A sharp gem tourmaline crystal from the classic locality at Haddam, Connecticut. This crystal has bright, lustrous prism faces and beautiful colour, mostly green with a light pink zone at the termination. There is a small sidecar crystal on this one. In excellent condition, no damage. From the Pete Richards collection, he acquired it May […]

This is a super green tourmaline from the Little Three Mine. It is sharp and also transparent, terminated with two orders of pyramidal faces. In excellent condition, no damage. From the Pete Richards collection, acquired from Louis Spaulding on April 12, 1994. A real beauty! About Pete Richards (click here)  

A superb doubly-terminated gem tourmaline crystal from the Little Three Mine. It is sharp and transparent, with colour zoning, a little light pink at either end. The pyramidal termination faces are particularly lustrous – they are glassy! (I note that the pink zone at the flat pinacoid termination end is incredibly thin visually and is […]

This tourmaline crystal is a nice light pink with a zone of medium-green at the termination. The crystal is sharp and has nice transparency particularly in the pink zone. The termination is very cool, three main pyramidal faces, divided by very narrow faces and topped with a sharp, triangular pinacoid face. In excellent condition. From […]

A set of three beautiful gem tourmaline crystals from the Stewart Mine – the measurements given are for the largest. These crystals are all sharp and transparent, with lustrous striated prism faces, and slightly frosted lustre at the terminations. The smaller two crystals are terminated by a single flat pinacoid face. In excellent condition. From […]

A sharp, highly lustrous black tourmaline crystal. This crystal is a beauty, and under bright light one can actually see tiny brown internal glints in a couple of places. In excellent condition from the front, main viewing angle – incomplete at the back/left depending on angle – displays very well with that out of view. […]

Detailed Description An exceptional sharp crystal of xenotime-(Y). This crystal has top lustre and and super form. In excellent condition. Extremely fine for the species.   About These Xenotime-(Y) Crystals These crystals are superb for this species. They are a good size and, for xenotime-(Y) crystals of this size, they have excellent sharpness. This locality […]

A specimen of diverging groups of schorl crystals from a very remote locality collected in the 1980s. The Sceptre Claims at Emerald lake included pockets in steep cliffs and specimens were recovered by rappelling down the cliff faces. This cabinet specimen features aggregates of black tourmaline together with small smoky quartz crystals. The tourmaline crystals […]

A brilliant central scalenohedral crystal of hematite, with smaller sparkling crystals. Scalenohedral crystals of hematite are quite rare, and this is from a prospect that was explored years ago for copper in the Canadian Arctic. Hadley Bay, on Victoria Island, hosted a contact containing calcite and hematite, and it was excavated to produce some specimens. […]

Balls of radiating needle-like millerite crystals from the 1990s find at Thompson, northern Manitoba. This find was a world-class occurrence for the mineral, and the mine has not produced anything like it since. This piece is certainly a little more 3-D than the first photo would suggest, and it’s probably a little less 3-D than […]

A sharp, lustrous magnetite crystal from an unusual locality, Leaf Rapids in northern Manitoba. This is an attractive piece, mounted to stand vertically as photographed. In excellent condition, minor rubs. A great locality specimen. From the Steve Szilard collection, he collected this one personally.   About Steve Szilard (click here)

Wonderful sharp crystals of edingtonite with calcite from the fairly remote Ice River Alkaline Complex in the B.C. Rocky Mountains. These specimens came out decades ago, and are not often available these days. Edingtonite is an uncommon zeolite mineral, with good crystals known from few localities. These crystals have super form and great lustre, and […]