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RICE-03 - Raspite and Stolzite - $250 SOLD Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia small cabinet, 6.1 x 4.3 x 4.0 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
This rich specimen has a display face featuring about half a dozen SHARP AND GEMMY stolzite crystals, to 5 mm, of which 2 are pristine and others are damaged. Several raspite crystals, to 5mm , are in association : one is particularly superb and intergrown with a stolzite. So admittedly there is some damage, some broken crystals, but also several intact and freestanding as you seldom see (at least half a dozen good crystals of each species!). Price has been thus adjusted accordingly. It is overall one of the richer specimens of this classic combination I have seen, from the early 1900's. I have not had a specimen of either species here in ages, and to get the classic combo, on the same specimen, is a very treasured find! For the piece to be somewhat displayable as a pretty object, more so.
RICE-22 - Variscite with Crandalite and Wardite - $1500 SOLD Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Salt Lake County, Utah large cabinet, 17.5 x 13.3 x 1.1 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
A beautiful specimen of chrysoprase-colored, turquoise-blue variscite, rimmed by and included by streaks of canary-yellow crandallite. There is some gray Wardite present is well. This is a rare association, and the contrast is striking. At 7 inches long, the size of this slice places it among the larger specimens out there, certainly among the largest ones that I have personally seen for sale. Note that this is, as most such specimens are after being sliced out of a boulder, polished.
RICE-25 - Variscite with Crandalite and Wardite - $900 SOLD Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Salt Lake County, Utah large cabinet, 21.0 x 13.4 x 0.5 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
A beautiful specimen of chrysoprase-colored, turquoise-blue variscite, rimmed by and included by streaks of canary-yellow crandallite. There is some gray Wardite present is well. This is a rare association, and the contrast is striking. At 8 inches long, the size of this slice places it among the larger specimens out there, certainly the largest one I have personally seen for sale. Note that this is, as most such specimens are after being sliced out of a boulder, polished. Priced based on the variscite content, as they generally are.
RICE-04 - Scorodite and Quartz - $1950 Kiura Mine, Oita-ken, Kyushu Island, Japan miniature, 3.9 x 3.6 x 2.8 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
This piece shocked me when I first saw it in the collection, as it features beautiful dark azure crystals to 1 cm of SCORODITE from this very old locality. I had never seen another for sale. Although there is some peripheral damage, the crystals are still beautiful, lustrous, and vividly contrasting to matrix (with olivenite?), plus they look good from the front view. A rare and very desirable old specimen, I would think.
RICE-05 - Duttonite - $150 SOLD Mounana Mine (Mouana Mine), Franceville, Haut-Ogooué, Gabon miniature, 4.3 x 1.7 x 1.0 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
A very rare vanadium hydroxide. Ugly though it is, this is the only specimen I have ever seen for sale of the material. Old AL McGuiness label associated - and he valued it at $30 back in the 1960s so that tells you something (it was a lot back then for a reference species specimen!)
RICE-06 - Triphyllite - $450 George Smith Mine, Claremont, New Hampshire thumbnail, 2.1 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
A superb 1.7 x 1 x 0.7 cm triphyllite crystal, complete all around, and TRANSLUCENT like I have never sene before! It has a slightly green color to it, and has sharp faces. Small crystal perhaps, but off the charts in quality for the species, and on matrix no less.
RICE-07 - Linarite - $1250 SOLD Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England cabinet, 9.5 x 4.7 x 3.9 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
This historic locality piece features a 2-cm open vug with some of the gemmiest, glassiest, most breath-takingly beautiful linarite crystals I have ever seen. They are transparent and gemmy, lustrous, and sharp . The large crystal at the right edge of the pocket is 8mm and well-terminated. Linarite today , from contemporary locales, rarely supercedes this old classic material which is seldom for sale anyways.
RICE-08 - Amazonite with Smoky Quartz - $600 Florissant, Crystal Peak, Teller County, Colorado small cabinet, 8.7 x 6.7 x 6.3 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
Found i nJune 1982, a classic combination piece for the locale! This piece features a cleanly repaired 2-inch smoky quartz on a plate of pastel blue amazonites. It is accented with nice albite in the spacing between the amazonites, for contrast. You can see the smoky is particularly well placed and 3-dimensional, from the lower photo.
RICE-11 - Ni-Skutterudite var. Smaltite - $1200 Riechelsdorf, Hesse, Germany cabinet, 10.9 X 7.5 X 4.0 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
A very old specimen featuring huge 1-inch crystals rising from a massive matrix, accented by calcite at the base. Superb display-sized and quality specimen , of a style rarely seen for this nickel-rich variety of skutterudite. Crystals of this size and magnitude are very uncommon, from anylocality let alone German ones.
RICE-12 - Hubnerite - $750 Howardsville, near Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado small cabinet, 8.5 x 6.6 x 4.3 cm ex. Rice Northwest Museum
A dramatic, very hefty spray of hubnerite from this classic locality. It is not so soft and wispy as some are, but really has some weight to it. What's more, the crystals are unusually well terminated, and the piece is actually somewhat aesthetic (most are rather lumpy!).
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