Aesthetically perched on an ocherous matrix are hematite-included crystals of equant, twinned calcite, to 3 cm across. The crystals are lustrous, partially translucent, and exhibit a rich brownish red coloration. Very pretty! This particular material tends to form flat plates, and a piece like this is hard to obtain for its aesthetics. from old finds here in the 1970s

Classic old material - seldom seen today in quality! Before Dalnegorsk material came to market from Russia, these were widely considered the best pyrrhotites around, and now they are dramatically discounted compared to prices brought in former days. However, they still hav egreat impact for form and color, and the importance of being from this locale. A large, blocky, doubly terminated crystal of bronze colored pyrrhotite, measuring 5 cm in length, is attached to another crystal that has been contacted on the back side. Interestingly, the basal terminations exhibit a much lighter bronze color than the sides. Superb old classic

Two, very large crystals in parallel growth of danburite, to 10 cm in length, have been thickly encrusted by sparkling drusy quartz. The front side, which is a white quartz druse, is different from the back side which has a sparkling, colorless druse of calcite. Overall a very geometric and unusual specimen.

An unusual piece, amidst many hemimorphites that all look sorta the same in styles! On a thin crust of ocherous limonite are fat fan-shaped clusters, some of which have coalesced into a big pinwheel. The crystals are glassy and translucent, colorless to white , with a faint red hematite speckle atop. Individual fan-shaped clusters reach 3 cm across. The fanshaped clusters are quite different from the elegant single crystals we normally see from here, and of a large size for this habit as well. Complete all around!

This attractive plate features the sharp lines of superbly crystallized, large, very lustrous, tetrahedrites, to 3.25 cm in length. These crystals visibly have complicated striations that give them a lot of character and dimensionality, plus they stand out more from the matrix than you normally see in Mexican tetrahedrites. In fact, the quality is so good here, they are of a quality you associate with Peru (but the overall look is distinct). This is certainly one of the best examples we have seen, for quality. . . there are bigger crystals to be sure, but this association on sparkly pyrite, with dramatic individualized crystals, makes the piece.

Dramatic large specimen! A matrix of splendent, battleship-gray, galena crystals to 4.2 cm across is the pedestal for an unusual, pineapple-shaped compound crystal of lustrous, translucent, white calcite. The terminations of the large rhombohedral calcite, which are complete around the top, have "exploded" into many small, sharp "dog-tooth" scalenohedrons. The calcite rests on a fluorite crystal, mostly buried beneath and inside of the overlaying calcite but visible through the (broken off, and thus exposed) backside of the piece.