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4.4 x 3.7 x 2.6 cm. Mineral specimens from the Keban Mine of Turkey are rare and are very rarely available on the market. This fine old-time piece features sharp, lustrous, hexagonal, brown vanadinite barrels to 1.2 cm aesthetically and richly scattered on matrix with a druse of descloizite. This piece probably dates to the 1930s mining period, as it is accompanied by two old labels. Ex. Don Boydston Collection.
6.5 x 4.5 x 3.0 cm. An exceptionally rich and aesthetic vanadinite specimen from the J.C. Holmes Mine of Arizona. Highly lustrous, translucent, orange-brown vanadinite prisms to 1.3 cm cover all sides of this striking, sculptural piece. Nearly a floater, there is only one small point of attachment. Old-time material from the Charlie Freed Collection and self-collected in the mid-1960s.
4.8 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm. A fine Mibladen miniature vanadinite specimen from the finds 8-10 years ago. The front of this multi-sided specimen looks like a cogwheel cluster of intergrown, highly lustrous, brick-red, hexagonal, blocky vanadinite prisms. The crystals have more of a brown tint on the backside. The tabular crystals have beautiful flashes of yellow-orange fire, when viewed on end. The large crystal is 2.4 cm across and these sharp crystals have a very subtle, rounded component. Striking.
14.3 x 9.6 x 7.9 cm. Beautifully gemmy and lustrous, cherry-red, tabular vanadinite prisms to 6 mm are richly sprinkled on the cabinet matrix of solid baryte. The coating of black hollandite on the baryte blades is a stark contrast to the red vanadinites and snow-white baryte. These vanadinite have the color and gemminess of fine spinel crystals, but are not. This showy and excellent large piece is from the much less well-known El Kwal deposit near Mibladen. Ex. Daniel Trinchillo Sr. Collection. This piece probably dates to the 1970s or 1980s.
2.9 x 2.7 x 1.5 cm. A fine Mibladen toenail vanadinite specimen from the finds 8-10 years ago. Two large crystals form a nice "rabbit ears" piece. The crystals are highly lustrous, brick-red, hexagonal, and have gemmy flashes of yellow and orange. The two crystals are complete-all-around and pristine.
3.0 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm. A fine Mibladen toenail vanadinite specimen from the finds 8-10 years ago. The front of this multi-sided specimen looks like a cogwheel cluster of intergrown, highly lustrous, brick-red, hexagonal, blocky vanadinite prisms. The crystals are reddish-brown on the backside. The blocky crystals have gorgeous flashes of yellow-orange fire, when viewed on end. Nearly a floater, it has only a small point at attachment at the base.
5.5 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm. A 1.4 x 1.2 cm, mirror-lustre, "sandwich-style", wulfenite crystal is set on undulating matrix covered with sparkly vanadinite (variety endlichite) on top of starkly contrasting, snow-white calcite. The wulfenite crystal faces are caramel-colored and the center is honey-brown. Classic, highly representative material from the famous Erupcion Mine at Los Lamentos. Ex. Consie Prince Collection.
15.0 x 11.5 x 7.4 cm. A dramatic, large cabinet specimen from the classic, but now hard to obtain, source of San Carlos Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico. Strongly hoppered, butterscotch-colored vanadinite prisms to 3.8 cm richly cover the banded matrix and are strikingly overgrown with cream-colored calcite. The isolated clusters have a distinctive flowstone-look in one view. This is a rare, large combination specimen in this quality and crystal form. These came out in the 1960s and 1970s, with none since. Ex. Evan Jones Mexico Collection.
8.5 x 8.3 x 3.8 cm. A very showy, very unusual Mibladen vanadinite on baryte specimen from the finds of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The matrix of solid, snow-white baryte has been severely etched, leaving connected and isolated, upright, 3-dimensional fronds of classic Mibladen, iron oxide-coated baryte blades. The whole specimen, including the bottom, is richly covered with lustrous, tabular, brick-red, vanadinite crystals. I have never seen a Mibladen vanadinite on baryte with this very unusual etching and form before. Ex. Robert Fender Collection. Classic material.
10.8 x 8.8 x 5.5 cm. Lustrous, brown vanadinite prisms to 7 mm cover the sculptural cabinet matrix of honeycomb dolomite on this classic old-timer from Mibladen, Morocco. Accompanied by two old labels: one in German; and the other a 1950s-era Scott Williams label. There is a handwritten date of December, 1959 on the back. Mibladen was known as Djebel Masheur in those days. Ex. Russell Jones Collection.
6.5 x 5.0 x 3.3 cm. Rarly available now, these interesting vanadinites were once US classics. The crystals are not typically hexagonal, and instead are more pyramidal in form. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
5.0 x 3.6 x 2.0 cm. Collected by George Godas in 1996, this is a really sparkling and sugary specimen overall, with really different aesthetics than your normal Arizona wulfenite. The wulfenite crystals are to 1 cm, glassy, and transparent like windowpanes; and are perched on a sparkly Vanadinite the likes of which you seldom see. It is a bright and lustrous piece, overall, and an excellent locality specimen. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
4.2 x 4.0 x 2.7 cm. A beautiful classic Vanadinite specimen consisting of lustrous, red-orange color tabular hexagonal crystals, forming a beautiful little mound on a matrix comprising most likely Goethite or Hollandite. The largest Vanadinite crystal is 8 mm across. Superb quality all the way around. These specimens from Taouz are not terribly common these days, and they deserve more attention for being some of the most impressive for the species extant.
5.4 x 4.5 x 3.4 cm. Scintillating, partially gemmy, brick-red to cherry-red vanadinite prisms to 9 mm richly encrust all sides of the very sculptural matrix of diverging, parallel-growth clusters of snow-white baryte blades from Mibladen, Morocco. This excellent specimen is from the very small, late 1970s Moroccan find and was, until the great finds of the late 1990s and early 2000s, considered to be the finest vanadinite on baryte specimens from Morocco. They were very highly desirable. Highly representative of the species and find.
Lustrous crystals to 1.6 cm across and 0.6 cm thick, isolated nicely with matrix surrounding them. Good vanadinites continue to be highly valued despite the decent volume of lesser specimens with small crystals. 7.5 x 4.8 x 4.6 cm
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share specimen![Vanadinite, Descloizite from Keban Mine, Keban, Elazig Province, Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey [db_pics/mdpics/MD-266180a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-266180a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from J.C. Holmes Mine (J.C. Holmes claims), Temporal Gulch area, Patagonia, Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-266386a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-266386a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-266393a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-266393a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-266393b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-266393b.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Baryte, Hollandite from El Kwal, Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-267005a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-267005a.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Baryte, Hollandite from El Kwal, Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-267005b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-267005b.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-270238a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-270238a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-271401a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-271401a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-271401b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-271401b.jpg)
![Wulfenite, Vanadinite (Var: Endlichite) from Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine; Erupción-Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mts (Sierra de Los Lamentos), Mun. de Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-280493a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-280493a.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Calcite from San Carlos Mine (Apex mine), San Carlos, Mun. de Manuel Benavides, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-280551a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-280551a.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Baryte from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-280564a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-280564a.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Baryte from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-280564b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-280564b.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Dolomite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282268a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282268a.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Dolomite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-282268b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-282268b.jpg)
![Vanadinite from J.C. Holmes Mine (J.C. Holmes claims), Temporal Gulch area, Patagonia, Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-283233a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-283233a.jpg)
![Wulfenite, Vanadinite from Pure Potential Mine (North Geronimo Mine), Silver District, Trigo Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-283273a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-283273a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-284775a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-284775a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-284775b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-284775b.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Baryte from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-285171a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-285171a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-34740a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-34740a.jpg)