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11.1 x 6.5 x 4.2 cm. With all the stuff that pours out of India, I have never seen a specimen quite like this one. What you have is these really exquisite rhombs of translucent calcite with silky surfaces from tiny "cut glass" modifications on their faces - surrounded by bursts of pearly stilbites. The overall form of the specimen is just perfect, too, a curving form tilted up just right.
7.0 x 6.7 x 5.7 cm. A STRIKING, OLD-TIME and RARE specimen from the famous Czar Shaft at Bisbee. Gorgeous and lustrous, bright red, calcite crystals are included with cuprite variety chalcotrichite and copper in numerous, very well-placed vugs on BOTH SIDES of the robust gossan matrix. The calcite crystals are found in clusters or as beautiful, isolated crystals to 6-7mm or so. Fabulous, desirable Bisbee material found at the 200 ft. level of the Czar Shaft prior to the mine closing in 1944, according to the accompanying dealer label. Ex. Dave & Emily Stoudt Collection.
6.6 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm. A RARE and beautiful pseudomorph from the ancient mines at Nagyag, Romania. Lustrous, razor-sharp, pastel-pink rhodochrosite pseudomorphs after calcite rhombs RICHLY cover the vuggy matrix on this excellent old-timer. The rhombs reach 4 mm. Ex. George Elling Collection.
5.6 x 4.5 x 3.7 cm. A sharp, very gemmy and glassy, beautifully striated, amber calcite rhomb nicely set on matrix and beautifully framed by pastel-pink stilbite blades on the right and botryoidal, drusy quartz on the left. A very showy combination specimen from Jalgaon. Ex. Rob Lavinsky Collection.
6 x 5.5 x 3 cm. Just a stunning Dal’negorsk combo specimen. The calcites not only have wonderfully sharp poker-chip form, but a lovely pastel pink color from manganese. They sit on a beautifully contrasting matrix of dark crystallized sphalerite. The calcites are actually like little sandwiches, transparent in the middle and milky-translucent on the faces. Fluorescent orange.
10.5 x 7.5 x 4.5 cm. What you have is poker-chip calcites (to 4 cm) which are covered with small, sparkling crystals of apophyllite. The apophyllites also are lighting up the surrounding matrix, with a dove-grey color coming through from the underlying (unidentified) mineral, which creates a wonderful contrast with the calcites.
8.5 x 6.5 x 3 cm. What you have is poker-chip calcites (to 3 cm) which are covered with small, sparkling crystals of apophyllite. The apophyllites also are also lighting up the surrounding matrix, with a dove-grey color coming through from the underlying (unidentified) mineral, which creates a wonderful contrast with the calcites.
7.5 x 4 x 3 cm. What you have is poker-chip calcites (to 4 cm) which are covered with small, sparkling crystals of apophyllite. The apophyllites also are lighting up the surrounding matrix, with a dove-grey color coming through from the underlying (unidentified) mineral, which creates a wonderful contrast with the calcites.
12 x 8 x 5.5 cm. In person, these compound crystals of calcite are actually a pretty, light golden color, with subtle striations on their faces. The largest measures 6 cm top to bottom. They sit side-by-side on a matrix covered with smaller, lighter-colored calcites. An entirely different form from the familiar “Rudnyi calcites” from the nearby Saranovskiy Mine at this locality!
19 x 14 x 9 cm. These are HUGE, thin, poker-chip calcites, with a faint pink hue from manganese presence, in a gorgeous interlacing cluster. The piece fluoresces bright orange due to the manganese tint. These crystals measure up to over 8 CENTIMETERS across! This specimen was found in the mid-1980s.
3.5 x 2 x 1.8 cm. An absolutely terrific Dal’negorsk calcite mini, a perfect “nail-head” crystal with fine transparency, a perfect pyramidal termination, and a bit of accenting matrix attachment. As a bonus, there is a very noticeable phantom down towards the bottom – you can see its striated termination clearly inside.
6.4 x 4 x 3 cm. This is a VERY unusual Dal’negorsk calcite, due to the extremely uncommon tabular form of the two main “rabbit-ear” crystals (3 cm). The pocket conditions must have been bizarre, because at the feet of these crystals are several crystals that are almost opposite in form: extremely truncated, fat and stumpy, far wider than tall. There is not a “standard” looking crystal in the bunch. All the crystals in this cluster have pyramidal terminations.
10 x 8.5 x 5.5 cm. Look at this wonderful pastel-pink crystal perched perfectly on a carefully-trimmed matrix! This 6-cm, slightly curved rhomb has a beautiful shimmering, pearly sheen. It is complete and undamaged. Fluoresces orange.
6.0 x 5.5 x 3.0 cm. Epistilbite is much less common than stilbite from the Deccan Traps of India and this is a very showy combination specimen from Jalgaon. A large, translucent, colorless, frosted epistilbite ball fills a vug in basalt matrix and is beautifully complimented by three, sharp, gemmy calcite rhombs. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
7.0 x 6.0 x 3.2 cm. A CLASSIC, multi-fluorescent specimen with 4 minerals from the famous Franklin Mine containing: BLUE hardystonite (ultra-rare Type Locality); ORANGE clinohedrite (ultra-rare Type Locality); RED calcite; and GREEN willemite from the Parker Shaft. This specimen is particularly rich in hardystonite. Ex George Elling Collection, a noted Franklin/Sterling Hill collector.
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share specimen![Calcite, Stilbite-Ca from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169745a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169745a.jpg)
![Calcite, Cuprite (Var: Chalcotrichite), Copper from Czar Mine (Czar Shaft), Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169778a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169778a.jpg)
![Calcite, Cuprite (Var: Chalcotrichite), Copper from Czar Mine (Czar Shaft), Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169778b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169778b.jpg)
![Rhodochrosite, Calcite from Sacarîmb (Sãcãrâmb; Szekerembe; Nagyág), Hunedoara Co., Romania [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169809a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169809a.jpg)
![Calcite, Stilbite-Ca, Quartz from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169839a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169839a.jpg)
![Calcite (Var: Manganoan Calcite), Sphalerite from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169972a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169972a.jpg)
![Apophyllite, Calcite from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169981a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169981a.jpg)
![Apophyllite, Calcite from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169982a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169982a.jpg)
![Apophyllite, Calcite from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169983a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169983a.jpg)
![Calcite from Sarbaiskoe deposit (Sarbai; Sarbay Mine), Qostaney Oblysy (Kostanai [Kustany] Oblast'), Kazakhstan [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169986a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169986a.jpg)
![Calcite (Var: Manganoan Calcite) from Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170078a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170078a.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-170080a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170080a.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-170081a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170081a.jpg)
![Calcite (Var: Manganoan Calcite) from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170082a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170082a.jpg)
![Epistilbite, Calcite from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170550a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170550a.jpg)
![Hardystonite, Clinohedrite, Calcite, Willemite from Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170572a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170572a.jpg)
![Hardystonite, Clinohedrite, Calcite, Willemite from Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-170572b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-170572b.jpg)