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Mineral Specimens with Vanadinite
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7.4 x 5.4 x 3.4 cm. It is generally agreed that the prettiest vanadinites worldwide are these red crystals on white bladed barite from Morocco (most are not on this barite). Here you have an unusual ball of barite wrapped around a bit of matrix, garlanded with lustrous, fine red crystals!
7.2 x 6.2 x 4.4 cm. Also called the "North Geronimo Mine," this prolific locality has produced all sorts of ores, as well as a broad variety of collector specimens (though not many in very fine and aesthetic specimens). Here, you have little gemmy, super-bright red barrel-shaped crystals of vanadinite, contrasting with an earlier generation of lighter-colored microcrystals. A rich specimen, hard to find on the market. VERY RICH and colorful, with lots of "sparkle" to it.
7.0 x 6.3 x 3.6 cm. A VERY RARE turn-of-the-century specimen of yellow vanadinite, previously thought to be an entirely different species and given the name of "endlichite," from a classic silver mining district that in its early days produced some of these things in the upper levels. Sadly, few specimens from those days remain today, at least on the open market. From the miniature rarities suite of Lawrence Conklin, who exchanged it from the American Museum of Natural History, where it landed with the donation of the Clarence Bement collection around 1910 by JP Morgan.
2.6 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm. An extraordinarily fine toenail specimen of vanadinite, which WILL fit in a Perky for a thumbnail collection of major quality. It features two BIG, FAT crystals, barely under a centimeter thick (!), perfectly perched on a small shard of matrix with smaller crystals piled under them. The luster is sensational.
18.5 x 13.9 x 9.4 cm. This vanadinite find was one of the MAJOR historic finds of vanadinite crystallized in large crystals from Mexico which is rare today. While the crystals on this whopper specimen are not the highly prized gemmy, bright red ones from Morocco, those were incredibly expensive if you could get one at the time even - and here, still, you have at least an incredibly rich specimen of this material, with hundreds of crystals on the large matrix (to 0.7 cm) accented by white calcite. Old classic!
6.5 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm. A vuggy matrix of limonite is nearly covered with lustrous and translucent, orange- brown crystals of vanadinite. The barrel shaped crystals reach 0.45 cm in length. Ex. Carnegie Museum Collection.
4.7 x 3.9 x 2.4 cm. The Mineralogical Record in 1980 had an article on these gemmy and glassy, reddish-orange, barrel shaped crystals. I'm not sure if I have ever seen any for sale, they are so rare. Although the crystals are small, to .35 cm across, but the color and transparency makes them highly desired among U.S. collectors. Said to be from the turn of the 1900s. Ex. Carnegie Museum Collection.
5.4 x 4.2 x 2.9 cm. Good vanadinite from here is quite rare. Perched on top of a rhyolite matrix is a cluster of light cocoa brown, lustrous and translucent, barrel shaped crystals, to .3 cm across. I have never seen another for sale! Ex. Carnegie Museum Collection.
9.2 x 4.7 x 2.8 cm. The drusy lustrous, orange, vanadinite crystals on this specimen are emplaced over and on gemmy, colorless quartz crystals. A neat locality piece. Ex. Carnegie Museum Collection.
8.3 x 4.4 x 2.3 cm. Gleaming crystals of vanadinite on a matrix of bladed baryte, from Morocco.
9.3 x 5.4 x 3.6 cm. Isolated crystals of red-orange vanadinite on the most desirable of matrixes, snow-white bladed baryte. The crystals have good luster; they measure to 0.5 cm.
4.4 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm. Old Apache Mine vanadinites are hard to come by. From the collection of Mark Countiss.
8.8 x 7.3 x 4.1 cm. A gorgeous and glittery specimen of fine red vanadinite crystals on bladed baryte, from Mibladen. These crystals have deep red color, high luster, and measure to 1.2 centimeters. The crystals at the top stick completely up off the matrix, making the specimen really outstanding.
5.9 x 5.0 x 4.8 cm. Lustrous, orangey-red and hoppered vanadinite crystals to 9 mm are richly scattered in contrasting calcite-rich matrix on this showy old-time Arizona specimen. Ex. Charles Hansen Collection.
7.5 x 7.5 x 4.0 cm. A SUPERB, OLD-TIME and HISTORICAL specimen from the Andrew Carnegie and Dr. Gary Hansen Collections. Highly lustrous, caramel-brown vanadinite barrels cover sculptural matrix on this outstanding piece from a MOST UNCOMMON Moroccan locality - Jebel Mahser. Andrew Carnegie was one of the wealthiest US industrialists before he died in 1919. Although he donated funds for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, he kept a private collection of some 400 specimens on a family estate in New York. Gary Hansen purchased his mineral collection from the Carnegie family in 1984, and kept a small selection for his own enjoyment in his personal collection, where this piece remained until 2004.
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