Allanite-(Nd) (xx) 

Åskagen Quarry, Torskebäcken, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; black long-prismatic crystals to 4 mm, intergrown in brownish massive waxy-lustered Iimoriite-(Y). This is the original crystalline Allanite-(Nd). The correctness of some large black crystals offered as Allanite-(Nd) during the last month is very suspect; MM 48,00; KS 85,00 

Ambrinoite xx 

Cava di Signols, Oulx, Val di Susa, Torino, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; orange-red isolated crystals of 0,5 mm in pale Anhydrite matrix; KS 38,00 

Ammonioborite xx 

Larderello, Pomarance, Pisa Prov., Tuscany / Italy / TYP; white parallel-growing 2 mm crystal clusters of 1 mm prismatic crystals, together with tabular white 2 mm Sassolite crystals in a small vial. Collected around 1920 in a hot boric acid spring; MM 38,00 

Arsenic xx 

Block 1205, Nelson vein, Sohle 675, Schacht 366, Alberoda, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; long-prismatic grayish-black idiomorphic crystals to 2 mm, very rich with some red Realgar on vugs in native Arsenic. Idiomorphic crystals of native Arsenic are extremely rare in German ore deposits; MM 28,00; KS 75,00; NS 148,00 

Artroeite xx

Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Prov., Campania / Italy; highly lustrous, colorless to white, needly to acicular crystal aggregates of 2 mm, on vugs in brownish Lava matrix. Outstanding specimens of this rare Lead-Aluminum-Fluoride;
MM 38,00; KS 65,00; NS 95,00

Bariopharmakosiderite xx 

Leimgrübner vein, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; pale brownish glassy cubic crystals and crystal aggregates of 1 mm, very rich on vugs in Quartz matrix; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 

Bentorite xx 

Hatrurim Formation, west of Death Sea, Negev Desert / Israel / TYP; pinkish crystals to 1 mm intergrown to massive aggregates, very rich in white Larnite matrix; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 

Beraunite xx 

Maffei Mine, Nitzelbuch, Auerbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria / Germany; highly lustrous red-brown long-tabular crystals of 1 cm !!, parallel inter growing in brownish iron ore matrix. Old specimens from a rare location; KS 38,00 

Boromuscovite xx 

Little Three Mine, Ramona, San Diego, California / USA / TYP; white aggregates of intergrowing tabular microcrystals, very rich on nearly colorless Elbaite (Achroite) crystals of 2 cm; KS 28,00 

Brewsterite-Sr xx 

Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia / Canada; colorless prismatic crystals to 5 mm, very rich on vugs in Tachyte matrix. From a new find in summer of 2011; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 

Calderite xx 

Otjosondu deposit, Okahandja, Otjozondjupa Region / Namibia / TYP;  glassy orange-brownish crystals to 5 mm, very rich on black metallic Braunite matrix. Very good specimens of this rare Garnet; MM 28,00; KS 48,00; NS 125,00 

Challacolloite xx 

La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Aeolian Islands, Lipari, Sicily / Italy;  glassy orange-yellow prismatic crystals of 1 mm, very rich on grayish Scoria matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 

Chamosite (xx) 

Haut de Cry, Chamoson, Rhone Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; massive scaly dark brownish aggregates of pure Chamosite. It is the most ugly Chamosite I have ever seen, but it comes from the type locality; KS 14,00; NS 19,00 

Chiolite xx 

Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord,, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland; colorless blocky ice-like massive aggregates of pure Chiolite. Very good specimens of this uncommon Sodium-Aluminum-Fluoride; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 

Chromatite xx 

Ma'aleh Adumim, Hatrurim formation, West Bank of Jordan, Palestine / TYP; pale yellow aggregates of minute crystals, very rich in tan Limestone matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 

Chromian Diopside xx 

Keretti Mine, Outokumpu, Eastern Finland Region / Finland; nice crystal cluster of grass-green prismatic crystals of 2 cm;
NS 28,00; HS 48,00 

Cinnabar xx 

Idria Mine, Idria, Ljubljana / Slovenia; red-metallic crystals of 2 mm, very rich with some native mercury on matrix. Nice specimens; KS 19,00; NS 48,00 

Cubanite (xx) 

Zinkgruvan, Askersund, Närke / Sweden; massive yellow-metallic aggregates with cleavage planes of 3 cm of pure Cubanite in Calcite matrix; NS 28,00 

Cuspidine xx 

Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Prov., Campania / Italy / TYP; white prismatic crystals to 3 mm, together with greenish-brown glassy Vesuvianite crystals on vugs in Vesuvianite-Biotite matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Cylindrite xx 

Mina Santa Cruz, Poopó, Poopó Prov., Oruro Dept. / Boliva / TYP; very nice crystal cluster of dark grey-metallic freestanding rounded 3 cm crystals on Wurtzite-Pyrite matrix. These are the finest Cylindrite specimens I have ever seen;
KS 38,00; NS 75,00; HS 185,00 

Dalyite xx

Água de Pau Volcano, San Miguel Island, Azores Isands / Portugal; colorless to pale brownish cubic crystals of 1 mm on Albite-Aegirine matrix, developed in peralkaline syenites ejecta; MM 38,00

Decrespignyite-(Y) xx 

Olary Block, Paratoo Mine, Yunta, South Australia / Australia / TYP; sky-blue radial-acicular aggregates intergrown to globular aggregates, very rich together with some white Kamphaugite-(Y) aggregates on fracture zones in dolomitic Limestone;
KS 19,00; NS 28,00 

Emeleusite (xx) 

Igdlutalik Island, Ilimaussaq, Narsaq, Kitaa / Greenland / TYP; glassy pale brownish massive aggregates of pure Emeleusite, very good specimens of this rare Lithium Silicate; KS 28,00 

Ferrokentbrooksite xx

Água de Pau Volcano, San Miguel Island, Azores Isands / Portugal; orange-yellow crystals of 1 mm on Albite-Aegirine matrix, developed in peralkaline syenites ejecta; MM 19,00

fibrous Obsidian  

Obsidian Dome, Mammoth Lake, Mono Co., California / USA; This is a hair-like fibrous Obsidian. During a second phase, a hot gas stream passes inside the volcanic glass and creates large masses of parallel fibrous aggregates on Obsidian matrix;
NS 19,00; HS 38,00 

Fluor-elbaite X  IMA 2011-071 

Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Doce valley, Minas Gerais / Brazil / TYP; pale blue transparent gemmy long-prismatic single crystals of 1,5 cm (MM) to 2,5 cm (KS); MM 28,00; KS 38,00 

Formanite-(Y) xx 

Ytterby, Resarö, Vaxholm, Uppland / Sweden; glassy pale brownish highly lustrous prismatic crystals to 1 cm in Feldspar matrix. Outstanding specimens of this rare Yttrium-Tantalum-Oxide. Collected around 1840 from Carl Gustaf Mosander, curator of the Riks museum Stockholm; MM 48,00; KS 95,00; NS 185,00 

Gadolinite-(Y) xx 

Hitterö, Flekkefjord, Kristansand, Vest-Agder / Norway; black well-terminated single crystals in crystal clusters of 
2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS). 
Historic specimens collected around 1880; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 

Ganomalite (xx) 

Jacobsberg Mine, Nordmark, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden;  highly lustrous colorless to pale greyish crystals to 5 mm, very rich as intergrown aggregates with Manganophyllite,  classic old specimens; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Harmotome xx 

Steinbruch Setz, Idar-Oberstein, Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; white prismatic 5 mm crystals, very rich with some colorless Chabazite crystals on Calcite matrix. Old specimens collected around 1930; NS 38,00 

Hashemite xx 

Ma'aleh Adumim, Hatrurim formation, West Bank of Jordan / Palestine; pale yellow highly lustrous transparent sharp needle crystals of 0,4 mm, as isolated small crystal groups on crusts of pale yellow prismatic Ettringite crystals of 0,5 mm, very rich on Limestone matrix; MM 48,00; KS 95,00 

Heulandite-Ca xx 

Drio le Pale, Buffaure Group, Fassa Valley, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige / Italy; dark orange-red gemmy prismatic crystals of
6 mm, very rich on Basalt matrix.
Very nice old historic specimens collected around 1900; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Hiortdahlite I xx 

Arøyskjærene, Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold / Norway / TYP; glassy long-prismatic yellowish-brown crystals, with black Annite in Feldspar matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Hydroxycalcioroméite xx 

Fazenda Tres Cruzes, Tripui, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais / Brazil / TYP; glassy highly lustrous pale orange-brown bipyramidal crystals to 2 mm isolated in Hematite; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 

Idrialite xx 

Idrija Mine, Idria, Ljubliana, Slowenia / TYP; yellowish-green microcrystalline aggregates to 1 cm on fracture zones in brownish Pyrite-Cinnabar-Quartz matrix. Very good specimens of this rare organic mineral. Identical with the synthetic "dimethylbenzphenanthrene"; MM 19,00; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Johninnesite (xx) 

Idrija Mine, Idria, Ljubliana, Slowenia / TYP; yellowish-green microcrystalline aggregates to 1 cm on fracture zones in brownish Pyrite-Cinnabar-Quartz matrix. Very good specimens of this rare organic mineral. Identical with the synthetic "dimethylbenzphenanthrene"; MM 19,00; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Kankite xx 

Reiche Zeche Mine, Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; waxy greenish-yellow globular crystal aggregates on Quartz matrix. Very rich specimens of this uncommon Iron Arsenate, collected in 1993; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 

Lead sheets 

Garpenberg Nord Mine, Hedenora, Dalarna / Sweden; grey sheets up to 2 cm of native Lead scattered on fracture zones in Tremolite matrix. Good specimens from a find in 1995; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 

Magnesiohornblende (xx) 

Steinbrauch im Borntal, Bad Frankenhausen, Kyffhäuser, Thuringia / Germany; blocky dark green crystals of 1 cm, very rich in tan Anorthite matrix; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 

Medaite xx 

Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia, Ne, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy / TYP; highly lustrous red prismatic 0,5 mm crystals, very rich on vugs in Quartz-Hausmannite matrix; KS 28,00 

Mejillonesite xx IMA 2010-068 

Cerro Mejillones, Mejillones Peninsula, Mejillones, II Region / Chile / TYP; Colorless 4 mm aggregate of intergrown prismatic crystals on a beige matrix of Clinoptilolite-Na + Clinoptilolite-Ca and Opal. Mejillonesite was discovered by myself in December 2008, and was later named after the type-locality; MM 65,00; KS 95,00 

Melanterite xx 

Paitzdorf, Ronneburg, Gera, Thuringia / Germany; pale greenish-yellow 3 mm crystals, intergrown to massive aggregates of pure Melanterite. Chemical analysis shows this material to be free of Magnesium, and therefore stable in air; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 

Meliphanite xx 

Stokkoya Island, Langesundfjord, Vestfold / Norway; gemmy yellow tabular crystals up to 2 mm, very rich as blocky aggregates in Syenite matrix. Very nice specimens; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 

Moeloite xx 

La Plâtrière Quarry, Granges, Sion, Wallis / Switzerland; grey-metallic needle crystals of 1 mm, together with native Sulfur on Gypsum; KS 28,00 

Narsarsukite xx 

Igdlutalik Island, Ilimaussaq, Narsaq, Kitaa / Greenland; green prismatic crystals of 5 mm, in fine grained Albite-Aegirine matrix; KS 28,00 

Natrite xx
Thermonatrite xx

Owens Lake, Olancha, Inyo Co., Kalifornien / USA; white massive micro crystalline aggregates of a mixture of Natrite and Thermonatrite; KS 19,00

Natrodufrenite xx 

Greifenstein Rock, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; olive-green ball-like crystal aggregates, very rich as globular aggregates on Quartz matrix; KS 28,00; NS 65,00 

Nepouite  

Népoui Mine, Népoui, Nouméa, Northern Prov. / New Caledonia / TYP; waxy green aggregates of 1 cm, very rich on Serpentinite matrix; MM 14,00; KS 28,00 

Ovamboite (xx) 

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia / TYP; inclusions of 100 µm very rich in Germanite, together with some Renierite, Sphalerite and Galena. Very good specimens of this very rare Sulfide; MM 48,00; KS 220,00 

Oxiberaunite xx 

Rotläufchen Mine, Waldgirmes, Wetzlar, Hesse / Germany; dark orange-red-brown long-prismatic crystals and acicular crystal groups to 7 mm, very richly scattered on iron ore matrix. Very nice and historic specimens from the active time of mining (before 1905); KS 38,00; NS 95,00 

Palenzonaite xx 

Schmorrasgrat, Starlera Valley, Oberhalbstein, Grischun / Switzerland; orange-red crystal aggregates of 1 cm, together with Braunite and Quartz on thin fracture zones on massive Hematite matrix. Very good specimens; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 

Peprossiite-(Ce) xx 

2,5 km n/w of Capranica, Vico Lake, Viterbo, Latium / Italy; bright yellow tabular crystal clusters of 1 mm, on vugs in a pyroclastic Sanidine ejectum. Outstanding specimens of this rare Cerium-Aluminum-Borate; KS 28,00 

Phosphoellenbergerite xx 

Brossasco, Varaita Valley, Dora Maira Massif, Cuneo Prov., Piedmont / Italy / TYP; bluish-grey 1 mm crystals in pale pinkish Pyrope-Coesite matrix; KS 28,00 

Picromerite xx 

Schmidtmannshall Mine, Aschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; colorless well-terminated single prismatic crystals
of 2 cm KS) to 3,5 cm (NS); KS 19,00; NS 38,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Bautenberg Mine, Wilden, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany; highly lustrous cognac-colored scepter-like crystal aggregates of 7 mm on beige Siderite matrix (8 cm x 6 cm).  Very nice historic specimen  collected around 1930; HS 285,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Heilige Dreifaltigkeit Mine, Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; very nice yellowish-green hexagonal long-prismatic 1 cm crystals, very rich on Barite Quartz matrix. Old specimens collected around 1950; NS 38,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Hoffnung auf bessere Zeiten Mine, Drebach, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; greenish long-prismatic crystals of 3 mm, very rich on matrix (8 cm x 4 cm). Very old specimens from 1850; NS 185,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Max Mine, Krandorf, Schwarzenfeld, Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria / Germany; intensive green 4 mm crystals intergrown to crystal aggregates with some Quartz matrix. Nice specimens collected around 1975; KS 28,00; NS 65,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Příbram, Bohemia / Czech Republic; green to yellowish-green 2 mm crystals, very rich with some Cerussite on Galena matrix. Historic specimens collected around 1880; KS 48,00; NS 95,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Holzappel Mine, Holzappel, Laurenburg, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; highly lustrous pale yellowish-green 4 mm crystals on Quartz matrix. Historic specimens collected around 1900; NS 48,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Peterszeche Mine, Burbach, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany; radial ball like green aggregates of 5 mm, very rich on brownish Goethite matrix. Historic specimens collected around 1890; KS 38,00; NS 95,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Amerika Pegmatite, Penig, Chemnitz, Saxony / Germany; long-prismatic green 3 mm crystals on Granite matrix. Very rare location, collected on October 29th 1939 !!; KS 48,00; NS 85,00 

Pyromorphite xx 

Friedrichssegen Mine, Frücht, Bad Ems, Lahn Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; very nice crystal clusters of  pale brownish intergrown long-prismatic crystals (Emser Tönnchen). Historic specimens from the 1930s; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Pyrope X 

Nandagala, Ruangwa, Massai Steppe, Lindi Region / Tanzania; blood red gemmy crystals of 1 cm (MM) to 2 cm (KS) from an alluvial deposit. Collected in 1920. These are the finest Pyropes I have ever seen. Normally any stones in such quality are used for cut stones; MM 19,00; KS 38,00 

Rancieite xx 

Hátsó Tarnóca Quarry, Kisnána, Mátra Mts., Heves Co. / Hungary; tabular grey-metallic crystals of 1 mm, very rich with Siderite crystals on Andesine matrix. Rancieite in idiomorphic crystals is quite uncommon; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 

Realgar xx 

Gauern open pit, Ronneburg, Gera, Thuringia / Germany; long-prismatic red crystals to 5 mm, very rich on vugs in pale brownish Calcite matrix. Old specimens collected in 1963; KS 38,00; NS 75,00

Saneroite xx 

Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia, Ne, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy; long-tabular orange crystals to 3 mm, very rich on fracture zones on Hausmannite-Braunite Matrix; KS 28,00 

Sapphirine xx 

Fiskenaes, Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Nuuk, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland / TYP; glassy pale blue 5 mm crystals, very rich as intergrown massive aggregates, together with some acicular pale beige Kornerupine and tabular brownish Phlogopite. This is exceptionally rare material from a nearly inaccessible location, collected about 1830; KS 38,00; NS 65,00 

Sassolite xx 

Sasso Pisano, Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Pisa Prov., Tuscany / Italy / TYP; tabular aggregates of white pseudo-hexagonal crystals to 1 cm, collected in 1973 in hot boric acid springs in a local geyser field; KS 19,00 

Scheelite X

Kinta Valley, Bujang Mts., Melaka, Malakka Peninsula / Malaysia; lustrous silky white singel crystals of 2 cm Old specimens collect around 1900; KS 28,00

Serendibite X 

Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay / Myanmar; well terminated gemmy dark blue to black single crystals of 1 cm (MM) to
1,5 cm (KS). The crystals are transparent in transmitted light, very good specimens; MM 19,00; KS 28,00 

Shimazakiite (xx) 
IMA 2010-085 

Fuka Mine, Bitchu-cho, Takahashi, Okayama, Honshu Island / Japan / TYP; microcrystalline white aggregates intergrown with grayish Takedaite; MM 125,00; KS 165,00 

Silver  

Eisleben, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt / Germany; a 3 x 2 cm large sheet of native Silver on a black "marl slate" matrix. Quite an uncommon location for native Silver; NS 48,00; HS 75,00 

Silver xx 

Porco, Agua de Castilla, Antonio Quijarro Prov., Potosi Dept. / Bolivia; silver white-metallic wire and herringbone Silver aggregates of 2 cm, very rich on Sphalerite-Quartz matrix.  Incredibly rich specimens of native Silver; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Sodic-ferripedrizite xx

Arroyo de la Yedra, Eastern Pedriza Massif, Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid / Spain / TYP; Sodic-ferripedrizite (green), Ferriwhittakerite (blue), Sodic-ferri-ferropedrizite (black), Ferri-ottoliniite (black), all this four phasen in white Albite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 65,00

Stannite xx 

Wheal Agar Mine, Illogan, Redruth, St Day, Cornwall, England / UK; well terminated grayish brown-metallic  1 mm crystals, intergrown to massive aggregates to 2 cm, very rich with some Chalcopyrite in Quartz matrix. Old-time specimens from early 1900s; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Strengite xx 

Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse / Germany / TYP; pale yellowish-pinkish acicular crystal balls to 2 mm, with some yellow Cacoxenite and brownish Oxiberaunite on dark brownish Iron ore matrix. Specimens of Strengite from the type location are extremely uncommon (I have it never seen before); collected around 1880; KS 85,00; NS 148,00 

Sursassite xx 

Molinello Mine, Graveglia Valley, Ne, Genova Prov., Liguria / Italy; orange-brownish needle-like crystals of 3 mm, very rich in Quartz matrix; KS 19,00 

Tantaleuxenite xx 

Ytterby, Resarö, Vaxholm, Uppland / Sweden; glassy dark greenish-brown aggregates to 5 mm, very rich in Feldspar matrix. Outstanding specimens of this rare Yttrium-Tantalum-Oxide. Collected around 1840 by Carl Gustaf Mosander, curator of the Riks museum Stockholm; MM 48,00; KS 95,00 

Tengerite-(Y) xx 

Åskagen Quarry, Torskebäcken, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden; white microcrystalline acicular aggregates, very rich in fracture zones in a matrix of beige Thalenite-(Y) and black Allanite-(Y); KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Thaumasite xx 

Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passic Co., New Jersey / USA; massive silky white aggregates of colorless intergrown 5 mm prismatic crystals. Old specimens collected around 1920; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 

Threadgoldite xx

Arcu su Linnarbu, Capoterra, Cagliari Prov., Sardinia / Italy; pale yellow microcrystalline aggregates, very rich on vugs in Quartz matrix. Very good specimens of this rare Aluminum-Uranyl-Phosphate; MM 28,00; KS 38,00

Tripuhyite xx Clinocervanit xx 

Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Prov., Tuscany / Italy; highly lustrous green crystals to 1 mm, together with colorless Clinocervanite crystals of 3 mm, on vugs in massive pale grayish acicular Valentinite; KS 19,00 

Valentinite xx 

Mina San José, Oruro City, Cercado Prov., Oruro Dept. / Bolivia; highly lustrous colorless to pale brownish well terminated prismatic crystals to 1,5 cm on Pyrite matrix. These are the finest Valentinite specimens I have ever seen, from a new find in the summer of 2011; KS 38,00; NS 95,00 

Whewellite xx 

Karl Liebknecht Mine, Oelznitz, Zwickau, Saxony / Germany; colorless to pale yellowish long-prismatic crystals of 2 cm evenly growing on dark brownish Paleosiderite matrix. Old specimens discovered in 1956; KS 38,00; NS 85,00 

Zunyite xx 

Zuni Mine, Anvil Mts., San Juan Co., Colorado / USA / TYP; pale violet to colorless gemmy 3 to 5 mm sharp tetrahedral crystals, very rich on a white Phyrophyllite-Alunite matrix. These are the finest Zunyite specimens I have ever seen; KS 28,00; NS 65,00 

Zykaite xx 

Reiche Zeche Mine, Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; silky white ball like 2 cm aggregates of pure Zykaite; very rich specimens of this uncommon Iron-sulfo-arsenate collected in 1993; KS 28,00; NS 48,00