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Iangreyite xx

Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Humboldt Co., Nevada / USA / TYP; small tabular white crystals inter-grown to crystal aggregates of 5 mm on vugs in Quartz matrix; KS 95,00

Idrialite xx

Idrija Mine, Idria, Ljubliana, Slowenia / TYP; yellowish-green microcrystalline aggregates to 1 cm on fracture zones in brownish Pyrite-Cinnabar-Quartz matrix. Very good specimens of this rare organic mineral. Identical with the synthetic "dimethylbenzphenanthrene"; MM 19,00; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Ikranit (xx)

Kaskasnyunchorr Mt., Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula / Rußland; gelblich-braune glasige um 1cm große Kristallaggregate, neben hellviolettem Eudialyt, sehr reich neben dunkelgrünen Aegirin in Nephelin Matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00

Ilmenite xls

Flaje, Cesky Jiretin, Usti Region, Bohemia / Czech Republic; black metallic bright luster crystal of 7 mm (KS) to 1,5 cm (NS) in Basalt. Old time specimens collect around 1870; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Ilmenite xx

Lindvikskollen, Kragerø, Telemark / Norway; well- terminated single crystals of 3 cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS); KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Ilmenite xx

General Electric Mine, Saint-Urbain, Charlevoix RCM, Capitale-Nationale, Québec / Canada; black metallic crystals of 1 cm, inter grown to massive crystal aggregates of a pure Magnesium-rich Ilmenite. Old specimens collected in the 1950s; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Imiterite xls

Imiter Mine, Djebel Saghro, Ouarzazate Prov., Draa-Tafilalet Region / Morocco / TYP; grey metallic long prismatic crystals up to 3 mm, very rich on cavities in Dolomite matrix, nice specimens of the rare Ag-Hg-Sulfide, collect in 1993; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Indialite (xx)

Durham Ranch, Wright, Reno Junction, Campbell Co., Wyoming / USA; massive pale reddish-brown specimens of pure microcrystalline Indialite. This material is probably the richest Indialite ever found; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

Indialite xls

Durham Ranch, Wright, Reno Junction, Campbell Co., Wyoming / USA; bright orange-brownish several centimeter large crystal aggregates of Indialite, together with some Anorthite, Mullite and Tridymite. I have never seen even hear the mineral Indialite can be exist in such impressive specimens; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Ingersonite xx

Langban, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; pale orange- brownish tabular crystals to 1 mm together with black Filipstadite in Calcite matrix; MM 65,00; KS 95,00

Innsbruckite (xls)

Staffelsee, Geier, Wattener Lizum, Inn Valley, North Tyrol / Austria / TYP; the new very rare Manganese-Silicate occurs inter grown with Tephroite and Friedelite, in dark brownish 5 mm large aggregates in Rhodochrosite-Spessartine-Calcite-matrix;
MM 125,00

Iranite xls

Reward Mine, Kohatk, Vekol Mts. Pinal Co., Arizona / USA; this rare Pb-Cu-Chromate-Silicate occurs as 1,5 cm ! large thin crystal aggregates on brownish Limestone matrix. The Iranite crystal aggregates are often flat prismatic and are probably pseudomorphic after Mimetite crystals. Very unusual specimens; KS 48,00; NS 125,00

Iriginite xx

Cameron, Cameron District, Coconino Co., Arizona / USA; pale yellow crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich on Sandstone;
MM 38,00; KS 65,00

Ishikawaite (xx)

Radium Ridge, Mount Painter, Flinders Range, South Australia / Australia; brownish waxy lustrous crystals of 5 mm in Hematite-Quartz-Monazite matrix. Very good specimens of this rare Uranium-Iron-Niobium-oxide; KS 38,00

Ishikawaite xx

Little Patsy Pegmatite, South Platte, Jefferson Co., Colorado / USA; waxy brownish long prismatic crystals of 2 cm intergrown to 2,5 cm (KS) up to 3,5 cm (NS) crystal aggregates. This Ishikawaite is rich in Ytterbium (1,68 At.%), (U = 1,84 At%,
Fe = 4,02 At%, Nb = 14,21 At%, a. o.). Very interesing specimen; KS 95,00; NS 148,00

Isoclasite xx

South Point, Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island / Australia; white microcrystalline aggregates, very rich with some grey Hydroxylapatite crystals on a massive Fluorapatite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00

Isoferroplatinum xls

Fox Gulch, Salmon River - Red Mountain District, Goodnews Bay, Alaska / USA; gray white metallic crystal aggregates of 3 mm of pure Isoferroplatinum; Capsule 28,00

Isoferroplatinum xx

Fox Gulch, Salmon River, Red Mountain District, Goodnews Bay, Alaska / USA; gray-white-metallic crystal aggregates of 4 mm of pure Isoferroplatinum, together with some black Chromite. These are the best crystals of Isoferroplatinum I have ever seen; Capsel 28,00

Itoigawaite (xls)

Oyashirazu Coast, Itoigawa-Ohmi, Niigata Pref., Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; glassy light blue crystal aggregates of 5 mm in grayish Jadeite; KS 85,00

Itsiite xx IMA 2013-085

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 / TYP; tabular white 1mm crystals, very rich on pale greyish Barite; KS 85,00

Iwakiite xx

Jacobsberg Mine, Nordmark, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden; dark grey metallic crystals of 2 mm and crystal aggregates of 1 cm together with brownish tabular Manganophyllite crystals of 5 mm in Calcite matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00

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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.