Recent Additions Case

Display of recent additions to the collection of Robert Meyer displayed at the 2008 Seattle Mineral Market. Specimens are (back row, from left to right), Spangolite, a very rich cabinet sized specimen, 14 cm across, from the Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA; Stibnite, 16 cm, terminated crystals with Calcite, from the Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang Co., Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province, China; Wulfenite overgrown with Allophane, with Dioptase, Cerussite, and Macquartite, 18 cm, from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA; (middle row, left to right) Whelanite with Stringhamite, very rich coverage of light blue crystals, 9 cm, from the Christmas Mine, Christmas, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila Co., Arizona, USA; Elbaite, The Gatling Gun, compound parallel crystals, 7 cm high, from Araçuaí, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil; Arsenopyrite and Fluorite, six-sided twinned spires of Arsenopyrite with pale green dodecahedral-trapezohedral crystals of Fluorite, 6 cm, from the Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru; Galena, from Tsumeb, superb for the locality, spinel twins with Wulfenite, 11 cm; Surite with Cerussite, from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA, rich white Surite with pale yellow Cerussite crystals, 7 cm; (front row, left to right) Fluorite, flawless transparent pale green cubes, modified by dodecahedral faces, from the Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China, and is 12 cm across; Native Lead, 7 cm, large crude crystals in a very rich specimen weight 1/3 of a pound, from Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden; Azurite on Cerussite, 8 cm, from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA, sharp dark blue crystals of Azurite on white Cerussite—an exceptional example for this locale; Chalcocite on Pyrite, 2.5 cm, from the Christmas Mine, Christmas, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila Co., Arizona, USA, and featuring rounded crystals of Chalcocite to about one cm on Pyrite—a very unusual specimen from this locality; and a Brazilianite featuring nice green crystals on Albite, 8 cm across, from the Córrego Frio Mine, Linópolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil. Robert Meyer photograph.

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Photo added: 4th Jun 2009