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OKF-349 Spinel Parker Mine, Notre Dame du Laus, Quebec, Canada. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. A fine 2 cm cluster with crystals to 1.4 cm each and only a very tiny piece of matrix. This specimen is composed of deep black, high luster crystals of nice form. No damage or contacts. Great views from any angle. Photos are terrible! Sorry. Showy. 50$
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OKF-350 Spinel Parker Mine, Notre Dame du Laus, Quebec, Canada. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. A fine 2.1 cm cluster with crystals to 2.1 cm each and only a very tiny area of matrix. This specimen is composed of deep black, high luster crystals of nice form. The dominant crystal is more complex than normal and large for the locality. No damage or contacts. Photos are terrible! Sorry. Showy. 50$
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OKI- 183 Calcite and Fluorite Auglaise Quarry, Junction, Ohio. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. Prev. John Medici. This fine miniature has several unique fluorite cubes to .9 cm each on light yellow calcite. The cubes have purple cores in a clear overgrowth. One calcite has its back cleaved off but this should not show when displayed. Great front and side views of the calcites and fluorites, both. 5.2 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm overall. Unusual and attractive piece. 95$
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OKI- 185 Celestine Dundas Quarry, Dundas, Ontario, Canada. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. Collected in 1986 this specimen is basically a floater with only the tiniest of contacts on its base. The color is a normal light blue and the piece is translucent and gemmy in areas. The size and quality are exceptional for the locale. Good celestines that display this nicely, have no damage, high luster and good form are rather uncommon for Dundas. This one fits into the category of being exceptional. No damage and it stands on end for display. Great piece. 225$
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OKI-187 Cowlesite RESERVED Globe, Oregon. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. Prev. Ward’s Minerals. The small balls of spiky crystals composing this piece are to 1.1 cm each and the entire specimen measures 3.9 x 1.2 x 1.5 cm. The white, translucent crystals look like strontianite at first glance but are not. Front view is nice with back, base and sides showing matrix. Nice damage free example of a basically impossible to find species. 50$
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OKI-189 Smithsonite Jackson Tunnel, Luna Co., New Mexico. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. Dick Jones, collected 1981. A nice specimen of very uncommon material. The piece is 5.2 x 3.2 x 2.1 cm and is composed of tiny, globular, high luster smithsonite balls. The color is a combination of two: one color is a light yellowish green while the second is a light greenish gray. The display face is totally covered by smithsonite and the piece stands on edge perfectly for display. There is no damage to this desirable specimen except in one tiny spot along its edge where an approx. 2 millimeter ball is missing. You’ll have to look hard to find it. An unusual find. 225$
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OKI- 246 Fluorite, Adularia (Twinned) and Muscovite Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Ex. Fred Parker collection. This lovely display is a well balanced grouping with a large, translucent/ transparent adularia twin measuring 3 cm on edge forming the base. Radiating in out in numerous directions are silver muscovites to 2 cm with a string of pink to light purple fluorite octahedral running up one side of the piece. There is only one fluorite near the base of the group which has a tiny corner ding that is visible with magnification only. Really close to being a floater (only a thin matrix contact that I could not notice without magnification). Very clean piece! Exceptional quality, displays from all sides. A wonderful find. 425$
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OKI-264 Epidote and Quartz Central Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain Collection. A fine domical miniature measuring 4.9 x 4 x 3 cm. There is a thick coating of rich green epidote and clear quartz on entire upper surface. Edge damage due to removal from matrix which would be expected and a couple of small quartz points are gone in central region of piece. All crystals are tiny (druze) and everything is of a very high luster. An unusual specimen for this region. 60$
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OKI-267 Silver No. 1 Level, Elura Mine, near Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection, Prev. Marcelle Weber, Kevin Davy. Five nice silvers to over 2 cm each. All have great form, are damage free and are composed of strings of spinel law twins. Sorry about the poor pics. These are very sharply formed specimens. Get them all for 95$
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OKI-268 Quartz included by Hedenburgite Island of Sepidhos, Greece. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. Nicely striated, Tessin habit crystals in somewhat parallel growth. The piece measures 4.9 cm and is high in luster. An older specimen of better than usual form. Views nicely from all sides. No damage. 55$
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OKI-269 Quartz included by Hedenburgite Island of Sepidhos, Greece. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. Nicely striated, Tessin habit crystals in a randomly oriented cluster which sits nicely on edge for display. The piece measures 5.5 x 4 x 3.3 cm and is exceptionally high in luster. Biggest crystal is damage free and measures 3.5 cm long. Several small areas of contact which are not distracting. An older specimen of better than usual form and exceptional for its luster. Views nicely from all sides. 95$
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OKI-270 Calcite with Pyrite inclusions Berry Materials Quarry, North Vernon, Jennings Co., Indiana. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. An excellent floater grouping of crystals measuring 7.7 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm. It is dominated by two big crystals and displays wonderfully. Totally damage free and of moderate luster. 185$
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OKI-280 Betafite Silver Crater Mine, Cardiff, Ontario, Canada. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection, prev. Bill condon, Pat Collins collections. 3.8 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm miniature which ranks as the nicest betafite I have owned from the locale. A find for the collector of radioactives. The crystal form is very sharp and all the surfaces are exceptionally clean. A couple small riders are present to add a bit of character. A couple very tiny nicks or contacts but nearly damage free. It is in better condition than any I have seen in hand or for sale in many, many years. Pieces of this quality are very rare and always will be. 350$
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OKI-272 Vesuvianite Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. This single terminated crystal measures 3.7 cm in length. It has the high luster, deep striations and gemmy..... typical of this wonderful material. The crystal is singly terminated and free of damage. 85$
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OKI-273 Copper and Vesuvianite in Calcite Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection. This specimen was figured in Rocks and Minerals Magazine (55: 187, figure #4). “YES..COPPER!!” This 7 cm cleave of white calcite has a small vein of copper running through one of its edges. On the top of this vein is a fully exposed copper wire in the shape of a letter “C” flanked by a couple of gemmy green vesuvianites. The wire is approx. .5 cm across. This is an important piece, obviously, if it was figured in Rocks and Minerals, and should be a fine addition to someone’s Jeffrey suite. 395$
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OKI-274 Natrolite DeMix Quarry, Mt. St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection, prev. Marcelle Weber collection. This 2.5 cm crystal is single terminated and pretty much gem throughout. Minor inclusions of an unknown mineral. Zero damage. A fine specimen for the locality. 85$
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OKI-275 Cerussite Chah Mileh, Anarak District, Iran. . Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection, prev. Marcelle Weber collection. A magnificent TN specimen of clear/ white reticulated cerussite measuring 3 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm. It is almost a floater with only a small basil contact area. The specimen is damage free and one of the finest of the few I have seen available. Certainly the finest TN specimen I have seen. Very showy, high on luster and beautifully formed. 450$
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OKI-276 Crocite Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, Australia. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection, prev. Marcelle Weber collection. A very respectable 3.3 cm wide cluster of rich red, stocky crystals. Looks to be damage free. Very displayable TN specimen. 95$
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OKI-277 Datolite Rt. # 72, Ellis St., New Britain, Connecticut. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection, prev. Marcelle Weber collection. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection, prev. Marcelle Weber collection. A 2.1 cm crystal of datolite is perched high on a cream colored datolite matrix. The entire piece measures 2.7 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm. The crystal is nice on all sides and only has a micro ding on one corner. It is from an older collection of unknown provenance. A very fine New England TN. 175$
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OKI-279 Millerite US Rt. # 27 Road Cut, Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky. Ex. Dr. Steve Chamberlain collection, prev. Don Briggs collection/ collector. This 3.7 cm geode of millerite is impressive for its content. It is crammed full of dense millerite sprays! I have never seen one of these so packed full of this rare mineral. Minor Styrofoam attached to back of piece. Great specimen. 225$
