WMISC-07/4 - Vesuvianite

Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos (Quebec, Canada)

Floater loose doubly terminated crystal of highly lustrous green vesuvianite with areas of tiny crystals of violet color (Mn-rich). Undamaged.

2.2x1.7x1.5 - 50 €

WMISC-07/5 - Vesuvianite

Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos (Quebec, Canada)

Matrixless cluster of highly lustrous terminated green crystals of vesuvianite to 3.2 cm. long. with areas of violet color (Mn-rich). The main crystal is doubly terminated and undamaged.

3.3x2.2x1.3 - 45 €

WMISC-08/6 - Stibiconite

Zacatecas (México)

A matrixless singly terminated crystal of former antimonite completely replaced by yellowish stibiconite. Undamaged and with a nice termination as seen in the pictures. I only have Zacatecas as provenance but it probably comes from nearby Catorce at San Luis Potosí state.

8.1x2x1.4 - 52 €

WMISC-06/60 - Quartz (amethyst)

Las Vigas (Veracruz, Mexico)

Matrixless floater cluster of lustrous transparent purple doubly terminated amethyst crystals to 4.5 cm. long. The crystals are white and opaque at the central area and the color is a bit darker than the photos suggest. Undamaged and interesting.

4.5x2.4x1.5 - 24 €

WMISC-05/60 - Wulfenite

Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District (Chihuahua, Mexico)

Matrixless mass of lustrous caramel colored pseudocubic and bipyramidal crystals of wulfenite to about 0.8 cm. across. The majority of the crystals are of the bipyramidal type, not the most common at this classic locality. Some bruising (partly natural) as seen in the pictures as can be expected for an old specimen as this is. From an old Spanish collection with label.

5.8x5x2.5 - 83 €

WMISC-07/132 - Hureaulite and reddingite

Cigana Mine, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Lustrous translucent pink crystals of hureaulite to about 3 mm. long intermixed with brown to black crystals of reddingite to about 2 mm. partly coating the top surface and some vugs of a matrix of massive grey lithiophilite/triphylite partly altered to purple phosphosiderite and brown reddingite. Sample has not been analysed and there may be other phosphates associated as well.

7.7x6x5 - 65 €

WMISC-07/131 - Hureaulite on albite

Cigana Mine, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Crust of lustrous translucent to transparent pink crystals of hureaulite to about 3 mm. long partly coating an altered surface on albite matrix. Sample has not been analysed and there may be other phosphates associated as well.

5.7x5.7x3.6 - 36 €

WMISC-07/123 - Variscite and rockbridgeite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Pinkish-red spheres of variscite to about 3 mm. across, purplish masses of phosphosiderite and dark brown to black radiating rockbridgeite on a matrix of albite, quartz and altered primary phosphates. Sample has not been analysed and there may be other phosphates associated as well.

7.4x7x5.5 - 65 €

WMISC-07/125 - Variscite and phosphosiderite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Small pinkish-red spheres of variscite associated to purplish masses of phosphosiderite coating vugs in a pegmatitic matrix of albite and phosphates. Sample has not been analysed and there may be other phosphates associated as well.

7.2x6.5x4 - 50 €

WMISC-07/122 - Variscite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Small pinkish-red spheres of variscite to about 1 mm. across coating vugs in a pegmatitic matrix of albite and primary phosphates. Sample has not been analysed and there may be other phosphates associated as well.

6.3x6x3.5 - 43 €

WMISC-07/121 - Variscite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Rich coatings of pinkish-red variscite in a vuggy pegmatitic matrix. Sample has not been analysed and there may be other phosphates associated as well.

6x4.5x3.3 - 42 €

WMISC-07/120 - Variscite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Lustrous dark pink to red spheres to about 1 mm. across and translucent to transparent tiny crystals of variscite on a vuggy albite matrix with other phosphates associated. A large part of the matrix is a vitreous green mass of probably ambligonite, however the sample has not been analysed and there may be other phosphates associated as well. The best of the group.

6.4x5.5x4.7 - 75 €

WMISC-07/119 - Variscite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Small pinkish-red spheres of variscite to about 2 mm. across coating vugs in a pegmatitic matrix of albite and primary phosphates. Sample has not been analysed and there may be other phosphates associated as well.

7x4.7x4.5 - 32 €

WMISC-07/118 - Variscite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Small pinkish-red spheres to about 1 mm. across and tiny crystals of variscite on a matrix of vuggy albite.

4.5x3x1.9 - 17 €

WMISC-07/127 - Strengite on albite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Nice pink spheres of strengite to 5 mm. across on vuggy areas of an albite matrix. Some dendrites of black manganese oxides coat some surfaces as seen in the pictures.

7x5.8x2.6 - 65 €

WMISC-07/128 - Strengite and phosphosiderite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Pink spheres of strengite to 3 mm. across and purplish masses of phosphosiderite on a vuggy albite matrix. Small areas of black radiating rockbridgeite associated.

4.7x3.5x2.5 - 32 €

WMISC-07/126 - Strengite on albite

Corrego do Boa Vista, Laranjeiras, Galiléia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Pink spherical crystal aggregates of strengite to about 3 mm. across on albite matrix. There are a couple of vugs with lustrous tiny crystals to about 1 mm.

6x4x2.7 - 40 €

WMISC-06/73 - Elbaite

Pederneira Mine, San Jose da Safira (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Loose single crystal of lustrous dark green (bottom half, translucent when backlit) to black (top half, opaque) elbaite with a ragged to acicular top termination. It has a small nick on one prism edge, otherwise undamaged.

3.1x1.1x1 - 18 €