Worldwide Minerals
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KL269 Fluorite and Barite
Rosiclare Level, Minerva No.1 Mine
Cave-in-Rock District, Hardin County, Illinois
USA
Ex. Jesse Fisher Coll.
Small Cabinet: 5.3 x 5.7 x 3.5 cm
185,000Yen/US$1,581/€1,194
A cluster of sky blue cubic fluorites up to 2.5 cm on fine grained barite crystals. The crystals have purple core.
KL204 Benitoite
Benitoite Gem Mine
San Benito County, California
USA
Miniature: 3.6 x 3.4 x 1.5 cm
38,000Yen/US$325/€245
0.8 cm transparent well-formed benitoite crystal on a matrix. No damage to the main crystal.
KL250 Gold
Eagle's Nest Mine
Placer County, California
USA
Thmbnail: 1.6 x 1.2 x 0.9 cm
85,000Yen/US$727/€548
An esthetic thumbnail cluster of octahedral gold crystal.
KL206 Phosphophyllite
Unificada Mine
Cerro Rico, Potosi
Bolivia
Miniature: 3.5 x 4 x 3.1 cm
160,000Yen/US$1,368/€1,032
Transprent bright green crystals on matrix associated with fine grained yellow siderite crystals.
KL207 Vivianite on Vivianite
Tomokoni Mine
Machacamarca Dist., Saavedra Prov., Potosi
Bolivia
Miniature: 4.6 x 3 x 2.7 cm
23,000Yen/US$197/€148
Fully terminated transparent deep green crystal of Vivianite with matrix.
KL243 Elbaite
Deydar, Ho Nala
Braldu Valley, Baltistan, Northern Areas
Pakistan
Thumbnail: 3 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm
30,000Yen/US$256/€194
Fully terminated transparent tri-colored tourmaline.
KL255 Tourmaline
Momeik near Mogok
Mandalay Division
Myanmar
Thumbnail: 2.4 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm
20,000Yen/US$171/€129
Gemmy translucent rose pink rubellite tourmaline. The specimen has white quartz crystals on the back side.
KL256 Tourmaline
Momeik near Mogok
Mandalay Division
Myanmar
Thumbnail: 2.7 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
20,000Yen/US$171/€129
1.7 cm wide rose-red ribellite tourmaline on a matrix.
KL257 Tourmaline
Momeik near Mogok
Mandalay Division
Myanmar
Thumbnail: 3.1 x 2.8 x 1.3 cm
20,000Yen/US$171/€129
1.5 cm wide rose-red mashroom tourmaline on a matrix.
KL266 Topaz on Muscovite
Murzinka, Alabashka Area, Ural Mountains
Russia
Ex. Joan Kureczka Coll.
Small Cabinet: 5.1 x 4.3 x 2.7 cm
185,000Yen/US$1,581/€1,194
2 cm long fully terminated elongated blue topaz perched on muscovite crystals.Mined 1980's.
KL208 Roedderite
Iou-dake, Satsuma-iou-jima, Mishima-mura, Kagoshima
Japan
Miniture: 3.6 x 3.6 x 2.4 cm
7,800Yen/US$67/€50
Numerous fine grained blue roedderite crystals on a matrix.This is rare minerals.
KL263 Pyrite and Chalcopyrite on Quartz
Oppu Mine
Nishimeya-mura, Nakatsugaru-gun, Aomori
Japan
Ex. Martin Zinn Coll.
Small Cabinet: 3.6 x 7.2 x 6.8 cm
40,000Yen/US$342/€258
A cluster of translucent quartz crystals associated with lustrous cubic pyrite and chalcopyrite.
KL264 Orthoclase, Smoky Quartz and Albite
Tawara, Hirukawa, Nakatsugawa-shi, Gifu
Japan
Small Cabinet: 2.6 x 7.6 x 4 cm
12,000Yen/US$103/€77
Fully terminated milky white orthoclase crystals with sharp smoky quartz and albite crystals.