I’ve posted a small group of excellent specimens in the new Russia Update (click here).  These include beautiful high-quality crystals of axinite-(Fe) from two localites, intense blue azurite balls and sharp copper crystals from the Rubstovskoe Mine, great calcite crystals from the Dal’negorsk district and more.

Axinite-(Fe), Puiva Mount, Saranpaul, Tyumenskaya Oblast’, Ural Mountains, Russia – 5.8 cm

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia – 4.8 cm

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Axinite-(Fe), Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Azurite, Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rudnyi Altai, Altiskii Krai, Russia – 3.7 cm

Azurite, Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rudnyi Altai, Altiskii Krai, Russia – 3.5 cm

Copper, Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rudnyi Altai, Altiskii Krai, Russia
Field of view – 3.0 cm

Calcite, Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia – 6.5 cm

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Field of view – 3.0 cm

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia – 1.3 cm twinned crystal

Calcite, Yushnoe Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia – 4.5 cm

Datolite, Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Field of view 1.5 cm

Quartz, Anatase, Brookite
Dodo Mine, Saranpaul, Tyumenskaya Oblast’, Ural Mountains, Russia
10.4 cm