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We open the new Miner's Lunchbox website with a mix of over 200 specimens from worldwide localities. Browse here, or use the Search tool on the Home page to focus on your favorite species, localities, size, or price ranges.
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ML00036 - Silver
Lake Superior District, Keweenah Peninsula, Michigan, USA
miniature - 3.4 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm
SOLD
A classic example of native silver from Michigan. The habit is typical of the Champoin Mine, but when purchased the label did not specify location.
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ML00038 - Gold
Mystic Mine, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
thumbnail - 2.0 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm
SOLD
Tiny Gold crystals with an unknown black oxide. Golds from Arizona are rare, and the Mystic Mine has not produced any specimens for quite a number of years.
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ML00039 - Gold
Eagles Nest Mine, Placer County, California, USA
thumbnail - 3.0 x 1.5 x 0.7 cm
$ 475.00 SOLD
The front surface shows nice triangular features typical of twinnning in octahedral crystals, while the back of the specimen shows slickensides due to faulting
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ML00040 - Gold
Strawberry Mine, Sonora, Tuolumne County, California, USA
thumbnail - 1.9 x 1.2 x 1.0 cm
$ 500.00 SOLD
Small group of Gold crystals from an uncommon location in California.
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ML00042 - Silver
Kongsberg Silver Mines, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
thumbnail - 2.7 x 2.3 x 1.0 cm
$ 400.00 SOLD
Kongsberg is the holy grail for large Silver specimens. Small thumbnail sized specimens such as this are almost unheard of.
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ML00044 - Silver
Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico
miniature - 4.7 x 3.3 x 1.3 cm
$ 600.00 DISCOUNTED 40.00% OFF TO $ 360.00 SOLD
Classic herringbone silver crystals which have been etched out of calcite.
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ML00045 - Silver
Keeley Frontier Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
miniature - 3.4 x 0.9 x 0.6 cm
$ 225.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 157.50
The Cobalt area is better known for masses of herringbone twin crystals frozen in calcite. It is unusual to get wires from this locality.
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ML00046 - Silver
Elura Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia
miniature - 4.0 x 3.0 x 0.5 cm
$ 250.00
A classic spinel twinned wire from the Elura Mine.
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ML00047 - Copper pseudo. Cuprite
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovskoe Deposit, Rudnyi Altai, Western Siberian Region, Russia
thumbnail - 2.5 x 1.9 x 1.4 cm
$ 100.00 SOLD
This is a textbook example of a psuedomorph. The razor sharp Cuprites have been replaced by Copper crystals preserving the original shape.
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ML00048 - Copper
Itauz Mine, 60 km from Dzhezkazgan City, Dzhezkazgan Oblast, Kazakhstan
small cabinet - 8.0 x 1.0 x 0.2 cm
$ 500.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 350.00
8 cm long spinel twin Copper crystal with well developed herringbone textures growing off the central twin.
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ML00049 - Copper
Ajo Mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona, USA
small cabinet - 5.3 x 4.0 x 0.7 cm
$ 100.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 70.00 SOLD
An arborescent spray of Copper crystals typical of the Ajo Mine.
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ML00050 - Copper & Cuprite
Mountain City, Elko County, Nevada, USA
miniature - 4.5 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
$ 100.00 DISCOUNTED 30.00% OFF TO $ 70.00 SOLD
Lustrous Cuprite coated Copper crystals from this now defunct mining district in Nevada.
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ML00052 - Copper
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, New South Wales, Australia
small cabinet - 6.2 x 1.8 x 0.9 cm
$ 120.00
A 6.2 cm spinel twin copper crystal with a greenish patina typical of Broken Hill.
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ML00055 - Manganoan Vesuvianite
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
small cabinet - 5.7 x 4.6 x 3.3 cm
SOLD
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A nice example of the rarest color of vesuvianite. The purple and red color comes from trace amounts of manganese present.
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ML00057 - Beryl var. Heliodor
Volodarsk-Volynskii, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
small cabinet - 6.3 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm
SOLD
A naturally etched 6.3 cm heliodor.
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