A super, sharp black spinel with calcite and forsterite. The spinel crystal (1.3 cm) has top lustre and is in excellent condition, and the piece stands perfectly for display as photographed. A great Parker Mine spinel from the Steve Szilard collection. About Steve Szilard (click here)

This piece features several blocky zircon crystals from the early 1990s find at Kipawa. The zircon crystals at this deposit were enclosed in the solid rock, intimately intergrown with the feldspar and amphibole, so there are some spots of contact and intergrowth on this specimen, but only one zircon is incomplete – they are in […]

A superb small cubanite crystal from the locality that produced the world’s finest, the Henderson No. 2 Mine, Chibougamau, Quebec. The crystal is sharp, exhibiting the classic cyclic twinning, and has very good lustre. In excellent condition and so much better than many of them (they are fragile enough that a significant percentage of the […]

Twinned dark red rutile from McGregor Lake. The rutile crystals at this locality grew into narrow fissures and together with the associated feldspar, so most crystals have contacts and some terminations are contacted, uneven and/or not well developed (such as the exposed end of the larger twin on this piece) even though not damaged.  In […]

A sharp, well-developed deep red rutile crystal from this classic Canadian locality for the mineral. This crystal has the top lustre from the locality – nice and bright – the termination is very glossy. In excellent condition, a couple of contacts. From the Steve Szilard collection, a nice Canadian rutile. About Steve Szilard (click here)

This grossular from the Steve Szilard collection was originally acquired from the mine geologist at the Jeffrey Mine, who had it on display in his office. It is covered with sparkling crystals of grossular and looks great either sitting down (as photographed in the full- and half-specimen photos) or standing up. These grossular crystals are […]

A beautiful light orange grossular crystal is perched at the top of this specimen. It is a sharp, simple dodecahedron, translucent with some transparency and great internal play of light. The top crystal is in excellent condition, as is the specimen itself from the front viewing angle (on the left of the piece a crystal […]

A champagne-coloured grossular crystal from the Steve Szilard collection. This is a rare hue for grossular from any locality, but Jeffrey Mine grossulars occasionally were quite lightly-coloured and even colourless. This crystal is a sharp trapezohedron with dodecahedral faces – it has brilliant lustre. In excellent condition, no damage to the main crystal, just a […]

A beautiful dark orange dodecahedral crystal of grossular from the Jeffrey Mine. The crystal is sharp with good lustre and beautiful internal play of light. The crystal is 1.3 cm and is in excellent condition, a tiny rub at the tip. A very nice piece from the Steve Szilard collection. About Steve Szilard (click here)

Deep orange grossular crystals from the Jeffrey Mine. The two main crystals are particularly fine, sharp and lustrous with good colour and nice transparency. In excellent condition, one incomplete crystal at the edge and minor contacts around the periphery. I note that there is an internal glint near the top of the largest crystals – […]

Intense purple-magenta vesuvianite crystals from the Jeffrey Mine. The crystals are sharp and highly lustrous. In very good condition, a few incomplete crystals. From the Steve Szilard collection, this specimen has wonderful colour. About Steve Szilard (click here)

This specimen from the Steve Szilard collection hosts sharp, lustrous green crystals of vesuvianite. They are glassy, with steep pyramidal terminations.  The cores of the vesuvianite crystals are magenta. This piece is unusual  it is from a zone where some of the vesuvianite came apart as the mineralization was forming, and then re-crystallized as uneven […]