I’ve added super new specimens in this latest US Update (click here). These include an exceptional grossular, from one of the world’s top finds, and the best known find of grossular crystals with prominent cube faces, Vesper Peak, Washington.  This update also includes a top quality rutile from Graves Mountain, Georgia, a very fine Bisbee malachite after azurite, great new lightly-amethystine quartz from North Carolina with an aesthetic growth habit, some Colorado amazonites with excellent colour, along with a La Sal azurite and a Cave-in-Rock fluorite.

Grossular, Vesper Peak, Snohomish Co., Washington, USA
Field of view – 4 cm

Rutile, Graves Mountain, Lincoln Co., Georgia, USA – 4.0 cm

 Malachite pseudomorph after azurite, Sacramento Pit, Bisbee, Warren District, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Field of view 5.0 cm

 Azurite, Big Indian Mine, La Sal, San Juan Co., Utah, USA – 3.4 cm

Quartz, var. Amethyst, Purple Flame Pocket, Cabbaras Co., North Carolina, USA – 4.0 cm

 Quartz, var. Amethyst, Purple Flame Pocket, Cabbaras Co., North Carolina, USA – 4.7 cm

Quartz, var. Amethyst, Purple Flame Pocket, Cabbaras Co., North Carolina, USA – 4.5 cm

Quartz, var. Amethyst, Purple Flame Pocket, Cabbaras Co., North Carolina, USA – 4.7 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 5.6 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Silent Valor Pocket, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area,
Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 4.5 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, “White Cap”, Big Peggy Pocket, Old Man Rock,
Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 3.8 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 4.1 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Foretell Pocket, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area,
Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 3.7 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Smoky Hawk Claim, Crystal Peak Area, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 4.0 cm

Fluorite, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA – 6.6 cm

Great new specimens from the United States feature in this US Update (click here). Wulfenites from the Red Cloud Mine, a Kelly Mine smithsonite, a Colorado amazonite, excellent ramsdellite specimens, a beautiful specimen hosting covellite crystals, and more.

 Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz Co., Arizona, US – crystal 1.0 cm

Smithsonite, Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Socorro Co., New Mexico, US – 10.6 cm

Microcline, var. Amazonite, Smoky Quartz, Smoky Hawk Claim
Crystal Peak Area, Teller Co., Colorado, USA – 5.5 cm

Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz Co., Arizona, US – 4.7 cm

Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz Co., Arizona, US – 3.1 cm

Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz Co., Arizona, US
Field of view 1.5 cm

Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz Co., Arizona, US
Crystal 0.6 cm

Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountatins, La Paz Co., Arizona, US
Field of view 2.5 cm

Quartz on Chrysocolla, Ray Mine, Pinal Co., Arizona, US – 4.0 cm

Covellite, Summitville Mine, Summitville District, Rio Grande Co., Colorado, US
Rosettes 0.7 cm

Ramsdellite, Mistake Mine, Sam Powell Peak, Yavapai Co., Arizona, US

Hubnerite, Little Dora Mine, Silverton, Colorado, US
Field of view 3.3 cm

I’ve added a new USA Update (click here) with excellent specimens from various localities, most of which were collected between 25 and 50 years ago. Some of the specimens are from the collection of Robert Bartsch.

Rhodochrosite, American Tunnel Mine, Silverton, San Juan Co., Colorado – 12.5 cm
From the collection of Robert Bartsch

Microcline var. Amazonite with Smoky Quartz, Jack Rabbit Mine, Crystal Creek near Crystal Peak,
Lake George District, Teller Co., Colorado – 5.7 cm
From the collection of Robert Bartsch

Microcline var. Amazonite with Smoky Quartz, Jack Rabbit Mine, Crystal Creek near Crystal Peak,
Lake George District, Teller Co., Colorado – 4.8 cm
From the collection of Robert Bartsch

Microcline var. Amazonite, Mona Mine, Specimen Rock Area, near Colorado Springs,
El Paso Co., Colorado – 4.1 cm

Fluorapatite, King Lithia Mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone District, Pennington Co., South Dakota
Field of view approx. 3.5 cm
From the collection of Robert Bartsch

Fluorapatite, King Lithia Mine, Greyhound Gulch, Keystone District, Pennington Co., South Dakota
Crystal 1.1 cm
From the collection of Robert Bartsch

Millerite, Platte River, Missouri – crystal group 1.5 cm

Chrysocolla, Quartz, Planet Mine, Planet, Buckskin Mtns., La Paz Co., Arizona
Field of view approx. 6 cm

Chrysocolla and malachite, Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona – 4.9 cm

Fluorite, Cave-in-Rock District, Hardin Co., Illinois
Field of view approx. 5 cm

Goethite, Goethite Hill, Lake George District, Park Co., Colorado – 6.1 cm

Barite, Pack Rat Mine, Pryor Mtns, Carbon Co., Montana
Field of view approx. 4.5 cm

Quartz, var. Herkimer Diamond, Crystal Grove, Lassellsville, Town of Ephrata, Fulton Co., New York
Crystal 1.2 cm