A beautiful matrix cluster of amethyst from Jacksons Crossroads. The crystals are sharp and lustrous with nice colour and good contrast with the clear quartz and pale matrix. In excellent condition overall – the main crystal and most smaller ones are pristine. One crystal is incomplete, and this is reflected in the price of the […]

A brilliant amethyst from Jacksons Crossroads, this piece has top lustre and terminations that look like purple glass. Almost as if it’s a purple Herkimer. From the John S. White quartz collection, # 15-2-18. Gorgeous with vibrant colour – this is a killer. About John S. White (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in […]

An incredibly sharply crystallized copper, with wonderful crystals. This a beautiful arrangement of crystals! From the Pete Richards Collection, #5354. About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the still photographs has been carefully calibrated and adjusted to show an accurate rendition […]

This is a truly gorgeous sphalerite – sharp, lustrous with wonderful iridescence. From the Pete Richards collection, #2680, he acquired it at the Detroit Show on October 10, 1992. This has fantastic crystal form – in Pete’s words: well-defined “pseudo-tetranonahedral faces, where the four tetrahedral faces are each replaced by a low nine-sided pyramid composed […]

An excellent small platinum nugget from Salmon River, Alaska. From the Pete Richards Collection, #752 – he acquired it in in July of 1982 from Ed Berdusko in Wawa, Ontario. It has an interesting history – it was dredged in 1945 by Good News Bay Mining Co. in an operation north of the Bering Sea […]

A complete doubly-terminated lazulite crystal from Graves Mountain. In very good condition overall, a chip on the back of the termination. From the Pete Richards collection, #1363 – he collected it in March 1987. A true American classic. About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: […]

A gorgeous blue cubic crystal of halite from the Carlsbad District of New Mexico. This crystal is sharp, lustrous and has a deep blue outer zone all around the crystal. From the Pete Richards Collection, #5478. About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: the colour representation […]

This is an absolutely beautiful feather of crystallized gold from Little Squaw Creek in Alaska. From the Pete Richards Collection, #6342. About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the still photographs has been carefully calibrated and adjusted to show an accurate rendition […]

This is a beautiful cluster of sharp crystals of heklaite – it formed as a result of industrial activity. These heklaite crystals from Polk County, Florida, are an accidental synthetic in gypsum industrial waste piles, a product of reaction between clay minerals and the hydrofluoric acid-rich byproducts of superphosphate fertilizer production. From the Pete Richards […]

A beautiful blue elbaite (var. indicolite) crystal from Maine. This crystal is sharp and the top termination is complete, with minor mica.  In excellent condition, a tiny chip visible with magnification. From the Pete Richards Collection #1262, he acquired it from Duane Leavitt in 1986. A really nice older Fisher Quarry tourmaline! About Pete Richards […]

A gorgeous crystallized smithsonite on a base of intense rosasite. In excellent condition, some incomplete smithsonite around the periphery. From the Pete Richards Collection #5003, acquired from Paul Clifford, ex. Bill Hunt. Beautiful! About Pete Richards (click here) Browse more specimens from the Pete Richards Collection (click here) Please Note: the colour representation in the […]

A classic Franklin specimen with brilliant fluorescence under ultraviolet light – a well-defined, doubly-terminated willemite crystal in calcite. NB, in the natural-light photo, the light area on the lower prism face of the crystal is reflection of light (to help to show the crystal shape better). From the Pete Richards Collection, #3085 – he acquired […]