS) to 4,5 cm (NS). These are the finest-known specimens of this very rare Sodium-Magnesium-Bicarbonate; KS 65,00; NS 148,00 |
| Eitelite xx | Westvaco Mine, Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming / USA; lustrous silky long-prismatic, pale yellowish-brown, semi-transparent, well-terminated single crystals and crystal aggregates of 2,5 cm (KS) to 4,5 cm (NS). These are the finest known specimens of this very rare Sodium-Magnesium-Bicarbonate; KS 38,00; NS 95,00 |
| Ekanite xx | Case Collina Quarry, Pitigliano, Grosseto Prov., Tuscany / Italy; pale green glassy crystals up to 1 mm isolated in vugs in Sanidine Augite matrix; KS 19,00 |
| Ekanite xx | Oh Sung Taung, Mogok, Mandaley Region / Myanmar; dark green long prismatic crystal aggregates of 2 cm in Wollastonite Diopside matrix; KS 75,00 |
| Elaterite | Windy Knoll Quarry, Castleton, Derbyshire, England / UK; Elaterite is a natural kind of rubber developed during thermal processes. Dark brown rubber-like aggregates of pure Elaterite; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Elbait xx | Haapaluoma Pegmatit, Peräseinäjoki, Vaasa, Länsi-Suomen Lääni / Finnland; violette hochglänzende um 3 cm große langprismatische Kristalle, sehr reich neben hell-grünlich-grauen um 4 cm großen Spodumen Kristallen und Quarz. Sehr schöne Stufen von diesem altem klassischen Fundort; KS 19,00; NS 28,00; HS 38,00 |
| Eleonorite xls | Gutglück Mine, Braunfels, Wetzlar, Hesse / Germany; red-brownish glassy luster long prismatic crystals up to 2 mm, very rich on 2 cm large cavities in dark brownish Iron ore matrix. Pretty specimens of the new Iron-Phosphate; NS 38,00; HS 65,00 |
| Eleonorite xls | Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Hesse / Germany / TYP; this new Iron Phosphate forms bright red-brown long prismatic crystals of |
| Ellenbergerite xx | Dora Maira Massive, Val Varaita, Cuneo Provinz, Piemont / Italien / TYP; violet crystals up to 5 mm very rich as inclusions in Pyrope Coesite megablasts from the ultra-high-pressure metamorphic formation. Develop in a depth more than 100 km !!; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Ellenbergerite xx | Dora Maira Massive, Val Varaita, Cuneo Provinz, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; violet crystals to 2 mm as inclusions in Pyrope-Coesite megablasts from this ultra-high-pressure metamorphic formation. Developed at a depth of more than 100 km; KS 28,00 |
| Ellingsenit xx | Aris Quarry, Aris, Windhoek, Khomas Region / Namibia / TYP; weiße aus hochglänzenden Kristallen aufgebaute um 1 mm große Kristallaggregate auf kleinen Kluftzonen in Phonolit Matrix; MM 48,00; KS 75,00 |
| Elpasolite xls | Le Cetine Mine, Rosia, Chiusdino, Siena Prov., Tuscany / Italy; colorless isometric crystals of 1 mm with some Gypsum and Quartz crystals on vugs in grey matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Elpasolite xx | Le Cetine Mine, Rosia, Chiusdino, Siena Prov., Tuscany / Italy; colorless isometric crystals of 1 mm, with some Gypsum and Quartz crystals in vugs; KS 48,00 |
| Elpidite xx | Mt. Malosa Massif, Zomba, Malawi; pale beige long-prismatic crystals of 3 cm on Quartz. Elpidite from Mt. Malosa is extremely rare. Only a few specimens are available; KS 75,00; NS 145,00 |
| Emeleusite xls | Illutalik Island, Ilimaussaq, Narsaq, Kujalleq/ Greenland / TYP; glassy pale brownish massive crystal aggregates of pure Emeleusite, very good specimens of the rare Lithium Silicate; KS 28,00 |
| Emeleusite (xx) | Igdlutalik Island, Ilimaussaq, Narsaq, Kitaa / Greenland / TYP; glassy pale brownish massive aggregates of pure Emeleusite, very good specimens of this rare Lithium Silicate; KS 28,00 |
| Emerald xl | Magara Mine, Lake Manyara, Arusha, Masai Steppe / Tanzania; emerald green bright luster gemmy prismatic single crystals of |
| Emmonsite xx | San Miguel Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora / Mexico; green radial rounded aggregates on vugs in Barite matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Emplectite xls | Shaft 235, Antonsthal, Breitenbrunn, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; grey metallic needle-like crystals of 5 mm in a white Quartz matrix. Interesting specimens from a new find; NS 28,00 |
| Enstatite xls | Aheim, Almklovdalen, Vanylven, More og Romsdal / Norway; pale brownish Enstatite crystals of 1,5 cm, beside of some dark green Omphacite xls, green Diopside, red Pyrope and beige Forsterite. This are very good specimens of a very rare type of rock. It is "Garnet-Lherzolith"; NS 48,00; HS 95,00 |
| Enstatite xx | Sykes Rock, 3 miles NE of Longvale, Mendocino Co., California / USA; green long-prismatic crystals to 1 cm, intergrown to massive crystal aggregates of pure Enstatite; KS 19,00; NS 28,00; HS 38,00 |
| Enstatite xx | Visper Valley, Stalden, Zermat, Wallis / Switzerland; lustrous dark green long prismatic crystals of 2 cm, very rich on massive Enstatite matrix. Nice old specimen, collected around 1890; HS 75,00 |
| Enstatite xx | Scimfuss, Pontino Alp, Tremola Valley, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Tessin / Schweiz; very nice crystal cluster of lustrous long prismatic green crystals of 5 cm. Nice old specimen collected around 1920; HS 125,00 |
| Eosphorite xx | Seco Claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Aracuai, Minas Gerais / Brazil; lustrous well terminated brownish long prismatic crystals of 2 cm |
| Epididymite xls | Kuannersuit Plateau, Ilimaussaq Complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq/ Greenland;lustrous bright white long-tabular crystals of 2 cm with some Albite matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Epididymite xx | Kuannersuit Plateau, Ilimaussaq Complex, Narsaq, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland; tabular white crystals of 1,5 cm, inter grown to 4 cm crystal aggregates on Albite matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Epidote xls | Mt. Zard, Maldeen, Ras Koh Mts., Kharan District, Balochistan / Pakistan; dark green bright luster well terminated tabular single crystals of 4,5 cm (KS) to 6 cm (NS). The Epidote crystals containing inclusions of Magnetite, it makes this crystals real magnetic !!, I never have see magnetism on a silicate mineral; KS 14,00; NS 19,00 |
| Epidote-(Sr) xx | Benallt Mine, Rhiw, Llanfaelrhys, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales / UK; red-brownish long-prismatic crystals to 1 mm in Celsian matrix; MM 65,00 |
| Epistilbite xls | Gelbe Birke Mine, Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; colorless long prismatic crystals of 2 mm, grown on a matrix of 1 cm large Fluorite crystals; KS 38,00 |
| Ericssonit (xx) | Langban, Värmland / Schweden / TYP; dunkel-orange-braune bis fast schwarze tafelige um 5 mm große Kristalle als epitaxtische Verwachsungen mit Orthoericssonit, dicht verwachsen zu blockigen Aggregaten in Rhodonit-Hausmannit Matrix; |
| Ericssonite (xx) | Langban Gruvan, Langban, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; dark-orange-brown tabular crystals of 5 mm, very rich in blocky aggregates in Rhodonite-Hausmannite matrix; KS 48,00; NS 95,00 |
| Erionite-K xx | Reese River Reservoir, Carico Lake Valley, 50 km north of Austin, Lander Co., Nevada / USA; massive white woolly aggregates of pure Erionite-K. The individual fibres are less than 1 µm in diameter and 0,1-10 mm long. Such unusual Erionite-K is so far known only from this remote occurrence in Nevada; KS 38,00 |
| Esquireite 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 new Barium-Silicate occurs as very rich pale brownish glassy botryoidal radial acicular, several square centimetre crystal aggregates on massive white Sanbornite matrix. Outstanding, world class specimens from "the end of the world"; KS 75,00; NS 125,00 |
| Esquireite xls | Big Creek, Pine Flat Lake, Trimmer, Fresno Co., California / USA / TYP; the new rare Barium-Silicateforms white silky crystals aggegates of 2 cm, very rich on thin fracture zones in Sanbornite matrix. Very rich specimens for a new species !!; |
| Eudialyte xls | Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Smaland / Sweden; violet glassy luster well terminated idiomorphic crystals of 1,5 cm in Albite-Nepheline matrix. Well terminated idiomorphic Eudialyte crystals are quit uncommon; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Eudialyte xx | Kangerdluarssuq, Ilimaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland / TYP; lustrous red-brownish well terminated 1,5 cm crystals on massive Eudialyite matrix. Old specimens collected around 1920; KS 38,00 |
| Eudidymite xx | Mt.Malosa Massiv, Zomba / Malawi; well terminated sharp tabular-blocky single white crystals of 3 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS) from a new find; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Eugsterite xx | Caleta Pabellon de Pica, Punta Colina, Iquique, I Region / Chile; colorless to white needle like crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich with some tan Darapskite on Halite matrix; KS 65,00; NS 95,00 |
| Eugsterite xx | Eagle Borax Spring, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; very rich white efflorescence on evaporated Halite-Gypsum matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Eugsterite xx | Bartensleben Shaft, Morsleben, Börde, Saxony Anhalt / Germany; acicular white crystal aggregates of 1,5 mm, on red-brownish Polyhalite-Halite matrix. This is the first find of this very rare Na-Ca-sulfate in Germany; KS 48,00 |
| Eulytin (xx) | Weißer Hirsch, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland / TYP; "Pseudomorphose nach Feder-Wismut". Graue glasige |
| Eurekadumpite xx | Centennial Eureka Mine, East Tintic Mts., Juab Co., Utah / USA / TYP; turquoise-blue radial-tabular rosettes and ball-like aggregates of 0.5 mm in vugs in a Quartz matrix. Good specimens of this new Cu-Zn-Tellurite-Arsenate; MM 48,00; KS 75,00 |
| Evenkit xx | Saumane, Orpierre, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Côte d'Azur / Frankreich; farblose wachsartige Krusten auf kleinen Coelestin Kristallen auf Kluftzonen in Ton Geoden; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Evenkite | Boryslav, Tysmenytsia River, Galizia, L'viv Oblast / Ukraine; dark brownish waxy massive aggregates of Evenkite intermix with other Paraffin and Hydrocarbons phases; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Evenkite xx | Slávik adit, Dubník, Presov Co., Presov Region / Slovakia; colorless prismatic single crystals of 12 mm, this is giant for Evenkite crystals; MM 38,00 |
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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
KS = small piece approx. 1.5 to 4 cm;
NS = average-sized piece approx. 4 to 7 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.