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Mineral Specimens with Sphalerite
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6.7 x 6.0 x 4.4 cm. Several cubes of translucent, pastel purple fluorite, to 3.0 cm across, are perched on sphalerite with orange highlights. The specimen is nearly pristine.
7.0 x 6.6 x 5.8 cm. A large, single crystal of translucent, rich purple fluorite, measuring 4.5 cm across, sits on a matrix of splendent sphalerite with orange highlights.
9.1 x 8.0 x 5.3 cm. A matrix of translucent, red-flecked sphalerite with crystals to .7 cm across is the host for two large, translucent, pastel purple cubes of fluorite, to 4.2 cm across. The fluorite crystals have varying luster and the large crystal even has a few colorless calcite crystals on it that reach .4 cm across. The fluorites are very interesting and unusual in that they are so colorless - few fluorites from this locality are not some shade of deeper purple.
5.2 x 4.9 x 4.5 cm. An equant, almost 3.0 cm across, fully-terminated, translucent, purple cube of fluorite is aesthetically perched on splendent, black sphalerite crystals.
4.8 x 4.2 x 2.0 cm. A doubly terminated, partially gemmy, tan crystal of calcite, 4.6 cm in length, is attached to a cluster of splendent, black sphalerite crystals, some showing gemmy orange highlights.
10.6 x 8.7 x 4.7 cm. Perched on a shard of chert is an intergrown cluster of splendent, black crystals of sphalerite, a few exhibiting orange highlights. The largest crystal measures 2.0 cm across. Exceptional quality for an Elmwood sphalerite.
11.8 x 6.5 x 4.0 cm. This specimen is composed of several, doubly terminated, blocky, splendent, black crystals, to 5.0 cm across, of sphalerite. The growth is reminiscent of a stalactite.
9.5 x 7.2 x 6.2 cm. A classic, old-time galena specimen from the famed Joplin Field of Missouri and the George Feist Collection, # 2770. Two splendent galena cubes to 3.6 cm, with very pronounced corner growths are very aesthetically stacked atop each other on a matrix of ruby-jack sphalerite and brecciated chert and silicified limestone.
12.0 x 10.8 x 8.0 cm. Gray limestone acts as the matrix for a spherical cluster of splendent sphalerite crystals measuring 9.0 cm across. The brilliantly lustrous crystals of sphalerite abound with gemmy, orange-red, highlights. The sphere is really equant and complete-all-around.
8.0 x 6.2 x 5.3 cm. A gemmy, nearly colorless, doubly-terminated and twinned crystal of calcite measuring 7.0 cm in length is associated with a cluster of brown sphalerite with gemmy reddish-orange highlights.
12.4 x 9.4 x 4.8 cm. This is a fine specimen, showing a stark contrast of the metallic, lustrous sphalerite with the crystallized stark white baryte ball. A sphere comprised of ivory colored baryte crystals, 7.0 cm across, is perched on a cluster of splendent, brownish-black sphalerite crystals, to 4.0 cm in length, that exhibit reddish-orange highlights. As a bonus, there are even a few, gemmy golden calcite crystals, to .9 cm across, as accents on both the sphalerite and the baryte.
10.8 x 9.5 x 4.2 cm. Intergrown crystals of splendent, black sphalerite, to 1.7 cm across have been overgrown by hemispheres of sugary barite, to 4 0 cm across.
8.2 x 7.4 x 5.0 cm. Perched on a gray chert matrix is a cluster of splendent, black sphalerite crystals, the largest of which measure 3.0 cm across. Very nice and among the best sphalerites for this size I have seen from the mine.
16.9 x 11.4 x 8.0 cm. On a matrix of black sphalerite, are emplaced several spheres of sugary, ivory colored baryte, to 7.0 cm across. The color and textural contrasts are very evident. The baryte is crystallized, not just drusy or ball-shaped, and this is very good for this mine in quality.
15.0 x 9.1 x 7.0 cm. This is a huge, twinned, glassy, gemmy, cognac colored calcite on baryte and very minor sphalerite.
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