A plate of incredibly sharp, lustrous terminated ramsdellite crystals from the thumbnail suite of the Pete Richards Collection, #774. He acquired this at the Detroit Show in 1983. These are super quality ramsdellite crystals! Browse more Pete Richards Collection specimens (click here) About Pete Richards (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the still […]

This specimen is part of a vug covered in sharp glassy twinned alstonite crystals. These crystals are small but brilliant and look wonderful under a bit of magnification. From the thumbnail suite of the Pete Richards Collection, #1980, he obtained it from the Canadian Museum of Nature. Browse more Pete Richards Collection specimens (click here) […]

A very fine sharp, transparent blue barite from Stoneham, Colorado. In excellent condition, a couple rubs. From the thumbnail suite of the Pete Richards Collection, #1394. Browse more Pete Richards Collection specimens (click here) About Pete Richards (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the still photographs has been carefully calibrated and adjusted to show […]

This is a beautiful, sharp, lustrous Idaho ilvaite! From the thumbnail suite of the Pete Richards Collection, #1685. A great specimen from this classic American locality. Browse more Pete Richards Collection specimens (click here) About Pete Richards (click here)   https://youtu.be/2hkUwECAIm0   Please Note: the colour representation in the still photographs has been carefully calibrated and […]

This specimen hosts radiating balls of beautiful green olivenite crystals. From the Tracy Kimmel collection, this specimen was in the Miller collection and dates to about 1900. Tracy acquired this specimen from John Betts (specimen #44510) and both this label and the Miller label accompany the specimen. A great American classic!  

A beautiful floater group of amethyst crystals from the Reel Mine, from the Tracy Kimmel collection. Tracy acquired the specimen from John Betts (specimen #43456) and this label accompanies the specimen.  

This quartz crystal is comprised of two generations of growth. The internal core is a typical, essentially transparent and colourless homogenous crystal. The second generation shows a complex second generation growth, exhibiting an unusual parallel-growth set of terminations, with raised, almost skeletal-looking, edges. Very cool! From the quartz collection of John S. White (#27-2-1), who […]

A water-clear, light green spodumene crystal from Resplendor. This crystal is sharp and highly lustrous. Across the middle, there is a pretty band of what might be inclusions or hollows (or both) – if one looks at the surface of this part of the crystal with magnification, one can see that there was likely some […]

Detailed Description A super, intense blue bipyramidal crystal of fluorapatite. The crystal has well-developed terminations and sharp, lustrous prism faces. In excellent condition. A very fine thumbnail from Ipirá. About These Ipirá Fluorapatites The fluorapatites from Ipirá have been known for many decades and are the most amazing hue of blue – when strongly lit […]

Detailed Description An exceptionally sharp, lustrous, intense blue fluorapatite crystal – one of the best quality Ipira apatites I’ve ever seen. In excellent condition – a beauty! About These Ipirá Fluorapatites The fluorapatites from Ipirá have been known for many decades and are the most amazing hue of blue – when strongly lit or backlit […]

Detailed Description This is a great parallel-growth specimen from Ipirá, with well-defined pyramidal terminations at both ends. It is lustrous, with intense blue colour and is in excellent condition. A beautiful blue fluorapatite! About These Ipirá Fluorapatites The fluorapatites from Ipirá have been known for many decades and are the most amazing hue of blue […]

Detailed Description This is one of the sharpest and finest fluorapatites I’ve ever seen from Ipirá – a superb bipyramidal prismatic crystal! Gorgeous intense blue colour, and in excellent condition. The small brown crystals on the back of the fluorapatite may be monazite – we see this kind of association in Ontario (rarely), with calcite […]