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The second batch of minerals from the Don Zowader Collection. Profits from this sale will go to John Veevaert's family.
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DZ2408 - Beryl var Aquamarine with Muscovite
Sichuan Province, China
small cabinet - 6.0 x 4.3 x 4.4 cm
$ AT-AUCTION
Two intersecting tabular beryl crystals perched on a muscovite matrix. The beryls are often labeled as goshenite, however, these are pale blue and could be considered aquamarine.
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DZ2405 - Copper after Azurite
Rose Mine, Grant County, New Mexico USA
miniature - 3.6 x 3.9 x 2.7 cm
$ 150.00 SOLD
How perfect is this? A copper rosette from the Rose Mine.
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DZ0407 - Wulfenite
Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona USA
miniature - 4.6 x 3.6 x 2.8 cm
$ 400.00 SOLD
This is a fantastic miniature. A medusa head of perfect yellow wulfenites cap a small mound of gossan.
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DZ0404 - Galena
Miliken Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri USA
small cabinet - 7.8 x 5.5 x 4.8 cm
$ 425.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 297.50 SOLD
A large and lustrous galena cube with octahedral modifications is perched on a matrix of dolomite with smaller galenas and chalcopyrite.
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DZ0403 - Bornite
Jezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
miniature - 4.8 x 4.3 x 3.6 cm
$ 300.00 SOLD
A single well formed bornite crystal sits on a matrix of clacite and dolomite with ttiny twinned chalcopyrites.
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DZ0402 - Witherite
Cave-In-Rock, Illinois Fluorspar District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
small cabinet - 6.4 x 5.2 x 3.4 cm
$ 450.00 SOLD
A group of witherites to 1.5 cm occur on a matrix of tiny scalenohedral calcites over yellow fluorite.
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DZ0410 - Bornite on Quartz
Carn Brea Mine, Ilogan, Cornwall, England
small cabinet - 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.9 cm
$ 500.00 SOLD
Well formed bornite crystals on quartz matrix.
ex Asselborn and British Museum of Natural History collections.
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DZ0408 - Calcite
Annabel Lee Mine, Hardin County, Illinois USA
cabinet - 11.2 x 8.0 x 5.0 cm
$ AT-AUCTION
A great example of elongate scalenohedral calcite crystals. The only bad part about the specimen is that the fluorite is almost completely covered.
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DZ0406 - Chalcocite
Butte District, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
small cabinet - 6.2 x 4.7 x 3.0 cm
$ 400.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 280.00 SOLD
Chalcocites from Butte are commonly well oxidized. This specimen is surprisingly sharp and well lustrous. It sits on a matrix of pyrite and quartz.
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DZ4911 - Goethite & Quartz
2nd Mesabl Claim, Park County, Colorado, USA
miniature - 4.4 x 2.6 x 2.2 cm
$ AT-AUCTION
A mass of asicular radiating spheres of geothite hosts a doubly terminated tabular smokey quartz crystal.
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DZ4906 - Corundum var. Sapphire
Gallatin County, Montana, USA
small cabinet - 6.4 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm
$ 250.00 SOLD
3.1 cm slightly translucent blue corundum in a quartz & biotite gneiss matrix.
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DZ4908 - Torbernite
Old Gunnislake Mine, Callington, Cornwall, England, UK
small cabinet - 5.8 x 3.9 x 3.6 cm
$ AT-AUCTION
2.5cm wide spray of lustrous green Torbernite.
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DZ4909 - Babingtonite on Prehnite
Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
small cabinet - 9.0 x 6.0 x 5.0 cm
$ AT-AUCTION
A single 2cm babingtonite, extrememly sharp and well formed. Stands by itself on a matrix of prehnite. The backside of the specimen has numerous smaller crystals.
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DZ4910 - Stibnite
Xikuangshan, Hunan Province, China
small cabinet - 5.5 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm
$ AT-AUCTION
A tasteful group of stibnite with quartz druse.
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DZ4903 - Rhodochrosite & Quartz
Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado, USA
small cabinet - 5.1 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm
$ 400.00 SOLD
Three rhodochrosite crystals with quartz, sphalerite, galena and pyrite.
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