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New New Jersey finds are always exciting, and this discovery last year of a pocket of super-sharp, gorgeous green pseudomorphs of prehnite after glauberite was a real treat! We bought many of the available specimens from this pocket, all that were at the show back then. The beautiful mint-green prehnite (very difficult to photograph and prettier in person) perfectly retains the form of the glauberite crystals! There are even a few calcite rhombs on this one. Though prehnite pseudomorphs have been found in New Jersey before, these new ones are exceptional for their exquisite form and bright color. 4.4 x 2.7 x 2.7cm
A rich plate of pretty pink crystals of cobaltoan calcite, of nice size (NOT just a druse), from recent finds in Morocco. 8.9 x 4.6 x 4.0cm
We have recently offered some specimens from an exciting new New Jersey find of prehnite pseudomorphing glauberite crystals. This pseudomorphed material actually serves as the MATRIX for this very unusual specime from the find, with sharp calcite crystals sitting on top! Super calcite! 4.2 x 2.5 x 2.3cm
An intact pocket containing a big, pristine ball of okenite hanging from the top wall (although protected by overhang), and a couple of other okenite balls elsewhere in the pocket, on a bed of sparkly microcrystals! There are also balls of gyrolite scattered about, and two of them have grown right around a cube of transparent calcite that has beautiful brown internal phantoms! These okenite balls actually have the appearance of velvet, consisting as they do of millions of hair-like, acicular crystals (if you win this specimen, be sure NOT to touch the balls!). A real showpiece! 15.7 x 12.3 x 11.0cm
A UNIQUE and showy combination specimen from the famous Himalaya Mine. A lustrous, bi-colored, 3.4 cm watermelon-pink to green tourmaline crystal, along with smaller watermelon-pink tourmalines and a single green tourmaline crystal are attached to a HUGE laumontite-covered, 5.7 cm, flattened rhombohedral calcite crystal! The zeolite laumontite is EXTREMELY RARE at the Himalaya Mine and this may be the LARGEST calcite crystal ever recovered from the mine! Ex Korpi, Chuck Houser and Miller Calcite Collections. 7.0 x 6.7 x 6.7 cm
A showy and excellent old-time specimen from Michigans Copper Country of sharp, euhedral silver crystals perched on well-defined copper crystals in a vein with several lustrous copper-in-calcite crystals to 1.5 cm. The silver and copper crystals look like vertebrae. The quartz-rich matrix adds nice contrast. The piece comes with a 1941 Wards label. The back of the specimen has been partially reinforced with glue, but not repaired. This is a very fine combination piece. Ex Richard Hauck Collection. 5.6 x 4.5 x 4.0 cm
Two sharp, lustrous and gemmy, ruby-red spinel octohedrons to 7 mm nicely perched on the crest of a large white calcite cleavage from Mogok, Burma. Very little new material is coming from Burma, since the US has imposed a trade embargo. 9.0 x 5.2 x 2.6 cm
An EXCELLENT and showy CABINET plate of lustrous, light amber calcite crystals on highly lustrous, glassy, gray dolomite rhombs from the famous Nanisivik Mine on Baffin Island, Canada. The dominating, 3.0 cm, compound, doubly terminated, golden-amber calcite crystal group really sets this piece off. Sparkly, micro chalcopyrite crystals are visible in the dolomite crystals. A CHOICE, pristine specimen from the Lewadny Collection. 10.5 x 7.3 x 3.0 cm
Beautifully gemmy and lustrous, emerald-green dioptase crystals to 4 mm line a vug in matrix filled with lustrous, transparent, colorless calcite rhombs to 1.0 cm from Tsumeb. 4.3 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm
Inside a very gemmy calcite crystal is a sharp scalenohedral crystal of an earlier generation! The small calcites around the larger crystal have a pretty orange hue from iron inclusions. Matrix is nicely trimmed to form a really prettyand interesting phantom miniature! 4.3 x 3.5 x 2.2cm
With the mine closed now, it is amazing how quickly these gemmy twins have disappeared from the market. It is particularly hard to find larger crystals without tip damage, something peculiarly common on Elmwood calcites. Other than a micro-ding nearly invisible to the naked eye on one tip, this crystal is pristine, and almost a floater, with one small area of attachment on the back with a bit of sphalerite remaining where it was taken off the pocket wall. These are world-class calcites and are only now being fully appreciated! 10.6 x 4.5 x 3.7cm
A very gemmy, 4-cm calcite sits up beautifully on the carefully-trimmed matrix, surrounded by smaller crystals - aesthetic and fine Russian calcite specimen. 6.4 x 5.6 x 4.6cm
Irai was known for these superb, gorgeous calcites, and then the supply seemed to dry up. There were hardly any available at the Tucson show, and they were overpriced, so we bought none. Then, to our surprise, we found this wonderful cache of new specimens with one dealer at the small Spring Denver Show earlier this year, and cherry-picked all the best ones. Unlike in the past, the calcites in this batch showed all sorts of different forms - all of them beautiful. 10.7 x 7.5 x 4.5cm
A large, STUNNING calcite specimen, with BIG, GEMMY scalenohedral crystals (to 4.5 cm in length and 3 cm thick) growing up in all directions. Only minimal damage, and that on periphery. In person , MUCH MUCH better. A dazzling Dalnegorsk showpiece, glittering with reflected light! 14.7 x 10.1 x 9.5cm
To go along with the fine calcite twin from the Elmwood in this auction, here is a really large and nice fluorite from there. This BIG crystal measures 5 cm along the edge, and you can see a couple of gemmy calcites decorating the display face. The contact is on back, and does wrap around to barely ding one corner on of the main face, but this does not stand out. 5.2 x 4.6 x 3.2cm
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share specimen![Prehnite, Calcite from Fanwood Quarry (Fanwood Stone Crushing and Quarry Co. Quarry; Fanwood Crushed Stone Co. Quarry; Scotch Plains Quarry; Weldon Quarry), Watchung, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41344a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41344a.jpg)
![Calcite (Var: Cobaltoan Calcite) from Bou Bekker (Bou Becker), Touissit, Touissit District, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41385a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41385a.jpg)
![Prehnite, Glauberite, Calcite from Fanwood Quarry (Fanwood Stone Crushing and Quarry Co. Quarry; Fanwood Crushed Stone Co. Quarry; Scotch Plains Quarry; Weldon Quarry), Watchung, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41391a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41391a.jpg)
![Okenite, Calcite, Gyrolite from Nasik District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41399a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41399a.jpg)
![Calcite, Tourmaline, Laumontite from Himalaya Mine (Himalaya pegmatite; Himalaya dikes), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co., California, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41403a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41403a.jpg)
![Silver, Copper, Calcite from Houghton Co., Michigan, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41404a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41404a.jpg)
![Spinel, Calcite from Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma (Myanmar) [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41411a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41411a.jpg)
![Calcite, Dolomite, Chalcopyrite from Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41438a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41438a.jpg)
![Dioptase, Calcite from Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41440a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41440a.jpg)
![Calcite from Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41472a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41472a.jpg)
![Calcite from Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41474a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41474a.jpg)
![Calcite from Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41475a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41475a.jpg)
![Calcite from Iraí, Alto Uruguai region, Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41484a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41484a.jpg)
![Calcite from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41497a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41497a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Calcite from Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-41498a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-41498a.jpg)