Minerals
Gunnar Färber
Minerals
Gunnar Färber
| Wadalite xls | Tadano, Koriyama City, Fukushima Pref., Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; grey glassy crystals of 1 mm in white Xonotlite -Thaumasite matrix. Very good specimens of the rare Chlorine rich member of the Garnet group; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Wakabayashilite xx | Nishinomaki Mine, Gunma Pref., Kanto Region, Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; needly to fibrous yellow crystals to 1 mm with some red Realgar xx and yellow Orpiment xx in vugs in a Quartz matrix. Wakabayashilite from the Type location is very rare; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Wakefieldite-(Ce) xls | Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia / Canada; the very rare Cerium-Vanadat, occurs in black bright luster well terminated prismatic single crystals up to 2 mm, beside of white Analcime crystals in small cavities in Phonolite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Wakefieldite-(Nd) (xx) | Arase Mine, Kami City, Kochi Pref., Shikoku Island / Japan / TYP; this new species occurs as very rich microscopic inclusions of 50 µm with Caryophylite in massive Hematite.; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Wallkilldellite-(Fe) (xx) | Roua Mine, Daluis, Guillaumes, Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-Côte d'Azur / France / TYP; pale olive-brownish crystal aggregates of 4 mm in a Calcite matrix; MM 65,00 |
| Walpurgin xx | Weißer Hirsch, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen / Deutschland / TYP; orange prismatische um bis 3 mm große Kristalle, neben grauem glasigem Eulytin auf Gneis Matrix. Alte Stufen, gefunden um 1980; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Walstromite xls | Big Creek, Pine Flat Lake, Trimmer, Fresno Co., California / USA / TYP; the rare Barium-Calcium-Silicate forms colorless bright orange fluorescents idiomorphic crystals of 2 mm inter grown to rich crystal aggregates of 1 cm on Sanbornite matrix. Rare and pretty UV-material; NS 48,00 |
| Wampenite xls | Wampen, Thiersheim, Marktredwitz, Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria / Germany / TYP; the new hydrocarbon with the formula C18H16 occurs a transparent pale amber cooler tabular crystals to 1 mm of fossil wood; Capsel 38,00; MM 75,00 |
| Warwickite xx | Amity, Warwick, Orange Co., New York / USA / TYP; brownish prismatic crystals of 5 mm in Calcite matrix; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Watkinsonite (xls) | Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; the rare Pb-Cu-Bi-Selenide occurs a inter growing's with Clausthalite, very rich on Calcite matrix. Old, newly examined specimens; KS 48,00 |
| Wavellite xls | High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England / UK / TYP; colorless radial-acicular crystal aggregates of 3 cm on thin fracture zones on black slate matrix. Nice specimens from the type-location; NS 38,00 |
| Wavellite xx | Slate outcrops, Langenstriegis, Frankenberg, Chemnitz, Saxony / Germany; pale yellowish green radial acicular crystal aggregates of 4 mm, very rich on fracture zones in black Slate matrix. Old specimens from the 19th century; NS 38,00 |
| Waylandite xx | Alto de Furnas Pegmatite, Equador, Rio Grande do Norte / Brazil; small brownish diamond-luster crystals, very rich on vugs on massive aggregates of pure Waylandite, some with Quartz and Muscovite; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Wayneburnhamite xls | Commercial Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California / USA / TYP; very pale blue to colorless glassy crystal aggregates of 1 mm in pale marble matrix; MM 125,00 |
| Weberite xls | Eureka Pegmatite, St Peters Dome, Cheyenne Mts., El Paso Co., Colorado / USA; waxy orange crystal aggregates of 1 cm, together with colorless Cryolite and brownish Microcline. Pretty specimens of this rare Na-Mg-Al-fluoride, from a new find; |
| Websterite | Gusdal, Aheim, Almklovdalen, Vanylven, More og Romsdal / Norway; A "Pyrope-Olivine-Websterite" is one of the nicest and most rare "rock" on Earth. It occurs to 60% of pale green Forsterite and Diopsid, 5% of olive green Omphacite, and to 35% of bright pinkish 5 mm large Pyrope crystals, Very nice specimens; NS 28,00; HS 48,00 |
| Wegscheiderite xx | Westvaco Mine, Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming / USA / TYP; white needle crystals intergrown to crystal aggregates, very rich in vugs on glassy pale brownish Trona; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Weibullite xls | Falun Gruvan, Falun, Dalarna / Sweden / TYP; white metallic crystal aggregates of 2 mm, very rich in Quartz matrix. Some with small flakes of native Gold; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Weslienite xx | Hindenburg Working, Langban, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; highly lustrous transparent brownish single crystals of 1mm (capsules) or as 0,8 mm crystals on vugs in Rhodonite-Richterite-Hematite matrix; Capsule 28,00; MM 65,00 |
| Whewellite xls | Saint Davis, Cochise Co, Arizona / USA; colorless diamond luster long prismatic crystals up to 1 mm growing in a |
| Whewellite xx | Karl Liebknecht Mine, Oelznitz, Zwickau, Saxony / Germany; colorless to pale yellowish long-prismatic crystals of 2 cm evenly growing on dark brownish Paleosiderite matrix. Old specimens discovered in 1956; KS 38,00; NS 85,00 |
| Whitlockite xx | Table Mts., Santa Barbara, Curacao Island / Caribbean Sea; highly lustrous glassy colorless to pale brownish crystals, very rich on vugs in massive Whitlockite matrix, together with some pale grayish Hydroxylapatite. Very interesting specimens collected about 1880; KS 48,00; NS 85,00 |
| Wickenburgite xls | Evening Star Mine, Tiger Wash, Big Horn Mts., Maricopa Co., Arizona / USA; colorless-white bright luster tabular crystals often inter grown to ball like crystal aggregates of 1 mm on cavities in Quartz matrix; KS 19,00 |
| Wickenburgite xls | Evening Star Mine, Tiger Wash, Big Horn Mts., Maricopa Co., Arizona / USA; this rare Pb-Ca-Al-Silicate occurs as colorless-white tabular crystals of 1 mm on several square centimetre-large cavities in Quartz matrix. Outstanding specimens; NS 48,00 |
| Wickmannite xx | Hindenburg Working, Langban, Vermland / Sweden / TYP; yellow crystals and aggregates of 1 mm, isolated on |
| Willemite xx | Star Zinc Mine, 18 km north of Lusaka, Lusaka Prov. / Zambia; colorless to pale greenish-grey radial acicular crystal balls of 2 cm, intergrown to botryoidal aggregates of pure Willemite. Outstandingly good specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Windhoekite xx | Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek District, Khomas Region / Namibia / TYP; pale brownish needle crystals of 1 mm, very rich in small vugs in grey Phonolite; MM 48,00; KS 75,00 |
| Wismut-Galenit xx | Vata 13, Level 20, Mina Huochocolpo, Höhe 5810 m, Choclococha, Huancavelica / Peru; grau metallische um 1 mm große Kristalle, sehr reich neben Baryt und Calcit Kristalle auf Pyrit-Quarz Matrix. Wismut-reichen Galenit kennt man weltweit nur von sehr wenigen Fundstellen; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Wittichenit xx | Cattle Grid pit, Mt. Gunson, Andamooka Ranges, Lake Torrens, Süd Australien / Australien; dunkel-grau-schwarz metallische hochglänzende idiomorphe um 6 mm (MM) bis 1 cm (KS) große Einzelkristalle. Der einzigartige ca. 45 Kristalle umfassende Fund, lieferte die bisher weltbesten Kristalle des seltenen Cu-Bi-Sulfides; MM 148,00; KS 285,00 |
| Witzkeite xx | Punta de Lobos, 90 km south of Iquique, I Region / Chile / TYP; bright colorless crystal aggregates in pale brownish matrix. This new and extremely rare Na-K-Ca-Sulfo-Nitrate was discovered by myself in December 2009, and was later named after the mineralogist Dr. Thomas Witzke; MM 95,00; KS 148,00 |
| Wollastonite-1A xx | Big Creek, Pine Flat Lake, Trimmer, Fresno Co., California / USA; massive white aggregates of acicular crystals of pure Wollastonite-1A, together with some pale brownish Diopside and orange-brownish Grossular. Very good specimens of this rare 1A polytype of Wollastonite; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Wonesite xx | Gialos Bay, Theoskepasti, Thira Island, Santorini Archipelago, Aegean Sea / Greece; pale brownish tabular crystals very rich on vugs in a ejected Lava-bombe. Formed during the large Minoan eruption 3700 years ago; KS 48,00 |
| Woodallite xls | Stage D Pit, Mount Keith Mine, Mount Keith, Wiluna Shire, Western Australia / Australia / TYP; the rare Mg-Cr-Cl-Hydrat forms purple blebs of 3 mm in black Serpentinite matrix; KS 48,00 |
| Woodhouseite xx | Champion Mine, White Mts., Mono Co., California / USA / TYP; pale yellow bright lustrous well terminated crystals up to |
| Woodruffit | Mina Veta Negra, Pampa Larga, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó, III Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; dunkelgrau-braune halbmetallische glänzende botryoidale massive Aggregate, überwachsen mit kleinen glänzenden Chalcophanit Kristallen und farblosen um 1 cm großen Aragonit Kristallen; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Wroewolfeite xx | Mina Disputada de Las Condes, 30 km north east of Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region / Chile; pale-greenish-blue cdrystals of 0,5 mm very rich on vugs in massive Chalcopyrite. Very old specimens collect all-round 1920; MM 14,00; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Wulfenite xls | Ubehebe Mine, Teakettle Junction, Panamint Mts, Death Valley, Inyo Co., California / USA; bright yellow tabular crystals of 5 mm, very rich on large cavities in brownish Goethite matrix. Pretty specimens from a very rare location. Collected approx. 30 years ago in Death Valley National Park; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Wulfenite xx | Rowley Mine, Theba, Painted Rock Mts., Maricopa Co., Arizona / USA; bright orange gemmy tabular crystals of 1cm, very rich with minute orange-yellow Mimetite crystals on Quartz matrix. Very nice specimen from a new find in 2011; KS 28,00 |
| Wulfenite xx | Saindak Mine, Taftan, Chagai, Balochistan Prov. / Pakistan; gemmy yellow tabular crystals of 5 mm on large vugs in Quartz Goethite matrix. A very rare location for Wulfenite specimens; NS 28,00; HS 38,00 |
| Wulfenite xx | Mina Dulcinea de Llampos, Inca de Oro, III Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; orange-yellow bright luster tabular crystals of 3 mm, very rich on vugs in Quartz matrix; NS 19,00 |
| Wurtzite xls | Pribram, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia / Czech Republic; bright orange-brownish acicular massive crystal aggregates of pureWurtzite.Niceandveryrichspecimenscollectedaround1900; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
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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.