Minerals
Gunnar Färber
Minerals
Gunnar Färber
| Safflorit xx | Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland; "Pseudomorphose von um 1 mm großen Safflorit Kristallen nach um 2 cm großen Silber Dendriten", begleitet von um 2 mm großen "Pseudomorphen von Pyrit nach Argentopyrit Kristallen", um 4 mm großen Pyrargyrit xx und Skutterudit xx hervorragende Stufe; HS 480,00 |
| Sahlinite xx | Langban Gruvan, Langban, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; glassy pale yellow crystal aggregates of 5 mm, very rich in Hausmannite-Calcite matrix, collected around 1935; KS 125,00 |
| Saltonseaite xx | Southern shore of Salton Sea, near Obsidian Butte, Calipatria, Imperial Co., California / USA / TYP; the new rare Manganese barring Potassium-Sodium-Chloride forms pale pinkish to pale greenish massive botryoidale aggregates of inter growing lozenge-shaped and bladed Saltonseaite crystals of 2 mm. Together with some white cubic Halite crystals. Very rich and nice specimens for a new mineral; KS 65,00; NS 95,00 |
| Samarskite-(Y) xx | Platt Pegmatite, Big Creek, Carbon Co., Wyoming / USA; brightly lustrous bark-brownish blocky crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS). Old specimens, modern examination shows it is Samarskite-(Y), former labels call it Euxenite-(Y); KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Samarskite-(Yb) xx | Little Patsy Pegmatite, South Platte, Jefferson Co., Colorado / USA / TYP; the rare Ytterbium dominant Samarskite-(Yb) forms dark brownish waxy aggregates with black Columbite-(Fe) in Feldspar matrix; KS 65,00 |
| Saneroite xls | Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy; long tabular orange crystals to 3 mm, very rich in several square centimeter-large crystal aggregates on fracture zones on Hausmannite-Quartz matrix. Very good specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Saneroite xx | Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia, Ne, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy; long-tabular orange crystals to 3 mm, very rich on fracture zones on Hausmannite-Braunite Matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Sanidine xx | Dzvegor Village, Delchevo / Macedonia; pal brownish to beige glassy luster, double terminated sharp single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to |
| Santite xx | Eagle Borax Spring, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; microcrystalline white aggregates, very rich together with colorless Thenardite and Halite. These are the finest known specimens of this extremely rare Magnesium Borate; |
| Saponite xx | Planitis Island, Panormos Bay, Tinos Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; "pseudomorphs after Garnet crystals" minute, shiny, pale orange-brown crystals intergrown to well terminated " crystals" of 4 mm, with some pale green Epidote crystals on Calcite-Muscovite matrix. Planitis is a small uninhabited Island in the Aegean Sea; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Sapphirine xls | Amethyst Prospect, San Isabel, Custer Co., Colorado / USA; glassy dark-blue crystal aggregates of 5 mm together with pale grey acicular Gedrite crystals to 1 cm occur on a massive Anorthite-Gedrite-Phlogopite-Cordierite matrix. Pretty, newly discovered specimens from the only Sapphirine-forming high-pressure metamorphic terrain in the Rocky Mountains; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Sapphirine xx | Fiskenaes, Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Nuuk, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland / TYP; glassy pale blue 5 mm crystals, very rich as intergrown massive aggregates, together with some acicular pale beige Kornerupine and tabular brownish Phlogopite. This is exceptionally rare material from a nearly inaccessible location, collected about 1830; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Sardignaite xls | Punta de Su Seinargiu Mine, Sarroch, Cagliari Prov., Sardinia / Italy / TYP; the extremely rare Bi-Molybdate occurs as colorless silky luster crystals aggregates of 0,5 mm on Quartz; MM 125,00 |
| Sarkinite (xx) | Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Odgensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey / USA; pale orange aggregates of 4 mm in Willemite-Franklinite-Zincite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Sarkinite xx | "Irland Working", Langban, Värmland / Sweden; glassy red crystal aggregate of 1,5 cm in Hausmannite-Calcite matrix. Old specimen collected around 1900; NS 165,00 |
| Sartorite xx | Lengenbach Quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; highly lustrous grey-metallic crystal of 5 mm on Dolomite matrix. Old specimen from 1980; KS 125,00 |
| Sassolite xx | Sasso Pisano, Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Pisa Prov., Tuscany / Italy / TYP; tabular aggregates of white pseudo-hexagonal crystals to 1 cm, collected in 1973 in hot boric acid springs in a local geyser field; KS 19,00 |
| Satpaevite xx | Mounana Mine, Franceville, Haut-Ogooue Prov. / Gabon; yellow microcrystalline aggregates with dark greenish Roscoelite on fracture zones on sandstone; MM 38,00 |
| Sazhinit-(Ce) xx | Aris Quarry, Aris, Windhoek, Khomas Region / Namibia; weiße langprismatische um 1 mm große vereinzelte Kristalle in einer Kluftzone in Phonolit Matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Sazhinit-(La) xx | Aris Quarry, Aris, Windhoek, Khomas Region / Namibia / TYP; farblos-weiße langtafelige um 0,5 mm große vereinzelte Kristalle in kleinen Kluftzonen in Phonolit Matrix; KS 75,00 |
| Sborgite xx | Eagle Borax Spring, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; massive tan-colored crystal aggregates of intergrown Sborgite crystals of 0,5 mm, together with some Blödite, Thenardite and Halite. Outstanding specimens: these are the finest examples of this extremely rare Sodium Borate I have ever seen; KS 65,00; NS 85,00 |
| Scacchite xx | Mt. Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex,, Naples Prov, Campania / Italy / TYP; Rose-red to brown encrustations on vugs in lava matrix; MM 38,00 |
| Scainiite xx | Strieborná vein, Ľudovít Mine, Dubrava, Northern Low Tatra Mts., Zilina Region / Slovakia; grey-metallic needle crystals to 1 cm intergrown to radial acicular aggregates, very rich on matrix. These are the finest Scainiites I have ever seen; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Scandian-Fergussonite-(Y) xx | Froysa Pegmatite, Froysaasen, Iveland, Aust-Agder / Norway; lustrous brownish prismatic crystals of 2 cm very rich in Feldspar matrix. This Fergussonite-(Y) is extremely rich in Scandium (2,63 At%) and Tantalum (7,87 At%) (compare with Niobium = |
| Scarbroite (xx) | South Bay, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England / UK / TYP; nodular white aggregates of 3 cm, together with Calcite on brownish sandstone matrix, very rich specimens; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Scawtite xls | Carneal, Glenoe Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland / UK; the Ca-Silicate occurs in prismatic crystals of 2 mm together with white Tobermorite in cavities in Basalte (Olivine Dolerite) matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Schafarzikit xx | Pernek Mine, Pezinok, Malé Karpaty Mts., Bratislavský Kraj / Slowakai / TYP; schwarze hochglänzende prismatische um |
| Schäferite xx | Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District slag localities, Attika Pref. / Greece; dark brownish to orange brownish bright luster well terminated crystals up to 3 mm, inter grown in to massive crystal aggregates with some Nosean. This are the finest and largest crystals of the rare Ca-Na-Mg-Vanadate ever find; KS 65,00; NS 148,00 |
| Scheelite (xls) | Algfalls Mine, Kopparberg, Ljusnarsberg, Västmanland / Sweden; pale gray glassy luster crystals of 2,5 cm in Skarn matrix. Bright pale yellow in UV-light; NS 19,00 |
| Scheelite X | Kinta Valley, Bujang Mts., Melaka, Malakka Peninsula / Malaysia; lustrous silky white singel crystals of 2 cm Old specimens collect around 1900; KS 28,00 |
| Scheelite xls | Kara #1 Pit, Kara Mines, Hampshire District, Tasmania / Australia; glassy pale grey crystals of 5 mm in black Magnetite. Old specimens from a rare location; KS 28,00 |
| Scheelite xx | Bresnica, Vranje, Bosiljgrad, Pcinja / Serbia; pale yellowish to beige crystals of 4 mm, very rich in acicular greenish Actinolite matrix. Unique specimens from a rare location; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Scheelite xx | Davision Creek Mine, Armstrong Canyon, Inyo Co., California / USA; pale grayish well terminated crystals of 5 mm in a matrix of reddish brown Grossular crystals; KS 28,00 |
| Scheelite xx | Brejui Mine, Currais Novos, Borborema, Rio Grande do Norte / Brazil; waxy white to pale grayish crystals and aggregates of 2 cm in Garnet-Hedenbergite matrix. Rich specimens from the former largest Tungsten mine in Brazil; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Scheuchzerite xls | Fianel Mine, Ausserferrera, Ferrera Valley, Grischun / Switzerland / TYP; orange yellow acicular crystal aggregates of 3 mm, on thin fracture zones on Hematite-Quartz-Matrix. Nice specimens of the rare Na-Mn-V-Silicate; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Scheuchzerite xx | Gambatesa Mine, Graveglia Valley, Genova, Liguria / Italy; orange-red radial acicular aggregates of 1.5 mm very rich in tan Quartz matrix. Very good specimens of this rare Vanadium Silicate; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Schlüterite-(Y) xls | Stetind Pegmatite, Mt. Stetind, Tysfjord, Nordland / Norway / TYP; white acicular crystal aggregate of 1 mm in a cavity in Yttrofluorite matrix. Only few specimens available; MM 125,00 |
| Schmiederite xx | Mina El Dragón, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Potosí Dept. / Bolivia; needly blue crystal aggregates of 2 mm together with Malachite on Krutaite-Penroseite matrix; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Schmiederite xx | El Cóndor Mine, Los Llantenes, Vinchina Dept., La Rioja / Argentina / TYP; the Lead-Copper-Selenide forms blue needle crystals on Quartz Matrix. Specimens of Schmiederite from the type location in Argentina are very rare, I have only two MM´s available; |
| Schneebergite xx | Roter Berg, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge,Saxony / Germany / TYP; lustrous brownish long prismatic 0,3 mm crystals very rich in small vugs in Quartz matrix. Very good specimens of this mineral till now known only from Schneeberg district; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Schoonerite xx | Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Oberpfälzer Wald, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria / Germany; greenish brown radial-acicular crystal aggregates of 3 mm, together with pale greenish Phosphophyllite crystals to 5 mm and other phosphates in vugs in Quartz matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Schorlomite xx (xx) | Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., Arkansas / USA / TYP; black glassy luster massive crystal aggregates of pure Titanium Garnet Schorlomite. Very old specimen collect around 1870. the old specimens come out of the collection of "Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd in London"; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Schröckingerite xx | Silver Hill Mine, Niobrara Creek, Lusk, Niobrara Co., Wyoming / USA; greenish-yellow tabular crystals of 2 mm, very rich on vugs in Quartzite matrix. Very old specimens, newly examined; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Schröckingerite xx | Lost Creek, Red Desert, Wamsuter, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming / USA; nice pale yellow crystal aggregates of 1 cm, very rich on Limestone matrix. The specimens were collected in July 1999 in an old Uranium prospect. The location is in a very remote area approx. 50 miles north of Wamsuter.; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Schuetteite xls | Cordero Mine, McDermitt, Humboldt Co., Nevada / USA; the rare Mercury-Sulfate forms yellow crust of minute crystals on pale matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Schuetteite xls | Silver Cloud Mine, Ivanhoe District, Battle Mountain, Elko Co., Nevada / USA; the rare Hg-Sulfate occurs as yellow crystal aggregates of several square centimeter with red Cinnabar on white Opal matrix, very rich specimens; |
| Schulzenit | Mina La Profunda, Villamanin, Carmenes, Leon, Castile and Leon / Spanien; schwarze botryoidale Aggregate auf Calcit Matrix. Sehr reiche Exemplare der seltenen Heterogenit-artigen Kobalt-Kupfer-Hydroxides (Co = 3 zu Cu = 1); KS 48,00 |
| Schwartzembergite xx | Mina Beatrix, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda, Atacama Desert, II Region / Chile; orange yellow high lustrous prismatic crystals up to 2 mm, intergrown to crystal clusters of pure Schartzembergite, or on vugs in Quartz matrix. This are the best specimens of this rare Lead Iodated I have seen in any time; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Schwertmannite (xx) | Tulsequah Chief Mine, Mt. Eaton, north of Taku River, Whitewater Mts., 57 km east of Juneau (Alaska), British Columbia / Canada; massive brownish waxy aggregates of pure Schwertmannite; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 |
| Scorzalite xx | Champion Mine, White Mts., Mono Co., California / USA; blue well terminated crystals of 1 mm, inter grown to 2 cm crystal aggregates on Quartz matrix. Nice and rich specimens from a new discover Pocket zone above the old Champion Mine; |
| Scrutinyite xls | Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales / Australia; the rare Lead-oxide course here as dark-grey-brownish luster 1 mm large crystal aggregates, very rich on cavities in Quartz matrix. Old newly examined specimens, collect around 1900; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Segnitite xx | Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango / Mexico; beautiful crystal clusters of intergrown greenish-yellow Segnitite microcrystals and highly lustrous well-terminated colorless 5mm Mimetite crystals. Outstanding Segnitite specimens. These are the richest Segnitites I have ever seen; KS 28,00; NS 48,00; HS 125,00 |
| Seifertite | Northwest Africa 4734, Lunar Mare Basalt, Erfoud, Er Rachidia Prov. / Marocco; the extremely rare SiO2 polymorph Seiferite develop with Stishovite and other SiO2 phases, during a pressure of 40 GPa in highly shocked glassy components, in the year of 2006 discover Moon meteorite "Northwest Africa 4734"; small fragments of 4 mm; MM 125,00 |
| Selenian-Pyragyrite xx | Mina Valenciana, Guanajuato, Mun. de Guanajuato, Guanajuato State / Mexico; nice crystal cluster of 1,5 cm (MM) to 2 cm (KS) of inter-growing bright dark red metallic crystals of 1 cm. This Pyargyrite is very unusually rich in Selenium. Old specimens from the collection of an old local miner, very unusual material and a rare location; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Selenium xx | Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany; highly lustrous long-prismatic black-metallic crystals to |
| Selenopolybasit (xx) | San Poil Mine, Flag Hill, Eureka Gulch, Republic, Ferry Co., Washington / USA; winzige metallische Einlagerungen in dadurch schwarz gefärbten Chalcedon. Der Selenopolybasit bildet mikroskopische Verwachsungen mit Gold Pyrit und einer unbekannten |
| Selenopolybasite xx | Mina Valenciana, Guanajuato, Mun. de Guanajuato, Guanajuato State / Mexico; lustrous bright black metallic tabular crystals of |
| Sellaite xls | Grube Clara, Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg / Germany; white radial acicular crystal aggregates of 2 cm with some Fluorite. Nice specimens of this uncommon Magnesium fluoride; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Semenovite-(Ce) xls | Taseq Slope, Taseqarea, Ilímaussaq, Narsaq, Kujalleq/ Greenland / TYP; waxy pale brownish bi-pyramidal crystals of 2 mm on vugs in Epididymite-Albite-Aegirine matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Semenovite-(Ce) xx | Taseq Lake, Illimaussaq, Narsaq, Kitaa Prov., Greenland / DK / TYP; waxy pale brownish bi-pyramidal crystals of 2 mm on vugs in Epididymite-Albite-Aegirine matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Semseyit (xx) | Itos Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Prov., Oruro Dept. / Bolivien; hellgraue metallische um bis 1 cm große schuppige Aggregate in grauer Galenit Matrix; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 |
| Senaite (xx) | Man Mine, Nyberg ore field, Lindesberg, Västmanland / Sweden; grey metallic crystals of 2 mm together with yellow Richterite in Quartz; KS 28,00 |
| Senarmontite xx | Djebel Haminate Mine, Ain Beida, Qacentina Prov, Atlas Mts. / Algeria / TYP; highly, lustrous colorless bi-pyramidal crystals of 5 mm, very rich on massive Senarmontite matrix. Outstandingly good specimens; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Sepiolite (xx) | Pine Flat Lake, Trimmer, Fresno Co., California / USA; bright white botryoidal aggregates of inter grown microcrystalline fibrous crystals. Together with some small amounts of Enstatite and Quartz; KS 12,00; NS 19,00; HS 28,00 |
| Serendibite xx | Armstrong Farm, Johnsburg, Warren Co., New York / USA; pale blue glassy prismatic crystals and aggregates of 5 mm, very rich in Phlogopite-Anorthite matrix. Very good specimens, collect all-round 1980; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Serendibite X | Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay / Myanmar; well terminated gemmy dark blue to black single crystals of 1 cm (MM) to |
| Sergeevite (xx) | Malyi Mukulan Sn Mine, Baksan Valley, Northern Caucasus / Russia / TYP; white aggregates of minute crystals with some Huntite and Gypsum; MM 65,00 |
| Serpierit xx | Mina Copaquiri, Guatacondo, Iquique, I Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; hellblaue nadelige um 2 mm große Kristalle, sehr reich als dichter Kristallrasen auf großen Spaltzonen in Granit Matrix; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Shandite (xx) | Nickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour district, Tasmania / Australia / TYP; minute bronze-metallic grains embedded in serpentine, oriented within and as thin rims on Heazlewoodite in Serpentinite; MM 85,00 |
| Shcherbinaite xx | Ronneburg U deposit, Ronneburg, Gera, Thuringia / Germany; pale yellow transparent needle crystals of 0,5 mm on matrix; |
| Shilovite xx | Pabellon de Pica, Chanabaya, Iquique Prov., Tarapaca Region / Chile / TYP; glassy violet-blue crystals to 0,2 mm very richly inter-grown in Halite. This new very rare Copper-Ammine-Nitrate was first discovered by me in self-collected samples in 2007. But at this time it was impossible to describe this new mineral as a new species; KS 48,00 |
| Shimazakiite (xls) | Fuka Mine, Bicchu-cho, Takahashi, Okayama, Honshu Island / Japan /TYP; white micro crystalline aggregates inter grown with massive pale grayish Takedaite; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Shimazakiite (xx) | Fuka Mine, Bitchu-cho, Takahashi, Okayama, Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; microcrystalline white aggregates intergrown with grayish Takedaite; MM 125,00; KS 165,00 |
| Shirokshinite xx | 1 miles south of Pieta Creek, 4 miles north east of Cloverdale, Mendocino Co., California / USA; fine grained mica-like black aggregates in Quartz matrix; KS 65,00 |
| Shirozulite xx | Agios Ioannis, Kouvara Hill, Andros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; highly lustrous pale brownish tabular crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich with some red Piemontite crystals in layer-like structures in metamorphic Quartzite. Very rich specimens of this rare Mica; MM 38,00 |
| Shortite xl | Solvay Mine, Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming / USA / TYP; shiny pale yellow gemmy single crystals of 1,5 cm (MM) to |
| Shortite xx | Westvaco Mine, Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming / USA / TYP; brightly lustrous colorless to pale yellow crystals of 3 mm, very rich in brownish dolomitic Shale rock, pretty specimens; KS 28,00; NS 38,00; HS 65,00 |
| Shungit | Shun'ga River, Shun'ga, Onega Lake, Karelien / Rußland; schwarze hochglänzende massive Aggregate aus reinem Shungit. |
| Siderazot (xx) | Krýsuvík Vulcano, Hafnarfjörður, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland; highly lustrous bluish-grey sub-metallic thin crust covering areas of several square centimeters on Lava matrix. Very rich specimens for this rare Iron Nitride; KS 28,00; NS 65,00 |
| Siderite xls | Pribram, Bohemia / Czech Republic; nice specimens with well terminated tabular-prismatic pale brownish crystals of 1,5 cm. Old time specimens collect around 1900; KS 19,00; NS 48,00; HS 95,00 |
| Siderite xls | Hüttenberger Erzberg, Hüttenberg, Friesach, Carinthia / Austria; nice specimens with well terminated prismatic crystals of 2 cm. Old time specimens collect around 1920; NS 38,00; HS 95,00 |
| Sideronatrit xx | Barranca del Sulfato, Mejillones Peninsula, Antofagasta, II Region / Chile; orange-braune hochglänzende glasklare um 3 mm große perfekt ausgebildete idiomorphe Kristalle, sehr reich auf großen Kluftzonen in massiver Sideronatrit Matrix. Sideronatrit in dieser Qualität ist einmalig. Es dürften die weltbesten Exemplare sein; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Sigloite xls | Mina Siglo Vente, Llallagua, Bustillo Prov., Potosi Dept. / Bolivien / TYP; beige to pale brownish crystals of 5 mm together with colorless Paravauxite crystals . Sigloite always formed as a pseudomorph after Paravauxite; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Sillenit (xx) | Weißer Hirsch, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland; "Pseudomorphosen nach Feder-Wismut", gelbe wachs-artige Aggregate dicht verwachsen mit hellgelben mikro-kristallenen Bismutit, als Feder-artige Strukturen, sehr reich auf Kluftzonen in Gneis Matrix. Hervorragende Stufen, gefunden um 1980; NS 38,00; HS 75,00 |
| Sillimanite (xx) | Ouro Fino, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais / Brazil; pale brownish 3 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS) "apricot kernel" aggregates of fibrous Sillimanite. These "Seed-l[ke" aggregates are found in the Lateritic zone above a Granulite. I have never seen or heard of anything like this; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Sillimanite xls | Carnatic Coast, Tamil Nadu / India / TYP; nice crystal clusters of 2 cm large pale-orange-brown radial acicular crystal aggregates of pure Sillimanite. Very old specimens from the type-location of Sillimenite, at this time the mineral was named "Fibrolite", collect around 1800 !!; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Silver | Eisleben, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; a 3 x 2 cm large sheet of native Silver on a black "marl slate" matrix. Quite an uncommon location for native Silver; NS 48,00; HS 75,00 |
| Silver xx | Chanarcillo, Copiapo, Atacama Desert, III Region / Chile; silver white metallic crystal aggregates of 1 cm, with Acanthite and Sphalerite crystals, very rich on Calcite Quartz matrix. Quite nice historic specimens, collected around 1930; |
| Silver xx | Porco, Agua de Castilla, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Potosi Dept. / Bolivia; silver white-metallic wire and herringbone Silver aggregates of 2 cm, very rich on Sphalerite-Quartz matrix. Incredibly rich specimens of native Silver; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Silvialite xls | Loitsch Quarry,Weida, Gera, Thuringia / Germany; this rare Sulfate-bearing Ca-Na-Al-Silicate occurs as greenish grey acicular crystal aggregates of 1,5 cm in dark grey Diabase matrix; KS 38,00; NS 48,00 |
| Simplotite xls | Burro Mine, Slick Rock District, San Miguel Co., Colorado / USA; Simplotite forms olive green crystal aggregates of 1 mm, together with black Montroseite and very rich crystal aggregates of bright orange Pascoite crystals, grown on fracture zones on Sandstone matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Sincosite xls | South Rasmussen Ridge Phosphate Mine, Soda Springs, Caribou Co., Idaho / USA; green tabular crystals of 2 mm, very rich on vugs on black Phosphorite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Sinhalite xls | Bodnar Quarry, Rundville, Sussex Co., New Jersey / USA; pale yellowish grey glassy crystal aggregates of 5 mm (KS) up to |
| Sinkankasite xx | Barker-Ferguson Mine, Keystone, Pennington Co., South Dakota / USA / TYP; colorless to white radial-acicular crystal aggregates to 4 mm, on vugs in a Quartz-Muscovite matrix. Top specimens of this very rare Manganese Phosphates; KS 38,00 |
| Sklodowskite xls | Grube Christa, Großschloppen, Weißenstadt, Fichtelgebirge, Franconia, Bavaria / Germany; this Magnesium-Uranium-Silicate forms dark yellowish acicular crystal aggregates of 5 mm on Quartz. Sklodowskite from a German location is unique; KS 38,00 |
| Skorpionite xls | Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, Karas Region / Namibia / TYP; colorless needle crystals of 1 mm with pale green 5 mm Tarbuttite crystals on massive Tarbuttite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Skutterudit xx | Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland; "Pseudomorphosen vom Skutterudit nach gediegen Silber" um 3 cm große Feder-artige "Kristallaggregate" verwachsen zu massiven Aggregaten aus reinen Skutterudit. Sehr alte historische Stücke; |
| Skutterudite (xls) | Mutter Gottes Mine, Bad Gottleuba-Berggiesshübel, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; silver with metallic crystal aggregates of 2 cm in Quartz, old specimen with a old label, from a rare German location; NS 48,00 |
| Smithite xls | LengenbachQuarry, Imfeld, BinnValley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; deep red metallic crystals of 1 mm on Dolomite matrix; KS 48,00 |
| Sodalite (xls) | Narsaq Glacier, Ilímaussaq Complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq/ Greenland; lustrous pale pinkish crystal aggregate of 2 cm in white Sodalite. This Sodalite has a pale red SW luminescence due to Fe3+; KS 38,00 |
| Soddyit xx | Swambo Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba / Kongo / TYP; gelblich-braune um 2 mm große Kristalle, sehr reich neben etwas hellgelbem feinnadeligen Swamboit auf Kluftzonen; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Sodic-ferripedrizite xx | Arroyo de la Yedra, Eastern Pedriza Massif, Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid / Spain / TYP; Sodic-ferripedrizite (green), Ferriwhittakerite (blue), Sodic-ferri-ferropedrizite (black), Ferri-ottoliniite (black), all this four phasen in white Albite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Sonolite (xls) | Llyn du Bach Mine, Moel Ysgyfarnogod, Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales / UK; waxy dark orange-brown 2 cm thick vein-like banded aggregates inTephroite-Rhodochrosite-Spessartine-matrix.Very interesting specimens from a new find; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Sorensenite xx | Kuannersuit Plateau, Ilimaussaq Complex, Narsaq, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland / TYP; pale pinkish long- tabular crystals of 3 cm, very rich on Analcime matrix; KS 28,00; NS 75,00 |
| Spessartine xl | Mina Urucum, Galilea, Minas Gerais / Brazil red-brown well terminated transparent single crystals of 3 cm, nice specimens collect around 1999; KS 28,00 |
| Spessartine xls | Otratnaja Nunatak, Northern Gruber Mts., Queen Maud Land, Eastern Antarctica / Antarctica; orange-brownish bright luster well terminated gemmy crystals of 0,5 mm on white Albite-Quartz matrix. Spessartine crystals from Antarctica, you do not see that all too often; KS 28,00 |
| Sphalerite xls | Cainsdorf, Zwickauer Mulde, Zwickau, Saxony/ Germany; diamond-bright well terminated brown crystals of 3 mm, rich on large cavities in clay ironstone geodes, pretty specimens; NS 38,00; HS 48,00 |
| Sphalerite xls | Anxbach Mine, Lorscheid, Neuwied, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; diamond-bright red crystals of 3 mm, rich with Quartz crystals on a 5 cm-large cavity on matrix. Pretty and historic specimen ;NS 48,00 |
| Sphalerite xx | Osikovo Mine, Sasa, Osogovski Mts., Kocani / Makedonia; highly lustrous well-terminated brownish crystals of 5 mm, extremely rich together with nice 3 cm-long Quartz crystals on matrix. Pretty specimens from a very rare location; NS 38,00; HS 125,00 |
| Sphalerite xx | Manuelita Mine, Morococha, Yauli Prov., Junín Dept. / Peru; highly lustrous mirror-like transparent honey-brownish gemmy crystals to 6 mm, together with pale pinkish 5 mm Rhodochrosite crystals, growing on a matrix of needly Quartz crystals. Very nice specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Sphalerite xx | Dzhezkazgan Mine, Dzhezkazgan, Karagandy Prov. / Kazakhstan; very sharp gemmy tetrahedral honey-brownish crystals to |
| Sphalerite xls | Beihilfe Mine, Halsbrücke, Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; "Ruby blende" red diamond-lustered transparent gemmy well terminated crystals of 2 mm. Very rich on Quartz Pyrite Matrix. Very nice specimens, collected in the 1950s; NS 125,00 |
| Sphalerite xx | Osikovo Mine, Sasa, Osogovski Mts., Kocani / Macedonia; bright honey-brown transparent gemmy well-terminated crystals of |
| Spherocobaltite xx | Bou Azzer Mine, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Prov., Marocco; violet transparent rhombohedreal crystals of 1.5 mm, very rich on vugs to several centimeters on a Cobalt ore matrix. These are the finest Spherocobaltites I have ever seen; |
| Spherocobaltite xx | Bou Azzer Mine, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Prov., Marocco; violet transparent rombohedreal crystals of 1,5 mm, very rich on several centimeter large vugs on Cobalt ore matrix. This are the finest Spherocobaltite I have seen ever,see article in Lapis 11/2010: KS 38,00; NS 95,00 |
| Spinel xls | Neelum Valley, Muzaffarabad, Kashmir / Pakistan; lustrous glassy rounded single violet crystals of 1 cm x 1 cm from an alluvial deposit. Very colourful specimens from a new location in the Kashmir region; MM 28,00 |
| Spinel xls | Aker Limestone Quarry, Aker, Strängnäs, Södermanland / Sweden; blue glassy bi-pyramidal crystals up to 8 mm, together with pale-greenish-brown Tremolite and Phlogopite on white Calcite matrix. Old time specimens collect around 1900; |
| Spodumene (xx) | Nyköping Gruvan, Utö Island, Mysingen Fjord, Södermanland / Sweden / TYP; pale greenish crystals of 4 cm in a Quartz-Feldspar matrix. Unique specimens from the Type locality for Spodumene. Collected around 1850; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Spodumene X | Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay / Myanmar; gemmy transparent pale yellow crystals of 1 cm (MM) to 1,5 cm (KS); |
| Srebrodolskite xx | Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel Mts., Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; dark reddish-brown aggregates of tiny crystals, very rich on white matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Staffelite xx | Schäfer Quarry, Runkel, Limburg, Hesse / Germany; globular white crystal aggregates, very rich on brownish matrix; |
| Stanekite (xx) | Buranga Pegmatite, Gatumba, Western Prov. / Rwanda; semi-metallic, vein like black aggregates of 5 mm in dark violet Heterosite; KS 48,00; NS 75,00 |
| Stanfieldit xx | Estherville Mesosiderit A3/4, Estherville, Emmet Co., Iowa / USA / TYP; honig-braune glasige hochglänzende um 1,5 mm große vereinzelte idiomorphe Kristalle in Hohlräumen in Mesosiderit Matrix. Begleitet von grünlich-grauen glasigen um 0,5 mm großen Enstatit Kristallen und bis 5 mm großen Kamacit Kristallen, deren Kernzonen aus den Tetraraenit bestehen, sowie einigen kleinen idiomorphen Troilit Kristallen. Stanfieldit in idiomorphen Kristallen war bisher vollkommen unbekannt. |
| Stanleyite xx Minasragrite xx | Minas Ragra, Cerro de Pasco, Daniel Alcides Carrión Prov., Pasoc Dept. / Peru / TYP; glassy pale blue aggregates together with glassy blue Minasragrite, very rich on a black-grained Patronite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Stannite (xx) | Mt. Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania / Australia; massive crystal aggregates of an Indium-rich Stannite, together with minor Pyrite. Very old specimens, collect around 1900; KS 48,00 |
| Stannite xx | Wheal Agar Mine, Illogan, Redruth, St Day, Cornwall, England / UK; well terminated grayish brown-metallic 1 mm crystals, intergrown to massive aggregates to 2 cm, very rich with some Chalcopyrite in Quartz matrix. Old-time specimens from early 1900s; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Stannoidite (xx) | Kanagase orebody Ikuno Mine, Asago, Hyogo Pref., Honshu Island / Japan; brownish metallic aggregates of 5 mm, very rich in Scheelite-Wolframite- Chalcopyrite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Starkeyite xls | Calingasta, Calingasta Department, San Juan / Argentinia; white silky luster crystal aggregates very rich on colorless Hexadydrite. Very rich specimens of the rare Magnesium Sulfate; KS 28,00; NS 65,00 |
| Steacyite (xx) | Murun Massif, Chara River, Aldan Shield, Sakha, Eastern Siberia Region / Russia; glassy pale yellow crystals of 5 mm in violet Charoite matrix; NS 28,00 |
| Steenstrupine-(Ce) xls | Taseq Slope, Ilímaussaq Complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, / Greenland; deep dark brownish pyramidal crystals up to 1 cm in pale greenish Sodalite matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Stellerite xls | Markovice Quarry, Caslav, Bohemia / Czech Republic; bright orange luster tabular-prismatic crystals of 1,5 cm, very rich on greenish grey Amphibolite matrix. Nice and colorful specimens from a new find; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Stellerite xx | Sultepa Quarry, Tainhas, Cambara do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil; pale brownish prismatic crystals of 1 cm, very rich with some Quartz crystals in a Basalt matrix; NS 28,00 |
| Stephanite xls | Silver King Mine, Elsa, Keno Hill, Yukon Territory / Canada; dark grey metalic crystal aggregates of 1 cm in Quartz matrix. Old specimens from a rare location, collect around 1977; KS 38,00; NS 148,00 |
| Stephanite xx | Mina La Mejicana, Sierra de Famatina, Chilecito Dept., La Rioja / Argentinia; highly lustrous massive grey metallic crystal aggregates of pure Stephanite. Rich specimens from an old discovery in the early 1920s; KS 48,00; NS 225,00 |
| Sterryite xx | Pollone Mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta, Apuan Alps, Lucca Prov., Tuscany / Italy; black metallic needle like crystals to 1 cm intergrown with Quartz crystals to 2 cm and Barite. This spectacular new find bring out the finest known specimens of the rare Silver mineral; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Stetindite xls | Stetind Pegmatite, Mt. Stetind, Tysfjord, Nordland / Norway / TYP; creamy-white acicular aggregate of 1 mm in Yttrofluorite; MM 148,00 |
| Stibarsen xx | Röjmyrheden Pegmatit, Varuträsk, Skellefteå, Västerbotten / Sweden / TYP; tin-white-metallic tabular crystal aggregates of 1 cm of pure Stibarsen. Stibarsen from the Type location is very rare. Collected around 1940; MM 28,00 |
| Stibiobetafite xx | Buca della Vena Mine, Lucca, Apuane Alpes, Tuscany / Italy; brownish high lusterous crystals of 0,3 mm very rich in white Dolomite; MM 28,00 |
| Stibiomicrolite (xx) | Röjmyrheden Pegmatit, Varuträsk, Skellefteå, Västerbotten / Sweden / TYP; Semi-transparent pale greenish-white fine grained aggregates intergrown with Stibiotantalite and native Antimony. Stibiomicrolite from the Type location is extremely rare. They have been found just once, around 1938; MM 38,00 |
| Stibiotantalite xl | Mawi Pegmatit, Nilaw-Kolum, Du Ab District, Nuristan Prov. / Afghanistan; bright yellow well terminated single crystals of |
| Stibnite xx | Zajaca Mine, Krupanj, Boranja, Podrinje District / Serbia; nice crystal cluster of inter grown grey metallic long prismatic Stibnite crystals up to 5 cm. Rich specimens from a rare location; NS 48,00 |
| Stibnite xls | Allchar Mine, Allchar, Madjan, Kavadarci, Roszdan / Macedonia; bright grey metallic long prismatic crystals of 1,5 cm, very rich with small colorless Gypsum crystals on Quartz matrix. Stibnite specimens from Allchar are quite uncommon and collected in the 1960s; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Stichtite xx | Stichtite Hill, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania / Australia / TYP; bright violet crystals of 3 mm inter grown to massive crystal aggregates with some Lizardite; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Stichtite-2H xx | New Amianthus Mine, Kaapsche Hoop, Barberton, Mpumalanga Prov. / South Africa / TYP; tabular violet crystals of 1 mm, inter grown to massive aggregates of pure Stichtite-2H, together with some greenish Antigorite; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Stilbite-Ca xls | Striegau, Swidnica, Strzegom-Sobótka Massif, Lower Silesia / Poland; pale orange-brownish crystal to 1 cm on Quartz-Feldspar matrix. Nice and old specimens collected around 1920; NS 38,00 |
| Stillwellite-(Ce) xls | Darai - Pioz Glacier, Alai Range, Tien Shan Mts., Tajikistan; lustrous greenish-brown well terminated crystals of 5 mm in Quartz matrix; KS 48,00 |
| Stilpnomelan xx | Couloir Collaud, Bovernier, Mont Chemin, Martigny, Wallis / Schweiz; braune hochglänzende um 5 mm große tafelige Kristalle, sehr reich neben Epidot Kristallen und Quarz auf großen Kluftzonen; KS 28,00 |
| Stoiberit xx | Izalco Volcano, Canton Las Lajas, Cerro Verde, Sonsonate Dept. / El Salvador / TYP; schwarze hochglänzende winzige Kristalle auf Kluftzonen in Lava Matrix; Capsel 48,00; MM 95,00 |
| Stolzite xls | Sainte Lucie Mine, St Léger-de-Peyre, Marvejols, Lozere, Occitanie / France; very nice 2 cm large crystals clusters of pale-yellowish-brownish bright luster tabular 1 cm large crystals. Outstanding good specimens of the un-common Lead-Tungstate, collect around 1995, only few specimens available; KS 48,00 |
| Strelkinite xls | Suwaqa al Gharbiya, Lisdan Siwaga Fault zone, Amman / Jordan; this very rare Sodium-Uranyl-Vanadate forms tabular yellow crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich on a white phosphatic carbonate matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00; NS 85,00 |
| Strelkinite xls | Yellow Cat, Thompson District, Grand Co., Utah / USA; this very rare Sodium-Uranyl-Vanadate occurs as bright yellow microcrystalline aggregates very rich on large fracture zones on pale grey Sandstone matrix. Very good specimens from a new find; KS 38,00; NS 75,00; HS 148,00 |
| Strelkinite xx | Suwaqa al Gharbiya, Lisdan Siwaga Fault zone, Amman / Jordan; the very rare Sodium-Uranyl-Vanadate forms yellow tabular crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich on a white phosphatic carbonate matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Strengite xls | Leveäniemi Mine, Svappavaara, Kiruna, Lappland / Sweden; violet radial-acicular ball-like crystals aggregates of 3 mm on vugs in Hematite, collect all-round 1980; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Strengite xls | Kreuzberg, Pleystein, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria / Germany; pale violet bright luster transparent idiomorphic crystals of 3 mm, on cavities in Rockbridgeite-Quartz matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Strengite xx | Leveäniemi Mine, Svappavaara, Kiruna, Lappland / Sweden; bright violet radial-acicular spherical crystal aggregates of 4 mm on large vugs in Hematite, pretty specimens collected around 1980; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Strengite xx | Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse / Germany / TYP; pale yellowish-pinkish acicular crystal balls to 2 mm, with some yellow Cacoxenite and brownish Oxiberaunite on dark brownish Iron ore matrix. Specimens of Strengite from the type location are extremely uncommon (I have it never seen before); collected around 1880; KS 85,00; NS 148,00 |
| Stringhamite xls | Christmas Mine, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts., Gila Co., Arizona / USA; dark-blue well terminated bright luster crystals of 1 mm, together with pale blue needle-like Whelanite crystals. Nice specimens of the rare Copper-silicates; KS 28,00 |
| Stromeyerite (xx) | Prince Lyell Mine, Mt. Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania / Australia; massive grey-metallic Stromeyerite inter grown with some Chalcocite. Old specimens collect around 1960; KS 38,00 |
| Strontianite xls | Iberg, Bad Grund, Harz, Lower Saxony / Germany; the Strontium-carbonate course here as a colorless crystals of 4 mm, grown as a second generation, on pale green glassy massive Strontianite. Nice and unusual specimens collect around 1940; NS 125,00 |
| Strontianite xx | National Limestone Quarry, Mount Pleasant Mills, Snyder Co., Pennsylvania / USA; pale yellowish ball-like crystal aggregates of 2 cm, with some colorless Calcite crystals of 3 mm, very rich on a Limestone matrix. Beautiful specimens; NS 19,00 |
| Strontiodresserite xx | Dielengraben, Stein, Drautal, Gailtaler Alpen, Carinthia / Austria; white silky luster radial acicular sun-like aggregates up to 5 mm, very rich covered on large fractures in dark grey limestone matrix. This spectacular new find in the Alp Mountains bring out the world finest know specimens of the rare Sr-Al-Carbonate, see also article in the "Mineralien-Welt 6/2010"; NS 48,00; HS 75,00 |
| Strontioginorite xls | Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia / Germany; "Pseudomorph of Strontioginorite crystals after Gypsum crystals". Colorless long-tabular Strontioginorite crystals of 5 mm, intergrown to white prismatic "crystals" up to 2 cm. Absolutely unique and rare Pseudomorph; KS 48,00; NS 120,00 |
| Strontioginorite xx | Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz Mts., Thuringia / Germany; highly lustrous gemmy long-prismatic colorless crystals of 1 to 2 cm on a matrix of tabular Gypsum and Anhydrite. Outstanding (world best) specimens of this very rare Strontium-Borate; KS 65,00; NS 125,00; HS 450,00 |
| Strontioginorite xx | Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz Mts., Thuringia / Germany; lustrous bright long tabular well terminated free standing colourles 2 cm crystals very rich as a massive 3 cm thick vein like crystal aggregate of pure Strontioginorite on Anhydrite matrix. These are the richest Strontioginorites I have ever seen; KS 48,00; NS 95,00; HS 250,00 |
| Strontiojoaquinite xx | Junnila Mine, Clear Creek Canyon, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California / USA / TYP; glassy yellow crystals to 1,5 mm with white Albite and Natrolite on bluish grey Glaucophane matrix. Nice specimens from a new find in February 2014; |
| Struvite X | Paoha Island, Mono Lake, Mono Co., California / USA; lustrous colorless 2 cm crystal, growing core-like in a Newberyite aggregate. A fresh unaltered Struvite is extremely rare; KS 95,00 |
| Struvite xl | St Nikolai church, Hamburg / Germany / TYP; colorless to grayish glassy well terminated crystals up of 1 cm, cover by a 0,5 mm large white Newberyite crystals. This crystals are a part of the holo type material of this rare NH4-Mg-Phosphate Struvite, descript as a new mineral in 1846; MM 28,00 |
| Struvite-(K) xx | Rossblei Mine, Eschach Alp, Obertalbach valley, Schladminger Tauern Mts., Styria / Austria / TYP; very rich white crystal aggregates, scattered in clusters of crystals to 4mm of tabular beige Newberyite, to 6 mm (capsules) to 1 cm (MM); Capsules; 28,00; MM 38,00 |
| Sudoite xx | South slope of Cima Pale Rosse, Val Zebru, Valfurva, Sondrio Prov., Lombardy / Italy; greenish grey tabular crystals of 5 mm in grayish Feldspar matrix. This remote location bring out the world finest Sudoite crystals; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Sulfur xls | Mina El Desierto, San Pablo de Napa, Salar de Uyuni, Potosi / Bolivia; bright yellow perfect develop double terminated skeletal crystals of 3 cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS). Outstanding good specimens, "the best of the best"; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Sulphohalite xls | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California / USA / TYP; nice crystal clusters of pale-brownish transparent octahedral crystals of 2,5 cm; KS 38,00 |
| Sulphur xx | Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Prov., Sardinia / Italy; transparent pale yellow well terminated crystals of 1,5 mm, together with Anglesite crystals on grey-metallic Galena matrix. Old specimens with a strange mineralization; |
| Suolunite xx | Alkaline spring of Al Khawd, Baushar, Muscat, Muscat Prov. / Oman; glassy white crystalline aggregates, very rich as a 4mm thick encrustation on a pale brownish Calcite matrix. Very rare mineralization product of an alkaline spring; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Suolunite xx | Alkaline spring of Al Khawd, Baushar, Muscat, Muscat Prov. / Oman; glassy white crystalline aggregates, very rich as a 4mm-thick encrustation on a pale brownish Calcite matrix. Very rare mineralization product of an alkaline spring; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Sursassite xx | Kawaguchi, Kamogawa River, Saijyo, Ehime Pref., Shikoku Island / Japan; orange-brownish acicular crystal aggregates of 1 cm, with reddish Piemontite, in a Quartz-Braunite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Sursassite xx | Molinello Mine, Graveglia Valley, Ne, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy; orange-brownish needle-like crystals of 3 mm, very rich in Quartz matrix; KS 19,00 |
| Sussexite xx | Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey / USA / TYP; white 2 cm long fibrous crystal aggregates inter-grown to massive aggregates with orange Zincite. Old classic specimens from the early 1920s; MM ; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Svabite xx | Tjaktjajaure Lake, Tjamotis, Jokkmokk, Lappland / Northern Sweden; hexagonal white long-prismatic crystals to 2 cm, with pale rose Hyalophane crystals and brownish Andradite. Very good specimens from a very inaccessible location; KS 48,00; NS 75,00 |
| Svanbergite xx | Champion Mine, White Mts., Mono Co., Californien / USA; very nice crystals clusters of bright pale orange-brownish well terminated crystals up to 5 mm, particular together with some Rutil and Quartz. This are the most pretty specimens of the rare Strontium-Calcium Phosphate I have sea ever. Very nice and showy specimens from a new discover pocket system above the old Champion Mine.; MM 28,00; KS 48,00; NS 125,00 |
| Svyazhinite xx | Chernaya Rechka, Miass, Ilmen Mts, Southern Urals Mts. / Russia / TYP; pale yellowish crystals up to 0,5 mm with some small Gypsum and Pickeringite crystals, intergrown to aggregates of 3 mm; Capsel 65,00 |
| Symplesite xls | Saubachriss, Muldenberg, Klingenthal, Vogtland, Saxony / Germany; pale-greenish-grey radial acicular crystals aggregates of |
| Symplesite xx | Mina Veta Negra, Tierra Amarilla, III Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; pale reddish-yellow long-prismatic crystals to 1 cm on matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Synchysite-(Ce) (xls) | South Nam Xe Carbonatite, Mt. Fansipan, Phong Tho, Lai Chau Prov. / Vietnam; brown massive 3 cm aggregates of pure Lanthanum-rich Synchysite-(Ce), intergrown with Parisite-(Ce), violet Fluorite and Ankerite. Unique specimens from a remote location in Northern Vietnam; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Synchysite-(Ce) xls | Petersberg Quarry, Petersberg, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; pale brownish well terminated hexagonal prismatic crystals of |
| Synchysite-(Y) (xx) | White Cloud Pegmatite, South Platte, Jefferson Co., Colorado / USA; red brownish blocky crystal aggreates of 1 cm very rich in beige Microcline and Quartz matrix. Such rich specimens are rare; KS 75,00; NS 125,00 |
| Syngenite xx | Niedersachsen Potash Works, Wathlingen, Celle, Lower Saxony / Germany; colorless long tabular high lustrous crystals of 3 cm, parallel intergrown to crystal aggregates up to 4 cm. Old specimens collect all-round 1970; KS 28,00 |
| Szaibelyite xls | Bazhenovskoe Deposit, Asbest, Sverdlovskaya, Ural Mts. / Russia; this uncommon Magnesium borate here forms as white radial acicular crystal aggregates in dark green Serpentinite; KS 28,00 |
| Szymanskiite xx | Clear Creek Mine, Clear Creek Canyon, Diabolo Range, San Benito Co., California / USA / TYP; the outstandig rare Hg-Ni-OH-Carbonate occuse as greenish blue 1 mm large thin coating of tiny crystals on 4 mm large cavities in reddish-grey metallic vein-like Cinnabar aggregates in Quartz-Serpentinite matrix. Only two specimen available; KS 285,00 |
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