Minerals
Gunnar Färber
Minerals
Gunnar Färber
| Pääkkönenite xx | Matra Mine, Matra, Corte, Corsica / France; grey- metallic veins to 1mm, very rich in massive red Realgar. Old samples, newly examined, collected around 1870; KS 48,00 |
| Pabstite xx | Kalkar Quarry, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California / USA / TYP; pale pinkish high lustrous crystals to 1 mm (in UV light pale blue) in Calcite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Painite xx | Ohngaing, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division / Myanmar / TYP; brown high lustrous gemmy single crystals of |
| Palenzonaite xls | Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy / TYP; glassy dark red crystal aggregates of 1 cm in massive Hausmannite-Quartz-Calcite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Palenzonaite xx | Schmorrasgrat, Starlera Valley, Oberhalbstein, Grischun / Switzerland; orange-red crystal aggregates of 1 cm, together with Braunite and Quartz on thin fracture zones on massive Hematite matrix. Very good specimens; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Palygorskite xx | Seaton, East Devon, Devon, England / UK; white fibrous crystal aggregates, very rich with some Calcite on vugs in Sandstone; |
| Parabutlerite xx | Mina Alcaparrosa, Cerritos Bayos, Calama, Atacama Desert, II Region / Chile / TYP; orange-red-brownish high lustrous glassy pillow-like crystals up to 4 mm with some orange Amarantite crystals to 1mm very rich on high lustrous yellowish brown Copiapite matrix. Very nice colourful specimens; KS 28,00 |
| Parabutlerite xx | Mina Santa Elena, La Alcaparrosa, Calingasta, San Juan / Argentina; orange crystal aggregates of 1,5 cm, with some orange-red Botryogen crystals to 1 cm, very rich on matrix. Very pretty colorful specimens; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Paracelsian xls | Benallt Mine, Rhiw, Llanfaelrhys, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales / UK; this rare Barium Feldspar occurs in nice white well terminated 5 mm crystals, on vugs in Quartz-Calcite matrix. Nice specimens from a classic location; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Paracoquimbite xx | Mina Alcaparrosa, Cerritos Bayos, Atacama Desert,, II Region / Chile / TYP; pale violet glassy crystals of 2 mm with some collarless Rhomboclase crystals of 3 mm grown on brownish glassy Römerite crystals, on vugs in massive Coqumbite-Römerite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Paradamite xx | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia; yellowish to pale-brownish highly lustrous tabular crystals of 1 mm, very rich on a Tennantite- Quartz matrix; MM 28,00 |
| Paradocrasite (xx) | Engineer Mine, Taku Arm, Tagish Lake, Atlin, British Columbia / Canada; white metallic lamellar crystal aggregates of 3 mm, very richly inter-grown in massive pale grey metallic Stibarsen; MM 85,00; KS 125,00 |
| Paradsasvarite xls | Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, Karas Region / Namibia; pale greenish blue radial acicular crystal aggregates, together with colorless Tarbuttite crystals to 2 mm, very rich on large cavities on Quartz-Sauconite Matrix. Pretty specimens from a new find; KS 38,00; NS 48,00; HS 95,00 |
| Paradsasvarite xls | Malfidano Mine, Buggerru, Carbonia-Iglesias Prov., Sardinia / Italy; this new rare Zinc-Carbonate-Hydroxide forms white radial- acicular crystal aggregates very rich on brownish Goethite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Parahopeite xls | Kabwe Mine, Broken Hill, Kabwe District, Central Prov. / Zambia / TYP; colorless acicular crystal aggregates of 1 cm together with pale brownish prismatic Hopeite crystals on Goethite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Paralaurionite xx | Mina Margarita, Sierra Gorda, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; colorless diamond lustrous long prismatic crystals of 1 mm, intergrown to massive grayish crystal aggregates with some Quartz. Very good specimen from a new find; KS 38,00 |
| Paramontroseite xls | Yellow Cat, Thompson District, Grand Co., Utah / USA; black massive asphalt-like crystal aggregates of 5 mm in Sandstone matrix. Very rich samples of the rare Vanadium-Oxide; KS 38,00 |
| Paranatisite xx | Morro do Serrote, Cascata, Poços de Caldas Alkaline Complex, Minas Gerais / Brazil; pale brownish to pale pinkish-brownish long tabular crystal aggregates of 4 mm in Feldspar-Nepheline-Aegirine matrix. Very good specimens of this rare Sodium-Titanium-Silicate; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Paraniite-(Y) (xx) | Fianell Mangan Mine, Fianell, Val Ferrera, Grischun / Switzerland; tiny crystals of 5 µm in yellow Powellite in Quartz. Paraniite-(Y) is extremely rare and it is also very difficult to detect, even with modern analysis technology; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Parapierrotite xx | Crven Dol Mine, Allchar, Majdan, Kavadarci, Roszdan / Macedonia / TYP; highly lustrous grey-metallic prismatic crystals of |
| Parasymplesite xls | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. De Mapimí, Durango / Mexico; dark greenish-blue long-prismatic crystals of 2 mm, very rich on cavities in brownish Goethite matrix; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Paratacamite xx | Mina Salvadora, Cararcoles, Sierra Gorda, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; dark green high lustrous prismatic well terminated crystals of 5 mm very rich on pale Rhyolite matrix. This new find are for sure the finest specimens of Paratacamite I have seen in any time; NS 38,00 |
| Paratacamite-(Mg) xls | Cuya NE5 chloride occurrence, Cuya, Cuesta de Camarones, Arica, I Region, Atacama Desert / Chile / TYP; this very rare Copper-Magnesium-Chloride forms bright green crystals with bluish-green Haydeeite on a Sulfate-Carbonatite intermixed matrix; |
| Paravauxite xls | Mina Siglo Vente, Llallagua, Bustillo Prov., Potosi Dept. / Bolivien / TYP; colorless to very pale green bright luster long prismatic crystals of 1 cm, very rich on vugs in Quartz matrix. Particular together with colorless acicular Wavellite; |
| Pargasite xl | Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts., Arusha / Tanzania; brown gemmy glass-clear single brown crystals of 2 cm in cut stone quality. In transmitted light the crystals show an interesting color change from orange-brown along the A and B axis and olive- green along the Ca axis; KS 38,00 |
| Pargasite xls | Ali Abad, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Baltistan / Pakistan; bright apple green luster crystals of 1 cm on white Marble matrix. Pretty specimens from a new find; KS 28,00 |
| Parisit-(Nd) (xx) | Mountain Pass Mine, Ivanpah Mts., San Bernardino Co., California / USA; Neodym dominante zonar Entmischungen in gelblichen glasigen um 3 mm großen Kristallen von Lanthan reichem Parisit-(Ce), reich auf Matrix. Begleitet von gelben feinst kristallinen Aggregaten eines potentiell neuen Blei Analog zum Parisit-(Ce) = (Pb 2 / Ca 1); MM 48,00; KS 95,00 |
| Parisite-(La) xls | Mula Mine, Tapera Village, Novo Horizonte, Bahia / Brazil / TYP; Parisite-(La) forms yellow residual nuclei (up to 5 mm) in steep doubly-terminated pseudo-hexagonal pyramidal crystals up to 1 cm (MM) to 2 cm (KS). These crystals were partially replaced by yellowish grey bastnäsite- (La) and pinkish brockite; MM 48,00; KS 85,00 |
| Pascoite xls | Yellow Cat, Thompson District, Grand Co., Utah / USA; bright orange transparent crystals of 3 mm !!, inter grown to 2 cm large crystal aggregates on dark Sandstone matrix.. Very nice color intensive specimens; KS 28,00 |
| Pattersonite xls | Vereinigung Mine, Eisenbach, Taunus, Hesse / Germany / TYP; olive greenish-yellow tabular radial aggregates of 1 mm on Goethite Quartz matrix; MM 48,00; KS 65,00 |
| Pattersonite xx | Vereinigung Mine, Eisenbach, Bad Camberg, Taunus Mts., Hesse / Germany / TYP; olive greenish yellow radial tabular aggregates of 1,5 mm on thin veins in Goethite Quartz matrix. Particular together with pale yellow Pyromorphite; MM 38,00 |
| Paulscherrerite xls | Mount Painter No. 2 Workings, Arkaroola Station, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia / Australien / TYP; yellow crystal aggregates of 4 mm in cavities in Hematite-Quartz matrix. Nice specimen of the rare Uranium mineral; KS 95,00 |
| Pearceite xx | Level 670, Mina Cebada, Veta Madre, Mun. de Guanajuato, Guanajuato State / Mexico; black metallic crystals and crystal aggregates of 3 mm, together with native Silver on a matrix of small Quartz crystals. Old specimens from the collection of an old local miner, very unusual material and a rare location; MM 28,00; KS 48,00; NS 248,00 |
| Pectolite xx | Norddepil, Bordoy Island, Faroe Islands, Denmark; acicular white 7 mm-long crystal clusters, intergrown to massive crystal aggregates of pure Pectolite. Very unusual specimens; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Pellyite xx | Location # 5, Big Creek, Pine Flat Lake, Trimmer, Fresno Co., California / USA; glassy pale greenish-brown long prismatic crystals to 2 cm !!, very rich in Quartz matrix., together with some dark brownish 2 mm Titantaramellite crystals and some tabular red Gillespite. I have never seen Pellyite crystals in this size before; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Penfieldite xx | Mina Margarita, Sierra Gorda, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; colorless white hexagonal prismatic crystals up to 5 mm, with grayish Paralaurionite xx and blue Boleite xx, very rich on vugs in Quartz matrix. Very good specimen; KS 38,00 |
| Pentahydroborite xx | Shijangshan, Jinpeng, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia / China; colorless bright luster well terminated crystals of 5 mm, inter grown to pretty crystal aggregates with some Andradite-Galena-Wurtzite matrix See article in "Lapis" issue July/August 2014; |
| Peprossiite-(Ce) xls | 2,5 km n/w of Capranica, VicoLake, Viterbo, Latium / Italy; this rare Cerium-Aluminum-Borate forms bright yellow tabular crystal clusters of 1 mm with some black acicular Zirconolite-3T crystals, on vugs in a pyroclastic Sanidine ejectum; KS 38,00 |
| Peprossiite-(Ce) xx | 2,5 km n/w of Capranica, Vico Lake, Viterbo, Latium / Italy; bright yellow tabular crystal clusters of 1 mm, on vugs in a pyroclastic Sanidine ejectum. Outstanding specimens of this rare Cerium-Aluminum-Borate; KS 28,00 |
| Perhamite xls | Edison Bird Claim, Utahlite Hill, Lucin, Box Elder Co., Utah / USA; pale olive-green radial crystal balls of 2 mm, very rich on fracture zones in Chalcedony matrix; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Perhamite xx | Gua Putjung Cave, Karang Bolong Mts., Kebumen, Java Island / Indonesia; colorless to white aggregates of tiny intergrown crystals, in small vugs in a glassy dark brownish Phosphate-Allophane matrix; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Periclase xx | Sacramento Valley, Monte Somma, Naples Prov., Campania / Italy / TYP; greenish-brown transparent bi-pyramidal crystals of 1 mm, very rich in Calcite matrix; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 |
| Periclase xx | Gustavs Gruvan, Langban, Värmland / Sweden; glassy pale green 2 mm crystals in fine-grained Dolomite-Garnet matrix; |
| Pertlikite xx | Mina Alcaparrosa, Cerritos Bayos, Calama, Atacama Desert, II Region / Chile; pale greenish-yellow bi-pyramidal crystals to 1 mm, with some white Tamarugite on a matrix of pale pinkish Coquimbite crystals. Outstanding specimens of this rare species; |
| Petalite (xx) | Nyköping Gruvan, Utö Island, Mysingen Fjord, Södermanland / Sweden / TYP; massive pale grayish feldspar-like aggregates with some Elbaite and Muscovite. Unique specimens from the Type location of Petalite. Collected around 1850; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Petalite (xx) | Bikita Pegmatite, 65 km E of Fort Victoria, Masvingo / Zimbabwe; colorles to white massive samples of pure Petalite; |
| Petedunnite (xx) | Buckwheat Pit, Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey / USA / TYP; dark green crystals of 4 mm in Garnet-Willemite matrix; |
| Peterandresenite xx | A/S Granite Quarry, Tuften, Tvedalen, Larvik, Vestfold / Norway / TYP; tiny transparent orange-yellow crystals together with Natrolite; MM 125,00 |
| Petricekite (xls) | Cacheuta Mine, Cerro de Cacheuta, Sierra de Cacheuta, Cacheuta, Luján de Cuyo Dept, Mendoza / Argentinia; the extremely rare Copper-Selenide occurs as inclusion of 15 µm in massive Clausthalite-Naumannite ore. Together with Krutaite, Eucairite, Eskebonite and other Selenium phases; MM 125,00; KS 185,00 |
| Petzite (xls) | Bessi G Mine, La Plata Canyon, La Plata Co., Colorado / USA; grey-metallic aggregates of 5 mm together with some native Gold and Coloradoite on Quartz matrix. Nice specimens of this rare Gold-Silver-Telluride; KS 38,00 |
| Phenakite X | Tangen Feldspar Mine, Kammerfosselven, Kragerø, Telemark / Norway; colorless 2 cm crystal in Quartz matrix; |
| Phenakite xl | Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin, Mandalay Division /Mayanmar; well terminated gemmy colorless single crystals of 5 mm (MM) to 1 cm (KS); MM 19,00; KS 28,00 |
| Phlogopite xls | Torbjornsbu Mine, Arendal Iron Mines, Arendal, Aust-Agder / Norway; "Pseudomorph from Phlogopite after Scapolite crystals". Pale brownish long prismatic "crystals" of 3 cm on Quartz Matrix. Nice and rare type of pseudomorphs. Old time specimens collect around 1880; NS 65,00 |
| Phosgenite X | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region / Namibia; colorless well- terminated single crystals of 3 cm. Old specimens collected around 1960 (ex. Kahn collection); KS 225,00 |
| Phosgenite xls | Bayhorse Mine, Callis, Custer Co., Idaho / USA; the Lead Chloride occurs as grey glassy crystals up to 2 mm in cavities on Galena matrix. Old specimens from a rare location; MM 19,00; KS 38,00 |
| Phosphoellenbergerite xx | Brossasco, Varaita Valley, Dora Maira Massif, Cuneo Prov., Piedmont / Italy / TYP; bluish-grey 1 mm crystals in pale pinkish Pyrope-Coesite matrix; MM 28,00 |
| Phosphoellenbergerite xx | Brossasco, Varaita Valley, Dora Maira Massif, Cuneo Prov., Piedmont / Italy / TYP; bluish-grey 1 mm crystals in pale pinkish Pyrope-Coesite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Phosphohedyphane xx | Belton Grain vein, Wanlock Dod-Whytes Cleuch, Wanlockhead, Scotland / UK; pale green radial acicular crystal aggregates, inter grown to 2 cm large botryoidal aggregates of pure Phosphohedyphane in Quartz. Very rich specimens of the rare Ca-Pb-Phosphate; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Phosphophyllite xx | Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Oberpfälzer Wald, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria / Germany; pale green to nearly colorless crystals to 5 mm on vugs in Quartz matrix; KS 38,00; NS 65,00; HS 95,00 |
| Phosphovanadylite-Ca xls | South Rasmussen Ridge Phosphate Mine, Soda Springs, Caribou Co., Idaho / USA / TYP; olive-green bright luster minute cubic crystals, very rich beside of tabular Sincosite crystals on vugs in black Phosphorite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Pickeringite xx | Calingasta, Sierra del Tontal, San Juan Prov. / Argentina; white needle crystals of 2 cm inter grown to parallel fibrous aggregates of pure Pickingerite. These are the best specimens of this uncommon Mg-Al-sulfate I have ever seen; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Picromerite xx | Schmidtmannshall Mine, Aschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; colorless well-terminated single prismatic crystals |
| Picropharmacolite xx | Crven Dol Mine, Allchar, Majdan, Kavadarci, Roszdan / Macedonia; spherical white radial-acicular crystal aggregates of 3 mm, very rich on Orpiment-Calcite matrix. Quite pretty specimens; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Piemontite xx | Mt. Skoumbi, Andros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; long prismatic, red-brownish crystals of 2 cm, very rich in a Quartz matrix. Very good specimens; NS 28,00 |
| Piemontite-(Pb) xls | Babuna Valley, Jakupica Mts., Nezilovo, Veles / Macedonia / TYP; red crystals of 0,5 mm with Hematite and Phlogopite in Barite-Hedyphane matrix; KS 48,00 |
| Pigeonite xx | Ayios Dimitrios, Ermoupoli, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; long-prismatic glassy dark green crystals of 2 cm, intergrown to massive crystal aggregates of pure Pigeonite; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Pillaite xls | Buca Della Vena Mine, Seravezza, Lucca, Toskana / Italy / TYP; black metallic acicular crystals of 2 mm on vugs in Dolomite; |
| Pinakiolite xx | Rämen Drift, Langban, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; black semi metallic tabular crystals of 5 mm with some brownish Phlogopite and Hausmannite in Calcite-Dolomite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Pinakiolite xx | Rämen Drift, Langban, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; black semi-metallic tabular crystals of 4 mm with some brownish Phlogopite and Hausmannite in Calcite-Dolomite matrix; NS 38,00 |
| Pirssonite xl | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California / USA / TYP; gemmy prismatic well terminated colorless crystals of 12 mm. Very good specimens of this rare Sodium-Calcium-carbonate; MM 28,00 |
| Pitiglianoite xx | Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Prov., Latium / Italy / TYP; colorless long-tabular 2 mm crystals, very rich in vugs in Sanidine matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Pitticit | Stamm Asser Mine, Graul, Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland; orange-braune glasige Aggregate als Krusten auf Pyrit-Limonit Matrix; MM 14,00; KS 28,00 |
| Pizgrischite xls | Piz Grisch, Ausserferrera, Ferrera Valley, Hinterrhein Valley, Grischun / Switzerland / TYP; grey metallic long tabular crystals to |
| Plagionite xx | Grube Jost Christian, Wolfsberg, Harz Mts., Saxony Anhalt / Germany / TYP; grey metallic prismatic crystals of 2 mm together with needle-like Zinckenite crystals and Quartz on vugs in matrix; MM 19,00; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Plasilite xls | Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon, San Juan Co., Utah / USA / TYP; this very rare Sodium-Uranyl-Sulfate forms greenish yellow radial crystal aggregates of 3 mm on fractures on pale grey Sandstone matrix; MM 48,00 |
| Plimerite xx | Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Humboldt Co., Nevada / USA; spherical green crystal aggregates on vugs in Quartz matrix; |
| Plombierite xls | Bazhenovskoe Deposit, Asbest, Sverdlovskaya, Ural Mts. / Russia; this uncommon Calcium silicate forms radial acicular free standing white crystal aggregates of 1 cm, grown on a matrix of massive Plombierite.Very rich specimens from a new find; |
| Plumboferrite xls | Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; black metallic tabular crystals of 5 mm inter grown to 1 cm crystal aggregates, with black semi-metallic Jacobsite crystals to 3 mm in Calcite matrix, collect all round 1880; KS 95,00 |
| Plumbogummite xls | Tiefendeller Adit, Bad Ems, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; glassy pale green crystal aggregates, very rich on cavities in white Quartz matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Plumbophyllite xx | Hard Luck Claim, Blue Bell Mine, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California / USA / TYP; pale blue high lustrous radial tabular crystal aggregates of 4 mm isolated in Quartz Matrix. Very good specimens of the new rare Lead Silicate; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Plumbophyllite xx | Hard Luck Claim, Blue Bell Mine, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California / USA / TYP; pale blue high lustrous radial tabular crystal aggregates of 4 mm isolated in Quartz Matrix. Very good specimens of the new rare Lead Silicate; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Plumbotsumite xx | Hard Luck Claim, Blue Bell Mine, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California / USA; colorless to light pale-blue high lustrous tabular crystals of 2 mm intergrown to vein-like aggregates in pale bluish green Chrysocolla. Very good specimens of the rare Lead Silicates; MM 38,00 |
| Plumbotsumite xx | Hard Luck Claim, Blue Bell Mine, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California / USA; colorless to light pale-blue glassy tabular crystals of 2 mm intergrown to vein-like aggregates in pale bluish green Chrysocolla. Very good specimens of the rare Lead Silicates; |
| Pollucite xls | Mawi Pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum, Du Ab District, Nuristan Prov. / Afghanistan; the uncommon Cesium Silicate forms colorless glass clear distorted, heavily etched gemmy floater crystals of 3 cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS). Very nice specimens from a new find; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Polybasite xls | Silver King Mine, Elsa, Keno Hill, Yukon Territory / Canada; black metalic bright luster tabular brystals of 5 mm, with some Pyrite and Galena. Old specimens from a rare location, collect around 1977; MM 38,00; KS 125,00 |
| Polybasite xx | Mina La Mejicana, Sierra de Famatina, Chilecito Dept., La Rioja / Argentinia; tabular black metallic crystals of 1 cm, inter-grown to crystal aggregates of pure Polybasite. Very rich specimens from an old discovery in the early 1920s; |
| Polybasite xx | Schöpfer vein, Hodrusa-Hámre, Zarnovica Co., Banská Bystrica Region / Slovakia; tabular black metallic crystals of 1 mm, inter-grown to 2 cm crystal aggregates in white Quartz matrix; NS 38,00 |
| Polycrase-(Y) xx | Ruoutevare Pegmatite, Norr Tjalmejaure Lake, Mattisudden, Jokkmokk, Lapland / Northern Sweden; well-terminated long prismatic dark orange-brown crystals of 1 cm, very rich with some Magnetite in Feldspar-Quartz matrix. Nice specimens from a new find |
| Polyhalite xx | Varangéville, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine / France; red-brownish well-terminated crystals of 1 cm on Halite matrix. Polyhalite in idiomorphic crystals is really uncommon; KS 38,00 |
| Polyhalite xx | Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz Mts., Thuringia / Germany; radial acicular white crystal balls of 1 cm free standing with colourless Gypsum crystals in cavities in Anhydrite matrix. These are probably the finest German Polyhalite specimens yet found; NS 48,00; HS 75,00 |
| Portlandite xx | Ma´ale Adumine, Hatrurim Formation, Negev Desert, west of the Death Sea / Israel; colorless tabular crystals of 5 mm, very rich with some violet Bentorite on matrix; very good specimens; KS 38,00 |
| Postite xx | Black Hat Mine, La Sal Creek Canyon, Paradox Valley, San Juan Co., Utah / USA / TYP; orange-yellow needle crystal aggregates of 1 mm, very rich on black Sandstone matrix; MM 75,00; KS 95,00 |
| Potassic-chloro-pargasite xx | Samson Fe Skarn deposit, Kiyalykh-Uzen, Kuznetsk Alatau Range, Yeniseisk Oblast, Eastern-Siberia / Russia; dark green bright lustrous acicular aggregates of 2 cm together with some Magnetite. Very good specimens of the rare chlorine barring silicate; KS 95,00 |
| Potassic-ferro-chloro-sadanagaite (xx) | Ovrevatnet, Nusfjord, Flakstadøya Island, Lofoten Archepelago, Nordland / Norway / TYP; this extremely rare Silicate occurs inter-grown with Edenite, Ferro-pargasite and other Amphiboles to form greenish-grey crystal aggregates of 5 mm, very rich together with Marialite, Plagioclase, Ilmenite and Chlorine-bearing Biotite; KS 75,00; NS 95,00 |
| Potassic-fluoro-pargasite xx | Ratssteinbruch, Hartmannsdorf, Chemnitz, Saxony / Germany; compact aggregates of brownish bright lustrous acicular crystals of 2 cm, together with some Fluorophlogopite and some Feldspar Quartz matrix. Outstanding good specimens of the rare silicate; KS 75,00; NS 148,00 |
| Potassic-magnesiohastingsite xx | Alluvial Glacier field on Lapie River, St. Cyr Range, 23 km s/w of Ross River, Yukon Territory / Canada; brownish prismatic crystals of 5 mm, very rich in Syenite matrix. Interesting specimens from a very remote location; KS 48,00; NS 85,00 |
| Potassic-Magnesiosadanagaite | Myojin Island, Setonaikai, Ehime Pref., Shikoku Island / Japan / TYP; dark brownish crystal aggregates of 1 mm in a glassy yellowish-brown Vesuvianite matrix; MM 85,00 |
| Potassicsadanagaite (xx) | Yuge Island, Setonaikai, Ehime Pref., Shikoku Island / Japan / TYP; brownish crystals to 0.5 mm intergrown to massive aggregates in Calcite; Capsule 38,00; MM 85,00 |
| Pottsite xls | Linka Mine, Potts, Lander County, Nevada / USA / TYP; bright orange micro crystalline crystal aggregate to 5 mm, together with yellow Clinobisvanite on cavities in Quartz matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Povondraite xx | Alto Chapare, Tunari, Cochabamba Dept. / Bolivia / TYP; highly lustrous black prismatic crystals of 2 mm, very rich together with glassy pale brownish Magnesite crystals on an Andesine matrix. Nice specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Powellite xx | Mina San Samuel, Carrera Pinto, Cachiyuyo de Llampos, Copiapó Prov., Atacama Desert, III Region / Chile; yellow high lustrous gemmy crystals up to 4 mm, very rich on vugs in massive Powellite Quartz matrix. Very nice recently discovered specimens; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Prehnite xls | Pine Creek, Round Valley, Bishop, Inyo Co., California / USA;these are "pseudomorphs of Prehnite after Calcite crystals", clusters of pale yellow 3 cm tabular aggregates of Prehnite crystals together with 1 cm Quartz crystals, unique specimens from a new find; |
| Prehnite xx | Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts, Arusha Region / Tanzania; very nice crystal clusters of gemmy bright yellow ball-like 2 cm crystal aggregates of Prehnite, together with small grey-metallic Graphite crystals; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Prehnite xx | Maikuduk Quarry, Maikuduk, Karagandy, Oktyabrskiy Prov. / Kazakhstan; nice specimens with green Prehnite crystals and 1 cm large Quartz crystals. Old specimen collect around 1982; KS 19,00 |
| Prehnite xx | Zallingerhütte, Schlern-Rosengarten, Siusi Alp, Bolzano / Italien; greenish yellow silky luster 1,5 cm large globular crystal aggregates, very rich on Quartzporphyre matrix. Old specimens collect around 1965; NS 38,00 |
| Prehnite xx | Huneberg Quarry, Bad Harzburg, Harz, Lower Saxony / Germany; pale green silky luster 2 cm large crystals, together with 2 cm large Calcite crystals and some small Pyrite cubs. Pretty specimen with a old label; NS 75,00 |
| Preobrazhenskite xx | Inder salt dome, Inder Lake, Atyrau, Atyrau Prov. / Kasachstan / TYP; pale yellow massive aggregates of inter grown colorless prismatic crystals of 2 mm; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 |
| Priceite (xx) | Corkscrew Canyon, Black Mts, Furnace Creek, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; white massive porcelacerous aggregates of pure Priceite; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Priceite (xx) | Chinar San, Panderma, Balikesir Prov., Marmara Region / Turkey; white silky luster massive crystal aggregates of inter grown tiny (0,1 mm) crystals. Old specimens from the 19th century, named at this time Pandermite, after the city of Panderma ( former Type location); KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Prismatine xls | Stakholmen Quarry, Hassela, Nordanstig, Hälsingland/ Sweden; glassy grey long-prismatic crystals of 5 cm (NS) to 8 cm (HS). Outstanding crystals of this rare Boron-bearing Silicate; NS 48,00; HS 95,00 |
| Prismatine xx | Stakholmen quarry, Hassela, Nordanstig, Hälsingland / Sweden; glassy grey long prismatic crystals of 5 cm. These are the largest crystals I have ever seen of this rare Boron- bearing Silicate; NS 48,00 |
| Prismatine xx | Kazabazua, Lac-Sainte-Marie, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Outaouais, Quebec / Canada; greenish grey glassy long prismatic crystals of 2 cm, very rich with Almandine and Biotite in Orthoclase matrix; NS 19,00 |
| Probertite xx | U.S. Borax Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California / USA / TYP; colourless radial acicular crystal sprays of 3 cm, inter grown to massive crystal aggregates of pure Probertite. This are probably the finest specimens of this uncommon Na-Ca-Borate ever found at the type-location in Boron; NS 38,00; HS 65,00 |
| Probertite xx | Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia / Germany; colorless high lustrous glass clear gemmy single crystals of 5 cm (KS) or up to 8 cm large crystals lying flat on Anhydrite matrix This are the finest crystals of the Na-Ca-Borate I have seen ever, particular in cut stone quality; KS 38,00; NS 65,00; HS 125,00; GS 250,00 |
| Prosopite (xx) | Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland; massive pale-blue 2 cm aggregates of of pure Prosopite, inter grown with massive aggregates of colorless prismatic 3 mm Thomsenolite crystals and colorless 1 mm Ralstonite crystals, coating the interior of druses in massive pale blue Prosopite; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Prosopite xls | Eureka Pegmatite, St Peters Dome, Cheyenne Mts., El Paso Co., Colorado / USA; glassy brownish to white well terminated prismatic idiomorphic crystals to 5 mm, very rich on large cavities on Quartz matrix. Outstanding and large crystals of this rare Ca-Al-fluoride; KS 48,00; NS 95,00 |
| Prosperite xl | Tsumcorp Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia / TYP; colorless 0,5 mm single crystal of this very rare Calcium-Zinc-Arsenate; Capsule 75,00 |
| Protochabourneitexls | Monte Arsiccio Mine, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Tuscany / Italy / TYP; this new Tl-Pb-As-Sulfide forms black metallic crystal aggregates to 1,5 mm together with red Arsiccoite; KS 38,00 |
| Protoferro-anthophyllite xx | Cheyenne Mt. Area, El Paso Co., Colorado / USA / TYP; colorless high lustrous acicular crystals up to 3 mm of blocky Fayalite matrix; MM 65,00; KS 85,00 |
| Proto-ferro-suenoite xls | Nippyo Mine, Awano, Kanuma City, Tochigi Pref, Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; pale brownish acicular crystal aggregates of 3 mm in red Pyroxmangite matrix; MM 38,00 |
| Proustit xx | Uranus Mine, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland; "Pseudomorphose von Proustit und Pyrit nach ged. Silber" um bis 2 cm großen Dendrit-Strukturen ehemaliger Silber Kristalle, pseudomorphisiert von roten um 2 mm großen Proustit Kristallen und 1 mm großen Pyrit Aggregaten sehr reich in Quarz Baryt Matrix; KS 38,00; NS 95,00 |
| Pseudomalachite xls | Mwekera Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt Prov. / Zambia; the Copper Phosphate forms bright dark green crystal aggregates of 2 mm large crystals, very rich on up to 10 cm large cavities in Quartz matrix. Outstanding good specimens from a new find; KS 19,00; NS 38,00; HS 65,00 |
| Pseudomalachite xls | Mina Cerro Negro, Diego de Almagro,, Chanaral Prov., III Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; emerald green long tabular idiomorphic crystals of 3 mm, on cavities in Quartz matrix. Pseudomalachite in well terminated idiomorphic crystals are really rare; KS 28,00 |
| Pseudorutil | Antanifotsy Pegmatite, Faratsiho, Vakinankaratra, Antananarivo / Madagaskar; dunkel-braune hochglänzende massive um 1 cm große Stücke aus reinem Pseudorutil (MM). NS = brauner flächenreicher um 4 cm großer Kristall. HS = ein 9 cm x 6 cm x 4 cm großer Kristall. Es sind mit Abstand die besten bisher bekannten Pseudorutile; MM 28,00; NS 380,00; HS 750,00 |
| Pseudosinhalite (xx) | Stubenberg Quarry, Stubenberg am See, Weiz, Styria / Austria; colourless crystal aggregates of 0,5 mm with black Geikelite and Baddeleyite in dolomitic marble. Polished sections with BSE pictures; MM 125,00 |
| Pumpellyite-(Mn2+) xx | Mt. Vassiliko, Katakalaii, Andros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; long-prismatic dark brownish crystals of 2 mm with some pale bluish Osumilite-Mg, in layer-like structures in metamorphic Quartzite; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Pumpellyite-(Mn2+) xx | Mt. Vassiliko, Katakalaii, Andros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; long-prismatic dark brownish crystals of 2 mm with some pale bluish Osumilite-Mg, in layer-like structures in metamorphic Quartzite; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Putnisite xx | Polar Bear peninsula, Lake Cowan, Norseman, Dundas Shire, Western Australia / Australia / TYP; this extremely rare new Strontium-Chromium-Calcium-Carbonate-Sulfate-Hydroxide forms glassy violet cubic 1 mm crystals, isolated in Millerite-serpentine matrix; |
| Pyknite xls | Tin Mine, Altenberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany / TYP; yellow glassy long prismatic crystals of 2 cm, inter grown to acicular aggregate in Quartz-Zinnwaldite matrix. Old time specimens collect around 1940; NS 38,00; HS 125,00 |
| Pyracmonite xx | Königin Carola Mine, Freital, Dresden, Saxony / Germany; white to pale grayish-tan massive micro crystalline aggregates of pure Pyracmonite; MM 95,00; KS 148,00 |
| Pyrargyrite xls | Silver King Mine, Elsa, Keno Hill, Yukon Territory / Canada; dark red metallic crystal aggregates of 5 mm, very rich beside some Galena and Pyrite in Quartz Siderite matrix, old specimens from a rare location, collect around 1977; KS 38,00 |
| Pyrite xls | Mina Siglo Vente, Llallagua, Bustillo Prov., Potosi Dept. / Bolivia; sharp bright lustrous modified cuboctahedral/octahedral pyrite crystals of 2,5 cm (KS) to 4,5 cm (NS). Nice specimens from a uncommon location; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Pyrite xls | Ampliacion a Victoria Mine, Navajun, La Rioja / Spain; nice twinned crystal cluster of bright yellow metallic 2 cm large cubic crystals, pretty specimens from a new find; KS 19,00 |
| Pyrite xx | Blagodat Mine, Besna Kobila Mts,Vranje, Bosiljgrad, Pcinja / Serbia; well-terminated yellow-metallic twinned crystals of 4 cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS). Nice crystals from a rare location; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Pyroaurite xx | Langban Gruvan, Langban, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; tabular pale blue 2 mm crystals on Dolomite matrix. In the past such material was always named as Wermlandite, but this is incorrect. Apart from the handful of Holotype specimens, it is always Pyroaurite; KS 28,00 |
| Pyroaurite xx | Hagdale Quarry, Baltasound-Haroldswick area, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland / UK; pale brownish tabular crystals of 1 mm, very rich with white radial-acicular Dypingite aggregates on large fracture zones in pale greenish Serpentinite. Nice specimens from a rare location; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Pyrochroite xx | Blyorten Working, Langban, Värmland / Sweden; tabular black crystals of 5 mm, very rich on Calcite matrix. Very good specimens, collected around 1904; KS 38,00 |
| Pyrolusite xx | Volle Rose Mine, Elgersburg, Ilmenau, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia / Germany; free standing long- prismatic grey-metallic crystals to 2 cm !! in pockets in Rhyolite and massive Pyrolusite matrix. Historic specimens collected during the period of active mining before 1935; KS 28,00; NS 75,00; HS 350,00 |
| Pyromorphite xls | EFS-Flußspat Grube, Niederschlag, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; pale greenish crystals of 2 mm very rich on Quartz-Fluorite matrix. Pretty specimens from a new find; NS 28,00 |
| Pyromorphite xls | Kabwe Mine, Broken Hill, Kabwe District, Central Prov. / Zambia; pale green hexagonal prismatic crystals of 5 mm, together with colorless 3 mm large Tarbuttite crystals. Nice specimen from a rare location for Pyromorphite; NS 48,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Bautenberg Mine, Wilden, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany; highly lustrous cognac-colored scepter-like crystal aggregates of 7 mm on beige Siderite matrix (8 cm x 6 cm). Very nice historic specimen collected around 1930; HS 285,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Heilige Dreifaltigkeit Mine, Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; very nice yellowish-green hexagonal long-prismatic 1 cm crystals, very rich on Barite Quartz matrix. Old specimens collected around 1950; NS 38,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Hoffnung auf bessere Zeiten Mine, Drebach, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; greenish long-prismatic crystals of 3 mm, very rich on matrix (8 cm x 4 cm). Very old specimens from 1850; NS 185,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Max Mine, Krandorf, Schwarzenfeld, Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria / Germany; intensive green 4 mm crystals intergrown to crystal aggregates with some Quartz matrix. Nice specimens collected around 1975; KS 28,00; NS 65,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Příbram, Bohemia / Czech Republic; green to yellowish-green 2 mm crystals, very rich with some Cerussite on Galena matrix. Historic specimens collected around 1880; KS 48,00; NS 95,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Holzappel Mine, Holzappel, Laurenburg, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; highly lustrous pale yellowish-green 4 mm crystals on Quartz matrix. Historic specimens collected around 1900; NS 48,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Peterszeche Mine, Burbach, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany; radial ball like green aggregates of 5 mm, very rich on brownish Goethite matrix. Historic specimens collected around 1890; KS 38,00; NS 95,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Amerika Pegmatite, Penig, Chemnitz, Saxony / Germany; long-prismatic green 3 mm crystals on Granite matrix. Very rare location, collected on October 29th 1939 !!; KS 48,00; NS 85,00 |
| Pyromorphite xx | Friedrichssegen Mine, Frücht, Bad Ems, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; very nice crystal clusters of pale brownish intergrown long-prismatic crystals (Emser Tönnchen). Historic specimens from the 1930s; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Pyrope xls | Aheim, Almklovdalen, Vanylven, More og Romsdal / Norway; red-violet glassy luster crystals of 1 cm, together with bright green 5 mm large Diopsid crystals and some dark green Omphacite crystals on beige fine grained Forsterite matrix. Very nice and colorful specimens; KS 28,00; NS 38,00; HS 75,00 |
| Pyrope X | Nandagala, Ruangwa, Massai Steppe, Lindi Region / Tanzania; blood red gemmy crystals of 1 cm (MM) to 2 cm (KS) from an alluvial deposit. Collected in 1920. These are the finest Pyropes I have ever seen. Normally any stones in such quality are used for cut stones; MM 19,00; KS 38,00 |
| Pyrophyllite (xx) | Presovici, Konjic, Sarajevo / Bosnia; pale pinkish aggregates of pure Pyrophyllite from a rare location, collected in 1983; KS 19,00 |
| Pyrophyllite xls | Wichul, Sankt Niklaus, Matt Valley, Wallis / Switzerland; bright pale green silky radial tabular crystal aggregates of 2,5 cm on white Quartz matrix. These are the nicest Pyrophyllite specimens I have ever seen; NS 38,00; HS 65,00 |
| Pyroxmangite (xls) | Sunnyside Mine, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, San Juan Co., Colorado / USA; bright pinkish massive glassy crystal aggregates of Pyroxmangite. With free inclusion of Galena and Pyrite. Excellent for polishing into cabochons; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
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