Minerals
Gunnar Färber
Minerals
Gunnar Färber
| Takanawaite-(Y) xx | Mt. Takanawa, Matsuyama City, Ehime Pref., Shikoku Island / Japan / TYP; orange-brownish 1 mm crystals with some Microcline matrix; Capsule 95,00; MM 148,00 |
| Talc xls | Talggenkopf, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, North Tyrol, Tyrol / Austria; nice crystal cluster of intergrown bright pale green Talc crystals of 3 cm; KS 12,00; NS 28,00 |
| Talc xx | Agios Stavros, Marlas, Tinos Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; pale green, silky, semi-transparent, massive crystal aggregates of pure Talc; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Talmessite xx | Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Prov. / Morocco; highly lustrous pinkish crystals of 2 mm, very rich on matrix. Very nice specimens of this uncommon Arsenate; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Tamarugite xx | Cerro Pintados, Pozo Almonte, Pampa del Tamarugal, Atacama Desert, I Region / Chile / TYP; very nice clusters of lustrous colorless long-prismatic Tamarugite crystals of 2,5 cm. These specimens are the finest specimens of this uncommon Sodium-Aluminum-sulfate ever discovered; KS 38,00; NS 65,00; HS 148,00 |
| Tancaite-(Ce) xls | Punta de Su Seinargiu Mine, Sarroch, Cagliari Prov., Sardinia / Italy / TYP; the extremly rare Fe-Ce-Molybdate occurs as glassy luster 0,5 mm crystals aggregates on Quartz matrix; MM 125,00 |
| Tangdanite xx (IMA 2011-096) | San Rafael claim, Villahermosa del Rio, Castellón, Valencia / Spain; lustrous bright greenish-blue crystals to 1 mm, rich in vugs in brownish matrix. Pretty specimens of this new rare Calcium-Copper-Arsenate; KS 75,00 |
| Tangeite xx | Green Monster Mine, Kearsarge, Citrus, Inyo Co., California / USA; olive greenish tabular crystals of 2 mm on large fracture zones in grey Quartzite matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Tanohataite xx | Matsumaezawa pit, Tanohata Mine, Shimohei-gun, Iwate Pref., Tohoku Region, Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; fibrous white 5 mm crystal aggregate of this new very rare Lithium-Manganese-Silicate; Capsel 85,00 |
| Tantaleuxenite xx | Ytterby, Resarö, Vaxholm, Uppland / Sweden; glassy dark greenish-brown aggregates to 5 mm, very rich in Feldspar matrix. Outstanding specimens of this rare Yttrium-Tantalum-Oxide. Collected around 1840 by Carl Gustaf Mosander, curator of the Riks museum Stockholm; MM 48,00; KS 95,00 |
| Tantalite-(Mn) xx | Alto de Giz Pegmatite, Equador, Rio Grande do Norte / Brazil; nice crystal clusters of inter grown lustrous bright red brownish prismatic crystals of 1,5 cm. Older specimens collected around 1995; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Tantalite-Mn xx | Alto Quixaba Pegmatite, Quixaba, Frei Martinho, Paraiba / Brazil; highly lustrous dark reddish-brown prismatic crystal of |
| Tapiaite xls | Mina Jote, Pampa Larga, Tierra Amarilla, III Region, Atacama Desert / Chile / TYP; this new Ca-Al-Arsenate forms lustrous pale pinkish tabular crystal aggregates, very rich with Mansfieldite and some Joteite on vugs in Andesite matrix; MM 95,00; KS 125,00 |
| Tapiolite-(Fe) xx | Joaquim Cigano Claim, Quixaba, Frei Martinho, Paraiba / Brazil; black semi metallic high lustrous twinnet single crystals of 1,5 cm on Quartz-Muscovite matrix Top specimens; NS 48,00 |
| Tapiolite-(Fe) xx | Joaquim Cigano Claim, Quixaba, Frei Martinho, Paraiba / Brazil; black metallic lusterous well terminated twinned crystal of 8 mm (KS) to 1,8 cm (NS) on Quartz-Muscovite matrix. Very good specimens of the rare Tantal-Iron-oxide; KS 28,00; NS 75,00 |
| Tapiolite-(Fe) xx | Joaquim Cigano Claim, Quixaba, Frei Martinho, Paraiba / Brazil; lustrous black metallic well terminated twinned crystals of |
| Tapiolite-Fe X | Alto do Jacu, Equador, Borborema, Rio Grande do Norte / Brazil; highly lustrous well-terminated deep black single crystals of 1.5 cm (MM), 2.5 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS); MM 38,00; KS 48,00; NS 75,00 |
| Taramellite xx | Candoglia Quarry, Candoglia, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Prov., Piedmont / Italy / TYP; brownish acicular crystal aggregates up to 1 cm with some colorless Celsian crystals in dark greenish Diopsid-Actinolite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Tarbuttite xls | Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Lüderitz District, Karas Region / Namibia; glassy pale green crystals of 5 mm, very rich on vugs in massive Tarbuttite matrix; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Tarbuttite xls | Kabwe Mine, Broken Hill, Kabwe District, Central Prov. / Zambia / TYP; colorless bright luster prismatic crystals of 4 mm, very rich on large cavities on Goethite matrix. Nice specimens; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Tawmawite xl | North Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas / Pakistan; lustrous transparent gemmy deep dark green crystals of 1 cm (MM) to 2 cm (KS). Nice crystals in cut stone quality. The few known specimens have been found for more than 10 years somewhere in the inaccessible tribal area of North Waziristan; MM 19,00; KS 38,00 |
| Teepleite xx | 3 km NW of Tecopa Hot Spring, Amargosa River Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; tabular white crystals of 1 mm, very rich as intergrown aggregates with Burkeite and Halite. Very rich specimens of this quite uncommon Sodium-Chlorine-Borate; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Teineite xx | Graurdfjellet, Oppdal, Sør-Trøndelag / Norway; sky blue 2 mm large crystals aggregate, together with some green Brochantite and grey metallic Djurleite on Gneiss matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Tellurium (xls) | Kawazu Mine, Shimoda, Shizuoka Pref., Honshu Island / Japan; silver-white metallic crystal aggregates of 4 mm in white Chalcedony matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Tellurium (xx) | San Miguel Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora / Mexico; white metallic crystals of 1 mm as very rich aggregates in Barite matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Tellurium (xx) | Burro Mountain, Silver City, Grant Co., New Mexico / USA; brilliant, silver-metallic, parallel-growth lathes of native tellurium, very rich in Quartz matrix. Very old and historic specimens from a rare location for native Tellurium; KS 48,00; NS 148,00 |
| Tellurium xx | Emperor Gold Mine, Vatukoula, Viti Levu / Fidschi Islands; tin white high lustrous metallic idiomorphic free standing crystals |
| Telluronevskite xx | Poruda pod Vihorlom, Jovsa, Michalovce, Kosice / Slovakia / TYP; dark gray-metallic tabular crystals up to 4 mm on tin veins in white Andesite matrix. Very good specimens of this very rare Bi Te Selenide; KS 38,00 |
| Temagamit (xx) | Joker Mine, Power Lake, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska / USA; weiß metallische um 50 µm große Einschlüsse in Bornit; |
| Tengerite-(Y) xx | Åskagen Quarry, Torskebäcken, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden; white microcrystalline acicular aggregates, very rich in fracture zones in a matrix of beige Thalenite-(Y) and black Allanite-(Y); KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Tennantite xx | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia; pseudomorphous of Tennantite after Azurite crystals are very rare. These are doubly terminated dark grey-metallic prismatic "crystals“ of 4,5 cm (KS) and 7 cm (NS); KS 75,00; NS 148,00 |
| Ternesite xx | Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany / TYP; pale blue radial-acicular 5 mm aggregates, very rich in matrix; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 |
| Terrywallaceite xx | Level 390, Vein 14, Mina Herminia, Julcani District, Angaraes Prov., Huancavelica Dept. / Peru; highly lustrous long-prismatic |
| Teruggite xx | Salar de Loma Blanca, Coranzuli, Susques Dept., Jujuy / Argentinia / TYP; the rare Ca-Mg-Arsenat-Borate forms white needle crystals of 0,5 mm, inter grown to massive aggregates of pure Teruggite. Old specimens collect around 1970; KS 48,00 |
| Tetradymite xls | Sannotake Mine, Kawara, Tagawa-gun, Fukuoka Pref., Kyushu Region / Japan; gray metallic crystal aggregates of 1 cm on Hedenbergite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Tetrawickmanit xx | Irland Working, Langban, Värmland / Schweden; gelbe hochglänzende um 0,5 mm große Kristalle auf Kluftzonen in Hämatit-Chalcosin-Antigorit Matrix; MM 48,00 |
| Tetrawickmanite xls | Irland Working, Langban, Värmland / Sweden; the rare Manganese-Tin-Oxide occurs in yellow high lustrous crystals of 0,5 mm in vugs in Hematite matrix; KS 48,00 |
| Tetrawickmanite xx | Irland Working, Langban, Värmland / Sweden; highly lustrous yellow crystals of 0,5 mm in vugs in Hematite-Chalcosite-Antigorite matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Thalenite-(Y) (xx) | Showflake Pegmatite Mine, Woodlawn Park, Teller Co., Colorado / USA; pale pinkish crystals of 1 cm, inter grown to massive aggregates of pure Thalenite-(Y), together with pale brownish Bastnäsite-(Ce) and some Fluorite. Such rich specimens of Thalenite-(Y) is are very rare; KS 38,00; NS 95,00 |
| Thalenite-(Y) xx | Österby Pegmatite, Österby, Gustavs, Säter, Dalarna / Sweden / TYP; greenish-black glassy high lustrous crystal-aggregates of pure Thalenite-(Y) in a size from 2 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS), particular with some Feldspar matrix. Very good old specimens from the Type-location of Thalenite-(Y), collect all-round 1850; KS 28,00; NS 65,00 |
| Thalliumpharmacosiderite xx | Crven Dol Canyon, Allchar, Majdan, Kavadarci, Roszdan / Macedonia / TYP; The new very rare Thallium-Iron-Arsenat was discover by my self in the years 2011, in self collect samples from Allchar. The very rare mineral forms beige crystal aggregates of 10 µm large cubic crystals together with Realgar, Lorandite and Raguinite; MM 125,00; KS 185,00 |
| Thaumasite xx | Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passic Co., New Jersey / USA; silky white massive crystal aggregates of intergrowing colorless 5 mm prismatic Thaumasite crystals, rich specimens collected around 1920; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Thenardite xls | Searles Lake, San Bernadino Co., California / USA; nice crystal clusters of colorless gemmy well terminated crystals of 1,5 cm; |
| Thorite X | Kyauk Tha Mts., Kyauk-Pyat-Thet, Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay / Myanmar; dark-green-black single crystals |
| Thorite xx | Little Patsy Pegmatite, South Platte, Jefferson Co., Colorado / USA; waxy brownish crystals and crystal aggregates very rich with some brownish mica matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Thorogummite xx | Seerie Pegmatite, South Platte Pegmatite District, Jefferson Co., Colorado / USA; lustrous bright yellow prismatic crystals of 3 mm, with red-brownish Synchysite-(Y) crystals and some brown Thorite, very rich in Feldspar matrix. Very good specimens; |
| Thortveitite xls | Yuzhnyi Quarry, Astaf'evskoe, Chelyabinsk, Ural Mts. / Russia; greenish-beige crystal aggregates of needle-like crystals of 1 mm, intergrown in colorless Quartz. Very unusual specimens of this rare Scandium-Silicate; KS 38,00 |
| Threadgoldite xx | Arcu su Linnarbu, Capoterra, Cagliari Prov., Sardinia / Italy; pale yellow microcrystalline aggregates, very rich on vugs in Quartz matrix. Very good specimens of this rare Aluminum-Uranyl-Phosphate; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Timroseite xx | Aga Mine, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California / USA / TYP; tiny olive-green ball-like crystal-aggregates on Quartz. Very good specimens of this extremely rare new Pb-Cu-Tellurate; MM 125,00 |
| Tinaksite xx | Murun Massiv, Chara River, Aldan Shield, Sakha, Eastern Siberia Region / Russia / TYP; orange-brownish radial- acicular 2 cm suns of long prismatic Tinaksite crystals embedded in violet Charoite matrix. Wonderful specimens collected around 1985; |
| Tincalconite xx | U.S. Borax Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California / USA; well terminated idiomorphic single white crystals of 4 cm (KS) to 5,5 cm (NS); KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Tinsleyite xx | Cerro Mejillones, Mejillones peninsula, Mejillones, II Region / Chile; botryoidal violet radial-acicular crystal aggregates, very rich together with pale brownish Ardealite on fracture zones in Granite matrix. Such rich specimens of this rare K-Al-Phosphate were hitherto unknown; KS 48,00; NS 75,00 |
| Tinticite | Elvira Mine, Bruguers, Gava, Barcelona, Catalonia / Spain; this Calcioferrite forms isolated greenish-yellow radial aggregates |
| Tintinaite xx | Mária Mine, Rozňava, Eastern Slovenské Rudohorie Mts., Kosice / Slovakia; grey-metallic needly crystal aggregates of 2 cm in white Quartz. Outstandingly good specimens collected in 2001; KS 38,00 |
| Titanian-fluoro-potassicrichterite xx | Black Rock, Leucite Hills, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming / USA; highly lustrous pale beige needle crystals to 1 mm, very rich in vugs and as a rock-forming component with Leucite in Lamproite lava. Titanium bearing Fluoro-potassicrichterite is quite uncommon and till now only known from two locations worldwide; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Titanite xl | Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan / Pakistan; green bright luster glass clear gemmy well terminated tabular single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 2,5 cm (NS). Very good specimens from a new find; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Titanite xl | Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan / Pakistan; lustrous pale green well terminated gemmy single crystals of |
| Titanohematite xx | Syringas Hill, Mavri Rachi, Syros Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; tabular black-metallic crystals of 2cm in a Quartz-Feldspar matrix; |
| Titantaramellite xx | Big Creek, Pine Flat Lake, Trimmer, Fresno Co., California / USA / TYP; brownish long prismatic crystals of 7 mm in Quartz Diopside matrix. 0,5 mm crystals of Titantaramellite in a size are widespread in the Barium silicate rocks in the Big Creek. But crystals in a size of 7 mm are a big rarity; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Tobelite-1M (xx) | Ohgidani Deposit, Tobe, Ehime Pref., Shikoku Island / Japan / TYP; white to pale yellowish microcrystalline aggregates of 3 mm, very rich in vugs in pale grayish Andesine matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Todorokite xx | Ikeshiro Mine, Matsuzaki, Shizuoka, Chubu, Honshu Island / Japan; dark grey semi-metallic acicular crystals of 2 cm inter-grown to massive aggregates of pure Todorokite; KS 28,00 |
| Todorokite xx | Ilfeld, Nordhausen, Harz Mts., Thuringia / Germany; dark brownish radial-acicular crystal aggregates, very rich on a brownish matrix. Todorokite is a new species for Ilfeld Manganese deposit; MM 19,00; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Tokyoite xls | Valgraveglia Mine, Reppia, Graveglia Valley, Ne, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy; dark red diamond luster crystals of 0,2 mm very rich on fracture zones on black Braunite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Topaz (xx) | Saubach Fault, Muldenberg, Klingenthal, Vogtland, Saxony / Germany; "Pseudomorph from Topaz after Carlsbad-twinned Feldspar crystals" grayish brown well terminated crystal clusters of 4 cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS). Outstanding good specimens collect all round 1930; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Topaz xl | Jaqueu claim, Catuji, Mucuri Valley, Minas Gerais / Brazil; glass clear gemmy well terminated colourless single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS). Very nice specimens from a newly explored region for Brazilian gemstones; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Topaz xl | Sherlova Gora, Adun-Cholon Range, Transbaikalia, Eastern-Siberian / Russia; pale greenish to collorles glass clear gemmy well terminated sharp single crystals of 1 cm (MM) to 2,5 cm (KS). Old historic specimens collect around 1880; MM 19,00; KS 65,00 |
| Topaz xl | The Cove, Topaz Mountain,, Thomas Range, Juab Co, Utah / USA; cherry colored transparent gemmy single crystals of 1,5 cm. Pretty crystals from a new find at a classic location; KS 8,00 |
| Topaz xl | Jomar Claim, Medina, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais/ Brazil; pale blue heavily etched gemmy single crystals of 3 cm, nice specimens; KS 28,00 |
| Topaz xl | Tannenberg Mine, Mühlleithen, Klingenthal, Vogtland, Saxony / Germany; colorless well terminated single crystals of 12 mm (MM) to 2 cm (KS). The Topaz crystals from Tannenbereg are rich of inclusions of black 1 mm Rutil and Tourmaline crystals; MM 19,00; KS 38,00 |
| Topaz xx | Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah / USA; "Pseudomorphs from Topaz and Hematite after a Almandine crystal". "single crystals" of 1,5 cm made of small intergrown Hematite and Topaz crystals; KS 28,00 |
| Topaz xx | Pomba Pit, Brumado, Bahia / Brazil; highly lustrous glassy purple isolated crystals to 8 mm together with some Magnesite crystals on double terminated Quartz crystals of 6 cm; NS 28,00 |
| Torbernit xx | Johangeorgestadt, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland / TYP; hellgrüne hochglänzende tafelige um 3 mm große Kristalle, sehr reich auf flachen Kluftzonen in Gneis Matrix. Hervorragende alte Stufen; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Törnebohmite-(Ce) (xx) | Bastnäs Mine, Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland / Schweden / TYP; glassy greenish 5 mm crystal aggregates, together with some black Ferriallanite-(Ce), very richly inter grown in massive crystal aggregates of glassy violet Cerite-(Ce); |
| Torrecillasite xls | Mina Torrecillas, Salar Grande, Iquique, I Region, Atacama Desert / Chile /TYP; this new rare Chlorine bearing Sodium-Arsenate forms silky luster fibrous crystal aggregates of 5 mm, very rich with Gypsum andTamarugite; KS 75,00 |
| Trebeurdenite | l'Île d'Aval, Penvern, Trébeurden, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany / France / TYP; together with the new mineral Mössbauerite, this new Iron-Hydroxyl-carbonate of the Hydrotalcite group forms a clay-like intermixture in sandstone; MM 38,00 |
| Trechmannite xx | Lengenbach Quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; this rare Ag-As-Sulfide forms deep red metallic crystals of 0,5 mm on white Dolomite matrix; MM 38,00 |
| Tremolit X | Koh-i-Lal, Ishkashim District, Badakhshan Prov. / Afghanistan; hell-grüne hochglänzende transparente prismatische idiomorphe um 2 cm (KS) bis 3,5 cm (NS) große Einzelkristalle in partieller Edelsteinqualität. Hervorragende Exemplare; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Tremolite xx | Antanimenabe, Ambositra, Fianarantsoa Prov / Madagascar; well terminated prismatic white crystals of 4.5 cm (KS) to 7 cm (NS). These are pseudomorphs from Tremolite after large Diopside crystals; interesting material; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Tridymite xls | Durham Ranch, Wright, Reno Junction, Campbell Co., Wyoming / USA; pinkish gray bright luster glassy massive crystal aggregates of Tridymite, with some Sillimanite and Indialite Highly unusual and till now completely unknown mineralization; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Trimerite xx | Hindenburg Working, Langban, Värmland / Sweden; gemmy transparent pale pinkish crystals of 4 mm, on vugs in Hematite-Andradite matrix. Outstanding specimens of this rare Calcium-Manganese-Beryllium-Silicate; MM 95,00; KS 245,00 |
| Triplite xl | Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan / Pakistan; orange-red to salmon pinkish, bright luster gemmy well terminated single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS). Outstanding good specimens of the uncommon Manganese-Fluorine-Phosphate. Collect in a small miarolic pegmatite pocket in summer season 2017; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Tripuhyite xx Clinocervanit xx | Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Prov., Tuscany / Italy; highly lustrous green crystals to 1 mm, together with colorless Clinocervanite crystals of 3 mm, on vugs in massive pale grayish acicular Valentinite; KS 19,00 |
| Tritomite-(Ce) xls | Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Smaland / Sweden; glassy dark orange-brownish crystals of 5 mm in greenish-grey fine-grained Feldspar-Quartz matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Trolleite (xx) | Champion Mine, White Mts., Mono Co., California / USA; pale blue glassy crystal aggregates of 5 mm, very rich in pale grey Quartz matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Trona xx | Owens Lake, Olancha, Inyo Co., California / USA; transparent pale beige prismatic crystals of 5 mm, intergrown to platy crystal aggregates. Nice specimens developed as efflorescent crusts on an alkaline salt lake; KS 12,00; NS 28,00; HS 48,00 |
| Tsavorite xls | Ras Koh Mts.,Kharan, Balochistan/ Pakistan; bright apple green well terminated single crystals of 1 cm (MM) to 1,5cm (KS). Pretty specimens from a new location in remote mountain areas in Pakistan; MM 14,00; KS 19,00 |
| Tschermigite xls | Cermniky, Kadan, Usti Region, Bohemia / Czech Republic / TYP; the uncommon Ammonium-Aluminum-Sulfate occurs as massive crystals aggregates of colorless parallel inter grown acicular crystals of 2 cm. Old specimens collect around 1930; KS 28,00 |
| Tsilaisite xx | Grotta d'Oggi Quarry, San Piero de Campo, Elba Island, Tuscany / Italy / TYP; transparent pale brownish prismatic crystals of 2 mm on vugs in Albite matrix. Interesting specimens of this new Manganese-dominant member of the Tourmaline group; |
| Tsugaruite xls | Yunosawa Mine, Ikarigaseki, Minami-Tsugara-gun, Aomori Pref., Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; dark grey-metallic radial acicular crystal aggregates of 3 mm on Pyrite Sphalerite matrix. Only few specimens of this outstanding rare Lead-Arsenic-Sulfide available; MM 95,00; KS 185,00 |
| Tsugaruite xx (xx) | Yunosawa Mine, Minami-Tsugara-gun, Aomori Pref., Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; small dark grey-metallic crystals, very rich on a Pyrite-Sphalerite matrix; MM 65,00 |
| Tsumcorite xx | Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango / Mexico; very rich highly lustrous well terminated black-brownish 1mm microcrystals, in 3-4 cm vugs on brownish Goethite-Quartz matrix. This new find has brought out the finest Tsumcorite specimens from the whole American continent; NS 65,00; HS 125,00 |
| Tsumgallite xx | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia / TYP; pale beige mica-like crystal aggregates of 0,5 mm (MM) up to 3 mm (KS) with some Siderite, in small vugs in a Tennantite-Germanite matrix. Absolutely unique specimens of this ultra-rare Gallium mineral; MM 95,00 |
| Tsumoite (xx) | Björkdalsgruvan, Skelleftea, Boliden, Västerbotten / Sweden; tabular white-metallic aggregates of 1 mm, with some native Gold (Electrum) in a Tourmaline-Quartz matrix; MM 19,00 |
| Tugtupite (xls) | Kuannersuit Plateau, Ilímaussaq, Narsaq, Kujalleq / Greenland / TYP; bright pinkish crystal aggregate of 2 cm in white Albite-Sodalite matrix. Nice colorful specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Tugtupite xls | Taseq Lake, Illimaussaq, Narsaq, Kujalleq / Greenland; pale pinkish idiomorphic crystals of 2 mm, in vugs in massive Sodalien matrix. Idiomorphic Tugtupite crystals are really uncommon; KS 38,00 |
| Tugtupite xx | Taseq Lake, Illimaussaq, Narsaq, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland; pale pinkish idiomorphic crystals of 2 mm, in vugs in massive Sodalite matrix. Idiomorphic Tugtupite crystals are really uncommon; KS 38,00 |
| Tundrite-(Ce) xls | Laksetvaerelv Plateau, Kangerluarsuk Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq / Greenland; bright yellowish-green long-prismatic crystals of 2 mm, very rich in Nepheline-Aegirine matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Tunellite xx | Boron Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co., California / USA / TYP; highly lustrous gemmy well terminated colorless prismatic single crystals of 4 cm (KS) to 5 cm (NS). Outstanding crystals of this uncommon Strontium Borate, discovered in 2007; KS 75,00; NS 125,00 |
| Tungstite xx | Gifurwe Mine, Cyeru, Ruhengeri Prov. / Rwanda; rich white aggregates of minute crystals, on vugs in Ferberite aggregates (Reinite) of 1 cm, in a Quartz matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Tungusite xls | Cold Canyon, Santa Monica Mts., Los Angeles Co., California / USA; this rare Fe-Ca-silicate occurs as dark green tabular crystals up to 2 mm, very rich as radial acicular crystal aggregates on a matrix of tabular Gyrolite crystals of 1 cm. Very rich and nice specimens from a new discovery; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Tungusite xx | Mulholland Drive, Santa Monica Mts., Los Angelas Co., California / USA; white tabular crystals of 2 mm, intergrown to aggregates of 1 cm, with some Saponite and Calcite on matrix; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 |
| Tungusite xx | Cold Canyon, Santa Monica Mts., Los Angeles Co., California / USA; the rare Fe-Ca-silicate forms grayish green to dark green radial tabular aggregates in the contact zones of 2 cm thick white veins of inter grown 1 cm large tabular Gyrolite crystals and Basalt. Very rich and nice specimens from a new discovery; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 |
| Turanit xx | Tyuya Muyun, Fergana Valley, Osh, Alai Range / Kyrgyzstan / TYP; grüne nadelige Kristallpartien auf neben oliv-grünen Tangeit Aggregaten und zum Teil etwas gelben Tyuyamunit auf Kluftzonen in Calcit Matrix. Für alle drei Minerale ist Tyuya Muyun die TYP Lokalität; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Turquoise (xx) | Mine La Escondida, Escondida, Antofagasta, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; turquoise-blue vein- like aggregates of 1 cm in Quartz; KS 19,00 |
| Turquoise (xx) | Mina Verde, Hermosillo, Mundo de Hermosillo, Sonora / Mexico; Turquoise blue terminated prismatic "crystals" of 2 cm (MM) to 3 cm (KS). This is a very nice pseudomorph; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Turtmannite xls | Pipji Glacier, Pipjitälli, Turtmann Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; the very rare Mn-Mg-V-As-Silicate forms orange-brownish tabular crystal aggregates of 2 mm in black Slate matrix. Collected in September of 2002 on a very difficult and remote location in the Alpe mountains; KS 65,00 |
| Tuscanite xx | Biachella Valley, Sacrofano Caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium / Italy; very nice crystal aggregates of colourless to white long prismatic high lustrous crystals on vugs in massive Tuscanite-Andradite-Diopsid matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Tychite xx | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California / USA / TYP; colorless bi-pyramidal single crystals of 2 mm. Several crystals in a capsules; Capsel 28,00 |
| Tychite xx | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California / USA / TYP; colorless bi-pyramidal single crystals of 1,5 mm; approx. 20 nice crystals mounted in MM-box; MM 19,00 |
| Tyrrellite xls | Hal Lake Selenium Occurrence Nr. I, Uranium City, Beaverlodge Lake, Saskatchewan / Canada / TYP; the rare Copper-Cobalt-Selenide forms white metallic by-pyramidal crystals up to 2 mm together with violet metallic Umangite. Very nice specimens from a new find; KS 38,00; NS 95,00 |
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I describe the material as accurately as possible, to minimize any possible discrepancy felt on receipt. owever, if you are not satisfied with a specimen, please send it back promptly in its original condition, well packed.
Inside Germany the postage costs € 5.50; for orders of € 150 and over, I prepay shipping. Within the EU shipping costs € 8,50; shipping is free on orders over € 250. Outside the EU shipping for under 1 kg is € 8,50. For over 1 kg costs at least € 25.50 (depending on weight and the respective postal rates). All parcels are insured.
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
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.