Arkansas Mineral Specimens

 

These mineral specimens are classics from the famous Arkansas mineral region of Magnet Cove. The brookites are high luster, well formed crystals. Brookites from Magent Cove are a North American classic.        Most of the brookites from this classic site at Magnet Cove, Arkansas show growth hillocks on their surfaces.        Brookites from Magnet Cove, AR

Nice examples from this classic U.S. location.  Seldom seen on the mineral market today these specimens are from a find made in the early 1970s.   All show well formed brookite (pseudomorphed by rutile) crystals, many with highly developed growth hillocks on ˝ or more of the crystal faces.  The crystals have great metallic luster but the growth hillocks sometimes make them appear duller than they really are.  All are on quartz which has been altered to albite.  Tough to get material at a very reasonable price.

 

OKF-088

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OKF-088    Brookite    Magnet Cove, Arkansas.  Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain Collection.  What a whopper!  This beautiful 3.2 cm crystal has a great luster and excellent form.  There is old matrix contact (partially recrystalized on back and a small part of one corner of crystal).  Exceptional piece for this site….the best I have seen in the many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of specimens I have handled.  There is also a small rider crystal.  Great specimen!   150$

 

 

 

 

 

OKE-018

OKD-018    Quartz    Jeffrey Stone Quarry, North Little Rock, Arkansas.  Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain Collection.  Beautiful, gemmy, alpine style quartz.  This one is damage free and a complete floater with everything having wonderful double terminations.  10.6 cm long.  There was a decent supply of these three decades ago but no longer.  They were seldom this perfect.  The serious quartz collector needs several of these in the collection.  120$

 

 

 

 

 

OKE-019

OKD-019    Quartz    Jeffrey Stone Quarry, North Little Rock, Arkansas.  Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain Collection.  Beautiful, gemmy, alpine style quartz.  This one is damage free and a complete floater with everything having wonderful double terminations.  9 cm long.  This fine piece has some of its crystals are in parallel growth and tabular in form.  There was a decent supply of these three decades ago but no longer.  They were seldom this perfect.  The serious quartz collector needs several of these in the collection.  165$

 

 

 

 

 

OKD-554

OKD-554     Quartz     Ron Coleman’s Mine, near Hot Springs, Arkansas.   Ex. Michael Walter Collection, Collected by Michael Walter.        What look like small icicles are really small shards of the prism faces of a larger quartz crystal.  These have fully regrown into sharp!! Little pieces which I refer to as “hypodermic needles”.  I field collected these from large shattered pockets about ten years ago.  Very dangerous extracting material from this pocket.  There weren’t many of these but they were there and had to be watched out for.  6.5 and 5.3 cm each.  Double terminated.  Very cool specimens for the quartz collector.  30$   

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-263

 

OKB-263   Quartz   Colemans Mine, Arkansas.   Irradiated cluster.  Nice form.  18$

 

 

 

 

OKB-180

OKB-180 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Tabular, double terminated, crystal 3 x 2.5 cm in size. Very clean and showy. One very tiny chip. 10$

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-181

OKB-181 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Three water clear points and minor points on matrix. Biggest point is 5.5 cm long. Overall 5.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm. 22$

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-182

OKB-182 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Tiny water clear cluster with a regrown base. Cute 2 cm thumbnail. 6$

 

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-183

OKB-183 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Nice cluster with crystals to 3.5 cm. This 7 x 7 cm plate is also coated by crystals on its bottom side. Good form and show. 20$

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-184

OKB-184 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. This 5 cm long specimen is a fully crystalized shard. Very clean. Superb specimen to wire wrap. 20$

 

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-185

OKB-185 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Long Arkansas Candle measures in at well over 13 cm long. Quite clean. Excellent example. 45$

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-186

OKB-186 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. 6 cm single clear crystal on milky matrix. most surfaces on matrix are recrystalized. Nice. 15$

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-187

OKB-187 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Big point which is clear near tip and grades to milky at base. 45$

 

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-188

OKB-188 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Great display cluster with c=some clay staining. 9 x 6 x 5 cm with biggest point being 5.5 cm 35$

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-001

OKB-001 Quartz Wegner's Blue Phantom Mine, Arkansas. Water clear, 3.9 cm, single point with a nice gray phantom. Excellent example. 15$

 

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-002

OKB-002 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. 5 x 3 x 2 cm cluster with only one small contact spot. Two bigger points are 2 to 3 cm each while others are smaller. These clear crystals displays very nicely. 18$

 

 

 

 

 

OKB-003

OKB-003 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas.  Great water clear points compose this cluster. Biggest point is over 4 x 2 cm while the entire specimen measures 5 x 5 x 4 cm. Displays well showing the radiating points. 40$

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