Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen

A group of specimens were stolen from the MineralZone warehouse on early Friday morning. If you have any information please contact:

email: marcus@mineralzone.com

phone: 520-624-4096

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More pictures, with a short description of the pieces the burglars took from the cases. For scale: the labels in front of the specimens are 5 cm wide.

- large greenish-purple kunzite

- big emerald cluster, some edge wear and frosting

- 20 spessartines from Tanzania

- 6 phosphophyllite on matrix specimens

- 9 meta-torbernites from France

- 6 light green fluorites on galena from Naica

again in more detail:

- large greenish-purple kunzite

- big emerald cluster, some edge wear and frosting

- 20 spessartines from Tanzania

- 6 phosphophyllite on matrix specimens

- 9 meta-torbernites from France

second cabinet, please note: not all the pieces are missing, the thieves picked


- 5 pink kunzites (except the two largest) from Afghanistan

- 16 purple scapolite xls, mounted on plastic bases, from Afghanistan

- 9 linarites (big xls) and/or caledonites on matrix from California

- yellow montebrasite from Brasil

- pale yellow etched scapolite from Afghanistan

- yellow-green adamite on matrix from Mexico

- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam

- bright galena on sphalerite from China

- blue quartz from China

- big pyromorphite xl from China

- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China

- 2 babingtonites in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China

- transparent calcite cluster from China

- two grossular xls on light matrix from China

- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China

- pyrite micro xls on white calcite xl from China

- small pyrite xls along edges of light pink calcite blades from China

more detail:

- 5 pink kunzites (except the two biggest ones) from Afghanistan

- 16 purple scapolite xls, mounted on plastic bases, from Afghanistan

- 9 linarites (big xls) and/or caledonites on matrix from California

- yellow montebrasite from Brasil

- pale yellow etched scapolite from Afghanistan

- yellow-green adamite on matrix from Mexico

- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam

- bright galena on sphalerite from China

- blue quartz from China

- big pyromorphite xl from China

- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China

- 2 babingtonites in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China

- transparent calcite cluster from China

- two grossular xls on light matrix from China

- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China

more detail:

- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China

- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China

- two grossular xls on light matrix from China

- babingtonite in big xls (v-shape) with quartz/prehnite from China

more detail:

- bright galena on sphalerite from China

- babingtonite in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China

- big blue quartz from China

- transparent calcite cluster from China

- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam

- big pyromorphite xl from China

- pyrite micro xls on white calcite xl from China

third cabinet:

- 6 meta-autunites from Washington State

- yellow barite from Cumberland

- aragonite from Cumberland

- pink calcite on matrix from Mexico

- 2 euclases, xls -1cm on matrix from China

- 12 cm beryl from Brazil

How did this all happen???? This is quite a lot of specimens...was it overnight?
joe

it happened in the night following Valentine's Day

For the sake of Markus I hope that he not only gets most of his minerals back,but that he also gets his computer back. I know just how earthshaking
losing your business computer can be, from personal experience.