Gail's NEW favourite of the day, PART 2

This specimen was part of a trade with Harry Sering in 1966. Murdochite with rosasite and aurichalcite, Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. 9x6x3 cm.



Cheers!

Steve

Hi all,

Very nice specimens, thanks for shearing.

Bob, I had it a few times also. I had it on other topics too.
I just submit again untill it turns off again.

I hope this helps.

Take care and best regards.

Paul.

Here's a specimen that is pretty rare....and my favorite today.

Aragonite
Tom Scott Mine, Turquoise District (Courtland-Gleeson District), Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

137 x 103 x 91 mm overall. This large dendritic Aragonite is from the lesser known Tom Scott Mine, just adjacent to the Defiance Mine in the town of Gleeson, Arizona. Multiple stalactitic forms are lightly copper stained giving the specimen a nice bluish cast. From the Ron Gastil collection, this specimen was acquired by him in the mid 1970s.


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Azurite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona. Measures 8 x 6 x 3.5 cm

One of my favourite blue hues - cornetite from the Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland...


Regards
Steve

This is one that I pick up at an estate sell a few years back. A very fine Pyromorphite
Bunker Hill Mine Shoshone County, Idaho

A little Pakistani Pollucite from me today.

I am beginning to believe this is one of my favorites every day....

Linarite, Quartz, Mottramite
Chance Mine, Mono Co., California, USA

This is the best specimen to come from the commercial mining effort completed in 2004 by John Seibel, Steve Perry and myself when I owned the mining claim. The specimen is 11.9 cm in its longest dimension, and the largest linarite is a complex crystal group approximately 4 cm in length. This one I decided to keep.


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Amazing minerals everyone, really a delight to see what you enjoy as your favorite of the day!
I had the pleasure of hosting an Aussie this week, so got to hear a bit about being a collector in Australia. Trevor Kitto, he's gone on to Tucson now. His being here made me stop and enjoy a shelf of Smithsonite that we put together a while ago. Here is that photo, a group of various pieces. Enjoy.



Gail Patricia Copus Spann

I've always liked this little pyrite from the Leonard Mine, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Circa 1960's. 4 cm tall.



Cheers,

Steve

My newest fav! Cavansite.


Gail Patricia Copus Spann

A pretty thumbnail specimen of Kottigite with sprays of crystals measuring 1.5 cm across.

Today's favorite is a new acquisition from Tuscon...

Azurite
Malbunka Copper Mine, Gardiner Range, MacDonnell Shire, Northern Territory, Australia
97 x 50 x 48 mm overall. Two distinct balls of Azurite, measuring 26 x 21 x 20 mm and 20 x 17 x 15 mm. Collected in summer of 2011 by Dehne McLaughlin and Maureen Hughes from a small zone. Few of these were found.


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Xiao-dong Xu, really very beautiful

Gail Patricia Copus Spann

I just couldn't pass up this cute 1.2 mm sperrylite from Dave Joyce's recent offering. What fun to photograph! Lustrous crystals are challenging to photograph.



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Love this, new to our collection a year ago.
The Erongo rabbit ears is what we call it. Smoky quartz, schorl on microcline. Erongo mountains, Damaraland, Erongo province, Namibia.
Overall size 9.5 cm by 9.6 cm by 8.7 cm.
Longest crystal is 84 mm.

Gail Patricia Copus Spann

Very collectible Indiana calcites are widespread in many quarries and also in geodes. This 6 cm x 6 cm honey colored calcite is typical for those found in the Berry Materials Quarry, North Vernon Indiana. The quarry was a long time favorite for Indiana calcite collectors until operations largely ceased there several years ago. Not positive, but the site may now be extinct.

From: Coldstones Quarry, Greenhow, Yorkshire, UK
Size: 3.5 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm

Glassy clear fluorite cubes with distinctive blue edges and spots to the faces. Some areas are covered with a tan coating of hemimorphite.

What a beauty!!!!!


Xiao-dong Xu Wrote:
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> From: Coldstones Quarry, Greenhow, Yorkshire, UK
> Size: 3.5 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm
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> Glassy clear fluorite cubes with distinctive blue
> edges and spots to the faces. Some areas are
> covered with a tan coating of hemimorphite.

Gail Patricia Copus Spann

Gail your sounding more and more like an aussie everyday