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NATIVE SILVER
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TSM080
Native Silver Kearsage Mine, Houghton county Michigan
from an American classic locality. fine crystallized silver with small quartz crystals. very hard to find these days.
2. 75 x 2 in, 7 x 5 cm
COPPER
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TSM071
Native Copper
Champion mine
Marquette county Michigan
Well crystallized copper in herringbone patterns and rich brown patina that the Champion mine is well known for. 5 x 3.5 in,
12.5 x 9 cm.
DIOPTASE on DOLOMITE
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TSM55
DIOPTASE on DOLOMITE Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
superb color, luster, crystal form and aesthetics. a world class dioptase that do not come around too often.
got as close as I could to the actual color
but anyone who has tried to photograph dioptase knows that it's near impossible to catch the true color on camera. Ex Rock Currier collection. Ex Andrew Ford collection.
3.25 x 2.5 inches, 8 x 6.5 cm.
RHODOCHROSITE, QUARTZ, FLUORITE
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TSM20
RHODOCHROSITE, QUARTZ, FLUORITE Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado
nice red rhodochrosite crystals on a thin plate of quartz xls and a fluorite cube. both sides shown. almost a floater.
3 inches, 7.5 cm
RUTILE
TMS81
RUTILE Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia
brilliant, mirror like, metallic luster on the rutile crystals. some twinned. specimens of this caliber are hard to come by from this now classic locality.
3.75 x 3.5 inches, 10 x 9.5 cm
TITANITE (SPHENE), ADULARIA, CLINOCHLORE, CALCITE
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TSM0050
TITANITE ( SPHENE ) with ADULARIA, CLINOCHLORE, and CALCITE
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Gilgit - Baltistan, Pakistan
a stellar specimen of sharp, green sphene xls (some twinned) with super sharp white adularia xls on calcite. with some massive clinochlore.
5 x 3.5 inches, 13 x 9 cm
SCHEELITE on MUSCOVITE
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TSM2037
SCHEELITE on MUSCOVITE
a killer bright orange group of lusterous scheelite xls on muscovite mica.
Pingwu Mine, Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwo County, China.
