2055 - Basalt Lava Bomb from Oregon [132534]Holabird Western Americana Collections
Basalt lava volcanoes can erupt with great force and fling large blobs of molten rock thousands of feet into the air. These can be launched so high th
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2066 - Free Gold in Quartz Pieces [132121]Holabird Western Americana Collections
Small box with eight specimens of free gold in quartz from the George Allen estate out of McGill. Probably from eastern Nevada or western Utah, these
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2073 - Mineral Specimen Group, Unknown Locations [132879]Holabird Western Americana Collections
A group of beautiful display specimens includes Amethyst, a purple variety of quartz (~9 x 3 x 3.5 inches, ~1.8 pounds); a beautiful pale-blue Celesti
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2076 - What the Halite? Core and Crystal [132870]Holabird Western Americana Collections
3.5-inch drill core of solid halite (NaCl) that is 8.5 inches long (~1.27 kilograms), and a single crystal of halite that is 3.5 x 2.75 x 1.75 inches
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2077 - Drill Core Bookends, 2 Pair [132529]Holabird Western Americana Collections
Four bookends made from 3.5-inch diameter drill cores in four different rock types, cut flat on one side with felt attached to the bottoms. Utterly on
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2078 - Dripstone, Fulford Cave, Eagle, Colorado [132289]Holabird Western Americana Collections
Geologist Ferdinand Hayden first recorded his discovery of Fulford Cave in 1874. Located 15 miles southeast of Eagle, Colorado, the cave is within the
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2079 - Green River Petrified Turtle Shell [121713]Holabird Western Americana Collections
A petrified turtle shell fossil from the Green River area of Wyoming. This very impressive specimen measures 5"x 4" and is about 1" h...
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2081 - Keichousaurus Fossil in Black Shale [121711]Holabird Western Americana Collections
This is 7.5"x 11" piece of black shale contains the fossil imprint of a Keichousaurus, a marine reptile from the Triassic/Jurassic perio...
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2083 - Trilobite Fossils - 4 [132877]Holabird Western Americana Collections
Four trilobite fossils in matrix, unknown location, all approx. 3.5 to 4 inches across, similar in appearance to specimens attributed to Morocco. This
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2086 - Photo of Washing Gold in Vancouver [131460]Holabird Western Americana Collections
B/W photo titled “Washing Gold” Vancouver, B.C. The Philadelphia Museum in lower right. of miner (possibly on the Fraser River) us
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2090 - Brass Tags, Rosario Mine, Sinaloa, Mexico [132284]Holabird Western Americana Collections
Thirty-six brass tags, all but three marked from the Rosario Mine near Sinaloa, Mexico. 28 octagonal brass tags, 1.5 x 1.5 inches, labeled ROSARIO MIN
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2091 - Alaska-Gastineau Mining Co. Ephemera [103122]Holabird Western Americana Collections
This is a collection of items related to the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Co., which operated a gold mining and milling operation on the outskirts of Junea
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2097 - Early Arizona Territory Mining Deed [131960]Holabird Western Americana Collections
Early deed for a claim in the Lynx Creek Mining District. There were smaller operations in 1885 in the area, that was first discovered in 1863 by a pa
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2100 - Gold Dredges Booklet [132351]Holabird Western Americana Collections
The Part Played by the Yuba Manufacturing Co. in the Great Romance of Dredging for Placer Gold, Tin & Platinum – Printed for the Yuba Mfg....
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