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This cluster of lustrous, reddish-orange, vanadinite, is highlighted by a large crystal, exhibiting hopper growth. This large crystal measures 2.0 cm across. It is a super miniature, by any standard, and they are still very cheap right now on the market due to a number that came out in 2001-2004. However, this is an older piece with more robust form and excellent aesthetics quite distinct. 3.7 x 3.3 x 2.9 cm
Big, fat, chunky, lustrous crystals of vanadinite - a couple of them almost a centimeter thick - carefully trimmed, on just a bit of matrix. Displays wonderfully with the lustrous, fat edges towards you (sides are brown), showing off the fine articulation and thickness of the crystals. 3.5 x 3.4 x 2.9 cm
A showy CABINET specimen of isolated, tabular, zoned, butterscotch-colored wulfenite crystals to 1.4 cm on a curved banded calcite matrix covered with vanadinite variety endlichite from the famed Ahumada Mine at Los Lamentos, Mexico. The a and b-axis faces on the wulfenite crystals are highly lustrous, while the c-axis faces are frosted and lustrous. Dallas collector, Ed Ruggiero, bought this piece in December, 1974. 10.5 x 6.8 x 4.5 cm
A richly covered and showy plate of gemmy, translucent, orange-brown vanadinite crystals to 4 mm on quartz matrix from the J.C. Holmes Mine of Arizona. Minor periphery damage is certainly not detracting from this excellent, old-time piece. Self-collected by well-known Los Angeles collector Charlie Freed over 20 years ago. 8.2 x 6.8 x 2.0 cm
A very aesthetic and classy Moroccan specimen of glassy and gemmy, two-toned, red and black, vanadinite barrels to 1.0 cm jauntily set on contrasting, matte-black, botryoidal goethite crust from the limited finds in the early 1980s from Taouz. A limited amount of fine vanadinite came from Taouz. Ex Steve Smale Collection. traded to me 6.7 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm
A 1.6 cm, pristine, lustrous, blocky, butterscotch-colored wulfenite crystal nicely attached to the side of brown, vanadinite variety endlichite-coated quartz matrix from the famous Ahumada Mine at Los Lamentos, Mexico. An aesthetic specimen with a large, blocky wulfenite crystal. 3.9 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm
ex. Miguel Romero
The Apex Mine is a small, relatively unknown locality to many collectors. Yet, for brief periods in the early 1900s and again in the 1930s-1952, it produced some of the finest vanadinite in the Southwest (more information can be found in the MEXICO V issue of teh Mineralogical Record). Most are small pieces, and many are lost to the damages of time. A cabinet specimen like this should be considered extremely rare and ahrd to own. This is a very aesthetic cluster of branching crystals, arranged like a flower with larger crystals to 2 cm forming a core cluster, right in the middle. It has habit, color,and a flowing style that clearly stands out from pieces found at other vanadinite locales. This specimen from the Dr Miguel Romero collection was exchanged out of the Romero collection to a fellow collector, before the remainder of the Romero collection went on loan exhibition to the University of Arizona Museum. Romero traded it to Evan Jones , a fellow collector of Mexican classics, in the early 1990s. I obtained it from Evan by exchange in 2007, apart from my upcoming purchase of the Romero collection,and held for this release. Comes with custom lucite base already made for the specimen. Labels for both Romero and Jones are with the piece.
ex. Sam Nasser
Stacked, HIGHLY lustrous, vanadinite specimen, with great reddish-brown color, and which exhibits hopper growth. Very nice thumbnail, indeed! for the loccality, this is as good a thumb as you could possibly fdream up. IN PERSON it is more red, though in the pics the reflections off so many hoppered faces make it seem darker and more brown
ex. Sam Nasser
Looking more like a pyromorphite specimen, this vanadinite not only has hopper growth, but, multiple terminations. It is highly lustrous with a brownish-green hue and is wreathed at the bottom by colorless calcite crystals. Truly special and aesthetic!
ex. Sam Nasser
This fascinating thumbnail is a must for both pseudomorph and Arizona collectors. Millimeter size, lustrous, orange, vanadinite crystals sprinkle the two, sharp crystals of calcite after fluorite. VERY interesting combo!
ex. Sam Nasser
The most treasured vanadinite specimens from this locality were those featuring gemmy, lustrous, orange to red, vanadinite crystals on white barite. This is such a piece, and so well balanced in a way hard to find for thumbnail sized specimens..
ex. Sam Nasser
This is a very gemmy, lustrous, electrically red, hoppered, vanadinite specimen. of superior quality from ANY locale, especially this small mine
ex. Sam Nasser
Lustrous, hoppered, rusty-orange, vandinite crystals occur in parallel growth.
ex. Sam Nasser
I must say that the color and habit of these vanadinite crystals is very reminiscent of pyromorphite. Curving, olive green barrels, of lustrous, well formed vanadinite festoon a slab of limonite matrix. Unusual locality and unusual form!
ex. Sam Nasser
Translucent, hoppered, lustrous, orange, crystals of vanadinite abound on a matrix of mm size vanadinite crystals. Almost perfect, it has just a small spot of two missing xls in the middle there, so i lowered the price from his $250
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share specimen![Vanadinite from ACF Mine (incl. Coud'a shaft; Coudia shaft), Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-65650a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-65650a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Mibladene (Mibladén; Mibladan; Miblanden), Upper Moulouya lead district, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67715a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67715a.jpg)
![Wulfenite, Vanadinite, Vanadinite (Var: Arsenatian Vanadinite), Calcite from Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine; Erupción-Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mts (Sierra de Los Lamentos), Mun. de Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-67807a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-67807a.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-71139a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-71139a.jpg)
![Vanadinite, Hollandite from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco [db_pics/mdpics/MD-71822a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-71822a.jpg)
![Wulfenite, Vanadinite (Var: Arsenatian Vanadinite) from Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine; Erupción-Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mts (Sierra de Los Lamentos), Mun. de Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-72282a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-72282a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Apex Mine, San Carlos Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/new09/rom32a.jpg]](db_pics/new09/rom32a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Apex Mine, San Carlos Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/new09/rom32b.jpg]](db_pics/new09/rom32b.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Apex Mine, San Carlos Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/new09/rom32c.jpg]](db_pics/new09/rom32c.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Apex Mine, San Carlos Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/new09/rom32d.jpg]](db_pics/new09/rom32d.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Pure potential Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/pics/sn145a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn145a.jpg)
![Vanadinite with Calcite from San Carlos Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/pics/sn146a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn146a.jpg)
![Vanadinite on Calcite pseudo. after Fluorite from North Geronimo Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/pics/sn154a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn154a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from ACF Mine, Mibladen, Morocco [db_pics/pics/sn155a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn155a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Pure Potential Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/pics/sn157a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn157a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Western Union Mine, Cerbat Mountains, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/pics/sn161a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn161a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Puzzler Mine, Yuma Co., Arizona, USA [db_pics/pics/sn162a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn162a.jpg)
![Vanadinite from Michelle Mine, Rayon, Sonora, Mexico [db_pics/pics/sn164a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn164a.jpg)