Minerals
Gunnar Färber
Minerals
Gunnar Färber
| Labradorite xl | Double Eagle Claim, Plush, Lake Co., Oregon / USA; pale yellow glass clear well terminated gemmy single crystals of 2 cm (KS) to 3 cm (NS). Outstanding good crystals of the uncommon variety of Feldspar from a new find; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Lammerite xx | Mina El Guanaco, Taltal, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; lustrous dark green crystals of 1 mm, very rich with some light blue Lemanskiite crystals on vugs in Quartz; KS 38,00; NS 75,00 |
| Landauite xls | Babuna Valley, Jakupica Mts., Nezilovo, Veles / Macedonia; grey metallic 1 mm crystal aggregates as intergrowths with Hematite, together with some greenish Aegirine in Quartz matrix. Interesting specimens of this very rare Zinc-Titanium-Oxide from a new find in July 2014; KS 48,00; NS 75,00 |
| Langbanite X | Langban, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; black-metallic well-terminated prismatic 3 mm crystal on Richterite Calcite matrix. It is a really nice and great specimen; KS 385,00 |
| Lannonite xx | Grube Anna, Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, / Germany; colorless high lustrous quadratic tabular crystals of 0,3 mm with white Rostite on matrix; MM 48,00 |
| Lansfordite xls | Moraine of Findel Glacier, Zermatt, Matt Valley, Wallis / Switzerland; waxy white to tan crystal aggregates of 2 cm on greenish Serpentinite matrix. Very good specimens of this uncommon Magnesium-Carbonate; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Lanthanite-(Ce) xls | Bastnäs Mine, Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland / Sweden; creamy white 1 cm large crystal aggregates on fracture zones on Cerite-(Ce)-Ferriallanite-(Ce) matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Larisaite xx | Repete Mine, White Canyon, Blanding, San Juan Co., Utah / USA / TYP; yellow long-prismatic 0.3mm crystals intergrown with Haynesite on a greyish Sandstone matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Lasalite xls | Vanadium Queen Mine, La Sal Creek Canyon, San Juan Co., Utah / USA / TYP; orange bright luster crystals of 1 mm, inter grown to rich crystal aggregates, very rich with black Montroseite and Gypsum on Sandstone matrix Very rich a pretty specimens; KS 65,00 |
| Lasalite xls | Yellow Cat, Thompson District, Grand Co., Utah / USA; this rare Na-Mg-Vanadate forms bright orange crystals of 1 mm, very rich on large fracture zones on dark Sandstone matrix. Very nice specimens from a new find; KS 38,00 |
| Latiumite xx | Albano Lake Crater, Alban Hills, Rome Prov., Latium / Italy; colorless, platy, prismatic crystals to 4 mm with dark greenish Diopside. Outstandingly good specimens collected around 1980; KS 28,00 |
| Lautarite xls | Mina Yumbes, Sierra Vicuna Mackenna, Paposo, Atacama Desert, II Region / Chile; this rare Ca-Iodate forms yellow needle crystals of 3 mm, very rich in colorless Nitratine-Halite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Lavoisierite xls | Punta Gensane,Viù Valley, Sesia-Lanzo, Torino Prov., Piedmont / Italy / TYP; rich crystal aggregates of gold-brownish long prismatic 2 mm crystals with red Piemontite in Quartz matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Lavoisierite xx | Punta Gensane, Viù Valley, Sesia-Lanzo, Torino Prov., Piedmont / Italy / TYP; brownish long-prismatic 2 mm crystals, very rich with red Piemontite in Quartz matrix, Very rich specimens for a new mineral species; KS 48,00; NS 95,00 |
| Lawsonbauerite xx | 900 Level, Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey / USA / TYP; colorless to tan acicular crystal-aggregates of 4 mm, intergrown with needly white Sussexite and dark brownish tabular Pyrochroite crystals. Outstanding specimens of the rare Manganese-Zinc-Sulfo-Hydroxide; KS 75,00; NS 125 |
| Lawsonite xx | RMP Pit No. 1, Novato, Marin Co., California / USA; pale-blue high lustrous prismatic crystals up to 1 cm very rich of Glaucophane Muscovite matrix. Very good specimens from new find; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Lawsonite xx | Outlaw Creek, 7 miles NE of Longvale, Mendocino Co., California / USA; prismatic white crystals of 3 mm, together with Quartz and blue Ferroglaucophane; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Lawsonite xx | Ebabias Creek, Valley Ford, Sonoma Co., California / USA; glassy prismatic colourless crystals of 2 mm, very rich on large vugs on blue Glaucophane matrix. Interesting specimens from a new find in February 2014. It is becoming very difficult now to collect any Lawsonite in California,as all the locations are gone; MM ; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Lazurite xx | Färber-Graben, Hochkönig, 3 km s/w of Werfen, Salzburg / Ausrtia; blue glasy crystals of 3 mm, very rich with some Quartz on schist matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Lead | Langban, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden; grey sheet-like aggregates of 1,5 cm together with black Pyrochroite on Calcite-Hausmannite matrix; NS 38,00 |
| Lead | Langban, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden; grey sheet-like aggregates of 1,5 cm together with black Pyrochroite on Calcite-Hausmannite matrix; 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 |
| Lechatelierite | Tenoumer Impact Crater, 22°55´N 10°24´W, 300 km east of Zouerate, El Khatt / Mauritania; green brown and white colored glassy ejected material with Lechatelierite as a main component. Develop 2,5 million years ago during a meteorite impact; KS 38,00 |
| Lechatelierite | Dakhla, Oued ed Dahab Lagouira / West Sahara; 5 cm long irregular hollow tubes of a silica-rich glass formed by lightning striking and melting sand in the Desert; NS 12,00 |
| Lefontite xls | Joao Teodoro Mine, Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais / Brasilien / TYP; the new rare Beryllium Phosphate forms brownish crystals to 3 mm, grown on greenish-blue acicular Gormanite. Only very few specimens available; |
| Lengenbachite xx | Lengenbach Quarry, Im Feld, Binn Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; black-metallic long-tabular 2 mm crystals on vugs in Dolomite matrix; KS 28,00 |
| Lennilenapeite (xx) | Outlet Creek, 7 miles north-east of Longvale, Mendocino Co., California / USA; greenish-black microcrystalline aggregates very rich in Quartz. Very good specimens of this rare Silicate; KS 48,00; NS 75,00 |
| Lepidocrocite xx | Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate / Germany; red-brownish 1 cm thick vein-like crystal aggregates of pure Lepidocrocite, together with black botryoidal Goethite. Herdorf is the type-location for Goethite; KS 28,00; NS 48,00; HS 125,00 |
| Leucite xl | Ariccia, Alban Hills, Rome Prov., Latium / Italy; pale yellow to colorless transparent gemmy well terminated sharp (trapezohedral) single crystals of 8 mm. Very good historic material from the 19th century; MM 19,00 |
| Leucophoenicite (xx) | Yaei Mine, Tsuchiyama, Shiga, Kinki, Honshu Island / Japan; reddish-beige-brownish aggregates of 1 cm in brownish Tephorite Alabandite matrix; KS 38,00 |
| Leucophoenicite (xx) | Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey / USA / TYP; glassy pale pinkish transparent 3 mm crystals, very rich in Willemite (pale green) Andradite (pale brown) and Franklinite (black) matrix; MM 28,00; KS 38,00 |
| Leucostaurite xls | Mina Asuncion, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile / TYP; this extremely rare Chlorine-bearing Lead Borate forms colorless platy striated crystals to 1,5 mm on small vugs in a Pseudoboleite-Penfieldite-Paralaurionite matrix. |
| Leucostaurite xls | Mina Asunción, Caracoles, Sierra Gorda, II Region, Atacama Desert / Chile / TYP; the extremely rare Chlorine barring Lead Borate forms colorless platy striated crystals to 1,5 mm on small vugs in a Pseudoboleite-Penfieldite-Paralaurionite matrix. Collect in 1912 by the former Swiss Consul in Chile. Holo-type specimens from the author; MM 185,00; KS 225,00 |
| Leverettite xx | Torrecillas Mine, Salar Grande, Iquique, Atacama Desert, I Region / Chile / TYP; this new very rare Copper-Cobalt-hydroxyl-chloride of the Atacamite group occurs as aggregates of 0,5 mm long-prismatic crystals on vugs in brownish matrix; KS 125,00 |
| Lewisit xx | Fazenda Tres Cruzes, Tripui, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais / Brasilien / TYP; hellorange braune hochglänzende glasige um bis 2 mm große bipyramidale Kristalle vereinzelt in Hämatit; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Liandratite xx | Kempton Pegmatite, Pyramid Hill, Port Hedland, Western Australia / Australia; yellowish-brown high lustrous glassy massive aggregates of pure Liandratite. Particular together with some back Columbite-Fe. Outstanding good specimens. This are the finest known specimens of rare U-Nb-Oxide; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Liandratite xx | Mica Lode Mine, Eight Mile Park Pegmatite District, Fremont Co., Colorado / USA; waxy orange-yellow 2 cm thick coating on crystal faces and fractures of deep dark brownish Columbite-(Mn) crystals of 5cm (NS) to 8 cm (HS); impressive specimens; |
| Liandratite xx | Mica Lode Mine, Eight Mile Park Pegmatite District, Fremont Co., Colorado / USA; waxy orange yellow 2 cm large coating on crystal faces and fractures of deep dark brownish Columbite-(Mn) crystals of 3 cm (KS) to 4 cm (NS) impressive specimens; |
| Libethenit xx | Mina El Guanaco, Est Catalina, Taltal, Atacama Desert, II Region / Chile; hellgrüne glasige um 1,5 mm große idiomorphe Kristalle, sehr reich als dichte Kristallpartien auf großen Kluftzonen in Rhyolit Matrix; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Libethenite xls | Mwekera Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt Prov. / Zambia; olive-green well terminated crystals of 1 mm, very rich fracture zones on Quartzite matrix; KS 19,00 |
| Liebenbergite xx | Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District slag localities, Attika Pref. / Greece; green bright luster well terminated crystals of 1 mm, very rich as several square centimeter large crystal aggregates on a black metallic matrix of Trevorite crystals. This new discover specimen are the would finest Liebenbergite and Trevorite ever find; KS 65,00; NS 148,00 |
| Limonite xx | Planitis Island, Panormos Bay, Tinos Island, Aegean Sea / Greece; "pseudomorphs after Pyrite crystals" highly lustrous brown crystals of 5 mm on vugs in Albite -Muscovite matrix. Planitis is a small uninhabited Island in the Aegean Sea; KS 19,00; NS 28,00 |
| Linarite xx | Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi Mts., Otjikoto Region / Namibia; blue high lustrous long tabular crystals of 3 mm, very rich with Brochantite, Cerussite and Quartz. Very old specimens from the first oxidation zone; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Lindgrenite xls | Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata, Calama, El Loa Prov., Atacama Desert / Chile / TYP; green glassy tabular crystal aggregates, very rich on thin fracture zones in Quartz matrix; KS 19,00 |
| Lindgrenite xx | San Samuel Mine, Carrera Pinto, Cachiyuyo de Llampos, Copiapo, Atacama Desert, III Region / Chile; lustrous long prismatic olive-green crystals to 1 mm, very rich on vugs at fracture zones in Andesine matrix; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Lindqvistite xls | Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark, Filipstad, Värmland / Sweden / TYP; dark brownish metallic tabular crystals to 2 mm with Cuprite and some Malachite in Jacobsite-Calcite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 75,00 |
| Liroconite xls | Wheal Gorland Mine, Gwennap, Redruth, Cornwall, England / UK / TYP; bright sky-blue crystals of 2 mm on vugs in Quartz matrix; MM 28,00 |
| Lisetite (xx) | Liset eclogite pod, Liset, Selje, Sogn og Fjordane / Norway / TYP; colorless crystals of 0,1 mm inter-grown with Albite, Jadeite, Taramite, Almandine and Quartz. Only a few specimens available, all of them part of the original exanimate samples; MM 125,00 |
| Litharge xx | Dolores Mine, Pozoblanco, Cordoba, Los Pedroches Valley, Andalusia / Spain; tabular red crystals of 1 mm with some glassy pale bluish Susannite crystals in a Cerussite matrix; MM 28,00; KS 48,00 |
| Lithiophorite (xx) | Pöhlberg, Königswalde, Annaberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony / Germany; lustous botryoidal black semi-metallic crystal aggregates very rich as cementing material between Quartz gravels; looks like a conglomerate; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Liveingite xx | Lengenbach Quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Wallis / Switzerland / TYP; grey metallic long prismatic crystals of 3 mm (MM) and |
| Lizardite (xx) | Eastern Cliff, Kennack, Ruan-Grade, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England / UK / TYP; massive pale greenish- grey aggregates of pure Lizardite from the type-locality; NS 28,00 |
| Lizardite-1T xx | Col de Tsate, Moiry Valley, Val d´Anniviers, Vallis / Switzerland; parallel intergrowths of dark green crystal sprays of lustrous |
| Lombardoite xls | Valletta Mine, Canosio, Maira Valley, Piedmont / Italy / TYP; the new very rare Ba-Mn-Arsenate occurs as pale brownish 1 mm crystal aggregates in Quartz-Braunite matrix; MM 75,00 |
| Lomonosovite xx | Kvanefeld adit, Kuannersuit Plateau, Ilimaussaq Complex, Narsaq, Kitaa Prov. / Greenland; lustrous bright brownish prismatic crystals of 5 mm in greenish- grey Lujavrite matrix; KS 19,00; NS 38,00 |
| Lorandit xx | Lanmuchang Mine, Xingren Co., Qianxi'nan Pref., Guizhou Prov. / China; rote langprismatische bis 5 mm große Kristalle und blätterige Aggregate, sehr reich auf Kluftzonen in schwarzer Matrix; KS 28,00; NS 48,00 |
| Lorandite xx | Crven Dol Mine, Allchar, Majdan, Kavadarci, Roszdan / Macedonia / TYP; dark red-metallic 5 mm crystal clusters of pure Lorandite in a matrix of bright yellow Orpiment crystals. Very attractive specimens of this rare Thallium Arsenic Sulfide; |
| Lourenswalsite xx | Copiapo, III Region, Atacama Desert / Chile; highly lustrous yellowish-brown tabular aggregates of 3 mm in a pale greenish Serpentinite matrix; MM 38,00; KS 65,00 |
| Lucchesiite xl | Gem gravels, Ratnapura, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Prov. / Sri Lanka / TYP; the new very rare minerals of the Tourmaline group forms black glassy crystals up to 8 mm. Collect approx. 100 years ago in a alluvial gem deposit; MM 95,00 |
| Ludwigite xls | Pomeroy Iron Mine, Georgtown Lake, Anaconda, Deer Lodge Co., Montana / USA; black long prismatic crystals of 8 mm, beside of black Magnetite crystals in white Marble. Unique specimens from a rare location; KS 28,00; NS 38,00 |
| Luinaite-(OH) xx | Bald Hornet Claim, Blue Mountain Saddle, North Bend, King Co., Washington / USA; highly lustrous pale greenish-brown radial-acicular crystal aggregates of 1,5 cm, very rich on Quartz crystal matrix. These very good specimens of this new member of the Tourmaline group were collected around 1970 in a very remote high mountain area; KS 48,00 - 75,00 ; NS 125,00 - 225,00 |
| Luinaite-(OH) xx | Bald Hornet Claim, Blue Mountain Saddle, North Bend, King Co., Washington / USA; nice 3 cm radial-acicular crystal clusters of inter grown 1 cm crystals of Luinaite-(OH), some associated with Quartz crystals. Nice specimens of this rare Tourmaline, collected around 1970 in a very remote high mountain area; KS 48,00 |
| Lüneburgite xx | Paoha Island, Mono Lake, Mono Co., California / USA; very nice specimens with crystal clusters of several centimeters formed of lustrous well terminated inter-grown pale brownish idiomorphic crystals. These are the best Lüneburgite specimens ever found.; |
| Luogufengite (xls) | Atomic City, Butte Co., Idaho / USA; the new Iron-Oxide occurs as brownish aggregates of 20 µm together with Maghemite, Magnetite and Hematite in small cavities in Lava matrix; KS 125,00 |
| Lyonsite xls | Yadovitaya Fumarole, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Far-Eastern Region / Russia; dark brown metallic crystal aggregates of minute crystals, very rich in red-brownish Scoria matrix; MM 48,00; KS 125,00 |
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