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Here is a striking and impressive specimen from the Shilu Mine, but it's not from contemporary mining, it actually dates back to the early 1980s. The piece, along with several others was originally imported by Richard Kosnar (the namesake for the phosphate species kosnarite) and they were some of the first examples of this material to reach the US ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Fan shaped cluster of amethyst and quartz crystals.

This specimen features aggregates of vivianite displaying deep blue to bluish-black coloration with vitreous to silky luster. The crystals occur mainly as elongated bladed to knife-like forms radiating outward from central growth points, forming distinct fan-shaped and radial crystal clusters with strong three-dimensional character. Some crystals ...

This attractive, dark blue-black fan-like spray is composed of many hundreds of Vivianite needle crystals. No matrix. Personal collection of Sharon Cisneros.

© Eugene & Sharon Cisneros

Copper from this region of mid-southern China literally bootstrapped the Chinese Bronze Age, and copper is still being mined today. This specimen was from a batch of native pure copper that was hit during COVID years, and pulled off the conveyor belt to the smelter by one of my sources there. We acquired the lot of over 50 kilograms, and have been ...

© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com

Spectacular cluster of four bright pistachio green fan-like sprays of Epidote. The largest fan measures 2.0 cm across. Personal collection of Sharon Cisneros.

This specimen consists of an aggregate of three fan-like sprays of brushy, light pink Inesite without matrix or point of attachment. The second photo shows the side view of the largest crystal on the specimen. Personal collection of Sharon Cisneros.

© Eugene & Sharon Cisneros

Hemimorphite fan-like crystals. Binoculars 30X.

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Fan of epidote med small quartzes from Ravneberget quarry. Photo & Collection Øivind Thoresen.

© Øivind Thoresen

Mineral Name: Stibnite (Note: pending analytical confirmation; habit is also compatible with antimony sulfosalts like Jamesonite). Locality: Romania (Historical European collection provenance - see notes). Description / Notes for Reviewers This historical specimen originates from an institutional collection in North-Eastern Italy (Triveneto ...

© Simone Citon

The microstructure of gold-bearing löllingite mineralization from Złoty Stok. Crosscut through strongly fractured, partially bent clusters of fan-shaped löllingite crystals (strong orange, grey to blue anisotropy) in strongly foliated matrix of serpentine subgroup rock. The löllingite crystals generally contain microscopically inclusions of ...

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold, Germany