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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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DZ4805 - Beryl var. Aquamarine
Erongo Mountains, Namibia
small cabinet - 5.5 x 2.9 x 1.1 cm
SOLD
Beautiful blue color in a doubly terminated aquamarine with a small matrix of microcline.
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DZ4901 - Calcite
Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
small cabinet - 7.8 x 7.0 x 4.2 cm
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An aesthetic group of discoidal calcites highlighted by some small quartz and pyrite crystals.
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DZ4801 - Hematite after Siderite
Crystal Peak, Park County, Colorado USA
small cabinet - 7.0 x 6.0 x 4.6 cm
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A sharp floater group of siderite rhombs pseudomorphed to hematite. Amazingly some of the faces are lustrous.
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DZ4902 - Enargite
Butte District, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
cabinet - 10.0 x 7.2 x 2.2 cm
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A Butte classic. Enargite and pyrite on quartz. The larger enargites are 1.5 cm wide.
ex Ed McDole collection.
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DZ1109 - Brucite
Woods Chrome Mine, Texas, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania USA
small cabinet - 6.2 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm
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A large mound of brucite.
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DZ1106 - Azurite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
small cabinet - 6.5 x 4.5 x 2.6 cm
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Two aesthetically intergrown azurite crystals from the most famous specimen mine in the world.
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DZ1108 - Brucite
Woods Chrome Mine, Texas, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania USA
small cabinet - 5.3 x 4.0 x 2.5 cm
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A single hemishphere of yellowish brucite. The crystals are much larger than average. The lower part of the specimen has been sawn.
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DZ1102 - Tourmaline var. Liddicaotite
Sahatany Valley, Madagascar
small cabinet - 5.7 x 3.8 x 3.4 cm
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This tourmaline is cuttable gem green at the base, grading into a very nice pink tip.
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DZ1103 - Silver
Copper Falls, Keweenaw, Michigan USA
small cabinet - 6.5 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm
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Nice sharp spinel twinned silver crystals on matrix.
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DZ1101 - Topaz and Muscovite
Medina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
small cabinet - 5.4 x 4.4 x 2.0 cm
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Some of the best things in life are simple. The topaz is clear enough to see where the muscovite has grown into the topaz.
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DZ4806 - Wulfenite
Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona USA
cabinet - 13.8 x 9.7 x 5.0 cm
$ 400.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 280.00 SOLD
Typical yellow wulfenite grades outwards to increasing iron/manganese stained crystals.
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DZ1105 - Babingtonite on Prehnite
Hongxi, Meigu, Sichuan Province, China
small cabinet - 6.6 x 5.6 x 4.4 cm
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Sharp babingtonite crystals contrasted nicely on green prehnite.
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DZ1006 - Copper
Upper Peninsula, Michigan USA
small cabinet - 8.0 x 7.3 x 2.8 cm
$ 400.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 280.00 SOLD
This is an interesting mux of a natural specimen and a mining artifact. Unusually complex copper crystals with small calcite crystals occur with a large fin of chiseled copper. This piece obviously was chisled off a much larger specimen.
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DZ1003 - Pyromorphite
Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fell District, Cumbria, England
small cabinet - 7.2 x 6.2 x 3.6 cm
$ 1200.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 840.00 SOLD
A surprisingly good pyromorphite specimen from Roughton Hill. One rarely sees crystals of this size in such good condition. The pyromorphite grades from an olive green on one side to a paler almost lime green in the center. The largest crystals are 1 cm tall.
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DZ1002 - Cerussite
Mibladen, Morocco
small cabinet - 5.5 x 5.3 x 2.3 cm
$ 400.00 SOLD
Complex crystal growth of cerussite with a little bit of oxidized galena at the edges. Many of the crystal faces are in optical continuity.
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