I’ve added super new specimens in this latest US Update (click here). These include an exceptional grossular, from one of the world’s top finds, and the best known find of grossular crystals with prominent cube faces, Vesper Peak, Washington.  This update also includes a top quality rutile from Graves Mountain, Georgia, a very fine Bisbee malachite after azurite, great new lightly-amethystine quartz from North Carolina with an aesthetic growth habit, some Colorado amazonites with excellent colour, along with a La Sal azurite and a Cave-in-Rock fluorite.

Grossular, Vesper Peak, Snohomish Co., Washington, USA
Field of view – 4 cm

Rutile, Graves Mountain, Lincoln Co., Georgia, USA – 4.0 cm

 Malachite pseudomorph after azurite, Sacramento Pit, Bisbee, Warren District, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Field of view 5.0 cm

 Azurite, Big Indian Mine, La Sal, San Juan Co., Utah, USA – 3.4 cm

Quartz, var. Amethyst, Purple Flame Pocket, Cabbaras Co., North Carolina, USA – 4.0 cm

 Quartz, var. Amethyst, Purple Flame Pocket, Cabbaras Co., North Carolina, USA – 4.7 cm

Quartz, var. Amethyst, Purple Flame Pocket, Cabbaras Co., North Carolina, USA – 4.5 cm

Quartz, var. Amethyst, Purple Flame Pocket, Cabbaras Co., North Carolina, USA – 4.7 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 5.6 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Silent Valor Pocket, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area,
Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 4.5 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, “White Cap”, Big Peggy Pocket, Old Man Rock,
Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 3.8 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 4.1 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Foretell Pocket, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area,
Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 3.7 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 4.0 cm

Fluorite, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA – 6.6 cm