NEW MINERALS

#CJ212 $38.00

MIMETITE

Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico

This entire 3.5 x 2.8 x 2 cm. specimen is made up entirely of individual, lime green, botroydal groups of Mimetite. The groups are of various shades of lime and varying sizes with the larger and darker mounds at the front of the specimen and the lighter, smaller mounds on the back.

#CJ270 $52.00

CROCOITE

Dundas, Austarlia

Numerous deep red blades of Crocoite are spread out all along the front face of this 8.8 x 6 x 2.5 cm. specimen. The larger of the crystals are concentrated at the top of the specimen as it is orientated in the image above. The darker black section across the face of the specimen is an area of contact that occurred when the specimen was removed and is not an area of damage. The back of the specimen is covered in smaller, more red and more lustrous crystals.

#CK112 $30.00

AZURITE and MALACHITE

Copper Queen Mine,

Bisbee, AZ

Nice representative example of small, deep blue Azurite mounds that have escaped being altered to green Malachite as it typical from this mine. All but these last 2 have survived and are located pretty much in the middle of this 8.5 x 7 x 4 cm. specimen. Also present are small areas with bright deep blue Azurite crystals, around the sides and on the back and best seen with a loop, along with areas with lighter blue Azurite.

#CK115 $65.00

MARS METEORITE

Mars, Outer Space

A small, 0.012 gram specimen of Mars, taken from the DAG 735 Mars meteorite that contacted the earth. The specimen is a basalt, Shergottite, and it was found in the winter of 1996-1997 in the Dar al Gani region of the Sahara Desert in Libya as noted on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the California Institute of Technology’s, website. It is housed in the clear container, 5.5 x 3.5 cm., and is clearly visible as shown above.