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Analcime


Mineral # 485 Available

Analcime, a nice paragenesis piece, several large Analcime Xtals, some perforated with aegerine, plus accessory albite (including some tiny crystals attached to the aegerine needles), natrolite and others! This specimen is from the DeMix Quarry, Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Collected 1977 JvV.

This specimen measures about 8.1 cm x 6.5 cm x 3.7 cm.

Analcime # 485 – Price: $US 85.

Anapaite

Mineral # 467 Available

Anapaite crystal druse growing in vugs in a sediment from Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy.

This specimen measures 3.7 cm x 2.7 cm x 2.3 cm.

Anapaite # 467 – Price: $US 30.

Anapaite

Mineral # 475 Available

A druse of anapaite crystals growing in a vuggy nodule from Larida, Spain.

This specimen measures 5.3 cm x 3.4 cm x 3.0 cm.

Anapaite # 475 – Price: $US 45.

Anatase

Mineral # 003 Available

This fine anatase is from hydrothermal veins in alpine fissures, Hardangervidda, Norway. Pictures don't do justice to these polished-steel colored anatase crystals perched on clear to lightly smokey quartz. The green tinge is from grass color picked up in the photograph.

This specimen measures 1.7 cm x 1.7 cm x 5.2 cm . The largest crystal is 8 mm long.

Anatase # 003 – Price: $US 450.

Anatase


Mineral # 004 Available

Anatase from hydrothermal veins in alpine fissures, Hardangervidda, Norway. Pictures don't do justice to these polished-steel colored anatase crystals perched on clear or lightly smokey quartz. The green tinge on the first picture is outdoor grass color picked up in the photograph.

This specimen measures 2.2 cm x 2.0 cm x 4.5 cm . The largest crystal is 7 mm long.

Anatase # 004 – Price: $US 375.

Ancylite


Mineral # 133 Available

Ancylite, a large druse of prismatic orthorhombic crystals collected in 1973 from Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada; these crystals appear pinkish in incandescent light and in daylight (both pictures), while under fluorescent light, they appear as a gray-green color (which for some reason my camera won't reproduce and we don't color-adjust our images). An aesthetic, rare, superb example for the Mont St. Hilaire collector. Accessory natrolite, tetranatrolite, aegerine and an unknown fluorescent coating. Traded from Dr. Bob Gait, The Royal Ontario Museum Collection in 1976.

This specimen measures about 7.2 cm x 3.7 cm x 6.7 cm.

Ancylite # 133 – Price: $US 450.

Andradite var. Topazolite

Mineral # 503 Available

These attractive sharp crystals seem to have grown with only a small point of attachment and are free of matrix. From the famous Stanley Butte occurrence, Graham County, Arizona, USA. Collected before 1977. Several loose crystals are included as well.

This specimen measures 3.0 cm x 2.5 cm x 1.4 cm . The largest crystal is about 5 mm across.

Andradite var Topazolite # 503 – Price: $US 125.

Ankerite

Mineral # 459 Available

This yellow ankerite crystal rhomb is in a vug from an intrusive sill cutting Ordovician limestone. From the now-inaccessible famous Francon Quarry, St. Michael, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Collected 1975. Verified by XRD by A.S. at the GSC 12/1975.

This specimen measures 6.5 cm x 4.2 cm x 2.5 cm . The largest crystal is about 3.5 mm across.

Ankerite # 459 – Price: $US 50.

Annabergite

Mineral # 138 Available

These beautiful grass green micro crystals are filling cavities, and are from Laurium, Greece. The specimen was collected before 1979.

This specimen measures 3.6 cm x 2.8 cm x 1.4 cm . The largest crystal is about 4 mm long.

Annabergite # 138 – Price: $US 50.

Antigorite

Mineral # 502 Available

Antigorite, from Alexo Mine, Dundonald Township, Timmins, Ontario, Canada.

This specimen measures about 7.7 cm x 2.0 cm x 1.5 cm.

Antigorite # 502 – Price: $US 25.

Antimony (Native Antimony)

Mineral # 414 Available

Native Antimony is associated with stibnite, in quartz. Found in a hydrothermal vein cutting graywacke at the Lage George Antimony Mine. Lake George, New Brunswick, Canada. Collected July 1974.

This thumbnail specimen measures about 2.7 cm x 1.7 cm x 2.5 cm.

Antimony # 414 – Price: $US 35.