Dragon Minerals - General Inventory Page 04

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9114:
Tourmaline - $30   Reduced to $27
Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.4 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm (2.5 x 0.4 x 0.3 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

A transparent to opaque, green tourmaline crystal wand that widens a bit towards the termination. The major termination is pristine, but some of the smallest terminations are missing.




9171:
Tourmaline - $75   Reduced to $54
Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.5 x 3.0 x 2.0 cm (1.8 x 1.2 x 0.8 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

A lustrous, glassy, tourmaline crystal. The deep green color is evident when backlit (fourth picture). The termination is complete, but a bit rough due to overgrowth. A small few chips here and there, mostly around the base. Would be good cutting rough if it wasn't so dark.







9188:
Vanadinite
Apache Mine, Globe, Gila County, Arizona
7.5 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm (3.0 x 1.7 x 1.2 inches)
Specimen status: Sold

A group of deep red, sparkly vanadinite crystals on matrix. Individual crystals reach 2 mm and are mostly translucent to opaque. Sits well for display without a stand. A few incomplete crystals are noted, bit otherwise an very good example for the locality.




9194:
Vesuvianite - $40   Reduced to $36
Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
3.5 x 3.5 x 2.4 cm (1.4 x 1.4 x 0.9 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

A deep brown, lustrous, opaque vesuvianite crystal. A few chips around the termination, and healed on the back where it once contacted matrix, but otherwise complete. Above average size for the species and locality.







9219:
Tourmaline - $18   Reduced to $16
Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.5 x 0.8 x 0.5 cm (2.2 x 0.3 x 0.2 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

A spray of nearly parallel tourmaline crystals, mostly translucent to opaque, and with glassy luster. All the main terminations are sharp and complete, although a few of the smaller ones are missing.




9220:
Tourmaline - $18   Reduced to $12
Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.4 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm (2.1 x 0.2 x 0.2 cm)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

A slim, translucent to opaque, parallel tourmaline crystal group. The main termination is pristine, but a few of the smaller terminations are missing. Otherwise no damage.




9227:
Vanadinite - $14   Reduced to $12
Pure Potential Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona
5.6 x 4.5 x 2.2 cm (2.2 x 1.8 x 0.9 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

A generous group of opaque vanadinite crystals on matrix. The color is more red-brown than the orange suggested by the pictures on my computer. The vanadinites reach 4 mm length and generally have a resinous luster. Minor, colorless calcite provides an accent.




9256:
Tourmaline and Quartz - $20   Reduced to $18
Blue Sky Prospect, Santa Cruz, Mun. de Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
6.6 x 5.2 x 3.1 cm (2.6 x 2.0 x 1.2 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

Black, silky tourmaline crystals (probably schorl) on a bed of transparent and very lightly frost quartz crystals. Considering just the tourmaline (most of which is not terminated) and the quartz (some are incomplete) this is as best a mediocre specimen. The interest lies in the unusual locality (not listed at Mindat), and the second generation growth on the largest tourmaline crystal (2.3 cm; third picture). The second generation tourmalines appear as little sheaves or sprays, parallel to the mail crystal's long axis striations. A bit like the wake left in a stream as water flows by a rock.




9260:
Descloizite
Berg Aukas, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
3.6 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm (1.4 x 1.4 x 1.0 inches)
Specimen status: Sold

A cluster of silky, translucent to opaque descloizite crystals from the "other" Namibian locality. A few missing incomplete crystals (the display face is nearly complete, as seen in the first picture), but still quite aesthetic. A good example for the price.







9282:
Cavansite, Stilbite, and Mordenite - $35   Reduced to $31
Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
3.7 x 2.6 x 2.3 cm (1.5 x 1.0 x 0.9 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

Your standard Indian cavansite specimen consists of one or striking bright blue cavansite crystal sprays but this one is unusual in that the cavansite forms a 1.1 cm wide ball of tightly packed crystal fibers instead of the standard spray. The cavansite ball rests of a bed of water-clear stilbite blades and snow-white, fuzzy mordenite. I've seen this habit in maybe one out of a thousand cavansites. No damage.




9301:
Tourmaline - $16   Reduced to $10
Bahia, Brazil
4.6 x 2.8 x 1.4 cm (1.8 x 1.1 x 0.6 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

This specimen consists of several intergrown, somewhat divergent clusters of silky tourmaline. The longest individual spray is 4 cm long. The terminations are fuzzy due to the presence of many tiny terminations clustered together. Multiple display angles possible. No damage.




9304:
Tourmaline - $16   Reduced to $14
Bahia, Brazil
5.8 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm (2.3 x 0.8 x 0.6 inches)
Specimen status: Available     Click here to order

This "caveman's club" is composed of a somewhat divergent spray of very thin, dark tourmaline crystals. Good luster. No damage is noted.



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