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Mineral Matters Sales #49
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Mineral Matters Sales #48 includes the following specimens:
MMS 49-1 Erythrite, La Encontrada Mine, Molvizar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
MMS 49-2 Sanidine, Pseudobrookite, Wannenköpfe Quarry, Ochtendung, Maifeld, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
SOLD MMS 49-3 Topaz, Skardu, Pakistan
SOLD MMS 49-4 Lazulite, Ödbach stream, Dorfer Öd, Schneiderau, Uttendorf, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
MMS 49-5 Quartz, Baluchistan, Pakistan
MMS 49-6 Rosasite, Hemimorphite, Zinc Hill Mine, Zinc Hill, Zinc Hill Mining District, Argus Mts, Inyo County, California, USA
MMS 49-7 Cacoxenite, Leonie I Mine, Schleichershof, Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Amberg-Sulzbach District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
MMS 49-8 Calcite, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland
SOLD MMS 49-9 Gismondine, Willhendersonite, Rother Kopf, Roth, Gerolstein, Gerolstein, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
SOLD MMS 49-10 Albite, Analcime, Calcite, Julgoldite-(Fe2+), Andesite quarry, Kreimbach-Kaulbach, Wolfstein, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
SOLD MMS 49-11 Roedderite, Pyroxene, Emmelberg, Üdersdorf, Daun, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
SOLD MMS 49-12 Smoky Quartz, Topaz, Skardu, Pakistan
MMS 49-13 Pyromorphite, Szűzvár Mill, Pátka, Székesfehérvár District, Fejér County, Hungary
MMS 49-14 Rhönite, Hematite, Amphibole (Kaersutite?), Sodalite?, Nickenicher Sattel, Nickenich, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
MMS 49-15 Green Garnet, Mount Garnet, Queensland
SOLD MMS 49-16 Stilbite, Actinolite, Ilmenite, Arkaroola, South Australia
MMS 49-17 Pseudomalachite, Silberbrünnle Mine, Gengenbach, Gengenbach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
SOLD MMS 49-18 Claraite, Azurite, Michael adit, Großkogel (Reither Kogel), St Gertraudi, Reith im Alpbachtal, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
MMS 49-19 Stolzite, Mimetite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
SOLD MMS 49-20 Fluorapatite, Nagar Valley, Pakistan
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Code: MMS 49-1 Erythrite, La Encontrada Mine, Molvizar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Status: Available
Price: $18
Description: Sharp bladed purplish-red erythrite crystals. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Erythrite, La Encontrada Mine, Molvizar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
Code: MMS 49-2 Sanidine, Pseudobrookite, Wannenköpfe Quarry, Ochtendung, Maifeld, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Status: Available
Price: $12
Description: Colourless pseudo-hexagonal crystals of sanidine with isolated silvery prismatic pseudobrookite. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Sanidine, Pseudobrookite, Wannenköpfe Quarry, Ochtendung, Maifeld, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Code: MMS 49-3 Topaz, Skardu, Pakistan
Status: SOLD
Price: $30
Description: A sharp well-formed pale coloured topaz crystal without matrix. Crystal is 20mm long.
Below: Topaz, Skardu, Pakistan.
Code: MMS 49-4 Lazulite, Ödbach stream, Dorfer Öd, Schneiderau, Uttendorf, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Status: SOLD
Price: $8
Description: Light blue lazulite forming most of the matrix. The remainder I think is mica. Specimen comes in a micro box.
Below: Lazulite, Ödbach stream, Dorfer Öd, Schneiderau, Uttendorf, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria.
Code: MMS 49-5 Quartz, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Status: Available
Price: $20
Description: A group of sharp colourless quartz crystals with a bit of brown iron hydroxide coating. It could probably benefit from a bath in Iron Out or something similar. Specimen measures 88x42x40mm.
Below: Quartz, Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Code: MMS 49-6 Rosasite, Hemimorphite, Zinc Hill Mine, Zinc Hill, Zinc Hill Mining District, Argus Mts, Inyo County, California, USA
Status: Available
Price: $4
Description: Deep blue-green rosasite on colourless hemimorphite. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Rosasite, Hemimorphite, Zinc Hill Mine, Zinc Hill, Zinc Hill Mining District, Argus Mts, Inyo County, California, USA.
Code: MMS 49-7 Cacoxenite, Leonie I Mine, Schleichershof, Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Amberg-Sulzbach District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Status: Available
Price: $6
Description: Yellow-orange zoned radiating groups, some with wispy terminations. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Cacoxenite, Leonie I Mine, Schleichershof, Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Amberg-Sulzbach District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany.
Code: MMS 49-8 Calcite, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland
Status: Available
Price: $30
Description: A sharp colourless calcite crystal. One “face” is a cleavage face (the top face in the first photo, bottom face in the second photo), but this does not distract from the specimen. Specimen measures 40x30x22mm.
Below: Calcite, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland.
Code: MMS 49-9 Gismondine, Willhendersonite, Rother Kopf, Roth, Gerolstein, Gerolstein, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Status: SOLD
Price: $25
Description: Colourless gismondine crystals (with triangular faces) with balls of willhendersonite. There are a few separate prismatic crystals that may be phillipsite. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Gismondine, Willhendersonite, Rother Kopf, Roth, Gerolstein, Gerolstein, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Code: MMS 49-10 Albite, Analcime, Calcite, Julgoldite-(Fe2+), Andesite quarry, Kreimbach-Kaulbach, Wolfstein, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Status: SOLD
Price: $30
Description: Black julgoldite with colourless albite, calcite and analcime crystals. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Albite, Analcime, Calcite, Julgoldite-(Fe2+), Andesite quarry, Kreimbach-Kaulbach, Wolfstein, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Code: MMS 49-11 Roedderite, Pyroxene, Emmelberg, Üdersdorf, Daun, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Status: SOLD
Price: $25
Description: Green tabular/short prismatic crystals of roedderite with orange pyroxene crystals. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Roedderite, Pyroxene, Emmelberg, Üdersdorf, Daun, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Code: MMS 49-12 Smoky Quartz, Topaz, Skardu, Pakistan
Status: SOLD
Price: $30
Description: A sharp black smoky quartz with a pale-coloured lustrous topaz crystal on matrix. Specimen measures 40x25x22mm.
Below: Smoky Quartz, Topaz, Skardu, Pakistan.
Code: MMS 49-13 Pyromorphite, Szűzvár Mill, Pátka, Székesfehérvár District, Fejér County, Hungary
Status: Available
Price: $4
Description: Not the best example of pyromorphite, but an interesting locality. There are a small number of grey hexagonal prisms on quartz. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Pyromorphite, Szűzvár Mill, Pátka, Székesfehérvár District, Fejér County, Hungary.
Code: MMS 49-14 Rhönite, Hematite, Amphibole (Kaersutite?), Sodalite?, Nickenicher Sattel, Nickenich, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Status: Available
Price: $20
Description: Dark red (almost black) crystals of rhönite with orange prismatic crystals of an amphibole (possibly kaersutite), silvery hematite, and white crystals of sodalite(?), the latter not in the photo. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Rhönite, Hematite, Amphibole (Kaersutite?), Sodalite?, Nickenicher Sattel, Nickenich, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Code: MMS 49-15 Green Garnet, Mount Garnet, Queensland
Status: Available
Price: $20
Description: Green andradite-grossular series garnet. Specimen measures 48x25x25mm.
Below: Green Garnet, Mount Garnet, Queensland.
Code: MMS 49-16 Stilbite, Actinolite, Ilmenite, Arkaroola, South Australia
Status: SOLD
Price: $10
Description: Green actinolite with orange stilbite and minor black ilmenite, all frozen in matrix. Specimen measures 45x30x20mm.
Below: Stilbite, Actinolite, Ilmenite, Arkaroola, South Australia.
Code: MMS 49-17 Pseudomalachite, Silberbrünnle Mine, Gengenbach, Gengenbach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Status: Available
Price: $18
Description: Dark green crystal aggregates of pseudomalachite protected in a cavity in quartz. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Pseudomalachite, Silberbrünnle Mine, Gengenbach, Gengenbach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Code: MMS 49-18 Claraite, Azurite, Michael adit, Großkogel (Reither Kogel), St Gertraudi, Reith im Alpbachtal, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
Status: SOLD
Price: $6
Description: Turquoise blue claraite with blue azurite. Specimen comes in a micro box. Closeup photo width 6mm.
Below: Claraite, Azurite, Michael adit, Großkogel (Reither Kogel), St Gertraudi, Reith im Alpbachtal, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria.
Code: MMS 49-19 Stolzite, Mimetite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Status: Available
Price: $45
Description: A few yellow stolzite crystals with hexagonal grey mimetite crystals on a matrix that was once mostly quartz and cerussite, with the latter now altered to goethite. The stolzite in the photo is the main one. Others are a bit smaller and either etched or not well-formed, and quite hard to spot. Specimen measures 29x23x20mm. Closeup photo width is 6mm.
Below: Stolzite, Mimetite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales.
Code: MMS 49-20 Fluorapatite, Nagar Valley, Pakistan
Status: SOLD
Price: $30
Description: A pink fluorapatite crystal measuring 13mm across on matrix. The apatite fluoresces yellow under all UV wavelengths, and is strongest under MW and SW. Specimen measures 40x22x20mm.
Below: Fluorapatite, Nagar Valley, Pakistan.
Hi Steve, Are 49-3, 49-12 or 49-20 available please?