I’ve posted excellent specimens from the John S. White Pennsylvania collection (click here). These include some of the best Smoky Mountain smoky quartz specimens known, along with great specimens of classic Pennsylvania minerals and rarities – pyromorphite, celestine, andradite, magnetite, rutile, calcite, stellerite, ruizite, and more.

Quartz, var. Smoky Quartz, Heavenly Pocket, Smoky Mountain Crystal Mine,
Llewellyn, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania – 8.3 cm

Quartz, var. Smoky Quartz, Heavenly Pocket, Smoky Mountain Crystal Mine,
Llewellyn, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania – 7.3 cm

Quartz, var. Smoky Quartz, Heavenly Pocket, Smoky Mountain Crystal Mine,
Llewellyn, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania – 5.0 cm

Quartz, var. Smoky Quartz, Heavenly Pocket, Smoky Mountain Crystal Mine,
Llewellyn, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania – 6.6 cm

Quartz, var. Smoky Quartz, Heavenly Pocket, Smoky Mountain Crystal Mine,
Llewellyn, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania – 3.8 cm

Calcite (twinned), York Building Supply Quarry, York, York Co., Pennsylvania – 5 cm

Calcite, York Building Supply Quarry, York, York Co., Pennsylvania
3.8 cm twinned crystal

Calcite, York Building Supply Quarry, York, York Co., Pennsylvania
5.6 cm twinned crystal

Calcite, Thomasville Crushed Stone Quarry,
Thomasville, Jackson Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania
3.9 cm twinned crystal

Pyromorphite, Wheatley Mines, Phoenixville District, Schuylkill Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 1.8 cm

Sphalerite and quartz , Phoenixville District, Schuylkill Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 4 cm

Almandine Garnet, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania – 3.8 cm

Celestine, Meckley’s Quarry, Mandata, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania – 6.5 cm

Celestine, Meckley’s Quarry, Mandata, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania – 4.3 cm

Celestine, Meckley’s Quarry, Mandata, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 2.5 cm

Wavellite, National Limestone Quarry No. 2, Lime Ridge,
Mount Pleasant Mills, Perry Twp., Snyder Co., Pennsylvania – 5.3 cm

Wavellite, National Limestone Quarry No. 2, Lime Ridge,
Mount Pleasant Mills, Perry Twp., Snyder Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 1.8 cm

Calcite, Conshohocken, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 4.5 cm

Chalcopyrite, French Creek Mines, St. Peters, Warwick Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 4.0 cm

Magnetite, Grace Mine, Morgantown, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 4.2 cm; large crystal 2.4 cm

Quartz, Reading Anthracite Co. Mine, St. Clair,
Newcastle Twp., Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvanian – 10.0 cm

Quartz, White Haven, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania – 10.0 cm

Andradite Garnet, Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania – 2.4 cm crystal

Andradite Garnet, Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania – 3.6 cm
A Jekyll-Hyde crystal – dodecahedral forms on the left and trapezohedral on the right (!)

Andradite Garnet, Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania – 1.7 cm

Andradite Garnet, Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania – 3.2 cm

Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania – 3.6 cm

Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania – 3.0 cm

Azurite, Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 0.9 cm

Azurite, Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 1.7 cm

Adularia, Prehnite, Byssolite, Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog,
Wallace Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania – 4.0 cm

Close-up of the above specimen, showing sharp prehnite crystals with adularia and byssolite
Field of view 1.7 cm

Adularia, Byssolite, Keystone Trap Rock Quarry, Cornog, Wallace Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 4.2 cm

Dolomite, Binkley-Ober Quarry, East Petersburg, Manheim Twp.,
Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania – 9.8 cm

Wurtzite, Old Penfield Rd. (formerly Mt. Church Rd.), Horton Twp., Elk Co., Pennsylvania
Field of view 1.1 cm

Pyrite, Interstate 83 Rd. Cut, first exit south of York, York Co., Pennsylvania – 7.2 cm

Celestine, Tyrone, Blair Co., Pennsylvania
From the stratum that outcrops at the type locality for celestine
Fibrous aggregates uo to 1.4 cm

Fluorapatite, Silver Hill Quarry, Bowmansville, Brecknock Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania – 4.5 cm

Rutile, Farm field near Quarryville, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania – 4.0 cm

Analcime, Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Cornwall Iron Mine,
Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania – 10.0 cm

Stellerite, Dyer Quarry, Birdsboro, Berks Co., Pennsylvania – 5.3 cm

Stellerite, Dyer Quarry, Birdsboro, Berks Co., Pennsylvania – 6.7 cm

Ruizite with clinoenstatite and apophyllite,
Cornwall Iron Mine, Cornwall, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania – 4.0 cm