An incredibly sharply crystallized copper, with wonderful crystals. This a beautiful arrangement of crystals! From the Pete Richards Collection, #5354. About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the still photographs has been carefully calibrated and adjusted to show an accurate rendition […]

This is a truly gorgeous sphalerite – sharp, lustrous with wonderful iridescence. From the Pete Richards collection, #2680, he acquired it at the Detroit Show on October 10, 1992. This has fantastic crystal form – in Pete’s words: well-defined “pseudo-tetranonahedral faces, where the four tetrahedral faces are each replaced by a low nine-sided pyramid composed […]

An excellent small platinum nugget from Salmon River, Alaska. From the Pete Richards Collection, #752 – he acquired it in in July of 1982 from Ed Berdusko in Wawa, Ontario. It has an interesting history – it was dredged in 1945 by Good News Bay Mining Co. in an operation north of the Bering Sea […]

A complete doubly-terminated lazulite crystal from Graves Mountain. In very good condition overall, a chip on the back of the termination. From the Pete Richards collection, #1363 – he collected it in March 1987. A true American classic. About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: […]

A gorgeous blue cubic crystal of halite from the Carlsbad District of New Mexico. This crystal is sharp, lustrous and has a deep blue outer zone all around the crystal. From the Pete Richards Collection, #5478. About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: the colour representation […]

This is an absolutely beautiful feather of crystallized gold from Little Squaw Creek in Alaska. From the Pete Richards Collection, #6342. About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the still photographs has been carefully calibrated and adjusted to show an accurate rendition […]

This is a beautiful cluster of sharp crystals of heklaite – it formed as a result of industrial activity. These heklaite crystals from Polk County, Florida, are an accidental synthetic in gypsum industrial waste piles, a product of reaction between clay minerals and the hydrofluoric acid-rich byproducts of superphosphate fertilizer production. From the Pete Richards […]

A beautiful blue elbaite (var. indicolite) crystal from Maine. This crystal is sharp and the top termination is complete, with minor mica.  In excellent condition, a tiny chip visible with magnification. From the Pete Richards Collection #1262, he acquired it from Duane Leavitt in 1986. A really nice older Fisher Quarry tourmaline! About Pete Richards […]

A gorgeous crystallized smithsonite on a base of intense rosasite. In excellent condition, some incomplete smithsonite around the periphery. From the Pete Richards Collection #5003, acquired from Paul Clifford, ex. Bill Hunt. Beautiful! About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the […]

A classic Franklin specimen with brilliant fluorescence under ultraviolet light – a well-defined, doubly-terminated willemite crystal in calcite. NB, in the natural-light photo, the light area on the lower prism face of the crystal is reflection of light (to help to show the crystal shape better). From the Pete Richards Collection, #3085 – he acquired […]

A classic specimen, a “silver-copper halfbreed” from the Keweenaw Peninsula. This one features a lot of silver, on and enclosing copper. From the Pete Richards collection, #3075, he acquired it in 1994 up in Michigan.  A very cool piece! About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please […]

A cone of radiating pectolite crystals with a crown of light green heulandite crystals on top. The heulandite crystals are sharp, glassy and lustrous. A wonderful specimen from the Pete Richards Collection, #5179. Browse more Pete Richards Collection specimens (click here) About Pete Richards (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the still photographs […]