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5.2 x 4.0 x 3.2 cm. A combo from the classic 79 Mine, from NEW mining there over the past couple of years that has yielded a trickle of specimens of various sorts . . . this one combines bursts of gemmy acicular crystals of bright blue-green aurichalcite with dove-gray hemimorphite.
13.4 x 11.4 x 3.8 cm. An uncommon CABINET plate of bright, velvety, acicular aurichalcite on a matrix of limonite, with wonderful sea-foam green color. In one area are some small translucent calcite rhombs included with aurichalcite, so that they have picked up its color. A very rich and pretty Mapimi specimen! This is old material, seldom seen, and a very rich and large example at that.
21.0 x 12.5 x 3.7 cm. STRIKING and DRAMATIC LARGE CABINET plate richly covered with robin’s egg-blue aurichalcite from a well-known Utah locality - the Kesler Mine in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Classic, old material from the Dean Martalock and Seaman Museum Collections.
4.9 x 4.6 x 3.1 cm. Bright blue-green tufts of acicular crystals of the copper-mineral aurichalcite, from the legendary 79 Mine in Arizona. The crystals are like little starbursts of fine needles.
6.0 x 3.6 x 2.8 cm. A STRIKING, REALLY GOOD and beautiful mounded specimen of radial clusters of lustrous, chatoyant, turquoise-blue aurichalcite blades on contrasting gossan matrix from the famous Mina Ojuela of Mexico. Pieces of this quality came out in the mid-1960s, with none since. RARELY on the market and much in demand. This is a signature species from the Ojuela Mine, along with legrandite and adamite, and this CHOICE material from the George Elling Collection.
6.1 x 4.2 x 2.8 cm. Velvety, acicular blue-green crystals of aurichalcite from the classic Mina Ojuela locality, with some little calcites amongst them. On limonite matrix.
11.4 x 9.6 x 5.4 cm. Not the most beautiful specimen, but a really interesting combo specimen from a lesser-known locality with 3 different copper minerals present: azurite, antlerite (Copper Sulfate Hydroxide), which is the green mineral, and aurichalcite, the blue-green mineral towards the bottom. They have been deposited (grown, in the case of the azurite micro-crystals) in recesses in an iron-rich, limonitic matrix.
5.1 x 3.7 x 1.9 cm. These glassy calcites are richly included by blooms of gorgeous, velvety blue-green aurichalcite! The cluster is aesthetically isolated on a matrix of limonite. A very unusual and beautiful Mapimi piece.
7.5 x 5.8 x 4.4 cm. Another interesting Arizona copper-mineral specimen, this one from the classic 79 Mine (from recent re-mining there for specimens). Here is a ribbon of deep turquoise-blue acicular crystals of aurichalcite (actually gemmy on close inspection, one of those minerals that is incredibly beautiful as a micromount with its gemmy, colorful crystal sprays) -- intergrown with sparkly, colorless crystals of hemimorphite. GORGEOUS!
12.9 x 10.3 x 3.4 cm. A large combo specimen from the legendary 79 Mine - not sure if this is old material or a specimen from the trickle of new stuff from the past few years from re-mining efforts there. What you have is a layer of hemimorphite with a delicate pale blue color from zinc content (which gives Kelly Mine smithsonite a similar hue), and on top of this, little puffballs of blue-green aurichalcite. A little wulfenite crystal can be seen in the close-up!
5.8 x 4.5 x 3.8 cm. Going way back miners at the classic Bisbee locality preserved specimens of the huge variety of calcite found within the mines, as they had no commercial value, but the miners recognized their beauty and variety. This specimen came out of the collection of Dave Stoudt, who had quite a broad array of Bisbee calcites in his collection. This one has piled-up rounded forms consisting of hundreds of densely-packed, wafer-like crystals. They sit up beautifully on the natural matrix "base", and the blue-green aurichalcite on the matrix adds a pleasing color accent.
8.4 x 5.9 x 4.9 cm. More Bisbee material from collector Dave Stoudt - this a matrix containing veins of blue-green aurichalcite, which appears massive at first glance, but is crystalline upon closer inspection. It is odd to see aurichalcite locked in matrix like this; an old specimen from the classic American locality.
6.5 x 4.1 x 2.3 cm. This is a patch of brilliant blue-green acicular crystals of aurichalcite from the classic 79 Mine locality. No telling whether this is from original finds there, or some recent re-mining being done by a couple of guys who have gone back in and turned out a trickle of a variety of new specimens, including some of the famous green smithsonites.
4.9 x 4.0 x 2.9 cm. Nestled in a limonite vug is a cluster of "rice-grain" crystals of translucent, sky-blue Smithsonite , with individual spheres reaching .6 cm across. Aesthetically emplaced between the matrix and the Smithsonite are tightly packed spherical aggregates of Aurichalcite, to .2 cm across. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
4.9 x 2.7 x 1.4 cm. A fine specimen of velvety balls of aurichalcite on a field of sparkly hemimorphite - old classic 79 Mine material. Ex. Stoudt Collection.
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