All Specimens with Anhydrite

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D06-217 - Prehnite ps. after Anhydrite - $ 2000 SOLD
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA
cabinet, 10.5 x 10.2 x 5.7 cm

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An exceptional exmaple of this classic pseudomorph! Prehnite from the trap rocks of New Jersey is both famous and beautiful. The lustrous, translucent, light apple green color is lovely; but when you add the fact that it has pseudomorphed anhydrite, and retained such good sharp form, this becomes major. The large crystal measures all of 8 cm in length. It is extremely 3-dimensional, and complete all around.One of the finer examples I have seen for sale of this classic material!

DEN11-386 - Anhydrite - $ 4500 - ON HOLD
Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
cabinet, 11.8 x 9.0 x 5.8 cm
ex.  Jason New

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On its own merits , this is a beautiful display specimen with a nice pastel blue color, and interesting geometry. More than that, this specimen is one of the very best of its rarified style: a strange, splaying and curved, very robust crystal habit that came from a small find in the mid-2000s at this famous locality. I have never seen anhydrite from here, over 25 years, that looked like this. Sure enough, anhydrite is very common here and often single crystals are just sold cheaply as wholesale material , both now and in the past. However, this particular find, this style, I have seen only a handful of fine specimens on the market or in collections - and never cheaply. They stand out from the crowd of literally thousands of other Mexican anhydrites. From the well known Mexico collection of Jason New, which I bought in 2010. I know this seems expensive for anhydrite but...its really very different from the norm, and I think worth the premium to have such a thing. Joe Budd photos

EA7 - Anhydrite (floater and twinned) - $ 25000 SOLD
Simplon Railway Tunnel, Valais, Switzerland
miniature, 5.5 x 5 x 0.8 cm
ex.  Bally Musuem
ex.  Eric Asselborn

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Incredible old classic from this famous tunnel project, and one of only a very few of such calibre in private hands! This is a beautiful, complete floater. It has great old labels and provenance , dating from the Tunnel dig in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is sharply twinned. It has wonderful , rich lavender color in person! Repaired, very cleanly. More on the site can be found here: How the Swiss Built the Greatest Tunnel in the World, 1905: <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/mod/1905simplon.html">http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/mod/1905simplon.html</a>

MCW60 - Cordierite in Anhydrite with Chalcopyrite - $ 250
Ruttan Mine , Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, Canada
small cabinet, 6.2 x 5.5 x 3.9 cm
ex.  Ian Nicklin

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Miniature, 3.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm Cordierite is one of those species condemned to exist in only ugly specimens of largely crude crystals. Here, however, from a locality I hadn't even heard of before, we have a wild exception to the trend! These robust crystals to 1.2 cm in size have a jet black color, waxy lustre, and excellent crystal form! They are embedded and partially excavated from anhydrite matrix, with golden specks of massive chalcopyrite to set off the crystals even more starkly..

MD-120390 - Chabazite-Ca, Heulandite, Albite, Anhydrite - - Archived
Upper New Street Quarry (Burger's Quarry), Paterson, Passaic Co., New Jersey, USA
small cabinet, 6.4 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm.

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6.4 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm. A sculptural and very fine combination specimen from the famous Upper New Street trap rock quarry of Paterson, New Jersey. The white "wing" and the white matrix back are albite pseudomorphing anhydrite crystals! The "body" is beautifully and richly covered with blocky, orange chabazite crystals and pearlescent, colorless heulandite crystals. Ex. George Feist Collection.

MD-135028 - Anhydrite, Calcite - - Archived
Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
cabinet, 12.3 x 6.9 x 4.8 cm.

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12.3 x 6.9 x 4.8 cm. A cluster of beautiful light blue-grey anhydrite crystals, decorated with little spiky white calcites. The anhydrites measure up to 9 cm. A few of them are incomplete but most have their terminations. Elegant!

MD-154693 - Anhydrite, Calcite - - Archived
Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
small cabinet, 8.4 x 5.9 x 4.7 cm

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8.4 x 5.9 x 4.7 cm, 4.4 x 4.4 x 1.5 cm. Two specimens of very pale sky-blue-grey blades of anhydrite, decorated with spiky, translucent calcite twins - beautiful combo and classic from Naica! Ex. Ydren Collection.

MD-167133 - Anhydrite, Calcite - - Archived
Naica Mine, Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
cabinet, 10.2 x 6.6 x 6.4 cm.

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10.2 x 6.6 x 6.4 cm. A very rare MATRIX Anhydrite specimen from Naica featuring a classic, powder blue color, sharp, lustrous prismatic Anhydrite crystal group measuring 5.0 cm on lustrous, rhombic, gemmy, light yellow color Calcite crystals. The specimen has a few other Anhdyrite crystals scattered throughout the matrix. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.

MD-172416 - Halite, Anhydrite - - Archived
Poland
small cabinet, 5.5 x 3.2 x 2.4 cm.

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5.5 x 3.2 x 2.4 cm. An UNUSUAL, CLASSIC and showy specimen from one of the famous salt mines of Poland. White to gray anhydrite balls on matrix are clearly visible through the blocky, TV screen-like, water-clear, elongated halite cube! The anhydrite balls are richly and aesthetically scattered on the matrix, which very interestingly covers only a portion of the back of the halite cube. The matrix-less portion of the rock salt reveals how really clear the crystal is! The halite cube is essentially pristine. Ex. Dave and Emily Stoudt Collection.

MD-177931 - Anhydrite - - Archived
Simplon Railway tunnel (north section), Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland
small cabinet, 5.5 x 5 x 0.8 cm.

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5.5 x 5 x 0.8 cm. A fine old classic from this famous tunnel project. This is a beautiful, complete floater. It is sharply twinned. It has wonderful, rich lavender color. Ex. Bally Museum and Eric Asselborn Collections.

MD-184665 - Anhydrite - - Archived
Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
cabinet, 11.9 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm.

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11.9 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm. An elegant old anhydrite from Naica with a pretty tiered form and wonderful symmetry. Ex. Stoudt Collection.

MD-19676 - Anhydrite - - Archived
Ischler Salzberg, Perneck, Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, Austria
cabinet, 10 x 9 x 5 cm

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An old, attractive specimen of peach-colored anhydrite collected from a noted find in 1965, and very rare for the locality. Very difficult to find today and this is a large specimen to boot. For the species, it’s a pretty significant piece. As pure color on the shelf, it aint bad either! 10 x 9 x 5 cm

MD-196856 - Anhydrite - - Archived
Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
cabinet, 13.8 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm.

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13.8 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm. A superb spray of pearly, very faintly grey-blue anhydrite (anhydrous calcium sulfate) from Naica - known better for its gypsums (selenites) - which are a close cousin, hydrous calcium sulfate. Ex. Stoudt Collection.

MD-199471 - Anhydrite - - Archived
Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
small cabinet, 6.4 x 3.7 x 1.6 cm.

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6.4 x 3.7 x 1.6 cm. Anhydrite (anhydrous calcium sulfate, CaSO4) is a very close cousin of gypsum - which is hydrous - CaSO4-2H20. Gypsum or "selenite" is of course the more famous of these cousins from Naica, but the locality has also produced very pretty anhydrite specimens, such as this "Chrysler Building" style specimen of pretty dove-grey. Ex. Stoudt Collection.

MD-20270 - Cordierite, Anhydrite, Chalcopyrite - - Archived
Ruttan Mine, Manitoba, Canada
thumbnail, 1.2 cm

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Cordierite is one of those species condemned to exist in only ugly specimens of largely crude crystals. Here, however, from a locality I hadn't even heard of before, we have a wild exception to the trend! These robust crystals to 1.2 cm in size have a jet black color, waxy lustre, and excellent crystal form! They are embedded and partially excavated from anhydrite matrix, with golden specks of massive chalcopyrite to set off the crystals even more starkly. 3.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm

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