Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
A compounded group of aegirine crystals are sitting on a matrix of tan albite with a single smoky quartz crystal protruding through the stack of aegirine. In the Creekmur collection.
© Charles Creekmur
This particularly showy little cluster stands 7.62 cm tall and is in the Creekmur collection.
This "skinny" single in the Creekmur collection measures 14 cm long.
This compound terminated crystal measures 7.62 cm.
A slender crystal, #1904 in the Creekmur collection, measuring 10.8 cm exhibits compounded termination.
Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, USA
Here is a 4x3 1/2 inch specimen of almost solid miserite with just a little accessory wollastonite and a small patch of aegerine from the old Postah Sulfur Springs deposit near Hot Springs, Ark. In the Charles Creekmur collection
Rancho Borunda, Estacion Ojo Laguna, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Here is a polished slab of Laguna agate from northern Chihuahua state showing excellent color and banding. In the collection of Charles Creekmur.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
This slice exhibits a nice iris effect. It displays a rainbow of colors that is difficult for the camera to capture. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
A piece of lace agate from the area west of Villa Ahumada in the Charles Creekmur collection.
Ballast Point, Tampa Bay, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA
This quality piece of coral from Tampa Bay has been replaced by botryoidal agate. In the Creekmur collection.
This big nodule of Laguna Agate comes from the Rancho Berundo. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
This piece of lace agate from the area just west of Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua resides in the collection of Charles Creekmur.
Hawk Mine, Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
A 2 x 2 1/2 inch piece of albite with a patch of almandine embedded in one side and a thin coating of pink thulite on the edge. #1188 in the Creekmur collection.
Gaisberg glacier, Gaisberg valley, Obergurgl, Gurgler valley, Sölden, Imst District, Tyrol, Austria
A big almandine crystal in matrix in the Creekmur collection.
Wiseman Mine, Greasy Creek Township, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
A rounded fragment of almandine is embedded in a sheet of mustovite from the Sullin's Branch Mine in the Spruce Pine district. In the Creekmur collection.
Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA
A couple of almandine crystals are embedded in this piece of mica schist from Lake Martin. In the Creekmur collection.
Red Mountain Alunite Deposit, Lake City Mining District, Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
A massive specimen in the Creekmur locality reference collection.
© Charles Creekmur www.crystalportal.net
Bellver de Cerdanya, Cerdanya, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Drusy crystals of green anapaite lining a Miocene clay septerian measuring 3 x4 inches. Specimen in the collection and photo by Charles Creekmur.
Modoc Mine, Modoc Mining District, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
A 2.54 cm specimen of green andradite from the south end of the Organs near the Modoc mine. Collected about 1960 by Charles Creekmur.
Ojos Españoles Mine, General Lázaro Cárdenas, Julimes Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Marki Khel, Sherzad District, Nangarhar, Afghanistan
Marki Khel is south of Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Yellow Cat Mine, Idria, San Benito County, California, USA
2 1/2 inch wide and 1 1/2 inch thick specimen of dark greenish clinochlore mixed with a bit of pale yellowish andradite of the variety topazolite. In the Creekmur Collection.
This cluster of titanium rich andradite comes from the Ojos Espanoles prospect and resides in the Charles Creekmur collection
Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County, Colorado, USA
When I was just a kid in about 1949 I was in an old ladies rock shop in Hot Springs, Arkansas. I had inquired about the price of a number of specimens that didn't have price tags and had found everything beyond my meager budget. I could tell she was getting tired of answering my questions and when I asked about the price of this one, she said ...
Lac Sairs Amazonite Occurrence, Lac Sairs, Témiscamingue RCM, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
a cleavage of microcline from Lac Sairs in the Creekmur collection.
Erupción Mine, Los Lamentos Mts, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Several large double terminated crystals of anglesite associated with native sulfur and a pinkish colored granular selenite matrix from Los Lamentos. Anglesite specimens are rare from this location as they were not saved during mining but went in the ore bin.
Castle Dome Mining District, Castle Dome Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
Massive anglesite alteration of vein deposit galena comes with an old Filer's label. Collection and photo of Charles Creekmur.
Portales adit, Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
A 3/4 inch crystal of galena is almost completely altered to anglesite with a thin "stringer" of malachite running through it. It is surrounded by a spray of linarite and is on a matrix of baryte with tiny quartz crystals sprinkled about. This one was collected by myself in the early 1960's.
Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
A 4x4 inch specimen with galena cubes altering to anglesite and sprinkled with a crust of sparkling cerussite all sitting on pale green fluorite. Self-collected and in the collection of Charles Creekmur.
Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
A 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 inch specimen of prehnite associated with anhydrite from the Charles Creekmur collection.
Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
A tall terminated blade of blue anhydrite from the 1981 find in the collection of (and photo by) Charles Creekmur.
I acquired this specimen in 1959 from one of my fellow geology students that worked in the mine during summer recess. It consists of a 4 1/4 inch long mass of 6mm ankerite crystals sprinkled with the iron rich variety of sphalerite called marmatite and pyrite.
Jeffrey Quarry, Jeffrey, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
A 1 1/2 x 2 inch cluster of quartz crystals with a 1/2 inch ankerite crystal attached.
Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
A 3/4 inch wide and 5 inch long piece of antigorite of the variety known as picrolite in the Creekmur collection.
Line pit, Cecil County, Maryland, USA
A specimen of tightly compacted, splintery serpentine of the variety called antigorite var. williamsite from the zone that encases the central massive chromite pipe. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Here is a 3 x 1 1/2 inch piece in the Creekmur collection.
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
A thick vein of massive green antlerite . From the Charles Creekmur collection.
Artinite pit, Picacho Peak, San Benito County, California, USA
A couple of nice little round "balls" of artinite on a serpentine matrix in the Creekmur collection.
Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Hidalgo del Parral Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Arsenopyrite crystals 3/4 inch on a face form a specimen in the Creekmur collection.
Aranzazú Mine, Concepción del Oro, Concepción del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Here is a specimen in the Creekmur collection.
Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
This is a specimen of vein arsenopyrite ore in the Creekmur locality reference collection.
A 3 1/2 x 5 inch specimen of serpentine covered with artinite and orange patches of crystalline desautelsite from San Benito Co., In the Charles Creekmur collection.
Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Radiating bundles of reddish bronze astrophyllite .
St Peters Dome, Cheyenne Mining District, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
Inch ruler shows the scale on this piece of quartz/orthoclase pegmatite full of golden colored cleavages of astrophyllite. Specimen in the collection of Charles Creekmur.
La Farola Mine, Cerro Pintado, Las Pintadas mining district, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Bundles of 7 mm radiating crystals of atacamite on a white halloysite matrix measuring 14x13cm. In the collection of Charles Creekmur
Tory Hill area, Monmouth Township, Highlands East Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
A single twinned "floater" crystal of augite is #1822 in the Creekmur collection.
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
A 3x3 inch specimen of jeffersonite associated with a little patch of calcite that fluoresces a bright red. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
This big specimen displays equally well from every side. The vuggy limonite matrix is covered with a thick mat of fine aurichalcite. #1035 in the Creekmur collection.
A piece of massive quartz matrix covered with sprays of linarite crystals and a small patch of aurichalcite top center of the photo. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Here is a 5.08 x 6.35 cm specimen of drusy hemimorphite covering aurichalcite from the 79 Mine. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
This piece of matrix hosts a small patch of "hairs" of aurichalcite and many small pale cubes of fluorite sprinkled on the top of the matrix. Self-collected in 1961 by Charles Creekmur.
Hairlike crystals of aurichalcite covering matrix measuring from the 79 Mine. Photo by and from the collection of Charles Creekmur.
Big slab of limonite matrix liberally sprinkled with austinite crystals. In the collection of Charles Creekmur.
Chalk Mountain Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
A 5x2 1/2 inch piece of pegmatite matrix with autunite and uranophane on it. In the Creekmur collection.
Ruggles Mine, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
This is a 1x2 inch specimen from the Ruggles Mine. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
Hanksville, Wayne County, Utah, USA
A 4x4 inch piece of ore containing pitchblende and autunite from Poison Springs near Hanksville. In the Creekmur collection.
Daybreak Mine, Mount Kit Carson, Spokane County, Washington, USA
A 2x2 inch piece of autunite that fluoresces bright green under short wave UV. In the Creekmur collection.
Chennai District, Tamil Nadu, India
A block of adventurine from India in the Creekmur collection.
New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
Axinite-(Fe) with a few crystal faces evident on this piece in the Creekmur collection.
Nevada Lode, Blue Crystal Mine, Lisbon Valley Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
A cluster of crystallized azurite with just a spot of malachite showing.
Ojo Caliente, Ojocaliente Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Azurite crystals are altering to malachite on a limonite gossan matrix. #1193 in the Creekmur collection.
Lucin Mining District, USA
Zacatecas, Mexico
A crystal of azurite with compounded terminations rests on pale green fluorite. This little specimen was a gift from Manuel Ontiveros in El Paso back in the late 1950's.
Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
A 3x3 inch hollow limonite "geode" filled with a crust of azurite and covered with malachite "hairs". In the Charles Creekmur collection.
This old specimen was saved from the smelter in 1930. Crystals of azurite with just a little patch of malachite from the Copper Queen Mine. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
Torpedo Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
A historically important piece from a famous old producer in the Organ Mtns. of New Mexico. Botryoidal azurite with traces of malachite, covers a wad matrix measuring 6 1/2 x 3 x 4 inches. Collected around 1932 and now in the Charles Creekmur collection.
Mazapil Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Tiny drusy crystals of azurite completely cover a matrix with pale mint green cubes of fluorite. Collected in 1958 and in the Charles Creekmur collection.