Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

A fine example of the yellow "triphane" variety of the mineral spodumene. The varietal term "triphane" is derived from the Greek...

This is a WOW specimen. Kunzite is the pink to lilac colored gem variety of the mineral Spodumene. Spodumene is a common mineral in gem-bearing pegmat

This fine elbaite (tourmaline) specimen from the famous Barra de Salinas District (mouth of Salinas river) in the Coronel Murta district of Minas Gera

Choice. Enargite copper-ore with minor quartz & pyrite, Viento vein, 4050 level. 4.5x2.5x2.5". This is the El-Indio copper-gold district. E...

A large, colorful specimen of azurite (blue) and malachite (green) crystals from the underground workings at the now exhausted Liufengshan Mine in Anh

An electric-blue specimen of crystallized azurite from a now-closed underground copper mine in Anhui Province, China. The color and condition of this

A fantastic combination specimen featuring the three most important collector species found at Mt. Xuebaoding. The specimen features: several gemmy, l

An attractive specimen featuring a "matrix" of light green fluorite crystals upon which has grown a lustrous, flattened, translucent, colo...

Two large, sharp, lustrous, bi-colored (white and brick-red) calcite crystals are perched on a matrix rock covered by smaller, off-white, scalenohedra

This specimen features interesting and attractive, stacked crystals of light pink manganoan calcite on a matrix of well-crystallized quartz. The manga

Mount Xuebaoding literally means "Snowy Treasure Peak" in Mandarin Chinese. The mountain (18,333 ft) is located near the easternmost edge ...

A brand new occurrence for fluorite in Fujian Province, China. This attractive specimen features a complex cluster of greenish fluorite crystals havin

An attractive, collector-quality specimen from a currently active deposit in mineral-rich Hunan Province. This specimen is from a large crystal-lined

This specimen features an extremely rare indigo-blue color of the mineral fluorite. Additionally, the crystal habit is very unusual. The crystals are

Fluorite is a very popular mineral, and it naturally occurs in all colors of the spectrum. Pure fluorite is colorless; the color variations are caused

An attractive, new discovery from Fujian Province, The specimen features bright purple, lustrous, dodecahedral crystals of fluorite on a matrix rock c

A recent find from Henan Province are attractive, reniform masses of emerald-green fluorite. The fluorite masses have small, but, well defined crystal

Fluorite is the mineralogical form of calcium fluoride. Fluorite crystallizes in the isometric system, this specimen demonstrates quite well the &qu...

The Huanggang Iron-Tin Deposit in Inner Mongolia is perhaps the most prolific mineral specimen producing locality in China today. The locality has bee

An unusual specimen of fluorite (light green), calcite and quartz from Jiangxi Province, China. located in the southeast of the country. Jiangxi, loca

The Xianghualing Mine is a skarn-type, Tin-Lead-Zinc deposit located about 70 km southwest of Chenzhou, China. The mine is most famous to mineral coll

The Xiefang Mine is a volcanic-hydrothermal fluorite deposit possessing a fluorite vein system of 10 kilometers in length. The mine has yielded numero

Well-formed, colorless to white, prismatic quartz crystals form the "matrix rock" for numerous, lustrous, transparent, light-purple, cubic...

Numerous intergrown, lustrous, color-zoned (blue-purple), cubic fluorite crystals reaching 1" across which are associated with colorless quartz...

Yaogangxian is a huge, underground tungsten-tin deposit. The mine covers an area of about 4 x 2.5 km and includes two large deposits of distinct type

An outstanding example of the garnet family species, Andradite. Andradite is a calcium iron nesosilicate mineral which occurs in skarns developed in c

A very well-formed cluster of greenish-bronze, dodecahedral andradite (garnet) crystals. The specimen is in outstanding condition and possesses very s

The name "Wenshan Mine" is most likely a generic name, referring to one or more deposits in the area around Wenshan, Yunnan Province. The ...

An exceptional example of the bright blue, botryoidal (grape-like) hemimorphite specimens that have recently been recovered at Wenshan. Large undamage

These crystals of Magnetite from the Huanggang Mine in Inner Mongolia, China are simply HUGE. Magnetite is an oxide of iron and is a primary ore of ir

Manganoan Calcite is a variety of calcite rich in manganese, which gives the mineral a pink color. This specimen features dozens of thin, "disk...

Huge, rhombic crystals of light-pink, manganese-rich calcite crystals from the prolific specimen producing mines at Huanggang, Inner Mongolia. The gro

Plumbogummite seems a very odd name for a mineral species, however, the name has real significance. Named in 1819 by Francois Pierre Nicolas Gillet de

This is a spectacular pseudomorph of plumbogummite after pyromorphite. The term pseudomorph means "false form" and indicates that the unde...

The aesthetic beauty of this quartz crystal cluster from the Huanggang mine in Inner Mongolia is undeniable. Large, well-formed, lustrous, slightly-ye

An attractive combo specimen Wuhuashan Mountain. The specimen features a plate of hematite included (reddish-orange color) quartz points partially cov

These fantastic quartz crystal clusters were first discovered and brought to the American mineral market within the last 10 years. The terminations of

The Tonglushan Mine is a large, skarn-type Iron and Copper deposit, occurring in the northern end of the Majiao-Tonglushan anticline. From a mineralog

The Wutong deposit was discovered in 1958 and was a minor producer of lead (4676 tons), zinc (3555 tons) and silver (6.65 tons). The locality gained

This specimen is a cluster of highly-flattened, rhombohedral crystals of bright reddish-pink rhodochrosite from the Wutong Mine. Opened in 1958 as a s

The most important rhodocrosite specimen discovery of the past decade came from the Wutong Mine, Guangxi Zhuang A.R., China. A collaborative mining ef

The world's finest scheelite crystals have been produced from Mt. Xuebaoding in Sichuan Province, China. This is a superb example of the highly ...

This spectacular specimen features bright orange spessartine garnets covering a matrix of off-white feldspar crystals. Rising above the spessartine co

A fantastic specimen featuring Spessartine (garnet) and Smoky Quartz crystals. Spessartine is a nesosilicate, manganese aluminium garnet. Spessartine

This specimen features more than ten gemmy, lustrous, sharp, reddish-orange sphalerite crystals which have grown on a matrix covered with colorless dr

Malachite is a bright green copper carbonate hydroxide mineral which occurs in many crystal habits and forms. This fantastic specimen features long (7

This attractive apophyllite specimen features well-formed, lustrous, transparent to translucent light green crystals that are blocky in shape with ste

Aegirine is a member of the clinopyroxene group of inosilicates and is a sodium iron silicate. Aegirine occurs as dark green, monoclinic, prismatic cr

Adamite is a zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral which typically occurs in the oxidized or weathered zone above zinc ore occurrences. Pure adamite is colo

A superb, crystallized botryoidal crust of bright yellow Mimetite. Mimetite is a lead arsenate chloride mineral which forms as a secondary mineral in