Brookites from Magnet
Cove, ARArkansas Mineral Specimens
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 ½ 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.
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OKI-176 Quartz Ron Coleman’s Mine, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Collected by Michael Walter, 1998. A nice large point on minor sandstone matrix. Beautifully trimmed with several minor crystals. Largest crystal measures 8.6 cm and is gem clear. Showy and without damage. One minor internal crack. 45$
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OKI-053 Rutile Magnet Cove, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. This small specimen is a really sweet cyclic twin measuring 1.5 cm in diameter. It is a brilliant metallic red color and has an exceptional luster. Wonderful, showy rutile specimen with no damage...poor photos!! 100$
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OKI-142 Brookite and Brookite pseudomorph after Rutile on Quartz Kilpatrick and Adams Mine, Magnet Cove, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain Collection. A interesting rarity from the early 1980s. A 1.1 cm pseudomorph (hollow) and some smaller, nice clean brookites. Both on the same specimen is rather unusual, but there they are! There is no damage to this miniature. 3.4 x 2.4 x 2 cm overall. Attractive from all sides. 125$
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OKF-512 Rutile pseudo. after Brookiteite Magnet Cove, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. Prev. George English specimen. This is likely a nineteenth century specimen, and a good one at that. A classic American specimen and location. Great provenance. Super piece! This excellent example measures 2.7 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm and is a floater (although on surface is regrown). It has zero damage and is amazing in its form and luster, especially for a pseudomorph. Very complex growth features on the surface of this large crystal. A beautiful example! 300$
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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$
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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$
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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$
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OKB-263 Quartz Colemans Mine, Arkansas. Irradiated cluster. Nice form. 18$
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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$
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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$
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OKB-182 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Tiny water clear cluster with a regrown base. Cute 2 cm thumbnail. 6$
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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$
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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$
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OKB-185 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Long Arkansas Candle measures in at well over 13 cm long. Quite clean. Excellent example. 45$
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OKB-186 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. 6 cm single clear crystal on milky matrix. most surfaces on matrix are recrystalized. Nice. 15$
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OKB-187 Quartz Coleman's Mine, Arkansas. Big point which is clear near tip and grades to milky at base. 45$
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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$
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OKB-001 Quartz Wegner's Blue Phantom Mine, Arkansas. Water clear, 3.9 cm, single point with a nice gray phantom. Excellent example. 15$
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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$
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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$
