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Mineral Specimens with Smithsonite
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A DRAMATIC, old-time CABINET specimen from Sicily of variegated, red and brown, smithsonite stalactites. Some areas of banding are even transparent! The display side has been sawed and polished to highlight the banding and color variations of the smithsonite. Smithsonite is VERY RARE from Sardinia ! Ex Richard Hauck Collection. originally noted as being from sicily, per label on the piece. i am now told that it is from the mines of Masua or Campo Pisano (all near Iglesias, Cagliari province). 14.2 x 9.5 x 5.5 cm
Kelly Mine smithsonites have become really prized and quite hard to obtain, and this is a really pretty one, botryoidal in form, with one "bubble" in particular an almost perfect sphere of glowing, shimmering sea-foam green. This specimen came out of the Hauck Collection. 6.1 x 4.3 x 2.9cm
A very showy and fine Tsumeb specimen of sparkly, pink, cobaltoan-smithsonite crystals preferentially encrusting a lustrous, translucent, undamaged calcite rhomb and the bit of calcite matrix. MUCH BETTER IN PERSON. 3.0 x 2.4 x 2.1 cm
A GORGEOUS, RICHLY-COVERED matrix festooned with gemmy and lustrous, cadmium-rich, yellow smithsonite crystals to 8 mm from Tsumeb. Cadmium smithsonite is the rarest of the smithsonite varietals from Tsumeb and finding a piece of this quality and coverage is very difficult. Very nearly damage-free from the Rob Smith Collection. 9.7 x 6.0 x 3.3 cm
Stalactitic columns of lustrous, honey-brown smithsonite rhombs. The one side is set off very nicely by the bit of malachite at the base. Ex Rob Smith. 4.6 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm
Big, sharp, silky smithsonite rhombs (to 1.8 cm!) associated with minor willemite. 4.1 x 3.4 x 3.3cm
This is an old Choix specimen out of the collection of Carlton Davis (still has his label), a rich botryoidal specimen of gorgeous pink. The richest hue you can ask for, here , and a well balanced specimen! 7.4 x 5.8 x 2.8cm
An old 79 Mine smithsonite of the best apple green! Though some new specimen trickled out recently when miners went back in, only a few of these fine, rich apple-green ones have come out - they are still quite prized. 5.1 x 4.4 x 1.6cm
A BEAUTIFUL and AESTHETIC vug in matrix filled with classic, lustrous, rice-grain, kelly-blue smithsonite crystals from the famed Kelly Mine of New Mexico. The rice-grain Kelly smithsonite crystal habit is amongst the most desirable varietals and is not that common in fine specimens. 4.8 x 3.9 x 3.4 cm
This is a rare old Greek piece from out of the Hauck Collection - a geode completely coated on the inside with pea-green smithsonite! Not something you see around on the market at all! 9.2 x 7.9 x 5.0cm
A VERY SHOWY and excellent LARGE CABINET specimen of sparkly, off-white smithsonite rhombs totally covering matrix from Tsumeb. This piece has nice 3-dimensionality and minor periphery damage at the bottom is certainly not detracting. 16.5 x 12. x 5.5 cm
A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME Laurium, Greece specimen of multi-hued, botryoidal smithsonite. The banded, honey-brown outer rind covers the snow-white inner core of this fine old-timer. VERY RARE in this size and quality! Ex Richard Hauck Collection. 7.8 x 6.4 x 5.7 cm
An OLD-TIME, classic and beautiful upright crust of lustrous, translucent, botryoidal, pink smithsonite from the famous Choix area of Mexico. The piece was mounted on styrofoam, a standard mounting medium in the 1950s and 60s. The backlit photo highlights the translucency of the smithsonite. Ex Richard Hauck Collection. 6.0 x 5.3 x 3.3 cm
Good specimens of yellow “turkey fat” smithsonite from Arkansas are rare enough, but this specimen is truly unique. The smithsonite, with a particularly intense yellow color, has pseudomorphed crystallized dolomite. This formed a specimen of ISOLATED, beautifully formed fans or whorls of yellow smithsonite on a sparkly quartz matrix, rather than the usual globby plate. I have never seen one like this, and it is really special! 8.5 x 5.5 x 2.7 cm
An OLD-TIME, CLASSIC, excellent and very showy specimen of botryoidal, yellow, smithsonite on lustrous, translucent, purple fluorite from the famous Sheshodonnell East Mine, Carron, The Burren, County Clare, Ireland. A bit of periphery damage to the fluorite on one end is certainly not detracting. This fine 100 plus year old piece was in the collection of the well-known dealer/collector Al McGuinness. i have only once before seen a combo piece like this for sale. very old materia, and hard to come by! 5.1 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm
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